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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06


 many years." sch said. "but I de. clare to goodness no ono ever sur. prised mo ng much nB Eve does. That announcement now--coming with n Christmas greeting! Twas right odd! 1 thought to myself, That's just 1iko Eve Seems like you picked out c right nice man. though. l know you must have asked him; hc doesn't look an though he was bold enough to ask you"
 After dinner they all gathered in tho old parlor and Esther play. ed the piano while the others sans Christmas carols. Then the gifts were distributed. Dick. who had been alone at christmns for tht last SO years, was amazed at the unselfish generosity displayed. Ac. custoaed to paying his way and expecting favors from no ono, he was touched and pleased to see how he was accepted and included in the group ag ono of tho family, Grandmother Dayless. !tn partio- ular, amused him. She brought Eve e handsome guilt of intricate "log cabin" design which she hnd made herself and then grumbled when she gaw tho exauIsitely col. ored rag rugs which Ewes mother had given to Dick.
 "H.m!" Grandmother declared. Now 1 know why Kate was 90 cvcriastingly busy dyeing and sew ing all those rugs tha. she couldn't
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06

Civil aviation in czechosiovnkia has received q substantial impetus as the result Of the Etft Of . com. pietely equipped airpIane plant Co an aviation league.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06

NEvT-Sue begins her new 5ob. Copyright, 1888 NEA Service Incl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Roosevelt OK's Slash
in Pay Above S13
Code Minimum

WASHINGTON, July 2o-President
Roosevelt Thursday signed wage
cutting order for cotton textile work
ers receiving above the $13 minimum
wage, opening the way for the bosses
to make the $13 minimum actually a
maximum wage throughout the in
dustry.
In the original presidential state
n1ent approving and amending the
textile code a provision was made for
the raising Of wages OF those workers
receiving more than the $i3 mini
mum. Soon after the code went into
effect mill owners, managers, flocked
to Washington by airplanc and train
There were hundreds of long distance
kilograms and telephone calls to the
White House, and without consulting
even the labor advisory board, Roose-
Welt ordered the elimination of this
clause. The textile bosses interpret
this as the right to cut wages down
to the $13 level.
This power to suspend any provi-
sion of the codes not suitable to the
bosses, without hearing, or without
giving the workers right to say
word, shows how they will be used in
practice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
MARINE WORKERS
END CONVENTION

NEW YORK-Delegate to the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
Convention wound up the conven-
ton last night after a meeting de-
voted to the adoption of resolutions
and the election of IS members TO
the National Committee.
Roy Hudson, National Secretary Of
the union, in his final summary
speech to the convention delegates,
pointed out that the convention
showed progress towards the build
ing of real industrial union and
that the delegates to the convention
have the important task of return
ing to their districts to put into ac-
ton the plans formulated at the con-
vention.
Resolutions pledging support to the
strike of the Latvian and Finnish sea-
men, and calling for release of Tom
Mooney, the Scottsboro boys and all
class-war prisoners, were adopted by
the delegates.
The convention, which lasted five
days, ended with a show of great en-
thusiaSm by the convention delegates.
The National Committee elected by
the delegates meets tonight for the
purpose of electing its officers and
working out methods for putting into
effect the conventions decisions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Cop Says Stick But
Court Produces Lead
Pipe to Frame Worker

NEW YORK. - Michael Hagopa
who was arrested on the charge of
assaulting a policeman at the recent
demonstration led by the Communist
Party at Goth st. and Seventh Ave,
protesting against the Recovery Act
slavery billy and the action of the
A. F. Of L. in relation to the Fur
Workers Industrial Union, came up
for hearing yesterday before Mag.
Burke and was arbitrarily held for
Grand Jury charged with "felonius
assault" with bail set for $4,000.
Although the policeman who tes-
titled stated that he had been hit
with a stick, the court introduced a
lead-pipe for evidence, at the same
time withholding the evidence"
with which the defendent Hagopa
was SO brutally and inhumanly
beaten by the police when he was
brought to Jail at the time of his
arrest.
The International Labor Defense
is determined to win the release of
this militant worker and is proceed
ing to do so by getting out a writ
Of habeas corpus in order to reduce
the bail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21

that he was not Communist and
that he was helping in this case be-
cause there was only one bona fide
union in the fur field. and his in
terest in trade unionism made him
offer his services to the N. T. w. /.
U. fur section
Bosses Agents Absent
Before Boudin gave his testimony.
the chairman Of the Citizens Com
mittee called out the names of the
officials Of the so-called Interna-
tional Furriers' Union, as well as
officials of the fur bosses association.
but none of them showed up, al
though invitations had been sent to
them to present their side.
Neither did any Socialist official
appear to tell what progress, If any,
had been made by the Socialist Party
or by Norman Thomas in the inves-
tigation which Thomas said was
being conducted and about which he
is keeping so strangely silent.
The name of A. j. Music was also
called but he did not appear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
MOntclair Hotel Gives
Job to Rat WhenTOiIer
IsAbsent On Sick Leave
(By a Food Worker CORRESPONDENT,

(By a Food Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK CITY.-A swell hotel
for the pleasure of the bourgeoisie is
the Montclair on Lexington Ave. at
49th and 50th SITS. The chef of the
place, who fulfills the job of steward,
is making money for the boss.
Last week the kitchen fireman got
sick and with the permission of the
chef went home. Three days later
he found on his job another man, the
brother of the sauce cook, a rat that
works IL hours a day when he is
asked to work 8.
The help in this hotel eats the rot
ten food that is left over from the
day before. Outside of the kitchen
staff. excluding the dishwashers and
saladmen, who work IL hours a day
in this hotel, every department works
IL hours day and days a week.
In the kitchen everyone IS dissat-
isfied and muInbles, but this will not
help in improving the condition. The
workers, instead of quitting, should
see the Food Workers Industrial
Union, at w. 18th ST., and get or
ganized for higher wages and better
working conditions, through struggle.
This is the only solution for the food
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Underwear Workers
Expose AL Fakery

BY Needle Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK CITY-Last week the
boss of the Anchor Underwear Co..
stopped the power and told the work
ers that they should go to a meeting
of Local No. 81, and introduced the
charming young lady" from the
union. An Italian worker got up and
told the Charming young lady" that
she was faker and was a bosses
tool and did not mean the interests
Of the workers. She told the union
takers the experiences she had with
them in other shops and called upon
the workers not to go to the union. -
None of the workers went to the
ONCE of Local No. e., but many went
to the Office of the White Goods De-
partment of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union and asked
to give them assistance in fighting
the boss and the labor takers. The
workers of the Anchor Just began
their fight for better conditions in
the shop.
The workers in the underwear
trade are mostly young American and
Italian women who had little expert
ence in the class struggle and do
not know how to help the situation
A group of underwear workers got
together and we decided to start a
fight for better conditions in the
shops and drive the racketeers out
OF the trade. Through leaflets and
forums and open meetings we began
to reach the rest Of the underwear
workers, who were eager to learn how
to go about the work.
In my opinion, the workers in the
underwear industry should know
about the experiences of the Anchor
workers, and follow their example.
Come to the White Goods Depart
ment of the Needle Trades Workers
industrial Union, at 131 West 18th
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21

the gangsters to drive down the
furriers' conditions and smash the
militant fur section of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union.
Louis Boudin is the lawyer who
served papers. on behalf Of the fur
section Of the N. T. w. I. u, to make
this militant union party to the
injunction hearing and TO vacate
this vicious injunction. Boudin gave
his testimony yesterday at the hear
ing on the fur situation conducted
by the Citizens Committee at Labor
Temple, l4th Street and End Ave-
nue.
Admit Their Own Nom Existence
Boudin pointed out that the non
existence Of the right wing fur union
was glaringly evident from the
papers the A. F. of L. officials then-
selves submitted at the court hear
ings. These papers admitted that
since July of last year practically all
Of the fur shops employed no fright
wing" furriers, and the oral state
ments at the court hearing brought
out that the reason for this was that
there were no right wing" furriers
to employ.
The sham battle by which the A.
F. of L. leaders got this injunction
was so evident that Judge Shientag
was forced to open up the case again
with the N. T. w. l. u fur section
as party, Boudin reported at the
Labor Temple hearing. He stated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
BY EDWARD NEwHousE

NEW YORK. Edward w. Clark,
"a, Negro substitute mail carrier, sat
On the dark plush sofa Of Mayor
O'Brien's reception room and looked
out into City Hall plaza at the watt
ing lines of the eight hundred post
office employees whom he, with four
teen others, represented.
Placards streaming, band playing
they had marched down Broadway
last Tuesday through the milling
noon hour crowds to lay their griev-
ances before O'Brien and invite i'm
mediate action. Then Clark and his
fellow delegates detached themselves,
parleyed with the police inspector
who commanded the Gordon, and en-
tered the properly subdued and de-
corous reception room.
Clark answered my questions de-
liberately and with precision. No, he
had never before participated in an
action of this sort. But ever since
1927 when he passed his civil service
examination and received his APP
pointment he's had a miss able time
making ends meet and now he's
in the fight, sticking one hundred
per cent"
Was familiar with the conditions
they had to contend with? He had
facts and statistics at his finger tips.
Eighty-seven per cent of the substi-
tutes are supporting three or more
on salaries ranging from
Sc to So. Clark himself was married,
had two children aged respectively
2 and 5 years. and never drew over
nine dollars week. Just a week
ago he had been eyicted and had
difficult time keeping his furniture
from being seized. 1t is now in
storage. He ran from charity to
charity until through the Urban
League he secured single, kitchen
less room for himself and his fam
lily.
We're pretty near suffocating,"
Clark said, land my salary goes for
rent. All those kids ever get to eat
is the canned food the Urban League
gives us. They haven't had any fresh
vegetables so long, I can't remember.
A fellow can't bear to look at them.
Anywhere you go it's Well see what
We can do for you Then things like
this pop up. :"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
DRESS WORKERS
CODE PROPOSED

In a series of discussions carried
on at meetings of active members.
shop chairman, trade boards, etc.
the staff executive, together with the
secretariat of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union has finally
agreed on a code of wages and hours
and other working conditions which
will be submitted at a huge mass
meeting of dressmakers next week.
The important points embodied in
the code are:
Week work; 35-hou week; time
guarantee of employment; unemplov-
ment insurance; abolition of child
labor; limitation of contractors, and
equal pay for. equal work, for Young
and adult, white and Negro
Minimum wage scales as follows.
Cutters, $50; operators, s44; exam
liners, s2s; pressers, $50; diapers. ss1.
finishers ,S26; heinstitchers. $50:
cleaners, $40; sample makers, s35.
Complete jobbers responsibility for
conditions in contractors shops.
The minimum wage scales to be
regularly adjusted in accordance with
the rise in the cost of living.
workers receiving above the mini
mum scales to receive 20 per cent
increase in wages, in order to be able
to keep up with the rising cost of
living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Mail Carrier Tells of Friends
Kids Starving to Death

He took out letter threatening
him with court action IL he failed
to pay the balance on his uniform.
I'VE have to buy them ourselves,
you know" he continued. Twenty
eight dollars. That's the sort OF
things pop UP on you. But there are
many others suffering even more.
alfred Cobb, he's another Negro,
his two kids died Of malnutrition
and he didn't even have the money
to bury them. We took up the
collection. The Government really
killed those two kids and II should
at least have had the decency to
bury them. Just try and catch
them doing thing like that
why, they make us punch the
clock every time we go on the toilet.
Not even private employers do that.
And you'd think there would be some
chance for Advancement, but there
isn't. It's common knowledge all
over the department that over ten
thousand vacancies exist but no pro-
motions are being made at all. You
can look that Up"
In came Lieutenant of Police Har-
ten, wearing his indoor uniform, bow
ing, smiling and very superior. Mr..
Gottlieb," he said to the head of the
delegation. "Will you be kind enough
to select the three most charming
of your associates? The Mayor will
see you now. Three men Of super
lative charm. Any minute now"
This after wait Of two and a half
hours.
The delegation lines up In the
corridor. The Mayor will not see
them in the office. Caricatures of
Tammany politicians pass in and
out. One cigar per politician.
Three chins per politician.
The Mayor comes out, flanked by
bodyguards. Reporters gather around,
and photographers bulbs flash. Got
tlieb outlines the case of the sub
stitute postal employees. They want
immediate relief for the exceptionally
needy, $40 as minimum weekly pay,
repeal Of the Is per cent wage cut,
filling Of existing vacancies.
Would Mr.. OBrien support these
demands and sign the petition going
TO President Roosevelt? No, says
OBrien, these matters are outside
my province" Well. would he as an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Cotton Code Cuts Pay;
Electric Bosses Meet
Electric Companies Go
Into Private Meet
To Draw Code

WASHINGTON July 20.-After
eight hours Of hearings here on the
proposed code for the electrical man.
ufacturing industry. affecting 100000
workers, deputy administrator Allen
told the employers to go into pri-
vate conference to agree on a code
that would be acceptable to all Of
them.
The hearings were bringing out too
many facts about the control of IS
percent of the electrical industry by
five big corporations, such as the
General Electric Co. and Western
Electric.
A minimum wage of $3.50 to $14.o0
for 40-hour week was provided In
the code.
The present wage situation In some
Of the electrical industries was
brought out in the testimony of G. C.
Craigmile, general superintendent Of
the Belden Manufacturing Co. of
Chicago. Mr.. Craignlile said though
production in his plant now equaled
1929 figures. wages were down 25 to
30 per cent and employment down
20 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Oxford Slipper Co.
Workers on Strike

NEW YORK.-The workers of the
OXFORD Slipper Co. went on strike
Monday after the firm refused to
settle prices with the workers and
recognize the Shoe & Leather Work.
ers' Industrial Union. Although the
number of strikers is small, the
strike itself is important, as it is the
beginning of a strike movement in
the slipper trade.
The slipper shop conference this
Saturday will decide definite steps to
be taken to enforce decent prices and
establish union conditions. All un-
organized and organized shops are
called upon to send delegates. The
conference will be held at Irving
Plaza Hall Saturday at 2 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21

ton that it is the leaders of the
union that are seeking piece work.
He lauded the conference and the
N. I. r. A. and said I'VE can all gain
from the Code. 1t will help heal the
sick industry"
Kline Of the Industrial Council
enumerated the blessings" OF piece
work and told of how the I. L. G. w.
U. had voluntarily put the workers
on the piece system.
LYMAN, O. The Needle Workers In
dustrial Union, demanded the floor
to present the demands of the work.
ers. Howard only granted permis-
sion after the delegation had pro-
tested and shown Geographic prom
ises that had been sent assuring them
a hearing at the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Cut Structural
Iron Workers Paw

NEW YORK.-A wage cut of So
week was announced this week to
be put into effect next week for the
structural iron workers and all other
workers on the West Side Improve
ment jobs at the New York Central
Railroad. The company announced
the wage reductions as based on he
schedule issued by the Industrial
'nmissioner of New York State.
Workers that were getting s1.65
an hour are cut to $145 an hour,
and new classifcations have been in
vented to cut the wages still lower.
One of the new classifications is
"unskilled labor and apprentices"
for which only 80 cents an hour will
be paid.
Workers who desire to organize
such resistance should get in touch
with, the office of the Building and
Construction Workers League at 81
e. 18th st, N. Y. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Electric Union Heads
Get Cop to Beat Up
Rank and File Member

NEW YORK.-Edward Hoffman,
a member of A. F. of L. Local No.
3, Electrical Workers, for % years,
and leading member of the rank
and file group of the local, was bru-
tally assaulted and beaten by uni
formed policeman on the steps of
the Central Opera House last week
after meeting of the local union.
Hoffman had demanded on the
floor of the union meeting the ex-
emption of dues payments for the
unemployed and the reduction of the
salaries of union officials to the level
of the average income of the union
men.
The local union officials, who have
long employed gangster methods and
even murder, to get those workers
out of the way who challenge their
corrupt and treacherous policies, this
time got a Tammany policeman to
do the Job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21

At the opening Sof the session, be-
sides this union delegation, there were
present a delegation of the I. L. G..
w. u, and about 200 jobbers, manu-
facturers and contractors.
Howard was chairman of the hear
ing. KRISTEN and Professor Rogers
were on the platform.
Morris Hillquit was spokesman for
the International. He made his usual
shrewd lawyers speech but refrained
from trying to answer the damaging
statements of the bosses association
that his union had given consent to
the introduction of piece work, de-
spite agreements. Hillquit, in putting
forth the code proposed by the I. L.
G. w. U. stressed that it is the
workers who insist on a weekly basis
for their work, leaving the intima-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21

conveniently forgotten in the Chi
cago world fair-the Soviet Union"
The Workers Laboratory The
atre, which is busy rehearsIng
every Monday and Thursday eve
ming, is preparing the satire on
the World Fair which will be pro-
duced under tent at the picnic
grounds on July 80. They ask all
interested workers to join their
cast by showing up at their head
quarters, AZ E. 18th ST., next Mon
day at 8 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Soviet Union Forgotten" At World Fair
But Not At Daily Worker Picnic July 80

NEW YORK.-"Geneva has its
League of Nations, London its
economic conferences and Chicago
its World Fair-but the biggest
spectacle of them all is yet to be
seen at the Daily Worker Picnic
in Pleasant Bay Park on July 30
our own Worlds Fair"
So states the management COM
mittee for the picnic, continuing
by announcing that "we've also
brought In one country which was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
ELECT DELEGATES TO KNIT
GOODS CONFERENCE

NEWARK, N. J.--At a well-at-
tended meeting of knit goods workers
here, the workers of which came
mainly from the Groublue Knitting
Mills, the largest mill in Newark, the
workers elected delegates to the knit
goods conference, which will take
place on Saturday, July "a, PM
in Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and
18th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
$50 CLOTHING WORKERS
STRIKE

ROCHESTER, N. Y, July 2O.-A
strike called against the Keller
Heumann, Thompson Co., by the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers has
resulted in bringing out $50 workers
according to press reports. The
strike has been called to establish a
union shop in the plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
LOO Win Three Hour
Underwear Strike

NEW YORK One hundred young
workers Of the Nettie Underwear Co.,
following a walkout yesterday, won
their demands for a 4o-hour week, an
increase in wages and the recognition
of a shop committee. The strike
lasted three hours.
The strikers we're addressed by a
representative of the white goods
section of the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Saturday

individual, intercede In their behalf?
Why, says OyBrien, "I'll see what I
can do for YOU"
Edward w. Clark, i.egro substi-
tute mail carrier Of Harlem, aver
aging eight dollars a week, living
with three others in single kit
chenless room, has heard those
words before.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21

WASHINGTON 2o-BattIns of
which opened hearings the Industrial
try today to hear Hyman of the Needle
the delegation the latter finally
Hyman speak later the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Y0RKvILLE LAUNDRY WORKERS
GIVE $21 TO STRIKE FUND

NEW YORK.-The workers of the
OAK Steam Laundry Yorkville) yes
terday pledged solidarity with the
strikers of the Active laundry and
contributed $21 to the strike fund
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Louis Boudin Exposes ALL.
Collision With Fur Bosses
Describes How Existent RightWing Union
Got Injunction Against Absent
Employers Association

NEW YoRK-A labor nuno
ton against employers association that didn't
Louis Boudin described the injunction
International Furr Union the
combined attempt the A.