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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
Who Are the Fighters for
the Veterans?

inevitable
Washington and dsnteate the nation
that possible should the Communists in
leadership o special
breaking powerful
unfying oppressed
They Communists always the alert
their
pursuit policy separate from
the other veterans the called its aid number shady
rupve elements plain The attempts Of those elements
the present
Immediate payment Of the balance the adjusted service
certi6cates) bonus back
Immediate restoration Of all rights the
Act
adequate unemployed
Washington
the mobilization
discharged ruined small traders
SIGNALS bulk the exoders fighting
Roosevelt hunger program.
struggle Party will as the past play
dynamic rayng these
Of the cripple
1t the Communist taking the initiative
proposals
rational steps for the bonus march Washington
tized the struggle of the significance
the history class fights
mendouS proportions and in spite Of the ueachey sabotage
elements who tried
Republicans Democrats and Socialists alike fought
That struggle the indignation swept
after the attack
structions of Hoover the veterans
Anacoa was evidence that here was force that had to be reckoned
with
pensions disability payments made it
nothing
vicious attacks the veterans this
that the
that powerful through
country.
difficulties Washington
still further There will
that will compel the pay
world
general of their pensions and other compensatons
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
N. Y. TRADE UNION NEWS
Strengthen Strike
of Bakers; Unity
Meet in Brooklyn

NEW YORK. steps toward
strengthening the militant struggle
OIL the bakery workers of locals sos,
S05, and 500, who are on strike
bsRinst wage cut and for improve
ments in their working conditions,
was taken last night at the first SEES
sion of the joint strike committee.
The committee which was Just es-
. tablished and is composed of men,
bers from each of the three locals on
+ strike, decided to call all bakery
workers of Greater New York to a
mass meeting on Friday night. The
place Of the meeting will be an
nounced in the columns of the Daily.
At the same time plans are in sw-
ing by Bakers Local sos of Browns
vile for a united front conference
of all working class organizations,
similar to the recent successful con-
ference in support Of the Bronx
Bakery workers strike. The confer
ence takes place at Manhattan Ly-
ceum on Sunday, May 81, at II noon.
All workers organizations are call
ed upon by the union to send at least
two delegates to mobilize in support
of the bakery workers struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
A Day With Veterans
at Fort Hunt

World War. but three bonus marches.
He came all the way from oregon.
A tall, heaYy-built lumberjack with
fine, curly hair, smooth white teeth
and smile that would make tooth
paste ad look sick. The men know
his courage as a fighter, his honesty
and ability as leader. He is q rank
and filler like themselves, one edu-
Gated in the day-to-day struggle for
the workers and veterans rights.
Every tent has an elected squad
leader who assigns one man for the
Safety Committee. This Safety Conf
mittee maintains rank and file dis
cipline throughout the camp. And
the blue armband with sc. on it
is a badge of honor respected by the
vets. These company street leaders
form the executive committee who in
turn elect the camp commander.
Chow call blows, the cook yells
Come and get it!' A sound Of hur-
rying feet and tinkling mess kits is
heard in every company street. AS
the men file past the steaming ash
barrels used as coffee cans, stew cans,
ETC., there is banter and horseplay
aplenty. Hey, fat, you don't need a
Bonus" Fat says, Il don't, eh! Well,
haven't worked in two and half
years" Slim says, did you hear the
new order. Roosevelt is going to see
that all needy vets who want to split
us up with red seares'. Nothing do
ing for me. We must stick together
regardless of political Affiliations"
What DO you think of that con-
vention tomorrow? I'm behind this
here Liaison Committee. know good
men when I see them. Anybody who
can organize as good a camp as
this, gets my vote" Don't forget,
this is a rank and file convention"
20. Z. elect your own leaders, but
all the other leaders I know are
themselves behind the Veterans Ma
tional Liaison Committee
At the left of the camp in a large
field, a radio loud speaker pours out
a medley of patriotic, martial and
sentimental music. The boys laugh
at some Of the songs like "Over
There"
Finally, the voice on the air is only
a blatant echo and the first signs of
evening. darker blue in the Viz
ginia clouds, deeper gold on the
horizon add the finishing touches to
another day. Another day of strug-
gle and determination for the rank
and file vets. Determination more
eloquent than the blather of con-
gressmen and senators.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
800 NEGRO, WHITE.
LONG MEN
WIN THEIR STRIKE

NORFOLK, Va, by MaiD Three
hundred Negro and white longshore-
men, including some of the white
checkers, struck at the Old Domin-
ion Steamship docks last Friday
against ten per cent cut and for
extra pay on overtime work
The men won their demands. The
strike was spontaneous and under
rank and file leadership. However
the agreement is only verbal and was
made because of the 10 per cent SOL
idarity of the Negro and white work
ers.
The men must now organize per-
manent organization to hold the
gains of the strike.
The entire waterfront was behind
the strikers and the United Colored
Charities sent load Of men to scab.
When they arrived on the dock, they
refused to work. Attempts of police
to force them to work we're defeated
by the unity Of the men. Workers
from other companies refused to work
the dock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
Big COMMUNIST
VOTE IN NEWARK
Workers Report That
Votes Are Stolen

NEWARK, N. j., May 16.-Re-
becca Grecht, New Jersey District
Organizer of the Communist Party,
and candidate for City Commits
sioner in Newark, received 1910
votes in one of the most bitterly
contested elections ever witnessed in
the city. The votes Of the other four
Communist candidates were as fol-
lows: S. D. Levine-2,0t7 votes:
Charles White, Negro worker and
New Jersey organizer OF. the Young
Communist League, 1868; Benjamin
munist League, 1868; Bsnjamin
Shamus-1,576; William C. Meachon
300.
The elections were carried on
under the banner Of 'non-partisan-
ship" with 20 candidates running
without Party affiliations indicated
lin order to try to conceal their
capitalist character.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
Meet May 2lst for
the Final Plans on
Youth Day May 80

NEW YORK.-Finsl preparations
for National Youth Day will take
place in a second National Youth
Day Conference, Wednesday, May "a
pm, at Stuyyesant Casino, 9Th
Street and Second Avenue.
Delegates representing 40 youth
organizations were at the last con-
ference. These are called to attend
this conference, and all other Or
CARNATIONS are asked to send rep
resentatives
The plans for National Youth Day
include a parade through Harlem
May 30, Decoration Day, and an in
door mass meeting and dance, May
90, at Irving Plaza. The main slogan
Of the youth will be against war.
The National Youth Day Commit
tee has decided on a Tag Day for
Saturday and Sunday, May 20 and
81. All organizations, young work
ers and students, are asked to come
to the following stations for boxes ::
ee Avenue c, 500 Prospect Avenue,
1918 Pitkin Avenue, 131 West 18th
Street, and 79 East 131st Street.
Buttons at . cents each and leaf
let's at 81 per thousand on National
Youth Day are now ready.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
PLANS TO CLOSE
SUMMER SCHOOLS
HALTED BY YOUTH
n
300 Students at City
Hall Protest


NEW YORK.-Their number held
down by the rain, over 300 students
from City, Hunter and Brooklyn Col
leges demonstrated yesterday at City
Hall against the attempt Of the city
administration to close down sum-
nner schools and use the funds avail
able for the schools for Tsmmany's
"other purposes"
Effects of the campaign, the stud
ents have been carrying on for the
continuation Of free summer schools
and protest petition Of $500 names
sent in was reflected by the deci-
sion of the Board of Estimate, meet
ing today on the question, to post
pone final vote until next Friday.
All except Deputy Comptroller Prial
were in favor of continuing the
schools.
The postponement may be a man
euver for time to evade the mass
Tpressure. But the students announced
There will be no let up in the cam
pa n and another demonstration
Swi be held Friday.
A delegation Of students were re-
fused the floor by the Board, but out
side speakers from the National
Students League, the League for In
dustrial Democracy and from each OF
three colleges assailed the economy
move
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
Right to
Square Thursday

NEW YORK.--A mass meeting in
protest against the brutal treatment
by police of workers in Union Square
Park will be held by the Tom Mooney
Branch of the International Labor
Defense tomorrow, at 7:30 pm. at
the southeast corner Of the Square
The right Of workers to congregate
and discuss will be demanded.
Police brutality against workers in
Union Square is a daily occurrence
but was especially rampant last Sun
day, when a cop, shield number
16,444, drew his gun on group of
workers holding peaceful discus
sion. On the same day the workers
in the Square were herded by the
cops towards the Salvation Army
meeting nearby and viciously club
bed and kicked.
The meet is also supported by the
9th Avenue Grievance Committee,
Fighting SIXTH one of whose mem
bers was threatened with shooting by
the cops when he insisted on his
right to remain in the Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
YOUTH PROTEST
FOR NINE BOYS
To Demonstrate in the
Bronx Friday

NEW YORK.-Twenty-one dele
gates, representing over 1900 orgad-
lied young workers and students,
present at a Youth Conference for
ethe release of the Scottsboro boys
and for the fight to enforce the 18th,
f14th and 18th Amendments, decided
Ito hold youth protest demonstra-
ton for the Scottsboro boys Friday,
May 10, 8 pm. at fremont Avenue
and Southern Boulevard, Bronx.
Speakers from the Young Commu-
mist League, National Students
League, Communist Party, Interna-
tional Labor Defense, and speakers
from local organizations will address
the meeting. The conference urged
all young workers and students to
be present and show the Solidarity
Of the youth with the adults in the
fight for Negro rights"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
Mass Meet Tonite
Defends Ia Arrested

NEW YORK.-A mass meeting to
defend IA unemployed workers ar
rested while demanding relief at the
Home Relief Bureau at Gravesend
Avenue and Abermarle Road will be
held tonight at the Finnish Hall,
1854 40th Street, Brooklyn, at pm
Three Of the workers were arrest
ed April % and the balance May IL.
They will be tried tomorrow at Sny-
Ger Avenue court, Snyder Avenue and
Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn. workers
Of that section aroused by the at
lacks ON the unemployed and the at
tempted frame-up are expected TO be
in court 10 make their protests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
1000 BOSTON
DRESSMAKERS
ARE ON STRIKE
Led by ILGW; Needle
Union Calls Out Shops
Urges United Strike

BOSTON, Mass May I6.-Oyer
two thousand dressmskers were called
cut ON strike today by the Internal
tionsl Ladies Garment Workers IN
ion At the same time the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
called out the workers in its skirt,
cloak and dress shops in sympathy
with the strikers and appealed to the
International union to conduct uni
ed strike to win real Improvements
in the workers conditions.
OficiaIs Refuse Unity with the
Industrial Union.
In the International strike call,
unity was asked for but when COM
mittee OF Is elected by the workers
Of the Industrial Union appeared at
the strike meeting Of the Interna-
tional to propose steps for one uni
ted strike, leaders refused them the
floor. The insistencs of the rank
and file that the committee from the
Industrial Union be heard forced the
leaders to reluctantly conser.s %
meet with the committee. Out Of ao~r
Of the resentment Of the rank and
file, officials agreed to see the com
mittee in q separate room where they
emphatically refused joint action
with the Industrial Union.
Attempts Made TO Betray Strike.
Attempts are already being made
by the international leaders to send
the workers back to the shops and
10 the same outrageous conditions
without any gains through this
struggle. The strike apears to have
all the earmarks Of a maneouyre TO
establish a system of dues cheek-up.
Alfred Baker Lewis, Socialist leader
has been brought into the strike to
choke the militancy of the workers.
Boston dressmakers are showing
splendid determination, however. to
struggle for Improvements in their
working conditions. The Needle
Trades Union is calling for a joint
broad rank and file strike committee
to develop a militant struggle and for
joint mass picket lines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
METAL WORKER EXPRESSES FAITH
IN UNITED FRONT TACTICS OF UNION
(By Metal Worker Correspondent workers.

(By Metal Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-The recently con-
Quoted strikes by the Metal Workers
Industrial Union, as at the Cromwell
and Colonial Silver Works, and the
World Button Works, ended with a
full victoty for the over $50 workers.
This was achieved first Of all through
the militancy Of the strikers who
have splendidiy carried on the strug-
gle for period Of weeks, forcing
the bosses to give in to their demands
Although most Of the strikers are
new members of the Union, they were
convinced that only through orgsni-
cation and militant struggle will they
be able to combat the attack Of the
bosses.
Another important factor was the
correct policy pursued by the lead
ers Of the Metal Workers Industrial
Union in applying united front tao
tic. Some of the workers in these
shops are members Of the Metal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
CARTER AT TWO
JAMAICA MEETS
Scottsboro Witness to
Speak Tonight

NEW YORK-Two simultaneous
Scottsboro protest meetings will take
place in Jamaica tonight at O'Clock,
at both of which Lester Carter, star
witness for the defense, will speak.
One is 20 be held at the Finnish
Workers Club, 1926 Union Hall st.
and the other at the Brooks Mem
orial Church, 107-14 Pine Grove ST..
Others speakers will include Leonard
Patterson, of the Liberator, and the
Rev. Mccarthy. Both meetings have
been arranged by the Angelo Hern-
don branch of the International La
Dor Defense, and are to be prepara-
tory notifications for a monster mass
protest meeting to be held Saturday
evening at the Jamaica Arena,
Archer Place and 144th Pl.
The speakers at the Arena will be
addressed by Ruby Bates, Mrs. Pat
terson and Richard B. Moore. All
workers in Jamaica and vicinity are
urged to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
Wound Disables Vet,
Can't Get a Job, But
Compensation Is Cut

(By a Vet Worker Correspondent.
NEW YORK. - Please let people
know that Publication No. 2, 73rd
Congress IAN Act to maintain credit
of the United States Government"
actually knocks off compensation
from veterans with service connected
disabilities. These Adjudication Of
ficers automatically lower veterans
degree of disability to 10 per cent or
below, let 'em know that that is their
present rating and hence these vet
Grams are told that they are not en-
titled to further compensation. Some
Of these veterans drew as much as
$35 to $26 or so per month since 1919
am quite q case. I received a
serious bullet wound and am quite
unable to perform my work as others
can, due to my disability. Firms who
have medical examination always dis
qualify me. On June 80, 1888 I am
told will be my last check Imagine
my predicament without job and
my justly due compensation knocked
to pieces. (Signed).
Just another fool who fought for
democracy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17

Der OF most important demands, in
Guiding recognition of the shop COM
fnittee, no discrimination, division of
work, no layoffs, rehiring of laid
off workers when additional workers
are needed.
Unity of Employed and Unemployed
The strike brought out in bold re-
lief the fact that unemployed work
ers today sympathize with and re-
fuse to take the jobs of striking
workers. Hundreds OF jobless work
ers seeking work around Bush Ter
minal near the Karp strike witnessed
the picketing and read the strike
leaflets, and the efforts of the boss
agents to get scabs failed utterly.
Not one of these workers, many UNI
employed for months and even years,
even came near the shop.
This support Of the unemployed
workers given to the strike cannot
be overestimated as a factor bringing
a quick victory for the workers. This
attitude of the unemployed workers
is largely due 10 the struggles Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17

workers.
But the leaders of the Metal Work
ers Industrial Union went TO the
membership meetings Of the Metal
Spinners, and over the heads of the
reactionary leaders convinced the
workers about the importance and
necessity Of a united struggle.
The Metal Workers Industrial
Union is conducting several other
strikes at present, as at the Karp
Metal Works. the Century and the
Sewing Machinist strike. There is
no doubt that with its correct poll
eies, with the militancy of the strik-
ers, and the enthusiastic support Of
all the members of the union, these
strikes will also be brought to sue
cessful end.
"A. n.
Editors Note: At the time of going
to press. news reached the Daily
Worker that two Of these strikes--
the Ksrp and the Century-i1sd al
ready ended with a 100 per cent VIC
tory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
ALL. UNION HEADS
FRAME WATERS

NEW YORK.-Rank and file men,
bers Of Walters Union, Local / ALL.
are waging struggle in the union
against the policy of the officialdonl
in suspcnding members unable to
pay dues because of Unemployment.
AS a result OF their demands for
the reinstatement Of unemployed
workers 2 members were Jailed on
charges framed by the officials. The
case comes up on Friday. The rank
and file of Locel appeals to all
workers to be at the court at 2-d
Street and Second Avenue to protest
against the attempted railroadins Of
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
MOORE OF /. L. d.
HIILYER OF L. |. d.
AT MEET FOR 9

NEW YORK. Richard 3. Moore,
field organizer Of the International
Labor Defense, Mary Hillyer, secret
airy of the League for Industrial
Democracy lecture bureau and former
organizer Of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union and Elias
M. Schwarzbard. one OF the Scots
boro lawyers, will speak at a Scots
boro mass meeting Friday night, at
pm. at Boro Park Labor Lyceum,
And Street and 14th Avenue, Brook
Ign.
The meeting is under the auspices
of the Ella May Branch of the LID.
Demands for the unconditional and
safe release of Haywood Patterson
and the rest Of the Scottsboro boys
will be made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17

and unnamed factories. In spite Of
all this talk facts prove that there
ere no wage increases affecting any
considerable number Of workers.
Philadelphia wages Falling.
Actual facts are that, although
wages increased 5 per cent between
April Is and May Is, slight seasonal
rise, It is far below last year At
this time of the year there is al
ways slight increase. However,
facts prove that employment during
the month was l6 per cent lower than
last year at this time, and that wages
are still lower - &c per cent lower
than the corresponding period last
year.
Ten Cents an Hour in Oklahoma.
From vinita, Oklahoma, comes re-
ports that ten cents an hour is being
paid workers on the state highway
here. This was admitted by Labor
Commissioner Pat Murray. When
weather is bad workers do not get
paid at all. Many of them get less
than So weeks pay.
Starvation In Southern Mills.
Ballyhoo in the capitalist press re-
ports increases in the Southern tex
tile mill area. Facts show such
claims to be lies. Average earnings
for full time skilled workers In the
Piedmont area are from $3.50 to $3.50
n week. Many places work between
60 and 10 hours week for such
wages. Such is the bluff there about
wage increases.
NEW YORK. The Eastern s. S.
Co will cut wages of the longshore-
men here 10 percent this month. This
will be the second cut in four months
in addition TO spced-up which has al
ready meant lsy-off for every two
out of three men that were working
last year.
Brooklyn Edison Cuts Pay
NEW YORK lit Is announced that
the Brooklyn Edison Company viii
reduce the wages Of ao0A Of its en-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
1000 STRIKE IN
MO. FOOD PLANTS
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 16.-All four
plants Of the Funston Nut Co. are
on strike. Strikers conducted mass
picketing and a parade for two
miles Eleven arrests occurred at
the plant but terror has failed to
break the strikers militant spirit.
The company has offered 10 in
crease wages go per cent but women
demand wage guaranteeing min
imum of five dollars weekly.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, May Is. = Three
Of the four plants of the Funston Nut
Co. were completely shut down today
when more than 1000 workers mostly
Negro women walked out on strike.
The fourth plant of the company is
expected to be down tomorrow. The
who are showing fine enthus-
iasm and militant spirit are mobihz-
ing for mass picketing. The strike
is being led by the Food Workers In
dustrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17

unemployed and employed workers in
this city, led by the Unemployed
Councils and the unions and leagues
of the Trade Union Unity Council,
assisted by other workers organiza-
tions.
U. S. Navy Workers Affected
The Naval Supply Depot is close
TO the Karp shop and these govern
ment workers who recently were cut
by Roosevelt is per cent and who
now face a lay-off of 500 out OF the
800 working in the depot, came in
contact with the strikers and re-
ceived leaflets calling for support of
the strike, exposing the miserable
conditions against which the Karp
workers we're on strike. In addition,
hundreds of other workers, including
those of the many metal shops in the
vicinity were shown good example.
The Karp strike should be an inspira-
ton to particularly the Navy Yard,
Robins Drydock, Morse Drydock
workers!
First Strike in Drive
The Karp strike is an integral part
OF the organization drive now being
conducted by the union in Brooklyn.
The Karp workers themselves are ac-
lively carrying on this drive, and all
other members and friends Of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union are urged to give their fullest
support.
Friday. May 10, at $3.50 pm. at
l35-15th st., Brooklyn, Metal Work
ers, employed and unemployed, are
called to a mass meeting where a
report on the strike and the organi-
zation drive will be given.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-17
ANOTHER METAL
SHOP STRIKES

NEW YORK.--A strike involving
twenty workers of the La Belle Silver
Co. at 37-a9 Broome st. was declared
today. The workers are demanding
reinstatement Of all fred workers, the
abolition OF piece work in all the de-
partments, division of work and re-
cognition of the shop committee. The
strike is led by the Steel and Metal
Workers industrial Union.
Solidarity on the part of the mem
bers of A. r. of L. local s of the
Metal Polishers who refuse to act as
scabs against their fellow workers.
blasted the hopes of the bosses to
run the shop with strikebreakers pro-
vided by this local, The strike is
going strong.