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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-16
The Negro Laundry
Slaves are Badly
Paid in Brownsville
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severe, and wages are from $40 to
$18 a week.
Workers at the Rugby Laundry in
Brownsville state that the bosses
lay for the girls after work, and
make advances to them. The girls
who refuse to respond to the bosses
advances are fired.
Workers in the Blake Laundry
tell of system of terrorization to
prevent a worker from leaving his
job. When man quits and goes
to the basement to get his clothes
in the dressing room there he is
often beaten up.
Other hell holes in Brownsville
are the Brighton Beach, Saratoga,
Louisiana, Hydrox and Pitkin Laun-
dries. Small wages are paid for
long hours of slavery at the Brigh-
ton Beach. In the Saratoga the
girls work so hours a week for S11
to SIT. About $50 boys and girls
are paid $11 to SIG week,
for SIS to 65 hours. Overtime is not
paid for.
At the Pitkin, 80 Negro and
white girls work for $12 to SIS for
55-hour week. Ten men slave
here. No overtime pay is given.
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DRILL SOLDIERS
FOR COMING WAR
War Games Stir Anti
Soviet Sentiment

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Union-the real enemy symbolized in
mock battles against the Reds-are
thronged by military experts from
the War Department, and nearly
100000 men are being systematically
drilled for the impending mass
slaughter.
"The Reds. The Reds"'
"The Red Army is Now Advanc-
ing" is the caption on war office
map freely circulated in the press
with the dual objective Of insurinE
publicity for the National Guard and
building up a strong ant-Soviet
propaganda as the prerequisite for
imperialist attack.
The program started this morning
is to continue till p. m. tomorrow,
with no break for the thousands of
privates sweltering in the summer
heat.
Despite the heavy barrage Of inn
perialist publicity maintained by
officers in the contending armies.
however, many of the soldiers, es-
pecially those in the regular army
who were forced into the ranks thru
pressure of unemployment, are re
sentful of the harsh discipline used
as an excuse to keep them hard on
the job.
These soldiers, enlightened by Bit
ter experience as to the real purpose
of the games and the part they are
intended to play in the next inl-
perialist' struggle, are telling their
comrades the gruesome story Of the
life forced on them in the last world
war.
Soldiers Demonstrate August First.
Many protest has been hurled
at the games, and reports Struggled
from the camp indicate that when
the New York working class demon
strates against imperialist war on
International Red Day, August First,
Union Square throngs will be dotted
with many soldiers-even if they
have to wear civilian clothes for the
occasion.
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Enthusiastic Meeting Party
FunctiOnaries Outline Tasks

New York functionaries packed
the large auditorium of the Work
ers School last Friday night and
discussed the tasks of the Party.
The meeting was attended by $50
functionaries of both the Commu-
mist Party and the Communist
Youth League.
1t opened with report of Com
rade William W. Weinstone, organ
izer of District 2, who outlined the
chief Party campaigns and the tasks
Of the district in connection With
the preparations for Aug. 1, Inter
national Red Day, the Gastonia tex
tile strike, the Aug. 81 Cleveland
conference for the establishment of
a new militant trade union center
and the work to be done for the
New York election campaign. "The
main slogans" he said, "for build
ing the Party in the series OF cam
paigns upon which the Party has
now entered are:
81. One thousand new members
for the Communist Party in New
York.
so. Five new shop nuclei.
"3. Five thousand new Daily
Worker readers.
"a. Double the number of shop
papers,"
Comrade Pasternack, who was
chairman, then introduced Il long
list of speakers, who discussed every
phase of Party activity in which
they were engaged. The discussion
showed that the Party membership
was beginning to respond effec-
lively to the tasks. The comrades
who spoke discussed their expert
ences in the trade unions and strike
struggles, their activities in the In
ternational Labor Defense, Workers
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tic war picture and has done so. All
that Fighting for the Fatherland"
lacks is a batch of close-ups show
ing a hair-oil hero paving over a
mpon-faced leading lady.
1t opens with q series of scenes
and sub-titles revealing how. prior
to 1914 and in the name of "pre-
serving peace" the German empire
was armed to the teeth and painting
for blood, the Austro-Hungarian i'm
perialists fanatically beating the
rlowshares into bayonets. Turkey
putting its troops into shape for
mass murder. And, hypocritically
enough, it closes with 4 dedication
to the hope that future arguments
among nations will be settled after
the manner of the Kellogg BRAND
pact instead of drawing out the
parallels between the period of in
tense mobilization just before the
assassination of Archduke Ferdi-
haho ana the present day. On the
one hand, "peace pacts" being
signed by the bale-on the other. a
headlong plunge of the selfsame i'm
perialist powers toward universal
slaughter of the workers.
The other half of the program is
taken up with CDR. Jekyll and Mr..
hyde" John Barrymore revival
in which the famous profile acts a
dual role. The epiIeptic fits he
throws upon guzzling the diabolic
potion which brings the hero's
"lower nature" to the fore and Bar
rymore's Lon CLANCY makeup as
the sinister Mr.. Hyde are quite
fetching. T. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-16
Zubewallst War IN Subht1es
IN Film Guilds German Film

Advertised as a blasting argu-
ment against imperialist wars" the
picture at the Film Guild Cinema,
Fighting for the Fatherland," is
IN reality subtle Qualification of
the goose-step, an attempt to wipe
off the gore on the sabre of i'm
perlalism and make it glitter in the
sun.
Almost nothing of the actual con-
flict, of the narrowing life led in
the trenches by the rank and file, is
served up in this film except in the
sub-titles. 1t was compiled from
the official motion picture records
OF the German general staff and
AIMS to exhibit, in a soft, peach
blow light, the part played by the
entente jingoes in the last imper-
ialist carnage.
There are some flashes of heavy
artillery Smelling away at enemy
towns, of the submarines in action.
one remarkable sequence of French
troops storming q German line en-
trenched on sfhw-covered hill and
an animated map illustrating how
Won Hindenburg bottled up the Rus
sian army in Austria-Hungary.
But, for the main part, the war, as
edited in this film, seems to have
consisted of nothing but eternal
marches, good food and hilarious
times in the prison camps. Holly
wood could turn out a more reals
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-16
SPREAD LAUNDRY
WORKERS FIGHT
NewLeadership Wages
Organization Drive

In response to an appeal of the
Laundry Workers Section of the
Trade Union Educational League, a
number of the inside workers in the
Commodore Laundry went out on
strike yesterday. When the workers
gathered outside the laundry, two
cars filled with bosses and guerillas
drove up, pulled a number of girls in
and drove them back to the plant.
Several were severely beaten.
The walkout of the inside workers
in the Commodore Laundry is a sig
rificant development in the cam
paign just started by the new mill
tant rank and file leadership of Lo-
cal 80 Laundry Drivers, Chauffeurs
and Helpers Union, to organize the
inside as well as the outside laundry
workers in fight against the long
hours, miserable wages and other in.
tolerable conditions to which they
are subjected.
Four Important Strikes.
Local $40 is now carrying on four
! important strikes in the Bronx,
against the jerome Laundry, 1890
Jerome Ave; Fairview Laundry,
1882 Crotona Ave. (also known as
the Regal Laundry, 1901 Belmont
Ave.); the Starlight Laundry, POTS
Washington Ave, and the Commo-
dore Laundry (also known as the
Rival Laundry, 1860 Seneca Ave.
These strikes which were orig
inally confined to the outside work
ers, are now, under the new rank
and file leadership, being spread to
the inside workers.
T. U. E. L. Leads Fight.
Appeals issued by the Laundry
Workers Section Of the Trade Union
Educational League are now being
distributed to the workers. The ap-
peals urge all the laundry workers,
inside and out, men and women,
white and Negro and young workers,
to join in a common struggle against
the brutal exploitation of the laundry
bosses. The demands are the eight
hour day and five-day week; aboli-
ton of piece work and the commits
sion basis of pay; week work and
minimum wage scale; two weeks va
cation with pay; abolition Of over
time; two 15-minute rest periods
during the day; a sanitary control
commission of workers, abolition of
the yellow dog contract; unemploy-
ment, sick, accident and death in
surance fund to be paid by the
bosses and managed by the workers
organizations.
A representative delegation of the
laundry workers is expected to be
present at the Trade Union Unity
Convention, called by the Trade
Union Educational League, in Cleve-
land Aug. 81, Sept. 1 and 2, where
new trade union center of the
American workingclass will be
formed.
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BRONX
Y Athletic CIub.

Every member of the Bronx Work.
,rs Athletic Club is instructed to
pine. to the gym today to practice
lr the next Sundays games for the
". ]. r.
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scented, that jury would have con-
victed.
AS a matter of fact, very little
evidence came out against the work
efs. 1t was stated Parsons, Lingg,
Spies and others had advocated that
workers arm themselves with bombs.
Almost everybody went armed in
those days, dynamite was just in
vented, it was cheap, and in 1878
law had been passed in Illinois for
bidding wage earners to have fire
arms, W HIGH, furthermore cost
money. Police brutality and employ
ers' gangsters brutality was a well
known thing. There was nothing il
legal in this advice, any more than
there was anything illegal in the
workers of Gastonia exercising their
constitutional right to bear arms,
and their right, as old as the com
mon law, to defend with arms if
necessary, their persons and their
homes from illegal attack.
But these words of advice, with
the evidence of a few stool-pigeons
tending to show that the accused had
planned revolution, all covered by
Judge Gary's neat but murderous
theorizing, plus the packed jury be-
fore which all evidence of innocence
was lost, resulted in a conviction.
The employers press of Chicago
simply went wild, printing the most
outrageous suggestions as facts, and
calling for hanging, just as the mill
owners paper, the Gastonia Gazette,
froths at the mouth and demands
the execution of the textile strikers,
Those wishing to read the press
theory of the actions of the Chicago
defendants, can find it embalmed in
the Encyclopedia Americana, in most
Libraries. 1t is lurid tale of con-
spiracy and bomb-making, contra
dicted in every detail by the evidence
at the trial, by the findings OF Gov
.ernor Altegeld, by John R. Commons
History of American Labor, by
every investigator who has ever
made. any honest study of the facts.
But 1t was the version given the
masses of Chicago to believe at the
time, and it helped to kill five men.
(Slmilar stories are told by the En-
cyclopedia about the Molly Maguires.
and the Homestead Strike).
A workers mass movement grew
around this Haymarket case for
years, until it finally eliminated in
the governor of the state pardoning
Fielden, Schwab and Neebe, in 1898.
But in 1887, Lingg had been driven
to suicide, and Spies, Parsons,
Fischer and Engel had died heroic
ally on the scaffold, with their last
breath shouting the slogans of the
cause for which they fought.
We see here in this Haymarket
case the first clear development of
many tactics that are to be used
later when the minds of the bosses
run to legalized murder of workers.
We have the use of an opportune
killing as an excuse for arresting
strike leaders. Then comes the
newspaper hysteria, whipping up the
community against the defendants.
the packing of the jury, the use of
perJured witnesses, the doctrine of
guilt by agitation, not by direct par
ticipation.
The lesson to the workers of to-
day is this: if they would prevent
another mass execution of workers
and strike leaders every one knows
to be innocent, they must create that
mass movement for their release.
while they are still alive.
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International Relief, the tenants
rent strike movement, the prcpara-
tions for the election campaign,
shop nuclei and shop paper work,
and the preparations for Interna-
tional Red Day, to be held on Aug. /.
The meeting received all speeches,
especially those reporting on mass
work done or on mass work to be
done, with tremendous enthusiasm.
The list of speakers follows: Pat
terson, Cohen, Bloom, Sklar, Hacker
Disanto, King, Litwin, Markoff,
Grecht, Simons, Reeve, Gus, Darcy,
Massman and others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-16
TENANTS CHEER
C.P. RESOLUTION
Moore, Campbell Urge
House Committees

The resolution on the housing sit
uation adopted by the City Nomin-
ating Convention Of the Communist
Party, New York District, Sunday,
which condemned the rent sharks,
urged the organization of working
class tenants into house and block
committees affiliated with militant
tenant leagues and adocated the
calling of a rent strike, was read
by Richard B. Moore, president, at
the regular weekly meeting of .the
Harlem Tenants League in the Har-
lem Public Library Auditorium last
night and received with the great.
est enthusiasm by the 20C workers
present.
Expose RefOrmists.
Grace Campbell, vice-president OF
the League, also spoke, after which
the floor was thrown open to the
tenants, whose exposures of the ex-
ploitation they have suffered at the
hands Of the landlord class and the
social uplifters" who nave robbed
thousands of Negro workers with
fake reformist schemes, raised a
storm of militancy which hoded no
good for the rent swine.
The Watt Terry houses, whose
tenants have been organized by the
League and who, along with many
workers in other tenements, refused
to pay rent raises on July J.. were
well represented. Several spies in
the pay of the landlords were recog-
nized skulking i'll the back of the
hall.
A few tenants, speaking from the
floor. confessed that they had been
urged by political hacks to attend
the meetings in order to make
trouble" but after hearing the aims
OF the organization eXpounded re
allied that they had everything to
gain by banding together with their
class.
Landlord Snoops.
Edward E. Johnson, wealthy Ne
gro landlord, who opposed Richard
s. Moore as candidate for congress-
man from the Dist District in the
last election and who is slated to
run against the worker candidate
again, was also in the hall.
The speakers stressed the need
for immediate organization of house
and block committees to prepare
for the general rent strike which is
- 4o1-a
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Grocery Union Meet
Tonight Will Discuss
Organization Driv e

Plans for spreading the organiza-
ton drive now being conducted by
the Grocery, Fruit, Dairy and
Butcher Workers Union will be dis
cussed at an important membership
meeting of the union tonight at 8
o'clock at 220 E. 18th st.
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RIG CLOAK MEET
fONIGRT TO PLAN
REAL STRUGGLE:
Workers to Mobilize
Against Sellout
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compelled) to shell out. 1t is a well
known characteristic of company
union agents that their hands can
usually be found in the workers
pockets. And so a cloakmakor,
after being fleeced and betrayed all
around, before he can return to work
today to enjoy his victory" must
pay up all his dues and taxes, in
addition to forking over a days
wages.
but the company union officials
eren't stingy either yesterday.
hey flooded the workers with brass
6and music and speeches (the same
cid line of bully, urging them to
smile while they were being oper-
ated ON for the removal of cash.
Not Cent To Company Union"
mot cent to the company
union," is the slogan issued by the
Industrial Union. All cloakmakers
are urged to refuse to be terrorized
into swelling the already overflow
ing l. L. G. w. treasury.
An appeal has been issued by the
Rank and File Clothing Workers
Committee of So of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers Section of
the Trade Union Educational League,
urging all mems clothing workers
to give one cent or "work one min
ute to help betray the cloakmakars. !"
The corrupt Hillman machine in the
A. G. W., which works hand in hand
with the I. L. G. w. machine, has
decided to turn over $4,000 to the
company union and to tax the cloth
ing workers two hours work each
for the Ill. G. w. fake stoppage.
Today tie agreement which places
the workers more completely in the
grip of the employers and their
company union agents is being
signed at the City Hall with two of
T a mmany'g summaries, Mayor
Walker and Lieutenant Governor
lehman, giving Tammany's blessing.
Thug Given Light Sentence.
At the mass picketing demonstra-
ton yesterday, which was attended
by thousands of cloakmakers who
answered the call of the Industrial
Union, there was another attack by
company union guerilla on a mill
tant worker. Jack Glatt narrowly
escaped serious injury at the hands
of ]. Geller who, when taken into
custody, was found to have the usual
record of devotion to the cause of
socialism," to wit: diploma from
a reformatory where he was sent as
a boy, two one and half year SEN
fences in Sing Sing for larceny and
one two and half year term for
grand larceny, ETC., etc. Despite his
record and the brutality of his at
tack, he was given only five days
in the workhouse.
In contrast to this light sentence
was the 30-day sentence imposed on
Max Banker, cloakmaker arrested
everal days ago. The charge
.gainst him was "felonious assault"
Dressmakers Meet Thursday.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, in addition to its
program of struggle in the cloak in
dustry, is preparing to launch an
intensive drive for the organization
OF the dressmakers. For this pur-
pose it is calling meeting of all
dressmakers in Webster Hall, 119
E. 18th St., on Thursday at 7 p. m.
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imperialism is, mt tho snme time
the most prostitute and the ultim-
ate form of the State power which
nnscent middle-clnss society had
commenced to elaborate ms n means
OF Its own emancipation from feud-
nlfsm. and which fuII-grown bour-
Seois society had finally trans
formed into means for the en-
slnvement Of labor by capital. -
Mnrx.
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planned by the committee on governors
If States and other distinguished visitors,
which will be held at the same hotel
Monday noon the party will be the
guests of Senator and Mrs. George H.
Moses at a luncheon at the Capitol and
when the governor with his staff and
council take their place in the parade
others of the party will go to the Post
Office Department Building there to be
the guests of ex-Gov. and Mrs. John H.
Bartlett, and will witness the parade.
In the early evening, following the
parade, they, with the New Hampshire
delegation in Congress, will be the
guests, with their ladies, Of Representa-
tive and Mrs. Fletcher Hale and Mr.. and
Mrs. Bartlett, the former First Assistant
Postmaster General, at a dinner party
at Meridian Mansions. Later the party
will be the guests of the New Hampshire
Association at its reception and ball,
which will also be held at Meridian
Mansions. During the evening an
elaborate supper win be served. The
decorations Of the ballroom will be
mountain laurel brought from the
granite hills of New Hampshire for the
occasion.
Representative Fletcher Hale, Mr.
Bartlett and Mr.. Frederick j. Young
have been appointed to represent New
Hampshire on the inaugural committee
The officers of the New Hampshire or
ganization in charge of entertaining the
Granite State party are: Representative
Fletcher Hale, president; Mrs Francis
Parkinson Reyes and Mr.. Emmett
Borden, vice presidents; Mr.. John j.
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Mrs. H. Fl. Sheen, who will entertain al
the Army and Navy Club. Mrs. Hop
kins is passing some time at the Ward
man Park Hotel.
Baroness Won Rosenberg Drier will
entertain at luncheon at the Ward
man Park Hotel Tuesday.
Miss Janet McWilliams entertained
at dinner Wednesday evening at the
Grace Dodge Hotel.
Senior Gonzalo Arrange of Cuba will
entertain at luncheon Sunday at 2400
Sixteenth street in celebration Of the
national holiday Of Cuba.
Mr.. II. o. Grow entertained at a
dance last evening at the Grace Dodge
Hotel.
Mrs. Max Dennison Prentice enter
tanned at luncheon and bridge yesterday
at her home on Porter street. The
guests included Mrs. Albert Law, Mrs.
Edgar p. Allen. Mrs. Gordon Edmonds,
Mrs. William Kerlin Mrs. Gerald Woods
Miss Gretchen Campbell. Mrs. George
Sheriff and Mrs. Carl Goodman. The
color scheme of pink and white was
accumulated with vases of pink roses
and Chinese orchids on the tables.
Miss Rose B. Yeager entertained
Sunday afternoon February 10 at tea
from to 6 o'clock, In her home on
Connecticut avenue, complimentary to
DIR. Esther A. Nathanson, who recently
returned from New York. Miss Yeager
arranged q very interesting and novel
entertainment for the afternoon.
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Moriarty. secretary; Mr.. Noalter A.
Browne, treasurer, and Mr.. Fred J.
williams, chairman Of comm h tee.
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Mrs. Barry Entertains
In Daughters Honor

Mrs. Joseph r. Barry was hostess at
a Valentine party Thursday afternoon
in the ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel,
in honor of her little daughter, Eileen
Marie Barry. Among the invited guests
were little Miss BarTy's classmates,
members of the first grade of Friends
School. Vases of Spring flowers were
used in the decorations. One of the
loveliest being a basket Of variegated
sweet peas. tulips and hyacinths. The
handle was ornamented with gold and
red heart and fluffy bow of green rib
bon tied card bearing the inscription
ITO Daddy's Sweetheart"
Upon entering the ballroom the little
guests received red "Snappers" and
then were told that st. Valentine had
hidden candy hearts for them to find
and merry scramble ensued. Going to
Jerusalem was played, Mrs. Beckwith
contributing lively march on the piano.
The children were given Cupid's ar
rows and, blindfolded, tried to pin them
on huge red heart. The "postman'
brought bundle of Valentines and It
was found that there was one for each
little guest.
Mrs. Stops entertained by reading
her own compositions. Her first read
ing was "A Boys Day at the Circus "
One called 81 Want to be the Captain
or Won't Play" and you Get Up"
Miss Adelaide Ulm danced.
Delicious refreshments were served
including ice cream nodded in the shape
OF red hearts, fancy cakes decorated
with Cupids and fruit punch.
Mrs. Barry's gown was lovely one of
faun georgette. Mrs. Stops wore green
crepe de chine and Mrs. Beckwith wore
green velvet and georgette. The small
hostess, Miss Eileen, wore a dainty
frock of pale green crepe chiffon.
The guests included Miss Bernice
Jacobs. Miss Agnes Fastnaught, Miss
Jean Jewell, Miss Suzanne Graves, Miss
Mary Elizabeth Hunt, Miss Shirley
Evans, Miss Sally Lee Young, Miss
Katherine Claude, Miss Frances Neither
wood. Miss Georgia CHASER, Miss Betsy
Moses, Miss Katheryn Compton, Miss
Helen Ann Wallack. Miss Mary Ade-
laide Cronin, John Wade Rice, jr., Miss
Gladys Damn and others.