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Berlin.-Se han cumplido dos
amos desde que fte creada la
Camara de la Cultura. Con tai
motivo Sc ha celebrado ura So
lemne session cultural en- la .ala
de la Filarm6nica, con asisten-
cia del "Flhrer". Ell ministro
de Propaganda, doctor Goe55els
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
A N ED ITO RIAL

be found in the industry itself" Translated into
PLAIN words and taken together with the brushing
aside of the A F. of L. unions in the auto industry
and the noteworthy absence of any mention of the
recognition of the right to strike-this statement
means one thng-the encouragement by the gov
eminent of the development of fascist company
unions, more governmental control of the unions
and another big stride toward fascism
The Open Letter of the Communist Party to
William Green declared, The arrogant blows de-
hyered against the trade unions by Roosevelt
through extension of the automobile code and his
method OF handling the question, creates very
critical situation If not answered by powerful
movement OF the working class. The whole trade
union movement is in the most serious danger An
unprecedented open shop drive, with the backing
OF the government is fully coming into the
open The government, which with all of its prom
lses, cannot bring about industrial recovery. sue
cessfully brings the recovery of profits and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
F. l. Members Form United Front All Demands

The fragrant assault of President Roosevelt on
the working class continues undated He is carry
ing through the employers open shop drive with
one hammer blow after another against labor
Yesterday, before the Senate Appropriations Com
nittee Roosevets spokesman insisted on pushing
through, unamended, the wage-cutting works bill
calling for minimum average wage of $50 month
on all work relief This would force down the wage
level of all workers
President Roosevelt conceded nothing to the de-
mands of the A. F. of L. executive council. All his
recent acts against the workers stand
In fact, concealed in his general statement to
the A. F. of L. executive council there lies the
threat OF further moves toward fascism. Roosevelt
deplored the absence in many respects of dis
cplined order both as it refers to labor and in
dustry," and favored highly developed organization
OF both employees and employers" bound by arbi-
tration. He called for the full and frank recogni-
ton of the unacceptable community of interests to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
MURRAY Men
Strike on Job
lspeoial 70 the pallr workerl

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 13.-Yes-
terday morning at 8 am. some 500
metal finishers in the MurrIy Body
plant refused to start work until
they were promised a raise in wages.
A leaflet was distributed reading:
mo one starts work at Sam. today.
Well win 81 an hour. Now is the
time. Issued by Department Com
nlittee." These leaflets flooded the
entire department. The stoppage
lasted about Is minutes and was 100
per cent effective. 1t hampered the
work for the entire morning.
The company officials rushed into
the department saying. How do
you know that you won't get the
raise? How do you know that you
don't get 81 an hour? Go back to
work.
Urge More Stoppages
The workers feeling that they won
their point, returned to work. The
department committee of the metal
finishers is issuing a leaflet to all
o Their departments today calling
upon them to follow this example.
Organize stoppages in every de-
partment for your demands. If the
company turns down your demands
then strike and unite with the
maintenance men who are already
Continued on Page q
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UNION SMASHING PAY
SCALE is RETAINED
IN WORK RELIEF PLAN
Unions Called to Make
Huge Protest Against
$50 Pay Scale

Answering Roosevelt's latest at
tack upon the living standards Of
the workers, the A. F. Of L. Com
mittee for Unemployment Insr-
ance in a statement yesterday called
upon workers throughout the coun-
try to arouse q general protest
movement against the $50 a month
security" wage, which brings build
ing trades wages down to SO cents
an hour maximum,
Every local union is called upon
to adopt protest resolutions and tel
egraph them to President Roosevelt,
to the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee and to President Green. All
wires should demand that the pre-
vailing union wage scale should be
incorporated in the administration
work relief program.
The committee points out that
this attack against the building
trades workers will hit the living
standards of all workers, and gen
eral mass meetings should be called
everywhere to arouse the workers
against it.
The $4,000 100000 work relief pro-
gram of the administration specifies
that no one employed on any Of
these projects should receive more
than $50 a month for 100 hours
work-less than 38 cents an hour as
maximum wages. With this an
nouncement the administration Of
Roosevelt eliminated the prevailing
union wage scale clause applying
on every city, county and Federal
job.
The Master Builders Association,
the most powerful group of employ
ers, has already announced a wage
cut in the industry. They are con-
graduating the President for his
insistence on the $50, and they say
THIS VIII bring back the boom in the
building industry.
At present the prevailing union
wage scale in the building industry
is between s120 and sl.65 per hour
The 38 cent rate would reduce the
wages to one-fifth.
Building trades locals everywhere
have adopted protest resolutions
against the elimination of the pre-
vailng union wage scale clause. Be
cause of this pressure, the Execu-
tive Council, "a hours after making
a truce with Roosevelt, was com
PEELED to appear before the Senate
Appropriations Committee to protest
against the lower wage scale.
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open shop THIS POLICY, NOW OPENLY PRO
CLAIMED BY ROOSEVELT, is A LONG STEP
TOWARD ESTABLISHING IN AMERICA A
REGIME ESSENTIALLY SIMILAR TO THOSE OF
MUSSOLINI IN ITALY AND HITLER IN GER
NANY-THAT is, FASCISM"
William Green knows very well that Rcoseve.ts
open shop drive is an attack which increases
greatly the fascist danger. Green himself said
They the auto workers. protest against the i'm
position of code upon them by the government
at the behest of automobile manufacturers without
being given opportunity to be heard and against
their will SUCH ACTION SMACKS OF FASCISM
IN MOST AGGRAVATED FORM" IN Y Her
ald-Trbune, Feb A.
In the face Of further attacks asmacking of
fascism on the part of Roosevelt, since Green made
this statement how does Green propose to fight
against this fascist dangerQ
The Communist Party, in its open letter to
Green posed the question, either Green continues
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Soviet Farm
Gains Cited

MOSCOW. Feb. 13 (By Cable =
Socialism for the collective farmer"
declared Y. A. Yakovlev at tonight s
discussion by the farmer and shock
worker delegates at the historic
Farm Congress, here means the re-
placement of small individual farms,
which only engendered want and ig-
norance, by big social farms!"
Yakovlev. who is head Of the
Agricultural Department of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. led the discussion on What
is socialism for the farmer as Marx
and Lenin understood it, as Stain
teaches him to understand it," the
vigor and experiences with which the
collective farmers present handled
the whole question indicated the
striking development of revolution
airy consciousness in the new social
ist farmer generally.
Socialism, continued Yakovley,
means the equal obligation for all
to work and receive an income ac-
cording to labor and not according
to property, according to capital
Good Life for All
Socialism means the conversion
of technique. which formerly served
the aristocrats only as means Of
Continued on Page q
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men DEMAND
HIGHER PAY,
CLOSED SHOP
Members Take Action
After Continued Stall
ing by Arbitrators

Early last evening organizers Of
Local BIB of the Building Service
Employees International Union de-
clared service in 200 buildings was
paralyzed in a city-wide strike Of
elevator operators and other build
ing service employees.
Unwilling to wait any longer for
the results of arbitration, as urged
by the officials of the Building Ser
vice Employees International Union,
more than 5000 operators took mat
tiers into their own hands and
walked out despite the appeal Of
the officials at Monday nights shop
chairmen's meeting mot to take
things into their own hands"
The buildings included seven sky
scrapers in the Madison Square
area and eightyfive buildings in
Harlem between t35th and 145th
Streets.
The seven skyscrapers are owned
by the K Realty Company, which
the union charged violated the
closed shop agreement signed last
November at the time of the gar
ment center strike
The strikers demands, according
to the union, are for the forty-hour
week, q $35 minimum scale for ele-
water operators, a closed shop and
union recognition, no discrimina-
ton because of race. color or ma
tionality time and q, half for over
time. and the elimination of the
stCetcn-out system.
The special membership meeting
of the union last night was ex-
pected to bring about the spreading
Of the strike. The confidence of
the workers in compulsory arbitra-
ton as a solution to their demands
has long since Worn thin.
Numerous workers stated yester-
day afternoon that they would raise
the question of setting up q broad
strike committee at the meeting and
would propose that no final settle
n1ent be made without the approval
of the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
BY Seymour Waldman
fDaiIy Worker Washington Bureaul

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 13.-
Negro and white Spokesman repre-
senting organizations of veterans,
coal miners, auto workers. railway
men. and general trade union and
unemployment groups appeared TO-
day before the House labor sub
committee to add their emphatic
request for the passage of the
Workers Unemployment, Old Age
and Social Insurance Bill, H. r.
1927, to the millions of workers,
farmers and professionals who have
already registered their support for
the bill.
Two representatives of the Mary
land Unemployed League, a Social
ist Party directed organization
added their endorsement of H. R.
1927 today to other Socialist Party
members who have appeared be-
fore the subcommittee. However,
despite the considerable support
which exists for H. r. 1927 among
Socialist Party members and groups,
Norman Thomas and Clarence
Senior, members of the National
Executive Committee Of the Social
ist Party, have refused even to an
swer a letter of invitation to ap-
Continued on Page q
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have already taken steps in the
direction of one union in the in
dustry. This was already car
RED through in the mining, steel,
textile, auto and numerous other
industries. Our organizations are
now in the process of carrying
through unifcation in the marine
industry, in the dress industry
and others. All of the unions
are taking steps in this direction,
among them the furniture work
ers union, the food workers
union, the metal workers union.
Not in all cases can unity be
achieved in the same manner and
with the same results. But in
all cases the T. U. U. L. unions
are taking the initiative to
achieve such unity despite the
obstacles placed in their path by
the A. F. l.. bureaucracy.
AS a result of the activity for
uniflcation carried on by the T.
U. U, L. unions, many of the in
dependent unions are also taking
steps in the direction of unifica-
ton and towards one union in
their industry.
The present attack of the CAPT.
talists, the drive for the open
shop" and for company unions
which has the support of the
Roosevelt administration, as SYM
bolized in the recent development
in the auto industry, make the
Continued on Page q
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MObiIizes
Doctors
Italian Government Be
gins Fake Negotiations
With Abyssinia
DUCE MASSES ARMY
England andFranceUrge
Negro Country to
Accept Terms

ROME. Feb. 13.-Not relaxing for
a moment its gigantic war mobil1za =
ton against Abyssinia also called
Ethiopia), the italian Fascist gov
eminent today declared that nego-
tiations we're proceeding for sat
isfsctory settlement of the imme-
diste issues of conflict.
In reality, however, MussOlinl is
dragging on negotiations with the
Abyssinian charge d'affaires, Ne
gradus Yesus Afework, in order to
give the Italian army, navy and air
fleet more time to mass their forces
around Abyssinia so that the Fas-
cist government can demand
greater concessions, and be in posi-
ton for a major assault.
1t is clear from the Italian Fas-
cist press that any temporary
agreement" would only be step
to Mussolinis ultimate object of
complete domination of Abyssinia,
Huge War Budget
To achieve this end, the Fascist
government is providing war
budget Of SS5O,00O.OOO for a two
year murderous drive in Abys-
sinia. The 100000 men called to
Continued on Page q
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his traditional policy of cooperation with the
ployers and their government either he continues
to support the employer controlled N r. A and its
boards he enters 2 united front Of all labor to
defeat Roosevets wage cut drive. to build the A.
F Of L unions and prepare strikes against the anti
labor drive.
Green, since his visit to Roosevelt has given
no indication of backing up his words cr1ticizng
the Roosevelt program with deeds. Instead, he has
followed line which leads to surrender of all
labors demands to the employers.
Since the visit with Roosevelt, Green has &C
cepted in good faith the statement of Roosevelt that
he will cooperate" But this cooperation" with
Roosevelt is on the employers own terms, without
single concrete demand of labor having been met
and with the whole open shop program of the en-
ployers' going through
The editorial in the New York Times of yester-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Unity Farley
Is Held for Is
Special to the Daily worker

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf. Feb
10. Ninety organizations from
twenty California cities, including
eighteen American Federation of
Labor unions, we're represented at
an enthusiastic united front con-
ference in this city for defense of
the eighteen Sacramento criminal
syndicalist law victims and for re-
peal of the criminal syndicalism
law.
Of the eighteen American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor unions, fourteen
had regular delegates, while four
sent observers. There were dele
gates from four independent
unions, the Utopian Society, six
Democratic clubs, Epic groups.
World War veterans, the California
conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Churches, unemployed
organizations, student and language
groups, the Communist Party and
the Young Communist League.
The Mooney Moulders Defense
Committee was officially repre-
sented by Anna Mooney, sister of
Tom Mooney. Mooney himself
sent greetings to the conference
and five dollar donation for the
defense of the eighteen Sacra-
nento defendants.
Some 500 workers damned the
hall in stirring demonstration of
solidarity with the Sacramento de-
PENDANTS and the campaign for the
repeal of the criminal syndicalism
law Seven of the defendants at
tended the conference and were Of
ficia1ly seated.
A resolution was adopted on
program and policy. The resolution
calls for broadening of the defense
and repeal campaign,
The conference unanimously
adopted a resolution favoring
twenty-four hour statewide gem
eral strike against the Sacramento
prosecution, for repeal of the cri-
nlinal syndicalisn1 law and for the
immediate liberation of Tom
Mooney
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Roosevelt Machine Goes
Rough Shod Over
All Opposition

WASHINGTON, D. G.. Feb. "a
The Roosevelt machine today
carried through another step In It's
on-smashing drive by passing
the works bill through the Senate
Appropriations Committee without
any amendment on the prevailing
wage clause or any provision that
would guarantee union wages on
government work relief projects.
Under an amendment to the bill
which was offered by Senator Rus
sell, Of Georgia, wages paid by the
government on the forthcoming
projects, if they "endsnger prevail
ing rates" on similar construction,
may be changed. This amounts to
complete denial Of union rates. since
even the prevailing wage" is not
the esta bltshed union rate Monthly
wages under the Russell amend
ment will remain at an average Of
$50 q month. The amendment
further gives Roosevelt more power
than heretofore granted under the
works bill to tx the rate Of pay in
all sections under the works pro-
iects. The low pay thus provided
or work relief endsngers the whole
wage level of all workers
In the face Of rising resentment
from all quarters, the administra-
ton senators moved to report the
bill out of committee Immediately
for enactment with the wage cutting
provisions intact. Chairman Gar
ter Glass of the committee said that
he had been authorized to report
the bill at once.
The Senate committee. which is
in all probability will report the bill
to the floor of the Senate tomorrow,
voted:
Approval Of substitute
amendment giving Roosevelt auth
ority to fix work relief wages with
out in any way being bound to pay
even prevailing wages" not even
considering union hourly rates.
2-Reiection of an amendment to
cut the appropriation in half and
required a direct Keller rather than
a work relief program.
illumination Of provision
which would have required contracts
m all rroiertS IN vr,f7icJ, in r,a7. ce-7t
or more of skilled labor was used.
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TIMES is like a great court Of
feudal king.
For example, Hearst has rooms in
his palace with imported walls and
ceilings costing thousands upon
thousands of dollars. In one of
these rooms there is a ceiling i'm
ported from Italy dating back to
the Sixteenth Century. This ceiling
is of natural pine, waxed but I'M
painted. The ceiling contains fifteen
full Golfers carved with figure eff
gies in high relief For this one
room alone, Hearst paid at least
one hundred thousand dollars.
Through this Roman tinged pal
ace, servants move around quietly
by the score. Every minute Of the
day, they pass in anxiety and the
fear that they may displease their
surly and tyrannical master. For
Continued on Pare q
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Special National COnoentiOn
VIII Be Held by Z. U. U. L.
In NeW York March 1917

The Trade Union Unity League
has called special national con-
vention to be held on March Is
and II in New York City. to take
up the next steps of the T, u. u. l..
in the fight against
the intensified drive of the en-
ployers and their government
against labor.
The call of the T. U. U. L. Ma
tional Executive Board, signed by
William 2. Foster, national secre-
tary, states the basis of represen-
tation to the convention, and takes
up the fight for trade union unity.
The T. U. U. L. call for the con-
vention follows in full.
Feb. II, 1885.
To all Affiliated Organizations of
the T. U. U. L.,
To all members of the Trade
Union Unity League,
Brothers and Sisters:
The National Executive Board
h as decided to convene
SPECIAL CONVENTION of the
Trade Union Unity League for
March Is and II, 1885, in New
York City.
The purpose of this SPECIAL
CONVENTION is to take I'D the
next steps of the T. U. U. L. or
carnations in the fight against
the increasing capitalist attacks
and the fight for the unifcation
of the trade union movement.
In the past year many of the
unions affiliated to the T. U. U. l..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
AFL COUNCIL
CALLS TIGHE
TO CAPITAL
Steel Union Head Will
Confer on Expulsion
of Militants
By Marguerite Young
tDaily Worker Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, D. G., Feb. 49,
A b-con1n1ittee of the Executive
Council Of the American Federation
of Labor held a heated secret session
today on the problem they face be-
cause President Mike Tighe is at
tempting to expel the majority of
the membership of the steel union
at time when rank and file pres
sure has compelled the council to
take up the carrying out Of long
promised drive to organize the steel
workers,
It was the rank and file drive to
organize, undertaken months ago,
that led to Tighes effort to pitch
out it's leaders and ali lodges sup
porting them.
Going into the subcommittee
session, Tighe and vice-president
Lewis of the Analgamated Associs-
ton of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
answered reporters questions about
the rank and files charges against
Tighe with two lodges.
I'VE suffer in silence" was Tighe's
main reply.
Secretary Leonard again hosting
the tattered banner of the red
DOGGY, declared: Communists con-
troll the so-called rank and file
crowd. We've got their secret or
ders with us. You know, there's
traitors even among traitors,
How else do you think we got their
orders from the Communists
Evades Direct Questions
When Leonard was asked, How
do you expect to get anywhere with
that red-scare, when you must
know that you've been bowling reds
at your rank and file for months,
and the only result has been that
the steel workers rallied in ever
greater numbers to support their
rank and file leaders," Leonard did
not answer.
The Subcommittee, to whom the
Continued on Page q
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HEARST WANTS RULE BY THE
FEW-WITH UNEMPLOYMENT,
DESTTTUTION, DEATH BY STAR
WALTON FOR MILLIONS OF
TOILERS.
Down in sunny California, Hearst
lives on his San Simeon estate
which covers four hundred square
miles. On this estate there are
mountains and valleys and enchant-
ing forests. The Hearst property
runs for fifty miles along the beau
tiful coast Of the Pacific Ocean.
Like Kings Manor
In this little kingdom. also. are
many museums, a geological garden,
q botanical garden, rare japanese
garden, recreation park and fields
for sports and games There are
dozens of buildings on the Hearst
estate. But the main structure in
which Hearst eats and sleeps SOME
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Governor Asks Troops
Against Relief Strikers

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Feb. l3.-
Governor j. M Futrell today issued
a statement saying that there was
urgent need" for National Guard
troops in Sebastian county, where
several hundred relief workers are
on strike against wage cut which
ranges from twenty to thirty per
cent.
Meanwhile, Fort Smith police
started a drive against the organi-
cations of the relief workers. and
arrested Horace Bryan, a young coal
miner of Mansfield, who has been
active in relief struggles. About
1900 county relief workers struck
last week when the wage scale was
reduced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
AFL MEN BACK
LABOR PARTY

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 49, - The
growing movement for a working
class Labor Party with a clear-cut
program of opposition to all CAPT
talist parties received strong i'm
petus yesterday as the seni-annual
State Conference of the American
Federation of Labor Brotherhood Of
Painters, Decorators and Paper
hangers unanimously endorsed a
resolution supporting such move
ment.
With delegates present from all
parts of the State, the convention,
on q motion by Local 81 of Detroit,
declared that it would support "only
such candidates to be put, forward
who will carry on serious fight
against the attacks of the capitalists
as we'll as their agents in the labor
movement"
The proposal for working class
party, which the resolution called
a United Workers Ticket" was en-
bodied in a platform of eight points
adopted by the convention.
Urge United Ticket"
This resolution urged that such
a United Workers Ticket be organ
lied and supported by trade unions,
unemployed organizations, fraternal
workers orders and all working
class organizations, working in gen.
eral for the proposed program.
The resolution sharply condemned
the so-called non-partisan" policy
of the American Federation of La
Dor leadership, which, in practice,
leads to subordinating the workers
to the old capitalist parties.
In addition two other important
(Cout5uued IN PINE ~