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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
7 4ADISH STRIKERS
PULL OUT MORE
'obless Refuse to Go
Back; Mass Picket

CUDAHY, Wise. (By E.aiD BY an
active picket line and through visit
ing the homes Of the workers, the
Ladish Drop Forge strikers pulled
out another forty men on the second
day Of the strike. Those left in the
shop are mainly confused workers;
some have been unemployed for
months up till recently, and are
afraid to strike Most of them will
be out soon. There are few scabs
on the job.
The first move of the Ladish bosses
was to try to coax the pickets back
to work. "Schmitty," a boot licking
superintendent, came out and put his
arms around the workers, telling
them to think Of their families and
come bac kto work But the workers
told him he didn't put his arms
around them in the shop-there he
swore at them and pounded them on
the back to get old man Ladish more
profits. And he cut their wages so
per cent in the last year, which show
ed he didn't think much of their
families. Ladish himself was down
to try to bulldoze the workers back
onto the job. He told them they we're
misled by bunch of Russian Boil
sheviks. The workers asked for the
wage cut to be withdrawn-that was
their answer
BY noon Friday, the Ladish bosses
we're very angry. At three O'Clock,
the plant shut down. There was not
enough scabs and foremen left to
run even one hammer, as had been
done the previous night. Unemploy-
ed workers in Cudahy came to the
strikers and asked permission to help
picket.
Ladish sent out calls to some of
the seven hundred men he laid off
in the last year and half, TO come
to work.
SAASoC WOl hCI y
saw there was strike, they refused
to 6 DIN and scab.
-Four Mexican workers were in the
number. Seeing there was a strike,
they asked If the men going in the
plant were crazy, and recommended
they DO punched in the nose. This
is the spirit of the workers in the
strike, and of the unemployed. as
well. This shows that the work of
the Trade Union Unity League in
hammering home the need for unity
of employed and unemployed is max
ing itself felt.
Stool pigeons, scabs. provocateurs
are on the scene already-on the
second day of the strike. But the
spirit runs higher and higher. Mon
day morning there will be the whole
plant out on the picket line, with
the wives of the strikers to help and
The unemployed too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
STOOL HAS NEGRO
WORKERS JAILED
Denounce T h e m A S
Reds to Police

NEW YORK.-Renewing his vici-
Gus attacks against the revolution
airy Negro workers of Harlem in their
fight for unemployment relief and
against lynching. the Carney national
reformist General ST. William We'll
lington Grant yesterday had four
Negro workers arrested.
The formal charges made by this
betrayer of the Negro liberation
struggle against the four workers
was assault and battery, but at the
police station Grant made quite
clear his treacherous role as a police
stool pigeon when he tried to have
these workers railroaded on the
charge of being Reds and agitators
who were fighting for the overthrow
of his bosses government and caus-
ing the police trouble.
The four workers arrested are Com
rades Warfield, Sam Brown, Camp
bell and Arthur Williams This is
the second time the last two have
been arrested at the instigation of
this police stool On the same day,
Comrade Vale was attacked by Grant
on the subway station at 125th st,
Grant told Vale he would break up
the revolutionary mass struggle of
the workers Of Harlem against starv-
alton and national oppression.
Together with the scoundrel Carter
(alias Lee) who has been expelled
from the League of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights for robbing Negro work
ers, Grant has been holding meet
ings in Harlem and collecting money
on the basis of the Scottsboro case.
Carter is now going under the name
of the Rev. G. w. Carter. These 2
traitors, with others of their gang,
held meeting on ScottSboro at Elks
Auditorium, but we're ignored by the
workers of Harlem.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
MELR0SE MINERS
WIN THE STRIKE
Led by National Mine
Union; Eject Police

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 12.-The
strike of the Melrose miners which
started as a result of the May Day
demonstration, lasted 10 days, under
the leadership of the National Min
ers' Union. and ended yesterday in
a significant victory for the miners.
The strike was against a wage cut
affecting $50 miners. Originally the
leaders were cut from rs cents to so
cents a wagon and the day men
we're cut so cents day. After the
miners went on strike, determined to
defeat the wage cut, the company
came out with several fake schemes
but failed to deceive the miners.
Finally it proposed to pay 20 cents
per wagon and to withdraw IS cents
cut to the day men
The miners accepted this proposal
providing the company would agree
on the following additional demands:
% A reduction i'll the company
house rent from $12 to So per month;
CD No idle day work; 80 Payment
Of dead work based on the day men
rate; "a Recognition of Mine Com
nlittee, 90 No discrimination against
any of the strikers; 90 Immediate
dismissal of strikebreakers.
Raise Real Wages.
AL the demands were granted and
the miners returned to work today,
determined to fight against any at
tempt of the company to rob them
Of their victory. Although the wage
cut was not defeated 100 per cent,
the actual earnings of the miners are
increased. The payment for dead
work, no idle day work and the re-
duction in the house rent will more
than make up for the reduction in
wages. Beside, they have their Mine
Committee and the local of the Ma
tional Miners Union, embracing over
SO per cent of the miners, to protect
their interests. The membership of
the union will increase at the next
local union meeting.
The victory of the Melrose miners
is an additional proof that wage cuts
can be fought successfully under the
leadership of the revolutionary
unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
WOMEN'S COUNCIL
SPRING CONCERT
Usher in Summer Act
ivities May 10

NEW YORK.-Closing season of
many spring activities and ushering
in summer activities, the United
Council of Working Glass Women has
arranged a spring concert for Sun
day, May 16 at the Stuyvesant Ca
sino, Second Avenue and Ninth ST.,
at 5 p. m.
A varied and interesting program
Including the Artef players has been
raranged. Members Of the council
will stage a one-act play of their
own vintage A special feature will
be interpretive dancing by a Russian
dance troupe.
Members of the Council are pre-
pairing to make the buffet an event in
itself, with homemade delicacies &C.
cupying the place of honor.
Admission to the concert will be
only 35c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
Lower Manhattan Council
Of Unemployed is Formed
First of Series To Be Built on Basis of Affili-
ated Mass Organizations; Will Lead
Struggle for Immediate Relief

ed Council will help organize House
and Block Committees of the Ten
ants Leagues which fight against
high rents and for sanitary housing
conditions, 1t will unite the unem-
ployed workers in the struggle of
the employed workers against wage
cuts, speed-up and for the short work
day, mobilizing the unemployed work.
ers on the picket line in all strike
struggles.
1t will be the task of the Unem-
ployed Council to Systematically visit
all neighborhood workers organiza-
tiops for the purpose of securing af-
filiations, cooperation and financial
support, also to increase the sale and
subscription of Labor Unity.
The first meeting of the executive
committee of the Lower Manhattan
Unemployed Council will be today
at 730 p. m. at 16 w. Dist st.
The conference unanimously adopt
ed a resolution OF protest against the
legal lynching of the nine Negro
boys of ScottSboro and for the re-
lease of the five Paterson textile
workers framed on a murder charge
The conference calls upon the Or
carnations represented to partici-
pate in the demonstration and parade
aaginst the lynching, which will be
held on Saturday, May Is in Har-
lem, also to elect delegates to the
Scottsboro United Front Conference
to be held May II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
COUNCIL FORCES
RETURN OF FEES
Make Gyp Agencies
Pay Back Jobless

NEW YORK. - Through militant
action, the Madison Square Branch
of the Unemployed Council, forced
the return on Monday of a fee of
81 paid for job by worker named
Jenninger to an employment agency
at BOG Sixth Ave.
They also forced the return of
$50 for men who worked in the brick
yard at list Street and Third Ave.
These men we're not paid their full
wages, and the Madison Square Coun-
Gil demanded the rest of their money,
and the men got it.
The same council also got the re-
turn of 81 from the employment
agency at 1877 Sixth Ave for work
er named Marks of 348 w. 49th ST.,
and SO from another gyp employ
ment agency at 44th and 9Th Ave.
for Wilson.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
Leather Workers Meet

NEW YORK. - A very important
membership meeting of the Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union
will be held on Thursday, May 14th,
at 800 p. m. at the Manhattan Ly-
ceum, &c East 4th ST., New York. A
report of the activities of the union
will be given and plans for future
activities will be taken up
With the approach of the Slipper
season the Shoe and Leather Work
ers Industrial Union worked Out
plans to organize the Slipper anc
Stitchdown workers in New York
Slipper workers are coming to the
Union with a demand for organiza
ton in the face of wage cuts, long
hours and speed up.
All these questions will be taken up
on our union membership meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
Children Fought
Police May First
Vicious Attack Didn't
Deter Young Pioneers

NEW YORK. - Despite the efforts
of the police and school authorities
despite beatings and demotions in
school, many workers children dem
onstrated on May Day.
Public School No. 100 was picketed
by the Pioneers. Three children were
seized by the principal and truant
officers. taken in the Office and beat
en-, threatened and cajoled to not
join the May Day march.
Hundreds In Bronx.
everal hundred children were not
Several hundred children were out
in Public School No. SO in the Bronx
and marched with the Pioneers.
In Public School No. 60 three Pr
oneers were denoted for their May
Day activities. They are all excel
lent in their school work.
At Public School No. 100. Brook
Ign. the principal organized monitors
to guard the school until l a. m. May
Day eve and when the Pioneers came
to chalk up the school they we're
seized beaten and then arrested
Arrest Parents.
Two parents we're arrested while
picketing Public School No. 90 the
morning of the demonstration. Their
case is pending,
An estimate of so pupils out at the
New Utrecht Evanda and Roosevelt
High Schools was made. Because of
this large number the authorities
have referred the case to the Board
of Education.
Protests against the treatment and
arrests of workers children should be
sent to the Board of Education. De-
mand all imprisoned children be i'm
mediately released.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
JIM CROWISM IN
THOMPSON'S
Girls Not Permitted
Wait On Negroes

NEW YORK.-In pursuance of the
vicious boss policy of painting the
Negro as a rapist from whom white
women have TO be protected, the
Thompson chain of restaurants has
introduced a policy of not permit
ting the white mattresses to wait on
Negroes.
Negro workers are not refused SER
vice outright, but the policy of the
management is aimed to support the
'inferiority" lie and discourage Ne
gro trade. Yesterday a Negro and a
white worker entered the Thompson
restaurant at 345 Broadway and took
their seats at service table A white
waitress came over and took the or
der of the white worker but refused
to take that of the Negro worker.
For this, a white waiter was sent
over. Asked what was the idea, he
replied that the girls are not permit
ted to wait on Negroes. The dignity
of white womanhood has to be pro-
tected from that degradation" The
degradation of starvation wages is
quite all right, however, in the boss
viewpoint.
The Thompson chain has fired
most of its men walters and installed
white girls under 81 All colored help
have been fired. The girls are paid
$40 a week, and the bosses are EVIL
IDENTIFY trying to direct the surplus
earnings which they must realize will
be necessary to keep the girls from
starving. Moreover, building up a
sex hysteria against the Negro work
ers helps the bosses plans of divid-
ing the Working-c class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13

NEW YORK. AT a conference held
Sunday at Manhattan Lyceum, with
il delegates representing unemploy-
81 branches, several local unions and
workers fraternal organizations, the
Lower Manhattan Unemployed Coun-
Gil was formed.
An executive committee Of Is was
elected and a program adopted for
the organization of membership
branches of the Unemployed Councils
and rallying the mass organizations
of the neighborhood in support of
the struggles of the unemployed for
immediate relief, against eyictions,
against high rents, against high food
prices and for unemployment insur-
ance.
The Lower Manhattan Unemploy-
ed Council will strengthen and direct
the work of the existing branches of
the council and organize new branch
es in the various neighborhoods Of
Lower Manhattan. The first work
of the branches will be to concen-
trate on certain blocks to investigate
the conditions OF the unemployed and
develop struggles on the basis of
demanding and securing relief for
starving and eyicted families. They
viii organize resistance against evic-
tions and fight against race discrim-
ination and the persecution of for
eign-born workers.
Build Tenants League
The Lower Manhattan Unemploy-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
'Pinafore' Next Gilbert
and Sullivan Operetta

"Pinafore" will be Milton Aborn'S
second Gilbert and Sullivan produc-
ton. which he will present at Err
langer's Theatre for two weeks be-
ginning next Monday night The cast
of principals numbers most of those
who are appearing in THE Mikado,
first of the comic opera series at Err
hangers. Newcomers for 'Pinafore'
are Fay Templeton, Ruth Altman and
Joseph Macaulay. Louis Knoll will
conduct. Miss Templeton will play
the role of "Buttercup," which she
first played some eighteen years back,
at the Casino Miss Templeton's more
recent appearance in the role was
about five years ago, at the Century
Opera House.
perfectly Scandalous," a comedy
by Hutchinson Boyd, will open at the
Hudson Theatre this evening. Natalie
Schafer, Jeanne Greene, Grant Cor
don and Henry w. Pemberton head
the cast.
Billy Rose will bring his new revue
Crazy Quilt to the Forty fourth
Street Theatre on Thursday night
Phil Baker, Fannie Brice and Ted
Healy are the principals.
Lee Shubert is presenting at the
Ritz Theatre, the Civic Repertory
Company in the Pulitzer Prize play
"Alisons House" by Susan Glaspell
for limited engagement, The cast
which is the original group seen III
| the play at the Fourteenth Street
Playhouse, includes Eva LIE Caffeine
Alma Kruger Josephine Hutchinson
Leona Roberts and Donald Cameron
Philip Merivale in Death Takes a
Holiday" will return on Monday, May
10, to the Shubert Theatre. This will
be the stars third appearance in the
Walter Ferris adaptation of Alberto
Casellas comedy
Elmer Harris new comedy, "A
Modern Virgin, begins weeks en-
gagement at Brandt's Flatbush Thea
tire tonight, prior to its Manhattan
premiere, which takes place May 10
The cast is headed Roger Pryor, Mar
garet Sullivan, George Houston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
What's On
WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY
Medical Workers Industrial League
WIN meet at 16 w. 21st St Lecture
on Current Events in Medical In
tustry."
Workers Ex-scrvicemen's League
Meets at Tenth st. and Second Ave
for an open air meeting.
A Meeting
of the newly organized MapIeton
Workers Club will take place at 1885,
6sth St at s p. m.
Soykino Film
"Thfee Comrades and One Inven-
tlon" will be shown at Finnish Hall
10th 81, Brooklyn. Auspices Comm ann,
mist Party, Section z. Unit and Red
Hook .YCL Admission csc.
Executive Committee w.E.sL.
Meets at D. m. at 10 f. Tenth
ST Every member should be present,
women in Industry in Soviet Union
Lecture by Mary Adams, recently
returned from the Soviet Union al
~ Graham Ave. at s D. m. under the
auspices Of Councils 4 and 10.
Brownsville lid Branch
VIII hold an open air meet at
Hopknson and Pitkn iAves. at "a
?. m Protest against the Scottsboro
franesup.
Young blenders No. 7
WI be organized at $50 %. m. At
-o1 Il. Tenth st. All young workers
are invited TO come.
THURSDAY
workers Ex-serviccmcn's League
WIFE hold an open air meeting Ar
gath 81. and Eighth Ave.
IRONY Women's CourciIs q, 1919
iiI nave lecture on the Women
working Class Movement" at sac
D. m. at 1904 Wallace Ave.
Open Air Meeting
Protest against the Scottsboro
frame zip Of the nine Negro bows,
Inatford and Dumont AYES, Brook
iyn at ,. m. under auspices of the
communist Party. unit 8, Section s.
Regular Indoor Meeting
or Workers x-Servicemens League
~ Pythian Hall 125th ST and Mad
lson Ave. at 3 p. m. Open air meet
ing at 125th St and Fifth Ave. at
same time
FHiAN- ii1dii1aiiGEI'IBu
steve katos's Branch lid
Meets at new headquarers, PSI II
Tenth ST. at p. m. All members
are urged che on time
Workers Es-servicc Iearae
Regular membership meeting at &
2 N, - = p. Inth St. All members
srs urged TO be present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
Militia Flung at Miners as
Harlan Shooting ReneaUs

that 70 per cent we're unemployed of
the 1880 population of Evarts, where
the biggest battles we're fought and
most deaths occurred in the struggle
between mine strikers and company
gunner.
The situation is absolutely desper-
ate; with miners and their families
actually starving to death. The min
ers declare openly that they will not
sit calmly by and watch their wives
and children suffer while the COM
panies lock them out, import scabs,
and hide behind an armed front of
mine guards and militia.
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CONTINUE FROM PAGE uNED
United Garment Workers, (AFL),
that racketeering organization with
leaders and no members, which lives
by selling union labels.
No less than six tables, about ten
plates to table and $40 plate, were
bought up by the Russian white
guard controlled House WreckerS'
Union Local 95."
Part Of the Bride.
Out of $50 tables, rs were bought
out by capitalist contractors and
other firms, many of them open shop.
Along with these, one table was
bought up by the Federation Bank
and Trust Co.-one of the labor
banks which still hang on after SO
many have blown up with loss of
millions of dollars of workers saw
ings.
Most of the tables we're occupied
by the petty chiefs of building trades
unions, but the teamsters and Inter
national Longshoremen we're repre-
sented also, along with a few others
Taking it all around. it was regu-
lar Barmecide feast, where the en-
ployers, the fascists and the mislead
ers of labor gathered to riot and swill
away the money of the workers over
whom they rule, and the devil take
the masses of hungry to whom even
the crumbs of this banquet would
have been more than a meal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13

HARLAN, KY, May IL. - Shooting
has started again in Harlan county
coal fields, and the troops are already
in action against the miners. The
militia were swung into action at
Tways. today, on receipt of news that
rifle battle between strikers and
imported scabs was going on.
The report was that the strikers
were spraying a stream with bullets,
while the scabS we're trying to cross
"a frail bridge" over it TO work in the
r. C. Tway coal mine.
Even the militia, who took special
census of the mine population, agree
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
Trade Union Unity
Council Meets Thurs

A meeting ofthe Trade Union Unity
Council of Greater New York, will
take place this Thursday. Among
other important questions, unemploy-
ment, the Scottsboro and Paterson
cases will be taken up. There will
also be a special report on the work
of the Food Workers Industrial
League. All the delegates are urged
to attend this very important meet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
CORRECTION.

The Workers International Relief
mp Conference will be held on
thursday May l4th. at wIR head
quarters, sp. m. 80.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
$40 A Dinner for A Labor Faker

$40 A Dinner for A Labor Faker
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General President Of the
INTERNATIONAL HoD CARRIERS BUILDING AND
COMMON LABORERS' UNION OF AMERICA
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Fortyseeond Street and Lexington Avenue
SATURDAY EVENING MAY 9. 1891
Dnner Served at 7:3Op.M
SUBSCRIPTION TEN DOLLARS Admission BY Ticket ONLY
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AFL Leaders Swill "'HN'05 ,I Glaze &C., e9"'''"'
$40 Meal While the
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United Garment Workers CAFIO, MUSIC IAN, cause, ORCHESTRA
racketeering organization with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
AFL Leaders Swill
$40 Meal While the
Hold Carriers Starve

(CONT1NUED FROM PAGE ONE)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-22
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