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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Toledo Seamen Take
Food After Relief Head
Orders Its Withdrawal
Especial to the Daily worker

TOLEDO, o., Dec. 30.-Fifty sea-
men rushed the Transient Bureau
here Friday night and took their
evening meals following the refusal
Of the relief director to retrurn their
meal tickets which had been take
from them. Previous to this. tn =
unemployed seamen had jamme'e
the office OF Relief Administrato.
Thompson demanding restoration
Of their meal tickets, an end to all
forced labor and payment of union
wages for all work done.
The meal tickets amount to $3.50
week for each man. Forced labor
jobs at four cents an hour for
twenty-four hour week were offered
and Indignantly refused by the sea-
men. Thompson referred to "or-
ders from Washington" to justify
the coolie wages, and told the dele
CATION that IF you don't like it; do
as you please"
Following the interview with
Thompson, the enraged seamen
rushed the Transient Bureau. Police
were called and attacked the work
ers, ejecting them from the build
ing.
The relief administration here has
announced 5 per cent relief in
crease for January in an attempt to
stem the rising demand for a 80
per cent general increase. General
increases of Is per cent had been
promised by the relief sdministra-
tiOn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Promises of New Deal Are Written in Blood
Ut 81 Strikers Who We're Murdered in 1884

The fascist contents of the New
Deal we're written in the blood of
81 murdered strikers and the
wounding of additional hundreds Of
striking workers during the year
now ending, as the armed forces CT
the bourgeois state were hurled
against workers fighting for the
right to live and in defense of their
constitutional rights and class in
terests.
Roosevelt's honeyed promises to
the working class we're accompanied
by the murderous rattle of machine
guns, the flash of bayonets as they
were buried in the vitals of work
ers, the rumble of army tanks and
the poisonous fumes of gas bombs,
used against Negro and white work
ers. striking against the New Deal
attacks on their living standards,
the right to organize into unions
of their own choice-a right sup
posedly guaranteed by the NR.A.,
under the Clause IA. In addition
to the 81 strikers murdered, 5000
others were arrested for strike
activities and "a Negroes lynched
during the same year, according to
figures compiled by the Labor De-
fender. In Georgia, textile strikers
were thrown into concentration
camps, in emulation of the Nazi
hangman regime in Germany. In
addition, hundreds of workers and
students were Jailed for taking part
in anti-fascist demonstrations and
other struggles of the working GLASS.
Class Struggle Sharpened
The second year of the New Deal,
1884, saw the establishment of
broad masses of the toiling popula-
ton, Negro and white. in the dema-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01

6TdH6uell, FdyeGDe ClJy, OnlOnJOWQ,
Masontown, BeeSon, Coal Spring
and Hopwood. With the delegates
from several fraternsl groups, the
entire delegation. mostly from u.
NJ. w. A. locals, will leave for Wash
ington by car.
Three large buses have been
hartered for the delegation from
Pittsburgh to the National Con-
gress. Arrangements have been
completed for 125 delegates from
the Pittsburgh area, with the pos
sibility that this number will reach
$50 when final registration is COM
pleted
The buses for the Pittsburgh
delegation will leave from the head
quarters of the local sponsoring
committee, 522 Court Place, Friday
night at 10 o'clock.
All delegates to the National Con-
.gress who will leave by the special
buses must be fully paid up before
embarking. A meeting of the full
delegation will be held in the head
quarters at 8 pm, two hours before
departure, to complete registration
and elect captains for the buses.
In order to expedite the work,
the committee has advised that all
delegates send in funds for trans
portation and expenses while in
Washington as soon as possible.
Reports from outlying districts
such as the Brownsville area show
a broad response to the Congress
call in the local unions of the United
Mine Workers of America, despite
the fact that the international cleo
tons made very heavy demands
upon the time of the rank and file
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01

the less real, bankruptcy of the
county after five years Of crisis. Los
Angeles County retains control over
so-called social service" cases and
LACRA has charge only of those
cases in which, to use the parlance
of social work, unemployment is the
problem.
Jim Crow Accounting
For the purpose of relief admins
tration, Los Angeles is divided up
into number of districts. Each
Of these districts has a relief office
under the direction of a supervisor,
under whom in turn there are a
number OF social case workers.
Very obviously, the district boun-
diaries we're drawn in order to place
as many Negroes as possible In one
district. the Vernon district. One
other district, the Adams district,
also contains a number of Negroes
and there are a few in three other
districts.
The district set-up was inherited
by the LACRA from a previous re-
lief organization, the S. E. r. A.
In the first rush of setting up the
districts, Negro case workers were
given a certain geographical area
in which to work. There was a fly
in the ointment. The Negro ghetto
is not very strict, and consequently
various Negro case workers found a
few white applicants in their files.
That was soon remedied. About De-
cember l, 1884, an order was issued
requiring Negro social workers to
transfer all white cases out Of their
files.
The order raised a storm OF pro-
test. Plainly it branded Negro So
cial workers as interiors and
pariahs, unfit to visit the homes
Of whites. But the order didn't
work both ways. White social
workers could still visit Negro ap-
plicants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01

United Front
Is Endorsed
AtCOnference
New Meeting Between
C.P. and SIP. Leaders
Slated in the South

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Dec. 81
"A meeting at the Highlander Folk
School on Dec. % between Nat RIOS,
Dombrowski Of the Tennessee or
OF the Communist Party and James
ganization Of the Socialist Party
Myles Horton Of the Tennessee
State Committee of the Socialist
Party, zilla HAYES, Southern Labor
Secretary of the Socialist Party. and
others, Fundamentally endorsed the
Chattanooga Dec. 6 United Front
Appeal and the Six-Point Program
of Struggle Of the United Front
Agreement between these members
Of the Socialist Party and the rep
resentatives Of the Communist Par
ty in five southern states.
Last Fridays meeting decided that
all Socialist Party members pres
ent should send letters to every
Southern State Committee Of the
Socialist Party, urging the calling
of special State Committee meetings
to favor immediate action on the
six-point program, and also to speed
plans for Southern United Front
Conference against lynching and for
trade union and constitutional
rights. The meeting decided that
this conference should be held in
Chattanooga in the Spring, and also
voted greetings to the National
Congress for Unemployment and
Social Insurance meeting in Wash
ington, D. c., Jan. to 7.
Movement Broadening
Fridays action and the united
front achieved between the Socialist
Party and the Communist Party in
New Orleans, La, and between the
Share Choppers Union and the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union is
broadening the united front move
ment and inspiring the trade union
masses in this section, and is an
answer to Lovestone and others
who are trying to disrupt the grow
ing united front movement.
The Dec. 6 meeting between the
prominent members of the Social
ist Party in the South and the Com
munist Party Of the following five
southern states, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and
Alabama, adopted the following six
point program and called on all So
cialist Party state organizations to
join the united front movement:
Six-Point Program
~ The struggle against war and
fascism against lynching, for dis
banding the K. K. K. and other
armed fascist bands, and against
denial OF constitutional rights;
(2l Support of the National Con-
gress for Unemployment and Social
Insurance to be held in Washington,
D. c., Jan. 5 to 7, and of the Lou
don Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill;
(3) Against the New Deal differ
CliVloEo III wages dllN ISl4Cl lVl
southern labor;
a. Campaign to unionize the
South and develop aggressive rank
and file trade union movements in
the A. F. of L. on the basis of equal
rights for Negroes and the unity Of
white and Negro workers;
90 Support of the united front
action of the International Labor
Defense in its struggle to free the
Scottsboro boys;
go Campaign against the AA.A
and the Bankhead Act in the cotton
fields and struggle for the needs Of
the exploited farm population.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
By CYRIL BRIGGS

gogic promises and alphabetical.
panaceas OF the New Deal, and the
tremendous sharpening of the class
and national struggles throughout
the entire country. 1t witnessed the
most magnificent strike struggles in
American labor history, with in
creasing pressure of the rank and
file of the A. F. of L. against the
bureaucracy and its treacherous
class collaboration policy and
against its open and covert sup
port of the fascist program of the
New Deal. 1t saw the heroic strike
struggles of the West Coast long
shoremen and the powerful San
Francisco general strike in support
of the demands of the longshore-
men; the general textile strike; the
militant teamsters' strikes in Min
neapolis and Toledo where the
workers battled fascist corps of
armed business men and gangsters.
There were agricultural strikes
from Cape Cod to California, from
the cotton pickers on the Gulf to
onion pickers near the Great Lakes.
The answer of the bosses to this
mighty explosion of mass resent
ment and struggle against the New
Deal program was to sharpen the
reppressiye forces, legal and extra
legal, of the bourgeois state, against
the working class and its organiza-
tons. Raids and mass arrests on
workers organizations we're car
ried out jointly by vigilante bands
and police in California. The XII
Klux Khan and the White Legion
in the South increased their ter
roristic activities against Negro
and white workers uniting in strug-
gle against their common enemy.
Criminal syndicalist laws passed
during or shortly after the World
War were revived to further the
attacks on the working class. In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01

"AiANAA OAlO unemployed ~ lOi GlIch
supplies is forbidden
On one relief project, city affair,
Negro and white workers, employed
in the same camp, were required to
use separate dining tables, separate
bathrooms, separate Mushrooms,
separate toilets and sign was
posted forbidding mixed gambling!
The camp doctor was a Negro who
was forced to submit to the same
kind of jim Grow practices.
Administrative positions invariably
go to whites.
Relief Workers Insulted
Negro relief workers are abused
on one project and called vile and
insulting names by their foremen.
Negro relief workers show a high
rate of discharge for "inefhciency"
although it is common knowledge
that they are Disseminated against
because of color.
Negro and white women working
on a sewing project we're separated
the forelady telling the Americans"
to go to one room and the "colored
women" to another.
All of these things and many more
about which I vii write in this series
o. articles have happened and are
happening, not in Southern or a
border state, but in Los Angeles,
California, where prejudice is sup
posed to be at a minimum and where
Negro rights are supposedly
protected by law.
The present relief set-up in Los
Angeles is the Los Angeles County
Relief Administration-the LACRA
for short. LACRA is federal
bureau which secures it's funds from
the FERA and is in charge of Ellis
o. Braught, former Ohio college
Professor and touted far and wide
as humanitarian liberal.
Braught and the LACRA came
into the picture only few months
ago following the hidden, but none
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Veterans Fight To Free
Pope, Negro Organizer,
From Chain Gang Term

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 81
The Veterans Rank and File Com
mittee, with headquarters here, is
calling for protests against the
sentencing of Tannis L. Pope, Negro
veteran, to six months on the chain
gang in Georgia. Veterans and
other organizations are urged to
demand his release.
Pope, an organizer of the World
War Veterans, an organization of
Negro veterans in Georgia, defended
himself when attacked by gang
Of white hoodlums. His arrest and
sentencing followed.
Pope has been active in securing
relief, bonus certificates and other
demands of local Negro veterans
who are barred from the lily-white
American Legion in Georgia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Detroit Rally Backs
Capital Congress For
JObless Insurance

DETROIT, Mich. Dec. 31.-A
meeting held last Friday at Yemans
Hall in Hamtramck, to discuss the
National Congress for Unemploy-
ment Insurance, was attended by
seven hundred workers Who adopted
a resolution endorsing the Workers
Bill and the National Congress.
Speakers at the meeting were
Joseph Kowalsky, state organizer of
the Polish Chamber of Labor; Leo
Prep of the Unemployment Council:
and George Kristalsky, section or
ganizer of the Communist Party.
Although the Hamtramck Con-
ference for Unemployment Insur-
ance had invited Mayor Lewan-
dowsky, Congressman Sadowsky a
representative of the City Council
and other politicians to speak, none
of them put in an appearance.
The resolution demanding action
on social insurance was sent to
President Roosevelt, Secretary of
Labor Perkins and the United
States Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01

ers we're arrested.
The union leaders wanted post
ponement of the meeting until after
New Years, but were forced to give
in and the meeting was called.
The Communist Party imme-
diately modified its forces and on
Saturday morning one Of the largest
picket lines the strike has vet seen
was thrown around the store.
The strikers sent delegations to
all A. F. Of L. locals and organiza-
tons with the result that there was
a large A. F. Of L. representation on
the picket line to counteract this
militant and strengthening picket
line. Chief Of Police Laubenheimer
ordered over a hundred extra police
men held in reserve in the Y. M.
C. A. across the street to augment
the police Gordon already thrown
around the store.
The Communist Party issued 30
900 leaflets calling fo- mass picket
ing and pointing out how the street
car strike last Summer was won by
the solidarity Of the Milwaukee
workers in support of the striking
carmen.
ALL, Y.P.S.L. Members Picket
Police attacked the picketers after
an unknown person. not on the
picket line, hurled two bricks, but
the lines held firm in spite Of the
reserve police forces.
Among the seven arrested were
A. F. Of L. workers, Young Peo-
pies Socialist League and Young
Communist League members.
The mobilization for a stronger
picket line is being prepared for the
coming week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Democrats Aid
Bank Officials
Held for Theft
Last Act of Michigan
Administration Eases
Terms for Two

DETROIT, Dec. 31.-The corrupt
Democratic Comstock State admin
istration is making its farewell bow
in office in characteristic style: by
pardoning and committing the SEN
fences Of bankers convicted of en-
bezzling thousands Of dollars, while
militant workers, arrested for par
ticipating in labor struggles, are
kept in Jail.
Robert M. Allan, former president
OF the American State Bank, who
was sentenced TO from ten to 20
years for what is politely called
transportation of funds" Tin or
binary language: Stealing thou
sands Of dollars of poor depositors'
money, has just had his sentence
committed by Governor Comstock
to two and one-half to five years.
Though sentenced on Dec. %. 1881,
Allan did not enter prison till July
7, 1888. In announcing the COM
mutation Of his sentence, w. Alfred
Debo, commissioner of pardons and
paroles, declared that because OF
good behavior" Allen will be eli
gible for parole in May, 1935-less
than two years after he entered Jail.
At the same time Governor Com
stock pardoned Joel Stockard, De-
troit broker and former vice-pres-
ident Of the same bank. Stockard
has been sentenced to three to 20
years for abstraction and misap-
plication OF funds" He has never
served a day. Oscar L. Green, an
other former president OF the
American State Bank, who in June.
1888, was sentenced to five to 20
years for embezzlement of $4,000,
had his sentence committed to two
years. He also will be eligible to
leave jail May l, 1895.
The action Of Comstock and Debo,
whose pardon and parole racket has
become notorious. was so raw, that
even the judges who sentenced the
bankers have been compelled to
protest. Judge w. Mckay Skillman,
who sentenced Allan, admitted that
- VIZ Ne'HoCo AidO lllfOlNCQ IlcIl WIFI
no influence, the judges would have
been consulted. We always get let
tiers from Debo about men OF little
influence who are up for parole, or
communication Of sentence"
Among the "men of little influ-
ence" whom Gov. Comstock has re-
fused to pardon is John Battenberg
Of Grand Rapids, who is serving q
two-year sentence for participating
in demonstration against a relief
cut in January, 1888. Other men
OF little influence" are the workers.
Burman and Immonen, instructors
at camp for Finnish workers
children at Eben Junction. Mich.
who in August, 1888, we're arrested
and sentenced to long Jail terms
because a red flag was raised on
the camp grounds.
After serving year, Burman and
lmmonen were recently released on
bond and the case is now pending
In the State Supreme Court. The
international Labor Defense is han
ding the case, with Maurice Sugar
now running as labor candidate for
Judge of Recorders Court, as at
torney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Coca Cola Company
Fires Negro Workers

CHICAGO, Dec. 81. = The Coca
Cola Company here has fired all its
Negro employees. All of them were
union members and in good stand
ing.
George Phelan, superintendent of
the plant, has bluntly declared that
the company does not want to use
any more Negro help.
The League of Struggle for Negro
Rights here is organizing a protest
campaign against the action. The
League points out that the firing of
the Negro workers is in line with the
increasing fascist attacks organized
by local courts and landlords and
the Hearst press against the Negro
masses OF Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01

In their attack on the working
class and the Negro people, the
bosses have directed their blows
particularly against the Commu-
mist Party, the fearless leader and
unifler of the struggles of all Sec
lions of the toiling population. This
attack, rejecting the fears of the
ruling class at the rising resistance
of the workers and the deepening
OF the general crisis of capitalism,
became particularly ferocious dur
ing the closing weeks of 1894, with
the initiation by the United States
Chamber of Commerce and the
Hearst press of drive for the sup
preston of the Communist Party.
as the necessary prelude and signal
for a broader onslaught against all
working class organizations. In
Chicago this drive is at present
centered around the attempt to de-
stroy the Chicago Workers School
and Jail its instructors.
Against these attacks. the de-
fCiOPhib uliibCO lIOIlb StIuSSlSS Oh
the Communist Party. Socialist
workers and several Socialist Party
organizations, anti-fascist workers.
professionals and students recorded
many important victories during the
past year in defense of the rights
OF the working class and the Negro
people. These victories attest to the
growing force of the united front
movement and its power, as it is
further developed, to smash the
fascist reaction and beat back the
drive Of the Roosevelt government
to fascism and imperialist war. The
forging of mighty proletarian
united front is the guarantee of
working class victory in this strug-
gle. This is the immediate task
confronting every Communist. So
cialist and non-party worker. 1t is
a task that cannot wait.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01

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Be sure that you do not fail 10
send your greetings to the Daily
Worker on its Anniversary. Your
greetings should be in before Jan.
IL. Greet the Daily Worker In
the name of comrade OF your
organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
YOUNG SOCIALISTS
AND COMMUNISTS
JAILED In STRIKE
United Front Picket Line Established in Milwau.
kee After Boston Store Strikers Override
Leaders and Call for Solidarity

MILWAUKEE,, Wis., Dec. 31.-The Boston department
store strikers. after forcing their union leaders to call
meeting voted to invite all workers groups to Join their
picket line and Saturday morning picket lines stood out
against police After the police attack seven work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
FINAL PLANS MADE
BY U. NJ. W. A GROUPS
IN PITTSBURGH AREA
Special Buses Chartered by the Delegation for
Trip to Washington-Plan Final Meet
ing of All Representatives Friday

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec 31-Fourteen local unions
from the Brownsville have elected delegates to the Ma
ona Congress for Unemployment Insurance to be held in
Washington JAM ST. The cities represented include Oliver
Alicia, Smoc, Leith Gillespie Fairchance ConneIsvile
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01

Get on the Honor Roll in the
special edition Of the Daily
Worker by sending in your greet
ing on the 'Daily's" Anniversary
TODAY!
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II. S. Government Order
Establishes Jim CrOw
Practices in +. E. r. 4.
milking of Races on Relief Projects Forbidden
and Negro Workers Are Insuted by
Los Angeles Administrators
BY Loren Miller

LOS ANGELES Calf, Dec 31.--Negro social workers
in the employ of the federal forbidden to
professional calls white applicants for relief although
white social workers many instances have files composed
entirely of Negro Mixing of races relief stores to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01

Every I. w. 0. branch should
greet the Daily Worker on its
Annfversarri
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WHAT'S ON
Philadelphia, Pa.

Lenin Memorial Meeting Friday. Jan.
10. 1888 at the Market St Arena,
4Sth and Market SITS Prominent
speakers, excellent program Buy
tickets now.
War or Peace In the Saar Plehiscitei
Lecture and discussion at Lulu Tenn
pie. Broad & Spring Garden Sts-
Auspices Phila. Relief Comm. for
Victims Of German Fascism Sis
p. m. Thursday, January 5, 1895
Lawyers Banquet. Friday evening.
Jan. 4, 8 pm. at Broad St. Mansion,
Broad and Girard AYES. Prominent
speakers and talents. Adm. soc. Aus
pices Interna tional Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Cleveland, Ohio

The 10th Ward Assembly Unemployed
Council l will hold benefit for its
Washington Delegates Jan. /. s PM.
at Slovenian Hall, SCOT St. Clair Ave.