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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
FOUR OF |. R. 7.
DIRECTORS ARE
ON GIBSON COMM.
Hedley Is Director of
Bank of u. S.;
New Lay-Offs

NEW YORK.-Four members OF the
Eoard Of Directors of the IRT are on
the Gibson Committee. They are
Charles Hayden, Samuel w. Rey-
burn Albert H. Wiggin and Fred
erick E. Ecker.
As directors of the IRT they issue
orders to have the wages slashed 10
to 30 per cent, and to lay off hun
dreds Of men, enough to reduce the
payroll by 20 per cent,
After making unemployment, they
turn around, and as members of the
Gibson Committee, declare everybody
still drawing wages must dig up do
nations for Gibson.
Eedley on Bank of U. S,
Moreover, those who in times past
saved a few dollars and lost it in the
Bank of U. s. will be interested to
know that the Labor Research Inc.
has established that Frank Hedley,
president and general manager of the
I.R.T. is also a director of the Bank
of u S.
Hedley and his directors are now
hunting favor with the public and
with the men, trying to lay all the
blame for the wage cuts on the re-
ceivers Of the company.
But both men and public have a
right to know why the I.RT not only
endangers their lives by firing signal
men right and left, but has added to
the dangers Of life and limb by thin
ming out the platform work fer con-
ductors, and by a scheme to go into
effect soon of running more one man
trains, with the conductor in the cen
ter of the train, and no rear end man
to help avoid collisions, as is required
by the law.
Trackmen, painters. tile washers
and car barn men are being laid off
at a rapid rate, and many more are
cut to three days a week.
Protest Rises
A sample case of the effect of the
cuts is that of one motorman with
six children, who lost $403 week by
the ten per cent cut, then by elimin-
alton of his platform work, he lost
1856 more. Now probably he is ex-
pected to donate to the Gibson Com
mittee. He has, like all IR.T. men,
had to donate the first two weeks
pay cut to the Gibson Committee;
the men were not asked about that.
A storm of protest broke out in
the last meeting of the motormen's
local of the Brotherhood company
union. The formation Of groups
among the men to plan resistance to
the wage cut continues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
Doak's Agents Try
to DepOrt Citizen

PHOENIX, Arizona, Jan. l7.--One
of the most brazen attempts to de-
port a working class smypathizer,
who is at the same time a citizen of
the U. S., will take place on February
% when Paul P. Ortner will come
up for trial before Judge F. C. Jacobs
in the u. S. District Court.
The attempt will then be made to
cancel Ortner's naturalization certi-
ficate on the ground that at the time
Of his naturalization on October l.,
1915 was attached to the principles
of Communism as adopted and adj
hered to by the Communist Inter
national"
Ortner Is being defended by the
International Labor Defense, who
will develope a mass fight around
this case as an outstanding example
of the role of the U. s. Immigration
Department as weapon of the cap
italists directed against the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
TOLD TO SPEND
DOLE ON GIRLS
AND WHISKEY
Relief Buro Idea Was
to Favor Grocer Who
ChargesHighPrices
BY RAY GEORGE

NEW York; he used his food
ticket to buy "whiskey and girls"
from neighborhood grocer, a Ne
gro worker in Harlem was told by q
Relief Bureau agent, Mr.. Nuisky, that
he would get relief without the usual
red tape.
On the morning Of January 4, the
workers home was visited by Miss
Armstrong, the investigator, who
was accompanied by one of Commits
Sioner Taylor's henchnen, Mr.. Philip
Nuisky. The visit was supposedly to
bring relief After getting the meager
So, which is expected to feed fam
lily of three for two weeks, the work
err was called into the hall by Nuisky
on the pretext of giving him advice.
Outside of the apartment the latter
proposed to introduce the worker to
a groceryman in the vicinity, where
girls and whiskey could be had and
if he patronized this place, he would
be able TO get relief without any
trouble This faker went so far as
to say that the worker would be well
taken care of and that he need not
worry about seeking a job; that in
event his relief check happened to
be day or two late, the store would
administer to his wants.
This offer was bluntly refused by
the worker. After the agent left,
the worker, being curious, decided
to visit the store and see for him.
self how much of that was SO. To
his surprise everything proved to be
correct; also that the merchandise
cost exactly SC more than at any
other place.
The workers refusal to accept this
proposal caused his relief, which now
comes at irregular periods, to be re-
duced. However, this worker is a
member of the East Harlem Unern-
ployed Council and he is determined
to put up a relentless fight under
the leadership of the council to force
adequate relief for his family and all
other starving workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
SOUTH BROOKLYN
UNEMPLOYED TO
MARCH FRIDAY
Conference FormsFive
Demands to Present
to Relief Bureau

NEW YORK.-Five demands to be
presented to the Home Relief Blu
reau at 90 Schermerhorn St., Jan.
27, and a demonstration starting with
a parade converging from two diff
ferent points to back them up was
the decision of thirty-five delegates
representing II Unemployed Councils,
Block Committees and a Hooverville
OF South Brooklyn, meeting last Fri
day in the Red Hook Workers Center.
AS the Gibson Committee gives 65
cents day per person to the Saliva
ton Army TO feed the homeless single
unemployed, the conference demands
that this money be given to the sin
gle workers with an additional sum
of thirty-five cents, totaling 81. With
this they can buy their own food
and prepare it themselves in their
homes instead Of eating the sickening
Salvation Army slop and freezing in
the open all night. The other de-
mandS are: Abolition of the red tape
system and immediate registration.
removal of police from the Home Re-
lief Bureau, opening of empty build
ings for the homeless unemployed,
and no discrimination against foreign
born, Negro and Filipino.
The marchers will form ranks at
the Red Hook Workers Center, 1872
President st. and at the Bond St. IN
employed Council, 2o1 Bond st.. at
$3.50 Friday morning. The parade will
begin at 1890. The organizations
participating will rally their member
ship and advertise the demonstra-
tlon and its purpose with many street
meetings and 5000 leaflets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
By NJ. KLEIN
Member Of the AffiIiatiOn Commit
tee Alteration Painters UniOnl

Member Of the AffiIiation Commit
tee Alteration Painters Union)
NEW YORK.-The coming affilia-
ton campaign and the affiliation
itself will be of great Importance to
all painters of Greater New York,
The conditions and standard of
wages of over 10000 painters, en-
ployed or unemployed, indirectly de-
pend on the existence Of the Altera-
ton Painters Union.
During the past half-year the
union has proven to these painters
that only through militant struggles
on the job can the workers gain bet
ter conditions, higher wages, shorter
working hours and human treatment
from the bosses on the jobs. 1t also
proved to the rank and file mem
bers Of the A. F, of l., that the theory
of the bureaucrats, that during the
economic crises workers cannot con-
duct successful struggles or improve
conditions, are lies. 1t has set an
example to these rank and file pain
tiers, showing them that the only way
to put an end to the continuous
wage-cuts in the industry is for
themselves, over the heads of the
betrayers, to conduct their own
struggles for conditions.
New Dangers.
Nevertheless the struggles, which
were successfully conducted by our
union. do not insure the future OF
the union. With the growing posi-
bilities of carrying out our organiza-
tional work among the unorganiSed
painters, the opposers and the enc
mics of the union, the bosses (the
Master Painters Association, hand
in hand with the bureaucrats of the
Brotherhood of Painters, are organ
izing to destroy the Alteration Pain
ters Union.
The destroying campaign of the
bosses and the Brotherhood racke-
teers has already started. In Brons-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
Harlem Slaughter
House Gets %. X"
of the N.A.A.C.P.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

P. and Tamnany Hall hospital dis
cipline." The falling in line of the
N.AA.C.P. with their white rulers lie
Of white superiority" shouts in their
statement like Harlem" by which
they really mean SIN Negro COM
mupities."
Referring to DR. Wright, the Ne
gro dictator for Tammany in the
Harlem Hospital, the article con-
tinues:
"He began years ago. Ito repudiate
any efforts to appoint Negroes to
the staff simply because they were
colored."
Socialist Influence
The NAA.C.P. carries out the in
structions of it's white bosses to shut
the workers eyes to the oppression
Of the Negro people and puts for
ward the Socialists lie of equality
regardless of color" without spe-
cial struggle for Negro rights.
The secret investigation" of the
NA.AC.P. is already bearing fruit for
the latter and Tammany The Rev.
Adam c. Powell, whose father was
put on the investigating committee, I"
to silence his son, who had asked for
an investigation, has now written,
in answer TO the N.A.A.C.P.'S secret
letter, exposed in yesterdays DAILY"
that:
II have never made any charges
against Harlem Hospital!
An overflow meeting is expected
this Thursday, Jan. Is, when the Ne
gro and white workers come to St.
Luke's Hall, 1876 w, 13oth St., in Har-
lem, to protest the terror against
Negro patients and discrimination
against Negro doctors and nurses in
the Harlem Hospital. Large crowds
are attending open air meetings in
preparation for this meeting called
by the League Of Struggle for Negro
Rights and the International Labor
Defense,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
Alteration Painters Should
Affiliate to the T.U.U.L.

vile the well-known racketeer, Jack
Wolner, with the direct support of
District Council 8, has already made
an effort, to wipe out the Alteration
Painters Union from the territory.
In the Bronx, during the Semolin
Company strike, the District Council
not only supplied the boss with
scabs, but also expressed with this
the intentions to destroy the union.
Solidarity.
The independent Alteration Pain
ters' Union, while up to now proved
TO be an organization which is ca
pable to stay on its own feet, never
theless must affiliate with the T. U.
U. L., which will link up our work
with the other trade unions. 1t must
affiliate to intensity the work for the
future, to insure the moral, and, if
necessary, economic support OF other
mass organizations, to take our work
from the present scale to a collective
mass scale. These points are placing
us in a position where we should not
approach the question of affiliation
in a way that we shall" affiliate,
which leaves q space open for yes"
or mo-" was expressed in a previous
article, but we have to consider that
we must affiliate if we want our
union to be stable, strong organ
izstion, which cannot fail, broken up
from inside, or destroyed from out
side nv anV nf nIII pr1arninc
The many thousands of workers
who are organized in New York will
be behind our struggles after an af-
filiation. These workers we're care
fully and sympathetically watching
the growth of the union. Through an
affiliation we will get the support of
these workers in our struggles.
Method to Follow.
We should be very careful to see
that this utilization should not be
mechanical one, therefore we must
link this up with the organizational
drives Of the union, where the affilia-
ton will be an affair in which the
whole membership is actually and
dbtlNrly lklFOlfEu.
Two very important organizational
directions connected with the affilia-
ton have to be followed.
l-Organizational campaign among
the unemployed painters, building
unemployed groups, developing strug-
giles for Unemployment Insurance.
2-United front preparations to de-
velop struggles against the miserable
conditions in the trade with the rank
and file members of the Brotherhood
of Painters.
We must pay special attention to
this work, not only because it is in
the program of the T, U. U. L., but
because at present about rs per cent
OF the unorganized painters are I'M
employed. To gain better conditions
for the mass of employed workers it
is essential to gain the confidence
and support Of the unemployed pain
ters, which is possible if the en-
ployed workers organizationally are
participating for the needs of the
unemployed, to build United Front
between the employed and unem-
ployed, to fight for conditions in the
trade, for unemployment insurance
and immediate relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
Jailed in Cleveland
for Demanding Relief
for Three Families
(By A Worker Correspondent


CLEVELAND, 0. - On Dec. 29th
the Unemployed Council Branch No.
of Cleveland, o., elected commit
tee of IL to demand relief for three
families at the Miles Park Branch
of the Associated Charities. The
supervisor refused to see us and called
the police, who arrested me.
Refusing to sign a waiver saying
I was guilty of disorderly. conduct I
had to stay in Jail all night. The
following morning the LID. attor-
ney bailed me out on a 500 personal
bond. My case was set for Jan. 18th.
The court refused to give me a trial
by jury, so the case was dropped.
AS I was leaving the courtroom 1
was Immediately seized by the same
sergeant who arrested me at the AS
ISOLATED Charities and was rearrested
on different charge of noisy as
sembling. The case was set for the
next morning. The case is now con-
tinued for Jan. 26th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
Parents and Teachers
Protest Share Work

NEW YORK AT a meeting of the
Bronx Parents and Teachers Asso-
citation against Retrenchment in Ed
ucation, at the YMHA, Hist st. and
Fourth Ave, the following resolution
was adopted:
Be it resolved that we are unalter-
ably opposed to the Share-the- Work
Plan proposed by the Board of Edu-
cation, in as much as it will under
mine the mental and educational we'll
being Of our children and lower the
morale of the teachers by putting
them on low subsistence level. We
demand that the Board of Education
drop its retrenchment policy, reduce
the size of classes, build more schools
and appoint more teachers to the
schools.
All Bronx parents are urgently re-
quested to attend a mass meeting at
the YMHA, Hist st. and Fulton Ave,
Tuesday, Jan. oath at 8:15 p. m. The
purpose of this meeting will be to
voice protest against the grave in
justices done to children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
DEBATED PARTY; .
NOW DEFENDS IT
Expose Capitalism as
Reason for Jim-croW

NEW YORK.-Negro workers who.
few days before had debated against
workers defending the Communist
Party program for liberation of the
Negro race, became convinced of the
corrections of the Communist Party's
role of leading Negro and white
workers in a united struggle, and de-
Tended the Communist Party during
an open discussion at the Tammany
Controlled Emergency Club in Har-
lem Wednesday.
Frank Carter, one of the workers
declared his agreement with William
Fitzgerald when the latter took the
floor and exposed the Tammany Su-
pervisor of the club. The Super
visor tried to convince the workers
present that segregation and jim
Growing was necessary to prevent
disorders" and that capitalists were
placed over them by social con-
tract" with the workers.
Fitzgerald then took the floor and
said:
1--WE can see today by reading an
Gent history and revolutionary
struggles between oppressed and OPP
pressors, comparing that period with
the present, We can see there was no
peaceful agreement and social con-
tract made by the workers FORGETTING
their rights. We find in England for
instance, during the period of Feud-
alisn and the introduction of Cap
italisnl, these workers and peasants
refused to be appropriated from home,
farm and work in factories for the
ruling class, and were forced by means
of violence and terror to do so. This
shows clearly that workers did not
come to any peaceful social con-
tract
In answer to the supervisors reason
for Negro discrimination Fitzgerald
said Negroes are not JIM rowed and
segregated In the southern states be-
cause the two races cannot agree but
precisely to keep them separated.
Fitzgerald continued:
THE white landlords and planta-
ton owners try to establish dis
tinction and division between Negro
and white workers by stating that
Negroes are inferior-are h-human
beings. These divisions and distinc-
tons are swept away in the common
struggles; significant examples of this
are the Negro and white sharecrop-
pers in Alabama, and the Negro and
white workers fighting for the release
of the nine Scottsboro boys. Can
we say Negro and white babies are
born preiudiced? No, we cannot, but
environments and teachings are the
cause for such ideas. would like
to remind the speaker that in the
southern states the Negro women are
the cooks who knead the bread with
Negro hands for the white ruling
class. They are the ones who nurse
and rear these white children Since
the aim is to spread the illusion of
racial contamination, why do they
allow this?"
After Comrade Fitzgerald was
ruled from the floor by the Super
visor, Frank Carter pointed out the
following:
II agree with the speaker and move
for him to continue to speak. The
Negroes are not segregated because
the races cannot agree, for out of
every 10 Negroes, 7 are mixed with
white blood. Also the Negroes are
segregated by political force because
they are not organized"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
Jail 2 at perfect"
Strike: Picket Today

NEW YORK.-The strike against
Perfect Neglegie Co., which began 8
weeks age, when they attempted to
carry through a wage cut, is in full
force. Yesterday morning, there was
q good demonstration of the work
ers, Betty Klein, the organizer Of
the Industrial Union and Oscar
Landy were arrested and held under
a charge of felonious assault, are
out on $500 bail.
The Industrial Union calls on the
workers in whitegoods trade and all
other needle trades workers to sup
port this strike on the picket line.
Workers are called to report at 16
e. 34th st. every morning to assist
the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
ROsette Knit Mill
Strikers Win; Cut
Hours. Raise Wages

NEW YORK-The Rosette Knit
ting Mill strikers have won. They
were out since last week, and have
just settled with a reduction of hours
from 40 to A, and with 20 to 30 per
cent increases in wages and recog-
milton Of the shop committee.
The Knitgoods department of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union is increasing its activities with
the beginning of the season and urges
all other workers in knitgoods shops
to report their shops to it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR
DAILY WORKER CHORUS

BY now two sections of the DAILY
Worker Chorus" N. Y, are in exist
ence. The down town section organ
ICED few months ago and the jam
aica section started week ago. The
down town section has now acquired
o permanent headquarters at the
Manhattan Lyceun, So E. 4th St.;
it meets every Wednesday evening at
$3.50. The Jamaica section meets
every Sunday at 2:3o pm. at 148-
30 Liberty Ave, Jamaica, L. 7.
In the near future it is expected
that more sections Of the DAILY
Worker Chorus" will be organized so
that very soon the frame work of
a large English workers chorus will
be completed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
ATTENTION! WORKERS
CHILDREN

NEW YORK.-George Kossoff, Of
1878 Longfellow Ave, Bronx, N. Y,
pupil OF Eddy Brown and the Dam
rosch Institute of Music, is willing to
teach working class children and
adults gratis, how TO play the violin,
provided they have violin. Those
interested should write to Comrade
Kosoff at the above address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
Retire State Employees
Over go, Abolish Their
Jobs - Is New Policy

ALBANY, N. Y.-State employees
over so years of age will be retired
and their positions abolished, accord
ing to a new policy which has just
come to light. The employees will
be retired on pensions considerably
lower than their salaries, 1t was Of
ficially announced.
With a deficit of $1,600,o00 already
in the pension fund, it will be no
surprise if the governor should short
ly announce that even the miserable
pensions will be slashed. This is seen
as a necessity since the new policy
will swell the deficit a great deal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
White Landlady Tries
To Evict Negro Tenant
For Inter-Racial Party

NEW YOR-K-For allowing white
and Negro workers to mix at party
in her home given by the Navy St.
Block Committee, the white landlady
is trying to evict Mrs. Perkins, Ne
gro woman. Having failed to secure
a dispossess on this charge she re-
sorted to the old story of non-pay-
ment of rent, which is only month
behind, and the eviction is scheduled
for Jan. 9th.
The Navy Street Block Committee
will rally the workers on the block to
resist this jim crowism through open
air meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
Sixth Ave. Council
Forces Boss to Pay
Worker DeCentWage

NEW YORK. Conditions at the
Dorian Cafeteria on 42nd st. (be-
tween 9th and 9Th Aves) are terrible,
reports George Gregory.
Men work between u and Is hours
a day at 10 cents an hour. The speed
up is outrageous. One worker, a
bakers helper, refused to accept SO
for a week of such work and was
fired
The worker brought his complaint
to the Sixth Avenue Committee. The
committee went to see the boss of
the cafeteria, and convinced him
that he had better settle up matters
quickly He paid the worker SIS in
stead of the original SO he had Of
fered him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
TOURS FOR DAILY

NEW YORK--Comrade L. Lewis
Of the Daily Worker is touring the
middle west to assist district organi-
cations in the drive for $4,000 for
the Daily. Speaking dates have been
arranged for Detroit, Pontiac, Kala-
mazoo, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor,
Monroe and Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24

TUESDAY

TUESDAY
SWIMMING GROUP of Office Workers
Union meet at headquarters of Union, 7ss
Broadway. room 3o3, $50 pm. or go direct
to Pool at 232 W. 60th st.
CLASS in Dramsttcs at Coneourss Work
ers Club, 1349 Jerome Ace, tonight at pm.
MASS MEETING of Bronx Parent Teach
ers Committee against Retrenchment in
Education tonight at $50 pm. at Bronx
YMHA, 173rd and Fulton Ave. All parents
and teachers interested in the welfare Of
their children and pupils should attend this
meeting.
THURSDAY
EXHIBITION of sculpture-painting and
drawing expressing social viewpoint in art
at John Reed Club, 450 Sixth Ave beginning
Thursday, Jan. &c until February 10th. Gal
lery open weekdays: 10 am. to pm. Sun
days; pm. to 10 pm.
ANNOUNCEMENT
LECTURE by Robert Dunn, Director La
Dor Research Association, Sunday Feb &c
at $3.50 pm. at Workers Cooperative Colony
Auditorium, 2s00 Bronx Park East. Subject:
Omitted States Imperialism in South and
Central America"