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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
Walters Run Out
Racketeer Clark
Reject Stagger Scheme
and Elect Own Comm.


NEW YORK.-For the second time
in a week, the audience of unem-
ployed walters called together by an
individual named Clark has reDu-
dated his racket and endorsed the
Unemployed Committee of Walters
and Mattresses of Greater New York.
Clark called a number of them to a
meeting a week ago, and proposed
that an organization be formed to
send letter to Mayor O'Brien and
to Teagle, head of the "Share-the-
Work" movement. This letter would
propose that in all restaurants every
body go on half time and an equal
number of unemployed be staggered
with those now working.
At the first meeting the unem-
ployed absolutely repudiated the
Clark scheme, and literally chased
him out Of the hall. Members of the
Food Workers Unemployed Council
spoke, and advised militant struggles
for relief for the unemployed.
The crowd elected a committee OF
Is, the Unemployed Committee OF
Walters and Mattresses ;"
This committee was to have held
a meeting Monday but heard in the
meantime that Clark was trying again
with another public meeting, in
Bryant Hall.
The committee postponed its own
meeting, marched in a body to Bry-
ant Hall, and its members took the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
BY DAN DAVIS

INTERSTATE PARK, N. Y.-The
clanks like those of Georgias chain
gangs echo through the Bear Noun
tain, Palisades Interstate Park, some
few miles above Nyack, where $500
men, Negro and white. mostly war
vets, work in two week shifts on Home
Relief Bureau Jobs
Long before the sun rises between
4 and 430 each morning. for two
weeks in each month, six days a week
1,400 of these workers, living in
Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx,
tear themselves out of bed. They
must make the a. IN. Weehawken
Ferry at the foot Of West And ST..
They must forget tn efact. despite
their aching bodies, that they ar
rived home from the previous days
work just several hours before, some
where between 7.30 and $50 D. m,
long after the sun set. Miss the ferry
and during the two week iayoff there
will be a days pay ($450 minus SOC
the Bureau takes back to pay the
fare) less with which to feed the
fare) less with which to feed the
family, For only family men can get
these Jobs
Keep MOyiu'!"
At q. m. the men are scattered
throughout the park. Hands trained
to WELD a pen, must now swing pick
axes and shovels and move rocks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
PARADE TONIGHT
BY FOOD WORKERS
Locked-Out Cafeteria
Workers Picketing

NEW YORK.-Locked out members
Of Cooks and Countern1ans Local No
325 made stormy demonstration
Monday at their union meeting held
at II Sumner Avenue, Brooklyn,
against the attempts of the Inter
national and local officials to impose
a settlement upon the workers de-
manded by the bosses association.
The meeting lasted till 3 a. m.
The members of 325 were locked
out by number of cafeterias in
Brooklyn when they refused to agree
to slashing wage cut and unlimited
hours demanded by the association.
Tonight, in answer to the bosses and
the attempted sell-out by the Off
Gals of the union, the workers will
stage torch-light parade and dem
onstration in support Of the workers.
The demonstration will begin at
730 p. m. at Georgia and Suffer Ave
nue., Brooklyn. From this point the
parade will proceed along Suffer to
Stone and Pitkin. then along Pitkin
to Saratoga where a wind-up rally
will take place.
The demonstration will be sup
ported by the joint committee of mass
organizations in Brownsville and the
Food Workers Industrial Union, with
the consent of Local 325 strike COM
mittee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
MANDELL BULLIE.S
SCHOOL TEACHERS
Threatens Pay Cuts at
Elmhurst Meeting

NEW YORK. - Edward MandeI.
Associate superintendent of Schools
in charge of Queens. recently warned
gathering OF 600 elementary school
teachers at Elmhurst that teachers
would suffer if they did not contri-
butte more money to the unemployed.
(The meeting was called by the SUI
perintendent Of schools. DR.. William
J. O'Shea, who said, about month
ago, that he was confident teachers
could not find it in their hearts to
ignore those in need. He believed it
was only small group not represen-
tatiye Of the large body of school
teachers, who would object in times
like these to enlarge their contri-
buttons.
Mandell went on to say that the
teachers of New York were lucky in
that they had shorter hours and
longer vacations than European
teachers. . he represented the pub
lie as questioning Indignantly Wheth-
er teachers could not work harder
for their money. and he asked them
for three times more than they ha6
been contributing Then he informed
his audience that there must be an
annual swing of 100000 or there
would be another salary cut.
IF teacher resigns" he said
there are 5000 substitutes who are
knocking on the door, willing to make
your place for Sc day and no vaca-
ton money"
Better give now as much as you
can. Give willingly rather than
arouse the sentiment of the taxpayers
The teachers must also do their bit
and if there is to be retaliation, two
can play the game"
Can it be that OShea is so alarm
ed he must try to foster hatred be.
tween the teachers and the tax
payers? Can it be that DR.. Dishes
is not really so confident that only
a small "unrepresentative" groul
would rebel against having it's sal.
airy stolen by capitalist robbers?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08

wages be paid and asking where the
money went. All the men were sign
ing. A stool pigeon pointed out the
organizers of the list. chat day they
were fired as reds"
There are no toilets or washing ia
cilitieS Should a worker want to
leave his post he had better not stay
t long or the foreman will be asking
where he went.
Icy Winds
Despite the mild winter, icy blasts
sweep the mountain side. Many Of
the men, long unemployed. are force
TO come to work poorly clothed. They
have no heavy coats or heavy shoes.
The Red Cross was supposed to pro-
vide clothing. Aside from some boots.
which came in only few sizes, little
was issued. Pneumonia and Use grippe
take their heavy toll and cost the
workers many doctor bills. Several
workers drop of exhaustion while
working. Only four out of one crew
Of thirty in the last Shift we're able
to work full week.
It's Profitable
Major William A. WEIGH. chief en-
gineer and general manager OF the
Palisades Interstate Park Commission
who is in charge CT the project, re-
ferring to the men in statement
published in the Jan. 20 N. Y. World
Telegram, spilled the benevolent"
Home Relief beans and admitted
that:
'The main thing is that these men
are working better than the laborers
We used to get from the agencies"
The World Telegram in the last
two paragraphs Of the same article
starts its first sentence with: RE
turning to New York, the Bear Noun
tain workers are cheerful and
then goes OH to admit that
Many, exhausted by the days
work, find a seat, place their empty
lunch buckets on their laps and sleep
until the train pulls into Weehawken
One man explained the Importance
of their work.
A man in my gang came to work
yesterday, he said, "and he fell into
a faint when we got halfway up the
mountain. We took him to the hos
pital and they said it was pneumonia.
He said to me, I knew was sick
but my wife made me so to work He
said his wife told him the children
would starve if he didn't and that he
might as well die up on the mountain
as in the bed at hOme."
The might of these worker fighting
together, organized, can put an end
to the vicious exploitation of the
Home Relief Bureau, under the pre-
tense of giving Jobs" and drown out
the echoing clank of a Georgia chain
gang in New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
.T.U.U.C. Active for
Albany Conference
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

was initiated by the A. F. Of L. rank
and file Committee. and was en-
doysed By 50 organizations meeting
in preliminary conference at Irving
Plaza in January. the Socialist Party
issued a call for a separate city con-
ference after the call for the Albany
Conference had been Issued.
The Socialist city conference is
scheduled but three days before the
State Conference at Albany. Its
purpoge to divide the united efforts
of the workers for unemployment
insurance. relief and labor legisla-
ton can be seen further through the
fact that the Socialist gathering is
scheduled for a week night to begin
at $50 p. m. No organization con-
SiderinG the purpose of such a con-
ference seriously would make such
arrangements.
Call for Unity
The Euro OF the 7. U. U. C. decided
to urge the workers in all organiza-
tons embraced in the Preliminary
Conference to support the decision
of the provisional committee and to
send letters of protest to the Socialist
Party against the manuever Of the
officia!dom to split the unity of the
workers.
Such organizations as already
elected delegates to the Socialist
Conference are urged to instruct
their delegates to expose the splitting
manuevers on the floor of the So
cialist conference and to raise before
the rank and file delegates the need
for merging with the Albany State
wide Conference, and forming a solid
united front Of the workers.
All organizations, shops, Trade
Boards and others were urged to draw
up bills that would include the de
mands of the workers represented for
discussion at the Albany Conference.
TO Raise Finances
For this and other organization
work of the r. U. U, c., workers are
urged to help raise finances by at
tending the Trade Union Unity
Council entertainment and ball, Feb
II, at Irving Plaza Hall The pro
gram includes John Pinard, Aida
SeXtet, Margaret Larkin and Needle
Trades Dance group
Unemployed Council Acts
The regular monthly full delegate
meeting of the Unemployed Council
of Greater New York, tonight at 8
p. m. at 10 East Third Street. Room 4
will take Up two main points; the
Albany Conference, and the Rent
Strike Movement which is itself also
mobilization for the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
PUDOVKIN'S NEW FILM, LIFE IS
BEAUTIFUL" COMING TO
ACME SUNDAY

Pudovkin, considered one Of the
foremost Soviet directors, is the pro-
Queer of the new Russian film, Life
Is Beautiful which will have its
American premiere on Sunday at the
Acme Theatre. Pudovkin will be re-
membered here for his two remark
able films, The End of st. Peters
burg" graphic historical document
of the first days of the revolution in
the capitol of the Cars, and storm
Over Asia" one of the most thrilling
films of the upheaYal in the East.
Both pictures received the highest
praise from the press in America
Life Is Beautiful" the new film,
deals with the Civil War in the early
days of the Revolution, and brings
to the fore some of the best efforts
of this young master of the cinema.
In this picture Pudovkin, although
dealing again with a revolutionary
subject, permits himself to bring
before us love story which involves
the commander of a Red brigade and
his pretty wife. Here again, how
ever, Pudovlin masses his charac-
tiers so that we get the usual human
factors of his people. 1t also presents
the struggles and sacrifices of the
Red Army during the days of the
Revolution, when the Whites were
backed by the imperialists.
The special midnight showing of
Life Is Beautiful Feb. IL (starting
at 1870 p.ml, will be for the benefit
of the Scottsboro defense. There will
be five-minute speeches by Waldo
Frank, Corliss Lamont and National
Secretary Paterson of the LID.
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226 Barrett st.
Strike Victorious
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

g CancelIing of back rent.
g. Recognition OF pernian e II {
house committee to protect the in
terest of the tenants.
4. Reduction by SO on four room
apartment during the winter
months by 81 in the summer per-
iOd; 81 TO be taken off from the
room apartments rent in the winter
and So in the summer.
Clubs, fists, and the shutting of
of the gas could not help the social
ist Epstein, president Of the land
lords association, to brighten or in
timidate the tenants of this house
and other sympathetic workers who
lived near BY and joined the picket
line. Day after day thugs and police
beat women and children who pick
eted in front of the house. Epstein
made the most extravagant threats
to break their heads" and to mai
up the house and leave everybody
cut" In spite Of all, the inhabitants
of the house fought and won.
The workers Of that house have
chosen q committee of Is to help thu
remaining workers of the block or.
ganize to better their conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
Westchester Welfare
Tries to Run JObless
Out of the County

YONKERS, N. Y, Feb. 7. - The
Unemployed Council here is prepar-
ing to place demands with the West
chester County Public Welfare Dept.
today for more relief and rent for a
family of four.
This family has been given illegal
notice to move by Judge Gerald
Nonal, on a demand for $62 from this
unemployed family, which has been
getting So worth of groceries per
week from the Welfare Dept. The
charge made for the groceries is "a,
and the family suspects some one
gets cut out of it.
Ruth Taylor, Republican, is County
Welfare Commissioner on salary
recently raised from $4,000 to $4,000
a year. One of her underlings stated
plainly that it is the intention of
the department to move as many
unemployed out of the county as pos
sible, They are planning to send this
particular family to New York-to
starYe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
ZIMBALIST SOLOIST WITH
PHILHARMONIC SATURDAY

Two American works will be heard
on Thursday evening and Friday
afternoon at Carnegie Hall under the
direction OF Bruno Walter: Arthur
Shepherds Horizons" and Charles
Martin Loeffler's LA Mort de Tinta-
giles" The Philharmonic PROGRAM
will also include Beethoven's Fifth
Symphony.
Efrem zimbalist will be soloist on
Saturday night at the Students Con-
cert at Carnegie, playing the Brahms
Violin Concerto. The Beethoven
Fifth Symphony and the Loeffler
composition will be repeated on this
occasion. Next Sunday afternoon, at
Carnegie Hall, the Philharmonic will
mark the fiftieth anniversary of the
death OF Richard Wagner with an
all Wagner program, with Friedrich
Schorr, baritone, as soloiss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
BrOdsky Will Defend
Weinstein in Bronx
County Court Today

NEW YORK.-Joseph r. Brodsky,
Chief Counsel for the International
Labor Defense, will fight the case OF
Sam Weinstein, framed furniture
worker, whose trial is scheduled to
start this morning, in the Bronx
County Court, Arthur and fremont
AYES, it was announced yesterday
by the Weinstein Defense Committee.
The bosses want to railroad Vein
stein so as to intimidate the workers
against fighting for their political
and economic rights. Acquittal OF
Weinstein, brought about by mass
pressure, will be a heavy blow to the
frame-up gang and the suppression
by the ruling class of workers rights
to organize and to strike.
Weinstein was framed up because
he was militantly active in a strike
of furniture workers in New York
City last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
JAM A.F.L. BILL ON
INSURANCE THRU
CENTRAL TRADES
Tammany and Socialist
Unite to Put Over
Fake Scheme


NEW YORK.-Tn the face of bitter
criticism from many of the delegates
the New York Central Trades and
Labor Council came out in favor, at
its last meeting, of the AL. form
of unemployment insurance" bill.
The c. T. and l.. c. officially en-
dorsed Senate Bill No. 2O8, entitled
"A. T. Of l.. Standard Unemployment
Insurance Bill" now before the state
legislature.
The bill Is sponsored by Senator
Byrne of Albany, and Assemblyman
Condor of Yonkers, both Democrats,
and loyal allies of Tammany.
Provisions of Bill
The provisions of the bill are: Gre
alton Of a fund by employers con-
tributing three per cent of their week
ly payroll until $125 has been paid
in for each employe. Then benefits
viii be paid workers thereafter be-
coming unemployed, at the rate of
IS to SIS a week, but never more
than three-fourths Of the weekly pay.
No benefits are to be paid until after
three to ten weeks of waiting. and
then one-third of every 50 weeks of
unemployment. but in no case for
more than Is weeks in any one year.
No payments are to be made be-
fore Oct. l, 1888.
There are numerous other restric-
tions. No special provision is made
for dependents. No provision is made
for marine workers, agricultural or
domestic workers, or for workers in
establishments hiring less than 40
workers
All delegates TO the c. T. and L. c.
admitted that the bill should have
many amendments to make it work
at all"
Bill Attacked
Delegates WoskoW of Local 81 of
the Printing Pressmen's Union and
Delegate Peer Of the Postal Workers
severely criticized the bill as made
quate.
Tammany delegates and officials
OF the G. T. and L. G. defended it
hotly, as did also the Socialist dele
gate Steiberg of the Bookkeepers.
1t was Sieoerg who led the fight
against a motion from the floor for
a special meeting to draft, discuss
and present amendments to the bill.
In the course of the discussion. Sec
rotary Quinn of the Council bitterly
attacked the ALL. Committee for
Unemployment Insurance and attack
ed the Albany Conference for Labor
Legislation, scheduled for Feb. 1927,
to draft and present among other
bills, an unemployment insurance bill
of the sort that will be of some use
to unemployed workers
Delegates Steiberg heartily support
ed Quinn in this attack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
WHAT'S on
Wednesday
(MdHhdttdH)

JOHN REED CLUB ART SCHOOL lecture
tonight at $40 pm. at 45O Sixth Ave.
Speaker: Walter Pach, artist and critic.
Subject: cart in the Modern World" Ad-
mission to non-students Is cents.
REHEARSAL Of Daily Worker Chorus.
Downtown Section tonight at Manhattan
Lyeeum. IS East Fourth St.. at pm. sharp.
KECTURE by Sarah Rice tonight at Sis
p.ra at Yorkville Branch Labor Temple.
2fs e. 84th St. Subject: Women and
Children Ia Soviet Union" Admission free
Aiifpices FSU.
PIONEERS who come in troops only will
be admitted free of charge TO Saturday
ncrning showing of Jimmie Higgins" at
Fifsb Avenue Theatre, Brosdway and gath
st. Troops must come in organized fash
on with their leaders. SHow starts ut 10
IN. Courtesy Workers Film and Photo
League.
MASS NETTING Of all photographs
workers tonight at $50 pm at IS W. 18th
st. to discuss conditions Of phofogra phic
workers. Auspices Photographic Workers
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
STRIKE 20 CLOAK
SHOPS IN z DAYS
AlreadyWin 6 Of Them;
Mass Picketing Today


NEW YORK. - Indications are
plain that the campaign inaugmated
by the Cloakmakers' Committee Of
100 and the Industrial Union will
follow the example of the furriers
and establish a powerful union and
win better conditions. At the close
of the first day, Monday, already II
shops were struck and yesterday u
more went out on strike, six were
settled and negotiations proceed in
three more.
Hundreds Of cloakmakerS, mem-
ployed and employed responded dur
ing the noon hour in the market to
a mobilization called by the Needle
Trades Unemployed Council in sup
port of the drive. Previously, about
rs strikers carrying placards calling
for united fight for higher wages
and denouncing fake strikes and
racketeers, picketed the Bedford
Shop, at 315 West Both St., one OF
the struck shops.
The Needle Trades Unemployed
Council has issued a call for all I'M
employed furriers, dressmakers and
cloakmakers to help picket the shops
that are on strike and to help the
struggles of the cloakmakers against
sweatshop conditions prevailing in
the industry.
At a meeting of the executive
council of the N. T. w. I. u, the del
egates greeted with enthusiasm the
beginning of the drive. The coun-
Gil heard reports that under the rule
Of the misleaders workers can not
earn more than 50 and $3.50 day,
Shaving 10 and II hours, and that the
union conditions won by the cloak
makers through many years OF
struggle and sacrifice were destroyed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
(BrOnr)

CLASS in Social Systems tonight at the
copcoTfrse Workers Club, 134s Jerome Ave-
at 9 pm.
NEaSnrPsHTP MEETING TONIGHT at 8
pm. of East Bronx Branch FSU at Ar1bas-
sador Hall, Clairmont Parkway and Third
Ave. Renort of member Just returned from
the Soviet Union.
MFMBERSHTp MEETING Of Sacco-Van-
zetti Branch LID at 1872 fremont Ave, at
8 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
Chamber of Commerce
Approves Relief Cuts !;
Asks Reduction i'm Tax

NEW YORK-The Chamber of
Commerce of the State of New York,
at its regular February meeting, just
held, thoroughly approved of Gov
Lehman's proposals to cut the budget
by slicing off appropriations for pub
lie works and by reducing the school
funds, cutting down relief, etc.
1t then demanded the right of big
business men to cash in on these
economies by having taxes reduced.
The chamber particularly demanded
that the personal property tax be
abolished.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
(RrOOkLnn

QUESTION box and General Discussion
tonieht ct Flathrsh workers Club, 1901
Kines Highway at R.30 nm
FAMOUS SOVIET FILM "Snir,er" beino
shown this afternoon and evening at the
Grace Theatre, corner wh'noie ST. anf
F1ushins ave. Admission 1Oc afternoon;
f5c evenings. Auspices williamsburg Work
ers Club and Jewish Workers School No
q Two.
MEtfBERsHrP MEETING soottsboro ILL
Branch at 2sl SrNenectadv Ave
IMPORTANT NEETTNrf Of Nature Friend,
Brooklyn Branch tonipht at $50 pm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08

floor and exposed Clark's racket, even
though he had a squad of police
there. Thereupon the whole crowd
this time also repudiated Clark, en-
dorsed the Committee, and elected
new members to it, making it COM
mittee of so.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
THE MONSTER" OPENS THURS
DAY At WALDORF THEATRE

1.-THE Monster" a melodrama by
Crane Wilbur, will be revived by
Wee and Leventhal at the Waldorf
Theatre on Thursday night. The
play, which was originally scheduled
for Tuesday, will have De Wolf Hop
per, Grant Gordon, Virginia Stevens
and Joan Glide in the cast.
Before Morning. a melodrama by
Mr. and Mrs. Edward c. Riley, will
have its premiere Thursday evening
at the Ritz Theatre. Jessie Royce
Lands, Mckay Morris, Louis Jean
Heydt and Louise Prussing head the
cast.
zone Sunday afternoon" a melo-
drama by James Hagan, opens at
the Little Theatre on Friday night
with Lloyd Nolan, Percy Helton and
Rankin Mansfielde heading the play
ers.
The Shakespeare Theatre has de-
Cided to present Romeo and Juliet"
at all performances this week, in
stead Of the usual repertory. Mar
gerry Maude and Guido Nadzo play
the title roles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08

Build workers correspondence
group IN your factory. shop OF
neighborhood Send regular letters
10 the paip Workes.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08
Stage and Screen
HEARST SWINDLES WORKERS
WITH GERMAN NEWS REEL"
by Advertising Manager, Daily
WOrker)

The Embassy Theatre, a Hearst
offshoot, misrepresented to the Daily
Worker that during this week a cur
rent events news reel depicting the
struggle between Communism and
Fascism in Germany entit1e d
WHITTIER Germany" would be shown
The advertising manager of the
Daily Worker was led to believe that
as against the capitalist terror and
the rawlings of Hitler and his lieut.
enants, the audience would have the
side of the German Communists, in
the words of Max Bedacht, member
of the Central Committee Of the
Communist Party, u s. A.
Bedachts speech was cut out OF
the talking sequence of the picture
The picture itself was all Hitler and
not word of the German workers
opposition to Hitler, though news
paper releases by the Hearst outfit
had expressly stated that both sides
would be given. The Daily Worker
advertising manager apologies to
any worker who may have been mis-
led into attending this presentation.