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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
MILITIA READY
TO INVADE FARM
STRIKE REGIONS
Strike Spreads, Covers
Almost Entire Milk
Producing Area

ALBANY, Aug. 8-NeW York's state
militia is prepared to proceed to the
scene of the farm strike in the milk
producing belt at a moments notice
it was learned today Officers and
their stats have assembled at Albany
and the militia units are ordered to
conclude all preparations for moving
against the farmers who are fighting
the milk trust.
Governor Lehman sent kilograms to
district attorneys urging them &c
prosecute striking farmers. At the
same time a provocative story was
circulated that strikers plotted blow
ing up of bridges to stop carrying OF
milk in trucks over highways. Lieut.
Gerard a. Vane was ordered to in
vestigate the report and stated that
the story was "the product of fer
tile imagination"
Senate Votes Investigation
In a late session last night the
State Senate, by solid vote of the
Tammany democrats against the re-
publican minority, adopted a resolu-
ton to create a legislative committee
of II members to inquire into the
milk situation in the state.
Announcement was made that the
committee would be required to OBJ
tain information on whether the milk
control law had been of benefit to the
farmers and whether it should be
modified. altered or repealed"
With the milk strike rapidly spread
ing, and embracing approximately So
900 dairy farmers the Lehman admin
istrstion is alarmed. The biggest ad-
dition to the strikers yesterday was
the spread of the movement tc
Schenectady. where the farmers voted
on Sunday to join the producers EN-
barge and to stop milk by mass pick
citing of the highways.
A truck containing a load of milk
was pursued into the city of Schenec-
tady to Eastern Avenue where the
contents were dumped while hundreds
of city spectators looked on and
cheered the farmers.
At Sherburne, in Northern Chen
ango County, more than 1900 farmers
massed yesterday and compelled the
Dairymen's League plant to agree to
close down and not accept any more
milk until the strike is over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Call Riot Squad on
Johless; Unemployed
Groups Split Unity

NEW YORK.-A police riot squad
attacked $50 unemployed workers at
the Spring and Elizabeth Streets
Home Relief Bureau after united
front meeting split by the Association
of the Unemployed and Local 10 of
the Workers Committee was taken
over by the Downtown Unemployed
Council.
The Downtown Council led the
worker into the relief bure au
demanding bread. The policeman on
duty there slammed the door on them
and then phoned for the riot squad.
The demonstration was reformed
after the police attack None was
arrested
Earlier, the Council was refused the
platform by the chairman, Lassrer, of
the Association of the Unemployed
despite the united front agreement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Workers Reference
Bulletin Features
"New Deal" Exposure


CHICAGO, Ill-Articles on the Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Slavery
Act and t,,s various phases of the
New DEAF feature the August issue
of the Workers Reference Bulletin,
put out by the Chicago Labor Re-
search Association.
A summary of the latest legisla-
ton in the offensive against the
workers and account of the war pre-
parations and an exposure of the
starvation regime in Chicago are in
Guided in the issue.
This Bulletin is only cents a
copy, 65 cents year postpaid. 1t
can be gotten at the Workers Book
store, 2019 w. Division Street. or at
the Workers School, 1922 S. Mi
chigan Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Mass Picnic of Trade
Unions This Sunday
in Pleasant Bay Park

NEW YORK.-The militant Trade
Union Unity League, independent
unions and A. F. Of l.. opposition
groups have organized a mass picnic
for Sunday, August 10, at Pleasant
Bay Park. This will be gathering
of all trade unionists and their SYM
pathizers of New York City, irrespec-
tive of their political views or opin-
ions.
The picnic will be more than just
an outing. 1t will be a demonstra-
ton of the mass support for militant
trade unionism.
A very interesting program of
sport, entertainment and dancing
has been arranged by the commit
tee. Prominent speakers from the
labor movement will address this
mass gathering On the most vital
issues confronting the workers and
especially the trade unionists in New
York City.
The committee has also made ar
rangements for every organization,
clubs and other organizations to sec
ure tickets under their own name at
the rate Of 5 cents per ticket. Tick
cts can be gotten from your union,
league, or the T.U.U.C. Organize
your shop to come down as body
to the picnic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Evicted From East
Side Tenement AS
Relief Is Reduced
Families Face Hunger
AS Officials Refuse To
Give Food Tickets

NEW YORK, August 8.-The effect
CT the citys drastic reductions in the
payment of relief and emergency
rents is causing the greatest misery
and suffering among hundreds of
thousands of workers families. A
typical case is the tenement house at
SIS Suffolk Street, where almost q
score of evictions have taken place
in the last few months as the relief
payments continued to drop.
The case of one of the tenants,
Mrs. Goldman, is typical of the way
in which the city's relief bureaus are
forcing the workers into actual star
walton. Dependent for support on
her only son, who is a cripple, she
visited the relief bureau to get the
food tickets promised her on Mon
day. At the bureau, she met with
the same experience as the rest of
her neighbors. She was told that
the city 'has no money" Only the
most persistent demand on her part
finally resulted in the payment OF
some meagre relief in the form OF
tickets, seven days after it was
promised.
1t is not uncommon for the
mothers of the families, made des-
perate by the hunger of their chill
dren, to go begging for food among
the neighboring families, who them
selves are suffering starvation.
The house has not been repaired
for many years, the windows are
broken, and the walls are actually
falling to pieces in many apartments
Rats infest the entire house.
Many of the apartments, officially
listed as having three rooms, have,
in reality, only two, one being totally
dark and without any windows at all.
Even when the mothers get food
tickets, they are robbed by the gro
ceryman to whom they must go to
redeem them. He charges them the
highest prices and gives them the
stalest food.
The workers in this typical hellhole
of a capitalist tenement are banding
together to fight for relief and against
evictions. They are making contact
with the Unemployed Council of 95
Avenue B, near 9Th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09

story to the erect that Montgomery
businessmen are encouraged" ovei
the report that DR.! r. R. Motion
principal of Tuskegee Institute, has
requested Hugh S. johnson, national
administrator of the N. I. R. A., to
differentiate in the setting of mini
mum wages, between white and Ne
gro labor. Motion, it is reported, said
that 1t would be to the advantage OF
Negro labor to have a $14 minimum
wage. He cloaked this treachery in
phrases about possible substitution
of white for Negro labor" Motion
does not, of course, suggest united
struggle Of white and Negro workers
to gain higher and equal wages for
all, with equal opportunity for Ne
groes on all types of jobs.
Meanwhile, despite this damaging
evidence, DR.. Motion is quoted in the
Aug. issue of the Pittsburgh
Courier" unofficial organ of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, as de-
nying that it had proposed discrirn-
ination in wages for Negro workers
Negroes Enemies at Work
A few days before Motions alleged
action, group of three Negro mis-
leaders from Selma, Ala, appeared
before the N. l. R. A. directors in
Montgomery and testified that it is
not necessary, in their opinion, that
Negroes receive higher wages, or
wages equal to the minimum set for
skilled and semi-skilled white work
ers under the government code. Prior
to this, j. Ames, owner of the Selma
Manufacturing Company, made a
public statement that he would not
pay minimum of S12 a week to his
textile workers. Ames has two mills
in Selma, one of which employs only
white workers and the other only
Negro workers. Only the mill en-
ploying Negro labor IS running at
present, with the workers receiving
from 81 to So week.
Following Ames' statement, meet
ing was called of leading Negro citi-
zens of Alabama, in which the mat
ter was discussed. The meeting was
urged to adopt resolution stating
that Negroes are already getting a
living wage. However, fear of the
opinion of the masses of Negroes in
and around Salem prevented the
formal adoption of such a resolution
Then DR.. N. D. Walker, A. G. Car
rol and Professor S. Greed, treasurer
of Selma University, all leading
middle class Negroes of Selma, went
as committee to the MIRA officials
in Montgomery to urge legahsed
lower wage-scale for Negro labor.
Lower wages for Negroes are, as q
matter of fact, provided indirectly
in all the industrial codes now being
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09

approved by the N. I. R. A. admin
istrators. The textile code as
adopted specifically exempts cleaners
and outside workers from the mini
mum wage provision. Practically all
Negroes in the Southern textile in
dustry come under these classified
tions, as it is a well-established Gus
tom in the South to employ no Ne
gross on skilled or semi-skilled tex
tile Jobs. The discrimination con-
tanned in the code was specifically
brcught TO the attention Of the N. J.
f. A. officials and of Roosevelt, but
the code was nevertheless approved.
2215 Cents An Hour In Lumber
The lumber industry is another
case in point. The difference be-
tween the minimum for Southern
labor and the minimum for Northern
labor is greater in the proposed lum-
Der code than in any other industrial
code so far considered. Under the
CODE labor in Southern saw and
planning mills will work at 221a cents
an hour, while the same labor in a
Northern mill will bring 40 cents an
hour. This is much greater diff
ference than exists in the textile
code. The explanation is that labor
in the lumber industry of the South
is predominantelv Negro. whereas in
the North and West it is predomin-
antely white.
Or take the following figures from
the code adopted by Montgomery re-
tail grocers: minimum wages of $25
for store managers, SIS for clerks and
helpers, and Sc for Negro porters and
delivery boys.
The Alabama mine operators have
asked to be EXEMPTED from the ma
tional mining code and have sub
mitted a special code under which
mine workers in Alabama will receive
far less as a minimum wage than
miners elsewhere. There is a def
Unite connection between this special
code and the fact that three-quar-
tiers of the Alabama coal miners are
Negroes.
The administrators of the NJ R. A.
have said, in response to queries,
that agricultural and domestic labor
are exempted from the blanket code.
Now agriculture tops the list Of all
occupations for Negroes, while do
nestle service comes second.
Discriminate Against Negroes
The industrial codes, which slash
wages for the enormous majority Of
workers, and which in no case pro-
vide an increase proportionate to the
rising cost of living, differentiate in
practice between white and Negro
labor by excepting the lowest grade
Jobs from the minimum wage pro-
visions. These lowest grade jobs are
those which are forced upon the Ne
gro workers by the employers and
by the discriminatory practices of
the A. F. of L. But this discriln-
ination against Negroes in practice
is not sufficient for Motion and others
of his type. What these misleaders
want is an open understanding and
written agreement that Negroes
are to work for less than white labor.
1t is no wonder that the big bust
nessmen of Montgomery, capital Of
the shareholders in the civil war
and today headquarters of the land
lords of the Black Belt, are over
joyed at Motions action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
WHAT'S ON
Wednesday

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF NEWLY
ORGANIZED Daily Worker Volunteers
elected at last meeting meets today at city
office of Daily Worker. IS E. 18th st. pm.
sharp.
CITY WIDE MEETING of all Carriers
meets today at city office Daily WORKER 35
e. 18th st. Important meeting. All car
riers be- on time. 3:l5 D. m.
LECTURE j. Portell on The Chinese
Eastern Railroad and Soviet Union. Labor
Temple, 24s E. 84th st. Tree Lemonade
will he served.
IMPORTANT MEMBERSHIP MEETING CT
-vanzetti Br. lid, 792 E. fremont Ave.
8.15 p m. Executive COMMITTEES VIII be
elected
LlCTURE--Anti-Fascis j. Adler. 40 w.
65th st. Auspices French Worker7 Club.
Admission free. Electrical transcription Of
classical music.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09

tickets for the payment OF merchan-
disc still one might try.
Referring, perhaps, to the smaller
and smaller food tickets distributed
by the Tamrnany Home Relief Buro,
Altman's persuasive ad-writer de-
clares:
"Altman believes that the period
of getting things just for today is
about to pass"
Wrong. For he goes on to say
that:
Nov people are looking for
more permanent possessions
not just things to tide over The
quality of fineness and beauty
must go with permanence."
Can it be the stale macaroni and
oleomargarine which the Home Re-
lief Buro hands out to the starving
millions of New York?
Wrong again. Not stale macaroni
and oleomargarine, but rather
Luxurious satin spreads for beds
and claise tongues, deIicately hand
embroidered and Alencon lace
trimmed Al-o in crepe dc chine,
pastel shades. For only-S27O."
If you're unemployed ana hungry
and if you already have a bed
spread (evsn if it isn't a luxurious
satin one). you can buy a
Sterling silver dresser set
brushy mirrCr and comb in the
Lady Joan patters. modern in de-
sign, with very fine etching. McIc-
grammed to order. The &C.
SS0.7
If your flat seems dreary and
the eviction notice is late in arriving,
why not make your rooms a little
more cheory? Altman offers (for
orly $3.50
'Idczzosin3 by EIizabcth GulIand
of the OF portrait by Rcmney Of
NJ. Cug0iI. It is one of the fin
os3 C 4 dis3-nguished group of
nlc1zotiE.5 in the Altman Caller
les. Geld ,asf ha@d crrved frame"
# you are among the men whose
wives and families total the million
depending upon RELIEF and cannot af-
ford bed spread for 1910 and still
want to do your part to help pros
perity return, the following is sug-
geated:
& family q fiys-5hat is, a father,
nclnsr and three starving children
ge5 approximately S12 a week for
ralisf. A. this rate it would take
only % weeks or approximately half
a year of relief money to pay for
s270 beo spread; and only 18
weeks or az months to pay for a
simple trimmed upper sheet and
pillow cases with plain under sheet
al 1927.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
BY DAN DAVIS

NEW YORK. Several reporters
lolled around the desk at Brooklyn
Police Headquarters last Saturday
night 1t was sort of hot and stuffy
and they'd rather have been sitting
over gin fizz at Joe's. But some
thing might break and the boss had
to get all the latest rackets and MUIR
ders in the paper. So they stuck
around.
The desk lieutenant himself felt
kind of heavy after packing in big
meal just few minutes before. A
worker and his wife walked into the
police station. They glanced about
them rather nervously and then
welked over to where the lieutenent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Huge Wave Sweeps Z
Orphan Children to
Death in ROckaway

NEW YORK.--A huge wave swept
across a sand bar 400 feet of the
main beach at Edgmere in the Rock
aways carrying at least seven chill
dren to their death yesterday.
Eight of fifteen children playing in
the shallow waters at the time were
rescued by life guards. One was
brought ashore dead. Six are still
missing.
All the children, whose ages range
from seven to fifteen, were inmates of
the Pride of Judea Home, an or
phan asylum at 992 Dumont Ave-,
Brooklyn. They were part of group
of $50 taken on an outing for the day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09

TOM MOONEY, now serving his
18th year in San Quentin prison on
framed-up charges, is the central
figure in "The Strange Case of Tom
Mooney" now playing at the Acme
Theatre, 14th st. and Fourth Ave.
This film, sabotaged by the capital
list press, is a dramatic presentation
Of the frame-up, and includes, the
Preparedness Day parade of 1915,
court scenes at the Mooney
and Billing trials, the perjured wit
nesses, and winds up with an appeal
by Mooney himself, recorded in the
San Francisco county Jail while
Mooney was awaiting his recent
trial. All workers are urged to see
this thrilling talkie!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Family Crushed, But "Not Damn Thing
Happening", Says Boss Press Reporter


Pardon me, SIR the worker began,
'but can you help us? You see,"
he continued swiftly as Though he
feared the lieutenant would cut him
short, "me and the wife were Just
put out Of our house. The Home
Relief Bureau said they could not
pay our rent. Our baby is sick and
is in the Kings County Hospital. We
have no money and no place to sleep.
We thought maybe you could help
the wife. / can sleep in the park,
but I don't want to bring that on
the wife"
One reporter looked IN and then
turned away. 1t was the old stuff.
Just another workers family shot to
hell. Or --'' the boss wouldn't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
NeeVs Briefs
Shoppers Lose Jobs

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. g. Com
mander John D. Pennington and 352
prohibition agents of this area were
notified from Washington Monday
that they are discharged from ser
vice. They will be laid off We'd
nesday The order wipes out the
prohibition bureau for the whole
area which includes Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Delaware.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Contribute S67.25 to
Needle Trades Union

NEW YORK.-Answering an appeal
by the Defend the Union" Commit
tee of the fur section of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
three organizations have contributed
funds.
Camp Croton Avenue, Peekskill, N.
Y, have made their second contribu-
ton, this time $45 The Harry Sims
branch of the Workers International
Relief contributed SIS while $7.25 was
received from the International
Workers Order, Branch 8.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09

The lieutenant questioned them a
bit more. After all they might be
lying. The worker said he couldn't
find job. He had tramped the
city for several DAYS, irving to sell
vacuum cleaners. That failed Even
NRA firms ignored him, he said.
The wife started to cry The lieu
tenant WIS annoyed. Painfully he
dug his hand into pocket, handed
them quarter, and then the adj
dress Of "home for friendless wo-
men, He agreed that the worker
could sleep in the park.
In corner of the room the re-
porter who had looked up was phon-
ing his paper.
Hello, city desk, oh hello boss,
nothing doing tonight, not darn
A','',~ heppening.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Arthur P. Davis Dead

OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 8.-Arthur
P. Davis, noted engineer, died at his
home here yesterday. He engaged
in many big engineering projects, the
last one being the Soviet project in
volving the reclamation of a maxi
mum Of 1O.OoO,0O acres in the Trans
Caucasians through dams, drainage
ard flood control. He was more
than two years in the Soviet Union
as consulting engineer. He was 70
years of age.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Albany Delegates
Must Report Today

NEW YORK.-All members of
the delegation of the Unemployed
Councils and affiliated organiza-
tons going to Albany to present
the demands of the unemployed
and small home owners to the
state legislature must get their
tickets fed the boat before
O'Clock today at the Office OF the
Greater New York Unemployed
Councils, 10 East 18th Street. The
boat leaves at 5 pm. The round
trip fare is four dollars.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
TRY 2 RENT STRIKERS TO-DAY

NEW YORK-Two workers arrested
at the picket line before the rent
strike at 1873 East 111th st. stand
trial this morning after they were
arrested on no charge at all. They
appear at 10 a. m. in the East 121st
Street Court.
The workers, Joseph Highkin and
Albert Stills, frustrated the attempts
of the owner of the building to man
handle an eight-year- child who
was carrying a rent strike sign before
the building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Hull Seeks New Pacts

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-Secretary
Of State C2rdell Hull mas begun plans
for holdir& conferences with Latin
American diplomatic representatives
for bi-lateral trade agreements. He
will also hold preliminary discus
sions" with them on the Pan-Amer-
lean reciprocity tariff conference
which is to be held in Montevedio
next December. This is part of the
campaign of American imperialism
TO gain advantages over England in
the southern republics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
TRY ORGANIZERS AJtC %

HIGH POINT, N. Garry Hogan.
Beullah Carter, Hazel Dawson, Bill
Preserved. I. M. Ritchie and others
arrested as the result of the strike
Of High Point unemployed relief
workers, demanded a jury trial when
arraigned in municipal court. The
request was granted and the cases
were set for Aug. %.
Hogan and his associates we're re-
leesed cft~- '.--.' 80 ~+oo ,-oS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Tammany Labor Faker Dead

NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-John Nc
Ardle, for more than 80 years bust
ness agent of the mailer5' union
third vice president of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union, presi-
dent OF the Mailers Trade District
Union and treasurer of the Allied
Printing Trades Council of New
York, died suddenly Sunday. Nc
Arde was a member of the Tam
many Society and a member of the
Kings County Democratic tTam-
many Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Jobless Die in Wreck

PITTSBURGH. Aug. 8.-Four I'M
employed men, riding a freight train
in search of work were killed and
two others seriously injured when
the engine and twenty box cars left
the rails near Portage, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
U. S. DEPosIToRs MEET

NEW YORK.--Depositors who have
lost their money in the U. s. Bank
will meet tonight, 8 p. m. at l447
Charlotte St., Bronx, to elect dele
cation to present their demands for
payment of the deposits out of r
F.. G. funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Masons Can't Sell Beer

FENDER, Nebraska, Aug. g.
Nebraska masons were today under
orders not to sell 80 beer under
penalty Of being ousted from the
lodge. The masons were the back
bone Of the Ku Klux Khan move
ment here a few years ago. Beer
becomes legal in this state Thursday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Y. C. L. DISTRICT FUNC-
TIONARIES MEET

NEW YORK-District functionaries
of the Young Communist League have
been called to meeting tomorrow,
Thursday night 1880 in Room 205 at
the Workers Center, IS East 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
HEAD OF TUSKECEE SEEKS
LOWER WAGES FOR NEGROES
UNDER N. R. A., IS REPORT
Montgomery advertiser" Says Businessmen
Are Encouraged By DR.. Motions Action
BY Jim MALLORY

BIRMINGHAM Ala, Aug STheTe has to light in Alabama
united effort Of employers, r.
people the stamp Of
legal approval set lower for Negro labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09

Help improve the Daily Worker"
send in your suggestions and criticism.
Let us knew what the workers in
your shop think about the Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-09
Are You in the Market tor
A Luxurious Satin Spread?
For Only S270 Altmans on Fifth Avenue
Offers a Real Bargain ~.
nv SENDER GARLIN


able to OF this opportunity
thru Atmans rtzy depart
ment Fifth Avenue.
Ahough definitely that Aman accepts relief,