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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
MANHATTAN LYCEUM
MEETING TAKES UP
BATTLE OF 100000
Only Percent Organized at Present; A. F. L
and Amalgamated Bureaucracies Sell Them
Conditions Unbearable; Demand 40-Hr. Week
No Speed Up More Pay; TU.U.L. Issues Call

road and today is denying the de-
cision of the membership to affili-
ate to the Trade Union Unity
League"
The revolt of the rank and file
against the terrible economic condi-
tions into which the misleaders have
forced them is wildly described with
emphasis on the situation in Bakers
Local 500, A. T. of L., where two
takers, Pollack and Yellin placed
themselves at the head of the re-
volt in order to crush it.
Fight Takers.
an A. F. w. and A. F. of L. To-
calls" the call continues, there is
great discomfort against the bureau
crazy, rapidly developing into a
widespread demand for an industrial
union of all food workers. Among
the unorganized workers who are
faced with the most terrific ex-
ploitation, there is a developing
mood for organization and struggle.
Throughout the country the same
conditions exist. Speed-up of the
packing house workers under the
b system has never been so in
tense. Mass unemployment and the
open support given the capitalist
oppressors by the Hoover-Green, A.
F. of L. no strike pact has af-
fected hundreds of thousands who
are rallying now to the Trade Union
Unity League"
Economic demands of the Food
Workers Section, T. U, U, L., are
for the 40-hour week, for abolition
of speed-up, for increases in wages,
for unemployment insurance to be
paid by the bosses, equal pay for
equal work; no discrimination
against women, Negro or young
workers, special protection of
women and youth and no night
work for bakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
PROTEST TUES.
lid. meet sun.
Avalanche of Court
Cases Come Today
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
G workers children and parents.
eve urge all organizations, who
have not already done so to elect
delegates to the conference" states
the LID. "All Pioneers are urged
to come to the office of District
LID. to distribute leaflets for this
conference"
Mcneil on Trial.
Also in special sessions, Randolph
Mcneil, young marine workers ar
rested at the City Hall demonstra-
ton the week before March 6, will
be tried for felonious assault. He
was beaten nearly to death by po-
licemen, and on coming out of the
hospital, is put on trial for beating
them.
In Bronx special sessions, Abe
Ross, Lillian Fand, Jules Perlay and
Roy Leventhal are tried today for
pasting up posters on a building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Sham Battle in Albany
Over Fake Rent Relief
Bills Before Governor

ALBANY, N. Y, April 16.--Gov-
ernor Roosevelt is hearing repre-
ssntatives of the New York City
landlords and of the republican
hackers of Assemblyman Rivers
and Perkins, and going through the
farce of debating whether he will
sign their rent bills, neither of
which would make much difference
one way or the other,
The Negro tenants of Harlem in
many mass meetings during the
winter exposed the frailty of these
bills completely. The Perkins bill
gives the capitalist judge the right,
if he wants to extend the lease six
months when rent raise is COM
ing. The Rivers bill provides for
payment of rent to the Judge in
stead of the regular collector in
certain circumstances
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
pencil WORKERS
GET 10 PC. SLASH
Call on Workers to
Fight Against Cut

The long expected 10 per cent
wage cut at Eagle Pencil Co. was
announced last Saturday by mem
bers of the office management
orally to each department. The
workers replied by sitting around
at their machines Monday, but re-
fusing to work. All departments
participated in the spontaneous
strike.
Unable to send the workers back
to work, the foremen promised to
speak to the management and after
several hours returned with CON
cession" of five per cent. This
maneuver was intended to cover up
the fact that the bosses had really
made a five per cent cut in the al
ready miserable wages.
The girls in the Eagle Pencil Co.
work piece-work and even with the
most intense speed-up do not earn
more than SIS a week. Most of
the girls do not earn that.
Communist workers in the fac
tory issued an appeal to their fell
low-workers to fight the wage cut.
Urging them to form committees in
every department, the appeal called
upon the workers to strike in case
their demands We're refused. An
open-air meeting will be held in
front of the factory today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Harper, Kelly on Trial
Today; MAJ .P. Apes
Randolph on Lynching

Sol Harper, of the southern dis
trict of the International Labor De-
tense and member of the Convention
Committee of the American Negro
Labor Congress now arranging for
the National Convention to be held
in st. Louis, Mo-, and Rose Kelly,
active member of the Nat Turner
Branch of the LID, will be tried
today in Washington Heights Court,
453 West 151st ST., upon charges
preferred by the bureaucrats of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
ters because they exposed the at
tempt of the Brotherhood officials
to cover up the lynching of John H.
wilkins, of Kansas City, Mo.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
joins the line of the Brotherhood,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Morgan, Seeing Times
Not So Good, Takes
Over N. Y. $40 Loan

The banking house of ]. P. Nor
gan & Co. reached out yesterday
and raked in a neat plum in the
shape of the entire issue of $751;
$4,000 serial four per cent gold
bonds of the state of New York.
Morgan paid $102.077 for each 500
worth of bonds, reducing the in
terest thereby to 3.79. The fact
that Morgan is willing to sink that
much money in such low interest
bearing bonds indicates poor pros
poets for business boom in the near
future, economists point out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
FILM VERSION0j WAGNER'S
MEISIERSINGER AT'ACME'

Hans Sachs, the cobbler, is given
proper prominence in the German
film now at the Acme. 1t is a
dramatization of the Nuremberg
legend, from which the Wagnerian
opera, Meistersinger Won Nuren-
berg, was built.
The acting is good, the photo
graphy pretty well done, and the
spirit of the middle age town APP
parently we'll captured. Crooked
politics in the election of a mayor
are not blinked at, neither is any
pity taken on the idiocies and foibles
of the clique of rich burgers who
run things, nor their agents in Of
flee, like the town clerk.
The town bourgeoisie is shown
cringing pathetically to the wan
dering adyenturers of the nobility,
and the mobiles are shown in clumsy
council in a distant castle trying
to force one Of their own young
sters into a marriage most unde-
sirable to him. Sachs, the eobbler,
the peoples choice" for mayor, is
much the biggest man Of them all,
but fails completely to take politics
seriously, and throws away his
chances lightly. About the only
thing he does fight for is the gold
smiths daughter, and he resigns
even here quite easily to the roman
tic "Yunker" who captures her
fancy. But then, even Hans is a
master cobbler.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17

New York food workers. organ
zed and Observation-Disclosures, hotel,
restaurant and cafeteria workers;
CANDY, biscuit and all food factory
Hprkers; grocery, fruit and dairy
4erks; market workers and food
truck drivers, meat packing and
slaughter house workers-are called
upon this week to send delegates
to the shop convention on Sunday
in Manhattan Lyceum. 66 E. Fourth
ST., for the building of food work.
ers industrial union. The call is
issued by the Food Workers Section,
Trade Union Unity League, with
headquarters at 16 West 21st ST,
Working conditions in the food
industry are miserable" the call
states-"long hours, as many as IA
a day; a killing speed-up system,
and tens Of thousands thrown out
into the streets to starve-because
too much food has been produced"
How the bosses are trying to save
their profits at the expense OF the
workers is pointed out in the
sharper attacks being made on the
standard of living,
Million and Half,
Of the one-half million food work
ers in New York less than three
per cent are organized, due to the
sell-out boss-co-operation policies of
the A. F. of L. and the A. f. w.
officials, it is explained. "These
fake labor organizations do moth
ing to organize, the unorganized.
They have allowed conditions in
their shops to become even worse
than in non-union shops. The A, f.
of l. unions have become fascist
company unions of the bosses, using
terror and gangsterism and denying
even membership meetings. The A.
F. W, which pretends to be pro-
gressive, is driving fast on the same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Labor and Fraterna'
Organizations

WOmen's Council Concert and Ball.
Saturday, April 10. Manhattan Ly-
ceum, SIS East 4th st. John c. Smith
Band. soc in advance, 75c at door
Workers Laboratory Theatre.
Every. evening this week, p. m,
10 w. 18th st.
~. Painters Mas. Meeting. :.
Thursday 8 p. M $50 f. slst st
Brighton Beach May 1 Mass Meet.
Friday, $50 p. M, 227 Brighton
Beach Ave. Prominent, speakers.
To the Marine Workers League
Convention April $3.50 write or tele-
phone Immediately to George Mink,
40 Broad ST.. Whitehall 747S Give
number of how many you can taks
care OF and how many nights.
Volunteers.
Wanted for research work. LID.
National Office, 799 Broadway, stuy-
Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra.
Saturday. Town Hall, 113 w. 4Srl
YorkviIle Tenants League Dance.
Saturday, $50 p m, $50 Il. sist
St, admission S5 cents.
X
Midnight Performance.
"Simple Tailor" Saturday at Second
Ave. Playhouse. Benefit National
Textile Workers Union, n. y, District.
Bnthgate Vetcherinka and Concert.
Saturday, April 26.
Brownsville A.N.L.C. Antf-Lyncb
Protest.
Friday, p. m, 1865 Thatford Ave.
" 4 II
Working Class Educational Con-
fevencc.
Called by TU.U.L. and Workers
School starts sessions at Banquet,
Friday. z p. m. Mt Manhattan Lyceum,
continues Saturday, 2 p. IN. at Work /.
ers School. All workers organiza-
lions urged to. send delegates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17

duced under the supervision of
James Cruze. The film is adapted
from the novel by Arturo S. Nom,
called "Happiness Insurance"
The Players from Japan, are the
special feature of the stage show
at the Roxy. Under the leadership
Of Tokujiro Tsutsui, the original
company will be presented in its en-
tirety. The play in which they will
appear is called "Koi-No-Yozakura,"
or Love of the Cherry Blossom"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Workers Photo Group
to Meet This FRIDAY

The Labor Defender Workers
Photo Group will hold their next
meeting at japanese Art Center, 7
E. 14th St., on Friday, April IS, at
g p. M.
Groups of workers photographers
are being organized for the May
l demonstration to cover the event
from all angles. All workers hav-
ing cameras are invited to join the
group.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17

according to published statements.
The New York Age this week does
not carry single line about the
lynching, but does carry an article
by James H. Hogan, special repre-
sentative of the Pullman Company,
praising the Pullman Porters and
stirring up hate between the West
Indian and American Negroes.
A survey of the general opinion
among railroad men in Harlem,
walters, cooks, laborers and others
shows that all are of the opinion
that the train crew lynched Will
kins, as proved by the LID. and
evaded by the Randolph clique and
the N.A.A.C.P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Show New Soviet Film
Midnite, Sat. April 10

"The Simple Tailor" the latest
Soviet film, will be shown at a mid
night performance Saturday, April
10, at the Second Ave. Playhouse,
End Ave. and 9Th ST., for the benefit
of the National Textile Workers
Union, New York District. There
will also be a special feature Gas
tonia," showing pictures of the
strike in the Loray Mill, led a year
ago by the N. T. w. u.
The admission charge of so cents
will go to the Organization and
Strike Fund of the New York Dis
trict of the National Textile Work
ers' Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
4 Tiny Bolts Holding
Up Movie Protector
Booth, Snap; | Killed

Mrs. Eta Middleton, Negro
needle worker, was killed and at
least 35 other workers, most of
them Negroes, were injured when
the Renaissance Theatre, Seventh
Ave. and 18th St., collapsed. This
theatre, thought good enough for
a workers part of town." had a
moving picture protector booth sup
ported by only four bolts, tiny half
inch bolts. These snapped stimuli
taneously, dropping the booth and
machine into the last four rows of
seats on the main floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
York Workers All Trades Organize
Today in History of
the Workers

April II, 1S17-Seven Luddites
hanged in London for destroying
textile machinery which displaced
workers from jobs. 1S76-General
labor congress held in Pittsburgh,
Pa, in effort to unite socialists,
trade unionists, greenbackers and
others. 1912-Massaere of I'M
armed strikers in Lena gOldfields,
Siberia. 1917-Slogan "All power
to the Soviets" raised by Lenin in
speech at Tauride Palace, Petro-
grad. 1927-Communist head
quarters at Canton, China, raided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Communist Activities

Workers School BANQUET.
To open Working Class Education
m. Manhattan Lyceum, IS l.. 4th st
Program: John Reed Club; adms
sion 81.
Y. c. l.. District Dance.
Saturday, April 10, New Harlem
Casino. 10th st. and Lenox Avenue
John c. Smith Band. Admission soc
Tickets at all League headquarters
and rs Union Square.
Section One.
Unit organizers, financial secre-
taries, agitprops, literature agents
Daily Worker agents, tonight, 6 p. m
81 East Fourth st.
Section Eight.
Agitprop committee and unit agit-
props tonight, 1870 p. M, los That
ford Ave.
Food Workers Fraction.
Friday, p. m, IS w. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Gyp Jobless Agency
Cheats Unemployed

That the New York County and
other employment agencies carry
on a regular racket, charging job
less workers high fees and giving
them jobs as porters in the Hearst
building, then having them fired so
that the same racket can be worked
on others, was reported to the
Daily Worker by worker who had
some experience with this outfit.
Elevator men have to pay $40 for
jobs in the Hearst building and get
S25 a week. For Is hours extra
overtime they get So week extra.
In a ten-hour day they get only
fifteen minutes for lunch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17

CAIRO, April 16.-An attack
against the high American tariff on
the import of Egyptian raw cotton
is voiced here by Finance Minister
Makram Ebeid, and in an editorial
in La Patrie, Cairo newspaper
that voices the views of the gov
eminent.
La Patrie talks of "coersive mea
sures" against the blow directed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Hoover Says Masses Can't Rule, Only Parasite

NEW HAVEN, April 15.-Utter
contempt from the working masses
and insistence on strong govern
ment controlled by the exploiting
bosses, was expressed in an article
written by Hoover for the Yale
News and published with official
sanction in its latest issue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Banquet of Workers
School This FRIDAY

Those who fail to secure tickets
in advance for the banquet of the
Workers School at Manhattan
Lyceum, Friday evening, April 1S,
may find it impossible to secure a
place at the festive board. Tickets
are being sold rapidly and those
who expect to buy them at the last
minute may find all of the places
filled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17

Referring to the great mass of
workers in the United States as "a
mob" Hoover writes that the "mob
consumes, it hates and it dreams,
but it never builds" His conclusion
is that the parasites who are en-
bowed with god-given qualities for
leadership should rule-for the
benefit of Wall Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
HOOver's Idea of
independence"
for H a i t
JUS. Orders Haiti President
/ HMake RoyHs Successor
Borne, Pas,posen<nt Of Election Sea- AZ Desmet;
Marines Nay Act to InHaI Hsw Ereeutipe
ruu fhs Harss surss

Headline in the NelO York
World, April Is.
The World slipped up a bit in
shouting the stern hand of Wall
Street IN Haiti. HoUever, the fact
is that Bor11o did not need to be
"ordered.' He is quite aUIling
tool of the National City Bank of
Nel0 York, and its protector, the
American government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Egyptians Attack u. S. High Tariff

against the Egyptian cotton grow
ers by the high American tariff.
La Patrie's threat, which is backed
by British imperialism concludes
with these words:
From the viewpoint Of finance
as we'll as others, Egypt is wholly
independent of America and is at
liberty, when and how she wishes,
to bring pressure to bear by ex-
Guiding American products"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Thomas Announces New Scheme to Speed
Workers

LONDON April 16.-With great
approval, ]. H. Thomas, minister
for relief" of unemployment in the
labor government, announced in the
House of Commons today that a
company has been organized to
work out schemes of ratiOnaliza-
ton and general speed-up of the
workers. The name of the new cor
pOration is the Bankers Industrial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
.JaiIs Being damned by Suppressive Laws

WASHINGTON April 16.At secret session Of the senate
Judiciary committee today Attorney General Mitchell reported the fact
federal als being packed the rafes Federal
the last months, Mitchell
growng uppressive LAYS of the capitalists filling the
iails.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17

Development Co., with a capital Of
S50,000,000. Its attempt to speed
up industry will sharpen the crisis
and the struggle for world markets,
while at the same time speed-up
the workers and reduce their wages.
In this object the Bankers Indus
trial Development Co. has the full
support of the Macdonald govern
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
War Budget Passed in French Chamber

PARIS April 1G-The French budget provdng tremendous
pndres preparations passed yesterday in the Chamber
49, The total budget amounts to
s000000 about half of whch is for expenditures for past and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
JAPANESE PLAYERS AT
ROXY THEATRE.

Joseph Schildkraut is now show
ing at the Roxy Theatre in his new
film, Sock O. The Walk" pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-17
Reinstate Death Penalty in British Forces

LONDON April 6l order to strengthen the reaconary forces
army navy the Lords today
death penalty dsonce and other attractions Of military rule.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
Cameras Chicago Bout May
Fall Through; Foe Is Sought
ChevaIer Is Dropped From Consideration; Mtt Heads
May Block Primo's Appearance.

had not secured satisfactory VIC
tim for the proposed bout. If an
opponent is found, Cameras APP
pearance will depend on the ILL
nois state athletic commission which
has barred Leon See.
81 will not allow Primo to fight
unless I can manage. and second
him." said See. I'VE don't care who
the opponent is, but unless the ILL.,
nois commission reverses its action
and grants me license there will be
no fight"
Camera was scheduled to meet
Bonbo Chevalier in the battle of
vindication," but for some reason
possibly the chance of the Oakland
Negro again refusing to dive" and
forcing Primo's handlers to re-enact
their towel-throwing stunt-he has
been dropped from consideration
Malloy now is attempting to pub
licize his show by wiring challenges
to Schmeling, Sharkey, Stribling
Camrolo and other first-rank heav-
les, who either are out of the .coun-
try or out of training.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
Clinton Lads
Take Legion
Junior Title

In a hard-fought game at Manual
athletic field Wednesday, Kelly's
Kids of Clinton nosed out Hayward
Barcus post nine of Indianapolis, 8
and 2, to win the state American
Legion junior baseball champion
ship for boys under II.
Clinton will compete in the re-
gional tourney at Battle Greek Aug
IA and Is, representing Indiana
against the champions Of Michigan
Ohio and Kentucky. Stanley FEEBLE,
Indianapolis, will be regional COM
missioner.
The Clinton boys we're guests OF
the Indianapolis A. A. club at Wash
ington park Wednesday night and
received legion medals and the
Spalding trophy during a presenta-
ton at the home plate.
In Wednesdays legion game the
Indianapolis lads got out in front,
2 to O, but Clinton rallied in the
fourth and scored three times. 1t
was a seven-inning contest. Score
Indianapolis .......... OIL 900 "a 4
Clinton .............. 600 300 o.
Robbins and Thompson; Shannon and
Hone
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
JACK BERG SLIGHT CHOICE OVER KID CHOCOLATE
Two Games
Series
With Blues
Action Tonight Begins at I;
MiIIers Invade Tribe
Park Friday.

Two games tonight, first at 2, VIII
wind UP the Indians series with she
Kansas City Blues and if luck IS on
the side of the fans the boys may
be out of the dugout by the stroke
of twelve.
Mike Kelly's smuggling Millers will
move in Friday for a three-day
stand and it viii be the Kels' first
experience under the lights. Min
neapolis is in fourth place after
coming up from last and Mike fig
ures his team will go higher in the
drive down the A. A. stretch.
Big George Kelly, famous for
years as a first sacker and hitter
in the National League, is holding
down the initial bag for Mime
apolis.
Thirteen Indians Left
The Blues got the breaks in the
opening round Wednesday night and
scored twice on two walks and
Grigsby's double, enough to win
with, for the home nine couldn't hit
Ed Holley with men on bases, the
final count being 3 to l. Hildebrand
pitched eight stanzas for the Hoo
siers and Mllrooney hurled in the
ninth.
1t was Hildebrand'S bad luck that
two of his three passes developed
into runs. The marker of Mui-
rooney was unearned, an infleld er-
ror figuring in the scoring.
Indianapolis had thirteen runners
left stranded on the paths and
eleven were left by Kansas City.
Holley refused to work fast and
consumed so much time on the dia-
mond that the game dragged out
well beyond two hours.
Hiidebrand Fans Six
The lone Tribe marker was regis
tered in the fourth when the Corri-
denites got a double, single and two
walks, the run going over on a
passed ball. Hildebrand famed six
and Holley got four. Fielding fea-
lures were contributed by Farm
hart, Pick and Gooch.
Grigsby batted in the three E. C.
runs, getting three hits, and catcher
Susce also slammed out three to
safe spots. Two of the Indians
eight hits we're made by Connolly.