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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
Nazi Envoy Kisses
Cop for Suppressing
A n IT, Fascist Protest

NEW YORK.-Hans Weidemann
German fascist envoy to the Chicago
World Fair, made a special trip to
Orangeburgh, IS miles from New
York City, last week to present a
box of cigars, bouquet Of roses and
a kiss on the cheek to James E
Kelly, Tammany policeman.
Kelly took a leading part in club
bling the workers demonstrating
against German fascism in Brooklyn
when Weidemann arrived in this
country May IS on the Columbus
Many workers, men and women
were badly beaten and IA arrested in
order to suppress the protest against
fascisn. They will be tried June 49,
A number of cops, among them Kelly
was injured when the workers fought
back.
The kiss on the cops cheeks was
the fervent appreciation of the fas-
cist agent for the service United
States imperialism is rendering fas-
cism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
Soldier Resents
Government Theft
Out of His Pay

NEW YORK, June 6.-ContractS
signed with the government don't
mean anything, in the opinion Of
an enlisted soldier with whom
held a conversation yesterday. The
soldier, a member of the 18th in
fantry, stationed at Governors
Island, said the $50 wage cut had
aroused anger among the men and
the finance officer is lyingly telling
them to be patient, saying ITS
just a loan boys, and you'll get II
back when things are better"
Many Of the boys think that
since they signed a contract with
the government to set $21.OO a
month, they will eventually get it
instead of the S17.5O they now get
They evidently don't know what
Roosevelt meant when he talked
of the new deal,"-for the bank
ers and dirty deal for everyone
else.
A WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
By ALLEN JOHNSON

IN the two years that have elapsed
since the white ruling class con-
demned the nine Scottsboro boys to
death on the traditional pretext Of
rape, an historical change has taken
place in the South.
The white workers, without whose
aid the Negroes cannot emancipate
themselves, are also beginning to
realize that their own release from
the hell of capitalism depends on
mutual struggle with the Negro peo-
pie against the common enemy, and
among them too an epochal change
has taken place in the past two
years.
Countless instances of this his
torical change could be cited. In
Montgomery, Ala, the feudal capital
of the Black Belt, the writer, few
days ago, sitting in an automobile,
asked a passing Negro worker to d.
rect him to another part of the city
After thanking him, the writer asked
him II he had heard OF the Scots
boro case. OF course, he had. And
had he heard of the international
Labor Defense. Without hesitation
the Negro replied: Have I heard Of
1t? Why I'm member of 1t and
I don't care who knows it even if
I go to Jail for it this minute" For
Negro worker in the Black Belt
to tell this to white man he has
never seen before, especially since
only a few days before the city gov
eminent in Montgomery had passed
what is almost certainly the most
arrogantly vicious anti workingclass
law ever passed in the United States,
a law which literally makes 1t a
crime for a man to discuss Commun-
ism with his wife, is to do some
thing which would be unthinkable
,wo years ago
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
Replace Furniture
of Four Families
Workers Rally Quickly
to Stop Eviction

NEW YORK, June Workers,
learning of the eviction of four fam
lilies at 81 W. 10th St., Tuesday
night, rallied and put the furniture
back into the houses.
At a unit meeting of the Young
Communist League the evictions were
reported and immediate steps were
taken to rally workers to take back
the furniture for the evicted fam
lilies. Workers from the Mella Club
and the Y. G. L. held a meeting at
18th St.. calling upon workers to go
and put back the furniture. The re-
spouse was quick and enthusiastic
and in half an hour the furniture was
back and work of organization of the
neighborhood against future evictions
started.
One of the evicted families was
that of John Paniagna, his wife and
three children. He has been out of
work nine months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08

sWeatshop conditions in ONO which
will no doubt be a whitewash.
Af1davits made at Youngstown,
Ohio, showed that young girl workers
we're forced to work II hours day
at wages as low as cents. while the
fastest workers could not make more
than $i.4o day. One girl worker
testified at hearings here that she
earned SO cents after two weeks work.
Piece work rates were reduced from
so to 10 cents per 100 garments.
Complaints have been made against
the Meyer Manufacturing Co. which
holds government contract to make
10000 pairs of khaki pants at 80
cents day.
The war department which placed
the contract testified that it relied
on the state to enforce the legal hours
Of work which is 50 hours a week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
On the Struggle to Release
A. Herndon from Chain Gang

seen him in days" A policeman
seized Herndon by the throat and
said: you black B., what do you
mean by calling Mr.. Smith by his
first name, He's Mr.. Smith to you,
do you understand"
Action Necessary
A few months later Herndon was
again involved in Situation" in
which the question of Mister" and
white Communists was in the fore
front. But this time the title mister"
was being demanded FOR Herndon
by Ben Davis, LID. attorney in At
lanta, and the charge against Hern-
don was not that he was hanging
around" with white Communists, but
that he was LEADING them, along
with Negro workers, In a revolution
airy struggle for relief from the city
government for all the unemployed
workers in Atlanta. And this time
the white ruling class sentenced
Herndon to from 10 to 20 years on
the Georgia chain gang
The workingclass throughout the
entire country, before it is too late,
must mobilize its forces to demand
the release Of Herndon
Send your protests to Fulton Coun-
ty, Georgia, officials, and to Fulton
Towers Prison, Atlanta, the feudal
dungeon where Herndon is being con-
fined. Save this workingclass fighter
from death on Georgia chain gang
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08

On the day after this incident took
place, Jane Speed, a young white
woman who was arrested for speak
ing without permit on May Day
in Birmingham, told the judge who
had convicted her that she refused
to take advantage Of his offer for an
extension of time to get bond unless
the judge also gave similar ex-
tension to a Negro worker, Goodwin,
who had been convicted by the same
Judge for knocking the white police
man down who had brutally wrench
ed her arm while arresting her.
Typical Example
These two are but typical exam
pies of the conscious, rising milit-
ancy of the Negro workers in the
South, and of the growing unity be-
tween black and white workers.
But of all the evidence certifying
the fact that the Negro people are
awakening to the realization Of the
necessity Of revolutionary struggle
IL they are to break their feudal
chains, and that white workers have
already Joined in that struggle, the
case of Angelo Herndon stands out
prominently.
The developing class-consciousness
of Herndon himself, and Of his treat
ment by the white ruling class, is in
itself an indication of the tremend-
Gus revolutionary upsurge in the
South in the last two years. Two
years ago, shortly after Herndon be-
came a member of the Young COM
munist League, he was arrested by
the Birmingham police, for hang
ing around white Communists beat
en- in Jail and ordered to tell the
Whereabouts of the white Party Or
ganizer in Birmingham at that time.
Where is John Smith," the police
asked him. II don't know where John
u.s." Herndon replied X haven't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08

in Ohio.
Although the investigation has
been completed, the Labor Depart
ment has sent agents out to continue
to study" the situation. Not the
least involved in the miserable ex-
ploitation of the workers is the
amount of graft which will flow in
to the pockets of the government Of
ficials who have made the contracts
at the expense Of the workers.
In Pennsylvania, Che Allentown
sweatshop conditions are still being
investigated" by a committee of
loyal friends Of the bosses who will
make political capital out Of their
interest" in the workers. No steps
have been taken to remedy the sweat
shop conditions of Allentown or to
free the child workers from this toll
by providing ample relief to their
starving families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08

This demonstration is the first step
toward the International Anti-Fas-
cist Day. June "a, and the italian
workers urge the cooperation of all
class conscious workers to show the
strength of the anti-fascist move
ment.
The demonstration June 10 will
demand the release from fascist
dungeons of comrades Antonio
Gramsci, leader OF the Italian Com
munist Party. and sandro Pertini, So
cialist lawyer, both dying in the Jail
OF Turi.
The Anti-Fascist United Front
urges the workers to unite in pro-
test regardless of political beliefs.
The demonstration comes on the
anniversary of the brutal murder of
Giacomo Matteotti, socialist congress-
man, by Mussolini's order. The de-
rnonstration will honor his name by
demanding the release Of those who
still fight for working freedom
in Italy. Following the murder OF
Matteotti, his wife has been held as
a hostage, with her two children, by
the Fascist in Rome.
The political prisoners, leaders OF
the working class, number more than
II 900.
1--WE must not fail" says the Com
mittee, ito unite here to free the
working-class prisoners in the fas-
cist dungeons. All workers must un'
tie to free the German and Italiar
comrades"
The demonstration will form a.
East 10Th Street and First and Yorl
Avenues, at II am. on the morning
Of June 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08

own banners to make this a power
ful action of solidarity with the
struggle of the Italian workers fight
ing against the terror rule of Mus
solini in Italy.
NEW YORK.-All LID. members
are called upon by the New York
District to participate in the mass
demonstration called by the italian
United Front For Anti-Fascist Ac-
ton for this Saturday, June 10, at
II am.
THE defense of political prisoners
under fascist rule in Italy, some of
whom are in dying condition is a
major duty of every LID. member, -
the N Y. District International La
Dor Defense stated yesterday Every
LID. member must participate in
the antifascist demonstration this
Saturday in order to help fight for
the freedom of our comrades i'm
prisoned by the Fascist dictatorship
because of their struggles for the It
allan working Glass;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
Low Camp Rates
BeckOn Workers
to Nitgedaiget
Profits of the Entire
Month for Communist
Party

BEACON, N.Y.-The entire month
of June in Camp Nitgedaiget is the
month devoted to the New York Dis
trict of the Communist Party. There
are no special collections.
The worker who spends his vaca-
ton now in Camp Nitgedaiget and
pays the usual rate, S13 Gncluding
tax per week, gives financial assist
ance to the Communist Party in its
day to day leadership of the strug-
giles of the workers against exploita-
ton
All the camp profits this month
go to the New York District of the
Communist Party.
Every day in Camp Nitgedaiget is
a day of rest and amusement among
the green forests, fragrant grasses
and flowers and comradely prole-
tartan atmosphere.
Special rates of $11 (tax inclusive)
per week have been arranged for
members of the cooperative, and
for those who expect to spend the
entire season at the camp.
The same special rates (only dur
ing the month of june are effec-
tive for members Of the International
Workers Order.
Special weekend excursion rates
for workers organizations who come
in large groups, from 25 to so men,
bers, are s1.65, including tax, from
so to 100 in a group, s1.45 including
tax
Cars leave for camp daily at 10
a. m. from 2700 Bronx Park East
(take Lexington White Plains Road
express and get off at Allerton Ave.
station.
Saturday and Sunday the cars
leave for camp at 10 am, 3 pm. and
pm.
For any further information call
Estabrook 9-1400.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
MANHUNT ON FOR
NEGRO FARMLAND
Wife. Shot by Planter,
in Critical Condition

WOODVILLE, Miss, June shot
in the neck and dangerously wounded
when she darted in front of her hus-
band to save him from brutal at
tack by a planter, Mrs. James Slack
lies in a hospital today critically
wounded.
Her husband, James Slack, 30-year
old Negro worker, is in danger Of
his life as posse, with bloodhoundS
from Jackson, Miss, is hunting for
him.
The planter, Joseph Redhead, Will
kinson County, was slightly injured
after he wounded the young wife
perhaps fatally-when a bullet from
rife lodged in his side.
NEW YORK.-William L. Patter-
son. national secretary of the Inter
national Labor Defense, today sem
wire to the mayor of Woodville
Miss. demanding the authorities safe
guard Slack from possible mob vio-
lence or a legal lynching.
1.-The facts show that Slack, now
hunted by a mob, was attacked with
out provocation and his life appa-
rently was saved only because his
wife heroically threw herself into the
line of fire of Redhead's revolver,
the telegram said.
1.-THE International Labor Defense
demands you assume full responsible
ity for the safety of Slack, who with
his wife was made the victim of the
expression of Southern ruling class
race hatred and prejudice.
"On behalf Of 10000 direct and
affiliated American worker-memberS
we demand you take steps to guard
Stacks safety. The international
Labor Defense holds you personally
responsible"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
BY AN INVESTIGATOR FROM THE
HOME RELIEF BUREAU

In almost two years Of existence,
.et Emergency Home Relief Bureau
of the City of New York has become
an Established and apparently per-
manent institution.
One hundred and sixty thousand
families. comprising the vast major
i5y Of New York's jobless, are now
dependent on the tickle bounty of the
Home Relief Bureaus for food, shell
ter, fuel, light, medical aid. The
members of 10000 other families are
working on relief jobs which pay an
average of $40 to S45 month.
In the early months of 1882, five
hundred investigators for the Home
Relief Bureaus made house-to-
house survey Of 1904 families and
here is what they found: Five thou
sand 122 families did not have SUI
ficient food: 5516 families were in
arrears in rent; 1887 families suf-
fered from serious shortage OF
winter clothing, 1875 families were
seriously short of fuel, either their
gas was turned of or they didn't have
enough money to buy coal and they
could not find enough wood.
After borrowing from friends, rela-
tive5, insurance companies, pawn
brokers and using up their meager
bank accounts the average indebted
ness Of the 5,304 families was S224
each.
Tammany Generosity.
The Home Relief Bureau now
makes a weekly food allowance OF
s1.4o to $3.50 for all members OF
families over is years of age and an
allowance of 90 cents to Sl,20 for
children. What can jobless family
with no other income do with this
allowance?
Mrs s. Of w. 133rd St., for in
stance, gets $3.50 week to feed her
family Of six. Recently she COM
planned to her investigator:
Il can't get along on this. have
two babies under four years OF age
and each of them needs quart OF
milk a day. Even if buy the cheap
est milk. that's $140 a week. Food Is
going up too. And can't buy any
meat except smoked meats and bacon
in the grocery store. They charge
YOU more too when they see you come
in with a food ticket" Her complaint
still goes unheeded.
You're getting as much as you're
entitled to according to the Relief
Bureaus rules" the investigator re-
piled. There's nothing l can 90.
That was the end Of the matter. And
that too. is the end Of the matter Tor
most of the other 100000 families
now on home relief.
Scientific Nutrition.
When the present food allowances
went into effect, the Relief Bureau
nutrition" experts issued bulletin
candidly entitled Experiment in
Cutting Relief Tickets. Speaking Of
the new food allowances the bulletin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
TRADE UNION UNITY CALLS AT
FTLLATES TO ANTI-FASCIST
MEET

The Trade Union Unity Council
calls upon all afiiated organizations
of workers in the City of New York
to support the demonstration called
by the Italian Anti-Fascist Alliance
in protest against the Mussolini ter
ror regime against the workers and
for the immediate freedom Of Com
rade Gramsci and other political
prisoners in Italy.
We are calling upon all affiliated
organizations to assemble with their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
DELAY NEW YORK FLIGHT
ORGANIZE FIRST WI.R.
YOUTH BRANCH TONIGHT

The first meeting of the first
youth branch of the Workers Inter
national Relief will take place to-
night, Wednesday, at 7 pm. ct the
headquarters of the WI.R. at $40
Broadway, between 18th and 18th
Streets.
This is an open meeting and non-
members are invited to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
80 MORE WIN
RENT CHECKS

NEW YORK. = Since June at
least IS families to the knowledge
of the Wilhansburgh Unemployed
Council, 81 Graham Avenue, have
received rent checks refused them up
until that date.
500 rent checks as previously re-
ported in the Daily Worker were dis
tributed to Bronx workers facing
evictions. In both sections the pay
ment of rents began day follow
ing the city-wide demonstrations at
the Home Relief Bureaus and pre-
sentation of demands for rent to
Mayor O'Brien by delegation cleo
ted by the unemployed at the bu-
reaus.
Protest for Anna Hall Tonight.
A protest meeting against the
frame up Of Anna Hall, woman
worker, arrested at a Home Relief
Bureau in Brooklyn, will be held to-
night at $3.50 at 41o9 18th Ave.
Brooklyn. A delegation will be elected
to present demands to the Magi-
strates Court, Snyder and Flatbust
Ave, on Friday at am, when Anna
Hall will be tried. Aunt Molly Jack
son will speak at the meeting.
Tabeck Trial Postponed.
NEW YORK.-Trial of Leon Ia
beck, unemployed worker arrested
after police dubbed him at dem
onstration at a Bronx Home Relief
Bureau, was postponed Tuesday unit
June IS, when he will be tried in the
Bronx Court in the Bergen Building
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08

For many . decade past the his
tory Of industry and commerce is
but the history Of the revolt Of
modern productive forces against
modern conditions Of production,
against the property relations that
are the conditions for the existence
Of the bourSeoisie and Of Its
ruls.--Communist Manifesto.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
GETS MEDALS AND PENSION
CUT

BELLINGHAM, Wash, June Tt
doesn't pay to be hero for Uncle
Sam, according to Hans G. Nelson.
In yesterdays mail he received three
medals from Washington-in recog-
milton Of service in the Spanish
American war, the Philippine insur-
rection and the Boxer rebellion. In
the same mail he was notified that
the government that gave him the
medals had cut his pension from $50
to $40 a month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08

Have you approached your fel.
low worker in your shop with a
copy of the DaiIy?' II not, do so
TODAY!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
WAR MONGERS PILLAGE
BEETHOVEN

BOSTON, June THE League of
Nations Association, a gang Of war
nongers whose chief weapon is pa
cifist deception, has decided to steal
the first sixteen bars of Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony as the tune for a
hymn of peace" They are now
searching for words they can steal
from someone else to attach to the
stolen music. They also solicit
verses that might fit.
DELAY NEW YORK FLIGHT
LONDON, June flames A. Mol
linson and his wife, the former Amy
johnson, both noted British flyers,
who intended leaving Croydon Field
for flight to New York last night,
have postponed their attempt. They
announce that they will start within
a few days. They are planning
triple record breaker by flying non
stop to New York, thence back across
the Atlantic to some point in the
Middle or Near East and then again
to England,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
Government Orders Clothing
in Children's SqvedtShobs
Forced Labor Used to Supply Pants for Re
forestation Camp Workers in Ohio, Pa.

WASHINGTON 7Repots that workers employed in the
manufacture demonstration workers
girls employed conditions Ohio Pennsylvania
another earchight New for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
news BRIEFS
INDIANA IN WET COLUMN

INDIANAPOLIS, June TT h
prohibitionists suffered a smashing
defeat yesterday in losing the state
of Indiana, which they had claimed
as certain. In all their campaign
material the drys have called In
diana the crucial state. 1t was the
first of the fourteen states they had
hoped would hold out against the
repeal of the prohibition amend
ment The vote for repeal was
slightly more than two to one. The
industrial district in the northwest
part of the state embracing Gary,
Whiting, Hammond and E. Chicago
went wet ~ to 1. 1t is the tenth
consecutive state to ratify the re-
peal of the amendment,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08

Always take a copy Tor more) of
the Daily Worker with you when you
go to work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
ORGANIZATIONS JOIN ITALIAN
ANTI-FASCIST DEMONSTRATION
Trade Union Unity and international Labor
Defense Call Members to Meet

NEW YoRK-Addtonal force being
the italian United
css Italian Consulate 10th Saturday
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-14
CITY MAY Get
PUBLIC WORKS
HEADQUARTERS
Van Mugs Asks That Drive
in Five States Be
Directed Here.

BIZ Scripps-Hopard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON. July 14-Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary of In
terror Harold L. Ickes today we're
asked by Senator Frederick VAN
Mugs to designate Indianapolis as
the headquarters of the third fed
eral public works region.
The region, mapped out by Secre-
tary IckeS, federal public works ad-
ministrator. includes Wisconsin. Illi-
nois, Michigan, Indiana ard Ohio.
indianapolis is nearer than any
other metropolis to the geographic
cal center of this region.
An advisory committee of three
HooSiers will be appointed to pass
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-14

upon all proposed public works
projects in Indiana and advise the
regional administrator what prof.
ects should be recommended to the
federal public works board for loans
and grants of federal funds.
A resident of Indiana may be
named the regional administrator
1t is known that the name of
Daniel J. Tobin, indianapolis labor
leader, has been suggested to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The four other
states likewise have favorite can
didates.
If Tobin is not named regional
administrator, he undoubtedly will
be selected as a member of the IN
diana advisory committee.
Secretary Ickes said Thursday
night that he hoped to have all
appointments completed by the first
of next week.