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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Weirton Workers
Protest Go, Union
Vote as "Hitlerisnl''
Continued from Page u

the workers were promised that the
N. r. A. would supervise elections
granting the workers the right to
vote for their own representatives
and for a union of their own choos-
ing.
1t was by this means that the N.
R. A. was able to help the steel
bosses break the strike and drive the
workers back to work with promises.
The officials of the Amalganaated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers who urged the workers to
accept the n. r. A. promises are
now again ready to accept any be-
trayal the N. r. A. hands the work
ers.
william J. Long, president Of the
Weirton local of the Amalgamated
Association, while protesting against
intimidation of the workers, said If
the N. r. A. says it is OK, he is
willing to drop any struggle against
the fake elections.
I'VE still invite fair test he
said after the company union cleo
ton, "and if we are licked, we will
take 1t with smile"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Metal Box Strike Is
Broken by the RA
Board Allows Firing
of Six Union Men

BROOFLyy, ". T.-The strike Of
the workers Of the United Metal Bo.,
&C. at 473 President St., Brooklyn,
wss broken When the Chamber OF
Commerce and the Regional Labor
Board (N.R.A.) backed up the bosses
with a coordination of police intimi-
dation and demagogic line of talk
which aimed to confuse the workers
inlo The belief that they could get
something without q determined
struggle.
Tho bosses sent out letters to the
strikers with the approval Of the Re
gional Labor Board declaring deci-
sion that the strike should be called
off. that the firing Of six workers was
not a good reason to strike. At the
hearing, Golden, secretary Of the
board, declared that employers have
the right TO hire and fire without any
restriction, but that they should not
fire workers for union activity,
The board refused to consider the
facts shown by the union that the
firing of the six men was a move to
intimida1e workers and to break the
union organization in the shop.
The next meeting OF the Metal Box
Local will take place Wednesday, Dec.
20. at 7:30 pm. at the union head
quarters, 80 Smith ST., Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18

Van Veen. Sec. 4.
HARLEM-I.W.O Hall, AIS Lenox
Ave; Robert Minor, James w. Ford
Sec. 4.
BRONX - Ambassador Hall, 1875
Third Ave; Charles Krumbein,
Louis Lyman. Sec. 5, 10.
BROOKLYN - Calico Temple, IT'S
MontroSe Ave; Sam Don, G. Yukel-
son Freiheit).
RED HOQK-Red Hook Workers
Center, 342 Union ST., Brooklyn;
Andrew Overgaard, Harold Farmer
MARINE Workers Ind. Union).
Observation-Disclosures Palace, sos
Suffer Ave-, Brooklyn; M. j. Olgin,
S. Kingston. Sec. 8.
JAMAICA Workers Center, 148-2
Liberty Ave; G.. Siskind. Sec. 8.
LONG ISLAND--MaSOnic Temple, Al =
26 58th ST., Woodside, LII; Williana
Burroughs, Pauline Rogers. Sec. 10.
BRIGHTON BEACH and COMFY
ISLAND-Brighton Beach Workers
Center, Brighton Beach Ave. and
Coney Island; Julia S. Poyntz, Me-
lech Epstein. Sec. II.
YONKERS-Workers Center, 81 Hud-
son ST.; Charles Alexander. Sec. IL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Women's Committee
Calls for Delegates
for Demonstration

NEW YORK.-In preparation for q
city-wide demonstration Of all unem-
ployed women to demand that pro-
jects Tor women be started at once
at the same wages received by men
under the Civil Works Administra-
ton, the Womens Unemployed Com
mittee has called a delegates meet
ing at room 238, 799 Broadway. Al
women's organizations are urged tc
send delegates.
The city-wide demonstration i;
called for Dec. 28, at 10 A. M. All
organizations participating will first
meet at their own headquarters, as
sesnble at % E. goth St., and march
on the State Civil Works Offices al
124 E. 2Bth st.
The few projects under way undei
the G. w. A. now provide for a min
imum wage Of 80 cents an hour for 9
tlirty-hour week. Mrs. Roosevelt ii
meeting with Mrs. Chas. w. Sabir
felt frank concern at the lower
wages" paid TO women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Shoe Convention Rejects
A. F. L.; Hits Arbitration

on the position of the T.UUL. re-
garding utilization. 1t was following
this statement that an amendment
was introduced ruling mo utilization
with the A. F. of L. or T.U.UL. for
an indefinite period and no changes
of decisions except by referendum
vote of the membership" This was
adopted.
sam Ziebel, called upon to make
a statement regarding the decision OF
the convention, declared as follows;
1--WE abide by the decisions Of the
convention, not because we believe
the T.U.U.L. harmful to the shoe
workers, On the contrary, we believe
the T.U.U.L. is, in its organization,
aims and principles, the real ex-
preston OF the needs of the shoe
workers. We believe that only the
T.U.U.L. by Its militant class Strug-
gle program fights in the best in
terests of the working class. But at
this time, when the delegates are
not conscious of the correctness of
our policy, and we are not able to
convince them on the T.U.U.L. pro
gram, we decide 20 accept the deci-
sion. Hoping that we will be able to
convince you at a later time to join
the T.U.U.L."
The entire delegation rose in body
to express their support Of Ziebels
statement.
Earlier in the day. the convention
adopted resolutions calling for I'm
employment Insurance and Relief to
the shoe workers and opposing any
participation in any N.R.A. commit
tees and to the N.R.A. as a means
of winning their demands, except
through their own organized strength
and power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Strikers Defy Police,
Form Picket Lines

NEW YORK.-The $50 workers o,
the Mailman and Sanger Dress Shop
4e2 Seventh Ave, will establish .
mass picket line today at 1880 A. NJ
in defiance OF police orders.
A statement issued BY the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
calls all workers to a mass picket line
ct the same time around the three
other shops that are also out or
strike: Dotty May, 212 w. 35th St.;
Goldsheer Dress. 253 w. 35th St;
William Bass, $50 Seventh Ave.
Locked out two weeks ago in ar
attempt by the bosses to break the
union. the workers answered by 8
strike at the Mailman and Sanger
shop. Two hundred and fifty workers
are entering the second week of the
strike 100 per cent strong.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18

cause they're his flesh and blood
and they'd get II anyway when he
died. All the kids, they're In their
thirties now, have cars of their
own and chauffeurs. Joe employs
some distant relatives at the shop,
as he modestly calls II, but they
only get about $40 or s12 q week.
It's fixed mp fine, too, this Pei
ham Manor place. Some of the
tropical fish from the pond sell as
high as $25 the pair. And there's
little artificial wilderness about the
pond peopied with all these statues
of mythical creatures, animals and
dwarfs and such, and they're
painted all colors with the indeiibIe
paint for which you had to pay ex-
ira. That's the pond which forms
the background on the covers Of
these calendars the retailers set.
the calendars with that picture Of
Joe and the bird eating out Of his
mouth.
There are three bulldogs on The
grounds and in the palace, the best
breed money can buy, prognathous
as he'll and drooling. And there's
every kind OF parrot and birds Of
paradise indoors and migratory
birds in the trees. Joe says he has
trained them TO return 30 their
nests and next time see him hi
remember to ask how it's done.
THE claims he makes about speak
4 ing the language Of the birds ring
just a bit extravagant and 7 decline
to include them in this piece for fear
of discrediting the other fascinating
and more plausible data. At any
rate, he is writing o pamphlet about
it which you will no doubt see ad-
vertised. Besides being q lover OF
nature and a sportsman, T am also
an ornithologist," Joe Bauer confides
with his disar1ning smile. The Kids
more or less attend to tho business
and he is left free 10 do research.
Afro, he has decided to enjoy him
self for the remainder OF his life.
That is why he has become q sports
man.
I thought the sportsman term was
a condescending and goodnatured
curtesy to my, own so-called occu-
patton, but Saturday I learned what
he meant. All these years Of riding
in cars, Joe has noe learned how to
drive, but speed does hand him q
thrill. He has specially constructed
Cord machine which can do hun
bred and a chauffeur who was a
former taxi driver. It's a low-swtng
marvel of efficiency, that Cord, and
every time some new gadget or i'm
provement comes out the chauffeur
has orders to have 1t installed, and
these additions make Joe Bauer feel
more and more like a sportsman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Referendum on Off
GERS by Jan. Is; Decide
to Be Independent

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. H. The
Shoe Amalgamation Convention
unanimously adopted a resolution
presented by the New York Industrial
Union delegation, on the program
calling for an immediate organization
drive against wage cuts, against COM
pulsory arbitration, against the wage
cutting decision of the State Labor
Board, and for militant struggle for
unemployment insurance.
The convention voted for resolu-
ton that a committee of is be elected
by the convention as a general CO.
ordinating committee to effect COM
plete amalgamation through the
holding of elections of general Off
Gals and leading board by Jan. is
All present general officials of Pro-
tective and National must vacate their
offices.
Perkins Gets Two Votes
The convention also voted down q
resolution to have Miss Perkins OF
the Labor Department appoint a ma
tional leader. This resolution received
two votes.
The convention adopted a resolu-
ton to stand behind the New York
Industrial Union in the fight against
iniunctions, to support the Salem
union fight against injunction. The
local Lynn press tried to inject the
"red scare" at the convention. The
deIeoates were lnmoved by these
tactics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Ship Sails With
Imprisoned Radio
Men, Police Guard
By ]. MASON

NEW YORK. - Shanghai tactics
and terrorism were utilized Saturday
against striking marine wireless oper-
etors by armed agents of the Amer
lean Merchants Line, of which Ker-
nit Roosevelt is president. The strike
is against a rs per cent wage cut.
Two non-union operators on the
SIS. American Banker, about to sail.
yielding to appeals of their striking
fellow operators, packed their bag
gage and announced at the last
minute they were quitting the ship.
They were Immediately threatened
with arrest and criminal prosecu-
tion,' by Spokesman Of the steamship
operators.
Ridiculous threats were made to
them, such as the charge of ''hold-
ing up United States mails, revoca-
ton Of their licenses, ETC., all with
out the least legal foundation.
A fellow operator demanding to be
allowed aboard to bring the men
ashore, was escorted aboard the Ship
by three city police. He was stopped
by company police at every step. Fl
nally with his police escort he got
near the wireless shack. However.
he was not allowed to go any far
ther, while the three city police.
three plainclotheslnen, two company
police and the chief officer of the
snip, all armed, rlled into the tiny
cramped wireless cabin and asked
The two evidently terrorized and
covering operators if they still
wanted to quit" and probably re-
minded them again of Forthcoming
criminal prosecution, etc.
In moment the police rushed out
CT the cabin, declared to the COM
clctning operator that "those men
DON'T want to quit" The operator
On Une deck was hurried off the ship.
which sailed within the next hour.
Heavy Suards Of company agents saw
the ship off.
strike May Spread
inc operators are in a bitter and
militant spirit. This is the first time
IN history that the heretofore in
Varlably gentle and meek radio men
pave launched a militant action
AGAINST wage-cuts and outrageous
working hours. Their organization,
as a result of having shown this I'M
expected fighting spirit, is experienc-
lhS an unprecedented increase in
membership. AS soon as this strike
Is lully developed against the Amer
can Merchant Line, it is planned to
extend 1t against other lines which
ere also employing wireless men at
starvation wages and working, them
IL hours day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Houston Advises Boss
Jury to Give Client
Life Imprisonment

LEESBURG. Va, Dec. 17.--An all
5nite boss jury Of two bankers, one
merchant, and nine farmers, yester-
ay returned a verdict of guilty
gsinst George Crawford, and on the
dvice OF his N.A.A.C.P. defense at
orney, sentenced the framed Negro
orker to life Imprisonment that he
tight be available to identify an
ther Negro, alleged to be the real
layer Of Mrs. Agnes Boeing Illsley,
irginia society woman, on Jan. 10,
eS2.
The jury took four ballots. On the
irst. three voted for the death PEN
ity, on the second two did so, and
n the third only one favored that
ction.
Charles II. Houston, N.A.A.CP. at
orney, who asked for a life sentence
or his own client, gave notice of APP
zeal against the life Imprisonment
eutence, but later admitted to news
laper men that under no circum-
sances would the National Assocla-
on for the Advancement of Colored
'eople press for a reversal Of the YER
.ict. This admission comedies with
he tactics of the N.AA.CP. leaders
I discouraging mass defense actions
or Crawford, and in carrying out the
1lerest pretense Of fight in the court
ggainst the fragrant violations of the
constitutional rights of the Negro
;eople as practiced in the systematic
exclusion of Negroes from juries in
Lowdoun County.
While raising the question of the
exclusion of Negroes from the grand
iury which indicted Crawford. and
rom the trial jury, the NAA.C.P. at
torney made no real fight for the in
clusion Of Negroes on the jury, thus
making it possible for the court to
iehtly dismiss this fundamental is
Ue, and to order Crawford to trial
" an ail-vhite boss jury. That the
J.AA.CP. raised this fundamental
gsue ct 81 was wholly due to the
Militant support Of the Negro masses
and q number Of Negro papers for
ne defense policies CT the LID. in
re scott5boro case, where the issue
OF Negro exclusion from jurieS was
Re My raised az both of the Dscatur
trials
C--Ufcrd WIS arrested in Massa-
chu5cots last 5pring, end was suisse
queatly released through q writ Of
ha'2es5 corpus grnnted by the late
Judge Lowell. vino admitted THAT a
Negro could not secure justIce in the
courts OF Virginia. Lowell's decision
was over-r- led by the y. S. Supreme
Court il g decision which returned
Crawford to the Virginia lynch
cog'.se. Inlpac chment proceedings
against Judge Lowell were begun in
congress. which maintains Oh acqui-
e1cen5 support Of the lynch wave now
sweeping tie codntrv.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
ReichstagFrame-up
TrialProtestStrikes

Continued from Page IL
demand the release of Torgler, Dimi-
troff, Popoff and Taneff held at the
fremont Temple by the Boston Com
mittee to Aid the Victims of German
Fascisrn.
NEW YORK. Stating that its
$4,000 members, who are almost en-
tirely German born or of German de-
scent, stands united with the civil
lied world in defense of the Reich
stag fire trial victims, the Workmens'
Sick and Death Benefit Fund sent
kilograms TO Hans Luther, Maxi AM
bassador. ard to Chief Justice Buen-
gor, demanding the immediate release
Of. the accused.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Dec. 49,
Several hundred workers filled the
Pioneer Hall at mass meeting To
protest the Reichstag fire trial
frame-up.
Gables and kilograms OF protest
were sent to the Nazi Ambassador
at Washington and to Leipzig, Ger
many.
NEW YORK.-Tn a statement is
sued today, the National Committee
Of the Young Communist League
calls upon every youth organization
and all members of the Young
Communist League to send COM
mittees and resolutions of protest
TO German Consulates in every
city; to join the mass demonstra-
tons to be held in every city on
the international day of protest,
Dec. 10: and to organize special
youth protest demonstrations and
mass meetings on Dec. % in every
city.
The Conference for Progressive
Labor Action has endorsed the DEM
onstration at the German consulate
on Tuesday Dec. 10, ssnd has called
upon It's entire membership TO sup
port the demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
2 Upholstery Shops
Struck by Union for
Firing of Workers

NEW YORK--The Furniture Work
ers Industrial Union is carrying on
strikes against two upholstery shops
Tor firing men out of the shops. The
shops are the Central Bedding Co.,
100 Monroe Street, and the Chain
Upholstery Co., Flushing, L. I.
The boss of the Central Bedding
tried TO break the strike through ar
rest, but the picket line ranks are
solid. The Chain Upholstery applied
for an injunction in court, which the
union is determined to fight. All up
holsterers are urged to come to the
union headquarters, 312 Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Pharmacists Strike
Now in Eighth Week

NEW YORK. Despite intimida-
tons and arrests, the ranks of the
pharmacists strike at Lindemanns
Drug Store at 1853 Rivington Street,
now in its eighth week. are still solid.
The second attempt at an injunction
against the strike was frustrated by
the international Labor Defense. The
Pharmacists Union Of Greater New
York. an independent organization is
conducting the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
NAACP Attorney
Helps Lynch Court
Sentence Crawford
JObless Women Call
for Mass Meet Today

NEW YORK-The Women's Tn
employment Committee of the Needle
Trades Industrial Union calls all
women workers to mass meeting to-
day at two o'clock in the Union
Auditorium, 131 w. 18th ST., to hear
the demands for jobs or immediate
relief for women. to be presented TO
the C. w. A. Juliet Stuart Poyntz
and Sam Nessin, both of the Trade
Union Unity Council, will address the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
NEWS FLASH

NEW YORK.-Tbe Short Wave
Radio Club of the Bronx, though
it has very limited membership,
placed yesterday an initial order
for so copies of the Jan. 9Th an
niversary edition OF the Daily
Worker, and challenges other Or
sanizations in New York to equal
or beat its record.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
SYMPOSIUM ON LYNCH TERROR

Ronald Edwards Branch, League OF Strug-
gle for Negro Rights will hold a symposium
on THE Rising Wave OF Lynch Terror" to-
night, $780, at Williamsbridge Center, $685.
Brentwood Ave. Bronx Richard B. Moore
National Secretary Of the L. s. N. r., will
be the main speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Eyicted Worker to
Be Tried Tomorrow

NEW YORK. Mr.. and Mrs. Will
llams, eyicted unemployed workers
Will be tried tomorrow by the labor
hating Judge, Thomas A. Aurelio.
They will be tried Tuesday, Dec 10
at the Essex Market Court. Second
st. and Second Ave, at 2:30 P. M
Workers are urged to pack the court
at 14O Broad st. in preparation for
the demonstration before the Ger
man Consulate, II Battery Place.
to prevent the railroading of this
worker by Judge Aurelio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18

his research work to the little
kitchen in back of his Pet
Shoppe, he had his ramiied
occupations engraved on sizeable
visiting card. His present card is q
simple Joseph Bauer" embossed in
tiny, shining black italics He is q
sportsman and lover Of nature" he
says, cor I should say a lover Of ma
ture and q sportsman"
Joe Bauer is now one Of the larg-
est wholesalers of bird and flower
seed in the country. His brand Is
carried by Woolworth's, Kresge's and
all the mail order houses. On a
smaller but still impressive scale he
deals in pets Of all description, mon
keys, birds, tropical fish.
THERE is no doubt but that he
L always did have an obsession
with animals. When he was brought
TO America In the late eighties the
first job he got was clipping pups
tails. This operation he performed
by biting them off. Pups tails
were to Joe what shoelaces we're to
Otto Kahn or Nathan Strauss or
some banker of like extraction;
stop me IL Pm wrong. Joe Bauer
monkeyed around In his pet shop
with mixtures of bird seed and with
hybrid NUTS and parrots for dec
AIDES. When my mother, whose
cousin he is, came to this country
some nine years ago, Joe's sister
visited us and said Joe couldn't
come because he had not q decent
pair of trousers. She also told
story about how Joe tried to cure
dog by giving him some kind of
oil, then he got scared because 1t
was an expensive dog and the oil
turned out to be Iubricatory, so he
drank a gulp himself because If
that dog died he surely didn't want
to live.
DUT then he hit upon some bird
" seed mixture which actually was
an improvement and he cashed in on
it heavy, as the colloquialism has it.
He expanded and employed all his
immediate relatives and expanded
and incorporated and expanded. He
monkeyed around more and tackled
his tag on to flower seeds and kept
up his interest in "the animal king
dom" and his 'feathered friends" In
what are sometimes laughingly re-
ferred to as commercial transactions
he was assisted by his children, who
are no mean hands themselves. To-
gether they bought a series OF lots
in Westchester County, dozen or
so. They bought them at municipal
auctions for about a fifteenth Of
their actual value, but there weren't
any other bidders because only the
judge and the Bauers seemed to
know about the sale. You ought to
see the estate now.
Joe is patriarchai cuss and all
y his children and their husbands
and wives and lovers are settled on
the grounds. They put In two or
three hours work at the old mans
establishment and gyp him left
and right, but he don't mind be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
'SRE!|'@!R n
- 6aWu1d Nkwzzoz1de -
Sportsman and Ornithologist

IF the director of Peace Earth had Bauer FOR
the ammunition manufacturer all the reviewers in the
Times and the Tribune the New Republic would have said
the part overdone and unwarranted carcaure
Bauer is Rembrandt burgher with three hard facial
lines added he's Falstaf without the gift of expression
Years ago when he still up and coming and confined
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Helping the Daily Worker
Through Ed Newhouse

Contributions received to the credit
Of Edward Newhouse in the Socialist
competition with Michael Gold, Dr..
Luttinger, Helen Luke and Jacob
Burck to raise $1,000 in the $4,000
Daily Worker Drive:
Total to date $4,000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
BRoDsEY TO SPEAK AT sCorrsBoRo
MEETING

Joseph Brodsky. /. L. d. attorney who has
just returned from Decatur, Ala, where he
defended the Scoisboro boys, will speak at
3 mass meeting tonight. p. m, at the
church, $50 Ralph Ave. ncsr Chauncey 81 .
Brooklyn, unedr the auspices of the Inter
national Labor Defense
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
City Events

DAILY WORKER CHORUS NEEDS VOICES
The Daily Worker Chorus is preparing tc
sing at the 10th Anniversary OF the Daily
Worker and needs more soprano. alto ans
tenor voices. Renearsals are held Mondays
and Wednesdays, p. m, at IS z. 18th St.
5th floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18

Shoe repairmen Of the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union will meet today,
10 a. M at n Fifth Ave, 10 hear tho
report Of Jerome Magliacano and Me-
Goxian who were Just released from the New
Jersey penitensiary for strike activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18

Rush your orders for the Jan. 6
Tenth Anniversary issue Of the
Daily Worker. "a Pages. The big
gest and best Daily Worker in the
history Of our paper
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18

An important meeting OF alteration paint
ers viii be held tonight ,. M, a. ik72
posson Rd. to heard report Of the s.suIt.
o. the last general st~iks