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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
National Executive Board of the NTWIU Outlines Immediate

The National Executive Board of the Needle Trades
cation New York and Philadelphia that the demands
for the coming dress makers strike be changed so
that the main demands of the strike which will be
called in February shall be higher wages, improved
conditions, 40hour five-day week. the right of the
workers to the job and recognition of the union eav-
ing the fight for the abolition of piece work and for
the 35-hour week to future action based the in
creased strength resulting from this strike.
The big strike committee built up in New York
has already endorsed this change at its meeting
day. shop delegates council meeting in Irving Plaza
Hall, New York, at p. m. tonight will discuss the
matter.
In Philadelphia shop delegates council meeting,
today, at p. at 80 North Tenth ST, and member
ship meeting at the place tomorrow at p. m.
will discuss the recommendation of the National Exec
utive Board and the main demands to make in the
coming strike.
In New York Saturday, broad united front con-
ference of 545 delegates representing 10000 workers
voted to give fullest financial and physical support of
their organizations to the strike, The new form of
the demands was announced the first thing at this
meeting.
Immediate Demands.
The National Executive Boards statement is as
follows:
The program Of demands which the Industrial
Union adopted for the dress trade at the last
ton in June, 1880, based upon correct analysis
of the conditions and the needs of the dressmakers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

hour 5day week. the right of the workers to the job
(no discharge), and the recognition of the union.
This strike will stop the wage reductions that
forced upon the workers daily This strike will build
the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union into
powerful organization Of the dressmakers well
the needle trades workers generally. For these de-
mands the dressnakers must be modified to strike
I'm preparation for the future struggle for the
full program of the union the union will continue
to broaden its activities amongst the elements
that drawn into the dress trade and into the
needle industry generally The Negro workers, the
Italian workers. the Spanish workers the native
American workers. ETC. must Systematically be reached
and organized for the coming strike and for struggle
for the full program of the union which will have to
to come.
Build Shop Committees!
1.-THE union must conduct an intensive campaign to
organize shop committees in all centers of the in
dustry and in the suburbs around each center in
which mainly the new elements are employed.
Workers of the needle industry and all other work
ers of New York and Philadelphia The National
Committee of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union calls upon you to do your duty support the
dressmakers in their struggle to improve their con-
ditions! Support the building of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union! Support the struggle OF
the workers against the bosses and their company
union agencies Fight shoulder to shoulder with the
dressakers against the sweat shopl The struggle Of
the dressmakers is the struggle Of ~ vorkssI"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
MOONEY DENOUNCES A F OF |
OFFICIALS AS TRAITORS
Farm Population Living on Hickory Nuts,
Children Starving, Naked, Can't Attend
School; Bosses Fear Bloodshed

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1. = Tom
Mooney has finally abandoned his
futile hopes of assistance from the
American Federation of Labor in his
fight for freedom from San Quentin
Prison, where he has spent Is years
on the frame-up charge of bombing
he preparedness day parade in 1916.
He has just issued a pamphlet in
which he makes public the evidence
showing how the A. F. of L. leaders
have systematically, cold-bloodedly,
and deliberately kept Mooney and
Billings in prison. Mooney says:
THE rank and file of the trade
unions have always believed in my
innocence, but their desires and
wishes have been subverted and
sabotaged by the labor leaders.
The leaders Of the A. F. of L. have
always told the politicians in public
office to ignore any protest coming
from the unions in my behalf.
There has never been a single ma
jor labor leader in California who
honestly and sincerely urged any
Governor in this State to pardon
me. II the leaders of the American
Federation of Labor in California
we're right I would not now be in
prison. l would never have been
convicted. I might never have been
arrested. could not have been
framed"
THE outstanding slabor leaders
Of California are known to have
pleaded in confidence with Gov
ernor Young not to pardon Tom
Mooney"
Mooney says that for IS years he
has hesitated to tell this story. In
fact, so strong we're his illusions that
he would get help" from the A. F..
Of L.. that he broke with the Com
m,nists and denounced the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. apparently in
an effort to strengthen his support
in A. r.. Of L. and respectable"
circles. But all these efforts were as
vain as the pleas Of the liberal
uewspaperman, Fremont Older and
others.
The only effective efforts to help
Tom Mooney we're. first. the demon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
JOBLESS FAMILY
COMMITS SUICIDE
2 Adults and Child Vic
tins Of Capitalism

NEW Under the hypocri-
teal caption Police Puzzled AS To
Which Slew Others the boss Daily
News tries to cover up the starvation
and misery leading up to the death
by suicide of Mrs. Dora Gelb, a "A
year old widow, who recently lost her
job as a dressmaker, and her 22-year
old son, Benjamin, who has been
out of work for nearly a year.
A third victim of the bosses star
walton policy in denying relief to the
unemployed, little six year old Sylvia,
daughter of Mrs. Gelb, died with the
others when the unemployed, other
and son decided to end their misery
by turning on the gas in their tiny
apartment,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
Demands for Dress Strike
Shop Delegates Meet Today, New
York and Phil. to Discuss

The union must with all its power increase its
paign for the program Of week work. the 7-hour day
and 5-day week, minimum wage scales, unemploy-
ment insurance the right to the job and all other
demands of the program of the union which will
bascally improve the conditions of the dressmakers
The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union is
the champion that fights everywhere for all needle
trades workers against all attempts of the bosses and
their company union agencies and mobizes and or
ganizes the workers to fight for higher wages against
the speed-up against reductions and reorganzatons
and prepares the workers fight against piece work
for the introduction of weekwork in all sections of
the needle industry at time when the Hillmans
Schlessingers Kauffmans and Zaritzkys are working
hand in glove with the bosses to force greater speed
up through pece-work and other sweatshop condi-
tons upon the workers.
Requires Strong Action.
1.-THE National Executive Committee of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union realizes however
that In the struggle to smash piecework and for the
introduction Of week-work maximum mobilization
OF all forces in the industry must be achieved Week.
work can be won only through proper systematic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
WANT TO ABOLISH
B'WAY BREADLINE
Dampens Carousing of
Parasites

NEW YORK.-In order not to in
convenience the carousing parasites
on Broadway, the Broadway Asso-
citation, composed of leading business
men in that section of the city. are
attempting to eliminate the nightly
breadlines at Times Square and at
Columbus Circle. Here in the center
of the street. thousands of hungry
workers wait in the bitter cold for
some sloppy food The Broadway As
ISOLATION thinks this interferes with
the pleasure of those who have mo-
ney to spend and .dampens their
evening parties. They want the
breadlines showed into some hidden
alley.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
"Daily" Seriously Endangered By
Slow Response to Emergency Fund

Letters continue to come in from
workers which show the influence
that the Daily Worker has and en-
phasizes more and more the impor-
lance of the Daily Worker for our
struggles.
A worker from Rochester, writes
as follows: Saved this dollar for the
Daily by walking about miles to
and from work instead of paying
carfare."
Another letter from N. Carolina
reads as follows: Il have just COM
pleted the Fish Report and it has
fully convinced me that the Daily
Worker is the only paper printed in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

organization and mobilization mass scale in
which the dress trade will be completely paralyzed
Then the workers fight miltanty and can see the
possibility for winning these demands.
1.-THE National Executive Committee analysed thor
oughly the preparations and mobilization of the
forces for the coming dress strike and to the
conclusion that broader and more basic mobiliza-
ton of the forces is necessary for successful struggle
for the full program of the union. But it is convinced
that the union has modified sufficiently for struggle
for partial demands which will improve the working
conditions of the dressmakers and build up power
full union for future successful struggle for the full
program of the union.
Proposes Change.
1.-The General Executive Board, therefore. proposes
the immediate perspective in this coming strike
in New York and Philadelphia the modification of
the demands to program for immediate partial i'm
provement in the working conditions which can and
must be won in the coming strike.
1T proposes that the unions of New York and
Philadelphia should mobilize the workers to strike
for increases in their earnings the right TO establish
prices through a shop committee and force the 40
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

the English language in America that
gives the whole truth"
The financial danger that the
Daily finds itself in will destroy the
best weapon that we have for the
struggles against Unemployment,
war preparations, etc. We are
again having difficulty with our
telephone. We have not paid the
December bill and the same condi-
ton that faced us before, that is,
of not being able to telephone out,
exists in the office. The notes that
fell due on Thursday on which we
should have made payments were
not made. We have been warned
that if we do not make substan-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
STRIKE LOOMS OF
100000 JAPANESE
SEAMEN;; PAY CUT
Call Marine Workers
Everywhere to Aid

The Marine Workers Industrial
Union, l40 Broad ST., New York. has
received a .cablegram dated Jan. 30,
from the secretariat of the Pan Paci-
fic Transport Workers "a section of
the Pan Pacific Trade Union Sec
ratariat) which states that strike
of 100000 Japanese saamen is in pre-
paration to start in February.
The cabe states that the japanese
ship owners put forth demand for
ten per cent reduction in wages. The
reformist union leaders consent to
the wage cut. But the left wing de-
mands 80 per cent increase in wages
instead Of cut.
The Pan Pacific Transport calls for
all work to stop on japanese ships i'll
case the strike is declared. 1t urges
the formation Of ship committees on
all these ships, and calls on the Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union to
bring this situation to the notice
of seamen, and to maintain solidarity
with the Japanese strikers.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union is section the Interna-
tional of Seamen and Harbor Work
ers, world organization recently
launched in a Hamburg conference
of marine workers representatives
from rs different countries. The
NJ. w. l. U. will closely colloborate
with seamen of all other countries to
support the strike of the Japanese
Seamen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

stration in Petrograd, led by Lenin
and the BolSheviks, in 1917, which
r-.ade MONEYS case a world Issue
and caused President Wilson to in
tervene, and second, the general
strike movement in his behalf in the
spring of 1919 (sabotaged and broken
though it was by the A. F. of Id
Now Mooney says "he can remain
silent no longer" His sgilence has
lasted just IS years too long, but the
open publication by Mooney of facts
ago exposed by the Communists,
opens up greater possibilities of a
real fight for the release of Mooney
and Billings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

tial payments by Tuesday, court
action will take place. We have
fallen behind about $1,000 this week
in meeting payments for immediate
printing.
Comrades, these are cold facts.
These conditions must be overcome.
1t will be only through the efforts OF
the comrades who read this and who
will help to liquidate the deficit hat
we will be able to continue publish
ing the Daily regularly.
We call on all workers to imme-
diately get donations and rush them
to the Daily Worker, so E. 18th St.
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
Prepare February 10
Mass Demonstrations

PATERSON, N. j., Feb. 1.-Pater-
son and Passaic workers are prepar-
ing for big demonstrations in their
cities in front of their city halls on
Feb. 10 to press upon the city au-
thorities demands for immediate re-
lief for the 10000 starving unem-
ployed workers in the aforementioned
cities.
The first demonstration. held on
Jan. % in front of the court house,
Paterson, in which $500 workers par
ticipated. showed the determination
of the Passaic County workers to
fight and force the officials to give
immediate relief.
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ings and demonstrations which
are in many cases better, in
proportion to the size of the
than in the big cities
Very important in this evidence
Of the spreading of the movement
for organized fight against starva-
ton are the movements in Grand
Rapids, Johnstown, Tarrytown, Hack
enSack, and Council Bluffs.
The Johnstown, Pa, mass meeting
Of unemployed workers. miners, and
employees of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation shows especially a phase
which has been in danger of neglect.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

gagged as a result Of years Of
robbery at the hands of the
bankers with the drought adj
ding the final straw.
A New York Times dispatch
from Arkansas gives a vivid picture
of the plight of the starving farmers
and farm hands, in spite of the usual
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
India Peasants
Killed By British

MADRAS. India, Feb. 1. - Nine
peasants were killed by Macdonald
police in demonstration at Vizagap-
tam against British oppression in
India and in support of the refusal to
pay taxes and land rents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
sEANIEN WANT LITERATURE

NEW YORK,-The Marine Work.
ers' Industrial Union, 14O Broad St.,
New York, asks all sympathizers to
send In donations Of books and PAM
phlets in any language. They also
need revolutionary photograph rec
ords
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
RENEW DRIVE.
TO EMBARGO.
SOVIET GOODS.
State Dept. Pebbles Ly-
ing Affidavits of
Czarists

WASHINGTON, Feb. las part
of their war preparations against the
Soviet Union, the United States i'm
perialists and their tools in the labor
movement are frantically pushing
the demand in Congress for an en-
barge on Soviet exports.
The same ave-driveYs who have
thrown millions of American workers
on the streets to starve, who for de-
cades following the sham proclama-
ton of Negro emancipation have kept
millions of Negroes in brutal slavery
on southern plantations through
peonage, share cropping. convict la
Dor and debt slavery under which the
Negro workers cannot leave the plan
tation while owing the landowner
and the latter may sell or transfer
his claim against the Negro worker,
which is nothing less than selling the
Negro worker, these same imperialist
sccundrels are today peddling the lie
that Soviet pulpwood and lumber are
produced by convict labor.
Under the leadership of the Fish
Committee, and wit hthe support of
Matthew Vol and other capitalist
stoolies in the labor movement, the
imperialist enemies of the Soviet
Union are trying to push through
several bills aiming at Soviet pro-
ducts and the success of the Five
Year Plan of Socialist Construction
in the Soviet Union.
These efforts are conveniently sup
ported by a series of slanderous af-
fidavits from Czarist refugees at
Helsingfors, Finland, whose purpose
is plainly to encourage the interview
zionist plans Of the imperialistS for
the overthrow of workers rule in So
Wet Russia and the establishment
of the Czarist regime. These affi-
davits are being given out by the
State Department. They were OBJ
tanned by American lumber interests.
MOSCOW, Feb. 1.-The Soviet
press treats with deserved contempt
the convict labor lies of the inter-
ventionists. Izvestia comments, sar-
castically:
IF you care to take the premise
that the labor exploited at home
and in the colonies and from which
American and British capitalism
extracts its profits is free labor
then you may logically conclude
the conditions here, which we are
proud to declare are the exact OPP
posite, are 'unfree labor But who
will be convinced by such hypo-
crisy and word jumbling?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

Fight against police supervision.
Protect the foreign born. Elect
delegates to N. Y. Conference, Feb.
8, at Irving Plaza.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

boss press attempts to cover up as
much as possible the terrible condi-
tons facing the poor farmers and
share troopers:
"a more bankrupt territory could
not be imagined. Horses and mules,
farm implements and lands, are
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

Vote against finger printing, reg
istration, and photographing the
foreign born. Elect delegates to
local conference for protection of
foreign born.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
SMALLER INDUSTRIAL
CENTERS TO HAVE BIG
FEB. 10 DEMONSTRATION
Over $500 In Grand Rapids In Preliminary
Hunger March On City Hall; Scare City
Officials; Force Promise From Them
Police and Steel Trust Thugs Assault Gary
Demonstrators; Jail Nine
Council Of Unemployed Formed In Tarrytown
In Spite Of Frantic Action By Police; Negro
Jobless Meet In Hackensack

Continued preparations for the great demonstrations
in all industrial cities and towns continue. highly sgnfi-
cant feature is the fact that small towns little factory centers
before touched by the organization begin
ming to form their councils of emploEed to hold
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
Boss Press Admits Starvation,
Bankruptcy, Slavery in S.>WeSt

NEW YORK At the time that the Red Cross under
orders from Hoover is opposing appropriation of S2500
900 by congress for ree of the starving farm population
Of the Southwest the boss press forced to admit that THE
farmers bankrupt that Everything they is mort
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

Do this Today. Send by Air Mail to the
National Campaign Committee, 2 West.
18th Street, New York, the COllec-
tive Endorsement of All Hunger
Marches, Mass Meetings and Or
CARNATIONS; Send in All Filled
Signature Lists for the Un-
employment Insurance Bill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-18

BY CHARLES STEPHENSON SMITH.
A MEXICAN ship news reporters
~ often have as exciting time
IA as prospectors for gold in the
1 a days before Ireland and Nova
Scotia were connected by cable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-18

age to Tai-shan, the Holy Mountain IN
Shantung Province. They hired b
special train and late last night off
they popped! On Monday night. full
of bonhommie and beans, our servants
will return to us. That's the only rift
in the clouds so far as I can see"
AS I rickshawed home I thought Of
my servants in the past tense. My cook
had been a rare hand with Chilli
pheasant, but he was a dour soul.
would feel the loss Of the Number One
Boy more. He had gay smile. this
combined ler-valet-housemaid in
terpreter And he had way with him
of keeping the other servants toeing
the mark. This mastery Of men had
been taught him in stern school: the
boy had been in France during the war
as sergeant-major of a Coolie corps.
Yes, the niche filled by the boy would
be the harder to fill.
All day the following Monday
listened for sounds of the returned pill
grims. But the servants quarters re-
manned quiet. When the old man
who had refused to leave appeared
with dinner definitely resigned myself
to despair.
Catch Good Job"
Then I saw that the dinner was ex-
cellent. With an attempt at casualness
1 asked.
Cook and Number One Boy back7"
Cook come"
Send him in"
The cook appeared, looking little
sheepish yet logged. I demanded:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-18

perched the white cap Of my cook. His
bent back was strange to me.
What thing?" I demanded. What
are you doing here?"
He Strengthened with some difflculty
and I saw that he was very old
MY blong you new cook boy"
ooh, no, you don't" I said briskly
1--WE got cook and I've got Number
One Boy"
Jus now" he answered patiently,
You no have got boy and cook Cook
all go way. Boy all go way. Just now,
cookee chlop, makee bed, makee fire.
All thing, 1 d To- you"
Catastrophe! Breakfast that morn
ing thoroughly confirmed my fears. I
summoned the substitute cook boy.
Have you ever cooked before?"
His eyes batted. NO" he said re-
luctantly.
You're fired, plenty good!" I said
coldly.
And set forth to the home of a
foreign friend for advice. When I
arrived at his house no gateman met
me. The compound door swung idly
open. As my friend saw me he said
sharply:
We're in a fine mess! No servants
One small boy OF IL left after the
hegira!"
whats happened? A servants
strike? Communism?" -,u
'Oh. it's simple enough" he an
swered. "All our Peiping servants are
banded together in a guild, you know
And the guild voted to go on pilgrim
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-18
OF Ms LMosrT THOSE OF

Where's the Boy?"
HE not come back, Mastah. He
stop In Shantung. He catch good job.
He boss many men. He find plenty
coolie that he once have boss In Yerp
CEurope). They @ant him to take them
to Manchuria. They plenty poor, plenty
starve, but each coolie give Boy little
money. He hire steamer, take them
to Kirin. Make him very rich man"
Standing at the rail of steamer
bound for Newchwang, Manchuria, I
was later given glimpse Of this
human food pouring out Of China
toward that tempting land Of plenty.
My steamer had been slowly chugging
down the Pei-ho River from Tientsin.
The sun was setting with a certain
weird splendor. splashing the waters
with patches Of citron and peacock
light.
The vessel nosed gingerly toward the
shore and the decks vibrated with o
hoarse blast Of the whistle. In answer.
from village Of mud and waited huts,
a fleet Of sampans jostled about a
long rickety-looking wooden pier. Even
in the distance and in the dim light
I could see that there was tremendous
confusion at the pier: boats rocking as
hundreds Of persons hurled themselves
madly aboard. I could hear shouts, re-
examinations, bargaining. The fleet
pushed of from shore and the over
loaded sampans began a race to reach
our ship. From the deck below me,
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