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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
PORTLAND ELECTS
TO NATL HUNGER
MARCH ON DEC. 9TH
Vets Also Start Out for
WESL Conference in
Washington, d. c.

PORTLAND, Ore. 49, Abou., one
hundred and fifty workers attended
the conference held here Sunday. No
venber 1 to elect two delegates TO
the National Hunger March.
Frd Walker gave report on the
present national unemployment stu
alton and discussion by some of the
workers present came next. One
worker reported that he had applied
to the Valley Iron Co. for work. The
foreman informed him that they
that he had specific instructions not
to hire any more workers.
An ex-servicen1an reported that he
and a small group Of other ex-ser-
vicemen we're going to be in Washing
ton at the time of the hunger march.
They are leaving this week in order
to try and make contact with other
rank and file veterans along the way
thru a southerly route. They are
intending to attend the convention
OF the W. E. s. l.. which they believe
is the only militant organization Of
the worker veterans in the country.
The conference gave them a cheer
and expressed hope that they would
come back and apply the knowledge
they gain in Washington to organi-
zation out here in the northwest.
Four delegates, two of whom are
to be alternates, were elected. The
Executive Committee of the unem-
ployed council was given the author
ity to choose the two delegates and
the alternates from the four. In re-
Spouse to appeal Of the chairman
for funds for the delegation collec-
ton of $l4,35 was taken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
AMTER EXPOSES
us. ATTEMPT TO
BAR 'LIBERAT0R'
E n ters R a C e With
Chicago to Build
Paper

r. Amter, Communist Party organ
iser of the New York District, upon
learning OF the attempt of the post
office to bar The Iiberstor from the
mails, issued the following statement,
at the same time challenging the
Chicago District of the Communist
Party 10 help to double the quota in
The Liberator campaign for 10000
added circulation:
THE attack upon The Liberator
and attempt by the Federal auth
critics to suppress it is clearly move
on the part of the bosses of this
country TO stop the rising revolt Of
the Negro masses. This revolt is due
to the crisis affecting the Negro pop
ulation most of all This is showing
itself in mass unemployment and
wage cuts that affect particularly the
Negro workers. Lynch terror has be-
come the order of the day and the
mobilization of the white and Negro
workers of the Communist Party is
an answer TO 1t.
The Libefater, the fighting organ
of the\League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, has served TO mobilize the
white and Negro workers and Camp
Hill cases, against the Chicago and
Cleveland terror. The bosses recogn-
izing this situation, believe that they
can prevent the growing unity of the
Negro and white workers by bar
ring the Lberator from the mail
The answer of the Communist Party
and the L. s. N. r. will be to inten-
sify the drive for 10000 new readers
for The Liberator.
New York has been given the
quota Of 5000. New York will make
every effort to double that quota, and
challenge Chicago TO do the same"
Acceptance Of this challenge is ex-
pected by the Chicago district which
has a quota of 1000. Other districts
are urged to challenge each other in
The Liberator campaign for 10000
new readers. Hold discussions in
your units, fraternal organizations,
trade unions. SEND REPORTS into
The Liberator on what your district
is doing in the drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
MILLINERS MEET
PLANS CAMPAIGN
Picket Line at Robin
Hood Shop Strong

NEW YORK.-At a millinery mem
bership meeting Of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
held Thursday night, the chief prob
lens taken up we're the present un-
employment situation, and the re-
port made by June Croll for the trade
committee. The necessity Of organ
izing the unemployed was stressed.
On Wednesday, the Committee to
Fight Unemployment was organized
at Bryant Hall. Plans are being made
for mass unemployment meetings to
elect delegates to the hunger march.
Following lively discussion from the
floor resolution was unanimously
adopted to issue a statement con-
demning the attempts OF Mr.. Zaritz-
ky, president of the Cloth Hat and
Cap Millinery Workers International,
the bosses and acting Governor Leh-
man, to force through their collec-
tive agreement.
1t was decided through the organ
ization of the unemployed fighting
for their demands now, to plan a
broad organization drive for the COM
ing season when this collective agree
ment is likely to be enforced in the
millinery trade. The necessity Of or
ganizing united front shop commit
tees consisting of all branches of the
trade regardless of the workers I'M
ion Affiliations was stressed. Five
new members we're added to the trade
committee to intensity the work.
Mobilization for the picket line at
the James Duncan strike CRobinhood
Hat, IS w. seth ST., resulted in a
very good demonstration on Friday
morning. Attempts on the part OF
the police to make arrests and break
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
Toledo Council in
Fight on Evictions

TOLEDO, Ohio.-The Toledo Coun-
Gil of Unemployed recently stopped
the eviction of an unemployed
worker belonging to Branch No. /.
The worker reported his case to the
branch meeting on Thursday night.
A committee was appointed and was
on the job the next morning, The
marshal was supposed to set the
family out at 10 am, but he failed
to show up.
The home of this worker is at BOT
Victa ST., and he has a wife and
three children. They we're one month
behind in their rent. The Social Ser
vice refused to pay rent for this fam
lily. They said, as usual, that the
city is broke-the same old bunk OF
the boss class.
This is one of the many cases the
Council of Unemployed has fought
out with the Social Service in this
city. Fellow-workers, it's time you
joined the Council of Unemployed
and learned of it's work. Main head
quarters are at IA N. Superior St.,
Toledo, Ohio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
Detroit Police Hold
z Incommunicado
Workers Active in the
Unemployed Councils

DETROIT, Mich.-At a demonstra-
ton of the Welfare Station at Ellen
wood and Wyandotte Murphy's pol
ice broke up the meeting and ar
rested Comrades May and Shone. AS
these workers have been very active
in Unemployed Council work and
previously arrested number of
times, they were handed over by the
police to the Federal authorities on
the charge of violating the U. S.
code" they were then later taken to
the Hunt Street police station and
held for investigation. The lawyers
engaged by the International Labor
Defense since this time have been
unable to find their whereabouts, al
though they had obtained writs of
habeus corpus. 1t is of course under
stood that the police are giving them
the loop" which the Murphy admin
istration police have frequently done
with workers, who have never been
convicted OF criminal offense in
their life, but who only had violated
the law by endeavoring to better the
conditions of the starving masses.
Such methods of ill-treating the
workers have for their only object to
terrorize and demoralize them, but
this is vain hope, it only succeeds in
exposing to the Detroit working class
that Murphy's most effective weapon
to keep them from showing their dis
content is the hired gangsters of the
law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
Membership Meets in
All Sections of YCL
On Monday Evening

There will be Section Member
ship Meetings of the Y. C. L. on
Monday, November 9 at T:30 p. m.
Every League member must report
to their section meeting.
Section 5, Yonkers, Bronx 1894
SIS, 500 Prospect Ave.
4, Harlem Ia, Yorkville, 4 E. lie
ST, Spanish Workers Center.
1 and 2, Downtown 30, Eastside,
Astoria, IS E. 9Th ST.. District
8, Jamaica. Brownsville, CorWn-
heights and East NY, Christopher
and Pitkin Ave. Brownsville Work
ers Center.
6 and 7, Red Hook, S. Brooklyn,
Boro Hall, Williamsburg, Green
Point, 81 Graham Ave.
There will be Party and Y. C. L.
reps down to all meetings. There
will be only one point on the agan-
da; UNEMPLOYMENT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09

would not even commit himself to
this slight rebuke.
The revolutionary workers organi-
cations charge the city authorities
and the Negro misleaders of the
NAACP with the direct responsibility
for the massacre. The deep-felt in
dignation of the Chicago masses was
shown when tens of thousands of
white and Negro workers demon
stated and marched in protest against
the police brutality, smashing all
jim-crow lines. This mass movement,
for which the three Negro workers
have given their lives, has put stop
to evictions in Chicago.
The workers Of Chicago are con-
tinuing their fight against evictions
and for relief and are preparing ener-
getically for the National Hunger
March on Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
WIR Warns Against
Anti : Workers Bodies
in Relief Soliciting

Workers and organizations are
warned by the Workers International
Relief, 799 Broadway against the
pleas of other bodies purporting to
collect food and clothing for the
striking and blacklisted miners of
Kentucky, as being opposed to work.
ing class solidarity.
The Workers International Relief
Office again issued call for contin-
ued activity in collecting and sending
relief, food and clothing to both the
Kentucky and West Pennsylvania
miners.
All donations, funds should be sent
to the workers International Relief,
room 800, 799 Broadway, New York
or Workers International Relief, room
205, Gil Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09

also the workers must contribute.
What does it mean when at two
places the companies contribute
sSS,O0O and $65,0O0, that Is total Of
$50, 900, while the workers are forced
to contribute S247,OoO! It means that
not only the s15O,O0o has come out Of
the wages Of the workers, but the re-
naming S247,O00 comes directly out
of their pockets.
This is the way that the bosses
think they will be permitted to throw
the whole burden on to the workers.
AL Smith and his $4,000 collectors
workers in the stores, offices, fac
tories and werking class homes will
not listen to his collectors. They
must be told that the bosses whom
these $4,000 represent, themselves
can easily collect the $12,o0o,oOo, just
as they spend millions Of dollars in
pleasure. as the government of the
United States spends billions for war
purposes, as the city Of the racketeer-
ing Tamnany machine spends tens
of millions In graft. They amust be
told that the workers will donate only
to their own organization, the organ
iZation that Is fighting for the I'M
employed, and the working class or
ganization of relief and solidarity
the Unemployed Council and the
Workers International Relief.
The Workers International Relief
and the Unemployed Council Of
Greater New York have organized a
house to house canvassing and tag
day between Nov. and IS. AL work
ers should respond to the call Of these
organizations. The march to Wash
ington, when the 100000 unem-
ployed will demand Unemployment
Insurance of the U. S. Government,
the fight for relief of the cases Of
starvation as shown in the capitalist
press and in the open hearings that
are being held by the Unemployed
Council. the struggle against evic-
tons, which are carried on by the
Unemployed Council, must be sup
ported. This is the function of the
workers organizations.
Therefore-not a penny to the
Smith and Gibson relief committees
donate all funds to the Unemployed
Council and the Workers Interna-
tional Relief. Make your collections
in the shops, unions, fraternal organ
izatio-s! Collect funds in the neigh
borhoCls! Send all funds to the
Workers International Relief, 79s
Broadway"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
Knitgoods Workers to
Elect Trade Executive

The Knitgoods Dept of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union will
have elections for trade eecutive,
which will take place on Thursday.
Nov. 18th, at their membership meet
ing.
The election and Objection Com
mittee will meet for the last time on
Monday, Nov. 9, at the Office of the
union, 13l w. 18th ST., right after
work. Members who we're nominated
for this Office as we'll as those who
have objections to bring should come
to this meeting of the objection COM
mittee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
.SERI0 FAREWELL
IN NEWARK, n, ].
Lakewood, N e w a + k
Will Give BanQucts

NEWARK.--The workers of this
city will join on Monday, Nov. 8, in
wishing a hearty farewell TO Guido
Serio, militant Italian worker who
has been granted voluntary depar-
ture to the Soviet Union after the
mass action Of the working class, un-
der the leadership of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, defeated the
efforts Of the Department of Labor
to deport him TO fascist Italy.
The farewell will be in the form
of a banquet to be held at Belmont
Avenue.
On Tuesday night, Nov. 10, a Serio
farewell banquet will be given in
Lakewood, N. j., at 3l5 E. Fourth st.
On Thursday, Nov. IL, Serio will
at the Civic Club. New York. A
number of other farewell banquets
and meetings for Serio are being ar
ranged by the New York District of
the International Labor Defense,
winding up with big banquet in
New York on Nov 30,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
Trial of 4 Negro
Workers Framed by
Grant Set for Thurs.

NEW YORK.-The trial of Com
rades Campbell, Warfeld, and two
other unemployed Negro workers who
are being framed by the Garvey lead
ers of the Tiger division in concert
with the Harlem police has been
set for this Thursday.
All workers who were present upon
any Of the several occasions when
these workers we're attacked by the
Carney thugs, or who we're in the
headquarters when Grant and his po-
lice allies invaded the Harlem Work
ers Center are asked to report this
dress of the Center, 2o72 Fifth Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
Soviet Forced Labor"--Bedacht
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Greetings to the Daily
Workers on l4th Ami
versary Of Soviet Union
NEW YORK CITY.

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
Gable by Inprecorr)

DUBLIN, Nov. 8.--All demonstra-
tons celebrating the i4th Anniver-
sary of the Russian Revolution were
prohibited. Numerous preventive ar
rests we're made under the new safe
ty act. The town was patrolled by
special police.
The first session Of the new mill
tary court was held in Dublin in Col
Inns Barracks on Wednesday dealing
with eight prisoners, including several
already acquitted in the civil courts
for lack of evidence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09

fusaI TO lower your standard Of liy-
ing. Join with us in united strug-
gle against the attack on wages
Spread the strike!"
Radio Men Sympathetic.
Operators Of the Radio Corporation,
who also recently received a slash in
pay, are showing marked interest
and sympathy with the All American
strikers. The Gable Operators Asso-
citation, a rank and file organization
of operators which is leading the
strike, issued call today to the r.
G. A. men to join the fight by spread
ing the strike. The Office Workers
Union of the Trade Union Unity,
League, in supporting the strike, calls
on the office workers in the cable
and radio offices to follow the oper-
ators by striking against the wage
cuts that have been imposed on them
also.
Service Crippled.
The company has issued statements
in the capitalist press stating that
the strikers we're replaced by ma
chinery, that q new printing device
would take the place of the men on
strike. This, however, is brazen
hypocrisy on the part of the company
to make the companys clients think
that the cable service is operating as
efficiently as when the men were
working. Any cable operator knows
that the printing machine is inprac-
teal ana the company has exposed
this fact through writing individual
letters to certain of the strikers
pleading with them to return to work
Government conciliators and A. F.
of L. takers sent by the bosses fool
the operators into giving up the
struggle have been ignored by the
rank and file committee.
The Daily Worker and the Trade
Union Unity League urges the strik-
ers to raise the struggle to a higher
level. The setting up of picket line
is absolutely necessary to help win
the strike. The revolutionary unions
extend their warmest comradely SYM
pathy and offer their active coopera-
ton to the courageous strikers. We
call on all workers everywhere to
support the firm stand of the All
America operators.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
FORD AGAIN CUTS
WAGES IN REHIRE
OF SOME WORKERS
Demand Ford Millions
Be Taxed to Give Aid
:. to Hungry Families
tBy Worker Correspondent

r. (By a Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich-Having been laid
off from Fords six weeks, I received
a post card to come to the employ
nent office within the next, "a hours.
After waiting in line for over five
hours, it came my turn to go through
tie ordeal Of getting hired all over
again.
There we're hundreds ahead of me
and more hundreds following in line.
After we were herded through this
aisle and then through others that
We were all closely watched by a
gang of service men or industrial
spies. Finally we came before an
employment agent who questioned us
as to our age and citizenship, etc.
All this he verified with your previous
hiring record. Then he coldly told
you that your new rate of pay would
pc rs cents per hour. For me that
vas cut Of s1.2o a day; to others it
meant more. One straw boss told me
it meant a cut of 50 a day. Some
skilled men we're cut more than that.
Get Out" Official Says
While We we're waiting in line for
our turn, we heard one fellow worker
telling this Official that he did not see
how he could support his large family
on such a drastic cut. Here is the
dramatic answer he received. "You
are not compelled to work here, you
can go elsewhere" and tearing up his
application card he ordered the serv-
ice flunkies to throw this fellow out
side. OF course this was done pur-
posely and in full view of all other
applicants in order to intimidate the
rest.
From here we are sent over to the
medical department and we are given
a through physical examination. The
purpose Of this is, of course, to weed
out those who are not physically
up to par, especially those whose
health have been ruined by the
ruthless speed-up and rotten air and
through accidents.
According to the press, Ford is just
returning to the 1929 wage standard
But have been getting $3.50 day
for the past three years while others
have $720 and $3.50 and So since the
model "a" came out. So really we
are cut down below the 1919 level.
When the so-called Sc wage was in
troduced. Ford says that the wage
boost in December of 1920 cost the
company over $35 100000. Accepting
these figures of his at their face
e....eslue and using my wages Just as an
example. Before the 1929 raise I
received $500, the 4Oc increase I got
was somewhat less than per cent.
Now the $l.20 cut get is about II
per cent reduction. So figuring on
the same basis If my per cent raise
costs Ford s35,000,000. my II per cent
e"cnt- will net Mr.. Ford more than
-asses, 100000 about 3 times as much.
Figure it out yourself. My wage, by
the way, is not the average, but the
minimum as there we're many thous-
ands getting more.
Add to this latter figure the regular
profits of the company of $4,000. 900
Tor last year, and one can see how
the working class is robbed of the
fruits of their toll under this capitalist
system
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
German Police Continue Terrorism
Against Communist Party

ZWICKEN, Gern1any.-Twelve men
and five women, members Of the
Communist Party we're arrested by
German police in a raid on the Com
munist Headquarters. This is part
Of the nationwide campaign of OPP
preston against the Communist Party
in an effort to deprive of the revolu-
tionary German workers of their
leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
JOINT COUNCIL, OF FURRIERS
MEETS MONDAY

The newly elected Joint Council
of the International Fur Workers
Union will have its installation meet
ing on Monday, Nov. 9, right after
work at Webster Hail. 1l9 e. 18th st.
All furriers are invited to be pres
ent at the first session Of this coun-
Gil meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
RUSSIA BEATS U. S. IN BUILDING
SUPER FREIGHT ENGINES

MOSCOW. - The first home-built
super freight engine pulled into Mos
COW from Luganask to be featured in
ceremonies marking Soviet Russias
"dvancement over capitalist countries.
The engine was built in 10 days
whereas it takes $50 days for the
same type engine in the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
ACTIVE DRESSMAKERS OF 9th,
8th, 39th, 4Oth Sts., MEET MONDAY.

A meeting of active dressmakers
working on 37th, 38th, 39th and 40th
streets will be held on Monday, Nov.
9. at the office of the union, 131 W.
28th St., right after work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
ONE IN EVERY FIVE JOBLESs
IN WISCONSIN

Approximately one out OF every five
persons in Wisconsin is unemployed,
according to figures of the Wisconsin
industrial commission. In Madison
alone 1900 are jobiess
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09

up the demonstration were success
fully resisted by the pickets. All the
workers are urged to come to this
picketline every morning to fight the
attempt Of the bosses to put through
an injunction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
COCO COLA DECLARES EXTRA
DIVIDENDS

The Coco Cola International Corp.
has declared an extra dividend OF
so cents share on common stock in
addition to the regular quarterly pay
ment of $3.50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
TRADE COMMITTEE TO MEET

Trade committee meetings of
dressmakers, millinery and white
goods will be held Monday, right after
work at the ONCE Of the union, 131
w. 2sth st. The Dressmakers Trade
Committee will take place at 7 p. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-09
What's On $50
MONDAY
Brownsville Hrnnch
Int aFu Mt lanai Inhar hafn

MONDAY
Brownsville Branch
International Lobor Defense.
will have its first educational
meeting tonight at 1lS Bristol St, S
p. m. The topic: How a Worker
should Act when Arrested"
All workers are invited.
Cultural Membership Meeting
will be held under the auspices OF
che lid at 524 Vermont street on
Workers Defense"
lid schcooI.
will be held in room 203, 80 T.. 18th
It,, $50 p. m. under the conduction
,f Gertrude Alderman on the "Or-
ganizational Structure of the lid
WomeB's Council No. 10.
VIII have an interesting lecture to-
light on "The Situation in England
sodayv at IS Bay 2sth St, B'klyn.
Prominent speakers. All workers in
tied.