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given sole right to decide on the
conditions Of hundreds of thousands
of auto workers.
Second, the Roosevelt peace"
pact legalized and recognized the
company union to a holder extent
than had previously been the case.
The pact stated: THE employ
erS agree to bargain collectively
with the freely chosen representa-
tives OF GROUPS, and not to
discriminate in any way against
any employe on the ground of his
union labor affiliation. If THERE
BE MORE THAN ONE GROUP
EACH BARGAINING COMMIT
TEE SHALL HAVE TOTAL
MEMBERSHIP PRO RATA TO
THE NUMBER OF MEN EACH
UNION REPRESENTS."
This clause gave the company
union, the instrument of the en-
ployers, legal recognition and gov
eminent backing and enabled the
auto corporations to force employees
to Join and then claim represen-
tation for the company union. It
gave Roosevelt's sanction to the
auto corporations discrimination
against union men
Roosevelt Immediately gave the
employers the governments sane
ton to build the company union
not only in auto, but in all indus
tries. He said, in making the pact
public:
II would like you to know that
in the settlement just reached in
the automobile industry, we have
charted new course in social
engineering in the United States
1t is my hope that this sys-
tenn may develop into kind of
works council in industry in which
all groups of employees, whatever
may be their choice of Organiza-
ton or form of representation,
may participate in joint confer
ences with their employers and l
an assured by the industry 1.-THE
employers-C. r. that such is
also their goal and wish"
This works council" of course,
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trict Six, in his report suggested a
ten point program later adopted by
the conference, calling for the quit
ting of the National Steel Labor
Board by the steel workers
A national organization committee
was set up for the Amalgamated
Association, including all the rank
and file leaders of the various dis
tricts-Wm. Spang, Clarence Irwin,
A. w. Macpherson, Lou Morris,
Florence Irwin, Violet Harvey, Al
Martin, M. Moore, A. w. Johnson,
R. T. Martin, Roy Hallas, Lou
Mayors, Tom Breslin.
This committee will undertake an
immediate organizing drive in steel,
based on the following ten-point
program:
l. The campaign to be national in
scope, to be widely publicized, to in
clude meetings, parades, etc, and
to secure the endorsement and aid
of all labor unions. churches, frater-
tldl CuGs
2. The creation of local orgsniza -
ton committees to carry on the
above locally. and to coordinate the
work where more than one lodge
exists in a locality
3. To seek the aid of all prominent
people, speakers, writer's, educators,
in molding public opinion in favor
Of the steel workers in their struggle.
4. The forming of lodge organizing
committees to bring back into the
union old members, to recruit new,
to form women's auxiliarieS, and
work in harmony with the city or
ganization committee.
S. The utilization of volunteers,
who shall pledge themselves to do
specific organizational tasks.
g. The setting-up of educational
committees to train the workers
along the lines of trade unionism-
lectures, forums, etc.
7. The creation of Relief Commit
tees in each lodge, to fight for the
needs of unemployed and part time
steel workers, and to recruit the
latter into the union.
g. The drawing of special set of
demands for the Negro workers,
against the differential, to bring
into the union all the Negro work
ers.
9. The setting up Of District
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Delegates Instructed
To Push Silk Strike

PATERSON, N. j., Feb. Sat a
meeting of shop chairmen and del
egates of the Silk Workers Fedora
ton here, Saturday, delegates elected
to the tri-state convention of the
union at Allentown, Pa, were in
structed to propose a national strike
of silk workers for higher wages.
The meeting also voted to protest
Herbert Benjamin's election by po-
lice at the Washington hearing on
the Wagner-Lewis Bill, concerning
unemployment insurance.
A joint meeting of the plain
goods, Wrappers and winders depart
ment of the local will take place
next Saturday to rally the union
in a fight against further wage
cuts. Since the new executive board
of the union took Office, over 100
new members joined, and members
are taking increasing interest in
the work of the union.
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Washington speaking of the A, F.
of L. leaders, Their interests are
your interests"
Conditions in the auto plants
are unbearable. As a result Of
Roosevelt's settlement they will
become worse. Roosevelt brings
in a new force in an effort to
keep the auto workers from
struggling aaginst these condi-
tions. 1.-THE Auto Labor Board
c. RI Only by action By the
workers, only by united ranks,
modifying their forces for strike,
can the workers beat back these
attacks and win union recognition
and better conditions. Auto Work
ers! Organize and prepare for
stike action
The auto workers can see that
these prophetic words apply today
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Publicity Committees, to enlist the
support of writers, professionals, etc.
to the steel workers cause.
10. The raising of finances for the
organization drive-lodge commit
tees to carry on this work through
affairs, parties, appeals, etc.
Early in the conference, one CT
the delegates from West Virginia,
where the patience of the steel
workers with Tighe's work is almost
at an end, called for immediate
withdrawal from the A. A. as the
first step which should be taken by
the rank and file.
Another delegate, from Baltimore,
Immediately secuted the suggestion
of withdrawing from the A. A. or
the A. F. of L., pointing out that
this policy is not unity, but "dis-
unity" and just "the move the
bosses want the rank and file 10
make"
Among the resolutions adopted
was one answering Tighe's and
Fagsn's expulsion threats. pledging
resistance to every expulsion at
tempt and denouncing their tactics
as betrayal of the interests of the
workers.
The miners, meeting separately
while the steel workers drew ND
their program for organization
heard reports on the situation in
each of the five districts represented,
the attempts of the Lewis machine
to muzzle all democracy in the dis
tricts, the stealing of elections. the
progress of the fights for autonomy
Among the delegates were leading
rank and file f1ghters-Martin Ryan,
leader of the great 1888 strike in
the Prick Coke fields; Joe Finan,
leader of the rank and file in Ma
sontown; Charley Nolker, candidate
against Pagan for District Five
president; Ted Gaul and Mike
Stanevich, of Russellton; Oscar
Guynn, rank and file candidate for
vice president in the last inter-
national elections.
A committee of AZ was set I'D To
carry on the fight for autonomy and
to assist the steel workers in their
campaign, with an executive com
mittee of five to direct the active
work.
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AUTO PACT CLAMPS COMPANY UNION ON WHOLE INDUSTRY

This Is the third of a series of
articles on the effects of the
N.R.A. The last article analysed
the provisions in the auto code,
signed by Roosevelt in August,
1888, and extended by him four
times since then, with all its anti
labor provisions Included. Roose-
welt has just extended the code
for the fourth time, until June Is,
1885, ignoring the demands of the
auto workers.-Editor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Moscow Subway Starts
TRIAL RUN FULLY SUCCESSFUL
MOST COMFORTABLE IN WORLD
Ten-Mile Line Soon To
Be Opened Up for
Public Use
By Vern Smith
Especial to the Daily Worker

MOSCOW, Feb. 5 (By Wireless.
The first trial run through the Mos
COW Metro" Subway was held yes
terday. Soon the beautiful new IN
derground city will be crowded with
passengers.
Storming underground Moscow a.
year ago, led by the Moscow Bolshe-
viks headed by L. NJ. Kaganovitch,
thousands Of toilers Of the proleta-
ran capital participated in the sub
ways construction The Metro"
was built under the slogan, The
red capital must have the best sub
way in the world"
The train ran along the whole
line of the first ten miles. All equip
ment passed the test excellently. AS
the train few along,
The construction Of the Metro has
enriched Moscow with new archi-
tectural structures, unique in idea,
These are the surface stations Of the
Metro" which like the under
ground stations, are admirably feco-
rated. The opening of the subway
is a great victory in Bolshevik tech
nique, science and art.
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the Auto Labor Board, and the
March IS pact which he signed.
The Communist Party at cor
rectly analyzed this betrayal of
the March, 1885 strike, and Green's
role in putting it over. On March
q, 1884, the Daily Worker, in a
front page editorial, declared, in
part;
Shaving away at the line, the
auto workers Will learn OF the
gigantic treachery imposed on
them by their leaders. The
settlement in the auto industry is
a blow against the whole Amer
lean working class. The capital
lists in every industry will rejoice
over it. The A. F. of L. leaders
have fully lived up to General
10 h n PMS Characterization of
them, when he told 1000 bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
HISTORIC STEEL FARLEY
MAPS PLAN OF ACTION
Rank and File Defeat
Tighe's Attempt to
Stifle Movement
BY Tom keenan,
.it~ Eporksy Pittsburgh Bureau

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 5.-Tne
most important and historic con-
ference of steel workers and coal
miners which has yet taken place IN
the United States, with 400 dele
gates representing 78 lodges of the
Amalgamated Association, and $50
delegates from five districts OF the
United Mine Workers attending
met in the Moose Temple Sunday
to lay plans for national organi-
cation campaign in the steel indus
try carried forward by the rank and
Ale. It welded a solid united front
Of steel workers and coal miners In
the fight for better conditions ana
for democracy in these two power
full A. F. Of L. unions,
Leading rank and file fgpters
from both organizations blasted the
ATTEMPTS of the bureaucracy, led by
Mike Tighe and John L. Lewis, 70
wreck the unions through threats
Of explosions and revocation OF
charters and to stife the growing
strength and militancy OF the rank
and file movements.
The "red scare which bosses and
bureaucrats together tried to utilize
to split the workers and prevent
them from attending the meeting,
was answered by almost every
worker who addressed the assem-
blaze. In each case, their defiant
replies were in effect-'Here are our
demands: 81 an hour minimum; the
six-hour day, f1ve-day week; equal
rights for Negro workers; abolition
Of company unions, recognition OF
the Amslgamated; abolition Of the
North South wage differentials;
enactment of the workers unem-
plovnent Insurance Bill III. r.
2s2T-Cal1 these red or COMMIT
mist demands If you want, but we
are going to fight for them until
they are won
Tighe and Pagan, Traitors
william Spang, president of Dis
trict One, who issued the call Tor
the national conference, denounced
those as TRAITORS" who seek to
wreck the union of the steel work
ers through explosions and revoca-
tions of charters, in his opening
speech. He read letter received
by the Duquesne lodge from Mike
Tighe which threatened to revoke
the charter of Fort Duquesne lodge
unless certain statements issued by
Spang to the press were retracted.
Following the policy of "rule or
ruin, Mike Tighe and Pat Pagan,
Lewis puppet-president OF District
Five. announced yesterday that all
locals which attended the historic
conference are being notified that
their charters are revoked
What is holding us back said
Spang, "is the reactionsry policy
of the machine members who be-
lieye that the Amalgamated Is
their private property, The trail
tors In this organization are those
who refuse to carry out the dect-
sicns of the membership. say
all those are traitors who threaten
to split and wreck our organizs-
ton through expulsion of the best
fighters. We ask Mr.. Tighe: Do
YOU want to be guilty of that?"
Roy Hallas, of Clarion, gave a
detailed outline OF the plans which
should be followed by rank and
file organization committee, point
ing the necessity of appealing to
the broadcast categories of workers
and professionals for support OF the
steel workers demands.
Clarence Irwin, president OF Dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Seannen Cut
From Relief

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Feb. s.
Fifty seamen we're completely cut
off the relief lists when they re-
fused to do forced labor in return
for beggarly allowance of food
and a vermin-ridden lodging, and
the police chief has ordered that all
begging for food, not COM
plying with the Federal fore e d
labor laws would be arrested I'M
der the vagrancy laws. The fifty
seamen were part of the unem-
ployed who struck last week and
raised demands for $40 weekly
maintenance, work relief aboard
tied-up ships at the rate of $3.50 a
day, with a minimum of three days
a week, and passage Of the Workers
Unemployment, Old Age and Social
Insurance Bill, H. R. 1927.
Many local shopkeepers and
business men have voiced their
hearty approval of the seamen S
demands" the Waterfront Unem-
ploynent Council said in a state
ment to the press, AS opposed to
the government forced labor prof.
ects, which vii deprive local bust
ness Of q considerable income"
In support of the seamen, many
of the smaller storekeepers have
lent material aid to the destitute
seamen. The police order to in
woke the vagrancy laws is a blatant
attempt to spike this aid and at
the same time push through the
forced labor scheme. One unem-
ployed seaman has already been
railroaded to sixty days in jail on
this score.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
5. P. Youth Uphold U.S.S.R.

OSLO, Norway, Feb. 5.-A rank
and-fle meeting of the Social
Democratic Youth League at Sta
vanger unanimously decided to
theoretically protest against the
Social-Democratic press standing
on the same level as the bourgeois
press, which fights the Soviet
Union with the worst lies. The
workers youth admire the socialist
construction and cultural activities
in the U. S. S. R. Kirov, who fell
by murders hand, was one of the
best men of the Soviet working
class and we detest the band of
murderers who put an end to his
life"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Seamen'S Relief Cut

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb s.
The union smashing drive Of the
relief administration showed its
teeth here last week when sesmen's
relief was slashed in carrying out
the announced policy of forcing
all unemployed seamen into con-
centration camps. Every seaman
who has not worked for at least
year has been denied relief. The
remainder have had their relief cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
20 WORKERS CANDIDATES
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Lockner, Young Jobless
Leader, Is Communist
Choice for Mayor

CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-The twenty
nine candidates nominated at
united front ward conferences in
the Aldermanic election campaign
here, all of whom are receiving the
full support of the Communist
Party, are facing a bitter fight by
the Democratic machine to elim-
mate them from the ballot.
Nominating petitions for twenty
six of the tWenty-nine have been
challenged and hearings before the
election commission are now in
progress. The election commission
is controlled by the Democratic
machine
Candidates Listed
The candidates are:
George RACE, eighth ward: Brown
Squire, second; David PoindeXter,
third; James Hoffman. first; Lulu
Edwards, first; Alfred Stocker,
tenth; Frank servillss. twelfth:
David Young. nineteenth; Alice
Grasso, twentieth, Martin Miskerik,
twenty-first; Frank Cermak,
tventy-second; James Brecka,
twenty-third; Samuel Ltssitz,
twenty-fourth, Floyd walker,
twenty-seventh, Ned King, twenty
eighth; Andrew Russo. thirtieth:
Wilburn Wells, thirty first Helen
Appelman, thirty second; Russell
Forbes, thirty-fourth; Hans w.
Pfeiffer, thirty-sixth; Hjslmar
Jacobson. thirty-seventh; Harry
Fimoff, thirty-ninth; Hyman Do
linsky, fortieth; Warren Lamson.
forty-second; Guy A. Phinisey,
forty-third; Jack Mitterer, forty
fourth; Robert Foley, forty-sixth;
August Hoekstrs, ninth; and Victor
Cejka, fifteenth.
Six Candidates Negroes
Six Of the candidates are Me-
groes; four were chosen as youth
candidates, on a platform of relief
for single youth, end of the c. G. c.
and the adjustment of the r. o.
T. G. units in the Chicago city
schools.
The Communist candidate for
Mayor, likewise, represents the
young voters. He is Karl Lockner,
twenty -six-year old Secretary Of
the Unemployment Councils of
Cook County. The Communist can
didate for City Clerk is a Negro.
Herbert Newton. Sam Hammers
mark, the Partys candidate for
City Treasurer, is a veteran labor
leader, who has taken an active
part in the American Federation
of Labor.
In the Aldermanic elections, in
terest centers especially in the
Eighth Ward, where the support
given RACE involves many organiza-
tons.
Candidates Arrested
Other candidates, likewise, have
had their difficulties. Russell
Forbes, from the Thirty-fourth
Ward, was jailed recently for dis
tributing an announcement Of an
unemployment council meeting, and
was described by the chief Of de-
tectives as being worse than a
criminal"
The Judge dismissed the case.
Floyd Walker, of the Twenty
seventh Ward, is serving a Jail SEM
tence for his picketing activities.
Herbert Newton was released
from Bridewen recently and was
up for trial again on further
charges growing out of his picket
ing against racial discrimination.
He is to be honor guest at a ban
quet which the Communist Party
Election Campaign Committee is
giving on Saturday at 30S West
Madison Street.
Robert Minor. chairman of the
election campaign committee, will
speak at the Newton banquet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
G.. C.. C.. Swept
By Meningitis
JIRO MINAMI

FORT EUSTIS, Va, Feb. s.
Spinal meningitis, the deadly, con-
tagious malady that sweeps damp
and unsanitary military camps and
slums, has broken out and is
spreading among the $500 men and
boys quartered in the forced labor
semi military concentration camp
here. Quarantine has been declared.
Two deaths have resulted and four
other cases have been diagnosed as
positive cases.
The actual sweep of the disease is
not definitely known because of the
strict army censorship. The four
patients, their bodies twisted in
agony, have been isolated.
DULUTH, MINI, FEB. 5.-While
one group of the G. G. G. boys at
Camp 725, at the nearby town of
Orr are resorting to organized mass
pressure in their own ranks. others
are appealing to public sentiment
for relief from inhuman army Off
GERS who forced the boys to work in
weather thirty-six degrees below
zero.
Twenty-Five of the boys refused to
go out in the extreme cold. The
others went to work, and many
froze their hands and feet. Later
another twenty-one left off working
and walked back to camp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
W HATS ON
Philadelphia, Pa.

Answer the vicious hes Of Hearst
and his press Answer the lies of all
enemies Of the Soviet Union. Come
to the Mass Meeting on Friday, Feb
8 at 8 pm. at Broad st. Mansion,
s.w. cor. Broad and Girard AYES.
Prominent speakers. Adm. 20c. Aus
pices, Friends OF the Soviet Union.
Labor Defender Concert and Dance
Friday, Feb. AZ at Ambassador Hall,
1904 N. Broad St.; Nadia Chilkovsky
in series of revolutionary dances;
well known vlolinist; entire Freiheit
Gesang Ferein chorus: excellent
dance orchestra. Adm. at door, soc;
in advance through organizations 35c.
Tickets at 40 N. 9th St.. Room 207.
workers Chorus Concert. Friday Feb.
9th. Garrick Hall, 5o7 s. 9th st.
Concert Pianist, Soprano String
Quartet Talk by j. Grolle on Music
and the Workers. Adm. 25c.
Open Forum under auspices of F.S.U.
South Phils. Br. on Feb. 7th at 428
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Chicogo. I'D.

Save February i6 for Theatre Col
lectivs Chauve Souris, A three-hour
program Of Theatre, Music and
Dance followed by dancing to 3 am.
Remember Saturday, Feb Is, $50 p.
M at Peoples Auditorium. 2457 w.
Chicago Ave. Adm, 35c., 100 tickets
at 25c.
West Side Section of LID. will have
two shovings of Soviet film based
on Gorkis story Cain and Artem."
All proceeds to go for Scottsboro-
Herndon Fund. Film will be shown
Feb. 6, Wednesday, at the Culture
Center, 1928 Roosevelt Road. 7:30 p.
m. and SPIN. Adm. at door 25c.
Organizations Attention! The Inter
national Workers order Of Chicago
is celebrating its 5th Anniversary at
the Ashland Auditorium. Feb %,
$50 pm. to 2 am. An excellent pro-
gram has been arranged. Kindly keep
this date open.
NeUdrk, ". J.
Victor A. Yakhontoff. former general
in the Russian Imperial Army speaks
on THE Far Eastern Situation"
Wed, Feb 9Th at $50 pm. Jack
London Club, oof Broad St. Adm. use,
Cabaret Night-Sat.. Feb. 9Th, $50
pm. at pol Broad st. Negro Orch.
Special entertainment Subs. 35c,
incl wardrobe. Arranged by Jack
London Club Of Newark,
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-10-28
U. s. COMMISSIONER lI MULLEN KEPT BUSY;
 4 COUPLES MARRIED

Dan Cupid kept U. s. Commis- sioner J. F. Mullen busy last Sat- urday, when the Judge united four local couples in marriage.
 Miss Ruth F. A. Beck became the bride of Robert Otto Kahrs at 8 morning service in the Commission er's Court, with Homer w. German and Ali Lovey as witnesses.
 Next came James J. Hill, Juneau miner, and Catherine Mekkers, oi Portland, Oregon Witnesses were Anna Bell Dennard and John O LundquiSt.
 Tn the evening Albert s. Glover and Miss Louise Johado were mar ried in the courtroom, with Ben Phil lips and Mrs. Harry Carroll as wit nesses.
 At the Douglas home of Waiter Andrews, Judge Mullen officiated at the nuptials of s. M Johnson and Nelma Nelson, popular Douglas girl James A. Brennan and Kathleen Andrews were attendants and witt nesses at the informal affair.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-10-28
DRAMA CLUB MASQUE
 NEXT THURSDAY EVE

Ghosts will walk next Thursday night, when the Juneau Drama club holds it's Halloween Masquerade in the Parish Hall-a masquerade which shall live rigidly up to its name, since no one will be admitted who is not sluipped with at least domino.
 Dancing will begin at g o'clock, with fortune telling and visitations in keeping with the evening punctu- ating the usual merrymaking festivi- ties.
 Open without charge to all Drama Club members and their invited guests, the dance will be followed by .efreshments. Because it's being he i'd n the parochial school building ne- sessitates it's closing shortly after twelve, guests are asked to arrive as early as possible. It has been an- nounced, however, that members wishing to attend Silver Night are welcome to attend later in the evening.
 The important thing is that you GO nos forget your masque.