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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Single Men
Urged to Join
Relief Struggle

CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 2o-In rapid
succession, drive after drive is being
made on the unemployed workers
of Chicago. On Nov. l a series of
relief retrenchments were ordered
by Cook County Relief AdminiStra-
tor Leo M. Lyons, who declared his
intention of bringing all relief to
the levels prevailing in Rockford,
where he recently was administra-
tor. Relief budgets there are less
than half of the amounts paid in
Chicago prior to his sweeping re-
lief cut of 10 to 35 per cent.
On the work relief jobs, $4,000
workers have received work assign
ments totalling only three quarters
of the previous months assign
ments. Plans have been drawn for
firing 1000 relief staff employees
Close on the heels of these orders
has come another to provide neither
clothing nor shoes to single unem-
ployed workers. The several thou
sand unattached workers who have
been able to keep out of the flop
houses have been denied winter
fuel. On numerous occasions when
these workers protested against this
order denying them fuel, they were
told to go to the vermin- infested
lighthouses.
With only a five-dollar monthly
food order, and no provision for fuel
of any kind, these men are faced
with continuous slow starvation.
Yet, before even this miserable
monthly dole is given, they must
give two days labor in the streets.
The United Front Committee for
Saturdays demonstration has APP
pealed to all these single unem-
ployed workers to join in the gil
gantic united front on that day in
the demand for jobs at union wages,
increased cash relief, winter cloth
ing and the enactment of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill.
Workers will assemble Saturday
at 10 am. at two points-Union
Park, Ogden and Randolph Streets,
and at Twenty-second Street and
Wentworth Avenue-both lines of
march will converge on City Hall,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

which was not the case with the
early Fisk students, while the stud
ents of A. e. I. college come from
poorer families and mostly from the
backwoods Of Tennessee.
Scottsboro Banner Raised
Before the final strains of the
last song, James Weldon Johnsons
so-called national Negro anthem,
'Lift Every Voice and Sing" the
presidential party began to move
slowly away. Just as the Presidents
car reached the turn of the drive
way, a large banner was raised in
full view of President Roosevelt. On
it was inscribed, MIR. PRESIDENT:
SAVE THE LIVES OF THE NINE
SCOTTSBORO BOYS" Mr.. Roose-
welt tried to ignore the banner by
continuously waving his hat to the
singers, but Mrs. Roosevelt turned
very red when she saw the sign.
Only few of the assembled
crowd, those on the left of the
driveway, saw the banner.
Ford Gives Foes Statement
just before the arrival of the
presidential party, James w. Ford,
a graduate of Fisk who had come
directly from Washington represent
ing the -Herndon Action
Committee, rushed out to give Presi-
dent Jones the statement he had
promised to hand to the President.
1t in part declares:
To-day you have come to Fisk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

University. Millions of Negro people
who are prosecuted daily in forms
similar to that of the Scottsboro
boys, watch you They wait eagerly
to see what you do or say here.
They will judge your actions. We
ask you, Mr.. President, to state
openly your position on the whole
system of lynch terror We ask you
to use your power and bring to pun
ishment the lyncherS of Claude
Neal We ask you to use your power
and have brought before Congress
and passed the Bill of Civil Rights
for Negroes. We ask you to use
the precedent established by the
late President Woodrow Wilson in
the Tom Mooney case and imme-
diately stay the execution of Hay
wood Patterson and Clarence Norris
and to give complete freedom to all
of the nine Scottsboro boys"
The president of the Student
Council had met late Friday night
in conference with James w. Ford
and decided to draw up individual
protest letters to the President, but
because Of the lateness of the hour
it was decided to present the joint
letter. The Student Council made
a decision to send letters from in
dividual students the following week
to Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga.
Mr.. John Hope Franklin, president
Of the Student Council, is in charge
Of collecting the letters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Veteran Sues To End
Relief Discrimination
For Militant Activities

BELLINGHAAd, Nov. 21.-Discri-
mination in the administration OF
veterans relief funds is charged
in the suit brought by George
Bradley, Communist candidate for
the United States senate and Char
les Watson against Julian Brown,
George F. Rhode and Irwin H. Sly
as members of the Veterans OF
Foreign Wars relief investigating
committee.
Bradley, who has been unem-
ployed since 1882 and with wife
and child to support. testifies that
he has received only $83 in aid from
the relief fund from September %,
1888 until April 30, 1884 although
Julian Brown told him he would be
adequately provided for if he ceased
his working class activities. Both
Bradley and Watson were refused
sufficient aid because of their red"
activities.
II believe you're on pretty thin
ice," said Judge Ed E. Hardin in
whose court the case is being tried
1T is the duty of the relief commit
tee to make inquiry without regard
to the political or religious beliefs of
the applicants. 1t is the commit
tees duties to ascertain his needs
as veteran.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Harry Bridges Invited
To Visit |. L. A. Locals
Of Northwestern Ports

EVERETT, Wash, Nov. 21.-Spe-
cial invitation to visit this local has
been rendered Harry Bridges, presi-
dent OF the San Francisco Local of
the International Longshoremen's
Association, by the LID. here.
Word has been received that SINH
lar action was taken by the Port
land local, which especially asks
Bridges help in the defense of the
28 Portland longshoremen framed
on murder charges.
Bridges was the militant leader of
the maritime strike and now heads
the national rank and file move
ment in the A. F. of L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Ask Mass Protest for the
FreedOf of Workers in
Sacramento Jails

The National Unemployment
Councils yesterday appealed to all
workers to arouse a storm of pro-
test dmanding the freedom of the
eighteen who are now imprisoned in
the County Jail of Sacramento,
Calf, and are on trial under the
criminal syndicalist laws.
These workers, who were engaged
in militant activities on behalf of
the working population of the State,
face a vicious law enacted during
the days of the Palmer raids, and
may be sent to long terms in prison
unless a wave Of mass protest is
raised.
Several of these workers are mem
berS of the Unemployment Councils
and all, while in jail, have been
denied such literature as the Daily
Workers, New Mass, Labor Defen-
der, Western Worker, etc. The
sheriff, Don Cox, is Indifferent to
these workers rights, and has cut
them off from the outside world.
The National Unemployment
Councils have called upon all work
ers to send resolutions and letters
of protest to District Attorney Nc
Allister and Judge Dial Lennon of
Sacramento demanding the imme-
date release of the eighteen work
ers; letters of protest should be sent
to Sheriff Don Cox, County Jail,
Sacramento; and letters to the
workers themselves should be sent
to Nora Conklin, ct al, County Jail,
Sacramento, Calf.
The National Councils also called
upon all workers and their organ
izations throughout the country to
send resolutions demandingt the i'm
mediate release of the four workers
arrested last May in Oklahoma
City, Okla. These workers were ar
rested at militant struggle for
relief after the welfare had stopped
all relief aid to the jobless. Protests
should be sent to the sheriff, County
Jail, Oklahoma City, Okla.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Husband Made
To Recognize
Wife's Position
She Persists Her Place
Is in the Ranks
of Struggle

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.-An active
Communist Party member in an
Ohio town refused to recognize that
his wife's place was in the struggle,
until her persistence forced reali-
zation Of that fact upon him. That
is the gist of a letter received last
week from a woman living in East
Ohio, by the Working Woman Con-
test Editor. The letter is one of
many written by women through
out the country who are partici-
pating in the Working Woman Con-
test by writing letters telling what
they would do, if their husbands
would not let them attend working
class meetings.
Letters have come, since the in
auguration of the contest in the
November issue of the magazine,
from little coal towns in Tennessee,
from industrial cities like Detroit,
from Chicago, from farms in the
West.
"The sixteen valuable prizes them
selves would be an incentive in the
prize letter contest" the woman be-
gins, and goes on to say; My hus-
band, a class conscious worker went
out to meetings every night. We
had two daughters who wnt to
school. This made my lif lone
some one. 1 had been reading
pamphlets which my husband
bought at meetings.
1.-THE part of the Communist
Party program which told of the
equality of women seemed very at
tractive to me. I told my husband
of this. But he said You must
stay home with the childrn. I do
not see what you could do anyway"
But I was not satisfied. 1 APP
preached a woman Party member.
She said she would gladly take up
my membership at the next unit
meeting.
81 becam member of the Com
munist Party. I became very much
interested in the work. When the
chance came, read aloud to my
husband, about the Importance of
organizing the working class women.
I read what Lenin said on the sub
ject. talked to him in a COM
ardely manner about his anti Com
munistic attitude towards women.
He finally confessed that he had
never thought about it that way"
Now we both work in the Commu-
mist Party. He encourages me
Women who wish to participate
in the contest must write letters
direct to Working Woman Contest
Editor, so East 18th Street, New
York, N. Y. The letter must be
based on what the woman should do,
who has a husband who himself has
other interests, but won't let her at
tend working class meetings. There
are sixteen prizes. The first prize is
hamper of white Rose canned
products. The second prize is a
Westinghous, adjustable heat, cleo
trio iron. Other prizes include sub
scriptions to various periodicals, an
initiation and three months dues
payment to the International Work
ers Order, etc. The contest ends at
midnight, January 18th, 1885.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Unemployed Leaders
Face Trial in Hillsboro
For Syndicalism, Dec. 3

CHICAGO, Nov 21.-Trial of the
nine Hillsboro defendants, arrested
for leading demonstrations for TN
employment relief in Hillsboro. ILL.,,
has been set for Dec. 3, following a
preliminary hearing before Judge
Jet at which a special prosecutor
from the Attorney Generals office
was present.
The defendants are to be tried
on charges of criminal syndicalism
and attempts to overthrow the
government" The Hillsboro De-
tense Committee and the Interna-
tional Labor Defense are appealing
to all organizations to flood Judge
Jet and State Attorney Homer
with protests, demanding the re-
lease of the nine defendants and
the repeal of the criminal syndical-
list law. Protests should be for
warded to both officials at Hills-
bore, III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Railroad Police Shoot
Jobless Negro in Dayton

DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 81. = A
young Negro worker, Louis AIRING
ton age 81, was brutally shot down
while picking coal on the PennsyI-
vania Railroad tracks here Monday
Although coal has been shipped
here for distribution among the I'M
employed, the relief administration
is denying it to those on the welfare
lists. Especially are the Negro peo-
pie being denied fuel.
The single workers stormed the
welfare Office here when they were
denied surplus food orders, and four
members of the Unemployment
Councils, Hobert, Gray, Dundric and
Evans, wer arrested They are be-
ing defended by attorney Lands.
The workers are continually be-
ing told that there are no more
surplus food supplies, While the COM
modities are being hauled from place
to place in the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
40 Per Cent
Relief Rise
Is Demanded
Plan Wide Campaign
for Natl Congress for
Social Insurance
Especial to the Daily Worker,

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. IA
delegation of five jobless workers
elected at the late Conference of
the Unemployment Councils met
with Governor White here yester-
day, demanding a 40 per cent in
crease in cash relief. The delega-
ton, Frank Rogere, A. Lewis, Allen
Few, jamie Langston and r. Ferret,
opposed the sales tax proposals
made by Governor White in a
special message to the State AS
sembly yesterday.
Governor White hedged when
asked by delegate Rogers for en-
dorsement of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill, stating
that he expressed approval" of the
Workers Bill, but was against it for
the State. Major Henderson, state
relief director, came to his aid when
told by Rogers that increased relief
'is a life and death question" for
thousands of families in Ohio, and
necessitateS the raising of taxation
on the incomes in the higher brack-
cts. Immediately, Governor White
rushed to the defense of the big
business interests, retorting most
of the manufacturers are busted"
A. Lewis, Negro leader of the
Cleveland unemployed, demanded a
stop to the jim Grow policy of the
administration. Governor White
and his relief director emphatically
denied that discrimination existed
against the Negro people, but were
confronted with the intersection by
jamie Langston, delegate on the
committee from Columbus that
I'm being Disseminated against
right here in Columbus"
The unemployed conference adj
journed after electing a committee
to prepare for a State Convention
of the unemployed around the COM
ing National Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance, which will be
held in Washington on Jan. 5 and Z,
1895.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Fisk University Students Meet Roosevelt
With Demand for Action on Scottsboro Case

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 21.-On
Saturday at noon, at one stage in
his sweep through the South in
specting the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority, President Roosevelt was
met with a protest signed by $50
Students at Fisk University de-
manding a stay of execution for the
Scottsboro boys and an investiga-
ton of the lynching of Claude Neal
in Florida. DR.. T. E. Jones, presi-
dent of the University handed him
the protest as well as statement
from the National Scottsboro- Harn-
don Action Committee prepared by
James w. Ford.
The presidential party was making
its last stop in Nashville at Fisk
University, listening to Negro spir-
ituals sung by the student bodies
of Fisk, Meharry Medical College
and the Tennessee State Agricul-
tural and Industrial College for Ne
groes.
Mr.. Roosevelt's car drew up an
hour and half late before Jubilee
Hall, the girls dormitory, made
famous by the well-known Jubilee
Singers, who went out from Fisk
more than half century ago sing
ing slave songs in order to raise
funds to help build the school.
Jones Greets Roosevelt
President Jones of Fisk Univer-
sity, white, made a short speech of
welcome after which the Scottsboro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Negro Will Face Court
T o da y for Possession
Of Workers Literature

BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 21-T h e
trial of Fred Walker, Negro worker
charged with violation of the new
Downs" ordinance prohibiting pos
session of revolutionary literature,
is set for tomorrow before Judge
Martin. Walker is represented by
Attorney G. B. Powell, of the Inter
national Labor Defense.
Frank Halsey, another Negro
worker, has been sentenced to from
3 to years in jail on a framed-up
charge of throwing a stink-bomb
during strike in Negro theatre
on May IS.
Joe Persey Bragg, 18-year old
Negro youth was indicted last week
by the Jefferson County Grand
Jury on a charge of assault with in
tent to murder in the shooting sew
eral weeks ago of a white woman,
Mrs. Frank Slayton. The evidence"
against the youth is purely circum-
stantial and of the flimsiest sort.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Dock Workers
Out
In Trenton
Protests to Ryan Get No
ResuIts-Men Re-
placed on Job

TRENTON, N. j., Nov. 21.-Tren-
ton longshoremen have been locked
out Of their union hall and Jobs,
but by their union officials, Accord
ing to a resolution adopted by a
group Of members Of Local 1856 Of
the International Longshoremen's
Union.
Protests to Ryan and other Off
Gals Of the I. L. A. have brought
no response, while the workers
starve and their jobs are worked by
men sent in by the I. L. A. local
Of Philadelphia.
Their resolution telling the story
reads as follows:
Brothers:
In August of this year, we the
longshoremen Of Trenton organized
local known as l. L. A. 1856, con-
sisting of IS longshoremen. Our
officers were appointed before the
charter was issued by our self
appointed president, Hoenstein.
Immediately after the charter
was issued, Mr.. Baker philadelphia
organizer) swore our officers in
without election. We have re-
quested our constitutional rights for
an election of officers, but have
been denied this. Because we have
requested our constitutional rights,
Hoenstein told us that he was run
ming this local and he would throw
us all out and take in new mem
bers that he would rule and dom
mate
1--WE did not agree with him,
causing considerable friction. We
tried to explain to Mr.. Hoenstein
that it was not one-man local. 1t
was organized as a rank and file
local and no one man could run it.
THE body voted the charter
closed, but evidently Mr.. Hoenstein
ignored it, passing out books and
buttons to men who did not belong
to the local. BY doing this he
flooded the local, causing us to be
locked out of the union.
Organizer Baker dictated our
charter open against the protest
of our members, allowing our local
to be flooded. Organizer Baker
brought men from Philadelphia to
break our local and try to lock us
out. We have been refused admit
lance to our hall; they also refused
to accept our dues or allow us to
go to work to earn our bread and
butter.
I'VE have communicated and pro-
tested to President j. B. Ryan Of
the LILA. Snd Secretary J. j. Royce
of the I. L. A, and secretary of the
A. F. of l.. Also to the U. S. Labor
Board in Washington, the Mercer
County Central Labor Union and
President Green of the A. F. of l..
I'VE have been unable to obtain
any logical reason for this lockout
from the above beloved brothers.
1--WE are making sincere at
tempt to appeal to anyone who can
enlighten us on this subject, or
these actions. Kindly explain what
it all means, as we do not under
stand such tactics as those of union
men.
1--WE remain sincerely and fra
ternally the locked out members Of
Local 1856 of the I. L. A."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Councils Stop Eviction
OF Jobless Negro Family

PHILADELPHIA Pa, Nov. 90
Intercepted on its way to the South
Philadelphia relief station last
week, a committee from the Unem-
ployment Councils stopped the
eviction of Mary Anderson, a Negro
mother of two children.
AS the committee was on its way
to the welfare station, they were
stopped at Tenth and Locust Street
by boy who informed them of the
eviction. Running to 400 Fulton
Street, they found Mary Anderson
and her two children on the street
while the constable loaded her fur
niture on truck. Although twelve
police stood by, the workers seized
the furniture and placed it back
into the house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Trial of 10 Nazi Foes
Is Opened in Boston
Especial to the Daily worker)

BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 21.-The
l6 anti-fascist workers arrested here
this spring in a demonstration
against the Nazi propaganda cruiser
Karlsruhe was assigned yesterday
to Judge Ernest Hodson for trial in
the Pemberton Square Court.
The International Labor Defense,
defending the anti-Nazi fighters,
today called on all workers and
working class organizations to send
emphatic protests to Judge Hodson
demanding the immediate uncondi-
tional release o. all the prisoners.
Workers are urged to pack the court
room.
All workers who witnessed the
demonstration and the arrests were
asked yesterday to report at once
to the offices of the International
Labor Defense, at u Hayward Place.
Officials of the I. L. D. also stressed
the necessity of raising funds at
once to continue the defense work
which is being hampered by lack of
money.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Symposium Tonight
On Jobless Insurance

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 21.-A
symposium on Unemployment and
social insurance at which speakers
from various civic, fraternal and
mass organizations have been IN
vited to speak will be held to-
morrow night, Thursday, at 8 pm,
at 995 North Fifth Street, under
the auspices of the North Philadel-
phia Unemployment Councils.
The meeting has been arranged to
popularize the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill and to bring the
call to the National Congress on I'm
employment Insurance, which will
be held in Washington on Jan. ST.
to the workers of the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Councils Urge Social Groups
Fight for Ii Back National
On West Coast Congress Call
Cleveland Fraternal
Orders Act on Social
Insurance Meeting

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. I'll
The Executive Committee of the
Fronte Unico Dele Organizzazioni
Italiane Omitted Front of Italian
Organizations(, at a meeting held
here last Saturday, endorsed the
call to the National Congress for
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance to be held in Washington, D.
c., on Jan. and 7, 1885.
A general meeting of the dele
gates to the italian United Front,
which is composed of thirty eight
organizations, including Italian fra
ternal groups, the Sons of Italy, In
dependent Sons of Italy, Progressive
Republican Clubs and other mutual
aid, fraternal and social clubs, will
be held here Sunday.
In addition to endorsing the call,
the executive committee has or
dered 200 of the official Congress
calls, 200 of the magazines pub
lished by the National Sponsoring
Committee, and 1000 post cards
which set forth the demands for
unemployment insurance and to be
mailed to Congressman. These will
be distributed to the delegates at
the meeting Sunday.
The united front was called last
May by the four local branches Of
the International Workers Order,
Branches 2505, 2549, $3.50 and 1852.
A second, third and fourth meet
ing was called on June "a, Aug. 20
and on Oct. %, each broadening
further the united front.
The United Front Of Italian Or
CARNATIONS here plans to send at
least ten delegates to the National
Congress for Unemployment and
Social Insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Workers School Opens
In New Haven SUNDAY

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. I'll
The third annual session of the New
Haven Workers School will open
here on Sunday at 222 Lafayette
st. with Joseph Milton, district agit-
prop director of the Communist
Party as instructor.
A total of Is students are ex-
pceted from mass organizations and
from units of the Communist Party
and the Young Communist League,
all of whom will attend on the rec
ommendation of their organizations.
The chief course will be in the ele-
ments Of Communism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Providence Workers
Will Conduct Bazaar

PROVIDENCE, R. L, Nov. I'll
The Labor Educational Association
will give it's first annual three-day
bazaar here on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday evenings, Nov. 20 and
80 and Dec. 1.
Music. dancing and entertain
ment will be provided for patrons
of the bazaar which promises a
large selection of food stuffs, and
other consumers goods at attractive
prices. The bazaar will be held at
1755 Westminster st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

1--WE havee lived on relief all
Spring and summer" writes G.
M. of Gloucester, Ohio. Never
theless, this worker managed to
collect S1.37 on his collection list
for the 100000 fund. All lists
should be rushed into the Daily
Worker office at once.