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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
Workers Win Strike
i'm the Acme Theatre

NEW Following an eight
hour strike led yesterday by the Of
flee Workers Union, workers of the
Acme Theatre settled with the own
er, winning seven demands.
The strike took place following the
firing of cashier, member of the
union. The settlement wa1 made
late in the afternoon, the Acme The
atre, Trade Union Unity Council and
the Office Workers Union agreeing
on the following demands:
1. Reinstatement of the cashier;
2. One hour off for lunch for all
cashiers; 3. One day off week (six
days work instead of seven) for cash
iers; a. Bankers to work hours in
stead of 4 hours, with overtime pay
for extra work; S. Cashiers not to
be fired without consultation with
the Office Workers Union; 6. Bark
ers not to be fired without consult
alton with the TUUC; 7. Eight hours
a day for the sandwich man instead
of IL hours.
The Workers Film and Photo
League in a statement issued today
said:
THE Acme Theatre is not connect
ed in any way with the Film and
Photo League of the WIR. This
theatre is privately owned house,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24

first Communist election campaign
demonstration ever held in this city
Of only 10000 inhabitants. Police
and state TROOPERS, attracted by the
crowd and by the connection caused
by the attempt to attack Amter,
tried to break up the meeting, but
when they saw that the workers
wanted it to continue, they backed
down.
Hudson has 5000 unemployed.
Theys are two big cement works
here, one of the Universal Atlas
Cement works which employed 1900,
but only $50 are working now This
is United States Steel subsidiary.
The other is the Lone Star Cement
workers with only 300 working. The
workers have had two wage cuts
amounting to 25 per cent, and now
work for 80 cents on hour--12 hours
a day-when they work The Ne
gro workers are almost totally I'M
employed. They worked the brick
yards, but these are shut down Only
967 unemployed are registered and
getting any kind of relief.
The city and county Of Hudson
are permeated with graft. C. j.
West, the city treasurer. has been
stealing money for the past IL years.
and pocketed $500 900. His confeder-
ate Clyde Deweitt, also respected
citizen, put $4,000 into his "tin box"
The meeting was militant and en-
thusiastic. All the literature on hand
was sold. Quite a number Of Ne
gro men and women and young
workers were present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
PROTEST MEETING
FOR S. WEINSTEIN
LID Calls on Workers
to Demonstrate

NEW YORK.--A protest demon
stration will be held here next Sun
day at Pleasant Bay Park under the
leadership of the International Labor
Defense against the continued i'm
priSonment of Samuel Weinstein, mi
liant member Of the Furniture Work
ers Industrial Union who is being held
on a framed-up charge of manslaugh-
ter because he took leading part in
a recent strike.
After scores of workers helped to
raise the outrageous bail of $4,000
which the capitalist courts have
demanded, the District Attorney
Changed his mind" about accepting
the bail and Weinstein still remains
in jail.
Habeus corpus proceedings have
been started by the I. L. D. to free
Weinstein, whose case the I. L. D.,
says resembles that of Tom MONEYS,
but the I. l.. D. warns the workers
that legal measures will not free the
framed worker unless they are sup
ported by powerful mass protests.
The protest demonstration for
Weinstein will be held in conjunc-
ton with the I. L. DIS annual picnic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
CITY ELECTION
NOTES

NEW YORK.-The first Agit-Prop troupes
of the Workers Laboratory Theater will
make their first appearance this year in
the Communist election campaign. at three
open-air meetings Wednesday night. They
will appear at meetings at Seventh Street
and Avenue C, 10th Street and Second
Avenue and Second Street and Avenue B,
to present a play on the election cam
paign issues,
BY next week. It was announced by the
United Front Election Campaign Committee,
three such troupes will be in action. The
troopers will present l0-minute plays as
intH-ludes in the speaking program.
These troupes last year drew huge
crowas to the election campaign meetings,
and they are expected to beat their pre-
vious successful record in the national and
state elections this year.
WEDNESDAY
Ave. and East 10th St., Manhattan,
speaker: Anna Lyons.
Risold st. and Brighton Beach, Coney
Island.
I4th ST. and Neptune Ave, Coney Island.
1873 Forty-Third ST., Brooklyn, speakers:
George E. Powers, candidate for Chief Judge
Of the Court of Appeals, L. Golosov.
Wednesday. Aug. 24-7th st. and Avenue
G. Auspices. Two. No. 1l2.
10th st. and Second Ave. Auspices, Un-
employed Council
I'd st. and Avenue B. Auspices, Commu-
mist Party.
AlIerton and Cruger Ave, Bronx, speakers;
Rose Chernin candidate 9th Assembly dis
triet, Pitkon and Spiro,
1th 81. and Ave. c.
10th st. and Second Ave.
End ST. and Ave. b.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
Printers Win a Shop
Strikes Amalgamation
Party Helps Victory

NEW YORK.-Due to the agita-
ton of the printers employed by the
Howard Printing Company, 1886 w.
49th Street, big Six" chapel, the
officials Of the Union were forced to
insist on union conditions in the
shop. Violations have been going on
for some time.
Monday afternoon the entire
chapel, including three non-union
men, declared strike, which after
an hour and a half's duration, was
successful in forcing the employer
to concede to the workers demands,
one of which was to be paid for over
time.
Thre three non-union men were
solidly with No. 6's members.
Stick Together
The employers contention had al
ways been that the workers were
rats" and would not stick together
under any circumstances, but their
strike action proves that they will
A former organizer of Big Six" in
his eagerness to please the employ
.er ruled, some time ago, that if the
men could not work under the speed
up conditions established by the
employer that they get out"
Two leaders of the Amalgamation
Party, the militant opposition party
within big Six" were called upon
by these workers for counsel, and
successfully crystallized the agitation
which resulted in this victory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
'SNIPER SOVIET TALKIE OF WAR
AT CAMEO THEATRE THURSDAY

Il
"Sniper," the second of this sea-
sons Soviet talkies, will have it's
American premiere showing Thurs
day at the Cameo Theatre. The
story of "Sniper" concerns soldier
of the Russian expeditionary forces
In France during the World War.
The direction and photography Of S.
Timoshenko and V. Konashevsky
we're highly praised in the Soviet
press. The leading roles are played
by Boris Shikhting and Peter Sobo-
levski. The titles are in English.
For the Cameo showing the film
has been prepared with English sub
titles throughout.
Theodore Dresser writes the fol-
lowing concerning Soviet films: 81
have repeatedly voiced my convic-
ton that the Russian cinematic as
we'll as most OF It's other forms of art
is especially distinguished because il
is more humanity as we'll as esthe-
tically enlightened and so closer tc
reality than the art Of any other
country. The intangible realities OF
mind in general as against the COM
monplace actions of characters con-
fined by conventional and mean
ingless code as well as plot, are in
Russian cinema, as well as its plays
and novels, always affectingly and
grippingly presented.
"Contrasted with the absolute
failure Of the motion picture as ar
art form in America and most other
countries today, this material which
comes from Russia fairly throbs, not
so much with promise as with
achievement. 1t repeatedly, in thi;
as in other instances, shows to the
world what the motion picture should
bo ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
Dressmakers Meet in
Bryant Hall to Plan
Fight on Cuts Tonite

NEW YORK. - All dressmakers Of
the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union are urged to attend
mass meeting tonight after work
at Bryant Hall, 9Th Ave. and 41st st.
to take up plans to organize for
struggle against wage-cuts and miser-
able conditions in the dress trade.
The call issued by the left wing
group for this meeting points out
that the International is falling to
pieces, that the officials are resign
ing and that the conditions Of the
workers in the International shops
are growing worse from day to day.
1t calls on the workers to come to
the mass meeting to discuss the stu
alton and see what steps can be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
To Picket Four Dress
Shops in N. Y. Today

NEW YORK.-The organizational
drive conducted by the dress depart
ment Of the Industrial Union is en-
bracing even larger numbers of shops,
while in many striking shops settle
ments are being made on the basis of
some improvement in the conditions
Of the workers. The union calls on
the active members to report on the
picket line this morning to assist the
strikers ct the following shops:
Len Jay Dress, $50 Wst 80 st.
Calmenson, $40 West 35th st.
Two Star Dress, 345 West 35th st.
Glasner 245 West 35th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24

slogans on them, through the Negro
workers neighborhood, to Grand Cir
Gus Park, where 1000 heard him make
the Communist Party's indictment Of
Henry Ford's wage cuts in the auto
factories here, heard him call for
struggle for relief for Henry Ford's
DISCHARGED thousands of auto workers,
heard him call for organized protest
of the terror, such as Fords shoot
ing to death Of five unemployed
workers at the gates Of his plant.
Honor Massacre Victim
In the evening 1000 listened to
Ford and other speakers at Arena
Gardens. later in the evening. There
were large number of new faces,
including many Negro workers who
have not before this been seen at
Communist meetings.
One of the speakers at Arena Gar
dens was Lon Williams, brother Of
Curtis williams, the fifth victim OF
the Henry Ford massacre. The ashes
of this murdered worker were on the
platform while the speakers called on
workers to organize their union, to
build Unemployed Councils, and to
fight against for the right to meet
and demand relief for the jobless.
Huge Struggle Near
Ford warned Of big struggles ahead
this coming winter for the right OF
the unemployed to get enough to live
on. He cited figures showing how
unemployment has by admission OF
the u. S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics,
increased three per cent in July IN
sixteen major industries, and at the
me time there was over six per cent
decrease in wages in July, below what
they were in June.
Even if the present crisis should
end" said Ford. "the majority OF the
unemployed will not be re-employed
unless the Joint struggle of workers
and tobless forces the owners OF IN
dustry to make place for them, or
to pay them relief.
1.-THE development of labor displac-
ing machinery in the last three years
means masses permanently unem-
rloyed and without any means OF
support" said Ford, "if the employers
snd their government are allowed to
decide.
Build Unions and Councils!
what we have to expect and pre-
pare the Communist candidate as
sured his listeners, "is vast struggles
Of the workers against wage cuts and
unemployed workers for relief, a mass
struggle for life itself. The workers
must build up a powerful organiza-
ton Of militant unions and Unem-
ployed Councils, to fight for unem-
ployment insurance at the expense
of the state and employers, as the
Communist campaign platform says,
and against wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
Upholstery Workers
on Strike Against
Firing of Union Men

NEW YORK.-Upholstery workers
of the Shapiro Parlor Suit Co.. 492
Watkins Ave, came out on strike to
force the boss to reinstate union
workers who were fired when the
shop was moved to new locality.
The boss is now attempting to hire
non-union labor. Workers are urged
to support the strike and help picket.
The strike is led by the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union.
The union reported today that it
will conduct a mass strike in the
upholstery trade within the next few
weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
What's On
WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY
Post rs, Workers Ex-servicemen's League
will have protest meeting at Hath st.
and Fifth Avenue, at p. m.
The John Reed Club, writer's Group, will
meet at p, m. at So West 18th st.
small black purse was lost at the
Daily Worker picnic. Finder please return
to Daily Worker office.
The following open air anti-war meetings
under the auspices of the F. S. u. will be
held:
Stain Branch, It'll st. and Ave. A. Speak
er: Trebst.
Eastern Parkway, ISL Schenectady Ave,
Speaker: Paul Green.
Yorkville Branch, seth st. and Lexington
Avenue. Speaker: Leroy.
West Bronx, 10th st. and Walton Ave.,
Speaker: Wilson.
Roman ROLAND, Lydig and Holland
Speaker: S. Turk.
A Sacco-vanzetti protest meeting will be
held at Bloomfield, N. j., under the aus
pieces of the l. L. D. Speaker; Baum.
An important section membership meet
ing of the Young Communist League, Bronx
Section, will be held at $50 Prospect Ave,
at 8 pm.
The Executive Committee of the Film and
Photo League of the WIR. will meet at
Is wa 2lst St, at pm.
The Alfred Levy Branch Of the LID. will
meet at 524 Vermont St., Brooklyn. at Q pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
FURRIERS STOP
MORE S H OPS
Gold Will Report on
Strike Tomorrow

NEW YORK-After the settlement
Of the strike with the Fur Trim
ming Association and with hundreds
of independent shops, the Fur De-
partment of the Industrial Union is
going ahead with the work of stop
ping off the remaining independent
shops and consolidating the gains
made in the settled shops.
Tonight, at o'clock a joint meet
ing of the strike committee and the
fur trade committee will be held in
the Office of the union where a re-
port on the conduct Of the strike
and further plans for consolidating
the gains will be decided upon. Also
the question of strengthening the
department SO that it will give the
proper attention to all the complaints
of the workers.
Gold To Report On Strike
A complete report on the furriers
strike will be given at a mass mem
bership meeting Thursday after work
at Webster Hall.
All needle trades workers. cloak
makers, dressmakers, furriers, milli-
merry workers, mems clothing workers
are called upon to come to this meet
t ing to hear a report on the strike
which resulted in the smashing of
the company union and the signing
of an agreement with the fur trim
ming association on the basis OF
higher wages, shorter hours, and
union conditions.
The lessons of this strike are OF
the greatest Importance to the other
sections of the needle trades. Ben
Gold, secretary of the union, will
give a full report which will be dis
cussed by the members of the union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
WARN AGAINST HAIMoWITZ

NEW YORK. = The New York
District of the Friends of the Soviet
Union warns workers against giving
support of any kind to Stanley Hal
mowitz, who is a free lance speaker,
holding meetings at Columbus Circle.
This individual, a former member
of the Friends of the Soviet Union,
is spreading confusion and getting
support from workers, by using the
name of various organizations and
telling lies to his audiences.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
LABOR UNION
MEETINGS

mass meeting Of painters will be held
Wednesday at 8 p m. under the auspices
Of the Alteration Painters Union al 27os
Mermaid Ave, Coney Island 20 establish a
new local Of the union. Joe Harris, city
organizer, will speak.
BARRIERS
A special meeting OF the BARRIERS and
Hair Dressers League will be held Thurs
day at $40 pm. at SO e. 18th St.
Painters
Locals of the Alteration Painters Union
will hold their regular membership meetings
a sfollows:
Local !, Bronx, 1880 Southern Blvd, Mon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
800 IN HUDSON
DEFEND AMTER
Beat Off Attack of
White Russian

HUDSON, N. Y, August 23.-An
attempt to attack Israel Amter. Com
munist candidate for Governor of
New York, was made at an election
campaign meeting here Sunday. A
white Russian, driven out of the
crowd by the wcGlers, who were
angered by his continued Interrupt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24

lions, returned
with an auto
mobile jack
with which he
tried to strike
Amter. Before
he could get to
the speaker, the
workers threw
him out Of the
crowd a second
time.
More than 500
workers W e r e
present at this
gathering. the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
ANTI-WAR FILM

NEW YORK.-The Workers Film
and Photo League Of the Workers
International Relief, 16 W. 21st St.
announces that it now has available
for distribution a 16mm reel film on
the August Anti-War demonstra-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
JoBLESS DRIVE OUT ovERsEER
OF POOR

CHARLES CITY, Iowa, Aug. %
A crowd of unemployed workers
stormed the office of the overseer of
the poor at the City Hall TODAY.
driving Marion Stull, the overseer.
into the street. The workers, it is
reported, put the overseer in a car
and drove her out of the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
FIGHT ON FOR RIGHT
TO LIVE, SAYS FORD
Communist Candidate in Detroit Speech Urges
Organization for Giant Struggle Ahead
1000 Greet Him at r. R. Station and Parade
Through Streets; 5000 at Indoor Meeting
BY CURT

cheering aisle through the inside lobby of the Michigan Central railroad
station here to welcome w
president Ford placed automobile waiting outside
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24

taken to reach the ranks Of all dress
makers in a mass drive for union
conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
office Workers


The New York local OF the Metal Workers
Union will meet Friday, Aug. 26th, 8 p. m.
at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and East 18th
Street, New York. At this meeting the
New York delegation that has Just returned
from Pittsburgh, will report on the ma
tional convention. where the union was
formed.
All members Of the union, as well as none
union metal workers are invited to this
meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24

which specializes in showing Soviet
pictures"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
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day, pm. Local 2, Brownsville l&40 East
New York Ave, Thursday, pm. Local g.
WILLIAMSBURG. II Graham Ave, Wednesday,
pm. Local 4, Downtown, 1874 e. 7th St.,
Monday, 8 pm.
mass meeting Of painters will be held
Wednesday at pm. under the auspices OF
the Alteration Painters Union at 27os Mer.
maid Ave, Coney ISL, to establish new To-
cal Of the union. Joe Harris, city organizer,
viii speak.
office Workers
Listen M Oak, managing editor Of Soviet
Russia Today" will speak on American anc
Soviet Culture at an educational meeting
to be held under the auspices Of the OF
flee Workers Union Thursday at p. m. al
the Labor Temple, "a East l4th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24

The Executive Committee Of the Film and
Photo League of the W.LR. will meet at
Is wa 2lst St., at 8 PM
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The Alfred Levy Branch of the LID. viii
meet at 524 Vermont St., Brooklyn. at 8p.m
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An important section membership meet
ing of the Young Communist League, Bronx
Section, will be held at $50 Prospect Ave,
at pm.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-10-14
Clyde Eubanks' Relics
Display includes First Prescription
Filled in His Store

This is Pharmacy Week" "
said Clyde Eubanks as was
about to enter his drugstore yes
terday. Stop here a minute
and see what I've got
l stopped and looked at the
dispiiaay in the window. The CEN
trail feature was an old mortar
and-pestle. Near them were old
scales. Clustered about were
bales of frayed and yellowed
prescriptions. One prescription
was mounted on a frame by it.
self.
THAT" explained Mr.. Eu-
banks was written by Charlie
Robertson for Mrs. A. S. Barbee,
and it was the first one | filled
after l started in business for
myself in 1866 years ago
1t was No. 1888, because we had
begun the numbering when |
worked with DR.. A. B. Rober-
son. The last one l filled, a few
minutes ago, was No. 1913, 649.'
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-10-14
Neighborhood Notes

Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Tomlinson
of High Point and their chill
dren were in Chapel Hill Sun
day.
Mrs. Herman Schnell has been
called to her home in Coushatta,
Louisiana, where her GRANDPA
ther, General L. w. Stephens is
critically Ill,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. McManis
of Schenectady, n. Y, were here
last week.
Among the visitors on Uni
versity Day were Judge and
Mrs. Francis D. Winston of
Windsor and Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Rose of Fayetteville
Miss Mary Owen Graham and
Miss Mary Arlington came from
Rocky Mount.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Graham
were in Charlotte two days this
week. Alexander Graham came
home with them.
DR.. Charlotte Hammond is
back in the village again.
Mrs. Athol Burnham returned
Wednesday after spending the
summer in Darien, Conn.
P. O. Jarvis and his mother
were here Sunday.
Mrs. w. NJ. Pugh is back af-
ter a short visit to Smithfield.
Miss Gertrude We'll was with
Miss Harriet Herring for the
weekend.
John w. Umstead, who now
lives in Winston-Salem was in
Chapel Hill Tuesday.
Captain Edgar Thompson, L.
S. Navy, has been here as guest
of his sisters, Mrs. Dunn and
Mrs. Johnson.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-10-14
TRUSTEES SALE OF REAL
ESTATE

Under and by virtue of the power
of sale conferred by certain Deed
of Trust dated September Is, 1881,
and executed to R. C. Gyles, trustee,
by C. A. Copple and wife, Mittie Mae
Copple, and recorded in the Registry
for Orange County in book 85 at page
70 securing the payment of eleven
notes and default having been made
in the payments of some of the notes
thereby secured when due and to sat
isfy same, the undersigned trustee
will, on the
21ST DAY OF OCTOBER, 1882,
at 1900 o'clock noon at the Court
House door in Hillsboro, Orange
County, North Carolina, offer for sale
to the highest bidder for cash the fol-
lowing described tract of land.
Being a certain tract or parcel of
land known as the R. W. Terrell
lands, and being that same tract pur-
chased by C. A. Copple from T. c.
Garter and A. II. Graham, Commits
sioners, containing one hundred and
eighty acres, more or less. Reference
is hereby made to the deed by 7. c.
Carter and A. H. Graham, Commits
sioners in the sale of the lands of the
late R. W. Terrell for division among
the heirs, to c. A. Copple (Which deed
is duly recorded in the Registry for
Orange County, for more accurate
description. The said tract adjoining
the lands of Charlie Pearson, the
Fitch lands, and others.
This the 10th day of September;
1882.
r. c. GYLES, Trustee
/. p. Dixon. Atty.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-10-14
The Young Democrats Goal

The Orange County Club of
Young Democrats has as its goal
this year, first, the 100 per cent
registration of the Democrats
in the county and, second, a 100
per cent vote of the Democrats $
November 8. The club dues are
Is cents. All Democrats are
urged to affiliate particularly
those between the ages Of 18
and 40.