davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
at the Union Square demonstration
Wednesday night against the Dies
Bill, declared that Fish in putting
forward the bill was carrying out the
orders of Hoover hunger regime In
its offensive against the workers.
"The sharpest fight must be car
ried on to prevent the passage of this
BILL" he said.
Old law tenements still standing in
the city numbered 67,240, on Dec.
1891, according to the former CON-
missioner of tenement houses, VIM
r. Deegan, who gees on to admit
MANY rooms in this class of tene.
ments have neither doors nor win.
dows opening on the outside. Also
the old law did not require toilets
or baths In each dwelling unit; FOL
the most part, hall toilets were In.
stalled and often one was used by
six or more families"
Some 30 0 Years Old.
"Old law" tenements are those
built before the Tenement House Law
of 1901, which required certain
changes with respect to fire. light
ventilation and sanitary conditions
It required a toilet for each family
and running water In each apartment
Even this law did not require bath
tubs or hot water Yet the old ten
ements built before this law was in
troduced In 1901 are still occupied by
at least 1900, 900 persons, according
to the State Housing BOARD.
Conditions are described as worse
on the lower east side, especially
the houses from Roosevelt st. to 14th
Street and from Chrystie to Goerick
Streets.
One hundred buildings covering a
frontage of five blocks along Allen
st. from Delaney st. to East Broad
way were condemned for public use
in May, 1880. Yet these buildings
we're rented for at least year fol-
lowing the condemnation. There is
no doubt that go-betweens we're
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24

workers ana Negro workers OF
Knoxville. There will be a DEL
egation of Tennessee farmers.
Delegates are being elected in
Chattanooga, by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense branches,
Communist Party units, block COM
mittees and church groups
In Chattanooga, where the mayor
gets a salary Of 1880, workers are
getting water to drink. cook and
wash with, from open sewers. Thous-
ands of workers have no toilets and
bucketfulls of refuse are kept in their
homes or thrown out on the ground
or into branches" from which work
ers are forced to get their drinking
water. Hundreds of unemployed
workers have had their water cut
off, because they can't pay their rent,
or high water tax.
Wage Cuts, Part Time Work.
The East Lake textile mill has
just put over 2 wage cuts in the last
three months, amounting to 20 per
cent. The Tom Cat Overall Factory
only pays from 81 to 81 week
Workers in chair factory, worl;
two and three days week and get
from 40 cents to $3.50 day. Workers
on new post Office construction job,
are working for Is cents an hour, on
work that the foreman admits he
would have to pay rs cents an hour
for in New York or Chicago. Hun
dreds of railroad workers got tricked
into taking 10 per cent wage cut,
on promises the unemployed railroad
workers would get their jobs back.
The unemployed railroad workers are
still looking for work.
Teachers have had two months pay
deducted. City employees, such as
truck drivers, who were getting $2l a
week. now work only every other
week, and get half pay.
Some workers are offered jobs If
they will sign papers that they will
vote for Taylor or some other re-
publican or democratic candidate.
Workers are unable to pay the ss.45
poll tax, and the politicians are
busy trying to buy the workers
votes by offering to pay the tax.
The big poll tax means that only
the rich can vote. No Starving,
ragged worker will cut out s2.45
to vote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24

these buildings, owned by the city.
Harlem as Bad.
Similar housing conditions are
found in the Harlem district where
Negro families are forced to pay high
rents for the worst tenements. Har-
lem old law tenements are in cal
most universal delapidation and dis
repair, the State Housing Board ad-
mitS.
So also in Brooklyn and in Queens,
workers must live in windowless
sleeping rooms, in unsanitary and
dangerous old law houses where there
is constant menace from fire and
disease.
Yet instead of tearing down old
! tenements, building new living quar-
tiers for workers, with housing pro-
gram that would employ thousands
of jobless workers, the Tammany-
controlled city of New York violates
such health and safety provisions as
there are in the law. The city mag
istrates suspend sentence in about IS
per cent of the violation cases and
impose fines in less than five per
cent.
Walker Aids Grafters.
This richest city in the world pay
ing its mayor yearly salary of $a0,-
COO (plus graft, does not build even
one block of houses where workers
can afford to live. Mayor Walker
made speeches just before the 1881
elections, promising to build model
houses in the Forsythe- Chrystie st.
area where seven blocks of houses
have been condemned, but of course
nothing has been done, the Labor
Research Association decares.
Two-thirds of the tenement dwell :
ers, even before the crisis, could not
afford to pay more than So room
a month, while private spectators
will not build apartments renting for
ess than SIS a room monthly. Yet
for not being able to pay the rentals
demanded even for the darkest, dirt
lest tenements thousands of workers
have been thr vn out on the streets
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
"Glad to See Folks
Writes Andy Wright
ScottsbOro Boy

NEW York; am also glad that
we will have visit from our kins-
folk Sunday writes Andy Wright.
one OF the nine Scottsboro boys, in
a letter to the International Labor
Defense organizer for the southern
district, expressing his appreciation
OF the visit the LID arranged between
the boys and their parents.
The boys are weary from the long
confinement, locked in the death cells
every hour of the day, and denied
all opportunity Of outdoor exercise
but they feel confidence in the Inter.
national Labor Defense and the work.
ing class. About the Supreme Court
acceptance of the appeal, Andy says:
Il thought that everybody on earth
should have reioiced (at) our good
news"
Al this Junctue, however, the
lid faces most serious shortage
Of funds. With the greatest burden
In the history of the American Ia
Dor on its shoulders, and with in
spring victories in sight, the need
of money to carry on the Scots
bcro campaign is now SO pressing
that direct appeal is made to the
working class Of the United states.
Help the lid now! Send funds
to International Labor Defense,
Room 4S0, 80 East 18th st., N. Y. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
Vets Get Daily Pap to Keep
Them Quiet on the Mud Flats
B.E.F. Leaders Provide Bunk Program to Get
Them Off Real Fight; Rev. Thomas Helps
Daily Dope.

On an average of three hours
day the vets are treated to an end
less spiel of paytriotic hunbug, and
the usual run of long-forgotten,
cheesey, wartime Jokes"
Then some flat slob will get up
and blubber lot of sentimental slop
about our dear wives and sweet
hearts" ending up with a prayer, or
pledge to support the dear old
flags" (of the bankers). And occa-
sionally, three cheers for our dear
friend and buddy and (under-cover
man of the gang that wants to clear
us out of here), General Glassford,
chief of police.
"Only God Can Make Tree"
But the finishing touch to this
oratorical burlesque was furnished by
none other than the Right" Rev.
Norman Thomas, who spoke as fol-
lows: "It does my heart good to see
SO many fighting men" (standing
ankle deep IN muo) VINO snow real
spirit of Americanism. Thomas
evaded the bonus question, but spoke
at great length on planting forest
trees and fighting poverty"
Following the reverend's spiel a
rank and file vet tried to get the
rostrum, but was completely ignored
by the chairman, Waters bench
man. And when this vet tried to
call a rank and file meeting, he was
thrown into Jail, threatened with
lynching, and turned over to Police
Chief Glassford.
e. w.
wet of Third Division, U.S.A., and
u. S. Marine Corps).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
NO STEAM
ROLLER, SAY
WAR VETS
Waters Plans Hand
Picked Bonus
Conference
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

leadership" but the wrath Of the
rank and file of the Illinois group
forced Cunningham, a Waters man to
resign following his appointment. Joe
Gardner, Negro vet was elected COM
mander of this group last week and
the rank and file insisted today in no
uncertain terms that Gardner remain
the leader.
Conditions in the camps continue
to get worse. The food ration has
been cut down considerably within
the past two days. The rank and file
is given two meals" per day, while
the military police and Waters
leadership" receive three meals,
The fight for the seating of Pace.
member Of the Workers Ex-Service-
mems League, on the executive COM
mittee is gaining strength. Pace is
still acting as corps commander over
the Communicated building area, to
which post he was elected by the
rank and file.
| Waters plan to enlist the veterans
in the Bonus Expiditionary Forces
for period of one year under strict
military discipline has met with great
opposition among the veterans. Pro-
tests were voiced in all camps today
against signing membership cards
which Waters distributed.
To rally the rank and file of vet
Grams to discuss their problems, the
Washington oPst of the Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League called mass
meeting tonight at the Pythian Hall.
The heat which followed the heavy
rains has caused the sick list to swell
in all camps and billets. Medical
attention is of the most primitive
kind Glassford's plan for transperta-
ton home has received little re-
Spouse from the vets. The veterans
answer is that there is nothing to
eat at home.
Despite efforts Of Glassford and
the press to break up the Bonus
Expeditionary Forces" only a few
hundred have left the city and addi-
tionsl recruits continue to arrive
The rank and file of the vets here
are standing solid in their fight for
the bonus.
Elected leaders Of B.E.F. contin-
gents, whom the Waters gang has
tried unsuccessfully to Gust, in a
statement issued today said;
"The fight is not over. 1t has only
begun. Congress shall not adjourn
until the bonus bill is passed. We
have been whispering for the bonus
and Congress did not hear. Now we
will make Congress hear us.
eve are strengthening our fight
by building an elected leadership
from below and will throw out the
betrayers. Now we must call up re-
serves-not only more veterans, but
contingents of the millions of the
unemployed whose needs are just as
shamefully neglected as ours.
"We are establishing connections
with the world movement of the vet
Grams, which has called an interna-
tional congress of veterans in Gen.
eva in August. We are now tight
ening our organization for the next
stage of the long battle. All workers
organizations should send solidarity
messages and reinforcements."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24


Did not Mr.. Dahl get q bonus of
$9s5, 900? Don't you think MIR. Dahl
is entitled to yacht where he can
entertain his chorus girl friends?
"Besides there are those who say
the company is taking ten per cent
rake of on uniforms sold by Brown
ing g. King. You know, the place
where you go downstairs, bump your
head on the ceiling and get such
good attention for your money. But,
anyway, there is no truth in it. This
Is no cheap company, not the BIN.
r.! They wouldn't even consider any
thing less than is per cent.
"And since the price of clothing
has come down some, the company
has arranged for US to wear uni
form of different material, yes infe-
rior material-but Of course, sold at
the same high price,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
Jobless Win More
Food in Charlotte:
Then Police Attack

CHARLOTTE, N. c., June %. -
Three weeks of mass meetings, at the
rate of four every night with a
march on the Salvation Army head
quarters, has resulted in large
number recognized by the authorities
as the more militant, getting in
creased food supplies including eggs,
cheese and lard, news heard of be-
fore in the relief distribution.
Friday night, however, the city 20
lice began a. campaign of terroriza-
ton, swooping down On an Unem-
ployed Council meeting at Southern
Blvd, and Bland st. driving the
Negroes away, prosecuting the speak
ers, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
S.W.P. LEADERS GO OVER TO
COMMUNIST PARTY

BERLIN-Three leading members
of the Socialist Workers Party, in
GLIDING member of its Central Com
mittee, Gertrude Dueby, and the re-
sponsible editor Of the daily news
paper THE Socialist Worker" Duck
stein, announce that they are re-
signing from the Socialist Workers
Party and request admission into the
Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
Michigan Convention.

DETROIT, Mich, June 23-Work-
ers from Detroit factories have been
invited and are expected in large
numbers at the public session of the
Communist State Nominating Con-
vention here, Sunday, at the Workers
Camp at the Twelve Mile Road and
Halstead Road
The convention starts Sunday at
p. IN. with session at Martin Hall:
another session Sunday morning at
the hall will precede theopen. session
at the Workers Camp.
The Communist Party will propose
as candidates for the leadings state
officers, an auto worker, miner end
a Negro ex-Ford worker. William
Reynolds, an auto worker, and or
ganizer Of the Ford section Of the
Communist Party,will be proposed for
Governor. John Mackay Of IRON
wood. Michiean district secretary of
the National Miners Union. will be
proposed for Lieutenant Governor
Jeseph nilluns. a Nero ap+o worker.
formerIv eranloved 1T Ford's will M
nrcposed for Secretary Of state
Conrade r,illsrs IS a Section Orqan-
izer of tire Communist PARTY and
a member Of TIE Distrdict Coo,rittce
BENJAMIN Faulkner, a Grand Ranids
fari-er will he PROPOSED as Auditor
General. Nellie Belunas. leader Of
the struggles Of women ord children
will he proposed as state Treasurer
Ard Jar1es kshrcrd. - wear old No
ero youth, secticn Organizer n the
Young Communists Les@ue VIII Be
p~ooose5 f5r Attorney General
Nominations viii BIZ made for 81
Conversational Districts end many
Communist candidates for state Leg
stature will be named.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
tBy a Vet Correspondent

WASHINGTON, June 23-The big
job of the leadership of the Bonus
Expeditionary Force is to get the
thousands of hungry vets to lie
quietly in the mud flats of Anacos-
tia.
So they arrange a daily program
of speakers, ranging from the hobo
kings, sky pilots, professional pa
triots," Liberty Bond statesmen and
others of the same kidney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24

There are 5000 ex-servieemen in
Chattanooga, starving and denied
their back pay the bonus.
Many jobs are discriminating
against Negro workers. A lumber
yard, which for over 10 years, hired
only Negro workers, is now firing
them, and hiring white workers
Houseworkers, doing the heaviest
work--scrubbing, cleaning and cook
ing-get as low as 50 and So a week
even s1.25 a week Laundry workers
get So and 81. Due to the starvation
and miserable conditions. 225 out Of
every 1000 Negro babies die under
year old.
No unmarried unemployed worker,
or families without children, get any
relief whatsoever from the Social
Service Bureau Only families OF
5 and over get relief. The rest can
starve.
Unemployed workers, trying to keer
from starving, are collecting papers
In Hoover wagons" they have made
themselves and push around. They
get 80 cents and 90 cents for 1OC
pounds. It takes from 8 to 4 weeks
to collect 100 pounds.
Tennessee workers, who are sick
of starving and going in rags, will
come to the Communist Party con-
vention on June goth. Mothers OF
the scottsboro boys will speak.
Illinois Convention.
DECATUR, Ill, June 23.-At 10
a. m. Sunday the Communist State
Nominating Convention for Illinois
viii open in Decauter, III. The ses-
sion will be at Workers Center, Jack
son and Prairie SITS.
All workers mass organizations
which stand for the fight for unem-
ploy1nent insurance, against wage
cuts, against iinperialist war, for Ne
gro equality, for relief TO the poor
farmers, and for the Communist
program in this election campaign
generally, are invited to send dele
gates. If the organization does not
meet between now and the conven-
ton date, and delegates have not yet
been chosen, the executives of the
organizations are invited to appoint
representatives to the Decauter con-
vention.
All delegates will assemble Sunday
at 3 a. m. in Peoples Auditorium, 2457
West Chicago Ave. There they will
get information as to route ano
where to stop in Decauter. All who
have cars should bring them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
Wisconsin Convention.

MILWAUKEE Wise. June 23.--
The Wisconsin state Nominating
Convention Of the Communist Party
will be held here Sunday, at South
Side Turner Hall. The Communist
Party will propose the large number
Of non-party delegates from workers
organizations the following ticket:
u. S, Senator, Raymond Hansbor-
ough, Negro worker.
Governor, Fred Passettt Blair.
Lieutenant Governor, w. A. Harju
national secretary of the United
Farmers League.
Secretary OF state, L. Nekmer.
state Treasurer, o. walin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24

$4,000 new members into the Par
ty during the election campaign!
Let the workers know what II Is
all about--give them the "Noon-
Hour Talk on the Communist Par
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
PREMIUMS FOR EXEMPLARY
SOWINGS

MOSCOW.--At the decision of the
Peoples Commissariat for Agricul-
ture premium of five million roubles
in the form of long term credit has
been granted to the Central Volga
district for exemplary sowing. This
sum will be used by the collective
farms in the district for the purchase
of further equipment.
Further, series of districts will
receive tractor and agricultural ma
chinery stations independently of the
plans.
A number of tractor and agricul-
tural machinery stations which have
worked particularly well during the
sowings campaign will receive motor
lorrieS to assist them in their work.
A number of collective farms have
received premiums of from two thou
sand to five thousand roubles for
cultural purposes.
The collective farms "Udarnik, y
'Lenin" and "Hatayevitch" have re-
ceived long-term credits of 10000
$4,000 and $4,000 roubles respectively.
A number of shock brigadefs have
also received premiums to a total of
81 200 roubles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
FtVe Communist State
Conventions on Sunday
Hunger in Mine Fields; Unemployed Drinking
From Sewers, Will Be Issues at Chattanooga
Masses of Auto Workers Expected at Detroit;
Illinois, New Jersey, Wisconsin Sessions
the ACCOMPANYING article.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn June 23.-The Tennessee State
Nominating Convention of the Communist Party Will be held
Chattanooga, Sunday, June 26th at 10 at the Masonic
HAIL. Ali East 9th Street Delegates expected from the
mining fields in Tennessee and from mill workers. unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
Prepare Jersey Convention.

NEWARK, N. j., June 23.LThe
New Jersey State Ratification Con-
vention of the Communist Party will
be held Sunday, June Is, at the
Newark Labor Lyceun, 7O4 South
14th ST., Newark, N. j. 1t will open
up at 10 am. sharp. This will mark
the opening of the election cam
paign on the statewide basis, and
will be the elimination of a three
day program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
"B. NJ. T." TEN PER
CENT CUT FOLLOWS
ANOTHER BIG SLASH
Bonus Taken Away from Subway Workers !;
But Big Boss Gets Bonus of $235,OOO
Company Gets the Graft on Uniforms Now
Gives Worse Material for Same Price
NEW YoRK.--The 7

NEW YoRKThe Daily Worker this
"B.MT BwttOn Pusher."
last wner had II cut in taken
facing this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
International
Notes
HITLER ISSUES MOBILIZATION
ORDER

BERLIN.-Today's Rote Fahne
charged that the National Socialist
legions have been ordered to report
armed to their headquarters within
"a hours. The order was issued by
Adolf Hitler.
The German government is busy
persuading the state governments that
Hitler's legions must be allowed to
appear in public.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
FRENCH Y.C.L. MAKES GOOD
PROGRESS

PARASITIC sevent congress of the
Young Communist League of France
is about to take place.
A special session of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
in discussing the important tasks fac
ing the League pointed out its prog
ress.
The membership raised from $500
to 5000 and the circulation OF
"LAvantgarde" increased from 10000
to 10000 after the league overcamt
the effects of the sectarianism Of
the Barbe group.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24

Study the 14th Plenum Resolutions.
Get a copy of the new Pamphlet,
Toward Revolutionary Mass Work"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24

Why should the workers vote
Communicated IL in the Elec-
ton Platform of the lCommups--
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR:
I. Equal rights for the Negroes ana
seif-determinaticn for the Black
s Belt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-24
Jail Ohio Negro strikers

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, June 49,
The twelfth week of the strike of
10000 Eastern Ohio coal miners was
usrered in yesterday with the arrest
OF two starving Negro strikers for
taking few eabbages from &c den
in the strike area.
The operators admitted yesterday
that less than 300 miners have sex
pressed willingness to go back to
work"
And on the same date a National
Miners Urion meeting ives held in
Blaine, Ohio. So many n ners there
have re1udiated the United Mine
Workers of America leadei ship that
the NMU was able to call its own
mass messing with mass support. This
means that more than l,560 mine
strikers in what started az a UNIV
strike will have voted within the last
two weeks to take the strike into their
own hands. Thousands ore express
dissatisfaction with the UNIV Off
Gals.
John Cinque, UNIV president of
Sub-district 6, announces that all
mass picketing must stop and that
only three pickets fifty feet apart can
march before each mine.
Mass pickcting, spreading through
the field, SHOWS how completely str:.k-
ers are disrega-t.ng the orders of
UNIV strike brCaking officials aid
taking the advice of the National
Miners Union.
March Through Gas
Pickets at Cashier mine marched
through clouds of tear gas and kept
the scabs out, Monday, although %
we're arret ted before the affair was
over. Two truckloads OF militia were
rushed to the Cashier deputies aid
from Cadiz, but arrived too late for
the fight.
A special meeting of Steubenvilla
County commissioners was called aft
er this mass picketihg at Cashier, and
there, according to the wheeling Ill
te,ligencer, "Sheriff Yost informed
the commissioners that a number of
mines are planning to re-open and
deputies are needed to scatter the
pickets."
1t is plain that the sheriff's his
toric statement will be easy to fulfil
If the strikers take the UNIV Off
Gals advice and limit picketing tc
three men at each mine.
Ore hundred warrants have beer
issued for Flushing strikers and sever
more have been arrested In Arnster-
dam.
The starvation which IS indicated
by TIT arrest of the two Negre strik-
efs at amsterdam Is prevalent thru
cut the strike area. Push food and
funds to Workers international Re-
lief, Room a, Ffet.er Bldg. The WIFE
has issued call TO all UNtWA anc
NMU locals III Tie strike area for 9
relief conference tc Re held July 2.
Jim Netzel, the JMWA official who
tried to incite a lynching OF a Negro
organizer of the National Miner;
unNn recently, has again taken &
lob as deputy sheriff The UMWA
has NOT announced that he has left
his official position in the UNIV.