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The daily worker., 1933-07-25

scabs, not infrequently against the
striking membership of their own
unions whom they branded as con-
Quoting outlaw" strikes.
This was particularly flagrant in
New York, where the socialist" lead
ers of the Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, the clothing workers, the fur
riers, used Tammany police and
gangsters against the militant left
wing. 1t was in this fight of the
rank and file of the membership
against the racketeering tactics Of
Sigman, Schlesinger, Hillman, Du-
binsky and other takers that this
same Mr.. Edward P. McGrady, the
Tammanyite who is now assistant
secretary of labor in the Roosevelt
administration, along with the no.
torious Matt Vol, took an active
part in defense of the racketeers
against the rank and file of the
membership. This is the individual
chosen to wage war against labor
racketeers." No part of the Roose-
velt new deal' is more sardonic and
hypocritical than the selection of Nc
Grady for this job.
Likewise in the United Mine Work
ers of America it was John l.. Lewis
one OF those now active in putting
over Roosevelt's Industrial Recovery
(Slavery) Code, who used gangsters
to maintain himself in office against
the will of the overwhelming major
ity of the membership Of his union
Professional murderers roamed the
coal regions, particularly Lewis
stronghold in the Anthracite, and
with machine gun fire tore to pieces
leaders Of the rank and file revolt
against him.
George L. Berry of the printing
pressmen gave membership cards te
professional thugs and stool pigeon,
to help the publishers break strikes
of pressmen and to forcibly deprive
the membership of the right to vote
against Berryism. Similar acts were
repeated against the militant rank
and file in the textile industry BY
Mcmahon and his thugs.
Generally it can be said that ir
those Notwithstanding, needle
trades, textile--where the splitting
tactics Of the bureaucrats and the
smashing of the organizations Of labor
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
RELIEF IN STATE
SLUMPS BY 7P.C.
Don't Waste Fare to
Find Job Says Official

NEW YORK.-Relief expenses for
June of Federal, state and local gov
,f fefnments in New York state have
dropped 7 per cent as compared to
May. This is reported by the State
Temporary Emergency Relief Admin
istration. Relief expenditures for
May were S102 per capita while in
= June it had dropped to "a cents.
z Though relief expenses were cut the
: Welfare Councils of New York City
in their current report state, that
requests for aid are increasing rather
than decreasing"
Z To the tens of thousands who lost
8 their last cent for fare to find job
on one of the Roosevelt public works
projects, Wilfred H. Winans, state
director of the National re-employ-
ment service was issued warning not
to spend any money for fare. He
asked the jobless to wait until prob
ably an office will be established in
their locality and then probably some
of them may get job.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
HOPKINS ADMITS
RELIEF WITHHELD
FROM STRIKERS
Strike Aid Promised,
But Aimed Against
Militant Workers

z5rt WASHINGTON, July 23.-Making
:, a promise that workers on strike will
= get relief, Harry L. Hopkins, emer-
gency relief administrator admitted
that relief funds have heretofore been
dgdenied to strikers, in an effort TO
break strikes.
Hopkins Immediately qualified his
promise of aid with the remark that
,~SEach case applying for relief should
be treated wholly apart from any
controversy in which the wage earn
er may be involved" The federal
administrator tells relief agencies to
treat each case applying for relief"
tsaparately. BY this method govern
ment agencies will determine which
strike and even which strikers should
'be given relief.
Officials expect in this way to weed
out militant workers in strikes and
those strikes which are under the
leadership of revolutionary trade
Unions.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
FOREST OFFICERS
FED WELL WHILE
YOUTHS GET SLOP
Recruit Writes of Camp
Where Yancovitch
Was Killed

The letter printed below describ-
ing conditions in the Yellowstone
camp of the Civilian Conservation
Corps comes from the camp
in which 1S-year-old Abraham
Yancovitch was killed by one of
the petty officers. The letter was
addressed by a young recruit to
his mother.
WEST YELLOWSTONE CAMP,
Montana.-This camp in my opinion
is becoming more militarist each day,
in other words it's the U. S. Army
called by a different name-the Ci-
william Conservation Corps.
The food is worse than any have
eaten in all my life. Never enough
and either cooked too much or cook
ed too little. The officers eat steaks
and have eggs and otherwise they
have excellent meals.
The officers require us to Sir
them when we talk to them and are
drunk most of the time The officers
bring prostitutes into camp for the
week ends. That is some example to
set for the men, isn't it.
Eight men have left the camp for
the road back to the city. Poor fell
lows, they tried to get transportation,
but were refused and so they were
forced to hike back home. I do not
think that they will have it easy as
all authorities are on the lookout for
such men and will try to jail them.
Many more are thinking of leaving
via the same method.
The officers are becoming alarmed
at the men deserving and trying ev-
cry effort to keep them here.
We have few poolrooms with
gambling going on in them, boot
leggers with their rotten corn whis-
key and as usual in the case of army
camps. prostitutes seem to come like
flies to ply their trade.
We have had three food riots since
we have been in this camp After the
food riots, we received fairly good food
after that period the food standard
returned to its former level. When w
tried to present our case via spokes-
men for all, we were labeled reds
That means all of us are reds, agi-
tators sent here to disrupt the peace
and good will of the government.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25

that Peterson ever heard of the I. L.
d. announcement" the 1. L. D. said,
land doubly doubtful that he would
repudiate it. But when the Birming-
ham World recognizes the frame-up
character of the case, it should also
recognize the ruling-class character
Of the courts, and expect just such a
verdict as was handed down against
Peterson as the result of a purely
legalistic defense.
"The Birmingham World is mis-
taken also when it speaks of "a few
mass meetings and a few radical
talks freeing Peterson. 1t will take
mass movement, with hundreds of
meetings, passing resolutions, and the
setting into motion of hundreds Of
thousands of both white and Negro
workers, to force the U. S. Supreme
Court, which now will have the cast
before it, to relinquish the lynch hold
Of the white ruling class of the
South from Willie Peterson"
The daily worker., 1933-07-25

there were no receipts for money, no
accounting beyond the recording of
the fact that given amount was
spent for "organizational" activities,
or in some cases they fecetiously re-
ferred to it as expenses for the "edu-
cational committee" If any member
questioned such procedure he was
silenced by strong-arm henchman
of the machine and told he shouldn't
ask questions about such matters. If
he persisted he got the "bum's rush.
out Of the meeting. In this way the
officials were able TO pocket substan-
tial rake-offs without ever having to
give an account of the treasury raid
ing.
Revolutionists Opposed Racket
In the old line unions the revolu-
tionary workers, and the militants
generally, always waged a fight
against gangsterism, Not that there
were any objections TO dealing harshly
with scabs. Use Of gangsters was re-
jected by revolutionists from the
viewpoint Of working class tactics as
the worst possible form of substitut-
ing individual action for mass action.
This opposition, to be sure, aroused
the fury Of the labor bureaucrats who
had so carefully built up the tradi-
ton OF gangsterism as weapon de-
signed to paralyze the action Of their
own membership and to aid the
bosses.
One of the first things done after
the close Of the World War by the
militants in the labor unions through
out the country was the raising Of
the banner Of struggle against gang
sterism as an integral part of the
task Of unleashing the initiative OF
the membership and engaging the
enemy in open struggle.
Use Gangsters Against Members
As the left wing forces began to
ROW and play leading role in many
parts of the movement the trade
union officials who had been most
involved in gangster tactics used
thugs and gunner against their own
membership.
In whole series Of post t-war
strikes-mining, texMle, needle
trades, printing, railroad-the reac-
tionary officials, with the use Of
gangsterA carried on recruiting Of
The daily worker., 1933-07-25

NEW YORK.-Inability to pay for
adequate medical care is causing
thousands of persons to seek the as
sistance of the Health Department
clinics and still other thousands to
go without the medical care and su-
pervision which they should have ac-
cording to the report issued by the
Health Commissioner of New York.
Because of the extensive unem-
ployment, the pressure on the Health
Departments clinics and health sta
tions has become so great that an in
crease in the departments facilities is
imperative" said Commi ssi oner
Wynne.
The report continues, Despite the
decline in the birth-rate, similar in
creased demand has been made OIL
our baby health stations. During
1927-29 the attendance averaged $780,
900 annually. The number has
continued to rise SO that during the
first six months of this year the at
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
Birmingham World Denies
Peterson Rejected LID.
Negro Paper Admits Power of Mass Protests
But Pussyfoots on Other Issues

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 21-"We
do not believe that any man in
Peterson's position would repudiate
anything except the court which
convicted him" This is the editorial
comment of the Birmingham World
Negro weekly paper, in answer to a
vicious repudiation of mass protest
to secure the freedom of Willie
Peterson, Negro veteran framed on
murder charges.
The statement asking that the
I. L. D. stay out of the case" was
issued In Peterson's name by Walter
S, Smith, N. A. A. G. P. lawyer who
is conducting his legalistic defense.
1t was issued In answer to the LID.
announcement that it would make
the saving of the life of Willie Peter
son national issue.
N. A. A. c. p. Pussyfoots
Peterson has been sentenced to die
August Is, on charges which every
one except the N. A. A C. P. attor-
neys defending him, and the white
ruling class which seeks to legally
lynch him, recognizes are nothing
more than a crude frame-up. The
LID, it has been announced, besides
exposing the frame-up with facts
which the N. A. A. c. P. LAWYERS.
fearful of offending their white
masters, have kept out of court, will
organize nationwide mass protest to
save Peterson's life.
I'VE assumed t'>7t reasonable
yroup Of men would see the obvious
frame-up and that it would take only
few minutes for our Supreme Court
to decide in our favor" says the Bir-
mingham World, repeating here the
illusions common among reformists
and even among sincere but con-
fused friends of the national liberia
ton movement of the Negro people.
They failed to take anything into
consideration other than that white
woman said this is the Negro
LET Them Go to IT."
"The white dailies carried stories
alleged to have been given by Peter
sons lawyer and coming direct from
Peterson, repudiating the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. We do not
believe that any man in Peterson's
position would repudiate anything
except the court which convicted
him. If the International Labor De-
Tense can save him where we have
failed, LET THEM GO TO IT.
The woman on whose testimony
Id q
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
Is BOOK BAZAARS

NEW YORK. - Fifteen book ba-
zaars, in as many sections of Man
haitian, Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens,
opened last week and will last until
August 8. Books and pamphlets of
the working class movement are be-
ing sold at 20 per cent discount
The books on sale cover theory.
working class history, the Soviet
Union, economics, present conditions,
The sales are being conducted at
the following addresses: 96 Avenue O.,
56 w. 25th st.; 1413 Fifth Ave; 27
W. 115th ST.; 500 Prospect Ave-,
Bronx; 2o75 Clinton Ave, Bronx; 1872
Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn; 81 Graham
Ave-, Brooklyn; 62 Herzil St., Browns
Vile; 11os 45th St., Brooklyn; 148-29
Liberty Ave-, Jamaica, L. l.; and 81
Hudson st., Yonkers, N. Y.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
NEWS BRIEFS
Earth 2 Billion Years Old.

WASHINGTON, July 24.z-Profes-
sor A. G. Lane of Tufts College, Bos-
ton, Mass, told the Sixteenth In
ternational Geological Congress in ses-
sion here that the time scales of the
so-called radioactive clock, devised
for measuring geological time by the
disintegration of atoms of uranium,
thorium, actinium and radium lead,
shows that the earth in its present
solidified form dates back at least
1882 100000 years.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
FORCED TO WORK
HUNGRY, WRITES
WESTERN YOUTH
Negroes Jim Crowed;
Refuse to Work Until
Given Better Food

FRESNO, Cal. - Captain Flem-
ming, a hard boiled officer, left one
of Roosevelt's (slave) camps as sud-
denly as he arrived. A Jim Grow"
C.C.C. two miles from the county
prison camp in the San Bernardino
mountains called Captain Flemming
after 278 colored workers refused to
do any work under the miserable
conditions, discrimination and chau-
vinism that existed in the camp.
Captain Flemming arrived in the
afternoon in full military regalia
and that evening he called the boys
together and gave them a lecture on
how the Government demanded 81
worth of work for 81 pay that the
Government was giving them, and
how that he was going to see that
this was done. He talked on patriot
ism, and how we should love this
country chats starving us to DEATH
and lot of other war hysteria, but
when he had finished he was greet
ed with big Bronx Cheer.
The next morning at am. Cap
tain Flemming was awakened from
his slumbers by shouting and sing
ing. On investigation he found 278
Negro boys marching around his
cabin shouting, Down with Flenl-
ming" and singing revolutionary
songs. The captain asked: What th
hell do you want?" The answer came
back unanimous, I'VE want you to
get out" Finally after hurried con-
ference with other officers 1t was
decided that F1emming would leave.
The following morning the cook
dropped two cases Of eggs, and the
boys refused to work without eggs,
so at noon a hearty meal was dished
out. Still the boys refused to work,
to prepare them for war, they are
taking definite stand against all
discipline and the miserable condi-
tions that exist.
I have just been fired from the
General Grant National Park of
Fresno for refusing to work days
week. I was arrested and held two
days and was then kicked out of
camp.
A lot of the boys would do the
same thing but they are afraid be-
cause we are under military disci-
pline, and the lieutenants even ex-
pect you to salute them and stand
at attention when you talk to them.
The conditions up there are terri
BILE; besides the food isn't fit to eat.
except when there are visitors
around. We go to work hungry many
times. If you are caught loafing
just once they threaten to dis
charge you. AS most of the boys
have folks that get nothing but
the $25 pay that is sent for our work
they fear to lose it. All the Negro
boys are put off in camp by
themselves and they have it tough
er than us.
Every morning and evening they
remind us that this Is our country
but when we we're on the bum and
tried to sleep out some place the
cops showed us that there wasn't
any of 1t ours, and chased us from
one town to another A lot Of the
boys are talking about organizing
but they don't know much about it.
Wish 1 could send them some
western Workers" to help them.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
Big Dam for Africa.

NEW YORK, July 24.-The j. G.
White Engineering Company an
nounces the dispatch of a second ex-
pedition to Ethiopia to complete sur
veys for big dam to control the
headwaters of the Blue Nile and
make available for irrigation millions
of acres of land in the Sudan and
Egypt. United States capital is pene-
trating that part of the world which
has hitherto been regarded as the
domain of British imperialism.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
C.C.C. Turned Into US. Army Unit
Bulldozing Captain Told to Get Out
Well Make You
"WOrk for Joy
of Working I'D.

President Roosevelt speaking
over the radio to the youths in
the forest camps last week said:
Through you the nation will
graduate a fine group of strong
young men, clean living, trained to
0elf-discipline, and above all, will
ling and proud to work for the
joy of working"
The killing of Abraham Yanko-
witch in a Yellowstone Park camp,
5torieS about conditions in the
;ame and other camps sent II
the Daily Worker, show the kind
of discipline" and "joy of work
ing that the Roosevelt camps are
carrying out.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
Hunger Wages for Children.

WASHINGTON, July 24.-Penn-
sylvania is shown by labor depart
ment survey to Be one of the states
using child labor to manufacture
shirts. These children get as low
as 81 week, while women and girl
workers in the same factories got So
to Sc during a busy week this sum-
mer.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
Priest to Bless Autos.

NEW YORK, July 24-Two masses
are to be celebrated tomorrow at st.
Christophers' Church, Baldwin, L. l.
St. Christopher is the patron saint of
motorists and several clergymen from
New York will assist the Rev. John
]. Mahon in blessing automobiles
during the day and evening.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25

NOTICE is hereby given that license num-
her NYB 5601 has been issued to tho un-
dsrSigned TO sell beer and light wine at
retail. under Section 76 Of the Alcoholic
3 Beverage Control Law, at 1Z2 University
Place, New York, N. Y. to be consumed
upon the said premises. University Ests
Inc. 122 University Place, New YORK, MI
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
DISCUSS TOBACCO CODE

NEW YORK.-A mass meeting OF
tobacco workers will be held We'd
nesday to discuss how the Industrial
Recovery Act affects the workers OF
the tobacco industry. The mass
meeting has been organized by the
Tobacco Workers Industrial Union.
Demands affecting wages and work
ing conditions will be formulated at
the meeting. The meeting takes
place at the Cuban Club, 14l3 9th
Ave. 8Np. m.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
LICENSE NOTICES

NOTICE is hereby given that license num-
Der NYB 1880 has been issued to the nm
dersigned 20 sell bear and Light wine Al
- retail under Section 56 of the Alcolonic
Beverage Control Law, at rs Clinton st.'
New YORK. n. Y. to be consumed upon the
said prennises Clinton Kosher Deiicates-
sen Corp, IS Clinton street, New York,
N. Y.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
Boys Killed in Wreck.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, July a. -
Two boys were killed and eight in
jured in the wreck of a Delaware q
Hudson freight train on which they
were riding in search of work One
of the dead was identified as John
Venzik, IS, of Hudson, Pa. The other
boy has not yet been identified He
appeared to be about IT years Of age.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
IMPORTANT

All unemployed Y. C. L. mem-
bers are requested to see Comrade
Hermann at the Y. C. L. office
AS SUUN AS PUSSIBLE about
an important emergency matter!
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
(Mduhuttnn) }

Lecture by J. Schiller on "WiI the
National Recovery Act Bring Back Pros
perity." On wednesday at $50 pm. at
French Workers Club, 40 w 65th St. Ad-
mission free In English
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
HNH . HHlN ulIAVps
(RrOOkLunl

Mass Meeting on National Recovery Act
at Coney Island Workers Center, 9th st.
and Mermaid Ave Questions, discussions.
Admission free. Tonight at 9.
Earl Browder will lecture on "Roose-
vents New Deal and War Danger" at Pre-
rnier Palace, sos Sutter Ave. Auspices
Hinsdale Workers Club Proceeds for Com
r1unist
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
WHAT'S ON
Tuesday

WORKERS SCHOOL SUMMER TERM
opens this week. Registration is accepted
this week for any course before its first
session, at the school office. Room sol,
IS z. 18th St.
Special 20 per cent sale on all books and
pamphlets, now going on IN ALL SEC
TION headquarters. This sale open TO all
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That Extra Day Of Leisure
Wide Difference of Opinion Among Economists as to
the Effect on American People of Social Reform
That Is Being Brought About.

On . subject which 10 Just now engaging
the attention IT thinkers everywhere, Louis
M. Lyons, writing In the Boston Globe, o.
fers the following:
With suddenness hardly realized
great chunks of free time are Drop
ping into the lap Of the American
worker.
Code after code cuts down his
work weeF piles up his leisure.
What is he going 10 do with It?
What Is IL going to mean to Amer
lea?
One month brought the ive-day
week to 4OO,OeO textile workers.
Another month extended the five
day week to thousands of Boston
department store employees. Stroke
by stroke the pen of the President
writes the work week down for one
group after another In our great in
dustries to 40 hours. 35 hours, 80
hours a week. The penstroke that
cut the southern cotton worker from
60 to 40 hours achieved In one mo
years in shortening the hours of the
American worker.
This was not for social reform, but
for the economic necessity Of getting
America back to work Yet many
hold that the social change of the
shortened week is far more signifi-
cant to America in the long run and
will itself work immense economic
change.
The new hours on the codes mean
more free time for millions of Ameri-
cans than they ever had before-ex
cept recently when they had time but
no money. For the first time in his
tory the mass of the people are to
have time out with money to spend.
Some people are concerned about
this new leisure. John W. Davis,
returning deluxe from a sojourn
aboard, shakes his head and is afraid
that few will use the new freedom
usefully. He has always felt that
every man should work eight hours
q day.
Edward A. Filene of Boston, re-
turning a few days later from Eu-
rope, isn't worried. I've never knew
what to do with leisure till we had
it." he says. For years be has been
saying that the work of the world
in a machine age could be done in
FIVE hours day and soon would be.
Many economists recently agreeing
with him have been saying that the
only way out is for America to learn
to use more leisure time, because
there won't be work enough to 90
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round again for a six-day week.
What are they going to do with
their new time?
Down in New Bedford one of the
first things noted after the five-day
week came into the cotton mills was
an increase in marriage intentions.
The merchants find boom In Sat-
urday forenoon shopping. By noon
people have got ont of town TO the
beaches. In the winter something
else will take the place of the rush
to the beach. What?
When John w. Davis father was
young men worked from sun to sun
and many shook their heads over the
idea of giving workers more free
time. They'd spend 1t In idleness.
Before that, when Lucy Larcom
worked as a thirteen-year-old girl
for 13 hours a day in the cotton
mills of Lowell. there was even
then the problem of leisure. Little
Lucy used to lean far out the mill
window on bright June days and
yearn for the fields. But she felt 1t
a duty TO improve herself In her idle
time. Her sister used to keep al
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Millions still refuse TO admit Tor do
not know, although the evidence has
been before their eyes for a dozen
years. the significant fact that Fas-
cism has been great success in Italy
that Mussolini, the dictator who or
ganiZed Fascism and has ruled il ever
since. is one Of the greatest statesmen
of all time If you class Italian Fas-
cism with Russian Bolshevism, as most
people do. you are making a serious
blunder. The Bolshevist revolt in
Russia ruined Russia; the Fascist re
volt in Italy saved Italy.