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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Food Workers
Enlargement
With SiIver's


The Silver chain, one of the
largest cafeteria systems in Greater
New York, offered substantial con-
cessions at a conference held with
union representatives Wednesday
night, which will be placed for ap-
prevail before the workers in its II
establishments. This is the second
agreement of an important chain
to be signed jointly by the Cafeteria
Workers Union, affiliated with the
Food Workers Industrial Union,
and Local 302 of the Delicatessen,
Countermen and Cooks Union of
the A. F. of L.
In response to the invitation of
the Cafeteria Workers Union, Local
302, agreed to form a joint organi-
cation committee, which was COM
posed of three rank and file mem
bers and one officer of each union.
The first achievement was the cam
paign among the 500 Silver Com
pany workers.
Foltis-Fisher, Willow and Stew
arts are next in line in the organi-
cation drive.
The Silver Company agrees to
recognize the two unions and its
stores will be divided, a certain
number to be under the jurisdiction
of each union. All workers are to
join the unions within two days.
Ninety days after the agreement
goes into effect a conference of the
company's and union representatives
will make further adjustment on
the basis of the present agreement.
The agreement will go into effect
after the membership of both unions
approves it.
The following are the provisions
agreed upon now: wage increases
ranging from 50 week to seven
per cent for those earning more
than SIS.
Both unions and a shop commit
tee at each establishment are recog-
nized. There is to be a 48-hour
week for women and 54-hours for
men. All split shifts are to be
eliminated; no reduction or restrie-
ton of food for the workers: no
charge for laundry or washing of
uniforms at home.
No discrimination in hiring
against Negro workers. These are
to receive the same wages for the
same work done by white workers.
All hiring through the union, and
no worker is to be discharged with
out just cause.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Leninism Discussions
Will Be Held Tomorrow

Four round-table discussions on
Leninism and the American Com
munist Party have been arranged
by Section One Of the Party in prep
aration for the Lenin Memorial
meeting.
The discussions will take place
1870 o'clock, Sunday afternoon at
the, following clubs: Italian Workers
Club. 81 East Twelfth Street.
George Siskind will speak; italian
Workers Club, 1T McDougal Street,
Margaret Cowl will speak; Cli-
Grand Youth Club, $50 Grand
Street, George Lewis will speak;
and the Zukunft Workers Club, 81
Second Avenue where Art Stein will
speak.
All members of Communist units
who live in the vicinity of these
clubs have been urged to attend the
discussions and to use the invita-
tons that have been issued to bring
five sympathizers with them. Dis
cussions from the floor will follow
the speakers and every one will have
the right to take the floor. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Fish Workers UnionWiIl
Install I0 New Officers

The Installation Of the new off,
GERS of the Fish Workers Industrial
Union will take place tomorrow af-
ternoon at 100 o'clock at irving
Plaza Hall, 18th Street and Irving
Place.
Refreshments will be served after
the speakers and the installation of
officers in the following offices: or
ganizers, Woolis and Hugg; execu-
tive board members, Yoshkowitz.
Koblin, Borden, Zukerman, Wander.
Stibelman, zelikowitz, Nearenberg,
Berman, Bloom and Isner; griev-
ance board, Singer, Isner, Allen,
Soloman, Goldman, Nearenberg.
All members of the union have
been urged to come and bring their
families
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Private StrikebreaEng Army Drills in Minnesota Toevn
F FARMERS EMERGENCY
RELIEF BILL Oh. r. BAIL

The Farmers Emergency Relief Bill H. r.
347l, as introduced into the House of Representa-
tives Wednesday Jan. 9, by Representative Usher
Burdiek Of North Dakota, and referred to the
House Committee on Agriculture, reads as follows;
74TH CONGRESS, 1sT SESSION H. R. No 3471
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
January 9, 1885
Mr. Burdick introduced the following Bill by
request which was referred to the Committee
Agriculture.
No IA BILL
To meet the emergency caused by the crisis,
greatly intensified by the drought to prevent fur
ther ruin and dispossesson of tenants, sharecrop-
perS, and operator-owners on account of debts,
enormous tax and rent payments and because of
low prices for the commodities they sell and high
prices for what they buy as result of the growth
of monopoIes; designated as the Farmers Emer-
gency Relief Bill.
BE 1T ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS
ASSEMBLED
That because the operation of the Agricultural
Adjustment Act has resulted in intensifying the
already existing critical conditions of the farmers by
(a) eviction Of tens of thousands of tenants,
sharecroppers and operating owners of farms from
their farms and homes through the reduction of
acreage programs,
Co) imposing the burden of the cost of benefit
payments upon the farmers and workers through
the processing tax,
(c) the waste of fertile farm lands and the re-
turn to laborious primitive and subsistence methods
Of production, while millions of unemployed work.
ers are in serious want,
I'D further strengthening and fostering monop-
oes among the distributors and professors of agr-
cultural products through the marketing agree
ments and licenses,
the Agricultural Adjustment Act as amended.
is hereby revoked and repealed,
Section 2. The term farmer as used in this
Act means any individual who is engaged in tilling
the soil or raising livestock, whether tenant,
sharecropper or owner, who operates his farm
primarily by his own labor None of the benefits
or rights Of exemptions from taxation granted by
this Act shall apply to any landlord or absentee
owner or corporation or to any farmer who owns
more than one farm, or who operates primarily
with hired labor, to any manager or foreman
of a farm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

have been Summarily removed from
the relief rolls because the relief
officials had been supplied with in
formation to the effect that these
relief clients were carrying small
insurance policies. Especially are
these two questions significant when
we look at Question s which a,,ks,
Are you receiving relief from the
City Of New York;
That the information secured on
these queStionnaireS could not only
be used for the purpose of aiding
the present relief cutting policy of
the administrations, Federal and 10
cal, but can also be used to fur
nish the supporters of Hamilton
Fish's compromise bonus meas
-llres which calls for extended pay
ments by installment of the balance
due on the bonus certificates will
be understood when we read Cues
ton 5 which is In the event the
balance is paid, what will you use
the money for?'
Warns of Danger
The workers Ex-Servicemen's
Leagues policy iS-an unemployed
worker has right to relief even
though he may be carrying small
amounts of insurance or paying a
portion of the interest on the loan
Of his adjusted compensation GER
tificate to keep from losing the en-
tire balance due.
we further demand the imme-
date payment in full of the balance
due to the adjusted Compensation
certificates plus all accrued inter-
est charges on the former borrowed
amounts without deductions for any
further interest charges. We are
also opposed to any compromise that
has been or may be suggested. We
contend that this money due is not
bonus at all, but back wages
earned in 1917 and 1918 which
should have been paid Immediately
after the close OF the war. We will
resist any attempt to force the un-
employed to use these funds in
limited amounts on any deferred OF
partial payment scheme. Rank and
file veterans are urged to refuse to
fill out these missionaries and to
organize groups Of rank and file
veterans in their posts to force a
stoppage Of this vicious question
naire' campaign"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

MOSCOW, Jan. II. (By Wireless)
The vast change in the machinery
OF food distribution, initiated on the
first OF the year with the abolition
OF the bread-card system. has now,
on the tenth day of the change,
been accomplished with the greatest
smoothnesS. People pass in and out
of the clean and well-stocked bread
stores in rapid succession. Nowhere
does the inconvenient waiting on
line exist any longer.
The quality Of the bread sold has
noticeably improved and there is
big choice of various sorts of black
and white bread, fancy bread, rolls,
etc, served delightfully."- fresh sew
eral times daily. Yet the quantity
OF flour and bread bought daily has
not increased since the abolition of
the breadcards. This Is sign that
one great advantage OF the new
system is the regularity of the
bread supply, rather than only the
demand for more bread, Hence
there is not the slightest tendency
to hoard provisions.
On the basis of experiences during
the first days and by a study of the
needs of the population, it is OBJ
vious that there are still shortcom-
ings existing in some places. But
these are rapidly being eliminated
by adding to the selection of bread
and bettering the transport service
between the bread factories and the
shops. The practice of daily delivery
of bread to the houses of workers
is constantly gaining ground.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

Continued from Page 4
Mine Workers - must see that a
good delegation attends the Joint
convention.
In some of the locals. 1t is pos
sible, that the officers will not read
the call. They may say that they
did not receive it. Some of them
will be instructed by the leaders of
the U. M. w. of A. to ignore the
call. In these cases the members of
the locals must see that a call is
given to the secretary and that he
be forced to read it. II he does not
a secretary can be elected that will
do so.
Attack Of Bosses
Already the rank and file miners
can talk of this. Tell the other min
ers about it. Hold meetings in re-
gard to the conference. See that
the members of the locals attend
the local meeting. See that they
are actively supporting such move.
The miners in the districts around
Pittsburgh can easily send delegates.
In the districts far from Pittsburgh
the miners must make sure that
at least few of the miners attend
and bring the report back to the
locals of that district. Conferences
can be held for this purpose.
The miners should remember that
the 7-hour day and the increase
in pay was given to the miners to
keep them from striking at the
same time the steel works., railroad
and auto workers were talking
strike.
G. B. Huntress one of the big
leaders of the coal operators in the
October, 1884, issue of the Coal Age
writes that the coal bosses are con-
WINGED that the 7-hour day is i'm
practicable and that we will have to
go back to the 8-hour day. New
attacks on our conditions are com
ing.
We have the chance to give the
answer. Let the coal miners get to-
gether with the steel and other
workers. Organizer for the joint con-
ference. In unity there is strength.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

part of a campaign to confuse the
issues facing the silk workers of the
Plain Goods Department of tbs
American Federation of Silk Work
ers in their election tomorrow an6
stave off defeat of the Lovestonei5e
Eli Keller, and his group now In
leadership
Informed of the slanderous article
in the New Leader, Vigorito prompt
ly issued the following statement
Il know that fascism has led to
the smashing Of the trade unions
and that the conditions of the
working people have become much
worse in those countries where it
was permitted to obtain power.
AS a trade union member. and one
who, as everyone here knows, has
taken an active part in the fight
for decent working conditions for
the dyers, / could have nothing
to do with such a movement.
Charge FalsehOod
II know that this is the reason
that the members of Local 1888
have given me such big majority
in the vote for president. The
charge that / was refused per-
mission to speak at the Anti
Fascist mass meeting held on
Jan. 1 with G. E. Modigliani as
speaker, is another falsehood.
Brother Yanaralli spoke for our
local. Had 1 been invited. would
have been only too glad to Join
my voice with othds against fas-
eism.
Il, along with most members
OF cur local, voted to support the
mass meeting. The information
in the story that 1 am a member
Of the Italian Republican Club
and of the Circolo Nazionale, and
for that reason notorious fas-
eist is just plain lie.
Thousands of Italian workers be-
long to these and similar clubs,
which offer social activities-bowl-
ing alleys. pool tables and other
forms of recreation. These work
ers are not any more fascist than
L am. Many of the members of
the union are in these clubs.
For instance. our organizer, J.
Yanaralii, who, as everyone knows,
IS an enemy of fascism, is a mem
Der of the Circolo NazionaIe. I
don't believe that any worker will
sincerely pay attention to these
ISLANDERS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Strike Leader
To Face Trial
In Lancaster
Communist, Former SIP
Leader, Is Victim
of Frame-Up

LANCASTER, Pa, Jan. 11.-Ths
case of j. Granville Eddy, arrested
in connection with the general tex-
tile strike, will come to trial here in
Lancaster, Tuesday, Jan. Is.
Eddy is a former local leader Of
the Socialist Party and recently
Joined the Communist Party. He
has become the most popular mass
speaker in the area. His courageous
exposures of the local politicians
and their mill-owner allies have at
tracted wide attention. They fear
his hold on the masses. So, they
are trying to railroad him to jail
The local authorities accuse him
Of "obstructing justice" when on the
picket line, for protesting against
the arrest Of worker for selling the
Daily Worker
The International Labor Defense
is rallying mass .upport A mass
meeting is scheduled in Red Mems
Hall, Monday, Jan. Ia, at 8 pm.
The main speaker will be Bill
O'Donnell of Vineland, N. j., who
was recently released by mass pres
sure from prison where he had been
confined for work in connection with
the Seabrook farm strike.
I'VE have just begun to fight"
said Frank Scott, local organizer Of
the International Labor Defense.
THE issue is the workers right to
organize, to strike and to picket for
better wages. Mayor Ross and his
politicians are the real criminals. 1t
is they who conspired with the mill
owners to smash the. strike and
thereby lower wages, The proof is
that right after the strike they at
tempted to lower wages 25 per cent
in the American Silk Mill We call
on the workers to come to the mass
meeting in Red Mems Hall, Monday
night and to jam the court room
Tuesday"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Threats Made Moscow Halls
10 Cuardsmen NewBread Sale
For Exposure System inUSSR

CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 11.-A fascist
threat ito tear your place apart"
has been received by The Asmory
News, worker-guardsman bulletin
published by groups of guardsmen
of the 3Sd Division of the Illinois
National Guard. The Office of the
Armory News is at 2Ols West Divi-
sion Street this city.
The threat is contained in let
ter from an anonymous sergeant
henchman of Captain Braves, COM
mander of Company D, 1920 In
fantry, and is in response to an ex-
posture by rank and file members of
the company of graft in the han
ding of company fund to which
the men are forced to contribute
and in overcharges for locks for
their lockers and other expenses
levied on them for special equip
ment. The men also reported that
65 men in the company were forced
to pay mysterious levy of 81 be-
fore receivin- their pay-checks.
The Armory News, in publishing
the threatening letter of Captain
Braves henchman, repeats the
charges made by rank and file
members OF. his company. Com
menting on the sergeant's claim
that before his captains business
got so bad, the captain would fur
nish funds for the mems special
equipment out of his own pocket
the worker-gu ardsmen publishers OF
the Armory News state:
"You write that your command
ing officer bought shoe brushes
polish, coffee and rolls for the en-
tire company two wears ago. We dc
not wish to have the captain spend
his money so freely. If you had
read our paper, you will see that
our demands are for the govern
ment supplying these items. But
we would ask you to think twice
before you make the following
statement: I want to mention that
when my commanding officers
business was good there was no such
thing as company fund. In view OF
the fact there has been no financial
accounting, this statement can be
interpreted in two ways.
IF you are sincere in eliminating
graft in your company, we would
propose:
sd Have financial accounting to
the men.
sd Elect committees represent.
ing the men to audit all finances.
"(3) Demand the government
supply you with special equipment.
Unemployed rank and file mem.
bers of the National Guard are de.
handing jobs at union wages; five
dollars weekly cash relief for un.
employed men; no deduction of drill
pay from relief budget; enactment
of the Workers Unemployment anc
Social Insurance Bill; and agains
strikebreaking duty"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

lgious groups, joined with the Com
munist Party in the common strug-
gle against the common enemy.
The anti-fascist mass movement
has been working like a ferment in
the ranks of the Christian popula-
ton of the Saar. Large numbers of
Catholic opponents Of Hitler, of the
more progressive elements among
the middle classes and peasants have
joined in the fight of the United
Front under the slogan: For free
Germany and against Hitler!"
Defend Union Against Nazis
In defending the premises of the
Chpistian Metal Workers Union,
which were raided by the Nazi
troops on the orders of Ley, the
anti-fascist metal workers estab-
lished the fighting alliance with the
Christian union m ct al workers
against the Nazi trade union de-
stroyers.
The definition of the status quo by
the League of Nations Council in
Geneva, which made it plain that
the people of the Saar will have the
possibility of voting at some future
time for union with a free Ger
many, has for many Catholic fam
lilies finally settled the vexed ques-
ton whether a vote for the status
quo would not mean perpetual sep
aration from Germany.
Thus the peoples front on the
Saar will fight the great anti
fascist battle tomorrow under the
cry of: "Never to Hitler, for the
sake of the German people!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

WOTk6TS EX-SerVlCcmeOS League
statement declared, can only be for
the purpose of denying relief, cut
ting relief to those now on the rolls
or to regiment the use of the bonus
if paid, to substitute for relief pay
ments.
The WE.SL. statement declares
that this new scheme presents a
very serious danger to the rank and
file unemployed ex-Seryicemen.
This can be seen clearly when II
is remembered that the National
Department of the Legion has or
dered set UP in every State Depart
ment and County Council an Amer
icanism Committee" whose sole
purpose it is to spy upon every ac-
tive trade unionist, militant unem-
played or other articulate, strug-
Cling member of the exploited
masses.
Planned to Cut Relief
These queetionnaires" the state
ment declared ARE supposed to be
for securing information to refute
the statement Of President Roose-
welt relative to the use to which the
veterans put the first half of the
money received from their adjusted
compensation certificates. But, in
going over the seven questions
printed on the QUESTIONABLE, they
seem to be entirely in line with the
questions being answered to the
officials of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration, with a view
to cutting off the relief rolls certain
categories of the unemployed.
For instance, question 4, If you
borrowed ION the certificates are
you paying the interest Obviously
If any unemployed ex-serviceman or
the relief rolls was attempting to
meet the interest payments on his
certificate in order that it might
not be entirely liquidated by the
annual compromising OF this interest
and information to this effect were
to be placed in the hands of the re-
lief administrators, this unemployed
veteran would be Immediately and
arbitrarily removed from the rolls.
Question is also in direct line
with Question 4. 1t is DO you carry
any insurance on your life?' 1t is
common knowledge that in the past
few days, hundreds of unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Packing Boss
Sets Up Home
For Sluggers
Owner of Austin Plant
Attempts to Break Up
Militant Union

AUSTIN. MINI, Jan. lin this
small southern Minnesota town the
HORNED Packing Company is des-
perately preparing its fight against
the workers in the plant. Drilling
constantly, 55 men, deputized by the
local sheriff and it is rumored)
trained by an officer from West
Point, form the private army Of
]. HORNED. A special home has
been set up where they live and
drill.
Although the straight time wage
in the plant is less than $40 per
week, these ex-wrestlers, thugs, etc,
a few of them local boys" draw
sS5 a week.
Horned tries to cover up the real
purpose of this army" by talk OF
personal protection. In reality it is
TO protect the huge profits made
from the exploitation of the work
ers in the plant that this army is
maintained.
Struck a Year Ago
November, 1898, workers in the
plant struck militantly, even seiz-
ing control of the plant for while,
and forced recognition Of their
union, the Independent Union OF
All workers, Austin Local No. l..
Time and again the company has
been forced to back down step by
step in the face of the militant de-
termination of the workers to safe
guard their union and their work
ing rights. BY stopping department
after department the company was
forced to replace non-union men
with union labor An actual closed
shop is in effect because the union
has made it clear that seniority
rights apply only to union mem
bers. Numerous grievances have
been settled satisfactorily through
the union committees.
Wants to Smash Union
HORNED, in the face of defeats ad-
ministered by the workers and their
union, is still planning to smash
the union. For this purpose he is
training an army.
He failed to form a company
union, so now he wants to wipe the
union out entirely.
He wants to take back the con-
cessions granted to the workers by
the use of force. The role OF this
army is clear to, us. 1t is strike
breaking army.
In order that the union will be
safeguarded it is necessary that all
the workers understand the role
that HORNED is playing. His plans
can only be met by further deter
mined action on the part of all the
workers. The slogan must be raised
throughout the plant ID o w N
WITH HORMEL'S P RIVAT E
ARMY KEEP ALL DEPUTIzED
THUGS OUT OF THE PLANTl