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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
Cleveland Workers.
Fight Sailing By
City Relief Agency

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 6.-For
owe rthree hours delegation Of un-
employed waited at the charity office
at 38th and Superior st. demanding
see Mr.. Hester one of the heads
the office.
Mr.. HeSter's refusal to see the
delegation till Wednesday is part of
the policy of stalling away the de-
mands of destitute workers. The
delegation came to protest against
this policy and to demand immedi-
ate action.
With the delegation was an aged
couple, The man worked for the
city for twenty five yeats, during
which time he contributed to chari-
ties, Community Fund and others.
Now, crippled with rheumatism and
forced to walk on crutches, he has
been thrown on the streets with his
wife, to starve.
This is but one of the cases which
will be brought back to the Office
here Wednesday by a mass delega-
ton Of workers who will demand I'M
mediate action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
DEMAND RELIEF
IN CINCINNATI
Committee Elected at
Mass Demonstration

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. ITO
day a strong committee elected by
hundreds of workers demonstrating
on the Hospital Lot yesterday will &c
to the city council with the demands
endorsed at the demonstration.
The demonstration brought out an
exposure Of forced labor regulation
inflicted on the unemployed here, the
evictiorls of many unemployed farni-
lies, and the discrimination against
Negroes and foreign born workers in
giving what relief there is.
The demonstrators sent kilograms
to Washington, supporting the de-
mands of the National Hunger
Marchers.
The committee TO the city council
is instructed to demand:
Clash payment for all relief
work at the rate of As cents an hour
1.-THE returning National Hunger
Marchers to be supplied with food
and lodging at the expense OF the
county treasury.
3.-The Reconstruction Finance
CORPORATION funds given for use OF
the militia to be used instead 1of
winter relief of the unemployed mere
Preparations are ching made 10
big mass meetings to welcome the
National Marchers ON their return
through here, and to hear their re-
port on the treatment in Washing
to nand the mobilization for the
Struggle for relief throughout the
country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
Smash Thru ChicagoT error
JobleSS Council Recognized
Many Cities Preparing Big Mass Meetings for Returning National
Marcers; Intensified Local Sug giles Throughout Country
MARCH IN STORM
ON CITY COUNCIL
Driven Back by Police
Now Mobilize Again

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. Five
hundred Cleveland workers assembled
at the Public Square yesterday after
marching miles in a downpour of
rain. Although drenched to the skin
they showed their solidarity with the
National Hunger March and en-
dorsed the demands for immediate
relief and unemployment insurance
paid by the bosses and government,
and demands of free lunches, free
carfare and free school supplies for
the children of the unemployed. They
supported unanimously the demands
that the Commissioner of Washing
ton remove the police terror and
surveillance of the Hunger Marchers
and grant them food and lodging
while sojourning in Washington.
A committee was elected to place
these demands before Mayor Ray T.
Miller AND the entire body despite
the cold and drizzling rain voted to
march behind this committee to the
city hall.
AS the comnlitte and demonstra-
ton approached the city hall it was
noticed that all doors were barred
and locked with the EXCEPTION of the
middle door entrance. On the curb
in front of the city hall shoulder to
shoulder was a mounted police squad
thirty in number. Directly in back
of them on the city hall step stretch
ing across in front of the building
was another squad of foot police and
back of them jamming the only en-
trance was another crowd Of police
DULLES.
When the committee and workers
approached the curb they we're halted
by the police, who drew their clubs.
And when it was explained that d
committee of three had been elected
to interview the mayor they we're told
the mayor was tired of receiving COM
mittees. When the workers were in
formed that the committee would not
be allowed to see the mayor they
voicsd howl of protest and it was
with difficulty that the leaders kept
them from attempting to smash their
way through. But after speeches by
the leading comrades they decided
to go back to their districts and
branches and mobilize ten for every
one there and carry on the struggle
with firm determination that these
demands must and will be put before
the mayor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
5000 IN DETROIT
DEMONSTRATION
Back Hunger March;
Police Jail 9

DETROIT, Dec. 7.-More than
5000 workers demonstrated here yes
terday before City Hall in support
of the demands of the 5000 Hunger
Marchers in Washington, as well as
for immediate winter relief from the
city government for the tens of
thousands of Detroit unemployed.
Mayor MJrphy's police were mar
shal1ed in full force in an effort to
prevent the demonstration despite
the fact that Murphy, after consid-
cradle mass pressure had promised
a permit. The police attacked the
demonstrators, who fought back mil
itantly. Nine workers we're arrested
and a few windows were smashed.
Murphy himself and the City Coun-
Gil stayed away from City Hall in
order not to face the committee
elected by the unemployed to present
their demands.
Meetings to welcome the returning
Hunger Marchers are being arranged
in Detroit and other nearby cities
for Sunday afternoon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
|A.F.L. LEADER ON
BOSSES PAYROLL
Commerford Paid to
Prevent Strikes

NEW YORK.-Patrick j. CONNER
ford, vice president of the New York
State Federation Of Labor and a
leading Tammany henchcman, knows
which side his bread is buttered on.
In fact, Patrick has managed to get
it buttered on both sides, so that in
addition to his regular salary of
5000 a week as supervisor of Local
125 of the International Union of
Operating and Hosting Engineers,
he has been drawing pay checks from
a number of contractors.
Since he is an honored member
Of the Tammaily graft machine, no
one except those in the know would
have learned what wonderful pro-
wider for his, family Patrick had be-
come were it not for the fact that
George 2. Medalie, United State At
torney, is a republican and is inter-
ested in showing up Tammany graft,
while carefully shielding the grafters
Of his own party. And so Medalie
spilled the beans.
It was at the opening ON Tuesday
of Commercials trial in federal
court on three indictments charging
perjury and evasion of the federal
income tax law for 1929, 1890 and
1881. Specifically, Medalie revealed
that Commerford, who is also vice.
president of the A. F. of L. Building
Trades Council, has accepted pre-
sents" ranging from $500 to $1,000
from four building contractors as his
price for preventing strikes. Edward
A. White, treasurer of the United
Hosting Company, also testified that
he had paid Commerford $75 week
for allowing scab labor on a union
Job.
The presents" Conn., ID re-
ceived were $4,000 from the Green
NAL Construction Company in 1929;
$1,000 from Robert J. Murphy and
Co. in 1880, and $1,000 from william
j. Gehagan, Inc, and 5000 from
Caslin, Inc. both in 1881.
Graft, in addition to their huge
salaries, is the usual thing among the
bureauerats of the American Fedora
ton OF Labor. At the same time
they help the bosses put over wage
cuts, break strikes, oppose federal
unemployment insurance and sup
port the whole starvation program of
the capitalist parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
HOW MUCH SOCIALIST "OPPo.
SITION" is WORTH

DRESDEN, Dec. 3.--The Dresden
er volkszeitung," Socialist daily
frankly states that the report that
"the German Socialist Party has
brusquely rejected collaboration with
a government of national concentra-
ton (the capitalist united 'front.'" is
mot true" The Social Democracy
merely refused to negotiate with Col.
Won Papen. In other words, the So
cialists are willing to participate in
a united bourgeois coalition, but re-
quire some other figurehead to APP
pease their dissatisfied adherents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
MEETING INSIDE
RELIEF STATION
Chicago Workers Cow
Supervisors

CHICAGO, H.. Dec. Fifteen
demonstrations before Relief Sta
tons here yesterday won immediate
relief for many unemployed workers
who were being kept off the relief
list, and snlashd through the terror
with which such demonstrations
were met in the past. The demon
STATIONS were of the workers in the
neighbohoods of the stations, and
were carried out in a rain storm.
At all the demonstrations reSolu-
tons were adopted demanding that
congress receive and grant the Ma
tional Hunger Marchers proposals for
$50 Winter elief and Unemployment
Insurance. Collections were taken
up to pay for kilograms to Washing
ton.
Six hundred unemployed workers
simply took possession of the Mil
waukee Ave. Relief Station for an
hour and half and held meeting
there, at which Lamson, organizer
OF the Unemployed Council spoke
and other jobless workers.
The supervisor of the station was
so awed by the determination OF the
crowd, that he sent word to the
police to please leaver or there
might be trouble. A number of i'm
mediate cases needing rehef were
taken care of at once by the au-
thorities there.
Thre thousand gathered at the
South Spring st. Relief Station, and
forced the supervisor to grant con-
siderable amount of immediate re-
lief, and to promise to permanently
recognize and deal with the Unem-
ployed Council COMMITTEES in this
neighbOrhood.
This was the station where the
| unemployed worker Sposob was MUIR
dered and others injured when police
fired on the crowd in a demonstra-
ton several weeks ago.
At Humboldt Park station, where
polcie drove their cars into the last
demonstration and broke the legs of
| several workers, this time the crowd
was so big that no police terror was
| attempted. Over Is cases needing
hiiIiACu4tbc iSutl were pi6St1LSu W
The officials in charge of the station,
and they got their relief.
After demonstrating here, the
crowd marched to the Workers Ly-
ceum where many ne wrecruits to the
unemployed council branch we're
taken into membership.
Several hundred demonstrated at
| the Lincoln and Chase Park station
News of the other demonstrations Is
not available as this is written.
A combined demonstration OF over
! 1000 workers was held OH the South
Side, to welcome the farmer dele
gates going through TO the National
Farm Relief Conference in Washing
ton, and to back UP the dnands Of
tn National Hungr March.
AT all demonstrations. committees
were elected to go TO the main Emer-
gency Relief Station down town, with
demands for Winter Relief, and the
local demands of the demonstrations,
which we're:
Special Christmas Relief of $40 fol
each family and 81 additional for
each DEPENDENT, and 81 to each
single worker; endorsement of the
demands of the National Hunger
March; no evictions, hot lunches for
school children, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08

derous capitalist press here tries to
make out that his death was sui
eide"
Five Of the narchers are i'll with
pneumonia, and is have influenza.
Hardly one is free from colds, as a
result Of their nistreatment by
Washington authorities.
Nine Of the Influenza cases are
unable to leave today, though they
are improving.
Fanny Rudd, of the Workers In
ternational Relief, was caught Mon
day night by police while she was
going through their lines, and
logged. She Is recovering. Police
also slugged Sam Krieger, captain of
the Middle West delegation, when he
tried to go through their lines on a
pass.
The National Conference of the
Unemployed elected a fraternal dele
CATION to the National Farmers Re-
lief Conference, which goes into
session today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
800 WORKERS LEAVE SOCIALIST
PARTY

MANNHEIM, Nov. II (By MaiD -
Because. of the readiness of the Ger
man Socialist Party to approve a
concordat (religious treaty. with the
Vatican in Baden, 300 members Of
the Mannheim Socialist organization
have left the party in disgust. Al
most all rank and file groups of the
Socialist Party have adopted protest
resolutions against the policies of the
party leaders. Hundreds of Socialist
workers are waiting for the final
vote in the Baden Diet to tear up
their membership cards. The Dis
triet Committee of the Communist
Party in Baden has appealed to all
Socialist workers to form united
front committees together with the
Communist workers for a fight
styainst cultural reaction, fascism and
He Social Democratic policy of coali-
lon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
Panama Canal Rival
Urged on Britain

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. Elm an
editorial obviously inspired by Brit
ish imperialism the newspaper La
Prensa calls upon Great Britain to
build canal to rival the Panama
Canal.
This canal, which would be a great
aid in the struggle for control of the
Latin American markets, now. re-
Elected in the various wars here,
would be built through Colombia on
the Atrato River route.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
1900 Protest Capital
Terror at Worcester

WORCESTER, Mass, Dec. 6.-F1f-
teen hundred workers gathered at
the City Common and condemned
the terror against the National Hun
ger Marehers and demanding free
speech and sssemblage for them.
Two hundred workers marched &c
the district relief station. demanding
relief for two families. The demands
were considered, With the police not
daring TO interfere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
Marchers Return
to New Struggle
Elect Leadership at
National Conference
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

strong resolution of protest to the
police, against the provocations and
insults showered on the fnarchers
and the attempt of the police to find
an excuse for opening fire on them.
The marchers we're surrounded by
hundreds of armed police. Amter
protested against all restrictions on
those coming into or going out of
the camp.
AS result, the police withdrew a
little distance, and we're quieter, dur
ing the night.
Threaten Massacre.
But today, when Columns from the
North West, Middle West, West,
Southwest and South marched out on
the road home, the police again
rushed forward, jeering and shouting
insults, yelling Come on and fight,
you towards" as they flourished their
riot guns and tear gas bombs at the
unarlned delegates of the unen-
ployed.
The police harried the march, in
terfered, bullied and threatened.
The marchers maintained iron dis
cipline and paraded on out of the
camp and are now on their way out
of Maryland.
Certainly Not Retreat
The marchers as they pulled out of
camp at 1890 today, were not ain
retreat" as the press here tries to
say. They were CARRYING out. on
schedule, their original plan, to come
to Washington, TO hold their confer
ence, adopt their resolutions. and
demands for $50 Winter Relief, Tn
employment Insurance, etc.
They fulfilled their program TO the
letter, in the face of every obstacle
the most powerful capitalist govern
meflt could throw in their way. Now
they are courageously going about
the second part of their task. TO re-
turn at once to those who sent them,
and lead new struggles.
Shouts and Singing
AS the columns swung out of camp,
In orderly attachments, militant
songs were roared, and shouts arose
and continued from the marchers:
1--WE demand Winter Relief.n 1--WE
demand Unemployment Insurance. "
The trucks and autos still blazed
with the placards and painted car
toorls that put forth the demands
and determination of the National
Marchers.
Police brutality, deliberate starva-
ton of the marchers, refusal of the
authorities to allow the workers in
Washington and Cumberland to pro-
vide lodging as they to, has resulted
in two deaths and may bring on
others.
Dies Of Exposure
Today Archie woodruff, National
Hunger Marcher from Holland. Mich,
died of pneumonia in the Climber
land Hospital. The disease was
brought on by exposure. The march,
ers on the way to washington were
barred from entering Cumberland
by huge display of city police, state
police, militia, and special deputies,
entrenched behind hay bales and
menacing the niarchers with rifles,
shot guns and machine guns. They
had to camp In the open on a farm,
in December weather.
Killed in Washington
A delegate from Allentown who did
succeed, because of illness, in getting
out of the Washington camp Sunday
night, collapsed a short time later
on street car track downtown and
was run over. He is dying in a
washington Hospital, and the r.an-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
BLOCK COMMITTEE ACTS

CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. BLOCK
Committee No Of the Unemployed
Council held meeting here Sunday
and wired resolutions TO Hoover
against imprisonment of the Hunger
Marchers. Others were sent to Gov
ernor Rolph of California and Gov
ernor Miller of Alabama, demanding
release of Mooney and the Scots
boro bows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
Roosevelt Sheet Asks
Relations With USSR

NEW YORK .-Editorial comment
in New York Democrat, regarded as
the organ of Governor Roosevelt dis
cusses the necessity of the U. s.
changing it's position towards the
Soviet Union in order to get some
valuable trade. The paper guardedly
invites the Soviet Union to start TO
press the new administration for such
action.
The democrat" also compares the
value of the trade In relation to the
czarist debts and finds that the lat
ter need not loom SO large barrier
as It has in the past"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
Plan to Send JObless
to Starve on Farms

ALLAN TIA, Ga.-According to
Mayor Keys plans, more than 1000
starving families will be sent to farms
this month. More than 400 such
families have already left. There
are $4,000 empty farms In this state
from which starving farmers were
either evicteds or had to leave in
search of WORK
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
A GOOD SUGGESTION

worcester, Mass.
Editor, the Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:
Would you consider a suggestion?
Why not use stickers labelled I'm
employment Insurance just the
same as the stickers you had during
the election, of which I saw plenty
in this city. Comradely, -E.W,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
7 Million Deposits,
4 Billion Dollars
Wiped Out In Year

NEW YORK.-Some 100000 have
lost their savings deposits since 1928
admits the American Bankers Assoc
citation. The greatest share of these
losses has occurred during the last
year, when 7,047,34O savings accounts
we're wiped out with loss of $685.
$4,000.
The disastrous results of the crisis
on the savings bank deposits is re-
Elected in the figures for June 80
1881, to June 80, 1882, when n pei
cent of the drop in depositors and 90
per cent of the decrease in deposit:
occurred.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
GREET ThE DAILY WORKER
TO All Workers & Organizdtionsi

Dear COmraueSs
SUNDAY, JAN. 8, 1888, MARKS THE
NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAILY
WORKER. These were nine years of
hard struggle in the life Of our paper.
During these years, the Daily Worker has
made itself indispensable in the various
struggles of the American working class.
AS the central organ Of the COmmu-
mist Party, it has rallied the workers for
the support and defense of the Soviet
Union.
II has constantly carried on the fight
to mobilize the workers in the struggle for
better living conditions, against wage cuts,
for unemployment insurance and for the
support Of the Hunger March.
II fights against the oppression of the
foreign-born workers, against deporta-
tions, for equal rights of the Negro mas
SEES, and for the freedom of all class war
prisoners-Tom Mooney and the Nine
Scottsboro Boys, etc.
This celebration is a great event for
all workers. We ask you to express your
solidarity and support the Daily Worker
by sending Greetings to the only Revc-
lutionary Daily in the English Language.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
Japanese Troops Reach
Soviet Border; Toxic in
New War PrOvOcdtiOn
Japan Makes Impudent Lemand on USSR for
Surrender of Insurgents
Soviet Government Maintains Strict Neutral
ity; Fighting Continues in Manchuria

yesterday
chu directly the border Soviet following
nsurgent General
greatly facilitated by the suspicious failure defend
tunnel through
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
TWO MOTHERS
FAINT AS SONS
ARE SENTENCED
Youths Are Given 10-Year
Terms for Part in
Robbery.

After petitioning the court for
leniency, two mothers tainted in
criminal court when their sons, con-
victed Of robbery, were given ten
year state refcrmatory sentences.
Clyde E. Karrer, criminal judge
pro tenn. today gave the long terms
to James w. Bayes, %, and Wallace
Malone, %. Sentence on a third
youth, Samuel Hanson, IT, was
withheld until the court investigates
his age.
Karrer indicated he might give
Hanso ma lighter sentence because
of his youth.
Court attaches worked diligently
for ten minutes to revive the mother
Of Bayes.
Charles Schier, 4541 Caroline
street, testified he served beer and
sandwiches to the youths and al
legged they robbed him of $50,
Oct. %.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
OW,,r Surgeon

By United Press
MENDOZA, III, Nov. Is
Archie Smiths self-surgery
saved his life, physicians agreed
today, when he grabbed a
knife from his pocket, gritted
his teeth, and cut of his arm,
after it had been caught in a
mechanical corn picker.
The 28-year-olo corn husker
then walked a mile for aid,
telephoned his wife that he
was "a little hurt" and went
to a hospital, where doctors
said he had operated upon
himself so Skillfully that he
will be back at work within a
few days.
Smith was alone in the field
when he stopped the tractor
to pick out a husk caught in
the gear. He tripped and fell
forward as he reached into the
moving machinery.
The gear mangled his free
hand, the farmer cut the ar
teries at the elbow and sew
cred the bones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-25
new FIGHT ON
ALUMINIUM co.
Is LAUNCHED
Anti Monopoly Battle Head
ed by Man Who Fought
Radio Trust.

~ Scripps-HOtCdrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-The
man who, five years ago, organized
the fight against monopoly in the
radio industry and carried it on
until 1t ended this week in a con-
sent decree, already has enlisted in
another antitrust fight.
He is Oswald F. Schuette, former
Chicago newspaper man and more
recently representative in Washing
ton Of the Radio Protective Associ-
alton.
This time his target is the Alum
mum Company of America.
With the same nimeographing
machine, which was his weapon in
the radio fight, he has set out to
present the case of what indie
pendents remain in the business of
manufacturing aluminium products.
These Independents charge that
the Aluminium Company, owned by
the Mellon interests, has maintained
exorbitant prices for aluminium by
obtaining control of most of the
worlds supply of aluminium raw
materials, and manufacturing alum
mum products in competition with
those who purchase from it.
This fight in which Schuette is
now enlisted is even older than that
concerning radio. In 1912, a con-
sent decree was entered in a Penn
sylvania federal court enjoining the
aluminium Company from certain
practices, but not getting at the
evils it should have corrected, in the
opinion OF the independents.
Some years later, the federal
trade commission reported that the
price of aluminium was being main
tanned at too high a level, and the
senate ordered the department of
justice to investigate.
A report prepared and transmitted
TO congress under President Coolidge
concluded that the antitrust laws
were not being violated, but never
theless, an attempt was made in the
senate to order government prose-
cution.