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R wolutionary (greetings to the Bth National Convention ! CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED SATURDAY: AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING Daily 38 Saturday 41 Total to date.. 2,831 Total 1,952 DailyisWorker CLASS DAILY NEW SPARER CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as Vol. XI, No. 79 26 second-elass matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8. 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1934 WEATHER: Fair, warmer. (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents THOUSAND OF CHICAGO CWA p MARCH THRU LOOP Taxi Strike Ends; Drivers Vote to Return to Work Today Bth National Communist Party Hackmen Return to Frisco and Evansville in Convention OpensTonightWith Garages in a Body; Led C.W. A. Protest Actions Huge Cleveland Mass Meeting By Union Committees Continue Strike In I AFL, Socialist W orkers Outstanding Leaders of 3 Concentration Districts Three Terminal j: Demand the CWA Jobs Continue! Join C.W.A. Job C. P. Will Address Garages Fight Layoffs! March Gigantic Meet AN EDITORIAL Hold Their Conventions NEW YORK.—The general taxi- DEMAND H. R. 7598 DELEGATES ARRIVE cab strike ended here Saturday with 'THE brutal, nation-wide firing of the C.W.A. workers is proceeding the hackmen returning * to work in rapidly. On the orders of Roosevelt, Federal Administrator of Pledge Support to the an organized body under the lead- Pittsburgh, Detroit and Relief, Hopkins, is ordering all cities to completely disband all ership of their garage committees. C.W.A. Come from Districts Lynn Electrical Men projects. Striking C. W. A. Cleveland Turn Face to Despite continued attempts on the the Country .. - Upon leadership Unemployed Throughout Spurn AFL Co. Union part of the capitalist newspapers, ■ the of the Councils, Relief W orkers Heavy Industry the LaGuardia city government and Workers Leagues, depends whether the latest brutal hunger program Worker Midwest CLEVELAND, Ohio. -*-The For Independ’t Union leaders of the Socialist Party to t will be defeated. Every Communist in these organizations has the (Daily Bureau) (Special to the Daily Worker) Eighth National Convention divide the ranks of the drivers and responsibility of taking the lead in this fight against starvation. CHICAGO, 111., April I. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April WASHINGTON (F.P.) The thus bring about a disorderly route C. W. A. WORKERS—EMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYED! FIGHT Traffic was paralized for 40 of the Communist Party of Electrical of the ranks of strik- I. The Pittsburgh district Industry Employes strike, the the FOR CONTINUATION AND EXTENSION OF C. W. A. JOBS! and the United States opens here Union, an independent organiza- ers remained firm, the men return- minutes thousands of convention of the Communist Organize committees on every C. W. A. job. Demonstrate at the tonight with a gigantic tion, won a sweeping victory in ing to their garages in organized workers lined the sidewalks as mass Lynn, Mass., plants C. W. A. and relief offices against the C. W. A. firing. Demand con- meeting in Party closed here today after of General groups under the leadership of the thousands of men, women and Music Hall of Public Electric in a national labor board Taxi of Greater tinuation of every C. W. A. project without one C. W. A. worker being Auditorium. two days. Drivers Union New marched through Loop election. The independent indus- York. fined. children the Delegates from every district of The main report was trial union won a 2 to 1 here Saturday in a militant dem- delivered by victory garages FIGHT AGAINST ROOSEVELT’S WAGE CUTS ON “WORK the United States, whose conven- Jack Johnstone, over the company union. In of the Terminal Com- onstration against C.W.A. firings district organizer, Scat- pany where the RELIEF.” tions have been held on a nation- on the Party’s industry tering votes were cast for fleet owners in- and for the immediate enactment work in in the pay on C. W. A. and relief” wide scale during the past two the district. Other A. F. of L. sisted that the drivers joni the com- Demand union all “work projects. De- of the Workers Unemployment In- important re- William U. Patterson, national weeks, as well as workers living ports were pany unions, the strike Is being con- mand union conditions. Demand recognition of your C. W. A. workers’ surance Bill. given as follows: secretary of the in Cleveland and in many sur- Allander organizational tinued. The strike is still on in the International organizations. The spirited parade through the on work; Labor Defense, who will speak at Loop brought rounding towns, will gather at this Carethers on the Daily 23rd, 38th, 49th and 60th Street STRIKE AGAINST WAGE CUTS ON C. W. A. AND “WORK the unemployment Worker; the opening of the Eighth Con- issue to of opening meeting promptly at 7:30 Hawkins on the Young Jingo March garages of the Terminal Cab Com- RELIEF.” the attention the entire p.m., to Communist vention of the Communist city. press, which hear outstanding leaders League; Egan on trade union pany. Party The capitalist work; tonight. Demand no discrimination against Negro workers on C. W. A. and had boycotted prepa- of the Communist Party, leaders of Frankfield on Negro Men Vote to Return in Cleveland all notices of work; Chapa “work relief.” ration for march, the American working class in their on the Young Pioneers, and Mine- In N\ on War The general strike was terminated the was forced struggles on every DEMAND JOBS OR CASH RELIEF FOR UN- to acknowledge its effectiveness front, address the rich on women’s work. following a vote taken by the union ADEQUATE ALL opening of this historical event. EMPLOYED. Demand cash relief equivalent to the average trade | with streamer headlines, announc- Party’s Influence Growing men at the various strike headquar- ing Outstanding Speakers union wage in the community. j that 15,000 had joined the The discussions showed the grow- Anniversary ters. | ! march. Workers disembarked from Among these outstanding speak- The Calif. Ranchers DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE ENACTMENT BY CONGRESS OF ing influence of the Communist following statement on the stranded street cars throughout the er,; will be Earl Browder, general I Party in the district, the growing settlement of the strike was issued j THE WORKERS’ UNEMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL INSURANCE i Loop, ami joined the demonstration secretary of the Communist Party; Saturday by Samuel Omer, presi- BILL (H. R. 7598), and cheered Jack opposition on the part of the work- Bosses Will Glorify the 1 I the demonstrating Stachel, acting national sec- ers dent of the union: Form Terror Gangs ! retary of to the American Federation of workers from the sidewalks. Auto- the Trade Union Unity bureaucracy, Army; Workers to League;’ A. Hathaway, Labor and the achieve- “At a meeting of the general mobile traffic was at a standstill, C. editor of packed solid Daily ments of the district in the growth strike committee held Friday, March as the marchers, in the Worker; James W. Ford, of Denounce War To Block Strike held shop units, bom as a result of 30, at the headquarters of the Taxi disciplined ranks, their ground Communist candidate for Vice- for more a President in the 1932 selections; actual struggles. A growth in Party Drivers Union of Greater New York, Slash Wages As 30 000 than half hour before the City Robert Minor, Central Committee membership and the consolidation NEW YORK.—Led by Mayor La 133 W. 42nd St., it was decided to Threaten Blood Bath If Hall. member of the Communist Party; of leadership, as well as real im- Guardia. for the civilians, and Major recommend the termination of the Demonstrate at City Hall provement Attacks on William Patterson, national secre- in the composition of Dennis E. Nolan, commander of the general strike of the New York taxi “Lawful” A delegation cf 13 went into the Second Hall tary ci the International Labor De- Party members—the majority of the Corps Area, U. S. army, a drivers. ' Pickers’ Rights Fail New I orkCWA Are Fired City to place the workers’ de- fen Slla Reeve “Mother” Bloor, new recruits being miners and steel march of 15,000 armed men will mands before the Mayor, calling "Following this meeting, meetings ~ beloved working class workers—were recorded by this con- glorify war in New York next Sat- for continuation and extension of leader now of strikers were held in all the vari- —Further admission f active among the fanners of the vention. urday, on Army Day, the day follow- NEW YORK C.W.A., immediate cash relief, the ous strike halls, where the mem- growers law “Work Relief a3 Leve* of enactment middle west; Max Bedacht, general The beginning of real agit-prop ing the anniversary of America’s that California and / immediate of the Work- bership, through their vote approved Mayor secretary of the International Work- work, improvement 'of the Daily entry into the World War. officers are organizing fascist mur- i Subsistence” LaGuardia CW A Men Razz ers Unemployment Insurance Bill, the recommendation of the general gangs to smash strike no ers Order; I Amter, national secre- Worker circulation and literature Under the sponsorship of the der the plans and discrimination on relief or strike committee—that is, that the LaGuardia at IS. Y. C. on tary of the Unemployment Cuoncils, sales, were also noted. The Military Order of the World War, of the bitterly exploited migratory Administration Orders the jobs tc Negro and foreign men return to work on the follow- in a Angeles and Mary Himoff, member of the strengthening of Negro work was! the regular army, national guard, j pickers Is made Los Easter Society Parade bom workers.