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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-03
Huge Extent of Graft Revenue
In ACW Revealed UnqvitingIy
OrlOfsky, Notorious Racketteer, COrnered,
Squeals On His Fellow CRATER HilIman

better and had the control of the
company union, Hillman threatened
to discharge those cutters following
his rival Orlofsky in cleanup move
to GUST Orlofsky within a short time
At the meeting of the Orlofsky
forces Beokerman limited but did not
dare speak openly Of the state of af-
fairs of the Amalgamated.
"Of course there is no one to
take care of the caretaker but an
examination by an impartial labor
committee, with certified public
accountant, would uncover In the
general office finances a condition
that would shock the country"
Orlofsky, forced to retreat some
what by the superior forces Of tire
Hillman clique told that only a few
weeks Hillnan had offered to take
him into his group if he (Orlofsky)
would submit.
81 can produce 20 affidavits that
ny man DluNhbcEB, manager OF Tic
New York Joint Board, has within
recent weeks offered me the CO.
managership of the New York
Joint Board. 1 ask Mr.. Hillman
and Mr.. Blumberg whether they
offered the post to a crook" Or
Iofsky said.
Rank and file members Of the cut
tiers local have issued a statement
branding both cliques as mere rack
eteering groups interested in the
booty of the company union and as
such worsening the conditions of the
tailors and the cutters in the entire
industry.
The Rank and File Committee of
the A. @. W. has called a mass meet
ing today at Stuyvesant Casino, Sec
ond Avenue and 9Th st. to discuss
the latest developments and struggle
against both A.C.W. chques.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-03
INT'L WORKERS
ORDER ACTIVE IN
ELECTION DRIVE
Mobilize For Special
Instructions

NEW YORK.--The International
Workers Order membership has been
modified to collect signatures thru
out the city this week end. Addi-
tional stations will be opened for this
purpose. Workers in revolutionary
unions, needle, shoe, food, marine,
textile and all trades are urged to
respond to the call and to participate
in this week end drive.
On Sunday, September 6 - Red
Sunday, all workers are called on by
the Communist Party, District 2 to
report at the following campaign
headquarters for special instructions:
143 E. 1o3 ST.; 142 E. 3 St.; 1872 E.
26 St.; 301 w. 20 St.; 10 w. 129 ST.;
1874 E. 7 ST.; ISL Clinton ST.; 27o0
Bronx Park East, Bronx; $50 Pros
pect Ave, Bronx; 2o61 Bryant Ave,
Bronx; 1922 Bathgate Ave, Bronx;
81 Graham Ave, Brooklyn; 1873 AZ
ST., Bklyn; 118 Bristol St., B'klyn;
1o5 Thatford Ave, Bklyn; 313 Hins-
dale ST., B'klyn; 412 Suffer Ave,
B'klyn; 261 Utica Ave, B'klyn; 40
Bay % ST., Bklyn; 1893 Flushing Ave.
B'klyn; as Ten Eyck St., B'klyn; 1l8
Cook ST., Bklyn; 1873 AZ st., B'klyn;
zoos 10 st., Blyn; 1881 w. 20 ST..
B'1yn.
Queens: 1887 80 ST., Astoria, L. l.,
clio Rosenberg.
Yonkers: 252 Warburton Ave,
Yonkers.
Working class organizations are
also called on to act Immediately in
the election Of delegates to the Ra-
tification Mass Congress which takes
place on September IS. The enclosed
call was issued to all mass organi-
cations. Workers organizations are
also requested to turn in Immediately
to the District their lists of commit
tees who will be held responsible for
Tag Days on September 10 and 20.
The meeting Of Tag Day Commit
tees will be held on Thursday, sep
TENDER 10, at the headquarters Of
the Party, IS East IL st. The names
of tag day committees Should be sent
in advance. --i.a.-.
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OHIO METAL
MEET MAPS
OUT FIGHT
Steel Workers Gather
to Pledge Struggle
On Pay Cuts

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, Sept. 2-The
second Ohio Valley Conference of
the Metal Workers Industrial League
was held Aug. 30, with % delegates
representing most Of the mills in the
valley arriving unanimously at a
plan of organization and struggle
against the wage-cuts.
The night before the conference
about 200 steel workers and miners
attended a mass meeting of the M.
w. I. L. in Benwood, despite the
threat of the Wheeling Steel Co.
bosses to fire any worker found at
the meeting, and smaller meeting
was held in Wheeling the day be-
fore. ..r
In Steubenville over 1900 steel
workers, several of them bringing
their entire families, braved both
cold, drizsle and threats of discharge
in attending a spirited mass meet
ing at the River Front Park.
Sunday night a smaller crowd at
tended meeting in Yorkville.
The steel workers conference reg
istered a big step forward since the
last conference about seven weeks
before. The time was spent almost
exclusively discussing organiza tional
methods, organizational plans and
the perspective of struggle.
statsment calling for strikes
against wage-cuts is to be printed
and the steel mills of the valley
flooded with it, Mass meetings will
be held in those towns where the
workers demand them. Both the
printed statement and the mass
MEETINGS will popularize the Tri-
District Conference TO be held in
Pittsburgh Sept. 81, with delegates
coming from the big mills of the
Youngstown, Ohio Valley and Pitts
burgh Districts.
The most important decisions dealt
with organization, for, with the per-
spective of strike struggle clearly
established, the immediate need is
preparation of all forces.
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1000 MASS
FOR RELIEF
IN RACINE
Socialist Mayor Is
Hard Put to Fool
the Jobless

RACINE Wis, Sept. -Four thou
sand workers enthusiastically backed
thedemands of the Racine unem-
ployed Council to the Common Coun-
Gil on Tuesday night. Over 1000
paraded from Lake Front Park,
where 5000 had gathered. The crowd
jan1med the Council Chambers to
support the demands put forward by
the Unemployed Council. Among the
demands were: A lump sum of cash
for immediate relief to all unem-
ployed workers and their families;
no evictions and free speech and
right of assemblage of all workers.
The Socialist" Mayor, Swoboda,
and the council referred the demands
to a committee.
The workers protested this eva
sion and will continue to organize.
The police failed to overawe the
speakers, Clark. Nelson, Miller, Raw
Inns and Brown.
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Jewelry Workers to
Discuss Ia cites of
u nit e d From I

The jewelry workers of Anderson
shop, GA West 48th ST., are on strike
against starvation conditions since
Monday and are getting the aid and
guidance of the Jewelry Workers In
dustrial Union. The organizer was
arrested on the picket line Monday
The Union will have a meeting to-
night, Thursday, at $50 p. m. at the
Labor Temple, 18th st. and End Ave
John Steuben, acting secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League will speak
on the Paterson Silk Strike and our
United Front Tactics.
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NEW YORh.-A startling expos
of the expenditure of more thar
100000 by the Hillman clique wa!
made in a resolution adopted by Lo.
cal 4, cutters, headed by Orlofskl
and BeckeTman, notorious racketeer!
in out of town work, canvas and lin.
ing supplies, now engaged in an in
tra-clique struggle for the spoils O.
the Amalgamated offices. The re
solution in part reads:
THE right of the C. E. B. of
the A. c. w. to squander S5OO,O0O
of Amalgamated money is now
challenged by us. So far. nothing
can be found in the constitution or
the bylaws of the Amalgamated
that gives them the authority to
spend this enormous sum of money.
These expenditures were never de-
cided upon by the national con-
vention. They were never approved
by the members of the organiEa-
ton at large and it is now mat
ter to be seriously considered whe-
Their or not the general officers or
the members of the finance COM
mittee of the G. E. B. cannot be
held personally responsible for the
expenditure of this enormous sum
81 money. The expenditures were
IN the form of loans made to man
ufacturers. The fact that such
loans were invariably accompanied
by reduction in wages to the menu
bers working for the clothing ma
nufacturers receiving the loans
makes the action of the Organiza-
ton subject to additional criticism"
While trying to utilize Hillmans
big scale grating activities to hide
their racketeering, Orlofsky and
Beckerman fear to tell how and
where this money was gotten, and
the part they played in these trans
actions.
The vast sum OF money that flowed
into the treasury of the company
union from dues, special graft for
services to the employers, assess
nents, and other revenue was used
by Hillman and his machine to not
only enrich themselves and aid the
bosses financially but to corrupt sec
tons of the workers so that the yoke
Of the company union would be ri
veted tighter about the necks of all
mems clcShing workers.
Similar graft revenue flowed into
the Golfers Of the Orlofsky-Becker-
man coterie to such an extent that
they threatened to out-racketeer
Hillman. IT was the question of the
division of the spells that the two
groups of the company union fell out
and are now in a mad scramble to
keep their offices.
Meetings called by both groups
yesterday indicated that many cut
tiers are yet not fully aware of the
role of both misleaders, Hillman and
Orlofsky.
The big employers in the Manu-
facturers Exchange have definitely
aligned themselves with Hillman,
confident that he would serve them
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HOLD PATERSON MOBILIZATION
FOR UNITY DESPITE TERROR

ranging mass meeting this Satur-
day afternoon at the Turn Hall. The
strike leaders will speak and there
will be a good program of enter
tainment which will be given by the
Pioneers. A series of open air meet
ings is also being held to rally the
workers and their children for this
demonstration.
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KNITGOODS MEMBERSHIP
MEETING TONIGHT

A membership meeting of knit
goods workers will take place tonight
at the office of the Union, 1871 West
2sth Street. A report will be given
on the strike struggles conducted by
the Knitgoods Department and also
plans for spreading the campaign
All knitgoods workers are called
upon to attend this meeting.
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Williamsburgh JObless
Mass Meeting Friday

The Williamsburgh Unemployed
Council, 81 Graham Ave, Brooklyn,
will hold mass meeting, Friday
September 4, at 1870 p. m.
The problems of fighting for i'm
mediate relief and extending aid to
emergency cases and evicted families
will be among the questions that will
be taken up.
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What's On


1hE HSDA1
Workers E-servicemen's Lengue
Branch No. 1.
will hold an open-air meeting on
S6th Street between Lexington and
3rd Ave. at 8 p. m. Members should
leave the hall at 1880 p. m.
workers Esperanto Group.
will have an important member
ship meeting at the Hungarian
in Room 5. All workers interested
In learning Esperanto should attend.
Branch 4O5 Youth Section Two.
has its regular meetings this
Thursday, September 5rd at 1874 e.
18th Street at $3.50 p. m.
Printing workers Industrial League.
will hold special membership
meeting September 3rd at 1880 p. nj.
IN the TUUt building. East 10Th st.
Printing worgers of all crafts are
urged to attend
FRIDAY
Friends of the Soviet Union
Brownsville Branch
will hold an open-alr meeting at
1880 p. M, at Pitkin and Bristol SITS
Harlem Progressive Youth Ciub
will have a meeting at 1892 Mad
Ison Avenue, 1880 p. m. Come and
bring your friends.
The workers of south Brooklyn
Join the South Brooklyn rally for
International Youth Day Sept. 4th.
A parade will start at 10th st. and
Eth Ave, p. m. and Will end at
Court and Carroll SITS. Come en-
nassel
NEW JERSEY
Newark
A mass meeting will be held by
the Miners Relief Committee at the
Labor Lyceum. 100 Belmont Ave. at
which a report will be given by the
committee that went to the W.IR.
Convention In Pittsburgh. All mem
bers are urged to attend.
LnionviIIe
The State Picnic held by the min
ers' Relief Committee will take place
on Sept 9Th, Mt zinczyn Grove, 1856
Burnett Ave, instead OF August 2Srd.
as previously stated In the Workers
Calender. Admission 25 cents. Tick
cts which weye to be used August
23rd age good for this date. Ia tz1&1
M SAA- s1N1s
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ACTIVE MILLINERY WORKERS
MEETING TONIGHT

A meeting Of active millinery work
ers will be held tonight right after
work, at the office Of the Unoin, 1sl
west 2eth g. Y '-.-.s-.'-'~ A
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FRIDAY


will hold an open-air meeting at
1880 p. M, at Pitkin and Bristol SITS
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will hold a special membership
meeting September 8rd At 1880 P. m.
Printing worgers of all crafts are
urged to attend.
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International Youth Day Sept. 4th.
A parade will start at 10th St and
9th Ave, Z p. m. and will end at
Court and Carroll SITS. Come en-
rnassel
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-07-31
Motions and Resolutions.

BY Commissioner Pete:
Whereas, in the judgment of this
board, the following named lake port
ages and connecting streams, should
son of 1881. so as to increase and
make easier the use of the lakes and
streams hereinafter described. by
brushing and clearing out said port
ages, by clearing out said streams to
a reasonable degree, and by leveling
up the portages and land at the end
of such portageS, according to the
usual standards maintained in con-
nection with such streams and port
ages. to-wit:
Big Crab lake to Little Crab lake :;
Little Crab lake to Lunetta lake; Lu-
Meta lake to Schlemn lake: Schlemn
lake to Glenmore lake; Glenmore lake
to Western lake; Western lake to
Long lake; Long lake to Crab lake;
Crab lake to Little Pine lake; Little
Pine lake to Trout lake.
Now. therefore, be it resolved. that
the commissioner for the Fourth dis
trict is hereby authorized to employ
the necessary number of men with a
foreman to have charge of the doing
TO be done during the next two months,
and to defray the cost of doing said
work the sum of $4,000 is hereby
appropriated and set apart from the
lakes and streams Improvement fund.
Be it further resolved, that John III.
Pete of Ely. Minnesota, is hereby APP
pointed foreman to have charge of
rection of said commissioner, with
authority to employ men. and pur-
chase such material for the perform
ance of said work as said commits
sioner shall deem necessary, said
foreman and said employees to be
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County Highway Estimates Submit
ted by County Halfway Enlineer.

S. b. Shepard, county highway en-
gineer, submitting engineers esti-
mates on roads and projects, to be
presented to the county board. on this
date for its considerati on.-12667.
Grading and graveling County Road
No. 4, project l First class construc-
tion) from County Road No 723 to
County Road No. 725, distance of
q miles. $4,000.
Grading and crawling County Road
No. 726, project 2 first class con-
struction) from County Road No. IL
to County Road No. 725. distance
of = miles, 9,22S.S5.
Frost boil prevention on State Aid
Road No. 4, project (betterments)
south of County Road No. 100 dis
lance of 700 feet, S175.00.
Tarring State Aid Road No. 9. prof.
ect (betterments) from end of pave
ment on Howard GneSen road County
Road No. 34) to State Aid Road No.
4, a distance of 81 miles. S5,323.50.
Oiling County Road No. "a, project
3, (betterments) from State Aid Road
No. SO to point one mile west,
$4,000 i
Shouldering County Road No. 81,
project 6 first class construction
from County Road No. 10 to County
Road No. 81. a distance of 1.SS miles,
100000.
Oiling County Road No. Sc, project
/ (bettermentS) from County Road
No. 702 to County Road No. 81. $500.
Grading and crawling State Aid
Road No. 50, project l first class
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BY Commissioner Murray:

By Commissioner Murray:
Whereas, this board in it's tax levy
for the year of 1929 available in 1880,
included the sum of 100000 for the
Improvement of the aviation field in
the city of Virginia, which was pur
chased by the joint funds of the city
of Virginia and the county of st.
Louis and
Whereas. the city of Virginia has
filed with this board its itemized. ver-
flied bill showing that it has eX-
pended in the Improvement of said
aviation field during the year 1929
the total sum of $18.50S.93. no part
of which has been paid by the county
of st. Louis; and
Whereas, in the judgment of this
board it is proper and lawful that the
county of st. Louis, should cooperate
provement of said airport to the eX-
ia said sum of Sc, 600. 90, levied for said
purpose by this board, in it's 1929 tax
levy.
Now, therefore, be it resolved, that
the sum of 100000 be and the same
hereby is appropriated and set apart
for payment to the city of Virginia,
in part reimbursement for its eXpend-
itureS in the improvement of said air.
port. and the county auditor is here
by authorized and requested to draw
his warrant in favor of the city of
Virginia, in the sum of 100000.
Commissioner Pete moved h e
adoption of the resolution and it was
declared adopted upon a unanimous
vote.
Adopted June 23rd, 1881.
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paid on duly itemized and verified
bills. at the scale of wages fixed by
this board for similar employment,
said work to be done on an eight-hou
day basis, and all of said employees
engaged in said work, to defray their
own expenses for board. The county
of st. Louis to furnish tents and other
sleeping accommodations and cooking
utensils.
Be it further resolved, that said
foreman above named, shall keep a
detailed and accurate record of the
amount of work done on each of said
above named portage projects, and an
accurate estimate of the total cost OF
each of such items of work.
Commissioner Pete moved the
adoption of the resolution and it was
declared adopted upon the following
vote:
Yeas-Commissione Hogan. Sny-
der. Anderson, Pete, Murray and
Vice Chairman Newman-6.
NayS-None.
Adopted June Gath, 1881.
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BY Commissioners Anderson:

BY Commissioner Anderson:
Resolved, that the bid of the Ster-
ling Motor company of Duluth. Min
nesota, to furnish the county of st.
Louis for use in the supervisor of
assessments department, one new 1881
Model A Ford, five passenger, two
door. sedan equipped with spare tire,
bumpers, windshield wiper, and Kari
Keen trunk, delivered f. o. b. Duluth,
Minnesota. for the sum of $623.50. be
and the same is hereby accepted and
said purchase authorized.
Be it further resolved, that the sum
of s623.50 be and the same is hereby
transferred from the revenue fund in
payment of said purchase.
Commissioner Hogan moved the
adoption of the resolution and it was
declared adopted upon an unanimous
vote.
Adopted June 23rd, 1881.
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By Commissioner Hogan for Commits

By Commissioner Hogan for Commits
sioner Newman:
Whereas. in proceedings for the
condemnation of certain lands in sec
tions 10. 20 and 30, township So north,
range 20 west, for the further i'm
provement of the Floodwood River
road. and the commissioners therein
have completed their work and have
filed their report in the office of the
county auditor and the clerk OF the
district court, awarding damages to
the owners of the parcels of land de-
scribed therein numbered Parcel No.
10 to Parcel No. % inclusive: and
Whereas, this board finds that all of
said awards, are fair and reasonable
ST. Louis without further delay.
Now, therefore, be it resolved, that
the board hereby approves each and
all of the awards made by said COM
miSSionerS in condemnation, to the
owners and mortgages interested in
said lands. and hereby authorizes and
requests the county auditor to draw his
warrant to the following named per-
in accordance with said awards of
damages made by said commissioners,
tO-wit:
Parcel 1O-One warrant to John and
Ida Alanen for $3.50, for re-Setting
AZ rods of fence.
One warrant to John and Ida Ala
men, owners, and Minnesota Rural
Credits Bureau and John Kivisaari,
mortgages, for s106.70, for timber
and damages for taking OF addition
Parcel 11-One warrant to Victor
Pakka for $1,000, for re-setting 40
rods of fence.
One warrant to Victor Pakka, VEN
dee, and John Kivisaari, fee owner,
for S1125, for taking of additional
right of way.
Parcel 12-One warrant to Matt Luo-
ma for $1,000, for re-Setting 40 rods
of fence.
One warrant to Matt Luoma, owner,
and Federal Land Bank of st. Paul,
mortgage, for S125.0O, for taking
of additional right of way.
Parcels 10 and 14-One warrant TO
]. Herman Jarvi, owner, for $240.55,
for re-setting 142 rods of fence, and
for taking additional right of way.
Parcels Is and 16-One warrant to
Charles Handel, owner, for $256.27,
for taking of additional right of
way, re-setting fences, and remov-
ing garage.
Parcel 1S-One warrant to Charies
Handel vendee, and G. p. DeLait-
ire, fee owner, for $3.50.
One warrant to Charles Handel for
$500, for re-setting fence.
Parcel 19-One warrant to Z. L.
Hutchinson for $4,000, for re-setting
fence and moving garage.
One warrant to c. |. HUTCHINSON,
owner, Sand Bankers Joint Stock
Land Bank of Milwaukee, first
mortgage, and S. F.. Hutchinson,
second mortgage, for $77.S8, for adj
ditional right of way and timber.
Parcels 20. 81, % and 23-One warrant
to S. F. Hutchinson, owner, for
S269.77, for additional right of way
taken, timber, and re-setting of
fences.
Commissioner Anderson moved the
adoption of the resolution and it was
declared adopted upon the following
vote.
eas-Commissioners Hogan, Sny-
der. Anderson, Pete, Murray and Vice
Chairman Newman-6.
Nays-None.
Adopted June oath, 1881.
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hereby approved, and the county aud
itor is hereby instructed to draw war
rants for the several amounts con-
tanned therein, as follows:
County revenue fund, fund 5, 1921. 10.
Commissioner Pete moved the
adoption of the resolution and it was
declared adopted upon the following
vote:
Yeas-Commissioner Hogan, Sny-
der, Anderson, Pete, Murray and
Vice-Chairman Newman-6.
Nays-None.
Adopted June oath, 1881.
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Dear Dollies

The big brother of a little BROTH
er, who refused to be bossed by the
party of the first part, appeals to
Brooklyn editor for moral sup
port: sought not we men," he asks,
discourage little boys from play
ing with dolls?" "Well," opines the
editor, ''it's all right for little
boys, but it's very expensive for
big boys"
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Adopted June 23rd, 1881.
Bv Commissioners Murray:

BY Commissioner Murray:
Resolved. that the bill of the Sol
way Sales corporation of Syracuse,
New York, in the amount of $741.25
for the furnishing of calcium chloride
to the Sixth commissioner district
dated June 24th,j 1880, which has been
duly approved by the commissioner
for the Sixth district, be and the same
is hereby in all respects approved and
the county auditor is hereby author
lied and requested to issue his war;
rant to the said Solvay Sales corpora
ton in the amount of $741.25 in pay
ment of said claim.
Commissioner Murray moved the
adoption of the resolution and it was
declared adopted upon a unanimous
vote.
Adopted June 23rd, 1881.