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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
WIN WATER IN
JAMESTOWN, NY.
Unemployed Council
Forces Action
by A Worker Correspondent

JAMESTOWN, N. Y.-The Unem-
ployed Council of jamestown had the
case of Margaret Vine, 316 Allen St.,
who was without water for three
months. During this time she made
several individual attempts to have
the water turned on, but without
success. Then she appealed to the
Unemployed Council
A meeting of neighbors was called
After the discussion, Margaret Vine
was elected chairman. A talk on
Block Committees and the Unem-
ployed Council was given. A decision
on ways and means of handling the
case was arrived at. One from the
Council and two from the Block were
elected to take the case before the
Welfare Board. Margaret Vine argued
that from a point of sanitation and
health she could not be without
water Mr.. johnson, Public Welfare
Director, refused to act.
The Block Committee then took
this case to the Mayor and City
Council and demanded that this
water be turned on. Finally after
considerable discussion by the City
Council, one councilman made a
motion that the case be Investigated
by the Board of Public Utilities with
a recommendation that the water be
turned on. This was done the next
day.
This case clearly shows the result
Of collective action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-EXposure Of
Newton d. Baker as an unprincipled
demagogue follows upon his public
defense of the drastic Ohio criminal
Syndicalism law. M Herbert Wolf,
a local attorney, exposed Baker in a
letter to the press.
Bakers present position does not
surprise me, because L have seen Mr..
Baker turn some fancy somersaults,"
wrote Wolf. He once told me and
other young men at the Goodrich
House that he was Socialist a
practical Socialist he called himself,
explaining that he nominally be-
longed to the Democratic Party be-
cause 'he wished to do something
Immediately"
"Since that time Mr.. Baker has
performed many other stunning
feats. He once publicly resigned
from the Chamber of Commerce,
only shortly thereafter to come back
to it as its president He left a
canvas back duck dinner, in which
he was the principal speaker de-
nouncing the sayagery Of war, to
rush to Mr. Wilson'S cabinet, as sec
rotary of war"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
Try to Cut Pay on
Scandinavian Ships
Rank and File Fight on
Sell-Out Urged


conditions on ships of all Scandi-
navian countries are very bad. The
reformist (reactionary) leaders of the
old unions have been urging the
seamen to accept all sorts of attacks
on their wages and working condi-
lions The Manning scale has been
reduced to about half of what it was
formerly.
The latest assault on the wages was
the proposal endorsed bv the Old line
leaders or the Norwegian Sailors I'm
ion, that the crew sign on for half
the profits of the VOYAGE. They ac-
tually sent one crew out on these
terms and the crew almost died of
starvation during the trim.
Later IL was propossd to give them
SO crowns a month Mus n percent
sge of the profits of the yovage. ar
ter other costs had been paid, The
shipowners the Norwegian Consul
and the "reformist" labor leaders
united ia force these conditions down
the throats of a Norwegian crew in
Hamburg.
Defeat Profit slavery.
The men refused. The labor lead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
s DepOrted Workers,
On Way to U.S.S.R.,
Send Their Greetings

NEW YORK.--Greetings to the
International Labor Defense. and
recognition of the struggle Of the
workers of the United States i'll pre-
venting the Department of Labor
from numbering them by deport;ng
them TO fascist Japan, are contained
iii letter received from the eight
japanese Long Beach prisoners,
written from Berlin on their way to
the Soviet Union.
The Los Angeles district of the
I. L. D. led mass protest of the
workers to obtain voluntary depart
ure for the eight Japanese prisoners,
who were arrested in the Long Beach
raid of January, 1882.
The letter reads, in part:
Dear Comrades:
eve arrived In Berlin safely ON
Jan. 6. We are now at the hotel
and everything well taken care of
by the international Red Aid.
I'VE are expecting to leave to-
morrow for Moscow, U.S.S.R.
1--WE wish 10 thank you for what
you have done for us and reyoln-
tiopary greeting. We promise to
be better reyolutionjsts in the
U. S. S. II.
"Comradely yours,
"ToY0lAND 2 OTHERS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
REPUDIATE Steel.
COMPANY ATTACK
The Old Frame-Up on
Bombing Exposed

YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, Feb. l.
The attempt on the part of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Com
pany and the local newspapers to
place responsibility for Saturdays
bombing Of the home of A. w. Smith,
General Manager of the Company
on radical labor" was condemned
and refuted through official state
ment issued by the Communist
Party.
The statement brands these man
uevers as direct attempt to disrupt
the demonstration and parade of
steel workers scheduled for today at
Watt and Federal Streets and called
by the Steel and Metal workers IN
dUstrial Union as the beginning of
the campaign against the Bird gen.
eral wage cut in the steel industry.
Brand ProvOcation.
Pointing out that the unwarTanted
reference to radical labor" is moth
ing else but an attack on the Union
and the Communist Party the state
ment makes pointed reference to the
bomb-explosion frame-up of Mooney
and Billings, and states: This bomb
ing may be the work of police spies
who will not stop at mu der to in
stigate reaction against organized
labor"
The Statement emphatically de-
clares that methods of individual ter
ror have nothing in common with the
methods of struggles led by the Com
muniSt Party or the militant unions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
Hamilton, Mont, Meet
Backs Hunger March

HAMILTON, Mont.-The Montana
Hunger March to Helena was the
topic at meeting of workers in the
Court House here. The entire subject
Of unemployment insurance was
raised, as well as the revolutionary
movement, and great enthusiasm was
shown.
The meeting sent a telegram to the
governor of Montana demanding that
the program of the Montana Huneer
Marchers be acted on at once. Also
an automobile full Of spuds was sent
to Butte for the relief of comrades
who are Disseminated against.
Worker Correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
Boss Organization Is
Planning NewAttacks
Against Fla. Workers

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, Feb g.
1Tew and more vicious attacks on the
workers of Florida and the Southern
States generally were definitely fore
Swallowed in the call for an anti
working class conference issued by
the so-called Southern Vigilant In
tellgence Association, Inc.
Following on the Herndon conyic-
ton and brutal attacks on the to-
bacco workers of Tampa, the sche-
duled program Of the bosses associa-
ton for fight against the Commu-
mist movement in the Southern
States" is not only indication of the
growth of the Communist Party and
the militant unions, but is, at the
same time a serious warning to the
workers of the entire country to rally
in support Of the toilers thruout the
South.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
BrickIayers' Chairman
ThurOly Exposed AS
Enemy of Unemployed

NEW YORK-LaSt week the chair
man of Bricklayers Union Local No.
9, reported about the Conference held
at Irving Plaza last Sunday, for the
purpose of developing united action
for Unemployment Insurance, relief
and labor legislation.
The chairman did all the talking
and said that the conference was
controlled by Communists and he,
therefore objects to affiliate with it
or making any contributions.
He stated, further, that it is
against the constitution Of the B. M.
P. 1. u, to participate in such a
movement. The rest of the officials,
a selection of liberals and progress
sive' takers upheld the chairman.
But the members of the rank and
file put forward a motion to send a
delegation to Albany and also to con-
tribute S.. Despite their clear ex-
PLANTATION that the delegates to the
Conference were direct representa-
tives of the A. F. of L., locals, and
despite the fact that the chairman
of the conference was a socialist, the
chairman of the local overruled the
motion and did not put it to a vote.
For a long time some members of
the opposition in the local have had
some illusions about such elements as
this chairman, who has been newly
elected. He is styled as an "ex-lib-
eral,' and here is his splendid SER
vice to the A. r. of L. bureaucratS.
Plenty of Unemployment.
The situation of the bricklayers is
very bad-they are practically IS to
90 per cent unemployed. Any good
resolution for action during the last
three years has continuously failed,
mostly due to the sabotage of the
International Union. AS result OF
that the bricklayers lost hope in the
union and participate very little or
not at all for the purpose of forcing
any action from the officials in favor
of the rank and file.
Just recently the International Of
flee of the union in Washington is
sued mandatory order saying that
the members who can't pay dues shall
sign waiver giving up their rights
to get from the 1. U. any moHuary
benefit and old age and sick benefit
(Which they don't get now anyhow
This is necessary to hold on to the
treasury, in order that the 'hard
working" officials can be kept on a
salary of $4,000 a year.
But the resentment of the rank and
file breaks out at times, as for ex-
ample at meeting few weeks ago
when a number Of bricklayers in
Local "a spoke on the floor against
sending any more money to the In
ternational in Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
FLORIDA CHAIN GANG
fortunes Described by Armando Lopez, Milit-
ant Worker

TAMPA, Fla. What a Florida
chain gang in its mildest form is
like was described here By Armando
Lopez, militant worker who was re-
Gently sentenced to 20 days. but re-
leased on s100 bond pending appeal
after serving five days. Lopez was
arrested on the same charge as Ho-
mer Barton, organizer of the unen-
ployed being a Communist and
found in Tampa
The International Labor Defense is
appealing both these cases, which
are under an unconstitutional buck
shot ordinance. Hearing on the APP
peal of Lopez will probably be around
the latter part of February. Barton,
released on writ Of habeas corpus
pending the appeal was Immediately
rearrested by county and immigra-
ton authorities.
II was taken to the city stock
ade,' Lopez said, describing his ex-
perience. "There my clothes were
taken from me, and was given over
alls with prison stamps all over them.
l was taken to the c.ematcvy, wllcre
they burn all the garbage and dead
animals from the city
Locked Chains On Legs
"T'hey put me with a crew of five
Negro prisoners, because the Y
thought that would be an insult. OF
course, it wasn't, since what we are
fighting for down here, and this is
what is considered our greatest
crime is for the unity Of Negro
and white workers in the struggle
against starvation and terror, and FOR
the national liberation Of The Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
PhiIa. School Begins
Spring Term Feb. 8

PHILADELPHIA, Pa-The spring
term of the Philadelphia Workers
School will begin on Feb. 9Th, with
additional courses and instructors
added to the present curriculum.
Complete information and registra-
ton can be secured at the school
headquarters at 219 South Fifth St.
1t will be possible to enroll for two
classes at the cost of $3.50 for the
term. The charge for one class is 81.
Special consideration will be given
organizations wishing to send mem
bers to school who cannot pay the
full tuition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04

people, They locked chains on my
legs, which did not come off at any
time during the five days was held
"On the dump, the ashes we're
thick and black, and filled our nos
trils. Every time we spit, it was like
splitting black mud.
Threatened With SHOT Gun
"A guerd stood over us with a
sawed-off shotgun, Every time we
stopped to wipe the sweat and ashes
of DIR faces, ne yelled al us. IT
won't stand for amy of that" he
said. You're supposed to work like
mules, and I'm here to see you do it,"
Ee threatened us with his gun. Our
bands were broken and bloody from
the heat and dirt getting into the
cracks and blisters.
What they gave US for food
can't describe. I don't know what
it was, but do know pig would
refuse it.
THE detective who testified against
me was Andres L. Lopez, who is call
ed Pigeon by everyone in Tampa
because he is such notorious stool
The only true things he said in court
was that I spread literature and
made collections for the defense OF
the TAMPA prisoners. In everything
else, he lied. He said be knew me
for eight years, which he did not
and that I never had worked a day
another lie, Of course.
"We have to fight hard, and get
help in this fight from all over the
country, TO smash this new law or
else VIC will have every militant
worker III Jail here ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
5000 TOILERS OF
PERU FIRED ON
Workers in Militant
Anti Action
BULLETIN

bILaIG I'm
MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 8. (By Ca
bIe) Thousands of workers and
revolutionary peasants, including
Comrade Rabinez, general secretary
of the Communist Party of Peru,
and Is members of its Central Com
mittee who are brutally tortured in
the prisons of Sanchez Cerro, have
declared a mass hunger strike in
protest against the barbOrOus
treatment.
The Anti-Imperialist League calls
upon all workers organizations to
send kilograms and air-mail letters
to the Peruvian legation in Wash
ington, to the Consulate in New
York, Fl West Street. as well as
cables directly to Sanchez CerrO,
Lima, Peru, demanding the imme-
date release of the hunger strikers
and all political prisoners.
PANAMA, Feb 2-Authentic in
formation of a wholesale massacre
of Peruvian workers demonstrating
last Tuesday in the Peruvian cap
ital, Lima, against the war between
Colombia and Peru, was received
here today in private dispatches
which eluded the vigilance of the
Peruvian military censorship.
The demonstration, involving
5000 workers, was murderOusly at
tackled by the troops and police of
the government, who let loose
hail of machine gun bullets into
the crowd of men, s70meD and chill
dren. Many were killed outright
and hundreds wounded, some IA
tally. In the regular dispatches
from Lima telling of the demon
stratlOn, all news of the vicious
murder of workers by the govern
ment was deIeted by the military
censorship.
In the face of this murderous at
tack, the workers displayed the
greatest heroisn and engaged in
numerous fierce clashes with the po-
lice and military
The demonstrators carried banners
demanding halt to the govern
ment's preparation for the resump-
ton of hostilities with Colombia, and
demanding the release of ITO polit-
ical prisoners arrested in previous
anti-war demonstrations. They de-
manded the right of free speech and
assembly and the lifting of the gov
ernment's ban against Communist
and other revolutionary working
class newspapers.
The government, which has sup
pressed the Communist organizations
and the "Apra' american Popular
Revolutionary Alliance) is now carry
ing out vicious attack ON the prep
arations Of the toiling masses to
send delegates to the South American
Anti-War Congress to convene Feb.
% in Monteyideo, Uruguay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04

over 5000 farmers came from all
over the county and forced the sheriff
to stop the sale. The same farmers
then moved to Monteyideo and
some to Benson and stopped sales
there.
On Monday, Jan. 30, about $500
farmers and unemployed workers
protested the foreclosure of the farm
of A. Leppanen at the Duluth Court
House. Here, however, the sheriff
tricked the people. While he was
talking to the committee, a deputy
foreclosed on the farm and turned
it over to the Federal Land Bank.
Jeppanen has a family Of II. The
demonstrators, when they found out
about the treachery, pledged that
they will resist the eviction of Lep-
panen.
On the same day hundreds of
farmers gathered to stop the fore
closure of a farmers home at Glen
coe, Mimi Farmers from Wright
County modified and came to Glen
coe to help the farmers there in
stopping the sale.
The struggle against the foreclos-
ures has given added impetus to the
preparation for the Minnesota Work
ers and Farmers Relief March to
the State Capitol on Feb. 20. Hun
dreds of delegates from the unem-
ployed workers in cities and from
the farmers will gather and present
their relief program to the State
Legislature. Meanwhile Governor
Olson, Farmer-Laborite elected on
the promise that he will provide re-
lief, so far has done nothing to stop
the sale of the farmers homes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
ADVANCES IN SOVIET INDUSTRY

A new moving machine, cutting
a sWath SO feet wide has been built
by the Moscow Experimental Ma
chine Shop; it is designed particu-
larly for big state farms. The ma
chine, coupled to a tractor, can cut
10 acres of grass per hour.
A transformer weighing SO tons, the
largest of its kind in the world. has
just been installed in the Ferrous
Alloys Department of the Dnieper-
petrovsk metallurgical plant. The
transformer will be used to step down
the power supplied from the Dnieper
dam to Electric Furnace No. 2.
When completed, the department will
have six such transformers.
International notes flh9
Chancellor Won Schcleicher."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
EXPECT $50 AT
ST.PAULPARLEY
Union Locals Naming
Delegates

MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.-The COM
ing State Relief March to the State
Legislature at st. Paul on Feb. 20
is finding a great response. Last
week the Carpenters Local Union 7
elected 10 delegates to the State Re-
lief Conference and March. The
Painters Local Union elected dele
gates. Delegates are elected on the
basis Of for every so members.
The State Relief Committee reports
that a minimum of $50 delegates will
come to st. Paul. All workers and
farmers organizations are urged to
elect their delegates at once. Send
in the names and addresses Of dele
gates to the State Relief Committee,
1874 w. 18th Street, st. Paul, MINI.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
Office Workers Union
Organized in PhiIa.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The organi-
cation of the white collar" workers
in Philadelphia has begun with the
organization Of the Office Workers
Union, headquarters at TIT Walnut
Street, Room 800.
The union will take into It's ranks
bookkeepers, accountants, typistS,
stenographers, switchboard, telephone
and telegraph operators, department
store clerks and all other falling I'M
der this category. Registration is con-
Quoted between l p. m. and $50 p. IN.
weekdays and 10 a. m. to 5 p. IN.
Saturdays.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
Youngstown Workers
Fight Fascist Terror

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. Five Hun
dred workers took part in mass
meeting protesting fascist terror in
italy and demanding freedom for the
political prisoners in that country
The meeting took place on Watt and
Federal SITS, last week,
After the meeting, over hundred
workers marched through the down
town streets, shouting Down with
Mussolini." At the Italian vice-con-
sulate committee was sent to pre-
sent the freedom resolution to Mus
solini's representative here. The
Vice-Council refused to accept the
resolution, but the workers are 60
ing on with the struggle for the cou-
rageous fight against fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
Walkers Calendar

GONNEC
Bridgeport
SOVIET FILM "Sniper" viii be shown
for one afternoon only on Sunday, FEB
5th from 1870 to pm. at Capital Theatre,
4S5 E. Main St. Adm. Csc; l0c TO children.
DELAWARE
wilmington
OPEN FORUM held by Unemployed Coun-
Gil at 6of TatnalI ST., Sunday afternoon 3
pm. Subject: why There Is Unemploy-
ment and Starvation"
NEW JERSEY
''TECHNOCRACY AND COMMUNISM
will be the topic discussed at a symposium
OF the Youth Branch Of the 1. W. o. this
coming Friday, FEB 3, at 63s Newark Ave
at 8 pm.
WORKERS FORUM Sunday pm. at TWO
Hall. 347 Springfield Ave, below Bergen.
Topic: "Bulding Classics Society in the
Soviet Union" Speaker: Comrade Pattor-
son.
ONO
DAILY WORKER DANCE at Bondi Hall,
1908 BeIden Ave. NE. Saturday, Feb. 4th
at T:so pm. Admission l5c Good music.
OPEN FORUM on "scrip System" Sum
Sunday night Young Pioneer Tea Party
same address, 1880 pm. Good program.
Pennsylvania
Phiia5elphia
WEI COME BANQUET to recently released
class war prisoners at Girard Manor Hall,
oil W. Girnrd Ave, at pm. Concert pro-
gram, oriental dinner, prominent speakers.
Admission 35 cents.
NEW JERSEY
Jersey City
OPEN FORUM at TWO Center, 5S8 New
ark Ave. Sunday, pm. Topic: "Will
Prosperity Return?" All invited. Sunday
morning at II am. class In Fundamentals
of Communism at above address.
RHODE ISLAND
OPEN FORUM Sunday, Feb. 5th at 8 pm.
ct AGA Hall, 1855 Westminster st. Topic
Second FiyeYear Plan" Speaker: 1. La
Ear.
PENNSYLVANIA
AFFAIR given BY Unit lo4 for benefit OF
Daily Worker Sunday, Feb 5th at pm
NJ l82ss5. sth 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04

Thirteen districts and 10 branches
of the International Workers Order
contributed in raising S417O6 on
Thursday. as compared with only
$220l2 the day before But the mea-
greness Of national returns can be
seen in the fact that, outside of New
York, which raised s23456, and the
TWO, which donated $15130 all the
other districts put together contribute
a mere $3l.20!
Six districts again failed to come
through Detroit, the Dakotas. Cal
ifornia, Seattle. Connecticut and Col
orado. Colorado has yet to send in
a cent. Doesn't the Daily mean
anything to the workers of Colorado.
The districts which have failed to
hit their stride up to now should i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
Workers Block New
Forced Labor Law
i'm Rochester, MINI.

ROCHESTER, MINI. The City
Council was forced to postpone adop-
ton of a new vagrancy law when
the unemployed workers came in
large numbers and protested against
it. The new ordinance would pro-
vide that any one refusing to ac-
cept any kind of work offered by the
relief department would be dropped
from relief and declared vagrant.
The ordinance does not provide
anything about wages. 1t would en-
able the relief department to send
workers for so cents a day or just
for their groceries to any kind of
a Job. The Unemployed Council is
gathering large numbers to come
again on Feb. and stop it again
if the City Council attempts to put
it through.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
DEMAND WAR DEBT
BARGAINING

WASHINGTON, Feb. British
rejection of Wall Streets demands for
trade and other concessions in ex-
change for any reduction in the war
debts were met by fierce attacks on
the British Government by demo-
cratic and republican leaders in Con-
gress yesterday. Senator Reed made
the outstanding plea for U. S. i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
Raise Tax Burden on
Small Home Owners

OLD FORGE, Pa.-The local boss
es, with the aid of the politicians,
are introducing new taxes to the
small home owners. Together with
the old burden, these small home
owners are driven crazy. At present
the mill workers are being laid off
right and left. Many sole supporters
of their families lost their jobs, and
now they must depend on the lousy
relief which bosses give out of a IS
a month in grocery checks, and bag
of flour Of the cheapest grade.
$ Nj
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
MORE FARMERS JOIN
FORECLOSURE FIGHT
Struggle Spurs Work of Preparing Hunger
March for Feb. 20

MINNEAPOLIS, Nfinn.-While the
State Legislature is in session and
talking about relief, the farmers all
over the state are taking militant
action in stopping foreclosures on
their mortgaged property. The mil
liant policies formulated at the
Washington National Relief Confer
ence and by the United Farmers
League has sunk roots and are car
ried out by the farmers themselves,
on Saturday, Jan. %, five sales
we're stopped by farmers in West
ern Minnesota. At Madison, MINI,