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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
BY MOIsSAYE ]. OLGIN

telligence does not move them fast
enough. At a time when scores OF
thousands Of steel workers are max
ing tremendous efforts to organize
the industry, while Mike Tighe is
putting every obstacle in their way,
at time when they begin to see
clearly and express openly the nee
essity for fighting the steel trust
while, he, Mike Tighe, actually
crawls before the bosses, he has
the sad courage to lament the lack
Of intelligence among the the work
ers.
We are becoming more insistent.
We want to know what his outlook
is as regards the labor movement
generally. After all, the steel work
ers are not alone In the field What
can the working class do to i'm
prove its condition?
Mike Tighe confesses that he has
no solution.
I'VE are entering an era in the
history Of labor" he says, "whers
nobody can predict the outcome"
And he wakes eloquent as be lex
plains" The productivity of labor
increases. Labor-saving machinery
is driving men out of work. The
crisis is as deep as ever The masses
Of the workers do not live but ex-
ist. Labor cannot help itself. All
the measures advocated by the A. F.
of L. won't help. The 30-hour week
is only a palliative. After a short
while even this would become in
effective. Plainly, there are too
many workers in the world. There
isn't enough work for all of them.
Unless. Here Mr. Tighe finally re-
veals what he considers the way
out,
Unless we have considerable
decrease in the birth rate. see no
other alterna tive"
Let there be fewer workers-and
then everything will be solved. In
Mr.. Tighes opinion it is a race be-
tween the increase of machine pro-
duction and the decrease of the
population. We wonder whether he
does not think that a good war
would be blessing. A war may
kill off dozen or so millions of
people and thus solve the prob
lem" But we did not discuss the
war with Mr.. Tighe.
Is there hope of increasing the
American exports and thus securing
more work for the American work
ing class? Tighe does not believe
in that. Il was q. great believer in
WILSON, he says, Il am a great adj
nirer of Roosevelt But l am free
from partisan feelings. And ] must
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
By Moissaye ]. OIgin

We visited Mike Tighe, president
of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers at his
home in an outlying district of
Pittsburgh. He received us in the
front parlor of his comfortable two
story house. He sat in his big arm
chair, talking. The room was cozy.
we'll heated, well lit, and presented
2 striking contrast to the houses of
the steel workers in and around
Pittsburgh.
We started with the situation in
the steel industry, particularly as
far as employment is concerned.
Tighe pointed ou that machines are
displacing men on an increasing
scale, In Indiana Harbor, he said,
one strip mill of a modern type dis
placed "A hand mills. Ninety per
cent of the men became unem-
ployed Other cities are following
suit. To assume that only IS per
cent of all the steel workers are
employed, said Tighe, would be "a
fair estimate"
Sees No Future
What is the outlook for the flu
ture? Tighe sees no bright future.
There is no hope for a large ma
jority of the workers in the steel
industry" Skilled workers are rapid
ly being displaced by machines. On
the other hand, industry is not
working at full capacity. In fact,
it is working at only fraction of
its capacity. The coal mines could
supply the yearly demand of the
country in to 4 months of work.
The steel plants could produce all
the steel necessary for a whole year
in perhaps three months.
Do those employed in the mills
get living wagep
Mr.. Tighe is happy that he can
report something positive. His baby
face becomes animated. Oh yes,
those who have work get a living
wage. For instance the sheet rollers
get SIS a day, the heaters, $40
day, the catchers, So day. This is,
he says, pretty good wage.
But how many days a week do
they work? And what about the
semi-skilled and unskilled? Isn't it
a fact, that $3.50 a day is con-
sidered a fairly good average wage
and that few workers are engaged
more than two-three days a week?
Mr.. Tighe does not deny that. But
it is characteristic that his mind
is always on the best paid workers.
That even these cannot make liv-
ing and that their existence is be-
coming precanous due to the in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23

good will Why, If their plans we're
to be carried out, the organization
would have no standing in the eyes
of the public" Tighe feels sorry
for these men, but he cannot help
it-he cannot countenance a move
ment which is only bound to de-
stroy the organization.
Do they not wish to build the or
ganization? we ask. No, he does
not think So They can be only
destructive. How can they organize
the union from below? What do
they know about the methods of the
Amalgamated Association
What will he DOE It it true that
he is going to punish them with ex-
pulsion
Becomes a Law
Mike Tighe becomes hard. He is
no more union leader, he is the
law.
Il feel sorry for them but 1 shall
have to mete out the punishment
they deserve. Our organization has
rules, regulations, bylaws and pro-
cedure. We must abide by them
Even as Judge imposes punish
ment on citizens disregarding his
private feelings, because he has to
carry out the law of his land, so
too shall have to punish the ire
sponsibles no matter how sorry 1
am for them"
Poor Tighe did not foresee that
he would meet with reverses at the
hands of the Executive Council of
the A. F. of L.
OF sudden Mr.. Tighe becomes
all wrapped in mystery. He leans
forward, he almost whispers:
The hand of Moscow is in all
this movement. Those insurgents
do not know what they are doing
They are simply paws in sinister
hand, At the April convention
saw clearly that the Communists
were maneuvering all the proceed
ings. The unsound legislation forced
upon us at the convention by the
newly enlisted men was clearly die
tated by the Communists"
And with this evil, Tighe thinks,
we ought to deal Jgiftly, energeti-
cally and rnercilessly.
Two or three days later we saw
Mike Tighe sitting in the district
office of the A. A. and, reinforced
by cops, "evict'' Bill Spang, chair
man of the district, and thus at
tempt to break one of the strong
est sections of the A. A. That he
did not succeed was not his fault,
Going home through the murky
streets of Pittsburgh we said to our
selves that If the steel trust did not
have its Mike Tighe it would have
had to invent one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Workers Are Advised
On How to Cast Vote
In Chicago Election
BY A. GUSS
Election Campaign Manager, C.P.

F As 0O0C
Election Campaign Manager, C.P.
CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-All work
ers are again warned not to vote
in the city primaries which are
to be held Feb. Is. They are not
to declare their party affiliations
when they go to the polls to vote
for aldermen.
But they are urged to go to
the polls Tuesday, and to vote foC
the workers candidates in the
aldermanic elections. In six
wards the candidates are off
cially on the ballot. They are:
Fourth Ward, James Huffman;
Tenth Ward, Alfred Stocker;
Nineteenth Ward, David Young;
Twenty-first Ward Martin Mis-
kerik; Thirty-sixth Ward, Hans
Pfeiffer; Fortieth Ward, Lyman
Dolinky.
In the other wards, the COM
rades are urged to write in the
names of the workers aldermanic
candidates. Write out the name
and address. Place a box before
the name and mark an x in
side Of it. Example: Xxi HAL
mar Jacobsen, 953 North Latrobe
Avenue.
In the meantime, a final drive
for signatures for Red Sunday,
Feb, 24l We must collect 10000
signatures for Lockner, Newton,
and Hammersmark Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23

taught you to fight against the POI
lice?"
Frank Connolly exploded to the
Judge:
"Yesl I am proud Of the Daily
Worker! It is my teacher. Your
newspapers made me a fortune
hunter, a toady, q gambler, a man
without guts!"
The court room burst into such
sizzling that in the end the Judge
was forced to retract the sentence.
Connolly walked out, head high,
waving the Daily Worker ike a ban
ner Of victory.
Our agent, who visited Connolly a
year ago, had done his work per-
sistently. He did not leave things
go with only one visit. He had the
patience to explain matters. He
strengthened his connections with
every visit. He won. Connolly was a
proletarian. His mind had become
entangled in Hearst's spider web.
1t was only necessary to cut those
bonds. He did it,
He was spurred on by the decision
Of the Party, to win over the deci-
sive strata of the American working
class"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
OustedChicago
Nominees Join
United Front
81 Ruled Off Ballot by
Commission, Join to
Fight Edict

CHICAGO, Feb. PA united
front fight against the fascist &C
ton of the Board of Election Com
missioners in ruling 81 candidates
of various parties off the ballot was
launched here at the Sherman Ho-
tel at a meeting of aldermanic can
didates whose names were stricken
from the ballot. The meeting was
addressed by Robert Minor, mem
Der of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party.
A committee, composed of Demo-
cratic, Republican, Socialist and the
Communist-supported n d idates,
drafted protest resolution as the
basis for a widespread publicity
campaign against the ruling. All
candidates present signed the reso-
luton, which reads as follows:
1--WE, the undersigned aldermanic
candidates who were ruled off the
ballot by the unjust and illegal
methods employed by the Board of
Election Commissioners of this city,
acting as the municipal election
board, protest this high handed
method of DISTINGUISHING the citi-
zens of our community, for the rea-
son that when the people of the
community or city are precluded
from participating in the election by
nominating their respective candi-
dates, then the entire structure of
representative government has
broken down and tyranny and OPP
preston are sitting in the seat of
the government"
One of the results of the boards
ruling is that in fourteen wards the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Detroit Rabbi Denies
Tie-Up With COughlin
BY A. B. MagiI

DETROIT, Feb. 21.-Rabbi Les
M. Franklin, Of Temple Beth Fl.
one of the most prominent rabbis in
Detroit, in an interview with your
correspondent, categorically denied
that he had ever indicated to Father
Charles z. Coughlin, radio priest,
that he would be ready to serve az
a leader of a new automobile work
ers' union that Coughlin proposes
launching.
Speaking in his chapel on Jan.
%, the radio priest had urged auto
workers not to join the A. F. Of L.
Asked who would lead the workers.
he said, I'll name three men, and
If you're willing to have them as
dictators, I'll guarantee to produce
them" Rabbi Franklin was one Of
the three.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23

machine candidate has been left
without opposition.
The committee also visited all the
newspapers, and further decided
that the excluded candidates would
continue their aldermanic campaign
in spite of the boards ruling. Eff
forts will be made to promote
real write-in campaign in the vari-
Gus wards. The committees cam
paign is backed by the American
League Against War and Fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Protest Nazi Brutality

OSLO, Norway. Feb. 22.-The ex-
ecutive bodies of the largest workers
organizations in Norway, represent
ing over 100000 workers, have pro-
tested to Germany against the ILL
treatment of political prisoners, de-
manding their liberation and the
dissolution of the concentration
camps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Relief March Planned
By Minnesota JObIess
10000 Expected to Join Mass Protest in
St. Paul on March II-WOrkers TO
Confer With Farmers on March

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Feb. 22-Drought and hunger
aroused the workers and farmers of Minnesota into
giant united front movement behind the Workers IN
employment Old Age and Social Insurance Bill and for ne
date emergency farm relief Thirty thousand are expected
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Philadelphia, Pa.


Grand Concert and Bazaar Aus
picer: Unemployment Councils Of
Fhna delphia, Friday and Saturday
ewes, March and 2 at Olympia
Arena. Broad and Bainbridge SITS.
Glamorous entertainment, Puppet
Show, Play, Dancing, Music. Ma
tional Speaker. Sergei Rsdsmsky and
Maria Radsmsky. Proceeds for pub
LEGATION Of newspaper for the unem-
ployed. Adm. 35c for both evenings,
Films and Photo League. 3l1 North
18th ST.. presents Laughter Through
Tears; Cartoon The Puzzle; Re-
porting the World; F. e. P. League
News Reel, Saturday. Feb, %, con-
tinuous showings beginning pm.
Subs. use.
Fourth Anniversary Banquet of So
Wet Russia Today will be held on
Sunday, Feb. "a at F.S.U. Headquar-
tiers, 126 South Eighth Street. Full
Italian dinner served Dancing and
entertainment Subs. SOC.
Tea Party and Concert to help the
Anti-Fascists in prison, Sunday, Feb,
"a, pm, at 2456 N, 50th ST. Aus
pices, Lenin Br. LID,
Commemoration meeting Of SD su
Cheng, militant working class leader,
Sunday, Feb. a., at ? pm at 1908
Vine St Auspices, Chinese Br. IL.
D. Program Nature Friends, Chinese
and white speakers. Refreshments.
Adm free
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Chicago, IN.

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.
Fifth Annual Cabaret and Dance, a
Ia Moscow, on Saturday, Feb, %, at
Workers Lyeeum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd,
starting pm. Workers Dance
Group; Sonia Rsdina; Gipsy and
new Russian songs excellent or
chestrs; dancing. Adm. 25c in adj
vance, 3oc at door. Good time for
everybody. Ausp.: LID. Barnett Br.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23

DETROIT, Feb. 22-The Mechan-
les Educational Society Of America
has voted to strike Monday against
lay-offs on the night shift at the
Mather Spring plant. The union
will establish the largest picket line
in the history of Detroit around the
Mather Spring plant if the workers
are not reinststed, it announced.
A thousand workers have been
laid off this week in Detroit auto
plants.
There have been four depart
mental strikes in the Auto Lite
plants during the last month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Neunrk. n. ].

c. A, Hathaway and Harry Elmer
Barnes will debate on Saturday, Feb.
%, at $50 pm. at Y.MHA. Audi
torium High and Kinney SITS, on
%Csn Roosevelt Save American Capt.
tahsm?' Adm. 40c, Auspices: Jack
London Club. A. J. Isserman, chair
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
300 On Strike
InToledoPlant
lspeciaI 70 the paily workerl

IApeclaI TO inc UaIIy NuTktfJ
TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 22.-Three
hundred workers in the Myers
Regulatory plant here have declared
a strike for q wage increase. Pick
cts defending themselves against
scabs slightly injured three strike
breakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
W HATS ON

Allentown, Pa.
Gala affair for the benefit of the
Daily Worker, Sat Feb. % at i2l
No. Third st. Prominent speakers.
Entertainment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Detroit, Mich.

Michigan Youth Congress Dance on
Tuesday evening, Feb. IS. at the
Graystone Ballroom, with Eddie
Cont and his NR.C. orchestra.
Everybody invited. Adm. 40c in ad-
vance, soc at door. Proceeds to go
toward carrying through the pro-
gram of the Michigan Youth Con-
gress and toward the falling of the
Second American Youth Congress to
be held in Detroit, June 20, 30, 30.
Cleveland, Ohio
Jobess to hold dance The regular
semi-monthy dance of the Ward %
Unemployment Council will be held
at 6s15 Wade Park Ave, at 8 pm
on Saturday, Feb. %.
Tenth Ward Assembly holds another
music social on Sunday, Feb. "a at
pm, at 5s75 Payne Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Cleveland, Ohio

Allentown, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Fears Insurgents

The insurgents he says, ARE a
lot Of deluded fools. These men who
have never been in the organization
want to upset the business methods
of the organization with its great
inv t,oentS both in money and in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07
QUINTUPLETS HAD GREAT FUN For First Time in Their Lives Someone Got
 on Floor to Play

Callander, Ont, Dec. 7.(UP) = For the first time in their lives the Dionne quintuplets had someone get down on the floor and play with them today exactly as if they were ordinary babies.
 As the fourth day of production of the motion picture story, The Country Doctor, in which they are featured, opened Jean Hersholt portraying the part of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, sat on the floor of the hospital nursery with the babies about him and played with them, as they had never been played with before.
 Girls Had Sport
 As cameras ground out the scene, the five girls entered the game with delight. They climbed all over Her. sholt, rolled about, shouting excited ly, as Director Henry c. King, carneramen and technicians watch ed with as much enjoyment as the quints apparently derived from playing 1t.
 Ever since it appeared likely the babies would live they have been treated like rare and fragile flowers. Never have they been allowed to en- joy the rougher games usually as- sociated with growing children, and they expressed their delight with no uncertainty.
 Hersholt, who injured his leg painfully in fall outside the hos- pital on Thursday, said the injury still bothered him "a bit," but that he expected to be fully recovered by Monday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07
By ELMER c. WALZER United Press Financial EditNl


 New York, Dec. 7-( UP Railroed shares led the stock market higher this week. Commodities Jagged. The dollar declined in terms of gold cur rencies. Activity frightened and there was considerable profit-taking in stocks. A large amount of selling for tax purposes also was noted.
 Business newys continued highly favorable. Steel operations touched 8 new high since Enid-1934 at 56.A per cent of capacity. Retail trade picked up sharply as Christmas buy- ing began. Car loadings were down less than seasonally in the Thanks giynig day week. Motor production held up well.
 While news was favorable, the financial community looked ahead with more caution. A big problem was the soldier bonus. Should 8 bonus be paid by the new congress out of printing press money the mar ket might be forced up through 1n- fiation fears. There was more infia- tion talk than usual.
 Demand for railroad shares was heartening. The principal reason is better showing made now after a long period of car loadings under a year ago.
 Best individual gains during the week were made by metal shares. These ran to more than points in International Nickel and Cerro de Psaco. New highs were made by Anaconda Copper and Phelps Dodge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07
WOOL MARKET.

Boston, Dec. 7- (UP) Little change was noted in the trend of the wool market during the past week, according to today's report of the D. s. Agriculture department.
 The volume of sales was steady and comprised 6 few siZable quanti- ties but was made up mostly of moderate to small lats. Prices were mostly steady to firm. Sales of strictly ccmhing 56s. S-s blood, and 40s, sos, l-4 blood. Ohio and similar fieeces tended mostly to the high side of the range ss-S9 cents in the grease. The finer grades of strictly combing fleeces were quoted un- changed at S3-34 cents In Ire greace for 58s, eos, Ia blood, and ct S2- sS censs for fine. or 04s and finer. Prices were very firm on 64s aud finer and steady on other grades of territory wools.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07
Weekly Stock ReUiew Sho1Us Good Business
Railroad Shares Led the Other Issues Into Higher
 Ground Commodities Jagged d-Dolar Declines

Steel shares were about unchanged with Bethlehem down slightly and U. 8. Steel small amount higher. Demand was noted for oils. Mali order shares were better on increased sales Montgomery Wards Novem- Der was the best for that month in
 Numerous special issues were bid the conhpany's history.
 up sharply. A. O. Smith had sev- efal days of sharp gains. Interna- tional Paper and Power preferred gained more than g points.
 Farm equipment shares came back. American Telephone encoun- tered new investment buying and mounted to within 8 fraction of it's high since 1881. Better grade motor shares met profit-taking, while cheaper issues appreciated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07
HOCKEY TEAMS
 WILL TRY OUT

New Haven, Conn, Dec. 7-(UP) The first of a series of try-outs to determine the U. s. Olympic hockey team which will go to Germany for the winter games, will be held here tonight. The country's leading amateurs were among the candi- dates and according to Joseph Bull kelley, head of the Olympic ice hockey committee, a squad of lS will ultimately be selected to go to Switzerland Jan. 3.
 The Olympic team will play Yale here tonight and later will meet the St. Nicholas club of New York and Princeton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07

declared that the soldiers of France were opposed to penalties against Italy.
 AS for the present peace efforts of Premier Pierre Laval and Sir Samuel Hoare, Mussolini reported that negotiations towards peace were in progress, but asserted that r-til their consummation, the Ital- ian people, who want deeds and not words, would continue to support Italy's armies in full confidence of victory.
 Better Atmosphere.
 Il Duce admitted the better at- mosphere of the international sit- uation, but said "it is my duty once again to warn you against cherish ing excessive optimism"
 Diplomats who listened to the speech did not consider that il would impede further negotiations because MuSsolini announced that there was no new measure which might complicate the situation. On the contrary, it was viewed as mild in word and content and apparently an Italian effort to aid the peace efforts of the British and French statesmen meeting in Paris.
 Must Go On With Work
 However, MuSSolini reafflrmed It. aly's determination to continue its course in Africa until the situation there is clarified "once and for all"
 On the 365th day of sanctions we will have the same courage and the same determination as on the first day." he asserted.
 Referring to the Anglo-French requests that MusSolini make known his minimum terms for peace, Mussolini said that others had asked Italy to make known its intentions and that i've have done this right along and in great detail to the French government
 "But instead of negotiations re- sulting from this, there came sanc- tions," Il Duce said.
 Mussolini recalled his speech of last October in which he warned against sanctions while they had only been mentioned as a possible
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-07
OPEN FORUM OF
 BASKETBALL MEN

Middletown, Conn, Dec. 7-(UP) An open forum, sponsored by the Connecticut State board of approv- ed basketball officials. was slated at Wesleyan University this after noon.
 Basketball officials, players, coaches, athletic directors and fans were invited to attend and participate in a discussion on "the financing of athletics in the high schools"
 Dr. Charles c. Wilson, physical education director in the Hartford public schools, was to talk on "the place of basketball in the physical education program"
 One of the principal speakers will be oswald Tower. editor of the basketball guide.