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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
tBy a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK CITY.-A letter I
sent to the Daily Worker on the
working conditions on relief jobs in
the Bronx, was printed on May 31st.
tried to acquaint the readers of
the Daily Worker with the condi-
lions under which about $4,000 relief
workers are being handled by their
bosses on the job. The drunken
foremen want to have the workers
in state of fear and subsection.
Yet the workers remain unorganized,
open for attacks. Everyone is facing
the danger of being fired from the
job"
A week or later the Daily Worker
printed another story sent in ex-
posing the fact that the drunken
foremen are using their position to
squeeze dimes and nickels out of
the poor workers for their own use
to buy booze.
These little stories printed in the
Daily Worker by a worker correspon-
dent drew the attention of the city
authorities. For fear of wide pub
licity and the danger of arousing
the hungry workers to organize and
fight, the authorities acted quickly
A foreman, habitual drunkard
from my job was taken away. The
remaining foremen do not appear
now as drunk as they used to. An
order by the Park Commissioner,
prohibiting collections of any sort
INV he fko saL
on the wall of every shanty in the
parks of the Bronx.
Here is the power of our press,
which is not yet recognized by many
workers. Here is striking illustra-
ton Of the importance Of workers
correspondence for our press and
movement.
With pride and Joy, I note the
movement among the relief workers
to organize, as reported in the
Daily Worker. The home and work
relief is being cut. Instead of bread,
the workers are being given illu-
sions of happy days" and the new
deal" The policy of the relief adj
ministration now Is to look for ex-
cuses to fire workers from the job,
or to get rid of them by means
Of a transfer to a far distant park.
Many a time I heard the foreman
on my job threatening the workers
who resisted his meanness, IF you
won't do as I tell you, you'll go to
Orchard Beach," Orchard Beach is
well-known TO the workers as
slave-driving place that requires two
to three hours riding to and from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Try Militant Negro
Worker Today: Police
Beat and Framed Him

NEW YORK william Bryan, mill
tant Negro leader who has been one
Of the many victims of police terror,
which is raging throughout Brooklyn,
is being tried this morning at $3.50
on the framed-up charge of "at-
tempted assault" at Special Sessions,
Smith and Schermerhorn SITS, Brook
lyn.
The arrest, which took place on
April 20, because Bryan attempted
to prevent the eviction Of his wife
and himself from their home. He
was then beaten.
The Brownsville Section of the In
ternational Labor Defense, which is
defending the case, calls upon work
ers to be present at the trial in or
der to demand the unconditional re-
lease of Bryan and to protest against
the many evictions which are taking
place in Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Stage and Screen
"The Strange Case of Tom
Mooney" Opens Today At
Acme Theatre

The physical change that man
undergoes after seventeen years of
prison life on a framed-up charge
can plainly be seen in the case of
Tom Mooney, star of the film, 1.-The
Strange Case of Tom Mooney" open
ing today at the Acme Theatre, 14th
st. and Union Square.
At the time he was declared guilty
Of the bombing in the Preparedness
Day parade in San Francisco in 1916,
Tom Mooney was in the prime of
life. Today, although he has never
lost faith in the working class, the
entire appearance of the man has
changed completely.
"The Strange Case of Tom
Mooney" depicts with graphic real
ism the drama of the most famous
case of the century, the story of a
man who, though innocent, has spent
seventeen years of his life in living
grave in San Quentin prison.
"Conquerors of the Night" the So
Wet film of the icebreaker 'Malygin"
and its adventures in the far Arctic.
which is being held over second
week at the Acme, is on the same
program.
The International Labor Defense,
which is conducting a vigorous cam
paign for the unconditional release Of
the militant worker, has arranged to
have collections take place at the
door of the theatre, the funds of
which will be used for the defense
campaign.
The International Labor Defense
urges workers to help the defense
campaign by contributing as much
as possible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
LABOR UNION MEETINGS

FURNITURE WORKERS, Wednesday, Ir-
wing Plaza Hall, 18th st. and Irving Place,
l PM, to protect strikes of 1909 furniture
workers throughout city.
STEEL AND METAL, WORKERS INDUS
TRIAL UNION opened headquarters of
Brooklyn local at 1856 State st. NEAR
Court).- All metal workers invited
DOG SKIN WORKERS meet today at
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union.
l3l W. 2sth st.. Immediately after work
ing hours
DRESS SHOP CHAIRMEN, DELEGATES
and actiyes meet Wednesday at pm at
n. T. W. I. y. headquarters, 1871 w. 18th
st. Prepare coming strike
FUR SHOP CHAIRMEN AND COMMIT
TEES, Wednesday, Webster Hall, I1s w
18th ST.. pm, against racketeers and
gangsters.
Workers on celluloid meet tonight at T
at Webster Hall, 119 E. 18th ST., to draw
up a code
An important membership meeting of the
Independent Carpenters' Union will be held
en- wednesday, Aug. 9, at 730 pm, at the
union headquarters, 800 Broadway, New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
MORE CITY TAXES
SEEN AS ALBANY
HOLDS HEARINGS.
City Govt. to Increase
Consumer Sales Tax to
Pay Wall st. Bankers

ALBANY. New York, August T.
The legislature is discussing today
in Committee the Sales Tax propo-
sails Of Mayor OBrien, for an increase
of another one per cent in the Sales
Tax and a stock transfer tax Of four
cents. Tt is expected that the legis-
latrTe will permit the city to levy
the desired new taxes.
The New York City Tammany gov
eminent has promised to the Wall
Street bankers that It will raise new
revenue totalling $35,OOO,O0O before
December II when the next interest
payments on the city bOLGS fall due.
The city pays out more than so per
cent of its revenues as payments to
the group of Wall Street Bankers
headed by Rockefeller and Morgan
banks.
The city government has refused
to levy any more taxes on large in
comes and accumulated fortunes of
the rich 1t has drastically cut all
relief payments. In order TO guar
antee the payments to The bankers,
Mayor OBrien has asked for the in
creased Sales Tax which Will fall
heaviest upon the workers and small
consumers.
There is now in force a one per
cent Sales Tax for the entire State
This costs the consumers $60,000,000
a year.
The Communist Party ard the In
employed Councils are demanding the
abolition Of all Sales Taxes. and the
lev. Jig Of heavier taxes or the rich,
including a capital levy of ten per
cent on all large fortunes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Cafeteria Workers
Win Better Terms
(By a Food Worker Correspondent

by Food Worker Correspondent
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Last January
the skilled workers in the Non-Bet-
ter Cafeteria in Brighton Beach went
on strike for higher wages under
the leadership of local 1876 A. F. L.
The non-skilled workers then came
out in support Of the skilled workers.
The Food Workers Industrial Union
at that time warned the strikers that
the A. F. Of L. leaders are not out
to win real union conditions for them
and especially for the non-skilled,
and urged them to be on guard and
see to 1t that all strikers, skilled and
non-skilled, go back to work only
under improved conditions. The
workers then promised to stick to-
gether But here is what happened:
The bosses demanded that Panken
shall be called in as arbiter (Panken
is a friend to one of the bosses).
The union officials agreed and with
Panken's help they came to a set
Element whereby the skilled workers
got improved conditions and the
non-skilled were forced to go back
on the same conditions with a pro-
mise that the union will "try" to
get something for them.
Now the Food Workers Industrial
Union has organized the non-skilled
workers and forced the boss to give
them union conditions and to re-
cognize the FWIU. While this
strike was on, the officials of local
225 A. F. of L. forced the skilled
workers to scab on the non-skilled.
They even supplied the bosses with
scabs.
But it didn't help. Instead of the
612 days and IL hours per day, which
they were working before, they are
now working s days week, and 10
hours per day, and with a So to "a in
crease on their wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08

with the Waldorf or the Biltnore but
the difference, Mr.. Burrell ccafides.
is not in the substance, only some OF
the finesse of service. The trimmings
are all there, the fancy beGcp-ings,
the tropical birds, the ornate vases,
jewelry shop-a Rotary delegates
paradise. Hardfaced, hardheaded
business men pass in and out.
Mr.. James Ddiscoll is here for the
code conference of the National AS
ISOLATION of Wool Manufacturers. He
sits in the lobby after his luncheon
The meeting scheduled to start in an
hour and prevented Mr.. 'Driscoll from
accompanying his wife who went to
meet their daughter at the boat. The
daughter is bringing home SO 600
worth of dresses. This vexes Mr..
Driscoll.
He saves and slaves, buys a Packard
instead Of Lincoln and what good
is it? The girl has to be taken in
hand. Mr.. Driscoll decides to take
his daughter in hand.
A man can't just sit around, he's
got to do something with himself
Would care to take stroll around
the mezzanine? Sure.
Mr.. Driscoll stops before the curio
shop and contemplates a stuffed rab-
bit. He goes in and buys it for his
daughter Jane, who is a cute trick
after all. A little too lively but cute
Mr.. Driscoll is whimsical. There is
a bit of the elfin in his 230 pounds.
The pickets. Did Mr.. Driscoll no.
tice them? These workers are max
ing SIPS day and not getting paid
for the two, three hours overtime
they're forced to do as rule. There
is no ventilation in the laundry plant
Don't pay any attention to them, >
Mr.. Driscoll says, Il don't. Those
people don't know when they're well
off. I got my own workers to worry
about"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-Reds Reds! Come
to our rescued What else could we
say2 We, housewives in Harlem, are
well aware of the splendid work be-
ing performed by the fearless men
and women whom the capitalist press
designates as reds.
We understand very we'll what is
meant to be red. To be red is
to demand the right to live. To be a
red is to march in a body to the
Home Relief Bureau and force them
to turn over the food ticket. The Of
ficals must be in with the grocers.
When we go to the store and show
the ticket, right away, everything
goes up. We are dictated to as to
what to buy and not allowed to get
any change from the ticket.
The city officials are well aware
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Bond Laundry Bosses
Increase Terror: Three
Strikers Are Framed

NEW YORK-The bosses of the
Bond Laundry 435 East 175th st.,
where workers are striking for the
enforcement of the Laundry Work
ers Industrial Union agreement,
which the owners of the plant have
broken, are increasing the strike
breaking terror.
Three workers arrested last Fri
day were arraigned in court yester-
day and held, one in $500 bail and
the other two under $1,000, on
framed charges Of assault. They will
be tried in the 13lst Street Court
Wednesday morning.
The Union is appealing for finan-
cial assistance to carry on the strike.
Funds can be sent to the Laundry
Workers Industrial Union, 1460 Bos-
ton Road.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Commodore Strikers Had Shaved in Basement
Inferno of Heat and Speedily
BY EDWARD NEWHoUsE.

NEW YORK-New York's ritZy
Commodore Hotel, And st. and Park
Ave, has installed an elaborate cool
ing system for its patrons this year
but when the murderous heat and
sitting gas fumes of its basement
laundry caused Adele Hernandez and
JoSefina Garcia to collapse at their
machine, the two girls we're carried
upstairs, revived and put immedi-
ately back to work
Both of the girls joined the Food
Workers Industrial Unions strike call
which came almost ten weeks ago.
They appear each day for picket duty
with hundred other workers who are
just getting their first glinpses into
the magnificent tropical lobby of the
bull-necked business men whose linen
they launder in the subterranean IN
ferno.
This is a venomous, bitter and des-
perate strike. Outwardly there is
something Intellectual about the fig
ures of the lone pickets in the seeth-
ing turmoil of And St., making their
rounds stolidly in the faces of sheer
ing cops, hard punching detectives.
actively callous patrons and indif-
ferent passersby. But talk to them.
Go up to strike headquarters. Visit
their homes.
A Strikers Home
The 1861 Madison Avenue home of
the Ramos family of thirteen, seven
OF whom are strikers. Top floor of a
Harlem firetrap. Two rent strikes
going on in the block. The Ramos
had been evicted two days before and
are just setting up their furniture.
They had no deposit for either gas
or electricity and can't do cooking.
There would be little to cook any
way. The relief committee affords
them only the most meagre kind of
subsistence.
The seven worked in the Commo-
dore laundry under different names
because the hotel won't hire relatives.
This is their first strike experience.
To the father and mother it's still
black puzzle. But the four girls
who have been subjected to Foreman
Thompsons nerciless speedup The
goes into the women's toilets to see
they don't stay beyond the allotted
five minutes) are taking their turns
in the picket line and at strike head
quarters, Some of them have been
beaten by the detective on duty.
The girls chew on the dry relief
bread. We're used to it." one of
them says, bravely cheerful, "At least
there are no cockroaches in them, the
way the hotel used to serve leftover
scraps. All the time the food was
full of cockroacheS."
Charlie Schwab was at that din
ner, and Judge Gary" reminisces
George Burrell, the hotels executive
manager, land Queen Marie with her
woman consort were the only ladies
there, dining at the long tables with
about twenty-five hundred men.
Why, the Queen of Belgium visited
us here, and Ramsay Macdonald.
What was that? Pickets? That's
just few indictments you find in
any organization of this scope"
The Commodore is not in a class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Militant Plumbers
Union Lead Strike

NEW YORK-The workers of the
Sloan and Greenberg Shop, plum
bers, at Grand and Christy Streets,
went out on strike yesterday under
the leadership of the Alteration
Plumbers, Steamfitters and HELPERS
Union, 81 East 18th Street, against
low wages and unlimited hours.
Having been forced to work for as
little as $3.50 day, the workers
now demand an increase of one
dollar per day for each man in the
shop. A forty hour, Five day week.
Equal division of work. Recognition
of the shop committee and the
Union.
a strike committee from the ranks
Of the men has been elected and
demands presented to the boss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08

When Maj. Jemison, who took the
attorneys out of town when Judge
Henry B. Foster refused to permit
them to defend their client, arrived
at Birmingham, Tuesday night, he
told about the mob of "the best
people" of Tuscaloosa, who tried to
lynch the lawyers, and patted him.
self on the back for having saved"
them. He said there were about
1900 in the mob and that he had to
use tear gas bombs.
He even forgot to suppress the in
cident of the train being stopped by
the lynch mob, and second at
tempt made to lynch the lawyers.
When he got back to Tuscaloosa
he revised his story, denying every
thing which he was quoted as hav-
Ing said by the local reporters, all of
them very friendly to the mob and
the national gusrdsmen.
1.-THE crowds which gathered around
the AG.S. station and the court
house were very cooperative with the
guardsmen", he announced. st per-
sonally desire to commend the crowd
for the cooperation and fine temper
which it displayed throughout the
demonstration"
In other words, the National Guard
and the lynch-mob co-operated very
nicely in using force and violence to
prevent the Negro defendants being
defended by any but local lynch
lawyers of the most prominent vari-
ETY., by Maj tensions own admis-
sion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Patterson, LID Head,
to Speak In South

NEW YORK. = The following
schedule of meetings which will be
addressed by William L. Patterson,
in Virginia and the Carolinas, was
announced by the national office
Of the International Labor Defense,
Of which he is national secretary:
Norfolk, Va. Aug 13 and IA;
Richmond, Aug. Is and 16; Char
lotteville, Aug. II; Lynchburg, Aug.
10; Durham, NJ c., Aug 10 and 20;
Charlotte, S. c., Aug. 81 and %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Harlan County Election.

HARLAN, KY, Aug. 1.-Two men
We're shot dead in rows over the
primary election in Harlan county
today and six were seriously wound
ed. The fights were over election
boxes and posters. Among the
wounded was gun-thug, Theodore
Middleton, republican candidate for
sheriff. All Of them were lackeys
of the murderous coal corporations.
Three were shot to death in other
parts of the state DUNG the voting
Saturday in connection with the
election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Execute Innocent Man.

GASTONIA, NJ c., Aug. CLAY
Fogelman, put to death Friday for
murder, died an innocent man.
Proof of his innocence was fur
nished Governor j. G. B. Ehring-
haus by Stonewall G. Durham, for
rs years a lawyer here. The lawyer
showed that two hitch-hikers had
seen the murder Of a filling station
proprietor for which Fogelman was
accused and that the murderer was
not Fogelman. The governor refused
to intervene and save the con-
demned man on the grounds that
he would not act on a telephone
conversation. There has now been
produced proof of the mans inno-
cence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Housewife Lauds Reds for
Leading Fight for Relief

OF that fact and do nothing to stop
that damnable trick. Therefore they
are in with the grocer men.
The Standard Grocer, located at
2267 Seventh Ave, between 133rd and
bath Sts., is among the most vicious
stores. saw one of the clerks there
writing list for $109 and tell the
food ticket bearer $169. I asked him
two weeks ago the price of sack
OF rice. He said $685.. When he saw
my ticket. he said 81 have none now.
Come this afternoon" I went back
there later and he charged me 1895.
These are only two examples out of
thousands which are taking place
daily in Harlem.
Housewives, join the Unemployed
Council and get rid of the sharks
that are preying upon us in Harlem.
Read the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Cop Attacks Girl

NEWARK, N. j., Aug. Patrol
man Harry Doyle was charged with
attacking a young woman who was
sitting in parked car in a lonely
road. The cop dragged the girl from
the car and threatened to arrest
her if she resisted him. The other
cops threw the couple in jail as
material witnesses" Doyle is one
of the lackeys of the corrupt Hague
machine in Jersey and was recently
involved in the theft of ballots in
the last election scandals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Vet Pushes Work Tools in Wheelbarrow to City
Hall Demanding Job and Is Arrested
Another Worker Points Out Uselesnes of Individual Action
1--WE Must Come In Masses" He Says

stand on the bread line! City Hall
or Bust"
The worker resisted arrest, was
manhandled by the police. but forced
the cop to push the wheelbarrow to
the station house at Chestnut and
Oak SITS, remarking that Its the
first time I ever saw a cop work
This incident was pointed to by
another worker as an example of the
uselessness of individual action. "Only
in masses by the hundreds of thou
sands can we force the city to give
relief or jobs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Four States to Vote Repeal.

WASHINGTON Aug. 7. - Four
more states are to vote on repeal of
the Eighteenth Prohibition
Amendment this month. The first
is Arizona which votes Tuesday.
Missouri votes on August 10; Texas
on August rs and Washington on
August 90. Twenty states have voted
thus far, all of them for repeal. 1t
is not thought likely that any one
of the four will vote to keep pro-
hibition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Painters Union Leads
Two Winning Strikes

NEW YORK The Bronx section
of the Alteration Painters Union,
4215 Third Avenue, led the workers
of two shops through victorious
strikes
Eight workers of the Ram and
Kissler shop won 25 per cent raise
end recognition of their shop COM
mittee. Twenty workers at the T
and T shop won a dollar increase
bringing their salary to seven dol
lars day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08

NEW YORK.-An unemployed ex-
serviceman, about 80, pushing q
wheelbarrow containing a broom,
shovel and some bricks, marched
from 163rd st. in the Bronx at $50
am. yesterday to the City Hall,
where he arrived at 1890, demanding
a job. Police arrested him.
A sign carried on his back and
one on the wheelbarrow said:
"This Is no stunt. I'm merely
showing that ! am willing TO work
II get a Job. refuse TO starye or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Army Prisoners Escape

NEW YORK, Aug. Swimming
Buttermilk channel from Governors
Island to the Erie Basin district of
Brooklyn, three army prisoners, Fred
Gibbs, serving four years for deser-
ton; Edward Burke, four years for
robbery, and Harry Stone, serving
three years for desertion, made good
their escape from the army prison
here yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
NEWS BRIEFS
Won BulOw Dies in U. S.

WAYNESVILLE. N. c., Aug. T.
Baron Hans Won Bulow, former COM
mander of a German army corps at
the close of the World War, is dead
here. Won Bulow was one Of the
foremost authorities ON military af-
fairs and a member Of one Of the
oldest families in Germany. He had
retired from activity in 1919 and
lived since in this place. Death WIS
caused by paralysis. He was "a
years old.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Give Turkish Worker
Yonkers Cops Beat
Suspended Sentence

NEW YORK. -Mohammed Ali, a
worker who was almost beaten to
death by police in Yonkers following
a picnic of the Turkish Workers
Club because police thought he was
Communist" was given sus-
pended sentence ON a disorderly con-
duct charge.
The police who beat him were not
given so much as reprimand.
The International Labor Defense
handled the workers case and mass
pressure prevented a vicious sentence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Government Uses Churches
to Put Over MIRA Slave Codes

"Churches are for the spir-
ituaI uplift of the people,"
drOHes the ministers, priests,
and politicians. "They haze
nothing to do Nth politics.
Religion is the opium of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
"Daily" Exposure Brings
Relief Job improvements
Letter of Worker on Situation on Bronx
Relief Jobs Results in Action

the Park and 30 to 40 cents fare
daily.
Relief workers, build your own Or
ganization! Support the revolution
airy Press for your own sake!
Redleaf
signature authorized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-08
Saginaw Firm Fires so

SAGINAW, Mich, Aug. 7.-Sixty
employees were fired last week by
the Sommers Appliance Co. for ask
ing wage increases. Their present
pay is 20 to Is cents an hour on a
nine hour day, with Is cents an
hour for women.