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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
3 CHICAGO SEWER
WORKERS DEAD

CHICAGO, July 15.-The bodies
of three workers were removed this
afternoon from the district sewers
along 125th st. here, where rescue
workers had labored for IL hours
in an attempt to save their fellow
workers. The workers, more than
80 of them, engaged in construction
work in the sewer, were placed in
danger when an official order, an
nounced without regard for the lives
of the workers trapped in the sewer
pipes, that the entire sewer system
be flooded.
After the bodies had been recov-
cred from the pipes, the officials of
the construction company announced
that the water had been turned on
by mistake"
One of the bodies was identified as
that of Carl Chiaro, hero of the dis
aster, who had seven times gone
down into the tunnel, diving into
the swirling water at the risk of his
life, each time bringing up a COM
rade. He failed to return after his
eighth attempt. The other two
bodies were those of Negro workers
who have not yet been identified.
During the rescue work, Edward
NJ. LAME, another worker, was
electrocuted while repairing cable
of 10000 voltage that had been
broken by the sewer flood.
The company tried to keep the dis
aster secret at first, but after the
arrest of one of the officials, they
admitted that their negligence had
caused the deaths.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
HAT union TRIES
ORGANIZING SHOP

SCRANTON, July Is (FP).-
Fourteen members of Hat, Cap and
Millinery Workers Local, %, are
planning to follow the Scranton
Cap Company to Stroudsburg, Pa,
where it moved recently. Lower
wages and longer hours were induce
ments held out by the Stroudsburg
Chamber of Commerce to the Scran-
ton firm, which changed its name
to the Monroe Cap Co.
The union workers were brought to
Scranton with the promise they
would have longtime jobs there.
Now they are considering sending a
group to Stroudsburg to see if the
fleeing boss can't be forced by or
ganization work among the new en-
rloyes, to sign up with the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
New Bedford Strikers
Will Get Proceeds of
Massachusetts, Picnic

BOSTON, Mass, July Is. = The
workers of Brockton will join the
workers of Boston, Worceter, Rox-
bury, Chelsea and Springfield in the
New England excursion to Camp
|Nitgedaiget. The buses will leave
|Brockton Labor Lyceum at 10 a. m.
on Sunday, July Is.
For the first time the Children's
Strike Chorus of New Bedford will
perform in public. These children
/ have organized their chorus since
the strike began and are singing as
well as fighting by the side of their
parents on the picket lines every
day. They have learned all the rea'
revolutionary songs and by singing
them help to keep up the spirit of
The strikers.
In addition there will be per-
Torrance by textile strikers, who,
lin addition to leading strike activity
have organized a real workers band
that is cheering up the adult work
Iers.
The buses will leave the follow
ling stations at 10 a. m. Sunday
morning: SO Causeway St., Boston;
The New international Hall, AZ Wen
lonah St., Roxbury; the Chelsea La
|bor Lyceum, 453 Broadway, Chel-
sea.
All workers in Massachusetts
have been invited to attend the pic
mic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16

CHAIRMEN
PLAN BIG DRIVE

Despite torrential downpour of
rain that continued from the time
the workers quit their shops and
lasted far into the evening, hun
dreds of cloakmakers came to the
first monthly shop delegates con-
ference yesterday, called by the To-
cal committee of the National Or
ganization Committee and occupied
every available seat in Webster
Hall, 18th st. and Third Ave.
The meeting of workers repre-
sentatives enthusiastically discussed
and carried thru a series of meas
ures that will further the fight for
the establishment of union condi-
lions in the ladies' garment making
industry.
Hyman Discusses Situation.
After the meeting was opened by
J. Cohen, chairman, Louis Hyman.
leader of the National Organization
Committee, gave a brief survey of
the present status of the cloakmak-
ers in the struggle with the bosses
and Sigman.
He ridiculed the new blare of
trumpets with which the right wing
was heralding a second fake organi-
cation drive.
A report by the committee secre-
tary on the work of the Organiza-
ton Committee of 500, which was or
ganized since the original shop dele
gates conference, was then deliv-
cred.
Plan for Future Work.
The meeting then adopted a plan
for future work, the six major
points of which are:
Shop chairmen must join the
work undertaken by bringing in
complaints to the Joint Board and
by reporting information about the
open shops in the trade.
Am intensive campaign is to
be launched to bring workers into
the organization with the payment
of a fee of $3.50.
3.-The organization campaign
shall begin with a mass meeting in
the Bronx Stadium, which has a
seating capacity of between $4,000
and $4,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
FREED WORKERS
WELCO Med AT
DEMONSTRATION
Hundreds Gather at
Union Square

A demonstration in which hun
dreds of workers braved the rain
late yesterday afternoon was held at
Union Square to welcome the four
workers released from the Tombs
and the Workhouse, where they had
served a sentence of five days for
participation in an anti-imperial
demonstration in front Of the office
of j. P. Morgan on July 8.
Robert Minor, editor OF The
DAILY WORKER and Workers
tCommunist) candidate for U. S.
Senator, and Robert Wolf, novelist
and poet, were freed from the
Tombs; Rebecca Grecht, New York
state campaign manager of the
Workers Party, and Harriet Silver
man, secretary of the local branch
of the Anti-Imperialist League,
which arranged both the July 8
demonstration and yesterdays meet
ing, were released from the Work
house.
Speakers at the meeting included
Minor, Grecht, Shachtman, editor of
"The Labor Defender; D. Benja-
min, assistant director of the Work
ers School, and Arthur Stein of the
Young Workers League and Jessie
Taft of the Young Pioneers.
The speakers denounced the bru-
tai attack on the demonstration and
called for continued agitation
against the imperialistic aggression
of American capitalists.
"Jail sentences do not brighten us
Communists" Minor declared. THAT
is what we expect as long as we
continue our fight on the ruling
class of the United States and in
the interests of the workers.
eve were not thrown into the
Tombs because we violated any So
called statute. Beside US in the
street a minister speaking on SUBJ
Ject which did not menace the rul-
ing class was, of course, unmo-
Tested.
"But such acts of intimidation
and terrorism will not prevent the
Communists from bringing their
message to the working class. 1t
will only heighten our agitation and
spur US to greater activity"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
TelevisiOn Progresses

The practicability of television
was demonstrated Wednesday at the
Bell Telephone Co. laboratories.
The television camera, attached to
a radio, showed clear pictures of a
man playing tennis on the roof for
the sake of the experiment.
1t was proven that the sun was
sufficient to paint" the vision on
the tense. Formerly powerful cleo
trio lights were used for this. The
camera will be able to operate on
hazy days, but clouds that shut off
sunlight weaken the cameras vision.
Experimenters stated that the
television' camera is yet in its ex-
perimental stage since only experts
are able to operate it, especially as
attached with the radio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
MINERS JEER AT
STRIKE EDWARDS

PITTSBURGH, July Is (FP).-
Avella barracks were in uproar as
operators agents came for two de-
sorting miners. Dish pans, pots
and tin pals were banged with
spoons in derision; the children cried
out scornfully, you're scabbing on
our dads!" All the women were
shouting at the same time in half
dozen languages.
Company agents are combing the
mining towns, spreading defeatism
and looking for men to return to
the open-shop mines. Exorbitant
wages are promised to strikers who
will betray their brothers. Moon
shine is dispensed literally until the
victim becomes maudlin. AS a
good American citizen and de-
cent father" it is his duty TO scab
against his fellow workers, he is
told. AS soon as a Eyes" is drilled
out of him, company truck calls
at the barracks and carries his fam
lily to the scab patch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
BARRIERS OUT ON
GENERAL STRIKE
IN PHILADELPH IA
Plan to Organize All
Progressives

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. July 49,
Journeymen BARRIERS all over the
city here have gone on strike
against an attempt on the part of
the bosses to cut their wages and
reduce their working conditions to
the pre-war level.
Many of the patrons at the vari-
Gus barber shops, upon learning of
the strike, left the barber chairs
with lather on their faces, partly
shaved. Girls refused to permit
scabs to bob their hair Today many
pickets are patrolling in front of
hundreds Of shops throughout the
city.
Workers Present Demands.
Some of the demands presented by
the striking workers are that all
BARRIERS should be hired through the
union; that journeymen BARRIERS be
paid $35 per week and so per cent
commission for over $50 taken in
in five days; that one day off q
week be allowed them. In the CEN
ter of the city, where the shops are
busiest, the workers demand $32 per
week and so per cent commission
for over SAT; So per day and so
per cent commission for over So
Evening helpers, working between
IS and s p. m. shall be paid SO and
80 per cent for SIS. Other demands
are that Saturdays pay shall be
$12 and 80 per cent for SIS, and
that barber shops shall be opened
at 8 a. m. and closed at 8 p. m. In
the center of the city ten hours shall
constitute a days work.
At conference held here with
the bosses, the latter refused to
recognize the demands of the work
lers, and were willing to "concede"
conditions and pay much lower than
those demanded by the striking
workers.
Officials Betray Workers.
According to latest reports, the
strikers are showing fine spirit and
are confident that their power will
force the bosses to grant their de-
mands. Active rank and file mem.
beers of the, union, however, are dis
satisfied with the actions of the Of
.ficials of the union. 1t is pointed
out that union officials, in nego-
tiating with the employers, gave up
the demands for increases in wages
thereby placing the union in a de-
fensive position. The employers took
advantage of this and imposed
wage-cut on the workers.
The militants among the rank and
file are preparing to organize the
progressive workers with the pur-
pose of preventing further compro-
mise of their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
MussOlini FOrbids All
Visits to Kin Abroad

GENEVA, July Mussolini, in
an attempt to trap the emigrant
Italian workers into the fascist pris-
ons, has forbidden the families Of
these workers to join them abroad.
Thousands of Italians have fled to
France to escape the fascist terror,
and many mad to leave their wives
and children in Italy. When they
attempted to get their families out
of Italy Mussolini did not grant pass
ports. The Italian Consul at Toul-
ose said that "the government in
Rome is determined to crush the
emigrants."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
English Police Protect
Mussolini in Liverpool

LONDON, July 15.-Many pro-
tests by various workers organiza-
tons against the terror justice in
Italy are taking place all over Eng
land, under the auspices of the In
ternational Red Aid. In many parts
of the country such demonstrations
take place regularly. In Liverpool,
for example, in the week of June 23,
there was on the average of three
mass meetings per night in various
parts of the city.
The workers Of Liverpool, at a
huge mass meeting in the largest
square of the city, was to demon
strate the fascist terror by a tableau
The British Police forbid the show
ing at the last minute.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
5000 PORTERS
DEMAND STRIKE

Over 5000 members OF the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
tiers are due to strike shortly I'M
less the officials of the organiza-
ton, working together with Presi-
dent Green Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, again forestall the
move as they did several weeks ago
Secret strike directions are said
to have been issued in concealed en-
velopes, it became known yesterday.
According to A. Philip Randolph,
general organizer of the union, who
was instrumental IN calling off the
previous order for a walkout, these
envelopes are not to be opened until
orders are received from a two-man
strike committee composed of Ran
dolph and M P. Webster, division
organizer of Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
GIRL WORKERS IN
CIGAR FACTORIES
EARN S12 A week
Workers Face Loss of
Hands in Machines

PHILADELPHIA (FP).-Listen-
ing to discussion of Pres. Coolidge's
latest prosperity Tux, a girl cigar
maker termed it all humbug, at least
to cigar factory workers.
She works for BORROW Bros, Inc.
220 S. Fifth St., with several hun
dred other employees, mostly girls
They work on piece rate basis
95c thousand. At the rate of 3 to
a thousand cigars a day, they earn
SIS to $50 a week, if there are no
deductions for bad cigars. The de-
auctions sometimes runs as high as
900 out of 5000 cigars day.
When cigars are bad the whole
crew of working on a machine
suffer deductions; thus 900 bad
cigars cause a cut in pay on 5000
It makes no difference whether the
part Of work handled by the first or
last girl on the machine is bad, the
cigars are finished, broken up and
the work not paid for.
race Loss OF Hands.
Operators can't repair machinery
out of order when work starts go
ing, because there is danger of get
ting hands caught in the machine
and losing a finger or worse. The
onl yway to set things straight is
to stop the machine, but it must be
kept running.
When a girl wants to go to a
Mushroom she can't leave the ma,
chine until an extra girl on the floor
comes to take her place. Sometimes
she must wait as long as 40 min
utes.
Poor Ventilation.
If one of crew isn't well and
fails to come in for the day, the
other 3 girls lose that days work
The same happens when one gets
injured on faints during the day
Painting is common, caused by lack
Of ventilation. Open windows woul6
cause the tobacco to dry, so all win.
dows are kept shut and hundreds of
employees forced to work in rank
tobacco odors. Many modern cigar
factories have good ventilation sys-
tems-but greed keeps the others
from making Improvements.
Working 40 hours a week under
such conditions, girls make SIP
and if lucky as high as 500 a week
This accounts for the high labor
turnover which makes it necessary
for cigar factories to hire new work
ers every day-even in this period
of unemployment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
ICIvE OUT DAILY"
AT BELLAS PLANT

Threats of the manager of the
Bellas Hess Suit and Cloak Co., on
I24th Street, that he would call the
police failed yesterday to break up
distribution of hundreds of copies
\ of The DAILY WORKER in front
of the shop or prevent the workers
from accepting the paper.
Alarmed by the eagerness with
which the workers accepted the
paper, the manager appeared shortly
after distribution began and threat
/ ened to call the police.
By the time a policeman arrived
however, all the papers were gone
and the baffled officer was finally
forced to give up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
Philadelphia T. U. E. L. Picnic.
FASCISTS PLAN
WAR ON U.S.S.R.

BUCHAREST, July 15.-The
French general. Rond, arrived
here today. Pilsudsh, military
dictator of Poland, is expected to
arrive momentarily as well as rep
resentatives of other Little En-
tente states for the purpose of
holding a secret military confer
ence which is to take place under
the direction of the French gen
eral staff.
According to reliable informa-
ton the purpose of this confer
ence is to prepare the way for
war on the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
DEMOCRAT P, 0.
CRAFT REVEALED

WASHINGTON, July Is (UP)-
Postmaster General New told the
Brookhart senate committee yester-
day that democrats through the ma
tional committee, solicited campaign
contributions from postmasters
when the democrats were in power.
He submitted a file of letters sent
out by w. D. Jameson, director of
finance of the democratic national
committee from 1917 to 1920, asking
contributions of pos m a S t S
throughout the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
YOUTH CONDEMN
PLOTKIN ARREST

WINGDALE, N. Y, July Is
The court sentence against Rose
Plotkin,s member of the Young
Pioneers of America, children's Sec
ton Of the Young Workers (Com-
munist) League, was protested to-
day by the children of the Work
ers' International Relief Camp, here.
Rose Plotkin was arrested in con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
100000 En- glish
Children Are Unfit

LONDON, July 15.-There are
over 100000 unfit" children in
the schools of Great Britain, says
a recent deport. Half million of
these children are dull and back
ward and the other half need med
ical attention. Poverty and bad
housing conditions have much to do
with malnutrition, the report says.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
LEGAL TRUST FORMED

FRENCH LICK, Ind, July IS
A merger of 153 moving and stor-
age firms Of the United States was
completed here yesterday. The cor
poration is named the Allied Van
Lines, Inc. All stock is held by the
National Furniture Warehousemen's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
TAXI INSPECTORS
IN new RACKET
Drivers Complain of
Lost Cards

HOOC SCl1 0S
Charges that hack inspectors, act
ing under orders from the Hack
License Bureau, were stealing Grim
inal Identification cards from taxi
cabs as drivers were inside of res
taurants, attending to other bust
ness, have been made during the
past two weeks by taxi drivers and
officials of taxi associations.
Hugo Werber, business manager
Of the Broad Street Taxi Owners
Association, has been quoted as say
ing that thousands of taxi drivers
have had their cards taken in this
way"
Inspectors have had orders, it was
learned, from Commissioner Rutten-
berg, in charge of the hack bureau,
to pick up cards in cabs that are
left vacant. According to hack regu-
lations, cards must be displayed
conspicuously in the drivers cab.
Garages Raided
The Tammany hack inspectors,
drivers state, are not satisfied with
picking up these Identification cards
on the streets. These inspectors are
known to go to garages and pick up
cards left in the cabs by their own
ers.
Drivers going to work in the
morning, on examining their cabs,
are known to have found their card
missing. The driver then must re-
port the loss to his precinct station
house. Here he is usually told that
his card is on the way downtown.
If the driver lives in the far end of
the Bronx or Queens, this means a
trip down to the hack license bu-
reau on Greenwich st. BY the time
he arrives there half his day is usu-
ally gone. There he must stand in
line and wait his chance to inquire
from one of the clerks about the
card. The chances are ten to one,
drivers report, that the mailman
has not delivered the mailsw1th his
card and he is then told to come
back the next day.
Wilful Delay
Hundreds Of drivers complain
that hack inspectors have held up
their cards two and three days be-
fore mailing them downtown. One
driver, who had left his cab in front
Of an office building on Park Row,
had his card picked up. He had
merely gone into the building to
wash his hands. When he came out
he noticed that his card was miss
ing. A private chauffeur told him
that a hack inspector had Gifted"
the card. The taxi driver went to
the Ook St. police station, where he
was told by the captain in charge
to go to the hack license bureau.
1t took this driver three days to get
his credentials back. This case is
typical.
Hack inspectors who take cards
in this way are guilty of larceny
and are liable to civil or criminal
Many taxi drivers, it
is said, have paid graft to inspec-
tors for the return Of their cards.
Same Story
Another driver stated that his
card had been taken from his cab
while he was inside a coffee pot on
Seventh Ave, Harlem, and declared
that it was "just another scheme to
lpulct graft from us drivers. If
meter seal should break on my
clock, and they break quite often,
it costs me just one buck But to
get my card back is more expensive.
If l only had a pound 1857 l could
get my card back from that louise
pointing to an inspector walking
in the next block in thirty minutes.
It's just a case of graft, graft,
graft"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
Bosses Slash Wages
OF Single Workers

ABERDEEN, Wash, July Is. -
Single workers employed at the
Shafer Bros. mill, this county, sus-
pended work because of wage reduc-
tons that range from 81 to $1.50
day.
The company is paying straight
time in its logging camps for a
10 and 12-hour day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
WORKERS CALENDAR

A, announcements for this column
must reach The DAILY WORKER
several days before the event in ques-
lion to make the announcement eff
feetive. Many announcements arrive
at the office too late for publication
owing to the additional time needed
FOR the delivery of the paper
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
Armour Co. Fined
For Short Weight

n CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 15.-Armour
and Company was fined $25 in dis
'Itrict court here for giving short
'|weight. The complainant was
gGeorge Thomas, dealer, of 1929 Ga
Tllena St., who had bought beef
E|ham which weighed only 90 pounds
although it was billed as weighing
2s pounds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
co. REVIEWS AGREEMENT.

WOODLAND, Me-, (FP) July Is.
The st. Croix Paper Co. has re-
newed it's union agreement effective
to May /, 1920.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16

LABORERS UNION ENROLLS 161
ASHEVILLE, N. C. (FP) July Is.
The common laborers union has
enrolled 161 new members.
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functioraries of various units, and
comrades in different factories have
been urged to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
Philadelphia Picnic.

Workers (Communist) Party, Dis
trict Three, will hold a picnic and
carnival on Labor Day at Shutzen
Park. Benjamin Gitlow will speak.
Chicago ID. f.. C. Meet.
CHICAGO, Ill.-The District Exec
Gtive Committee of the Young Work
ers (Communist) League of Chicago
will hold an organizational confer
ence of shop nuclei on July %. All
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16
400 InIN Union

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, (FP) July
15.-400 cameramen recently Joined
the union.
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PhiladeIphia Miners Relief.


Philadelphia Miners Relief.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa.-Philadelphia
Miners Relief Conference here has
arranged a picnic for July 20 at
Ma pie Grove Park.
Philadelphia T. L. E. L. Picnic.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The Trade
Union Educational League of Phila-
delphia will hold a Grand Picnic at
Maple Park Grove on August A. be-
ginning at a. m. and ending at
a. m. the next morning Sports, dane
ing, and musical programs will be
added to the speeches of prominent
members returned from the u. S. s. r.
All are invited to attend.