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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
PAINTERS WIN
VICTORY In 3
DAY STRIKE
Win Demands After
Three Days Militant
Struggle

NEW YORK.-After three days Of
well organized and militant picketing
the alteration painters of the Hunts
Point Decorating Co. and the Art
Craft of Bronxville won all their de-
mands.
The strike developed over the firing
of a worker and discrimination
against union workers. During the
course of the strike the bosses tried
to speak to individual workers and
seduce them back to work. under
scab conditions. The workers, how
ever, fought 100 per cent together.
The boss of the Art Craft tried to
use the American Legion, of which
he Is a member and also the officials
of the Mt. Vernon A. F. of L. to
help the strike In both cases the
workers defeated him. Tuesday night
forced the bosses to grant all de-
mandS of the strike committee.
The demands won are as follows
l. Reinstatement of all men
workers with no exceptions.
2. Recognition of the shop COM
mittee.
3. Equal division of work.
4. No firing by the boss unless
taken up with the shop committee.
s.. No discrimination against
union activity.
6. All men hired, If not yet mem
bers of the organization, must join
the organization.
All these demands were put up by
the workers and then approved by
shop meeting of all the workers.
All the strikers realized the sup
port they got from the labor press
during the course of the strike. In
order to show their appreciation they
decided to contribute SIS for the Daily
Worker and the Morning Freiheit to
be collected by the shop chairman
from their first pay this Saturday.
The strikers also instructed the Gen
eral Organizer to send letter of
appreciation to the Daily Worker
and Freiheit with the contribution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
"SOVIETS CHALLENGE" OPENS
AT ACME TODAY

The Acme Theatre, 14th Street
and Union Square, beginning today
will present the Soviet film, "Soviet's
Challenge" an extraordinary and eX-
elusive showing Of picture not seen
here before. The picture is based on
THE Fifth Year" and was produced
in the USSR by Proletkino. The film
shows the progress and achievements
in the Soviet Union. On the same
program the Acme Theatre will pre-
sent an added feature, Songs of the
Cossacks." This is the first time this
picture Of the Cossacks and their folk
songs has been shown here.
Elmer Rices comedy THE Left
Bank" now playing at the Little
Theatre, will give its 2OOth perform
ance there tonight. Katherine Alex
ander, Horace Braham and Donald
Macdonald play the leading roles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
FSU to Hold Two
Debates in Bronx
on Soviet Govt
D e b a t e S P art O f
Struggle Against
War

SIS the Soviet Form of Government
Applicable to the United States"?, is
the question being discussed widely
by workers, petty bourgeois liberals,
ETC., throughout the United States.
The capitalists do realize that the
Soviet form of government is appli-
cable to the United States therefore
their provocative war moves against
the Soviet Union and their attempts
to crush the Chinese Soviets.
In order to clarity this question to
the workers of New York City, the
New York District Friends of the
Soviet Union is running two debates
on this subject; one in the West
Bronx section on Thursday evening,
March oath at Burnside Manor, II
85th w. Burnside Avenue and the
other in the East Bronx Section, on
Friday, March 25th at Ambassador
Hall, Third Avenue and Claremont
Parkway, at 8 p. m.
These are being held in conjunc-
ton with FSU Anti-War Demon
STATIONS all over the city. These
meetings will be of extraordinary in
terest to all workers
All the delegates elected thus far
to go to the Soviet Union for May 1,
will also speak at these anti-war de-
bate meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
Laundry Workers
Held on High Bail
Try to Smash Strike
by Jail, Terror

Although the attorney for the
Laundry Workers Industrial Union
has twice brought the 8 framed-up
active workers and Union Organi-
zers in a writ before the Judges OF
the Brooklyn Supreme Court, these
vicious Tammany hirelings persist in
their refusal to lower the outrageous
ly high bail of $4,000 dollars. Thye
are doing the dirty work of the
Laundry Bosses Association, claim
ing that the Union is a racket out
fit. BY holding the most active
strikers and organizers in jail for a
long time, the bosses hope to break
the strike Of the militant Negro and
white workers in the New Style
Laundry, 10th st. and Bird Avenue,
where these workers demonstrated
their solidarity 100 per cent, by strik-
ing for a Negro worker, who had
worked there for ten years and been
fired.
The Inter-Boro Laundry Board OF
Trade Inc, the bosses Association,
at the same time hopes to smash
the Union, through this frame-up.
Their gangsters are giong into the
vraious laundries, using this vicious
frame-up as a means to discourage
and terrorize the workers. But the
bosses vicious schemes has had the
opposite results. In fact, this frame
up has hit them like a boomerang,
because the laundry workers through
out the city are more determined
than ever to consolidate their ranks
within the Union in order to smash
the attempts of the bosses and their
Association to further wrosen the al
ready bad sweatshop conditions ia
the laundry industry.
All workers are asked to come to
Strike Headquarters of the Laundry
Workers Industrial Union, at 5 E.
18th St., first floor, and help the
militant strikers of the New Style
Laundry win their strike against
sweatshop conditions that have been
the worse in the industry for the last
ten years.
The Laundry Workers Industrial
Union is giving its first annual Ball
this Saturday night, March 26, at 8
pm. at Ambassador Hall, 3rd Ave.
and Claremont Parkway. All work
ers must cooperate to make this
first Ball a success. Ten per cent
Of the proceeds goes to the Kentucky
Miners and the rest to our own
Strike Fund. Tickets are to be had
evenings at the Union Office at 200
E. 138th' st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
10 Delegates in Detroit
PledgeFig htonWarand
Defense of Soviet Union

DETROIT, March 23.-On Sunday,
March 20, over 10 delegates from
80 organizations attended the Anti
War Conference at Northwestern
High School auditorium.
Comrades John Schmies and Ben
jamin from New York we're the main
speakers. They pointed out the i'm
portance of organizing anti-war
committees and mobilizing the work.
ers for action against the robber war
on China and armed intervention
against the Soviet Union.
The conference voted not TO seat
three delegates from the Proletarian
party, following a long discussion
during which the traitorous role of
the Proletarian party in disrupting
the struggles Of the workers was ex-
posed, It was brought out in the
discussion that the day after the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
FRANKLIN THEATRE TO
SHOW ROAD TO LIFE

Road To Life" the Amkino film
which presents in vivid way the
story and tribulation of the orphaned
children who were left homeless fol-
lowing the war and famine, and who
were turned into useful citizens by
the Soviet government, will have its
first showing in the Bronx at the
Franklin Theatre, l61st and Prospect
Avenue. The Russian talkie will be
shown at the Franklin two days only
Thursday and Friday. Road To
Life" is now its last two days at the
jefferson, on 14th Street; 5Sth st at
Lexington Avenue and at the Royal,
Westminster and Bergen Avenues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
"A. F. |. Sells Out
Furniture Movers
McKenna B e t r a y S
workers

NEW YORK. - John McKennat
secretary and treasurer of the A. f.
of L. Furniture Handlers Union Local
814 completed the sell out the strike
begun on January 9th. against a 10
per cent wage cut. His attempts to
sell out the workers was made at the
very beginning when he told the
workers to accept the cut, but they
refused by q vote Of 4 to /.
During the strike he refused to call
meetings and report to the workers,
The resentment and pressure among
the rank and mile made him uneasy
and last Sunday he called meeting.
The rank and file put up a demand
for II workers to compose the strike
committee and engage in all nego-
tiations with the bosses.
McKenna prepared for the meeting
by notifying an only small portion Of
the membership.
Many workers have lost their right
through his ruling that those unable
TO pay dues, cannot attend meetings
and vote.
He brought with him a number OF
fellow misleaders." from other A. F.
of L. unions to pile the workers with
barrage of lies and demagogy.
McKenna put up counter demand
of 10 on the committee. He then pro-
ceeded to select his henchman on it
and included himself and the preSi-
dent of the local Mahoney as the
rank and file representatives of the
furniture movers.
With this put over on the workers
it was easy sailing for the sell out,
with the irony of putting the blame
of the lost strike on the rank and
file committee" that is on the workers
themselves.
McKenna has also deprived most of
the membership of their $40 strike
benefit, giving the benefit to about
one third of the membership thus
splitting the ranks of the workers,
A group of rank and file members
distributed laflets exposing MsKenna
demanding that rank and file COM
mittee of 35 lead the strike, that all
workers receive $40 strike benefits.
that unemployed workers be exempt
from dues that regularly weekly re-
ports be made and other demands in
the interest of the rank and file. The
fear of this message by the officials
was shown by a workers was attacked
for distributing the leaflets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
Milwaukee Communist Vote
Increases Three-fOld Over193O.

candidates in the April 5th election.
Analysing the Milwaukee elections,
a resolution Of the Milwaukee Section
of the Communist Party states:
Compared to the 1880 votes our
Party increased its vote about three
times in the Milwaukee County pri-
mary elections on March Is, by poll
ing 1858 for our candidate for Mayor,
and a total of 275S in the County.
The vote for Mayor in w. Allis and
for the aldermanic candidates in
Racine, shows only a slight increase
compared to the last election results.
The vote for some Of the supervisors,
like in the Tenth District, where 400
were counted for Duga, 141 in the
goth, where the unit has been in
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24

MILWAUKEE,, Wis.-The Commu-
mist Party here in the primary city
and county elections was able to in
crease its vote three-fold over the
1880 elections. The Communist can
didate for mayor in the primary re-
ceiVed 1,75S votes in Milwaukee, and
the county candidates received 1890
votes. The highest Communist vote
previously was for governor, when the
candidates got 681 votes in Milwaukee
and s74 votes in the County
The Socialists scored heavy gains
Mayor Hoan receiving $4,000 votes,
and the socialist aldermen securing
the nominations in 20 out Of q
wards.
The Communist Party Of Milwau-
kee is now calling on the workers to
write in the name OF the Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
REED CLUB PARTY
TO R AISE BAIL
For 8 Members Held in
Kentucky Jails

NEW YORK. - The John Reed
Club will stage party, Saturday,
March 26, for the Kentucky Prison
ers Bail Fund.
Three of the 10 leaders now rot
ting in the rta-infested Kentucky
jails, living on a diet of bread and
beans, are members of the John
Reed Club. To secure their liberty
on bail pending the trial on criminal
syndicalist charges, will cost approx
mately SIS premium for each of their
bonds Of $4,000 each.
The club has undertaken the res
possibility to the Kentucky Prison
ers Bail Fund Committee for the
premium on the bonds Of their three
members.
At the party besides the dancing,
there will be chalk talks by John
Reed Club artists, a shadow dance,
proletarian and cowboy songs and
other features,
The admissino will be 25 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
Invite Delegates to
Cd a lily" Banquet
on March 9th
Daily Worker Banquet

Workers organizations support
ing the revolutionary press are
sending delegates to the Daily
Worker banquet which will be held
on Sunday evening, March q at
Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th
Street, New York City.
Communist Party units, revolu-
tionary tradeunions, opposition
groups in the A. F. of L., Ian
guage mass organizations, ex-
servicemen all are sending at least
one representative.
The banquet will be final
check up and report of the pro-
gress of the campaign to save the
Daily Worker.
There will be interesting musical
numbers and leading comrades of
the revolutionary movement will
greet the representatives of the
various workers organizations.
Each organization is entitled to
send an additional representative.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
GUS EDWARDS REVUE AT
HIPPODROME

The Hippodrome, beginning Sat
urday will present Gus Edwards new
stars on parade, a musical comedy
production with Eddie Carr, Hide
garde, the Aber and Heating Twins,
Virginia Lee, Gloria Gilbert and Wal
ter Kevan. Other acts include: Tar
ian, the human ape; Bob Carleton
and Julie Ballew; Raynor Lehr;
Henry j. Kelly; the Honey Family,
and Moran and Wiser. The screen
feature is 1.-The Lost Squadron" film
of movie stunt fliers, with Richard
Dix, Robert Armstrong, Mary Astor
and Eric Won Stroheim.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24

Ford massacre of unemployed work
ers, the Pholetarian party had issued
a statement practically endorsing the
massacre and disassociating itself
from the struggles of the unemploy-
ed workers for relief and social in
surance. Workers further pointed
out that a week after the funeral
of the victims of the 'Ford>Murphy
regime, the Proletarian party off
cially participated in an entertain.
ment arranged by a committe, of
which Mayor Murphy is a me uber
and in which committee his flu
ence dominates.
The conference adoptea de fol
lowing decision in its plans 10 lnob-
ilize the broad masses for the str.lg-
gle against imperialist wes and for
fEnNTINTfIn nIi PAGE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24

Set quotas, start revolution
airy competition, in fight to
save Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24

THE labor movement will gain the
upper hand and show the way TO
peace and socialism LENIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24

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CoNrINUED Oh FACE rnaxEs
Evening star., 1932-07-07
Avoiding Household Troubles
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

the shelves, As soon as she put on her
thinking cap In her determination 10
rid herself Of the little animals, she
gave up her foolish habit OF courting
the attention Of the rodents and less
ened her bothers.
Particles of food left in sink invite
reaches. 1t seems impossible sometimes
TO trace by what avenue reaches and
water bugs enter dwelling but once
in they propagate and become actual
pests. 1t requires weeks and sometimes
months TO rid a place of them unless
one gets an expert to come and treat
the premises. This can be done, for
tunately, when home treatment seems
OF little avail Keep the pests out by
precautions, one Of which Is cleaning
the sink thoroughly after each meal.
Ants respond to the invitation to
enjoy food In o home when there is
any tendency toward their coming in
Be sure to keep all foods tightly covered
Once ants get in they are a nuisance
to exterminate. Grains of sugar. spilled
when filling bowls; few drops OF sirup,
careleSsly overlooked when pouring the
liquid from one vessel to another, and
crumbs Of food not wiped off the kitchen
table or pantry shelf are likely to tempt
these intruders.
These are but few of the ways in
which heedlessneSs makes trouble and
work for a homemaker, and the ways
by which she can save herself from
them.
(Copyright, 1e32)
Evening star., 1932-07-07
LITTLE BENNY
BIT LEs PAPR

After supper pop was smoking TO
himself in his private chair and ma
came upstairs, saying, So, William, It's
come TO this. has It?
Has It? pop said. and ma said. You
don't need to try to pass it litely of
with an assumed tone of pertended
careleSsneSs. I repeat, so it's come to
this, has it? she said
Has what? Come to what? pop said.
For Peet sake what's all the deep dark
mistery? he said.
You mean to say you don't know
what I've discovered? You mean to
say you haven't a single gilty twinge?
ma said, and pop said, feel as STAIN
less as a fresh sheet Of blotting paper,
what the dooce is all the shooting for,
| what did you discover?
I discovered q letter from a woman
| in the pockit Of your raincoat, that's
what I discovered, and explain it If
, you can, I'm waiting patiently, ma said.
I haven't had letter from anybody,
what's all this nonsents? pop said, and
ma said, o no, sippose not, there's
gilt all over your face, I never saw a
more criminal expression in my life.
But 1 don't need your face, I have the
letter rite here, here's the red handed
evidents rite out of your overcoat
pockit. she said.
Let's see it. what are you doing in
my raineoat pockit anyway? pop said.
and ma said. All, there speaks the gilty
conscience. it's ony the man with moth
ing to hide whose not afraid to have
his pockits picked. Can you explain
this letter or cant you? she said.
What letter for the love of Sherlock
Homes? Pop yelled. and ma said, In
other werds you cant explain it. Well
1 can and I will. It's letter from a
woman. and I'm the woman. It's the
selfsame letter I handed you to mail
this morning and you stuck it in your
raincoat pockit with your usual grand
manner. and my sispicion was correct,
1t was still there, she said. Hee hee,
I dident scare you or anything, did /,
Willyum, hee hee, she said.
And she sent me out to mail the let
ter and when I got back she was still
laffing and pop was in back Of the
sporting page pretending not to notice
her
Evening star., 1932-07-07
A Sermon for Today
BA REV. JOHN r. GuNN.

If you know the process Of making
grape juice, you will readily see the
meaning of this picture Of Moab
settled on his lees" When first ex-
pressed from It's ruddy chalice, grape
juice has thick and muddy consist
ency. It is put into a vessel where it
is left for time, till fermentation has
done its work. and dark and musty
sediment, called lees, has been precipi-
tated to the bottom. When this Is done,
the pure juice at the top Is drawn of
into another vessel, so that all the pre-
cipitated sediment is left behind. This
emptying process is repeated again and
again, till the offensive odor that came
from the must" has passed away, and
the liquid has become clear and beauti-
ful.
In the case Of Moab, che had been
Mt ease from his youth; there had
been none of this unsettling and draw
1ng-of process; "he had settled on his
lees. and had not been emptied from
vessel to vessel" In consequence,
'his taste remained in him, and his
scent was not changed; the people
had made no moral and spiritual pro-
gresS. Woe be unto thee, o Moabl"
Moab is spoiled" spoiled by too much
ease and too many luxuries. Moab
is destroyed from being a people
destroyed for lack OF that hardness
and stamina developed by discipline
and change. Because of the bad taste
that remained In him, and the odium
Of his weakness and immortality and
ruin-"Moab is become derision and
q dismaying to ell them about him"
There is nothing more perilous to
q nation than to be Settled on its lees"
and to have no change. Moab was
not the last nation TO 60 to rot and
ruin from this cause, The highways
of history are Uttered with the records
of nations that have been spoiled and
destroyed by too much prosperity, too
much wealth, too much easy money,
too many easy indulgences. It is a
fact manifest to every student OF his
tory that nations survive adversely and
hardships more readily than prosperity
and ease. We hear today much
1amentation over the reverses and hard
times from which the nations of the
world are suffering. but this very ex-
perience OF trial and trouble over which
groan and lament may prove to be the
salvation Of the worlds civilization.
What Is true of nations is true Of us
as individuals. To reach the highest
standards of moral and spiritual life,
we require the disturbings and dtSplac-
ings in the order of Gods providence.
We have to be "emptied from vessel TO
vessel In order to be purged OF the
impure and poisonous sediment in our
nature. AS Of nations, there Is no
worse thing for man than to be
settled on his lees"
Evening star., 1932-07-07
GOOD TASTE TODAY
BY EMILY POST.
Famous Authority on Etiquette.

how it eased the lonely, homesick feel
ing so completely to know that I was
among such thoughtful people. Don't
you think that 1t was a delightful way
to make a newcomer feel glad she had
come to the community"
Answer: I do indeed. In fact, you
have described the very essence of
beautiful manners, which fn1St make
all readers of your experience wish
ardently that. should they ever be
newcomers in a neighborhood, it
might be the very one you describe
And let us also hope that those of us
who have strangers come to dwell
nearby may take even a fragment of
the spirit of your neighborhood's hos
pitality to heart.
(Copyright, 1922
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