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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18
SPUR FIGHT ON
COSTLY RENT
Bronx Tenants to Meet
Friday, June 10

BRONX, N. Y. - Squirting the
struggle against exorbitant rents, es-
peciaiiy from Negro workers, the
Bronx Tenants League and Unem-
ployed Council have called for a
neishborhood meeting Of Claremont
Parkway and Third Avenue tenants,
Friday, June 10, at 8 pm. at 1922
Batfgate Avenue.
Describing the conditions Of the
homes which the landlords charge
from $50 to $50 month the Tenants
League in conjunction with the or
gsnized tenants Of 1874 Third Ave
have draw up the following de-
nands:
Reduction OF rent equal the rent
paid by the white workers in the
next house. amounting to S25, reg
ular hot water service, clean and
sanitary conditions Of the house and
apartments.
The tenants at 3s74 Third Avenue
were ordered evicted within five days
and now have received another sum-
mons to pay full months rent or
have it garnished their wages.
A leaflet to be issued by the Te-
nants League tells why the tenants
are fighting to lower the rent:
"One Of the tenants makes SIS a
week working in a hotel and his wife
makes $40 month doing housework
They have 4 children. After they
paid their rent last month they had
no money for food for more than
week"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18
BLOCH FIRES FOUR
MORE OF HIS MEN
Capitalist Press Owner
Shown to Be Liar

NEW YORK. - -Four more men
were laid off recently by Paul Bloch,
owner of a number Of capitalist
newspapers. according to reports
reaching the Daily Worker. This
owner of a chain of lying sheets
recently laid off Is of his men in
the editorial, advertising and other
offices, after making glowing speech
es about prosperity:
Bloch had many times Dragged
that he would never lay off his men
or reduce wages. Hardly had he
gotten these words out Of his mouth,
as well as other reams Of usual
prosperity" lies, than he slashed
wages, fired many men, and is now
working with a skeleton staff-ail of
whom shiver in their boots fearing
that their turn will come next.
Some Of the porters and janitors
laid off by Bloch had been working
for his newspapers for from 20 to
40 years. They were thrown onto
the streets to starve with Bloch's
glowing words about the future
prosperity Of the country" and real
Americans never would fire workers. :"
ringing in their ears.
The men still left on the job are
forced to write about prosperity
ing when they will join the bread
lines themselves.
An effort is being made by the
Trade Union Unity League. is West
81 Street, to organize a news writers
and journalists league to fight
against the murderous conditions on
the capitalist newspapers, wage cuts,
and wholesale layoffs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18
URGE WORKERS TO RUSH FUNDS FOR
RELIEF OF THE STRIKING MINERS

beans, potatoes, lentils, peas, smoked
meats and canned milk A depot
for food has been taken at 24o East
9Th St.. New York City.
A Special Milk Fund will be raised
to furnish milk for the starving
children of the miners, and for this
purpose the Young Pioneers viii be
called in to show their solidarity
with the striking miners children
by collecting funds for them.
A Speakers Buro of one hundred
fifty is being formed to conduct an
open air meeting every night. and to
take up collections at each meeting.
On Saturday, June Goth, func-
tionaries meeting of all fraternal,
trade union and affiliated organiza-
tions will be called In order to en-
list every group of workers into
solidarity support of the striking
miners. Only in this way will we
defeat the starvation program Of the
bosses and help the miners on to
victory. Rush funds to: District
Penn Ohio Striking Miners Relief
Committee, 1893 Broadway, Room s14.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18
U. S. DELEGATION TO SOVIET
UNION TO MAKE TOUR TO COAST
Mass Demonstration for Them at Irving Plaza
Friday; Tell of Visit to USSR

of five years. Every factory we Wis
tied the workers showed intense en-
thuSiasm. You could see it in their
wall papers-everywhere. We will
try to instiIl a little of that enthus-
iasn into the American workers on
our trip across the country"
collective farming in the Soviet
Union is putting farming on a big
ger scale, in the interest of the
farmers, than anything ever saw
here in this country" said Julius
Meisenbach, a Montana farmer who
went with the delegation. will tell
the American farmers, when 1 travel
through the country and get back
home, that their only salvation is in
doing like the Russian farmers did
There is no chance for the American
farmers to make good any more
under the present system"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18
Police Get Pay to
Break Bread Strike

NEW YORK.-That the master
bakers association is paying the po-
lice hundreds of dollars for "pro-
lection" against the strike for lower
bread, rather than lower the price
Of the staple, was brought out In
police court with the arrest of four
more active women picketers, yes
terday.
Tillie Fisher, Molie LIGHT. Fanny
F1nkelstein and Lola Fine, all mem
bers of the United Council of Work
ing Glass Women, and the latter, the
leader of the bread strike, were ar
rested while actively picketing be-
fore the baker shops.
The first two were fingerprinted
and sentenced to two days in Jail or
IS fine On charge Of "disorderly
conduct" The fine was paid so the
militant women could continue the
fight. The case of Fanny Finkel-
stein was dropped. Lola Fine was
held for trial for June 23rd and bail
Of 500 placed against her. The
case will be heard at the police court
at 18lst st. and Bronx Park.
Fearful of the spread of the strike
the bosses have resorted to police
terror in an attempt to break the
strike. Police are receiving direct
orders to. arrest certain active pick
eters and it is known that it is at
the belnest of their immediate super
Tor who receives the protection"
money.
A mass protest meeting against
police terror in the bread strike will
be held Friday, June 10, at 2075
Clinton Ave, near 18otf1 st. at p. n.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18
WOMEN DELEGATE
SHOP CONFERENCE
To Be Held Thursday,
June 18, at s Pm,

NEW YORK-The Women's Shop
Delegate Conference, called by the
Women's Department of the Trade
Union Unity League will be held on
Thursday, June 18Th. The purpose
Of this conference is to discuss plans
and methods OF organizational work
in the shops whsre women are en-
ployed. The delegates lrCr organ
lied and morgarized shops will
speak about the conditions of their
shops and how they can best organ
ize their ranks to fight for better
conditions.
At this conference the women
from organized shops will speak of
their experience, and what they have
gained through organization. Thru
this conference we will be able to
work out program which will be a
guide to us in our work in the shops,
which will help us to approach our
problems correctly. Delegates elected
or selected, women workers of organ
lied. unorganized and A. F. Of L.
shops are urged to be present. After
the discussion there will be a NOV
ing picture showing. Remember, to-
day, June 18th, at 131 w. 18th ST..
1880 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18
Attacked Worker
Held in Big Bail

NEW YORK. Sam KraSnopols-
ky. a members Of the Food Workers
Industrial Union, is being held in
$500 bail on a felonious assault
charge after he was attacked and
stabbed in the shoulder by three A.
r. of L. gangsters in front Of his
brothers home.
AS Krasnopolsky was about to enter
the hallway leading to his brothers
home, the three thugs leaped on him
and stabbed him three times. Dur
ing the course of the attack one OF
the gangsters was stabbed in the alb
doraen and is now in. the hospital
In a dangerous condition. The
wouided gangster is also charged
with assault
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18
FIGHT FRAMEUJP
OF MILITANT
FOOD WORKER
Juror Said He Ought
To Be Jailed for
Being A Striker

NEW YORK. - Members Of the
Food Workers Industrial Union, af-
filiated with the Trade Union Unity
League, are rallying to the defense
of the militant food worker, Napo-
leon Moratias, who has Just been
convicted on framed-up charge of
second degree felonious assault as
an aftermath of the zelgreen Cafe
terra strike last year.
Moratias was found guilty by a
jury of businessmen of breaking a
policemen's little finger. After a
farcical rtial one of the jurors ap-
preached the food workers lawyer
and said, Whether Moratias is
guilty or not he ought to be in jail
because he is striker, l ought to
know because I have 300 men work
ing for me-"
The penalty for second degree fe-
lonious assault is from 2l1 to
years.
A statement issued by the Mora
tias Defense Committee of the F.
w. I. U. declares the trial typical
example of capitalist justice and
urges all militant workers to come
to the aid of this food worker who
faces five year sentence simply be-
cause he picketed during the Eel
green strike.
The statement declares in part:
"The A. F. of L. which worked with
the owner of zelgreen's cafeteria
during the strike, and actually was
the direct cause of the strike, is now
working with the capitalist courts
to send Napoleon Moratias to Jail
for five years. Moratias' only crime
is that he marched on a picket line. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18
A. T. Of |. AND BOSSES LINE UP
AGAINST FOOD WORKERS UNION

the food workers union. A little
cringing rat OF scab named Sol
Maslinoff claimed he had been for
a long time a member of the A. F.
of L. union while working at the
Sun Market where the Food Workers
Industrial Union called a strike in
February, but admitted that he
worked IL hours a day and is hours
on Saturday in a market that was
supposedly under union conditions"
He was forced to state that many
workers at the Sun Market we're not
members of the A. F. of L. union
and that it was not therefore an A.
F. of L. union shop.
B. Shwie, employer and ex-presi-
dent of the racket known as the IN
dependent Retail Fruit Merchants
Association, came to the witness
stand with jaunty confidence and
claimed he had never heard of the
left wing strike against the fruit
dealers in 1929. Under Buitenkant's
cross-examination he was forced to
admit that he had met in conference
with other employers at the time Of
the strike to discuss the strike sit
uation and to form his organization.
No receipts were ever issued for
memberships in this racketeering as
ISOLATION.
A. r. of L. Protects Employers VS..
Left Wing.
When Buitenkant read clauses of
the contract between the employers
association and the A. F. Of L. union
agreeing ito protect the employer
against any other labor organization
in the same line of trade" Shwie
claimed to be ignorant of the agree
ment he had signed. Confused and
stammering, caught in one lie after
another, he left the witness stand.
This test case of an injunction
taken out by an A. F. Of L. union
against the left wing union is of
great importance to the working
class. 1t grew out of the spirited
strike and organizing campaign of
the Food Workers Industrial Union
during is2s-3o, when the employers
found this A. F. of L. Local 1913 a
ready and convenient weapon against
the workers own union.
Clerks in Spirited Mass Violation.
A temporary injunction, taken out
by the A. F. of L., to prevent the left
wing union from engaging in any
activity whatsoever has now held for
more than a year. Decision in this
case will set a legal precedent as to
whether or not the temporary in
junction is made permanent, allow
ing an A. r. of L. union the legal
right to stop organization work by
left wing union. Left wing clerks
in mass violations have been arrested
by the hundred on the picket line,
and 200 clerks, mostly in the Sun
Market strike, are now under indict-
ment for violation of this injunction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18
UNEMPLOYED IN
GERMANY BATTLE
COPS; MANY HURT
Put Up Barricades In
Mainz
Gable BY Inprecor.)

BERLIN, June 17.-Powerful I'M
employed demonstrations took place
in Mainz yesterday. Clashes took
place with the police and barricades
we're erected. Many we're injured,
including numerous women,
The Chamber of Commerce and
Industry in the Rihr district has
adopted a drastic anti workingclass
program and is demanding the gov
eminent carry it out The program
provides:
Abolition of unemployment sup
port, except in special cases of bit
ter need; abolition of all existing
wage agreements, and cuts in wages;
reduction of direct taxation increase
and an increase in indirect taxation,
which would fall heavier on the
workers.
A worker wounded during the col
isions in Solingen last week died in
the hospital today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18
What's On

THURSDAY
downtown Unemployed Council
open-air meeting at Seventh St.
and Ave. A at 1880 pm.
Women's Councils 6, Is and
viii observe the departure of Com
rade Garelick for the Soviet Union
at 400 Waliave Ave, Bronx, at $3.50
pm. All workers are invited TO CONS
steve Katovis Branch LID,
will hold an open-air meeting at
D. m. at East Tenth st. and Sec
ond Ave.
Illustrated Lecture ON Five Year Plan
In Williamsburg. The achieve
rnents Of the Five Year Plan will be
illustrated at a lecture at pm. at
795 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, by NJ.
Sherer of the Workers international
Relief.
Young Defenders No. 3
Meeting at 500 pm. at 257 =. Tenth
st Myra Page on Mooney-Bil1ings
and Imperial Valley.
sacco-Vanzetti Branch LID.
Open-air meeting at $50 pm. at
wilkins and Intervale.
Brownsville Branch LID.
Meeting at pm. at 11s Bristol st.
Yorkvilie Hungarian Br. LID.
Meeting at pm. at s47 q. 72nd
st. Mooney, Billings and Imperial
Valley cases will be discussed.
BARRIERS and Hnirdressers' LeaEye
will be held at 9 pm. at 50 e. 18th
st., End floor.
International Labor sports Club
Will meet at its new headquarters,
Aa7 2. 18th St, at 1880 pm.
Nysnting workers' Ind. League
win meet and discuss the R:I.L.U.
resolution at 1880 pm. at is W. 21st
st.
Open Forum
To which air jewelry workers are
invited to come will be held at Bry-
ant Hall, Sixth Ave, near 42nd St,
at pm. Subject: What Can the
Unemployed Jewelry Worker Do?'
jamaica Youth Br. Two. Az
St. Kane on "How Bosses Try to
Control Workers Minds"
Brownsville Branch LID.
Holds an open-air meeting at Hop
kinson and Pitkin at $50 pm.
Br. 4O5 Downtown Youth Br. Two.
Meets at 1874 z. Seventh st. at $3.50
pm. Bob Turner will speak on
Soviet Union"
The Esperanto Group
Will meet at S6th Street and Fifth
Avenue for continuation OF begin
ners class and report OF Cultural
Federation Conference. In case OF
rain meet as usual at $50 e. s1st st.
Painters T.U.U.L.
Meet at 400 Boston Road at
pm. After business meeting discus
sion on scottsboro Case.
General Membership Meeting
OF the Painters Section of the
Building and Construction Workers
at pm. at 16 West 21st Street
Questions on general and local cleo
tons will be taken up. Come on
time.
Joe Hill Branch LID.
Meets at $50 pm. at 1872 w. Fl st.
workers Ex-servicemen League
Branch No. will hold its regular
meeting at Pythian Hall, between
l25th and 124th Streets. at pm,
1aHt SfOe wOTkeTm OIup
Important membership meeting
viii take place at 1876 Y. B'way. al
$40 pm.
Bore Park Workers Club nnd Two.
Branch II
1873 43rd Street, Brooklyn, will
give a lecture by Harry Raymond
on The Daily Worker and the AM
erican Working Glass" at $3.50 pm.
Proceeds to the Daily Worker.
Concert, Netcherinka and Dnnce
VIII be held under the auspices of
Section 8. Communist Party. at
SCRIPT Molot" Hall, 1872 and Avenue.
Proceeds to Daily Worker.
Concert and Dance
Given BY Unit 4, Section 2, at so1
West 2e4Street. at pm. Admission
ssc Prsseeds to Daily Worker.
40 -4s.ssG4A- 42k
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18

NEW YORK-Having just re-
turned from the Soviet Union, the
American delegation which visited
the U. S. S. r. on May list and after,
will deliver its report at mass dem
onstration arranged at Irving Plaza
18th st. and Irving Place, Friday,
June 10th. at p. m. Julia Stuart
Poyntz. who return from the Soviet
Union recently, will also speak. The
meeting is under the auspices Of the
Friends of the Soviet Union.
Five of the delegation will tour
the country in an auto, going north
through Montana, to Seattle and
then down the Pacific Coast. De-
tails on the meetings will be sent
out by the National Office of the
F. S. u.
The five who are to tour the coun-
try and tell about their visit to the
Soviet Union each gave statement
to the Daily Worker. They are as
follows:
THE most impressive reaction 1
got as a mechanic from this trip"
said McCorckle, member of Car
penters' Local 125 in Los Angeles,
and chairman of the delegation, was
to observe the power in the hands
OF the working class. 1t is mani
tested in every direction. 1t con-
trasts with the depreciation of the
workers in the capitalist lands"
Replying to the fascist plan" an
nounced by Matthew VOL, John
Lourie, secretary of the delegation,
said. 1.-THE Russian workers are
fighting for peace They are par
ticularly active in putting over the
Five Year Plan successfully. The
military activities of the imperialists
we're evident wherever we went.
Matthew VOL is now stirring up
more war preparations. 1t is going
to be the task of our delegation,
touring the country, to expose the
war plots and to call on the workers
10 defend the Soviet Union"
"They are putting over the Five
Year Plan" said j. E. Snyder, an
other of the delegation, members OF
Transfers Union Local AIT in San
Francisco, Calf. They connect up
industrialization with collectiVlza-
tjon. Some of the large undertak-
ines we're completed in 21-2 instead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-18

Workers Correspondence Is the
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Build your press by writing for it
about your day to day struggles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-17
FOREIGN BOND list
ON HIGHER LEVEL
Better Character of News
From the Reich Aids Dol
lar Obligations.
BY F. H. RICHARDSON.
!al pIspatch to The star

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, June 17.--With foreign
news today giving more favorable indi-
cations of the preserving OF economic
order in Europe, most dollar bonds out
standing against the German, Austrian
and other Central European nations
moved higher.
Wall Street has an increasing faith In
the ability of Chancellor Bruening to
pull the Reich through the present
emergency. The decision Of the resign
ing Austrian cabinet to guarantee all
liabilities of the creditanstalt was hail
ed as constructive news. The Soviets
expressed hope that red revolution Is
imminent in Germany was discounted
by the reports that a trade agreement
between France and Soviet Russia Is
near conclusion.
German government 51as and repara-
tions rs were heavily bought In early
trading and rose about points. These
gains were subsequently shaded under
proflt-taking by those who bought these
bonds at their lows, but good demand
was in evidence even when the offer
ings were heaviest. German munich
pals, industrials and public utilities
followed the government group. Aus
TRAN issues were firm.
There was q furry Of selling in Japa-
nese issues when a brief cable item
from Toxic reported q severe earth
shock, which caused widespread alarm,
but was said to have effected little
property damage. Toxic SIPS, Japa-
neSe 512s and Yokohama IS were of
as much as point at one time. but
the losses were later retraced. South
Americans were quiet. the only activity
being in the Brazilian group, where
small gains appeared. Australian is
sues were unchanged.
Domestic bonds were irregular. Parts
of the junior railroad group improved,
notably Missouri-Pacific IS, Erie SIS and
st. Paul SIS. st. Louis-Southwestern
Consolidated Is jumped nearly points
and are now about IL points above the
1881 low. On the other hand, st. Louis
San Francisco issues dipped again, the
prior lien A As dropping IA points at
one time and the AIS losing fraction
ally. The fact that the General IS and
IS, maturing July /, are again selling
below par reflected the postponement OF
official announcement regarding their
refinancing. though it is generally I'M
derstood that 1t has been arranged.
There was a brisk inquiry for high
grade corporation bonds such as Amer
lean Telephone Collateral IS, AtchiSon
General As, Boston g. Maine SIS,
Brooklyn Manhattan Transit IS. Cana
dian National Railways SIS, National
Dairy Products 5As, New York Central
412s, Pennsylvania IS and youngstown
Sheet q Tube IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-17
GETS patent JOB
FOR NINTH YEAR
Columbia Paragraph Co. Is
+ Awarded Contract for
Reproductions.

The Columbia Paragraph Co. OF TINS
CITY has been awarded the contract
again for reproducing the drawings OF
1he weekly issue of patents, reissues
and designs for the United states
patent once for the fiscal year 1881 :
1899. This Is the ninth straight year
the company has been the succesSlul
competitor for this business, ACCORDING
to John A. Eckert, its president. Inc
drawings turned out at its plant. ou,o4
L street northeast, illustrate ana, WIN
their specifications, describe patentanle
inventions which were in past times
demonstrated by models.
The Patent once, under direction OF
Commissioner Thomas E. Robertson
and his corps of assistants, prepares Tor
reproduction an average of 800 pages
of illustrations daily. The successful
contractor must be prepared to re-
produce these promptly and to furnish
proofs thereof within a few days OF
receipt. :.
Owing to the passage by Congress in
1880 of the plant patent act, the re-
producing company this year must De
prepared to furnish prints IN colors.
All applications for patents on new
varieties of plants in which color Is an
essential variation or characteristic LOT
patentability must be accompanied by
drawings in color. This Is a oeparture
from rules existing hitherto, al draw
ings having been shown previously IN
black and white only. In addition to
the necessity for entirely adequate
Equipment, the successful bidder for
this contract must possess the entire
confidence of the Patent Once,
inasmuch as the reproduction OF these
illustrations must Of necessity be per-
formed before the issue date OF a
patent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-17
Washington Produce
Butter-one-pound prints, 20; tub. .,

Butter-One-pound prints, 20; tub. 7s.
Eggs-Hennery. 1ea2o; current re-
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Poultry. alive-Spring broilers, 3
pounds and over. 35a36: 2 to 3 pounds,
32a33; smaller, 28a30; Leghorns, large,
24a25; small, 20a23 hens, large, %:
medium. 20a21; Leghorns. 16a17; roost-
ers. 13a14. Dressed-Spring broilers,
pounds and over. 38a40; 2 to 3 pounds,
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26a27; hens, large, 24a25; medium. 24a
IS; Leghorns, 18a20; roosters. 17a1s;
ducks. Long Island. 23a24.
Meats-Beef, Il; veal, IA; lamb,
Western, 1s; Spring, 20; pork loins,
shoulders, IL; smoked hams, 1872;
smoked shoulders, IL; strip bacon, Fl /;
lard, in bulk, 10; packages, II.
Live stock-Hogs. heavy, 6.00a6.75;
light and medium, 700a7.40; pigs, zoo
a725; loughs, 350a5 90; calves, 4.0Oa
500; Spring lambs. 6.00a8.75.
Fruits = Watermelons, 55a1 90; can
taloupes, jumbos, 3.00a3.25; standards,
2.75a3.O0; ponys, 2.0oa2.25; fats, 1.25a
$50; honeydews. 2.00a2.25; honeyballs,
4.50a5.50; oranges, 500: lemons, 6.50s
TOO; lines, per 100, 800: apples, box
stock, 2.50a2.75; peaches. bushel baskets,
z.zoaZ .oU, Z-pecK baskets, l.Z5, cherries
California, boxes, 1.25a2.25: 32-quart
crates. homegrown. 4.50a5.00; strawber-
ries, 2.50a3.00; blackberries, 2.00a3.00:
huckleberries, l.5oa4.00; apricots, $50;
plums, 1.50; bananas, 1.25al.5o; pine
apples, 3.50a4.00.
Observation-Disclosures, new, per barrel,
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200; sweets, per bushel. zoo; tomatoes
Span crates, 1.50a3.O0: onions, Texas
50-pound sacks! $50; Spring. per 10O
punches, zoo; radishes. per 100
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limas. 500: peas, 1.25a1.50; cucum-
bers. 1.25a1.50; peppers, 4.00a4.50;. cauli-
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