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The daily worker., 1932-02-22
NEWARK LEATHER
WORKERS STRIKE
Workers Warned, AFL
Will Betray Them

NEWARK, N. J.-Over 100 workers
of the K. kaufman fancy leather
goods shop, 1859 Murray St, were
locked out on Thursday, February l8,
after having declared strike against
wage cuts amounting to SO per cent.
The workers demanded a withdrawal
of the wage cuts and recognition Of
the union A picket line has been
thrown around the factory to keep
cut scabS. No move has IS yet been
made to hire scabs but there is a ru-
NOR that the boss is ready to resort to
this.
Some of the workers nave been
working in this factory 30 to 40 years
putting in all their energy in piling
up huge profits for the bosses, and as
a reward they have been forced to a
starvation level,
Preparation for the strike had been
going on for several months under
the leadership of the Suit Case, Bag,
and Portfolio Makers Union, Local 10
of New York
Henry Hilfers. representative Of the
Jersey State Federation of Labor,
well known OF the Passaic strikers OF
1926, as the one who made all efforts
to prevent the collection of relief
through the locals OF the American
Federation of Labor, and did all in
his power to force the workers back to
work, has managed through dema-
gogic speeches and maneuvering, to
take over control of the strike.
1t is shown by the way the strike
machinery has been set up by Hilfers,
that his plans are, without the shad-
ow of a doubt, to be able to quickly
sell out and smash this strike, as he
has done in former instances.
The Trade Union Unity League of
Newark calls upon all the militant
strikers of the K. Kaufman shop not
to be fooled by Hilfers radical
speeches, but to see clearly the SELL
out plans that are being Matched by
this traitor of the workers, and to
make plans to get the strike under
their own control in order to prevent
Hilfers and his bunch from betraying
this strike and playing into the hands
Of the bosses.
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
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Mooney to come here made its first
announcements, the committee OF
renegades and takers Immediately
announced by poster and leaflets that
Mother Mooney would speak by long
distance telephone to a meeting ar
ranged by them. The idea was to give
the impression that Mother Mooney
would not come to the LID meeting
A physical examination has dis
closed bad condition of Mother
MONEYS heart and the doctor fore
bade her to make the trip, warning
her that the trip would in effect
mean suicide" for her. Mother Moo
ney then agreed to talk to the LID
meeting over the telephone which
was to be amplified in the Coliseum
so that everyone could hear.
However, the Socialists and other
renegades, those who try to capitalize
on championing Mooney, Immediately
got in touch with the telephone COM
pany and arranged that they get the
telephone hookup for the sum of $135
This figure was also quoted the
LID. But the following day the
phone company suddenly informed
the LID. the rate was wrong and
that the lowest possible figure was
$500.
1t was plainly to be seen what
forces were trying to prevent the
LID. from having Mother Mooney
speak at the Coliseum meeting.
The LID. however, refusing to al
low the Miller -Mandel' renegades to
pull this trick, Immediately got in
touch with Mrs. Mooney in San Fran
cisco and the Tom Mooney MolderS'
Defense Committee. When Mrs. Moo
ney learned the situation she became
so incensed over the trickery that she
decided to come TO New York despite
her condition.
Nationwide Mooney Meetings.
The meeting on February "a,
is one of a nation wide series called
by the LID. to demand immediate
and unconditional pardon of Moo
ney. Similar meetings will be held in
Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, etc.
The attempts of the misleaders of the
working class must be met with a
determination of the entire working
class to pack the Coliseum as DEM
onstration for the freedom of Moo
ney and also as a demonstration
against the Socialist takers who are
trying their best to disrupt the meet
ing.
These meetings take place on the
18th anniversary of the frame-up
death sentence upon Tom Mooney by
the California plutocracy, February
"a, 1917. Mooney by this time would
have been strangled on California
gallows had it not been for the giant
demonstrations throughout the world
by the proletariat after the example
in Petrograd (now Leningrad), when
the Russian revolutionary workers
and soldiers demonstrated before the
American consulate demanding Moo
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
BANQUET AND CONCERT FOR
BROWNSVILLE UNIT.

A committee composed OF delegates
Of various mass organizations of
Brownsville is arranging banquet
and concert to take place Saturday,
February 27, 8 pm, at the Workers
Center, 1918 Pitkin Ave.
The purpose of the affair is to
raise sufficient funds to enable the
Brownsville Section of the Commu-
mist Party to buy mimeograph ma
chine, typewriter and other similar
things.
The mass organizations of Browns
vile are very active in the sale Of
tickets
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEI
given to the United Front Strike Sat
urday afternoon in a conference OF
unions, leagues, fraternal and labor
organizations. which was held at the
strike headquarters, $50 Sixth Ave
Ben Gold, secretary Of the United
Front Strike Committee, reported or
the progress and developments oi
the strike, of the successful breaking
down of the barriers that divided the
strikers and the accomplishments
that have already been made Thun-
derous applause greeted the state
ment that the settlement committee
had already secured 100 settlements
with wage increases, no discrimina-
ton against Negro workers, the right
to job, etc.
M. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit
brought greetings from the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
"The dress strike is the vanguard
of the struggles Of the New York
workers" said Olgin. I'VE have
come here not to listen to speeches
but to help spread the United Front
Strike, to consolidate the forces of
all the dressmakers and workers to
help win the strike"
Here they are" said Olgin,
speaking of the fake Schlesinger
strike, calling a strike which is
not a strike; here they are calling
a struggle which is not struggle
They are stabbing the workers in
the back. We must build up the
United Front to smash the con-
spiracy and destroy the sweat
shops"
The biggest ovation was given to
workers from the company union
who took the floor in the discussion
The vital Importance of the strike
to the entire labor movement was
recognized by every delegate at the
conference. Every organization pres
ent pledged to raise strike funds, as
sist on the picket line and to exert
every possible effort to lead the great
struggle to victory.
A resolution unanimously adopted
at the conference said: "
eve, the delegates assembled at
this conference, recognize that the
struggle conducted by the dressmak-
ers is not only struggle for the i'm
provement of hte conditions of the
workers in this particular trade, but
will vitality affect the conditions OF
the workers in other trades and will
be blow to the class collaboration
policies, wage cuts, of the bureaucracy
of the A. F. of L. which has under
mined and destroyed the conditions
of thousands of workers.
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
TUESDAY
N. j. Gravel Co. WithhoIds Pay Over A Year

least three weeks pay in arrears. On
Jan 4, 1929 few of the straw bosses
in the yard we're drawn in together
with. the machinists in the machine
shop, At the next succeeding pay
day the machinists demanded OF the
bosses that if the back pay couldn't
be paid at least pay should be paid
on pay days.
on the first pay day succeeding
the agreement, pay didn't come along
and the machinists stage four and
half day strike. The bosses came
across with the money. On the next
pay day, Feb. 5, 1882. the boss didn't
have the pay ready for the machin-
lists and the other people who are
employed in the yeard, and again the
machinists went on strike.
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
(By a Worker Correspondent

FARMINGDALE, N. J-When the
New Jersey Sand and Gravel Com
pany started operations in the pit
in the carly spring of 1881, they drew
the workers in, agreeing for the time
being that the workers should receive
only $40 per week until summertime,
and then their back pay would be
paid up. Up until when back pay
was paid, no wage cuts we're TO go
over. However, wage cuts did go over.
After various struggles, which were
not united struggles, some of the en-
ployees obtained their back pay.
Two los5 wage cuts we're put over
during the summer. on Dec "a, 1891,
the whole plant was shut down and
the employees were laid off with at
The daily worker., 1932-02-22

we therefore pledge to exert every
effort in order to mobilize the men,
bers of our respective organizations
to assist the struggle of the dress
makers financially and morally, so as
to help bring this struggle to vic
tory"
A committee of action was elected
to work in cooperation with the
United Front Committee.
Despite the fact that today is a
legal holiday, the dressmakers will
picket their shops throughout the
morning and afternoon The slogan
Of the striking dressmakers will be
Spread the strike to all shops; for one
strike and one picket line.
The United Front Dress Strike
Committee is working out plans to
strengthen the strike machinery of
the halls and to intensity the work
around the buildings Among the
chief tasks during the coming week
is the task of putting more effect in
to the strengthening Of building and
block committees SO as to increase
the picket lines and spread the strike
to the open shops that remained at
work.
The strike committee has instruct
ed all strikers and United Front lead
ers to fraternize with the workers
in the I. L. G. w. u; to arrange joint
building meetings, joint meetings of
contractors working for jobbers. In
this way the United Front can be
spread to every building, to every
shop.
SchIesinger Sell-Out Complete.
From the latest reports it is evi-
dent that the Schlesinger- Dubinsky
clique will announce within a few
days a settlement of the fake strike,
which will mean more wage-cuts and
tarvation for those returning under
the sell-iut agreement. The dress
makers in every international shop
are urged to take steps at once to
smash the sell-out Elect strike COM
mittees in all shops and refuse to
abide by the treacherous settlement.
The workers should take the strike
in their own hands, work out their
shop demands and carry on the
strike with the assistance and leader
ship of the United Front Committee.
The underhand treachery of the
SchleSinger strike was exposed u1lwit-
tingly by leading in the Fridays
edition OF the "Women's Wear,
which is nevertheless working hard
to help the sell-out.
The "Womens Wear" says:
"The strike is no more than a
racket. The manufacturers object
when the buyers ask them for con-
cessions in the form of discounts,
but they give their consent to a
racket called a strike"
An other item in this same journal
exposed the nature of the Schlesinger
strike in the following manner;
"The union officials and the As
sociatiOn officials are in continuous
telephone communication. The as
sociation was reprOached by the
leaders of the union for making
such statements that injure the
strike"
Meanwhile more and more workers
in the International, aware of the
conspiracy afoot to sell them out, are
joining the ranks of their fellow
workers, a number of them coming
straight from the International hall
on Fourth Ave-, to the strike hall of
the United Front.
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
SOCCER RESULTS
ga" Division

"a" Division
Red Sparks 4, Fichte l.
Tico 4, Olympic l.
Salkin 4, Bronx Bakers 2
"B" Division.
Harlem I, Gordon l.
Ethiopian l, Esthonian Workers 0
East Side Workers /, Crotona O.
Red Sparks 0, Italian American 0.
&c" Division.
Br'nsville Wkrs 4, Prospect Wkrs.
Crotona 1, Downtown Workers 0.
Spartacus 6, Harlem Progressives
East N. Y. Wkrs. S, Hebrew Wkrs. /.
Red Sparks /, Charibs l..
Dauntless /, Pirates /.
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
Furniture Workers
Union Moves to n. Y.

The Furniture Workers Industrial
Union has moved its headquarters to
108 E. 14th ST., New York City, Room
300.
All furniture workers are invited to
visit our new office which is open
every day except Sunday from 9 am.
to 7;30 pm.
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
METAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL
LEAGUE.

All members of the Metal Workers
Industrial League at present unem-
ployed and those who are able to alb
sent themselves from their job for
one hour in the morning are instruct
ed to be at the picket line, 254 Canal
St., take East Side I.R.T local from
Union So. to Canal ST., 7 am. each
morning. Help defeat the lockout.
The daily worker., 1932-02-22

:boro, II miles distant.
Terror in the strike area, particu-
larly in Kentucky, is forcing many
National Miners Union locals to meet
in the woods at night.
Mass meetings were scheduled for
today in N1idlesboro, Gatliff and Jel-
leo, Kentucky, and at the Eagin
Mine, Tennessee. The union con-
| ference to be held in Knoxville has
been postponed until a week from
today to allow for more thorough
preparation.
At the section strike conference to
be held in Clear Fork. LaFollette,
NIiddlesboro, Gatliff, Harlan and Wal
Inns Greek in the next few days, the
miners will discuss special problems
of each section that will be taken
up at the conference.
After being evicted from its office
and refused space in every other
office building in Knoxville, the
Workers International Relief is again
ordered to leave its headquarters. The
order to move again was received by
the w. I. r. even before the office
furniture had been moved into posi-
ton.
Several miners have been fired as
result of setting up an N. M. U.
local in Whistle Greek Mine in Ten
nessee. More Harlan mines, where
the strike has been weakest, have an
nounced wage cuts. Stanfield mine
has cut wages from 80 cents ton to
/ % cents. Elcomb mine has cut from
35 to 25; and motor men at Tunays
Mine have been cut from $3.50 to
S2.56. N. NJ. U. locals exist in all
three mines.
Strikers are preparing to distribute
petitions to get signatures to put the
Communist Party on the Kentucky
ballot in the next elections. Uniting
of courts, coal operators, police, is
convincing thousands of miners that
only through the election of Com
munists to office will they be able
to have a voice in the control of their
lives.
The unemployed movement in
Knoxville is developing mass support
so rapidly that the Knoxville city
government has been forced to grant
two days work week instead Of the
former one day to hundreds of unem-
ployed on the citys charity list. Local
leaders of the unemployed have been
approached by leading business men
with offers of good jobs If they will
leave the reds alone"
Preparations are being made for
mass meeting socmetime next week
in Knoxville under the auspices OF
the Communist Party.
AS a result of the jailing Of many
members of the Strike Executive
Committee. it has been recognized
and new forces have been added
One of the largest meetings of the
executiv committe since the beginning
of the strike took place last night
Need Relief Desperately
Relief for strikers has never been
NOR necessary than at the present
moment. None of the thousands Of
food and hundreds are on the verge
of starvation. Seventy-seven evic-
tions will take place in Prudent,
Tenn, next Monday and not a
single tent is available.
Workers all over the country
must sacrifice deeply in order to
keep these heroic strikers in the
vanguard of the American working
class aliv.
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
Gets Two Years For
Fighting Evic tion

P1TTSBURGH.-James Kearns,
unemployed worker, was sentenced
to a two year Jail term today, in
connection with demonstration
which stopped the eviction Of the
family of an unemployed worker.
He defended himself. Brown, ar
rested with Kearns, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to 80 day term.
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
NEW GAINS SCORED BY DRESS
STRIKE; MASS MEET UNION SO. TUES
All T. u. U. L. Unions to Rally to Strike Front
Tomorrow
BULLETIN.

NEW Y0RKThe Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New
York issued call today all unions rally their
bersbip to the dress strike front Tuesday morning.
building especially
rally to the of the United Strike All T.
Needle
Trades Workers Industrial morning at 7.
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
What's On

MONDAY
There will be a lecture. "orkers Legisla-
ton in the Soviet Union" at the Italian
United Cooperative, 472 Summit Ave,
Union City, N. j., at ON. Admission free
TUESDAY
All unemployed workers who wish to sell
papers. please be at the office of the Un-
employed Councils, E. l9th ST., at IL m.
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
COAL OPERATORS THUGS
FAIL IN RAID ON RELIEF;
CUT PAY IN HARLAN MINES
Prepare to Distribute Petitions In Kentucky to
Put Communist Candidates on Ballot
Strike Executive Reorganzed and Enlarged;
More Relief Is CRYING Need

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb 21.-Pinevlle, Ky, coal op-
orators deputies and United Mine Workers organizers tried
to ncite raid the Workers International Relief trucks
in Pneve Friday but the held the attacks off until
The relief had been say tansered to the train for Mddes
The daily worker., 1932-02-22
Japanese in Savage DriVe
Observation-Disclosures
Prepare Attack on U.S.S.R.
Partisan Troops In Fierce Battles With In
vaders Between Kirin and Tunhua
Socialists" Organize Fascist Party In Japan
to Suppress Revolutionary Workers

The Japanese garrison in the important Manchurian town
of Tunhuua attacked Saturday by strong force of
partisan troops battle ragged for several hours the par
sans attempted to drive the Japanese out of the town. The
Japanese suffering heavily and facing hostile action in
The daily worker., 1932-02-22

1.-THE labor movement will gain the
upper hand ard show the way to
peace and socialism" LENIN.
The daily worker., 1932-02-22

Every shop, mine and factory
fertile field for Daily Worker sub
scriptions.
Evening star., 1932-02-11
FILES SUIT IN CASE
OF SHOREHAM BUILDING
Action Is Echo of Swartzell, Rheem
& Hensey Deal Involving
Released Trust.

Otto Wehner, 1851 Eighteenth street,
and 81 other holders of notes secured by
a released trust of $2,250,000 on the
Shoreham Building, Fifteenth and H
streets, today filed suit in the District
Supreme Court to require the Riggs
National Bank to pay over to receiver
to be named by the court $6l9,296.34
said to be in the hands of the bank for
the benefit of the noteholders. Notes
totaling $819,100 of the issue have never
been paid. the court is advised.
The suit sets forth the history of the
purchase of the building by Harry Ward
man and Thomas P. Bones and the
placing Of the trust for S2,2500o0, on
which default was made, and the build
ing transferred to two employees Of the
firm of Swartzell, Rheem g. HenSey Co.,
who obtained from the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co. of New York loan
of 81, SOC, 1000, for which a settlement
check for $l,556, 6,645.80 was drawn on
the bank to the order of Swartzell,
Rheem Il Hensey Co. and Luther A.
Swartzell and Edmund D. Rheem,
trustees under the trust to be released.
Attorneys Minor, Galley & Drury ap-
pear for the plaintiffs.
Evening star., 1932-02-11
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
DROP HITS TRADE
Business of u. S. Abroad
Affected by Depreciation
in Currencies.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The depreciation in foreign exchange
is regarded by Government economists
as the most serious obstacle confront
ing future foreign trade Of the United
States.
Currency depreciation tends to de-
crease purchasing power abroad at
more rapid rate than it does at home,
1t was pointed out. Fer example, the
case OF England was cited with a pound
sterling decrease Of about 80 per cent
since abandonment Of the gold stand
ard last Fall. Reduced to foreign trade
applcation. this means that merchan-
disc price levels in England, measured
py United States dollars, have zone
down sharply. while our own merchan-
disc In the United States, measured in
terms OF the pound sterling, has shown
similar price advance.
This was said to result In stimulated
exports from countries whose currency
has deprecated, at the same time max
ing it Improbable to buy goods from
countries such as the United States,
whose currency has remained stable.
Applied to England. this means 1t is
rendered more profitable for Americans
TO buy goods in England, everything
else beng equal and at the same time
renders it less profitable for Britons to
buy goods in this country.
Most of the best customers of the
United States are affected by depre-
ciated currency. TIC mention a few,
Commerce Department records for 1891
show our exports TO England dropped
from s678, 100 600 In 1880 TO $455, ,500,-
600 in 1881. while imports dropped
from s210 900, 900 TO $135, 400 900 dur
ing the same period. Shipments to the
Argentine decreased from Sl29 300, 900
in 1880 to $50, 500, 0oc last year and i'm
ports dropped from s7l .900, 900 to $685.
900, 900. To Canada, shipments dropped
of from $3.50. 300, 900 to 1895 500, 900
and imports decreased from s402, $780,
900 to s266, 10000
Not all Of this decline, of course, Is
chargeable to currency depreciation.
much of it being traceable TO the sharp
decline in commodity prices throughout
the world and TO the unsatisfactory
business conditions that prevailed dur
ing 1891 in all countries.
Abandonment Of the gold standard,
the placing of an embargo on gold ex-
ports and other severe foreign exchange
restrictions which have been practiced
by most countries conducting trade
with the United States are viewed by
Federal economists as necessary steps
on the part of those countries TO rem
edy maladjusted balance of payments
situation of those countries.
Evening star., 1932-02-11
CARPET MILLS REPORT
NET PROFIT FoR 1891

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, February 11.-Reveal-
ing . net operating profit for the year
1881 amounting to $310673, with net
addition TO surplus for the year Of
$685. ,424, despite an increase in the
charges for depreciation Of $163, 900, the
annual financial statement Of the
Mohawk Carpet Mills was issued today
to stockholders. 1t contrasted with an
operating loss in 1880 Of 100000 and
Of $l,561 ,037.
An examination Of the report shows
that large economies have been effected
during the year. Gross profit has been
increased by $448.8l9 and expenses re-
duced $461 ,633 fhSse figures. added
to the increased charges for dcpre-
ciation ($163,lT2), Show q gain over
1890 figures Of $l,o73624.
Evening star., 1932-02-11

president Commercial National Bank;
George o. VaSs, vice president, Riggs
National Bank and of the Bankers As
socia ton; Wilmer J. Waller, vice preSi-
dent Federal American National Bank
& Trust Co: Michael F. Calnan, vice
president. Liberty National Bank, and
Edward E. Swan, assistant treasurer,
American Security q Trust Co.
The chairman Of the committee adds
the announcement that the assistance
of Thomas w. Brahany investment
banker, has been secured, which assures
the success of the annual feature of the
convention, the family dinner" which
always follows the conclusion Of the
business sessions.
The chairman Of the Press and Pub
licity Committee is Eliot H. Thomson
oF tho WaShipCtOO
Evening star., 1932-02-11

Association. The
E n t er t a ! n ment
Committee will be
headed by Barnum
L. Cotton, trust
officer, District Ma
tional Bank, as
C h a i rm a n, and
James A. Soper,
vice president, Lin
coin National Bank
and past president,
Washington Chap
ter, American In
stitute of Banking,
as vice chairman.
Other members are
w. w. Spaid Of w.
B. HibbS & Co.,
l. a W nee A.
Evening star., 1932-02-11


Loan & Trust Co.,
assisted by Robert
l.. Flather, assist
ant secretary, AM
erican Security &
Trust Co., as vice
chairman; Thomas
P. Hickman, vice
president, Frank
lin National Bank:
T. Hunton Leith,
assistant cashier,
Security Savings &
Commercial Bank,
and Richard Hat
ton, Washington
Herald; Thomas NJ.
Cahill, Washington
Post, and E. c.
~A on
Evening star., 1932-02-11
GOODYEAR Tire & Rubber.

TORONTO, Ontario, February II N).
Net profit of $1,702,986 for the Is
month period ended December 81, 1881
was shown in the annual report of
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Can
ada, Ltd, yesterday. Earnings equal
1924 per share on the common stock.