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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
Partial Record OF A. F. L.
Officials on Wage Cuts

What is the real record of the
A.F.L. officialdom on the question of
wage cuts? We recount part of this
record:
The United Mine Workers officials
made a contract with the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Co. last July in the
midst of a strike of 10000 miners.
The contract broke the strike. 1t was
for a wage of 40 cents when the min
ers were striking for SIS cents, and
had been getting As cents. Contracts
made in unorganized West Virginia
mines where the men were getting
40 cents and more, cut the wages to
% cents. This year the U.M.W.A.
officialdom defied two referendums
against wage cuts by $4,000 Illinois
miners and made contract cutting
their wages 10 per cent. U.M.WA.
officials agreed to a wage cut in In
diana from 500 to 81 day, and
the miners are in revolt against it.
The Amalgamated Association Of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers approved
wage cut Of per cent In the Re-
public Steel mill at Warren, O., to
go into effect September 1. These
officials called for violence against
the strikers, but the men ara strike
and abolished the csIA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
STRIKERS TAKE
SHIP TO HOLLAND
Marines Arrest 10 But
Ship Is Tied Up

ROTTERDAM, Holland, Sept. g.
H1ie Dutch liner Rotterdam of the
Holland american line came into
port today, under the guns of the
mine sweeper Meerlandt. Naval ma
rines Immediately boarded the Rot
terdam and arrested nine foreign
seamen and one Dutch seaman. The
remainder of the crew went home,
with the captain threatening their
prosecution later.
When this ship was in the French
jport of Boulogne, the general strike
of all Dutch seamen was declared.
The crew forced the captain to re-
turn to Rotterdam.
The strike is still solid.
NEW YORK.-Only one Dutch ship
= in New York, the SIS. Staatenham.
She Is scheduled to sail for Rotterdam
soon unless the crew prevent it by
striking in port here in solidarity
with their comrades at home.
During the German seamen's strike
last year, the crews of several ships
struck in solidarity with them while
In American ports. The Marine
workers Industrial Union supported
tloGo stxikarA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07

the Stagger plan of Hoover. For in
stance, he did not remind the work
ers who heard him that when the
Hoover conference which has lust
ended called on all industria1ists in
plain words to take on more men and
divide the work among them. paving
hourly rates or day rates and thus
reducing wages all around, Green
formally approved of the plan.
But, careful as he was, he gave
himself away by his open approval
in the Labor Day speech of the stag
ger plan as it is now being enforced.
Green said: "a large number Of in
dustries have applied the plan and
have found it satisfactory. A survey
of the National Industrial Confer.
ence Board covering 1,718 business
executives in various sections of the
country showed that about 65 per
cent of those who answered have re-
duced working hours to spread en-
ployment-"
A. F. L. Wage Cut.
Green spoke in Pittsburgh. center
Of the steel mill stagger plan. and
did not say one word about the
steel mill stagger plan, and did not
say one word about the Amalga-
mated Association Of Iron Steel and
Tin Workers approving Of a six per
cent cut in nearby Ohio, cut the
workers struck against and defeated.
He spoke in District of the Uni
ted Mine Workers, where the UNI.
WA. broke a strike last year Of
10000 miners against a wage cut, by
making wage cut agreement right
during the strike with the second
largest coal company.
Can Win Strikes Now.
Against Green's proposal to post
pone all action against wage cuts
until some future date, the Trade
Union Unity League calls for strikes
now, and points to the Warren Steel
strike as proof such strikes can be
won.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
Green Opposes Strikes Noqv Over Wage>CutS
WORKERS! COMRADES!

Five thousand dollars over $500 day>,was
needed over the weekend to keep the DAILY" GO
ing. Yesterday, up until noon, only $217.65 was
received. These figures, speaking for themselves,
put our paper in far more Shaky condition than
ever before. They cry "SUSPENSION!" louder
than dozen written appeals
Todays edition appeared only because we
granted credit for two day supply of paper.
The paper used to print today's Daily Worker
leaves us barely enough for tomorrow's issue.
Comrades, this is no longer warning You
must increase your donations fourfod to avert the
collapse of our paper.
Workers! It's up to you! Rush every possible
penny by wire, airmail, or in person to the Daily
Worker, 50 E. 18th St., New York City.
DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07

is leading the Relief March, that he
would receive the delegation of work
ers who will be elected by the March
ers to present their demands. The
delegation will represent breadlines,
flophouses, block committees, neigh
borhood committees, unemployed
branches, workers clubs, trade
unions, the Workers Ex-servicemen's
League, the Women's Councils, the
fraternal orders and the workers who
sleep in the city parks.
kilograms to Mckee.
Although Mckee will receive the
delegation, he has told the Unem-
ployed Council that previous ap-
pointments" will prevent him from
receiving it at 2 pm, at which time
the Relief Marchers will arrive at
City Hall The Workers Ex-service-
mems League, the Women's Councils
and other working class organiza-
tons with thousands of members
have already dispatched kilograms
to Mckee demanding that he re-
ceive the delegation while the
Marchers are in front of City Hall
Will Mobilize at 1890
The tens of thousands of workers
who will mobilize on Saturday in the
biggest and most determined DEM
onstration ever held by the workers
of New York, will concentrate first
on the side streets adjoining Union
So at 1890 am. All traffic will be
ide-tracked for the duration of the
march on those streets through
which the Marchers will pass.
The line of march will be Union
So, down 18th st. to Avenue @,
south on Avenue G to Pitt ST., down
Pitt to East Broadway, past Rutgers
So. to Park Row and from there
to City Hall.
After the delegation of 100 presents
the demands to Mckee it will report
back to the workers Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
SENTENCE NEGRO
PIONEER LEADER
TO YEAR IN JAIL
Framed for Fighting
Jim Crowism in
Pool

NEW YORK.-In line with the Vi
cious discrimination policy initiated
by Tammany judge in the case of
Sam Brown and Henderson last week
the magistrate of the 9th district
court this morning sentenced James
A. Ford, Negro Pioneer leader, to one
year in the reformatory while dis
missing the charge against Elizabeth
Laffere, white Pioneer leader, arrest
ed with him on the same charge.
The case was a frame-up arising
directly out of the fight Of the Bronx
workers against jim crowism at the
Bronx Swimming Pool. The two
leaders and group of Always Ready
News Reporters, had gone to the
front of the pool to take pictures for
the press to be used in calling a
demonstration against the pool.
The cop on duty sJ/aked up be-
hind the kids and black lacked Ford
Then he started attacking the kids,
hurting several Of them. He then
arrested Ford and Latter. Ford was
released on $50 bail, thus showing
that the police had no case against
him. Latter was freed on her own
recognizance.
Today the court rushed Fords trial
without allowing him a postponement
until a lawyer from the LID could
arrive to defend him
The LID is Immediately taking up
Fords case to force an appeal from
the fraxne-up decision
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
Masses Can Win Relief.

The reversal of the city govern
ment in the question of the permit
indicates that the capitalist politi-
clans guiding" the destiny of the
city are realizing that the million
unemployed workers in New York
are refusing to starve quietly and
that mass pressure can win relief.
While workers fall dead of starva-
ton in the streets, while their chill
dren go hungry and ragged and
while unemployment is steadily in
creasing, the amount of relief dis
tributed by the Relief Bureaus is
actually decreasing, in most cases
being cut in half.
Refuse to Starve Quietly.
AS expressed in resolutions passed
in recent weeks by more than 300
workers organizations in New York,
the determination of the starving
workers in New York to get in1medi-
ate relief from the city will not be
brushed aside by promises of pros
perity" to come. Nor, the resolutions
have made clear, will they permit
their children who demand free milk
from the city to be Jailed or be Tex
amined" for their sanity, as happened
in Children's Court last week to three
workers children.
At a meeting of the Executive
Committee of Unemployed Councils
of Greater New York last night, it
was voted to include in the demands
to be presented to the city govern
ment the demand that all the work
ers and their children who have been
jailed in demonstrations for relief
be freed Internationally. The COM
mittee points out that this march is
a united front action of all New
York workers employed and unem-
ployed and that they should join in
their march on September 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
SOCIALISTS ALSO
OPPOSE STRIKES

MILWAUKEE,, Wise, Sept. 6.-The
principal Labor Day editorial in the
Milwaukee Leader. Socialist Party
organ, appealing for socialist votes,
declares 1t does so "at time when
industrial strikes are not very prac-
ticable on account of the large num-
Der of possible strike breakers"
This is plain aid to Hoover's wage
cutting plans, and is in line with the
Labor Day speech of President Green
Of the ALL, when he proposes to
push off all struggles against wage
cuts until conditions are favorahla.-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
Pace to Rally Vets of
Minneapolis Sept. II
Afternoon Conference to Lay Plans for Big
National Convention in Cleveland
Evening Open Air Meeting to Mobilize Work
ers for Fight for Bonus and Insurance

NEW YORK.-AlI posts of the
Workers Ex-servicemen's League
will elect delegates for the CIeve-
land Conference which will take
place September %, "a and rs. Spe-
ciaI committees have been organ
lied to get delegates of veterans
from all veteran organizations and
groups of veterans in shops, facto-
ries, unions, etc.
This Is part of a campaign to
carry on a nationwide fight for
the bonus. All members of the
Workers Ex-servicemen's League
should be sure TO attend their post
meetings, Thursday evening, Sep
TENDER g.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.--John Pace
one of the rank and file leaders of
the bonus forces in Washington, is
scheduled to speak on Sunday, Sep
TENDER II, at Elliot Park. The meet
ing is called for $50 in the evening.
A big turnout is expected to hear
Pace. Two meetings have already
been held at Elliot Park by the rank
and file veterans. Numerous other
meetings in preparations are sched-
dled until September IL.
Waters Agent in Minneapolis, Dus-
tin (former bootlegger), has encamp-
ed in an empty lot in North Minnea-
polls about SO homeless veterans and
tries to keep them out of the spread
ing movement for the bonus struggle.
However, a large group of them are
expected to come and hear Pace.
Afternoon Conference.
John Pace will also be present at
the Veterans Conference on Sunday,
IL, 200 p. m, at 10 So. 7th
st. The Conference is called to mob
ilize support for the National Vet
rams Conference at Cleveland on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07

they would be deported on the
charge of interference with the in
ternal affairs of the State, and thus
endangering public security" This
is naturally a bare-faced lie.
Under pressure of a protest cam
paign instantly organized and the
support of numerous newspapers, the
deportation was delayed pending an
appeal to President Masaryk. Eng
dahl was subsequently released but
his passport detained. Mrs. Wright
was held in prison in the meantime.
The police action is believed to have
been taken at the instance of the
United States consul
NEW YORK.-Bourgeois press dis
patches reaching New York yesterday
reported that Mrs. Wright and Eng
dahl were taken to the German from
tier and expelled at the orders of the
Czech Minister of the Interior who
refused to delay action pending the
appeal to President Masaryk.
NEW YORK. = The Wright Eng
dahl tour has reused the toiling
masses of Europe and many intellec-
tuals to storm of furious protest
against the attempt of American
capitalism to legally murder the nine
Scottsboro boys.
Under pressure of American impe-
rialism, a number of European gov
ernments have been prosecuting Mrs.
Wright and Engdahl and breaking up
the Scottsboro protest meeting.
The worldwide mass protest of
white and Negro workers has several
times forced the American lynchers
to postpone the date of execution for
seven of the boys. 1t has forced
reversal of sentence in the case of
the eighth boy. In the case of the
ninth boy, there was mistrial at
the original farc'cal trial at Scots
boro. Ala
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
SEEK TO FRAME
YOUNG CHICAGO
NEGRO ON RAPE
Youth Day Meeting to
Fight Terror On
South Side

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept, 6.-Willle
Modem, 23-year- old Negro worker is
being framed by the white bosses Of
Chicago on traditional charge Of rape.
Upon investigation by the Young
Communist League is was found that
Willie Modem was not in the city on
July 10, the day he was supposed to
have attacked Jennie Weber, age II.
The home of the family is beer
joint. The mother appeared con-
fused when she told the story of rape.
The cause behind the charge is
part of the general terror that is be-
ing used against Negroes on the
South Side. The American Legion
and its youth sections are starting
wide campaign to terrorize Negroes
around Wentworth Ave. because they
are moving beyond the boundary
line" set by the fascists as Went
worth Ave. Recently the clothes OF
two Negro boys were burned by Le-
gionaires.
The Young Communist League is
mobilizing the Negro and white work.
ers to defend Willie Modem and to
put stop to the terror in general.
The first meeting will be held on
September 7th, at SO and Wells st.,
at TOO pm.
This will be used as preliminary
for the International Youth Day de-
monstration against war, which is to
take place on the South SIDE in the
heart of the Stckyards, 46th and
Gross, on September 9th at pm.
Three other International Youth Day
meetings will be held in Chicago.
These will be at: West Side 18th St.
and Washtenau, at 7:30 pm; North
West-Side Lake and Woods st., at
7:3O pm; Burnside-93 and Burley at
$50 pm.
s. L. P.Backs Out of Debate
CINCINNATI, Sept, 6.-On his
tour for the Young Communist Lea
que on the election program of the
Communist Party, Toney Minerich,
challenged the Socialist Labor Party
to debate the issues of the campaign.
The latter, although they have often
expressed themselves as ready to de-
bate, backed out.
About 100, half Negro, listened to
Minerich expose the Socialist Labor
Party and the other parties fighting
the working class program represent
ed by Foster and Ford.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07


This is the keynote of the Labor
Day speech of President William
Green of the American Federation of
Labor, delivered here yesterday
SO Per Cent Wage Cut.
Green admitted that wage cuts
since the crisis started amount to SO
per cent on the average, while the
cost Of living has fallen only % per
cent. He admitted that there were
100000 jobleSs Editors note
There are really 15,0o0,000).
Green admitted that The aid
which the government has extended
to business, banks and corporations
has not had any perceptible effect
upon the unemployment situation"
Green declared, I'VE know with fat
alistic certainty that the nation is
facing its worst winter of unemploy-
ment." He spoke feelingly of all his
efforts to kid the workers into be-
lieving the crisis is past, efforts which
started three years ago and lasted
until now. He said: Strive as we
may TO interpret every hopeful sign
in the most favorable way and to
stress the Importance of human psy-
cholcgy in the revival of business, a
persistent and Disappointing increase
in unemployment continues" He
spoke Of the suffering and distress
which millions have been forced tc
undergo because they we're denied
the opportunity to work and earn a
living"
Green, made these admissions
without apology for the fact that he
argued right up to the end of 1881
that employers we're keeping their
bargains made at the 1929 Hoover
conference not to cut wages, as
Green was keeping his bargain to OPP
pose all strikes during the crisis.
No Struggle Against Wage Cuts.
Then, he issued a declaration that
the A. F. of L. was always against
wage cuts. And then in the care
fully chosen words first quoted above,
he POSTPONED es far as he was able
any action of the workers against the
admitted campaign Of the employers
to cut wages. eve refuse to accept"
wage cuts, as final said Green, mean
ing we do accept them now And he
said, IF forced to yield. ...w we will
bide our time" Green proposes no
struggle now against wage cuts or
unemployment. He resisted any ad-
mission that there were wage cuts
for two long years Of nothing but
wage cuts, and now, when the facts
are so plain that he is forced to adj
nit them, because all can see them,
he proposes no struggle, until some
far off future time when "the first
favorable opportunity comes" At the
same time experience in many strikes
Lawrence textile 1881 etc. shows
that these same A. F. of L. officials
if they can't prevent the outbreak
of a strike will take over it's lead
ership in order to betray it.
For Stagger System.
For the unemployed, Green pro-
poses the stagger system and unem-
ployment insurance paid for by the
workers. His proposal of the stagger
system is contained in the slogan,
"the five day week and six hour day"
without one word about retaining a
full weeks pay He speaks very care
fully, in the attempt to gloss over the
fact that this sort of five day week is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
/, GIBBONS NEAREST TO MAN

= YORK. England, Sept. 6.-Scien-
lists gathered at the annual session
of the British Assn. were told by DR..
C. T Regan that the gibbon, small
monkey of the Indo-Malay region
was the nearest species to man He
based his theory on a study of fish,
fossils and apes. Regan said that the
bones in the naval cavity of the glib
bons were short and broad like those
of men, while in the larger apes the
bones were long and narrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
MORE KIDNAPPING

CLEARFIELD, Pa.-Police officials
here say they are looking for a priv
ate detective, J. Devine, who did
some kidnapping of his own while
he sought fame and fortune in hunt
ing the kidnappers of the Lindbergh
baby. Devine had kidnapped Garrent
6chenck, fish peddler of Hopeweu,
Ajl. J., and the authorities aided and
bbetted ;sthis kidnapper by holding
EHhenck for him until last Saturday
10 the county Jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
ADVANCE IN MEDICINE SEEN IN
DISCOVERY

COLUMBIA, Mo..~Sept. 6.-Studies
being made by R. Carl Vinson OF the
University of Missouri have led him
to believe that certain infectious dis
eases are not caused by microbes but
by chemical compounds
He says that in these diseases i'm
munity cannot be gotten by injection
of a serum as certain arrangement
of atoms within the living tissue
causes the illness. If this Is so, the
discovery will mark a great advance
irf science.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
AUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION
REACHES NEW Low

The index of automobile production
for the week ended Sept. 3rd, deliv-
ers new blow to Hooyer's ballyhoo
about the turn toward prosperity"
1t fell to 255 from 27.2 in TIE pre-
vious week and 46.7 on Ne cores
ponding week of last year.
Total production amounted to 22,-
1853 cars and trucks, as against a.
265 in the preceding week and AZ
486 in the corresponding week of 1881
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
EAST SIDE WESL
POST ORGANIZES
To Elect Delegates to
Cleveland

A new post of the Workers 'Ex-Ser-
vicemen's League, to be known as the
East Side Post, has been organized
on the lower East Side. The next
meeting of the East Side Post will
be held this Friday, Sept. at 122
Second Ave. at 8 p. m.
All ex-servicemen are urged TO at
tend this meeting, as delegates will
be elected to tn National Veterans
Conference to be held Sept. %, "a,
and Is at Cleveland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07

In March, 1881, the American Fed
Grafton Of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers made a general contract
covering thousands of workers, who
were not consulted, and reducing
their wages IS to so per cent.
All these unions belong to the A. r.
Of L. These are only a few recent
outstanding examples of ALL. wage
cutting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
a +. d. FOLLOWED BY TERROR
IN WARSAW.

WARSAW, Sept. 6. Following
the International Youth Day demon
stration which was shot up, the police
are aeizing many workers suspected
OF txhng Communists Raids are be-
ing carried out throughout the city
TO find the places where leaflets and
other literature calling for the DEM
OStration was printed.
In the demonstration four year.
old child and woman were killed by
the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
Won Papen Wage
Cut Decree In Effect

BERLIN, Sept, 6. -. Won Papen's
wage-cutting program was made Of
ficially operative today when Presi-
dent Hindenburg signed an "emerg-
ency" decree to that effect.
The program calls for wide stag
gering Of employment and provides
premiums in taX-refunds for all in
dustrialists who employ more work.
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
1000 CANADIAN WORKERS DE-
rEANn SCOTTSBORO RELEASE

WINDSOR, Can, Spet. 6.-Four
Thousand Canadian workers in
mass meeting against deportation
and government terror in Lanspeary
Park unanimously adopted a resolu-
ton demanding the release of the 9
innocent Scottsboro Negro boys and
pledging militant support for the
worldwide defense fight. The resolu-
ton was ordered forwarded to the
United States Supreme Court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
HUNDREDS HOMELESS IN FLOOD

BROWNSVILLE, Tex, Sept. g.
The flood of the Rio Grande has left
hundreds homeless and killed an I'M
known number of people At present
It seems as if the lands of the rich
citrus growers has remained I'M
touched. The water is flowing to-
wards the Gulf of Mexico.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
In the Days
NeaVS
COMMUNIST DAILIES SUPPRESS
SEQ IN GERMANY
(TaEIa nv Tnpra,orrl
bile BY InprecorT)

BERLIN, Sept, 6.-Two more Com
munist newspapers, the Thuringia
Volksblatt and the Frankfort Main
Arbeiter zeitung, have been sup
pressed for fourteen days for alleged
abuse of Won Papen Government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
J INJURED IN B'KLYN THEATRES

Seven persons we're injured when
phosphorus thrown in two Brooklyn
theatres exploded. The theatres, one
at Kings Highway and Flatbush Ave,
the other at Flatbush Ave. and Far
ragut Rd, are being picketed by mo-
ton picture operators of Local 306.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07

September 1926 and also to elect
delegates to that conference.
On Monday, September IL, Pace
will speak in ST. Paul.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
BRITIsH IoBLEss AT NEW HIGH.

LONDON. = Unemployment in
Great Britain passed all previous lev
els when official figures showed g.
$50, 1873 unemployed on August %, as
compared with the previous high rec
Ord Of 2,825,772 in September, 1881.