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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01
Will Try Kaufman for Hiring
Thugs and Strikebreaking'
Formally Charged Before Joint Council with
Causing Members of Union to Be Stabbed,
and Withholding Funds and Property

NEW YORK.-At the last meeting
ct the JOINT Council of the Interna-
tioa1sl Fur Workers Union of the
United States of America and Can
ada, affiliated with the American
Federation Of Labor, held on Tues
day, Nov. "A, at Stuyvesant Casino,
charges were brought by Emil Koen-
ing against Morris Kaufman. The
charges presented In writing, in &C.
cordance with article 5, sections
and of the constitution, state:
II charge Bro. Kaufman with yio-
istion OF Article 10. Section 1, of the
constitution, which states that al
officers, whether local or general,
shall deliver to their respective sue
cessors all property IN their posses
sion belonging to the organization Of
which they are officers Section 3
all the funds and property Of each
local union shall be deemed held in
trust for the benefit Of the members
and shall be used only as provided
for in this constitution
Il charge that Morris Kaufman re-
fused to deliver to the Only elected
joint council the property duly be-
longing to the council and that he is
using said funds to the detriment Of
the membership; to hire gangsters
who are beating up and cutting up
the fur workers whose interests our
union must protect.
II want to cite the following cases
as evidence. The workers Ben Young
Eddie Jenkins, D. GrossInan, Fish
bein, Itzkowitz, Race Epstein and
some others were cut up in the fur
market on Monday, Nov. Is, 1881.
The gangsters hired by Mr.. Kauf-
man are Meyer and Irving Shapiro,
Yacker, Steinberg, Tommy Levy,
Matthews, Francis, etc.
Kaufman, Strikebreaker.
II further charge that Mr.. Kauf-
man Is acting as an agent OF the
bosses. He breaks strikes of the
workers and is working hand in hand
with the police department against
the interests of the members and we
cite the following cases as evidence:
The strike breaking activities in the
Fox & Weissman strike, his letter to
the police commissioner, Mulrooney,
asking for police assistance, and
breaking the strikes of the furiers
for July increases.
Il further charge that Mr.. Kauf-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01
Y. c. L'ers ATTENTION,

All YCL units will meet this
Thursday instead of Wednesday
due to the Hunger March demon
stration at the Bronx Coliseum
unless your unit has made other ar
rangements for meeting. All COM
rades should go to the Coliseum
at 1880 p. m. sharp where there
viii be youth division. Unit Or
gnnizers should assign two COM
rades from the unit to act as ush-
ers at the youth division. These
comrades must report at the Coli
scum at 6 p. m. sharp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01
Unemployed Pr epare
Demonstration, We'd,
at Jewish Aid Society

NEW YORK.-The Unemployed
Council of Brownsville will hold a
demonstration on Wednesday, Dec. 2,
at o'clock in front of the United
Jewish Aid Society, Herzl and Pitkin
AYES. All unemployed workers of
Brownsville should meet at II am.
at 6l0 Rockaway Ave. and march to
the charity organization to demand
immediate relief
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01
5000 DOckwOrkers
Strike Against Cuts
In Duisburg, Germany
tInprecorr Press Sesvice)

BERLIN, Nov. 29.-The strike Of
the lockers in Duisburg, Germany is
extending. 5000 men are at present
out on strike. Duisburg is the big
gest inland harbor in Germany. 1t
is expected that the strike will ex-
tend to the other Rhine harbors. The
owners demand that the wage
cutting arbitration decision be de-
clared binding in order that the re-
fornlist unions should be able to or
ganize strike breaking.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01
REFUSES TO SHARE: FIRED

Because he didn't know that he
had no choice in the matter, an up
holsterer of the Ideal Chair Co.. Mas
peth, LII, was fired yesterday for re-
fusing to give days pay TO the
bankers charity fund. The one hun
dred workers in the shop were forced
to give days pay under pain of dis
charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01
WAGE-CUTS LOOM IN
LUGGAGE SHOPS; STOP
THEM BY ORGANIZING!
You Are Getting so Per Cent More Than You
Ought to Get" Bosses Tell Workers
Prison Made Luggage Floods Market AS More
Workers Lose Jobs
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-The condition of the luggage workers in
New York has reached stage that organzaona
their living level.
On the hand, the big department like r. H.
Macy and Co., Altman Co. and other luggage retailers
azne Trunk and Leather Goods" calls an unfair game Of
cutting prices point which endangers the soency of the
producers While the actual difference of the dollar is only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01
SECTION 8 oPEN-AIR MEETING

An open-air meeting will be held
Wednesday, Dec. Q, at noon at 18th
st. and Fourth Ave. The National
Hunger March and the situation in
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
will be presented by the speakers.
Workers of the International Tail
oring Co. shop are especially urged
to be present at this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01
WIN 3 FUR SHOP
STRIKES; MANY
MEETINGS HELD
Kaufman Agents Try
to Rob More Workers

NEW 1OfCh.- IDree tllr shop
strikes which have been in progress
since last week have been settled by
the Industrial Union The workers
OF Goldman & Son, 101 w 37th St,
received $164.S4 back pay and pay for
election day which is legal holiday
in the fur trade Eighteen workers
of M. B. Kornreich, 1876 w. 29th St,
received $500 back pay. In the Dentz
Bros, 226 w. goth ST.. where there is
no work at the present time, one
worker received $40 back pay.
The strikes against the firms of
Edward Spatz, 231 w. 18th St, 1. j.
Fox, 391 Fifth Ave, Fox & Weiss
man, 20 w. 36th St, and Rucker &
WarShaw, DAT w 3oth St, are still in
progress.
II was learned in the market today
that Fisher, one of the paid agents
of kaufman, as well as others are
going around to the bosses to collect
money for the legal holiday which
they will use in order to extort dues
and taxes from the workers. while
the Industrial Union fights to inn
prove their conditions The firm of
BluweisS, 37o 7th Ave- and a number
Of other shops, were visited by Fish !
er with this in view.
The Industrial Union calls ON all
workers to inform their bosses that
no money can be paid to the COM
pany union agents in their name.
Where the boss paid the money, the
workers are called upon to report TO
the Industrial Union and it will help
them get their money back.
Trial of Ben Gold Postponed.
The trial of Ben Gold which came
up yesterday morning in Jefferson
Market Court, was postponed to De-
| cember 2lSt.
Dress Strike.
The workers of the London Dress
Co, 245 7th Ave., large dress shop
where conditions are very bad, went
down on strike under the leadership
Of the Industrial Union yesterday
afternoon.
The union calls on active workers
to come and assist these strikers on
the picketline. This strike marks the
beginning of the activities of the In
dustrial Union in preparation for
real strike under rank and file lead
ership.
Meetings.
A meeting of the unemployed knit
goods workers will be held at the Of
flee Of the union, 131 w. 2Sth st. to-
day, at 10 o'clock this morning, to
elect delegate TO the Washington
Hunger March.
Ddgskin Workers Tonight.
A meeting of all dogskin workers
will be held tonight right after work
at the office of the union, 131 w. 18th
st. IA full report will be given on
the activities in this branch of the
trade since the recent strike and
plans Of activities for future work.
Negro and Spanish Dressmakers.
"A meeting of Negro and Spanish
dressmakers will be held on Thurs
day, at o'clock at Laurel Garden.
At this meeting the question of the
present situation in the dress trade
and preparations for the coming
strike under rank and file leader
ship will be discussed.
All shop chair1nen of the dress
shops are urged to take this matter
UP with the Spanish and Negro
workers Of their shops and help as
sure successful meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01
Building Trades
Bureaucrats Try to
Cripple LatherS
Electrical Workers
Business Agent IsAlly
of Ousted Officials

NEW YORK.-Lathers yesterday
witnessed the attempts Of the ouSted
officials of Local 224, together with
Jack Dietz, business agent of the
Electrical Workers Union, to break
their struggle for maintenance of
present wages and union conditions
when the officials tried to intin1idate
fathers on an operation at Washing
ton Ave. and Empire Blvd, Brook
lyn. The lathers were engaged by
the contractor through the day room
system, tns,lring of close check-up
on wages and permitting no cutting.
The former officials of ktathers'
Union, Local ga, Willie Cohen, Jack
F'lattery and Frank Grassio, who
we're expelled by the membership, are
now trying to enlist the aid of the
bosses and bureaucrats of other
building trades unions to again force
themselves on the fathers. They
openly declared that the master
builders are supporting them, fact
well known by the rank and file
fathers and one that led to their ex-
puision.
Officials Cut Wages.
A check-up revealed that the for
mef officials forced fathers to ac-
cept jobs at S. thousand, whereas
the union scale is $40 thousand,
and that lather substitute workers
received only so cents room, star
walton wage. A breakdown Of the
day room system would have made
this condition prevalent among all
fathers.
The fathers have appealed to the
electricians to aid them in their
struggles and to fight the attempts
of their own officials to aid the
busted contractor agents formerly in
the ranks Of the fathers. The ex-
PEELED officials are now collecting IS
a month fro mthose workers they
have inundated and given jobs on a
cut wage scale.
The failure Of the international
president to be present last week at
the union meeting has been inter
preted as reluctance of the inter-
national to sanction the new admin
istration.
Rank and file fathers have asked
tn enewly-elected Committee of Fiji
teen-the present administration
why more publicity on the affairs in
the latrehs' union is not given, espe-
cially with a view to arousing other
building trades workers to come to
their support and follow their ex-
ample.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01
Back Number o. Ir,r"econs

Comrade wishes to COMP : lies OF
Inprecorrs. VIII rTy bsct inbcrs,
or exchange for GT'riig7 B4c'S
numbers for ox3hG &c s~& $50 as
far back as 1921.
See G. y. Dsn~ Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01

MES and their agents, and in a spirit
of solidarity with the thousands of
miners who are fighting so heroical-
ly against this terror and for i'm
proved living and working conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01

I'VE are prOnouncing in good faith
the words the dictatorship of the
proletariat' and we shall make them
a reality" LENIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01

Workers Correspondence is the
backbone Of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01

TO ptI CtIII, JIG WHOIeSdIG Prices OF
luggage dropped 40 per cent and
even SO per cent. On the other hand
the luggage manufacturers of New
York have adopted a system of whole
sale lay-offs of the workers for an
indefinite time.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21
City-County News

A son was born Saturday morning
to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Shelton, ST.
John, at the Bismarck hospital.
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MIR. and Mrs. George Gleason, Ha-
zen, are parents of a boy born at St.
Alexius hospital Friday evening.
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A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
John Bowers, Bismarck, at the Bis
hospital Saturday morning.
H. O. Saxvik, city superintendent
of schools, left Friday for Fargo
where he will attend an executive
board meeting of the North Dakota
Education association, of which he
is president.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Eslinger and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Eslinger. Cole
harbor, were visitors in the city Fri
Gay.
Officers were reelected at meet
ing of the Either club Friday even
ing held at the home of Mrs. Wes-
lev Cochrane, 6 miles south of Bis
marck. The officers are: Emma
Grob, president; Rose Lauringer,
vice president; and Elizabeth Fritz,
secretary. The club arranged to
meet once each month and made
plans for a Christmas party within
the next few weeks. After the busi-
ness session, the evening was spent
in playing games. Prizes were won
by Josephine Volk, Ethelina kary
and Louise Flemmer. Refreshments
were served. Friends of the club
provided cars to take the club to
the Cochrane home.
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Gordon Cox, Bismarck attorney:
Myron Atkinson, city auditor, and
Tom Burke, assistant attorney gen
eral. returned Friday from bust
ness trip to jamestown, Fargo and
Grand Forks.
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Allan Morse, l.. B. Olson, Ira An
derson, and Tom Olson, all Of Dris-
coll. were in Bismarck Friday trans
acting business.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21
tuberculosis Work
Stressed by Speaker

Health education for children as an
effective means of combating tuber-
culosis, was emphasized by DR.. Fannie
Dunn Quain, president of the North
Dakota tuberculosis association, In a
talk before members of the Conmun-
ity Council Friday afternoon.
The fact that the disease flourishes
in the teens and early twenties and
leads as a cause of death between the
ages of 18 and As. is sufficient reason
for early education in health meas
ureS along preventative lines, she de-
clared.
Mention was made Of the recent
tuberculosis institute conducted here
as part of the state nurses associ-
alton convention. which aimed to
give nurses practical suggestions for
caring for tubercular patients. She
also called attention to the successful
treatment at home of children hav-
ing the disease.
Activities carried on by the state
tuberculosis association and the ma
tional organization were reviewed by
DR.. Quain. who pointed to the bene-
fits OF work financed by means of the
Christmas Seal sale. She urged that
members of the council ask each
member OF her organization to CO.
operate to the fullest extent to make
the forthcoming seal sale a success.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21
All Club Leaders to
Attend Meetings Here

Leaders of first and second year
members Of Burleigh county All
clothing clubs will meet with Miss
Edna Sommerfeld of the state agri-
cultural college in the World War Me-
mortal building here Monday.
Leaders of third and fourth year
members will meet here Tuesday with
Miss Sommerfeld.
Each leader is instructed to bring
one club member over 16 years Of age
to the meetings, according to H. O.
Putnam, Burleigh county agricultural
agent.
Leaders Of Burleigh county Home
makers clubs met with Julia Brekke,
of the state agricultural college, at
Wing Thursday and Bismarck Friday.
At these meetings the leaders stud
led the third lesson In their clothing
color and design project. Three more
meetings for the same project viii be
held after the first of next year.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21
Miss Villa Newton
Will Be Married on
Thanksgivi 6 Day

Miss Villa Newton. who will be-
come the bride of Wayne Gill,
Wheatland, N. D., on Thanksgiving
day, was guest of honor at a
o'clock bridge dinner and miscellan-
eous shower given by Mrs. George
A. Duemeland and Miss Julia Pet
erson Friday evening at the Dueme-
land home, 118 Avenue B West.
Bouquets of roses, green candles
and appointments to carry out COL
or scheme of green and pink were
used for the tables and covers were
placed for IL guests.
Bridge was played after dinner,
with Mrs. H. C. Hanson and Mrs.
Jessie Harris receiving prizes. A
number of gifts were presented to
Miss Newton.
Miss Newton is the daughter of
Mrs. G. NJ. Langum, 511 Fifth St.
She is a graduate of the Bismarck
high school and has been employed
here and in Grand Forks since that
time.
Mr.. Gill is son of Mr.. and Mrs.
r. r. Gill, Wheatland. His grand
father once was speaker of the
house in the state legislature.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21
Conference School Is
Organized by Officers

Organization of reserve officers
conference school was effected at a
dinner meeting of the Missouri Slope
Reserve Officers Mess Friday even
ing at the Patterson hotel, accord
ing to w. H. Payne, local reserve
officers adjutant.
Meetings will be held on the Sec
ond Monday of each month until
May with the exception of next meet
ing, which will be held Nov. 80 at
Fort Lincoln. Military problems
will be considered at each of the
gatherings.
The following reserve officers and
regular army officers from Fort
Lincoln were present for the meet
ing: w. H. Payne, DR.. ]. H. Hos
kins, L. V. Miller, Frank johnson
and Frank J. Bassett, Bismarck;
Robert Adams and C. j. Bakken,
Mandan; Captain George Jackson
and Captain E. A. Zipfel, Fargo;
Lieutenant T. F. Wells, Stark
weather; Lieut.. Col. Wallace Nc
Namara, Major F. A. Byrne, Cap
tain r. r. Tourtilott, Captain H. A.
Tonneson, Captain Bird Little, Lieu
tenant C. N. S. Ballou, Lieutenant
Lionel Trotter, Sergeant E. Hoff-
man and Corporal J. R. Brewster,
Fort Lincoln.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21
Auxiliary President
Attends Conference

Mrs. A. G. Porter, Edgeley, depart
ment president of the American Le-
gion Auxiliary, has left for Indiana
polls where she will attend q national
conference Of department presidents
and secretaries at national headuuar-
ters Nov % and "a. Mrs. James Nor
ris, national vice president of the
northwestern division of the Auxiliary,
will be unable to attend on account of
illness.
Mrs. Frederick G. Williams, nation
al president, will preside at the con-
ference, which will be in the nature of
a school of instruction for depart
ment officers. National chairmen
will outline their programs for the
year.
Mrs. Porter will speak on the topic,
"A Department Broadcasting Pro-
gram" during the session.
A membership roll call also will be
a feature of the meeting. For this
reason units throughout the state
have concentrated their efforts on
membership during the last two weeks
with the result that l6 units are now
over the top and the membership now
totals 28O0.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21
Meetings of Clubs
And Social Groups

The Ladies Aid society of che Nc
Cabe Methodist church will hold its
annual sale and supper in the church
parlors on Thursday Dec. 3.
Members of the Bismarck Study
Club will meet at 2:3O o'clock Mon
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
John r. Fleck, 712 Mandan st.
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The Yeomen Ladies club will hold
it's regular meeting at 2:30 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. L. F. Bechtold, 1923 Second st.
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Mrs. Henry Putnam, 623 Fifth St.
will be hostess to members of the
Cosmos club at the regular meeting
at 8 o'clock Monday evening.
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The local court of the Catholic
Daughters of America and the class
of initiates will hold pot-luck din
ner at 6:30 o'clock in st. Mary's
school auditorium. Later the group
Of candidates will be initiated and
the regular meeting Of the organiza-
ton will be held.
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The Monday club will meet at 3
o'clock Monday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. E. P. Quain, 518 Ave-
nue. A. Mrs. H. P. Goddard will
have the program.
Members of the Bismarck Oratorio
society will meet at 3 o'clock Sum
day afternoon at the Trinity Luth-
eran church.
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Members Of the Trinity Study Cir
Gle will meet at 1880 o'clock Mon
day evening at the home of Mrs. E..
w. knecht, SOC Third st.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21
Skaters Are Warned
To Stay Off of Pond

A warning to skaters to stay off
the pond near the underpass on the
Bimarck- highway was issued
Saturday morning by the city park
board.
John w. Reel, director Of recrea-
tional activities here, declared that an
investigation showed the ice no:
strong enough to support skaters.
If the cold weather continues for a
few more days the ice may then be
strong enough to support skaters and
the pond will be opened to public use.
he said.
The park board is planning several
ice rinkS for Bismarck skaters this
winter.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21
STATE COLLEGES
| FORM CONFERENCE
Eight Institutions Have Mem
bership in New North Da-
kota Organization

Valley City. N. D., Nov. 21.-(R)-A
North Dakota intercollegiate ath-
letic conference was formulated at a
meeting here Friday night of officials
from eight schools which constitute
the membership. The new organiza-
ton takes the place Of the former in
terstate athletic conference.
The withdrawal Of Moorhead State
teachers college and Park Region
college at Fergus Falls in Minnesota.
which was accepted. left only North
Dakota schools in the former inter-
state athletic conference and the re-
naming schools decided to organize
a new conference.
Bottineau School Of Forestry was
admitted into the new organization.
Other schools are located at Mayville,
Glendale, jamestown. Dickinson, MI
not. Wahpeton, and Valley City.
Sam Slemens. Glendale, was elected
president Of the intercollegiate ath-
letic conference. Other officers
named are E. j. Cassell, jamestown,
vice president. and James w. Cole
man, Minot, secretary y-treasurer.
A change in notification of players
was made. Lists Of players must be
exchanged by schools engaging in a
contest one week before the game is
played. whereas previously eligibility
lists were announced at the beginning
Of the season.
Formation Of the state conference
will lead to championship conference
games between neighboring states at
the close Of the regular season. F. c.
Spalding, athletic director at Valley
City college. said.
The Moorhead and Park Region
schools were represented at the meet
ing here. They said their schools
hoped to continue athletic relations
with colleges in North Dakota.
Officials are now engaged in draw
ing up football and basketball sched-
uleS, it was announced.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21

Dow Elected Head
OF Mandan Legion

Roy F. Dow was named to succeed
Charles Hughes as commander OF the
Gilbert s. Furness Post of the Amer
ican Legion at Mandan, at a meet
ing held at the Riverside Pavilion.
Other officers elected were: Carl
Keidel, vice commander; Joseph
Grauer, adjutant: Richard Furness,
senior officer; Rev. F. G. Norris,
chaplain: Charles Bugbee, historian;
Adolph Sanvu, sergeant-at-arms; and
H. R. Handtmann. Joseph Fleck, and
Allen Pfenning, members Of the exc
cutive committee.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21
ANSWER TWO FIRE
ALARMS SATURDAY
Local Firemen Summoned to
Extinguish Flames in CHM
ney and Automobile

Bismarck fireinen were called out
to extinguish two minor fires in the
city Saturday morning.
At $50 a. nl., chimney OH the
residence of George Singer, 800 South
Tenth St.. caught fire. Fremen had
little trouble extinguishing the blaze
and little damage was caused.
Fire of undetermined origin. but
probably caused by burning cigar
cite according to Harry A. Thompson
chief of the fire department, damaged
upholstering in r. F. Whites auto
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21
Clubs to Hold Joint
Meeting Next Week

Members of the Bismarck and
Mandan Rotary clubs will hold their
annual joint meeting at the Lewis
and Clark hotel. Mandan, at 1890 p.
m. bismarck time) next Wednesday.
This was announced Friday evening
by Ray Bergeson. president Of the
Bismarck club. at the banquet which
the Capital City organization staged
for members of Burleigh county All
clubs.
The Thanksgiving theme will be
carried out at the joint dinner meet
ing Of the Bismarck and Mandan
clubs,
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-21

PRIZE STORY IN ERROR
Information given to the Tribune
Friday to the effect that Walter
Dohn had received a $500 prize in
connection with q recent photograph
contest was erroneous, Mrs. Dohn
said Saturday.