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26 as matter at tho Post at Vol. Entered second-class Offlct WEATHER: Probably XI, No. 24 New York, N. Y, under th« Act of March 8. 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1934 rain. (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents NATIONAL JOBLESS COUNCIL URGES ACTION FOR CWA JOBS Communist Party Sounds Call for Eighth National Party Convention Senate Keeps Eighth National Convention of the C.P.UJS.A. is called to meet in Rank, File Miners rECleveland, Ohio, on April 3, 1934, and continue until Its deliberations are concluded. Workers Force Minneapolis Secrecy Part Since the Seventh Convention, profound charges have taken place in the world, and in the United States. There have been also far- Flay Lewis Machine reaching changes in the life and growth of the revolutionary movement Gold among workers. to Os Bill the American City Council Endorse the Our Seventh Convention In 1930 confirmed the Party’s final rejection Defeats Amendments; of the opportunist line of the Loves tone group, whose swift degeneration atUMW Convention into the blackest forms of renegacy kept time with the swiftly deepening Bill “40 Wage . struggle Leninist against Insurance Per Cent crisis of By relentless for the line, Cut,” Senator Says the right opportuniss and Trotskyist counter-revolutionaries, our Party Resolutions Indicate defeated and isolated these enemies of the working class. It placed the By Party squarely on the road to the building of a mass Communist Party, Jobless, CWA Workers Committees of Action Wide Opposition to the Bill Gebert MARGUERITE YOUNG ( Washington Bureau) which is organizing and leading the growing upsurge of the American Jam City Council Harry Hopkins on All CWA Projects workers against the catastrophic conditions of the crisis. This clear Strikebreaking Clique WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—The Sen- out under Communist Chambers ate neared passage of the Roosevelt Bolshevist line, hammered the leadership of the Should Be Formed By BILL GEBERT inflation bill today as the Democrats International, with the helpful participation of on* "Teat leader, Com- MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 26. —supported by one Farmer-La- rade Stalin, has enabled our Party, since ve Seventh Convention, to INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 26 (By the The Minneapolis City Council, by a DEMONSTRATE FEB. 5 Mail).—Hundreds of local unions of borite and the Republican Progres- organize and lead most imortant mass strikes in the closing years the vote of thirteen to eight, yesterday the U.M.W.A. submitted 2,000 reso- sives—defeated the most important of the Hoover regime, which put up the only sarious mass resistance amendment was forced to endorse the Workers’ lutions in which they present before proposed. to the open wage-slashing campaign, forcing the bourgeoisie to turn to Jobs or Relief for All By a vote of 54 to 36, the Senate Unemployment Insurance Bill at the the 33rd Convention of U.M.W.A. on wages of New their problems how rejected an amendment that would the indirect attacks the Roosevelt Deal. Inflation, and demand of the Unemployed Council Unemployed. and to solve them. delegation and of work- Is Demand Os these resolutions, over 403 were have placed control of the proposed the N.R.A. the hundreds ers who packed the chambers of the printed in a pamphlet and submitted 2,000,000,000 stabilization fund in a Our Party's work resulted in bringing into being in the past year NEW YORK. —The organi- board of solely in the Counci'. l|||| to the delegates; more than one thou- of five instead a fighting indepedent movement under the Trade Union sand resolutions hands of the Secretary of the Treas- The endorsement will be brought zation of Committees of Action from all districts, Unity League, of over 100,000 members, as well as a larger number of bearing on scale matters, ury. to the National Convention Against are not unions. work stimulated rise on every C.W.A. job, in answer printed, but have been referred to Action followed debate in which the unaffiltated independent trade This the Unemployment to be held in Wash- against of the Scale Committee, which is to Democrats unblushingly proclaimed of a new wave ol revolt within the A. F. of L. the intensified ington, D. C., on Feb. 3, 4 and 5, to the firing C.W.A. work- make a report to the Convention. the trade-war purpose of the meas- betrayals of the officialdom. by the Minneapolis delegation and ers by Roosevelt, is an imme- ure as well as its other chief object, will be presented to the Roosevelt Through an examination of the Our Party’s work among the unemployed, beginning with the his- diate task, Benjamin, resolutions submitted to the Conven- to increase prices and thereby boost government when the workers dele- Herbert toric demonstrations of March 6, 1930, marked by the great National g tion, one can easily draw a picture the cost of living in the United States. gates put forth their demands on jKjPPjefs j© national organizer of the Un- Hunger Marches of 1931 and 1932, by the building of a nationwide and understand the moods of the This was the Administration’s answer Feb. sth. JJwa* :mployed Councils, said today. “The miners. The overwhelming majority to a concerted attack by Republicans. system of Unemployed Councils etc., was the most decisive single factor Follows Similar Actions unemployed workers are thoroughly bleeding-heart of all the resolutions are directed The latter poured out in forcing through relief measures, in compelling the A. F. of L. to This endorsement, the result of an aroused at the fact that Roosevelt’s protests against bill against John L. Lewis and the Inter- District Organizer the effect the withdraw its open opposition to unemployment insurance, and in welding intense campaign carried on >y order has already fired hundreds of of Illinois Com- have upon the middle classes and the National C.W.A. Administrator, I national Board. The resolutions deal will unity of employed and unemployed workers. Councils, follows similar Chief Firer thousands from C.W.A. projects, and munist Party the because facts Unemployed Roosevelt’s of C.W.A. with practically every problem facing working people the actions in Tacoma, Wash., Mil- workers. cut hours of work and consequently of this matter are handy political Our Party has roused millions of oppressed Negroes to the beginning taken the miners and the American work- waukee, West Allis, Wise., Bedford, wages of the rest from 20 to 50 per ing weapons at a in unity with the white workers. class. There are 90 resolutions this point. of struggle for national liberation and Buffalo, N. Y. cent,” he said. Although the real In the Re- Ohio, from all parts of the coal fields bone These are but a few of the fruits of the correct Leninist line established Unemployed Councils, the Com- “The Unemployed Councils, Na- against the power of John publican craw is that the bill will Seventh appointive 8(10 at the Convention. munist Party, the Young Commu- Graft in CWA tional Committee,” Benjamin contin- L. Lewis and the International Board Delegates at also temporarily penalize certain ued, “Calls on as securities and bond Our Party has consolidated the Communist forces in the country. nist League, and all other working the unemployed in and against “provisional govern- creditors, big carry on very city and to call at [ holders, the assault served to bring At the Seventh Convention our Party had 7,000 members, loosely organ- class organizations should town once for of emergency of the C.W.A. [ out that, as Senator Reed of Fennsyl- still from of the a campaign the endorsement Is Protected conferences More news on Struggles of First Session FSU ized and suffering the effects oportunist poison of workers, together with all other vania “this bill 40 per the Workers' Unemployment Insur- un- Miners on Page Three. ! put it, is a Lovestone. Now, approaching the Eighth Convention, we have a solid working wage ance Bill by city and state govern- employed and class organi- | cent cut.” membership of 23,000 weekly with a rising pro- Silver Inflation duespaying members mental bodies. The federal govern- zations, to organize this protest.” ments” which John L. Lewis set up Nat’l Convention portion of native-born and Negro workers from the basic By Roosevelt issue came industries. ment must be forced to pass the Feb. 5 Demonstration in different districts. Sixteen dis- The silver-coinage Into the debate also, Senator Wheeler These achievements the solid foundation for preparing our workers’ bill. Various bills are be- On Feb. 5, a tricts of the U.M.W.A. at present are 1 are delegation of C.W.A. Hear Greetings from Democrat, Montana) his ing proposed In state legislatures. “Investigate” Only elected functioning- under provisional officers i i presenting Eighth Convention. workers by workers from • • • These only to separate the appointed by John L. Lewis. Gorki; j amendment proposing to add to the serve C.W.A. projects from all parts of the Hathaway, Bloor already tremendous inflationary pro- fight into 48 different struggles, none Eighteen Cases; country, will go to Federal Relief Demand Referendum coming Convention meets at a time of the passing over of the of insure the Local 5509 of Westville, visions another to provide~that the which adequately Director Hopkins, and present the 111., in its to Speak THEeconomic crisis to a world revolutionary crisis. Tremendous problems workers against Fires Less “. government buy silver up to a bil- unemployment. of the C.W.A. resolution, demands: . . all ap- demands workers. confront our Party, problems of organizing and leading the struggle for Every demonstration that will be C.W.A, workers on all projects pointive power be abolished, all of- NEW YORK, Jan., 800 are etc., 26.—Over (Continued on Page 2) the dally needs of millions of workers and impoverished masses, and held In the cities of the United SEYMOUR WALDMAN asked to elect delegates to go to ficials, committees, to be elected delegates, by referendum vote.” and hundreds of visitors developing them to a conscious mass struggle against fascization and States on Feb, sth, must demand (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) Washington, and take part in the have gathered, according the from the city the endorse- Feb, 5 delegation The local union of Pursglove, Ala., to latest war, for a workers' revolutionary government, for a revolutionary solution officials WASHINGTON, to Hopkins’ head- reports as we go to press, at the first ment of the Workers’ Unemployment Jan. 26.—Though I quarters. demands that miners have a right not session Harlem I. L. D. W ill of the crisis. the complexion of the Civil Works only to elect their of the National Convention of Insurance Bill. I C.W.A. workers should also officials and com- the In light Party lags Administration is admittedly dotted j elect “. Friends of the , now Parade Today the of these tasks It is clear that our behind Fire 8,500 A. Workers delegates mittees but also the right . C. W. this week to the . to for | National being held at the Star The of rooting among the decisive strata with graft pimples, those in charge removal by membership at any time.” New Casino, events. task the Party firmly thousand five hundred work- their efforts on Convention Against Unemployment, 107th St. and Park Ave. Scottsboro Boys Eight are concentrating Local 4385, Sweetwater, Wyoming, of the American working class, of putting It at the head of millions ers on C. W. A. jobs in the state minimizing the seriousness of the na- to take place in Washington on Feb. points out in its resolution that in Greetings from Maxim Gorky, lead- of workers, have been placed before the Party in the Open Letter of of being off, of 3, Benjamin declared. ing Minnesota are laid tion-wide scandal. District 22 of the U.M.W.A., despite Soviet writer, have been received NEW YORK.—The Harlem section the Extraordinary Party Confidence. The 13th Plenum of the Execu- which 4,500 are in Minneapolis alone. “We must demand that not a single expressing his regrets Graft Is Protected at not being- of the New York District; of the In- tive Committee of the Communist International has laid a firm foundation Altogether, over 80,000 C. W. A. work- C.W.A. worker shall be fired,” he (Continued on able to attend the convention be- ternational Labor Defense in Minnesota Many reporters were surprised to I Page 3) will hold for the further advance of our Party. ers are facing lay-offs cause of illness. a demonstration today in Harlem in during the next few weeks as Roose- hear from Hopkins that the Depart- i (Continued on Page 3) Clarence Hathaway, editor of the protest against the vicious treatment The Eighth Convention must open a new period of decisive advance velt’s and Hopkln's orders go into ment of Justice, under Joseph Kee-: Sharp Fight Daily Worker, Mother EUa given to the Scottsboro boys by the toward establishing a mass Communist Party, on the basis of the solid At the initiative of the nan, special - assistant to Attorney j for Reeve effect. working Bloor, veteran labor leader and or- Alabama authorities. foundation already laid down. General Cummings, was on I Unemployed Page in only 15 and three Jobless Insurance ganizer of the farmers in the West, The demonstration will begin In a (Continued on Page 2) C.W.A. P.W.A.j The agenda of the Convention will be: 1) The Struggle Against War cases. Today’s Daily Worker at Justine Wise Tulin, Herbert Gold- parade from 131st St. and Lenox Mine and , and for the Revolutionary Solution of the Crists; 2) was any ; Convention I frank, acting National Secretary of Ave. at 2 p. m. White workers are Asked whether there urged Economic Struggles and Building the Class Struggle Trade Union move- truth in the rumor that the adminis- Much more special news of By DAN DAVIS [ the F.S.U.. are scheduled to speak to- especially to attend this dem- To Broadcast Speech night, onstration en masse as a of ment; 3) Tasks of the Party in winning the Working Youth; 4) Seventh tration was considering either an ex- the struggles of the unemployed INDIANAPOLIS, Inci.. Jan. 26 I Friday. proof solidarity struggles of 5) Central Committee. tension of C.W.A. beyond May 1 or against the order of Roosevelt fir- Today's session of the U. M. A message from 4. Troyanovsky, their with the World Congress of Comintern; Election of of Lamont from FSU W. A. I • • some ing for first Soviet ; the Negro people. Organizations • • other make-shift, Hopkins re-1 the C.W.A. workers; and Convention was thrown into a [ Ambassador to the United plied: “I can’t stop a lot of talk, the Workers Unemployment In- heated States has also been received express- i must bring their banners and Central Committee declares that discussion period of 60 days National Convention j discussion when John P. i a There’s nothing new about the ap-; surance Bill will be found on the Sloan, young lug regrets that pressure of work pre- j slogans. in for the militant delegate of i rEIs opened in all Party units and committees preparation Lamont’s propriatton.” special Unemployment Page of the Local 5509, 111., vents his being present at the con- NEW YORK.—Corliss Westville, urged election of convention delegates and to renew the entire leadership of the first national con- That is, nothing is contemplated Daily Worker, today’s Issue, on the miners to endorse a vention. speech to i resolution First Day on Job, CWA th Party from unit bureaus to Central Committee. Friends of the So- beyond the already announced $350,- page four. calling for enactment of The sessions of vention of the the the Convention will The basis of the discussion for the first 30 days is the Theses of viet Union meeting in New York 000,000 Congressional appropriation Workers Unemployment Insurance continue all day Saturday and Sun- Workers Get Wage Cut the 13th Plenum of E.C.C.I. and the Open Letter to the Party, as this week end at the New Star Ca- which will be used to stagger C.W.A Bill. day. hours to May 1, the date when, • • on “Recognition—And After” it: Lewis, chairman cf the • YORK. W. S. applied to our concrete tasks. The second 30 days will be devoted to sino session, NEW Hiring C. will broadcast over a nation- was officially announced, most of the! paced the floor as Sloan speke and On Sunday morning, the speech of employees at salaries, then the Draft Resolution for the Convention which will be published on be S.P. Leaders Try to high wide hook up on Sunday morning, 4,000,000 C.W.A. workers will be j held hurried consultations with Corliss Lamont to the Convention clashing the wages the same day, Is February I7th. lan. 28, at 10:30 a.m. Eastern forced to face utter destitution. Phillip Murray. International Vice will be broadcast over WJZ at 10:30 the new game which Civil Works District Conventions shall take place on March 24th or March 31st. While millions of workers are won- President, Standard Time. The pro- a.m., Eastern played with • * * * Smash Unemployed Lewis machine Standard Time. Administration officials Broadcasting Co. dering what will take the place of the ceeded workers today, when they 2 000 The National then to introduce a substi- The exhibition on Soviet progress hired guaranteed in every unit of the arranged speech to few dollars they have been receiving tute bill which hopeful workers In the and free discussion shall be has for the would discriminate will be open to the public on both white-collar reach the following stations in the from C.W.A. a staff of about 80 here against Negro morning running up FULLParty. The discussion shall be led by the Party Committees, but Women’s Meeting the workers and Saturday and Sunday. at salaries to York—WJZ, Is piddling with transforming com- and which S3O then directly after Committee has the right to issue binding instructions to units or following cities: New youth would give in- weekly, and no Pittsburgh plaints into innocuous statistics, Hop- for a Pictures of Oliver Sayler, theatri- lunch proceeded to hand the same on the result of the Baltimore WBAL, surance period of only 15 cal and conventions regarding their elections or decisions kins entertained the correspondents . Women’s Conference to weeks of year. producer, Margaret Bourke vertical 23 per KDKA, Boston—WßZ, Springfield, the White, 2,000 a cent cut. discussion. with the elaborate'y charted percent- : puppets belonging to Henry Workers who had been hired as Mass.—WßZa, Rochester, N. Y.— Wadsworth of representation be; ages of the 37,000 letters received by Elect Washington Longfellow Dana, and draftsmen for S3O found themselves The basis shall WHAM, Cleveland, O,—WGAR; I Julian Bryan have also been loaned Units elect one delegate for each five members to the Section one of the following sta- his office during the week ending reduced to $23.98, while others were Jan. 20. Delegates the exhibition. Arts, crafts, pottery, cut $15.38. Convention. (This may be reduced by decision of District Committees for tions: KYW, WENR, WLS, to as low as of that In the Daily Worker porcelain, wood carving, handicraft “This cut is Mr. large sections). WMAQ, WCFL; St. Louis, Mo.— With the exception the fact J nationwide,” said they that 67.8 per cent of NEW YORK.—Socialist leaders of work, books on Russia and books from any- KWK, Kansas City, Mo—WREN, revealed Mangum, C.W.A. official, “and Section Conventions elect one delegate for each 25 members to the the letters from the Single Women’s League, at the Today Russia will go to make the exhibition one does not Council Bluffs, la.—KOIL, Cedar came laborers and 6 here who like It, can District Convention. per from farmers, regular meeting of that organization one that is of real educational value. quit right now. We won’t stand for (tapids, la—KWCR, Des Moines, cent and that only Page 2 District Conventions elect one delegate for each 100 members to the 6.1 per cent Thursday night at the Socialist head- Visitors are Invited. any squawkers.” fa.—KSO. showed “general praise ConeoUdeie Fighting .Forces National Convention. for Roosevelt" quarters, 22 E. 22nd St. resorted to Against Hanger, by H. Benja- Each Shop Unit shall be represented in the District Conventions, every sort of disruptive tactics, in- min. calling of police, in regardless of the number of its members. cluding the the Jobless Convention to Fight for Y, to break the unity of the mem- Thomas to Be Added to N, The number of members to be represented shall be determined by order Social Insurance, by I. Amter. bers with other women’s workingclass Roosevelt Stops C.W.A. Jobs; Bil- the average duespayments in Dcember and January. Fusion Gang Begins to Cover organizations. lions Party who before January Ist for War, by C. R. Every member joined is required to Poyntz. Unem- Unemployed Charter Revision Committee Julia Stuart of the The Workers’ Insur- have a Convention Assessment Stamp in his book. ployed Women’s Committee of the ance Bill In the composition of the delegation—the majority of the delegation in Prison Probe Sports by Higher-Ups Unemployed Council, went to the Jerry Arnold; Indus- must be shop workers, preferably from the basic industries, steel, metal, to women trial Union in Socialist meeting Invite the jobless Urges Unity N. Party Leader to Work With Fusion to Fix mining, railroad, textile, marine; Party members from the A. T. to delegates to the Y. Hotel Strike. auto, send Unemployed Page 3 Charter to Suit Bankers of L., Revolutionary Unions and Independent Unions; mass leaders Threat Against Inmates Particularly Political Women’s Conference, to be held at Sunday, Jan. 28 1 Rank and Miners Flay of the unemployed movement. Irving Plaza, at Fils Lewis Prisoners—Looms As Investigation Lags p.m. Caples and Miss Machine. Fraternal delegates: To the national, district and section convention, Miss Pell of ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 26.—Norman commission was proposed by Senator the League for Industrial Democracy Hard Coal Miners Spread Strike, Thomas, the respective Party committees have the right to invite fraternal dele- Socialist Party leader, will James J. Dunnigan, Democratic who conducted the meeting granted by Carl Reeve. among gates NEW YORK.—A decided let-down and the .‘‘most affable, tractable and be those added to the pro- leader in the State Senate. Thomas from those unions or other mass organizations which have mem- the floor only after Chicago Workers Meet Feb. sth in Investigation of important phases sensible.” McCann called Cleary a Julia Poyntz the posed charter revision commission, will be used to cover up the real bers or influence workers in the concentration industries and factories, of Despite Police Ban. by of prison conditions in New York by “contributory factor In maintaining insistence the rank and file mem- headed Alfred E. Smith, it was nature of the charter revision. At with the understanding that their expenses be covered by the organi- bers present. Page 5 announced here yesterday. ad- the his Correction Commissioner Austin H. order.” Other same time services as mem- zation which they represent. To the national convention, the district more Important "Wall Street’s Capitol," by Sey- ditions to the commission, which in- of the will a MacCormack characterized yester- Disregarding the After Poyntz had pointed out to ber commission be con- committee, or convention, has the right to select fraternal delegates of the Fusion mour Waldman. cludes among other things, the tinuation of the Socialist Party’s sup- day’s activities in the Welfare Island revelations the probe, the members present that although name from the above described organizations. what will lead to "Too Many Parties—,” by Earl of John W. Davis, wealthy attorney port of LaGuardia, begun during the Penitentiary probe. investigators began they had voted to send delegates to Browder. for the Morgan interests, are Samuel last election campaign. A small commission of the District Committee with the District While the gangster-control of the an even more vicious treatment of the National Convention Against Un- Soviet Woman Weaver Goes to Seabury. Wallstein and revision Organizer on it, be responsible for the reliability of all prison, working hand in hand with the ordinary inmates of the prison—- employment to be held in Washing- Leonard The charter proposed In should made living Congress, by Vem Smith. Raymond Moley, former head of the the LaGuardia bill, dictated by fi- delegates to the national and district convention. the Welfare Island authorities, was -1,400 of them, who have been ton on Feb. 3. 4. and 5, the Socialist Page linked with higher-ups in hunger, the dope 6 Roosevelt “brain trust.” nance capital, is part of the basic The aim of the convention discussion and elections must be, to decidedly in filth and while executive of their organization had Letters from Miners. Under the guise of program city administration, the Fusion ring leaders and politically-affluent stop broadening the of the Fusion administra- clarify the problems of how to carry out the 13th Thesis and the attempted to the delegates from "Party Life.” representation in the charter the Plenum publicity machine began to shy away criminals have been enjoying all lux- revision tion, program of guaranteeing the to raise going. Page 7 commission, the government Open Letter, the political level and activity of the mem- its in the prison hospital buildings. Fusion the four-year agreement with the from trails which might implicate uries At this point Caples, Pell and Lil- "Magistrate’s Court," by of , an agreement bership, to strengthen especially the lower organizations, units sec- own turned the spot- In the clamping of stricter Martin In bankers. The dictatorial powers that and men. Instead it down lian Brown, a Lovestonite, created a Bank. with Governor Lehman, E. demanded tions, improve union unemployed work, to refresh and aspects of regulations for the majority of the Alfred LaGuardia and which arc to the trade and light on relatively minor disturbance in the front of the hall Page 8 Smith and other representatives of probe, including by seven prisoners, the threat of even more now vested in the Board of Estimate, renew the Party cadres by advancing to leading posts those who have the a strike to stop members from Editorials: “N.R.A. the dominant circles of for bakers who were refused and brutal restrictions against in order the Sword-Rattl- Tammany cutting across all legal safe distinguished themselves in mass work, to conclusively liquidate all of the prison cruel hearing Poyntz. turned off ing”; “Build the 1.W.0. Hall, Is lining up the forces by which guards of cocaine and inmates particularly political pris- Caples Into a wages and conditions of remnants of influence of the renegades among the less developed Party their supply of heroin. the in the and threatened Mass Organization.” it plans to revise the city charter civil employees, An attempt to ameliorate the gang- oners—loomed for the immediate fu- lights hall will be the principal members, to raise the fight against opportunism to a high political Poyntz the police. Soviet Communist Party Organ in order to strengthen the strangle- feature of the proposed revision. ster chiefs, Rao and Cleary, began ture. with The Party As women left the hall, police Analyzes 13th Plenum. hold of finance capital over all the revised charter is meant to strength- plane, and to turn the whole to Bolshevik mass work. with Chief Warden McCann’s char- An inquiry by the Federal Narcotic the affairs of the city of New York. en the bankers plundering of CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C.U.U.S.A^ acterization of as “the most val- Bureau was promised by United the Rao Page 1) The addition of Thomas to this working population of New York. I Wm. Z. Foster, Chairman; Earl Broader, SeecHarf. uable prisoner” in the penitentiary. States Attorney Martin Conboy. [