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arena en- una clepsidra."
Edward F. McGrady,
tie secretario del trabai
aver que Sc han rebaj&
sueldos Y jornales, con aN
to de horaS, en- II estados.
La Camara de Concrete de
los Estados Unidos lpide que los
c6digos continuen siendo respe-
tados, voluntariamente.
ESQ de recomendar ell cum
plimierto voruntario, afirma
Johnson, es como no hacer ma
da, porQue los Super-egoistas
rIeden rebajar Us jornales a
menos que exista un poder pro
tector de la decencia."
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Ell TEMPO

Claro para hoy y ell viernes.
Maxima temperature aver,
81 grades; minima, Sc.
Marea alta a la 1:31 a. m.
v 1857 a. m. Marea baia a las
6:1s a. m, y z: % p. m.
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puesto de d2nsumos, ell senado
Sc cpondra, sur9iendo nuevas
dificultades. Las pensiones a
los viejos Sc han deiado, por
ahora, fuera de un acuerdo de-
Ifinitivo.
La ley requiere que el i'm
Ipuesto sea ragado por los con-
sumidores, eliminando de pa
carlo a los a~rticulos cue Sc ven
dan en- provecho de institucio-
mes de carload.
La gaceta., 1935-05-30

la Association Nacional de Ha-
cen5ados, celebro session aver
con ohjeto de redactar Ell re
glamento per e} que Sc ha de re-
cir. I'll salon Sc ereontraba He
no dc miembros de las corpora
clones urbanas, de- la industrial.
del concrete. de In al. Gacia y
de los obreros. FL DR.. CaSano-
va pronunci0 un brillante dis
curse dando a conCcer los idea
les de la nueva organization.
Termin6 hacienda un llama
miento a todas las fuerzaS vi
vas de la Republica para que st
unan Y construir una estructu
.ra homogenea Y un tant0 auto
noma.
Los ~VeteranOS pensiOnadCS
han pedido al Presidente V al
secretario de hacienda que en-
los nuevoS prerequisites Sc les
aumenten suS haberes. Las pen
stones de los Veteranos han SUI
frido en- los Gltimos tiempos nu-
meE3sas rebajas, i.lSta ell case
de que una pension que fue de
100 pesos hoy es de pa. Piden
Sc les aumente, por 81 momento,
en- un 40 por ciento. Ell coronel
Mendieta y el secretario de Ha-
cienda les prometieron tomar
su @solicitud en- consideration.
En- la noche de aver, EN- el
Capitolio, Sc reuni6 la comisi6n
IG1njunta de secretaries y con-
i~seieros encargados de redactar
la Constitution. Fue Zelda esta
y Sc repartieron copias a los
comisionados. Como va sc ha
publicado sera puesta en- vigor
Iel pr6ximo sabado.
La iunta que con el fin de
terminar la reorganization del
poder judicial Sc iba a e|fectuar
en- la tarde de aver, Sc suspendi6
para hoy a las II de la manana.
las comisionados cambiaron
impresiones en- la morada del
Dr.. Pelayo CuerVo.
La Aiianza Nacional Fee
m~inista envi6 a la comisi0n mix
Ia que redacta la nueva Cons
tjtuci0n IN amplio pliego en- el
que piden Sc hattan algunas re
formas, que son: la abolici6n de
la pena de muerte; que no pue-
dan ir a la reelection el presi-
dente, los gobernadores Y los
aicaldes. FL piiego esta firma-
do p9r Ieticia Piedra y Maria
Carbonell,
-Muri6 aver ell coronel AL
fredo Despaigne, Hoy ror la
manana tendra lugar ell sepe-
lilo. Sc lie rendiran los honores
correspondence, por las fuer-
zas del ejercito constitutional.
Ell director del fondo es-
pecial de obras pUblicas ha en-
tregado al c0ronel Despaigne
un proyecto para que toda la
plata en- circulation sea reco
gida y sustituida por certifica-
dos plata. Actualmente hay
SO, 200, 900 de certificates pla-
ia.
Agents de la policia arres
.taron aver al exteniente del e.
j6rcito nacional Andino y Ca
ballero, acusado en- las causas
LOOP y 1908, por asesinato.
Ingres6 en- la carcel.
-Procedente de Miami, lie
go q DR.. JESUS NJ. Barraque.
Aeompanaban al Exmiembro
lei gabihte de Macaado su hi
ia y su Meta.
Ell Presidente de la RepdbIi
ca Sc halia redactando el mani
fiesto que lanzara ell dia prime
70 de JUNO para dar a con0cer
al pals 81 programa de conduc.
ia en- el future. Ratificara en-
el mismo el cor1rel Mendieta
.su firme prop6sito de no pre-
sentarse candidate a la presi-
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johnson mantiene que los su~per-egoistas <ataran
de destfunlos decentes jornale(y la
iusta imitacion de las horas~

disminuir los iornales, LOS de
centes promedi1s de vida estan
corriendo hacia abajo ceno la
La gaceta., 1935-05-30
CHUA 4GEGAS
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migos de "a democracia y de la
raZ0n.
Tampa debe apartarse, en-
estos momentos, de "rinas" por
jornaAs o escalas de precios.
$Damos un buen consejo, co
mo amigos de la industrial, y
creemos que seEa apreciado!
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CuBA AL OLA

La cuarta session. del Consejo de Guerra contra
los amigos del DR.. Guiteras. tia Alianza Fe-
minista pide Va abolicicn de la bena de muerte.
Esta redactando Mendieta ell manifesto
que publicara ell dia l de Junid
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La mission de los ciudadanos
liberales, de lds que desean
yer realizados los nobilisimos
prop6sitos del presidente Roo
sevelt, consiste en- aproXimarse
al jefe del estado y ofrecerle
brazo fuWte, buena voluntad
Y Siel collaboration.
Tocan los cencerros los reac
cionarios y parecen c~ontentos
porque ell Presidente medita
sobre la obra destruida Y aun
no ha traZado las nuevas SEN
das, las que demandan 120 mi
Homes de americanos natives,
naturalizados y e~xtranjeros dig
nos y honestos.
Ell gozo de los NAL intenclo-
nados, que abundan aqul y en-
otras parties, caera muy pronto
en- ell poZo.
La naci6n insiste en- un "nue
vo trato" Y 10 tendra, pese a
los malditos rebaja-jornales y
aumenta-horas" que danzan SO
bre ell cuerpo aun caliente del
aguila azul.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
s. Plan Is Practical

THE foregoing proposals are ba-
sically necessary to the organi-
cation of the steel workers. They
are dictated by the long years of
organizing experience in the steel
industry If they are not needed.
it will mean that the lessons Of
the past and the plain dictates of
the present situation are ignored.
and the success of the movement
will be jeopardized.
The proposals are practical and
easily within the power of the A.
F. of L.; and the militant rank and
file steel workers should insist that
the A. F. of l.. shape its policies in
the campaign accordingly. All that
is necessary to put these proposals
into effect is nothing more than a
little horse sense and q modicum of
honest trade unioniSm. The sin
certify and intelligence of the A. F.
Of L. leaders in the developing steel
campaign can be measured pretty
much by the degree with which it
adopts these elementary organiza-
ton measures.
The militant mass of steel work
er now have, despite many serious
obstacles, splendid chances for
success. Every effort must be made
to strengthen their cause. The
Communist Party and the Trade
Union Unity League are doing and
will continue to do everything in
their power to help the steel work
ers, and every worker in the ccun-
try should do likewise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Bridges Urges
Marine Unity

EVERETT, Wash. Feb. 26.-
Harry Bridges, President Of the San
Francisco local Of the international
Longshoremen's Association and
leader of the recent West Coast
Marine strike, paid q surprise visit
to the Everett local Of the LILA.
membership meeting. Bridges was
accompanied by Art Wills, who was
elected by the Puget Sound district
to represent it in the drawing up of
plans for marine federation.
Bridges stressed that the most
important task before the marine
workers now on the coast is the
establishment Of Marine Fedora
ton which can see to it that the
agreements of all marine unions
should expire at the same time. He
showed how the united action of
all marine workers proved success
full in the recent strike. He espe-
clally emphasized that the fedora
ton must be on rank and file
basis, and should not be given over
to reactionary officials of the type
which sold out the General Strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Z. A Fighting Movement

IRON the beginning, the steel
: movement must be based upon
organized preparations for a strike.
The AB.C. Of the situation in the
industry is that the steel bosses will
not concede trade union organiza-
ton and the workers other de-
mands without a strike struggle.
This ought to be clear even to the
A. F. of L. leaders (who like the
BourbonS seem to learn nothing
and to forget nothing) after the
debacle they led the steel workers
into in 1884 by hoodwinking them
into accepting the Roosevelt Steel
Trust Labor Board At the time,
the Communist Party and the
Trade Union Unity League raised
their voices and made militant op-
position against this betrayal aid
submitted program of strike ac-
ton, which if applied, would have
carried the workers to a great VIC
tory. They clearly pointed out the
decentralization which was sure to
and did come after the betrayal,
after the sell-out by the leaders.
Among the steel organizers there
must be no illusions that Roosevelt
is the friend of the steel workers
and wants them TO be organized
into the A. F. of L.: or that arbitra-
ton is anything else but an insi-
dious weapon of the bosses to ham,
string the workers in their struggle.
Preparations must be made for q
real strike. There must be no more
"postponing"; that is, calling off of
the strike movement unless the
major demands of the workers are
definitely granted. Only if the
movement is based on such a strike
perspective will the steel workers,
disguised by the 1884 debacle, re-
cover from their Reorganization
and rally again to the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
HusbandFired.
Wife Pickets

AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 26.-A mass
protest Is being organized here
against the treatment of Nuart
Movsesian, whose heroic fight to get
her husbands job back In the Good
rich Rubber plant has won the sup
port of thousands of workers who
themselves are potential victims of
the same treatment.
Mrs Movsesian was arrested and
given a suspended sentence of thirty
days in the workhoue last week
when she picketed the B. F. Good
rich Company Offices and demanded
that the company reinstate her
husband who has given seventeen
vars of his life to them and became
cripple in the process. When she
was brought into court, Mrs. Nov
sesian answered the attempts of the
pudge to sidetrack the issue and
put her on the defensive with clear
cut and challenging answers. The
judge to sidetrack the issue and
that her husband mistrested her.
The depression has wrecked many
homes, but my husband and I are
not here fighting each other. We
are demanding our rights from the
B. F, Goodrich Company was her
proud answer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Ohio Woman
Is Convicted
OF Blacknail
DAILY Worker Ohio Bureau,

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. Is. -
After five and a half hours of de-
liberation, a compromise verdict
was returned by jury of eight
men and four women in the black
mail frame-up against two unem-
ployed women who prevailed on
relief investigator to provide win
ter clothing for the children Of the
Martin family.
Mrs. Mary Martin, mother of the
four children for whom the cloth
ing acquisitions were obtained, was
found not guilty; Mrs. Viola Jul
bach, spokesman for an unemploy-
ment Council committee invening
for the Martins, was found guilty.
Sentence of one to five years in the
penitentiary and $1,000 fine is pro-
vided by the Ohio statutes
A stay Of sentence was granted
until Saturday, March 9, when a
motion for new trial will be
heard in room 5, Court House, Lake
side Avenue, Cleveland. If new
trial is not granted, appeal is
planned. The defense is conducted
by the International Labor Defense
with w. C. Sandberg, district secre-
tary, at the defense table with the
International Labor Defense stUor-
MES Yetta Land, N. D. Davis, and
Louis Elder.
This is the second trial. A month
ago when the international Labor
Defense had subpoenaed Mayor
Davis, Police Chief Matowitz, and
Marc Grossman, relief chairman,
to prove conspiracy to lower re-
lief so as to save two-thirds Of the
tax money for the Wall Street
bankers, and by starving the unem-
ployed use them as q whip to cut
wages, Judge Hertz declared a mis-
trial.
The Ohio code provides that no
one Is to be tried a second time
for the same offense and once a
jury is impaneled, mistrial can
be declared only on the grounds of
the illness or death of some one in
volved, tampering with the jury, or
an accident or calamity. Judge
Skeel ruled that the attempt of the
I. L. D. to prove a conspiracy by or
ganized capital to lower relief and
the f1ning of N. D. Davis 500 and
costs for contempt was an accident
or calamity" and ordered the
women tried 3 second time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Hatters
Near Strike
In Danbury

DANBURY, Conn, Feb. 26.-
More than a thousand hat workers
in eight rough hat factories in
Danbury and Bethel are on the
verge of striking in order to en-
force an arbitration award granted
last May to the Hatmakers' Union
of America "a. F. of L..
The arbitration award, which
granted raise of approximately 10
per cent in wages of the men, was
made last Spring following a strike
which affected most of the rough
hat factories in Danbury and
Bethel.
vote to strike if necessary.
against q reduction of 5 per cent.
or one-half Of the wage increase
given in the award, was taken at a
stormy four hour session Of the
union on Saturday during which
Michael F. Green, president, and
Martin Lawlor, secretary of the ma
tional union of New York, pleaded
with the men to accept the re-
duction rather than precipitate la
Dor trouble at this time"
Rank and filers made a motion
that the union should be recognized
then and there and that new off,
GERS should be elected, but this mo-
ton was not entertained by the
vice-president of the union, John
Beschle, who presided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
5. Supporting Action from
Railroad Workers

OBVIOUSLY q, great strike in the
y steel industry may create sit
uation calling for active support
from many unions, especially the
coal miners. And from the outset.
it is clear that steps must be taken
to get at least the railroad unions
directly behind the movement. In
1919 one of the major causes of the
loss of the strike was the failure of
the railroad unions to strike the
workers on the highly strategic
connecting roads between the steel
mills and the main lines. d strike
on these roads would have COM
pletely paralyzed all the big mills.
To make the officials betrayal
more evident, these men, while or
gained had no contracts with the
connecting road companies, and
the leaders could not hide behind
the excuse of being bound by sacred
agreements.
To avoid the sad and disastrous
spectacle of union railroad men
breaking the steel workers strike.
should the present movement de-
velop into strike, it is necessary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

tribute organizers, or far better yet,
to finance organizers from the
ranks of the steel workers. A mini
mum Of 100-156 organizers, includ-
ing a considerable proportion of
Negroes, should be put into the
field at the earliest possible date.
The organizing campaign should
be conducted under one head
strictly, that of the A. A. The latter
organization should set up a Joint
organizing committee led by the
present leaders of the rank and file
movement who have demonstrated
that they can and will organize the
workers. This committee should
have complete jurisdiction over all
organizers, regardless of what CEN
ters they come from. Organizers
directed from outside headquarters,
whether the A. F. of l.. or of in
dividual unions are practically use
less as was amply demonstrated in
the 1919 campaign. All the or
gan1zers must work as . solid crew
under the direction Of one center if
serious work is to be accomplished.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
l. One Union in the Steel
Industry

ALL workers Of whatever craft or
"A calling in the smelling, rolling
and fabricating departments of the
steel industry should be organized
into one Industrial union, the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers. Craft unions
claiming jurisdiction over workers
in the steel industry should not be
allowed to NEEDLE in the campaign
and separate their craftsmen from
the general mass. This will be the
easier to prevent as the A. A. con-
stitution, for over half a century,
has provided jurisdiction over all
workers in the mills. 1t would be
criminal stupidity to carry forward
the present organizing campaign on
the basis of many crafts dividing up
the workers among them. To do so
would be to afflict the campaign
with the dead anchors of the
division of forces, decentralization
of authority, jurisdictional quar-
rels, and finally union scabbery that
so weakened the solidarity of the
workers in 1919 and was such a
ma ior factor in their defeat.
In 1919 it was a practical pro-
gram to link together the "a craft
unions for joint campaign in the
industry. This was so because at
the time there was little sentiment
for industrial unionism in the A. F.
of L., the system of federating
crafts in one industry was grow
ing form of solidarity, and the
metal crafts would not possibly
have yielded on their jurisdictional
claims. Besides, the A. A. leaders
were so reactionary (and there was
no rank and file movement then in
the A. Al that it would have been
utterly impossible to get the A. A.
to either start or carry on the cam
paign. Also, the A. A., contrary to
its constitution, organized skilled
workers almost exclusively. If there
had been no joint movement of the
crafts there would have been no
organization campaign or strike.
Now the situation, however, is
fundamentally changed The steel
strike of 1919 imperatively taught
the need of one industrial union in
the steel industry. lesson which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
4. Ample Funds

IN 1919 the thing that actually de-
feated the movement was the
initial failure of the A. F. of L. and
the affiliated unions to furnish suf-
ficient funds at the outset to start
the campaign properly. Although
the "a unions affiliated with the Ma
tional Committee for Organizing
the Iron and Steel Workers were
rich from war time dues and had
many millions of dollars in their
treasures, they refused to put even
the smallest assessment on their
members, and gave us only $1,4O0
and a half dozen organizers with
which TO start the huge task of
organizing the industry. This lack
OF funds and men caused the
abandonment of the original plan
of swift drive at the same time
in all steel centers, drive which
later experience proved, would have
forced swift settlement by the
Steel Trust in war time. Lack OF
initial funds almost destroyed the
movement altogether. Indeed, the
funds for organizing the workers
were only gathered from these
workers as the organizing campaign
proceeded. This pinch-penny pol
icy was part of the deliberate cam
paign Of sabotage.
This disastrous policy must not
be repeated this time. To put on
a proper campaign, much money is
necessary, and the A. A. cannot
possibly raise all of it. The A. F.
of L. has the duty to assemble most
of this money. especially in the
initial stages of the work. Fun
damentally necessary, therefore, is
that it should place an assessment
Of at least five cents per member
on all affiliated unions and call
upon them to make immediate adj
vance payments to the A. A. or
ganizing forces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

has been emphasized time and
again since in the automobile, rub
Der, aluminium and many other in
dustries. In consequence, there is
a strong sentiment in the A. F. of
L. now for the industrial form of
organization. And, most important
of all, the A. A. is now in a position
to carry through a militant organ
ization campaign and strike. 1t is
true that the Tighe leaders are as
useless and harmful as ever, but the
militant organized rank and file
movement can and will do the work
in spite of the reactionary leader
ship.
A final end must be put to the
nineteenth century system of craft
unionism in the steel industry. The
experience of the past fairly shouts
the necessity for industrial union
ism, And if this demand is ignored
and the crafts allowed to inject
themselves into the industry, the
success of the entire movement will
be seriously ieopardized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
2. Gust Corrupt Tighe
Leadership

II is unthinkable that the steel
workers should be organized by
the present Tighe-Leonard leader
ship. This corrupt and reactionary
clique cannot and will not organize
the workers in the industry. This
is definitely proven by their long
record of incompetence and treach-
cry. Their union plans go no fur
Their than the maintenance of a
petty, lickspittle, little organization
in the smaller plants on the fringes
of the industry, sufficient to pay
these parasites their salaries.
In 1919 this same clique of labor
takers blocked, ssbotaged and be-
trayed the movement at every turn.
And in the succeeding several years
OF prosperity" they did nothing
whatever to organize the industry.
It was also characteristic of their
general policy that in 1894, when
the workers were organizing rapidly
in spite of them. they gave the A.
F, of L. every assistance to mislead
the movement into the swamp of
the Roosevelt-Steel Trust Labor
Board.
If any further proof is needed of
their disloyalty to the steel workers,
it is given amply by their present
criminal attempt to expel the best
union militants and lodges. to split
the union, 1t would give these
worthless only satisfaction if their
disruptive course should break up
the present organization campaign.
The history of the A. A. top lead
ership is replete with examples of
the officials of the union retiring
to fat jobs with the Steel Corpora
ton or the government for keeping
the workers unorganized 1t is high
time for the Tighe-Leonard leader
ship to go to their rewards from
the companies as SO many of their
predecessors have done.
The rank and file memers Of the
steel workers, aroused to the dis
loyalty of their top leaders, are now
in the process of driving them from
office. If not interfered with by
the A. F. of L. they will soon put a
finish to the whole clatter of them
and put at the head of their union
the present sincere and militant
leaders of the rank and file move
ment.
Tighe and his gang of misleaders
must go if there is to be serious
fight put up for the organization of
the steel industry The A. F. of L.
Executive Council should condemn
Tighe's splitting policy. Any as
sistance lent by the A. F. of L. to
this bunch of labor traitors to keep
them in power or to enforce their
Infamous expulsion campaign,
would be direct betrayal of the steel
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
6. A National Movement

IN order to develop maximum
possibility of defeating the Steel
Trust, the campaign to organize the
workers must be pushed simultane-
ously in all important steel centers.
This should be done in general
along the lines of the original plans
for the 1919 campaign. The work
should be prosecuted with the ut
most energy and every known mod
ern method of mass agitation, in
Guiding monster meetings, parades,
the press, radio, etc, should be
widely used. Such a powerful
agitation will give the steel workers
facing the gigantic Steel Trust,
ssnse Of their own power and sup
port from other sections of workers,
and will go far to raise their fight
ing morale and overcome the slump
caused by the betrayal of 1884
There must be none of the ante
diluvian nonsense which we had to
contend with from the top A. F Of
L. leaders in 1919 about starting the
movement in one mill or one To-
cality to Show the workers what
We can do" Such a method leaves
the workers open to the dangers of
the destruction Of the campaign by
being forced into premature strikes
at ill-prepared key points, or hav-
ing the workers demoralized by
do-concessions by the COM
panies in the unorgsnized localities.
A great national movement over
comes these dangers.
The A. F, of L. has the resources
for such national campaign with
out straining itself in any respect.
1t can readily mobilize the neces-
sary organizers and money Nothing
short Of such broad national cam
paign can meet the necessities of
the situation.