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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24

sponsoring Committee urged that
all money from sales of supporting
materials and literature and all
collections from tag days and meet
inss which are due to the National
once should be sent at once to the
National Sponsoring Committee,
100 Broadway, Room 624, New York
City.
At least 5000 must be raised at
once-42,O00 to be placed on deposit
for lodgings for the delegates
while in Washington; 81 200 in ad-
vance for rental Of the Washington
Auditorium; and preparations for
$1,000 meals to feed the delegates.
Seek Fall Information
In all arrangements for trans
portation, food and lodging, exact
information is needed. The Ma
tional ONCE must know how many
delegates will attend the Congress,
when they will arrive, and when
they will leave. In order to have
working capital, as many as possible
Of the delegates fees should be paid
in advance. This will also facilitate
the registration of the delegates.
When remittances for the dele
gates are made to the national
ONCE, it was suggested that as many
as possible leave in group so as
to obtain lowest possible fares. AS
they money for the group is COL
lected for food, lodging and trans
HnH~f finY1 ShnyYlI kA
aside to meet travelling expenses
and the remainder forwarded to the
national ONCE in accordance with
the established schedule for the
feeding and housing in Washing
ton and the registration fee of
twenty-five cents for each delegate.
Delegates who wish to provide
their own food and lodging while in
Washington may do so. Delegates
who will be fed and housed by the
Congress will be required to pay
$1.75 q day or $1.25 day. These
rates are based on a charge of
seventy-t1ve cents a day for food,
and either fifty cents or one dollar
a day for lodging. Payment must
be made in advance for the entire
stay in Washington.
Special train rates have been OBJ
tanned from all points on the Penn
sylvania Railroad and the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. For delegations
Of more than 200 the charge will be
one cent mile, and for fifty or
more the charge will be one and
one-quarter cents a mile. Trans
portation, however, should be ar
ranged by each local sponsoring
committee.
Arrange Radio HOokup
Sendoff mass meetings, the Ma
tional Committee urges, should be
held in all localities to serve the
double purpose of bringing the fight
for unemployment insurance to the
widest possible number OF workers
and for raising additional funds to
meet local expenses.
Additional supplies Of the litera-
ture for the National Congress
should be sold at all these meetings.
Mary Van Kleeck, national chair
man OF the Interpretations Asso-
citation for Social Insurance. and
member OF the National Sponsoring
Committee, will speak on What
Kind Of Unemployment Insurance
Does America Need" over the Blue
Network OF the National Broadcast
ing Company, Station WIZ, 760kc
Saturday, Jan. S, at $50 p. m. East
ern Standard Time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Pittsburgh to Issue
Paper on Scottsboro

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 23.-
The first issue of the Scottsboro
News, a monthly publication de-
voted to the Scottsboro liberation
campaign, will be off the press jan
l, 1t was announced at the LID.
today.
The "scottsboro News" plan was
evolved at broad Scottsboro con-
ference held in Pittsburgh, Dec. 8.
At that time 104 delegates, repre-
senting organizations with total
membership of 10000 decide in
favor of issuing three editions as
part of the mass defense campaign
in the Pittsburgh district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Needle Trades Workers
To Celebrate Birthday
of Union in Chicago

CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-The mem
bers and friends of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
of Chicago are preparing a giant
celebration of the Sixth snniver-
sary, February 3, of the birth of the
militant union and of its many
achievements in defense of the in
terests of the workers.
The celebration will be held at
the Peoples Auditorium, where
thousands of workers will pledge
their loyalty to revolutionary union
ism and for the unity of all work.
ers in the needle industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24

+. separate lodges. thereby driving a
wedge between government work.
ers.
The fight of NR.A employees
Lodge 81 against the loss of its
charter for its stand on picketing
and equal rights for Negroes has
now spread to other lodges. FER.A.
Lodge 130 has declared its SYM
patty with the NR.A. workers, de-
nouncing as autccratic and despotic
the action of President E. Claude
Babcock Of the American Fedora
ton of Government Employees in
threatening suspension of their
lodge.
Took Action Against Union
Babcock took action against Lodge
81. accusing it of conduct unbe-
coming a labor union" false and
misleading statements and dis
loyalty after it had circulated to
othe- lodges a report Of its delega-
ton to the A, F. G. E. convention
in New York.
This report declares that "Presi-
dent Babcock and the A. F. G. z.
leaders have adopted a program Of
segregating the Negroes into sep
arate lodges, thereby disuniting gov
Crnment workers.
In the past it continues. such
a Jim-Crow program has been car
ried out quietly deceptively, Negro
lodges are known as interdepart-
mental lodges and Negroes who ape
ply for union membership are cor
rallied into them" The report goes
on to tell of the fate of a resolution
against Negro discrimination, which
was ruled out of order following
action prohibiting even discussion
Of matters Of race, at union meet
ings-although this was amended to
allow for discussion of specific
cases" of such discrimination.
The resolution in question, pre-
scented by Interdepartmental Lodge
20 pointed out that because of the
failure of administrative officials
to enforce the Civil Service law, 90
per cent Of the Negroes who have
qualified for appointments and pro-
motions in the clerical. adninistra-
tive, sub professional services, are
employed in only the janitorial and
custodial services"
Action Denounced
The report also denounces the acc
ton of Babcock at the convention
in putting through a constitutional
amendment to prohibit "picketing
and the use of delegations larger
than five" 1t declares that it was
these prohibited tactics that forced
the reinstatement of John Donovan,
lodge president, after he had been
fired by Gen. Johnson for union &C
tivity.
The lodge makes detailed charges
CT "undemocratic procedure as a
( means OF maintaining official con-
troll" and COMPLAINS of the side
tracking Of resolutions on Tom
Mooney, the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill and support for
the textile strike.
The Joint Conference for Unity
of Government Employees is demand
ing the reinstatement of Mrs. Myrs
Calls, discharged Negro relief Office
employe, and halt to the custer
proceedings against N.R.A. Lodge 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
$4,000 Wait All Night
AT Ford Auto Plant;
Only 100 Are Hired

DETROIT, Dec. 24.-More than
5000 workers waited all night at
the Ford plant in River Rouge Sun
day only to find that about 100 of
them were to be given jobs.
Many of the workers were from
sections of the country hundreds of
miles away, drawn here by Ford's
announcements that he was expand
ing production and would hire many
thousands of additional men. This
Is a well-known Ford stunt.
Tuesday morning about 900 work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24

and File in the Amalgamated Asso-
citation can break down these craft
lines, build a mass union of all steel
workers, and prepare struggles
which will really win the demands
of the steel workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24

ers, all of them on the Dearborn
relief rolls, gathered at the relief
station at Michigan Avenue and
Maple, next to the Dearborn city
hall, on the report that jobs at the
Ford plant would be handed out.
Only about 80 got jobs. Relief of
f1cials tried to dispense the crowd,
but they held their ground, demand
ing the jobs which had been
promised them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Worker Gets 6 Months
For Fighting Eviction


PITTSBURGH. Pa, Dec. %. -
Judge William McNaugher today
sentenced Roy Belco, unemployed
worker, to six months in Jail for
assault. This marks the end of q
frame-up arising out of a Woods
Run eviction last summer in which
the prisoner was shot in the leg
by one of 40 deputies.
The International Labor Defense
is launching a mass campaign to
demand the release of Belco, a
member of the Woods Run Unem-
ployment Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
BAN On PICKETING
FOUGHT By UNION
OF MIRA. WORKERS
Move TO Jim-Crow Negro Workers Into Separate
Unions Raped by Unionized Government
Employees in NRA and FERA Lodges 7

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec 23.-Resentment is sweep
ing the ranks of unonized government employees here against
attempts by the top leadership acting in collaboration with
the official government policy, to ban pcketng by n R. A.
and FER.A. workers and to m-crow NEGRO epoves into
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
NATIONAL OFFICE
: ISSUES DETECTIVES
TO ALL DELEGATES
Mary Van KIeek Will Address Nation Owe,
Station WIZ HOOk-Up National Social
Insurance Congress COnvenes

The National Sponsoring Committee for the National
Congress for Unemployment Insurance yesterday sent final
drectves all groups participating in the National Con-
gress
Of primary importance at this time the National
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
WHAT'S ON
philadelphia, Pa.

Mass Meeting and send off for Dele-
gates to National Congress for Sos
cisl and Unemployment Insurance.
Friday. DEC. %, pm. at Broadway
Arena. Broad and Christian streets.
Speakers. Herbert Benjamin, Mother
Bloor. William N Jones. Freihsit &C.
sangs Fsrein, workers Harmontoe
Band.
Nsv Years Eve Dance and enters
tainment Monday Dec, 81 at Cirsrd
Manor Hall. eli W Girard Avenue.
Good orchestra, bar and buffet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24

Hold a party and use. the pro-
ceeds TO get Daily Worker sub
scriptions for workers who cannot
afford to order the paper!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
Heroes of American Labor
Eugene V. DebS

his vast energy to that one
cause.
Convict No. 1858
When Debs- ran for PresideIet
he pOIled from 4O2,4O0 votes IN
1904 to over million in 1871
when as Convict No. 1868 in vt
lanta prison he ran agai; t
Warren q. Harding, the man
who later pardOned him.
Debs had been sent to thc
pcnitentiary in 1919 for his ae
tivity as an agitatOr against
the World War He emerged
in 1921, sick and broken old
man. From then until his death
in 1926 Debs fought continually
against the i'll health brought
on by this three years OF prison
life.
Next week: Gene DCb'S posi-
ton on War, Chauvinism, Rev
Olution. Religion, Glass Strug-
gle, Prisons, etc.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
Our Next Move

Among initiative petitions not filed
before the State of WashingtOn's deadline
last week was Number IS, the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
Similar fate has met the oregon
measure.
What, then, are we to do?
At every step the initiatives were
fought by all of capitaisms forces But even
so, the signatures could have been obtained
Lack of consistent campaign by the unem-
ployed organizations, by the unions, and by
the Voice of Action-tO this we must attri-
butte the getting of but $4,000 signatures in
Washington where $4,000 were needed, 10000
in Portland tho report from the rest of
Oregon instead of 25!OOO.
Workers were willing enough to sign
A. W. Andrews of the UCL's Waterfront
local in Seattle alone got the signatures of
$500 voters.
But, what are we to do about it now?
The struggle for unemployment insur-
ance remains the paramount issue of the
day both for the jObless and for the man on
the job The Workers Bill must still be
forced through the legislature and through
Congress.
The thing to do is go right on getting
signatures for Initiative rs!
The same lists can be used mailed to
the same state headquarters when filled
out, more lists obtained from the same
place.
Such a total of signers demanding
passage of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill can be rolled up by the time
the legislature opens that the politicians
will not be able to deny action again.
The legal date for filing formal petit
tions may be past, but the voice of the
people can roar through thousands of yet
uncOlleeted signatures.
In addition, circulation of the lists
more intense than during the campaign"
itself, can do more, along with securing
organizational endorsements for the Bill
to build the State Conventions On Unem-
ployment than any other one thing
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
MiSleader Exposed
Arlington, Wash,

Arlington, wash.
Dear Editor:
r. Z. Randall, former secre
tary of the Arlington local OF
the United Farmers League,
quit the organization when a
committee elected to render de-
cisiOn on charges bro ugh t
against him by the county or
ganizer and the county secre-
tary, refused to act because of
the absence of one of its mem
bers.
Subsequent events have
proven Randall to have been a
rank individualist, having mis-
used the locals funds. More
recently has been revealed the
fact that he has been securing
groceries on the voucher of a
cOmrade who is in the hospital
and selling them.
SnOhomish County Executive
Committee United Farm
ers' League,
LENUS WESTMAN,
Secretary.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
Star Strikebreaker

The Seattle Star, the "peepuls paper"
pulls another fast one on organized labor
this time by interviewing various citizens
to find ont what they think of the Stars
plan for town meeting" to arbitrate the
strike.
BUT-There isn't any mention of the
Stars town meeting" plan in the article,
just Seattle citizens join in demand for end
of strike. Folks in every walk of life regard
waterfront tie-up as disaster that menaces
everybody"
This dOublefaced dealing with citizens
asking them what they think of the Stars
plan" and then twisting their answers into
stFike-breaking sentiment to turn public
opinion against labOr's struggle for living
wage, shows the Star to be labOr's worst
enemy.
Even the survey of public opinion" is
conducted crOOkedly:
What do you think of the Stars plan
to settle the strike with a mass meeting?"
a Star reporter asked retail clothing sales
man.
TITS immature, dangerous and silly" the
salesman replied.
I'm sorry, but We can't print anything
like that the reporter replied. These
statements must agree with the Stars plan"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13

Krupp's gold so his silver tongue would
wag words the petty bourgeois masses were
waiting to hear and to follow.
Even among workers, the promises OF
Hitler to supply jobs gained converts. But
most important, the workers were divided
and disarmed by the Social Democratic
Party Socialists and its refusal to fight
Hitler its rejection of consistent attempt OF
the Communist Party for solid fighting
front of labor against Fascism.
And now Hitler cannot make good his
promises. He never could.
As months went by, dissatisfaction
grew Storm troopers woke up to the fact
that their wages" were less than unem-
ployed relief was before Hitler. All the cate
gOries of people to whom Hitler had
appealed for mass support found their con-
dtiOns worse, not better.
ROehm and other Storm Troop leaders
attempted to pull Hitler on Hitherto
utilize the coming storm, to make over again
the old promises, to ride to power in another
Fascist dictatorship, to get their pockets
lined instead of Htlers.
In crushing them Hitler irrevocably
cuts himself off from his mass support
Between himself and revolution stands no
longer vast thousands of students, peasants.
small business men, professional people
Even these see now what growing thousands
of workers have been seeing these past
lnonths-that there is only one way out
social revolution.
Hitler has now only his real supporters:
finance capitalists and the mercenares (reg-
ular army, few comparatively highly paid
Storm Troopers, the Steel Helmet" veterans
OragnizatiOn)
TO the banner of the Communist Party
of Germany flOcks the opposition.
Hitler is not done for More heads will
roll AS a dying insane solution, Germany
will be plunged into war, probably an attack
on the Soviet Union. Terror against the
Communists, and particularly against the
heroic jailed leader of the Party, Ernst
Thaelmann, will know no bounds.
But his days are numbered.
Our job in the Northwest is clear We
must demand with all our strength the
release of Ernst Thaalmann; contribute
financially to the struggle of the German
masses; add our bit to the struggle of the
workers of the world against Fascism hasten
the end of bloody Hitler.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
Riding For A Fall

Out of the slime and gore of Hitler's
liquidation" of the Roehm group of Storm
Troopers rises an immediate perspective of
vast international Importance $3.50
Proletarian revolution!
Hitler came into power on a magic
carpet of wild promises His finances were
supplied by the biggest capitalists But he
howled against the international bankers"
Ia la Liberty Party and Silver Shirt. He
pledged aid to the small business man, help
to the impoverished professional, relief to
the ruined peasant, a career to the students
Hitler's pockets were lined with
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
WE is BROTHERS
Reprinted From Left Front

to feed yuh. The law don't pro-
vide fun no Migrants"
81 amt no vagrant."
What are yOu?"
I'm a working man." Jim
Wall said, I'm an auto me-
chanic by trade"
why amt you working"
81 amt got q job, that's why,
1 guess"
why amt yuh?"
I'll bite, judge" Jim Wall
said, why amt l."
That's for you to figure" the
judge said, that's your bust
ness"
"Haw, haw, haw," the turn
key laughed.
The judge spoke softly.
AS | was saying" he said,
the law don't provide for no
Migrants. It'll cost yuh a dol
lar a day to eat and yuh mon
.ey1l last yuh twenty days. |
figuh to give yuh three months
and the rate of pay being so
cents a day yuh'Il never git out.
| figuh yuh better pay cost and
fine and git while gettin's
good"
Its a lOwdOwn trick to take
q mans hard-earned money like
that" Jim Wall said.
81 spec yuhr right" the judge
said, and it's u lowdOwn trick
ridin another mans property
unless he consents
"They didn't ask me did |
consent when they laid me off"
Jim Wall said. "They said good
luck big shot, keep agOin', and,
by God, that's all l been dom
just agOin."
I'm tryin' to help you that
away" the judge said, smiling.
We'll, blow the whistle then,
Jim Wall said, gimme my 20
cents and let me GO"
Let him loose Abe the judge
said, hit the next freight out"
he said, we don't want the laks
of yOu here"
On the way out Jim Wall
remembered his belt and they
went back to the dollhouse for
| it. The turnkey let him finish
scratching his name on the
wall. Under his name he
scratched who gets our mon
ley?"
The turnkey said the state
gets it and the white-bearded
man said, fifty per cent to the
Judge, forty per cent to the
dicks, ten per eent-well, at
least a see-gur fob the turn
key" and the turnkey looked
pleased.
Then Jim Wall said goodby
Ito the boys. The thin laugh
ling Negro said, "ain't goOdby
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
PART III

"By Jesus Christ" said Jim
Wall, suddenly laughing, Il
never thought to see the day I'd
say amen to that"
The Negro laughed. Another
man laughed. The prisoners
stood in the bull pen looking at
one another seeing each the
others raggedness, the halloWed
cheek and the chin hair growing
IT was not unfunny and the place
was rocked with laughter.
Then the turnkey brought the
sandwiches and coffee, Jim wall
said Have some coffee ana
the turnkey said, much Obliged
had some and went out again:
The men ate, drank, smoked ana
talked and the murderer slttlhg
ON the floor in his cell watched
them.
lin Wall said, what they
give yuh hearabouts for bllnd
ridin." and Negro said, plenty
but the white bearded man SAID,
"vuhll ali be out by today.
When they asked him how come
he shrugged his shoulders ana
said. me an John'll still be heah
hut you'll all be out today
Amt that right John? he said
nothing. =,
Now the turnkey came in
and said, Jim Wall" And jim
wall got up from drinking cot
fee and followed him through
the steel door up two flights OF
stone stairs through a door
marked City Court up short
aisle thanked by empty rows OF
seats to the judges bench.
The turnkey called, on
judgel" And the judge, putting
a cigar, came in with another
man through door marked
private" and sat on the beneh.
The nudge was a small man
wearing gold-trimmed glasses.
He had hair in his ears and
nostrils and when he spoke his
voice was high and soft like a
young woman's.
Good mornin, Abe" he said,
ats a beautiful morning"
Good maunin', judge" the
turnkey said.
"You Jim Wall"
"Yess, your honor" said Jim
Wall.
you got twenty-five dollars, |
understand" the judge said.
HE ordered four eighty's
wuth OF vitals," the turnkey
said.
"Cost and fine is twenty dol
lars" the judge said, "or you
kin work it out"
How long to work it out,
Jim Wall said.
well now" the judge said
we amt under no obligation
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
FIGHT FASCISM!
Edmonds, Wash.

Dear Editor:
In Bulgaria the bourgeoisie
were afraid the next election
would go Communist. And so
there will be no election. The
Fascists have attended to that
Taking away the few remain.
ing rights of the people is the
aim of Fascism. 1t is the last
stand of capitalism. Just when
the masses are becoming capa-
BILE of self-government, the
power of the franchise is taken
from them. This proves be-
yond a doubt that the rule OF
the vested interests has been
gigantic deception.
Fascism in this country would
be an inexcusable calamity.
Dumbness is no longer an ex.
euse on the part of the worker
as the aims of Fascism are 50
obvious. Herein lies the one
redeeming feature of Fascism;
/ it is an open fight between
the oppressors and the op
pressed. "A Worker
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
WOMAN'S WORLD

.ers go on strike he will force
the Chinese, Japanese and Fill
pinO to break their strike, they
do not show them how unity
will help each other.
On the other hand, these ma
tiOnal minority groups are dis
eliminated against by the boss
eS. They are forced to sign con
tracts before they are hired.
They work long hours and are
paid by the month instead of
by the hour as the white work
Crs are. They are forced to buy
at the company stores. AS they
cannot make enough money in
summer to carry them through,
then they are forced to renew
their contracts the following
season.
This makes them difficult to
organize as the contractors hold
the last winters food bills, to-
gcthCr with threats of dcpOrta-
ton as clubs over their heads,
the cOmrade says.
Workers throughout the in
dustrics under the leadership of
the Fishermen and Canncry
we rKers industrial Union are
trying 10 snow these groups
now they are all members OF
the WORKING class and must
light together
Young Workers Must Unite
Young workers likewise often
hold themselves apart from the
stIussleS ol the WORKING class,
- -, y Ill 1 d ue Ieulkurllleh says.
lmeS seem 10 thlhK that II IS
al IlSiit lor IIielf parents TO
o1l uss II 'oI peIteF CONDITIONS
anu lilu,rec'iaS dement, by IT,
lIIe urea oI rugged llldlNldu-
aiis'h IaugllI III schools that
some gay you might De Presl-
ueliI II you Try nara enough IS
50 ueeplS routed INTO the Drains
U, t"e young workers Illat tney
oi'ell uo liot see the necessity
vi JoIiilis WITH tle oider work