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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
Sheppard, Communist
Candidate, Escapes
Smuggling at Eviction

NEW YORK, N. Y, July 31.-Henry
Sheppard, Communist candidate for
Lieutenant Governor of New York,
narrowly escaped serious injury or
death on Friday nihgt when the IN
employed Council of Harlem rushed
from replacing the furniture of one
evicted worker to the scene Of another
eviction.
Police were on the scene when
Sheppard and other members of the
Unemployed Council arrived at 123rd
Street near Second Avenue, to re-
place the furniture of the evicted
worker. When the workers denounced
the police for acting as watchdogs for
the landlords profits, a policeman
approached Sheppard from behind
and swung viciously at his head with
blackjack, missing him by frac-
ton of an inch.
Alarmed at the growing strength
of the Unemployed Council, the in
creasing nilitancy of the workers and
the growing solidarity of the Negro
and white workers, the landlords and
the police have intensified their ter
rorism. Frequent attempts have been
made to break up street meetings of
the Unemployed Council but have
failed because of the militancy of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
MOVE TO SPREAD
WERMAfj STRIKE
Three Shoe Shops Out
to Win

NEW YORK.-The strike of the
shoe workers at the Werman Shoe
Co., Hendrix and Dumont St, Brook
lyn, is being carried on stubbornly
despite the threats of the boss the
get out an injunction against the
workers.
The boss in an attempt to break up
drove his car onto the sidewalk into
the picket line in front of the shop
the pic!zets. Benny Black, one of the
strikers, was seriously hurt and taken
to the hospital in an ambulance.
Although only two departments of
the shop are on strike, workers are
attempting to spread the struggle to
The other two departments.
The Riverside Slipper firm, where
workers are also striking, was forced
20 admit that all their talk about
moving out of town was fake. The
con ference between strikers and the
tlrm was broken off Saturday when
The company refused to recognize
the shop committee The strikers
insist to remain organized as the only
way of gaining nrotestion for their
jobs and wages.
The same spirit prevails among the
Five Star and Princely strikers
where the bosses succeeded in getting
gorillas in the shops, not to make
shoes but to terrorize the strikers.
Today at 7.3O p. m. meeting of all
union committees, joint council mem
bers and shop chairmen will be held
in the union headquarters to discuss
the report of the last conference and
The outcome Of the 1. Miller strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
Woman Dies Seeking
Aid in Relief Bureau ;
3 Faint from Hunger

NEW YORK.-One woman is re-
ported to have died of starvation to-
day as she was waiting with scores
of others in the Emergency Home
Relief Bureau at P. S. 26, Quincy and
Ralph AYES, Brooklyn.
1t took more than an hour for the
ambulance to arrive which took the
woman away to the hospital.
Three ether woman, wives of un-
employed workers, tainted i'll the bu-
reau during the past few days, while
standing in line and waiting to cb-
tain registration" blanks. After
waiting for hours to obtain the blank,
they return home to fill them out,
later returning to join the long line
once more.
Despite the fact that the Bureau
is located IN public school which
is equipped with facilities, no chairs
are provided for the applicants, the
ventila tion is indescrioaoly Dad, and
there are 70 toilet facilities.
Similar conditions are reported to
exist in bureaus in various parts of
Greater New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
Condemn Hoover Gov.
Body Snatching; Call
"0r August 3 NJ e e t

CHICAGO, ILL.,, August Con
demning the vile body-snatching of
F1ushka by the Hoover government,
the Workers Ex-servicsmen's League
here today issued a statement call
ing upon all workers to join the dem
onsaration to be held in Chicago on
August in commemoration Of the
killing of three Negro workers a year
agc by policemen following an eve
ton.
The statement pointed out that the
workers resentment ag ainst the
events OF Bloody Thursday will not
be quoted by the latest tactics of the
Hoover government in kidnapping the
family of Hushka and forcing them
TO sign statement whic hpermits
the War Department to seize the body
OF the slain war vet and bury him
in Arlington Cemetary.
The Workers Ex-Sevicemen's Lea
que, Of which Hushka was an active
member. will hold a memorial meet
ing for the murdered worker some
time this week in Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
Workers
Score a Victory

NEW YORK.-The bosses of the
Master Triboro laundry, at SIT E.
l36th ST., were forced to grant the
demands of the shop committee, when
they realized that they were faced
with a strike today.
The bosses were compelled to re-
burn the dollar wage cut that they
gave to 16 Negro girls about four
weeks ago. They also had to rein
state eight Negro girls, whom they
ha dfired, because they refused to
attend a special meeting with the
bosses and they promised that they
would not discriminate against any
of the inside workers.
This last minute retreat on the
part of the bosses, was accepted with
great enthusiasm by the workers of
the shop Sunday morning, when they
came ready for strike duty ard they
decided to go back to work and to
bring the rest of the inside workers
into the union.
The hearing on the Bronx Home
(EdlsonD bosses plea for a sweeping
injunction, restraining the union
from all activities in conducting the
strike, will be held today, August 2,
at the Bronx County Court, 161st st.
and Third Ave. Many laundry work.
ers will be present as protest against
the strike breaking injunction plea
OF the laundry bosses. Many work
ers in other trades should be present
The strike at the bronx Home ed
ison) laundry, at 1910 E. 1p3rd ST..
is today entering into the fourth
week of activity. The strikers ARE
determined to carry on with their
activities, until they force the bosses
to. grant the demands of the shop
committee, to reinstate all the fired
workers. The Laundry Workers In
dustrial Union, calls upon all work.
ers to come to 1880 Southern Blvd
and help these strikers upon the pick
ct line and at their various demon
STATIONS and street meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
PAINTERS EXPOSE
LIE BY FORWARD
Socialist Sheet Tries to
Defend Thugs

The Alteration Painters Union
calls the attention of all painters to
the lying statement in the onward
Jewish socialist daily, that Harris,
the union organizer, had brought ten
strikebreakers to Sol Cohen's job at
108th ST. and Manhattan Ave-, where
the trouble took place. The For
ward" cannot even lie correctly. The
painters know that the job concerned
is at 104th ST and 3rd Ave. Also q
lying statement in the Forward"
said Sol Cohen was to the district
council to settle but the Alteration
Painters Union would not let him
settle. This is lie of the first de-
gree, Sol Cohen never wanted to
settle with the brotherhood and the
workers in the shop will tell Cohen
whom they want him to settle with,
and where they want to belong. The
City Council calls upon all menu
bers to report to the Bronx Local for
picket duty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
WEINSTEEN HELD
IN $4,000 BAIL
Rush Frame Up of
Militant Worker

Samuel Weinstein, who partici-
pate dactively in the strike at the
Muskin Manufacturing Co., Brooklyn,
is held in $4,000 bail on frame-up
charge of first degree manslaughter
and assault in the second degree
Harry Prashker, one Of the bosses,
ha dthreatened Weinstein he would
railroad him to jail, and when the
wife OF Weisglass. scab, was report
ed by the police to have been muir
dersd, Weinstein was pointed out by
Prashker as the guilty one.
People that lined the streets on
both sides near the factory testified
that Weinstein was busy on the pick
ct line all day since 7 a. m. in the
morning, but nevertheless he is be-
ing held.
When asked whom he wanted for
his defense, Weinstein chose the In
ternational Labor Defense and re-
marked that, only the lid can help
me. The LID is the only crganiza-
ton that will work in my interest
because it is workers organization. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02

Hoover government and the plans
which it is making to lead the Amer
lean working class into another i'm
perialist war Anter cited figures
of the number of workers hkled and
crippled in the last war, Of the ire
mendous profits of the capitalists,
and went on to show that in order
to maintain their huge profits the
capitalists are no wplanning a war of
destruction against the Soviet Union.
Starvation in New York
Amter also described in detail the
starvation and suffering of New
York workers, the refusal of Roose-
velt, the hypocritical demagogue, to
support any plan Of supplying relief
to the two and one-half million I'M
employed workers in the state, and
Of the corruption of the playboy
mayor, Jimmy Walker, who while he
helps Tammany Hall loot the city
treasury and orders the city's en-
ployees to accept a ten per cent pay
cut, is attempting to cut down the
miserable relief which the workers
of New York have forced the city
administration to hand out. Amter
called on the assembled workers to
unite their forces under the leader
ship of the Communist Party for
struggle against the capitalist sys-
tenn of starvation, war and terror
and for the setting up of a workers
and farmers government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
ALL. FARLEY IN
MASS. PICKETED

WORCESTER, Mass, Aug. l.
Fifty workers with placards picketed
in front of the Hotel Bancroft today
when the American Federation of
Labor opened its state convention at
the hotel. The placards demanded
the release of Edith Berkman, mill
tant leader of the National Textile
Workers Union, who is held a prison.
er by Doak, of the Department of
Labor, and also the release of Bar
ney Creegan, another militant leader
held by Doak for deportation.
The placards also condemned the
stagger plan wage cut scheme put
forward by William Green, and de-
manded the passage OF the workers
unemployment insurance bill and the
bonus for the veterans, and protested
the Hoover murder terror let loose
against the veterans in Washington.
The militancy Of the workers around
the hotel made the police afraid to
interfere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
July "New Masses,
Important Number

In an article in the July New
Masses called "Revolutionists in War"
Robert Kent, political prisoner in
Leavenworth during the World War,
points out the lessons learned by his
prison mate revolutionists who OPP
posed the war.
This July New Masses also con-
tains story on the Communist Party
National Convention and interviews
with Foster and Ford; articles on the
Workers x-Servicemen in Washing
ton, the John Reed Clubs Convention,
Pecan workers in Texas, and others.
Among the books reviewed is Fosters
book Towards Soviet America"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02

shall be used for unemployment
relief.
6. No further compulsory con-
tribut.on to unemployment relief by
the city employees and workers in
the shops, factories and offices of
the city. All relief shall be raised
by taxation upon the corporations.
7. In order 10 provide for the
more than million unemployed
workers of the City of New York,
who ar epart of the Is million IN
employed in the country, the city
employees together with the other
workers, shall demand that the
Board of Aldermen shall go on re-
cord Immediately for unemployment
and social insurance at the expense
of the state and the employers.
The text of the letter follows:
CRATER Wants Wage Cuts
Mayor Walker, the $4,000 year
mayor Of New York, who raised his
salary by $4,000 while hundreds of
thousands of workers in New York
were starving has had the nerve to
demand wage reduction of one
month of the salaries of the city en-
ployes.
Mayor Walker is an open tool of
Wall Street. This year, before the
budget was adopted, Wall Street
bankers openly demanded of him
economy and threatened that there
would be no loans to the City of New
York unless these economies were put
through. AS faithful tool of Wall
Street, Walker has launched his pro-
gram-a program at the expense of
147000 city employees of New York.
Under-paid workers, some of whom,
such as hospital employees, get no
more than $50 to $40 a month and
have to contribute out of their earn
ings to the unemployment relief fund,
which is compulsory, have expressed
themselves lately: "a man Twin on
$1260 with family to support is
asked to contribute one-twelfth of his
income to the CITY," One of them
said: "Will the landlord who is re-
ceiving benefits through decreased
taxes let us off month in our rent?"
A second one stated: This is just
a racket to make the lesser employees
pay
Must Organize
The workers must organize and
learn to use the weapon of strike. The
Communist Party leading the mill
tant workers of the city will assist
you in every way to carry on organ
Rational work and prepare for strug-
gle against lowering of their stand
ard of living.
In addition, the Communist Party,
as the only leader of the working
class, calls upon you to show the Wall
Street capitalists and Tammany Hall
your opposition to their program and
your solidarity with the workers on
Election Day.
Vote Communist!
Organize and prepare to struggle!
1. AMTER,
Communist Candidate for Governor
of the State of New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
STAGE-SCREEN
HISTORY OF THE SOVIET
THEATER ON WAY

A history of the development of
the Soviet Theatre is now being
written with the first volume to be
released shortly.
The work will be in three volumes,
covering the history of the Soviet
Theatre from the February Revolu-
ton up to the beginning of the So
called period of reconstruction.
The first volume will deal with the
history of the Petrograd theatres,
beginning with the February Revolu-
ton, leading up to 1921. the end of
the period of war communism. The
volumes will be illustrated with num-
erous pictures, documents and charts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
VAST MASSES AT NEW YORK
AUGUST FIRST ANTI4WAR MEET
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

from the scenes of bloody Thursday
in Washington led the four parades
that converged on the Square. Many
of the veterans, all members Of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League,
wore their uniforms, some carried
their medals and all still showed the
effect of the casing by Mowers
troops on bloody Thursday.
The size and militancy Of the DEM
onstration was reminiscent of the I'M
employed demonstration on March g.
1880. when Union Square and the
surrounding streets were black with
workers demanding relief from the
government. under the leadership of
the Communist Party.
TITS August / demonstration was
a significant political event. 1t
r7arked the growth of the revolu-
t'onery energy of the working class
of the rise of the tide toward Com
munism for the coming struggles
against the capitalist offensive.
Answer Hoover's Attacks.
The marches and the denonstra-
ton were a strong reply to the bloody
attacks of the Hoover government.
They echoed the demand of the work
ers for the bonus and for unemploy-
ment insurance, for the stoppage of
ammunition shipments to Japan. for
an end to imperialist wars. They
also voiced the will of the working
class of New York to defend the land
of the Soviets, where the glorious
system Of Socialism is being con-
structed The demonstration and the
marches asserted the will of the pro-
letariat to defend their rights against
the increasing fascist attacks, and
finally they were a call to action in
the election campaign of the Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
Send-Off Meet to Be
Held Aug. 5th in NY.

NEW YORK.-A send-off meeting
will be held jim the Webster Hall
Auditorium at 119, 121 East 18th St.
on Friday, August 5th, at p. m. to
greet Frank Herzog, American en-
gineer returning to the Soviet Union,
nd Prof. H, w. L, Dana, leaving to
attend the world Congress against
war.
Terzog was decorated as a shock
prlgader in the Soviet Union. The
meeting will be held under the aus
pices OF the Friends of the Soviet
Union.
All workers are urged to attend
this meeting. Admission costs only
rs cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
3 Workers Receive
Suspended Sentences

NEW YORK.-Three workers who
were arrested ir front Of the Bronx
dale Swimming Pool on Thursday,
July 18th, for protesting against the
discrimination of two Negro children
were found guilty of disorderly con-
duct. Another young worker. also
charged with the same, was dismis-
sed. Those found guilty were: Rose
Churnin, A. Kaplin, George Walsh.
All were given a suspended sen tence.
This action of the court will not
stop the fight against this Jim-Cro
Pool. A demonstration has been cal
led for Thursday at 1870 in front Of
the pool. All workers are urged to
come to the pool and help fight
against this discrimination.
Read the Daily Worker-A Pa
,.or That Nrotyae Uo,, E,;rI,4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
WORKERS MUSIC MAGszrNE

NEW YORK. The Worker Musi-
clan, official organ Of the Wckers'
Music League. section of the Workers
Cultural Federation, Will be out on
or about the third week in OCTOBER.
This is the first proletarian muse
monthly dedicated to the revolution
and to the task Of developing pro,e-
tartan music.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
Clothing Workers
Will Meet Tonight

A special membership meeting Of
all members of the Ainalgalnated
Rank and File Committee has been
called for tonight at 8 p. m. at 12S
University Fl. The fake stoopage
planned by the Hollandsr and Hill,
man machine will be considered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
LITERATURE STATIONS

NEW YORK. Workers literature
on the class struggle, the crisis, So
Wet Union, etc, can be obtained at
the following points; 142 E. 3rdSt.; 3o1
w. 90; 8 w. 1876; Brooklyn-61
Graham Ave, 1914 Pitkin Ave, and
1109-45 St; Bronx-569 Prospect Ave,
and 1900 Intervale Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
MILLER STRIKERS
RETURN TO SHOPS
LOYAL TO UNION
Leather Workers Issue
Call to Workers to
Stand Fast

NEW YORK. - The Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union
issued statement today concerning
the recent I. Miller shoe strike which
declares in part:
On Wednesday, July 81, the shoe
and Leather Workers Industrial
Union with the unanimous consent
of the strikers called off the strike
against the I. Miller Shoe Co. This
move Of orderly retreat was made
after IL weeks of militant struggle,
when signs of break in the ranks,
under the pressure of hunger and
starvation, became very evident. To
continue the strike any further would
have meant placing honest militant
strikers at disadvantage.
The shoe workers must draw their
lessons from this historical struggle.
Government Strikebreaker
l. The Miller Shoe Co. could never
have defeated this strike, if the fight
would have been just between the
union on one side and the boss on
the other. Miller with all his wealth
and strikebreaking experiences was
powerless against the determination
and fighting spirit of the crew. Mil
Ter had to resort to the last means
in order to break the strike-The
Injunction-he was forced to bring
in the entire government machinery
to break the strike for him.
2. Nevertheless, in spite of the
injunction, the strike could have been
won had relief been Forthcoming
more swiftly, had more mass &C
t1vity been CARED on the picket line,
afr the injunction was issued, not
only by the strikers but bu the
workers in the city of New York
The union feels the responsibility in
not having succeeded to mobilize suf-
ficiently the shoe workers of New
York as we'll as the mass of workers
of sympathetic organization to vio-
late and smash the injunction.
The union, the entire membership
OF the union must be the first to
carry this responsibility.
3. The strike, however, has deli
vered serious blows to the Miller
Shoe Co. Miller himself stated to the
leading strikers that the union gave
him a good fight. The union came
out tremendously stronger; it has es-
tablished itself as an organization al
ready rooted among the masses of
shoe workers.
After the strike the union stands
firm, and the workers are going
back with the fullest confidence in
our organization, with determine
ton to remain loyal to the union.
4. The shoe manufacturers can
learn a lot too by the outcome of the
Miller strike. Let them take heed,
II they mean to raise their heads in
oe1lance OF our organization, the
union is now more fit and better
prepared to defend the shoe workers
than ever before or during the I.
Miller strike.
SHOE WORKERS. The union is
now carrying on many more strikes.
The Andrew Geller strike is going
on as ever before.
Stand fast by the union! Speed
with strike relief! Speed-up organi-
cation in your shop! Develop your
struggles into mass struggle for
conditions in the shops!
Send relief to the Union as soon
as you come back to yourself. Re-
main loyal to yourselves by re-
manning loyal to the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
What's On

All members of the International Work
ers Order are urged to participate in the
August First Anti-War demonstration. The
meeting place is at 23rd St. and 4th Ave,
Madison square) at $3.50 pm. Bring your
Banners
The Furniture Workers industrial Union
will meet August LIST at Columbus Circle
and seth St. at 2 p. m. Well be in Sec
ton g.
WEDNESDAY
seth st. and 21st Ave, South Brooklyn
speaker, A. l.. De SAINTS, candidate Eighth
Congressional District.
18th st. and Mermaid Ave, Brooklyn
speaker, A. oPrferio.
163rd st. and Amsterdam Ave-, Harlem,
3 p. m.-speaker. Frederick Welsh, can
didate from the 22nd Assembly District.
THURSDAY
Goth st. and 18th Ave, South Brooklyn
speaker. Reswick.
nth st. and Fifth Ave-, South Brooklyn
speaker. Molly Picheny, candidate 10th As
senibIy District
Third st. and Neptune Ave, Brooklyn
speakers. ], za~garelli and Max Kaner.
FRIDAY
Court end Carroll Sts.. South Brooklyn
spoilers. Nathan kay and z. Gezenkin.
29th Ave. and seth St., South Brooklyn
SrNehefs. Max Kaner and H. Iichtenstein.
Seventh ST. and Brighton Beach Ave-,
S~~tH Brooklyr-speaker, Esther Carroll
Br'"htwater Court and Fourth st., South
flyn-speaker. Nat Haines.
e0th Ave. ind 18th ST., South Brooklyn
s-~r"--. J-vinson.
1aAth s.. and Seventh Ave, Harlem
s~.F'ls-. Frederick Welsh, candidate from
cad Assembly District.
=
SATURDAY
15tr Ave-. rnG 39th ST., South Brooklyn
sr-ake-. Anna Teffle-.
Ste-pshead Bay and Jerome Ave-, South
Bgoozlyn--speaFnr b. StalIman.
Az examinations are urged in no.
zee sent out Nv the New York State
Ur'tes Front Election Campaign Com
raittee. TO-DAY. not TO arrange any meet
inge o. collection Of funds which will
conflict rith the Election Campaign
rag days fo- New York City, set for
August 1S and u.
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