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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Textile Leader
In Lancaster
ToAppeal
Lawyers Tactics Bring
Riot Conviction
Against Quinlan

LANCASTER, Pa, Jan. 25-Pat
Quinlan, local organizer Of the
United Textile Workers, found guilty
on framed charges last week, for
alleged rioting during the general
textile strike last September, has
taken action to appeal the decision
to higher court.
The boss-picked jury found Quin-
Ian guilty of four charges: riot, in
citing to riot, resisting arrest and
unlawful assemblage, despite the
fact that Quinlan was not even at
the scene when the so-called rioting
took place at the Stehh Mill. The
testimony of State Police, and the
city police which were sent by
Mayor Ross to the Stehli Mill,
which is outside the city limits,
merely brought out that Quinlan
was looked upon as the leader and
therefore responsible for any dis
order which occurred.
The lawyer for Quinlan was the
Democratic politician Robert Rup-
pin, who wasn't even interested to
challenge the obviously prejudiced
jury panel. Due to the disgraceful
tactics of Ruppin, the other four
workers were fooled into pleading
guilty and were fined sos costs
each, and given a six months sus-
pended sentence by the labor-hat-
ing judge Benjamin Atlee.
j. Granville Eddy, local Commu-
mist leader, has his case poStpIled
to April. This was after District
Attorney Paul Mueller privately adj
mitted that he did not have enough
on him" Not desiring to admit
their framed arrest of Eddy, police
will either try to find a stronger
basis for doing so or wait until such
time as the general public here
forgets about the case and drop it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Young Communists Plan
Collections in Chicago
For Fund Tomorrow

CHICAGO, Jan. 25-The Young
Communist League District Com
mittee has called on all it's Chi
cago units, on Communist Party
members, and on members of mass
organizations and all synpathizers
of the revolutionary movement to
aid in the special tag day for the
Young Communist League fighting
fund on Sunday, 10 a. m. Volun-
teers are asked to report to the
following stations:
Italian Workers Center, Lexing-
ton and Kedzie Avenues: Cultural
Center, 3419 Roosevelt Road, Gop
floor; 40O3 Roosevelt Road; Liberty
Hall, 14th and 49th, Cicero; 9l33
Baltimore Avenue; 10413 Michisan
Avenue; 1014 East 18th Street;
1882 Cottage Grove Avenue; 1890
Archer Avenue; 51st Street and
Whipple Avenue; 2S09 West Po-
tomac Street; 1925 North Kedzie
Avenue, l145 North Spaulding Ave-
nue.; 1911 Chicago Avenue; Peoples
Auditorium, EAST West Chicago
Avenue; 557 Browning, Holman
House; 1914 Wentworth Avenue:
4733 Michigan Avenue; 1926 East
55th Street, International Labor
Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Mr. A. Backs
Mine Owners.
Cases Show
BY GRACE HUTCHINs
Labor Research Assn.

N.R.A. coal labor boards, both
divisional and national, continue to
hand down decisions favoring the
operators against the miners. Cases
thus decided, of course, become
precedents for decisions against
the workers of other mines. The
following are typical of many re-
cent rulings.
At the Union Pacific Coal Co..
mines, Rock Springs, Wyo., the
National Bituminous Coal Labor
Board has favored the company
in an important decision on mine
workers wages. This company is
a subsidiary of the Union Pacific
Railroad, of which w. Averell Har-
riman is chairman. Hartman has
recently been appointed MIRA. ad-
ministrative officer.
The N.R.A. code calls for in
creases in tonnage rates equivalent
to the increase in rates for men
paid by the day. Workers in the
Union Pacific mines claimed this
increase should be ten cents per
ton for pit-car leaders. The COM
pany claimed it should be only
seven cents per ton.
The MIRA. board, Of which John
L. Lewis is an important mem
Der, upheld the operators against
the miners and ruled that the in
crease should be only seven cents.
This makes a difference to the
leaders of three cents on every
ton loaded.
In another case, where the Ma
tional Labor Board upheld the rul-
ing of Division II, hosting en-
gineers are excepted from the
seven-hour day provisions of the
MIRA. code, and must therefore
work longer day than other mine
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Labor Groups Urged
To Protest Suppression
OF Caribbean Strikers

All unions of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, the Trade Union
Unity League, all independent
unions and all workers organiza-
lions have been called upon to
protest Immediately the reign of
terror unleashed by the imperialist
sugar barons and their puppet gov
ernments against striking sugar
mill workers of Cuba and Puerto
Rico, the National Executive Board
of the Trade Union Unity League
declared in a statement made pub
lie yesterday.
1.-THE terrorist measures of the
Mendieta government against the
Cuban workers" the appeal stated,
"is not only an attack against our
Cuban brothers but a threat to
every American worker and his
trade union.
Immediate protest m tin G S
should be organized. Resolutions
and kilograms should be sent to
Secretary of State Hull, Washing
ton, D. c.; President Mendieta,
Havana. Cuba and Governor Win
ship, San Juan, Puerto Rico"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
TWO Dead, 40 Still Missing
In Mysterious Ship Sinking

Two members of the crew are
known to have lost their lives and
forty-six persons are missing as a
result of the sinking of the liner
Mohawk, a Ward Line ship, in a
collision with a Norwegian freighter,
the Talisman, off the Jersey coast
on Thursday night The latest
catastrophe follows on the heels of
two other Ward Line disasters, one
of the tragic burning of the Moro
Castle which took 124 lives, and the
other, the Havana, lost on Ba-
hama reef on January.
One hundred and seventeen sur
vivors were picked up by two rescue
ships. Thirty-two members of the
crew and fourteen passengers are
still missing. A coast guard patrol
reports sighting two empty swamped
lifeboats.
AS with the other Ward Line dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26

aSters considerable mystery hangs
over the sinking of the Mohawk.
Although the boat took one and
half hours to sink, giving ample
time to launch the life boats, it is
reported by some of the rescuers
that persons were laundering
around in the icy waters when
picked up.
There is also the question as to
how the two boats came to be at
the same spot at the same time, al
though the Mohawk, a much faster
boat sailed out of New York an
hour before the Talisman.
The Ward Line IS notorious for
bad working conditions on its ships,
and for undermined crews. 1t has
collected $4,500,O00 insurance on
the Moro Castle, and although
guilty of gross negligence was
whitewashed by the government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Lenin's Works Offered
AS Subscription Prize
By Working Woman

Eight volumes of Lenin's works
free is the prize offered by the
Working Woman magazine in it's
subscription drive.
The person sending in the highest
number of yearly subscriptions over
two hundred. will receive a COM
plete set of Lenin's works. For ten
subscriptions the prize will be a
free subscription. For every five
subscriptions copy of the new IN
ternational pamphlet, Mot h e r
Bloor," by Ann Barton will be given.
The subscription drive ends April
1. Subscriptions are so cents
yearly. They should be addressed
to Working Woman, so East 18th
Street, New York, N. Y. If the
winner wishes, an alternative first
prize is set of cast aluminium
cooking pots.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Councils Call
Demonstration
In Cincinnati
JObless to A S EN- b lie
Next Saturday at
Hospital Place

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 25.-The
Communist Party and the Unem-
ployment Councils yesterday called
upon all workers to assemble at
Hospital Place and 18th Street and
Central Avenue, Saturday, Feb. 2 at
IL am. to fight the sentencing Of
six unemployed workers to jail and
the denial Of jury trials to % others
who had massed at the relief sta
ton demanding aid.
The city and welfare officials of
Hamilton County, unable to cope
with the growing mass movement
among the unemployed industrial
workers and farmers in the outly-
ing townships, are resorting to new
moves in an attempt to smash the
unemployed organizations.
When the 29 workers who were
arrested for demanding relief for
two families who refused to wait
for the promises of Welfare Director
Stuart appeared before Judge Clar-
ence Sprawl, six were sentenced to
the workhouse. All the rest de-
manded jury trials.
The Council Law Committee then
moved to recommend passage of a
proposed ordinance reducing the
fine in "disorderly conduct" cases
to $40 This will deny the Jury
trials. since under a law passed by
the State legislature in 1888, the
right to jury trial is granted only
to cases involving a fine of more
than $50.
The Central Labor Council and
numerous A. F. Of L. locals have
protested the passage of this ordi-
nance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Silk Union Organizes
$50 Employees in Lodi
Cotton Bleaching Plant

LODI, N. j., Jan. 25.-EXtending
the union into the cotton bleach
cries, the American Federation OF
Silk and Rayon Dyers, Lodi local,
signed an agreement with the Mil
bank Bleachery here, employing $50
workers. The same wage scale, &c
cents per hour, 36-hour week and
other concessions which formed the
basis of the recent general strike
settlement is provided for all silk
and rayon dyers in the plant.
Women workers on rayon finish
ing get 48 cents. For cotton work
ers the contract provides a min
imum of so cents for men bleachers,
and 40 cents for women. The cot
ton scale is Is cents above the code
minimum, The shop is at present
under the cotton code authority.
But the contract now provides that
if at any time more than 50 per
cent Of the work in the plant is on
silk and rayor dyeing, the entire
plant goes on the basis Of the Sc
cent rate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
80 Auto Locals
Quit Industry
Labor Board
Strike Comes Nearer AS
Green Is Forced to
Back Down

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. Is
Automobile workers came a step
closer towards a general auto strike
this spring as yesteday eighty fed
eral locals affiliated with the Amer
lean Federation of Labor informed
President Roosevelt of their with
drawal from the Auto Labor Board
headed by Leo Waldman which
tricked them last spring into calling
off their strike. The withdrawal was
announced yesterday by william
Green, president Of the A. F. of L.
Green, who found the provisions
in the settlement of March %, 1884,
a victory" for the automobile
workers, has now been forced to de-
clare that labor will not agree to a
further extension of the agreement
beyond February 8, when it expires.
The March 18th settlement provided
for recognition to company unions,
a merit clause and low wages. AS
a result of this settlement company
unions have been set up in most of
the plants and steps are being taken
now to consolidate them into ma
tional organization.
AS a step to counter the growing
company union menace, and towards
a general strike to force recognition
of the A. F. of L. Federal Locals, a
conference Of rank and file elements
within the locals will open in De-
troit at 9 a. m. tomorrow at Danish
Brotherhood Temple, ITS West For
est Ave. This conference, it is
expected, will play a significant part
in organizing the growing indigna-
ton among the membership against
the stalling and dickering of the
A. F. of L. officials for actual steps
towards a strike.
1t was reported that Green told
Secretary of Labor Perkins and
President Roosevelt already in Sep
TENDER that the workers were dis
satisfied with the settlement ar
rangement, hoping to convince them
that some concessions were advis-
able. The announcement which was
withheld until yesterday, it was ex-
planned, was finally forced through
the increasing pressure from the
locals through many protest resolu-
tions, and the fraudulent plant
election recently framed by the
Cadillac Company, which have
aroused renewed wave of protests
from the ranks of the workers.
An intense organization drive is
to be initiated in the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Railway Brotherhood Lodge
Protests Terror in Racine

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Jan. 25.-
Governor LaFollettee of Wisconsin
was asked last Saturday by the w.
A. Gardner Lodge of the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen to make
a special investigation of the terror
in Racine, Wis, where Sam Her
man, Communist organizer was kid
mapped and beaten, the Communist
headquarters and halls wrecked and
the lives Of militant workers threat
ened.
The resolution declared the Lodge
would hold the governor respon-
sible for any further attacks upon
the working class Of Racine
The lodge demanded the release
of John Sekat, Racine Communist
section organizer railroaded to one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26

to two years in the State prison
on trumped-up charge Of I'm
citing to riot" 1t also asked that
similar framed charges against Her
man be dropped at once"
The resolution was adopted at a
membership meeting Of the lodge,
Christ A. Hummel, president, in
formed the governor.
The resolution pledges "the full
support and cooperation of the
lodge to combat terror in Racine, .
and declares:
we demand that you (the gov
ernor) investigate thoroughly at
once the situation in Racine and eff
feet severe punishment for the in
stigators of these vicious acts
against labor"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26

prizes that every worker considers
worth striving for-and getting sub
scriptions for the Daily Worker is
certainly not difficult task for &C
tive, diligent Shock Brigaders.
A. A. Larson, Of Chicago, has
shown how easy it is. Larson's
method is to visit workers in their
homes regularly and talk to them.
No matter what the problem in
time and energy 10000 daily and
$4,000 Saturday subscriptions must
be written by April 5.
The subscription table follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
AMTER URGES RESISTANCE TO FEDERAL SLAVE WAGE PLAN
Funds Needed at Once
To Send Delegations
To HR 1927 Hearings

The National Joint Action
Committee for Unemployment
Insurance yesterday appealed for
finances in order that the rep
resentatives of the workers might
appear in the hearings on the
Workers Bill before the Com
mittee on Labor in the House Of
Representatives.
Hearings on the Workers I'm
employment, Old Age and So
cial Insurance Bill, H. R. 1927,
will begin on Wednesday, Jan.
80, and continue for three weeks.
One thousand dollars is needed
All contributions should be sent
to the National Joint Action
Committee, Room 1876, 799 Broad
way, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Hathaway VIII Speak
In Pittsburgh Monday
AT Memorial Meeting

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 25.-Clar-
ence Hathaway, editor Of the Daily
Worker, will speak here on Monday
at the mass meeting to commence
rate the anniversary of Lenin's
death at the Fifth Avenue High
School auditorium. The meeting
will begin at pm Hathaway's
topic will be THE Life, Work and
Teachings of Lenin."
David Doran, district organizer of
the Young Communist League, viii
speak on "Liebknecht and Luxem-
burg" Ben Careathers, Negro
working class leader, will be chair
man of the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Division of Abyssinia Is
Planned by France and
Italy Reports In dicat e

ROME, Jan. 24.-The colonial
armies of Italy and France and the
diplomats of these powers will unite
their efforts to dismember Abyssinia
and absorb the rich booty of the
country, an official spokesman in
timated here today.
The incredible hypocrisy of the
French imperialists in deploring on
the one hand the incident of the
killing of a provocative military
squad and on the other in sending
heavily armed contingents into the
Abyssinian interior was duplicated
by italian fascism this afternoon.
The French-Italian invasion of
Abyssinia was now taking place
with the excuse that Its govern
ment is incapable of controlling the
situation on its borders an official
statement declared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26

calling upon them to renew their
subscriptions and to help get new
subscribers. This is an idea that
might be utilized to good advantage
by every other district.
POpularize Contest
Only workers from nine districts
were entered in the subscription
contest, when Thursdays reports
were made up. The leadership in
each district must assume the re-
sponsibility of organizing an in
tense campaign for registrants. The
free trip to the Soviet Union and
the nine other prizes are certainly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Plaingoods Workers
To Meet Tomorrow
To Nominate Officers

PATERSON, N. j., Jan. 25-A
special membership meeting has
been called by the plaingoods depart
ment of the American Federation of
Silk Workers here for tomorrow 9
a. m. at Turn Hall, Ellison and
Crosbie Streets, to mobilize the
membership for the fight against
renewed attempts by the mill own
ers to cut wages and to nominate
candidates in the approaching union
election.
Nomination for general officers
will also include nomination for a
general manager and the member
ship at last has the opportunity to
rid itself of the present reactionary
Lovestoneite, Eli Keller, who holds
the position.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
L. L. ID. Leader
Held in Seattle
For Contempt
lspeeial to the paiIy Workerl

SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. IS. -
Wesley Randall, district secretary
of the International Labor De-
Tense here, was sentenced to ten
days in jail for insisting on his
right to defend transients who were
arrested here in a demonstration
for improved relief.
Judge Bell, in police court, de-
MED Randall the right to give the
men defense counsel because he
was not member of the bar. When
Randall attempted to quote the law
to prove his right, Judge Bell or
dered that he be arrested. The case
has been appealed. Randall is
free in 500 bail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Discussion On Negro
Question To Be Held
AT Youth Mass Meeting

A mass meeting called by the
New York District of the Young
Communist League will be held
Thursday, Jan. 81, 7:30 p. m. at
Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and
Fifteenth Street, to discuss the
Position and Tasks of the Young
Communist League on the Negro
Question
Manning johnson, organizer for
the Trade Union Unity Council, will
be the speaker. All young work.
ers, Negro and white, are invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26

per week, the workers Congress Of
the Russian Republics here in Mos
COW showed the strength Of Soviet
power by raising wages and TAX
ing a further long step on the rogd
to socialism. The following is me
legislation passed by the workers
as it was summed up by AIikaaiI
Kalinin. chairman of the Congress,
in concluding speech 7F
The total sum Of wages and
salaries raised alone amounts to
37O,O00,O00 rUbles." This sum has
been set aside for the Russian So
cialist Federated Soviet Republics
only Other Soviet republics vote
their own budgetsl
The national health protec-
ton of The Soviets, under She
conditions of growth Of gene-sI
culture and the consolidation Of
material power, has been raised
to such high level as has not
been reached by any capitalist
country. The health of the ma
ton has been strengthened not
only through doctors and medi-
cal aid. 1t has been improved by
physical culture, by vacations and
also by the number Of sanatoriuus
and rest homes scattered through
out the Soviet Union, which are
attached to trade unions ard vari-
Gus factories and institutions in
various localities.
TN the capitalist world the
careful attention of the doctor
towards his patient is predeter-
mined by the sum of money which
the patient pays the doctor. In
our socialist country the health
of the workers and peasants is the
chief concern Of the state.
From year to year." Kalinin COM
cluded, I'VE are fulfilling our finap-
cial plan and our industrial tasks.
I have no doubt also that in the
Forthcoming years, until the nav
18th Congress of Soviets of the
R.SF.SR., the tasks which will
arise in the development of indus
try. agriculture and culture will be
fulfilled by us in full-t00 per cent?
The Congress elected the ALE
Russian Central Executive Commits
tee, which comprises ,4O1 members.
Kalinin was unanimously elected
chairman and A. S. Kisseley, secre-
tary. At the first session Of the
Committee, D. E. Sulimov was APP
proved as Chairman Of the Coun-
Gil Of Peoples Commissars. This
act concluded the 10Th Congress Of
Soviets of the R.SFSR. The Sew
enth Congress of Soviets of the en-
tire Soviet Union opens tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
BAUMGARTNER HEADS
COUNCIL

The caption appearing above the
picture of James MatleS, national
secretary-treasurer of the Metal
Workers Industrial Union in Thurs
days issue Of the Daily Worker in
correctly stated that he heads the
national council of independent
unions in metal and machine build
ing industry. While Matles is a
member of the executive board of
the council. the chairman of the
council is William Baumgartner OF
the Tool and Die Makers Club of
Newark, N. j
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
Five German WO rk ers
Arrested for Criticizing
Nazi Road Directors

BRUNSWICK, Germany, Jan. 25,
The Brunswick Tribunal is at
present dealing with an affair
which provides another instance of
increasing open opposition to the
Nazi regime.
The case concerns five workers
who had been employed on the con-
struction of an srterial road. One
of them is accused of having at
tackled the directors of the work in
front of large number of his fell
low-workers,' while the others are
alleged to have "incited the workers
to characterization"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26

the heavy re-
sponsibility o (
showing an i'm
mediate gain.
They must set
the pace for the
rest of the coun-
try.
B ost on an
nounced yester-
day that it is
planning to send
lie t t ers to all
subscribers i n
the diStric t,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26

fOurth. Only three districts have
not yet scored.
But with the total gain in sub
scriptions so far only three hun
dred it is evident that the districts
have still not set their apparatus in
motion.
Must Set Example
Such districts as Chicago, Detroit,
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Boston and
Philadelphia particularly ar e
charged witt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
MOSCOW PLANS GIANT MOVIE

MOSCOW, Jan. PA new movie
theatre with seating accommodations
for 10000 spectators is to be opened
in the Park OF Rest and Culture"
at Moscow. The screen will have a
surface area of over 234 square
yards. It will be the largest theatre
in the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
I. L. d. Urges Phone Calls to
Consulate


The New York District Of the In
ternational Labor Defense, through
it's executive committee, calls upon
all working class organizations to
send protests and to make tele-
phone calls to the Hungarian Con-
sulate at 7 Morris Street, DIgbey
42672, demanding safe release of
Matthias Rakosi. The International
Labor Defense sent the following
telegram
in the name of $4,000 members
and affiliates we demand the i'm
mediate release of Rakosi. Demand
you inform your government we
hold them responsible for Rakosi's
safety
We urge all mass organizations
not to delay since Rakosi's life de-
ponds on worldwide protest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-26
CAFE WORKERS STRIKE

Twenty-Five workers of the Deans
Restaurant Corporation, SIT Fulton
Street, Brooklyn, responded yester-
day to the strike call of the Hotel,
Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers
Union, local 1913, section of the Food
Workers Industrial Union. The daily
firing of workers for union activity
by Mr.. Sheel, owner and former
president of the Brooklyn Restau-
rant Owners Association, leaders Of
the union he said. is a conscious
attempt to prevent the workers
from organizing into the union.