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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Give Billion to
Bankers In GuiSe
Of DeDOsitors Aid
Bolster Stocks and
Bonds for Bankers;
Gyp Depositors

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16-Under the
pratext of 'liquidating bank depos-
its" in the thousands Of closed banks,
the Roosevelt government is pouring
$1000, 100000 into the pockets Of the
bankers to protect their frozen Sc
curitiss.
Over $4,000, OoO0 900 in depositors'
money is tied up in the collapsed
banks, and even if the full govern
ment subsidy is used to pay off de-
posts, the depOsitors will get only
Is cents on the dollar.
The capitalist press is trying to
cover the fact that this is an in
flationary move whereby the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation pumps
billion dollars Of government funds
into the palms of the bankers.
According to David Laurence,
Washington correspondent for a
number Of newspapers, the records
of bank failures Of the past so years
show closed banks Fay on the av-
erage Of SIS cents on the dollar. The
Roosevelt regime wants the depos-
itors to accept 25 cents and protect
the bankers from liquidating their as
sets which are worth far above the
Is cents on the dollar to be paid out.
The statement made by Roosevelt
announcing the billion dollar pay
ment to the bankers says: This win
prevent dumping of assets at sacri-
flee prices" The assets are owned
by the bankers, and to prevent them
from being forced to sell them and
pay the depositors more than Is
cents on the dollar, the government
provides the billion. This permits
the bankers to keep their stocks and
bonds and make higher profits on
them at the expense of the deposit
ors. At the same time it keeps prices
on the Wall Street stock market
higher, benefiting all the stock gam
blers at the expense of the bank de-
positors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

union, organized by an eX-pollce
chief after the 1919 strike was
broken, was mot a company union"
The men claim that it is, and refuse
to belong to it any longer. Most of
the longshoremen have refused to
pay dues to the "Blue Book" any
longer but the shipowners are try
ing to hang on TO it.
The strikers refused to allow a
N. r. A. mediator to negotiate the
strike, claiming that it was for rec
ignition of their union, and was not
negotiable.
The strike is in the hands of the
longshcremen themselves, and the
I. l.. A. officials are taking very little
part in it. The officials have made
no effort to carry on direct fight
against the Blue Book, saying that
it would go to pieces if the men
joined the I. L. A. ard refused to
pay dues into the Blue Book.
A rank and file group preciritated
the strike through the issue of a
tCellACO Net4A44le3 LOI q oAlAAS III SulJ-
port of the four men who were fired.
The stevedores were hesitant about
going out, but when the leaflet ap-
peared they struck, This same rank
and file group has been responsible
for the slogan, Smash the Blue
Book" and for the program of Or
ganizing dock committees among the
rank and file, to force a militant
program on the I. L. A. officials.
About fifty white scabs have been
recruited for the strike and are held
in readiness at the Fink Hall of the
Blue Book union. Negro longshore-
men in Oakland, across the bay
from San Francisco, refused to scab
on their white fellow workers.
So far the I. L. A. officials have
done nothing to prevent the recruit
ing of scabS, or to spread the strike
to other docks. The strike will
probably spread after a meeting Of
the I. L. A, at which this question
will be voted on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

nection with the strike, by its own
open admission, and is gem nelly
hated by the shoe workers of New
York City, where it has never been
able to gain a foothold. Return to
the shops on this basis, the shoe
workers declared today, is unthink-
able, since this would not only de-
feat the strike but would drive
them back to the same sweatshops.
The shoe strikers answer to
Whalen's announcement was the
massing Of tremendous picket lines
at the 10 shops Of the Board Of
Trade yesterday and a demonstra-
ton at l. Miller's which the police
failed to break up. The strikers
are fully determined not to let this
N.R.A. scab action foist a new form
of slavery upon them, namely the
Boot and Shoe officialdom. They
expressed great resentment against
the latest attacks on their strike
and on their union and greeted the
plans Of the union for another and
bigger demonstration at MIRA.
headquarters at pm. today. Thou
sands Of stdikers are expected to
turn out to protest NR.A. scabbery
and the attempt to force the strik-
ers into the A. F. of L.
The Shoe and Leather Workers
Industrial Union yesterday issued
an appeal to the rank and file of
the Boot and Shoe Union to sup
port the shoe strike and to take
action against the betrayal of the
strike by their officials.
The Shoe Union also appealed to
all workers to aid in the fight to
free Maglicano, Ivanoff, Maloxia
and Duchin, whose cases are now
awaiting a decision on whether an
appeal is to be allowed. In the
meantime the four union organic
ers are being subjected to brutal
treatment in jail, according to re-
ports of strikers who have visited
them. Ivanoff is being singled out
for special persecution for his mill
tant role in the past struggles Of
the shoe workers. Shoe workers and
all other workers are urged to con-
tribute to the defense of the four
comrades and to arrange to visit
them frequently. This can be done
through the union office, n Fifth
Ave.
While the government attacks on
the shoe strike are increasing, the
strike continues solid and the slip
per and stitchdown bosses are be-
ing compelled to ask fod settle
ments. A number of these settle
ments are now being negotiated.
At the same time plans are under
way to spread the strike to the en-
tire stitchdown section of the in
dustry, and many more shops are
expected out including the entire
shop of Jacob and Son.
This week the trial is scheduled
to determine whether the tempo
rary injunctions issued by Justice
Steinhrink to the Is shoe manufac-
tuders are to be made permanent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Hausner's Gangsters
Terrorize Workers at
Local PSI Meeting

NEW YORK.-Continuing his ter
roristic methods of sitting criticism,
Phillip Zausner brought gangsters
into the membership meeting of Lo-
ca 261, of the Brotherhood of Paint
ers, who threatened the life of
rank and file worker Friday. The
member was saved from an attack by
the great number of friends he has
among the workers.
A police riot squad which was
called out found the doors locked
and the gangsters waiting for the
rank and file workers at some other
part of the building.
A member from Local 1011 was fol-
lowed by gangsters on his way home
recently. Workers were compelled to
take him home to prevent an attack.
The reinstatement of the rs left
wingers was celebrated at a banquet
at which Clarence Hathaway, the
editor Of the Daily Worker, was the
principal speaker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

the Russell Sage Foundation
and the Rockefeller Institute.
They have been substantiated
by personal canvass.
Four of the six approached indi-
viduals did not know the difference
between a Brigadier and Major
General. Five did not know how
Charles A. Lindbergs received his
title. Three failed to remember ia
cob Ruppert's rank. All six mispro-
nounced Colonel.
AS you no doubt surmised, this
burst of sober research has been ac-
tuated by Bill Terry's recent assump-
ton Of the purpoe. The thirty-siX-
yearold Boy Manager of the cham
pion New York Giants has been
commissioned Colonel by Governor
Hill McAllister of Tennessee. AL
Memphis turned out for the parade
to celebrate his Homecoming, and the
day was topped off with a real Ten
nessee hill-billy act. The uniform
was still at the t ailor's but the
commission was ready, lettering and
all. Bill took it and uttered three
strikingly appropriate sentiments in
to the microphone.
He said he was glad the Giants
won the World Series.
He said he was grateful to the good
people of Memphis for all they've
done for him.
He also said he would do his best
to live up to the conferred honor.
McAlistsr expressed regrets that
Bill couldn't manage the Memphis
nine. A Nawthener from up hyar
arose and stated Bill was putting
New York on the map.
AT this point I'd like to confess I
"A was one of those who considered
Terry's promotion to manager mis-
step fraught (anybody who doesn't
like this kind of writing can leave
now with danger. The First Base
man Of Coogans Bluff and the lunar
vlsage never impressed me as
VIGOROUSLY bright strategist, and
player-managers flop as a rule.
A devotee of master-minding in
all forms, l shifted at the idea Of
Bills handling a team which Nc
Graw failed to put across. I pre-
sumed his managerial duties Il said
you could leave now would inter-
fere with his customary spryness be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Negro Worker In
Court today for
ScOttsbOrO Protest

NEW YORK.-Harold Lyons Ne
gro worker arrested for being pres
ent at Scottsboro protest meeting
two days after Tammany police had
brutally broken up the meeting, will
come up for trial today in the Grim
inal Court Building, Part 4, at Frank
lin and Center SITS. Lyons is being
defended by the International Labor
Defense. White and Negro workers
are urged to pack the court to pro-
test this outrageous fraine-up OF a
Negro worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Hold Two Painters
In A.F.L. Frane-UD

NEW YORK,-Two painters were
held for the Grand Jury and 10
others were dismissed at the trial of
the Negro and white strikers arrested
last Wednesday on charges of felon-
iouS assault, after having been brut-
ally attacked by gangsters of the
brotherhood Of Painters. The ten
workers who were released could not
even be identified by the scabs who
pressed charges against them. The
two defendants held were Miller,
whose bail was placed at S. 900 and
Angelo, who was held without bail.
Although Attorney Kuntz asked that
Miller be released on low bail as his
wife was expecting baby, Judge
Faro was indifferent.
After the trial, z. Paeal, Brother
hood gangster, was arrested and held
for felonious assault when John
Swire, one of the strikers, identified
him as having attacked and wounded
him on 151st st. Paeal admitted that
he had been sent by the Brotherhood
to work on the job where the Altera-
tion Painters Union had declared a
strike. He was held in $1,000 bail.
The trial is to come up in the Wash
ington Heights Court, 151st and Con-
vent Ave, today.
Philip zausner, secretary of Paint
ers District Council g. tried to bride
John Swires, active member Of the
Alteration Painters Union, a few days
ago with rosy promises if he agreed
to return to the A. F. of L. and help
in strikebreaking activities. Swires
answered emphatically no
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Is Workers Strike
at Salem Broth ars


NEW NOTWITHSTANDING five work.
ers, mSn and women, skilled and
unskillsd, walked out on strike to-
day in the Salem Bros. metal lamp
shop, 122 Center Street, New York.
The workers are demanding IS per
cent wage increases for all those re-
ceiving less than $25; 80 per cent
wage increases for all those earning
more than $25; time and one-half for
overtime; recognition of the Steel &
Metal Workers Industrial Union.
The workers are determined to carry
on their strike until their demands
are met by the bosses; steps are also
being taken to spread the strike to
the other lamp shops and unionize
the trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

hangings in the main session cham
Der and lobbies were easily infiam-
mable.
This testimony fatty contradicted
Police Commissioner Heisig's state
ment, reported in the "Voelkische
Beobachter," Hitler's organ, on Sep
TENDER %, that 'it was specially
disagreeable to van der Lube that
he tried to set the door hanging on
the western side of the session
chamber on fire with a fire-Iighter
but found that the curtain simply
wouldn't burn"
Torgler Identification Falls
The next witness, Seminal, civil
service employee, refused to state
definitely that he ever saw Torgler
and van der Lubbe together, although
the prosecuting attorney and Judge
Buenger vainly tried to refresh his
memory. He admitted that he might
have confused Torgler with other
persons.
Dimitroff: Did you receive the
reward offered for finding the in
cendiaries?"
Sehmal denied this, answering
Dimitroff's other questions by stat
ing that the minutes Of his examina-
ton before trial quote his state
ments falsely"
Dimitroff: Weren't the minutes
read to you before you signed
them?" This aroused the indigna-
ton Of Judge Buenger and Attor-
ney- General Werner. Seminal ad-
n'itted that "the minutes were not
vead TO me-"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Leather Workers
Reject NRA Plans
to Return to Work
rike Is Solid Under
Independent Union

GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y, Oct. 49,
Leather tanneries in Gloversville
and Johnstown have been tied up for
the past ten days with strike of
over 1000 leather workers ORGANIZED
into the Independent Leather Work
ers' Union. The union was organ
lied in the mills, as the workers
realized that working under the Blue
Eagle was not all it was said to be.
In these shops it meant nine hours of
work in 8, reductions in pay and ris-
ing living costs which shrunk their
wages even more.
AS the bosses learned of the grow
campaign of discrimination against
active union members. In the Fulton
County Leather Co., mill employing
about 10 workers, the workers in
the brushing eept. were made to
do work 0 yer again without pay when
an experiment with chemical failed
to bring the desired results and
spoiled the work. When the workers
consulted an active union member in
the shop as to their action and were
told to demand pay for this work the
union member was fired and the shop,
rising to his support, declared a
strike.
This spark started the flame which
later developed into a big struggle
against miserable working conditions
in this company controlled region.
The workers are demanding union
recognition, recognition of their shop
committees and $420 a day for
unskilled labor. Exorbitant prices
here make the cost of living higher
than in New York City.
The local NRA mediation board, on
which Frank Pattern, owner of one of
the leather factories is member, has
stepped into the strike and has de-
cided that the workers return to
work and submit their grievances to
arbitration. But although this is the
first time in the history of Fulton
County that the workers have taken
up the challenge of slavery condi-
tions and have decided to strike, they
see clearly that return to the shops
with no concessions won would be
disastrous to them. They see that
the arbitration proposal is just a
maneouvre to drive them back to the
same conditions.
The workers in Gloversville are
learning rapidly that they can de-
pend only on their own strength and
not on promises of the bosses, mayors
and other officials. Just as in every
other strike, in textile and in coal
they must be prepared for attacks
and other tricks of the bosses to
break their ranks. The bosses will
raise the cry of reds radicals
and Communists to divide the
strikers front. The strikers must
realize that this cry will be raised
because they are fearless, incorrup-
tible fighters, determined not to yield
to the bosses and to continue the
struggle for their demands to defeat
this, they must keep ranks intact
and their strike solid, regardless of
any attempts of the bosses to divide
them against each other and break
their strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
George Crawford
to Face Murder
Frame-Up Charge
Second Time In Week
Impartial Tribunal"
Aids Lynchers

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-The U,
S. Supreme Court ruled today that
George Crawford, Negro worker,
must be turned over by Massachu-
sets authorities to the lynch courts
of Virginia to face a framed-up
charge of murder. The court denied
Crawford's appeal from the Circuit
Court ruling, which had reversed a
decision of Judge Lowell, who o'''--- Il
Crawford released in an opinion
which admitted that no Ncg-J 5..---
hope for fair trial in Virginia
Judge Lowell's opinion created a
great furore in Congress, which is
consistently silent on the violation
of the rights Of the Negro People in
the courts Of the country, but frothed
at the mouth over Judge LOWells de-
cision. Several Congressman even
demanded the impeachment Of Low
ell, whom they accused of wavering
in his class duties before the thun-
derous protest organized by the In
ternational Labor Defense against
the Scottsboro lynch verdicts and
other cases of Negro oppression.
This is the second case within a
week that the U. S. Supreme Court
has upheld the lynch courts Of the
South, the other case being its de-
NAL of the appeal by Yuel Lee, aged
Negro farm hand, framed and SEN
fenced to death in Maryland.
Crawford was defended" by the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People, whose
officials attempted to ban all mass
protests for fear that the lynch
character of the courts would be ex-
posed before the toiling masses, black
and white. The only protest cam
paign was organized and led by the
International Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Shoe Union Protests
Latest SCab Action
OF the MIRA. Today
Demonstration Called
Against Settlement
of Strike by A. F. L.
Bulletin.

WASHINGTON, D. c. - Senator
Wagner notified the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union last night
that mediation of the shoe strike
would be taken over directly by the
National Labor Advisory Board and
asked that a delegation be sent to a
hearing in washington on Friday
morning.
NEW YORK.-N. r. A. maneu-
vers to break the shoe strike having
thus far failed, Grover Whalen
moved to a sharper attack in his
announcement that all striking shoe
shops would open for work with
the settlement" of the strike bv
the Boot and Shoe Union GA. F. Of
L. effected through an agreement
signed by this scab agency and the
Manufacturers Board of Trade on
the basis of the shoe code recently
approved in Washington.
Simultaneously with this an
nouncement an advertisement of
I. Miller and Son appeared in the
New York American, declaring that
this notorious open shop. never
willing to sign up with real union,
had signed up with the A. F. of L.
officials and calling the workers
back to the shop.
By Grover Wha-en's latest "medi-
alton" move, the MIRA. exposes
it's intention to give full protection
to scabbery and strikebreaking. To
the shoe workers the agreement
Just announced is nothing more
than a sham and fraud since the
Boot and Shoe Union has no con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

the Fascists are splashing in the
center Of the European map.
THE prOletarians and toilers OF
Germany are beginning to under
stand where the National Socialist
leaders are leading the country.
Isolation in the sphere Of foreign
politics on one hand; unempIoy-
ment, poverty and starvation of
the toilers on the other-these are
the fruits Of eight months of Fas-
cist rule.
only the German Communist
Party, the sole leader of the German
proletariat and toilers, smashing Fas-
cism will bring that country out Of
this blind alley, VIGOROUSLY breaking
the chains of Versailles!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Furriers' Meet

A general membership IL Of
Furr.ers will be held today. r,gnt alter
work, in Webster Hall. 119 East 18th
st. At this meeting the question Of
the thirty-hour week for the slow
period, which is now beginning. will
be taken up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

ton. In return, it demanded the
right to re-arm. AS imperialist
contradictions were too great, this
transaction couldn't materialize.
Blow to League.
"Gernany's exit inflicts an over
whelming blow to the League of Ne
tions-that instrument for the op-
preston of minor and weaker nations.
For IS years the imperialsts and
their Socialist lackeys have duped
and fooled the workers with the
justice and peace allegedly en-
bodied in the Geneva tribunal.
"Geneva's absolute failure as a
talk-Shop serving as a screen for the
imperialists' plots now becomes evil
dent to scores upon scores of millions
Of toilers in all countries
Germany Stakes All on War.
"Germany's withdrawal is not an
act for the preservation of peace
nor does it by any means lessen
the war menace as the Nazis try
to represent it. This act indicates
that Fascist Germany is stalking
all on the growth of its ornaments.
and that Europe is Balkanized and
that the capitalist world has entered
the path of open preparation for
the new imperialist war.
"Germany's foreign political isola-
ton was never before so complete as
now It's demonstrative exit is also
a domestic political maneuver to find
a way out Of the telling masses grow
ing discomfort with the salvation
promised by the Fascist dictatorship.
with the suffering they have to I'M
dergo, and with the Nazi fiasco.
Stimulating Patriotic Fervor.
TITS exit from the League of Ma
tons and the organization Of new
elections both have one object in
mind-raising a new chauvinist. patri-
otto wave within the country. and
producing something like expires
sion Of the national WILL both of
which are indispensable to German
Fascism right now, at the threshold
OF the fifth starvation winter. and
after its scandalous failures In the
Reichstag fire trial in Leipzig and
Berlin.
The Fascists are striving for a
new re-division of Europe, with the
ann OF establishing a new. predatory
versailles Treaty. For this purpose
ornaments are needed. They wish
an equal share in the imperialistic
plumber of smaller, weak peoples.
Nazi Aims Against U.S.S.R.
Finally, who is ignorant of Alfred
RoSenberg's adventurist plans aimed
at the Soviet Union? The German
capitalist class is seeking a wav out
OF the foreign political blind alley if
mas landed in by means Of a direct
plot with the imperialist powers face
to face ~
They calculate that their with
from Geneva will bring pres
sure to bear upon their former allies
and strengthen the domestic political
position of the Fascist regime, thus
helping it to slip through the fifth
munger winter approaching.
Germany'S exit means the frustra-
ton of the Conference for 'Disarma-
ment and the beginning of open
armament by all the imperialist
powers, including Fascist Germany,
After the withdrawal of Germany
and Japan-the two most militant
Imperialist nations-what remains of
5he League of Nations and the Dis
Conference?
The japanese capitalists are al
'eady waging war against China.
German Fascism also seeks its own
var. Not in vain do the Junkers
md landowners speak Of the Baltic
as the Western Manchuria.'
AUSTRIA is another 'Manchuria which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Meeting of Fur Workers

A general membership meeting of
fur dyers, chauffeurs and helpers is
being called by the Fur Workers In
dustrial Union for tonight, at Man
haitian Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., at
7:30 p. m. A report will be given on
the Washington code conference as
well as other union activities
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Greet Nygard

On Thursday evening, Oct. 10, at
the Hunts Point Palace, 163d and
Southern Blvd, Bronx workers
will greet the first Communist
mayor. All workers are invited. Get
your tickets at 500 Prospect Ave. in
advance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
Sell German Candy or Die" He is Warned;
Nazis Had Smashed Window of Store

NEW YORKA Nazi threat that his that
would killed unless he handled German candies
Morris Rchman cOnfecner 145
obviously
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
All Out in Support Of Shoe
Strikei

Demonstration at N.R.A. offices
at As Broadway at 3 p. M, against
Grover Whalen's move to smash
shoe strike and drive shoe workers
into A. F. of L. Boot and Shoe
Union.