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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
Tammany Relief Goes
to Tammany Grafters
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
NEW .YORK.-Last April the city
appropriated nearly $10,000,000 for re-
lief of the unemployed. This So
called relief plan was hailed far and
wide by the Tammany bosses of New
York. Unemployed heads of families
we're supposed to get three days work
week at $3.50 per day-or $3.50 a
week.
1t happens, however, that only thru
the Tammany clubs can work be OBJ
tanned. Only about eight weeks ago,
the Tammany relief racketeers re-
fused to pay the workers on the So
called relief jobs their wages amount
ing to $3.50. They gave no explaina-
ton for this action. Evidently Tam
many used this money for election
purposes.
Now they have reduced the days
work per week from three to two. All
this talk about Tammany increasing
relief is the bunk. The only way to
get real relief and unemployment in
surance is for the workers to rally in
the great mass movement of the I'm
employed Councils and get behind
the Hunger March to Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
0ssining Workers Give
Serio A Good SendOff

The Sacco- Vanzetti Branch in Os-
shining. N. Y, held q very successful
farewell banquet in behalf Of Com
rade Serio, who in the near future
will leave for the Soviet Union.
The police of Ossining, together
with the immigration Department,
are trying to terrorize the workers OF
the town with frequent and brutal
raids, not only on the workers or
CARNATIONS, but also on their private
residences. A second raid took place
within a month and more than 200
workers were rounded up, but, thanks
to the enlightening instruction of the
International Labor Defense, the po-
lice succeeded in getting only two
workers in their clutches and sent
them to Ellis Island.
The International Labor Defense
and teh Council for Protection of
Foreign Born will have joint in
vestigation committee sent out here
and will make plans to stop this
brutal persecution Of foreign-born
workers.
Jim Grace Kentucky, coal miner,
addressed the banquet, telling about
the conditions of coal miners of the
South. A collection brought 1888
for the LID. also more application
cards were filled out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
FISH WORKERS IN
VOTE TO STRIKE
Demand 81 Hour Week
Minimum Wages

Determined to win the 81 hour
week and minimum scale of wages,
fish workers at the membership
meeting of the Fish Workers Section
of the Food Workers Industrial
Union voted to prepare for a general
strike of fish market workers to force
employers to terms.
A strike committee was elected to
make full arrangements for and or
ganization of, the coming strike. A
call to all fish workers to Join the
strike will soon be issued. The day
of the strike will be announced later.
The strike committee also issued
statement to the bosses that if they
wanted to avoid a strike they must
accede to the demands of the fish
workers in few days and settle with
the union. The offices of the union
are at East 10Th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
UNITY SUB.
CAMPAIGN BEING
PUSHED FORWARD
Agents to Meet on
Monday, Nov. 80
BY TOM SCOTT
District Labor Unity Agent

Beginning with January The Labor
Unity will be published as a monthly
80 page magazine. This important
change is due to the changing re-
Quirements of the revolutionary trade
unions affiliated to the Trade Union
Unity League of which Labor Unity is
the central organ. AS a result of the
growing struggles and the strength
ening Of some Of these unions, they
are already publishing there own
organs as Mine Worker, Food Worker,
Needle Worker, Marine Worker Voice,
Office Worker and Educational Work
err. At the same time this growth
makes it necessary that Labor Unity
which up to the present had to per-
form the function of a weekly mass
newspaper and be a directing central
organ as we'll, shall become mainly the
central directing organ.
The monthly 32-page magazine will
sell for 10 cents per copy 7 cents
copy for bundle orders to organiza-
tons and unemployed agents. Sub
scriptions 81 year; so cents for six
months.
A drive is going on for subscriptions
and bundle orders, all union leagues,
fraternal organizations, clubs, ETC.,
are asked to get their members to
read and subscribe to this MAGAZINE
Subscription blanks and Labor Unity
may be obtained at 5 East 10Th ST.
This Monday, Nov. 30, 7.30 p. m.
at 5 East 10Th ST., a meeting of all
Labor Unity agents will be held 20
discuss the drive.
A banquet and entertainment will
be held for the benefit of the Labor
Unity, Dec. at Manhattan Lyceum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
.DRESSMAkERS TO
HOLD CONFERENCE
Prepare for a Real
Strike in Shops

NEW YORK.-F'inal preparations
for the shop conference to discuss
the policy of the dressmakers toward
the expiration of the agreement has
been made by the United Front Com
mittee which met last Wednesday
night. From the reports of industrial
members of the committee, it is evi-
dent that despite the extremely dull
season when most of the workers are
not in the shops, it is expected that a
considerable number of delegates will
attend the conference and join the
movement for uniting the dressmakers
for real strike under rank and file
leadership.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union has issued a call to it's
members pointing out the Importance
of the conference called by the United
Front Committee to consolidate the
ranks of the dressmakers in prepara-
ton for real strike under the
leduSISlllp Vi d IdIlh anu lllS COlll-
mittee. In this call it ispointed out
that the Industrial Union has always
worked for unity in the ranks of the
dressmakers, realizing that this is the
first prerequisite for an effective
struggle to secure better conditions
in the shops.
The Industrial Union at the last
dress membership meeting took a
direct step toward uniting the dress
makers by sending committee of its
rank and file workers to appeal to the
members of the company union to
unite.
The Industrial Union has endorsed
the United Front Committee and
calls on its members to actively part
icipate in the movement to unity
the dressmakers in struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
Youth Hearing Shows How
Young Workers Starye

NEW YORK.-Harlem Unemployed
Council Youth Committee called a
Youth Hearing in Herlem on Nov. 26.
There we're rs young and adult
workers present. The testimony all
exposed the conditions of the young
workers and children in Harlem.
Witness after witness testified and
showed that it was absolutely impos-
sible oget work and that the prom
Use to do something was a mere
empty phrase. Mothers, fathers and
children all testified to the fact that
when they applied for help for the
children in the schools the school au-
thorities replied that they had moth
ing to give to the children. Chart
ties tell mothers to put their children
into an orphanage if they can't sup
port them The testimony of chill
dren showed that not only is nothing
done for them, but that the have to
pay five cents for a half pint of milk
in the schools, which means five cents
more than is made from selling milk
in the homes.
Young workers testified they can't
60 to relief lines or charity organiza-
tions, as they are told that only mar
ried people and heads of families
need apply. Young workers in their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
PAY CUT OF N. Y.
METAL WORKERS
Sunset Lamp Workers
Urged to Organize
CBv a. Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK.-The workers in the
Mutual Sunset Lamp Corp, $50 Fur
man Street Brooklyn, are greatly dis
satisfied with the treatment that
they are receiving and have received
during the past year. Wage-cut after
yage-cut has been put over by the
boss without any move on our part
How is it that the workers in similar
industries as the Krischer Mfg. Co
under the leadership of the Metal
workers Industrial League can refuse
a wage-cut and bring the boss TO
terms? Is this not lesson to us?
We should begin now to stave OIL
the further wage-cuts that the boss
is preparing and to force him TO give
back some of the amount that ne
has already stolen this year. The
way to do this is to get together a
few of those that we can trust in the
shop or the department that we WORK
in. Get worker from the league
to meet us either at the union office,
East 10th St., New York City or
ask him to come to one of our homes
and discuss with him the way to get
the union started in the shop Don't
wait for another cut Act now!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
Taxi Driver Scores
Tammany Tax Drive

NEW 1OlA
Daily Worker:
have been held up, held down,
flattened out and squeezed by the
sewer tax, land tax, gas tax, motor
tax, liability tax, unemployed tax and
last which is not least, James Walker
proposed a $4,000 liability tax on my
taxi. I am taxed by mission, club,
church, organization, red cross. black
cross and double cross and by every
thing the inventive boss mind can
think of. 1 am suspected inspected,
required, commanded, finger printed,
so that l do not know where I am
or what I am. I used and misused
by all kinds of politicians and rack
eteers. The only reason why I am a
live man is to see the real day come
when all these parasites, and prosti-
tute racketeers can be kicked out, as
the ones who have ruined this So
called civilized world. A Taxi Driver
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
ANTI-WAR MEET
IN CHINATOWN
Kuomintang Denounc-
ed by Chinese Workers

NEW YORK-The Workers EX-
Servicemen's League together with
the New York Branch of the Alliance
of the Chinese Anti ImperialistS held
a militant anti-war meeting last
Sunday at 1 p. m. between Mott and
Bayard st. Hundreds of Chinese and
American workers surrounded the
platform and bought the Chinese
Vanguard and other revolutionary
literature. When a Chinese worker,
Comrade Feng, told the workers to
overthrow the Kuomintang, a num-
Der of Chinese workers clapped their
hands and shouted Down with the
Kuomintang." The reactionary Kuo-
mintang leaders made repeated eff
forts to disrupt the meeting which,
however, went ahead with more and
more workers gathering around. Some
Kuomintang leaders instigated gang
sters to use their fists and the cops
the workers to disperse. However,
the speaker continued until he fin
ished his speech And the meeting
was concluded without interruption.
After that when the reactionary
Kuomintang leaders attacked again
they were given a good lesson by the
workers. The cops, as usual, arrested
two of the ex-servicemen, whom the
International Labor Defense is de-
Tending
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
Harlem Workers
Vote with Feet

Negro workers of Harlem voted
with their feet Friday night against
the traitorous attempts of Negro re-
formists to betray the struggle for
unemployment relief and social in
surance Denied the floor to answer
the fake plans for unemployment "re-
lief" offered by the reformists, the
workers who attended a meeting at
2370 Seventh Avenue walked out in
a body.
The meeting was called by the As
ISOLATION of Trade and Commerce. 1t
was addressed by DR., William Lord
lines, head of the Harlan sub-com-
mittee of the charity racket known as
the Emergency Unemployment Relief
Committee DR.. Louis T. Wright and
William Hodson. George Harris edi-
tor of the reformist New York News
and Home Journal acted as chair
man. The speakers showed little
concern with the terrible misery of
the Harlem Negro workers, among
whom unemployment has been ag-
grayated as result of the increased
boss discrimination against Negro
workers during the present economic
crisis, both in jobs and in relief. The
chief concern of the speakers was
that the Negro reformists were being
denied some of the plums in the
charity racket. They wanted one of
their number appointed to take
charge of the Harlem end of the
racket.
While resolution to this effect
was being discussed, a. number of
workers rose in the audience to speak
on the resolution. The chairman,
fearing an exposure by the workers,
ruled them out of order. The work
ers then marched out in a body in
protest against the fake relief activ-
tiles of the reformists. The New York
Times was forced to adnlit'th in its
story on the meeting. 1t says BE
fore vote could be taken those in
attendance walked out OF the audi
torium"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
1900 Hear Report of Dresser
Committee ON Harlan Terror

Kentucky, Adelaide Walker, another
member of the committee, spoke
about the starvation conditions. She
said the miners and their wives and
children were without food or clothes.
She told Of one child walking through
the frost barefooted to get to school.
Miners Prepare For Strike.
Harry Cannes, of the Daily Worker,
told of the struggle to build up the
National Miners Union and the prep
aration of a general strike to end
terror and starvation.
I'VE must fight for the most ele-
mentary rights Of the workers to or
ganize their unions, to the righ5 of
free speech and free assemblage,"
said George Maurer of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. Maurer told
of the struggles of the I. L. D., de-
spite dynamitings and jailings by the
coal operators gunner, for the
rights and defense of the miners.
Charles Rumford Walker, we'll
known writer, followed Maurer, ex-
posing still further the horrors of
mass starvation among the Ken
lucky miners. Mr.. Walker said that
the terror of the coal operators gun
thugs was unequalled anywhere.
The last speaker was Jim Grace
of Wallins Creek, KY. Grace was
kidnapped, beaten and threatened
with death. He said that despite the
terror the miners were going ahead
to build the National Miners Union
and the International Labor Defense.
The National Committee for the
Defense of Political Prisoners, of
which the Dresser Committee which
went to Kentucky was a part, will
make complete report at its meet
ing in New Star Casino, Sunday, De-
cember 9th. Aunt" Molly Jackson,
miners wife, and author of the song,
Kentucky Miners Hungry Blues"
will be present and will sing her
song.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
LAUNDRY UNION
CALLS ASTRIkE
IN ACTIVE SHOPS
Demand Return of 10
P. C. Paycut and no
Discharge of Men

Answering the discharge of two
active union workers, the Laundry
Workers Union issued a call for
strike in the Active. Laundry at 608
Wales Avenue, employing about 100
workers. The strike is not only di-
rected against the firing of two work
ers but for the establishment of union
conditions in the shops and rescind-
ing of the recent wage cuts.
The full demands of the strikers
are:
Return of the 10 percent cut given
to the inside workers.
A guarantee wage of $50 for the
drivers.
A commission wage of SIS and Is
percent.
An S-hour day for the inside work
ers.
No firing. Recognition of the
union.
In statement issued by the union
the conditions of the workers in the
Active shop are described as follows:
The workers of the Active Laundry
are getting starvation wages. The
who are the best paid, are
getting from 20 to % dollars week.
If there are some who get $50, there
are also some who get less than $40
The women workers, who are the
get from 10 to II dollars a
week. For everyone who gets more
than IL there are at least 10 who get
under the lower scale. The bosses
have various ways to cut down the
weekly wage of the workers. Usually
they speed them up so that they are
laid off on Saturday, and a day wage
is deducted.
The Laundry Workers Union calls
on laundry workers and sympathetic
workers to help the Active Laundry
strikers. The union Office is at 260
East 138th ST., the Bronx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
Marine T0ilers Take
Steps to Stop War
Shipments to Orient

PORTLAND, Ore. - A Daily
Worker seller boarded one of the
steamers tied up here and sold
nine copies of the Daily Worker.
The sailors were hungry TO know
what was going on and two mem
0ePs OF the Marine Workers In
duStrial Union were among them.
The whole crew is figuring oil
being laid off here and they will
try and organize this port for the
MWIU.
The longshoremen are respond
ing to the appeals for anti-war
aid to the General Workers Com
mittee and the seamen will help
10 organize them. This is the
first time that it looked like Port
land would become strong
Marine workers town under re-
evolutionary leadership. We are
canvassing to determine If any
war materials are being shipped
through here. IL they are. we
will make every step possible to
prevent shipment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
SEATTLE TOILERS
ON TRIAL FOR
UNION ACTIVITIES
Lumber Bosses Court
in AT. lnpt to Break
Workers Organization
(By PAUL MUNTER)

SEATTLE, Wash-The high point
OF the second Gay in the trial of six
Seattle workers for strike activities
at Ballard, last summer, resulted in
the fining of Marion Zioncheck, LID
attorney. twenty-five dollars for con-
tempt of court. November "a, Zion
CHECK had asked a witness if he had
been a scab during the strike and the
witness answered yes. The judge,
alert to try and keep any phase OF
the class struggle from coming in,
fined him!
When the trial opened yesterday,
the court. directed that Communism
will rot play any part in this trial"
He is mistaken. because, the workers
on trial will show that behind the
sup seed criminal case of assault and
BAT cry. riot melting. etc, deep laid
plan Of t,,c lumber bosses to smash
the miEtarcy Of the workers by hit
ting at their party, exists.
L v'as amazing, even to one who
has neol in court and seen them
funct' Oh. to see how many of the
jurors ",uc,J nothing and had no
pre-. udlccs against the Communists. +"
Tbs 2core is ore hundred percent,
not 3 juror admitting that they ever
heard OF it!
Try Terrorize Workers
The trial took the aspect of a
Czaris5 Siberian courthouse. 1t is
taking place on the 6th floor of the
ccunty-city building.
The bosses press. in order to frigh-
ten the workers away and help the
railrcading Of these six workers, car
ried provocative stories yesterday
They said because the court had re-
ceiyed protests from individuals and
organizations. it felt it necessary to
have police alert to quell any disturb
arce. About so workers at the most
are allowed in the courtroom. TIC
prevent any disturbance" "a cops
have been assigned. Hundreds Of
workers stand Disciplined in the cor
ridors all day.
Stool Pigeons State Witness
Today. the state rested its case. AL
Of its witnesses have been pure I'M
adulterated liars. Stool-pigeons. scabS
and cops have told conflicting stories
Helen Quist, %, Workers Interna-
tional Relief worker during the strike
and James Ryan. organizer Of the Ma
tional Lumber Workers Union, are
conducting their own defense.
This case is the most important III
the Northwest at present. The right
to strike, picket, assemble and organ
1ze is at stake. Add your protest I'M
mediately to the thousands of workers
who have hent their demand for free
dom TO the Kings County Superior
Court, Seattle, Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
WARNING AGAINST
SPURIOUS MEETS
Banner of Organiza-
ton to Indicate
Meetings

Warning workers against irresponS-
ible individuals speaking in Union
Square during weekdays in the name
of revolutionary organizations and
collecting money joint statement
was issued by the District Committee
of the Communist Party, the Friends
of the Soviet Union, the international
Labor Defense, the Unemployed Coun
ellis, the Daily Worker, New York Dis
trict and the Workers Bookshop, as
follows:
I'm the past few weeks a number
of workers have called to our atten-
ton the fact that open air meetings
are being held at Union Square every
single day and in other sections OF
the City, where various individuals,
speaking in the name of the Party,
the Friends of the Soviet Union, In
ternational Labor Defense, Workers
International Relief, Unemployed
Council, ETC., have made the most
Irresponsible SGdGelllSIl0o 1AOAh ViAN
platforms and have developed habit
of making collections few times
during the process of the day. The
above organizations have up to the
present not endorsed these meetings
or are in any way responsible for
these meetings. However, these or
ganizations, having held meeting,
decided that from now on the meet
ings at Union Square and in other
sections of the city will be guided di-
rectly by the above organizations.
"AIl meetings being held will be
indicated by the banner of the Or
ganization."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
Meet on Demand
for Lower Bread
Coney Island Mass
Meeting Tonight

A report on the answer OF the bak-
cry bosses to the demands for lower
prices en- bread and rolls will be given
at a mas meeting to be held Monday
evening al the Pythian Hail. 1854 w.
21st ST., Coney Island. The rank and
file committee of housewives prepar-
ing organization for struggle against
the high price of bread under the
leadership of the United Council Of
Workingclass Women will deliver the
report.
A statement issued by the COM
mittee hits the lies of the A. F. of
L. officials who tell the bakery work
ers the strike is directed against their
wages. The statement says:
I'm the last few weeks the price
of bread was increased from 4 and
5 a pound to 9 cents. At the last
mass meeting held week ago more
than TOO workers voted in favor of
the demands and their readiness to
fight for these demands.
1.-The rank and file committee OF
Housewives calls upon all bakery
workers to know that the proposed
demands of 5 cents pound of bread
is not at the expense of their wages.
The major demand being reduction
of prices but not at the expense of
the wages of the bakery workers.
They call upon them not to be mis-
lead by the A. r of L. union officials
who would want them to believe that
his fight is against their union con-
q, .ons.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30

search for work have many times
been fooled into feeling that they
ought to join the army or navy.
Here young Negro workers find an
other barrier. Though the bosses are
spending millions of dollars ON mill
tary purposes, and will use the Me-
gro workers to fight, when war is GO.
ing on as they did previously, they
aren't permitting many Negro fell
lows to join up now.
Even the Y, M. G. A., which takes
millions of dollars annually from
young workers and young Negro
workers, refuse to even register and
try to get work for young fellows who
aren't married.
The public hearing supported the
Hunger March to Washington. when
thousands of delegates from all over
the United States, representing work
ers of all nationalities. young and old,
will present the Unemployment In
surance Bill to Washington.
Two additional representatives to
go to Washington were elected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30

NEW YORK.-Over 1900 workers
gathered at Central opera House
Sunday to hear a report of the
Dresser Committee on conditions and
terror in Harlan County, Kentucky.
The meeting was under the auspices
of the International Labor Defense.
Four Of those indicted on criminal
syndicalist charges spoke.
Lester Cohen, novelist, was the first
speaker. He told about the history
of struggle of the Kentucky miners.
THE coal operators have condemned
5000 blacklisted miners to death by
starvation" he said. 1t is against
this that the miners are heroically
fighting.
Telling about the active part of the
women folk in the mine fields of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-30
Instructions for the
Coliseum Meeting on
Wednesday Dec. End

All unemployed comrades should
report to the Coliseum on Wednes-
day, December 2, at 4 p. m. sharp.
Section organizer or a member of
the section burO must also be
there at the same time. All other
comrades should come to the hall
Immediately after work. The hall
will be divided into sections, like on
November I, and various comrades
will report to their section or
gsnizers in the hall for activity.
The comrades in charge will have
to see that order and discipline is
kept att his meeting. E. E. 80,
..All unit literature agents should
report at the Coliseum, p. m.
sharp, to the literature table, to
get their supply of literature.