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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18

from appearing and speaking. Bur-
lak's presentation Of the N. T. w. U.
program, her ringing appeal for
united action and for Reputation of
the A. F. Of L. disrupters, was re-
ceived with the greatest attention
and enthusiastic bursts of applause
and cheering.
Rubinstein, attempting to speak
next, broke up the meeting with a
provocative attack on the workers,
in which he stated that The work
ers were cutting each others throats."
He was driven from the platform
amidst a storm of anger.
A simultaneous meeting of the N.
T. w. U. in the River Street strike
hall, damned by thousands of
strikers, became scene of the most
tumultuous enthusiasm of the entire
strike, as Burlak, Brown and hun
dreds of A. F. of l.. workers marched
in from Turn Hall. A. F. Of L. mem
bers also spoke, attacking the U. T.
W. officials and demanding unity.
Other speakers were John j. BALKAN,
Rebecca Grecht, Martin Russak and
Saller, Lodi dyers organizer of the
N. T. w. u.
The fight for organized unity with
the N. T. w. U. and for reputation
of the Shop Delegates Body con-
tinues more strongly inside the A..
F. of L. Dyers Local.
Pouring rain forced the postpone
ment of today's unity demonstration
called by the N. T. w. U. for Sandy
Hill Park.
Schweitzer, speaking at the Asso-
ciated Strike meeting this morning,
reported on the Washington Con-
ference with the N. r. A. He in
dicated that the U. T. w. has
abandoned the demands on hours
and less looms and stated that a
new agreement had been worked out,
which provides no minimum, but is
to give base" of S27 weekly to
those who earn less to get less, and
those who earn more to get more.
The Associated Officials pleaded
for acceptance of this agreement and
will conduct a vote at the closed
membership meeting tomorrow and
then continue the conference in
Washington Friday.
With the strike nearing its eighth
week, relief now is of crucial i'm
portance. The Dye and Silk Strikers
Relief Committee, 222 Paterson Ave,
is leaving today for New York to
launch a relief campaign under the
auspices of the w. I. r., and will
work from the w. I. r. office at $40
Broadway, New York City. All New
York workers organizations are
urged to cooperate and support the
united front work with relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
2 Headgear Unions
of ALL. to Merge
Milliners Meet to Plan
Struggle

NEW YORK.-Two conventions OF
A. F. Of L. national unions are being
held here, preliminary to merger
between the United Hatters Of North
America and the Cloth Hat, Cap and
Millinery Workers International
Union. Later in the week the two
unions, who are now meeting sepa-
rately, are expected to hold joint
sessions. The merger, the united
front committee of millinery and
capmakers points out, is not an
Amalgamation of the two unions for
the purpose of joint organizational
drives to organize the thousands of
headgear workers for ,tnion condi-
tions, but merely an agreement be-
tween the union officials as to how
to divide up their control of the in
dustry.
A burning issue for the rank and
file in this convention is the recent
settlement in Chicago negotiated by
the officials and the N. R. A, which
is actually an open shop agreement,
giving the employers the right to
hire non-uiIion workers without
even giving preference to union men.
The Chicago settlement is the first
open shop union contract in the his
tory Of the needle trades.
The United Front Committee of
the Millinery Workers has raised a
series of demands and is urging the
delegates at the convention to pro-
pose and fight for these in resolu-
tons at the convention.
The following are some of the de-
mands of the United Front Com
mittee Of the Millinery Workers: a
30-hour week to be established with
increases in wages to meet the ris-
ing living costs, the abolition of COM
pulsory arbitration and the right 'ot
the workers to strike, the withdrawal
Of union officials from N. r. A,
boards, the establishment of full DEM
ocracy in the unions, the abolition
Of temporary books and the rein
statement of members Of Local "a
as full fledged members, and other
demands.
Millinery workers and capnlakers
are urged to turn out to a special
mass meeting called for tonight at
irving Plaza to discuss these issues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
LaGuardia Would Raise NYC Transit Fare to Seuen Ger
Local 80 MGWU in
Shameful BETRAYAL
Of TailOrS' Strike
Agreement Excl u d e s
Women; No Pay Raises

NEW YORK. - How the recent
strike of the ladies' tailorS, dress
makers and alteration workers of the
Fifth Ave. shops was betrayed by
the administration of Local 3S of the
I.L.G.W.U. was revealed to the Daily
Worker today.
Thousands responded after Dublin.
sky called the strike for a 30-houl
week, the 1929 wage scale ana UNI
employment insurance. At the out
set of the strike officials of the union
declared that the demand for unem-
ployment insurance was an error and
later changed the demand for 30
hour week to IS hours.
Negotiations for settlement were
carried on in the deepest secrecy,
without even consulting the general
strike committee. After two weeks
of strike a settlement was announced
by Greenberg, the local manager,
which contained the following: A 35-
hour week, per cent re-organiza-
ton, which will result in firing work.
ers, no pay increases and the legal
ization of contractors in the trade.
Greenberg failed to report that the
women strikers had been excluded
from the terms of the agreement.
This shameful settlement was put
over only after the officials Of local
SO threatened to break up and re-or-
ganize the local. In the Bendel shop
IS women dressmakers, 10 pressers
and cutters of the department were
excluded from the agreement. When
the workers protested they were told
by Greenberg to appeal to the MIRA.
Similarly, in the case of the women
workers at Nancy. Rea, chairman Of
the general strike committee, de-
clared to the women: You should
not have joined the strike. We did
not intend to organize the women"
During the strike all the work of
Milgrim Brothers and of Hattie Car
trolled by Local %. This was done
with the knowledge and the aid OF
the officials Of the union.
The left-wing group of Local 38 are
calling upon the workers in the shop
to organize the fight for better con-
ditions in the shops, irrespective of
the treacherous settlement. The left
wing group calls on every shop in
the trade to elect delegates to the
Cooper Union shop meet called by
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union for Saturday, Oct. II, at
10 am, to form a united front
against the attacks of the bosses, the
N.R.A. and the A. F. of L. officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
MINOR FOR MAYOR
400 in Stamford, Conn.
at Sc0ttsboro Meeting

STANFORD, Conn. - Over 400
workers, about 10 per cent Negroes.
turned out in one of the biggest
Scottsboro protest meetings ever held
here to hear Ruby Bates, star de-
tense witness in the Scottsboro case.
Alice Burke, white worker arrested
in Birmingham, Ala, for fighting for
equal rights for Negroes and the
right OF unemployed workers to live,
was another speaker.
The meeting also attacked the Jim
crow policies of the local bosses
against Negroes and demanded en-
forcement of the Connecticut Bill of
Civil Rights, passed last July and
supposed to grant equal rights to
Negroes without discrimination.
Twenty-Five workers joined the In
ternational Labor Defense and
pledged their support in the fight
against lynchings and for the
smashing of all jim-crowism and
segregation right here in Stamford.
A great ovation was given to the
Communist Party representative,
Wofsy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
Shoe Strikers in
Big Demonstration
at N. R. A. Offices
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

mass melting.
Inside, Whalen received the dele
cation in his usual suave manner,
which became more serious when
Fred Biedenkapp spoke emphatically
about the strike-bre action OF
the N.R.A. I'VE have come to state
that we look on the action of the
NR.A. in declaring the strike settled
and the signing of an agreement be-
tween the manufacturers Boot and
Shoe Union as tantamount to con-
spiracy to betray the workers and
smash their organization. The Boot
and Shoe Union from the beginning
never did, and does not now, repre-
sent the strikers" Biedenkapp de-
clared. Whalen denied all knowledge
of the Boot and Shoe Unions con-
nection with the strike.
ANY contractual relations between
the Boot and Shoe Union and the
manufacturers is repudiated by the
strikers" Biedenkapp stated. The
N.R.A. being party to open strike
breaking opens the doors wide to
violent trouble between scabs and
workers determined to protect their
jobs. This agreement is an empty
shell. The strike is not settled"
Then the strikers spoke up. When
Whalen requested their names, Bed
enkapp refused to give them, declar-
ing that it would help Whalen start
his blacklist. The chairman of the
I. Miller shop declared: 1--WE, 900
strikers of the L. Miller shop, would
rather be in an open shop than join
the Boot and Shoe Union"
All the delegates voiced their
opinion.
Finally, Whalen decided to call the
manufacturers to a conference
Wednesday at 4 pm.
The Shoe Union is sending dele
cation to Washington on Friday at
the request of the National Labor
Advisory Board to discuss settlement
of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
A CORRECTION.

The following is a correction Of a
statement by Rose Wortis appearing
in Mondays Daily Worker which was
incorrectly reported. Comrade Wortis
is reported as having said in refer
ence to General Johnson's speech:
1.-THE cynical disregard of the MIRA.
by the bosses, by even those signing
the code is evident. etc." This should
have read: Even the starvation
wages under the codes which the
workers are supposed to get under
the MIRA. are disregarded by the
bosses. even those bosses, who have
signed the MIRA. and many of these
firms continue to pay starvation
wages as low as SIS and IS a week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
400 Paper Box Makers
Strike; Demand Raise
in Pay, 40 Hour Week

NEW YORK.-Four hundred work.
ers of the Spear Paper Box Co., 18th
st. and 18th Ave-, went on strike
Monday, demanding an $l8 mini
mum wage, 40-hour week, abolition
of piece work and union recognition.
They have been working SO hours a
week and were paid minimum of
S14.
The strike started despite the OPP
position of officials of the Paper Box
Makers Union, affiliated with the A.
F. of l..
A strike committee was chosen by
the workers and mass picketing is
carried on every day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18

pose together for the camera boys
and so one of the demons crawled
under the ring between my legs and
shot them from there.
nH, yes, then Browning and Dusek
" began to wrestle Jand they were
at it for quite while. A lot Of
people were smoking cigarettes.
Some of them smoked cigars while
others smoked pipe. Still others
stamped and cheered because Dusek
was twisting Browning's arm and
this made them feel contented.
The bout was a leisurely enough
affair but there was an Indian sum-
mer mellowness in the air and the
audience caught the spirit. When
the wrestlers became involved and
failed to disentangle themselves
Dusek would massage Brownings
vertebrate and this would make the
champion squirm fitfully. A school
of gnats swarmed around the lights
and a piece of adhesive tape stuck
on the canvas in front of me.
thought of an old faded hammock In
sunny village out Indiana way and
leaned the back of my head against
my chair. A languid, nostalgia smile
stole over my features.
Dusek struck Browning's shoulder
a heavy blow with his index finger
and Gentleman Jim collapsed in
neutral corner. Dusek lifted him
overhead and cast him to the ground
three times The third time Brown
ing landed on his neck and lost con-
seriousness. Dusek trampled on the
inert body, twisted its legs and arms
and dashed him against the ropes.
Browning opened his eyes and walked
across the ring and deposited Dusek
on the canvass. Dusek lost con-
seriousness and the bout. The gong
rang and people booed. When the
people stopped booing Humphreys
raised Browning's hand.
IJE walked over to Mr.. Curiey and
w asked him how come the Daily
Workers predictions turn out so
accurate. The question hurt his
feelings and he left us in a dud-
geon. We shook off the effects of
the dudgeon and intercepted M.
Carpenters Decline for the club
rooms.
I'M. Carpenter, do they allow
fake matches in France?"
"They haven't started yet" the
Orchid Man said. The Orchid Man
is not at all handsome in a closeup.
what do you think of this type
Of wrestling?"
Il don't know about wrestling.
come here to amuse myself. 1
have much fun"
"But" butted Lens, the colleague,
in the ex-fighter and now adagio
dancers native tongue, show did
you happen to keep yawning
throughout the proceedings?"
Late hours" said Georges,
pointing to the overnight bags
under his eyes, but here 1 en-
joyed myself very much. Mr.. Cur
ley is fine gentleman"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18

shoulder ana refused 10 cOm-
ment.
This writer and Lens, his
photographer colleague, arrived on
the scene of action, securing press
row seats with some difficulty. AL
phonse Geicewitz and Stanley Soko-
lis, two sophomores from the Curley
Academy of Dramatics and Music,
climbed into the ring, white and
square and noble in its simplicity
quite unadorned by the "lace dress
ing" advertised in Mr.. Chick Wer-
geles' publicity releases. This move
friu was to prevent grapplers from
hurting themselves into lean laps and
telegraph instruments Of guileless re-
porters with families and city editors
to support.
1t was a tame evening and we
could we'll dispense with the trim
mings. The preliminary practitioners
entered and carried on within the
ropes in somnolent fashion, sliding
into holds, glazing and protesting to
the referee. Occasionally a gong
would sound to awaken the case
hardened minority and MI. Joseph
Humphreys who likes his name so
spelt would bob in and gesticulate
and misproaounce names.
Mr.. Humphreys who also likes to
be called "stentorian" although he
keeps forgetting that definition he
looked up in Funk and Wagnalls'
Vest Pocket edition, announced the
weights and the billings. The chal-
lenger, Dusk, whose billing in the
past year has alternated between
Omaha Farmer, Omaha Whirlwind
and Omaha Tiger, popped up with a
brand new, untarniShed and I'M
creased title.-the Omaha Dynamo.
Rutgers University, the wrestling
birthplace of Eli-Eli Fischer who out
glared and out-burped Bruno Cor
rasini, the Naples Peanut Vendor,
was denoted by the brass throated
Mr.. H. into Rutgers Institute. Ac-
cording to advance figures of the
1888 Census there are three commas,
three periods and four hyphenated
WorQS III GnaC sentence.
JACK CURLEY himself wandered
in before the main bout. He's
large person with a Tammany
physique and a Hitler walk. A
William Muldoon with mincing
steps. He looks over the house,
hands out cigars and beams. He's
never without retinue of char
acters whom directors would hest
tate to cast in play for fear of
exaggeration. They bask in the
beams and reflect them dutifulIy.
Honest, some of them wear real
Mae West-Bowery watch chains
and strut with thumbs in their
vest ar1nhoies.
Monday night Georges Carpen-
tier accompanied his importer. Cur
ley, you recall, first brought the
Gorgeous One into this country
and the Orchid Man is not one to
bite the hand that feeds him. On
the contrary; he was continentally
assiduous in his attentions to his
companion, ex-Mistress Lita Grey
Chaplin, who likes to sue eminent
photographers.
Humphreys, capital H-u-m-p-h-
r-e-y-s, said he wanted us to give a
gweat big hand to the sensational
idol of Parrri-, the one and only
Courageous Georges and Carpentiec
swung through the ropes. shook hands
with the venerable announcer and
with Browning and Dus2k and re-
turned to his front row seat next to
Mrs. Chaplin. The pair refused to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
Election Symposium

A political symposium on the COM
ing elections will be held by the So
cial Youth Culture Club at the YIN.
HA., Rodney Strand and Broadway,
in Brooklyn, tonight at p. m. Speak
ers, representing all parties, to be
present: Democrat: Aaron F. Gold
stein; Fusion, Socialist: Harry Fin
kelstein, and Communist: Anthony
Bimba,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
Office Workers Union
Active in C.P. Election
Campaign, Holds Meet

NEW YORK.-Among the unions
active in the Communist Party cleo
ton campaign is the Office Workers
Union, which is conducting an ener-
getic campaign through leaflets,
open-air meetings and through its
official organ. the "Office Worker"
10 line UP the white collar workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
N.T.W.I.U. Calls Cultural Meet

In order to involve all active work
ers in the cultural activities, the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union is calling a special conference
Of all those who are interested in
cultural work for tomorrow at $40
p. m. at the Workers Center, so E.
18th St., on the second floor.
All departments are invited. At
this conference all the necessary COM
mittees for the various forms of cul-
5ural activities will be elected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
Correction and Apology
EdiforioI Nota.

Unfortunately, portions of yester-
dayss column, especially a letter by
Mr. Guy Endore and the answer to
1t, became badly garbled in our
printshop. We are sorry and are
taking steps to prevent repetition of
such occurrences,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
City Events
Carpenters Meeting.

A regular membership meeting will
be held tonight at 8 o'clock at the
headquarters, 800 Broadway, New
York City. A very important report
will be given and all carpenters must
attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
n support of the Communist candi-

in support of the Communist candi-
dates.
Some ten members of the union
are running on the Communist ticket,
including Laura Cannon, the unions
organizer, who is running for County
Clerk in Manhattan. Israel Amter,
National Secretary of the Unem-
ployed Councils, and Laura Cannon
are scheduled to speak at an election
mass meeting at Stuyvesant Casino,
lao Second Ave, tonight at 8 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
Of Course Browning Won

As POSITIVELY cocksureIy, stated in this
October IL, 1888, Jim Browning heavyweight wrestling
champion of the world pinned Rudy Dusek at the list
Regiment Armory New York. October 16, 1888. When
froned with the copy the Daily Worker rdcung his wres
ling predicting with 100 cent gertrude the framed
result Jack Curey promoter of the show shrugged his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18

NEW YORK Robert Minor, Com
munist candidate for Mayor, will adj
dress the longshoremen OF the West
side on Friday at 18th and West SITS,
at 1915 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
ADDRESS CHANGED

Steel and Metal Workers Union
In Brooklyn, N. Y. has moved to
new headquarters at 33 Myrtle
Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
WHATS SACRED ABOUT 5
CENT FARE?" ASKS FUSION
SPOKESMAN in DEBATE
Robert Minor Exposes Long Agreement With
Bankers to Keep Out Fare as Issue
in the Election Campaign

that Guarda the fusion ticket
of the subway transit
Friday night
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18

Fer Unemployment In urance,
Immediate Cash Relief Vote
Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18

10 YOUNG WORKERS wanted by Daily
Worker, interesting proposition; must
be reliable. Call at 35 E. 18th St See
Roberts, between am, and IL am.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
1000 Dyers Sweep
Aside UTW Leaders

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18
Labor Secretary
Plans Starvation
to Break Strikes

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-03-30
SUPPORTERS POINT
TO HARD SLUGGERS
ANDHURL|NG STAFF
Sam Byrd and Fred Walker
Straining At Leash to Be
Ruth's Under. Study
Three sH0RTsToPs READY
Ruth, Gehrig, Combs, SewelI,
Lazzeri, Dickey and Chap
man Are Ominous
BY ALAN GOULD

ASSOCIATED Press Sports Editor
Despite the fact they face much
stronger opposition all along the
American League line this year, espe-
cially from Washington, the New York
Yankees still have large and abundant
quantities of the stuff that makes
them the outstanding club in base.
ball.
The wealth of available pitching
talent includes Don Brennan, up from
the Newark farm" and all ready for
q regular job.
The Babe himself no longer is q
greyhound on the defense and Man
ager Joe Mccarthy may not have de-
cided yet who will start the season
at shortstop but consider the embar-
rassment of the Yankees pilot in these
circumstances.
Two Great Outfielders
He has two of the greatest young
outfielders anywhere in sight, Sam
Byrd and Fred Walker, both straining
at the leash II Ruth shows the least
sign of needing an under-study. He
has three shortstops, any one of whom
would be welcomed on most other big
league clubs, and the task of deciding
whether Bill Werber has come along
fast enough this spring to displace
Frankie Crosetti or Lyn Larry, 1882
alternateS.
In this dreadful predicament, it is
small wonder that the Yankees are
= to / favorites to win the pennant
again, even though Washington Is
(conceding nothing and the other clubs
are hoping mostly for the breaks"
In the two vital elements of base
ball supremacy, power and pitching,
the Yankees have nothing to worry
about. There is no two-ply power
house anywhere to compare with Ruth
and Gehrig.
Sluggers Are Numerous
Combs, Sewell. Lazzeri, Dickey and
chapman all carry enough wallop to
originate or join typical Yankee slug
tests. No matter who plays shortstop
and II Red Ruffing is pitching, there
Is no soft spot anywhere In the bat
ting order.
Aside from the problem of trimming
his pitching staff, the managers chief
worries concern which two of his
shortstop trio to keep. Right now 1t
looks as though Crosetti will be sent
to Newark, leaving Werber and Larry
to fight 1t out. Mccarthy. because Of
the optional limits, also may be OBJ
liged to let Walker 60 back to New
ark for another season and keep Dusty
Cooke for outfield reserve duty.
Otherwise there is no question
about the lineup, including Bill Dickey
behind the bat, barring accident OF
suspension. Gehrig, Lazzeri and
Sewell are set at their infield posts
as are Combs and Chapman in the
outfield.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-03-30

kiki cuyIer Suffers Broken Right Leg
Cubs Chances Of Winning Pen.
nant Are Dimmed For Sec
one Time BY Hurts

Los Angeles, March 30.-(PDFor
the second time in as many seasons,
the name of Hazen (KikD Cuyler,
has been stricken from the Chicago
Cubs starting lineup because of in
juries.
The veteran outfielder fractured
the smaller bone Of his right leg We'd
nesday when he stole second base in
the fourth inning of an exhibition
game with Hollywood of the Pacific
Coast league and will be out at least
until the middle of June.
In May, year ago, Cuyler suffered
a broken bone in his left foot and did
not get back to take his turn at
Wrigley field until July.
With Cuyler out, the Cubs chances
Of retaining the National League pen
nant were considerably dimmed.