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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Perkins Employment Report Used Conceal the Rising Cost of Lne

ditions the temporary seasonal and
infiational rise in production took
place the rise in production was
much greater than the rise in jobs.
And the rise in jobs was less than
the rise in wages. Wage cutting and
speed-up this was the basis on
which the auto boom" rested.
And as for the million and a half
figure, the actual report shows that
only oil 900 workers were hired in
July-not the 100000 promised by
Roosevelt for the Fall
IN this connection it is revealing to
quote the figures of the American
Federation Of Labor, which is part
Of the Roosevelt propaganda machin-
cry, and which certainly would like
to create the impression that the
Roosevelt program is succeeding in
improving the conditions Of the work.
ers.
In the latest issue of its leading
organ, the "Federationist" the fol-
lowing pin-point increases are given
as the result of the Roosevelt make
job program.
05 per cent for April; 0.3 per cent
for May; 1.3 per cent for June, and
o. per cent for July.
In the face of these figures, it is
we'll to recall that the recent "boom"
in production indicated rise Of SO
per cent in some industries, like steel.
One per cent rise in employment
and 50 per cent rise in production
This gives some measure of what
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Harlem Workers
DenOunce "NeWS"
Lynch Headline
DAILY News" Spreads
Rape Lie in Alabama
Lynch Murder

NEW YORK--A committee of Ne
gro and white workers, elected at an
open air meeting at Lenox and 131st
Street, visited Frank Hause, manag-
ing editor Of the Daily News" rec
emily, demanding that the News
apologize for the vicious headline
which it ran on the Alabama lynch
ing Of the three Negro workers two
days ago.
The headline printed by the News"
was as follows, Alabama. Mob
Avenges Girl in Triple Lynching"
This lying headline is not only a
justification Of the lynching, but also
an incitation to more lynchings. The
managing editor Of the News would
not see the workers committee of
Negro and white workers, saying that
his paper "had meant no harm"
The committee threatened boycott
Of the paper in Harlem If no action
were taken by the editors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Sunset Lamp Strikers
Reject NRA Advice
to Go Back to Work

NEW YORK.-Strikers at the
Mutual Sunset Lamp Co. in Brook
Ign, one of the largest lamp con-
Germs in the country are out on
the picket lines daily. An exper-
fence with the NRA last week con-
WINGED them that the strike is the
only weapon which will force the
employers to come to terms and
help them win better conditions.
A delegation of strikers, follow
ing decision taken by the work
ers filed a complaint with the
NRA.
At the New York headquarters,
they were informed that, since
there were so many strikes, it
would take some time before the
matter could be settled. When
the strikers pointed out that 450
workers were involved and pro-
tested the delay, they were told to
go back to work and the matter
would be patched up later.
The proposal was rejected by
the strikers at their meeting Mon
day and the mass picket line was
strengthened.
A membership meeting of the
Mutual Sunset Lamp Shop is called
for Wednesday at 7:30 pm. at 1856
State St., Federal Hall, Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

ers was greater than In other indus
tries, reports have already come of
thousands of workers who have al
ready lost the jobs which figure so
proudly and prominently in the re-
ports OF the Department Of Labor.
Yesterdays papers reported the loss
Of over 1000 jobs in the Southern tex
tile mills. In the official reports and
in the headlines, these textile work.
ers are counted as having jobs. Ac-
tually, these fleeting jobs have al
ready become myth. And it is sig
niflcant that the increase in textile
jobs was one Of the strongest parts Of
the report, that concealed the weak
ness in other industries.
The same story is true of the other
industries, which, in the report,
served to bolster up the other in
dustries where the crisis Of unem-
ployment has shown no let-up. In
the lumber industry, which showed
one of the largest gains in the last
month, the reports Of the National
Lumber Association already show
that orders and shipments are drop
ping fast, with a consequent piling
up of surplus goods. The lumber jobs
which figure in the Department of
Labor report no longer exist.
In automobile and steel industries,
the decline in production is gaining
force every day due to lack Of con-
sumption.
The figures for the au,o industry,
particularly show under what con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
BY MILTON HOWARD

Z TIE recent scare headlines in all the
capitalist newspapers about the
creation Of over a million and half
new jobs, remind one Immediately Of
the old saw about liars who figure.
They claim to see in the latest re-
ports of the Department of Labor
evidence of remarkable improvements
in the living conditions of the work
ers.
Undoubtedly, there has been an
increase in the number of workers in
certain industries. But these increases
do not at all give the rosy picture
that the Roosevelt government and
the newspapers would have us be-
lieye.
In the first place, the increase in
'ljobs has been confined to only those
industries which have felt the pres
sure Of Roosevelt's imitation program
of the Governments huge war pre-
parations. Major industries, like oil,
electric light, telephone and tele-
graph, and building construction
have either shown only negligible in
creases, or further declines in en-
pIoyment.
in the second place. the figures
spread over the newspapers giving
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

of the A. NJ. E. Zion Church at
ISL W. 1S6th st. Among the other
speakers will be Samuel S. Leibo-
WITT, Scottsboro attorney; James
w. Ford, Negro labor leader; Bob
Minor, Communist candidate for
Mayor Of New York; Mary Craik
Speed, Southern white woman
fighting for the Scottsboro boys,
and Roger Baldwin of the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union.
The meeting is under the aus
pices of the New York District OF
the International Labor Defense,
the National Scottsboro Action
Committee and the National Com
mittee for the Defense Of Political
Prisoners.
Demands will be raised for the
release of the other two prisoners
in Tuscaloosa jail held on the
framed charge of murder; for the
constitutional right of Negroes to
choose their own defense; for the
right of Negroes to serve on Jurles
and for the immediate safe re-
lease of the nine innocent Scots
boro boys.
The National Committee for the
Defense of Political Prisoners has
communicated with prominent lib
erals asking that they send state
ments condemning the lynchlng TO
be read at the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

bears nose, and which, this eye
ness insists, couldn't disrupt CfA-
lotte Russo, Primo Camera is brA
at his old tricks.
Monday he was supposed to demoA
ish Jack Renault, the Canadian mus
scum piece, in four-rounder at
Wilkes Barre, but at the last moment
ole Jack was reported on the sick
list You may remember him as the
fellow who refused to take a dive
during Primo's first tank tour.
Instead, Camera put on two-round
exhibitions with frankie Edgren, his
stablemate, and Harold Mays, his
Bayonne sparring partner. The 1,706
paying customers practically hooted
the trio out of the ring.
Camera is strictly bum He
doesn't have enough color to fill
Greenwich Village artists palette, he
can't box his way out of an under
shirt and he couldn't hit a raindrop
in cloudburst. Just how timely this
is don't know, but I had to get it
off my chest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
By dell

failed to rally even after a blood
TRANSMISSION.
Her husband tried in vain to see
her during the seven days of agony.
It was only after the operation that
he was admitted to her presence.
"Her pulse is alright" evasively
muttered the attending physician on
seeing Baron's distress. In answer
to his questions, Baron was told by
one doctor that the baby had been
still-born. Another doctors reply
was that it had lived an hour.
Workers who read the news Of
this young woman's death, caused by
criminal negligence, will add it to
the list of similar deaths which the
hospital authorities have been I'M
able to suppress in the past. They
will continue to call the Tammany-
controlled Kings County Hospital "a
graveyard for the poor"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
West Side Group
Meets; Endorses
Workers Ordinance

NEW York; was very small
room and in it was crowded group
of about IS workers, italian and Eng
lish speaking.
We had all come from an outdoor
meeting at Blocker st. and 9Th Ave.
and had marched IL or IS blocks to
workers home at 634 Hudson st.
1Jnon our arrival we were stopped by
the landlady. She proclaimed that
she could not allow US to go up. We
said we were invited by the tenant OF
the house and in single file we walked
by as she looked on helpless and
exasperated,
And so we arranged ourselves and
the meeting started. We listened 10
the Workers Ordinance read in Eng
lish and italian and unanimously sup
ported its proposals. Two Italian
workers were elected as delegates to
the Conference Against Evictions and
Relief Cuts to be held on August ID,
at Irving Plaza.
In the midst of the discussion a
worker from the house came in and
told us that the landlady had called
the police. Instantly there was a pro-
test that we were orderly and peaceful
and the police had no authority to
eject us.
Three police appeared with the
landlady and the tenant of the apart
ynent went ont to meet them While
the pickering went on in the hall we
finished our meeting and simply and
quietly we left, richer and stronger
than we had come in friendship
and solidarity. The Downtown I'm
employed Council had laid founda-
ton for the building of an organiza-
ton here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Neglect Claims Life of Young
Mother at Graveyard of Poor

NEW YORK. "a graveyard
for the poor"
That is what workers call the
Kings County Hospital, at 451
Clarkson St, Brooklyn.
The accuracy of the title was
proved again when Ida Baron, rs,
formerly an operator, was buried
on Monday from SAT Belmont
Ave, after a fatal Caeserian oper-
alton performed ON her at the hos
pital.
Ida Baron entered Kings County
Hospital, Ward c II, on Aug. T.,
in the happy expectation of be-
coming mother. She was allowed
to remain in labor for seven days,
before the Caesarian operation was
performed. By then she was in so
weakened condition that she
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
9Th Ave. Bus Co.
for Company Union
Fire 6 When Workers
Start Real Union

NEW Y0RK.-Six workers were
fired by the Fifth Avenue Trans
portation Co. when the company
discovered that the workers were
organizing a union. A company
union had been organized by the
owners of the Fifth Ave. buses. It
was the kind of company union
where the union" officials were
elected by the company itself. The
bus company did not even pretend
that the workers would elect them.
The workers started organizing
their own union. The company
hoped to stop this by discharging
the active workers, but sentiment
for organization among the work
ers continues,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Two Slipper Shops
Settle With Union
Win 35 Per Cent Raise,
Union Recognition

NEW ORK.-Striking slipper
workers were jubilant yesterday over
the report of the first two settlements
just made by the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union with the
bosses. The shops which settled with
the union are the Durable Slipper Co.
and the True Size Slipper Co. Wage
increases averaging So per cent and
union recognition we're won by the
strikers. By the terms of the agree
ment the wages Of the workers will
be raised by "a and IS above the
original average.
In view of the splendid condition
of the strike, the bosses are spreading
the malicious runor that the Indus
trial Union does not permit the work
ers to return to their jobs after settle
ments are made. The Industrial
Union condemns this rumor as q
falsehood.
The Brooklyn mass meeting Of
shoe and slipper strikers, which
was mistakenly reported for We'd
nesday, is definitely set to take
place on Thursday, Aug. "a, at $3.50
pm. at Arcadia Hall, 919 Halsey
st. Speakers in English, Italian
and Jewish will address the meet
ing. Comrade Fred Biedenkapp,
General Secretary of the Shoe
Workers Industrial Union, viii re-
port on the Washington Shoe Code
Conference.
The Paragon Slipper Co. sue
ceeded In getting a few scabs, but
soon found them too inexperienced
to make slippers and were forced to
send them home under police guard.
No other scabs have appeared at
the shop since then.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
10000 Dime Collection
Week Will End With
Red Picnic and Rally

The several thousand Dime Col
lection Boxes" now out should be
turned in with the maximum col
lections of dimes, the Communist
Election Committee urges in its
latest notice.
The collection began Aug. 10 and
will wind up with the Red Picnic,
Sunday. Aug. III, at Pleasant Bay
Park.
The goal set by the Committee is
10000 dimes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
How You Can Get
the Daily Worker

II you are not a subscriber as
yet, make arrangements to get
the Daily" at the news stand
nearest your home, notifying MS
about the exact address of the
stand or candy-story.
If you wish to subscribe and get
the paper by mail, the subscrip-
ton rate for Manhattan and
Bronx is S1.00 per month; In all
other boroughs-75 cents, and for
three months, 81. Mail money
order or check for the amount to
the Daily Worker.
If you want the paper delivered
to your door by carrier, the rate
is Is cents per week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
LID Branch Protests
Tuscaloosa Lynchings

NEW YORK.--At special
meeting on August IS, the Gilbert
Lewis Branch of the International
Labor Defense voiced it's protest
of the brutal Staying of Dan Pip
pen, Jr., and A. T. Hardin by the
Tuscaloosa lynchers on Aug. 10.
A telegram was sent to Governor
Miller demanding the freedom of
the three remaining Tuscaloosa
victims and of the Scottsboro boys
and demanding the arrest and pro-
secution of Sheriff Shamblin and
Judge Foster.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
City Events
Election Picnic Sunday.

NEW YORK.-Workers and SYM
pathizers of the revolutionary move
ment will gather on Sunday, Aug. q,
at Pleasant Bay Park, where a Red
Election Rally and Picnic will take
place.
Robert Minor, the Communist
candidate for Mayor will speak.
Revolutionary cultural organizations
will perform at big program of con-
certs, sports, games, songs and dane
ing. Admission is only Csc. To reach
Pleasant Bay Park. take the l. R. T.
subway, Pelham Bay line to zerega
Avenue; buses will take the workers
to the park.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Meeting VIII Protest
Tuscaloosa Lynchings

McKEESPORT, Pa, Aug. "a
A mass meeting will be held here
Wednesday night, at 9th and
Water Streets, under the auspices
Of the International Labor De-
tense, to protest the lynchings IN
Tuscaloosa and demand arrest ana
death penalty for the lynchers.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. a. -
Six mass meetings to protest the
lynching of Dan Pippen, Jr', and
4. T. Harden, in. Tuscaloosa, Ala,'
have been held here in the past
week, under the auspices of the
international Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Speakers Class Opens

NEW YORK.-All speakers of
the Party and mass organizations
in this Section are urged to at
tend the speakers class beginning
Wednesday, Aug. 20, at 2075 Gin
ton Ave, at p. m. for training
for the election campaign.
Comrade Taft will be the in
structor,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
NOTE:

Workers who need assistance in
writing letters about their working
conditions to the Daily Worker, can
come any Monday, Tuesday, We'd
nesday, Thursday or Friday night,
from 7 to 9 o'clock, to the Editorial
Office on the 9th floor. A competent
comrade, member of the Daily Work
er Volunteers. will be on hand to
help.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Shoe Fraction Meets.

A general party fraction meeting of
the Shoe and Leather Workers In
dustrial Union will be held tonight
at p. m. at the Workers Center, SO
East 18th ST., Room 203.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Seamen Enthusiastic
Over "COrnOre" Strike

NEW YORK.-Great enthusiasm
attends the strikes of the Diamond
Cement, and the Cornore in Boston.
The seamen on the New York
beach are talking about these
strikes, and saying that's what we
need here" Enthusiasm and de-
mands for action are higher than
at any time since the thousands of
seamen, led by the Waterfront I'm
employed Council stormed the Sea-
mems Church Institute last sum-
mer, demanding relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Iron Workers Protest
Wage Cutting Scheme

NEW YORK--Bridgemen, iron
workers and riggers protested today
against the action of the State In
dustrial Board, which is reclassifying
so per cent of the ironworkers as
helpers. Ironworkers report that by
this method widespread wage-cuts
will be imposed on the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

The point may be well taken. At
the time the construction struck me
as well-turned and I typed it out as
naturally as it occurred But it's
mistake to object on the same grounds
to the sentence that Babe Ruth not
only hasn't knocked Karl Marx out
of the box but doesn't even have
him bearing down." Those are
Broun's phrases, by the way but
dramatically and journalistically I'll
stand by them.
That's baseball lingo and. as such,
part of the language of just those
young workers to whom Comrade
Stern refers. If we are to attract
them at all to our program of labor
sports no other medium is possible.
Turn to the sports pages of yester-
days New York Daily News" and
you'll find base-stealing referred to
as kleptomania, home run as cir
un1ambulatory expedition and an UNI
pire's decision as a ukase. And that
same issue of the News" sold 1,400,-
600 copies. reaching probably 3,0O0,-
900 readers, at least half of whom
turn to the sports pages first thing
in the morning. When we reach
ons-tanth the young workers Mr..
Gallicos pages do, we'll be doing fine
why didn't Newhouse expose Hey
wood Broun as the enemy of the
working class who is being paid just
to knock the Daily Worker in all its
branches?" writes Comrade Stern.
Does Newhouse know that Broun is
openly supporting the MIRA, to-
gether with Grover Whalen?"
Further demands to expose Alice
Hughes and the Scripp-H Howard pub
locations follow.
That's the sort of thing we've been
doing all along and it hasn't gotten
us far. Indiscriminate Jumping to-
gether Of everything we don't like
will never do the trick. One thing at
time. Broun had a number of
things to say and we answered
specifically, at the same time briefly
pointing out few political implica-
tionS of his attitude. There isn't
very much more you can do in a
daily paper, and that's no apology.
AN UPPERCUTTER CUTS UP
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Platemakers Answer
Strike Call 100 Percent

NEW YORK.-At a meeting
held on Monday, August 21st, the
platemakers enthusiastically de-
cided to stay out on strike as long
as will be necessary to win their de-
mands which include: abolition of
piece work, 35-hour week, no dis
charges, unemployment insurance
funds and other important union
demands. The strike is led by the
Needle Trades Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Carpenters Meet Tonight.

A mass meeting OF carpenters will
be held tonight at 7;30 p. m. at
union headquarters, 800 Broadway.
The meeting will discuss the wage
code for carpenters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
1900 AT sCoTTsBoRo MEET

CLEVELAND, Ohio-More than
1880 Negro and white workers at
tended meeting here at woodland
Center to hear Mrs. Ada Wright,
mother of two of the Scottsboro boys,
and Ruby Bates, star defense witness
in the Decatur re-trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Building Maintenance Workers
Meet.

A regular membership meeting of
the Building Maintenance Workers
Union, will be held tonight at 8 p.
m. at the Finnish Workers Hall, Is
West 126th St, Room B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Inning by-Inning Scores
AMERICAN LEAGUE

FIRST GAME R n e.
Boston 100 900 900 l. II
Chicago 010 402 ok 8-15-0
Rhodes and Ferrell; Lyons and
CRUDE.
End GAME
Boston 900 900 900 0-6-9
Chicago 101 oil COX 4-s-1
Brown and Gooch; Heving and
Berry.
Washington 900 oil 3O3 8--15-O
Detroit O10 102 O33 IO-tI2
Weaver, Russell, Crowder, Thomas
and Sewell; Sorrell, Fischer, and
HayWorth
New York 600 200 oil 49,
Cleveland 600 020 0lo $40
Gomez and Dickey, Jorgens; Har-
der and Spencer
NATIONAL LEAGUE
r III E
Pittsburgh 100000 100000 4-10-1
Boston 100000 200 000-01 s. IL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
&&EA0lS7t&|
Big Words
BY EDWARD NEwHoUsE.

veteran worker correspondent writes dpong
rejonder Haywood commentary
this column He the acay
vocabulary which workers of
The phrase "excruciatngly IS ..ar-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
ATTORNEYS DRIVEN FROM
TUSCALOOSA WILL SPEAK
AT LYNCH PROTEST MEET
James Ford, Bob Minor, Leibowitz Are on List
of Speakers at Thursday Meeting Here

Irving Schwab, International
prevented by Judge Foster from defending Dan
the chief speakers memorial meeting
Thursday night victims of the lynch mob in Tuscaloosa
The meeting be Thursday the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

Newark at Albany postponed, rain.
Baltimore at Jersey City postponed. rain,
Montreal at Rochester postponed, rain.
Toronto at Buffalo. mite game.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

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Don't forget the International Labor De-
Tense Excursion. "AH day on the Hudson, ("
on September 3rd. Be there with all your
friends!
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Standing of the Clubs
AMERICAN IEAfsyrr

Chicago at New York postponed, rain.
Cincinnati at Phila. postponed, rain.
St. Louis at Brooklyn postponed, rain.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
AN UPPERCUTTER CUTS UP

After developing the terrific right
uppercut which was supposed to have
knocked Sharkey colder than a polar
Evening star., 1933-04-28

sweeping kaleidoscope view-fom morning till night
the frocks fashon-wse women will be wearing from now
onseersucker organdy with ncongruous but chic vve-
teen swaggerengh coats over rocks with tre-
mendously new look-piqu details, that we found we
cannot do without epaulets pufed sleeves capes. tray
shoulders everything to broaden shoulders and make
hips so sm-paid mousselne de sole and chifons that
make one look as though one might float off moon
beam on Summers night-new fabrics, some that will
not spot although caught in shower-and prints-and
more prints Can you not see i-and do you not like it?