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The daily worker., 1935-02-05
Steel Workers
Preparing for
Strike Action
Pitts burgh Farley
Plans For Actioa
On Demands
Continued from Page u

ference decided to call upon tbs
A. A. National Executive Board to
convene the 60th regular convention
Of the A. A. which is scheduled to
take place in April.
Resolutions were adopted haying
the tactics of Tighe in threatening
revocation of charters and mass ex-
pulsions for attending the rank and
file meeting, and naming the Pro-
gressive Steel Worker" as the ma
tional organ of the rank and file.
The national program calls for the
drawing up of special demands for
the Negro workers.
Against the labor boards, for the
organization OF steel on the basis Of
the following demands 81 an hour;
the Stx-hour day, five-day week;
equal rights for the Negro workers;
abolition of North-S South differen-
tials; recognition of the Amalga .
mated abolishment of company
unions; enactment of H. R. 2827-
this is the general line adopted by
the conference in the program,
with the perspective of strike ac-
ton if the demands are refused and
organizing for this purpose the
hundreds Of thousands of still un-
organized steel workers.
The miners established a commits
tee Of twenty seven, which will carr
ry forward the work of assisting in
the steel drive and the fight for
autonomy in Districts 2, 8, 4 and s,
all represented here at the meeting.
Most Of the miners delegates
wore Don't read Hearst" buttons,
and Hearst reporters and photo
graphers were raced out OF the
miners meeting.
Rank and file speakers represents
ing every important steel center as
sailed the bureaucracy Of the A. A.
and their splitting tactics and Red
scares," and called for building a
militant rank and file controlled
Amalgamated over the heads Of
Tighe and Co. Sentiment from some
quarters for a splitoff from the A.
F. of L., was quickly spiked when it
was shown the necessity of carrying
on fight for democracy in the
A, A. along with the membership
of the A. F. of L. unions.
The daily worker., 1935-02-05

Daniel c. Roper, Secretary Of COM
nerce.
Giving as an example of what is
meant by decentralization Of in
dustry, one community in Georgia
is described where a grape process
ing plant, canning factory, a fur
niture and rug shop, a creamery
and cheese factory, a meat curing
and poultry dressing plant were set
up. This was established through
encouraging companies from New
York and such cities.
1t is pointed out that this will
likewise relieve the government of
relief burden, as the unemployed
in these rural communities are to
be driven into the newly established
plants. Part of the proposal reads:
TT is our proposal that a depart
ment be set up to select and en-
courage the relocation Of such in
dustries as wotild contribute to the
welfare Of these communities and
that revolving fund be made
available to this department. to be
used when necessary as loans to
these industries to defray the cost
of moving and insure their success
in getting started in their new 10
cation"
After explaining the type of
seasonal industries to be moved and
the advantages to the manufac-
turer, the proposal states q. and
we have a large city now burdened
with part-titne industries which
cause unrest with their intermittent
employment" The details Of the
proposal leave no doubt that it is
another means of the administra-
ton aimed at the unions and to
drive the standards Of tie workers
still lower.
The daily worker., 1935-02-05

cordIng to g. recommendation made
yesterday by the Business Advisory
and Planning Council of the De-
partment Of Commerce. A grant Of
$2,500,00 is recommended to serve
as a revolving fund for loans and
other forms Of encouraging manu-
facturers willing to move their
plants 1t was also indicated that
the bulk of the finances to promote
this process will come from the four
billion dollar fund under the guise
of relief.
The plan is in accordance with
the plan for decentralization of in
dustry announced by President
Roosevelt in one of his earliest mes
sages, According to details already
submitted, seasonal industries, which
find it difficult to exist because Of
the high overhead made necessary
during slack periods, will be moved
to isolated areas where the over
head is much lower" This will in
volve especially such as the gar
ment, shoe, leather goods. light
metal, pocketbook, toy. silk, and
similar industries. In these indus
tries the unions already face a very
serious situation as shops move to
unorganized towns, where wages are
low, and non-union conditions are
guaranteed by the local Chambers
Of Commerce and governments. TN
employment in the organized cen
ters is increased and the cheaply
produced products from the newly
settled areas still further under
mine the wages of the organized
workers.
An active participant in the
working out of the details of this
scheme, which aims at the very
foundations of many unions, is
The daily worker., 1935-02-05

ing their usual tactics of delay ano
phenagling with labor boards in an
effort to kill off the threatening
strike at the Fisher Body plant in
Lansing, Mich, where forty-six wet
sanders walked out Thursday, pro-
testing against low wages and the
intolerable speed-up. Reports in
the local press state that mass
meeting of Fisher Body workers
yesterday, which was supposed to
take a strike vote, decided to place
the matter before the National Labor
Relations Board in washington
despite the fact that Al. Cook, A. F.
of L. organizer, told your CORE
spondent Saturday that he fully
expected the men to vote in favor
of a strike. He is reported in to-
days Detroit News as having ex-
pressed himself in opposition to a
walkout.
Since a recent decision of Presi-
dent Roosevelt prevents the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board from
considering any disputes in an in
dustry, such as auto, where a
special board has been set UP, 1t is
clear that the tactics of the A. F.
of Il. leaders is to drag out nego-
tiations and prevent strike at arr
cost. Among the rank and file OF
the A. F. Of L. unions, as well as
among the unorganized, however,
there is d growing realization that
only through militant strike action
can they win any improvements in
conditions.
The daily worker., 1935-02-05
SOviets Get
Farm Report
The entire Congress rose to applaud
these workers delegations.
CONTINUED from Page u
Especial TO the Daily worker

Especial to the Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, Feb, 4 (By Wireless.
Out of the 1900 delegates present
at the All-Union Congress of the
Soviets, 931 are workers, 473 are
peasants, including 263 collective
farmers. The decisive vote repre-
sents the So basic nationalities Of
the Soviet Union. In addition, there
are 154 delegates from the Red
Army. Others include Office work
ers, directors, engineers, scientists,
writer's. artists, actors, etc; 378 OF
the delegates are women.
More than half, 1,13S delegates,
are attending an All-Union Con-
gress of the Soviets for the first
time. Seventy-four per cent of the
delegates are members of the Com
munist Party or the Young Com
munist League. twenty-five per
cent have had a secondary school
education, 148 per cent a university
education. These facts were made
public in the report of the Creden-
tials Committee, which reported to-
day.
Thus, the composition of the del
egation, representing the toilers at
the Seventh Congress of the Soviets,
reflects the basic changes in the
population of the Soviet Union, as
was pointed out by Molotov in his
recent speech to the Congress, the
doubling Of the proletarian popula-
ton and the tremendous increase
in the ranks OF the collective farm
ers,
The daily worker., 1935-02-05
ApDeMEs for Funds

essary to involve all these people
concretely in the Scottsboro- -Hern-
don fight.
They must be involved in the
holding of meetings, in sending pro-
test cards, now being distributed by
the International Labor Defense, to
the U. S. Supreme Court.
These forces must be involved in
the collection Of the urgently
needed funds for the appeals.
Only $10298 was received for the
defense fund by the I. L. D. Mon
day.
$8,240 more is needed Immediately
Funds for Scottsboro- Herndon de-
fense should be sent at once to
the national office of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, Room $40, nc
East Eleventh Street, New York
City.
The daily worker., 1935-02-05
Anti-Union
rit Held Up
Continued from Page y

(Conttnued from Page 1
the respective parties, with a view
to settling the findings of facts and
conclusions of law. The conference
started at IL am. and the work
had not been completed at pm.
This will necessitate the resumption
Of this conference at 1O.15 tomor-
row morning. No decree will be
signed until after the findings of
fact and conclusions of law are
completed"
The Building Service Employees
Council of Greater New York,
which includes Is unions of 142 900
workers in the building service, one
of the largest sections of the New
York labor movement, at its meet
ing Sunday adopted a resolution
pledging full support to the team
sters in the fight against the in
junction. The building service
workers are also on the eve Of a
general strike in their own indus
try. Walter Gordon Merritt, no
torious open shop attorney, who
represented the shipping interests
in the hearings on the waterfront
injunction, is also representative of
the realty interests
The daily worker., 1935-02-05
Splits Fight
To Free Is
Continued from Page y

kCOnbtnued from rage
PENDANTS. These people walked out
of a united front conference re-
Gently held in San Francisco after
they had failed in their attempts
Cd to bar a delegate from the
American Federation of Labor Rank
and File Committee, and t2J to
postpone the conference.
Another defendant, Lee Hung
was bailed out on Friday on cash
bond furnished by the American
Civil Liberties Union.
The Superior Court where the
trial is taking place, is packed daily
by Sacramento workers and work
ers' delegations from other cities
SACRAMENTO Calf, Feb. A.
Despite threats by armed bands ot
vigilantes and police, successful
mass meeting in defense of the l8
Sacramento defendants was held
here last Saturday night at the
Plaza Theatre Five hundred per-
sons were present. A collection OF
$95 was taken up for the defense
The meeting was addressed =,
speakers from the Epic Society and
the American Civil Liberties Union
The daily worker., 1935-02-05
BY Anna Damon
Acting National Secretary, LID J

Acting National Secretary, IL.D.l
Thousands of people never before
involved in the campaign for the
freedom of the scottsboro boys and
Angelo Herndon, and the struggle
for Negro rights, we're represented
at the Scottsboro- -Eferndon Confer
ence held Sunday at the call of the
National Scottsboro- -He-ndon Ac-
ton Committee in New York.
A fine achievement of this con
ference was the representation Of
twenty-seven newly involved A. F,
of L. unions and fraternal organi-
cations.
It is not only necessary to follow
this lead, and improve upon it.
throughout the country. 1t is nee
The daily worker., 1935-02-05

Congressman Petngl writes to H. Rand
the Committee for the Nation informing him appealed
the Secretary Of he Treasury sympathetic
treatment Pengl that the national
administration has working carrying the broad
program O. the Committee the Nation
The daily worker., 1935-02-05
Roosevelt advisory Council Urges Bosses Td
Move to Isolated Area Where Fight Against
Unions Can Be Sharpened
WASHINGTON. n. q Fab

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb 4-The moving of shops
to small towns and rural areas where they might escape
unions already serious menace to the workers of many
industries is to be promoted on far greater scale nationally
by special department. of the Roosevelt administration ac
The daily worker., 1935-02-05

Tomorrow: How the Commit
tee for the Nation Is now promot-
ing further initiation, and what a
spokesman for Banker VanderIip
says Of all this.)
The daily worker., 1935-02-05
CHEAP LABOR PLAN
Urged to Le~Ue Cities
SAMUEL X. sasesaAN me
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foo krtAsrie sTsssf
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Artistic Feckwsar, Ire.
enclosing Ersgfne building
in ezelusivs aanasenent
renting this plant floor by
approximately
following scale OF pricesi
$500 So feeta i1soo per yesr
5000 Sd feet at 31eoo per year
1900 feet stS2Soo Der year
and elevator
Shop bssis
Pttney
psn Heat Power Paint Company
and the Eoms Hoffman Bearings Company
= can assu
ne
Trusting shis lsstor nay OF interest snd that
viii be favored Win reply,
Very truly yours,
H. s1rBssssS. INC.
srZ&QAe2ke1(
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The daily worker., 1935-02-05
Auto Strike
Ranks Solid

Continued from Page y
The daily worker., 1935-02-05
Workers Bill
Is Supported
At Hearing
Socialist Leader Joins
In Defense of
H. r. 1927

Continued from Page y
The Washington times., 1935-04-25
HOUSE 7OSTAND
BY NAVY BILL

Opponents of the Naval appro-
priation bill argued in the House
yesterday for reducing the $457,.
786,261 fund authorized by the Ap-
preparations Committee.
Indications we're a host of
amendments will be offered when
the bill is opened up for revision,
but leaders decided they would
have ample votes to pass the
measure as drawn before the end
of the week.
Representative Biermann, CD
of Iowa, declared that despite the
fact Americas Navy is below
treaty limits, this country has
spent more on it's sea forces in re-
cent years than other world pow
ers.
Representative Cary, CD OF
Kentucky, and Otter, (RO of
Pennsylvania, replied labor, ma
terial and subsistence costs made
this necessary.
The Washington times., 1935-04-25
FIGHT ON FOOD
PLAN WAVES

ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 25.-A
considerable portion of the organ.
lied opposition to the proposed
food conservation plant in Alex
andria has withdrawn from the
fight since learning the complete
plans of the corporation promot-
ing the project.
The slaughter house unit of the
plant may never be built, and at
any rate would not be constructed
without the permission of the city
council, j. M. Campbell, vice presi-
dent of the corporation, said.
Should the council decide that an
Abattoir is Objectionable it will
be constructed further down the
river, officials of the corporation
explained.
Sanitary features of the abattoir
would conform with every regula-
ton of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, it's officials
say, and under these regulations
the methods would require that all
slaughtering be done within the
buildings.
The plans further call for $50
acre pasture farm below Alexan-
dria on the Southern Railway and
only the livestock to be butchered
that day would be shipped in daily.
The Washington times., 1935-04-25
SHERIFF BARES
LIQUOR RING
OPERATIONS
ROANOKE, Va, April Is.
II got my part, yes, sir"

With this candid remark, D.
Wilson Hodges, former Franklin
county sheriff and one of the "a
defendants in the sensational
Franklin county liquor conspiracy
trial, yesterday told a lurid story
in Federal Court of how he and
his deputies sold confiscated boot
leg, collected tribute from dis
tillers, seized liquor-laden auto
mobiles and sold the cars and
contents back to their owners.
He is one of four who entered
guilty pleas on Monday, and the
son of a deceased former sheriff
and the brother of j. P. Hodges,
jr., former deputy, but not de-
PENDANT in the case. j. P. Hodges
told similar story on the stand
earlier.
Thomas w. Rakes, operator Of
an electrical shop here, and an
other star witness for the Govern
ment today, prefaced his testimony
by revealing that he decided to
go into the liquor business in 1928,
but quit shortly after with a de-
ficit of $780,"
He testified that he was present
with Edward Beckett, former State
prohibition officer and one of the
defendants, and Jeff" Richards,
deputy shot from ambush last
year and described as the treas
urer" of the ring, when j. o. and
Herman Shively. both defendants,
sold quantities of booze.
The witness related that before
he quit the liquor business his
auto was captured and he was
later indicted, but never tried. He
said he went to Carter Lee, Frank.
lin county commemorative attor-
ney, also defendant in the case,
and asked for permission to go be-
fore a grand jury to give evidence
against Richards and Beckett,
but Lee refused. Finally. he said,
the late Judge P. H. billiard sent
him before the jury. Rakes said
no indictments were returned DE
cause Carter Lee told the grand
jury Rakes could not be believed"
Throughout their testimony the
Hodges brothers repeatedly refer
red to "the man at the court
house" who they said got part
of the money collected from the
distillers and others engaged in
the liquor business.
The Washington times., 1935-04-25
Suit Cuts Short
Honeymoon of
CrOmweu

NEW YORK. April Is CU.S).
Imagine the indignation of Jimmy
Cromwell
He must cut short his romantic
honeymoon with his recent bride,
the former Doris Duke, richest girl
in the world, to answer a $4,000
suit in Supreme Court here
June II.
With no thought for the joys
of a young man wandering
through the wonders of the old
world hand.in.hand with the
worlds richest heiress, Supreme
Court Justice Valente set the date
for trial.
Mr.. Cromwell is being sued by
Robert F.. Norton, who charges he
was talked into investing $4,000
as a partner in leasing and oper-
ating the Hotel Delmonico, but
that nobody else put any real
money into the deal, which ended
in nothing much but headache.
The deal blew up, he charges,
when Mr.. Cromwell's former wife,
Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell,
heiress to the Dodge millions, d.
vorced him to wed Raymond T.
Baker.
Attorneys for Mr.. Norton asked
an immediate trial, pointing out
the case had been postponed time
and again during the last four
years.
Justice Valente set the trial
date six weeks hence, despite the
moving plea of Nathan Burkan,
attorney for Mr.. Cromwell, that
it wasn't sports to interrupt a
honeymoon.
Mr.. Cromwell and his bride are
now in India, and had planned to
continue their romantic journey
through other glamorous lands.
The Washington times., 1935-04-25
MRS.ROOSEvELT
TOA|DPART|ES
At CITY CLUB
BY MARY PADGETT


Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
heads the list of members sub
scribing to the card parties at
the Women's City Club for the
benefit of the house betterment
fund being held today and to-
night at the clubhouse, 1876
Jackson Pl. N. w.
Mrs. Laura A. Bradley is chair
man for the afternoon and
Miss S. Pearl Jenckes and
Miss Julia D. Conner hostesSes
for tonight's party.
Mrs. Gus A. Schuldt, chair
man of ways and means COM
mittee, and members Of her
committee are in charge Of
arrangements.
Other members subscribing
include Mrs. John S. Bennett,
president; Judge Mary O'Toole,
Mrs. Lyman B. SWormstedt,
Dean Grace Hays Riley, Mrs.
William L. Corbin, Mrs. George
W. Eastment, Miss M. Brooke
Bright, Mrs. Caroline B. Stephen,
Miss Clara G. Brewer. Miss Mary
A. Brewer, Mrs. William F..
Mutchler, Mrs. Don A. Sanford,
Mrs. William Weber, Mrs. Mary
B. Ziegler, Mrs. William Schoen-
born, Miss Flora Hendley, Miss
Adelaide Davis, Miss Flora c..
Schuldt, Miss Anna P. Hold
ridge, Mrs. I. B. Dodson. Mrs.
Anna Farrar, Miss Martha
Daughs, Miss Olive Grebe, Mrs.
Harriet L. Post, Miss Edith A.
Shipley, Mrs. H. K. Fulton, Mrs.
A. G. Dodge, Mrs. j. R. Colburn,
Mrs. Anna H. B. Kinney, Miss
Helen Nicolay and Miss Mary
L. Brown.
The Washington times., 1935-04-25
Discuss India

( The literature section of the
Park View Woman's Club will
meet next Tuesday at 8:15 p. m.
at the home of Mrs. Hugh v
Keiser, 4807 Arkansas Ave.
N. W. Assisting hostesses will
be Mrs. Thomas E. Griffith, Mrs.
George Corbin and Mrs. Warren
Wagner.
India will be the subject of
the program. Mrs. Harry Gut
ridge, chairman of the section,
will give a biography of 1agore,
Hindu winner of the Nobel prize.
Mrs. Glen c. Leach will review
1.-The Home and the World" by
Tagore. Poems by Tagore will
+, be read by Mrs. Ruth stitt. Mrs.
/ Charles Sterner, accompanied
, by Mrs. Fred S. Walker, will give
vocal selections from Indian love
lyrics.
The Washington times., 1935-04-25
Indecent Songs
Over Air Charged
International News Service

Charging the Mexican govern
ment had sponsored a nation
wide broadcast in the United
States which featured indecent
songs, 16 House members today
importuned the Federal Com
munications Commission to con-
duct an investigation.
Protesting members, headed by
Representative Connery CD of
Massachusetts, informed the com
mission that the Mexican broad,
cast, conducted last month. was
transmitted by one of the Ameri-
can radio chains.
The program was IL Spanish
and several of the musical selec-
tions we're characterized by mem
bers as pieces of unbridled
pornography."
The Washington times., 1935-04-25
BILL To CREATE
. CABINET POST

Interior Secretary Ickes would
become Secretary of Conservation
and Works under a bill intro
duced by Senator Lewis CD, of
Illinois, yesterday.
Offered at the Presidents re-
quest, the measure would concen-
trate all PWA and Federal con-
servation work in the new de-
partment, replacing the Depart
ment of Interior.
1t gives the President blanket
authority to consolidate, abolish
or transfer multiple Government
bureaus relating to conservation
and public works.
Under it, if the President wills,
Mr.. Ickes may gain control OF
the Bureau of Fisheries, now in
the Commerce Department, and
the Bureau of Roads, Forest Serv'
ice and Biological Survey. now
ruled by Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace.
A Senate jurisdictional fight
doomed as the bill was referred
to Mr.. Lewis committee on ex
penditures of executive depart
mentS.
Fearful the measure might
strip them of legislative author
ity, members of the Senate
Committees on Conservation, Ir
rigation and Mining demanded
control of hearings on the bill
Mr.. Lewis said the President
had summoned him to a confer
ence on the measure today.
The Washington times., 1935-04-25
LIFE INSURANCE
HEAD ASSA|LS
HOLDING BILL

Enactment of the Wheeler-R Ray
burn Holding Company bill would
create chaos in the market for
utilities securities, James Lee
LOOMS, president of the Connect
cut Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, warned the Senate Inter
state Commerce Committee yester-
day.
Speaking for % Connecticut
insurance companies, Mr.. LOOMS
said the provision abolishing hold.
ing companies would dry up the
outlet for investment of trust
funds, cause serious shrinkage in
market values of all utility secur1.
ties and slash the margin of utility
earnings available for payments of
fixed charges on utility bonds. He
said:
eve cannot calculate what
liquidation might be caused BY
frightened holders and by i'm.
pairment of bank colIateralS.
The procedure is seriously della
tiOnary."
Forces behind the measure
earlier struck back at critics with
Government memoranda purport'
ing to prove existence of abuses
they assert the bill would cure.
The Federal Trade Commission
submitted the Union Electric
Light and Power Company of st.
Louis had loaned money to its
holding companies at 3.9 per cent
during three years, when it Dor.
rowed the parent North American
Company's fund at six per cent.
The Washington times., 1935-04-25
SOUGHT
BY D. {. LAWYER

RIVERDALE, Md, April 25.
Under the sponsorship Of the
Riverdale Taxpayers Protective
League, two last minute candi-
dates have filed for the municipal
elections May 6.
They we're Harry A. L. Baker,
Washington attorney and resident
of Riverdale for IL years, for
mayor, opposing the incumbent,
w. A. Carson, and DR.. r. A. Ben
nett, defeated Republican candi-
date for county commissioner in
the last county elections for coun-
Gilman from the Fifth ward, the
post now held by I. N. Goodwin.
The Washington times., 1935-04-25
FLOOD CONTROL
MOVES TOWN
International News Service

international news service
Inundated lock, stock and barrel
during the catastrophe floods of
1927, the community of Column
bus, KY, now perches in jaunty
safety on the high bluffs back of
the original town site, to which it
was removed by the American
Red Cross-and lends an enthu-
siastic helping hand to its less
fortunate neighbors.
Flood refugees, driven this
month from their homes by the
greatest rise in the Mississippi
River since 1927, continue to pour
into Columbus where the inhabi-
tants. realizing that their visitors
plight might easily have been
theirs, have received them heart
lily and provided shelter, clothing
and food.
Columbus had a population of
5000 during the Civil War. Period
ic ravagings by flood waters
caused this to dwindle to 600 by
1927. Having given relief many
times, the Red Gross determined,
in that year, to remove the town to
the bluffs.