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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
CAN'T TRUST OFFICIALS
OF A.F.L. ON INSURANCE;
MASS PRESSURE NEEDED
Green's Plan No Good; Rank and File Called
To Back Up National Conference; Force Issue
Will Meet in Cincinnati Nov % and Place
Demands Before A. F. of L. Convention

1.-THE American Federation of La
Dor will hold its annual convention
at Cincinnati. Ohio, November 21st.
The delegates to this convention with
very few exceptions do not represent
the sentiments of the rank and file
of the ALL. They are high alaried
officials of the ALL. whose interests
are not common with those of the
rank and file. These delegates who
attended last years convention at
Vancouver voted against unemploy-
ment insurance of any kind"
So begins letter sent by the New
York ALL. Trade Union Committee
for Unemployment Insurance to all
ALL. local unions, city central bo-
dies and state declarations of labor.
This call invited the membership
Of all ALL. bodies to elect delegates
to a conference to be held in Cincin-
natl, Ohio, on November % and %
simultaneously with the ALL. an
nual convention. The purpose of this
conference is to send an official del
egation to the ALL. convention to
bear pressure upon the ALL. con-
vention to adopt the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill as the meas
ure it will sponsor and fight for its
adoption by the federal government.
Led Fight for Months.
In a statement to the press ac-
companying this call Mr.. Louis Vein
stock, Secretary Of the ALL. Com
mittee for Unemployment Insurance,
said,
1.-THE New York ALL. Trade Union
Committee for Unemployment In
surance and its affiliates, the vari-
GUS committees for unemployment in
surance throughout the country, have
for months led and organized the
rising sentiment among the millions
OF ALL. members employed and I'M
employed for unemployment insur-
ance. This sentiment on the part
Of the AL. membership has as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10

the Executive Council of the A. F. l..
suned such mass proportions that
was compelled by their own sdmis-
sion to reverse their hostile attitude
to unemployment insurance adopted
at Vancouver and to flavor unem-
ployinent insurance. W
"But no sooner did the Executive
Council declared itself for unemploy-
ment insurance when by numerous
ifs, butts and reservations they
showed that they were not sincere
in their declaration for it. The
clinching refutation of their SINGER
ity came in Green's statement on
Sept. 8 that because federal unem-
ployment insurance may be contrary
to constitutional inhibitions' the A.
FL. will favor some form of unem-
ployment insurance by states instead.
Intensity the Struggle.
1.-THE ALL. Trade Union Commit
tee for Unemployed Insurance was
instrumental in leading and organiz-
ing the mass pressure. 1t win con-
tinue to lead the ALL. rank and
file in their struggle for unemploy-
ment insurance and relief until the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill is adopted as the ALL. policy
and is enacted into law by congress
and will mobilize the rank and file
for national campaign to win real
unemployment insurance"
Other Committees Join In.
The letter, calling the conference,
says:
"In the name Of the New York
Committee for Unemployment In
surance, the Detroit Committee, Chi
cago Committee, Minneapolis Com
mittee, Sioux City Committee, Cleve-
land Committee, Seattle Committee.
Phila. Committee, and Pittsburgh
Committee we call upon your local
union to elect a delegate to the Gin
cinnati Rank ard File Conference SO
that your local shall also be repre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
CHICAGO .JOBLESS
In UNITED Front
But Borders Begins to
Hesitate

CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 9.-Represen.
tatives of the Unemployed Councils
Of the Workers League of America
and of the Chicago Workers Commit
tee on Unemployment (Borders Com
mittee) met Friday in Chicago Com
mons in response to letter sent tbs
other two organizations by the Un-
employed Councils proposing a uni
ted front action against the cutting
down of relief by one half.
The conference was opened by
Warren Lamson, secretary of the
Unemployed Council, who stated its
purpose, to defeat the relief cut and
outlined the need for united action
Of all jobleSS, whatever their organi-
cation or whether organized at all
in company with the employed work
ers, without regard to race or creed
or political opinion.
For Mass Struggle.
He urged immediate organization
of demonstrations and struggle at re-
lief stations, and mass participation
in the Sbosob funeral, with support
OF all organizations for the Cook
County Conference, Oct. 16.
Delegates of the other two organ
izations Immediately declared theil
agreement with this program.
But later Borders, socialist lead.
er of the Committee on Unemploy.
ment, began to raise as issues: "the
need of keeping all political parties
OUT lin spite of the fact that the
Communist Party alone has giver
whole hearted support to the strug
gle Of the jobless.
Borders Retreats.
Borders then began to display hes.
itancy as to any kind of militant &C
ton including demonstrations at re.
lief stations or any local actor
against the cut. He refused to com.
NIT himself as to his attitude in cast
the Mayor Cermak, Democratic Party
city administration refuses a perni
for the Sbosob funeral march.
Rank and file representatives Of al
three organizations answered Dor
ders' arguments, and pressed him tt
the wall. They demanded, and ar
ranged, new united front confer
ence for Saturday Unemployed
Council delegates to the Friday con
ference included Lamson, Lockner
Weber, Poindexter, Tucker, Ross ant
others. They include several Com
munist candidates in the elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
kAhLiW CHEATS
FREE LABOR OUT
OF FOOD WORKERS
Gets 10 Days Work for
Nothing, Then
Fires Them

CHICAGO, Ill.--,At the restaurants
and cafeterias run in Chicago by
John Raklios, worker is taken on
to work for 10 days for nothing in
rider to learn the trade" and then
fter 10 days he is turned out and has
- hang around the John Racklios
Restaurant Employment Agency in
the hope of getting a job in another
restaurant.
Even If a man has many years
experience, he is made to give 10
days free labor to learn the trade"
and then he has to hang around for
a Job.
One man worked in Randolf st. for
five years for this cxploiter, and then
was fired. Later he had to work 10
days for nothing In the Rakilos sys-
tenn, and now has no job because
they tell him he is a little old (35
years.
Raklios also pushes wages down by
playing American born workers
against Filipino and Greek workers,
Nd robbing all Of them. Negro work.
srssare especially exploited,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
Masses Control USSR,
Stain Is No Dictator,
Prof. Ward A d m i t S

While the masses control the poll
cies of the Soviet Union, freedom is
declining in capitalist countries, it
was pointed out by Professor Harry
F. Ward, Of the Union Theological
Seminary, chairman of the Civil Lib
critics Union, in an address to 200
guests at luncheon given in his
honor st the Hotel Woodstock Sat
urday. Professor Ward returned re
Gently from a prolonged stay in the
Soviet Union. The government of
the Soviet Union, he declared is not
a personal dictatorship of Stain.
Thus the professor partially admits
that the Dictatorship Of the Pro-
letariat is the broadcast kind of a
real democracy for the mass of the
workers and farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
AND
FARMERS UNITE
Joint Picket Lines In
South Dakota

SIOUX FALLS. S. D. Oct. O.
The Unemployed Council here IS
calling on all iooless in the city to
help the farm strikers picket.
The demands put forward by the
Unemployed Council and the United
Farmers League, which are meeting
with wide acceptance by striking
farmers and jobless alike, are fer
higher prices for farm products. ard
lower prices for the workers when
they buy farm products-that is, a
united front against the produce
trusts who swindle both farmer and
worker, a united front against the
bankers who are taking the farmers
land away from them and who de-
mand cutting of of relief in the
cities, a united front for the demands
for relief to both hungry farmers and
jobless workers from the city and
county governments. Mass resistance
to tax or mortgage sales is being
urged.
Daily Worker on Picket Lines
The Unemployed Council is distrib-
uting the Daily Worker and Pro-
ducers' News paper Of the United
Farmers League) on the farmers
picket lines.
Picketing is taking place on all the
thirteen roads through Minnehaha
county, and the usual one hundred
truckloads of farm produce going
through has been cut to practically
none.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
FIFTY PER CENT ON SHORT
TIME IN AUSTRIA

VIENNA. - According to official
figures SO per cent Of Austrias fac
tories are no longer working full
forty EIGHT hour week. Many of the
factories are working a 40, 36 and
even "a hour week.
Some factories work only a few
hours each day. Others work only
two or three days week.
In many cases factories are still
working a full week, but with chang
ing shifts. One week one shift Of
workers and the next week another.
Short time work is expected to in
crease towards winter. The Austrian
employers are unwilling to lose their
highly trained workers and prefer to
work short time rather than dismiss
their workers.
Further, short time work is a good
preparation for the introduction Of
wage-cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10

THE struggle against militsrism
must not be postponed until this
moment when war breaks out.
Then it viii be too late The
struggle against war must be car
ried on now, daily. hourly"
LENIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10

sented at this conference.
"The expenses are very low. Food
and lodging for the duration of the
conference will be So. This amount
should be sent in with the credential
to the New York Committees Office.
Travelling to Cincinnati will be ar
ragged in cars and buses with q
'ery small charge" -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10

now indicted, some are still in jail,
while others are out on $4,000 bail.
The indictments charge unlawful
assembly, melting to riot. malicious
mischief, interfering with officers and
assault and battery.
The International Labor Defense
has issued a call for mass protest
and for the workers of South River
to unite to defend their fellow work
ers against this latest attack of the
Bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
Crowd Turns Out to
Hear Amter, In Spite
of Rain, at Syracuse

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Oct. 9.-De-
spite a drenching downpour, about
200 workers turned out here Thurs
day night to hear Israel Anter,
Communist candidate for Governor
of New York. The audience listened
attentively to Amter's analysis Of the
crisis and responded with enthusi-
astic applause to his condemnation
of the election programs of the So
cialist, Republican and Democratic
Parties as programs favoring the
present misrule of the bankers, in
dustrialists and grafters. He wildly
explained the working-cla charac-
ter of, the Communist Program, en-
phasizing the demand made by the
Communist Party for unemployment
and social relief at the expense of
the employer and the state.
Amter spoke in Buffalo on Satur-
day, in Lackawanna on Sunday
afternoon and in jamestown Sunday
evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10

International Labor Defense here,
the following wire from William 2
Foster, Communist candidate for
President, was read and cheered by
the assembled delegates:
I. L. d. has played energetic and
leading role in rOusing masses to
resist terror and persecution. 1t
= has fought for the freedom of that
great working class hero, Tom
Mooney, who has been betrayed by
the leadership of the A. F. of L. 1t
has fought valiantly and militatntly
the Department of Labor in its de-
portation drive on Berkman, Borich
Kjar and other militant workers.
The i. L. ID. has especially distin-
guished itself in its brilliant fight
on behalf of the most oppressed
section of the American people, the
Negro masses. j. L. ID. defense of
the ScottsborO boys has fired the
hopes and strengthened the hearts
of the working class through the
world. In its many years of activ-
ity, I. L. ID. has proved that it de-
serves confidence and support of
the working class. This convention,
coming at threshold of fourth win
ter Of mass hunger, has most seri-
GUS and important tasks ahead.
Communist Party greets you and
calls on all toilers and friends of
working class to rally behind LID.
in the great struggle for the defens'
of all oppressed and exploited.
VIM. u. FOSTER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10

Toward Revolutionary Mass Work"
Pamphlet containing 14th Picnum
Resolutions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
HUGE CLEVELAND
SCOTTSBORO MEET
1000 Demand Release
of Negro Boys

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 9.-The
ScottSboro demonstration here saw
1000 workers, thirty ger cent of whom
were Negroes, converging on the pub
lie square in parade formation from
three different directions. Delegates
from the convention Hall headed the
parade. The w. I. r. band in the
Square gave additional enthusif~'''
to the meeting, and the voices Of the
speakers were carried to all corners
of the Square by amplifiers.
Negro Leader Main Speaker
william L. Patterson, Negro, one
Of the members of the Executive Com
mittee Of the International Labor De
Tense and Communist candidate for
Mayor of New York City was the
main speaker. He gave the greet
ings of the Fifth National Conyen-
ton of the 1. L. D. and pointed out
that the fight for the release of the
Scottsboro boys expressed the growing
unity of the working class.
Frank Borich, of the National
Miners Union told of the struggle OF
the miners against starvation and
wage-cuts and pledged renewed fight
for the release of the Scottsboro boys
Mac Harris. Cleveland organizer OF
the Trade Union Unity League de
nounced the cutting down of relief
to the unemployed and the murderous
attack of the police upon the Akron
workers fighting evictions. The po-
lice in this struggle fired on the
workers. Harris called for demon
stration on Monday at the City Coun-
Gil to protest the proposed ordinance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10
IL d. Must Provide United Front for All Fighting Capitalist Terror
BropVder Strikes Keynote
In Cleveland Convention

2 Delegates Thunder Acceptance Fighting Program and Pledge
Mobilize All Free SOtbOro Boys and All Glass War Prisoners
Great Ovation Mother Mooney Entering Greet Conventions Both
Negro and White Workers on Executive Committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-06

Oct. IA, Is, 16 1t is important TO publish
these station addresses in advance Only
one more week left to prepare your dis
trict for the final nationwide rally to the
aid Of the Daily Worker Make this Tag
Day the most successful in the history Of
the paperl
Tuesday, Oct. a. donations amounted to
S251 II, $500 Of which came from mass
organizations, notably S25 from the Bronx
Workers Club. and s2l from workers Of
Paris Shoe Shop. j. Mehls, Cleveland
District, donates s25. Above figure brings
total to date to SIT, 1888.
From Pittsburgh, Pa, Max jenkins
writes: The comrades of the Hill Unit,
Communist Party, collected So. Nine Ne
gro men and women, all unemployed, con-
tributed 25 cents The other list is for
SITS" Mrs. j. C. of Vallejo, Cal, writes.
Your call for renewal Of my subscription
answered. Enclosed find money order for
my bit to help the Daily Worker as we are
lost without it," writes John schlottman.
Evansville, Ind. From New Britain, Conn.
M. M. says Enclosed s1.5O, which could
help our paper go on more stronger to
work for poor workers. We collected this
from three part-time worker comrades"
We appeal to these active workers, and
TO all others to continue their energetic
work during the last week of the so 900
Half-Dollar campaign which ends Oct Is
Upon half-doIlars from all over the coun-
try depends the wiping out, at least partly,
of the Daily's deficit Only one more week
to gather half-dollars, Rush them in day
by day. Everybody on the Job!
Total for Tuesday, Oct, 4 S251. Il
Total to date ----------..---.-....-- 1913
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-06
BANKER GROUP
OPPOSES BONUS
Levin Calls for Mass
Fight to Win

NEW YORK, Oct. SIN an at.
tempt to head off the vast CROWNS
mass movement of veterans for full
and immediate cash payment Of thu
ex-soldiers' bonus, sixty representa-
tives of American banking and bust
ness interests met here in the Com
modore Hotel yesterday and formed
National Committee Against Pay
ment of the Bonus.
Heading the committee is the not
orious S. Stanwood Menken, erst-
while head of the National Security
League, an organization formed to
break strikes and terrorize the work
ers in the factories Included in the
group, side by side with General
Brice P. Disque, organizer of the
Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lum-
Der Workers, the first strikebreaking
company union organized in America,
was Oswald Garrison Willard, sup
porter of Norman Thomas, the So
cialist candidate for president.
General Disque, who is wholeheart-
eddy in favor of the billion dollar
raids which have been made on the
treasury by the bankers, said that
the fight of the veterans for their
back wages was dishonest" and Gin
equitable"
Emanuel Levin, National Chairman
of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League, in commenting on this latest
attack on the fight for the bonus
characterized the new anti-bonus
group as an organization of capital
lists and bankers.
Veterans everywhere must unite
their forces now against these enemy
groups which are cropping up thru
out the country" said Levin. 1.-THE
one uniting force that will lead Tie
vets to victory is the National Vet
Grams Rank and File Committee
which was elected last month in
Cleveland and which will lead the
veterans march to the capital De-
cember s."
Waters Group Against Fight
UNIONTOWN, Pa, Oct. 5.-Lead-
ers of the Waters group of the Bonus
Expeditionary Forces muzzled all at
tempts of the rank and file to de-
mand immediate and militant action
on the bonus question in a veterans
convention held here yesterday.
All proposals for new march to
the capital which were brought in
by the rank and file were suppressed
by the hand picked leadership who
by the usual steam roller tactic de-
clared once again Walter w. Waters
the commander.
The leaders are supporting Roose-
welt for president tho they know he
is against the bonus payment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-06
new YORK STARTS ACTON ON D. w."
TAG DAYS; CHICAGO PASSIVE
Boston, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, New Jersey
Fail to Order Collection Boxes, Submit Plan

District 2, New York. sets its machinery
in motion for the National Daily Worker
Tag Days, Oct. IA, IS, 16; orders 5000 col
lection boxes, 400 Of which go to workers
clubs and Women's Council Every branch
Of the international Workers Order is ex-
pected TO participate Section organizers
TO take up rag Days for mobilizng unit
members.
Chicago Lacking in Plan.
District 9, Chicago, which received 500
boxes, is getting 500 more. despite their
failure to order any. Thus far it has
sent no plan of work for Tag Days. What
are you doing, Chicago, to get recruits
from trade unions, fraternal organizations,
aside from Party units? Are you calling a
preliminary Daily Worker conference? IN
cidentally, 1000 boxes for the second larg-
es4 district in the country looks mighty
when the same number is or
dered by a much smaller district Phila-
delphia, which wires: Have not received
thousand boxes ordered while in New
York Ship immediately" Sent out today
Philly.
Districts I, s, 10. II Mapping
Boston, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and
New Jersey are sound asleep concerning
Tag Day collection boxes. For all we
know, they'll be scrambling for boxes a day
before Tag Day instead OF ordering them
NOW, as part of preliminary preparations
in modifying workers organizations for
active participation. We expect prompt
information concerning plans from these
four districts; we're ready to cooperate in
any way necessary.
Select Tag Day Stations.
Note to ell districts: Inform US Of Tag
Day Stations for publication in the Daily
Worker to enable workers to call for boxes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-06
PROTEST MARCH
SAT. in PITTS.
Demands Freedom for
Scottsboro Boys

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. s. - A
mass parade of Pittsburgh workers
will be held this Saturday Oct. 8,
thru the Downtown section Of Pitts
burgh. to demand the release of the
Scottsboro boys. The planned route
of the parade is Center Ave to Wylie
Ave. to Fifth Avenue and Smithfield
Streets and back to Wylie Ave
The parade will go thru the heart
Of the Negro workers section and
the Negro workers will be called on
to join. A permit has been asked
for but the International Labor De-
tense states that the parade will be
held, permit or not. The demon
stration will also protest the murder
charges against two miners, Joseph
Orlof and Sam Obeck, of Everetts-
vile, w. Va, whom the boss courts
are trying to frame up for the death
of a mine guard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-06
NEW RACKET ON JoBLEss

CLEVELAND, O.-An organization
ealing themselves 1.-THE Christian
Army" are working new racket on
the hungry unemployed.
A CRATER travels around selling
tickets to charitably inclined people
for 10 cents and they in turn give
the ticket to some needy person
which entities him to a basket of
vegetables. If you don't have bas-
ket you get nothing.
l have a basket before me now.
Bruised, wormy apples. Potatoes,
scabby and wormed, some cut and
moldy. Onions crushed and soft.
Doughnuts in torn newspaper, nine
days old. A respectable hog would
turn up his nose at this garbage.
The address of this wonderful,
goodly Christian Army is 1865 East
10th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-06
Demonstrate for
Ruegg's Release
Chiang's Consul Here
Handed Resolution

NEW YORK. Hundred of Chin
ese and white workers demonstrated
Tuesday afternoon before the con-
sulate of the bloody Chang Kali
shek government and demanded the
release of Paul and Gertrude Ruegg.
The Rueggs are serving life SEN
fences in the torture, cells Of the
Marking government, after farcical
trial to which they were delivered by
the government agents of Great
Britain. Paul Ruegg was head of
the Pan Pacific Trade Union Sec
retariat. The charge against the
Rueggs is that they are Communists.
The demonstrators here elected a
committee Of six, with S. Stein, of
the International Labor Defense, as
spokesman, and sent them into the
consulate on Eight st.
While they were there, the con-
sular attaches called the police, who
stormed In and asked whether the
consul wanted the committee thrown
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-06
URGE PATIENT" HUNGER

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Here is an
exact copy sent to some of the peo-
pie who have been receiving help
from the Family Service Society a
subsidiary of the Allied Charities,
dated August 20, 1882.
Dear Friend:
1--WE want you to know that our
workers regret the fact that the
orders we give are small. The Family
Service Society at this time depends
entirely on donations made from day
to day and it is impossible to feed
nearly 11,00o families and give each
one enough.
I'VE do wnow you are making a
hard fight and so appreciate your
patience.
THE Family Service Society,""
Just outside of the city where this
was written (Kansas City, Kansas is
a. huge bill board. On this period is
sign which says, Sure We Can Do
1t" and Give to the Presidents Re-
lief Committee" and showing a big
hearted worker handing over his cash
But clearly one year later this is
what the presidents relief committee
is sending out apologies The papers
already state that only $4,000 is left
for 10000 people or just So each.
Now is the time for the unemployed
to organize. Those who eat up the
propaganda of the capitalist press
today will be eating hay tomorrow.
III. w. S.