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BOOK NOTES
their objective.

their objective.
o. Piatnitsky also participated In
the work of the German Social-Dem-
ocratic Party in the decade before
the war. While in Europe he worked
in close cooperation with Lenin who
was then on his second exile
fighting against the opportunists in
the German Party and the Second
International
This is fit companion volume to
A. Badeyev's The Boisheviks in the
Tsarist Duma, which was recently
published by International. In the
latter, one sees the Bolshevik deputies
at work in the last OF the tsarist par
liaments, linking up their every move
with the organization work going on
among the masses. 1t is this latter
phase that is especially stressed in
PiatnitSky's book.
Board edition, 81 at workers book
shops or direct from International
Publishers, 3s1 Fourth Avenue, New
Yort
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FORCE JOB SHARKS
TO RETURN FUNDS

NEW YORK.-Frances Keane, q
woman worker, succeeded, with the
militant assistance of the Sixth Ave.
Grievance Committee, the Fighting
Sixth, in forcing a job shark at the
Crystal Employment Agency, 1910
Sixth Ave, to return SIS to her after
sending her to a job that lasted one
day
Keane had to borrow the money
in order to get the job in private
nursery which the agent said would
pay $40 a month. She spent $40 in
carfare to reach the nursery. After
working one day she found the food
bad no heat and dismal room to
sleep in, on top of which she got q
touch of pneumonia which forced her
to quit, In addition the boss refused
to pay her for the days work.
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wise we are finished :" A bullet
bounced from the edge of the wall
in front of him amidst shower Of
plaster and hit the ceiling with a
crack. He turned round, somewhat
calrner.
Where is Kurt zimmerman?
Where is Paul?"
''In number 3, think"
You go there-clinb over the wall
in the yard-you understand! and
tell them: not to stop anyone-who
Am bu lance" From the
flat above his woman screamed
out of the window
whoever has anything mus t
shoot!' The boy ran out of the room.
TO Be Continued.l
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that in --9ny places forced the chill
dren into the sweat shops.
The older brothers and sisters, the
fathers and mothers Of these children,
many skilled and efficient workers,
cannot find jobs, and cannot live on
the amount of relief issued, and so
they must send these IL and Is and
IA year old children into industry.
Here is the case of one family. Os-
Car Kalbach is II years old. He cam
not find a job But his little sister
who is IS years old, is striker from
the Adelphi shirt factory. There are
IL In the family. The father is a
truck driver, and has been unem-
ployed for several years. They are
ION the relief" and at the present
time are getting ST from the Emer-
gency Relief Bureau. Besides the
relief income, the only other income
in the family of IL is that of the Is
year-old girl, earning at the most So
week, for which she works fifty
four hours week and more, with no
pay for overtime.
Virginia. who works in the Adelphi
plant. and is an extremely pretty girl,
was forced to go out with the buyers. "
you can earn more by going out
with them than by working in the
factory" the boss urged her. She
slapped him in the face, and was
fired. Her mother was forced to
again go and plead with the boss to
take her back. as the family needed
the money she brought in AS "spe-
cial' favor, the boss rehired her. He
made life so miserable for the girl
that in spite of hunger and home she
quit.
These sweat shops are a training
ground for prostitution. Hunger, and
fear of a roof over the head Of a
family forced this working mother
to plead with boss to take her
daughter into the factory.
It's Lean Baoon
At the Atkins plant, young girl
reported the boss would come down
from New York and turn the power
off to make a speech to the girls,
And for three hours he would tell
these starving girls. how expensive it
is to keep up maid, and an apart
nient, and that they must work hard
er and faster. "And," the girl re-
ported, my father he aint working.
and my brother amt either. And I
got to bring the bacon home, and it's
C. pretty lean bacon, too"
It's common talk that ever since
the girls at Bernstein's took a cut the
boss got new car. He never had
one before
One of the members Of the "in-
vestigation committee asked a fiji
teen yesr-old dark haired child. II
can't understand why your mother
let you do it," Mary Fluger, for that
was her name, retorted, "She didn't
want me to do it, she had to-"
Many of the little girls go home
crying, because Of the beatingS, and
insults, and the abuse hurled at them
in the shop. "But, what can the
mothers do. We got to eat. And they
are bringing in few pennies"
What do you do with the sweat
in sweat shop?' called out young
striker to Freezer watching the picket
line go by.
That's my profits" he answered
simply.
Those children who are still strik-
ing have their parents behind them
and they too come onto the picket
lines While it is true that most OF
the shops are again working and
many of the children who came out
nm ~f1iL-n ratt,f-i,ed IN the fa ntnyine
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Shoot you curl" shouted
Thomas. Like this See?" Peng
=. peng a.. peng peng =. He
emptied the drum through the bro
ken window.
Emil of number 5 is lying down
there . DO you hear? =. Now the
time has come Boys . all who
have guns must use them other
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Starvation Takes Toy Member

NEW YORK.-''Papa" Brenhardt,
a homeless worker, known to the
children Of Greenpoint for his toy
mending for them, died yesterday in
the Kings County Hospital Of starva-
ton. He was found Monday night on
the steps of "a Gerry st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-10
Forgotten Men" Opens Thi,
FriddH at RiaIf0

Forgotten Men," war spectacle with
worlds fourteen warning nations will have
its worlds premiere showing at the Rialtc
official film from the archives Of the
Theatre on Friday The engagement at the
Rialto will be the only showing in greater
Flew York, the film being booked at Chi
cago for a run during the Worlds Fair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-10

RELIEF AGENCIES DRIVE CHILDREN
INTO ALLENTOWN SWEATSHOPS

EDITORIAL NOTE:-The fol-
lowing article is the second of
series on the conditions of the child
sweatshop strikers in Allentown
from first hand Investigations made
by special reporter for the Daily
Worker.
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Admission by Dispossess
Only" to Meets Called to
Wage Fight on EVictions
THE Home Relief Bureau Owes Rent, Not U.s."
Say Jobless on Trial Friday

NEW YORk-Two to be by dis
Unemployed Councils There will
"the evictions"
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of The proetarian
Wedding
Chief
by the
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RELIEF AND TO PAY RENTS FOR ALL JOBS FAMILIES SINGLE WORKERS
ROOSEVELTS $5OO,OOO,OOO RELIEF
PROGRAM TO KEEP II MILLION
UNEMPLOYED WORKERS STARVING
This Dwinde HALF Governments Figures Show
Bill for Minimum Needs of Jobess

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Worker Falls tn Death

NEW YORK, May s.-Louis Grun-
rler. 65 years old, of 2615 Jerome Ave.
the Bronx, fell to death yesterday
from scaffolding at ALB East 18th
Street.
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NEWS BRIEFS
More Election Graft Trials.


NEW YORK, May 9.-The sixth
trial in the series of more than 100
indicted for New York election
frauds started yesterday in federal
court. The defendants are charged
with making false canvass of the
voters in the Second Election District
of the Ninteenth Assembly district.
They are Bernard Picus and Mrs.
Meta Melting, democrat members of
the board, and Mrs. Emily Friedman
and Lucy Verdon, republican men,
bers. There were Is intentional Ser
rorS" in the returns. Only the small
Ter fry have been tried in the election
steals which resulted in thousands of
votes being stolen from the Commu-
mist Party and placed to the credit of
Tammany. There were other cases
where republican votes were given to
the democrats and vice-versa, accord
ing to the particular candidate the
Tamnany machine was supporting.
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Landlord Ends His Lie

NEW YORK, May 9.-John Kun
mer, owner of the four story building
at 1913 East 153rd Street, jumped from
the roof to his death last night. He
was respondent because of unsucceSs-
full attempts to collect rent from ten
ants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16
Jamaica S. P. Leaders
Refuse United Action:
Call Police In S tie a d

NEW YORK Workers made at
tenpts to speak at the unemploy-
ment meeting called by the Socialist
Party in Public School 40 yesterday
but were met with a call for police
by the pals of O'Neil, the main speak
er.
A Negro worker was pushed of the
platform when he attempted to speak
on the resolution OF so-called demands
presented by the S. P, which entirely
left out the demand for immediate
relief.
Negro and white workers got up
and walked out. They then came TO
the headquarters of the Unemployed
Council of Jamaica.
The Unemployed Council of
Jamaica has won scores of victories
and proves to the workers that mass
united action is the only solution for
obtaining immediate relief. 1t is
significant that the S. P officials call
for police came in answer to the de-
mand by the workers to form a joint
united front in the struggle for relief.
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PHILHARMONIC TO PRESENT
BRAHMS CENTENARY
PROGRAM

Bruno Walter will present an all
Brahms program this evening and
Friday afternoon at Carnegie Hall
to celebrate the centenary of the
birth of Johannes Brahms. Ossip
Gabrilowitsch, pianist, will be the
soloist. The program: Piano Con-
certo No. / in D minor and Sym
phony No. a in E minor. Efrem
Zimbalist, violinist, will be the So
loist at the all-Brahms concert next
Sunday afternoon at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music. The program:
"Tragic" Overture; Violin Concerto
in D major and Symphony No. 4.
The Students Concert on Satur-
day night at Carnegie will include
the Fugue in C minor by Bach
Wheaton: Symphony in d major,
No. 10, Haydn; "Don JUAN" Strauss,
and Brahms Symphony No. 4.
Tamiris and her group will APP
pear at the Students Dance Course
Saturday evening at the Washing
ton Irving High School.
Gregor Piatigorsky, will give his
only New York recital at Carnegie
Hall on Monday evening.
Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson
will give their two-piano recital
Monday evening at Town Hall.
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Stage and Screen
THEATRE GUILD TO PRESENT
AMERICAN DREAM" NEXT
TTTESnAY

american Dream" a new play
by George O'Neill, the Theatre
Guilds third production of the sea-
son, will have its premier next
Tuesday night at the Guild The
atre. Biography" the S. N Behr-
man comedy in which Ina Claire has
the chief role, will be moved on
Monday to the Avon Theatre.
The Maxwell Anderson play,
"Both Your Houses" the fourth
production of the Theatre Guild. will
open in New York on March 6, in
stead of Feb. 81.
"Hangman's WHIP" a melodrama
by Norman Reilly Raine and Frank
Butler, will have its premiere next
Wednesday night at the st. James
Theatre. with Montague Love, Ian
Keith, Helen Flint and Barton Mac
Lane in the cast.
Katherine CornelPs new produc-
ton, "Alien Corn" by Sidney How
ard. is announced to open Monday
night at the Belasco Theatre with
Miss Cornell, Luther Adler, Charles
D. Brown and James Rennie in the
chief roles.
l. j, Singer, author of "Yoshe
Kalb," Maurice Schwartzs produc-
ton now at the Yiddish Art The
atre, has sailed for Europe to ar
range for the presentation of his
play at Warsaw. Moscow may see
the play later.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16
NO USE TO WAIT
FOR SNOW JOBS
Ward Heelers Sneaked
in Ahead of Line

NEW YORK.-At the district Of
flee of the Department of Sanitation
So East 18th ST. during the recent
snowfall, more than 1000 men stood
in line from four o'clock in the morn
ing until 10, waiting to shovel snow
Some had no hats, others no rubbers,
few were without cvercoats. The
snow fell steadily.
The police were on hand to weld
nightsticks literally across rumps
shoulders and an occasional head.
The ranks were continually breaking
because of pressure from the rear,
and old men pushed out of the line
were hit by the cops.
But those who waited, while their
noses and cheeks grew blue with cold,
did not get any job.
Instead, a hundred or more ward
heelerS, who arrived in body about
eight o'clock, fresh from sleep and
breakfast, fortified with leather coats,
boots and mittens, were met by an
official of the Department of Santa
ton, who led them to the office door
and gave them time-ticketS and
shovels at so cents an hour.
The leading newspaper of this city,
reporting the snowfall, carried a
statement from William Schroeder,
Jr., Chairman Of the Department Of
Sanitation, saying he had ordered
that "the first in line be hired in
every instance"
-TPM.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16
LOvestOneite Tries
Splitting Tactics In
Dress. Rent Strikes

NEW YORK.-A Lovestonite rem
egade has displayed twice this week
his despicable actions as a provo
cateur among the revolutionary
working class. ]. Kudrenetzky, for
merly an organizer in the Needle
Trades Industrial Union, who was
expelled in 1880 and then joined
the international, is working to split
the ranks of the rent strikers in his
house and has organized scabs for
work in the Sunny Dress Co. now on
trike.
The tenants of the house in which
Kudrenetzky lives, 1890 Vyse Ave-.
Bronx, have gone out on strike for
lower rents. Kudrenetzky, and an
other Lovestone pal of his named
Goldstein. have consistently tried to
prevent organization of the house.
Together with ganesters hired by
the landlord they tried to disrupt a
meeting of the tenants planning to
strike.
On his own initiative, Ku irenetzky
has succeeded in organizing a num-
Der CT the tenants against the strike
bv collecting SIGNATURES and telling
them that the landlord is a good
fellow" He organized a committee
against the rent strike and when a
meeting was held did not allow the
chairman to speak after threaten
inc him. On another NIGHT he went
collecting rent for the landlord and
warned every one that did not pay
rent that they would have their
necks broken.
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AUTO KINGS ARE
BANK CRASHERS
Gen. Motors, Chrysler
Withdrew Their Funds

DETROIT, Feb 15.-With q billion
and half dollars in deposits through
out the state tied up and business at
a standstill, the Detroit Clearing
House last night took steps to provide
funds for salvaging the bigger bust
ness houses with which they are con-
nected by providing that $25,OO0,O0O
be available for withdrawal from the
banks. They announced that deposit
tors would be permitted to withdraw
5 per cent Of their deposits in1medi-
ately.
Many workers have been paid with
checks on the Detroit and other
Michigan banks which are useless be
cause they cannot be cashed. Many
spectators are buying up these checks
at big discounts, sometimes as much
as so per cent and will cash them
later, when the banks reopen.
It is generally estimated that re-
organization will take place on the
basis Of rs cents on the dollar.
Governor Comstock, retracted his
charges that the Ford Motor Corp.
refused to cooperate with Chrysler
Corp. and General Motors in sustain
ing the Union Guardian Trust Co.,
owned by the Guardian Detroit
Union. He announced that he learn
ed that neither General Motors nor
Chrysler had deposits in the banks at
the time Of their closing.
In this connection one of the big
gest steals in the history of banking
in the United States was pulled off
in the past weeks when the big guns
of the General Motors and Chrysler
gang withdrew their deposits and
transferred them to New York banks,
leaving the mass of depositors hold
ing the bag. 1t is reported that Ford
did not act quickly enough to full off
the same stunt. It was Ford's in
sistence that his deposits receive
priority over other deposits that re-
suited in the eight-day moratorium
declaration of Governor Comstock.
1t is also known the Roy D. Chaplin
one of the outstanding heads of the
Briggs Motor Body corporation, and
now secretary Of commerce in Hoover's
cabinet, was involved in the Swindle
that shielded General Motors and
Chrysler at the expense of the other
depoSitors who will stand a twenty
five per cent loss in the reorganization
if present plans are carried out.
The indignation of the workers at
being paid in worthless checks has
resulted in General Motors, Crysler
and Ford announcing that they would
meet the payrolls in cash, instead of
checks and that they would maks
good the checks now outstanding
They fear another wave of strikes
that might have far-reaching con-
sequences.
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Wage Cuts, Speed Up
in ALL. Print Shop
Pittsburgh Workers for Action

The workers of the Chas. Schwein-
Ter Press, 405 Hudson St., under A..
F. of l.. leadership, are being forced
to accept starvation wages and work
under terrific speed up system.
Last Friday three workers were
fired in the Electrotyping Depart
ment. Efficiency experts removed
these men after arranging method
of increasing the speed with which
the men work.
A further wage-cut has been given
the men in the form of stsgser
system Feeders arc averaging $40
a week
Unorganized workers In this plant
should get in touch with the Print
ing Workers Industrial League, 1893
Broadway, room 507, who will lead
them in a fight fol- real union con-
ditions.
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LABOR UNION
MEETINGS
PocKErBooK WORKERS

PoCKETBooK WORKERS
A union membership meeting will be held
Thursday, Feb. is, at p. m. at Stuyvesant
High School, 18th Street and Second Avenue.
The lowering Of dues and other i'm
portant questions will be taken up. All
pocketbook workers are urged to attend.
MILLINERs
general contact meeting Of the mem
bers of the Millinery United Front Rank
and File Committee, operators, cutters,
blockers and trimmers, will take place on
Thursday, Feb. 18th, right after work, at
140 West 35th St. Preparations for the
shop conference will be discussed. Comrade
Mendel Peitrushka and Sonia Gordon, two
members Of the United Front who have re-
Gently from the Soviet Union.
NEEDLE WORKERS
melting of Negro and white needle
trades workers Of Harlem will be held on
Friday night, p. m.
KNITGooDs WORKERS
section membership meeting OF knit
goods workers in Brooklyn viii take place
on Thursday, Feb. IS, p. m. at 1903 Knic-
kerbocker Avenue, corner Thames st.
BARRIERS AND HAIRDREssERs
Meeting of BARRIERS and Hairdressers
League $50 pm, Feb. IS at Workers Cen
ter, SO e. 18th st., Room 204. Important
union matters TO be taken up. Non-mem-
bers admitted. Members bring their mem
bership books.
OFFICE WORKERS
Fifth Annual Dance Of Office Workers
Union, this Saturday, Feb. 10, at New Har-
lem Casino 100 w. 1l6th st. Entertain
ment. refreshments. Admission IS cents in
advance, 40 cents at door.
LAUNDRY WORKERS.
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ALL DEMANDS In
PAINT STRIKE WON
Get Wage Increases,
Union Recognition

. NEW YORK.-The workers of the
Max Albert Painting Co. located in
Brooklyn have shown to the workers
in the painting trade that even
though there is tremendous unem-
ployment in the trade, the workers
are able under the leadership Of the
Alteration Painters Union to gain
victories in their struggles against the
bosses.
The shop consists of II workers
who went out on strike on Tuesday,
Feb. 10, and after militant picketing
on the jobs and a complete tie up OF
all of the jobs the boss, after at
tempting to bride several Of the
workers was forced to give in and
settle with the union, thus granting
the following demands:
1.-The wages of three of the work
ers we're raised from Sc per day to
81; four men were raised from IS to
81 per day; seven men from 81 per
day to 81 per day; two helpers wages
raised from $3.50 to S.
2-Recognition of the union and
the shop committee.
3-No hiring and firing.
Eight-hour day.
Other locals Of the alteration
Painters Union should take the ex-
ample of the Williamsburg local and
to begin to concentrate on the big
ger shops in the trade.
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BIG AUTO MEET in
DETROIT TONIGHT
Union Active in Pom
tiac, General Motors

DETROIT, Feb. 15.-The move
ment against wage-cuts and for bet
ter conditions in the auto industry
will receive a new impetus tomorrow
Thursday night at mass meeting
called by the Detroit District of the
Communist Party, at which John
Schmies, district organizer of the
Party and active for many years in
organizing auto workers, will be the
main speaker. The meeting will be
held at 1880 at Finnish Hall, 1909
14th st. lat McGraw).
Strike Sentiment Growing
AS a result of the Briggs strike,
which is still continuing, and the
overwhelming victory of the strik-
ers at the Hudson plant, who won
wage increases and other demands,
the sentiment for strike action is
steadily growing in all the plants of
the city. The closing down of all
banks for eight days has further hit
the living standards of the auto
workers. The auto workers, both en-
ployed and unemployed, are elect
ing their delegates for the confer
ence this Sunday, Feb. 10, called by
the Auto Workers Union and the
Unemployed Councils to work out
the next steps in the fight against
wac e-cuts, and for unemployment
relief and insurance.
This conference will also make
preparations for the big Detroit
Hunger March on March 4, part OF
the nationwide demonstrations on
the day of Roosevelt's inaugural
ton, as we'll as for the Ford Hun
ger March on March 7.
=
Try to Crush Union in Pontiac
PONTIAC, Mich, Feb. 15.-The
General Motors Corp. is doing all
in its power to crush the Auto
Workers Union, whose influence
among the workers in the General
Motors plants is growing. The Cen
eral Motors police are working in
cooperation with the city and coun-
ty police.
The police are holding Meade, ac-
tive in the union and also Commu-
mist candidate for city commission
er, for distributing leaflets before
the factory gates, calling on the
workers to support the Briggs strike
in Detroit. He is charged with vio-
lating city ordinance.
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around with those BoISheviks, well
blow your brains out"
On another occasion he was given
a terrific beating in the Wayne
County jail. He told how he was put
in room with IS detectives, who
were then told:
''See this fellow, he is a Com
munist organizer. He goes around
with white people-tske a good look
at him."
On the morning of the day he was
murdered he was in court together
with number of other workers, Ne
gro and white, arrested when police
raided and broke up an inter-racial
dance. After his trial Feb 9, he
went to North Detroit to see some
friends and to tell them he had been
released. Late that afternoon he was
murdered and his body discovered
by detectives. The boss press has
been absolutely silent on the muir
der. The police are doing everything
to hush it up" AS a result Of the
growing indignation of the masses,
the police now claim they are holding
a certain Joe Brown" who they say
has confessed" to the murder. No
such person as Joe Brown has been
located by the International Labor
Defense.