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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
CIVIL SERVICE
CUTS CONTINUED

WASHINGTON, July S. = Making
use of lying figures about the drop
in the cost Of living, President Roose-
welt today issued an order continu-
ing the Is per cent wage cut for
Federal civil service workers for an
indefinite period beyond June 30,
1888. 3....
In his statement ordering the wage
cuts to go on, Roosevelt said that
for the first six months in 1888 the
cost of living dropped % per cent.
This is contrary to all known facts.
For example, Dun & Bradstreets a
leading Wall Street statistical orr
ganization, last week published an
index stating. that food prices had
risen 10 per cent in the last year,
and were going up at the rate of
3 per cent week
Every worker will recognize Roose-
thereby increasing the cost of living.
velts reasons" for continuing wage
cuts as shallow excuse. The wage
cutting policy set By the government
is an open lead to the bosses in all
industries to cut wages, and does
not at all gibe with his popular pro-
nunciamentoS to the workers about
the coming rise in wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06

from pellagra-the dread disease
caused by malnutrition-the Red
Cross sells yeast to treat it, at a
price far beyond the reach Of most
OF the workers, she said.
Lured into the mining towns with
offers of fabulous wages during the
World War, these miners had form
erly lived in the holiows and val
leys of the southern part of the
state. They are underfed, under
nourished and oppressed" Miss Par
ker said.
Only the Red Cross gave free
garden seed to the miners so they
could raise a few vegetables for
their families, but now only those
working on relief" jobs for the Re-
construction Finance Corporation
forced labor get the seeds-and
pay for theml
"Pay Days"-No Money.
During the past two years, Miss
Parker reported, there have been
very few pay-days when any min
ers received any American money.
The mine operators own the towns
or mining camps. Food at the COM
pany store-which the miners are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06

and to remove them from office if
found guilty of misconduct. Designed
to clip the czaristic powers now en-
joyed by the Grand Chief and the
Grand Officers, the proposal is meet
ing bitter opposition from the ma
chine. But there is so much senti-
ment for it among the delegates that
it may be made the subject of test
vote.
AmaIgamation Being Blocked
The movement for amalgamation
of the B. of L. E. and the Firemen's
Brotherhood is being blocked in the
usual way by high-paid officials of
both organizations who fear loss of
their jobs. Most of them claim to
favor the move, but in practice place
every obstacle in the way. Asst.
Grand Chief G. w. Laughlin heads
the B. Of L. E. committee negotiating
with the B. of L. F. and E. His re-
port to the convention was a prize
example Of creating obstacles and
throwing cold water without openly
opposing the proposition.
Some Decisions
Recent convention actions include
the decision to reOrganize the insur-
ance department on legal reserve
basis, instead of the present assess
ment basis, defeat Of move to in
crease the terms of officers from three
to six years, and reduction of 10
per cent in the expenses of officers
and delegates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06

been found defective in many ways
no wonder, the life we have been liv-
ing. My feet are flat, my back is
hollow etc. At 2:30 they have a cor
rective class for these things-as if
this short period will correct our
physical ills.
Police Keep Girls Within Camps.
We have been given our return
ticket-so If anybody gets lonesome
or discouraged they have a right to
run back to N. Y. And there is a
policeman on the outskirts to see to
1t that we do not go off the grounds.
The girls do all the chores Care we
paid--dont make me giggle).
The food is much better than I had
expected--at any rate much better
than got at the Salvation Army
where an ordinary potato even was
mutilated beyond recognition. How
ever understand this comparatively
good food. They expect visitors every
minutc--copgressmen and the like.
BY their goodness to "90' they can
pleasantly forget about the starvation
Of millions Of young girls.
They try to fill us full of hot air
about their ideas Of obedience, truth
ETC.. etc. They ere afrr'd ~ ~"
gotten wrong" ideas while we were
hungry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
40 COmmissdrs" Is Stirring
Epic in History OF u S. S. r.

I shot, and how they were shot. Re-
volt flares up. Even as the British
machine-guns begin to fire down
upon the crowd of workers, they rally
to the defense of their revolution.
Selling the armory, they surge out
into the streets as the British begin
to retreat. They send telegram:
MOSCOW! KREMLIN! LENINi
Workers Of Baku in arms against
the British Send Red Army"
The cold-blooded murder of the
commissars; the workers, massed
about the British staff headquarters
demanding the return of their lead
ers; their faces when they hear that
they are dead. These are but a few
of the scenes which remain unerase-
able. The brief sketch OF events that
l have attempted is, after all, no
more than sketch. To see this pic
ture is to be spectator, witness
more, a participantl--in the monen-
tous struggles of the Baku workers.
their betrayal, and their victory. The
English titles by Nathan Adler con-
tribute greatly to the films vivid
ness.
A Soviet news-reel of May Day In
Moscow, shown at the Acme to-
gether with "Twenty-six Commits
sars," is the most stirring of any
newsreel out of the Soviet Union that
this reviewer has thus far seen. 1t is
photographed more clearly than any
Of its predecessors, and records a
wealth Of detailed ceremonies which
have been omitted from previous
news-reels
1t should be stressed and repeated
that this weeks bill at the Acme is
one that no American worker can
afford To overlook
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
RAISE GIVEN IN
1927 TAKEN BACK,
TO REPAY BANKS I
Unity Committee Calls
on Progressives to
Prepare Program

CLEVELAND, o., July 5.vGrand
ennial convention of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers here adj
mitted to convention delegates that
the engineers received an increase in
pay from the roads in 1927 becausel
the Brotherhood's grand officer.
wanted to assess the membership to
make up losses suffered by the broth
erhood in It's extensive financial and
real estate ventures.
1.-THE 1927 convention authorized
loyalty loans from the members to
bolster up the collapsing $16,o00,00O
real estate deal in Venice, Florida.
THAT convention failed to put on an
assessment and was afraid if we did
put one on this organization it would
not stand" Johnston told there dele
gates. THE thing to do was to go
out and get wage increase for the
men before we could ask them to
put up any money.
In collaboration with the railroad
executives pay raise was given solely
for the purpose of assessing the MEM
bers the amount of the increase, in
order to turn the amount over to the
bankers!
1.-THE pay raises were granted by
U. S. Board of Mediation after the
union had asked for Is per cent
increase" declared Johnston. I'VE
got a 7ls per cent increase on eastern
roads and 61a per cent on others. In
September, 1923, we put on an as
sessment after every man had been
given sufficient increase in May to
meet the assessment or loyalty loan
in full" The Brotherhood to date
has collected nearly s6,3oo,0OO from
the members on the loyalty loan!"
The Grand Chiefs easily volunteer
ed to continue the 10 per cent deduc-
ton; they had millssd the member
ship for all the members would stand
for. Johnston has publicly stated
that Roosevelt's coordination bill is
'eminently fair and has agreed to
another extension of the 10 per cent
deduction without vote of the
membership, even though railroad
profits are increasing, and the cost
of living is going up rapidly, as well
as the cost of belonging to the Broth
erhood which is being increased.
Progressive engineers should get in
touch with the Chicago Railroad
Brotherhood's Unity Committee, 2oO3
N. California, Chicago, at once and
prepare for constructive action in be-
half of the rank and file, and against
these grand betrayers.
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mostly screened instead of walled SC
that we get plenty of air.
We breakfast at 8, lunch at 1890,
supper at 6. We have setting up
exercises, etc. At 7:30 to $50 p. m.
we meet in the Playhouse where we
have a victrola, checker games, card
games, piano, dancing. None of these
activities are compulsory-however
most of the girls are usually to-
gether-the 4 camp councillors try
ing to make things interesting. These
councillors are from the Red Cross,
sort of girl scout types.
Leerning Trades But Where Are
the Jobs?
Mrs. Roosevelt has said that first
she wants us to get healthy and then
she wants us to have vacation.
Some Of us have registered in the
stenography class, others in the typ
ing class. AS If we will have jobs
when we are forced back to starva-
ton in the city. And since we have
no money here, everybody has for
gotten about the depression back in
the U. S. There is a library with
very cheap novels and cheap maya
zines to further help us forget our
situation.
Most Girls Physically Defective.
The girls were given thorough ply
steal examinations. Most of us have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Two Workers, Framed
BY Salvation Army,
Receive Is DAYS

NEW YORK. --Sentcnce of Is days
each were handed out in the Sec
ond Avenue and Second Street Court
Friday to Duke, Negro worker, and
to Joe Gray, member Of the Down
town Unemployed Council, on COM
plant by Salvation Army official
that they had disturbed a downtown
Salvation Army meeting on June 20.
A demand by the two workers that
the trial should be adjourned was
refused on the ground that the Sal
walton Army official who lodged the
complaint had to go on his vaca-
ton.
A worker who testified for the de-
PENDANTS declared that Duke was
passing by the meeting when some
one grabbed him and started a fight.
Gray came to his assistance, and the
two were arrested on a 'iisorderly
conduct" charge. The one who had
attacked Duke was not even brought
ito court as witness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06

Inc CUBAN masses are fghting
heroically against the double oppres-
sion Of Wall Street imperialism and
the native bourgeois Landlord terror.
Too little support has been given
them. Their organizations on the
sugar plantations are beginning to
menace the imperialist and national
bourgeois interests. That is why the
United States government is inter-
vening, through mediation" by AM
bassador Sumner Welles, to unite
the bloody Machado dictatorship and
its bourgeois opponents, including the
A. B. G. terrorist organization.
Scoring this mediation" the Gu
ban workers and peasants, supported
by the real revolutionary students
are carrying on the fight to drive out
the imperialism which Expresses and
impoverishes the Cuban masses, no
matter which native group is in
power. They must have our help.
Following the example of the Cuban
workers, the Anti Imperialist League
puts forward the following demands:
/
Upon the Roosevelt government:
Complete economic and political in
dependence for Cuba; abolition Of
the Platt Amendment; no interven-
ton; against the sending of Amer
lean educational and election experts
to Cuba; immediate surrender Of the
Guantanamo naval base, and imme-
date withdrawal of American war
ships from Cuba; immediate cancel
lation OF debts owed by Cuba to
American banks.
Upon the Cuban government: I'M
mediate and unconditional release Of
Viyo, Ordoqui, Vilar and the other
political prisoners in Cuban jails; for
the right of the revolutionary organi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Engineers Chief Admits Wage Deal
to Assess Men for Officials Losses
Heart Fails AS Worker
Searches CityDump for
Family's Food; Is Dead
BY PASCUAL.

JERSEY Forced by the
desperate need of his family of 10
Anthony Griziso grubbed for food al
the dumps, where he was found dead
from heart failure.
This reporter went to visit the FAM
lily living in four small rooms on the
first floor of a dingy shack. Every
room contained bed, one small bed
room holding three beds neatly put
up in an effort to accommodate the
crowded family.
The Jersey City Relief had been
giving this family of II people a mis-
erly SIS week, and Mrs. Grisio lived
in constant fear that some welfare
organization would come and take her
children away from her.
She was asked why she did not
demand the Jersey City Relief Blu
reau give her more than S. per week
of which $l3 rent, kerosene for the
lamp, and food to maintain family
of ten had to be supplied. You
can't get sassy with them" she re-
piled, because then they might take
my kinds away. And I wouldn't want
that to happen" The youngest child
is two years old.
An insight into the life of worker
under capitalism who starts life
strong and confident and then at the
age of So is found dead on the dump
heaps grabbing food for his family
is illustrated by Mrs. Griziso's late
husband, Anthony.
Arm Crushed
In 1920 he was a skilled mechanic
working in rubber factory with
great plans for the future. Then his
arm was crushed in a machine and
for year he was unable to do any
sort of work. Finally he got a Job at
the Goodwill Institution as helper
at SIS a week. UP until six months
ago when he lost his job completely,
he was employed for a year and a
half for three days week, receiving
Sc.
Hence up to six months ago the
family of nine was living on An
thongs s. week wages and the IS
from the relief. Asked how she got
along when her husband lost his Sc
week job, Mrs. Griziso replied:
well you see, I bake my own bread,
then one day I make macaroni and
potatoes, and the next day I make
macaroni and green peas, and the
next day bake the macaroni, so we
manage to get along.
Anthony" she continued, didn't
take it so cheerfully. He used to sit
in the kitchen, see what was going on
in there, and worry and worry. Then
one day he saw some Negro fellers
carrying wood and things wrapped up
in paper from the dumps, and that's
where he got the idea"
In other words, driven desperate by
the sight of an empty kitchen he
went together with the Negro work.
ers to the dumps to bring home pieces
of wood for the fire, and things
wrapped up in pieces OF paper" so
that the neighbors wouldn't see the
beastlike degradation that capitalism
forces on the worker. Then his heart
couldn't stand the strain and he
dropped dead.
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cations to exist without interference
from the Cuban government; for the
right Of the Cubans in exile to return,
especially the workers and reyolu-
tionary students. IL ~ {a.f 4,ol5aa
All anti-imperialist mass organiza-
tons are urged to adopt resolutions
in support of these demands, to hold
lectures and open-air meetings on
Cuba, to push the sale of the July
Cuban issue of "Upsurge," monthly
organ Of the Anti-Imperialist League,
and to demonstrate before Cuban
consulates.
The Anti-Imperialist League, 90
East 10th Street, will send a form
resolution to all organizations asking
for it, will furnish copies of up
surge" and of penny pamphlets on
Cuba, will arrange lectures and send
speakers to workers clubs and other
mass organizations upon request, and
will provide outlines for discussions
on Cuba, including a special outline
for trade unions. emphasizing the
union angle of the present struggle.
Central open-air rallies will be held
on the following dates in New York
Harlem, July 8; Red Hook, Brooklyn,
July Is; Downtown, July %.
Other open-air meetings all through
July will be held by mass organiza-
tons at which resolutions should be
adopted and sent to the Roosevelt
Administration and the Cuban gov
eminent, with copies to the Anti
Imperialist League.
There will be special Cuban issue
Of the Daily Worker on July 90, te
which all organizations are asked to
send greetings to the Cuban anti
imperialist organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Milk Strike Looms AS
n. Y. Dairy Farmers
Demand 5 Cent Rate

NEWPORT, N. Y. July 5.-That
a strike of independent dairy pro-
ducers is looming was revealed today
when Felix Piseck, speaking for a
group of independents, demanded
that the State Milk Board fix a flat
rate of 5 cents a quart for producers
The Milk Board, after strong pres
sure exerted by the farmers, was
forced to fix cents a quart as the
price distributors must pay to pro-
ducers. PiSeck, who is reported as or
ganizing the dairymen in northern
New York, stated that a strike would
be called to win the demand, but
the time of the strike is not being
made public.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
By EDWIN ROLFE

"Twenty-six Gommissars," a new
Soviet film at the Acme, is picture
which no worker should fail to see.
1t is the film story of the Baku
oil fields in the year 1918, when the
workers already having seized power,
were forced to fight bitterly to re-
tain it against the traitorous Men,
sheviks who sought, and for very
brief time succeeded, to hand con-
troll Of the oil fields over to the Brit
ish inteventionists.
Twenty-six commissars guided the
affairs OF the militant new workers
regime, operating the oil fields, fight
Ing the enemy with raw but heroic
troops on every front surrounding
the territory. For a brief and disas-
trouS moment, a majority of the
workers fell under the spell of the
velvet-mouthed Menshevik dema-
gogy. and voted to permit the Brit
ish troops in Persia to enter Baku
to laid" them.
That moment Of weakness was dis
astrous, but not fatal. The twenty
SIX commlssars THE brain, the heart,
the voice Of the young revolution"
betrayed by the suave Menshevik
leaders, were taken out into the des-
ert-"as far from the railway line as
possible "-surrounded by the British
soldiers and Mensheviks, and shot
down in cold blood.
But the workers in Baku, suffering
even greater hunger and privation
under British rule, awoke to the
treachory, and, surrounding the
building which housed the British
staff, demanded the release of their
26 commissars. No answer. Again,
I'VE want our comnissars!"
They arc told that the commits
sars are dead--that they have been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Miners Vices Beg Rags to Hide Bones
of Tubercular Children
LIFE in COMPANY
TOWN IN TENN.
TOLD BY VISITOR
Lack of Organization
Makes Men Slaves
BY STANLEY GIBSON

NEW YORK.-So terrible
are conditions among the 1920
coal miners families in South
ern Tennessee that even a con-
sentative social worker who
has just returned to New York
after a nine months stay there
is forced to describe the stu
alton as "ghastly".
Miss Ruth c. Parker, in describing
her experiences in Campbell County
Tennessee, unfolded the story of the
company towns" and the miseries
which it creates for the coal min
ers and their families.
Scenes of misery witnessed by
Miss Parker included: a newborn
baby wrapped in old ticking; a
13-year- old boy, barefOoted, eros
sing ice-covered ground with an
eight-yesr old child in his arms,
going to school,
She reported that while miners
are credited" with wages averag-
ing about IS a week, at best, they
actually go deeper into their debt
to the mining companies, month by
month, because a system of deduc-
tons which leaves TIL m almost
nothing for food for themselves and
their families. Deductions include
fees for blacksmithing their tools,
insurance-and even a burial fund.
Rags for Decaying Bones.
Mothers begging for rags wit n
which to bind up the decaying bones
OF their tubercular children is a
common sight in the Southern Ten
nessee mining towns, Miss Parker
reported. With hundreds suffering
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
NEWS BRIEFS
Manchukuo Bars Writer

HSINKING, Manchukuo, July s.
Manchukuo officials today instructed
passport inspectors to deny Josef
Washington Hall, an American who
writes under the name of Upton
Close, entrance into Manchuria, be-
cause of his asserted anti-Japanese
views expressed in American mag
azine articles. Action of the puppet
Manchukuo government was taken
after a spokesman on the japanese
Government announced the journalist
would be denied official courtesies of
railroad passes and hotel accomoda-
tions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
|. W. W. GANG
In RAID ON
MARINE HALL
Murderous Attack on
New Orleans Marine
Workers; 5 Hurt
/. w. W. OPPOSES UNITY
Marine Union Holds
Protest Meeting

NEW ORLEANS. La. July 5.-A
band of II members of the Industrial
Workers of the World led by Bridges,
local secretary, invaded the headquar-
tiers of the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union, at 239 Decatur St., yes
terday and murderously assaulted five
members Of the union who were pres
ent in the hall Shouting we want
Everett" local secretary of theMWTU,
they Immediately attacked defense
less members of the union with brass
knuckles and lead pipes wrapped in
newspapers.
Although resisting the murderous
gang with the utmost energy, all
union members present received seri-
GUS injuries. Green, a member OF the
pert organizational committee was
seriously cut over the chin and was
sent to the hospital for treatment.
The union members stood their
ground. however, and refused to be
ousted from their headquarters.
That the police were in collision
with the IW.W. is evident from the
fact that they failed to show up I'M
til some time later
Oppose Unity
The attack comes as a result of the
intensive organization drive now being
carried On by the Marine Workers
Industrial Union. A leaflet issued
recently by the union called the sea-
man to sweep away all opposition
against a united front for struggle
The IWW. realize that they are no
longer a factor in organizing the
workers. Before leaving the hall the
IW.W. members shouted This is 60
ing to be repeated on the docks" A
leaflet exposing the murderous at
tack and a protest nesting is being
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
July Fourth Toll at 144

NEW YORK, July 5.-A survey of
July 4th casualties showed 144
deaths throughout the nation, with
six deaths directly traced to fire
works. Thousands were injured and
property damage great, as usual. In
New York City alone approximately
LOO were treated for burns caused
by explosives throughout the day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Three Die in Gulf Storm.

NEW YORK, July 5.-The storm
which swept the No Atlantic coast
for thred days and moved southwark
to rage in the Gulf of Mexico, ac-
counted for three more victims today.
Two survivors of the barge S. G,
Wilder were landed at Norfolk Va,
this afternoon. Three other members
of the crew had been swept overheard
to death
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Korean Floods Kill IS

SEOUL, KOREA, July 5.-Deaths
from floods in Rakuto Valley totalled
SIS today, as waters began subsiding.
The number of homeless was set at
10000 and property damage at 2,700,-
900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06

The I.W.W. attack reveals the anti
workingclass character of these ele-
ments who serve the bosses by split
ting the working class and trying to
defeat real gains which can only be
made through united struggle. AS
result Of this attack, marine work
ers must redouble their energies to
build the Marine Workers Industrial
Union and agitate among the work
ers on the docks and to elect dele
gates to the coming Marine Workers
Convention in New York July 1913.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
WHAT'S ON
Thursday

REGISTER now Registration is now
going on for summer term of Workers
School, school once, Room sol, So East
18th Street
POCKETBOOK FOUND at Furriers' dem
onstration, July sth Loser apply to Frei-
heit once, 50 East 18th Street. 9th floor
CLARA ZETKIN AND ROSE PASTOR
STOKES MEMORIAL PROGRAM, Pelham
Parkway Workers Club, 2l2s Cruger Ave-
nue.. $50 pm.
l. W. o. BRANCH $780, meeting, Room
2oS, SO East 18th Street. Report on con-
yention.