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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Terror Renewed
AGAINST LAUD-
SCHOBER PICKETS
Workers Determined
to Win

PHILADELPHIA, June BIN
areasing size Of the picket lines out
side the Laird Schober Shoe Plant
Indicates the increasing determine
ton of the strikers to force the COM
pany to surrender to the union de-
mands. Workers who have never
before taken part in a strike are
now anXiously awaiting their turn
to be called to the picket line.
Coincident with the intensified ac-
tivity, police have resorted once
more to customary brutality and ar
resting pickets en- masse. Fifteen
strikers were arrested this morning,
and were Immediately driven off to
roach-infested cells.
Try Keeping Strikers Overnight.
The notorious Magistrate Fitz-
gerald did not consider it necessary
to "try" the pickets, but by hearing
the cases of drunkards, tried to keep
the arrested strikers in Jail over
night. However, his plans were de-
feated by Jennie Cooper, local secre-
tary of the International Labor De-
Tense, who secured a copy of the
charges from another magistrate
Fitzgerald was then forced to release
all pickets on bail.
The pickets were greeted with an
enthusiastic ovation at the union
hall, where they followed Cooper in
speeches to the assembled workers.
IL. ID. Active in Defense.
Fifteen new cases are due for
trial soon. They will be defended
by the l. L. D. William Murdoch and
Helen Platnick, previously arrested
for picketing, were tried this morn
ing by Judge Gordon. Several scabs,
foremen and bosses testified against
them. A discussion ensued in the
course Of the trial between Murdoch
and the judge regarding the defini-
tion OF "scab" Murdoch was fined
$40 and costs. The same sentence
was given Helen Platnick. The 1.
L. D. is appealing both sentences to
the higher court.
Among those at the trial were
Magistrate Fitzgerald, who attended
apparently in order to observe
judge of the higher court ladling out
Justice" to the workers. "The only
thing he learned" one of the strik-
ers said, twas that the l. L. D. is
on the job"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
CITY ENGINEERS
THREATEN STRIKE
Estimate Board Turns
Down Pay Raise Plea

The promised strike of city engi-
neers in the employ of the Board
of transportation was brought one
step nearer yesterday when the
Board of Estimate refused to actin
securing minimum salary of
$3,12O for the men, according to
Marcel E. Sherer, organizer for the
Onion Of Technical Men, 90 Lafay-
cite st.
Union leaders took exception to
Acting Mayor McKee's statement to
union representatives: "You have
not been able to convince your i'm
mediate superior that you are worth
more money than you are getting"
Mckee was referring to the refusal
OF John H. Delaney, chairman of the
Board Of Transportation, to listen to
the grievances of the engineers.
1.-THE question of worth is not
involved in the present difficulty"
Sherer said. "The Municipal Civil
Service Commission long ago de-
cided that Grade co men are en-
titled to minimum salary of SO, 100.
Mckee refused to take any action
because he does not want to en-
Earrass his political friend, Delaney
The rank and file of the union is
clamoring for effective action.
feel sure that a more direct method
of securing the increase will be
made within few days. Mckee
passed the buck today to Delaney
and no doubt Delaney will promptly
pass it back again, and in the mean
time the men are out of pocket"
An executive meeting of the
union will be held today at $3.50 at
the offices of the union to decide
the date for future action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
IRON Strike IN
CHICAGO Goes ON
Bosses Threaten More
Court Action

CHICAGO, H., June 3.-The
strike of 3,400 structural iron and
architectural iron workers continues
today, though the union officials
were to have met this m rning to
plan arbitration. The arcl tectural
workers quit as individuals, giving
as reason, sickness at home, be-
cause of an injunction against the
calling of a strike.
The architectural iron workers
number about 1900. The injunction
was issued May % by Judge Dennis
("Injunction Denny") Sullivan to the
employers association, prohibiting
any officials of the architectural
union from declaring a walk out, or
giving strike benefits. If the men
do not come back at once, Edward
M. Craig, secretary Of the Building
Construction Employers Associa-
ton, said that court action would be
taken against President Ryan of the
local union.
Demand Wage Increase.
The strike started Saturday, on
which date wage scale contracts ex-
pired for both groups of iron work.
ers. Both unions have demanded a
wage increase from $3.50 to S1.62
and a half an hour. They rejected
an offer of the bosses to raise the
wage six cents an hour.
The strike ties up construction on
1921, 100000 worth of building, in
GLIDING S20,000,0O0 merchandise
mart, the $15,O0O,OOO Civic Opera
House, the $20,OOO,OOO Crane Tower,
the $12,OOO,O00 Daily News build
ing, $20,O00,O00 in school work and
$30,000,000 in apartment house con-
struction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
New York Tenants
Form House Groups

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landlord and call rent strikes when
ever raises are made or any one of
the tenants are evicted, the tenants
will be able to resist effectively the
onslaught of landlordism, he said.
With the organization of suffi-
cient house committees in any one
block, block committee would then
be formed which would direct the
work in that city block. The work
of all these committees would be
directed by the Harlem Tenants
League.
How well the protest parade dem
onstration of the tenants in Harlem
last Saturday was received by the
workers was brought out by the
good attendance at the meeting last
night and the many new members
of the League. The campaign which
is now being waged against all the
forces Of the landlords has the full
support of the Communist Party,
which will make the housing situa-
ton one Of it's main issues in the
municipal elections, it was an
nounced. The role of the Daily
Worker, which exposed the housing
conditions in Harlem, as an active
of the tenants fight and
its active participation in the strug-
gle was also explained.
Many new house committees were
formed and distribution of the Daily
Worker and Negro Champion were
for. 1t was also stated that
preparations are being made to ex-
tend the struggle to all parts of
the city, with the cooperation of
the United Council of Working
women, the American Negro Labor
Congress, the Communist Party and
left-wing unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
HOOVER AIDS
NANkINC CLIQUE
To Drop Privileges in
Return for Service

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government, urging REIMBURSEMENT
Of extraterritoriality privileges.
which permit foreign consulates to
hold their own courts for their ma
tionals. Stimson is drawing up the
note, Hoover will approve it, and
within the next week or so it will
be turned over to the Marking min
lister, DR.. C. G. WI.
A Confederation.
Contrary to the tone of "liberal-
ism in China" given this note by
the official publicity agents of the
state department, it is an official
confederation of the close working
agreement between Chang Kai-sheli
and the Yankee imperialists.
The Marking regime will, of
course, be required ard agree to
guarantee the United States gov
eminent of the proper operation of
their juridical system when applied
to Americans" and full protection
Of property rights" which, trans
lated into clear imperialist terms,
means that Chang Kai-shek will
continue TO use terror against tie
workers on behalf of the Yankee
imperialists in China and be only too
clad to obtain the help Of American
battleships and marines against the
revolutionary movement of the
workers and peasants.
Imperialist Unity.
In the Marking note demanding
this privilege" the unity of China
is offered as a guarantee, an offer
which is so much thin air in the face
Of the split in the Kuomintang and
the breaking out of open hostilities
between Feng and Chang, and the
growing revolutionary movement.
The Yankee imperialists wish to be-
lieve that China is unified now, very
little like their attitude when the
Chinese revolution first broke out,
and by establishing all the formal
ties of full recognition to Marking,
place their stakes on the side of
Chang against the Anglo-Japanese
and their Feng.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
CREEK fascist
IN FARCE POLL
Foes of Workers Hold
Power

ATHENS, June 3.-Admiral Paul
Coundouriotis was reelected" pres
ident of Greece at a joint session
of the senate and chamber today.
The Greek workers and peasants
had no say in the election" of
Coundouriotis. Under the bloody
dictatorship of Coundouriotis thous-
ands Of Communists and other mill
tant workers have been imprisoned,
tortured, and exiled. Coundouriotis
is tool of British imperialism.
Admiral Coundouriotis accepted
an invitation" to resume office on
August "a, 1926, when Gen. George
Kondylis, heading a military coali-
ton, deposed the former dictator,
Gen. Theodore Pangalos and assumed
the premiership temporarily. The
invitation" came from the British
imperialist interest in Greece. Coun-
douriatis Immediately began to out
do the previous dictators in perse-
cutting Communists and other mill
tant workers.
Eleutheros Venizelos resumed the
premiership after last years cleo
tons. Pangalos was recently or
dered to trial by the senate on a
charge of permitting contract frauds
during his regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Lenin's Work Is
Now Issued in
100000 Copies

Continued from Page One)
and draw them into the work of gov
erning the country.
Another very important field in
the activities of the "Gosizdat" is
the publication of scientific litera-
ture covering every field Of knowl-
edge and embracing both scientific
monographies and books for prac-
tlcal purposes.
The growth of the demand for
school books is evidenced by the in
crease of the sales of books for sec
ondary schools alone from 100000
to 100000 copies.
In the field of the mass book edi-
tions, involving from 10000 to 300,-
900 copies, have become an ordinary
phenomenon. The three editions of
Lenin's complete works published
heretofore have been claimed by
more than 100000 subscribers and
q further edition has been necessi-
tated. This year therefore Lenin's
selected works in five volumes are
to be published in a million copies.
During the eleven years of the ex-
istence of the Soviet power the
books of Lenin and about Lenin,
published in various languages in
the U. s. S. R., aggregated upward
of 100000 copies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
FOOD ORGANIZERS
TAKEN TO PRISON
Obermeier, Kramberg
Refuse to Pay Fine

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injunction which they pointed out
was the most drastic in the history
of the labor movement. 'This in
junction robs the workers of their
right to strike for better wages and
shorter hours and the union will
continue to fight against it. 1t is a
threat to the whole organized labor
movement" Kramberg stated, just
before being taken to Jail. "To sur
render to the employers would be to
give up the fight against the 12-
hour day and starvation wages.
Neither the injunction nor wholesale
arrests nor police brutality will
drive the strikers back to the open
shop slavery"
1876 Arraigned.
One hundred and fifty-three strik-
ers were arraigned in Special Ses-
sions, Part 1, in the Criminal Court
Building, yesterday, charged with
violation of Section 600 of the Penal
Law, or in other words, violation of
the injunction. The Justices were
Kernachan, Solomon and Kelly. The
first striker, John Lang, was dis
missed as there was no evidence
against him. The next two, Samuel
Jelenich and Harry Franck, were
found guilty and sentence adjourned
to June ID. The attorney for the
union, Phillip Wittenberg, argued
that the cafeteria at which they
were arrested, the A. C. L., 81 West
37th St., was not connected in any
way with the injunction proceedings,
not being mentioned as one of the
cafeterias listed in the injunction.
This cafeteria joined the United
Restaurant Owners Association only
after the injunction was granted and
after the place was called out on
strike.
All of the other 1853 strikers cases
were adjourned to various dates be-
tween June 7 and 20. This imposes
an additional hardship upon the
union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
[mperialists Hold Air
Meet; Do Not Send
Invitation to U.S.S.R.

PARIS, June 3.-DeIegates from
the imperialist powers will meet
here tomorrow for a two-week con-
ference for the modification of the
code governing air navigation, with
out of course touching upon the
question of disarmament.
That the conference is calculated
to be one against the Soviet Union
is seen from the fact that no invita-
ton has been extended to the Soviet
Government to attend the confer.
ence.
The United States government is
sending W. P. MacCracken, assistant
secretary of commerce for aero
nautics, and Joseph R. Baker, of the
state department.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
MANHATTAN
womens' Work Organizers.

WOmens' Work Organizers.
Urgent matters will be discussed AT
the meeting of Unit Womens' Work
functionaries at the Workers Center
70 Union Sd, at p. m. tomorrow.
XOrkviIIc Communist Youth League.
The Executive Committee will meet
tomorrow at $50 p. m, at $50 e. S1st
st.
Italian Fraction.
The G, l. letter will be discussed at
OF the Workers Center, &c Union So,
Room 402, tomorrow night.
c. Y. l.. Iron Strike Benefit
A garden party and dance for the
benefit of the iron strike will be held
at 143 e. 103d st. at $40 p. m. Sat
urday.
Unit II, Section 4.
Robin. Braverman and Wright will
$50 p. m. at 10th st. and 1st Ave
tonight A class in the C. I. program
is conducted by the unit at $50 E.
Slst ST.. at 7:@0 p. m. Wednesdays.
Greek Fraction.
Bring membership books TO the
meeting at 101 w. eth ST., at s p. m.
Unit IF, ST.
A meeting will be held at e:3o y. m.
today at 81 L. 4th. st,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
1923 Workers Put
on Trial for Using
Central Park Grass
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tomorrow. Additional policemen are
being put on the park force every
holiday to catch the workers who
try to get a little fresh air.
Easier on the Rich.
On other than holidays, the parks
are mainly patronized by wealthy
women's nurse maids and children,
and by rich and idle loafers recover
ing from too much night club. They
never see a policeman's club or a
summons for walking on the grass.
For their special benefit the Gem
trail Park Casino opens tomorrow,
with a cover charge of $40 plate
to keep the working masses away.
1t will be equipped with special
dressing rooms where sport togs can
be donned by those for whom whole
areas Of the park, grounds and
equestrian paths, etc, are reserved
and never any penalties for tread
ing the grass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
aa Shoe Workers. Determined Force Victory Tong Picket Lines Daily
Gas Leaking Thru Tenement Overcomes Workers Children

Gas leaking IN a
ramshackle tenement
inhabited by q0ork-
ingcIa8S families
overcame s eraI
tenants OH W. 18th
st. Photo shows Mrs.
Susie AsSaIo and her
four children, a0ho
had q narrolU es-
cape. Workers are
forced asnder capital
ism to liVe IN risky
tenementS, 9Ubicb
gree d q landlords
keep IN disrepair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
LEATHER WORKERS NOW LOCKED
OUT; MILITANTs CALL FOR STRIKE
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to O lockout. Offering variety of
excuses for their action, boss after
boss has closed down. To date, at
least 1000 workers employed in the
association shops have been locked
cut, and more workers are expected
to be thrown from the shops today
and tomorrow.
Call for General Strike.
Stand fast for our demands!
Answer the lockout with a general
strike" These are the immediate
slogans raised by the Progressive
Group.
Calling attention that large and
enthusiastic membership meetings
en- April II, which called for the
establishment of strike machinery,
tho statement of the Progressive
Group points out that the admins
tration has consistently ignored this
demand.
The statement follows:
"At an enthusiastic general mem
bership meeting held on April II at
Beethoven Hall, we, the Fancy
Leather Goods Workers, decided to
present list Of demands to the
bosses in our present negotiations
for a new agreement. With the
very same enthusiasm, at the Cooper
Union mass meeting on May %, we
declared to our employers that we
stand fast by these demands and
are ready to fight for them.
at was clear to every worker
from the very beginning that the
administration is only giving lip SER
vice 70 our demands; that it win
rot conduct a struggle to better our
conditions. The entire attitude of
the administration proved to us that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04

!; is ready to surrender to the
bosses.
Must Win Demands.
"The demands which we put forth
TO our employers, such as the 10
hour week and the rest, must be
won. Should we fail to win these
demands it would mean that our
present standard would still further
be reduced, due to the speed-up and
efficiency system, and the introduc-
ton of new kinds of machinery.
"The bosses, in an organized and
rlanful manner, are attempting to
terrorize the workers in the shops.
with the aim of confusing and dem
oralizing them. The administration
of the union has in all ways COOP
Grated with the bosses. It has not
carried into life the decision of the
membership, to organize strike
committee.
Administration Aids Bosses.
"The administration has taken no
stand against the maneuvers en-
ployed by the bosses through the
period of negotiations. These man
euvers have finally resulted in an
actual lockout. Entire shops of
workers have been thrown out of
employment.
"We call upon you to rally
Ground the left wing of the Fancy
Leather Goods Workers Union, sup
port the program of the left wing,
as the only ones who fight militantly
for the interests of the workers.
"Stand fast for our demands!
"Answer the lockout with a gen
cral strille!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
MATTERS FACING
SHARP STRUGGLE
Bosses Prepare for a
Wage-Cut Policy
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with the manufacturers.
There are signs that the bosses
are preparing a wage-cutting cam
paign and the introduction of ma
chinery to simplify production. Some
of them have already openly come
out for a wage-cut policy, for per-
mission to use non-union men, and
especially young workers, on ma
chine work.
The wage scale, which the union
is proposing is, with the exception
of some minor points, the same as
the scale of 1928. Progressives in
the union point out that the leader
ship in the organization is appar-
emily unable or unwilling to fore
see the grave situation confronting
the hatters, and they are extremely
slow in making preparations for the
struggle. 1t is pointed out that they
have thus far failed to formulate
clear demands for the betterment of
the conditions; which during the past
few years, have become continually
worse.
While the capmakers have fought
and won the week-work system,
forty-hour week, minimum wage and
unemployment insurance, lover the
heads of the officialdom), the hat
tiers are still shaving under the piece
work system, speed up and every
thing that goes with it.
Progressives point out that to win
the struggle confronting them in the
hat trade, the finishers and trimmers
locals will have to put up a stiff
fight, and at the same time the
union must prepare for it, the whole
labor movement supporting them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
California Pioneers
Aid Textile Strikers

LOS ANGELES, Cal, by MaiD.
"A sum of $40, collected at an en-
tertainment given by A. Becker, of
Moravia, Cal, in honor of the
seventh birthday of her son, Mitchell
Lenin, has been despatched to the
National Office Of the Workers In
ternational Relief, Union Square,
toward the relief of the Southern
textile strike.
The collection followed reports on
the strike given by Pioneers, who
later rendered Pioneer songs and
heard reports on the conditions of
workers. children in the U. S. S. R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
ILGW Company Union
AgainDefers'S tOppage'

Continued from Page OneJ
over the stoppage in an effort to
extract several thousands of dollars
in assessments from the workers.
An incidental aspect of the stop
page is the desire of the company
union to show traces of "militancy"
in an effort to hurt the growing
prestige of the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union.
Expose Takers.
Should today's negotiations" fail,
according to David Dubinsky, acting
president Of the I. L. G. W., refer
endum will be called in July. Such
a move, however, is considered quite
unlikely.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union has repeatedly point
ed out that the right wing takers
were themselves responsible for
bringing about the conditions for
the elimination of which they are
now hypocritically "fighting."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
BROOKLYN
Labor and Fraternal
Organizations
MANHATTAN
Auti-ImperinIist League.

A membership meeting of the New
York Branch will be held at p. m.
tomorrow at Irving Plaza Hall. 18th
st. and Irving Pl. to prepare for the
Eastern Conference to be held June
10. ouis Gibarti. International repre-
sentative of the League Against I'm
perialism will be the main speaker
at the membership meeting. s'lt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
SO Arrested at One Plant.

fined $40.
So Arrested at One Plant.
No less than Sc workers were ar
rested while picketing the LASER
and Kaplan Iron Works, at 141st
St. and Southern Blvd. So flimsy
were the cases against them that
all were released in the 161-t St,
Court.
The White Plains Iron Works was
the scene of a large picket demon
stration. This plant is located on
221st st. Eight of the pickets were
arrested here. All were discharged
when the employers court had to ad-
nit they had committed no Crime"
Fail to Reopen Shops.
The attempt of the iron and
bronze bosses to reopen their shops
with scab3 failed, for there were no
scabs on hand to reopen with. The
order to reopen was given by the
bosses association, the Iron League.
Great dissatisfaction broke out
among the members of the Iron
League when many Of the bosses
admitted that they were defeated
and clamored for a settlement with
the Iron and Bronze Workers Union.
When those controlling the bosses
league counselled against a settle
ment, many bosses threatened to
settle independently.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Communist Activities
East River Meet,

]. Louis Engdahl, acting editor Of
the Daily Worker, George Mink, of
the Marine Workers League, Harold
Williams. of the Negro Department
OF the Communist Party and Solomon
Harper, of the American Negro La
Dor congress, will speak at the open
air meet at Pier IA, under Communist
auspices, at noon TODAY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04

For a Six-Hour Day for Under
ground Work, in Dangerous Occu-
pations, and for the Youth Under
10!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
SWELL MOONEY PROTEST

A petition urging the release of
Tom Mooney and Warren K. Bill
ings, framed workers, has been
signed by more that 1900 students
and faculty members of Greater
New York colleges, the Committee
of the Colleges of Greater New
York for the Release of Mooney and
Billings announced yesterday. The
petition will be sent to Governor
Young of California.
OF all tAe classes that stand face
TO fnce with TIE bOurEeoisie today
the prOietarint alone is a really revo-
lutiOnary class.-KarI Marx (Com-
munist ManifestoD.