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Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-03

SIXtH INNING
Senators: Myer fouled to Mancu-
So Goslin also fouled to Mancuso.
Manush popped to Ryan. No runs,
no hits, no errors.
Giants: MancuSo flied to Man.
ush. Ryan popped to Kuhel. Hub
bell singled past Bluege. Moore
forced Hubbell Bluege to Myer. No
runs, one hit, no errors.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-03
NlIEII<efS
L. A. Poultry

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3. U.H -
Following are today-s market quo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-16
RUBBER WORKERS
STRIKE FOR RAISE

AKRON. Ohio, June 15.-Reyolting
against miserable working conditions
and waee-cuts, nearly 100 young
workers of the Alligator Rubber Co.
came out on strike this week. They
had demanded the return of 20
per cent wage-cut given eight months
ago, which the bosses refused.
On Friday the company Informed
the workers that If they did not re-
turn at the same wages they will
net be taken back. This started the
return to the shops.
Falkner Of the Department of La
Dor, who tried to sell out the strike
at the Cuyahoga plant, helped to
break the unity of the workers by
spreading lies about the Unem-
ployed Councils. While most of the
workers were influenced, many gave
their names to the Unemployed
Councils and will take steps with
its help, to build q shop organiza-
ton and prepare for a real strike.
Workers here are employed 7 days
a week for IL and IS hours day.
One striker displayed q pay envelope
of $4.31 for 4a hours of work week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-16
New Bedford Local
of Socialists Votes
Unity Against Cuts

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, June a.,
The local branch of the Socialist
Party, by a majority vote of 8 to 3
decided TO support the National Tex
tile Workers Unions call for a united
front with the UTW unions in q
struggle against wage cuts, for wage
increases, for a 30-hour week without
wage cuts, against stretch out and
speed up system and for federal I'M
employment insurance.
When a vote was taken the motion
won one vote, the vote being 9 to g..
OBrien, who counted the votes
counted for the motion and o.
against 1t. The membership rejected
this trickery and called for recount
When a record was taken, Burgess.
one of Batty's right hand supporters
in the Textile Council, with few
other right wingers, walked out Of the
hall.
Burke, IN a short talk explained
Roosevelt's program Of wage cuts and
starvation and urged all honest work
ers to fight against the mill bosses
At q previous meeting OF this
branch Of the Socialist Party they
agreed on a united struggle against
unemployment and police terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-16
JOBLESS ALONG
ROUTE GIVE AID
TO OHIO MARCH
.Tobless Insurance Is A
Central Demand of
Relief March

BEDFORD, Ohio, June 15.-One
hundred and twenty-five Ohio Re
lief Marchers arrived here last
night from Cleveland. The demand
for unemployment insurance, which
the Peoples Relief March has raised
as a central demand, has gained in
creased Importance with the dec
laration of bankruptcy by Cleveland
charities on July first This means
that further payments for relief to
the johless are threatened.
The first stop Of the workers to-
day is Akron, the largest rubber pro-
ducing center in the world. The
whole march is being covered on
foot. The workers march six and
half hours day. covering a dis
lance OF II miles.
Along the route support to the
Tnarch is shown by contributions OF
hood and funds. In Bedford the
narchers slept in town hall. Food
was provided by the Small Home
ard Land owners Federation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-16
GOV. HORNER
URGES SHERIFFS
TO BREAK STRIKE

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 15.--
Governor Horner, who was elected
with the support of some Of the
leaders of the Progressive Miners
Union in public statement declares
himself on the side Of the strike
breakers and on the side Of the
Lewis machine against the miners.
The governor instructed the sheriffs
as follows: THAT the sleriffs first
duty is to see that there is no in
reference with those miners in the
county who want to work"
In sangamon County, that is, in
the Springfield vicinity, where the
miners recently staged a mass picket
line which was attacked and one OF
the striking miners, member Of the
PIMA, was killed, General Black Of
the National Guard, stated that he
will not tolerate any more mass
meetings of the miners. Even meet
ings of the locals of the PIMA can
be held only with his permission.
The Brigadier General Of the IL
linois National Guard is Thomas 8,
Hammond, president of the Illinois
Manufacturing Association.
The left wing inside of the PIMA.
carries on campaign for unity of
the PIMA. and U.M.W.A miners,
against military rule, for mass pick
citing, for developing struggles, for
improvement of the economic condi-
tons of the employed and unemploy-
ed miners
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for the very men who expelled pro-
gressives Tor criticizing the admins
tration, the membership had better
beware Of the motives of these turn
coats. These are the men who, when
the smoke of battle has cleared away,
will be found in secure $4,000 and
$1,000 year jobs, and by-gones will
be by-gones.
a House Cleaning Needed
What is needed is house clean
ing; not only in the Grand Lodge
apparatus, as recommended in some
Of the programs, but a houseclean-
ing in the ranks of the progresSives,
so that the issues affecting the good
and welfare of the membership will
be raised sharply and fought through
to a finish. 1t is hoped that among
the progressive delegates some will
be found with courage enough to
lead this fight and carry it through
to the membership in the lodges.
Unity Program
The following Program to Protect
Wages and Working Conditions" is
sued by the Unity Committee should
offer the rallying point for the real
progressive forces at the convention.
The program says:
]. The convention must go ON rec
ord against any changes in the work
ing agreements which will decrease
employment or reduce income. 1t
must instruct clearly committees of
adjustment on how to proceed against
violations of agreements. 1t must in
struct the representatives to the com
ing wage negotiations to carry out
these decisions.
3. The convention must 60 on rec
ord for the carrying out of the de-
cisions OF the willard agreement TO
restore the basic wage rate. Repre-
sentatives to the coming wage nego-
tiations should be instructed accord
ingly.
3. The convention must instruct
the representatives to the coming ne
gotiations to insist on six-hour day
with no reduction in living stand
ards or basic rate of pay; it must
propose the amendment of the Ad-
ainson law to read instead Of 8
hours.
4. The convention must settle the
question Of one united pension, which
is financially sound, which assures
the future payment by the roads, will
not be decreased through reduced OPP
Grating income, and which does not
decrease the present financial Obiiga-
tions of the railroads at the expense
of the employees. "a favorable vote
on united pension movement has
just been won). E.
S. The convention must instruct
the representatives to the coming
wage negotiations to include unen-
ployment insurance at the expense
of the railroads and the U. s. gov
eminent.
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poor began to cry, but Wila-
can be done with these eXploiters
They care very little for the workers,
you hear only one answer, IF you
are not satisfied without pay will
you please look Tor better job!'
A few days ago two inspectors
came to our factory. Followed by
the boss they walked through the
factory. They came over to one girl
and asked, How much can you earn
a week." She answered that for
that week she will have earned $1.8o
and last week she made $3.50. The
boss saw that the girls statement
was not to his liking. He said, "She
Just came in to work in the factory,
she cannot work good yet. There
are women in my factory who are
even now earning SIS"
But our merciful boss did not dare
to show that woman who is earning
that money because there aren't
such. Suppose one woman does earn
more, what about those women who
have to live on $180 week.
p.
Editors Note. We call attention to
needle trades workers throughout
the country to the fact that very
little worker correspondence comes
to the Daily Worker from them, We
get very many letters from other
industries. We ask the needle trades
workers to follow the example of this
worker and send us letters of their
conditions of work and their strug-
giles on the job
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-16
Real Issues Are
Sidetracked at the
Engineers NJ eet

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 15.--An
appeal not to sidetrack the real is
sues of the Locomotive Convention
now reaching it's tenth day in Cleve-
land has been issued by the Railroad
Brotherhood's Unity Committee thru
their representatives on the scene.
The appeal calls first for amend
mentS to the constitution insuring
RANK AND FILE CONTROL. 1t
points out that unless this control
is possible, any set Of politicians
elected to office, can swing the
Brotherhood into any venture they
please, as was done when the pres
ent administration bid for progress
sive" votes in 1927. when the con-
vention has seen in deeds as well as
in words who is actually for progress
sive action" says the statement, then
and only then, should the controver-
sial questions like the election of
grand lodge officers be settled"
Candidates Running for Jobs
Most of the candidates to office
are not interested in real reform, nor
in putting into practice the funda-
mental job of a labor union, the
battle against wage cuts and for
maintaining the best possible condi-
lions. They are interested in put
ting forward minor progressive" is
sues and then running for salaried
jobs, as the champions OF these re-
forms.
Although two progressives were
elected to the press committee and
all five places ON the committee to
investigate the financial nnisman-
agement Of the Brotherhood bank
have gone to the administration
forces, the question of what to do
about mass lay-offs, RR. consolida-
tions and the 20 per cent wage cut
proposed for negotiation tomorrow
have not even been discussed.
Convention Delegates Ignore Real
Issues
While the convention delegates and
their wives go on all day outings
and waste their time and the money
of the rank and file on grand balls,
the roads go right ahead closing ter
ninals, taking off trains and buy
ing low maintenance cost equipment
Although three quarters Of million
railroad men have lost their jobs in
the last few years, the question of
unemployment insurance and relief
for these men and their families has
not even come up ON the floor.
The power of the combined pro-
gressive delegations would be suffi-
cient to force these issues to a vote,
but such actions are not in the pro-
grams Of the progressiyes except in
words as the Unity statement clearly
shows. When the majority vote which
forced the seating Of expelled men,
bers turned into q confidence vote
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-16
A FORGOTTEN MAN
TELLS NEED OF A
UNITED STRUGGLE

BROOKLYN, N. Yin the last
election I paid attention mostly to
the open air meetings Of the Demo-
cratic party and its promises about
getting jobs for the unemployed. I
as one Of the unemployed was quite
interested in their speaking that if
Roosevelt was elected everything will
be alright. Two months later I was
very disappointed, / was compelled
to apply to the relief station for re-
lief. In the house was no bread,
no coal and no lights I knocked at
the doors Of the relief I could not
get anything until the neighbors told
me to apply to the Unemployed
Council and then first got relief.
One morning the investigator came
in and was out to look for a job.
He asked my wife where was and
she told him that 1 was out look
ing for work. Three days later a
letter came for me to report for city
work. was working for two months
and one nice morning the foreman
told me not to come in to work, so
I asked him why, He told me that
1 was not the only one that there
was 20 more on that station, P, S. 4s
fired daily.
I tried to explain to him that I
am confronted with torture as there
is not any food in the house, the
answer was that he could not help
it. BY now I found out that only by
true unity of all workers and mill
tant action Of the employed and I'M
employed workers we can win.
s.. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-16
JOBLESS STRIKE
IN PROVIDENCE,
GET CONCESSIONS

PROVIDENCE, r. l., June 15.-The
two thousand jobless worke's who
stopped a pay cut on the relief OBJ
and are striking for 80 per cent
increase are discussing today the re-
turn to work on the basis of signed
statement by Edward P Reidy, Di-
rector of Public Aid Reidy proposes
to Withdraw the pay cut and declares
that there will be no cut in the milk
allowance He further states that in
July he will take up with the state
commission the demand of the job
less for $40 weekly allowance for
married people with the addition of
81 for each dependent.
The strike committee will propose
to the strikers that if Reidy guaran-
tees that there will be no discrirn-
ination in giving work that they
should return organized to continue
the fight for all demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-16
TUUC CONFERENCE
PREPARES FIGHT
ON RECOVERY ACT

NEW YORK At a meeting called
by the Trade Union Unity Council,
which was packed to the doors with
over 500 workers from the A. F. Of L..
and the militant unions present, the
meaning of the National Recovery
Act and its menace to the working
class was fully exposed. Louis Vein
stock, secretary of the A. F. Of L.
Committee for Unemployment Insur-
ance, opened the meeting and spoke
in detail about the provisions of the
Act and how it will serve to attack
wages and working conditions and
the right of the workers TO organize
DO you know what kind Of mini
mum wage Sidney Hillman wants
the government and the bosses to
give the workers?" asked Weinstock.
This labor misleader, high in the
councils Of the government and the
bosses, asks the Senate Committee to
set $40 week as a minimum wage
for the workers"
Vein Jock concluded with a plea
to defeat the measures against the
workers by organizing to strike for
better conditions and to defend the
left wing unions.
Louis Hyman, in ringing speech,
declared that Che bosses and the gov
eminent fear the real class strug-
gle unions and recognize the fake
leaders to have them force their pro-
gram of hunger upon the workers.
The president has full power to die
tate, but he gets dictated to by the
trusts. The conditions Of the
workers have to be OK.'d by the
president, that means by the bosses, -
Hyman declared. I'VE have defied
these laws before and we will do il
again. We will organize and refuse
to accept their dictates"
After a 1irited discussion from the
floor, 1t wa decided to call a larger
conference Of all working class or
CARNATIONS early in July to lay plans
for united front drive against tbs
Recovery Bill.
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JurUIlel J0rOugn Using prices, Is not
going to "sbsorb" these textiles in
the near future. Thus we may ex-
pect slump in the summer or fall
when inventories pile high and goods
do not move" into the hands of the
only possible purchasers.
Wage "Rises" Slight
Wage increases have, for some tex
tile workers, returned fraction Of
the cuts made by mill owners in re-
cent years. But workers should not
be nisled by these gru0ging "volun-
tsry" wage rises, most of them made
to "hold labor in line" during the
present rush period. Many of these
slight rises have come only as the
result Of the strikes or threatened
strikes with which this issue Of Tex
tie Notes is largely concerned. And
the small advances which are given
so much prominence in the capital
list press are not enough to keep p9ce
with the already rising cost of liv-
ing. The raises forced from en-
ployers to date should merely whet
TIE dppctlbSS VI JS6siAC WIZ htl o.
With merchants and advertisers talk
ing of prices rising to 1925 levels,
workers should demand nothing less
than a return also of real wages
at least to 1925 levels and for a
working day of fewer hours. The
real wages of textile workers must
not only be raised to the levels they
once reached, but pushed on up.
Higher real wages and shorter hours
OF work must be combined.
Industrial Recovery Anti-Strike
Measure
Mill owners are organizing more
compactly than ever and sending
special agents and lobbyists to Wash
ington to shape the Roosevelt fascist
industrial control bill to suit their
profit-making purposes. At the same
time they are urging their employees
to refrain from strikes. Industrial
Relief Near - Why Strike" says a
headline in the Morning Call Of
Paterson, N. j., in an attempt to di-
vert silk workers from using their
most effective weapon to improve
conditions. And officials Of the U.
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in a demonstration May 81 al
the Manhattan Borough Home
Relief Bureau office where
they came to demand relief.
| They are to be sentenced June %
AID unless saved by mass protest
face sentence up until three years.
The case was of open frame up
| character. The police and stool-pig-
cons testifying for them contradicted
| themselves and presented hazy sto-
ries while the witnesses for the work
ers presented stories consistent all
the way through because they were
true.
Bar Workers
1t was apparent from the begin
ming that the capitalist court meant
to railroad these two unemployed
fighters just as they had done with
Sam Gonshak in the frantic efforts
of the city government to stif1e the
movement of the unemployed against
the hunger program.
The court building was surrounded
oy police inside and out, barring
workers from the room. "This is a
special ruling for today" police told
workers protesting that they had a
right to enter
Even witnesses were kept out, I'M
less they had subpoenas and even
these were only allowed in court
when called
Tell of Attack
Clark told how ne was attacked by
Bak, the cop who accused him of the
assault and who grabbed a plscard
from his hand and used the stick
to fell him. Helen Hartman, a young
married woman who came to the bu-
reau with dispossess, was near
Clarke at the time, she told the
court, and protested the cops bru-
tally.
Clinching this was picture pre-
scented by Alexander, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense attorney, de-
Tending the workers, showing Clarke
lying on the ground with Bak stand
ing over him. The worker who took
the photograph, member of the
Film and Photo League, also testi-
fled.
Reject Picture
The judges refused to accept the
picture in evidence saying tits in
complete" and accepted the cops
word that he had nothing in his
hand.
Bak on the witness stand admitted
that the supervisor of the bureau
had ordered the police to dispense the
crowd who were peacefully picket
ing the office.
Prepared Verdict
A moment after the case was closed,
fraction Of elaboration, the
judges pronounced guilty sentence.
When the workers were being led
from the court to be fingerprinted,
they were greeted by crowd outside
to which Clarke responded with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-16
Needle and Textile Workers Describe
Their Working Conditions
Philadelphia Plush Mill Strikers Appeal North Carolina Mill to
Strike fOr2 TOnmS stem

By a Textile Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pain the Col
Inns and Altman Corporation, plush
mills, we are on strike since May
30 for a two-loom operation instead
Of four looms.
One Man Does Work Of Four
We are compelled to do the work
of four men. The weaverS used TO
get 80 cents a yard for A pick Job,
operating one loom 1912 hours per
day, or 111a hours on night shifts.
Now, the weavers get six cents per
yard for the same quality A pick,
operating four looms eight hours per
day and three shifts.
Hundreds Put Out of Work
There are several different quail
tiles of cloth; all have been reduced
in proportion, same as the A pick
Job. The Company finds out that it
is impossible to operate four looms
successfully, and turn off good work,
so they put the weavers back on two
looms, with the same four loom rate
of pay. All other Plush Mills in
Philadelphia that were operating on
one loom system we're forced to go on
two looms in order to compete with
this corporation. This system has
put hundreds of men out Of work,
never to return. unless we have six
hours per day system, which means
wage cuts.
Again this company Is trying to
force us to take another reduction
by operating four looms at a reduced
rate.
No Pay for Hours Work
They also grade the work: No. -
Six cents per yard. Grade No. y
Five cents per yard. Grade No. 81
NO PAY AT ALL. Sometimes there
is a damage in the cloth which is
no fault of the weaver at all, it is
graded as No. 3 and the weaver re-
ceives no pay at all for eight hours
Of work.
Other Crafts Have Bad Conditions
The twisters are also ON piece work
and it is a daily occurrence to wait
four or five hours before getting a
Job. Several times they waited all
day without getting job, therefore
not earning penny.
The same thing has happened to
the loom fixers and weavers, in fact,
we are all subjected to the same con-
ditions. Loom fixers and knitters
were earning $50 per week for STA
hours night work before they started
cutting wages. In 1882 my average
wage was about SIS per week, for 40
hours on the three shift basis.
The weavers were earning about
$45 per week for so hours, now they
average $11 week.
This corporation has large mill
in Roxboro, North Carolina, operat-
ing on 4-loom basis. think If you
could let them know, they might
strike for two looms,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-16
MELLON CHARGED
WITH FRAUD IN
TAX RETURNS

WASHINGTON, June 14-AndreW
Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury un-
der Hoover, and considered one of the
richest men in the world, was ac-
cused by L. Olson, a former employee
Of the Senate Banking Committee, of
having defrauded the Federal gov
eminent of $2,02o,131 in income taxes
for the years 1926 to 1890.
The income on which Mellon is
charged with not having paid any
income taxes was large block of
stock which he received from the
Gulf Oil Corporation. company con-
trolied by the Mellon family. In
stead Of registering this stock as in
come Mellon simply signed four notes
of 100000, thus giving the impression
that he was buying the stock.
Olson charges that Mellon has not,
and never intended, to pay for the
stock.
During Melons two terms as Sec
rotary Of the Treasury, over s5000,-
000, 900 was refunded to the rich as
income tax refunds.
Mellon and his own companies re-
eeived over s14,ooo,00o in tax re-
funds.
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Leave Cincinnati on
Nor. to Join March

CINCINNATI, o., June 15.-Col-
urnn number 5 Of the Ohio Relief
March will leave on Monday, June 49,
8 a. M, from the Hospital Lot, 18th
and Central Ave. Workers are called
upon to join in the mass send-off
meeting at the Hospital Lot.
Marchers from the Steele Subdi-
vision, township outside of Cincin-
natl, will join the column at Hamil-
ton Ave. and North Bend Road, at
10 a. m. The column will stop over
in Hamilton, Ohio, where a welcome
demonstration will be held at p. M,
on the Court House steps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-16
VETS MEET
SATURDAY

NEW YORK.-A report on the
Washington veterans convention, and
the discussion of plans to force the
repeal Of the entire economy relief
bill, and to secure adequate relief
for all needy veterans of the nation,
will be on the order of business Sat-
urday afternoon at pm, when Ne
gro and white veterans meet at
Washington Irving High School, 10th
st. and Irving Place.
The meeting is called by the Pro-
visional Rank and File Committee
of New York.