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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Tells of Graft in
Charity Rackets; Ask
for Big Commissions

NEW YORK.-A worker writes to
the Daily Worker, saying that she
was not at first inclined TO believe
the stories about graft in the boss
charity institutions, but after some
personal experiences she says she has
changed her mind.
II wor for a firm which manufac-
lures sweaters" says this letter. "A
woman representing herself as a
member Of an unemployed commit
tee, headed by influential and wealthy
people, including pudge, came in
and purchased several dozen sweaters
for the unemployed. After. giving her
a price for the merchandise, she re-
quested per cent commission, say
ing that she could raise the price II
necessary.
Here is an example of where the
funds go. can Just imagine the per-
centage of rake-off at each successive
step higher before the clothing finally
reaches the unemployed"
The point is the clothing seldom If
ever reaches the, unemployed, most
of whom freeze.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
POLICE ATTACK
JEWELRY .JOBLESSS
Crowd Grows as Rubin
Is Dragged Away

NEW YORK. ~ Yesterday the I'M
employment mass meeting held prep
aratory to the march on city hall by
the Jewlery Trades Workers Unem-
ployed Council ran into police inter-
ference, but continued in spite of all
obstacles. With Abe Rubin speak
ing in the Jewelry Trades market, at
9th St and Sixth Ave, crowd of
about 500 had assembled, listening
especially to the demands for unem-
ployment relief and the report Of the
great unemployment for jewelry
workers.
Police came in and arrested Rubin.
He refused to stop speaking, and con-
tinued Will the cops dragged him
around the street - and the crowd
grew to over 1000.
After being roughly handled. Ru-
bin was taken to court and sentenced
to one day in Jail.
The Jewelry Workers Unemployed
Council will continue to hold open air
meetings in spite of the police, and
will build the council.
Over 10 per cent of the workers in
these trades are out Of a job. Head
quarters of the council is at Is West
21st Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
COMMENSURATE
ENTERS BROOKLYN
ELECTIONS
Must Collect 1900 Sig
natures by Jan. 20

BROOKLYN. N. Y.-on February
II there will be the election of Con-
greSsmen in the 7th and 9th Con-
gressional District (Brooklyn) to fill
the vacancies of the two Tan1mapy
elected congressman, both of whom
died before they could reach Con-
gress.
The Communist Party must be
placed on the ballot on both Of these
congressional districts and 100 sigs
natures must be collected at once to
be able to place the Party Of the
working class on the ballot,
The collection Of signatures for the
placing of the Party on the ballot
will begin from now on and every day
every worker must report to Section
six Communist Party Headquarters,
81 Graham Ave, to get petitions and
go out to collect signatures.
All Party members. workers, syna-
pathizers, all members of the VIII
IliamSburgh Workers Club, all mem
bers of the Women's Council Of Will
liausburgh, all Y. G. L, members are
called upon to report to the Party
Headquarters in Section Six at 81
Graham Ave, Sunday, Jan. IS, at 10
a. m, sharp where a plan Of action
to put the Communist Party on the
ballot will be presented,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
HARLEM TRUCK
IS A FEATURE
Negro Shock Brigade
Does Fine Work

NEW YORK.--A big feature Of the
City Hall demonstration here for i'm
mediate relief to the unemployed was
a big truck. loaded full of leaflets
and a shock brigade of Negro work
ars, and covered with slogans of the
hunger marchers, The two largest
slogans were Immediate Relief to the
Jpemployed," and Death to Lynch
Ars."
The truck paraded the streets
around city hall followed by the
cheers of $4,000 demonstrators.
Then it went back to Harlem where
its crew put in busy evening. They
used the truck to scatter Lenin Mem
orial Meeting leaflets everywhere, and
made 1t the center of signature COLI
lection meetings at Lenox Ave, and
132nd ST., Lenox and 13sth ST., 145th
st. and Seventh Ave, l29th st. and
Eighth I've. and the Salvation Army
headquarters on 124th st. between
Seventh and Eighth AYES.
The mass meeting at st. Luke's
Hall, 125 w. 10th st. was advertised
and the meeting today of the Council
of the Unemployed, at Is w. 126th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
OKLA. JOBLESS
SEIZE FOOD
Break Into a Store At
Demonstration

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla, Jan. 20.
Outraged by the failure of the city
council to begin distribution Of relief,
as they had promised, hundreds OF
7tarving unemployed workers paraded
N force through the city today, and
luddenly charged into grocery store,
pinned the clerks TO the counter and
,ook al 1.-The food.
The entire police force and fire de-
partment we're modified and hurled
tear gas bombs into the crowd, chas-
ing groups of unemployed up and
down the main streets and lombard
ing them with tear gas.
After the demonstration, go we're
picked out for arrest. A crowd i'm
uediately began to grow to charge
he Jail and release the prisoners.
The day began with demonstra-
ion of the unemployed at the city
hall in which demands for relief ane
10 evictions, etc, were presented
through a committee headed by Fran
lis owen. City Manager Fry refused
turn over city money for relief of
he starving.
A short time later, over 300 men
'harged on the grocery store.
A spokesman stated to the man.
ger: I'VE want food and we are
yoing to get 1t. Come on boys, come
md take it." And they did.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
FSU TO HAVE A
FISH" BANQUET
Foster, Dresser, Others
4 to Participate

NEW YORK. - The friends of the
Soviet Union is holding dinner for
the purpose of politically .caricatur-
ing the Fish committee. Comrade
Joseph Brodsky will impersonate
Hamilton Fish and prosecute all er-
ring liberals and their friends.
At this dinner the national secre-
tary, John J. BALKAN, will announce
the opening of the campaign for the
May delegation to the Soviet Union
and the organization of committee
Of authors artists and professional
workers for the election of the group
OF professional workers. Comrade
Foster will make the main address
"Why A Fish Committee. A. B.
NTagil and Harry Potamkin who were
present at the trial of the 8 sabo-
tours will speak on the Moscow Trial.
william Chopper will cartoon Hamil-
ron Fish with his ininitable carica-
es.
Roger Baldwin is to be toastmaster
4 Theodore Dresser, the chairman
z the dinner committee will be pres
ent and will be urged to say a few
dis Theodore Dresser hates to
eak in public. Sergei Radamsky
VII speak on Soviet Art and Music
ard will not be able to resist their
demand for some revolutionary songs.
Everybody is expected to have a good
time. The dinner ticket is $3.50 and
can be ordered by mail-room 1886, 80
East 18th St, or telephone Margu-
erite Tucker dinner secretary, Stuy-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONBl
other needle trades workers are called
to Madison Square Garden. to the
Lenin Memorial meeting, This meet
ing will also be utilized as a mobiliza-
ton of all needle trades workers for
the dress strike.
More Tomorrow.
Tomorrow the union will again hold
open-air meetings throughout the
dress district. Tomorrow at p, m.
there will be the first meeting of the
strike committee elected at the last
dress shop conference. At this meet
ing the strike committee will organize
itself to take over the various activi-
ties for the mobilization of the dress
makers for the strike, as well as lay
the basis for the organization of the
strike machinery.
Tomorrow at 8 p. IN. there will
also be meeting Of dressmakers, as
we'll as all other needle trades work
9rs living and working in Browns
vile, at Columbia Hall, 522 Stone
Ave, Brooklyn. The Brooklyn sec
ton will also at this meeting elect
representatives to the strike commit
tee.
Tomorrow there will also be
meeting at st. LukeS Hall, 125 W
lSoth ST., Of Negro and white work.
7rs living in Harlem. At this meet
ng the Harlem needle trades work
ors will prepare for a large mass
Meeting of Harlem workers, to elect
representatives to the strike commit
Zee.
At . p. m. tomorrow, at 13l W.
9th ST., there will be meeting OF
unemployed dressmakers for the cleo
ton of representatives of the unem-
ployed to the dress STRIFE committee.
All unemployed dressmakers of the
union as well as non-union members
are invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
TWELVE WORKERS DIE IN
FACTORY

TOMS RIVER, N. Twelve men
died to date as a result of inadequate
facilities for removing dust from the
air in which they must work at the
New Jersey Pulverizing Co. plant at
Riverwald, New Jersey.
The company already settled nine
cases out of court at the cost of
100000, and yesterday 80 new suits
were filed at Toms River asking for
$4,000 each. All the claimants are
Negro workers. All deaths were dag
nosed as caused by Silicosis; due to
the above mentioned causes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
YOUNG WORKERS
SHOWED GRIT IN
CITY HALL FIGHT
Cops Couldn't Keep Le-
Roy Silent

NEW YORK. - Typical Of the de-
termination Of some of the demon
strators in the city hall hunger march
is the case of Nat lie Roy. When
the front of the crowd had been
broken at Franklin's statue by a
charge of police on horse and foot,
lie Roy, a young worker member OF
the delegation to the mayor went
with part of the crowd across the
street and climhed on an apple box
to resume the report on the inter-
view with the acting mayor.
Another police attack came, the
COX was broken up and the jobless
used parts of it to defend themselves
With.
The crowd was again chased across
the street, to right opposite the
square. lie Roy mounted a sand box,
and started speaking. Several at
tempts we're mace by the Tammany
thugs to pull him from the box, but
the workers resisted, and kept him
there, holding him up. Finally,
after about twenty minutes speaking
the uniformed guerlnas attacked the
crowd once more. Five cops on
horses worked their way in, and
Knocked lie Roy down He fell on
the ground and would have been
trampled by the horses hoofs except
for the fact that workers rescued him
in time.
Once more lie Roy climbed UP in
front of the World Building. on an
apple box where a worker was sell
ling apples, and several thousand
gathered around Several attempts
were made to get the speaker down
from the box. After the box was
broken, be was lifted to the should
ers of the demonstrators, and he
spoke from there, when the police at
tackled him again. He was once
more pulled down, his coat ripped
and hat pulled off, and blackjacked.
although not seriously injured. Other
speakers took his place
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
'1EGRO FRAMED IN
KANSAS ON RAPE
Negro, White Workers
Gather Jan. &c

KANSAS CITY. - Coming on the
heels of the mob burning OF Raymond
Gum in Maryville, Mo, another Ne
gro worker, Rudolph Gibson, has
been framed up on charges of rape
and murder. and is imprisoned in
Kansas city Jail, awaiting trial
which will almost certainly result in
imposition of the death penalty.
In preliminary investigation, Glib
son stated that his alleged confession
was extorted under direct torture
pressure from the police.
Today a committee of three, rep
resenting the League Of Struggle for
Negro Rights and the international
Labor Defense went to the City Jail
and demanded to see Gibson. This
was denied, under various pretexts
However upon the firm insistence OF
the committee, consisting of Hettie
little, r. t. Pierce and Clara Speer,
the committee was granted the right
to see Gibson, Wednesday, the regu-
lar visiting day.
NEW YORK.-Negro and white
workers will demonstrate against boss
terror and lynching as a special meet
ing at st. Lukes Hall, lis w. l30th
St., Monday night, Jan. rs. The
meeting is called by the League OF
Struggle for Negro Rights, and the
city committee of the l.. N. S. R.
points out that already this year at
least four Negro worers have been
brutally lynched by the bosses and
their agents. The terror of lynch
law at work follows:
At Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the cen
ter of the black belt, the body OF
25-year-old Negro worker, battered
beyond recognition, and another Ne
gro worker by the name of Mark
Brown, we're found dead during the
first week of January. On Sunday
night, Jan, IL, a mob of 1900 Negro
haters gathered in the Jim-Crow sec
ton of charity hospital in Shreve-
port, La, and with the medical staff
caused the death of Leman McDan-
iels, Negro worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Secret Mission From
Congress studying"
English Dole System

A report printed Monday in the
London Daily Mail says that secret
American congressional mission is in
England studying the dole system :"
Officials of the British government
said they were aware of the presence
of this commission, but very little in
formation has been given out about
it. The American bosses, realizing
that unemployment will grow worse
al the time, and that ever greater
millions will fight for unemployment
insurance. are studying the best
means to fool them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Labor and Fraternal
WEDNESDAY

w u
Passaic, Attnfion!
The Lenin -Leibknecht-Lu
Memorial meeting takes place at s
p. m. at Russian National Home. 1859
Fourth St under the auspices of the
Communist Party and the Young
Communist League.
The Bronx Unemployed Council
Of l472 Boston Rd calls upon all
workers to come to 81 mass protest
demonstration against the eviction of
jobless workers at S45 Il. 10th
ST. at 10 a. m.
THURSDAY
Brownsville Worker Tenants League
Meets at 1874 Pitkin Ave. at pm
p members and sympathizers should
be present Important matters will
be taken up.
.Ti~h and the IL.D.s
Will be the subject of a lecture to
b delivered at Ambassa dor Hail.
( Cl~xemont Parkway and Third Ave-
Auspices ,Sacco-VanZetti Br. LID.
U. $. Bank pepositors
Meet at D. m. at Public School AZ.
c. remont Parkway and Washington
AVG, Bronx.-United Depositors Com
mittee.
FRIDAY
Printing Workers Industrial League
Meets at 2 p. m. at 16 w. 2fst St
Final plans for the building up Of a
Printing Workers Unemployed Coun-
Gil will be taken up. Unemployed
printing workers are invited.
Red Spark Athlete Club
Will hold a lecture at o. m. at
their clubrooms. 132 Second Ave. Sub
1ect; THE Five-Year Plan Of the So
Wet Union" All workers should
learn the meaning Of this great mas
terpiece of the Soviet Workers Pay
for your ticket according to the size
of your pocket. The club invites all
workers 70 come any evening between
and 11.30 p. m. and take part in
all sports ana in discussions on the
problems Of workers. .-..-...
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21

ORGANIZE TO END
STARVATION; DEMAND
Relief!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Open Air Meets
At Noon Today to
Prepare for Strike

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
A REAL CELEBRATION.

NEW YORK. - At the 15-year an
liversary of Comrades Ray and Jo-
eph Shapiro at their home, Satur-
day, Jan. IT, thirty-five comrades
we're present. They made up do
nation Of $40 to the two revolution
cry papers. The Daily Worker and
me Morning Freiheit.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
Penny-Savers Aid
Unemployed in South

Atlanta, Cain scores of cities
throughout the South penny clubs
have been organized to help the job
less. In Atlanta, where the plan orig
mated, the penny contributions of cit
izens are giving regular employment
to 200 men.
Mrs. Thomas K. Glenn, wife of an
Atlanta banker conceived the idea of
asking employed Atlantans to give
a penny a day for each meal they eat
to create jobs for the needy. This
amounts to three cents day, or
twenty-one cents a week. The scheme
caught on quickly.
"The Penny Club is giving $3.50
each week for men in the improve
ment and Identification of parks,
school grounds, hospital grounds and
other civic projects" Mrs. Glenn said.
The municipal authorities are quite
elated over the scheme. 1t enables
them to get municipal work done by
charity contributions instead of
through taxation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
Organized Labor Confronts
Congress With Vital Demands
WAGE CUTS
To Stimulate Work Before
Hub Building Union

Boston, Mass. (ILNS)-The Boston
Building Trades Council has under
consideration suggestion from the
Building Trades Employers Associa-
tion that a voluntary reduction in
wages be made by the building
unions. The council has been collect
ing data and expects to submit its
attitude on the suggestion of the en-
ployers in the near future.
In response to the suggestion of the
employers that the unions cut wages
as a way of improving condition dur
ing the prevailing depression, the
Carpenters Union has offered to ac-
cept $1.17A per hour for week of
40 hours. This rate is to remain in
effect until April l, 1888. The reduc-
ton is 20 cents. There is also a re-
duction for shop and mill carpenters
under the voluntary reduction. The
new rate is 92h cents. The Carpen-
ters' Union is not a member of the
Boston Building Trades Council, hence
its individual action in treating the
suggestion of the employers. The
latter asked that the temporary re-
duction be for at least 18 months. The
employers organization claims the
temporary reduction will help in i'm
proving conditions in construction ac-
tivities by assuring a decreased cost
for building work. The employers
claim they have no intention of seek
ing a permanent cut in wages.
1t is estimated that approximately
5000 men are affected by the action
of the carpenters. The voluntary ac-
ton of the carpenters was taken after
giving the proposal of the employers
five weeks consideration. The deci-
sion was reached that the high cost
of building was causing the postpon-
ing of big building projects, and that
it was advisable to comply with the
suggestion of the employers to see if
tangible improvement resulted. The
reduction in wages becomes effective
on January /.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
PRIORITY
Given Patents That Promise
To Make Jobs

Washington, D. c. ILNS)-The
patent office is striving to relieve the
unemployment situation by granting
priority to patents that give promise
of increasing employment, T. E. Rob-
ertson, commissioner of patents, says
in his annual report
Before special consideration is
given to patent application, Com
missioner Robertson points out, the
applicant must agree to expend GER
tain amount of capital in the manu-
facture of the article patented. Fur
thermore, advancement in the order of
examination is made only when a
pledge is given that three months
after the allowance of the application
a report is submitted to the paten:
office showing such details as the
amount expended in manufacturing
the article, the actual number of units
made, and the extent to which such
manufacture has increased the en-
ployment of labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
12,25O Get Old Age
Pensions in New Jersey

Trenton, N. 1.-THE state depart
ment of institutions and agencies es-
Inmates the cost of New jerseys old
age pension law for the first year
of its operation at S3,675,000, of
which the states share will be ST.
756,250 and the counties $918,750.
The law becomes effective January
2, 1882, with pension payments be-
ginning on July l. 1t provides that
persons 70 years old or over, who
have resided in New Jersey for at
least Is years and the county where
application is made for at least one
year preceding the date of applica-
tion, will be eligible for relief. The
amount of relief is not fixed by law,
but will not exceed ST. a day.
Commissioner William J. Ellis said
that approximately 12,250 persons
are eligible.
The law is administered by county
welfare boards.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
KNITTING MILL
To Open With State Fund
Help

Fort Plain, n. Y. QLNS)-With
the help of New York states emer-
gency unemployment relief fund, the
Bailey knitting mills of this town will
reopen with a full force of workers.
Conditions governing use of money
from the state fund, which was voted
by a special session of the legisla-
ture, were outlined to the board of
supervisors by Mayor H. V. Berry,
who recently conferred with Isidor
Straus, chairman of the committee
under whose direction the state ap-
preparation for unemployment relief
is being administered. The mills
payroll will be met from the state
fund.
All employed in the mill when oper-
ations ceased will be returned to their
former jobs. Underwear, sweaters
and the like will be made and turned
over to the state to be given to the
Salvation Army and similar organiza-
tions for the needy. Goods will not
be put on the open market.
One thing that is making times
hard, is too many easy payments.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
Fur Concern Seeks
Writ Against Pickets

Washington.-An injunction to pre-
vent the Fur Workers Union, Local
No. 72, from picketing its property
was asked of the district supreme
court by Francke Furrier, Inc.
The concern claimed that represen-
tatives of the union walked back and
forth in front of its place of business
carrying cards accusing the company
of being unfair to organized labor.
The picketing, the company said, was
injuring its business.
The petition for the injunction evi-
IDENTIFY overlooked another angle of
business" 1t is the business of the
furrier to sell his goods. 1t is, on
the other hand, the business of the
Fur Workers Union to inform the
public that the goods are made under
what the union considers as unfair
conditions, and to urge them not to
buy the goods.
We've made few purchases on the
partial payment plan, too, and now
know what eternity means.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
Hoffman Loses in Conspiracy"
Case Before Superior Court
Decision Seen Big Danger to Organized Labor and
Pennsylvania Trade Unions Plan Campaign for His
Pardon.

Philadelphia, Pa. (ILNS)-Under a
superior court decision regarded by
labor officials and counsel as ex-
tremely dangerous to labor as offer
ing an opening for host of ''con-
spiracy" cases, Alfred Hoffman must
appear before the court on Monday
and is expected on that day to begin
serving the prison sentence imposed
upon him.
Hoffman, organizer for the Amer
lean Federation of Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers, was convicted on a
charge of conspiracy growing out of
a strike at the Mammoth Hosiery
Mills in Stroudsburg. 1t was the
charge that he conspired with others
to assault certain Mammoth employees.
Indicted on five counts he was con-
victed on three and sentenced to jail
for two years.
Organized labor in Pennsylvania is
solidly behind Hoffman. The State
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-11
WHITE COLLAR
RELIEF URGENT

The latest information service of
the Federal Council of Churches of
Christ in America calls attention to
some phases of the presidents organ
ization on unemployment relief, espe-
cially to this feature:
"The committee believes that spe-
cial consideration should be given to
the need for spreading work among
the white collar class of workers
which heretofore has received less
than reasonable notice Distress
among this class has been particular
ly acute in many cases. Banks and
industrial and commercial concerns
could do much more n spreading work
among them than has been attempt
ed."