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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
UNITED FRONT in
NEW BONUS MARCH
UPON u. s. CAPITOL
Call for Groups In the.
Legion and Vets
Foreign Wars

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 26.--The
National Veterans Rank and File
Conference adjourned this afternoon
amidst immense enthusiasm and with
the delegates pledged to go back to
the cities they came from and organ
ize rank and file conferences of vet
Grams during the last week in october
to rally masses of vets for the march
on Washington Dec. S.
The plan of action as laid down at
the conference is:
l. Organization of minority groups
in the American Legion, Veterans of
Foreign Wars and all other veterans
organizations for one gigantic united
front march on the national capitol
to present demands for their back
pay, called "the bonus"
2. After returning to their cities,
the conference delegates will begin
Immediately to organize demonstra-
tons before the city councils of their
cities for veterans relief, and to force
the heads of the city governments to
endorse the demands for full imme-
date payment of the soldiers bonus.
United Front Committee
At the closing session, the Veterans
Central Rank and File Committee of
Is members was elected to lead the
struggle. Included on the committee
are representatives of the Legion,
Disabled American Veterans, Vet
Grams Of Foreign Wars and Workers
EXSerVicemen'S League.
The headquarters of this national
committee will be opened in Detroit,
according to decision of the confer
ence.
w. E. S. L. Convention
Following adjournment of the Ma
tional Rank and File Conference, the
national convention of the Workers
Ex-Servicemen's League was con-
vened in Ukrainian Labor Temple,
with Walter Trumbuu, national Sec
rotary, making the main report.
Prisoners accepted
There was decision to organize
women's auxiliary Another decision
was made to accept all exservicemen
as members; no matter what flag they
fought under. Nom workers who
accept the program of the w. E. S. L.
will be accepted as members. All
workers who served in prison for
fighting against the war will be ac-
cepted as members.
Headquarters In Detroit
1t was voted to demand increased
pensions. for the Spanish-American
war veterans. The convention de-
cided to move the w. E. S. L. ma
tional headquarters to Detroit.
Members of the Legion, v. F. w.
and other organizations attended the
w. E. S. L. convention as visitors,
and declared they would support the
fight for the bonus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
SHOE STRIKERS
WON'T RETURN
Governor and Priest
Try Trick, Fail

LEWISTON, Maine, Sept. rs. -
The shoe strikers who have tied up
practically every factory in Lewiston
and Auburn, fighting wage cuts and
discrimination, voted again at their
big mass meeting yesterday not to
go back to work until their demands
are won.
For five days now Governor Elect
Brann and Senator Elect Holmes,
both Democratic Party leaders, have
been negotiating with the employers
and the strike leadership. The nego-
tiations resulted in an "offer" Satur-
day by u shoe companies which is
no offer at all.
Sidney Norton, who has become the
recognized leader of the strike and
until now has handled most of the
negotiations, wavered, as he has done
several times in the past, and stated
to the press that the twelve men
fired for organizing, which discharge
started the strike, would apply for
their jobs and if they got them the
strike would be over. "If they are
not hired. l wouldn't say what will
happen" he said.
Brann and Father Marchand, a
Catholic priest Of st. Peters church,
urged the men to go back. The mass
meeting gave an indignant refusal,
and declared they would stay out on
strike. Norton, then, under pressure
of the workers, began to take a stand
for continuation of the strike.
Need Broad Strike Committee.
These attempts to split the strikers
and discourage them, with Norton
giving aid to the plans by his
webbing attitude, has intensified the
demands of the more militant rank
and file for election of broad rank
and file strike committee to lead the
struggle and conduct all negotiations.
The Shoe and Leather Workers In
austrial Union has sent word of its
full solidarity with the strikers, and
urges collection of relief on a wide
scale for their support.
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ooh, well, if you put it that way,
she answered. But they get fed well
there. She added pettishly, 81 don't
see why the Unemployed Council has
been preventing us from sending
women there Why. I'd myself rather
live in Beach House than live the
pointing contemptuously to a group
way you people live, said Mrs. Miller,
Of gaunt women.
"It's easy to say when you'll never
have to-, one Of them answered her,
ooh, you never can telr'. simpered
Mrs. Miller. I looked at her she
had just had her hair dyed and mar
celled in expensive fashion; the cost
of that would have fed family for
month. She sat back comfortably.
IF you people only had more pa
tence."
Patience"
All over the country I have been
hearing that word from the flabby
lips of welfare officials. Patience"
Patiencel What does it mean? IF
you people would only stop annoying
us with your suffering and starvation,
and just die quietly in your holes"
But workers do not stay patient to
that end. The workers of Toledo
have practically stopped. evictions;
though the welfare department pays
no rents, long series CT struggles
have blocked the former flood of
workers put on the streets Now
they must stop starvation Of children
and parents. In Toledo, last week,
the workers of Washington Town
ship, when refused food by the coun-
ty commissioners, made a hunger
raid on an A. & P. grocery store,
and no policeman dared touch them.
At the same time the Toledo work
ers are fighting to force the bosses
to disgorge their profits to buy food
for unemployed families. The hun
ger raid showed the rising temper
of the workers. 1t is warning to
the Mayor Thachers, the Reverend
Rowseys, the Mrs. Millers, who at
tempt TO soothe that swollen torrent
with empty words instead of foodl
Fight for Jobless Insurance.
This pellagra-Toledo styles the
dreaded disease of starvation. 1t is
a disease of the unemployed and the
staggered" workers. 1t is the di-
sease of a dying system that refuses
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ribly unbalanced diet, are doled out
in quantities which mean that fami-
lies are hungry when they get up
from the table. No salt or pepper
or any kind of seasoning, no veg
etables or eggs, no butter, not once
in nine months has this diet been
changed. Is it any wonder that chill
dren die? A pint of milk per baby
is provided, but no child under three
is counted in the rationing of food.
Thus, in a family like Dewey Mil
ler's numbering six children, three of
whom were under three, eight months
had to be fed on starvation ration
designed for family of fivel
The Welfare Department.
Fresh from talking to the bereaved
father, accompanied a committee from
the the Unemployed Councils to the
Office of the welfare department. A
Mrs. Miller received us, talking and
looking like thousand other welfare
officials in thousand other cities:
prim, bored, with that stale look of
embalmed virginity, a mincing man
ner, and an injured outrageous case
of suffering and starvation. She had
ready solutions for all problems. Was
worker being put out on the streets?
Let him move his family in with
friends, relatives or anybody Was
a family starving? Let them wait
for ap investigation taking three
weeks. fafter which they might be put
on relief. Children we're unable to go
to school because they had no clothes
and shoes?
Why she was thinking of running
campaign sometime soon to collect
old clothing. But Mrs. Miller's fav-
orite solution for all problems is
Beach House and the Juvenile Del
inquent's Home. Beach House is a
detention home for prostitutes, but it
is more than that. If family is
evcted, the city officials, instead of
providing them another home, prefer
to send the mother and her babies
to the Beach House, the older chill
dren to the Juveniue Delinquent's
Home, and leave the father on the
streets.
Mothers TO Prison.
do you mean you send decent
workingclass mothers to prison for
prostitutes, and poor children to live
among hardened young gangsters?"
asked Mrs. Miller,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
BY GEORGE COOPER.

TOLEDO, O.. Sept. 25. - Ravaged
by form of starvation sickness SIM
liar to the dreaded pellagra, the
working class babies and children
of Toledo are being murdered by
Mayor Thatcher and the welfare adj
ministration. While the unctuous
Reverend Rowsey, welfare head, as
sures the capitalist press that there
have been no complaints about the
food rations, and insists that he
could himself live on the repulsive
scrap he forces the workers to live
on, the hospitals of Toledo are full
of sick and dying children, whole
generation of them being slaughtered
as surely as il they were cut down
with axes. Nothing appears in the
capitalist press except few daily
stories of children dying, with no
mention of the reason; but in one
hospital alone, st. Vincent's, there
are five hundred babies and children
sick with this starvation disease.
I learned Of this from Toledo
worker, Dewey Miller, who had just
buried three year old boy, dead from
this disease, while his little daughter,
a year and half old was now lying
in the same hospital, stricken with
the same disease.
1T was plain murder, he said. "My
little boy couldn't live on the diet of
flour, potatoes. and rice, the welfare
has been giving us. No children
could live on that mess / took him
to doctor, who gave me certifi-
cate showing the boy had to have
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something else to eat. But neither
the social service nor the welfare de-
partment would give me the food he
needed. Now he's dead, and they
might as well have killed him, the
results the same"
500 Cases In Hospital.
He was fearful for his little daugh-
ter. A nurse in the hospital had told
him that most of the children brought
in succumbed to the disease; it was
from her that he learned that there
were over five hundred cases in that
hospital alone. But everyone in the
hospital tried to cover up the fact
that the disease was a starvation
sickness. When Miller asked the
nuns, who run the hospital what the
disease was, they answered blandly,
I'VE don't know" Miller demanded
an autopsy, but the only report given
him was "acute diarrhea." Since it
had already been admitted that all
the children in the hospital were suf-
fering from the same disease, why a
sudden epidemic of acute diarrhea?"
I found that the relief situation
made it all too clear why these chill
dren we're dying. For nine months,
week in. week out, this has been the
steady diet of 1900 families receiv-
ing relief in Toledo: flour, sugar,
cracked rice, potatoes, oleomargarine,
oats, canned milk, lard. This. plus
bread and, for meat, about pound
of bacon or bologna once a week for
a whole family. constitutes the diet
of Toledo's unemployed. Needless to
say, even these items, making ter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
MYERSCOUGH AND
YOUNG RELEASED
Led Wildwood Pickets
Shot Up by Deputies

PITTSBURGH, Pa. Sept 26.-Tom
Myerscough and Robert Young were
released on parole from the Allegheny
County Workhouse, where they had
served II months Of two-year SEN
fences.
Myerscough and Robert Young
were framed up on manslaughter
charges as a result of the picket
line at the wildwood mine on June
%, 1881, when 10 were shot and
wounded and one killed by deputies
and mine guards during the historic
strike of 10000 Pennsylvania and
East Ohio coal miners.
Myerscough and Young, leaders Of
the National Miners Union in Al
legheny Valley, we're among SO
others also arrested during the same
strike, some of whom are still in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
TROOPERS HALT
RELIEF TRUCKS
Bar It's Way Into So.
River n. j. Strike

SOUTH RIVER, N. j., Sept 90
State troopers today stopped truck
load of food being brought by the
Workers International Relief to the
striking dress workers here and forced
it go back. This action comes after
Krayanzowski, president of the local
needle workers had ordered the WIR
TO stop bringing relief as it would
only prolong the strike
U. S. Department of Labor agent
Eoff't with the aid of Kryanzokskt
has been trying to force sell-out
down the threats Of the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
FROM A "STARvED-OUT FARMER
WORKS ONE DAY A WEEK;
SENDS 81

Cleveland Ohio
Comrades:
I contribute 81 to $4,000 fund to Save the
Daily. have worked very little, and most of
the time one day week, hardly enough to keep
me going. But do see that we must fight
harder day by day. And the only way we can
accomplish something is to make the working
class to understand the needs of our Daily
Worker.
Spanish Comrade, H. G.
Workers! Act on the examples given
you by the above letters. Particularly
if you have job, follow the sug-
gestion of the Ossining worker who
pledged two hours wages to the
Daily because he had no money left
at the time. Speed up collection lists.
dollars and half dollars! Rush all
funds to the Daily Worker, so East
18th ST., New York City.
Comrades:-Here is my share toward raising
the $4,000 Emergency Fund of the Daily
Worker.
Name ''...............,...... .................
City OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. State ..............
Address ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
PELLAGRA, HUNGER DISEASE OF SOUTH, FILLS
TOLEDO HOSPITALS WITH DYING CHILDREN

to the producers the elementary
things Of life.
More than ever must Unemploy-
ment Insurance be fought for I'm
employment Insurance to wipe out
this now menace! More than ever
is it clear that the system Of capital
ism must be overthrown, and the
Communists, who are leading the
fight of the unemployed in Toledo,
are the organizers of the fight for
the destruction of the ravaging cap
italist system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
Y.C.L. to Mobilize
Youth for Harlem
Tampa Demonstration

NEW YORK.-The United Front
Tampa Committee announces that
the Young Communist League of the
New York District has pledged full
support to the committee and its
plans In preparation for a mighty
demonstration throughout the streets
of Lower Harlem on Saturday, Oct
at 10 noon, starting at Tooth Street
and Second Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
BULLETIN.

ATHENS, Ohio, Sept. 26.--The
militia have been sent here follow
ing fighting between mine guards
of the Ohio Galleries Co. and pick
cts. Rifle firing has been going on
for several hours. A non-mineT,
named Clarmont BanfieId was hit
ard killed.
The governor did not send the
militia when mine guards murdered
Boyd Vincent, a strike leader, as
he was going home Sunday, at Luh-
rig, near here.
SPRINGFIELD. Ill. Sept 26. -
Thirty Lewis and Walker gunner
brought here for strike breaking
purposes, and led directly by w j.
Sneed. for years a Lewis agent
around Herrin, opened fire on masses
of striking miners on the streets Of
Springfield late yesterday afternoon.
One miner is very seriously wounded
and may die, one police plain clothes
sergeant is dead, and there Is evil
dence that he was slain by bullet
fired by Sneed himself a; miner.
Over 20 miners are wounded more or
less severely.
The crowd of miners was 50 reused
at the firing that they charged bare
handed on the gun thugs and beat
them up and scattered them. The
miners held the street for time and
shouted their denunciation of the
fleeing gunner, district and interna-
tional officials of the United Mine
Workers.
Police finally broke up the min
ers' formation with tear gas and
threats to open fire with machine
guns. A detachment of state militia
was rushed to town and is held in
readiness for further attack on the
strikers.
Drive Lewis Out!
Despite a number of arrests of
strikers, the miners are militant, de
termined to drive the Lewis machine
from the fields Militancy of the
rank and file is gaining Roadway for
the Progressive Miners of America.
| in spite of the hesitant and timid
program of the officials. The need
of electing local strike committees OF
rank and file miners for leadership
in the present strike against an IS
per cent wage cut is made more evil
dent by the present clash with gun
men and by the continued use of mi
| litia to smash picket lines at Taylor
vile, as we'll as by the continued ter
rorization Of 10000 miners in Frank
lin county by hundreds Of deputzied
gun thugs
Lewis Cut Wages.
International President Lewis and
District President Walker of the u.
NJ w A. signed an agreement in
August for a wage cut of $110 a day
for 10000 miners in Illinois, after the
miners had twice voted down the
cut on referendum. The miners gen.
orally refused to recognize this wage
cut agreement, went on strike, and a
series Of mass marches and mass
picket demonstrations followed. The
Illinois locals, where not completely
dominated by gun men as in Frank
lin county, seeded and formed the
Progressive Miners Of America at a
conference held several weeks ago at
Gillespie. The leaders of the new
union adopted pacifist policy, and
things have since been quieter with
the companies opening one mine
after another, and the rank and file
P. M. A. miners growing more rest
less.
The National Miners Union week
ago wrote officially to the P. M A.
asking for a joint conference and
united struggle against the wage
cut No answer has been received by
! the N. NJ. u yet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
OSSINING CLUB DONATES $3.50;
WORKERS PLEDGE 2 HOURS
WAGES

Recognizing that the Daily is the leader in
the workers struggles, our Ossining Workers
Social Club decided to run affair for the
Daily Worker. Out of small group of workers,
we succeeding in raising $3.50 in cash and in
getting pledges of $12 more
This is how we did it!
We took up collection and raised $1513.
But the workers we're not satisfied. One COM
rade said we must make it $40. Another said
he would pledge 2 hours work the following week
and all those lucky enough to have work should
do the same. Another Comrade proposed that
all who had work should Immediately give an
other Csc. Another suggestion was that since
the crowd was small, all those present should
try to bring in a contribution from another
worker by the following Saturday night. So
we raised on the spot, not the $40, which looked
like a superhuman task but $3.50 and the
pledges, most of which will be kept will bring
the total to over $40. This is what small
club did, and we will do more.
Yours for keeping up the fight
OSSINING WORKERS SOCIAL CLUB.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
WHO SUPPORTS cox?

PITTSBURGH, Sept. ga 500
bill was dropped in the collection
plate at the old st. Patrick's Cath
ole Church, with note to its pas
tor, Father James R. Cox that it is
O. contribution to his "Jobless Party"
Question-Know of a worker, after
three years of the crisis, with 500
to spare?
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jail, including Leo Thompson, Stella
Rasefski and Eddie Sherwood.
Meetings are being arranged to
greet these heroic fighters for the
working class Details will be an
nounced in the Daily Worker in a
few days.
Myerscough and Young will be
honorary delegates at the Pittsburgh
District international Labor Defense
Convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
HOPE FADES FOR FLYERS

NOME, Sept. 26.-Hopes for the
rescue of the pilot and two aides of
the Japanese airplane "Hochi Nichi-
bel" dimmed today as storms devel-
oped over the treacherous Boring
Sea. The ship is long overdue on
its projected nonstop flight from
Sabishiro Beach, Japan to Nome.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
SCOTTISH JOBLEss MARCH

GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 20
Calling themselves an Unemployed
Expeditionary Force" several hun
bred workers left here today, with
London as their destination. Plans
include the presentation of a petition
to Parliament on Oct. 81 for aid to
the jobless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
LONGSHOREMEN
FIGHTING CUT
Organized Opposition
In Philadelphia

NEW YORK. - The ship owners
have formally proposed that overtime
should be $1.05 per hour for long
shore work. This is still wage cut
of Is cents an hour, and the straight
time wage cut frfom IS to rs cents
has been agreed to by the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's officials. The
I. L. A. officials ask only $1.10 for
overtime.
Fight Wage Cut
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. ga
definite organized opposition move
ment has been formed among the In
ternational Longshoremen's Associa-
ton members here, and is circulating
leaflets with demands fatty against
the lewiston of President Ryan of the
I. l.. A. that wages shall be cut 10
cents an hour straight time and over
time, and Ryan's statement that in
the matter of the companies demands
for bigger loads, eve recognize the
economic position the companies are
in and we will be reasonable"
Smaller Loads
The newly organized opposition is
eIecting committees, and circulating
leaflets demanding mo wage cut at
ALL" no ten-hour days but an eight
hour day, at least eight men in the
mold and on the dock, four men on
steel lighters and four men on cars
for lumber, all draft, sling, skid loads
to be reduced at least onequarter in
size; regular union wages for car
gangs, exemption stamps for unem-
ployed and reduction of dues to so
cents, full rank and file. control.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
Ask Units To Support
DAILY" At Meetings

The Daily Worker appeals to all
New York units of the Party meet
ing tonight to place the situation
of the Daily on their order of BUSH
ness. Members of each unit are
asked TO donate at least half
dollar to the Daily Worker Emer-
gency Fund. sgAHgs a.. ySEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
PATRIOTS FIGHT BONUS

NEW YORK.-Led by the notorious
professional patriot, Stanwood Men
ken, organizer of the National Sc
curity League, a group of business
men have formed the National Com
mittee Against the Payment of the
Bonus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
SHOW CHURcH-FAscIsT UNITY

NEW BRITAIN, Conn.-Italian
anti-fascist workers in this city have
sent a letter to the owner of the
Palace Theatre, protesting against
Lifting a fascist leader and the Ital-
ian Catholic priest run picture for
the purpose of building an Italian
Catholic church The anti-fascis
workers also distributed leafletf
pointing out that the fascists AND
he church are united. q. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
Communist Demand for JObless Insurance
More Urgent Than Ever
National Unemployed Council Meet in Chicago
Oct 9th to Spread Jobless Fight

The following exposure Of starvation in Toledo telling how the
dreaded pelagre starvation disease the
northern industrial cities filling
shows the
scale this winter for unemployment which
demand of the Communist election platform An important step in
the
National Committee of the
which will be held October and 10 in Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27
BIG COMMUNIST
GAINS IN GREECE
Third in Athens and
Piraeus Voting
(See Page 8 Communist Election
Victory in Bulgaria)

NEW YORK. Reports from Greece
state that in the national elections
just held the Communist Party, al
though greatly prosecuted, has
scored great gains. In Athens and
Piraeus, the two leading cities, the
Party is third in number of votes
received. The tabulation is not yet
complete.
Over 300 Communists have been
Jailed and eXiled. Every meeting
during the election campaign was
broken up.