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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
CHICAGO SCHOOL
TEACHER FAINTS
OF STARVATION
Many More Are in An
Identical Position
Officials Admit

CHICAGO, Ill.-That the misery of
unpaid work is causing havoc among
the lower paid categories of teachers
her ehas been admitted by school
officials.
A high official in school board cir
Giles declared that the conditions of
many of teachers bordered on STAR
walton and made the following state
ment:
"ChicagO's public school teachers
are at the end Of their rope. Their
morale is shattered. In many in
stances their suffering is intense.
One hungry and penniless teacher
collapsed and fell to the floor in
her classroom last Friday. Four
fellow instructors. summoned by
pupils, revived her. sent to a deli
catessen for milk and forced her to
drink It. All connected with the
incident pledged themselves to keep
the teachers identity a secret to
save her the embarrassment that
would follow the disclosure of her
name. But the plight of that teacher
and hundreds of others unpaid
since last April, is the shame Of
Chicago"
Another school official admitted
that the morale Of the teachers was
breaking under the strain of six
months of payless work. The official
said:
"The public school teachers are
fast losing their grip "Stories OF
starvation and penury, and there
are no milder words that fit the
situation, are heard on every hand.
Loan sharks are reaping harvest
among the teachers. even among
who accepted the scrip. which is
now exhausted and a matter of
legal debate as to the right Of the
school board to issue it,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
FINANCE WAR
WITH FRANCE
IS SHARPENED
S6O0,000,000 in Gold
Exported Since Fall
of British Pound
Bankers Meet Daily
Financial Crisis Is
Made More Acute

The visit of Charles FARMER and
Robert Lacour- Gayet, both of the
Bank of France, is now revealed
openly by the capitalist press as part
of the financial war between the
United States and France. The rep
resentatives of the Bank of France
came to the United States in order
to arrange, if possible, the removal Of
the remainder of the French assets
in the United States to France
through the shipment of gold. 1t
has been stated in Paris that the
withdrawal of French short term
loans from the United States shows
the prudence and foresight of the
Bank of France and the French gov
eminent, which, having lost 20 per
cent of the value of the pounds which
they held, do not intend to run the
same risk with the dollar
The fear of the French bankers
that the United States is faced with
d. SeNeIc lllldIlCldl Cllolo Id OpCHly
stated in La Liberte by Camille
Aymard, who writes that:
at must be recognized that the
apprehension of the Bank of
France and the Minister of FL
nance are justified. The news which
reached us this morning from New
York indicates that the most vigil
liant attention is necessary if we
wish to safeguard the interests of
our nation"
The two representatives of the
Bank of France will use the threat
of the withdrawal of the French
short term loans in New York as a
weapon in the struggle with Hoover
over the reparations, the war debts
and the withdrawal of United States
investments from Germany.
The financial position of the United
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sand times. Tell them you will not
stand for wage-cuts! Only a rank
and file committee of the workers
can speak to the mill owners.
Remember! Not a cent of your
pay!
Build the National Textile Work
ers Union! Join the union whose or
ganizers are sent to jail for organ
izing the strike against wage-cuts.
Demand the release of the ar
rested workers. On to victory"
Reports from Boston, where the
U. T. w. is licking Governor Ely's
boots in an effort to obtain arbitra-
tioINvhich means the assurance of
the wage-cuts-show that the tactics
of the governor Is to get smaller
committee elected which would be
composed exclusively Of the U. T. w.
takers, and the sell-out would then
be perfected.
Instead of talking about wages,
Frank j. German, vice. president of
the U.TW., concerns himself with
the profits Of the American Wooden
Co. and the other big textile bosses.
He takes their word for it about how
much they made, hiding from the
workers the fact that the American
WOODEN Co. lies about its profits
solely for the purpose Of keeping the
workers in ignorance and using this
to force down wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
FURRIERS FIGHT
DICTATORSHIP
Demonstration on Sat.
Against Sat. Work

NEW YORK.-A large membership
meeting of fur workers was held
Wednesday night at Webster Hall.
Ben Gold, secretary of the union re-
ported on the activities of the In
dustrial Union and the latest devel-
ers resigned and McGrady and Kauf-
union where Stetsky and his support
opments in the ranks of the company
man established dictatorship. Gold
pointed out that this dictatorship is
the direct result of the successful
struggle of the furriers and the fail
ure of the fake peace maneuvers.
AS far as the activities of the In
dustrial Union are concerned, he re-
ported that since the first of July up
to october, 500 shop strikes were car
ried through, 5000 new members
Joined the Industrial Union and close
to $4,000 in wages were collected for
workers.
How to Fight Unemployment.
Gold also dwelt on the mass I'M
employment now existing in the fur
trade and made definite proposals to
cope with the unemployed problem,
continue the work of building the
Industrial Union and shop struggles
for shorter hours and better condi-
lions. The plan is to elect trade
committee which together with the
shop committees will carry on the
struggle, to take up a campaign
against overtime work so as to pro-
vide more jobs for the unemployed
and to carry through demonstra-
ton in the fur market on Saturday
at 7:30 in the morning, to induce the
workers to stop working on Saturday.
All fur workers are called to mo-
billie their shops to take part in the
demonstration Saturday morning,
7:30. The workers will gather at the
office of the union, 131 w. 28th st.
A statement issued yesterday by the
Industrial Union points out that Nc
Grady is a black reactionary and an
anti-Semite who takes special plea
sure in terrorizing Jewish workers.
The present development shows the
treachery of the Lovestoneites, who
called for the Industrial Union to
dissolve and have its members join
the A. l.. International ur Workers.
with our united front of the work.
ers themselves, we will smash all
these conspiracies of the bosses and
their agents." says the statement.
EJECT unity committees in every
shopl Strikes against wage reduc-
tons, speed up and piece work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
3FiightLaWrenceSeUOut,'
Says Berkman in Prison
Governor Ety. Acting to Protect Textile Profits, Is Aided
BY UTW Misleaders

NEW YORK.-Exposing the plot of the
United Textile Workers, cooperating with Gov
ernor Ely in an effort to send the $4,000 Law
renee textile workers back into the mills while
the wage cut is made secure, Edith Berkman,
organizer of the National Textile Workers Union in the
East Boston immigration prison for her striking activities
sends stirring appeal to the strikers.
Her written in Jail where she has been placed
by the textile Bosses cooperating with the UIW and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Unemployed Workers
to Elect Hunger March
Delegates This Sunday

NEW YORK.-The Williamsburgh
Unemployed Council will hold a mass
meeting this Sunday evening at 81
Graham Avenue, to elect delegates
for the Hunger March to Washing
ton, D. c. All unemployed Negro and
white workers are urged to attend
this meeting.
The Council has been steadily in
creasing its activities in mobilizing
the workers to resist evictions and
fight for unemployed relief and So
cial insurance. 1t has helped in
collecting food for several needy
families. 1t calls upon the workers
of Williamsburg, unemployed and
employed to rally to the fight against
the hunger program Of the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Put Up Bars Before
Chicago Groceries

CHICAGO, Ill.-Iron bars are no
longer used only to protect the win
dowS of banks; now they're using
iron bars before windows of chain
store groceries. The A. and P. store,
recently opened on Clark Street, is
showing the latest safeguard for food
riots by having strong iron-spiked
fence erected before its plate glass
windows to protect the food supply
from proving to great temptation
to the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
JIM GRACE TOURS
ON LABOR DEF.
Will Cover Cities in
Jersey, New York

NEW YORK. Jim Grace, valiant
leader of the Harlan. KY, miners and
one Of those charged with criminal
syndicalism, is now touring New
York State and New Jersey, speaking
under the auspices of the New York
District of the International Labor
Defense, in behalf of the Mooney,
Harlan. Scottsboro, Paterson and
other class war cases. Grace's tour
is part Of the defense campaign that
was launched by the big mass con-
ference held Saturday, Oct. II.
Until Oct. Is Grace will be in New
York Cry, speaking before trade
unions, workers clubs and other or
CARNATIONS. Following this he will
go to the Albany district, speaking in
Albany Oct. Is, Schenectady, oct. 27,
Troy, Oct. % and Johnstown, Oct. 20.
His tour will continue throughout
November and December, during
which he will cover every important
city in New York State and in the
metropolitan section of New Jersey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
CLERKS, BAKERS
MEETING TODAY
Two Meetings to Build
Food United Front

NEW YORK.-Two meetings of
great Importance to food workers are
10 be held today. One is the mass
open forum of the United Front
Committee of All Bakery Workers.
This is committee set up by bakers
Of the Food Workers Industrial
Union, members of A. F., l., locals
and Amalgamated Food Workers
baker locals. 1t is to fight for union
conditions in the bakeries. This
open forum is at Clinton Hall, ISL
Clinton St., N. Y, at 2 pm. All are
invited to come and discuss the sit
uation.
Tonight, at $3.50 pm. in Webster
Manor Hall, 1875 E. 18th St, N. Y,
there is United Front Mass Meet
ing for all food clerks organized and
unorganized, including members of
Local 1913 and of the Hebrew Butch
err Workers Union.
To the members of Local 1913, the
Food Clerks United Front Commit
tee, calling this meeting, especially
points out that their local was or
ganized deliberately to help the boss
es' attack ON the Food Workers In
dustrial Union. the only organization
that was fighting for union condi-
tions. The mass meeting leaflets con-
trast the 57-hour week and $40 min
imum wage with the union protecting
from discharge, with the 90-hour
week and $18 to $25 weekly in I'M
organized and ALL. shops where in
edition. the union is no protection.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Mobilize TOR intensive Driue
For a Record Communist Vote

NEW YORK-Preparing to mobil-
ize the Party for intensive activity
for record Communist vote in the
city, instructions for registration of
Party members and sympathizers as
watchers at the polls November has
gone out of the district office of the
Communist Party yesterday. Regis
tration will be held in all Party sec
tons and those eligible for watchers
are urged to lose no time in register
ing
Active preparations are now under
way for the final election mass meet
ing which will be held at Webster
Hall, Thursday, October %. Party
speakers, including I. An6ter, District
Organizer and Communist candidate
for president of Manhattan will ex-
pose the nature of the Seabury- Tam
many investigation, the tactics and
demagogy of the socialist" party and
the organization for winning unem-
ployed relief and other concessions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
AL FOR NO
INSURANCE
TO JOBLESS
Rank and File Revolt
Forces Tobin, Mahon
To Argue for 1t
Convention Vote Down
Claim Workers Oppose
March 7 Will Answer

VANCOUVER, Canada, Oct. 15.-
In spite of the fact that many of
the most reactionary of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor union heads
here were forced by fear of rank and
file revolts to argue for unemploy-
ment insurance on the floor of the
A. F. Of L. convention yesterday,
there were enough more reactionaries
able to stick out against it to defeat
all motions for insurance.
For the first time the amazing
spectacle of Dan Tobin, former
treasurer Of the Transfers; Mahon,
president Of the Street and Electrical
Railway Employees, and a host of
other hard-boiled labor takers all
arguing for unemployment insurance,
was seen. The fact that the rank
and file Of the teamsters and street
car men are starving and demanding
real action in no uncertain terms is
the only explanation.
President Green Of the A. F. of L.
was only able to quiet the tumult
by one of the most demagogic
speeches of his career, which seemed
to promise much, but, on closer sight,
gave no promise Of food or insurance.
Green said in voice shaking with
either artificial passion or fear of the
masses:
1T will do something to get ade-
quate relief" he declared. 81 am
willing to go to Congress and demand
In the names Of millions of workers
that some Of the wealth of the United
States be appropriated in this great
emergency to relieve this distress.
II propose to go with the Executive
Council to Congress as soon as it
convenes and tell them that the
emergency which exists in the United
States is comparable to to the war
emergency and that without delay
SOllSl coo fObC obAAASASAAo
amount of money, millions, billions,
if necessary, to feed the hungry"
Then they took the vote and ap-
proved the Executive Committees
recommendation that "unemploy-
ment insurance is unsuited to our
political and economic requirements
and unsatisfactory to American
working men and women"
But if Green really goes with his
henchmen to Congress on Dec. he
will find there, giving him the lie,
the elected delegates Of the masses
of unemployed workers of this coun-
try, delegates who have hunger
marched from all over the nation
and who appear for the special pur-
pose of telling Congress that there
must be unemployment insurance.
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eminent officials, is as follows:
"The mill owners have organized
their strike breaking citizens COM
mittee, the immigration department,
the American Federation of Labor
leadership and the Socialist party
to force the workers away from real
strike action under the leadership of
the National Textile Workers Union
in Lawrence.
They forced Edith Berkman and
William Murdoch, strike organizers,
to leave the strike by revoking the
bail. The bosses judge, Lowell, has
done this job for them.
From the immigration Jail I wish
to say to the Lawrence strikers:
Workers! Organize under the lead
ership of our militant union, the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union; or
ganized united front of all workers
for a real strike to smash the wage
cut drivel
"The United Front of the Citi-
zen's Committee, the bosses, the A..
F. of L. and Governor Ely, is scab
front to smash the strike and save
the profits of the mill owners at the
expense of the starvation of the
workers.
Don't let them 'arbitrate!" This is
just another method of putting over
a wage-cut; method approved by
the A. F. of L. takers and by which
they have aided the bosses a thou
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16

BAT night. Six turns is considered a,
big pay.
The company resorts to the utmost
terror to enforce its starvation rule.
According to the report of one
worker fifteen men were fired from
the strip mill for merely reading leaf
lets of the MWIL inside the mill.
At the same time, literature continues
to be taken wholesale into the mill
and to date not a single man carry
ing it in has been fired despite the
frantic searches of the company. The
call to the mass Pittsburgh confer
ences OF the steel workers, stickers
calling upon the men to form COM
mittees Of action against the cut in
every department and strike against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Communists Demand That
City Give Jobless Relief
Walker Snarls When Delegation Tells Him Not
To Take Money From Employed;
S200,000000 Needed

NEW YORK.-Mayor Jimmy Walk
er screwed his weasel face into an
even more unpleasant snarl and
hunched his shoulders, and the fiat
aldermen on the board Of estimate
alternately glowered and giggled
when committee of the New York
District Of the Communist Party
came into their session on the $780,
100000 budget for 1882 and demand
ed 100000 be appropriated to
give each jobless worker relief during
the winter.
The committee was composed Of
candidates for assembly on the Com
munist ticket: Vern Smith in District
10, Harlem; Sadie Van veen, District
II, and Nathan Shaffer, District 4,
Bronx.
Smith got the floor first, just as
the board of estimate was sliding
through appropriation No. 80, for
$196,000,000 to be paid to the bankers
who hold the New York city bonds.
This sum is nearly as large as that
demanded by the Communist Party,
to pay $3.50 to each jobless worker for
winter relief and $50 for an average
of one dependent for each worker.
There are one million jobless in New
York, according to the admission Of
Rybicki, director of the city employ
ment office.
Only Hunger for Jobless.
Smith pointed this out, and de-
nounced the board for handing these
millions over to the bankers, the
masters of this social system under
which they grow rich and fat and
the jobless starve to death, instead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Section s Election
Parade to Be Held
Saturday. October IL

The Communist Party, Section 8,
will stage an election campaign torch
light parade on Saturday, October
IT, in the Brownsville and East New
York sections. Speakers will address
meetings at given points from truck
equipped with a loud speaker.
The parade will start at Pennsyl-
vania and Suffer Ayes. at 7 pm.
Working class organizations who have
been invited to participate in the
march will form in line at this point.
1t will also serve for the rallying
point for individual workers.
All organizations are requested to
parade under the banner of their
body.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
SECRET MEET
MOVE TO WAR
ON SOVIETS
Seek Solution" Of
Manchuria Crisis
By War on USSR
Conflict Is Sharp
lmperialist Troops Fire
On Rebels

NEW YORK. - Secret meetings
called by BRAND, French imperialist
representative of the League of Ma
tons, now in session, point to the
fact that the capitalist powers more
than ever are seeking solution" Of
the Manchurian conflict by war
against the Soviet Union.
BRAND called in the representatives
OF the Chinese and Japanese govern
ments to talk matters over. but no
word was given out as to what was
taken up.
U. S. Anti Soviet Move.
Coupled with the report printed in
the New York. Times of October is,
that Pacific Coast business men IA
vor common front with Japan, di-
rected against the Soviet Union, the
events in Geneva show that, though
the conflicts between the imperial
lists are sharp, they seek a common
front of action against the Soviet
Union.
Because of the location of Man
churia near the border Of the Soviet
Union and the rich territory Of ST.
IBERIA, adjoining the imperialist pow
ers have always prepared for an in
vasion through this direction.
Meanwhile, Japanese imperialism,
through its Geneva representative,
insists on holding on to all the Man
churian territory, now in the war
zone. The Tokyo government def
nitely declared it would not permit
the United States observer, Mr.. Gil
bert, to take part in the proceedings.
Hold Back investigators"
Another sign of the sharp rift be-
tween the U. S. and Japan is shown
in the action of the Japanese troops
in stopping the three American rep
resentatives Of the State Department
who were sent to Manchuria to "in-
vestigate." They were not allowed to
proceed.
All the threats" of Chang Kali
Shek about war to preserve" China
turn out to be notifications against
the revolutionary Chinese workers
and peasants. In this mobilization.
Chang Kai-Shek is receiving the
support of all the imperialist powers.
The Daily Worker has received the
following exclusive news items from
Shanghai:
1.-THE English journals in China
openly speak of a continued inter
vention' in Middle China. They re-
port that along the middle course of
the Yangtze between Hankow and
Jitsehang the patrolling services
have assumed the character of real
war. "The warships of all countries
are engaged in this fight, but the
greatest responsibility and the chief
activity has been undertaken by
British gun-boats. Along the middle
course Of the Yangtze River alone,
during the recent period, British guns
have fired more than 10000 shots
against the Reds"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16

WEIRTON, West Va Oct 49,
With the workers of the Weirton
Steel mills both here and across the
river reused by the recent wage cuts
as well as by the arrest and falling of
six steel workers for distributing
leaflets in this hell-hole Of COM
pany town, the company is still NOV
ing for further cuts.
Unconfirmed reports indicate new
slashes in the tin mill, where the
workers have already been cut almost
40 per cent since the first of the year.
Strip mill men have also been cut TO
pieces. On the normalizer is the new
strip mill the pay is 42h cents an
hour-11-hour day turn and 10 hours
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Weirton Steel Mills Continue
Their Wage Cutting Attacks

the cut, as well as the proclamation
and call to action issued by the con-
ference and leaflets announcing mass
meetings, all appear inside and
around the mills.
Far from having its desired effect
of keeping the workers from organiz-
ing, the terror regime of the steel
barons only increases the determine
ton of the steel workers to build
mighty union and once for all smash
this fascist rule.
Stool pigeons, bosses and company
police galore attend the mass meet
ings called by the union. II heard the
bosses said they'd fire anyone who
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of giving 1t to save the lives Of the
unemployed.
Smith then read to the board the
statement Of District 2 of the Com
munist Party, that the $780, 900 900
fund for winter relief be distributed
without discrimination against Ne
gro, foreign born, women or young
workers; that all relief funds be
transferred to and distributed
through committees OF unemployed
and employed workers, and that the
strike-breaking Mckee bill for inn
prisonment of those voluntarily I'M
employed be revoked.
The statement contained a list Of
demands to be granted pending re-
lief: No eyictions, no cutting off Of
light and gas, free food and clothing
for the school children Of the I'M
employed no forced labor; abolition
of the job sharks, etc.
Cut Walkers Salary!
The statement proposes as means
of raising money for this winter re-
lief: That the salaries of the mayor
and other political heads in the city
be reduced to not more than 5000
year; that the police force be re-
duced and no salary for captains,
ETC., exceed $1,000; cancellation of all
appropriations for national guard and
naval militia; cancellation Of all ap-
preparations for charity this budg-
ct provides 100000 for that and
transfer of such sums to the jobless
for winter relief; no more payments
on city bonds; creation Of commits
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from the capitalists.
A house-to-house tag day, Octo-
Der "a and 25, devoted to the spread
of the Party election platform and
the sale of election campaign cou-
pons.
An appeal to mass and language
organizations to Immediately aid in
raising $4,000 for the Communist
Party election campaign is being pre-
pared by the district office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16

One way to help the Soviet
Union is to spread among tho
workers Soviet Forced Labor"
BY Max Bedacht, 10 cents per COPY, !
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