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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
LID Aids Workers
Jailed in Cleaning
Strike in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-When work
ers during the strike of a thousand
drivers and inside help in the clean
ing industry here were arrested, they
Appealed to the International Labor
Defense to defend them.
Through the efforts OF the lid.
tLey were released on bail. Stern,
district organizer of the LID. spoke
at the strike meeting and was en-
Enthusiastically received Ivy the strikers,
who elected him to be a member Of
The strike committee.
The strikers are members of an A,
F. Of L union.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, August o.
Eighteen workers arrested and beaten
up when police broke up demonstra-
ton of unemployed before city hall,
just before last years national Hun
ger March, were released in court
here through mass pressure organized
by the International Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10

ing in swimming, due, he said to the
open disapproval of the white women
students in the pools.
The report states: THE Cosmopol-
tan Club composed of students of all
races and nationalities devoted its
time to discussion of problems Of So
ciety. 1t was only natural that dis
crssion of the position of the Negro
students in society was taken up.
Because Of the free and unrestricted
association of the Negro and white
students established by the Cosmo-
politan Club, the administration
feared that general opposition to
the University policy of discrimina-
ton would arise. In order to stop
such move before it gained head
way, open-air meetings of the Club
were illegalized; the Cosmopolitan
Club was forced TO change its name
to the World Problems Club.
Detectives employed by the Uni
versity have followed the students
and stoppsd Negro students and ques-
toned them when they were seen
ttR44AiAlS W WlllIS IllClIlOtlS VI Vie CluU.
Such is the action taken by the adj
nlinistration against a club which
stands for the equality of all races,
and practices that policy
Student Conference Held
THE Student Conference on Negro
Student Problems held at Columbia
University last April was initiated by
members of the COSMOPOLITAN Club
and the National Student League,
The program and resolutions of the
called for concrete struggle
for the betterment of the conditions
Of students and recognized the fact
that the white students were in a
position to initiate the fight for the
betterment of the conditions of the
Negro students, and for equal oppor-
tunities for all. The World Problems
Club has taken up the fight for the
Negro students at Columbia Univer-
sity in the spirit of the resolutions
adopted by the conference"
AS part of the program of the club
to fight against discrimination in the
university, Gle Clllp is Sponsoring a
symposium Friday, August II, on
(Which Way Out For The Negro?"
Speakers will include George Schuy-
Ter of the Socialist Party, represen-
tatives of the Brooklyn Civic Council,
William Patterson of the I. L. D.,
Robert Minor of the Communist Party
and Donald Henderson, ousted from
Columbia because of his revolutionary
activity. 1t will be held at p. m, at
the McNillin Theater, Broadway and
116th st. Admission is free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
Workers Must Rally Behind Special Demands
Of Youth Against Roosevelt Slavery Pro-
gram; Organize Youth for Struggle

bootlegged back into industry, under
assumed ages. These Illegal work
ers will then of course be forced to
accept much lower wages.
But this is not all. The present
codes also include loop-holes for the
further extension of child el.ploita-
ton. The textile, and many other
light industry codes, speak about
Outside" or "homa" workers These
categories are not included in the
wage and hour agreements. This
means that instead of the younger
children working in the factories for
a maximum of forty hours week
they will work home for ten and Il
hours a day at less wages. This is
not new scheme. Karl Marx spoke
of this in his first volume of Capital
saying:
when women and their children
work at home, which nova days
means in hired room, often in
garnet, the state of things is, if pos
sible still worse. {. The Pharisee
Of a capitalist represented by onc>
of his servants, accompanies this
action, of course, with the unctious
phrase: That's for mother YET
HE KNOWS WELL ENOUGH
THAT TIE POOR CHILDREN
MUST SIT UP AND HELP" (Our
emphasis).
Mr.. Roosevelt also deliberately for
gets that the largest single number
of laborers are to be found in agri-
culture, where they toll from an
carly age helping their parents wrest
paltry existence from the soil. He
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
INDICT PLANTER
OF NY. EXCHANGE
TEAR GAS BOMB
Try to Paint Harvard
Faddist AS Foe" of
Capitalism

NEW YORK. August 9. = The
Harvard graduate and Boston poll
tician Songer Daniel, Jr., who
planted a tear gas bomb in the New
York Stock Exchange last Friday
was indicted today on a charge Of
felonious assault.
The discovery Of the tear gas bomb
was greeted by the capitalist press
with all kinds of mysterious hints
about reds" and bomb plots to over
throw capitalism. Now that the bomb
planter turns out to be an aristo-
crat from the centre of j. P. Morgan's
own university, Harvard, they are
very quiet about the supposed plots
of the reds" But they are still
trying to play Daniel up as a
fighter against capitalism"
The Communist Party has always
opposed the use of individual acts
of terror. The bombing of all the
Stock Exchanges in the world would
not lessen the power of capitalism
over the workers. The Communist
Party leads the working class in
mass struggle against exploitation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
MA With Slick Phrases Speeds Exploitation of and Child Labor

place of adult workers. This can
clearly be seen by a close study OF
some Of the codes. The Dress In
dustry Code, for example, says:
1T is anticipated that shortage
OF experienced manufacturing en-
ployes will result by virtue of the
reduction in hours of labor and the
increased demand for ladies' gar
ments, and in order to absorb a
portion of the present unemployed,
both male and female, provision is
herewith adopted for the hiring
and engaging of learners for the
various crafts among the manu-
featuring employees" (Our en-
phasis).
After one dissects the above para
graph by throwing aside all the op-
tlmistic promises of better business
and more work, the one essential
point remains-the right to hire more
learners. The employers from now
on are going to hire workers, espe-
cially youth, as learners; giving
them the same work, but less paw.
To this end they will fire many of
the skilled older workers and replace
them with learners"
The increased application of the
"speed-up and stretch-out SYSTEM
as already seen in textile, will also
result in the replacing Of old work
ers by young fresh workers under
lower wages.
In other words, these various loop
holes IN the codes are not merely at
tacks on the young workers. but up-
on the whole working class, and as
such must be understood and fought
NOV as to the proposed abolition
OF child labor under Is. Nearly
every code carries this proyiso. Is
this pet proposal of Roosevelt to
abolish child labor under 16. the lib
eral progressive act most people
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
Establish Principle That Young Workers Must
Receive Less Than Adults for Same Work;
Use Trick of apprentices"

including that of apprentices and
learners"
The proposed code for the Soft
Coal Industry says: Exceptions to
these minimum rates are trappers
spraggers, switch throwers, oilers and
couplers." Then further it adds,
Outside workers shall be paid a
minimum day wage Of 81 except for
slate and sulpher pickers." These
occupations are in the main youth
jobs
The Electrical code provides that
all, office boys or girls, learners and
casual employees" shall be paid no
more than 80 per cent of the estab-
lished minimum rate.
WHILE most of the codes for the
!" major industries are careful to
create the impression that the ex-
ceptional clauses will. only involve a
small number of youth, the code for
the Burlap Bag Dealers let's the cat
out of the bag. and shows the real
purpose of these clauses. This code
provides for a general minimum
wage and then calls for a different
ial wage "for apprentices and for
minors between is and 81 years." but
fails to mention this wage. In other
words, it does not stop at appren-
tees or learners, but includes all
youth in this discrimination.
The purpose of all Of the above
clauses on apprentices learners, etc,
is to provide loop-holes for the en-
ployers to hire larger numbers of
youth below the minimum rates, in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
PUSH c. P.
ELECTION
CAMPAIGN
Seek 10000 Dimes to
Aid Work, Boro Meets
Planned Sept. 10

NEW YORK Concrete organiza-
tional steps for the furtherance of
the Communist Election Campaign
in this city have been announced by
Carl Brodsky, manager of the Com
munist Election Campaign Commit
tee.
The principal focal points of the
campaign will be simultaneous Boro
Conferences to take place September
10 in every borough OF the city. These
will lead up to great City-wide
Conference week later.
Activity at present is eentering
around the effort to raise 10000
dimes for the campaign Slogans in
this campaign are: Give a dime
for 100 leaflets demanding unemploy-
ment insurance; 10000 dimes for
the Communist Election Campaign;
and Give a dime in the fight against
evictions."
A thousand letters have been sent
to mass organizations urging them
to help in the campaign by sending
representatives to the campaign
headquarters at Room $50, 7s9 Broad
way, to get collection boxes for the
campaign and tickets for the Red
Rally Picnic, August 81, at Pleasant
Bay Park. These tickets will be
given at reduced price to organiza-
tons.
Volunteers Needed
Volunteers are needed to help in
the office work of the Committee.
Workers who can type are urged to
come to the Office and help. The
loan of typewriters for the duration
Of the campaign are also urged.
Mass organizations are asked to
send in the names of speakers who
will help in the campaign work These
speakers will be sent information
bulletins with material for talks.
More help is also needed for the Re-
search Committee which is in charge
Of this work.
Workers are urged to visit all
registered voters in their districts
and talk with them, urging them to
register Communist for the coming
elections. Registration dates will
be announced later.
Special effort will be made to en-
list women's, childrens and liberal
organizations to do special work in
connection with the campaign.
Forums, demonstrations and par
ties have been arranged to aid in
the work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
STILL DEBATING
CITY SALES TAX
Danger of More Taxes
and Wage Cuts Grows

ALBANY. Aug. a-At present the
state and city are still trying to de-
eide how each can best avoid paying
for unemployment relief. The Sales
Tax program of the city administra-
ton has been met with too much
opposition for its passage to be from
the legislature. Now no one knows
how the city will be able to make
good its promise to the Wall Street
bankers to raise some $35, 900 by
Dec. II.
Further cuts in relief, already cut
to the bone, and more wage cuts Cor
the lower brackets of city employees.
such as school teachers, etc, seem
Imminent. In addition, some new
taxes will certainly have to be levied
if the bankers are to be paid.
The legislature is now trying to de-
eide whether to finally throw out of
court the city tax program. The vote
on it has not yet been taken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
Friday

also says nothing of the hundreds of
thousands of newsboys and other
street vendors
This proposal Of Roosevelt is also
another we'll disguised attack on the
working class.
THE whole working class must help
the youth in thcir struggle against
the above attacks. In every industry
we must demand:
/. Inciusion Of apprentices, learn
ers. cleaners. outside workers, Of
fcs-boys, clerks, and all other youth
in wage agreements, without dis
elimination.
z. Limitation of the number of
apprentices and learners. For a
graduated sliding scale of wages for
apprentices and learners based upon
increased qualifications.
.. Youth doing the same work as
adult workers shall receive the same
pay.
4. Vocational training for chill
dren from IA to 16 years, on the
basis OF full pay, and under trade
union supervision. Government
support for I'll children now work.
ing under IA.
The above demands concretized for
every industry must be included in
the counter proposals Of the revolu-
tionary unions to the codes Of john
son and the A. F. Of L. The masses
of youth must be won through this
struggle for their special demands
into the revolutionary unions and
youth sections
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
Demand Enactment of
jobless Insurance by
Colorado Legislature

DENVER, COlo.-The UnempIoy-
cd Council of Denver demands
that the Special Session of the
Colorado legislature now being call
cd enact into law Immediately the
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill presented by the State
Hunger March last January.
The Council lists Is immediate
demands which the Legislature is
to enact into law. Among these
are, that the impoverished farmers
be exempted from all taxation;
that state chiIdren's relief stations
be established; that immediate
payment of the veterans bonus be
endorsed; repeal of the eviction
law; and all public works Jobs to
be paid in cash at trade union
rates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10

adopted by the state legislature.
The hearing took place Tuesday.
Taking the different bills now be-
fore the special session of the legis-
lature, Mrs. Burroughs explained
that none of them takes into consi-
Iteration the needs of the starving
unemployed. Both the republican
and democratic measures aim to fur
Their raise taxes which will affect the
workers. Taking the proposal OF AS
semblyman Brownell republican, she
said that his bill was only shifting
the control of money raised in the
name OF unemployment relief from
the Tammany tin box to the up
state republican war chest"
Mrs. Burroughs, who is herself a
school teacher expelled for her mil
liant activity, exposed the plot to
further reduce teachers and other
low-paid civil service employees by
repeating the mandatory statutes in
the Civil Service Law. She clearly
indicated that the Communist Party
was the only party that supported
the unemployed and would oppose
any form Of taxes on the necessities
Of life. She then indicated various
sources from which sufficient income
could be raised for unemployment
relief, such as inheritance tax, stock
and bond sales transfer tax, exempt
securities, and taxes on incomes over
SIS 900.
Porper pointed to the fact that re-
lief in New York City has been cut
live times since the Home Relief
Bureau was opened. Now, only IS
relief stations out Of 10 are still
open" he emphasized. The repre-
sentative Of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis presented bills to the senate COM
mtttee for immediate relief and a
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill patterned after the federal bill
presented to congress by the Ma
tional Hunger Marchers last Deem
bsr. A workers public program was
also urged by the delegation.
Porper was interrupted by A. LET
kowitz of the A. F. of L. teachers
union, when he enumerated the
number of A. F. of L. locals which
nave endorsed the Workers Unem-
ploynent Insurance Bill. Lefkowitz
tried to contradict him, that the A.
F. of L. opposed the bill, but he re-
csived the prompt reply that some
goo locals gave their endorsement, al
Though the officials are opposed
to it"
a large delegation from the IN
employed Councils and affiliated or
ganizations will demand a hearing
before the legislature today to press
the adoption Of the program pre-
sented by the delegation before the
senate committee hearings. Tele
grams should be sent to Gov. Leh-
man demanding a hearing by the
legislature.
Headquarters for the delegation in
Albany viii be; E. Levin, Hotel
Capitol, 9 Green ST., Albany, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10

think? Nothing of the sort. 1t is
most reactionary.
Child exploitation exists, not be-
cause parents want their children to
slave, but because capitalist society
so reduces the level of the masses that
parents are forced to send their chill
dren to work.
This Marx pointed out when he
said:
ut was not, however, the mis-
use of parental authority that Gre
ated capitalist exploitation of
cllildren's labor, but on the con-
trary, it was the capitalist mode of
exploitation which, by sweeping
away the economic basis of parental
authority, made its exercise degen-
crate into mischievous misuse of
power"
And this is exactly the point that
Mr.. Roosevelt, the Socialists and lib
erals wish to hide 1t is their jot
to white-wash capitalism which lives
on the blood and sweat of children
We would like to ask these gem
tlemen: Who is going to provide fol
the millions of children who today
are forced to work in industry? How
are workers who will make the glor-
ious wage of $12 and $14 week going
to be able to support their families
of five and six children, especially
under initiation? How will an un-
employed worker do thisP
But MI Roosevelt knows the above
He full well realizes that his plan
cannot and will not abolish child ex-
ploitation. It's real purpose is to
lower the price for the labor power
of children. How is this to take place?
For a short period of time, there
will be temporary exclusion of some
of the children under 16 from the
factories. Then, these same chill
dren, because they must live, will be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10

NCSLO WOllACil III only OIlS Vi Ito 1lFt
dormitories. Here, a special apart
ment on the ground floor is allotted tC
them. Five Negro students occupy
this apartment at present.
At johnson Hall, under the iurisdic-
ton of the Columbia University grad
uate school. only six Negro girls have
been admitted They are segregated
on the sixth floor where the officers
live, so that they might not Offend
the white students.
The majority of the hundreds OF
Negro women students attending the
university come from out of town
When they apply for dormitory rooms
they are referred to the Harlem Y
w c. A. many blocks away.
DR.. Del Manzo, Acting Dean OF
Teachers College freely admitted this
discrimination in assigning rooms.
Jim Crow Job Office
Similar discrimination applies in
the employment of Office workers and
teaching staff in the university In
vestigation by the World Problems
Club indicated that out of the 1000
Office workers and $500 members of
the teaching staff, no Negroes had
been hired.
Mr.. Gentzler, Secretary of Appoint
mentS for Columbia University, said
that he had always been asked for
white students to fill University white
collar positions
Clyde r. Miller Director of the
Bureau of Educational Service at
Teachers College, said that there
were no Negroes employed in the
white-collar jobs at Teachers College.
Clyde R. Millers pamphlet, Seven
Factors in Getting a Position" in sec
ton six on Elements of Prejudice, "
states" Similarly, the Bureau de-
plores the existence of other racial
prejudices, etc. 1t believes nothing
is to be gained by denying their ex-
istence; on the contrary, facing and
defining these prejudices is essen
tial to give applicants needed warn
ming and to attempt to end I'M
reasoning and unjust ldiscrimina-
tion.''
Social Life Restricted
The report of the club continues:
Although there is not an official
restriction on participation in social
life for the Negro students, they are
discouraged from mingling freely with
the white students and are not made
welcome at dances.
"Dr. Jesse Williams, Director of
Physical Education, said than, al
though there was not an official ban
on Negro women students entering
the swimming pool they did not avail
themselves of the opportunity of 60
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
NEGRO MURDERED
DEFENDING WIFE

NEW YORK.-Ronia Curese, a Ne
gro worker, was shot and fatally
wounded by police officer in Eu-
faula, Alabama, August l, because he
objected to the cops beating his wife
who refused to respond to his ad-
vances, according to a letter received
here by the International Labor De-
tense from a worker there.
Curese, when he objected, was ar
rested, taken to the courthouse,
handcuffed, beaten with a chair, and
shot twice. He died on August Q. No
action has been taken against the
murderer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10

1t was an Orphans Holiday at the
beach.
There were exactly los children in
the party. And real happy they
were to escape from the prison like,
lettering atmosphere of the Pride of
Judea Home, 992 Dumont Ave-, in
the Brownsville section of Brooklyn.
No Adirondack or Maine summer
camps for them-but the crowded
beach of Edgemere( in the Rock
Always. But even this was fun COM
pared TO the semi-reformatory in
which they lived -. a rerormatcry
even if it was called the pride of
Judea Home"
Arriving at the beach after the
long subway ride from Brownsville,
the children-laughing and shouting
doomed their bathing suits and
lsaped into the water.
Forty children Of the los in the
party were on a sandbar at the beach
when heavy wave swept them off
into deep water. Underpaid and
harassed lifeguards learning their
tuition for college, leaped after the
kids-but seven orphans disappeared
in the swirling waters before aid
could come to them.
Yesterday the hunt for six of the
bodies was still On.
ut was an unfortunate accident"
District Attorney Charles p. Sui
livan of Queens said blandly yes
terday. MY talk with the super
visors of the orphanage will be
perfunctory.'
1t was an Orphans Holiday at a
crowded beach near New York,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
500 Demand Rights
for Negroes in Conn.

WESTPORT, Conn. - Over 500
workers attended an open air meet
ing here called by the International
Labor Defense to demand the en-
forcement of the Bill of Rights re-
Gently passed in Connecticut, which
provides that all public places must
serve all customers alike regardless
Of race and color.
State troopers charged the meet
ing after it had been in progress
about Is minutes, but workers re-
sisted the attack and the meeting
continued. N giStk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
Caused Drowning of
Z Orphans, L1eguard Says
Still Hunt Bodies of Children Swept Into the
Ocean During Rockaway Outing

NEW YoRK-"You would think" Block, of
the eguads at Edgemere
ed on Mndayyou would think that
bringing
to ask the mguard where
that would have told them the
bathing guards that
section to protect the children"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
WHAT'S ON
TkursdaY

LECTURE, THE INTELLECTUAL MOVES
EFT" by Eli B. Jacobson. ct Pen & Ham
ner, ia w. 21st ST., at $3.50 PM
LECTURE, THE IMMEDIATE WAR
DANGER" by Prof Oakley Johnson at
West Side Meeting House. $50 w. 10th ST.,
near Broadway Admission Toe Unem-
ployed free. West Side Branch F. S. U.
Our hall is cool.
OFFICE WORKERS MEET at $40 E. i4th
St, Labor Temple, at 8 pm. sharp. I'm
portant matters to be taken up, AL urged
tn attend.
Friday
PARTY, DANCE, movies, Film Photo
League. 200 ro-t 49, ST. Good time prom
Used. Bring friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
PRESS WORKERS DEMANDS
BEFORE ALBANY HEARING
Burroughs, Communist Candidate, Speaks;
Mass Delegation to Ask Hearing Today
Demand Legislature Receive Group

ALBANY, N. Y.-Nrs. Winana
the Councils affiliated organizations
renhment committee
immediate relief
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
COLUMBIA is jim GROW
INSTITUTION, REPORT OF
STUDENT CLUB CHARGES
World Problems Club Gives Evidence; Calls
Meeting on Campus This Friday Evening

NEW YORKCharges that the administration
maintained consistent policy of crowm and discrimination
students
ton, yesterday.
organization indicated that Teachers College admits