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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
Jobless March on n. Y. CITY
Hall and Demand Relief
10000 Voice Determination Not Stave; Pledge to Meet Mayors
Refusal Feed Families With Gigantic Unemployed Organization
Wa11ker-McKee, Twins
Same Tammany Program for Starving
JObless

Walker when it
dealing with the obess On March 1880 Walker and Police
the of Aldermen silence
other of the
mee Councils demands for relief before
both Walker
the the committee dubbed right in the
objection.
another Walker played sick Mckee
place nothing necessary
bring down here
Feb 25 1881 hume demonstration surrounded the City Hall
then said: Its
they the ice cream?' Mckee there and made
objection.
the jobless to the Board of Aldermen
these the finance
10
Oct ls 1881 delegation Of the Unemployed Councils to the Board
$OO0000 slated for the bankers
jobless merely
meeting referred the executive session
did nothing
the demands with the remark why
do always you reques"
interested seeing the bondhoders paid
than in distributing relief
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12

now on tour torally the veterans
in the fight for the bonus, will speak
in st. Paul.
Demand Bonus at Legion Meet.
PORTLAND. Ore, Sept. 11-While
Henry L. Stephens, Jr., and other
leaders Of the American Legion were
issuing yelled warnings against the
veterans demands for immediate
payment of the bonus, rank and file
Legion members were preparing to-
day to raise the bonus demand in
the national convention which opens
Monday.
1t is almost certain that the rank
and file will force the bonus resolu-
ton. through over the opposition Of
the Legion leadership, but it is clear
that the resolution will mean moth
ing unless backed by mass militant
action on the part of the great mass
of veterans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
The Jobless Delega.
ton Asked:

1 Immediate cash relief of $40
a week minimum for each family
Of two, and So additional for each
dependent.
2. One dollar a day cash relief
for single and young unemployed
workers.
8. Stopping of all evictions of
unemployed; repeal Of the eviction
law.
4. Abolition of private job shark
agencies: opening Of free city en-
ployment agencies under workers
control.
S. Appropriation by the city of
500 00o,0 900 for winter relief.
6. Stopping of all discrimination
against Negro and foreign born
workers in relief distribution.
Z. Endorsement by the city
government of Unemployment In
surance to be pail by the govern
ment and employers as well as i'm
mediate cash payment Of the bonus
to war veterans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12

lions impoverished working men,
women and children in this city ur-
less through greater mass pressure
they forced the City government to
change its position.
The 80 delegates, elected by work
ers on breadlines, in 1ophouses, trade
unions, block committees, Unem-
ployed Councils and workingclass
fraternal organizations, and led by
Carl Winter, secretary of the Unem-
ployed Councils, and Henry Shop
pard, Communist candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor of New York, were
admitted through the steel ring of
police that encircled City Hall at
1910 and entered the luxuriously
appointed reception room of the
Mayor three minutes later.
Democracy in Citl Hall
The richly clotfaer city officials,
flanked by high ranking officers of
the police department, were in sharp
contrast to the sfabbily dressed
Negro and white workers who had
been elected by the masses of the city
to present their demands for meas
mes that would alleviate their IN
bearable starvation.
Mckee forced the delegation to
wait for i've minutes to impress them
with the weight OF his Importance. !"
AS he strobe into the room, accom-
panied by a half dozen uniformed
guerillas, the police and the officials
jumped to attention as If they were
petty mobiles paying homage to
royalty.
Still wearing the mask of neutral
ity'' on the question Of relief which
he had donned on assuming Office
last week, Mckee srnilingly asked
Carl Winter, head OF the delegation,
to present the demands. But before
Writer presented any of the demands,
the leader of the unemployed de-
scribed the extent of unemployment
in New York and the terrible suffer-
ing of hundreds of thousands of
workers who are slowly starving to
death because of the refusal of the
richest city in the world to provide
adequate relief. Winter told OF the
red tape in the Home Relief Bureaus
which had caused workers to commit
suicide, Of the recent cuts in relief
which have brought the average re-
lief distribution to 30 cents week
for those lucky enough to be re-
ceiving relief. BY the time Winter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
CLUB JOBLESS
IN MILWAUKEE,
1000 Battle Police At
Relief Station

MILWAUKEE,, Sept. 11.LOver four
thousand workers demanding unenl-
ployment relief fought for over an
hour with scores of police armed
with riot guns at the 10th and Line
coin st. Relief Station Friday morn
ing.
When the workers arrived the sta
ton police blocked the entrance and
refused to allow the committee which
was elected by the workers to enter.
A riot call was sent out and the
police of the Socialist" city went
pell-mell about the dirty work of
clubbing and beating the workers,
Twelve Jailed.
In the affray many we're injured.
including one policeman, who vas
sent to the hospital. Albert Kraw-
c2yk, recently a member OF the So
cialist Party, was viciously dubbed
over the head by Mayor Hoan's
finest" Twelve workers are held
in jail and more arrests are taking
place.
This struggle fer relief, which was
lead BY the South Side Unemployed
Council, follows a series Of struggles
at other relisf stations where the
socialist administration met the
workers with the most brutal vio-
lence.
The Unemployed Council issued
ctats,nent today holding Mayor Hoan
responsible for the clubbing of work
ers and demanding the withdrawal
of police from the relief stations,
recognition of the workers commit
tres and the adjustment of forced
labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
WIN TWO KNIT
GOODS STRIKES
Claire and De Luxe
Workers Get Demands

NEW YORK.-The workers Of the
Claire and De Luxe Knitting Mills,
after a one-day strike, went back to
work with substantial gains in condi-
tons. The strike of the Claire Knit
ting Mills was declared against the
per cent wage cut and low wages.
The strike was settled with the fol-
lowing gains:
I. Recognition of the shop COM
mittee.
2. Withdrawal Of the wage cut
3. A wage increase for the lover
paid workers.
4. Two hours off the working
week.
A number of workers joined the
union and the others who did not
join at the meeting pledged to join
after they get their first weeks pay.
The strike at the De Luxe was
settled on the following basis:
1. Recognition of the shop COM
nittee and union.
2. Forty-four hour week.
3. Wage increases to most Of the
workers, between 10 and 20 per cent.
4. No discharges.
5. No discrimination.
The short victorious strikes of these
two shops and the settlements of 9TH
er strikes which we're conducted by
the Knitgoods Dept. Of the Industrial
Union recently will be discussed at
the meeting of shop committees and
active members on Monday, Sept. IL,
$50 p. m. at 131 w. 18th st,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
BLAST SHIP HAD
A ROTTEN HULL
Death Toll Rises to
Al; Many Missing

NEW YORK. - The recovery of
three more bodies from the wreck of
the Observation, which blew up in
the East River Friday, brings the
total of known dead to Al. There are
still II missing. The bodies are those
OF John W. Chandler, q, steel worker:
Daniel Dillon, an iron worker, and
E. w. Strauss, a pipefltter.
+ Five inspectors of the U. S. Bureau
of Steamboat Inspection swore in the
investigation Saturday that the hull
of THE Observation was sound. But
at the exact moment the hull was
being raised, and could be- seen to be
absolutely rotten Assistant District
Attorney Carney of the Bronx, who
saw the wreck, grudgingly admitted
Those planks certainly look rotten"
and then added, "Of course, not
enough OF it has been raised yet to
be sure"
Arrest Workers
The District Attorneys Office Is
holding under heavy bond Otto Nell
son, a deckllaIld who was on the
dock, and two firemen who formerly
worked, Walter Larsen and Victor
Michaelson. No charges have been
filed against them yet. Captain For
sytlae of the Observation, who owned
the ship in partnership with his
father, who was killed in the explpo-
sion, is held on $4,000 bonds.
But no charge has been placed
against the j.. P. Carlin Contracting
Co., which cchartered the boat and
forced 12e of its workers to ride this
death trap.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12

had finished describing the conditions
another one of the demands was that
the city appropriate $100,000,0o0 for
this purpose. Mckee then asked
Winter what in his opinion the city
should do if the $100, 100000 wouldn't
be enough to take care OF all the
needs Of the unemployed in New
York. Winter answered that the IN
employed workers demanded that the
city in that case refuse to pay inter-
est on the loans that the bankers
have made to the city, the money
thus saved to be used for the relief
of the unemployed, After trying to
confuse the issue by saying that
"bondholdsrs, not bankers, had loan
ed the city the money, Mckee said
pointblank that the city would con-
tir1ue to pay interest on the bankers
loans, and implied very openly that
if the bankers demanded it the city
would cut relief after Oct. /. When
Winter said: "Then your answer is
that bankers are more important
than starving workers." Mckee re-
piled: "You are. not here to ask
questions. Don't heckle me-
On the question of the repeal Of
the eviction law, another OF the de-
mands of the unemployed, McKee's
answer was that the city would
neither do that nor permit the home
less. to live in the thousands OF emp
ty apartments in every section OF the
city.
Mckee Drops Mask of Neutrality
BY the time Winter had finished
presenting the is demands, Mckee
had dropped his mask completely and
was openly hostile to Winter and the
entire delegation.
III his summing up speech to Win
ter's statement, Mckee made the fol-
lowing announcements
All relief after Oct. would de-
pend on the attitude Of the bankers
towards the question of relief, and of
the burden that the taxpayers
could stand. He also limited broadly
that private charity (the block-aid)
would have to take care of more of
the unemployed than it has been.
While approaching the suffering
that the unemployed workers must
be going through, he could promise
them nothing because of the limit
ed" resources of the city. And what,
Mckee asked, will you do In case the
\ CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
Minneapolis Vets Meet
In Bonus Conference
Legion Head In Futile Attempt to Crush Bonus
Movement Before Convention
Rank and File Conference in Cleveland to
Take Up Plans for New March
BULLETIN


WASHINGTON D. C, Sept 11Presdent
William D. Mitchell which said that the
aggregation of criminals assembled the city"
justify attack
the to the capital
MINNEAPOLIS Sept n-Fonowing
Elliot tonight.
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demands for relief Of New York's<
starving masses.
The answer of the bankers and
1dlofds who control the city gov
eminent, as it was transmitted by
their servant, Mckee, was THE de-
nands of the jobless for relief won't
be granted"
Mckee was too demagogic to de-
liver a fiat and unequivocal mo"
But he left absolutely no doubt in the
minds of either the 80 delegates of
the unemployed, or the small horde
of city officials and police who filled
the City Hall reception room that
misery, hunger and brute starvation
would continue to grip the mil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12

for immediate relief had penetrated
into the mayors reception room while
Mckee was arrogantly informing the
delegation of 80 workers who we're
presenting the demands of TIL e
marchers that the CITY could do
nothing for the unemployed
From fifteen to twenty thousand
workers who were. gathered in City
Hall Plaza to greet the marchers
choked Park Row-which is fifty
wards wide at this point-and forced
the police to reroute all traffic. The
rnarchers arrived at City Hall as the
delegation Of 80 was leaving 1t with
McKee's decision that the city gov
eminent was incapable Of alleviat-
ing the starvation that is gripping
three million working class men,
women and children in the city.
Carl Winter, Emanuel Levin. and
other leaders of the unemployed re-
ported McKees answer to the as
ssmbled workers despite the orders Of
the police that no nesting be held,
March Back to Union Square
AS the workers shouted their de-
termination to continue the struggle
to force the city government to sup
ply relief. they spontaneously fell into
disciplined ranks again and marched
the three miles back to Union Square
where they held another meeting
lasting an hour.
The return march and the second
meeting we're entirely spontaneous
and showed the willingness of the
marchers to carry forward the strug-
gle for an end to the starvation that
is the lot OF more than half of the
working masses in New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
Mayor Mckee
Answered:

I. mo. Where would we get tbs
money!? The city has to continue
paying interest on its loans"
2. Refused to answer.
3. I'VE will not do that, nor will
we permit the homeless to i've in
the empty apartments"
4. Refused to answer.
S. THAT depends on the attitude
of the bankers toward more loans
to the city, after Oct. l"
6. Refused 70 answer.
z. Refused to answer on unem-
ploylnent insurance bill. But to the
question on the bonus, Mckee an
swered: 81 shall not ask the Board
Of Aldermen to endorse the payment
Of the bonus, and I shall not ask
it to condemn the attack on the
veterans"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
Children Storm City
Council; Demand Shoes
Stocking and Clothes

MUSHROOM, Mich. CBy. MaiD "A
mass of small children under the
leadership of the Young Pioneers Of
America storrned the Muskegon
Heights city council chamber Sept.
I and demanded shoes and clothes so
they might attend school during the
next session.
The councilmen, seeing the deter
mination written on the little ones
faces, at once promised to arrange
that they should have clothes.
Determined to return again If de-
mands are no tr1et with, the children
left the council room.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12

of the unemployed here, Mckee had
stopped smiling. 1t was clear that he
realized more than demagogy would
be necessary to side-track the ques-
ton of starvation which Writer had
raised.
Bankers More Important Than the
Workers
The first demand presented by
Winter was that of $40 week for
each family of two and So a week
additional for each dependent. Nc
Kee interrupted him to ask where
the City Government would get the
money to pay the unemployed work
ers this sum. Winter answer that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
Jobless Tell Mckee How to
Get Funds Needed for Relief

NEW YoRK-rt the capitalist
that the workers
the to their
relief" delegation presented the following
hold city.
2-Cuttng city oicehoders to
not cutting of the the civil service each
ers, iremen street cleaners etc..
until there
pay demanded by the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
Fosters Important
Chicago Speech to
Appear Tomorrow

The exceptionally important
Chicago speech of William q.
Foster. Communist candidate for
President, in which he makes a
new call for united struggle
against starvation, proposing new
plans, Will appear tomorrow III
full in the Daily Worker, with a
full account of the big mass dem
onstration in the Coliseum which
heard the speech.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12

have been receiving. Without an immediate
and substantial increase in donations, we will
be forced to drop even these two pages!
The drive to raise $4,000 has passed the
$4,000 mark, but is still pitifully behind
schedule. Unless every worker gets behind
the drive, we will not be able to return to four
pages again And those who have seen how
much vital news has had to be kept out of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
BRING BACK OUR FOUR PAGE DAILY! RUSH FUNDS!

our Daily in the last three two-page issues,
should realize what blow this would be.
Assure the existence of the Daily in four
pages by raising at least $1,000 every day from
now until the end of the drive. Everybody
on the job collecting, visiting organizations.
friends, neighbors! Speed funds today to the
Daily Worker, so E. 10 St., New York City,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
10000 MARCH
IN CLEVELAND
Demand Relief, Fight
Tear Gas, Clubs

CLEVELAND, Sept. 11.-Tear gas
bombs, police clubs, intimidation and
arrests were used by the police de-
partment today, in attempts to pre-
vent masses Of relief to branch Of
fees of the Associated Charities.
The demonstrations we're city-wide
affairs, led by the Unemployed Coun-
ellis and Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League. Approximately 10000 work
ers participated, comprising women,
youth, children, Negro and ex-ser-
vicemen.
The most militant demonstration
took place in the Collinwood section
of the city, where 5000 workers
fought bravely against blackjacks
clubs and tear gas. Mrs. Christine
Chacci and John Group we're bru-
tally beaten by the police. Workers
coming home from work In the Gen.
eral Electrict Co. joined with the I'M
employed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12

Today marks the third appearance of
two-page Daily Worker. We have kept our
paper going, knowing that even single
sheet is better than no paper at all. We have
hoped that the workers would awake to the
need of greater response, and realize what
paper.
From late Friday until Sunday noon only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12

$439.88 came in, making the total since We'd
nesday, when we appealed for $500, only
$2,00910. This is $1,740.90 short of what
must arrive by 8 o'clock tonight, and $5,490
less than the sum we must have by Wednes-
day night in order to keep the Daily alive.
The great drop in the weekend receipts
is danger signal The Daily Worker can
not continue to live on the meagre funds we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
WANTS A MUSSOLINI TO RULE
limited STATES

NEW YORK, sept. 1o.-The United
States should have Mussolini, said
Poultney Bigelow, author and his
torian. in self imposed interview
on his 77th birthday.
''We should never again suffer the
humiliation of having our CHIEF
executive at the mercy OF an army
of irresponsible tramps," he said, re-
ferring to the Bonus Army in Wash
ington,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
SEES PERIL IN CUTTING OFF
EDUCATION

ITHACA, N. Y, Sept. to.-Re-
ducing funds for education means a
great danger, Clyde Miller Of Colunl-
bia University, told the district meet
ing of the American College Pub
licity Association at Cornell Univer-
sity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
GORGULoY STARTS GREEN
RELIGION

PARIS, France, Sept. IL. - Paul
Gorgulov has added a religion to his
Green Party" the anti olshevik
gang in whose name he killed Presi-
dent Doumer in order to provoke a
war on the Soviet Union. He calls
it the Green Religion" and wants
to wear a green robe in his cell. He
is condemned to be beheaded within
q few days,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
SUBJECT WHITE GUARDS IN
ROBINS CASE

New York White Guard Russians
are suspected of being implicated IN
the disappearance of Colonel Ray
mond Robins by his friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
JoBLEss OFFERS HIMSELF FOB
SALE

CHICAGO, Sept. 1o.-Cherles Wen
iberg, an unemployed worker, had an
advertisement inserted in local
newspaper, in which he offered him
self for sale as a lifetime slave for
$4,000.
The ad read as follows: Man, 80,
ex-soldier, healthy, wishes to sell his
time for year-or life-for $4,000 IN
order to help his family"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
REPORT SOVIET PLANE
WRECK

MOSCOW, Sept. 11.-Three men,
bers of the crew on Soviet plane
are reported to have been killed, ac-
cording to news received here when
the plane crashed Sept. z in Belujia
Bay in Barents Sea. Two were saved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
EVOLUTION OF A SOCIALIST
TEAnER

LONDON, Sept. 11.-Prime Minis
ter Macdonald OF England is to be
rewarded by his masters and will be
sent to the House of Lords In the
British parliament as a Peer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12

The conference will elect delegates
to the National Conference of Rank
and File Veterans to be held in
Cleveland Sept. 23-24-25.
On Monday, Sept. IL, Pace, who is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
CUBAN STUDENT JAILED

HAVANA, Cuba, Sept, 11.-Antonlo
Mendieta, a Havana schoolboy, was
sentenced yesterday to eight years IN
prison on the alleged charge that he
planted a bomb in the Lasalle Col
Iege here last November. The jail
ing of Mendieta is part of the CAM
paign OF terror now being waged
against the revolutionary workers,
peasants and students of Cuba by
the Machado government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
NC KEE TURNS DOWN
DEMANDS OF JOBLESS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF
Refuses to Answer Those Demands Which He
Doesn't Turn Down
Answers Flat mo" to Demand That He En-
dorse Payment of Bonus

YORKThe
the City poured through the windows City Hall Saw
against
Mayor Mckee he first suave then arogan the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
VOTE COMMUNIST

Against capitalist terror; against
al forms OF suppression OF the
political rights of workers. /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
IL the Days
Nevs
DESCRIBES EMOTION METER

0ESO6k6ES EN1OlION N1E len
ITEICA, N. Y, Sept. ia new
human electric meter, which reads
the fugitive currents induced in the
skin by emotion and disease, was de-
scribed yesterday by Chester w.
barrow of the Institute of Juvenile
Research, Chicago, before the Amer
lean Psychological Association T-9
device, according to Mr.. Darrow, o.
fers a new method of diagnosing hu-
man ills.
SHERIFFS WANT MORE POWER
ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. lat the
closing session OF the annual con-
vention Of the Sheriffs' Association
the New Jersey sheriffs demanded
legislation which would grant them
wider police powers. The Jersey
sheriffs resented the fact that state
police had more power than the
sheriffs to search, bulldoze, third de-
gree and generally terrorize people
throughout the state OF New Jersey
during the recent Lindbergh hdnap-
ping case.
The sheriffs revealed the fact that
they want to supersede the state po-
lice in these matters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR

Equal rights for the Nc oes and
self determination in the Black
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR:

I. Unemployment and Social Insurance
at the expense Of the state and enc
ployers.
Z. Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy.
3. Emergency relief for the poor farms
ers without restrictions by the govern=
ment and banks; exemption of poor
farmers from taxes, and no forced
collection Of rent or debts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-12
ROOSEVELT SERVES HIS
MASTERS

ALBANY, Sept. 11.-September IT
was set. aside by Governor Roose-
welt, democratic candidate for Presi-
dent Of the United States, as Con
stitution Day" in an official proc
lamation issued yesterday, in order
to whip up patriotic sentiment for
the wall Street dictatorship IN
washington.