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been closely connected with their
lives.
The 'sRed" Issue
The comrades also deserve much
credit for attempting to meet the Red
issue, but here they also must be-
come more bold, and change their
tone. The paper says: "The Nat s1nal
Textile Workers Union takes In all
workers, regardless of their political
or religious beliefs. 1t does not dis
criminate against Communist workers
either. On the contrary we have
found that these workers are the best
fighters in the interests OF the work
ers." This is somewhat apologize.
Has the Communist Party anything
to apologize for, for having Commu
nists as their best leaders? Bring in
the entire class issue, and contrast 1t
with the class collaboration tactics
of the U.T.W. Here is good chance
to explain the necessity of the class
against class fight inside the shop.
Educate the workers wherever pos
Sible, and especially around an issue
that the boss himself raises In order
to confuse them.
Technically the paper is good--one
OF the best-loolSing papers we have.
Careful tipping, a very attractive mast
head, wide margins, plenty of whim-
steal Illustrations. The titles OF the
articles are varied-some In capital
letters, others in underlined small let
tiers, others printed by hand. In this
respect there is scarcely any room
for Improvement, except perhaps that
a little care should be taken in run
ming 1t off. If the workers issuing
it will put as much care and thought
and planning into the organizational
approach of the paper, and in the
political contents, we will begin to
have, for the first time in the his
tory OF the labor movement in this
country, really effective shop paper
in the textile industry.
NOTE: We ask all units and shop
groups issuing shop papers to send
copies to us, together with some in
formation on the organizational
status within the shop. Also let us
know how long the paper has been
issued.
Districts of the Party and unions
are asked to send information to us
or the National Office of the Party
ON the number Of shop papers being
issued in their field, what industries,
etc. Send several copies Of each
paper
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-11

American tempo. Writing
about its unusual efflorescence
in New York, one acute OBJ
server has so unburdened himself on
the subject:
Ordinarily this town develops the
basketball teams in the country. 1t
isn't only coaching which made G. C..
N. Y. and st. Johns It's material.
Some OF Nat Holman'S most brilliant
stars were boys who never played
basketball before, small shifty kids
used to lodging cars and pivoting in
the smallest space possible.
I'll have often walked from the
Times Square subway through the
garment district, shot up a crowded
elevator, j0stled through bedlamic
dressing room, beginning the days
chores without the slightest recol-
lection of the circumstances of my
trip. You have TO be familiar with
the garment center to realize the
significance of this. In certain hours
1t is ircomparabIy the most hectic
and chaotic spot in the most hectic
and chaotic city there is. But some
where between your retina, ear
drums, ineduila 0b,ongata, and
few other places, no doubt, you de-
yelop series of reflexes that en-
abe you to register the approach of
automobiles, hand-trucks, people,
and unconsciously make your way
without collisions"
lRESS racks rush at you and you
~ veer. Trucks rattle, you stop
short. Skyscrapers loom oppressively
on all sides, you're huttonholed by
peddlers, you don't care, obviously
you proceed, reading paper maybe.
Nothing quite like that in Paris. Puny
and undernourished though they may
be, those child bootblacks of New
York are uncanny and unnatural ex-
ponents of speed and precision. They
don't become basketball stars, no, be-
cause you have to go to college for
that or belong to the Y. Also, you
need stamina, which doesn't come
from irregular eating. But in their
and efficiency of motion are
contained all the elements coaches
look for in their prospects.
Last Saturday watched City Col
lege roll over Baltimore University,
Al to 81. Holman started q team
that remained in until a little before
the half. they swooped and receded
In beautiful, clean, efficient coveys.
Baltimore had one set shot during
that period, being held to two scores.
Then the home five began shooting
reserves until there had been three
complete teams in the field. It's an
list of names to glance
over: Weissbradt, Trupin, Banks,
Winograd, Goldsmith, Greenb,atts
Pincus, M. Levine, Kauf-
man, Schiller, P. Levine, Rerenson,
j Levine, and Nabaroff. They begged
down considerably in the second half
but even so they had the visitors out
scored is to IS.
THERE are literally thousands of
basketball teams in this city
looking for courts and opponents
and it seems almost indecentiy silly
of us not to have made any head
way in organizing them. or course
the problem is complicated by
shortage of courts, the type of team
to whom the Labor Sports Union
would appeal not being able to af-
ford fees. Eut there are countless
neigEborhood teams operating UNI
der similar difficulties. Several L.
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the workers. One successful struggle
even on small issue the unsan-
itary drinking water, the unheated
workrooms, etc.--7ill show the work.
ers that the NJ =. w. u. is fighting
for them and leading them in the
right direction. Yet we have a page
and half of small items describing
grievances inside the mill, and the
paper neglects to tell the workers
what can be done about them. It's
not enough merely to say: Lets all
together fight to get this without a
cut In our pay" How fight? Where
fight? Who flght2
OF course, sometimes the mere
mention Of q grievance In q shop
paper will prompt the employer to
improve conditions a little. But not
unless he fears the workers are ready
to struggle for 1t II he doesn't. I'm
less the N. T. w. u. outlines q con-
crete program Of action around a
specific grievance. the hos will ignore
it, and the workers will merely say:
I'VE know all that--so what?"
And where is the N. r. w. q. local
in this plant? Does it not speak
to the workers, and make known
to the workers that an organized
group exists inside the shopp This
would greatly heighten the morale Of
the workers, and give them more con-
f1dence to undertake q struggle.
There is an article which attempts
to bring the idea OF unionism to the
workers, and the role Of the N. r. w.
u. as contrasted with the u. r. w.
1t Is not based on the concrete griev-
ances Of the shop. The workers have
to take the mere word OF the N. +.
w. U. that it Is better than the
U. r. w.
N.T.W.U. Code
Then take the matter OF the N. r.
w. y. code. What a beautiful pic
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Of Charles Alexander of the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights, j..
Blank, an International Labor De-
Tense member, and Attorney Trupin
of the I. L. D., was elected to go to
the police station and demand the
release of the two Negro workers.
When the committee reached the
police station and demanded the re-
lease of NGcGregor and Pilgrim they
were elected. Outside the station
the committee continued to demand
the release Of the workers, and when
"a short time later-the demonstra-
ton neared the police station, the
police released the two Negroes.
Pledge Continued Fight
At the close of the march, at 1777
Atlantic Ave, a large open-air meet
ing was held. Speakers Of the Com
munist Parry, Young Communist
League, and the I. L. D. urged the
need for keeping up the fight for
the freedom Of the Scosstboro boys.
The workers, who had braved the
cold during the march and at the
meeting, pledge to fight against
lynchings, jim Crowisna, and to fight
to free the nine Scottsboro boys.
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BECAUSE it is such convenient indoor game and because It
requires little equipment many countries have tried to
graft basketball into their schools They have failed neither
because of any intrinsic deficiency in the game the
that it did not capture boys magnations.
national quirk that has kept basketball out of
France lack of facilities But basketball game of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-11
Postponed Benjamin
Greeting to Be Held
Wed. at Webster Hall

NEW YORK.-Herbert Benjamin,
National Organizer of the Unem-
ployed Councils, who was to speak
at 3 meeting last Thursday ar
ranged to celebrate his release from
a New Mexico Jail, viii be greeted
at a meeting this Wednesday, Dec.
10, at Webster Hall, 119 E. IL st.
Benjamin, who was jailed for ad-
dressing o meeting Of strikers whose
protests later forced his release from
Jail, will give first hand account
of the struggles Of. the miners
of New Mexico for recognition of
the National Miners Union, He will
also give a stirring account Of his
escape from military Stockade
and his recapture by the soldiers
who were sent to get him.
Many prominent speakers Will
greet him, including Richard B.
Moore, National Secretary Of the
League Of Struggle for Negro
Rights; Richard Sullivan, secretary
Of the Unemployed Councils of
Greater New York; John Moore
of the Sharecroppers Union, and
Julia Poynt2 of the Trade Union
Unity Council. Israel Amter, Ma
tional Secretary Of the Unem-
ployed Councils, will be chairman.
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Helping the Daily Worker
Through Ed Newhouse

Contributions received to the credit
Of Edward Newhouse In the Socialist
competition with Michael Gold, DR.
Luttinger, Helen Luke and jacob
Btrck to raise $1,000 in the $4,000
Daily Worker Drive:
M. Rensine ...............B 100
Previous total ...s......... 567.23
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-11
JAMESTOWN UNIT ISSUES
CHALLENGE IN DRIVE

JAMESTOWN, N. Y.-The East
Side Unit here raised $6o5 for the
Daily Worker $4,000 fund, and chal-
lenges the Empire Case Goods Unit
Of the same town to raise a similar
amount. The East Side Unit will
continue to raise more funds.
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Morkers Free Jailed Negroes

sive action on the part Of workers
in q Scottsboro demonstration at
Dean st. and Howard Ave. in the
Crown Heights section Of Brooklyn
on Friday night forced police to free
two Negro workers being framed on
charges of. suspicion OF homicide"
The workers, Henry McGregor and
A. Pilgrim, are both active in the
fight to free the nine Scottsboro boys.
They were standing on the corner OF
Dean st. and Ralph Ave, distributing
the Daily Worker and telling the
workers of the neighborhood of the
demonstration to be held, when q
police car pulled over to the curb
and one of the cops in the car called
them over. When they refused to
go one Of the policemen jumped out
of the car, pulled a gun and showed
the workers against the wall, The
police threatened the Negroes with
his gun, saying: eff you don't get
over to the wall I'll let you have it,"
The workers were searched and than
taken in the police radio car to the
77th Precinct station house.
Committee Demands Release
One block away, at Dean st. and
Howard Ave, the Free the Scots
boro Boys" demonstration called by
the Young Communist League of
Grown Heights was already under
way. When the workers were told
of the arrest, a committee composed
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5000 Brave Bitter
Cold tOHit Frameup
Trials at Decatur
Continued from Page u


onstration were Moissaye j. Olgin,
editor of the Morning Freiheit";
Mrs. Patience Williams of the Uni
versal Negro Improvement Asso-
citation; Winifred Chapel Of the
Methodist Federation of Social
Service; william Fitzgerald of the
Harlem Section of the LID.
Speakers at the Downtown rally
included Sam Stein of the New York
District of the LID; Joe Brown Of
the Manhattan Youth Club and
Hank Fuller of the Downtown Sec
ton of the LID.
Denounce Leipzig Trial
Resolutions were unanimously
adopted by the workers at the dem
onstration against the infamous
Decatur verdicts; against the
frame-up trial of Torgler, Dirni-
troff, Popoff and Taney; against
the wave of lynehings throughout
the country which has received the
sanction of leading public Off
Gals, including Governor Rolph, of
California, the jailor Of Tom
Mooney.
A resolution was also adopted
against the arrest and falling Of
four young workers at Times So,
last Saturday while speaking on
behalf of the Scottsboro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-11

INTERNATIONAL BRAID TOnER,
Published by the N. T w. u. 1855
Westminster ST., Providence, r. L.
Nov. 1888, Vol. l, No. l.
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N.T.W.U. Code

Then take the matter OF the N. r.
w. y. code. What a beautiful pic
turs the paper describes OF the code
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Anti-Lynch Meets
In Many Cities Are
Attacked by Police

Continued from Page y
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N closely connected with their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-05
PREPARE STATE
MARCH IN PA.
State Conference in
Harrisburg Monday

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4.-Neigh-
borhood unemployed councils are
electing delegates for the State IN
employed Conference to be held in
Harrisburg, next Monday, Jan. 9th,
where preparations will be completed
for more intensive general organ
ization and struggle throughout the
state.
This work will proceed on the basis
of local struggles against evictions,
against discrimination of Negroes,
the fight for local relief, for milk
for children, for shoes and clothing
for school children, etc.
Preparing for State Hunger March.
Preparations are going forward for
the state hunger march on Harris
burg which will be held the early
part of March. On Jan. ID and Is
there are to be tag days in this city
to aid in preparing the march.
Working class organizations, fra
ternal mass organizations, lodges
unemployed block committees and
neighborhood councils are to elect
delegates for a preliminary confer
ence on relief to be held at 808 Cir
ard Avenue at o'clock, Jan. 22nd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-05
Farmers Stop Forced Sale by
Buying Possessions for $1.1S

property was then turned back to
Hanselle.
After it was all over, another mass
meeting was held and it was de-
cided to turn the balance of the
collected money over to the Cor
ganized Farmer" organ of the United
Farmers Protective Association. The
meeting ended with the signing Of
the farmers song, Solidarity"
And so the organization of farm
ers here is racing alongl l.. A.
DANE URY, Conn, Jan. A.
Stephen Duhan, farmer in the stony
Hill district of Bethel. has been in
the Danbury Jail since Aug. IS for
debt. His family is starving. This
is the frs time in 100 years that
anybody has been imprisoned here
for debt and shows the determine
ton of the government to deal ruth
lessly with farmers and workers in
protecting the interests Of the banks
The Duhan horse is also reported
to be starving and will have to be
shot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-05
JAIL 80 MINERS AND BAN ALL
MEETS IN TAYLORVILLE, ILLINOIS
NNEW DRIVE AGAINST STRIKE
United Mine Workers of America Officials
Recruit Scabs for Peabody Mine
BULLETIN


TAYLoRvLLE Ill, July 4-Defending themselves
established positions
and where battle proceeding.
There deaths the fighting
since last night.
company gunner L.
of
special deputies
To protect the Peabody Company and its
struggle, sent by Adjutant General Black.
TAYLORVILLE, Ill.,, Jan. with the earth not yet
dry the of the 81 miners murdered in the Gillespie
disaster through criminal neglect of the state authorities
enforcing the safety the coal operators headed by
the Peabody Coal Company and the state government
responsible for the deaths of Mrs Emma Cumerato,
mother of three children and Victor Rodems
Mrs. Cumerlato shot while standing the porch
of her home and Victor Rodems said to be member of the
National Guard killed when coal operators thugs and
special deputies attacked picket line at Mine No. of the
Peabody Coal Co. Kncad The officials of the United
Mine Workers. headed by John L. Lefs had recruited strike
breakers for this mine The ckes members of the
gressive Miners Union
Major Davenport of the Illinois National Guard and
States Attorney John W. Coae Taylorve have pro-
hbited all meetings of the M u Thirty miners have
arrested and number of National Guard companies
ing held on call in Springfield and other cities.
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Music, Hash Mixed
to Save Subsidies
Ship Makes Musicians
Act AS Stewards

s, S. MANTIATTAN-JuSt by way
of giving the depression a boost, the
Manhattan laid off SO stewards be-
fore she sailed on her last trip.
Some men in the stewards depart
ment are now doing four mems work,
putting in the time from $50 in the
morning until at night, with two
hours free in the afternoon, If 1t
isn't too busy.
They have a lot Of musicians on
the Manhattan. In tourist class
they have six musicians. They play
their instruments and sling hash on
the side. -Four more musicians in
third class sling hash and blow notes
alternately. These ten followers of
the muse get paid stewards wages,
plus S., making a grand total OF $45
month.
The musicians In first class actu-
ally Get paid musicians wages, and
they don't have to play any of the
tables.
Stewards on the Manhattan used
to be privileged to eat the same food
as the passengers. but they've
changed all that. Now they have a
special stew for stewards, made up
of left-overs and scraps from the
salons. If ever o ship needed or
ganization, it's the Manhattan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-05
FARM BILL IS
SUPER -SALES TAX
Jones Act to Hit at
Masses, Aid Trusts
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
LEMARS, Ia, Jan. "A crowd
of 500 angry farmers manhandled
an insurance company attorney on
the courthouse steps today when
he sought to foreclose a farm mort
gage, then assembled all the law
yers in the city and obtained their
promises not to bring foreclosure
actions before Feb. 10.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The first
step to put across what one con-
gresham described as a ''monstrous
super sales tax" disguised as farm
relief" was taken yesterday when
the Jones parity plan" bill was re-
ported favorably to the House by the
Agriculture Committee. The bill,
which has the active support of
Governor Roosevelt, who pretends
to be opposed to a sales tax, will be
discussed tomorrow, Friday and Sat
urday in an effort to rush it through.
Affects 4 Commodities.
The Jones bill affects four COM
moditieS, wheat, cotton, tobacco and
hogs. 1t provides that the prices of
these farm products, which the crisis
has driven far below pre-War levels,
be brought up to pre-war figures by
making the professor (manufactur-
err pay the difference. However, the
bill contains no provision for pro-
tecting the consumer, which means
that the higher prices on these pro-
ducts WI most certainly be passed
on to the millions of city workers
plus the extra profits that the trusts,
commission merchants and other
middlemen are sure to rake in. In
the case of cotton, this farm relief"
will boost the price of clothing, and
ultimately all commodities will be
affected; in other words, the farm
ers, as well as the workers, will be
forced to pay higher prices.
Must Reduce Acreage.
Moreover, the bill provides that
even this fake farm relief" is con-
ditional on the farmers reducing his
acreage or production. by 20 per cent
this while millions are starving for
lack of food.
The Jones bill is a Wall Street
bill. 1t is in sharp contrast to the
legislation demanded by
the militant Farm Relief Conference,
which would raise farm
prices for the exploited farmers at
the expense of the, trusts without
increasing the cost to the consumer.
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SKILLED HOLDERS
AT 81 PER WEEK
And They Are Mem
bers of AFL Local

NEW YORK.-A few months ago
the General Bronze Corporation of
Long Island hired a number of
molders. They were told that they
would be paid "if the job will be
profitable" They were told that the
more profit the company made the
more wages they would get.
The result Of this was that these
molders, skilled mechanics, who
few years ago received as high as
SOL for A hours, got SO and "a for
54-hoT week.
Officials Sabotage Strike Action.
These molders are members of Lo-
cal 81 of the Molders' International
Union, affiliated to the American
Federation of Labor The workers
decided to strike, but, according to
the constitution of the Molders' In
ternational, no local has the author
1ty to sanction any strike, only the
International officials.
But months went by and in the
meantime Mr., Polachek, the boss of
the General Bronze Corporation,
hired scabs. AS a result of the
sabotage policy of the union Off
Gals, conditions today are Just as
rotten as before in the biggest bronze
factory of the United States.
Support Strike Fund.
The Metal Workers Industrial
Union is carrying on an organiza-
tional campaign amongst these work
ers, preparing for struggle for higher
wages and shorter hours.
In order to enable the NJ. w. I Z.
to carry out its task, it is the duty
OF every member of the union. and
sympathizers of the union, to helm
the collection of the $1,000 Strike
Fund better than up to now. One
member Of the union, Brother OLA
nesian, collected $40 himself. If all
the members Of the union will follow
ms example, more than the $1,000
will be collected in very short time.
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organized one hundred percent.
Want Industrial Union.
A good many of the cutters have
still a ranking of distrust and refuse
to join this American Federation of
Labor organization. Many of them
desire an organization composed not
only of the glove cutters but of all
departments from the time the raw
skin comes into the skin mill to be
tanned to the worker who turns out
the finished glove. That is, an in
dustrial union. They feel that a
craft union vii never have any sue
cess in combating the well organized
manufacturers.
Some Work Below Scale.
An industrial union would and
could stop sweatshop practices as
they now exist in both these glove
cities. There are a number of shops
working both day and night and a
number of cutters who claim to be
able cutters who work below the
present wage scale. This is deplor-
able as many of these cutters are
not only scabbing upon their fellow
workers, but are cutting the Threats
Of all the workers in the industry.
Bosses Want Is Per Cent Cut.
1t is widely reported that the man
ufacturers have stated that they
want a fifteen percent reduction.
This is not officially reported as yet
but the glove workers committee has
stated that the same has been asked
by the manufacturers. Tt is very
doubtful whether the glove cutters
will accept the cut. A very bitter
feeling exists between the glove cut
tiers and the glove manufacturers.
Time Ripe for Struggle.
The leather workers consisting OF
the employees of the skin mills and
tanneries are and never have been
organized. The glove cutters are the
highest paid and should they take
a reduction the other workers in this
community will also receive a reduc-
ton. Now is the time that an indus
trial union should be organized. The
moment has arrived when such Or
ganization should lead in a clear cut
workers struggle.
Big Percentage Unemployed.
Mayor G. G.. w. Green, who calls
himself a liberal, has stated that
one out of every twenty families is
now receiving relief in Gloversville
and that it would not be surprising
if one out of every ten families were
compelled to call upon the city for
help before long.
The local paper states that SOL
pieces of property will be hold for
taxes and that this is more than
double the largest number ever listed
at the end of the fiscal year, in
Gloversville.