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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
Custom TailOrs' Strike
Spreads; $500 Out

NEW YORK.-The ranks of the
striking custom tailors has swelled to
$500 workers as the strike reaches
out to the department stores. Rogers
Peet and John David are among the
big shops affected by the strike. To-
day the strike hall was crowded to
capacity, with the strikers modifying
for a picketing demonstration on
Fifth Ave.
While the Merchant Tailors' Asso-
citation has been sending notices to
the bosses to stand pat against a
settlement with the Industrial Union,
the pressure of the strike is forcing
employers to agree to individual set
Elements.
Vigilant picketing committees have
been organized by the workers in the
sections where they live to guard
against any home scabbing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15

had to break up. I remember seeing
in Louisiana town notices posted
on walls and telegraph poles that
whole circuit OF such teams had bust
ed up. And in the Red River VAL
ley, in Minnesota, where they an
nounced last summer Porky, the
speedbau pitcher, and fine Negro
team, the farmers haven't the few
cents to get them inside the playing
field. There is only one way out. The
farmers will have their sports only
when they have their farms and their
bread. They can do this by starting
to play ball with the workers to knock
capitalism out Of the box foreveA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
Schieffelin is Closely Tied Up with Big
Morgan Insurance Companies and Banks;
President of Big Corporations

continuance Of the f1ve-cent fare on
the city's transportation lines. Tam
many is maneuvering to increase the
transit fare. Schieffelin, the Fusion
promoter, will now say to the public
that he is against fare rise. But
Schieffelin and the Tammany boss,
John f. Curry, stand as one on this
issue. Curry wants higher fare. So
does Schieffelin.
In speech on January 16, 1927,
before the City Republican Club,
Schieffelin expressed himself definite
ly on this question. He said that a
ten-cent fare on subway express
trains twas the only solution to the
transit problem" Schieffelin wanted
the Republicans and Tammany to
get together in this plot to gouge
millions of dollars yearly out of the
pockets of the workers. A fare in
crease would bring new piles of
wealth into the Golfers of the B.M.T.
and I.R.T. directors. That Schieffe-
lin wanted a united front" against
the sub-riders is indicated by his
appeal to the Republicans shat the
transit problem should not be al
lowed to become a political ISSUE"
Against Taxes on Rich
When, in 1880, the capitalist crisis
began to take heavy toll of it's work
victims, Schieffelins outstanding
thought was for his interests - the
monied interests. Schieffelin was n
prepayment of plan to entirely abol-
ish income taxes on capital gains. He
was at that time member of COM
mittee of the New York Merchants
Association which proposed that
Congress do away with these assess
ments. Such move would throw a
new tax load on the working masses,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
Davidson, Fusion Chairman, Is Business Asso-
ciate of Tammany Congressman; Always
Defends the Wall Street Bankers

is president and director of the KEEL
Weldon Realty Corporation, and he is
treasurer of the Warren Securities
Corporation.
Rockefeller Man Helps Fusion
To build their war chest, the City
Fusion Party leaders have the assis-
lance of the financier who has raised
more money in political campaigns
than probably any living man In
America. This man is Col. Henri
Rogers Winthrope He is a directc
Of the Chase National Bank, a Rookie 4
feller institution.
In the 1924 national campaign,
Winthrope was treasurer Of the Re-
publican Senatorial Committee. In
1882 WINTHROP was head Of pow.
erful private group seeking funds eor
the Herbert Hoover campaign. He
was also helping the Republican Ma
tional and State Committees.
On August 20, 1898, he was ap-
pointed chairman Of the Fusion
finance committee. Winthrope is .
close friend Of many Of the wealth.
lest men in this country. These
friends will corIribute to the Fusion
campaign fund. In the meantime
Winthrope's committee will issue ap-
peals to millions Of New York work.
ers for contributions. Winthropea
friends know that the Fusion candi-
dates are all servants Of the vested
interests, else the banker would not
ell IL, n To- Al, taf1 All
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15

more than one million starving work.
ers in the city, Davi'5cn took ecca-
sion to defend the position of the
bankers.
Early in July, 1888, the bankers
announced that they would end none
OF the money extorted from the wo..S-
ers for relief of the starving jobiess
and their families. Davidson admit
ted that relief was necessary. How
ever, on July IL, Davidson sought to
e,ionercte the bankers. Although
tl,or-cnds of families are being left
to starve, he placcd the blame on
Ta,nmany. re sa'd the situation was
BROUGHT about 10Y the insensate
greed of Tamnany and was not due
to the attitude OF the bankers"
For time Fusionists were eau
tious about becoming too chummy
with Samuel H. Koenig, head Of the
Manhattan Republican organization.
Koenig is known to have been very
close to Tammany Boss Curry. Koe-
nig's district leaders also were known
to have sheltered racketeers. The
matter OF catching more votes was
considered and soon Koenig was in
vited into the leadership Of Curry's
enemies.
Praised Republican Boss
OF course, Koenig is ever ready to
turn to any side that might offer
more political jobs. He has already
been praised by Davidson. AS a
trader for votes, the Fusion chair
man is showing Tammany Curry
that he, too, is just as adroit CAPT.
talist politician, with neither shame
nor principle.
Davidson has wide business inter-
ests. He is president and director
Of the Clinton Gates Corporation. He
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15

of doctrine before the public and
practices another when it serves his
pocketbook.
Davidson Close to Tammany Official
In 1881 Davidson was assigned BY
the Committee Of One Thousand to
form group of $50 lawyers to fight
rachetesrs. On November II, 1882,
when this committee began formally
the organization of an Independent
Party, Davidson was made head of
the plan and scope committee. Da-
wilson was convinced that Tammany
was corrupt, heartless, bad beyond
correction. Davidson indicated that
he would have nothing to do with
Tammany either in a business or po-
litical way. Nevertheless, at that
very hour Davidson was assc q led
IN business with a Cong-a5srnan who
vas taking his political orders from
the Tammany- McCocey machine.
The Fusion chairman is a director
of the Tri-National Trading Cor
poratjon. Associated with him on the
board is Emanuel Celler, Democratic
representative from Brooklyn and q
strong supporter of the Tammany
machine. But business Is business!
Davidson and Celler are working to-
gether toward a common end - the
exploitation of the workers. In such
a situation Celler forgives Davidson
for his public attacks on his political
friends i. and the Fusion leader
very politely forgets all about Tam
many graft and crime.
Defends Bankers
In his public TRADES, Davidson
takes the greatest care that his re-
marks should not be misunderstood
as shafts against the masters Of
Tammany-the Wall Street barons.
Davidson would have the workers be-
lieve that while Tammany was their
enemy, the bankers were their
friends. Thus in discussing the COM
plete breakdown OF relief to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15

a five cent tax on all taxi rides, which
will fall heaviest on the 30,00O indie
pendent owners of cabs, and several
taxes supposedly against the rich
a one and half percent tax on the
gross income Of utility companies,
a five percent tax on brokerage
houses, a tax Of one quarter Of one
per cent on the assets and invest
mentS' savings banks and life and
IRE insurance companies, and a
stock transfer tax on stock exchange
transactions.
Taxes on Poor Permanent.
The water and taxi levies are
permanent The other taxes are for
six months.
That the largest part Of the new
revenues will go to the Wall Street
bankers as payments for loans, was
revealed in the speech of the Repub-
lican Alderman, who said:
''The money from the taxes is
not going to relieve hardShipS and
suffering caused by unemployment,
but is going to the city's bankers
to pay back money advanced
year ago and already spent"
The so-called "Wall Street" taxes,
1t is admitted, will be very difficult
to enforce. Wall Street people
readily admitted that the stock ex-
change taxes will be easily tied up
in the courts for the entire six months
in which they are supposed to apply
That the Wall Street banks do not
expect the city to be able to collect
the taxes on the utility companies
etc, is evidenced by the fact that
they have so far refused to grant
any further loans even on the basis
of the new taxes.
1t is expected that there will be a
crisis in city payrolls on October !.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
FUNDS FOR DELEGATE
NEEDED.

All individuals and organiza-
tiOns who have collected funds for
the sending of a New York City
delegate to the Paris Congress are
requested to bring them to Room
1910, 104 Fifth Ave-, not later than
Saturday noon. The New York City
delegate must leave not later than
Saturday night in order to reach
the Congress on time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15

This is the second of a series of
three articles in which the mani
fold connections of the Fusion
managers and hackers with Wall
Street have been brought to light.
The third and last article will ap-
pear tomorrow, and will be devoted
to an analysis of the political
career Of the Fusion candidate for
Mayor, Fiorello La Guardia.
BY JAMES CASEY
Part III.
WILLIAM JAY SCHIEFFELIN
w known as the founder of the
Fusion movement, is a willy dema-
gogue who has one considerably dis
tinction among capitalist politicians.
He seems always ready to shed tears
over the plight Of overburdened tax
payers while his companies exploit
the workers to swell his personal
bank accounts.
From the year 1906, when he be-
came chairman of the Citizens
Union, he has often rallied bourgeois
and petty bourgeois civic groups and
thousands Of workers to support one
group Of capitalist politicians or an
other. On October 81, 1881, as the
head Of the Committee Of One
Thousand, he launched the move
which developed into the present
City Fusion Party. Many of his
demagogic utterances, given wide
publicity in the capitalist press, have
led workers and small business men
to believe that he was an enemy Of
the robber- utility corporations and
Of big business in general. No as
sumption could be farther from the
truth.
One Of the principal Issues in the
current election campaign is that of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
New Harlem Group to Meet.

The newly organized Industrial
Workers of Harlem Club will hold
its third meeting tonight at St.
Lukes Hall, 1875 w. 130th st. Mrs.
w. Burroughs, school teacher ex-
PEELED for her activities in behalf
of the Scottsboro boys, viii speak
on the "NRA and what it means to
the Negro workers" Weissberg,
manager of the Dress Dept. of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union will speak on the situation in
the dress trade. Admission is free
to all workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
City Events
ATTENTION YOUNG
COMMUNISTS

All Young Communist League
members are to report tonight,
September Is, between 6 PM. and
9 PM. at their respective Y.C.L.
Section Headquarterss->This is in
reference TO an extraordinary sit
uation that demands the presence
of every Young Communist.
District Buro, District No. 2
Young Communist League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15

IT was taken to cell there, for
there is no hospital or clinic, and
placed on a damp cot. Insects crawled
over the beds and the patients?
When the doctors thought Minor
was about to die they ordered his
release.
Besides Minor, the other speakers
will also relate their own experiences.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
Symposium on the South In
the Bronx. Tonight.

Sender Garrn of the Daily Worker
staff, DR.. Benjamin B. Goldstein,
formerly of Montgomery, Ala, and
Louise Thompson, Negro lecturer,
and writer, will speak on Negro
Persecution in the South" tonight at
Ambassador Hall, Third and Clare
mont AYES, the Bronx. Auspices:
Bronx Section, I. L. D.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
NOTICE!

The Editorial Office of the Daily
Worker is open from to o'clock
every evening except Saturdays and
Sundays. A competent comrade,
member of the Volunteer Committee,
will be there to help workers who
have difficulty in formulating letters
to the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
Daily Worker Volunteers.

Daily Worker Volunteer member
ship meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock
at Workers Center, IS e. 18th st. AL
Volunteer members and workers
wishing to join the Volunteers must
be present at this important meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
Jewelry WORKERS Attention.

All jewelry workers on the Bazaar
Committee are called to an impor-
tant meeting tonight at $3.50 O'Clock,
at the Office of the National Press
Bazaar Committee, so E. 18th st.
sixth floor.
The work of making up jewelry ar
ticles for the bazaar must start at
once. Tonight's meeting will lay
down plans for this work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
Tell Prison Experiences
at Protest Meet I onight
Minor to Tell of Welfare Island Where Negro
Was Slain; Hathaway, Others Will Speak
By del

Cells that eeked of exeOn;
these tiers virtually fought
mattresses the bodies
City, saw imprisoned there for six
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
TAMMANY ALDERMEN JAM
THROUGH ALL UNTERMYER
new TAX PROPOSALS
Money Will Go to Pay Off Wall Street
Bankers, Republican Member Reveals
in Public Debate

their made to the
Administration of Aldermen today
overwhelming majority
increase water that
will cost the poorest tenants year
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
!&&A0(ST&:
Farmers Play Ball
By BEN FIELD
tBastling for Edward Newhousesa

FARMERS play ball. do not hare the Broo&syu
sepro team the Farmers who consist OF farmers
than Farmers National Bank in small town 5cR
and by the farmers mean real dirt farmers with the mana
and the milk spotting their overalls and boots.
The sports writers of the boss papers fond c
adding coo to stories about big league players when
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15

WANTED-USE OF AUTOMOBILE
If there is anyone who can give
the Party the use of an automobile
for a three months tour please ad-
dress P. o. Box 81, Station ID, New
York City. Such machine will be
in charge of one who will keep 1t
in AL condition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15

will admit you to The Mysteries nf
Paris. Baseball Is healthier than ssach
mysteries" or sitting in church bovA-
ing to Christ for the Toys that Tire
earth abounds with"
But even baseball has suffered dur
ing the crisis. Many of the seni-pso
teams, consisting of farm boys, have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
National League.
Games Today.
National League.

New York at Chicago.
Brooklyn at st. Louis.
Boston at Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati.
American League.
st. Louis at Philadelphia q games)
Cleveland at New York.
Detroit at Washington.
Chicago at Boston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-15
Standing Of the Clubs
National League.

fillmore at Buffalo Night Game. Newark
Rochester postponed--wet grounds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-07

demands for a 20 per cent increase
and a collective agreement
The New York Times" ALWAYS
eager to damn the revolutionary
workers, carried the following item
ON April rs, 1888. 1t will be found
on page 2.
"HELSINGFORS, April "A. - As
result of Communist agitation
and pressure on the Scandinavian
unions, the Finnish Seamen's and
Firemen's Union has declared a
strike. 1t is reported that the men
are reluctantly obeying tire unions
orders and the shipowners may
Sign non-union crews"
In other words, the Is.H. groups
forced the strike on the reformist Of
Metals OF the union, and the offlcials
are hoping the seamen will not ac-
cept 1t. This despatch proves the
I.W.W. are liars.
The I.S.H. Immediately called for
international solidarity with the Fin
nish seamens strike. Immediately
the I.S.H. sections started action
against the Finnish ships. Don't
Load them, Don't Man them, Pull
the crews wherever they are" was
the slogan and it was pushed by
every section Of the IS.H.
In Norway, Denmark and Sweden
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-07
Analyses MIRA.
WarPreparation
BY a Marine Worker Cnrresnondept

By Marine Worker Correspondent
BALTIMORE, Md-In Roosevelt's
Blanket Code" in line with the
National Recovery Act, which is sup
posed to cover all industries, the
blanket is rather wet. The strikes
throughout the country against the
Recovery Act prove that the work.
erS will not be blanketed and smoth-
cred to death.
The everybody a job" policy of
Recover Roosevelt" is no Joke, be-
cause the coming war will supply all
workers with jobs-a tin hat and a
rifle, and told to go murder them
foreigners who are causing the rot
ten conditions"
We must begin to realize that ev-
cry move Of the bosses is headed di-
rectly into war, for markets. for
profits, and we must realize more
than ever that we must organize
and fight against bosses wars, be-
fore it breaks out!
A fight against the Recovery Act
is a fight against imperialist war.
a fight against rotten conditions is
a fight against imperialist war!
The Convention of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union went on
record to mobilize seamen. long
shoremen and harbor workers to
fight against bosses war. To build
a strong Marine Workers Industrial
Union, to stop shipments of war
material!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-07
-
Courier" Editor
Keeps Scottsboro
Money from LID,
Vann Refuses to Give
Up $500 Balance for
Defense of Boys

NEW YORK.-Robert L. Vann,
editor of the Pittsburgh Courier has
refused to turn over money collected
for the Scottsboro defense to the
International Labor Defense, ac-
cording to charges made by the
/ L. D.
Mr.. Vann told Carl Hacker, who
called on him with delegation, that
much Of the money collected by the
Courier had been turned over to the
National Association for the Adj
vancement Of Colored People, al
though this organization is no long
er authorized to collect money for
Scottsboro defense. A balance of
$500 remains in his hands, which
he refused to turn over Immediately
but said he would give to the LID
on July 81.
A wire from the national office
of the LID. on August 2, demand
ing that he turn over the money,
remained unanswered, and SO far he
has made no move to keep his
promise nor his pledge to those who
subscribed the money that it would
be used for Scottsboro defense.
Vann has recently been appointed
special assistant to the United States
Attorney General
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-07
COLLECT A DIME"
WEEK TO FINANCE
c. P. ELECTIONS
Drive to Start Aug. 10
for N. Y. Communist
Campaign

NEW YORK. - To help finance
the biggest Communist election CAM
paign in New York City, the week
beginning Saturday, August 10 will
see workers and sympathizers of the
Communist Party collecting ten-cent
pieces.
The Communist Election Cam
paign Committee, through its man
ager Carl Brodsky, issued a state
ment to all mass organizations
trade unions, workers clubs, Inter-
national Workers Order branches
and language groups calling for sup
port of the dime financial drive. A
goal of 10000 dimes has been set.
The call follows:
"The Communist Election Cam
paign is coming in full swing.
Every worker in New York City,
every sympathetic group is vitality
concerned in helping to elect a
few Communist Representatives
this year. We must all join to-
gether in a concentrated fight
against the Tammany graft ad-
Tninistration and the Roosevelt
fake new deal. We must secure
thousands of Communist votes for:
Unemployment insurance, in,me-
date cash relief, against evictions.
Join up, help finance the big
gest Communist election campaign
in New York City"
Your immediate task is as fol-
'ows:
THE week of August 10 TO 81
has been set aside for the col
lection of 10 cent pieces. This is
the first preliminary step in help
ing to finance the immediate pur-
nose OF the campaign. Collect a
dinc' boxes are ready for your
membership in order that they
may proceed at once to secure 10
cent contributions during the spe-
cial week of August 18th to 27th.
Have one of your representatives
call at Room 539, 1893 Broadway,
headquarters Of the Election Cam
paig'n Committee, where he will
be given as many boxes as will be
necessary in order to involve your
membership in this first necessary
step.
DO not delay, set your organi-
zation into motion at once!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-07

IN spite of the reformist leaders of
the marine workers unions, ships
have been tied UP by the IS.H. op-
position groups. In Sweden they
even tied up the passenger ships that
the Finnish Union gave special per
mission" to operate between Helsing-
fors and Stockholm.
In England the Seamen's Minority
Movement QS.H) forced through
the transport unions resolution to
boycott Finnish ships and Finnish
cargoes. This boycott was cancelled
by the Trade Union Council after a
conferences with the shipowners. on
the grounds that the Finnish union
had not requested it, Only the ISH
had demanded the boycott. These
facts are quoted from the London
Daily Herald, official organ Of the
British unions.
In New York, the Marine Workers
Industrial Union pulled the crew off
Finnish ship, for a day, on i'm
mediate demands. They would not
continue the strike however in New
York, because a strikebreaker from
Brooklyn assured them that New
York was full Of scabs who would
take their places. They decided to
go to Europe and strike In Euro
pean port, If their union endorsed
the plan. However, it was the Amer