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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
1900 War Vets Parade to
City Hall; Demand Relief

NEW YORK.-"The Third Big Pa
rade" took place yesterday when $500
worker ex-servicemen, marching I'M
der the leadership of the Worker Ex-
servicemen's League and Veterans
from Relief Lines, swung up Broad
way from Bowling green to City Hall
to be joined by thousands of other
ex-soldiers in militant demonstra-
zion demanding immediate relief
Many Joined the lines even though
threatened with withdrawal of re-
lief.
"Our first parade-1917-to make
the world safe for democracy; our
second parade-1919-after making
the world safe for democracy; our
now our third parade-1931-to de-
mand relief from starvation. to fight
for cash payment of the Bonus now
This tells briefly what the Third Big
Parade means.
Dozens of placards told the imme-
diate specific demands of the ex-
servicemen: Increased relief Of $50
a month for married veterans, $40 a
month for each dependent; $50 a
month for single veterans, $40 a
month for each dependent" 1--WE de-
nland similar relief for widows and
orphans" mo discrimination against
foreign born and Negro veterans"
stop the degrading questioning and
brow beating Of veterans and their
families by the investigators OF the
American Legion" These and other
burning demands Of the ex-service-
men were written on the placards.
Board Afraid to See Committee.
A committee Of three ex-servce-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
HOSIERY STRIKE
IN MILWAUKEE IS
FACING BETRAYAL
Misleaders Forced to
Act; Plan Sellout

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Oct. 1.-The
strike of the 1900 workers of Phoenix
Hosiery Co. here is in danger of i'm
mediate sell out. Alfred Hoffman,
national organizer of the American
Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers was
sent to Milwaukee to take leadership
of the strike in order to sell out the
strikers.
The strike In the Phoenix mills
started Sept. 20 against a 80 to As
per cent wage cut due to mass pres
sure from below, the rank and file
members of the local forced the
strike over the heads of the local Of
ficials and the national union Off
Gals. The strike started with $50
Full Fashioned Union men, and now
nearly 900 union men and 700 non
union men are out on strike-a total
of 1000 workers.
From the very beginning of the
strike John Banachowicz, president
of the Milwaukee local, went TO NJ Y.
to consult with the national officials
as to the possibilities of betraying the
strike of the Milwaukee workers. All
the time j. P. Marjeson. general
manager of the Phoenix Hosiery Co.,
has been loudly proclaiming that the
wage cut was agreed upon between
the national officials and the Asso-
citation of Full Fashioned Hosiery
manufacturers.
The National Textile Workers
Union issued a leaflet calling upon
the workers TO take the control of
the strike into their hands. The
NTWU also calls upon the workers
to elect broad rank and file strike
committees, telling the workers to
fight against secret negotiations be-
hind closed doors. Take the power
away from the officials to negotiate.
Organize committees of action in
every department to unite the strug-
gle Of the union with the mont union
workers, thereby intensifying the
fight against the wage cuts and fake
agreements between the officials and
the company The NTWU tells the
strikers that all proposals for settle
ment of the strike must be made only
through a two-thirds majority vote
of the union membership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03

arrested. Meetings of the revolution
airy union have also been prohibited.
Police fired into demonstration
of miners at Hamborn and Vance
ickel, wounding several. Collisions &C.
CURED between strikers and scabs.
The Communist mtmber of the
Reichstag, Dahlem, informed the del
egated conference of striking miners,
that secret negotiations are proceed
ing between the 1eadres of the Gen.
eral Trade onion Federation and the
industrialists, with view to carrying
out the desired wage cuts without
mass resistance.
The authorities yesterday an
nounced that beginning on the 18th
Of October, unemployment support
will be shortened from 26 to 20 weeks,
on the basis of the Emergency De-
cree.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
You Can Defeat Wage Cuts!

WORKERS you your wages you
desperately looking for way to escape
wage ut Read example
that depends YOU to whether you get
cut or not
The Loft factory Long City, about 5000
mostly youth gra unorgand with strike ex
The celebrated last Christmas by putting wage cut
in stockings another CUT Mothers Day
third cuand he week the company ted 70 put over sun an
other cut in the form OF enenng the hours from 20 10 " per
The workers petition for
ected with by Mr. Heller the MANAGER Let the dirty dogs
thinking of the 100000 unemployed
workers n York City
Remember organization no experience in strikes no Communists
Them Party nucleus in the factory no
factory committee connection with the revolutionary
Food wkers Industrial Union no contact with the Unemployed Ounc
prevent scabbng!
Against devhsh tricks oopigeon
company hoodms company the entire brutal
sikebeang machine of the New York City police!
againsthem stop these workers?
1T DID MOTT Strike sentiment against the longer hours got to boiling
Saturday.
poison party
bound down" Their mancy
method of turning the workers attention
picket the morality of cutting
and its STRUCK
Daily Worker led them the Food
organizers excluded by
tricky of outsiders and managed get themselves the strike
committee
Tuesday with the whole morning milling
the strike committee back with the bosses
"compromise'-54 week. NOTHING
strikers replied
But uhe confusion girls back thinking
accepted by
inside they get again they
learned police Penned
the girls threw the following note out the window
I'VE are forced to stay up here We of getting
blocked with We all want
stick together Start riot and try get out to the ball field
the, factory girls"
there WAS something of riot And the girls DID out!
the sign: THE OLD
WORKING WEEK OF 4s HOURS WILL BE RESUMED"
OF the will try to to fire the
rngleaders cut the speed And there
victory will
buldsup fighting Committee
STRIKE WON!
there! blocks Sunshine
frightened postponed
could hardly strike factory
difficult conditions did Los
inexperienced
than they did possbe
with the Unity Group
militant estimate the possibility
stk To build Committee possible departmental
these possible
Ion-STRIKE> ANYHOW! AND STICK
above the Party you TO
STRIKE! Not be influenced by msaders
depression being mo time to strike There NEVER good time
strike" If
CAN DEFEAT WAGE sTRIKE A
STRIKE!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. BACKED
by IA multi-millionaires whose for
tunes total $5,o0o,00o, 600, Major Gen
eral Snedley D. Butler, of the ma
rines, declared in a speech here
Thursday night he is preparing now
for a fascist dictatorship against the
workers.
Buffers announcement, following
the recent speech of President Hoo
yer before the American Legion
urging the ex-servicemen to be ready
to back fascist program, is of ex-
IRENE significance. AS marine Of
ficer, Butler has had long experience
in fulfilling Wall Streets orders by
means of open armed force In Latin
America and China.
The scheme proposed by Butler is
described by the United Press as a
virtual dictatorship by an extra
governmental agency"
"That the bulk of the nations
WtdltH - CUIlCcUtNdttu III Tic udhuo
of a few" General Butler stated,
els one of the things that ordinary
people are concerned about. An
other is that there are so many
millionaires In the Cabinet"
Forsees Revolution
AS a result Butler foresees the
capitalists in the United States along
with the rest OF the world, over
run by revolutionary hordes."
To forestall this, Butler has been
picked by the multi millionaires he
refuses to name, but who are I'M
doubtedly among the leading $50"
who now rule the United States, to
prepare the fascist dictatorship.
1t is not only a question of a
future Inauguration Of fascism. Every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
5000 FILIPINO
WORKERS STRIKE
Communist Party Is
Active in Walkout

NEW YORK.-Cable reports from
Manila, Philippine Islands, state that
a general strike of tobacco workers
was called on october 1st. affecting
six major companies. Over 5000
men are out for better conditions
The present strike follows a whole
series of similar actions taken by the
Filipino workers in the present crisis.
The strike is being led by reformist
trade union leaders, and when the
Communist Party of the Philippine
Islands. through Crisanto Evange-
lists, one of the leaders, called for
a united front on militapt strike
basis, the misleaders. who want to
keep in the good graces OF Wall
Street, refused.
The Communist Party, despite the
refusal of the united front, Is taking
an active part In the strike and Is
urging the workers to take the strike
into their own hands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
VET POLITICAL
SYMPOSIUM sun
All Invited to Hear
Issues Discussed

NEW YORK.-Invting all war vets
to listen to discussion of the forth
coming elections, the Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League has arranged a
symposium at irving Plaza, 18Th st.
and Irving Place, Sunday, october
9Th at Q p. M.
The Symposium will be on the
question: Which political party
should the ex-servicemen support?"
There will be speakers from the var
isus parties. l. Amter, candidate for
president Of the Borough of Manhat-
tan, will speak for the Communist
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03

Thousands of workers demon
strated again on Friday in Glasgow
against the hunger budget of Mac
Donald and resisted the police with
the same determined militancy that
they have displayed during the past
several days in their struggles. The
mass demonstrations in Great Brit
ain have going on for ten days al
ready. Fifty thousand workers are
reported by the capitalist press as
having demonstrated on Wednesday
in Glasgow. Nine of the workers
were so badly beaten by the Mac
Donald police that they had TO go
o the hospital. The workers de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03

cneered the speakers OF the Metal
Workers Industrial League, the
Young Communist League and the
Workers International Relief, who
spoke on the organization of strug-
gle against the wage cuts. The Daily
Worker sold like hotcakeS,"
In Lawrence, Mass, action for a
united front strike against the Octo-
Der IS wage cuts is gaining wider
support.
Within the ranks Of the A. F. of L.
the takers are finding it more diff
cult to keep back strike action. In
Boston, where the longshoremen
voted for a general strike against
wage cuts, the local misleaders were
forced to call in Joseph P. Ryan of
New York, president of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Association in
an effort to break the strike.
The men were ready to go on strike
when Governor Ely met with the
bosses and the union misleaders, with
the result that the strike was called
off and a hurried call sent to Ryan
to come to Boston.
The postponement of the strike is
to give the bosses better chance to
plan their scabbing, and Ryan is
counted on to do all he can to keep
back the strike.
The 1ongshoremen mean business
and are determined to resist the wage
cut. This is shown by the militant
action against the few scabs who at
tempted to go to work just before
the union officials called the strike
off for the time being.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
Resist Police Clubs,
Demand mot a
Penny Off Dole

Tended themselves with all manner
of weapons that they we're able to
find at hand. When the patrol Of
police appeared on the scene the
workers greeted them with storm
Of jam Jars and butter and lard tubs
which they had obtained from twelve
shops in the vicinity.
In Bristol thousands of workers
demonstrated and paraded, bearing
slogans such as Not Penny off the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
Suitcase Makers Vote
Contempt of Socialist
Officials of Local

NEW YORK.-A well attended
meeting Of local of the A. F. L..
Suitcase, Bag and Portfolio Workers
Union at its headquarters here
Thursday night voted non-confidence
in the socialist party officials of the
local and elected a rank and file
committee TO run its affairs.
The socialist machine and its al
lies tried every trick of demagogy
and put UP all kinds of fake issues,
but the membership laughed at them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
CALL FOR UNITED
FRONT TO HIT PAY
CUT IN LAWRENCE
Thousands At Textile
Mass Meetings

LAWRENCE, Mass, Oct. 2.-Show-
ing their determination to fight
against the % per cent wage cut
which the bosses with the help of
the officials Of the A. F. of L. and the
mayors committee are trying to put
over, effecting between $4,000 to 30,-
600 Lawrence textile workers, over
1000 workers have packed the Union
halls for the past two nights and
wildly applauded the organizers of
the National Textile Workers Union
when they called upon the WORKERS
to prepare for struggle to stop the
wage-cut. At all thrte meetings the
workers took a standing vote against
the wage cut
Despite the campaign of silence Of
the boss controlled press of the city,
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
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men, De Nota, Harper and Levine,
two white workers and one Negro
worker, were elected to present the
demands of the ex-servicemen to the
Board Of Estimate who we're meeting
in City Hall, apportioning out mil
lions of dollars for every sort OF
graft except relief for workers.
Vets Address Meet.
While the committee was in the
City Hall the ex-servicemen who were
joined by thousands more workers,
CONTINUED ON PAGE Two1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
Masses Continue Struggle in
Streets of Glasgow, Scotland

Dole" Down with the National
Government" and I'VE Support our
Naval Comrades" The struggle Of
the workers in the streets is like the
struggle of the sailors on board the
Atlantic fleet ships several weeks
ago, the struggle against the wage
and dole cuts of the Macdonald
budget.
While the workers in Great Brit
ain are rallying in ever greater mas
ses in demonstrations the left wing
ers OF the Labor Party are intensi-
flying their attempts to mislead the
CONTINUED ON PAGE THRrR)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
Hoover for Pay
Cuts to "Cure''
Unemployment
president Endorses Reduction of Hours and
Pay in Chemical Industry
Jobless Demand Insurance, Relief and No
Wage Cuts; March on Washington, Dec 7th
BULLETIN

INDIANA HARBoR, 1.-TWO
meeting which William
Unity League spoke Many applications
great desire to struggle against the
Committees being built to
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct president
Hoover issued public statement in favor of
the six hour day yesterday as a cure for I'M
employment. BUT the statement makes it
clear that the six hour day means wage cut,
another plan like the sagger system with which the new plan
would easily combine to spread starvation the whole
working class.
Instead of taxing the profits of the big corporations
giving unemployment insurance demanded by the organized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03

Volunteers are wanted to collect
signatures for Williamsburg to-
day. Report at 70 Myrtle Avenue,
Brooklyn. Help get the Red can
didates on the ballot in the First
Assembly District.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
IL OUT TODAY TO DEMAND MONEYS RELEASE
NEWS FLASH!
Gable by Inprecorrl

liable by Inprec0rrJ
MOSCOW, Oct 1.-THE KharkOv tractor giant opened
up today the presence of 900 workers. The KharkOv
works larger than Stangrad The reconstructed
Amo automobile works also opened today in the
of masses of workers in Moscow. Twenty-Five thousand
trucks scheduled to be produced annually.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03

cent in five mines affecting 1900 men,
NEW .YORK.-As October first went by
with over 100000 receiving wage cuts rang
ing from 10 to so per cent, the workers realized
by the latter action of the bosses that the open
wage cut drive is just beginning and organiza-
ton and strike is absolutely necessary to stop
this incessant drive against the standard of
living of the American workers.
That the determination of the workers is
growing to resist the wage cuts is shown by
many instances report from Youngstown o. to the Daily
Worker states:
cover 200 workers. of whom the majority Negroes
gathered at shop gate meeting in front of the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Co. at Campbell o. and enthusiastically
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-03
TEXTILE, DOCK WORKERS
ACT AGAINST PAY CUTS;
STEEL men CHEER FIGHT
A. F. of L. Takers in Boston Rush Ryan in
From N. Y. to Break LOngshOre Strike
200 Steel Workers at Campbell, Ohio, at Shop
Gate Greet Call for Organization
BULLETIN.

BRIDGEPORT Ohio, Oct. 2The Hanna Coal Co cut
cent in five mines, affecting 1,5OO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29
MRS. PATTERSON
SPEAKS IN BRONX
Will Also Be Present
At Brooklyn Meet

NEW YORK-Council No II of the
Bronx Cooperative House will have a
lecture on THE Importance of May
First" by Richard B. Moore, and as
an added attraction Mrs. jamie Pat
terson, the mother of one of the nine
boys railroaded to the electric chair
in the Scottsboro. Alabama case, will
be present. The lecture will be held
in the Auditorium of the Cooperative
houses, on Wednesday evening, April
10Th, at $3.50 p m.
Council 20 will have a lecture on
the importance of May First, at 962
Suffer Avenue. Brooklyn, Wednesday
evening. April 29th, at $3.50 p. M, with
Tillie Littinsky.
Councils 7, 16, 20, and 81 will have
a protest meeting on Thursday even
ing, April 30th, at $3.50 p. m. at 105
Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn, to voice
their protest against the legal lynch
ing Of the nine Negro boys in Scots
boro, Alabama. AL Brooklyn COM
rades are urged to attend this i'm
portant meeting. Mrs. jamie Patter-
son, the mother of one of the SEN
fenced boys will be present besides
other good speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29
Big PROGRAM FOR
MAY DAY NIGHT
After Demonstration
in Square,

NEW YORK.-At the May Day
mass meeting in the Bronx Coliseum
on Friday, 1880 p. m. following the
big demonstration from Madison So.
Park the New York workers will have
for the first time the opportunity to
see a mass play in the style of the
Russian "Blue Blouses'-the panto-
mine Unite and Fight"
Members of the Workers Labora-
tory Theatre, the German Prolet-
Buhne, the w. l. R. Band, the Unem-
ployed Council and of other workers
organizations participate in the play.
The "Prolet-Buhne, the German
Agitprop- Troupe, the first and only
Workers Theatre group in America
practicing methods of the Blue
Blouses," is the author of the play
and is also in charge of the direc-
ton.
All workers who did not have the
time to come to the first rehearsals,
have still a chance to participate in
this most interesting performance
when they come to the last rehearsal
on Thursday, April 80, $50 D. m.
sharp, at the w I. r., 131 West 28th
Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29
BOSS COURT
HELPS FRAME IA
Trial of Three Put Off
to Thursday

NEW YORK.--Before court pack
ed with workers, the international
Labor Defense yesterday led the de-
Tense to stop the railroadng to Jail
OF three white workers who partici-
pated in the Harlem parade Satur-
day, which demanded the release of
the nine Negro boys framed up by
an Alabama boss court which SEN
fenced eight to burn in the electric
chair on July 10.
The LID successfully demanded the
reduction of the enormous bail set
for the three defendants, Demetries
Poulos, John Tseronis and Philip
Spector. and had the bail reduced
from $500 each to $500.
The trial was held in the 151st ST..
and Amsterdam Avenue court. The
LID exposed the brutal attacks by the
police on workers demonstrating
against the Scottsboro court lynch
verdict. When the court stated that
the policeman supposed to have been
injured by the defendants could not
appear because Of his injuries" the
LID attorney produced a photograph
run in one of the Sunday papers
showing this same cop standing up
after the demonstration in perfect
health.
The case was put off until Thurs
day, the court rejecting the demand
Of the LID for an ilnmeriate trial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29

The demonstrators will march in
solid ranks from Madison Square to
Union Square.
Parade Tonight.
Tonight parade through the CEN
trail Manhattan district will start at
6:15 p. m. at 81 West 22nd Street, and
mobilize all the workers for the May
Day demonstration at Madison So
Friday
All workers organizations are hold
ing open air mass meetings all this
week to prepare for the demonstra-
ton May 1. Tens of thousands of
leaflets are being distributed. One
after another the militant unions and
militant locals of the reactionary
unions call the workers in their trades
and industries to rally to the May
First demonstration.
Needle Union Call.
do not work on May First" is the
call Of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union to all workers, organ
lied, unorganized, or nisorganized
into company unions. The N.TWI.U.
calls them to pour out in masses on
May 1 in one united powerful dem
onstration against unemployment, and
against hunger that is facing 10000
900 workers in this country.
The call of the union points out
that where organization in the in
dustrial union is weakest, wage cuts
are worst, and that the dressmakers'
strikes of New York and Philadel-
phia are the only cases of militant
leadership against the series of wage
cuts that have crushed the whole
working population in the industry
These strikes checked the wage cuts
which the A. F. of l.. unions and the
Amalagamated are not only not
fighting, but actually promoting. The
NT,WI.U adds to the slogans Of May
First, Demonstrate against company
urionismp
Against Deportations.
1t calls particular attention to the
campaign to deport foreign born
workers and the attacks today by the
capitalists and their henchmen, the
continuous propaganda, against the
Negro workers.
Demonstrate May First for the de-
Tense Of the Soviet Union and against
imperialist war!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29
Cleveland Workers To March From All Parts
OF City On May Day In Huge Demonstration

CLEVELAND, Ohio. Combina-
ton of the May Day plans with the
start TO the statewide Hunger March
on Columbus. will make possible one
of the biggest working-cl demon
STATIONS that Cleveland has ever seen
Final plans have now been drawn up
by United Front Conference repre-
senting go local workers organiza-
tons. They call for marches from
all parts of the city on the morning
Of May 1, leading to a mass demon
stration on the Public Square at IL
noon. At p. m. the big May Day
parade will start eastward on 81
Clair Avenue, ending in mass send
off for Clcveland5s rs hunger march
delegates at East 55th and st. Clair.
Workers will start marching to
the Public Square early in the morn
ing from the remoter sections, stop
ping at different points for meetings
to- rally more marchers. Following
are the rallying points from Finnish
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29
Tacoma, Washington, Plans March; Fight De-
portations; Rockford Workers to Hold Out
door Meet, Parade and Indoor Mass Meet

Hall, Detroit and w. 5Sth ST.; Lor-
ain and w. 46th; Ukrainian Labor
Temple, 1861 Auburn Ave. On the
East side: Youth Center, 152nd and
Holmes in Collinwood: East Side
Hungarian Hall. E. l1lth and Buck
eye; 87th and Buckeye; Workers
Center, E. 141st and Kinsman; S3rd
and Kinsman; and Pulaski Hall, E.
66tl and Chambers
After rousing send-off demon
stration at East 55th and st. Clair,
the hunger marchers will start their
long trek to Columbus, to carry the
demands of Cleveland's jobless for
unemployment insurance and imme-
date relief 10 the state legislature.