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/ discuss the proposals at length and
reach an agreement. The majority
Of the members of that committee
appeared in good faith, sincerely de-
string the united front.
The chairman of the committee,
Forbeck, promised to notify our or
ganization when and where the next
meeting would be arranged. and
that it would be held within one
week. But he failed to carry
through this agreement. When,
with much difficulty, he was finally
located, and asked why this meeting
was not arranged, he gave the ex-
cuse, that while he is in favor of the
united front, he would like to or
ga1ize secret united front with
us, stating that if they openly
formed a united front with us that
they would lose the favor of public
opinion and that the newspapers
would brand them as Reds" He
also claimed that they would be ex-
PEELED from the organizations by
~
position leaders, voted into leader
ship of the strike by a militant rank
and file which demanded action
and who realized that the Interna-
tional officers were against strike
action and would betray their strike
elected this committee to handle
their strike for themD
This committee, instead of unhesi-
tatingly agreeing to plans for united
action, last week went down to Mike
Tighe's office and had a conference
with him. asking him to support the
strike. Tighe, Of course, welcomed
them with open arms, patted them
on the back and said, II will see
this thing through if it is the last
thing ! do in my life And Tighe
proceeds, with the aid of the cap
italiSt press, to play himself up as
the strike leader and the committee
willingly playing second fiddle. So
these militant" leaders, instead of
carrying through the mandate of the
rank and file and organizing the
masses of steel workers in opposi-
ton to Tighe and in preparation for
the strike, have delayed, have
carried on maneuvers and secret
meetings.
They have given no instrue-
tions nor any directives to the
workers, who are impatiently wait
ing for some signal from the Com
mittee of Ten as to how to pre-
pare for action.
BY the secret maneuvers of the
committee in not openly declaring
their position in opposition to Tighe
and for definite strike action of all
the workers, the movement in the
steel industry, as far as the A. A.
is concerned, is at standstill. They
allowed Leonard (vice president of
the A. Al, without voicing a protest,
to send out instructions to locals to
present demands for recognition
alone, and no organized drive to
organize the industry has yet been
started, we might say even con-
templated, by this committee. They
are now still in negotiation with
Tighe.
Delay Is Fatal!
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union has warned the COM
n1ittee that this delay is fatal, that
Tighe will keep them in negotiation
with him from now on, and that
Tighe's main purpose in meeting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Painters Demand WeuustOck Be Seated
In NeuU York Central Labor Council

NEW YORK-Joseph P. Ryan,
John ]. Mulholland and James @.
Quinn, leaders of New York Cen
trail Trades and Labor Council
struck a snag while maneuvering
to unseat Louis Weinstock Of Local
400 of the Painters Union for his
militant activities in leading the
fight in the A. F. of L. for the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, H. r. 1893.
The entire local, which elected
Weinstock as one Of its represen-
tatives to the Council, is standing
behind Weinstock and is demand
ing that he be seated.
A letter from James G. Quinn,
secretary Of the Council. stating
that the Weinstocks labor record
is Objectionable to our organization"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
800 Join Communist
Party During Terror
In Alabama Strike

NEW YORK.-'During the last
six weeks of terror in the Brming-
ham strike area, the Communist
Party gained 300 menfbersl" de-
clared Harold Ralston, Organizer,
at the Alabama Strike Protest
Meeting in Irving Plaza Monday
night. When the top leadership of
the Party was jailed for two weeks
he said, the work Of the Party units
went on functioning strongly. New
rank and file leaders came to the
fore.
The Communist Party has now
1000 Negro and white members and
the International Labor Defense
5000 members in Alabama, where
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co.
GU. S. SteeD is using sharp terror
TO try and break the strike Of
5000 ore miners.
The meeting was held under the
joint auspices of the National Com
mittee for the Defense Of Political
Prisoners, New Masses and the John
Reed Club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
5000 Relief Strikers
OnROchesterT.E ERA
Solid in Eighth Week
Denied Cont Loan,
Poverty Stricken
Farmer Kills Self

ALBANY, La, May 3O,-Hav-
ing failed in their attempts to
get government loans on their
small farm. Mr.. julius Fischer
and his wife killed themselves
in a thicket in the woods near
here.
Had nice farm and needed
a loan. Banks would not lend.
Federal Farm Land Bank
granted loan, but would not
give Us the money" said note
that the couple left behind
them!
The Government loans to the
farmers go mostly to the wealthy
farmers who have sufficient Sc
curity to give to the Government
banks. The small, poor farmers
practically can never get loans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Fight Vicious Forced
Labor Scheme; Rank
and File Solid
BY a Worker Correspondent


ROCHESTER, N. Y. May 30.-The
eighth week Of the strike Of 5000
Rochester relief workers against the
forced labor, "budgt system" finds a
failure Of the relief administration
to fool the masses back to work.
Their most desperate effort to stan-
pede the workers back came Sun
day morning, when the local press
came out with big headlines, Work
ers granted 30 hours per week and
SIS wages" A careful study Of the
article brought out that this con-
cession was to be only for one week.
while new budget cards are being
prepared"
Calculating on the fact that
workers are being terrorized by the
Home Relief Bureau to work, under
penalty of being evicted for non
payment of rent, the administration
hoped to both fool and bride off the
strikers. Warned by leaflets issued
through the Monroe County Roch-
ester Rank and File Relief Workers
Organization, which is leading the
strike, and by a mass meeting, the
more militant workers turned out in
force Monday morning, putting up
strong picket lines, and succeeding
in keeping most Of the projects
shut down.
Organizer Arrested
Leonard Costa, organizer of the
Unemployed Council, was arrested
while walking on the street and was
given q brutal beating inside the
jail before being released on bail by
the international Labor Defense. He
has been one of the strike leaders,
eXemplifying the united front exist
ing between the work relief and
unemployed. Demands of the strik-
ers are for a SIS minimum weekly
wage at SOC an hour, 80 hours q
week, and with supplementary re-
lief OF SO for each dependent in
families of over four; for cash re-
lief for all unemployed; and for
union wages for skilled and semi
skilled.
Once this big financial concession
was gained for the newly elected
New Deal" administration here,
pressure was put on the Central
Committee leadership to force strik-
ers back The only concession Of
fered strikers was an IS cent diff
ferential between home and work
relief. This means that the person
in the family who works, would get
IS cents week more, and for him
self only, Otherwise, budgets on
work relief or home relief are iden-
teal, The politicians reckoned with
out understanding how the masses
during the weeks Of strike meetings,
had developed new militancy and
desire for unity. When the Cen
trail Committee" tried to put over q
fake vote, by having secret separate
sessions of various delegated groups
interspersed with stool pigeons,
newspaper reporters, etc, the mem
bership refused to accept such a
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with them is to n1aneuver them into
delay and keep them from taking
definite action. There is only one
course that the rank and file of the
Amalgamated Association can take,
Mike Tighe and the interna-
honal officials are definitely op-
posed to strike; they have been in
the whole history of their careers.
and. despite the radical phrases
they may mouth now due to the
pressure of the rank and file.
every worker must realize that the
international officials are as much
opposed to strike now as they
ever were.
And unless the Committee of Ten
Immediately realize that the course
that the rank and file steel work.
erS want to travel. and the course
which Tighe and the International
officials want them to travel, is en-
tirely in opposite directions, unless
the Committee of Ten breaks openly
with the International officials, and
exposes them to the workers as the
main danger in the strike, then the
workers will not see any difference
between the Committee of Ten and
Mike Tighe himself.
Rank and File Must Step Forward
The rank and file steel workers
must see to it that the leaders of
this coming strike are honest, bold
and courageous workers, who will
not be inundated by threats of
takers of the type Of Tighe and
Leonard who threaten expulsion
from the organization, but that if
there is any expelling to be done
the leaders must rally the rank and
file of the A. A. against those Who
have proven themselves to be
against the interests of the rank
and file. And that Is the Tighe-
Leonard machine!
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union stands ready to or
ganize a fighting united front with
the rank and file of the Amalga-
mated Association, will ruthlessly
expose anyone who stands in the
road Of that unity, or anyone who
has not the moral courage to fight
boldly in the interests of the steel
workers, against the steel corpora
tons, against their company unions
and against their agents in the
ranks of the workers.
The steel workers are going to
strike, In every mill throughout
the country the workers are talking
strike. Our union has issued hun
dreds of thousands Of pieces of liter
allure to these workers, giving them
instructions on how TO organize
their forces, mass meetings, con-
ferences and demonstrations are
prepared in every steel center TO
rally and organize the workers for
the strike. The best guarantee of
a successful strike in the steel in
dustry is the building of a powerful
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union.
The rank and file of the Anal
gamated Association and every
honest leader of the A. A. must
fight increasingly for the estab-
lishment Of the united front of
all the steel workers and the ex-
posture of all those leaders who
oppose unity
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gained on how TO set up THEN
committees and prepare for battle,
The Steel Union proposed fur
be called Immediately jointly by
ther that a national conference
both unions, inviting fraternal
delegates from coal miners, rail-
readers. auto workers and from
all working class organizations IN
order to mobilize the entire labor
movement behind the steel strike,
and for the raising of strike
fund to conduct the organiza-
tionaI work of the strike and the
strike itself.
The steel union proposed further
and pointed out the danger of the
role of the international officials of
the A. A. in the coming strike and
that the Committee of Ten had
started on a different course than
the course followed by Tighe and the
international officials. 1t was fur
Their stated by us that there must
be no turning from this course and
that they must openly expose Tighe
and Leonard as being against the
interests of the steel workers, rally
ing the workers to be on guard
against these arch betrayers.
The Committee of Ten expressed
itself as in favor of all these pro-
posals, but pleaded that 1t did not
have sufficient time in which to
enter into a thorough study of
them, and could not come to an
agreement at this time They pro-
posed that another meeting be held
within one week at which we could
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Mass Trial for the
A,F.L. Textile Head
Sent Scabs to the Albert
Mill Workers Say

PATERSON, N. j., May 30.-Eli
Keller, general manager Of the
Associated Silk Workers union in
Paterson, N. j., and a renegade
from the Communist Party. will
be put on trial by the Paterson
textile workers Friday June LIST at
8 pm. at Washington Hall, So God
win ST. Paterson. He is being
charged with the following crimes:
/, Entering into an agreement
with the Albert Silk Company to
supply weavers at a lower wage
scale during the present strike
there.
2, Personally sending members of
the Associated Union to scab in the
Albert Shop :.
3. Entering into an agreement
with the Manufacturers Association
and the Arbitration Board to reduce
the wages of Paterson workers to
the wage Of the lowest paid locali-
ties.
4. You through Bern1an and
other members of the Associated
together with Max Baker thead OF
manufacturers Association have
sworn out an injunction against the
National Textile Workers Union
and the strikers, in an attempt to
break the strike
5. That you and other officials of
the u T w. are practising this
strike breaking policy nationally
The strikers Of the Albert Shop
and other workers of Paterson and
vicinity testify to these charges.
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and advising the local 10 select
another delegate in place of Mr..
Keinstock" was answered in no
uncertain terms by Local 499.
1T is the opinion of the men,
bership of this local that according
to the constitution of the A. F. of
L., the local has the privilege of
electing delegates to the Central
Body, and therefore, will stand by
its duly elected delegate, Brother
Weinstock, whose labor record is
entirely satisfactory to the MEM
bership of Local 499," said letter
sent by the recording secretary Of
the local to J. S, Quinn, secretary
Of the Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
1,500 Sewer Pipe Strikers
Return to Work in Ohio

UHRICHsvnLE, Ohio FP)-The
1900 Tuscsrawas County sewer pipe
workers on strike for eight days
have returned to their posts in the
ID manufacturing plants involved
In Uhrichsville. The men are to
choose their own representatives
and advisers in dealing with the
companies. The United Brick &
Clay Workers Of America led the
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Mass PicketiRg On
At Pekin Factory

PEKIN, I'll, May 30.-A msssed
picket line of many hundreds en-
circled the plant of the American
Distilling Company as the strike of
the workers for the recognition of
their A. F. OF L, unions and against
firing Of union members gained
headway.
Bosses again requested sta e
troops to disperse the pickets, who
are keeping handful of scabs
msrooned inside the factory.
One thousand workers are nor
mally employed at the factory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
On the
Strike Front
Workers on Louisiana
Bridge Out on Strike

NEW ORLEANS CFP) 49, Work
was halted on the Biloxi Ocean
Springs bridge after 300 members
Of the Employees Protective Assn
marched on the span and demanded
increase in wages. Spokesman
charged that the highway depart
nent was paying 20 cents an hour
for l0-hour day to workers scrap
ing and painting the drawbridge
They asked an increase to 30 cents
an hour.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
History Is Repeated
In the Maneuvers of
Ii CHE, "A. President
Tighe Crowd Again Try
To Betray Steel
Workers

This is the second and final part
Of an article on the role Of Mike
Tighe, President Of the AmsIga-
mated Association Of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers "A. F. Of L.,
and his machine in knitting the
great steel strike a 1919. and
an2lyzing the role he has begun
to play in the now developing
strike in the steel industry
EDITOR.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
PARAGUAY PLANS
DECISIVE THRUST
Christmas Truce Held Un-
likely as She Prepares for
Decisive Action.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, December pa
Christmas truce in the Chaco Boreal
appeared little likely today as Para
quay made ready to hurl thousands
of picked troops against Bolivia's last
line defenses in what observers said
might be the decisive battle of the
war.
From all directions Paraguayan col
unlns were closing in on Villa Monies,
Bolivias central army base, and the
La Paz government maSsed all avail
able reserves in that sector, asserting
its defenses were impregnable.
Meanwhile advices from Asuncion
said official circles doubted the feasi-
bility of any truce such as that sug-
gested by the Vatican, pointing out
that both armies were spread over
such wide fronts that the armistice
would be tactically impractical.
La PaZ reported Gen. Jose Estigar-
ribia, Paraguayan commander in chief,
was preparing to strike at Villa Mon
tes, while Asuncion reports said Bo-
livia was massing men and munitions
in several sectors apparently making
ready for an impending counter-ofen
sive.
With minor skirmishes reported in
three sectors, three Paraguayan col
umns, each comprising one entire
army corps, moved toward Villa
Monies.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
ITALY WANTS TERRITORY.
Tells France to Come Across" With
Colonial Concessions.

ROME. December % (P.-"Come
across" with some colonial concessions
Fascist Italy says succinctly and en-
phatically to France as French Foreign
Minister Pierre Laval prepares for his
forthcoming visit to Benito Mussolini
Informed quarters said today Italy
will set forth very clearly her wants
and what she believes her rights in
colonial matters when the two states
men get together here
During this visit it is expected
France will make Italy some colonial
concessions, by virtue of the treaty of
London of 1915 whereunder Italy en-
tered the World War on the side of the
allies.
Italy divides her colonial claims into
two divisions: First, return Of terri
tory "unlawfully" taken away from
her by Anglo-French agreement: sec
ond, concessions in fulflllment of the
promise France made in the 1915
treaty.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
BANDITS AND FIRE JOIN
TO FOIL SANTA CLAUS
One Store Burns, Second Robbed
Hold-Up Men Also Get Spe.
cial Shipment.

By the Associated Press.
GEORGETOWN, Miss, December
22.-Santa Claus may skip some homes
in the Georgetown area, despite the
combined efforts of the towns mer-
chants.
Shoppers who came to town 10 days
ago for their early Christmas buying
found the c. A. Green Mercantile Co.
burned to the ground and the towns
other store, the Georgetown Mercan-
tile Co., robbed of its holiday stock.
Today many of them returned to
get their gifts from rush shipment.
only to find the bandits again had
beaten them to it.
Each time the robbers backed up to
the store, loaded the loot into a truck
and sped away.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
1871 Bottled Goods,
'EloquentlyEmpty,'
Found by DiUers
Secretary Ickes Told of
Discovery on Ship Sunk
at Yorktown.
BY the Associated Press.

Secretary Ickes was told yesterday
a plentiful supply" OF 1871 bottled
goods had been found. but each bottle
was ''eloquently empty"
Divers uncovered the liquor stocks
in the captains quarters of the Brit
ish frigate Charon, lying below the
bed of the York River in which it was
sunk during the siege of Yorktown.
An Interior Department announce
ment said:
Interesting sidelights are cast on
the life of the officers of these ancient
men of war by the plentiful supply OF
bottled goods with which the captain S
quarters we're stocked. All are elo-
quently empty, though possibly this is
due 70 blowing their corks during their
long immersion"
The announcement added that "the
captains cabin also contained all the
ingredients for the morning after, as
evidenced by mortars for grinding
pills and other apparatus Of the
'apothecary.'
Evening star., 1934-12-23
ABROGAT|ON ORDER.
is SENT TO SA|T0
Japanese Ambassador Is
Ready to Inform U. S. of
Treaty Denunciation.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Washington still was hopeful Sat.
urday that something might be saved
out of the scrapping Of the Washing
ton naval treaty as Hirosi Saito
Japan's Ambassador, got his orders te
notify the United States that Japan
has denounced the treaty.
France, meanwhile, was playing
with the idea Of joining Japan in de-
nunciation.
Washington-An authoritative quar-.
ter said the United States, still hope.
full unrestricted building will be
averted, will keep the door open to
suggestions for another treaty.
Tokio-Foreign Minister Koki Hi
rota, after telegraphing Saito instruc-
tions formally to announce the treaty's
end, gave Ambassador Tsuneo Mat
sudaira in London an outline for the
bilateral discussions Japan will con-
tinue with the British.
Paris-A foreign Office statement
said France did not intend to de-
nounce the treaty, but the Chamber
of Deputies insisted the pact, pre-
viously termed 'intolerable" for
France, must be either formally OF
morally" denounced, the latter by
public notification that France con-
siders 1t terminated after 1886 when
Japan's denunciation becomes effec-
tive.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
REQUEST FOR DELAY
FILED BY GALATAS
Alleged Conspirator to Block JUS
tice Says He Lacks Trial
Expense Cash.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. December 22.-
Richard T. Galatas, one Of eight per-
sons charged with conspiracy to OBJ
struct Justice in the Union Station
slayings of five men June II, 1888,
today asked continuance of his Fed
eral Court trial from the December
81 date set.
Galatas said he had been unable to
raise funds to guarantee expenses OF
81 witnesses he said would be required
in his defense.
Frank B. (Fritz) Mulloy, indicted
on the same charge, filed a demurrer
to the conspiracy indictment. Demur-
rers already had been filed In behalf of
Gelatas and his wife and Louis STAG
ci, and in behalf of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Farmer, all of whom face
trial December 81.
Judge Merrill E. Otis said he would
hear arguments on the demurrers and
the motion for continuance Wednes-
day.
Four officers and Frank Nash, con-
vict fugitive being returned to Leaven-
worth Federal Prison, were slain in a
plot to free Nash.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
LAVAL DISCUSSES
DANUBE PROGRAM
Lays Franco-ItaIian Plan
Before British Foreign
Secretary.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, December 22.-Foreign
Minister Pierre Laval, soon to 60 to
Rome to talk things over with Benito
Mussolini, today laid his plans for
Italo- French cooperation in the
Danube before Sir John Simon, Brit
ish foreign secretary.
A long conference that started over
the luncheon table gave the French
man opportunity thoroughly to ex-
plain the project. He told Sir John
he intends to 60 to Rome probably
after the Saar plebiscite January Is.
"On our agreement in views" Laval
said, depends the maintenance In
Central and Eastern Europe of the
political order closely linked to the
interests of European peace"
Observers, too, were agreed France
and Italy both carry great weight IN
the two camps into which the Balkans
are divided and believed that region
might lose its nickname "the Powder
Keg of Europe" If Laval and Musso-
Ini get together in friendship.
Ever since the war, France and
italy have been cool toward one an
other, and it is only by hard work of
both Italian and French statesmen
that the two countries have beer
brought gradually together.
Four problems need ironing out:
Cd The new naval rivalry OF
italy.
CD Affairs Of the Balkans.
go Two disputes in Africa-a ter
ritorial one in French Equatoria
Africa and the status Of Italians in
Tunis.
(4 Economic relations between
France and Italy.
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