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The daily worker., 1934-03-28
AWU for Mass
Meet Against
Auto Sell-Out
MESA Meet Hears Re-
port on United Front
Conference

DETROIT, March 27.-The de-
cisions of the united front auto con-
ference, held here Sunday, came
before the meeting of the shop
stewards of the Mechanics Educa-
tional Society of America last night,
where William Holley and the M.
E. S. A. delegates who attended the
conference reported. At a late hour,
with the meeting still in progress,
sentiment was strong among the
shop stewards for the united front
and for the immediate holding of a
joint mass meeting at Arena Gar
dens, under the auspices of the
Auto Workers Union, the Mechan-
les Educational Society, and the A.
F. of L. rank and file.
The Auto Workers Union sent a
delegation to the meeting to clarity
any questions which might arise in
connection with the conference de-
cisions and to facilitate immediate
action. Ed Hoffman, of the Ford
Workers Protective Association
Against Discrimination, organized
by the victimized strikers at the
Ford, Chester, Pa, plant, also ap-
peared and addressed the meeting
and was warmly received. He spoke
on the situation facing all auto
workers and called for united ac-
ton.
Representative of the Auto
Workers Union, when interviewed
today regarding the united front,
stated: "If the united front is to
be carried through it must be done
now when the workers are dis
cussing the agreement made in
Washington and looking for guild
ance. To delay at this time is the
same as to oppose the united front
as it plays into the hands of the
A. F. of L. leadership's sell-out.
The A. F. of L. officialdom is play
ing the game that the struggle is
over and is counting on passivity
to rivet the agreement on the necks
of the workers. That is why it is
necessary to act without delay,
postponement, maneuvering or
wavering.
''The Auto Workers Union ex-
poets quick action from all sincere
fighters in the ranks of the Me-
chanics Educational Society and
from the shop stewards"
Definite word is expected today
regarding the decision of the Me-
chanics Educational Society.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
Bronx Workers To
Protest Torture of
Negro Boys Friday
Meets Being Arranged
] in Many Cities To De-
fend Scottsboro BOYS

NEW YORK.-Bronx workers will
hold a protest meeting at 642 South
ern Boulevard Friday night against
the latest campaign of terror
against the Scottsboro boys, five of
whom have been placed in solitary
confinement and threatened with
indefinite solitary confinement by
Warden F. L. Erwin of the Jeffer-
son County Jail, Birmingham, Ala.
Similar protest meetings are be-
( ing called throughout the country
as white and Negro workers rally
in indignant protests against this
new victimization of the Scottsboro
boys. Only recently the boys were
being deprived of comforts and
letters sent them by workers
throughout the country until mass
protests. evoked when the Interna-
tional Labor Defense exposed this
condition. forced the prison authori-
ties to discontinue the thefts of
cigarettes, ETC., sent the boys.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
East Side Tenants
Force Landlord To
Make Fire Repairs

NEW YORK-The tenants at 22l
E. Sixth ST., who have been on
strike since last week against the
fire hazards In their tenement build
ing, have already forced the land
lord to begin on several needed re-
pairs and Improvements in the
house.
This was announced at a meeting
held Monday night. The gain that
their militancy has forced thus far
is the beginning of work by the
landlord, Abraham Goldberg of ISL
Gerard Ave, to f1re-retard the cellar
walls and stairway, and the con-
struction of an exit from the rear
yard in order to enable tenants to
escape in case of fire.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28

said: I'VE are chGrtiHg course in industrial
eHgineering" What is that new course? 1t is a
smashing dOIUn the LCOrkers right to strike.
1t is course bOIStering and Strengthening monster
company unions, built up by the big trusts of Wall
Street. No WOnder the automobile manufacturers
paid Roosevelt special Uisit to giUe him their
hearty thanks! But What does this mean for the
IOOrkers? 1t means an increased driUe to smash
dOlUn their iUing standards, to put them in the
straHjacket of company unions; to tie them hand
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
NaziS Massacre 3
More Communists
On Axeman'S Block
Fascists Dare Not Kill
Other z Condemned
in Same Trial

DUSSELDORF, March 27.-The
Nazi axeman beheaded three more
Communist workers here today.
They were among ten victims of a
mass trial of workers arrested dur
ing a clash with Nazis in 1882, in
which a Storm Trooper was killed
All ten were condemned to die.
The Nazis, however, did not dare
carry out this mass butchery, and
selected three TO be massacred,
while the other seven were con-
demned to slow death as life pris-
oners in the Nazi torture dungeons
The daily worker., 1934-03-28

foot and keep them from striking against the
rotten conditions. All this is being done Uith the
help of the treacherOus leaders of the A. F. of L.
The right to IiUe to fight back against ntOIerabLe
conditions, the right to strike, after decades
of the most militant struggles of the American
loOrkers, the most elementary rights of the Uork-
erS organizations being attacked by the strike
breaking and company union President-ROOSeUeH.
Workers! You must defeat the Strike-breaking
role of the NeD Deal. Defeat the Strike-breaking
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
Young Workers to Parade Thru Cleveland Streets
To Greet National Communist Convention Monday

Singing Society, the South Slav
and the Ukrainian Choruses. Joint
rehearsals are being held and there
is among the choruses a very
spirited enthusiasm to perfect their
program for the conventions dele
gates.
All those organizations that have
not yet donated are urged to send
a 50 minimum for the convention
to Earl Browder, p o. Box, Sta. D.,
New York City.
Housing! Housing! HousingI
This is still the gravest technical
obstacle to the smooth carrying
through of the Convention. The
Convention delegates, who will be
involved in long sessions to draw
up correct plan of militant action
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
By HARRY RAYMOND

NEW YORK.-The bluff of
the taxicab fleet owners, who
said at the beginning of the
strike that they would submit
to a plebiscite, was definitely
exposed yesterday when Delaney
Nicoll. attorney for the companies,
turned down both plans which were
s~reed to by the Taxi Drivers Union
e. City Hall. Union leaders de-
clsred that they will continue the
strike aqainst the company unions
End abide by the plebiscite plan
si@ned by them Monday.
The fleet operators put forward
counter-proposal, whereby Alfred
P. Stone, President of the General
Motors Corporation, would be called
il to handle the strike situation.
Mr.. Nicoll said that the company's
plan was similar to the plan used
by President Roosevelt to halt the
strike of the Michigan automobile
workers.
This plan, the Roosevelt plan,
would legalize company unions and
place the drivers at the mercy of
the big fleet owners.
This plan of the companies
means legalizing a company union
and also the encouragement of the
blacklist and discrimination against
Negro drivers, against which the
Taxi Drivers Union of Greater
New York is fighting" said Joseph
Gilbert, organizer of the union.
"The acceptance of the presidents
plan would be blow at the Taxi
Drivers Union and the struggle
against company unions in general.
We will not submit to such strike
breaking plan"
At meeting of garage chairmen,
held at Germania Hall, 10th st. and
Third Ave-, it was decided that all
garage chairmen will go to the
City Hall today to demand that the
Mayor carry out his plans for the
plebiscite.
Representatives of the employers
offered counter proposals to Mayor
LaGuardia this afternoon. They
suggest the creation of a board
consisting Of nine members for the
settlement of all disputes. Three
members will represent the en-
ployees, three the employers and
three the public" The Parmelee
Continued on Page -
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
PhiLd. Meet Thursday
for ScOttsbOrO Boys
and Ernst ThGeLntarln

PHILADELPHIA, March 81
Workers of Philadelphia will
meet in Girard Hall Thursday
night, to demand the release of
Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the
German Communist Party, and
the Scottsboro boys, at the call
Of the International Labor De-
fense.
Leo Gallagher, famous LID.
attorney who went to Germany
to defend the Reichstag fire de-
PENDANTS, and took part in the
successful defense of A. E. Smith,
framed secretary of the Canadian
Labor Defense League, and Mrs.
Ada Wright, mother of two of
the Scottsboio boys, will speak.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
Ward, Lovett, Steffens Head
League Against War, Fascism,
Replacing Deserving Socialists
To Call End Anti-W ar
Congress Next
October

NEW YORK.-Harry F. Ward,
new national chairman of the
American League Against War
and Fascism, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at a mass meeting
against war on April 6, anniver-
sary of Americas entry into the
World War, at st. Nicholas Arena,
So w. 66th st.
NEW RK.-The American
League Against War and Fascism
yesterday announced that Harry F.
Ward of Union Theological Semin-
ary has been named national chair
man of the League, to take the
place Of ]. B. Matthews, who re-
Gently resigned on orders Of the
Socialist Party, of which he is
member.
At the same time it was an
nounced that Robert MorsS Lovett,
national president of the League
for Industrial Democracy and pro-
fessor at the University of Chicago,
and Lincoln Steffens, journalist and
author, have been named vice
chairmen of the League.
New Members of National
Executive
Professor George S. Counts Of
Teachers College, Columbia Uni
yersity, is named a member of the
directing bureau of the Leagues
National Executive Committee, and
the following four additional new
members have been added to the
National Executive Committee:
Rev. R. Lester Mondale of Evans
ton, H., Professor Cotton E. Warne
Of Amherst College, Rabbi Benja-
min Goldstein of Montgomery, Ala,
and Winifred Chappell, secretary
Of the Methodist Federation of So
cial Service.
Plan Second Anti-War Congress
These new additions to the ma
tional leadership of the League re-
fleet the constant growth of groups
prepared to carry out a militant
struggle against imminent war and
rising fascism, and the constant
growth of the influence of the
League despite the attempts of the
Socialist leadership to throttle the
fight against war.
simultaneously, the League made
official announcement that it is
preparing to call the second Ameri-
can Congress Against War, to be
held in October. The National
Executive Committee of the League
will meet on Sunday evening, April
%, at the New School for Social
Research, to work out tn plan for
calling this second National Anti
War Congress.
j. B. Matthews, former national
chairman; Francis Henson, one Of
the two secretaries, and Mary Fox,
all Socialist Party members, re-
signed from the League on the in
structions of their party, giving the
Madison Square Garden Austrian
meeting as their excuse, although
their designations had already been
ordered some time before.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
Accommodations Are
Still Needed for Dele
gates at Convention

for the coming months of class
warfare in this country, must have
beds to sleep in at night. Workers
are urged to welcome the Conven-
ton by opening their homes to its
delegates. Workers will not have
to feed the delegates. This will be
taken care of by the convention,
through donations of workers or
ganizations. If you have a place
where a fighting delegate can sleep,
communicate at once with the
Cleveland District ONCE, 1914 Pros
pect Ave, Room 306.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
Silk Mill Workers
Strike at the Tilton
Co. in Phillipsburg
Especial to the Daily worker

PHILLIPSBURG, N. 1T h e
night shift of the Tilton Silk Co.
in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, struck
last night in militant protest
against the firing of the shop COM
mi-tee chairman. The day shift
will follow in solidarity.
The worker was warned by his
bosses that if he continued organ
national work in order to get all
workers into the union of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union he
would get fired.
Immediately following his dis
missal, after receiving his r =
check, the whole body of workers
walked out with him.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
ooseveIt-The Company Union Strikebreaking President

ROOSEVELT is moving IUith tremendous strides
Il to smash dOUn the rising resistance of the
ICOrkers Ggdint the miserable conditions of the
NeU Deal. The N. r. A. is enforcing sIGUe cOndi-
tiOnS for the UhOLe American UorkiHg class. ROOSe
Ue acts openly to OutLaL0 the ICOrkerS trade union
organizations. He is decreeing au0ay the right to
strike, the right to resist starvation LUGges and
brutal conditions. What happened in the threaten
ing auto strike is terrific bLOIU aimed at all lvOrk
ers. Roosevelt, enforcing company unions in auto,
The daily worker., 1934-03-28

busily preparing for the march.
Holding shop gate meetings in front
of factories. where those employed
are many young workers, issuing
leaflets, speaking in youth organi-
cations, in order to rally the youth
to the mass opening of the Party
Convention, next Monday night.
All those who are to participate
in the march will meet Monday
evening, April 2, at P. M, at the
T. U. U. L. office, 1887 Payne.
For the first time, at the coming
meeting, all working-~ ass choruses
in Cleveland will s-g jointly the
revolutionary SONGS Of today's
struggles. The choruses, which have
a membership of 400 are the Frei-
heit Gesang Verein, the Lithuanian
The daily worker., 1934-03-28

Iackey service of the A. F. of L. leaders. Organize
and insist the right to build your OlUH trade
unions. Fight for the right to strike for better
conditions Defeat the company unions. Defeat the
governments Strke-breakiHg role in support of the
company SlaUe unions Defeat the groLUiRg fascist
measures of the Roosevelt regime! Workers unite
your forces regardless of union political afia-
ton, against the strikebreaking and company union
role of the Roosevelt government.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
ChicagOCWAMarch
Through Loop on
Saturday, Mar. 81
Philadelphia Workers
to Demonstrate at
Raeburn Plaza
BULLETIN

CHICAGO, HI.-Mass pressure
of workers protests and delega-
tions forced police commissioner
Altman to grant permit for the
united front march through the
Loop and demonstration at Union
Park here on Saturday, March
31st. The workers will assemble at
Union Park at 10 am, and start
march through the Loop at 10:45
pm.
CHICAGO, Ill, March 27-Twelvt
locals of the A. F. of L. have en-
dorsed the united front C.W.A. dem.
onstration and march through the
Loop here Saturday in protest
against the Roosevelt abandonment
of the entire C.W.A. program. Ir
Continued on Page q
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
5000 Workers Strike in
AUiation, ShipbuiIding,
Var In ndustry Plants
N. Y. ShipbuiIding and
Curtis Airplane
Tied Up

BUFFALO, N. Y, March 27.-
Defying the protests of A. F. of l..
leaders, who are ignoring demands
for better conditions, more than
1000 employees of the Curtiss Con-
solidated airplane plants struck to-
day for higher wages.
Picket lines around the Consoli-
dated plant closed it down COM
pletely. The CurtisS factory con-
tinued to operate, but the striking
workers expressed confidence that
they would compel it to close also.
Both plants have been humming
for months, turning cut huge or
ders. Nevertheless, every request
made by the workers for an in
crease in wages-at least to offset
the rise in the cost of living, caused
by the N.R.A., which has brought
big profits to the industrialists-
has been refused.
Camden Shipyard Men Strike
Especial to the Daily WOrker)
CAMDEN, N. j., March 27.-Three
thousand workers of the New York
Ship Building Company struck to-
day for recognition of their union,
for increased wages and against
the piece-work system.
The workers are now being paid
$14 to $23 per week. They attempted
for year to negotiate with Bardo,
millionaire president of the COM
pany, to end these slave conditions,
but Bardo was always too busy" or
"on vacation"
Furious, the workers gave their
only effective answer yesterday,
when they voted to strike. The
entire force is picketing the yards
and members of the company union
did not dare to enter.
The workers struck under the
leadership of the Industrial Marine
and ShipworkerS Union, an A. F.
of L. Federal Union. Frightened by
the militancy of the picketS, Bardo
expressed willingness today to dis
cuss issues with representatives of
the workers.
John Green, acting president of
the union, expressed the sentiment
Of the workers on the N.R.A. and
labor boards when he said:
"The less the government has
10 do with the matter the better
we will like it. The workers are
determined to settle this on the
picket line"
The Camden Courier, reactionary
capitalist sheet, tried to bring up
the red scare" but the workers
are remaining steadfast.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
AFLHeads Fear
Struggle; Hold
Up Auto Report
"CO to HeH!'' Is Taxi
Strikers AnSwer to
HdrUey's Fascist Plan

NEW YORK. - Taxi strikers
who read the Daily Worker re-
port of the statement made by
George U. Harvey, Borough Pres
ident of Queens, that he would
"arm the cops with night sticks
and a gallon of castor oil each"
for the workers, here urged that
Harvey go to his pal Mussolini,
or to warmer climes, the Daily
Worker reporter who spoke to
the men, reports.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
NeeUS Flash

WASHINGTON.-In a vote that
came as a stunning shock to Ad-
ministration leaders, the House
over-rOde Roosevelt's veto of the
Independent Offices Bill giving
the war veterans back $83,000,0 900
taken away from them by RoOse-
velt's economy program"
In addition, the House over
rode Roosevelt's veto of the 5 to 10
per cent restoration of the Is per
cent Roosevelt wage cut for Fed
eral employees.
This is the first major issue on
which the Roosevelt Administra-
tiOn wishes have been swept aside
by the members of the House.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
Participants in March to
Meet Monday Evening
at T.U.U.L. Office

CLEVELAND, March 27. = Hold
ing banners and posters aloft, men,
bers of the Young Communist
League, accompanied by the men,
bers of the Youth Sections of the
International Workers Order and
other youth organizations, will
march through the streets of work
ing-class neighborhoods here to the
Music Hall of Public Auditorium,
where they will greet the opening
of the Eighth National Convention
Of the Communist Party.
These militant young workers are
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
Cuban Soldiers Seize
Students, Jail Workers

HAVANA, March IT. Soldiers
took over the docks and sugar ware
houses at Puerto Tarafa, last night,
and arrested SO dock workers on
charges of "inciting to strike"
Soldiers fired into a demonstra-
ton of students, wounding three
girls and several boys.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
CORRECTION

Through typographical error in
the story appearing in the Daily
Worker on the united front auto
conference held in Detroit last SUM-
day, it was stated that 10000 auto
workers were represented" The
figure should have been 10000.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28

In sending in new subs to the
Daily" please write the name
and address of the new sub
scriber clearly.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
Resentment Is Growing
With Strikes in Auto
Parts Plants
TRY CONFUSE MEN
''Mediation'' Board Is
Stacked Against the
Union Members
BULLETIN


WASHINGTON, March 27.-
General Johnson today announced
the personnel of the auto "medi-
alton board" They are: For the
auto bosses, Nicholas Kelly, Of the
Chrysler Motor Co.; for "labor,"
Richard L. Byrd, a close friend of
the auto bosses, and impartial
Leo Wollman, one time associate
of ex-President Hoover. Leo WoIl-
man signed the merit clause" in
the auto code. Recently the Kip
pinger Service said of him: "Mr.
Leo Wollman made favorable
impression on the assembled em-
ployers when 1000 of them met
in Washington.)"
BY WILLIAM WEINSTONE
DETROIT, March 27.-The auto
is being played down in
the bosses press today to further
lull the workers into feeling that
all is over. But the workers are look
ing forward to meetings where re-
ports of the A. F. Of L. delegation
to Washington will be given. These
however, are deliberately
being delayed by the A. F. Of L. Of
In the Motor Products plant re-
sentiment is growing among the A.
F. of L. members against the SELL
out but there is still much unclarity
the meaning Of the agree
ment, since it has been wrapped up
in demagogic phrases. Stool pigeons
in the plants are intimidating the
workers
The Auto Workers Union Is dis
tributing leaflets in plants exposing
the sell-out and calling on the
workers to organize action commit
tees for strikes and stoppages, and
other forms of struggles, and to or
ganize the rank and file oppositions
in the A. F. of L. locals to defeat
the officials.
The leaflet urges the men to back
the united front movement launched
at the auto conference on Sunday.
Marking Time
In Flint, the workers are mark
ing time awaiting the report of the
(Continued on Page y
The daily worker., 1934-03-28
CabOwnersReject
Plebiscite; Fear
Strikers Victory
Strikers Demand Til a t
LaCuardia Carry
Out Agreement
EXPOSE JIM-CROW
Companies in Strik e.
Breaking Proposals
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
NEW YORK.-Demanding rec
ognition of the Taxi Drivers
Tn'cn Of Gree +er New XoTk, five
hundred taxi drivers OF the New
Deal Transportation Co. have
joined the general strike.
The daily worker., 1934-03-28

Continued on Page -
Evening star., 1934-02-23
BLAST IN THEATER
KILLS 2, HURTS II
Explosion in Basement OF
Yonkers Building Believed
Due to Gas.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
YONKERS, N. Y, February 23.-
An explosion in the cellar of the
Proctor Theater shortly before noon
today killed men and injured II
persons, several of the latter SO serl-
ously they are expected to die.
One of the dead is Patrick Whalin,
a motor cycle patrolman. who was
burned to death attempting to rescue
electrical engineers working in the
basement. The other is Carl Gruber,
one of the electrical workers. No
show was on at the time.
Origin of the blast was not at once
determined, but an early theory held
by investigators was either escaping
Illuminating gas or sewer gas backed
up into the cellar by snow and ice
blocking sewer vents and mains.
The explosion was so severe that it
ripped out the lobby of the theater,
blew out the front of both the theater
and an adjoining dress shop, wrecked
an automobile parked at the curbing
and shattered the paving of sidewalk
and street.
The theater is directly across from
the City Hall.
When the blast occurred, witnesses
said, it hurled passersby to the pave
ment and showered them with con-
crete and debris.