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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
WIR CALLS NEW
MEMBERS RALLY
Prepare for Hunger
Marches This Winter

The Workers International Relief,
799 Broadway, which is making a
drive to establish branches in New
York City, calls upon all the work
ers who joined the WIR. on Soil
darity Day and who live in Manhat-
tan between 14th and 60th Street,
to come to a mass meeting which
is being held on Wednesday, Oct. 7
at $50 in room 2o2, 1o8 E. 14th
Street.
Workers who live between 14th St.
and the Battery are urged to attend
the meeting that will be held on
Thursday, Oct. at Manhattan Ly-
ceun, Sc E. 4th Street.
More than 300 workers joined the
w. I. r. on Solidarity Day. These
workers are urged to come to the
meetings that are being called by the
w. I. r. for the. purpose of taking
part in the gigantic marches that
will soon take place all over the
country, and in the impending strike
in the steel industry. The aid and
cooperation Of every member of the
W. I. r. is needed. If you are mem
Der of the w.I.R. do your share. If
you are not member, Join upl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
The Price of Milk Must Be Reduced!

Now workers. if milk delivered to the trust in
N Y City, costs it only four cents quart; why does
the trust charge you sixteen cents for quart boteP
Again. take the N. Y. Times story OF the cost of
milk in other cities printed in that paper of Sunday
Sept. 81 1t says that in Detroit:
"The actual cost of bottling the milk Is less than
AN EIGHTH OF CENT"
The New York milk trust uses the same bottling
machinery and undoubtedly it costs the no more
in New York than it costs in Detroit. In fact, the
Borden company has its clutches on the milk of
nearly every big city And there is lot OF graft in
every city on milk But see how New York workers
robbed!
In Detroit bottled milk retas for IL cents a quartz
Why Is 1t 16 cents in New York?
In Los Angeles Grade "a milk retails at IL cents
quart in bottles Why is Grade az 10 cents in
New York and Grade "B" l6 cents?
In Boston, only few hours out OF New York
bottled milk is delivered to your doro for 1874 cents
quart Why more in New York;
In Philadelphia, just couple Of hours away from
New York, bottled milk retails for II cents! Why
16 cents in New York?
In Chicago milk is 10 cents quart in bottles But
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06

in Cleveland it is only 10 cents! Why the difference
there' And why 16 cents in New York? Remember
that in all these other cities the price is robbers
price, but that in all of them it Is under New York
Remember that twenty years ago the farmers got
just about what they get now from the dealers but
milk delivered in bottles then only FIVE or SIX
CENTS quart! Why the high cost OF milk in New
York today?
The reason is GRAFT! ROBBERY! HOG PROF
ITS! TRUST PRICES
In the last twenty years the Borden Trust has
got lat, got the farmers by the throat gotten its
fingers into the Health Department barred milk out
OF New York that might compete with it, built up
lot Of phoney institutions like the Mibank Founda-
ton to connect with Tammany Hall crooks and pro-
ceeded to rob both farmers and city workers that
buy milki
Why do you pay so much for milk? Because the
past Health Con,missioner, Harris started flight
for pure milk but retired to take Job with Bor-
den's at $4,000 year! Workers, you pay for thatl
Every time the Milbank Foundation gives" few
thousand dollars to charity" to help the Health
Department"-you pay for that!
Now the present Health Commissioner. DR.. wynne
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06

who plays the game Of anybody with the biggest roll
is investigating loose milk, with lot of hand
picked scientists who are also the payroll In one
way or another of the milk trust The game is to
ban loose milk which reails usually from eight to ten
cents quart and makes you the trusts price of
10 cents for for bottled milk Grade "B."
Workers of New York; Don't stand for It'll The
Daily Woker has already exposed he lie that the
issue is one of pure" against impure milk Both
are bad But the trust and the city hall crooks want
to divide up the s450ooooo a year more that it will
cost New York workers to pay the trust price!
Don't stand for IL! Join the PARENTS LEAKUEs
that are taking up the fight to reduce the price
of best milk, to NO MORE than eight cents quart!
Join the Parents Leagues and If there is none in
your neighborhood, form "a League in your own
neighborhood and write to the Daily Worker which will
put you in connection with other Parents Leagues for
citywide fight to reduce the price Of milkl Fay
no more for ANY milk than eight cents! .-----
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
SENDER. GARLIN IN
LECTURE THURS.
Will Show Pictures Of
Five Year Plan

NEW YORK. Garlin, CO.
editor of the Labor Defender, who
recently returned from four
months tour of the Soviet Union and
Germany, will make a vivid contrast
between boss terror in the U.S.A. and
proletarian triumphs in the Soviet
Union in lecture Thursday, Octo-
Der 8, at pm, at Ambassador Hall,
1915 Third Ave. His lecture, which is
being given under the auspices of the
Bronx Section Of the International
Labor Defense, will be illustrated
with new pictures, showing the most
recent developments of the Five Year
Plan, and with unpublished photos of
the capitalist terror in the United
States.
Garlin is now on a nationwide
tour and has already spoken in Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Washington, Bos-
ton, Lawrence, Mass, and other cities.
Saturday night, october 10, he will
speak in Brooklyn at 46 Ten Eyck st.,
and Sunday night, october IL, at r.
wing Plaza, 18th st. and irving Pl
Admission to the lectures is IS cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
''The Streets of New
York" Opens Tonight
At 48th Street

Lawrence Langner's New York
Repertory Company will open their
season this evening at the 48th Street
Theatre with revival of Dion
Boucicault's old melodrama, 1.-THE
Streets OF New York" The chief
players are: Dorothy Gish, Rollo
Peters, Moffat Johnston, Armina
Marshall, Fania Marinoff and Jessie
Busley.
"The Guest Room" comedy by
Arthur Wilmurt, will have its pre-
miere at the Biltmroe Theatre to-
night. Helen Lowell, Beverly Sit
greaves, Joan Kenyon and Otto
Hulett are the leading players.
At the Avon Theatre this evening,
Katherine Roberts new comedy will
have its first Broadway showing.
Heming, Reginald Mason, G. p.
HuntleS Jr, Richie Ling and Robert
Vivian head the cast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
FUR WORKERS
FORGE UNITY
Not Through Stetsky,
But in Struggle

NEW YORK. Thousands of fur
workers gathered in the market yes
terday to discuss the latest develop
ments in the fake unity maneuvers
Of the Joint Council of the Interna-
tional Fur Workers, where Stetsky
together with his henchman left the
unity conference" refusing to agree
to immediate steps for uniting the
fur workers in struggle for union
conditions.
The Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union yesterday pointed out
that the company union agents re-
jected all the proposals for real unity
Of the workers proposed by the dele
gates elected at the Cooper Union
mass meeting. The Industrial Union
statement points out that Stetsky
and his supporters refuse to agree to
the proposals to defend the job of
every furrier, to elect a committee of
so for the purpose of organizing a
broad unity conference, to carry
through the program of struggle
adopted by the mass of the workers.
To carry this program into effect,
a number of fur shops we're declared
on strike today for higher wages and
better conditions. This organization
campaign Of the union will continue
throughout the season. ..ss
A Cooper Union mass meeting of
furriers will be held in the near
future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
WORLD CONGRESS
OF WTR OCT. 9-l5
8 u S. Delegates on
Way to Berlin

The eight American delegates to
the World Congress of the Workers
International Relief, to be held in
Berlin on Oct. 9-15, have embarked
for Germany.
The World Congress is the cele-
bration of ten years of existence Of
the International w. I. r. During
this ten year period the w. I. r.,
which was founded on the initiative
of Lenin, has collected and dis
tributed more than $2o,o0O,o00 in re-
lief activities, and now has more
than 100000 members.
The different activities of the w.
I. r., such as the relief campaigns
for the famine-stricken Volga area
in 1921, for China, for Japan, for
the British miners, for the Gastonia,
North Carolina textile strikers, for
the German working class during the
famine-winter of 1928, have been the
biggest international solidarity CAM
paigns in the history of the revolu-
tionary working class movement.
Due to the heroic help of millions
of workers, the w. l. r. has carried
through a series of international re-
lief campaigns which have assisted
thousands of strikes in all countries.
At this moment the International w.
I. r. is mobilizing its forces to send
relief to the millions of workers and
peasants who are starving in China
as result of the flood and famine.
The eight American delegates to
the Congress are: Joseph Fisher,
representing the National Office of
the w. I. r., who will head the dele
cation and deliver the report, Bella
Saltzburg, representing the textile
workers, John Vukas and J. Robin
son, elected by the coal miners, M.
Krepa, elected by the steel workers,
Ed Royce, treasurer of the w. I. r.,
and I. Katzowitz, a worker elected by
w. I. R. members in Upstate New
York. VIM. Parks, Canadian dele
gate to the Congress, accompanied
the American delegation.
At the conclusion of the World
Congress, the delegates will leave for
a months tour of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Calls for Fascist Measures

means Of speeding up the workers.
The main concrete proposal Of this
organization of the leading bosses is
that the big trusts be strengthened
in order to keep up capitalism whose
basic principle they admit is "the
desire Of profit" To do this it is
proposed that the So-called antitrust
laws be amended, and that the gov
eminent work more openly with the
trusts, aiding their wider formation,
merging the state power with the big
corporations.
This idea, which contains the
germs Of fascisrn, is not new one
1t was proposed several weeks ago
by Gerard Swope, president Of the
General Electric Co., Morgan g.
Co. subsidiary. The U. S. Chamber
Of Commerce report endorses the
Swope scheme, and adopts most of
its points. The fact that the scheme
Of Swope, who speaks in the name Of
the leading U. S. bankers, is now
adopted by the U. S. Chamber OF
Commerce, which in turn speaks for
the most decisive section of the capt.
talists, shows that definite steps are
being taken by the bosses in an eff
fort to get out of the crisis. These
steps are for a strong front against
insurance; for more
wage cuts; for a strengthening ofLthe
Assassination of the government, and
the handing over Of more diRect po-
litical power to the leading bankers
who will form an extra-legal group Of
three or five to carry through the
capitalist attack.
One proposal is that all unem-
ployed be registered to see what they
are gift" for, to see if they are
worthy, so that the capitalists can
have greater control on the action
of the unemployed.
The views of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce regarding federal unem-
ployment insurance, follow nearly
word for word, the opinion recently
expressed by the officials of the
officials Of the American Federation
of Labor when they met in Vancou-
yer, B. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-Greater
power in the hands of the leading
capitalists, in order to beat back the
growing struggles of the workers
against hunger and wage cuts, is one
OF the main points asked by a spe-
cial committee of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce, which has
just published its report here on the
economic crisis.
The report asks for the setting up
Of a Supreme Economic Council" to
be run by three or five Of the lead
ing bankers or other prominent ex-
ploiters.
Again and again this committee of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce declares against unemploy-
ment insurance. They propose a
scheme Of insurance" to be under
the control of the individual corpora
tons, which would come out of
wages, and be a blacklist and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
TAMMANY USES
RELIEF" FUNDS
FOR GRAFTERS
Build Up Machine and
Make Jobless Starve

NEW YORK.-Millions of dollars
in New York City which is supposed
to 60 for relief of the unemployed,
is being used to build up the Tam
many grating political machine,
some facts brought out in a letter
yesterday showed.
While the letter was. written by
James Marshall, chairman of the re-
publican advisory committee of New
York County, who supports Hoover's
policy of starvation for the unenl-
ployed and graft for the republican
leaders, the fact remains that in the
squabble for control of the local
spoils the workers get faint in
sight into what is going on.
Marshalls letter was written to
Jesse Isidor Straus, chairman Of the
so-called State Relief Adninistra-
ton This outfit was appointed by
Governor Roosevelt and are supposed
to handle a s2O,0oo,ooO fund, though
this far not one unemployed worker
has seen a cent of it.
Marshal tells of Jobs handed out
only to those who could prove they
were in the democratic machine,
while hungry jobless workers whose
families were on the verge of death,
were turned away. 1t is not because
Marshall is 50 worried about the I'M
employed that he acts. He fears
chat Roosevelt will use the $4,000, 900
in building up his position as presi-
Dental candidate. Though Marshalrs
boss outfit does not mind the unem-
ployed being robbed, they do not like
the Tammany outfit getting a head
start in the presidential election
under the fakery Of handing out TN
employment relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
Coal Dock Workers
in Duluth Get Pay
Cut: ThenLaid Off

DULUTH, MINI, Oct. 5.--North-
west coal dock and the Pittsburgh
Coal Co. have cut the workers wages
10 per cent. The workers used to
get<5o cents an hour and now they
get as cents per hour The condi-
tons on the docks are very poor.
The workers only work from three to
six hours a day and some days they
don't work at all.
At one time the Northwest Coal
Co. employed is men on the docks
but the bosses lay off the. workers
one by one and now there are no
men working on the dock This
wage cut also cut the truck drivers
10 per cent. And now the coal car
riers and truck drivers have to load
their own truck that the Is men.
used 70 do.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06

There is great noise about milk. But what is
the ssue?'
The World-Telegram and the crooked Tammany
Health Department says that the issue is one of
"saf" milk.
The mig companies, both the bottled milk trust
led by Bordens and Sreffeld and the loose milk COM
panies, are fighting which should rob you-that
is the issue between them But they agreed that
you be robbed. Neither of them says word about
reducing the price.
To you workers of New York, the issue is the
PRICE. Let us Sc how these milk companies, one
and all, are now robbing you And remember the
city hall grafters planning to increase the robbery
by banning loose milk.
What does the farmer get for milk? How much
does it cost the milk trust which charges you Is
cents quart for it9 Well, don't take our word for
1t, but read what dairy farmer wrote to the N Y.
Times on Sept o. He gives the cost per quart to the
trust as follows:
1881 Farmer R.R. Express Cost Delivered
INN City
June .. .270 cents 0o5 cents so cents
August $50 cents 0.o5 cents 40 cents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
BALKAN to Speak at
Newark Shop Gate
Meeting Wednesday

NEWARK, II. J( Oct. 5.-John
]. BALKAN, Communist Party can
didate for governor of New Jersey,
will speak Wednesday at shop
gate meeting of A. Hollander and
Son, at 143 East Kinney Street. More
than a thousand workers are em-
ployed at this plant which is the
largest fur shop in the world. This
meeting is one of those in Ballam's
election campaign tour in which he
is exposing the capitalist candidates
and their fake relief plans. All mil
liant workers should contribute to
the election cc"'r''~'1 fund of the
Communist Party to carry on tn
struggle Of the oniy party of the
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
LAUNDRY BOSSES
THUGS SLUG MEN
Organization Goes On;
Conference Nears

NEW YORK.-The laundry bosses
are trying to break the Laundry
Workers Union by slugging and in
timidating the active members. The
chairman of the Organization Com
mittee of the union, L. A. Schrib-
man, from the Active Laundry, has
been slugged and afterwards was
fired. Many others members of the
union were threatened with like
treatment.
In the strike against the Active
Laundry last week the bosses framed
up some of the strikers and had them
arrested on fake charges of larceny
and threatened to arrest all the other
strikers on the same charges.
The bosses association is trying to
force longer hours on the drivers. In
some laundries the bosses announce
that drivers must not quit before
p. m, although drivers usually begin
to work at a. m. and in the be-
ginning of the week they work as
late as 9 p. m.
In many shops the workers are al
ready electing delegates to the shop
delegates conference which the
Laundry Workers Union is calling
for october 18, to work out the policy
and program of the union. The
Laundry Workers Union meets every
Thursday in Ambassador Hall, which
is located at Bird Ave. and Claremont
Parkway
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
UNION LEADERS
OPPOSE RELIEF
Socialist L i n e S Up
Against Workers

At special membership meeting
which was called for Thursday, Octo-
Der /, at Cooper Union, where be-
tween $500 and 1890 were present,
the membership of the Sheet Metal
Workers Union, Local %, adopted the
unemployed relief plan which was
proposed by the ways and. means
committee" for SO relief per week,
for every unemployed worker.
The proposal suggested 10 per
cent assessment on all employed
workers Of the union whose scale is
500 week. Also 80 per cent as
sessment on the wages of the Off
Gals of the union shall be made,
whose wages are from $110 to $125,
and whose expenses are paid.
The officials of the union opposed
this assessment strenuously, but the
membership voted over the heads of
the officials. The officials Judgment
was that only $40 voted in favor of
the unemployed proposal, and only
1879 voted against it. In reality there
were over 1000 who voted for the
proposal and less than 100 against
for there were no ASSERTIONS.
Tubin, member Of the socialist
party and formerly a manager of
bosses association of tinmiths and
roofers, spoke for As minutes against
the relief plan. All Of the officials
and Tubin, who is not an official,
voted against unemployment insur-
ance.
In the last relief committee which
was headed by Tubin the workers got
an average relief of $1.5o week and
the members of the committee got
ss.05 week. The officials are now
trying to declare the whole meeting
at Cooper Union as illegal.
The rank and file union members
must see to it that the full control of
the funds is in the hands of rank
and file committee. Otherwise the
leaders who opposed the cuts in the
salaries for the fund will use it as a
graft fund and not to help the un-
employed sheet metal workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
Socialist Spokesman
for Tammany Moving
Picture Union Racket

NEW YORK.-A moving picture
operator writes to the Daily Worker
to point out that while McCooey, the
Tammany chief who created a scam
dial by putting his son up for Judge
recently, is attorney for the Sam
Kaplan racketeers in the Moving Pic
ture Operators, big socialist party
spokesman have been principal prop
agandists for Kaplan's crowd. Among
those who have spoken at their meet
ings are: Norman Thomas, August
Classens, Samuel Seidman, Sam
Beardsley, Jean Coronel and Henry
Jaeger.
Just another hook-up between
Tammany and the socialists. Many
big Tamrpany men are honorary
members of Kaplan's union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
Carpenters Aid
Fight for Mooney
Elect Delegates to the
Oct. II Conference

NEW YORK.-Local 2090, Of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers, affiliated to the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor has elected two
delegates to the mass monaghan
lan-Scottsboro Conference that has
been called by the New York District
OF the International Labor Defense
Tor Sunday, Oct. II, at 10 a. m. at
Irving Plaza, 18th st. and Irving Pl.
In electing its delegates, Local 20eo
rerudiated the fake conference of
Sept. "a called by Socialists" phoney
progressiyes of the, A. j. Music
camp and renegades from the revo-
lutionary movement. Local 2o90
was represented at this conference.
at which all L L. D. delegates were
barred
Anothr A F. of L. local that has sent
in credentials for its delegates is
Bakery and Confectionery Workers
Local %. Yesterday Carl Hacker,
secretary of the New York District
OF the I. L. d. addressed a meeting
of hosiery strikers, members Of the
American Federation of Full Fash.
Toned Hosiery Workers, in Queens
Labor Lyceum, Brooklyn, and APP
peaied to them to elect delegates to
the conference. The strikers will vote
later on the election of delegates.
Many shop groups are also send
ing representatives to the confer
ence.. AS wide a representation from
the shops as possible is desired and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-06
FOSTER SPEAKS
IN NEWARK NJ.
Must Organize to
Fight Wage Cuts

William z. Foster, well known lead
sr Of strikes and national Trade
Union Unity League secretary, will
speak on october 10, Saturday, at 8
pm. at 80 Ferry ST., Newark, N. J..
Industrial leaflets for the metal,
building trades, textile and unem-
ployed workers have been distributed
for this meeting. Every worker is in
vited to come and hear Foster, who
will speak on T.U.UL strike strategy,
on organization and strikes against
wage-cuts, on the fight for Unem-
ployment Insurance and immediate
relief for the unemployed workers
and on the lessons of miners strike.
Strikes are breaking out against
iIhe wave of wage-cuts and speed up
an over New Jersey. Hosiery workers
are striking against As per cent cut,
in Paterson, Dover, Irvington and
Bloomfield, N. j. The Musteites
forced the T.UU.L. members out of
the strike meetings in several places
so that Music policy of orderly
strike and no picketing" can go
through smoothly,
For the fourth time the building
trades workers struck on the Pru-
dental Corp. job in Newark against
reduction of wages. The T.U.U.L. dis
tributed two leaflets exposing the
treacherous role Of the A. F. Of L.
leadership and called upon the $50
workers to take the lead of the strike
Into their own hands.
Come early Admission free. Aus
pieces Trade Union Unity Council Of
Newark, N. j., 80 Ferry st.