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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
"He Who Laughs Last

TIE published Open
Members which the short omngs
which the which they will
Naturally the capitalist the
dsres make selfcrcsm goatng announcing
"the Communists admit their failure"
they seldom understand the meaning
Two the Party had 5000 MEMBERS
penetrating country
hundreds of struggles.
But satisfied with this Letter nphaticay
declares that the Party has succeeded
able situation for growth of the revolutionary
must decisive itself the
do SO?
The Open Letter the best that
how the most devastating crisis history the inability
ruling class find peaceful furnish the
vitality the revolutionary
ment the actions of the
this petty
their significance analysed in the Open Letter.
THE Letter admission weapon struggle
Unlike the bourgeois parties carefully point
weakest estimate
failure greater
toward victory.
task before the
consciousness the difficulties
them through earnest discussion the
the units in the fractions applying its analysis struggles
in which they engaged
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15

Gil began preparations for a State
Hunger March; called statewide
conference for unemployed relief
July %; redoubled its efforts to or
ganize the unemployed.
The city was stirred. The day
after the funeral the papers told
about another unemployed worker
who dropped in the street. He
hadn't eaten for five days. He was
taken to hospital. The Workers
Unemployed Council began forming
new branches. Churches invited the
WUC leaders to address them on
the situation; liberal and civic or
CARNATIONS suddenly realized men
were starving to death in Omaha.
Fritsche, singlehanded, weaken
ed by months of semi-starvation
and rapidly dying of hunger,
couldn't get more food-and died.
Turned away many times, like hun
dreds of others, he "didn't ask for
more" But the unemployed work
ers of Omaha, organized and led by
the Workers Unemployed Council,
are asking for more-demanding it.
And hundreds of workers that were
refused relief before have been
given grocery orders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
SECRETLY
AGREE ON
CLOAK CODE
II. L. G. w. Union Heads
Accept Bosses Plan
of Piece Work
TO CALL FAKE STRIKE
Daily Freiheit Exposes
Meeting Behind
Closed Doors

NEW YORK-An agreement has
been concluded behind closed doors
between the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union officials
and the cloak and suit manufacture
ers' association for piece work ano
minimum wage scales for the cloak
workers as proposed by the manu-
facturers' code, it was revealed yes
terday by the Freiheit, Jewish work
ers' paper, from sources known to
be authentic.
Among the conditions of the agree
ment are piece work for all workers
except cutters, sample makers and
examiners; 40-hour week; salaries
ranging from $14 a week for ship
ping clerks and 45 cents an hour for
finishers to rs cents an hour fol-
coat and jacket operators are to be
enforced cutters are to receive 81
an hour.
1t was also revealed that the work
ers will be unanswered into accept
ing the agreement through the call
ing of a few days stoppage in the
industry by the International Off
Gals. The stoppage is to be called
general strike" The public an
nouncements of President Dubinsky
of the I. L. G. w. u, in which he
pretends opposition to the minimum
wage scales, are looked upon as only
part of the trickery by which his
officials and the manufacturers plan
to enforce the code they have worked
out.
According to the plan, after the
calling of the STRIKE" a Recovery
(Slavery) Act mediator will be sent
in. With the code settled the union
officials will announce that the work
ers cannot fight the government and
will then attempt to force the cloak
makers to accept the slavery condi-
tons. Another possibility is that TIE
Recovery administrator will prom sc
to adjust matters and the strike
will thus be betrayed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
STRIKE TAX BUT
NO STRUGGLE, Is
.ILGW HEADS PLAN
Cloak Left Wing Shop
Chairmen Barred
from Meeting

NEW YORK-A tax of 81 day
| for a strike in the cloak industry,
but no concrete action for real
strike to enforce the cloakmakers'
overwhelming referendum for week
work-this was the measure damned
through Thursday night at Beeth-
oven Hall on 5th Street, at a packed
meeting of shop chairnen carefully
selected by the reactionary officials
of the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union.
All shop chairmen who were
known as favoring week-work in
opposition to the attempt of Dublin
sky and Nagel to get a vote for
piece work, were excluded from the
meeting. Even Kaplan, left wing
member of the executive committee
of the IL.GW.U., was denied adj
mittance. Only those with special
blue cards, given out by the right
wing officials, we're admitted
Police Patrol Neighborhood.
! Police patrolled 5th Street and
First and Second Avenues to make
sure that no workers who did not
have Dubinsky,s blue cards got near
Beethoven Hall while the meeting
took place. Truckdrivers specially
modified by Dubinsky's clique were
given these blue cards and packed
the hall to give the meeting the
appearance of a mass gathering.
Cooper, however. manager Of local
9 of the IL.G.W.U. finally got into
the hal, and forced the chairman to
give him the floor to present the
militant program of the IL.G.W.U.
for real strike for week work
Cooper pointed out that while the
overwhelming referendum forced the
right wing officials to pretend to be
! for week work, they were at the
very moment permitting workers to
operate on winter garments on
| piece work basis, thus undermining
the strength of a strike for week
work even before it begins.
Must Be Tax for Real Strike
We opposition. Cooper pointed
cut, is not opposed to a strike tax.
But it must be tax for a real
strike, and should not be collected
from workers now operating on win
Ter garments, Wnlle Strike TO en-
force weel, work has not yet been
called.
| Cooper proposed a $4,000 loan
now to finance the strike, with a
tax of 81 day AFTER the strike.
for period of two weeks, on the
basis Of the gains made by the
workers. Ee also put forward the
demand for rank and file participa-
ton in the strike, With shop chair
man on the strike committees. who
were to meet once a week. and with
mass meetings of all workers twice
week.
All these proposals were rejected
by the packed meeting of the blue
card shop chairrnen and truck
drivers. They also rejected Coop
er's proposal to strengthen the I'M
ion membership. on the eve Of
sSrike, by readmitting the thousands
OF unemployed workers who were
six months to year in arrears on
dues, on the payment of S5.35.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
ALL OUT TODAY in
PROTEST AGAINST
SOVIET'S ENEMIES
Demonstrate at | pm.
at Avenue A. and
7th Street

NEW YORK.-The workers of
New York, at the call Of the Friends
of the Soviet Union, will demon
strate in protest against White
Guards, Fascists, and all enemies
of the Soviet Union. The demon
stration will start at p. m, at
Avenue A and It'll ST., will continue
as parade through the East Side,
and end up again at the starting
point.
While the Soviet Government, be-
cause of its consistent peace policies
is gaining more and more the con-
fidence and support of the workers
in capitalist countries, thus forcing
their governments to sign non-ag-
erosion pacts with the Soviet I'm
ion, the White Guards are intensi-
flying their vicious attacks on the
Soviet government.
The mass demonstration and par
ade will be the answer Of the work
ers in New Yorl, to these war pro-
vacations against the Soviet Union.
The Harlem Branch. F. S. U. is
mobilizing Negro and white workers
in Harlem for preliminary protest
demonstration at 131st ST. and Len
OK Ave. From there they will march
down in a body to 7th st. and Ave.
A. The Red Front. Band will lead
this demonstration and parade
against White Guardists and fas-
cists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
A Socialist" Blessing

NORMAN THOMAS leader of the Socialist Thursday
~ to hear the Board Estimate
million
What did the Board of Estimate decide? decided:
To accept responsibility for the situation.
special the
ef taxing transfer Of stocks
To ignore the demand Unemployment
Insurance Bill
What did Norman Thomas He said:
Il have been advocating
1890 always glad the
Socialist position
Whose interests does Norman
sing?
In approving the action Of the Norman Thomas
the criminal responsibility he
the double
tends that this action is socialist action.
In the face Of this situation the
Norman Thomas serve endorsement
New York Albany will do anything pressure
forces them to
The workers must broaden intensity
Home Relief Bureaus They prepare pressure
the state legislature
and the Board Of Aldermen.
They must place the at the
expense of the employers
demands for immediate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
Paid S. a Hole for
Golf, So a Week to Workers

CHICAGO, Ill. - 1t isn't the
money, with Benjamin Sopkin, it's
the principle of the thing. Sopkin,
faced by a strike of 1900 Negro
and white workers in his sweat shop
dress factory, fought back with
every weapon he could use to pre-
vent the workers getting few
more nickels day wages and some
amelioration of the intolerable con-
ditions in his shop. He was forced
to pay more, and he's paying more.
If he could have beaten the work
ers out of their pay increase alto
gether, he'd have done it. He tried
hard enough = with cops clubs,
striEebrealsing thugs, the organized
strength of all the employers in
Chicago, the newspapers, and the
ready assistance Of Oscar DePriest,
wealthy Negro reformist Congress
man, who stabbed the strikers in
the back.
But Sopllin doesn't mind separat-
ing himself from money--but not
to workers. He's free spender, an
easy giver-up, a good fellow-when
he's not fighting tooth and nail to
keep his payroll few notches
below starvation level.
A IS bill is Sopkin's smallest
change. He uses it for tips. He
plays golf at S. hole. He boasts
that he never paid less than SIS
for anything he bought. And never
took change. Except from his EN-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15

ployees.
Before the strike, hundreds of
girls were working 81 hours for
Sopkin for So and So week.
Sopkin, short, dark, with a pleas
ant manner, drives around in a
custom-built Lincoln that cost him
$1,000. He likes plenty of room, so
when he goes away for the summer
he takes a suite that is intended
for four persons, and pays double
rates for himself and his wife,
say about 500 a week. It's a jovial
crowd at the Barron Hotel, South
with his patronage. Golf, poker-at
Haven, Mich, which Sopkin favors
$40 a Garland they say Sopkin is
good loser.
Sopkin knows what's what in
food. Here is sample Sunday din
ner at the Sopkinses:
Pate de foie gras, chicken broth,
artichokes, roast chicken with truf-
fle dressing, potato souffle, endive
salad and ice cream.
Add up the dinner check, for Ben
jamin Sopkin and his wife, his son
and two grandchildren, and include
the special dining room for the
children, the special waitress and
governess to see that the young
Sopkins learn their table manners,
and the tips to the orchestra, and
the total would meet the pay checks
of perhaps 30 of Sopkin's exploited
workers for week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
OPEN MARINE
MEETING IN
N. Y. TONIGHT
b altim ore, Norfolk,
Phila. Delegates
Arrive Today
4 CHINESE DELEGATES
Longshoremen Also
Are Sending Their
Representatives

NEW YORK.-The Second Ma
tlonal Convention of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union will open
with a banquet to the delegates to-
night at Manhattan Lyceum, 66
East Fourth Street at 8 pm. sharp.
Earl Browder, Secretary of the
Communist Party, Jack Stachel of
the Trade Union Unity League, and
Ben Gold will be a few of the
speakers who will greet the dele
gates and hundreds of other are
expected to register their support
with the Marine Union.
Delegates arriving from the vari-
Gus ports are reporting the in
creased militancy of the marine
workers. The National Office yes
terday was advised. that a large
group Of Negro longshoremen, who
were formerly affiliated with the |.
L. A., have sent a delegate. The
Union has no contact with this port
and the longshoremen learned of
the convention through seamen on
ships which called at the port.
The Baltimore, Philadelphia and
Norfolk delegates, numbering over
so, will arrive this afternoon. In
cluded among these delegates will
be number of I. L. A. longshore-
men. One of the main points of the
convention will be working out a
program of action to defeat another
sell-out agreement when the pres
ent agreement expires in Septem-
Der.
Four Chinese delegates will be
present, and a number of delegates
from foreign ships now in port.
The convention will last four
days, and the delegates will have
the task of working out a program
of action around which the mass of
marine workers can be modified to
defeat the starvation program of
the shipowners. Also, one of the
main points on the agenda will be
the struggle against imperialist
war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
5 DaysWfthout Food,
Student of Medicine
COllapses on Street

SYRACUSE, N. Y, July IA
Charles Rothschild, %, student
at the University of Pennsylvania
Medical School, is laid up in To-
cal hospital recovering from a col
lapse suffered last night because
of lack of food.
Rochschild was reared in an or
phan asylum at Germantown, Pa.
He had left college last month in
search of a job and hitch~hiked
here from Buffalo. He had not
eaten for five days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15

Inc conference Wnlch is 10
De held in Cleveland on August
26 and 27 has as its main OBJ
jective the task of uniting all
workers and their organiza-
tions regardless of political af-
filiation who are ready to rally
around a real program against
Roosevelt-Wall Street policies.
A series of demands to be con-
sidered at the conference have been
drawn up.
To achieve its purpose, this his
toric 'call which aims to bring
about a real fighting unity of the
workers for the preservation and
recovery of their rights and condi-
tons, must reach hundreds OF
thousands of workers throughout the
country.
THE call in full. including full
demands to be taken up at the
conference, are printed in page
3 of today's DAILY Worker"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
State Rejects Action
On NY. Relief; Plan
March in Chicago
Prial Says Will Pay
Relief Monday; Nine
Families Get Rent

NEW YORK. - An an
rouncement was made yester-
day by Acting Comptroller
Frank J. Prial that 81, 100000
will be on hand Monday to pay
all who are on the unemploy-
ment relief payrolls. Families
on home and work relief should
go to their respective offices
and demand to be paid in full
Monday morning.
The request for an immediate
special session of Legislature voted by
the Board of Estimate will be denied
it is reported from Albany. So far city
officials have shifted blame on the
state and the governor in. turn
blames the city. Between the political
chickering's Of the Tammany politi-
cians-state and city-a million peo-
pie remain without assurance Of aid.
Governor Lehman uses the excuse
that it would cost $4,000 to convene
a special session for one week.
Unemployed workers without relief
are not remaining silent.
Fifty workers, led by the Down.
town Unemployed Council, told by the
Home Relief Bureau at Spring and
Elizabeth Streets that it had received
no instructions to issue relief as
Mayor O'Brien had promised, sat on
the floor Of Commissioner of Public
Welfare Taylor's office until he ar
rived and forced him to admit the
mayor had lied
Four hundred cases of needy fami
lies were presented both at the Re-
lief Bureau and at the City Hall be-
fore the workers went to the commits
sioner's office.
A delegation of workers from Har-
lem were promised by Taylor that
"relief would be given"
The lower West Side Unemployed
Council presented nine cases with the
demand that rent be paid. The Home
Relief Bureau paid the rent for all
these families living at 100, 1872 and
1914 Blocker st. Similar actions in
every part of the city will force ac-
tons from the officials.
No Pay.
The $4,000 employed on Work Blu
reau jobs remain unpaid. In the mag
istrates court where $50 jobless are
employed as clerical help, no pay
was forthcoming today. Mr.. Cohen
paymaster, informed the workers at
the chief magistrates office, 300 Null
berry ST., that there is no money and
probably payment will be made
sometime next week" At the same
time they were informed that effec-
tive Monday, the pay rate will be 81
day for 10 days a month instead
of the $3.50 heretofore.
Mayor O'Brien announced a public
works plan approved by the Board
CONTINUED ON PAGE rWOj
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
DEFEND The
UNIONS MEET
OPENS TODAY
Hundreds Elected AS
Delegates to the
Conference
PLAN SIX-POINT AGENDA
To Map Struggle for
Right to Strike

NEW YORK.-The Defend
the Unions Conference opens
today at / o'clock in the after
noon at Webster Hall, 18th st.
near Third Avenue.
A. F. of L.. Trade Union
Unity League, independent unions, as
we'll as fraternal organizations, are
sending delegates in response to the
call issued by the Provisional Com
inittee of the A. F. of L., T. U. U. L,
and independent unions to take up
the problems of the defense of the
trade unions.
Hundreds of delegates have been
elected by local unions, shops and
fraternal organizations. The prob
lens to be taken up at this confer
ence are embodied in the following
points.
/. The defense of the trade unions
as fighting organizations of labor.
2. For the right of the workers to
belong to any organization they
choose.
8. For the defense of the fur
workers against the attacks of the
bosses, the police, A. F. Of L. and
Socialist leaders.
4. To Gust the racketeers from the
trade unions.
5. Against the use of police and
gangsters and for democracy in the
trade unions.
6. For militant struggle in defense
of the interests of the employed and
unemployed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
Fear Children Would
Starve Drove Negro
NJ 9th err to Suicide

NEW YORK.-Last Tuesday, the
police found the body of Mary
Thomas, Negro mother of five chill
dren, lying on the street in front of
her Harlem home.
The laconic entry on the blOtter
at the station house was: Fell to
her DEATH"
Yesterday. through an investiga-
ton of the Harlem Unemployed
Council, it was revealed that she
had Ieaped to her death from her
poverty stricken home, driven hy-
sterical by fear her children would
starve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
Unemployed inChicago
Demand Resembling
of All Cuts

CHICAGO, ILL.,, July IA par
AIDE of school teachers in protest
against the drastic retrenchment
program adopted by the board of
education was organized today.
The new budget calls for closing
the junior high school system and
eliminates 1,400 jobs and cuts
$5,000,000 from the school budget.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July IA city
wide hunger march, called by thu
Federation of Unemployed organiza
lions of Cook County, will take place
on July rs to fight against the con
tinuous slashes in relief in the pas
few months. The Unemployed Coun
ellis, which have initiated the move
ment, point to the fact that sine,
March relief has been cut five times
besides the reduction suffered as
result of initiation with a consequent
rise in prices. In the beginning O
this month 10 to 20 per cent Gu
in grocery orders was made
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
NeUs Flash
Fascist Kill
L. |. Worker

ASTORIA, L. I. One Italian
worker was killed and at least three
others wounded when Khaki Shirts
of Philadelphia opened fire on anti
faccist workers at Columbus Hall,
Hoyt Avenue and 31st Street, here
last night, at HIS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
FORCE SALVATION ARMY TO
REMAIN OPEN

NEW YORK-Action by the East
Side Unemployed Council forced the
Salvation Army Canteen at 30 East
goth Street to remain open after
the officials there had announced
they would close permanently, fore
ing the 200 women receiving its relief
to go to the city camps or walk the
streets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
ARREST NEGRO LAUNDRY
STRIKER

NEW YORK-Robert Mitchell, Ne
gro member of the International La
Dor Defense, was arrested yesterday
while active in the laundry
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15
To Weld Unity of
Workers Against
Roosevelt Program
Unity of Workers to Force Recovery of Rights
and Decent Working Conditions Main
Objective of United Front Conference

of outstanding Importance made yesterday with the pub
LEGATION of the call signed by leading representatives of work
ers' organizations of varying political affilation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-22
PROCL AVIATION

Waterbury failed a civic national The period Liberty Drive Ovcrsubscrbed listment wartime demand it. Wacrburans thousands of ncghbOry
 
 $5OOOOO Mutual Aid Unemployment Fund for the of the city's needy.
 every emergency Waterburians have 
 the large Is life of the Blue the N R. A. must fly swiftly iumphantly to bc rescued from the depths of the depression
 with the the nation to do periodically fail in detail.
 planned those in charge of the N. A k. Sunday when clergy Of the deliver N R. A. to their parnoners and "COnsumers' Cooperation Week."
 Cooperation Week. block by block signatures pcdging support the National Recovery Act.
 aska strongly Waterbury sign which cooperation in ecmpoymen by employers and workers who arc mcm N R. A. At of the committee hereby proclaim sanday as R. A. of August 2Sth tOS Septcm 2nd as Consumers Cooperation Week."
 the City of Waterbury this One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty three. ,,.,,,, x,.x,r.
 nd Chairman the Presidents Committee Emergency Unemployment Campaign of Waterbury