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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
ToPlan Unemployed
Relief Campaign at
Pittsburgh Meeting
Jobless Organizations,
y Mons Invited to
Sunday Gathering

PITTSBURGH Pa. Oct. I'm
the very center of the mine and
steel workers struggles a conference
has been called to rally the widest
support" of employed and unem-
ployed in campaign for immediate
adequate relief for this winter and
in support of the national campaign
for the enactment of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
despite all talk of pickup and
prosperity" states the conference
call, cover $1,000 families are on
the relief lists in Allegheny county,
and tens of thousands throughout
western Pennsylvania"
In the great struggles in this
territory, the strikers are finding
the solidarity of the unemployed an
important weapon. In the Walworth
Foundry strike in Greensburg, Pa,
jobless workers picketed together
with their fellow strikers and
thwarted all schemes to break their
ranks.
The conference to which delegates
from unemployed organizations,
trade unions, youth clubs, women's
auxiliaries, Negro organizations and
all organized groups are invited
will be held Sunday, Oct. Is, at 10
am, at Labor Lyceum 805 James
St., N. S., Pittsburgh.
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of many strikes now going on there
is seen to be little if any difference
in the sentiment of the workers in
volved; in their attitude toward A. F.
of L. officials and policies; in regard
to mass methods of strugg.e, eSti-
mates of the MIRA. codes, ETC., no
matter to which organization they
are formally affiliated.
The craft union leaders Of the boil
ernakers, blacksmiths, machinists
ETC., and to some extent the electrical
workers, although they are today
more Of a building trades organiza-
ton, feel that they are fighting
against the tendency to engulf them
in a rising wave of industrial organ
ization.
Their special craft interests were
shown in the recent bitter jurisdic-
tional fight with the Brewery Work
ers, wherein the lines of conflict were
almost exactly the same as in the
the Executive Council.
Among the officials whose struggle
for power finds this expression there
is no principle involved, but there
can be no question but that large
numbers of the membership favor
drastic changes in the A. F. Of L.
structure. The struggle around this
issue in the present convention, no.
matter how much disguised, reflects
pressure from workers who pay dues
and, as President Howard Of the
ITU. was forced to declare in an
outburst of unwonted frankness, is
one means Of restoring confidence"
of the rank and file in the leaders
who sadly need some issue on which
they can speak in militant terms,
without immediate danger of their
control of the union machinery being
taken from them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
N. R. A. Spreads Hunger, Labor REPORT Reveals

do not venture into the matter OF
how many thousands of workers who
are being employed" whether re-
ceiving 81 or SIS per week. are work.
ers who have been taken off public
relief rolls in the decrease relief
trend of which officials boast.
So obvious is it that statistics now
available do not tell :he facts that
Officials today (Oct. ID announced
they are taking a census of re-em-
ployment and payrolls. This sup
posedly will show how much the total
workers income has increased.
The Washington Daily News
(Scripps- Howard forecasts that the
payroll figures will be "disappoint-
ing" and reported that IAN increas-
ing number of complaints to N. r. A.
charge that employers are actually
reducing total pay rolls in complying
with minimum wage and maximum
hour requirements, and that they are
attempting to turn the. whole drive
for increased purchasing power into
another share the-work' povement.
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new apartment yesterday.

new apartment yesterday.
Simon Passack, 55 Willet St., I'M
employed for a long time, a sus-
pended case of the Home Relief Bu-
reau, had his furniture thrown into
the street while he was not at home.
Salvatore Favara of 5 Jackson
St., Was thrown into the street with
his new furniture. He was not a
Home Relief Bureau case. The COM
mittee went to the Home Relief Blu
reau and forced them to give this
family check and they were put
into new apartment.
Sara Silver, 290 Hendrick ST., has
two children and is unemployed. The
marshal came yesterday morning at
10 o'clock with an eviction notice
and then had the furniture put out
on the street. The furniture is deco
rated with a Blue Eagle" We Do
Our PART" and underneath it it
says, 1--WE cannot eat the Blue
Eagle.'
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United Textile Workers and the
United Mine Workers were the unions
with industrial charters supporting
the proposal to increase the number
Of vice presidents in the Council from
8 to Is. The Typographical Union
delegation supported a compromise
for increasing the Council to Is, but
favored the general proposal for en-
larging it. The ITU. has q strong
movement for industrial unionism in
side its ranks.
For various reasons, mostly dealing
with the inner politics of the leader
ship, the Printing Pressmen and the
Bricklayers union supported the reso-
luton for enlarging the Council. The
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers, headed by
Mike Tighe, is the only union with an
industrial charter which opposed the
move.
1t would be wrong to ascribe such
an honest motive as desire to
strengthen the structure of the A. r.
of L. by a struggle for industrial
rnionism replacing the old craft
structure to John L. Lewis, who head
ed the movement. Neither can one
agree with the adverse report of the
official committee r-hich took the
high ground that 'it has been the
progressive policy Of the A. F. of L.
to decentralize the growing power and
control within our labor movement.
E. Through this method direct rep
resentation is effected without the
dangers inherent in the proposal we
are reporting upon"
The truth of the matter is that
great pressure for removing obstacles
of craft division and jealousy in the
way of rapid organization of the big
industries is being exerted by the
memberships well as from outside
by the increasing number of militant
mass struggles led by the unions of
the Ira lie Union Unity League; there
is the obvious fact that in the course
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
Striking Clippers
i'm Buffalo Beaten
by Thugs; Is Hurt
Preparations Are Made
to Spread Strike to
Whole Plant

BUFFALO, N. tY.-One of the most
vicious attacks was made Tuesday
night by the Republic Steel Company
thugs and police, special imported
gangsters from Chicago and the I'M
derworld of Buffalo, against the strik-
ing clippers. The chipping depart
ment is crippled; out of $50 workers
only 100 are at work in all three
turns.
One man was shot and is in a seri-
GUS condition in the hospital, IL were
injured. After knocking them down
company thugs continued to beat the
workers.
All workers from the chipping de-
partment, including representatives
from other mills and departments,
met today to discuss what steps are
to be taken. 1t was decided to call
general meeting of the entire plant
and present the demands to the COM
pany for recognition of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union, re-
instalment of all ITS men fired for
union activities, 40-hour week with
out reduction in pay.
If the company refuses to grant
the above demands, the strike will be
spread to all departments. The whole
mill is organized and is ready at the
first call to come out in full support
of the clippers.
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furniture and slabs of wood.
He found the narrow dirty streets
of the lower east side filled with
neighbors, and members of the down
town Committee of Action, a united
front of Workers Committee on I'm
employment, locals No. 2 and 3, anc
the downtown Unemployed Council
speaking from a temporary platform
The brave Lyman Lazarus, mar
shall, played safe. First came the
police radio car, with additional cops
as protection, and then he arrived
from the 121st Street area to Dust
this unemployed carpenter.
why leave the likes of them live
in the place. There's an excuse fo1
family but this single man prob
ably doesn't even want to work." de-
clared the beefy marshal. His cousin
also Lazorus by name, is civil judge
and assigned Cousin Hyman to evict
workers in this downtown area in
order to keep the $25 to $50 received
for the job in the family, although it
is customary for Benjamin Horn, Will
liam S. Lief, and Mr.. Neck to handle
evictions in this particular neighbour
hood.
Carefully Theodore Pujach had
tried to protect his home, and his
furniture. The windows looking over
the firescape were blocked with wire
and steel netting, with bed springs
nailed over them onto the walls. The
door had been reinforced by double
door, and steel plates were affixed
between the doors.
1t took the marshal and his movers
nearly two hours to break in the win
dows and force the door.
Monday IS evictions took place on
the lower east side. 1t has become
an everyday affair in downtown New
York to see workers scanty posses
sions piled into the streets. The push
carts and the dirt, the garbage and
the narrow alleys join company with
the piles of furniture.
Theodore Pujach lived in one of
the many rat hole apartments, unfit
even for the reaches and vermin they
are infested with, that decorate the
east side. Today he finds himself
without a roof over his head. His
few possessions are stacked into the
narrow alley, called Monroe Street.
Theodore Pujach used to be a mem
Der Of an American Federation of
Labor, carpenters local. He was
dropped from membership because he
couldn't pay his dues. He is Al years
old and spent more than half of his
life in America, and yesterday he was
evicted; no home; no money. He is
even denied relief by the Home Re
lief Buro because he is single man.
How do you get along?" the Daily
Worker reporter asked him.
IT don't know" he answered, Some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
in General Strike
w a TX Out Called in
Defiance of Union
Heads

NEW YORK.-After a strike vote
taken Thursday night, $500 jewelry
workers, members of the Information
al Jewelry Workers Union, local 1,
left their shops yesterday morning to
strike for a 30-hour week and wage
scale of 80 cents to SIPS an hour.
At strike headquarters today, how
ever, no preparations were being
made for picketing as Peter Garci,
president Of the union was in con-
ference with the bosses. Garci is
calling the strike holiday" but this
is not dampening the spirit of the
strikers.
The strike was called in defiance
of wires received from Major Paddock
of the NR.A., from the Manufactur-
ers' Association and from Beardsley,
and Williams, international officials
urging the workers not to strike.
Carol went to Washington two
weeks ago promising the workers that
If he did not return with satisfac-
tory code there would be strike.
While he appeared to favor a strike
before he left, he was opposed to it
on his return. The code was delayed
for ten days. The workers, among
whom strike sentiment was strong, de-
cided not to wait but to force i'm
provements in their conditions by
strike. They expect the strike to
spread throughout the country. AL
though union officials call the strike
a holiday" several scabs were found
working in the shops yesterday morn
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
Dye Shops Closed
Down by Paterson
Mass Picket Line
"Truce" at Wage Cut
Blocked by Action of
Silk Strikers

PATERSON, N. j., Oct. 12.-The
N.R.A. Conference in New York for
terminating the strike has ended
with Senator Wagner retreating to
Washington and the strike stronger
than ever. A sharp fight of the
National Textile Workers Union
delegates and pressure upon the
A. F. of L. officials of militant rank
and file, has blocked any truce that
would leave the workers without a
pay increase. The mass picket line
at the big Lyons Dye Works here
this morning forced the company to
admit the workers. committee to go
through the plant and see that no
one Was working.
The strike meetings of the Mt.
WI. here and at Lodi grow larger
and more enthusiastic daily. Despite
widespread hunger, with the Asso-
ciated (U.T.W.) officials sabotag-
ing the relief work, the spirit of
the workers to fight through to VIC
tory, is visibly higher. Pat Quinlan,
speaking for the Associated at it's
strike meeting in the Roseland ball
room this morning. attacked yester-
days huge demonstration for criti-
Ching President Roosevelt, whom
Quinlan declared to be friend of
the workers. Roosevelt has just
signed the silk code condemning the
silk workers to a $13 a week mini
mum wage.
These remarks of Quinlan were
interrupted by storm of boos from
the audience. IN. r. A. means
Never Roosevelt Again." one strik-
er shouted.
1t has been discovered here that
the National Guard is being given
tear gas drills at Paterson Armory,
indicating that the authorities plan
to launch terror drive against the
strike. The mass meeting of broad
silk strikers today was addressed
by Martin Russak and Abe Custom.
The Associated (U.T.W.) yesterday
decided to eliminate the shop chair
man from it's strike committee,
leaving the authority in the hands
of it's small strike committee of
seven.
Endeavoring to block effective re-
lief work of the N.T.W.U., the local
press is featuring the statement of
the Associated that only the Asso-
ciated is authorized to collect dona-
tions.
A riot occurred at a small Associ-
ated relief station when 500 Associ-
ated members crashed in, breaking
through the partition and Selling
food supplies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
1000 ShenangO Valley
Workers Attend Steel
Union Meet in Masury

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.-Over 100
workers from the Shenango Valley
responded to a mass meeting called
by the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union in Masury, Ohio,
last Sunday.
This sentiment of the workers has
the company and city officials very
much worried. State troopers have
been guarding the mill gates and
the highways looking for pickets
from strike areas. The city officials
knew that there would be a good
meeting in Masury, so they arrested
Henry Mack, the Shenango Valley
organizer of the union, on the street
in Farrell about an hour and half
before the meeting.
The same night the police raided
the headquarters of the union in
Farrell, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON.-The spread-the-
misery effect of the MIRA. is clearly
indicated in the very reports which
official government agencies hand out
here through statistic bureaus.
In the plain words of the Labor
Review, issued monthly by the De-
partment of Labor: Union scales
of hourly wage rates in May, 1898,
as compared with May, 1892, showed
IL increases, 2S7 decreases and no
change in 1894 cases. Full-time
working hours between the two dates
had increased in II cases, and de-
creased In 67, while in COL instances
there had been no change"
The Department Of Commences
monthly Survey of Current Business,
for October, quotes Fairchild's index,
saying: Retail prices increased S.4
per cent between August and Sep
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
Anti-EvictiOn Parade
in Downtown New York
on Saturday Morning

NEW YORK, N. Y.-An Anti
Eviction parade will take place on
Saturday morning in downtown
New York
The parade will be held under the
auspices of the Downtown Unem-
ployed Councils, and will start from
Rutgers So. at 8:15 with the Red
Front Band leading it. They will
march north to 18th St., south on
Second Ave. to Sd St., east on Sd
st. to Avenue A. and will wind up
on 7th st. and Avenue A.
Thousands of leaflets rallying the
unemployed workers of downtown
New York to the parade have been
distributed. One of the important
speakers will be Ben Gold, Com
munist candidate for President of
the Board of Aldermen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
Codes Result in Share the-Work Plan, Latest
u. S. Official Statistics of
Perkins Show

TENDER /, the widest increase in prices
in over decade"
Thus the great gap between the
total income of the working class and
the cost of living is clear. The re-
ports, Of course, do not set out to
facilitate such comparisons.
They do show, however, that, while
"employment"-the numbers listed as
working, whether for one hour per
week or full time-has increased by
an estimated 10000 during August,
productive activity actually fell off,
industrial production dropping 8 per
cent.
Does this mean that employers,
while doing less business. are digging
into declining, profits to pay more to
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does it mean that the
employment" figures are mislead-
ing? The Commerce Department says
that under the stimulus of the N.
r. A. codes of fair competition, aver
age hourly earnings moved upward
from July to August but its own
actual figures show that these in
creases were both small and not uni
form. In fact, average hours per week
in manufacturing, says the report,
dropped 38 index points.
The Commerce Report also says
that payrolls continued their upward
trend" in August. But again these
increases were slight and not uni
form, as shown by tables in the re-
port. And these reports. of course.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
800 Cotton PickerS
Evicted in Strike,
Thrown Out on Road
Tom MONEYS Jailer
Is Preparing to
Send Troops

TULARE, Calf, Oct. 12-Three
hundred cotton pickers, of the eigh-
teen thousand on strike in California
for $1.00 per hundred pounds, have
been evicted. Evictions have taken
place in Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern
and MADEIRA counties, where six pick
cts were murdered. Belongings are
dumped in the road and left there.
Women and children are suffering
intensely.
Gov. Rolph, who keeps Tom Mooney
in jail, is holding the militia ready
against the cotton pickers. The six
workers were murdered when armed
growers, vigilantes, and deputies fired
on unarmed strikers. In Arvin, Pete
Subia was killed and three were
wounded. At Pixley three pickets
were killed and Is wounded. Two
were killed at Corcoran. -Four grow
ers agents have been arrested, charg-
ed with murder. Mass funerals are
being arranged, as we'll as mass
meetings throughout the state, de-
handing the right of the strikers to
arm in self-defense.
The United Farmers League has
joined with the strikers in united
struggle against the finance corpo-
rationS dominating the cotton farms.
The growers are intimidating the
small farmers, merchants and others,
melting terror against the strikers.
Growers are attempting to incite race
prejudices, many Of the strikers being
Mexican, Negro and Filipino workers,
as well as whites. The strikers are
standing solid in the face of this
terror. The Hoover ranch at Waco
is threatening eviction of strikers.
The growers have even refused
MIRA. mediation" and are organ
izing shot gun squads. The capital
list press is forced to admit the cold
blooded attack of the growers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
Worker Barricades Home
to Halt Evicting Marshals
35 Evictions in One Day from East Side Rat
Holes; Unemployed Councils Demand
Abolition of Eviction Law
BY HELEN KAY

NEW YoRK-The marshal until
$3.50 because hoped that he would
at 235 Monroe st, unprotected
But when he arrived he found the apartment
caded brcadd with steel netting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
Defeat Motion to Enlarge
A. F. l.. Executive Council
Unprincipled Fight; Rank and File Is
DESTROYS of Industrial Organization
BY B. D.

d. 12The A.
Council by heads of with industrial
building
roll call of total of 1880
Brewery the Metal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
WEIRTON STRIKERSCARRY
OUT MILITANT PROGRAM
DESPITE A.A. TREACHERY
Youngstown Strike Is Against Discrimination
Steel Union Urges Rank and File Leadership
in East Ohio Strike

STEUBENVLLE OhoThe most teachery of
Association officials Steubenvie
strike failed the solid the Weirton
chairman % picket bIockaded every
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Pittsburgh
OCT. ID:
Dance given by the Fifth Ward Daily
Worker Committee at Elks Rest, 23i5
Wylie Ave. Refreshments. Admis-
sion 15c
Gary, Ind.
OCT. IA:
vetcherinka given by the Working
Women's Progressive Organization
and all Russian Branches at 224 W.
18th Ave.
Los Angeles Section
Comrade MacHarris, touring for tbs
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Film Ten Days That Shock Ths
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in the following cities on the dates
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Oct. 21-SaHta Barbara
Oct. % to 26 inclusive
Monterey, Santa Cruz
and WatS0nUiiLe
Oct. 27-CdrmeL
Cleveland
OCT. IA:
Dance given by the Mcbride sioek
Committee at PrcbUlo- Hall. 529t
Broadway, from 7 pm. to am.
OCT. IA:
House Party arranged by Unit IT at
1889 W, soth st. at pm. Cook
program.
OCT. ID:
Dance and Entertainment given by
Unit IL at the Finnish Workers Club
1928 Detroit Ave. at 8 pm.
OCT. Is:
House Party arranged by Unit sac
at the home Of s. Halper, 377s z.
l54th st. at 8 pm.
OCT. Is:
Big Affair arranged by Section II
at Workers Center, 3843 Woodland
Ave. 3rd floor, at 8 pm. Entertain
ment, Sterioptican slides on the
Workers Press. Columbus Relief
March and Views from the Soviet
Union.
Toledo
OCT. Is:
Testimonial Banquet and Program
for the readers and subscribers OF
the Daily Worker at the Jewish Nv
o. Hail, 40 E. Bancroft ST.. at
7.SO pm. Auspices. the Daily Worker
Committee of Toledo Section. Ad.
mission free
Chicago
OCT. IA: |
Finnish Workers Club. will give
dance and entertainment at I'm l
perial Hall, 2409 No. Halsted Street l
at pm. Admission 30 cents.
OCT. Is:
Concert and Dance. Auspices Of NJ |
Winchevsky Workers Club. at 4oo4 /
W. Roosevelt Road Excellent pro-
gram. Admission Is cents
OCT. II:
A city-wide meeting of Daily Worker
readers will be held at Peoples Au.
ditorium. PAST w Chicago Avenue
The Volunteers Committee will be
elected at this meeting to carry OF
the work for the benefit OF the Daily
Worker.
ArgO, III.
OCT. Ia:
Dance given by all revolutionary or
ganizations in Arso ct 62l9 Archer
Avenue Admission IS cents.
Philadelphia
OCT. ID:
Partv snd Dance river by the LID
o. 1881 n, FRANKLIN Street Admis-
sion 10 ccnt5. This affair is for the !
heH9g.t Ct the Drily Worker and the
IL d. Convention.
OCT. Goth:
Gala Concert at Turn yemeinde Hall
Broad and Columbus Ave. Robert
Minor. candidate on the c. p. ticket |
speaker. Interesting program. Ad-
mission IS cents.
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Pittsburgh
OCT. Ia:

OCT. ID:
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Worker Committee at Elks Rest, isis
Wylie Ave. Refreshments. Admis-
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OCT. IA:
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Women's Progressive Organization
and all Russian Branches at 224 W.
18th Ave.
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Toledo

OCT. IS:
Testimonial Banquet and Program
for the readers and subscribers OF
the Daily Worker at the Jewish Nv
o. Hail, 40 E. Bancroft St. at
7.9O pm Auspices. the Daily Worker
Committ"f Of Toledo Section. Ad.
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