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woman, In undistinguished black, un
|expectedly spoke up.
II always get gardenia TOR N,
friends" she advised. I've gotten 4
lfor years and they always Ike Il"
The friendly woman turned out x
DO Alrs. Otto Kahn.
= y =
SHUFFLED.
LOVE TOKEN
There was = certain mystery about
10 gigantic heart-shaped valentine
traced on the snow In Bryant Park
behind the Library early the other
morning before footmarks tracked up
the place. Inside the huge heart wa
the one word, Suzanne" Well, the
mystery has been solved. Getting to
work very early In her office In the
front Of the American Radiator Build.
| ing, selma Robinson looked out Of her
window Just In time TO see one Of the
dereuct unemployed" stretch his
neck, ret Z good glimpse Of that huge
field Of unhroken white. He took 4
furtive look about the street, then
stepped briskly into the park and be-
gan shuffling his feet hurriedly. trac.
Ing the gigantic heart.
When he was finished. he stood On
10 bench to survey It. Then he leaped
nimbly inside and shuffled along
again, writing out the name "9u-
xaune." Once finished, he fingered =
minute to admire his anonymous val.
entine, his coat collar up. his hands
once more In his ragged coat pockets.
then left. Others may have sent the
gslmorous Suzanne" expensive val.
entines. You wonder II she ever
guessed about the imaginative gesture
Of this forgotten man."
= 4 \
woRTH HIS
WEIGHT IN GOLD
At q board meeting Of the Manhat-
tan Bank the other day, Howard Mar.
kel, vice president, absent-mindedly
slipped into his pocket the five-dollar
gold piece that every member gets tor
attending. Before the depression It
was q $40 gold piece.)
Leaving for lunch, Markell, who Is
On Q diet, stepped onto . scale and
hopefully set the hand ct what he
wished his weight might now be. Con.
on that, he was horror.
stricken to see that the coin he had
inserted and which slipped into the
machine quickly was the five-dollar
gold piece, not . penny. Forgetting
all about even looking to zee what he
now weighed, his mind concentrating
on how he was going to get back the
gold piece, he stepped off hurriedly.
There was q slight click and to his
Amusement, back came the coin. Re
had guessed his weight right!
(Copyright, 1888, NEA Service, Incl
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE

pertaining health and hygiene not disease
diagnosis treatment will answered by Dr. Brady stamped
should written
reply be made to queries not conforming to ins
william Brady In OF this
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TIP FROM
THE WEALTHY

Trying to decide which Of five per.
fumes she should buy for gift, the
society editor Of . New York paper
was sniffing Ill Of them In turn ct
tho perfume counter Of one Of the
smart 57th Street shops, when another
customer. . little, plainly dressed
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An unlimited guest was this aifplane
which dropped In On . Brooklyn
apartment house. Jerry Longobardi,
q student pilot, was aloft ct 1000
feet when his motor failed and be
had to make . landing some place.
He chose this nice flat root, pam
caked down. ripped . few shinSles
and bricks and made Z safe landing,
coming out unscathed although the
airplane was damaged some.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Hailed by Hoan and Company AS Aid to Jobless
It Actually Helped to Cut Wages

Hall. BY a decree of the police de-
partment, hard boiled cops were
transformed into docile mail carriers
and messenger boys for the organ
ization.
But by far, the most enthusiastic
in acclaiming this plan were the
Socialists and the Socialist Party in
the city of Milwaukee.
Hoan's Committee
Mayor Dan Hoan, himself, spon-
sored the first plan for such an or
ganization when he appointed COM
mittee, consisting of three leading
Socialists, Cotton, ex-Sheriff Benson,
and George Hampel, to work it out
in all details together with him. In
order to give it the appearance Of
a real scientific and well thought
out work, the pseudo-liberal profess
sor Cotton was placed as chairman
of this committee. For months they
labored-their entire activity shroud-
ed by a veil of mystery, and then
one day they disclosed their plan.
The plan itself, the product of
such hard toll, was no different in
its essentials from the "self-help"
schemes which had spread through
many Western and Midwest cities.
In fact, it was based upon the Min
neapolis Organic d Unemployed
scheme of Rev. DR.. Mecklenburg. But
since it was a product of Social
ism" milwaukee BRANDY it had to
be given an entirely different face
with smear of radical and even
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Unemployed Councils Exposed Fraud and Led
Struggles for Immediate Relief

store established by the Barter and
Exchange would refuse to honor the
scrip with which he had been paid,
and would demand cash for goods
sold. The Socialism promised evil
IDENTIFY was not panning out so we'll.
What about the factories which
we're to be taken over? Alas and
alack, after a detailed study we can
find that the only thing taken over
was tumbled down shack used for
a garage and beauty parlor which
agreed to give manicures and facials
to the unemployed in return for the
scrip. Evidently the big plants in
Milwaukee, Cudahy Packing, Allis
Chalmers, A. o. Smith, didn't want
Socialism, and didn't agree to be
taken over.
The basic purpose behind the en-
tire scheme was to reduce the share
of the relief burden paid for by the
bourgeoisie and to throw upon the
shoulders of the unemployed the re-
sponsibility for taking care of them
selves. 1t was nothing but con-
spiracy against the unemployed to
take them off the relief lists. Jo-
seph Brauer, President of Mayor
Hoan's Barter and Exchange organ
ization stated:
eve will cooperate with Ben
jamin Glassberg of the relief de-
partment regarding taking some
members off relief"
1t must, however, be said to thu
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credit of the Milwaukee unemp.o. ed,
that they saw through the entire
scheme, and very few of them joined
up. The Unemployed Councils on
their part carried on a very good
campaign of exposure and thus help
ed to prevent the spread Of this or
ganization.
After a short life, it has now
breathed its last. Discredited among
the workers, faced with many a law
suit by workers demanding some
thing in return for the scrip issued
to them for their work, it's officers
fined by the District Court for its
illegal practices, the Barter and Ex-
change organization is now in a
state of complete collapse. The tens
of thousands who were supposed to
have joined, by their own admission
actually totalled only $50, the stock
of their very imposing stores, con-
sist solely of remnants which no one
can use or wants.
Thus do the very highly Wanted
schemes of the Milwaukee brand of
Socialism crash one by one. The
workers in Milwaukee, still live I'M
der a system which is very much
capitalist, their conditions steadily
getting worse. Today, however, in
the columns of the Milwaukee Lead
er, the Blue Eagle has replaced the
Barter and Exchange as the road to
Socialism. One fraud follows an
e.tI-----
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By H. YARIS.

The other day, tucked away in
the columns of one of the Milwaukee
papers, was printed a notice about
the collapse of the Barter and Ex-
change organization. Without much
ado it has passed away, unnoticed
unmourned. Yet only a short time
ago this was on the lips Of everyone
in this city.
Some five or six months ago, the
entire press in the city of Milwaukee
loudly heralded a new panacea for
relieving the unemployment SO wide
spread here. This remedy, called
the Barter and Exchange Plaza
"Self- Help" patent medicine remedy
for all that ails us--promised to
open the factories, solve unemploy-
ment and give jobs to all. For weeks
and even months, the newspapers
were filled, actually pages full every
day, with the merit of this scheme,
urging the unemployed, over 100000
of whom in Milwaukee county were
on the relief lists, to regain their
self-respect by joining the organiza-
ton formed to advance this Plan.
The plan even received semi-offi-
cial recognition and status from the
city and the county. The city coun-
Gil voted $500 as a donation to fur
Their the work of this Plan and al
lotted Social Hall for its own use
all unemployed, not connected with
the Barter and Exchange organlza-
ton, being denied the use of this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
DreSSmakers Demand United
Strike to Smash Sweat Shobs
Roosevelt Takes Hand in
Drawing Up Coal Slave Code

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-Pres-
ident Roosevelt who personally di-
rected the breaking of the Pennsyl-
vania coal strike has stepped into
the code maneuvers for the soft coal
fields.
After the hearings, in which the
National Miners Union, through it's
secretary, Frank Borich. a,.d other
delegates, blasted the coal operators
starvation code and the strike break
ing activities Of John l.. Lewis and
Co., presenting a code for better
ment of the conditions of the miners,
with the right to organize and strike,
NRA officials have been making
gloomy forecasts. about the situa-
ton in the coal fields.
One NRA administrator said: "The
coal situation is as dangerous as
dynamite, and holds grave potential
tiles"
Floods of complaints are coming
into Washington from the miners
who find that the promises of Roose-
welt turned out to be a lot of hooey
when they got back to the pits. The
main grievance is that the miners
are not being permitted to elect their
own checkweighmen, as Roosevelt
promised In West Virginia and
Pennsylvania miners are being evict-
ed from company houses for refus-
ing to comply with the companies
demands:
The National Miners Union dele
gates who took part in the hearings,
have issued the following statement
showing the miners what they can
expect from the coal hearings, and
what the coal hearings actually
showed up:
1.-THE hearings on the bituminouS
coal mining code, lasting four days
ended without any agreement being
reached on the wages, organization
or any other problem facing the
mining industry.
There is not even a prospect that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
$50 on Strike at
Eagle Axle Go. in
Cleveland, Ohio
Call All Eaton Plants
to Join to Win
Higher Wages

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 14.-More
than $50 workers, including those in
the key departments of the spring
and bumper division Of the Eaton
Axle Co., 6jth Street and Central
Avenue, struck today.
All signed up in the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union
The rest Of the workers are expected
out On strike by tonight. The plant
employs four hundred.
The demands of the strikers in
cludes a so per cent increase in
piece work rates and so cents an
hour for day laborers, Previously
piece work pay was spread over tw1
weeks. reducing the average pay to
81 or So a day and $40 the next
cay. The laborers were getting SO
cents per hour.
The company claims to be apply
ing the code and Mr.. Eaton is on
the N. r. A. board.
Following the lead in the coal
strike, the company officials are call
ing in the A. F. of L. leaders in
order to break the strike and snaah
the militancy OF the strikers. There
are many Negro workers in the shop
as well as skilled mechanics, former
ly belonging to the A. f. of L.
The A. F. Of l.. officials helped the
bosses break the strike in Murray
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Board and not against the dealers.
This is true enough-but now the
middle farmers are saying: 1--WE can
not strike against the state authority"
and they are ready to 60 once more
to the board and beg for a higher
price.
But the board has, in all its orders,
tried not to touch the dealers profits.
Whenever it gave the farmer a cent
more, it gave the dealer two cents
more. In January, the farmer got
81 cents hundred lbs. for go milk.
The board raised this to sl.83 for
$3.50 or s1.68 for go milk. But the
board raised the retail Price for the
same milk from S470 to 1854. The
dealer thus got 10 cents more kun-
dred pounds than the farmer did.
In addition, the farmer got this gain
for only half his milk and the price
tbs board gave for the total volume
Of milk was less than half the cost
of production.
1t Is necessary to point out the
connection that Roosevelt N,had in
breaking the s5rike-he conferred
with Lehman on the proper tactics.
The next time the small farmers
and farm workers must have the
leadership in their own hands, and
not submit to any "truces".
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Lumber Workers
Win Higher Pay
Through Striking
AZ State Police Try to
Break Strike; LID
Defends Arrested

ABERDEEN, Wash. CBy MaiD. =,
The bitterly fought strike in the
Grays Harbor Logging camps and
mills ended today august y. A mass
meeting Of strikers in Workers Hall
decided to accept gains granted them
and go back to work.
Some Of the mills are now on the
six hour basis and the minimum
wages in the camps have been forced
from rs cents an hour to 421s cents.
BuShel workers get 9 cents more a
hushel in the same camps.
Eight pickets had been arrested
About $50 workers drove from Aber-
deen to Montesano, II miles away
TO attend the trial. They were de-
Tended by Irving Goodman, of the
International Labor Defense, who
showed that the men were attacked
by the state police.
All the defendants were old resi-
dents Of Grays Harbor county. Good
man bitterly assailed the a mem
bers Of the state police who tried to
break The strike You cannot stop
The labor movement by convicting
these defendants" Goodman told the
jury.
When the jury returned after one
hour and half, they acquitted three
Of the ctrikers, and convicted three.
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working class paint.

working class paint.
But theirs was not an Ordinary
Barter and Exchange proposal. To
make it acceptable to the mass OF
unemployed they dressed it up and
paraded it as Socialism. The pre-
amble of the Peoples Production and
Exchange League, organized by
Hoan and his Socialist committee
stated that the league intends to pro-
vide for:
"a peaceful transition from the
competitive system of economic
management to the cooperative
system-(now read the real pur-
pose) i'm order to render unneces-
sary a violent revolution in the
U. s."
The League set for itself the task
of replacing the present social sys-
TEN. Quite an ambitious task!
The S. P. leaders went at their job
with a vim and vigor seldom seen
from them in these parts. Loudest
of all, as usual, was the former So
cialist sheriff of Milwaukee, AL (riot
gum Benson, (who claims he bought
the machine guns while in office to
protect the people from burglars and
the workers from themselves).
For the unemployed, they opened
up the vistas Of Socialism in our
time, the possibilities of full life,
etc., etc., if only they Joined in this
"self-help" scheme, (at SIS a john.
They would not be satisfied any
longer with the miserable handouts
Of the relief system (handed out by
Glassberg,. Socialist), with the
commissary relief, with the struggle
for little more food to eat. No,
nothing short of the factories would
satisfy the Generous Benson. "Let
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tive OF the factory, M. Leon. decla-
ing that no speed-up existed in the
factory.
The Daily Worker" knows that
speed-up exists in the factory of the
Vita-Bran. It knows this from the
fact that Stephen Graham himself,
before he was killed, had written a
Iesf.et e1posing and de1ouncing the
1p2ed-up in the factory.
We print excerpts from this leaf
let. written by the worker whose death
was caused by the conditions which
he exposed. Before he was killed,
Ccmrade Graham wrote:
1--WE workers Of Vita-Bran Corp,
GEl Tiffany Street, work under the
most terrible conditions. We must
punch our time cards for changing
cur clothes, and unless we are on
cur jobs 5 to 10 minutes before a.
M, the boss gives us mean look
and sometimes gives lis hell. Even
though we work extra time, our pay
is not increased. We work from a.
m. to 5:45 p. m, and in some cases
until 7, and often as late as 10
p. m. When we start working, we
receive two aprons, which we wash
ourselves. Besides, we pay 15c for
white caps.
Working on the conveyors in the
hot and cold rooms, ovens and pack
ing, cur hands and clothes get very
sticky-and to top it all, we have to
work in very stuffy rooms with the
temperature from 80 degrees upward.
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10000 Pack Shoe
Meet in BrOcktOn;;
Learn Of Betrayal
Lawyer Tells Workers
Who Want Strike to
"Obey President"

BROCKTON, MaSs-Such an out
pouring of shoe workers as was never
seen in Brockton packed City The
atre on August 49, This monster
mass meeting of 10000 militant shoe
workers called by the Brotherhood
of Shoe and Allied Crafts learned the
true character OF their betraying
leaders.
The Brockton Shoe Workers, be-
trayed and sold out by the Boot and
Shoe Workers Union (of the AFL0
organized the Brotherhood and with
fighting spirit were ready to strug-
gle, to firstly throw over the Boot
and Shoe and then to fight for bet
ter conditions in the factories.
The manufacturers who have kept
tie Boot and Shoe Union alive. set
August a. as the date in which shoe
workers must be paid up in their
Boot and Shoe Union dues or be
fired. But seeing the mass OF work
ers and fearing their militancy, man
ufacturers sent word in thru Attor-
ney Derosier of the Brotherhood that
AlO OllS WOulQ NC 1uGQ Oil lie lSGll
for not paying dues to Boot and
Shoe. And here the Brotherhood
leadership completely showed its true
hypocritical colors. The workers
learned what it means to engage law
yers as leaders in a workers struggle.
Attorneys Derosier and Goodwin
(the latter a noted politician and
fascist after giving lip service to
fighting phrases against the Booa
and Shoe officials concluded with q
patriotic harangue to support MIRA
and "our" President Roosevelt. That
the workers should wait and not act
and no matter what the decision on
the code for the shoe industry, the
workers must accept it.
This changed the workers from a
cheering, shouting, fighting crowd to
surprised and betrayed meeting.
Quickly the meeting was ad-
iourned.
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Pay for the Privilege
of Working, Says AFE

BY a Marine Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK; have been here
on the Atlantic Coast for about
three months. When I was in Phil
adelphia I went up to see the sec
rotary of Local No. 1921 of the In
ternational Longshoremens Associa-
ton, to see if I could 60 to work
On the waterfront there.
Although. did not get any en-
couraG cement from the secretary
there I wanted to know If they
were hiring any winch divers. /
know that Luckenbach is the only
steamship company on this coast
that uses one man for driving the
gear Zone man TO two winches). ]
thought / might get a job, Is /
know there are ships coming n from
the West Coast once In . while
that need a friction winch driver
(steam schcooners and the like),
landed myself a Job with thA
Luckenbach line but when TIE del
egates saw that I had gone 70 work
there. they were down Of the doc,r
when the next ship came IN 10 Ne
who went to work. It happened b
be the ship I was told 10 come 10
work on. 1t was payday too.
They made a grand rush at me 30
know If was lined up in the LILA.
Naturally said I was not, but I
was sure would be given a Job
At least wanted to be called TO
work on the ships when they were
in port. 1 said had withdrawn
card from the lila, Seattle, Wash,
and I thought that I would be rec
ognized according to the rules Of
the A. F. OF L. to transfer from one
local to another, If the local was
willing to take me in.
I told him I had left my books
and papers out on the West Coast
and would send for them II I was
sure of work.
wanted me to pay down money the
first time I drew. or course I did
not like it a bit when he wouldn't
let me have chance to work q ship
or two till I could get on my feet
but wanted it right away.
I gave him an argument on these
grounds but found he had the
whip hand over me. He sure fixed
that with the boss, so I was not
picked for that ship.
This proved to me that there h
something wrong with the A. r. Of
L. If they could use the union any
way they find fit. They told me
they could give me job. but after
I get one they can pull me on.
Some Of the members themssly0a
paid SIS, $40. IS, anythinG ~ -
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speech in which he promised the
farmers hearing, although the hear
ings of the Milk Control Board have
always resulted in aid to the deal
ers.
The leaders of the various county
organizations have weakened and
called a truce, although they know
that truce means defeat The
pickets, the poor farmers and farm
workers who led the strike in the
day to day struggle are left i'll ar
impossible position and are being
forced to give in.
But Wcodhead would not have
been able to betray the strike, nor
would the leaders have weakened if
the farmers had been organized prop
. erly; if the organization and con-
Quoting of the strike had been in the
hands of the poor and small farmers.
In every case, the strike was sabo-
tagged in its last days by the middle
farmers, those with quite large farms.
In Montgomery county, for in
stance, where the strike had been
most successfully carried on, the
pickets, firing after the two weeks
hard work keeping milk from the
plants, called for aid from the mid
die farmers whose manner Of strik-
ing was to hold their milk at home
and let the poor farmers picket and
fight off the troopers. The pickets
called on these farmers to do actual
strike duty, but got no help. In
stead, the middle farmers were the
first to start talking of truce, the
first TO raise the slogan: if the small
dealers will give AZ cents a quart,
the big dealers will have to follow
suit. This means dropping of the
demands for As percent of the retail
price and no classifications.
In Fulton county, the middle farm
ers successfully resisted the setting
up Of county organization.
What is true of Fulton and Mont
gcmery counties is true elsewhere in
the strike area. When Woodheed
announced the end OF the strike, the
middle farmers rushed to the dealers
With their milk.
The leaders who weakened a-e be-
ginning to say that they made a
mistake in striking against the Milk
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Yet, no windows or doors are per-
mitted to be opened-because the
boss claims that the fresh air spoils
the biscuits-which is lot of poppy
cock. Due to the speed-up system,
one Of the hOt-room girls had her
dress ripped of by the conveycr.
With all these rotten conditions,
we get only 800 per week Girls
get 14c en- hour and men 25c an hour
and there are some youngsters
working for $500 a week. We are
supposed to receive 10 per cent
monthly bonus.
Every shop and factory has its
minute men and stool pigeons. In
our factory one Of the salf-appo!nted
stool pigeons is Harry Shy.
Some Of us, not being able to bear
spaed-up, long hours and low wages
any longer, and hearing and reading
50 much about the National Recov-
cry Code and their minimum wage of
sl4 a week for 40 hours a week, final
ly went TO see Mr.. Leon on Tuesday,
August l and asked him to enforce
the code. Mr.. Leon gave us sob
story and told us that the door was
always open for us to leave"
The funeral of Stephen Graham
was postponed from yesterday to
today. 1t will be held today at the
Workers Jugo-SIav Hall, I08 West
oath St., N. Y. City, at 2 o'clock.