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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21

Continued from Page One)
Robert Minor, Israel Amter, Harold
Raymond and Joseph Lesten.
Held 10 Days
They were convicted April II, in
a trial without jury in which the
judges simply ruled out all evidence
except the bare details of their de-
mand on Police Commissioner
khalen for the removal of the
plice to permit the vast crowd to
roceed to City Hall and lay the
demands of the unemployed before
Mayor Walker. The demands were
for work or wages, immediate re-
lief of the jobless by appropriations
from the city treasury, unemploy-
ment insurance, paid for by the city
and administered by the jobless,
seven hour day and five day week,
no speed-up, no imperialist way CT
attack on the Soviet Union, etc.
Shiny Gang in Charge
The committee has been held in
jail since April II, pending sentence,
which in the capitalist New York
law, is supposed to be based on a
recommendation of the Probation
Bureau. This bureau is headed by
a chief probation officer, Edward J.
Iooley, who is under fire at present
lpr ''gross misuse of his appointive
Eower" and misuse of some Of the
S259,351 placed in his hands by the
city budget.
Workers everywhere are begin
ming to realize that this failing of
the elected representatives Of the
unemployed in New York symbol OF
the capitalist class attitude to the
demands of the hungry and op-
pressed for work or wages. They
are determined that unparalleled
demonstrations and strikes, May J.,
aud the rapid organization Of the
revolutionary unions, of the huge
congress on unemployment to be
held in Chicago, July AS, shall an
swer the bosses attacks.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, April
2O.-Nine hundred to one thousand
workers, jobless and employed, met
yesterday afternoon in downtown
outdoor demonstration OF protest
against the Imprisonment Of the
New York city unemployed delega-
! n, and for the release add free
i m o. hundreds of other working
ass prisoners throughout the
United States.
The mass meeting unanimously
demanded work OF Wages" for the
unemployed and voiced emphati
cally their opposition to imperialist
war and for the defense Of the
Soviet Union.
Call out Police
The response of the workers OF
this city co the call of the Tfa,ie
Union Unity League and the COM
munist Party greatly surprised the
authorities, and lney FASTENED a full
police mobilization Of the night as
we'll as the day forces. After tax
ing the chairman, Milton WEIGH,
organizer of the T. U. U. L. to the
polio. station in an effort to disrupt
t meeting which had been an
n lnced for Main and Market Ste,
Ii bristling police forced a change
of place to New Market Street.
The speakers were Comrade
Stern, Youth Section, I. u. U. J.,
George Maurer for the Communist
Party, and Milton WEIGH. They
pointed out, that wages are low and
that the jobless situation is the worst
in the state.
Daily Workers and pamphlets
we're eagerly taken. Negro workers
in the crowd were among the most
responsive. a large number of
workers made application for men,
oersh.p in the Communist Party and
IsU. U. l..
A new headquarters is being
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
Soviet Workers Utilize Cars Villas

Capitalist report from Iningrd that
residence built by Peter the will
recreaOna Fifty
workers cottages being erected Peterho
of palaces fountains parks cascades lakes
Peters Dutch style cottage Onpaiser
nighcap in it.
Some time the late Selo
turned into chdens village renamed Dkoe SeIo 1t has
ex-mperal palaces n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
ONE OF THE BREADLINE
MEN CALLS WORKERS TO
DEMONSTRATE MAY LIST
5000 in Line for Bit of Terrible Food Wait for
A Hours and Then Many Get Nothing
sPoints Out "Charity' of Bosses Is Only Blind
to Keep Workers from Fighting for Rights
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK CITYWe have to get the the badlnes
Was beadlne
7:30fa. 2Sth St.; Mad
ison Ave. and 29th Stops Church the Trans
fguration E. 29k There ticket beeak
Second Choice of beans and franks Irish
Awful stuff think About 5000 there the line After
$40 those still the line
Workers. this Charity of the bosses only blind mighty
that Show strength Demonstrate against unempo
in Union Square May Day.
ONE THE BREADLINE MEN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
Unemployment Hits Lumber Mill Workers
by q Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
ABERDEEN, Wash-Some light unemployment the lumber
Eureka MILL Woodland,
North 60 Cooperage
Mers IT. East Hoquiam, Stearnesvie
down. Aloha So down to 40.
organize
Union. Jobess those working May l.
LUMBER WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
Protest in Detroit

DETROIT, Mich, April 20.-A,
the meeting where John Porter
young soldier who quit the army
to Join the New Bedford textile
strike, was the principal speaker,
LOCO workers Friday demanded the
release of all political prisoners.
Particularly did the resolution call
for the freedom of the New York
committee of the unemployed.
1t was held at Danceland Audi
toyium here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21

upened up here for the 7. U. U. l..
and the Communist Party. An un-
employed council was organized,
and wide preparations are under
way for mass May / demonstra-
ton
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
Sen TEN &c n. Y.
j0bLESS LEADERS
Protest Meetings in
Detroit, Poughkeepsie

Continued from Page One)
Robert Minor, Israel Amter, Harold
Raymond and Joseph Lesten.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
STOVE WORKERS
DISCHARGED FOR
JOINING UNION
Birmingham Concern Denies
Right of Men to Organize
and Rebuffs Federal Govern
ment Mediator.

Birmingham, Ala. (ILNS) = The
Unit Stove and Furnace Company, a
Birmingham enterprise, has no use
for trade unions. Some so colored
moulders employed in this plant re-
Gently joined the Molders' Union.
When Vice President Leopold, of the
company, found it out the leaders
were promptly discharged. As re-
suit all but eight of the workers went
out on strike, demanding the rein
statement of the discharged workers
on the ground that they had a con-
stitutional right to belong to a labor
union chartered by the American
Federation of Labor.
The company refused to reinstate
the men, and George H. Van Fleet, a
federal labor commissioner, was
sent in by the government to adjust
the difficulty. He was told by the
management to "beat it" as the COM
pany had nothing to discuss, and
fatty refused to have anything to do
with the government representative.
Meanwhile the strike is on and the
plant is attempting to operate with
green hands" The management de-
nies the right of any of its men to
belong to a labor union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
LOW-PAID
Sheeting Workers Ask Aid
i'm Forming Union

Opelika, Ala. ILNS)-Vice Presi-
dent Francis j. German and Organizer
George Googe paid visit to Opelika
a few days ago in response to an ap-
peal of the workers here for an or
ganizer.
These mills are owned by the Pep
perel Manufacturing Company, max
ing sheetings, with mills in Biddle-
ford and Lewiston, Maine. This com
pany is also competitor of the Pc
quot mills in Salem, Mass, where
over 1000 members of the United
Textile Workers of America make
the widely known Pequot sheets and
pillow cases and enjoy the benefit of
a trade union agreement with the
best conditions in the industry.
The American Federation of Labor
urges all members of organized labor
and friends to patronize these prod
ucts made at the Pequot mills.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
Bricklayers Ask Congress to
Require Prevailing Wage Rate
Award of "Great Number" of Contracts to Employers
Who Seek to Destroy Standards Demonstrates
Need of Legislation Gleeson Says in Letter to House
Members.

such work to pay the prevailing wage
rates in the community in which the
work is to be executed does not ap-
pear to be anything other than fair
and reasonable.
"House Bill 9232 as amended, in our
opinion, sets up certain standards of
wages and these standards are to be
established in a certain manner. The
bill does not undertake to say who
shall earn such wages, in consequence
of which there is no monopoly created
or sought. The chairman of the COM
mittee on labor, house of representa-
tives, has submitted a very able report
which rightfully says that the bill
seeks to compel government contrac-
tors to pay the union wage rate where
such rate has been established, but
this rate may be paid to anybody. 1t
does not say that union men must be
employed"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30

all employees will be at work during
the afternoon hours.
Other stores, especially downtown,
which do not keep open Saturday
night will stagger the hours for COM
ing to work in such a manner that
different groups will report at IL
o'clock or later in the morning, thus
reducing the number of salespeople
on the floor during the first few
hours after the store opens in the
morning. There will be no wage cur
tailments for the weekly workers but
those on a straight commission basis
may be slightly affected through the
necessity for working shorter hours.
Members of the Retail Merchants
Association have had sharp differ
ences Of opinion regarding the new
law. A few progressive retailers
voicing their views at recent confer
ences at which the problem was dis
Continued on page four)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
Buffalo Stores Spike Objections
To Reduced Hours for Employees
Merchants Stagger Hours of Salespeople to Comply
With New York States New Law Limiting Work
Week of Women and Minors in Factories and Retail
Establishments

Buffalo, N. Y. GLNS)-Buffalo
merchants are giving the answer to
objections to reduced hours of work
for store employees. BY staggering
the hours of employees, executives of
the department stores and mems and
women's clothing shops will comply
with the new state law providing a
48-hour week for minors and women
in factories and stores. In most in
stances one group of employees will
not report for work until II a. m. or
noon once each week so that their
total working hours in a six-day pc
riod will meet the new requirements.
Stores which remain open Saturday
night until o'clock have evolved
system whereby women employees
have been divided into groups, one of
which will not report for work until
noon on Monday, the second at noon
on Tuesday, and this plan will be con-
tinued throughout the week so that
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
UNIONS ASK
MONEY TO FIGHT
INJUNCTION
Pennsylvania Federation of La
bor Points Out Vital Impor-
tance of Nazareth Case, in
Appeal for Defense Fund.

Nazareth, Pa. (ILNS)-A legal de-
ferse fund is being organized by the
Pennsylvania State Federation of
Labor to help the striking hosiery
workers of the Kraemer Hosiery Mill.
this city, to fight the drastic injunc-
tion issued to the Kraemer mill
against the American Federation of
Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers and
to defend the right of peaceful pick
citing
An appeal for contributions has
been sent to every trade union in the
state by James E. Kelley, secretary
of the federation The strikers.
through the American Federation of
Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, are
appealing to the Pennsylvania su-
preme court from the injunctino.
The injunction prohibits all union
activity and restrains officers and
members of the union from giving
publicity to the yellow dog contracts
involved in the five months strike.
"The case is one which should be
carried through the highest court,
Kelley declared, "as it raises funda-
mental points of law of vital impor-
tance to the workers and citizens of
the entire state. The verbatim pro-
ceedings of the injunction hearing
shown no violence, intimidation nor
conniving of any kind, nor any at
tempt to beat the yellow dog contract
except by rousing public opinion
against its use. 1t is just this very
thing that the injunction would pre-
vent-the appeal to public opinion.
In addition to the injunction case,
the hosiery workers are fighting a
series of other cases rising out of the
fight for the right to picket. In this
juncture, the State Federation of
Labor has agreed to assist the ho-
siery workers. We are issuing an ap-
peal for financial assistance to fight
the Nazareth injunction because of
the statewide significance. The funds
will be expended under the supervi-
sion of the state federation"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
OLD AGE RELIEF
PLAN ADVANCES
IN BAY STATE

Boston.-A bill for old age relief
was ordered to third reading by the
house of representatives by a vote
of 202 to 27. The house reduced the
70-year minimum, reported by the
committee, to 60 years for women and
65 years for men.
The measure requires that children
shall be called upon to contribute to
parents support before the state
makes payments. 1t also directs the
state tax commissioner to study
sources of revenue to provide neces-
sary funds for carrying out the act,
including taxes on "amusements, pro-
prietary articles and luxuries."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30

Washington, d. C. GLNS)-In an
effort to dispel false impressions and
bring all possible support to the
measure, John j. Gleeson, secretary
of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plas-
terers' International Union, has writ
ten to each member of the house of
representatives in behalf of the Sproul
standard wage bill, H. r. 9232.
Secretary Gleeson's letter reveals
the extent to which unorganized
Southern workers are being made the
pawns by which unfair and hostile
contractors are seeking to beat down
established wage and working condi-
tions in organized communities where
years of effort have gone into the
battle against low wages and bad
conditions. He presents the congress-
men with a lengthy list of contracts
recently awarded to such contractors.
''The facts necessitate enactment
of this legislation" said Secretary
Gleeson.
''The legislation in question:" he
said in his letter to members of con-
gress, 'does not in any way set up
The American Federation of Labor as
the arbiter of wage rates to be paid
by contractors or subcontractors on
government contracts. 1t merely pro-
vides that such contractors or sub
contractors shall not pay to those in
their employ a lesser wage rate for
any services rendered than the low
est existing wage rate established for
such services III cities and towns in
private industry, either by joint ac-
tion of private employers and an or
ganization of employees belonging to
or affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, or by the acceptance
of such wage rate by private employ
ers and an organization of employees
belonging to or affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, fur
ther providing that it shall be neces-
sary that such an established rate for
such services shall be in effect at said
time of the execution of such contract
in such city or town.
Calls Provision Reasonable
1--WE fail to appreciate wherein any
such provision is in any way unconsti-
tional or contrary to the doctrine of
fairness to all upon which our nation
is founded. To require contractors on
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
Employment Still Decreasing
and Profits Failing Lower
Optimistic Talk Fails to
Change Serious Situation
Many Employers See Failure of AntUnion Ideas and
Come to Conclusion New Policies Are Needed

Washington, D. C. ILNS)-With
"a very slight change" in employment
shown for April by the United States
Bureau of Labor Statistics, the re-
fusal of the industrial situation to
yield to conversational treatment was
shown in corporation reports disclos-
ing reduced income for 306 firms in
representative industrial groups. The
average drop in income was 1876 per
cent, according to the Standard Stat
istics Co., of New York, comparing
April, 1880, with April, 1929.
While the government report shows
marked increase" in building
trades employment, it reveals a net
loss in both employment and payroll
money in seven of the thirteen indus
trial groups from which the bureau
of labor gets figures regularly.
Spread over the whole industrial
field, the bureau figures a net loss in
employment of two-tenths of one per
cent out of about 100000 employees.
1t is pointed out here that the as
tonishing factor is not the volume of
lost employment, but that there
should be any loss, after so much has
been said about improving conditions.
Many Decreases Called Seasonal"
Decreased employment is reported
in manufacturing, bituminous and
metal mining, crude petroleum pro-
duction, telephone and telegraph op-
Grafton, wholesale trade and hotels
The department seeks to soften the
blow by pointing out that these drops
are almost wholly seasonal, but al
legged seasonal drops, added to the ac-
cumulated effect of the general crash
creates something that is described
by labor men as depression plus. The
bloom has been knocked off some of
the rosy predictions of optimistic sta
tisticians and political forecasters.
Paradoxically, it is reported that
some of the industries reported as
showing a loss for the month, over
March, are reported as actually hav-
ing more employees than they had for
April year ago. If this means any
thing it means that conditions year
ago were desperate in these indus
tries, while the country generally was
gloating over a condition of fancied
and much -touted prosperity.
Per Man Wages Drop
AS a matter of fact the interpreta-
tions of government reports on en-
rloyment, or unemployment, require
much interpreting before their mean
ing is clear. One of the group re-
ports of increases and decreases,
there energies this sentence from the
government report:
"Per capita earnings in manu-
featuring industries in April,
1920, were 0.3 per cent lower
than in March, 1880, and As per
cent lower than in April, 1929"
Which reveals, in part, the extent
to which employers have broken the
White House agreement not to re-
duce wages. For these figures are
not wage rates in the aggregate
they are per capita rates. They are
rates per employee. In the year wage
rates per employe have fallen AS per
cent in manufacturing industries.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
MUST PAY UNION RATE

Minneapolis.-Th board of educa-
tion voted that contracts for school
buildings must contain clause that
contractors shall pay wages not less
than the minimum wage scale now
paid by the city on work done under
direction of the city engineer.
The clause was urged by organized
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30

How much of this per capita wage
reduction is due to discharge of
skilled workers and the substitution
of recruits at lower rates and how
much is due to reductions imposed
without turnover is not revealed by
! the government statisticians.
New Policies Neeedd
Aside from government figures
which emphatically picture a contin-
ued condition of terrific unemploy-
ment, another situation is developing.
Employers, in considerable groups,
throughout the country are coming to
the conclusion that new policies must
be adopted to meet condition that
does not yield to any of the ancient
shibboleths
international Labor News Service
learns, from many sources, that a
wave of insurgency is on against the
anti-union administration of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
and the idea generally represented by
the Davenport Emery -Edgerton brand
of opposition to modern industrial
principles.
AS a matter of fact this feeling
born out of the facts of the day, is
so serious that within the last two
weeks one important manufacturing
group that can not at this time be
named, repudiated the Edgerton pro-
gram and denounced it as treacher-
Gus. The leaders of this group declar-
ed that revival of industrial prosper
ity can come only through reduced
hours of work and increased wages
and they declared that if employers
did not hold themselves willing to deal
with trade unions they shortly would
have to deal with a destructive force
instead.
Similar Views Gain Ground
Reports of similar views in many
responsible quarters have been gath
cred, showing respectable proportions
within the ranks of employers. These
employers are facing the situation as
it is, with the certain knowledge that
permanent unemployment can not eX
ist and that permanent unem-
ployment must be avoided either by
constructive measures within indus
try or by an upheaval that will de-
stroy the present order of industrial
operation.
Charles F. Kettering, vice presi-
dent of General Motors, by no means
concern sympathetic to trade un-
ionism, last week declared that either
science must develop new types of
employment at the head of the pro-
cession or there would have to be
dole system at the end of the process
sion, bringing himself thus about half
way toward meeting the problem, to
the creation of which the efficiency of
General Motors and it's wages and
hours policies are a considerable con-
tributing factor.
With the report of corporation
earning decreases added to the un-
employment figures, it is clear that
prosperity has not been revived and
that measures thus far taken have
not been effective.
The Washington times., 1930-03-08
2 CONDUCTORS
FOR NATIONAL
SYMPHONY

When the National Symphony
Orchestra of Washington makes
its second 1880 concert appear
ance at Constitution Hall next
Friday afternoon, March IA.
at 4:45 o'clock. Washington
music-lovers will have their first
opportunity to witness the ap-
pearance, as both conductor
and soloist, of Gustav Strube,
the celebrated conductor Of the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
At that time, Mr.. Strube will
conduct the National Symphony
in three numbers of Mr.. Strube'S
own composition-"Homage to
Schubert" Prelude No. 2" and
"Serenade." The rest Of the
program will be conducted by
Hans Kinder, the renowned
concert 'cellist and conductor.
Mr.. Kinder will conduct the
opening number, the overture
from Won Weber's Der Fret
schultz" as we'll as the second,
the third and the sixth-Bach's
"Pasacaglia in C minor, Greig's
First Peer Gynt" suite and
Ippolitov-Ivanov's Caucasian"
suite. Mr.. Strube will conduct
his own three mum bers-
Homage to Schubert" Prelude
No. 2 and ,"Serenade." These
six numbers, it is said, will af-
ford one of the most novel
and fascinating orchestral pro-
grams presented in Washington
in months.
Mr.. Kinder and Mr.. Strube
will conduct rehearSals of the
National Symphony every day
this week in preparation for
Fridays concert which is ex.
pected to attract a capacity
crowd of Washington society
and Sic-loverS. Seats for the
concert are now on sale at Mrs.
Wilson -Greene's Concert Bureau,
in Droop's 1900 G st. N. W.,
and will be on sale at Constitu-
tion Hall on the afternoon Of
the concert,
The Washington times., 1930-03-08

keeping, and he went to work
in the old Land Office Build
ing.
His arduous labors for Uncle
Sam didn't tire Steve suf-
ficiently. so he began ushering
for Joseph Morgan at the
Princess Theater, at night.
The future manager Of the
Tivoli was then 18.
On transferring to the Indian
Service, Steve moved his work
ing headquarters to the Sho-
Shone Indian reservation in
Wyoming, leaving the Princess
Theater to struggle along for a
year. Then he returned, re-
Sumed work at the Land Office
again, and took a job as door
man at the Apollo Theater.
Another year saw Steve man.
ager of the Apollo. having re-
ceiVed the accolade at the hands
of H. M. Crandall. With this
step upward, Steve left the Gov
ernment service.
He managed the Apollo, the
Savoy, joined his father-in-law
in the dairy business, sold out,
returned to the Apollo for a
year and then was transferred
to the Tivoli.
Steve married a charming girl
he met while doorman at the
Apollo. He has two hobbies,
his family (including two daugh-
tiers, IL and 8 years old and his
theater.