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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
CARPENTERS MEET
HITS WAGE CUTS
District Council Gets
Demands Tonight

NEW YORK.-A program of strug-
gle for the improvement of the con-
ditions of A. F. of L. carpenters was
overwhelmingly endorsed at a recent
mass meeting Of 1000 carpenters. The
meeting was called by the Inter
local Committee of Brotherhood To-
Gals 2090, PIT and 1164 A committee
Of 80 elected at the mass meeting
will present the demands adopted by
the rank and file carpenters before
the Carpenters District Council at
its meeting tonight
Widespread unemployment exists
in the trade at present. No effort is
being made by officials of the District
Council to protect the wages of those
workers who still have jobs, and the
union wage scale of $1120 a day is
practically nonresident. Fines are
imposed on workers reporting cases
where the wage scale has been slash
ed, while at the same time the Dis
trict Council is introducing several
different scales of wages for inside
and outside carpenters, attempting to
divide the carpenters ranks. Union
officials are fighting the activity OF
the rank and file for unemployment
relief and insurance.
Demands adopted by the rank and
file carpenters include the Inaugural
ton of independent strikes on jobs
where the union scale is cut, the
abolition of the working card sys-
tenn and those bylaws and trade
rules which stand in the way of es-
tablishing real union conditions and
interfere with the rights of the mem
bers. Other demands are for equal
wages for upstate carpenters who
are getting lower scale, the lower
ing of dues and per capita tax tC
the General Office and the exemption
of unemployed from dues with full
rights of membership retained. En-
dorsement Of the federal unemploy-
ment insurance bill as proposed by
the A. F. Of L. Committee for IN
employment Insurance, demands for
the enforcement of a city public
works program and for city relief fol
all unemployed members will also be
presented to the District Council by
the Committee. All carpenters are
urged to back up these demands by
attending the meeting of the District
Council tonight.
In order to extend the fight OF the
carpenters to all sections of the build
ing trades, a meeting of all building
trades opposition groups is planned
for Sunday, April 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14

, 'egal status under the Temporary
Emergency Relief Law, though he
has been fighting for this. right for
some months.
The sob-sister kidded hfu along
told him: You have just what
wanted, but first / will write an ar
ticle on your activities here"
Then the News published, Dec. is.
1882, long garbled account, disre-
garding Thomas evidence and max
ing him out to be merely another
poor homeless man hunting char
ity."
On top Of that, by misrepresent-
ing facts as to how long he had been
at a certain relief flop house, the
way was opened by The News for
a bitter answer to Thomas, which
The News published with surprising
quickness in its Voice Of the People -
making out Thomas to be some kind
Of liar.
Since that time Thomas has tried
in vain to get any retraction of the
mis-statements published by The
News.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14

against the illegal Communist Party
which the government charged with
melting the revolt. The Communist
Parties, in both Peru and Colombia,
are leading the masses in anti-war
demonstrations, strikes, etc. In Lima,
Peru, government troops carried out
Ia bloody massacre of anti-war work
ers and students about two months
ago. Over 5000 anti-war fighters
are in the jails of the Peruvian bour-
geoisie. Several mutinies have also
occurred in the Colombian forces dur
ing the past six weeks.
Wall st. Instigated War.
The Wall Street imperialists are
the main instigators of the war be-
tween Peru and Colombia as of that
between Paraguay and Bolivia The
two wars reflect the fierce struggle
of the U. S, imperialists against their
British rivals for the control OF South
American. markets and resources.
To the horrors of the two unde-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
MOVE TO SPREAD
HOTEL STRIKE
Out for First Time, But
All Stand Fast

NEW YORK. Thirty three strikers
in the laundry Of the Hotel Com
modore have set themselves the task
of spreading their strike to all other
departments.
They used to make S12 for six
days work. They were cut to $40.
Then they were put on a four day
week at SIPS a day, making SIS a
week, and told to do as much work as
formerly in six days.
They struck Friday, drew up de-
mands, joined the Food Workers In
dustrial Union, Hotel and Restaurant
department, and elected a committee
to see the management yesterday.
At 1880 A. M. all were down to the
hotel, and the committee tried in
vain to penetrate the barrier Of house
detectives and additional hired dicks
to see the main manager.
The laundry manager washed his
hands of all responsibility.
The committee finally reported INC
conference" and picketing began at
both the And Street and Lexington
Avenue, entrances of the hotel, with
police hostile and threatening, and
with secondary managers running out
and trying to corrupt one or another
of the individual strikers.
Although few of the strikers have
ever been in such struggle before
they are all showing splendid solida-
rity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14

eat home. 1 get SIS from the relief
every two weeks but how can fam
lily of six OF us live on that? I'm
two months behind in my rent. I
tell you in the last year I've become
ten years older"
Mary Healy, II siegeI St, was an
other of the unemployed mothers
whose son was made sick by the
school food. Living alone with her
two children in an eighteen-doHar a
month apartment she receives only
a food ticket from the Home Relief.
How do you manage to pay the
rent" she was asked by the Daily
Worker reporter. "Rent?" she said,
I'm three months behind in that
and the landlord is plenty steamed
up about it,
One of the boys, Charles Albert,
who was met in the home of Herbie
Kerr, a colored boy, living at I
Siegel St., is another of the victims.
He pointed out that "the bread was
mOuIdy in lot of spots and so was
the egg salad but you're poor so
you have to eat it."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
Fought War To Save
The American Homes"
Now Lose Their Own

NEW YORK-A delegation Of six
needy single, and married unemployed
veterans with a representative Of
Post 1911 Workers Ex-service Mems
League, went up to Assistant Di-
rector Kelly of the Department OF
Public Welfare yesterday and asked
him if these men who were nsent TO
fight in the last war ito save the
American homes" shouldn't get relief
to keep their own homes together.
Kelley told them to go 10 the mu-
nicipal flop house.
The vets will not take tits as an
answer and Post 191 is calling q mass
meeting March Is to aid IN prepar-
ing the city wide demonstration
March "a.
The March Is meeting viii be at
8 pm. at Manhattan Lyceum- A
mass meeting at Z pm. in, Union
Square win precede it, and from the
open air meeting, workers viii march
to the Lyceum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
UNION MISLEADER GROVELS
BEFORE ROOSEVELT

NEW YORK.-Licking the feet Of
his master, Andrew w. Armstrong,
president of the New York Newspaper
Printing Pressmen's Union No. 2,
sent a letter pledging his support to
Roosevelt and the latter's banker
program of starvation and misery for
the working class and small home
owners. Armstrong is the agent of
the notorious George L. Berry, preSi-
dent of the International Printing
Pressmen & Assistants Union of
North America, who broke the strike
of the New York. newspaper press
men in 1922.
Armstrong; grovelling letter to
Roosevelt reads in part:
"On behalf of this organization, of
which have the honor to be presi-
dent, we pledge to you, our President
OF the United States, that We will
assist in any way that you may direct
US"
Mr.. Armstrong, Of course, didn't
bother to find out how the workers
in Ibis" union felt about backing the
scrip President.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
Wife and Babe Of JObless Negro
Worker Die in Harlem Hospital

finally left the hospital after a pc
Eceman had been called to detain
him.
DOdging the Blame
The white doctor in charge, after
the blood poisoning had set in, try
ing to place the blame elsewhere,
asked Cummings, Did your wife ever
stick her finger with pin?'
Two other children are let Of the
family, Arlene, 10 months old, and
Julia, 2 years Cummings, an cleo
trician. has been unemployed four
years. The family live in q cellsr
room for which they pay $50 a month
out Of the $40 month given them
by the Home Relief Bureau.
Coed Doctors Fired
These deaths come at the height
of a terrific struggle against the
Tammany Hall system of discrimi-
nation against Negro doctors, nurses
and medical workers in the Harlem
Hospital, and experimenting on Ne
gro patients by white doctors The
Harlem Hospital known to the
4 PCOll4C Vi L1dIlCAll do blAC AAulAldL
/ butcher shop" receives the sanction
Of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peoples
/ officials.
Meeting Thursday
The Peoples Committee Against
Discrimination in Harlem Hospital
which meets Thursday night at Laf-
ayette Hall, 165 West 131st ST., al
8 pm. has issued a protest against
these deaths
The Daily Worker will publish a
series of articles, exposing the misery
Of Harlem children, showing how
thousands of workers children in tbs
heart OF the richest city in the worIt
die of starvation and injuries due t.
Overcrowding and poverty. The serie:
starts tomorrow!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
SchWab, Here From
Scai,;Hlsbu.o Trial, to
StsiIsak OnSatur day
w iif glll:.f ell. fff Case At
7 1slamun4 of Paris
= celebration

NEtY. YORK sIrying Sclwab, who
: with George w. Chanlee- and Carol
King. u u tgned IN the Alabama court
last wick for a change of venue for
the new Trial of the nine framed-ap
ScottsbQrQ bots. wired The Interna-
tionaJss r5abor Defense today that he
left E4ab8lna and will reach this city
in time Ito speak at the. Paris Com
munsS jrts' ORC Day which the N.
Y. DfstIcrI Z. D. will hold Saturday,
March, 9Th 8 psin al st. Nicholas
AreiiT., fr5sth st: and Broadway
As9Tspf asentatfye of the I. L. D.
schWssb.IfaT been. connected with the
Scottsppro case since it's beginning
He 81, .struii1ental in forcing the
AlabaTId authorities to publish a let
ter written BY Ruby Bates in which
she Et1lf ?ysed that officials had
forced ..hss to falsely claim that She
had Been attacked by the Negro boys
At fir Saturday NIGHT meeting
SchTaB RiH make startling revela-
tons bE Ihe latest attempts by At
tornst le8eneraI Knight and Judge
HaWki to have the boys tried in
an afh9sphere~of 1ynch-t terror in or
der 84Facilitate the bosses scheme
TO gee them e4ectroeuted. He viii
also tell Of the latest steps taken by
the IT A9Sto fofce-the Bosses to release
the .fasllffed Negro boys.
Ad84tS1far speakers viii include
WalaofEii nix, NiehaeIr Cold Richard
B. E5Sfeg5 Albert Glassford. Negro
xI-0rkA4tk1S1iad by Now. Work Ctitv TOLL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14

NEW YORK.-"When my two
bcys ccme home from school they
couldn't stand up. They were roll
ing over the floor. Then they start
ed vomiting and ] was so scared !
had to call an ambulance" THIS
is how Mrs. Eidus, of 2l7
Siegel St, Brooklyn, described the
actions of her sons after being poi
soned by the free lunch served
them in Public School 147, Friday.
This is only one Of the eleven cases
of food poisoning reported at Public
School lat, Bushwick and McKibben
St., P. S. 145, Central Ave and Noll
St., and P. S. IA, Bushwick and De
Kalb AYES.
The children were inundated
into eating all the food. Some of
them couldn't stomach the tomato
soup and they are told they either
eat all of it or they get nothing at
all.
Il was forced to send them TO eat
in the school," continued Mrs. Eidus,
mother Of a family Of six, because
I didn't have anything for them TO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
Rush Reports Ali
Making, Shipping :
az War. Munitions


Nbsksf correspondents are the
l.eyes1nfstlie working class. Espe-
cialttcnow must the eyes of the
working class be sharp, now when
heshQeses are rushing forward
theE Nseparations for anew world
slaughter, their, preparations to at
taehpthe, Soviet Union
ReRest at. once every ease of
MUNITIONS production every case
of pARnitions transportation. Put
.the .15warking !. class on guard,
throilgns the pages. Of the Daily
i4Worite6. . Only by constant infor-
mattop.sof the making ahd.~ship-
ngssoS::am,uunitiDn can-lwe build
the 1daiiE struggle against imper-
iaiist5wsr.T gttgc n. y. s..a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
NAILS MUTILATE
MEN AND WOMEN
Eye Witnesses Tell of
Fiendish Torture

PRAGUE, March 15r.iRDetailed in
formation from eye-witnesses return
ing to Czecho-s lovakia from Germany
fully confirm reports of Nazi afro
cities. The Hitler storm troops are
applying systematic terror to Com
muniStS, socialists and member of
the Reichsbanner.
The Nazi storm troops are given
free reign and police have been or
dered not to molest them in their
murder campaign. Goehring has
granted them special status and they
devote their time to kidnapping and
torturing working men and women
and youth.
Men and Women Unsexed
Innumerable instances of the most
atrocious fiendishness are on record
In Friedrich street, Berlin, storm
troops kidnapped working men and
women who were suspected of at
tacks on them. Count Won Helldorf
one of the Observation-Disclosures per-
sonally supervised their mutilation
This is admitted even by the capital
list press, which claims that this prac-
tice of unsexing political enemies is
taken from the Pilsudski regime in
Poland and the white guardistS in
Roumania. In the torture chambers
Hitler'S cut-throats make sadistic at
tacks upon young boys. 1t is this
Count Won Helldorf, head of the fas-
cist storm troops who is slated to
become chief of police of Berlin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
CHICAGO SHOE STRIKE REMAINS SOLID

CHICAGO, nl.-The strike of $50
shoe workers in six shoe factories on
the North Side is in its fourth week
with the strikers solidly on the picket
lines. '-''''+'
The bosses have been unable to get
unemployed to ,scab. ...h'.....
The bosses have told workers they
will move out of town and that they
would give up business. These lies
were exposed when truck loads Of
material were unloaded at the shops.
The strike for 20 per cent in
crease of pay, after repeated cuts,
appears now to be. successful. The
bosses are weakening and some have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
Bronx Parents Fight
For Food For School
Children, Thursday

NEW YORK.-A demonstration is
organized by the Neighborhood Par
ent Relief of $40 Forrest Ave. Thurs
day at 2 p. m. in front Of Public
School 81 on jackson Ave. and E.
158th St., Bronx.
Unemployed parents of Children
attending P. S. 81, who have been
meeting for several weeks to plan
ways and means of securing better
conditions for their children, sent a
committee and 500 signatures of
neighbors 10 present the following
demands to the principal, Smollen.
4. Free milk and hot lncheons
for the children of unemployed and
part time workers.
2. Warm clothing and shoes.
8. No forced collections from
| teachers on children.
r. 4. Funds to be appropriated
through the Board of Education from
the city treasury.
5. A committee of parents to in
vestigate the food before giving it
to the children.
Although this committee went to
Smollen twice, they achieved no d.
rect results. However, due TO the
agitation carried on by the workers
of the neighborhood, some children
were provided with clothing and
shoes.
At the last meeting at the Wood
stock Library, Forrest Ave. and E
l60th ST., the assembled parents I'M
animously decided on demonstra-
ton. Workers living in the vicinity
can help these parents in their
struggle for their children by par
ticipating.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
LABOR DEFENSE OPPOSES DECATUR AS
TOWN FOR SCOTTSBORO BOYS TRIAL
Center Of Grim mails Who Make Special Practice
of Te1rorzng Negroes

- BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March l3.-
Announcement that fight will be
made to obtain new change of
Venue from Decatur, Morgan
County, Ala, to BiTm ngham, and
charges &C conspiracy between
Judge A. f. Hawkins and Attorney
General Thomas E. Knight to fix
the trial in the rural northern part
of Alabama, the better to insure
legal or eXtra-legal lynching for
the ScOttsborO boys, were made by
the International Labor Defense,
Southern District, today.'N
In move to break down the de-
Tense, it was revealed, Attorney
General knight and Judge Hawkins
offered defense attorneys General
George w. Chamlee, Irving Schwab
and Carol King, to permit change
of the venue to Birmingham, on
: condition they would betray the
defense by dropping their fight to
force the inclusion of Negroes on
the jury 1t was this insistence by
the defense which knight feared
most would Illustrate his legal
lynch plans.
T. Acknowledgement Knight, it was
pointed out, had announced through
the press that he would not oppose
a change Of venue, when the I. L. d
announced it would seek to have the
trial removed to Birmingham. Al
the same time, the I. L. D. said, ir
conference with the defense attor.
neys he told them he would fight
every move they made.
In Scottsboro court, on March 6
he did not oppose the change in it.
self, and this circumstance, COM
bined with the ruling of Judge Haw-
kins, clearly indicated a previous
agreement between the prosecutor
and judge, the 1. L. D. charges.
AS Bad AS ScOttsboro.
Decatur, with a population of 90.
600, l. L. D. officials pointed out. il
the center for gangs of criminal
who infest the railway lines of Ala
bama, and make a special practice O.
terrorizing and beating Negroes. De.
scribed by northern Alabamans as 6
"big Saturday town." it is another
Scottsboro on larger scale.
The defense has demanded that thu
trial be moved to Birmingham, be-
cause there the large Negro anc
white working class population would
make it more difficult for the Whit
bosses and authorities to organic
lynch which, it was pointed
out, would be the work of an hou
to get together in Decatur.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
Police, Hired Gang,
Fail to Stop Pickets
At Leroy Shop Strike

NEW YORK.-Vigorous picketing
marks the fourth week of the Leroy
Auto Radiator Works strike, at 451
Tenth Avenue. Yesterday the boss,
Leroy, called the police and had
James Lustig, organizer of the Metal
Workers Industrial Union, and two
other pickets, Feratti and Tashlik,
arrested. They were Immediately re-
leased.
Leroy has hired the Jim Kennedy
gang of professional thugs to try and
terrorize the pickets. The strike goes
on, and other workers are called to
help picket.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
East New York u. C.
Exposes Relief Head

NEW YORK.-A committee Of Is
workers from the East New York
Unemployed Council yesterday pre-
sented to the Home Relief Buro, at
Ashford st. and Belmont Ave. re-
lief demands, but the supervisor
called the police to arrest the COM
mittee. The workers defied arrest
and addressed the lines of workers
waiting for attention, who backed
them up. Another squad of police
was called, but hesitated before mo-
testing the speakers when they
realized that the sympsthieseof the
unemployed were with the Unem-
ployed Council speakers. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
Brooklyn Dressmakers
Get 6 Cents Per Dress

NEW YORK-Because of miserable
conditions. and .irlplrperable. wage
cuts IN the Br6%ns8i1le- Shops. Mtliefi
have reduced the price for making a
dress to six and eight cents, the
Needle Trades WORKERS Industrial
Union has placed a full time organ
r at sos Cleveland Street, the. East
New York Workers Club, The place
will be open from. ten in the morning
till six at night. All ,dressInakers Of
Brownsville are urged to bring in
their complaints regardless Of whe-
Their one is a member of the Union
or not. There is a possibility of plac-
ing unemployed workers. In order to
improve conditions in shops, it is nee
essary to have strong workers
union,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
Detroit Natl Guard
in ''Riot'' Training
Ry, a Worker correspondents

IBy3a Worker CorFespondent.f 4
DETROIT, Mich. THE ls2nd
Field. !, artillery. National Guard,
Detroit, have been given the fol-
lowing orders: ssss, X -tys
H. That any member who is
wording, must communicate. with
his home twice daily.
g. All unemployed members
when SO notified must be at their
Headquarters within $50 minutes;
they will, In case of no transport
tat,on, report to the nearest police
headquarters. These will in turn
take care of them. s
This regiment is undergoing RIOT,
training. As farfas we can find;
out, two compa MES have been is
sued with As pistols. .SoIneth,ng'
resembling pick '.hanules, win be
used also. 1 III. nj.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
2 More Rent Strikes;
s Organized Houses

NEW YORK.-Tenants of eight
other organized houses on Charlotte
ST., are calling workers to picket the
two latest rent strikes. These strikes
are at 1919 and 1905 Charlotte. Ten
ants demand reduction Of rents, and
recognition of house and block COM
mittees Leadership is by the house
committees, the 1900 Boston Road
Unemployed Council branch, and by
the Charlotte st block committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
LONG ISLAND. WORKERS. JOIN
FIGHT TO FREE CLASS WAR
PRISONERS 10

GLEN COVE, L. L. March 49,
Morgan, of the New York district Of
the International Labor Defense
reused an audience of workers to en-
thusiasm for the struggle to release
all class war prisoners while speaking
at the newly opened headquarters Of
the Warren Billings Branch. At the
close of the meeting a number in the
audience joined the local branda Of
the |. /. D.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

ed a doctor and told him the Wo-
man was Unconscious. "O0. no. sho
isn't replied the doctor and to prove
it shook the dying woman by the
head But there was no response.
The doctor walked away. Three
minutes later she came 10 Cum
minutes later she came to. Cum
alings was told to leave. An hour
later she died.
Cummings tainted when he was
told Of the death and when he awoke
found himself strapped to a table.
He insisted upon being released and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
LABOR UNION MEETINGS
Millinery WORKERS

MILLINERY WORKERS
Millinery Workers Mass Meeting at $50
p. M, March l4th at Bryant Hall.
OFFICE WORKERS
All Emergency Work Bureau workers are
called to mass meeting p. m. March IA
at Labor Temple, $40 f. l4th ST., room
80 by the Office Workers Union. Plans
for protest against wholesale firing now
going on.
FUR WORKERS
All fur operators meet March "a, right
after work at Irving Plaza Hall.
HOTEL AND RESTAURANT WORKERS
Very important meeting Hotel and Res
taursnt Workers, March Is, at p. m, at
west 18th Street.
LAUNDRY WORKERS
Laundry Workers Industrial Union meet
ing evening of March Is at $50 E. 138th St.
UNDERWEAR WORKERS
All underwear workers are called by the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union
to meet z pm. March IS, sixth floor at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14

clared wars, the Bolivian puppets of
Wall Street, have now added that of
poison gas, imported from the US,
which was used yesterday for the
first time in the Gran Chaco region
by the Bolivian command in its at
tack on Fort Alihuata, which they
captured after sharp battle. The
Bolivian offensive is described as the
largest military action since the war
started ten months ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
'War on Reds Cry of
Spanish Fascist Press

MADRID, March 13.-Whipping up
frenzy against the Communists who
have been leading militant struggles
ofrthe Spanish workers, the reaction
afy press is calling for a sweeping
terror campaign against 'the hordes
of Communists who are upsetting the
country