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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Red Flag Floats All
Night Atop YOnkers
City Hall Flag-pole

YONKERs, N. Y, Nov. s.-Atop the
60-foot f1agpole before the doors of
the City Hall here a bright red nag
with q hammer and sickle and the
words vote Communist for Cash
Relief and for Immediate Payment
of City Employees" waved through
out last night and this morning un-
til 10 o'clock.
After frantic efforts, the city for
ester, using rope and steeplejack
board, managed to get the flag down.
1t had been tied to the very top of
the slender pole.
The hosting Of the flag has
caused great deal of discussion in
the working-cl sections Of Yon-
kers and an uncomfortable feeling in
the bosses sections.
A worker, watching the flag being
taken down, said significantly, "The
city's plenty in the red but this is
one time when I think it will take
red to wipe out the boss kind Of
red"
Yonkers city employees have been
going unpaid for three months. A
heavy vote is expected for the Com
munist candidates, william r. Gill
for Mayor, Frank Johnson for Comp
troller, Robert Robbins for Common
Council President, May Downie and
Agnes Basides for Justices of the
Peace, and Charles Sanders for Al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
City Charged With
Death Of IL Negroes
Mass Meeting Protests
Tenement Fire Deaths

NEW YORK.-ReSponsibility for
the roasting to death of II Negro
children, women and men in the fire
which destroyed the Undertook tene-
ment at 1851 Briston st., Brooklyn,
was placed directly at the door of
the city and state governments by a
mass meeting Of white and Negro
workers Monday night at 361 AM
boy st.
A resolution adopted by the as
sembled workers vigorously denounced
the pestilential housing conditions
forced on the Negro masses by the
ruling class policy OF residential seq
regation Of Negroes. 1t demands the
abolition Of slum conditions and seq
regation. Copies Of the resolution
were ordered sent to Mayor OBrien
Mayor-elect LaGuardia and Gov
Lehman.
The meeting was held under the
auspices Of the Workers Self Educa-
tional Club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Decatur, ILL.,, Jobless
Form Council; Demand
so PC. Relief Increase

DECATUR, Ill, Nov. 9-The Un-
employed Council Of Decatur, ILL.,, has
just been organized, and program
of action ADOPTED after meeting
attended by 275 workers held in the
Circuit Court, at which Carl Lock
ner, chairman of the State Commit
tee Of the Illinois Unemployed Coun-
ellis, spoke The following evening
So unemployed workers joined the
Unemployed Council.
The program calls for an immedi-
ate so per cent increase in relief
all relief to be paid in cash, no dis
elimination against Negro and for
eisn born workers, free gas, rent and
electricity for unemployed workers,
a minimum of go cents per hour on
work relief and unemployment and
social insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Steel and Mine Workers Launching Hunger March,
Tacoma Compelled to Endorse Social Insurance Bill
Force City Council
to Ask Congress
for JObleSS Bill
TacornaDennonstration
Led by Jobless Council
Wins Victory s

TACOMA, Wash.-Mass pressure
through demonstration Of Tacoma
workers has forced the City Council
to momo-iaIize Congress for the pass
age Of the Workers Unemployment
and Social Insurance Bill.
Whereas. the Pierce County COM
mittee Of Unemployed Councils" the
resolution states, has presented TO
the City Council Of the City Of Ia
coma a resolution calling attention
TO the mass unemployment and abso-
Lutte restitution OF millions of our
people. Be it resolved by the
City Of Tacoma:
THAT it does hereby memorable
the Congress Of the United States OF
Anne and Teauest the said Con-
gIees forthwith enact the Work
er5' mployment and Social IN
su-an~e Bill' now pending before it,
or bill Of ike character and sub
starce, granting to the unemployed
Of OIL country the full measure Of
relief sought to be obtained in this
pending blu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10

PEELED them to come across with coal
orders and gloves. The Unemployed
Councils are now preparing the men
for q forced labor strike.
The Unemployed Councils Of De-
troit have uncovered the following
facts in regard to how the new plan
affects a typical family Of three:
Old Plan. Wage worker works IL
hours a week, received checks cover
ing $4.20 for groceries, $3.50 for rent,
coal averaging $1.40 a week, clothing
averaging wholesale So week. Total
$40.
New Plan. Wage worker works 10
hours at so cents an hour cash, to-
falling 50 a week. The worker cannot
spend this money as he pleases, but
must show receipts to the Welfare
that it has been spent as follows: 81
for groceries, $3.50 for rent, $1.40 for
coal, 70 cents for back payments on
utilities, 60 cents for clothing.
At the same time working hours
of the forced laborers have been in
creased SO per cent. Other workers
have been given a straight 40 per
cent cut in relief, with no increase in
hours. In addition, while the old
welfare checks were exempt from the
sales tax, under the new scheme the
workers must pay the tax.
The Unemployed Councils are now
organizing the wage workers into the
Welfare Wage workers Council. Sixty
thousand leaflets are being Issued,
calling on the men to set up com
mittees on the job and prepare to
strike for the following demands: 50
cents an hour, "a hours work week,
rent, fuel and clothing in addition,
right of Negroes to work on all pub
lie works and welfare jobs without
discrimination. Further information
can be secured at the Unemployed
Councils, 1853 Woodward Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
By ELIZABETH POTAMKN
",


WHEN L visited Mrs. oMalley the
W Salvation Army in its kindness
has given her a stale loaf OF bread.
She cut the bread in two when /
was there and said, my neighbor
hasn't had q thing to eat for days.
I'd better give her some Of this"
When I first came to Home Relief,
there we're dreary days, rounds OF
marching in the snow and rain to
homes destitute-meeting people Bit
ter, angry, oppressed. Not happy
relationship nothing funny ever
happened. What can be funny about
hunger, misery and slow starvation?
1t was stark and grim.
But to the Home Relief Bureaus
came the Unemployed Councils and
they cut through all the bunkum of
Home Relief. They came with direct,
immediate demands for relief of the
jobless. These groups beaten. threat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
N. J. Laundry Union
Drives Out AFL, Votes
to Join Indus. Union

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. 9.-Rank and
file laundry laundry workers here
successfully defeated an attempt to
organize a union of laundry workers
under the A. F. of L., when they ex-
PEELED the racketeer officials and
elected their own leadership last
week.
The new union. known as the
Laundry Workers and Drivers Union
has membership of over 500. At
its meeting last Friday, the workers
voted to apply for membership in the
Laundry Workers Industrial Union
in N. Y. A committee of 20 Negro
and white workers were elected to
protest to Governor Moore against
the proposed state laundry code by
means Of which the laundry bosses
intend to legalize starvation wages
in the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
MoyiCans Trickod
Into Scab Work
Director Cuts Relief
to Break Strike

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 9.-After
laceiving 1000 Mexican workers and
their families, which total about TO-
900 persons, into believing that they
would not be used in strikebreaking
roles, Earl f. Jensen, Los Angeles
County Superintendent Of Charities, is
preparing to transport them to the
northern cotton fields as pickers.
The promise of adequate wages and
board for the northbound Mexicans
is revealed to be false by Jensen's
statement that ifsthey become desti-
tute, the northern county officials will
care for them.
Although by this Inaneuvre he de-
clares that he will cut relief costs by
$3.50, 900, Jensen, since his reappoint-
ment has said and done nothing about
cutting his own high salary, and has
made no real move to investigate or
put a stop to the graft and racketeer-
ing in his department.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10

Get away from that window! Do
you want a brick thrown at your
head?" l was not afraid, I stood
quietly gazing down. My supervisors
wrath grew large, Get away from
that window, or therell be blood
she'd" she screamed. I answered,
Even if there is going to be blood
shed, I'll stay" 1 was no longer
afraid for my jon.
The little intense knot Of people
fighting for all of us in the streets
Of the richest city in the world. had
liberated me. 1 would join them,
regardless of consequences. felt
free.
For very obvious reasons l was not
fired for my defiance. Home Relief
pretends to aid regardless Of race,
creed, color or political affiliation.
This is lie. l was kept on the JOB,
because I was recognized as po-
tential red, a menace to all the rot
tenness that caused Home Relief in
the first place.
Sham Excuses
Home Relief never admits the truth
of its policy. IL always creates some
false excuse to fool the workers as
to its real intentions. Very often
colored people cannot prove their
residence. They have been mora
tory workers. They cannot read or
write. They cannot prove Their resi-
dence and get no Home Relief. With
out regard to race, creed or color.
When I tried to get relief for a
Porto Rican family of eleven, was
told l could not give them more than
81 a week. "Why?" ! wanted to
know. My supervisor, who is a COL
lege graduate, said, Porto Ricans
have a low standard of living
italian women support their hus-
bands" is another popular notion
with social workers who believe
everything that is written in text
books.
Tall. gaunt Mrs. Jackson, colored.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Unemployed March
on Pittsburgh, for
Relief, on Nov. 18th
City Withholds Permit;
United Front Action
Committee Formed

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. "a
United County Hunger March viii
be held Tuesday, Nov. %, two days
before Thanksgiving, at the call OF
the Joint Action Committee, which
has 1866 delegates from the steel
workers and miners of Allegheny
County.
The permit for West Park has al
ready been endorsed at mass meet
ings embracing over $500 workers,
while trade unions numbering 1900
have similarly endorsed the March
and the demands for which the
March is taking place-increased re-
lief and unemployment insurance.
Steel Union Active
Fifty thousand leaflets are being
printed in addition to the 10000
stickers. Union leaflets, leaflets in
different languages, are likewise be-
ing issued. The Steel g. Metal Work
ers' Industrial Union has made ar
rangements for calling q series of
mass meetings prior to the march
in order to involve the unemployed
and part-tinle employed steel work.
erS.
Mass delegations, and several dem
onstrations in preparation for the
March have been organized. Commit
tees of 100. Of IS, etc, have been in
creased. Eviction fights and strug-
giles against sheriff and constable
sales are growing.
The Women's Sections of the
Councils held a Conference on Nov. l
and decided to organize many
women's delegations to demand a
turkey for Thanksgiving for all I'M
employed. On Wednesday, Nov. IS,
all Of the local committees and dele
cations will unite on county scale,
and many hundreds Of women are
expected to go to the office of the
Relief Board demanding turkeys.
Activities all down the line are be-
ing increased, and the Councils are
making a determined effort to build
and strengthen the Councils and
block committees. Considerable sue
cess is already being made.
Citizens League Endorses
Thus far, four locals of the I'm
employed Citizens League have in
dorsed the County Hunger March
and decided to officially participate
in 1t. A whole broad section of the
League leadership and rank and file
is fighting the sabotaging efforts of
the Lieberman-Soci clique which
controls the u. c. l.. County Central
Committee and the rank and file is
working on the united front basis.
Thousands of steel workers, miners
building trades workers, etc, are eX-
pected to attend the County Hunger
March and to make it a powerful
demonstration against the Roosevelt
hunger program.
In connection with the County
Hunger March the Unemployed
Councils Of Allegheny County has
organized a darce in order to raise
finances to carry through the Hun
ger March. The dance will take place
Saturday, Nov. Is, at 8 pm. at the
Superior Hall formerly Labor Ly-
ceum), located at IS Mil'7r st.. Pitts
burgh, Pa. Tickets can be obtained
at U. G.. headquarters, 1924 Fifth
Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Prices Rise in Boise
While Wages Decrease
(From a Worker Correspondent

(krom Worker correspondent
BOISE, Idaho.--The MIRA. here
has put the price of groceries up 40
per cent and wages have not been
raised one per cent. In fact, they
are Is per cent lower. Hundreds Of
men are working on farms for room
and board. Hundreds of men are
sleeping out on the cold ground with
out beds. In fact, don't have proper
food to live. There are many little
children on the streets begging, yet
the banks are full to OVERLOOKING with
money, but nothing for the poor. Still
, there are 95 per cent who are look
! ing for Jesus Christ to fix all this. We
have not had raise since last June.
I went up to the Salvation Army
to see the Lords Captains, to see If
they could get the Lord to give us a
good rain. The captain was out. but
the lady in charge said the Lord was
busy and could not take it UP before
Nov. 8 or Nov. s."
Therefore, II you have any Daily
Workers, please send them to me and
I will distribute them where they will
be read.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Injunction Threat
to Tannery Strikers

CLOVERSVILLE, N. Y, NOV. g.
Tannery employers, desperate CT their
failure to break the strike Of the 1000
tannerv workers have threatened an
injunction here, after severe pc
lice terror had not been able to de-
feat the mass picket lines. The tan
ueries are almost at complete stand
S. III with every effort to recruit scabs
beaten hac't bv the courageous action
of the strikers.
At the same time tho independent
union oreanized by the workers has
coene6 negotiations for individual
settlements. Three hundred workers
returned TO work Yesterday under
,llion conditions. The strikers a1naal
to ali workers for relief to support the
heroic struggle Of the LOO workers
who continue on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Big Rise in Profits
For WeirtOn Steel;
NRA Breaks Strike

NEW YORK. - After defeating
the strike of $4,000 of its workers
with the help of the N. r. A. and
A. F. Of l.. officials the National
Steel Corporation have just re-
ported profit of $755,565 for the
quarter ending Sept. 80.
The workers were driven back
without wage increases and with
out union recognition. But Ernest
T. Weir, chairman of the board,
reported that 2,156,832 shares, held
mainly by a few stockholders, will
draw IS cents each.
For the first nine months of
1888, the net profit was $685. 76,
or S1.19 a share, as against 81 $685.
919, or n cents a share in the
corresponding period of 1882, be-
fore the N. r. A. was passed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10

tells me that her husband Tom jack
son worked for 20 years for one firm.
He was handsomely rewarded with
a letter saying that he had proved a
faithful worker That was all the
jackson family had to show for 20
years of labor. Mrs. jackson told
me she took the paper to Jimmy
Walker. Il was not afraid she said.
"Why, I knew Jimmy Walker when
he was corner bum on the East
side" She was admitted to Mayor
Walkers office. He made point Of
being gallant II certainly got the
Negro vote When he read the letter
Mrs. jackson brought, he said: This
is a better recommendation than I'll
ever get" I hope this will be in
scribed on his tomb some day. 1t
has more merit than any Of his wise
cracks. Mrs. Jackson won PEN
sion for her husband. age rs. be-
cause she had the courage to know
a bum when she saw one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Fight Tor Unemployment Insurance, Relief!

Build Unemployed NeghborhOod Committees to fight
for the demands Of the unemployed workers.
Build Unemployed Committees in all A. F. Of l..
local unions!
Form Unemployed Committees in all workers or
CARNATIONS!
Build the Unemployed Councils!
Fer the united trent of all unemployed and part
time workers. regardless of afiaton in the Aght for
Unemployment Relief and Insurance.
Pass resolutions in al workers organizations fer the
passage Of the WORKER Unemployment Insurance Bl
Send delegates to the National Unemployed Con-
yenton in Washington, January 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10

last type of food to be dropped from
the food list, experts have always
considered the consumption of but
ter, sugar, etc., to be accurate indi-
Gators of the trend in the standard
Of living
Recently. it was reported by the
Sugar Institute, consumption of sugar
has dropped this year below last year.
At the same time that it reports
shrinking consumption of butter, the
Agriculture Department reports a
steady increase in production of but
ter, SO that today there is a record
surplus of 174,857,0 lbs. of butter.
Recent official statistics indicate
that the real wages of the Amer
lean workers have been sIashed
since the beginning of the Roose-
welt administration. The reported
8 per cent increase in wages has
been eaten up by the to 20 per
cent rise in the cost of food. The
net result has been an actual wage
cut OF from to Is per cent for
the entire working class.
This information from the Depart
ment Of Agriculture comes after the
recent release Of the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration showing
that the price of foods paid in the
cities has risen sharply while the
price received by the farmer has
dropped, giving added profits to the
monopoly middlemen.
The A.A.A. report indicated that
the farmers now get 1852 for food
that the city workers must pay $17.95
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Forced Labor Strike
Wins Relief Checks
Militant Workers Near
Seattle Win Demands

SEATTLE, Wash-Militant action
from SO strikers on forced labor jobs
at Redmond, near this city, COM
PEELED the re-issu'ng of relief vcucA-
ers after they were stopped early
last week when the strike against
forced labor started.
The supervisor Of the jobs has been
trying all kinds of tricks on the
strikers, but as a result Of this i'm
portant concession the strike has
gained an increased strength. Those
who previously were fearful Of losing
their vouchers are now swinging
along with the other fighting work
ers to defeat the system Of forced
labor for relief in Redmond.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
LOngshoremen Near
St.L0uis Quit; Demand
Committee Recognition

CAIRO, Mo.--Longshoremen mem
bers Of the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union walked off the job in this
city, which is near st. Louis, when
the boss, Mooney, refused to rehire
member of the dock committee.
Mooney stated that the dock COM
mittee didn't mean damn thing to
him.
AS result Of this action the men
voted for a complete stoppage until
assurances of full committee recog-
milton were granted and the men re-
hired. The men in st. Louis are
ready to support the action of the
Cairo marine workers to the limit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10

Fight against cuts in relief!
Demand adequate unemployment relief from the city
county and state governments!
Fight against evictons.
Demand free light gas, heat, rent, clothes and
shoes for all unemployed!
Demand no discrimination against Negro workers in
the giving out of relief!
Food for the children of the unemployed!
Demand Unemployment and Social In
surance from the federal government!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Hold Jobless Relief
Conference in Auto
City on November Is

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. with a
hard winter looming for the work
ers, a conference has been called by
the Committee Of Action for Unem-
ployed Relief for Nov. Is to discuss
the problems confronting the unem-
ployed and to demand immediate re-
lief and unemployment insurance.
The Committee Of Action calls
upon all organizations Of workers
and farmers to send delegates to the
conference, which opens Saturday
Nov. Is, at 1 pm. at the Finnish
Workers Hall, 596s-14th st., De-
troit, Mich.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
ROCKFORD UNIT ACTIVE

NEW YORK.--Unit No. 4, G5ck-
ford Illinois, Section. raised { . for
the Daily Worker by holding an af-
fair. The Unit writes: 1--WE feel that
the quota Of SIS for our Section could
be very easily raised If the real value
of the Daily Worker was appreci-
ated." The Unit pledges to do every
thing in its power to bring the Daily
Worker to the masses of workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
SATURDAY., NOU. 18th:

Mt. Eden Workers Center, 2sS E.
Hath ST., will hold Concert and
Dance. Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra
will entertain.
Porto Rico Anti-Imperiaiist League
will hold a Dance and Movie show
ing at 240 Columbia ST., Brooklyn.
House Party and Entertainment at
the home Of Comrade Sardutoff, 631
Z. 168th St., Apt. AZ, Bronx. Aus
pices Saceo-Vanzetti Br. LID.
Spaghetti Party, Dancing and En-
tertainment at the studio at rs East
I4th st., Apt. IL. Adm. loo. RosaIyn
Simons will dance.
Jerome Workers Club will hold q
house party at home of Wyner, 1855
Weeks Ave-, Apt. SD, Bronx.
House Party gvien by Unit "a at
1878 vyse Ave-, Apt. lie, Bronx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Friday, November 10th :

friday, NOUember IOth::
Michael Gold will lecture on Modern
American Revolutionary Literature"
at 1873 4srd Street, Brooklyn. Aus
pieces Of Branch IL Two. ...
Ch-Grand Youth Club, $50 Grand
Street, MIG, will have q movie
showing Of Land of Lenin" and the
Struggle for Bread"
Concert and Dance given by the
Harry Simms Br. LID. at the Co.
operative Auditorium, 2700 Bronx
Park East, at $50 pm. w.I.H. Band,
ProIet Pen, Singers from the Music
League. will be on the program. Ad-
mission Ice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Newark, ". J.

November 18th:
House Party at home Of Cornrede
Brodkin, ils Ridgewood Ave. Aus
pice5 Unit T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Families Cut DOevn
On Food AS Rising
Costs Slice Wages
Workers Buy Less Butter, Sugar, Officials
Report; Only United Fight of Workers,
Farmers, Can Defeat Monopolies

startling evidence starvation
light yesterday the official report
Of
the first eight
year,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Detroit ReliefCnt 40 PC;
IS P. c. of City on Lists
Jobless Councils Preparing Forced Laborers
for Relief Strike


the
scheme introduced which welfare cent
Bitter resentment spreading result the welfare forced
marched the Welfare
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Worcester. Mass.

November 18th:
Dinner and musicale given ut IN
dicott Han at 4.30 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Gary, Ind.

November 18th:
Vetcherinsa is being arranged By
Unit II at 224 W. 18Th st. at pm.
Excellent music, good eats. Adm. ioc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Connecticut District

The great Soviet film 1905" adapted
from NJ. Gorkis famous novel
Mother" will be shown in the fol-
lowing places on the days listed be-
low:
Nov. 11--Emme,t Hall, 6s Pearl o.,
Thomsonville, Gem.
Nov. 1s-Russian Hall, 6T5 Dwight
ST., Springfield, Mass, at 4 and .
p. M.
Nov. 13-Tivclc Hall. Grove, corner
Main ST., Chieopee Falls, Mass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Home Relief's Rawest Deal
Given to Negro Unemployed

Elizabeth Poamkins frst and ac-
the relief employees
rthand follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Canton. Ohio

November 10Th:
Workers Press Dance being arranged
by organizations in Canton at Inter-
national Workers Order, 1733 9Th et.
N e. Admission only I5c.