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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
A. F. of L. Official Is Member of Employers
Assn Which Pays Him Fee to 'Pacit' Workers

ers Howe and Brennan, and how re-
mafkable, John Moffitt. representing
the United States Departmental La
Dor.
When Fay became an Elk, 300 at
tended banquet in his honor,
Among them were the Very Reverend
Matthew Toohey, representing the
Catholic Church; the Honorable
Judge Albano (who shortly after this
event refused to issue a warrant to
a militant worker who had been
BLACK lacked by Fay, three city COM
missioners and A. M. Huddell, presi-
dent of the union of which Fay is
the New Jersey representative.
When Fay and Brandle left for a
vacation in Europe, after they had a
particularly hard time in selling out
a strike, the police department glee
club sang them fond farewell at a
banquet in the Hotel Vanderbilt, New
York. When these two gunner and
misleaders OF labor returned from
their tour, who should welcome them
at the pier but police band and
part of the riot squad formed to
attack Communist demonstrations.
Now T. U. u. L. leaders rarely get
vacations, except when they go to
jail for leading courageous workers
in struggle against their pot-bellied
exploiters. But try to imagine a po-
lice glee club giving a T. U. U. l..
leader an ovation upon his return
from vacation"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
Cincinnati

Androtti Bank which failed.
New Haven has collected nearly
$500 signatures for the Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill. and will go over
8 900 before Feb. TO-
New Haven workers and jobless
will be in the hunger march on the
state capitol, Feb. 10, in support OF
the bill and for local demands.
Portland Demonstration.
A report has been received from
Portland, Oregon, scene OF q most
vicious repression, and also Of great
unemployment in the city and poy-
erty among the farmers around, that
county demonstration for the bill
will be held Feb. 10.
Feb. 10 demonstrations are now
announced also for New York,
Springfield, Mass; South Bend, Ind;
New Britain, Conn; Duluth, Mimi;
Chicago, Johnstown City, Pa; Wheel
ing, w. Va, and San Antonio, Texas.
This week unemployment confer
ences which must take up the ques-
ton OF Feb. 10 demonstrations are
being held in Indianapolis, Ind. Feb.
l and 2; Bridgeport, Conn, Jan. 30:
Springfield, Mass, Jan. 80; Kansas
City, Mo, Jan. 90; Canton, Ohio
(mass meeting), Jan. 81 and Grand
| Rnoids. Mich. (rf1ass rneeting) /,
Jan. 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27

A. f. L. local. This man, Hanson,
was elected by the conference to go
wit hthe delegation to present the
bill in Washington, Feb. 10, and ar
rangements were made for mass
demonstration on that day to back
up the bill. There will also be local
demonstration demanding immediate
relief for the 5000 jobless in this
city. This demonstration will be
Feb. 4, at the city hall. Feb. and
8 have been set aside for a house TO
house canvass to collect signatures
demanding the passage Of the bill
Hartford Conference Tuesday.
The Hartford (Conn) County I'm
employment Conference will be held
Tuesday evening, Jan. 81, at the La
Dor Lyceum, to prepare for the
Hunger March on the State Capitol
on Feb. 10. Thirty or more organ
izations~ will be represented at the
conference. Over a thousand sigma
lures have been collected for the I'm
employment Insurance Bill, and a
final effort to collect another thou
sand before Feb. 10 will be made.
New Haven Prepares.
William 2. Foster will speak at a
mass meeting on Friday evening. {
p M, Jan. 80, at the Lyceum Audi
forum, SO Howe ST., New Haven
Conn, to prepare for the Hunger
March to the City Hall on Feb. 2
Intensive preparations are being
made so that the Foster meeting will
be huge success. 10000 leaflets
are being distributed among the un.
employed.
Another sneaker at the mass meet
ing will probably be Nat Richards
Hartford organizer Of the Commu-
mist Party, who is now in Jail fol
his unemployed activities and whom,
the international Labor Defense Il
trying to get released by Friday
Richards also faces ten year jai
sentence for speaking at a meeting
Of small depositors Of the Pallottt-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
Oakland Forms Red Builders
Club, Fourth in California;
Challenges Other Districts

Oakland is the latest to form a
Red Builders News Club, adding a
fourth notch to CALIFORNIA; present
News Clubs in Sacramento, Los An
geles and Stockton. Oakland has
been doing some heavy selling of the
Daily Worker, and we look forward
to its taking its place among the
highest in circulation.
c. Mugianis, section Daily Worker
representative, writes:
ave have organized a Red Build
ers' Club and are going to make all
efforts to reach every worker in
Oakland. The secretary of the club
is J. M. who is ready to challenge
any district to build the bundle
sales. At the present time we arc
receiving 215 Daily Workers every
day, besides the bundle orders that
the other comrades arc receiving"
Let the other Red News Clubs
watch their circulation steps!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
McKeesport Welfare Fund Tyrranize Over
JObless
Jobless
McKeesport, Pa.

McKeesport, Pa.
;omrade Editor:
guess the workers in McKees-
port suffer like other workers do in
this rich country. Just a few lines
about our Welfare Fund in McKees-
port.
A woman on Mulberry st. asked
help from the Welfare Fund. They
said they would investigate her case.
They came one day, opened the door
in the kitchen, looked around and
said your furniture looks good" and
walked out. The lady said: I can't
eat the furniture even if it looks
good.
Spy On Workers.
ON Shaw Ave. worker went to the
welfare Fund and asked for help.
They gave him two days work on
the street for So a day, making Sc
for the two days. With these Sc you
must report to the Welfare Fund,
where you spend every red cent.
He asked why he couldn't get more
work. They told him that it would
be couple OF months before he
could get two more days of work. So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27

on wage contracts at below the
unions scale. Huddell has literally
thrown Local 263 out of the union
because it fought his sell-out poll
cies, and, although the courts have
declared that Huddell expelled the
local illegally, the local is still out
Of the union and the capitalist
judges have not held him in con-
tempt of court. That is penalty
reserved for workers who violate
anti-picketing injunctions obtained
for the bosses by Huddell and his
colleagues.
Where can the rank and file turn,
then, if not to the revolutionary
union in the Trade Union Unity
League?
We have seen that Brandle is de-
scribed in the capitalist press as a
banker and labor leader We have
seen Lyons, the other A. F. of L.
leader discussed in these articles, an
employer who actually broke strike
called against him by an A. F. of L.
local which protested against ex-
ploitation by him.
Makes 100000 a Year on Saloon.
Fay differs from these two in no
respect He, too, runs a speakeasy
in the headquarters of one of the
locals he controls and forces mem
bers of these locals to patronize 1t.
An average number Of customers a
night at this speakeasy, located on
Ferry St., is 1000, and Fay's yearly
profits, exclusive Of what he makes
or the gambling that goes on there,
is 100000 a year.
Fay. too, is an employer, an ex-
ploiter. 1t is perhaps understandable
that he should enter the business in
which the members of his union earn
their living--when they work. Fay
has organized two companies--the
International Hosting Mcahine Co
and the international Co. He thus
became an employer of the very men
who delegated him to fight for their
interests against all employers.
Not only did Fay exploit the men
in his union, but he forced them tt
go out drumming up business fol-
him. One worker, Alfred Jacob, re-
fused, and Fay expelled him from
the local. Jacob, inexperienced
enough to think he could get justice
by going to capitalist court, brought
suit, nevertheless, with the result
that the Judge threw his case out OF
court. Fay continued to hound Jacob
until he forced him out Of the state.
At last reports, Jacob was In Vir-
ginia, out Of Job.
For time Fay permitted no union
member to work for excavation COM
panies in competition with him. This
antagonized his fcllow-capitalists
however, so Fay organized them all
into the Excavating Contractors AS
ISOLATION, with himself as a charter
member. The excavating work could
thus be divided equally and the prices
sent sky-high. For his services in
keeping the members OF his union
"pacified," every member Of the as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27

the mines at hard work. When they
come out they go to the company
store and try to get something to eat
for their families but this is what
they say you haven't got enough
made to get anything, then the
workers have to go home to their
families without anything to eat fol
them.
The workers get 38 cents a tor
and they move as much as three OF
four feet Of stone for nothing. Some
workers go to work without anything
II their buckets Some Of them don't
larry buckets cause they have moth
ing TO put In them.
Get Hunger Wages.
The men in the mines are all work
ing two in one place and they are
only getting 8 cars day. So you
can imagine how much a man makes
in q day. And what he does make the
company robs half OF that. That is
why the men don't have anything
to put in their buckets.
For instance, q man started tc
work for that company. He worked
two days when he went to get some
thing to eat. They told him they
could only give him dollar as the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill

The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill proposes:
I-UnempIoyment of SIS week for each
unemployed additional for each dependant
National Unemployment Insurance Fund to
funds unemployment nsurance
capital and property of $25OOO c tar
on incomes Of $4,000
Unemployment Insurance Fund thus created shall
Commission elected solely employed
and unemployed workers.
being circulated by the Workers Ma
Unemployment its sub
organizations that shall the bill in Its
tpossbly) meetings which a
the delegation presSt to tpo
the delegation itself The final form OF the
bill follow general points printed above
collect signatures for this
cooperation workers know in the sig
organizations should actvze their members in
collection signatures Write the National Campaign
Unemployment Insurance, West 18th ST. New
City, for signature blanks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27

the Macdonald government is plan
ming to betray the workers by "con-
ciliating" the impending strike.
The sentiment Of the railway
workers is for militant struggle.
Hard on the heels Of the pay-cut-
ting demands of the railway mag
mates are threats by the building
trades, cotton, boot and shoe bosses
that they will follow suit and start
huge wage-slashing campaign.
Rejecting decisively the labor gov
eminent Intervention on behalf OF the
bosses, 10000 Lancashire cotton
weavers voted against negotiating
with the employers. The position OF
the Macdonald government was that
OF acceptance Of a revised wage re-
duction.
The Lancashire cotton weavers are
solid against the introduction Of the
eight-loom system and a rs per cent
wage-cut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
BY ALLEN JOHNSON

by hLLblN JOHNcOT
In 1910. Joseph Fay, an enterpris-
ing saloon keeper from Troy. NJ Y,
arrived in Newark and set up shop,
Business prospered and his saloon
became the meeting place of some of
the best known criminals and A. F.
of L. officials in the city. Among the
latter gentry who frequented the
place was Ted Brandle, who had just
started to travel that crooked high
way that was to lead him to the
position of the most powerful A. F.
Of L. official in the state.
Brandle liked Fay and Fay re-
spected Brandle's neat manner OF
selling out strike while giving the
impression that he was courageously
fighting for the interests of workers.
What could be more reasonable than
for Brandle to invite Fay to join the
ranks of A. F. OF L. officialdom.
Fay, with sharp eye for easy
money, Jumped at the chance and
became member Of the Interna-
tional Union of Steam, Operating and
Hosting Engineers. His experience
as an engineer was largely obtained
by manipulating slot machines but
that didn't prevent him from becom-
ing business agent Of Local 1875 In
phenomenally quick time.
Fays method Of converting the
Network locals into a company union
was marvel OF simplicity. When a
minor official displayed some inter-
est in the welfare OF the members OF
the union, Fay would remove him
without trial and replace him with
one Of his own henchmen. When II
seemed that Fay or one OF his lieu
tenants was IN danger of being voted
out by the rank and file, Fay would
enroll enough gunner on the books
to outvote the workers in opposition
to him.
All this was--and is--done in direct
violation OF the unions constitution,
! WAlANAl PAONlQCo lOI 4OIlIldl CIldISte
and hearing before union men,
Der can be penalized in any way or
removed from office.
Rank and File Protest Ignored.
The rank and file have repeatedly
protested to Huddell, the interna-
tional president. but have found that
he was doing on national scale
what Fay was doing in New Jersey.
Huddell has removed the officers Of
not less than 1o4 locals because they
have protested at his stealing the
$325,000 in dues which he collects
yearly and for which he refuses to
render an accounting. In all these
104 locals. Huddell has suspended the
annual election Of officers, right
guaranteed to the locals by the con-
stitution.
Huddell has increased his salary
repeatedly without the consent Of the
rank and file, and he has, at the
same time, ordered the latter to work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27

/ ISOLATION paid Fay $500 year. This
of course, was in addition to the in
creased business that Fay was given
as result of the agreement.
1t might be gathered from the
above description of Fay that the
respectable" citizens of Newark,
those who go to church on Sunday
clip their coupons on Monday. call
Communists red menace" on Tues
day and howl for imperialist war on
Wednesday, consider him somewhat
outside the pale. Exactly the con-
trary is true, however. Fay is the
intimate friend of the wealthiest ex-
ploiters in the city.
At testimonial dinner given to
Fay by small army of private gun
men in May, 1926, Governor Moore,
Mayor Raymond and the four other
city commissioners accepted invita-
tons.
When the Joseph Fay Association
formed and named by Fay held an
outing, Police Chief Duffy, as well as
TOO judges, gunner and city and A.
F. of l.. officials, attended.
In 1927 the American Federation
of Labor received Fay at its national
convention in Los Angeles as New
Jerseys representative.
At still another dinner in Fay's
honor, held to mark his departure
as delegate to the International
Labor Conference, were Judge Muir
ray, Ted Brandle, City Commission
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27

the Welfare Fund told him to go and
sell apples on the streets. The
worker got SO mad from this re-
mark that he said: What the hell are
you and the rest that run this
crooked Welfare Fund doing with
the $4,000 that you collected and
forced from the workers? This
worker is sick and SO are two of his
children.
Welfare Fund Crooked.
Readers, if anything is crooked in
McKeesport it's this rotten Welfare
Fund.
We are also getting up to date in
McKeesport. We have two soup
kitchens, one on Jerome St and one
on Jenny Lind st. A Negro worker
went to the soup kitchen on Jenny
Lind st. and said he couldn't smell
the coffee in the cup.
There are about 200 workers going
to the soup kitchens every day. But
! don't believe they go there the Sec
ond time. You also must give your
history to the ones running the soup
kitchen. IF. H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
Is GREET WORKERS OF SEATTLE AT LENIN MEETING
Rochester, Sioux City Pledge
JobleSS Struggles at Meets

At the Lenin Memorial meeting in
Seattle, Washington, which filled
Eagles Auditorium to capacity, two
delegations Of German sailors partic-
ipated. One delegation was on the
platform when the meeting opened
They held banner reading: "Revo-
lutionary greetings to the workers
of Seattle from the German Com
munist Party" Soon after the meet
ing opened another delegation Of ii
German sailors marched into the hall
singing the Internationale. They were
seated amidst enthusiastic cheering
and applause.
Comrade Camille, OF the Unemployed
Council, acted as chairman of the
meeting. Minnie HobSon, of the
Young Communist League was the
first speaker. Sydney Bloomfield
was the main speaker. The workers
pledged themselves to increase the
struggle tor unemployment insurance,
and to rally thousands of workers
for the final overthrow of capitalism.
400 Meet In Rochester.
ROCHESTER, N. Whore than
400 workers damned Ukrainian Hall
to overflowing at the Lenin Memorial
meeting held here on Friday evening.
Gertrude Welsh, the principal
speaker, contrasted the conditions of
the workers of the Soviet Union,
where a shortage of labor exists,
with that Of the workers in the
United States, with its 100000
jobless. She very effectively pointed
out the danger of an armed attack
upon the Soviet Union by the i'm
perialist bandits, and urged the
workers to be ready at all times to
smash the capitalist war plots.
Other speakers at the meeting
were Mabel Husa and Ailene Holmes,
just released from the Monroe Coun-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
PHILADELPHIA RED
BUILDERS BANQUET

Announcement OF a banquet for the
Red Builders News Club Of Phila-
delphia is contained in a message
from M. Silver, district Daily Worker
representative. He writes:
I'VE are planning hot dog feast
for next Tuesday, Jan. 81. This feast
is being arranged for all Daily
Worker committees and members OF
the boosters club. Comrade Platt
will speak on the Importance Of
spreading the Daily Worker and a
good meal will be served to those in
vited 1t will be held at It's N. Sixth
St"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27

ty Penitentiary two days ago; and
David Pinsky, Young Pioneer Husa
and Holmes told of their prison ex-
perience and urged the workers to
join. the International Labor Defense.
Fred Meyers, local leader OF the
Unemployed Council, presented the
Unemployment Insurance Bill to the
audience for endorsement. The bill
was enthusiastically and unanimous
ly endorsed.
'-'.'- Meet In Sioux City.
SIOUX CITY. - A very successful
Lenin Memorial meeting was held
here Wednesday night. Over a hun
dred workers attended. The meeting
was held in Workers Hall, 509z 5th
Street. George Stalker told of Len
ms life and the struggle of the work.
ers throughout the world. He pointed
out the role Of the Communist Party
in leading the workers against cap
italism- and for the establishment Of
WV oON4d4loO oOA4CGy- IIlIeG 1lEH
members joined the Party at this
meeting. A nucleus of another I'm
employed Council was started.
Special stress was laid on the Feb.
10th hunger demonstration which will
be held here along with the other ma
tional demonstrations.
Jailed for Leaflets.
TROY, N. Y. - j. Gladstone and
Steve Dore were arrested Friday for
distributing leaflets advertising a
Lenin Memorial meeting. They are
to appear in court Monday. The po-
lice notified the hallkeeper to refuse
to allow the Communists the hall for
meetings.
A temporary injunction was issued
against j. Gladstone and the National
Textile Workers Industrial Union for
organizing the workers in the N. g.
S. Shirt Co., in Cohoes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
New Orleans. La

New Orleans, La.
To the Daily Worker:
The clipping below was taken from
page II Of today's issue of the Times
Picaque:
"Fifteen-year-old Ethel Hansmith,
27ls Decatur ST., respondent over
unemployment, drank poison Monday
morning in what police said was an
effort to end her life. At Charity
Hospital the girl was declared out
of danger. Later she was sent
home
Similar cases have happened
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
BRITISH RAILWAY
WAGE CUT LOOMS

LONDON, Jan. 24.--Brazenly an
nouncing their intentions to cut the
already low wages Of the railroad
workers, the four chief railways here
have gone before the National Wage
Beard, q labor government agency,
with : wage-slashing proposal. The
bosses propose that nearly one half
million workers take cut that would
reduce their weekly wage to about
$3.50.
Petty bourgeois elements and pro-
fessionals are clamacring that the
wage-cut be effected and hint at fas-
cist methods to accomplish it.
While making pretense at oppos-
ing the huge wage-cutting scheme,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27

lately, many Of which were not re-
ported in our local boss papers.
You will note the article says moth
ing about any action taken by the
masters to relieve the situation which
causese fifteen year-old girls to at
tempt to end their lives because Of
lack of work.
New Orleans unemployed come tc
the Unemployed Council meetings al
30S Charities ST., Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays and Sundays al
8 p. m. j. C..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
OPENS NEWS STAND,
WANTS 10 DAILIES

Il just have opened a new news
paper selling station" writes j. D. T.,
Shenandoah, Pa. 81 would like to
sell Daily Workers, too. Kindly send
me 10 copies at once and regularly
every day after that until further
notice"
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
Mine Town Scene Of Intense Misery
As Men Garry Empty Dinner Pals;
Children Lack Food and Clothing
Struggle Against Bosses and Govt for Relief
Only Way Out From Certain Starvation
Elm Grove
Editor Daily Worker:::-

This is the way the Elm Grove Mining Company treats
their workers The workers go to work at 80 and
turn home about D. M They work all the time they in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27

This is the goth of a series OF
articles on A. +. of L. and political
corruption in New Jersey.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-27
JOBLESS FOR
YEAR. SENDS G.

JOBLESS FOR
YEAR; SENDS So
Il owe to the Daily Worker for
two months. 1 haven't worked for
whole year, but I am sending you
81 that 1 owe for November and
December and So donation."--F. r.,
Cincinnati.
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JOBLESS AND EMPLOYED PREPARE TO
SUPPORT DELEGATION TO CONGRESS

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06

Mrs. William Hamilton, chairman
of arrangements, is being assisted by
Mrs. S. Houston.
The convention program has been
arranged by officers and past off,
GERS OF Sahara Grotto: Carl Schey,
monarch: Wilbur Foster, chief Jus
tice; Delbert o. Wilmeth, master of
ceremonies; M. Verle Wilson, secre-
tary. and Charles Brautigan, treas
urer.