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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
.AIabamaA.F.L.
Fights Against
Bill
State UTW Council Also
Raps Anti-COmmu-
mist Measure
tsp.elal 70 q. nallr Rorterl

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. "a
Opposition to the Street Com
munist Bill passed by the Lower
House Of the Alabama Legislature
reached a new high point this week,
with the State Federation of Labor
going on record against the vicious
anti-labor bill and calling for a
flood of protests to Governor Graves
Of Alabama and the State Senate.
United Mine Workers of Amer
lea officials have wired official
protests, while 100 delegates to the
State United Textile Workers Union
Council, representing forty locals,
unanimously adopted q resolution
condemning the bill.
The Birmingham Council of Wo-
men Lawyers has condemned the
bill as unconstitutional while the
Birmingham Pastors Union, the
Cosmopolitan Club and the Presby-
terrain Conference all elected COM
mitteeS instructed to draw up pro-
test resolutions on the bill.
Meanwhile the Communist Party
and the International Labor De-
Tense are driving ahead to mobi-
lie statewide protest against pos
sible passage of the bill in the
Senate and its enactment into law
The T L. D. is appealing to all
organizations throughout the coun-
try to send protests to Governor
Graves, Montgomery, Ala.
The bill sponsored by Alabama in
dustrialists and landlords and their
fascist groups is aimed to crush the
struggles Of Alabama Negro and
white workers and troopers. II
prohibits publications, utterances
and organizations advocating out
breaks against any branch Of gov
eminent, such as demonstrations
Of the unemployed at relief bureaus
etc,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

BERLIN, Feb. 12.-The economic
situation in Hitler's Germany can
no longer be cloaked by the hol-
low optimism Of the best Nazi prop
agandists, as report given by the
Chamber of Industry and Com
merce here indicates.
The report for the lower Rhine
acknowledges the decline in indus
try, but attempts to attribute it to
the unfavorable season. The Ham
burg report observes in discreet but
none of the less eloquent language
that the conditions of the import
trade must be brought into better
coordination with the measures
which have become indispensable
chose of fascism).
The Bremen report is still more
pessimistic It stresses the Difficult
ties of food supply and the hard
ships of the peasants It points out
that the creation Of labor, with
out a corresponding revival in for
eign trade, is impossible. The
transport trade is heading for COM
plete destruction"
The difficulties of the textile
situation are beyond solution, owing
to the lack Of raw materials, the
Baden report admits
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Textile Workers Demand
Strike Call Against MIRA

The speed up was terrtfically in
creased, (See my article of yester-
day. Real wages went down eigh-
teen per cent in the North and
twenty-five per cent in the South,
2-Roosevelt and the N. R. A.
instituted a series Of "curtailments"
which drastically reduced the al
ready starvation wages. Thus in
May, 1884, a twenty-five per cent
"curtailment' cutting down the
working hours was ordered by
Roosevelt. This reduced wages of
the workers one fourth. This curtail-
ment was still in effect in August,
1884 A series of similar curtail-
ments were put into effect in other
branches of the industry.
N. r. A. Acted AS Bosses Agent
3-The N. r. A. and Roosevelt's
numerous boards acted as agents of
the employers. and as strike-break-
ing boards They denied the textile
workers all their demands, and in
stead, new boards were set up which
made studies" while conditions
grew worse.
On June 2, 1884, the date for
which a cotton textile strike had
been set, the national officials of
the United Textile Workers called
off the strike, and signed an agree
ment with johnson and the N. r..
A. for an investigation" by N. R. A.
This investigation was completed
after many weeks, by the N. r. A..
Research division, and their CON
clusions' were that Under existing
conditions there is no factual or
statical basis for any general in
crease in Cotton Textile Code wage
rates."
Wooden Strike Prevented
On hours the N. r. A. concluded,
when normal annual consumption
of cotton in the United States is OBJ
tanned it will require ninety hours
per week of productive machine
operation, or ten hours more than
the eighty-hOur maximum, in two
forty hour shifts, permitted under
the Cotton Code"
In the same manner g strike OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
g More Seized
.OnU.S. Charge
In Oklahoma
Face Up to 20 Years for
Protesting Against
Frame-Up

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. FEB.
12.-Nine men and two women, one
with a baby in her arms, we're
seized here last Thursday and
charged with "obstructing justice"
when they sent letters Of protest to
the Federal court demanding the
release of the Is persons who were
arrested last May in a demOnstra~
ton OF unemployed.
simultaneously with the arrests,
bill that would outlaw the Com
munist Party was introduced into
the State Senate
Shortly before dawn. Federal
agents and city detectives began
their raids. Marshall Lakey, a
member of the American League
Against War and Fascism, and
former instructor in Oklahoma City
University, was routed out of bed
and carted to jail. Ten others we're
likewise arrested.
Their protests to the Federal
court we're the outcome Of a DEM
onstration for food last May 81,
when several hundred hungry men
and women marched to me F. E.
R. A. food commissary here after
their relief had been stopped.
Eighteen workers were arrested.
I'VE mean business in these
cases" Prosecutor Lewis Of the pros
ecution said. The arrested face up
to 20 years in prison under Sections
88 and 241, title 10 Of the United
States Criminal Laws. One Of the
letters which was sent to Federal
Judge Edgar S. Vaught, said:
L demand the immediate and
unconditional release of the follow
ing persons, who because Of their
participation in the food demon
stration of May 81, 1884, in Okla =
homs City. are at present held in
prison: George Wilson. r. A Sey-
mour, George Taylor and George
Hopkins.
For this protest against a vicious
frsme-up, the writer faces long
years in prison. Mr.. Lewis admitted
that up to the time of the arrests
last week, 1900 such letters had
been received. The law on which
they are held was passed in 1861.
AS to the charges against the
original 10 arrested, Lewis said that
about all they did was argue with
a stenographer at relief headquar-
tiers. Then they marched down to
the commissary on California Ave.
They were dispersed by firemen and
policemen"
Yet for this, a Federal law has
been invoked, which, unless it is
fought by the organized workers
everywhere, might be used in an
attempt to smash the organizations
Of the jobless everywhere
The charges must be smashed by
an organized protest from the en-
tire country. Letters demanding the
immediate and unconditional re-
lease of all the workers arrested in
the case should be forwarded at
once to Federal Judge Edgar 5.
Vaught. Federal Circuit Court; W,
c. Lewis, United States District At
torney, and to Governor Marland,
all at Oklahoma City, Okla.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Workers Bill
Farley Called
InPhiladelpia

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. ITO in
tensify mass pressure for the Work
ers' Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill, the Local Joint Action
Committee has arranged confer
ence Of all delegates to the recent
Unemployment Insurance Congress
in Washington for Sunday, Feb. IT,
at 2:30 pm, at Redmen's Hall, 1923
West Girard Avenue.
The recommendation of the
Executive Committee to organize
congressional district action COM
mittees to bring pressure to bear
on individual congressman will be
discussed.
The conference will discuss the
introduction of bill similar to
H. R. 1927 into the Pennsylvania
legislature.
An indication of the sentiment of
workers, and especially of trade
unions on the bill, is given by a
letter to Chairman Connery of the
House Ways and Means Committee
and Congressman Dunn, chairman
of the SUBJ committee conducting
hearings on the Workers Bill from
the Battery Workers Federal Union
No. 1851, A. F. of L. 1t says in
part:
In order that there may be no
misunderstanding in your own mind
and in those of other members Of
your committee concerning the
position of the Battery Workers
Federal Union No. 1851, A. F. of L.,
our entire membership is signing
this letter in support of the above
mentioned Bill Oh. r. 282O."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

On Friday, Feb. /. a few days
after the teamsters' powerful one
day strike against the Humphrey
open-shop injunction, an unusual
and significant statement was made
by Joseph P. Ryan, president of the
International Longshoremen's As
ISOLATION. Speaking of possible de-
velopments on the waterfront, Ryan
said:
IF the injunction is signed there
is no telling what will happen. If
these men fear that they will lose
their jobs they will not listen to
their leaders. Why, If l tried to stop
demonstration in that event
they'd be likely to throw me out
and put someone else in my place"
What is it that causes Ryan, one
of the most hard-boiled bureaucrats
in the A. F. of L. to suddenly as
sumo such humble pose? Why
does Ryan, who for years has rid
den roughshod over the will of the
membership, who has ruled the 1.
l.. A. with an iron hand, now come
out and speak of the possibility of
being kicked out of office?
Undoubtedly this can be explained
in part as being put on" by Ryan
for the benefit of the Chamber of
Commerce and the shipowners for
whom he works. 1t is his way of
telling them: Don't push me too
hard or too fast. I'm willing to do
everything can for you, but this
is ticklish situation. and you've
got to help me in handling it,"
Rise In Solidarity
But this only tells one side of the
story behind Ryans unusual state
ment. The other side of the story
the important side-is supplied by
a number of recent developments
on the waterfront and in the LILA
locals which show that there is
taking place a definite rise in rank
and file solidarity, militant action
and organization among the long
shoremen.
This developing rank and file
sentiment for united action from
below, which is hated and feared by
Ryan. has been clearly evidenced
during the past two months around
the anti-injunction struggle. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Rank and File Holding
Strike Conferences
in All Sections

Since July, 1888, it has been the
N. r. A. and the Labor Boards of
Roosevelt, backed by the A. F. of
L. national leaders, which have de-
feated the demands of the textile
workers. Now, the million textile
workers throughout the country are
demanding strike against tn e
starvation conditions to which the
model" textile code has reduced
them.
The main steps whereby the N.
R. A. has worsened the living stand
ards of the workers are as follows:
1.-The code itself. The manner
in which Roosevelt fooled the tex
tile workers into believing that they
we're getting minimum wages of
$12 in the South and $13 in the
North, is admitted in the report of
the N. r. A. Research Bureau of
Jan. 90, 1895, on the causes of the
general textile strike.
The report says, 'The feeling that
bnb COue dcbuduN pEUNtuta lOI n
wage of S12 week in the South
and S13 in the North is widespread,
though erroneous. Actually these
are the maximum weekly earnings
possible to those working at the
prescribed minimum wages Of 80
cents and 321z cents an hour. In no
week since the adoption of the code
has the industry averaged more than
36.5 hours per person, though forty
hours are necessary to attain the
minimum weekly earnings"
The code cut down the wages of
the skilled workers. The N. R. A.
report admits, skilled workers in
the industry resent the fact that
they are paid at rates which do moi
preserve traditional and customary
differentials." The minimum wage
thus tended to become the max
imum.
The code cut real wages and
weekly earnings in dollars received.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12.-Edi-
torial hurrahs for Fascism in E.
Manchester Boddy's Illustrated
Daily News, which makes a great
pretense of being a liberal" pub
LEGATION, brought militant worker
pickets to the offices of the paper
within a few hours after publica-
ton. The picketing brought voluble
apologies from the business man
ager of the sheet.
Representatives Of the American
League Against War and Fascism
carried placards which proclaimed
that the Daily News Sponsors
Fascism." Gathering crowds, in
GLIDING employees of the paper, read
the clipped editorials bordered in
red paint. SO embarrassed were the
executives, that the pickets were in
vited off the street corner and into
the sumptuous office of business
manager, Robert Smith, who was
until recently, a campaign fund
collector for Senator McAdoo's
crowd.
Wen print a retraetiOn If
you'll quit picketing," said Smith.
I'VE aren't for Fsscism any more
than you are-why, we're a lib
eraI paper"
Lauded FaSciSm
Whatever the shortcomings of
Fascism," said the editorial, written
by Richard R. Kilroy, editorial
writer, cit is making more substsn-
tial progress than any of the other
experimental forms Of government
in Europe. It has improved the
condition Of the average citizen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
PICKETS PROTEST
PRAISE OF FASCISM
BY WESTERN PAPER
Speedy Action by Anti-Fascists Forces RetractiOn
of Pro-Fascist Editorial in Los Angeles
Illustrated Daily News

and it has astonishingly revived ma
tional morale"
(Kilroy was no doubt stimulated
in his literary efforts by the legacy
recently left his wife by her father.
the late John T. Gaffey. who owned
a good share of San Pedro and held
mortgages on most Of the balance
The following day the News
printed another editorial unsigned.
this time) in which an entirely diff
ferent picture Of black shirt gov
eminent was depicted and with kind
words for Giuseppe Emanuele Mo-
digliani, famous Italian anti-fascist.
To balance things up again, how
ever, they had another editorial,
The Russian Fiasco" on the debt
settlement negotiations and with a
reference to the Stain crowd"
Admits Police Connections
In his personal column, Publisher
Roddy admitted that he was asso-
ciated with Police Chief James E.
Davis when he received word that
his office was being picketed, and
declared that he was opposed to
Fascism because it would certainly
bring on Communism"
Managing Editor Matt Weinstock,
who is Jewish, revealed himself as
a Fascist supporter, in the course of
the incident. In spite of the tor
lures inflicted on Jews by Fascists,
he argued with the picket that
"Fascism is all right" and flippantly
refused to give his name. Later, in
the presence of the pickets. he was
unwittingly identified by the bust
ness manager while discussing the
proposed "retraction."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
working Woman" Ready

Many organizations are making
arrangements for mass meetings to
celebrate International Women's
Day on March 8. Not all have as
yet sent in their orders for bundle
copies of the Working Woman.
The Daily Worker will have a
special edition for international
Women's Day on March s. The Daily
Worker should be sold at these af-
fairs.
Unless orders are placed for both
periodicals by Feb. 20 the orders
will not be fulfilled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Workers School Term
Set to Open Late
This Month in Detroit

DETROIT, Feb. IL. - The new
term of the Detroit Workers School
will start Monday, Feb. Is. Evening
courses will be given in the follow
ing subjects: Principles of the Glass
Struggle, Elementary Political Econ
omy, Trade Union Problems, Prob
lens of the Negro Liberation Move
ment, Marxism-Leninism and II,
Fascism and Social Revolution,
Principles of Communist Organiza-
ton, Elementary English, and Shop
Paper and Leaflet Technique.
The fee for each course Of twelve
weeks is $3.50. Registration is now
taking place at the school head
quarters, 1863 14th Ave, near Nc
Graw,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
JobIess Ends Life

BOSTON, Feb IL U.P). - A
middle-aged woman tentatively
identified as Mrs. L. Hayes of SIC
West 116th Street, New York City,
dived to death from a ninth-story
window of Hotel Statler today.
The woman left note, saying
Notify my father of what l have
done. am out Of work and am
in Ill health.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Noted Concert Singers
To Appear at Council
Bazaar in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12.-Sergei
and Marie Radamsky will be present
at the Concert and Bazaar to be
given by the Unemployment Coun-
ellis on March and 2 at Olympia
Hall, Broad and cambridge Street,
to raise funds to finance the cam
paign for the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill and
the issuance of a regular unem-
ployed newspaper.
The Radamskys will present pro-
gram Of new Soviet songs, illustrat-
ing the tremendous cultural ad-
vances Of the Russian workers and
peasants under the Soviet. They
announce that this will be their
final appearance in this country be-
fore their return to the U. S. S. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Textile Trimmers In Fight

NEW YORK.-The Textile Trim
ming Workers Union, an indepen-
dent union with a membership of
more than 1000, telegraphed Rep
resentative Matthey Dunn, chair
man of the House subcommittee on
unemployment insurance; Senator
Wagner and President Roosevelt on
Monday demanding immediate
enactment of the Workers Unem-
ployment, Old Age and Social In
surance Bill, H. R. 1927.
The Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe
terra Workers Union, Local 1913,
yesterday telegraphed the House
Ways and Means Committee de-
handing endorsement of the Work
ers' Bill and its enactment by Con-
gress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
W H ATS ON
philadelphia, Pa.

Labor Defender Concert and Dance
Friday. Feb. % at Ambassador Hall,
1To4 N. Broad St.; Nadia Chilkovsky
in series Of revolutionary dances;
well known violinist; entire Freiheit
Gesang Ferein chorus; excellent
dance orchestra. Adm. at door, soc;
in advance through organizations 35c.
Tickets at 40 N. 9th ST., Room 207.
Scott Nearing, Just returned from
Europe and the Soviet Union. will
lecture on Fascism and Communism
on Saturday, Feb. 2s at $50 pm.
at the Olympus Arena, Broad St.,
below cambridge. Adm s5c.
Boston, Mass.
Bazaar: Grand Opening tonight.
Wed, from pm. till midnight.
Communist Party Night Speakers,
Sidney Bloomfield District Organizer.
Performance by New Theatre Players.
Other features, eats bargains, etc.
New International Hall, a wenonah
ST, Roxbury, Mass.
Newark, N. J.
Greatest affair in the history of
Newark Revolutionary Movement.
March nth Date Reserved. Organ
zations arrange no affairs on this
date. Auspices International Labor
Defense, New Jersey District.
Chicago, I'LL.
Organizations Attention! The Inter-
national workers Order Of Chicago
is celebrating its 5th Anniversary at
the Ashland Auditorium, Feb. 90,
$50 pm. to 2 am. An excellent pro-
gram has been arranged. Kindly keep
this date open.
Theatre Collective Chauve souris
Three-Hour Program Of Theatre,
Music and DaLce, following by
dancing to am, Saturday, Feb. is
at $50 pm. at Peoples Auditorium,
FAST W. Chicago Ave. Adm. 35c; 100
tickets at 25c.
Professor Scott Nearing will speak
on The Soviet Union in World AZ
fairs Friday, Feb 18th, at Medical
Arts Center. Auspices FS.U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 12.-The
Music Teachers Association here
endorsed the Workers Bill, H. r..
1927, at their last regular meeting.
The Washington times., 1935-05-21
BIC TRAIN SET
FOR Bic FARM

Washington's baseball idol, Wal
ter johnson, is going in for farm
ing in a big way.
johnson, former pitcher with
the Griffmen and at present man
ager of the Cleveland ball team,
has given up his eight-and-a-half
acre farm on the old Rockville
Road, in Alta Vista, Md. and
moved to a larger farm in Ger
mantown, Md.
Johnson's hobby, when he isn't
pitching ball or managing teams,
is raising chickens, turkeys and
vegetables.
However, close friends say he
has taken seriously the rumor
that he may lose his job as man.
ager of the Cleveland ball team
at any time, and he wants to be
ready to go in for farming in a
professional way.
Germantown is only an hour
and a halls automobile ride
from Washington, so the former
pitcher will still be in touch with
his Capital friends.
The Washington times., 1935-05-21
BILLS TIED UP
BYF|L|BUSTER
: IN SENATE
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
International News Service

An unexpected filibuSter by
members of the Senate Munitions
Committee against the $457 ,000,-
600 naval appropriation bill today
disrupted the Administrations leg
islative program in the Senate.
A host of important bills, in
Guiding extension of the agricul-
tural adjustment act and the So
cial security measure, we're caught
behind the jam created by the
filibuster.
The munitions committee mem.
bers, led by Senators Nye (RO OF
North Dakota, and Clark CD OF
Missouri, were trying to prevent
a final vote on the naval bill
until they can complete and file
a report on their inquiry into the
shipbuilding industry. Senator
Nye, while holding the floor for
four hours, charged the increas-
ing expenditure by the Govern
ment on naval shipbuilding really
constituted raids on the Treas
ury."
The bill, while appropriating
$457 100000 for all purposes, in
cluded $18,7S8,0O0 for new con-
struction work. This was the par.
ticular appropriation assailed by
the munitions investigators, who
spent weeks probing the operation
of shipbuilding firms and their
relations with the Government.
Committee members declared the
cost of warships could be radically
reduced. Senator Nye said:
eve will keep debate going in
the Senate day and night until
we complete our report. 1t is
indefenSibIe to act on this huge
appropriation for new warships
before the Senate hears what
we have discovered about previ-
Gus expenditures on warShips."
The munitions investigators
were defeated on a move to re-
commit the bill IA to So.
The filibuster upset the Admin
istration's plans and added an
other obstacle to prompt compile
ton of President Roosevelt'S legis-
lative program.
The Washington times., 1935-05-21
CHECKS ON NRA
CONCEDED BY
R|CHBERG
Senators FIay Demonstration
Planned Here Tomorrow BY
Business Leaders
international News Service

Fighting a desperate battle to
save the MIRA, the Administration
today was ready to abandon
codes for local businesses employ.
ing a total of from 100000 to
100000 workers.
The House Ways and Means
Committee, which is considering
the Senate MIRA extension reso-
luton, also considered other re.
form plans outlined by Donald r.
Richberg, MIRA head.
Despite these concessions, Mr..
Richberg demanded an NRA ex-
tension bill which would preserve
most of the present powers Of
MIRA over businesses said to
affect interstate commerce.
Senators Den0unce March"
The conflict developing between
Senate and House over NRA was
emphasized after Senator Nye
(RO of North Dakota and Borah
(R) of Idaho had flayed the NRA
demonstration to be held here to-
morrow.
While Senator Nye charged that
men drawing huge salaries as code
authorities were trying to stir UP
another farmers march," Ward
Cheney, silk manufacturer and
leader of the demonstration, a..
serted that $50 industries would
be represented in the gathering.
Mr.. Chesney claimed the Sena-
tors charges that the march is
being prompted by the NRA and
the thousands of code authorities
"have so incensed the taxpayers
who are also businessmen" that
so many pledges of attendance
have been received that the con-
terence has had to rent a larger
meeting place-Constitution Hall.
He said $500 businessmen will be
here tomorrow.
Theft of List Charged
Mr.. Chesney also charged that
someone has committed the I'M
speakable act of pilfering" the
list of the industry and
business committee for NRA exten.
sion, which is sponsoring tomor-
rows march. He is chairman Of
this committee.