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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
Packing Strikers
Reform Ranks, Vote
Solid to Stay Out
IL Arrested; A. F. of L.
Strikebreaking
Answered

Pittsburgh, Pa, Nov. 22.-To-
day IS packing house workers were
arrested for strike activities. Glar-
ing headlines in the boss press COM
plain of many militant actions on
the part of the strikers. Herds of
cattle were Stampeded, they claim, in
many parts of Pittsburgh, while
dozens of stores dealing with scab
meat were wrecked.
The strike, in its second week, is
now in crucial stage, due to the
strike breaking activities of the Of
ficials of the American Federation
OF Labor and the officials of the
N. r. A.
Night Shift Out
The Pittsburgh Provision Co. sue
ceeded in getting a group of drivers
drunk and back on the job and stam-
peded part of the shop back to work.
The night shift still remains out.
Working through some disruptive
forces, they have partially succeeded
in weakening the ranks of the strik-
ers. In spite of this, the biggest ma
jority of the large shops remain solid
at this time.
The workers in Oswald Hess lover
ZOO, in spite of all the maneuvers
pf the bosses, voted unanimously to
btay ON strike. The same took place
in zolers, Fried and Reineman, North
Side Packing, and other shops. In
some of these shops, still on strike,
the workers have revised their de-
mands and are presenting them to
the company. In spite of all this,
the spirit among the strikers remains
high, especially for the fighting
union of the packing house workers.
The strike committee has sue
ceeded in exposing the fact that some
disruptive forces have been attempt
ing to utilize the red" issue. To-
night the General Strike Committee
meets on the question of reforming
ranks and taking up immediate prob
lens that face the whole strike.
Injunction hearings are still pro-
ceeding. In spite of a vicious drive
to break the strike, the largest ma
jority OF tbs strikers still remain out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23

Benjamin, sentenced to a year
in prison when he spoke in
Gallup during national Speaking
tour against unemployment; Kaplan,
Roberts and all other imprisoned
strike leaders now in the state peni-
Tertiary and the military stockade,
are to be released.
The coal operators were forced to
agree to recognition of the pit COM
mittees. installation of checkweigh-
men, no discrimination and no black
listing of any workers.
The victorious conclusion of the
Gallup strike is q significant victory
for the National Miners Union, which
now controls the Gallup field. The
victory was won in the face Of fierce
terror and stringent martial law.
During the course of the strike the
militia arrested many workers, putting
them in the military stockade on
diet of bread and water, attacked
demonstrations and meetings of the
strikers and the unemployed, bayo-
netting and sabring as well as club
bling the workers. The striking min
ers fought against the strike-breaking
activities of the U.MWA. leaders,
headed by Frank Hefferly and of the
N.R.A., represented by Major John
Moore. Women were dubbed and ar
rested as well as men. Martha Rob-
erts being held incommuntcado in the
Gallup City Jail.
The rank and file of the strikers
will vote today on the proposed settle
ment of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
Leather Pickets
Hold ScabS, Bosses
In Tannery, Is Hrs.
Mayor Calls for State
Troops to Smash the
Gloversville Strike

GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y, Nov. a.
After 600 men and women strikers
surrounded the Levor mill and held
the scabs and bosses prisoners for 10
hours during a 24-hour mass picket
ing demonstration, Mayor G. Greene
wired Governor Lehman for state
troops to smash the tannery strike
today.
Representatives of the Tanners
Association and of the strikers were
scheduled to meet today at 8 p. m.
to consider the proposals for a strike
settlement made by State Industrial
Commissioner Elmer F. Andrews.
N.RA. Mediator Pickard, following
the militant picketing demonstration
demanded that Solomon, a union
leader, withdraw from the pending
conference and that all picketing be
stopped. These demands come after
the bosses and city officials find that
injunctions and police terror failed
to break the strikers lines. The "a
hour mass picketing in which the
strikers hurled tear gas bombs back
into the faces of the police and could
not be dislodged, demonstrated this.
Union officials have refused to yield
on the question of picketing and de-
spite the "red" scare propaganda now
being intensified the strikers are de-
termined to win their demand for
recognition of their Independent
union. =
The tanners today presented a
black list to the MIRA mediator, which
included the name of Carr, the
unions president, and other union
leaders.
The strike of the tannery workers
here is now in its sixth week. This
is the first time that any struggle
has been waged in this company
ruled region for union organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23

were as follows for the Communist
candidates for city council:
VIM. Mcconnell, railroad worker,
1904 Nora I. Ccnklin, stnographer,
1880; Mary Hall, Negro, lat; Bebel
Alfonso, baker, 1904.
Gaine In Hudson, N. Y.
HUDSON, N. Y.-Dominick Fliani,
Communist candidate for Associate
Judge of the Court of Appeals, re-
ceived 90 votes in Columbia County,
according to the official canvass.
This is an increase Of 70 votes in
the county over 1882. when Ante2,
Communist gubernetorial candidate,
received II votes. Many votes were
stolen both years. Some districts in
which it is certain there were a num-
Der of Communist votes failed to re-
port any.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
.LltUluOff in
Farewell TO
Washington
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, Nov. %. -
The historic Soviet-American
recognition conversations were
concluded today and Maxim
Litvinoff will leave for New York
early tomorrow, probably by auto
mobile. Litvinoff and American Off
Gals, prevented from reaching final
conclusions by the compleXity of
debts, claims and credit questions,
exchanged warm official farewells.
Acting Secretary of State William
Phillips issued a brief statement that
the discussions are not concluded
and that they will be actively con-
tinued by officials of both Govern
ments." It was said in official Amer
lean circles that Boris E. Skvirsky,
new Soviet Charge d'Affaires, will
continue the talks. The explanation
was given, also, that the delay in
reaching a final agreement was
simple matter of having tried to do
three months work in four days and
having found it impossible.
Phillips statement said that fur
ther discussions had taken place be-
tween Litvinoff and the State and
Treasury Departments and that due
to the intricacy of the questions, it
has explored, it has been impossible
to reach definite conclusions before
the departure of Mr.. Litvinoff."
Sees Movie
Litvinoff took time off today to
view two American movies-a cellu-
loid version of the American chill
drens story, Three Little Pigs" and
"a News Reel" of Litvinoff's mis-
sion to the United States and Presi-
dent RooSevelts recognition speech
in Savannah, Ga. He enjoyed the
fable particularly, chuckling and ex-
claiming often, VERY amusing, very
amusing!"
Constantine Umansky, head of the
press section of the Soviet Foreign
Office, was still laid up today and
will be unable to accompany the
ComrnisSar home. Suffering from in
fiuenza and a rheumatic complica-
ton, he is expected to remain here
for at least another week. 1t is said.
however, that his condition is not
alarming.
viii Be At New York Banquet
Following the discussions on debts
and trade, which officials hoped I'M
til today would bring definite clear
ance of the entire debt and claims
questions, Litvinoff and Skvirsky
made formal call at the State De-
partment late today to say good-by
to Secretary Phillips. Earlier Skvir-
sky had paid his first official call to
Phillips and other officials, including
Ambassador designate william G.
Bullitt as Charge d'Affaires of the
fully recognized Soviet Union, he en-
tered the secretarial suite through
the diplomatic entrance and was re-
ceived with full official ceremonies
in the department where for the past
IL years he has visited officials as a
private citizen, and quietly talked
with the chief of the Eastern Eu-
ropean Division.
Litvinoff also made a farewell call
on the French and Turkish Ambas-
sailors. He will attend a dinner in
New York on Friday night, as the
guest of the Americana Russian Cham
Der of Commerce and the Institute
for Cultural Relations with Russia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
Join This Revolutionary Army!

ORGANIZED lynch mobs await the
" signal for bouncing upon the nine
Scottsboro boys. Only one American
daily newspaper is sounding the
clarion call to the American masses
to form solid wall of defense around
these Negro youths. This is the
Daily Worker.
There is only one guarantee that
the Daily Worker can continue in
existence and be in a position to lead
the working masses against the
lynchers. This guarantee is your
class conscious support. If you fail
to support the Daily Worker, it can
not continue.
EXPRESS your devotion to the Daily
- Worker by joining the revolution
airy tag day army tomorrow, Satur-
day and Sunday. Every cent you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
WAGES CUT
BY FORCED
LABOR PLAN
Unemployed Forced to
Work at Non-Union
Wage Scale

1NEF 1OlNhy 4NON. AG'
Thousands of unemployed
workers, removed from the re-
lief rolls under Roosevelt's
forced labor program, have already
been put to work at starvation wages
far below the union wages paid in
their trades, and in many instances
below the minimum wage rates set
by the NR.A. Those now put on
forced labor are being given, not the
usual relief jobs, such as cleaning,
etc, but construction work, building,
and other jobs for which the govern
ment would have to pay union wages
were it not for the Roosevelt plan.
Roosevelt's program is a means for
reducing the wages Of these workers,
many of whom are skilled and semi
skilled workers, such as carpenters,
electricians, mechanics and other
trades.
Over one half million workers have
been removed already from relief
rolls by the Roosevelt forced labor
program, government figures reveal.
This includes $4,000 in New Jersey,
$4,000 in Arkansas, 10000 n Omaha,
$4,000 in Massachusetts,, 5000 in
Rhode Island, 1000 in Vermont, 1000
in Connecticut, etc. All of these are
to be put at work under the nom
union, starvation wage scale, thus
giving the government a supply of
cheap labor.
New York State will have
100000 off the relief lists by De-
cember LIST, 1t was announced. AS the
Roosevelt plan goes into effect, the
blow it deals to the unemployed
workers becomes more clear. Those
put at forced labor are told that the
relief officials have the right to fire
them at will, and they have no appeal
and no chance to get back on relief
lists, which are being abolished. 1t
is also made clear that the hiring
will be done as on any job and those
that the foreman wishes to reject
will be left to starve without relief
or work.
Most Get No Relief
In Nebraska and Arkansas it was
reported that those on forced labor
include less than one third of the
total unemployed, the remaining two
thirds being left 10 starve without
any relief.
The Federal government, again re-
versing it's decision of a few days
ago, ominously stated that no figures
hereafter will be released as to the
amount of money given from the pub
lie works funds of the Federal gov
eminent to states for relief. This
will enable the cutting down of the
funds given for relief below the
amount announced by Roosevelt and
will make the injection Of graft and
political patronage into the public
works fund distribution easier.
Five Immediate Tasks
The unemployed workers are be-
ginning to react to the removal from
relief by organizing into the Unem-
ployed Councils and arranging for
protests in number of cities against
Council calls on all workers to: u
organize on the forced labor jobs and
enforce union wages and conditions
and against speed-up; q Demand
that no unemployed worker fired
from a forced labor job shall be de-
prived of relief. 81 To hold local
united front conferences for adequate
relief and demand the enactment of
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill a Elect delegates to the
Jan. 10 National Unemployed Con-
vention, to be held in Washington,
D. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23

W.. w. OdlldIldH Oh Morgan
County, in a surprise move,
served notice upon Joseph Brodsky,
international Labor Defense Attor-
ney, that he would have Charlie
Weems arraigned tomorrow and set
the date for his trial a week from
November 81.
This Monday, Immediately before
the Jury will be chosen to try Hey
wood Patterson, Judge Callahan plans
to arra1gn two more defendants. He
has not yet announced their names.
No reason for this unexpected move
Is given by the state.
Normally when several defendants
are accused at the same time, sepa-
rate trials are asked for each and
an appeal is taken on one convic-
ton. The state saves time and money
by postponing the other cases until
a decision has been granted in an
appeal. Despite the fact that it will
cost the state more money and take
up more time, Alabama is. neyerthe-
less, determined to rush the cases
through Indifferent to planned ap.
peals.
DECATUR, Ala, Nov. 22.-Because
Ruoy Bates may be lynched if she
appeared in Decatur to testify for
haywood Patterson, first of the seven
Scottsboro boys to be tried for their
lives for the third time this Monday.
a court order to take her testimony
IN New York was on its way there
by air mail this evening.
The order directed julius Apple-
baum, 30 Broadway, to have Ruby
appear before him for Interrogation.
With the order went long series of
questions prepared by Joseph Brod-
sky, International Labor Defense at
torney and an almost equally long
series OF questions by Attorney Cen
eral Thomas E. Knight, Jr.
Brodsky explained to Circuit Judge
w. w. Callahan of Morgan County,
presiding at the third of the inter-
nationally famous trials, that Ruby
Bates refused to go to Decatur be-
cause of the open-voiced threats to
kill her.
Threatened to Lynch Her
Attorney General Knight was not
willing to accept the record of her
testimony at the Patterson trial this
spring. He asked Brodsky to permit
the introduction of her testimony at
the first Scottsboro trial. Brodsky
refused. This is the testimony where
she and Victoria Price said the nine
Scotsboro boys had raped" them.
Subsequently Ruby recanted her story
and confessed that the boys had not
touched them.
This confession and her dramatic
appearance to take the stand for
Patterson this spring caused Morgan
County whites to turn furiously
against her. After her testimony a
mob started to march on Comedian
Court Apartments where she was
staying with the avowed purpose of
lynching her.
The questions prepared by Brodsky
bring out her story from the day she
in Chattanooga with Vic
toria Price, the train ride, the ar
rival in Scottsboro, the arrests, the
seizing of the boys, the pressure put
on her by jackson County officials to
say she had been raped-all these
details of the first accusation against
the Negro boys. Then follow details
of her realizations that she was con-
demning Innocent boys to their
deaths, hey recantation and confess
sion of the whole frame-up
Ruby Bates Confession
Attorney General Knights ques-
tons are designed to try to get her
Continued on Page %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
Find 40 Per Cent of
Children Suffering
From MainutritiOn

NEW YORK, N. Y.--Forty per
cent of the SD school children ex-
amiaed in a survey by the Mi'bank
Memorial Fund were found to be
suffering from malnutr;ticn -
polite name for starvation. They
were those whose incG,c is SAGE er
person week or less. Twenty five
per cent with incomes of So per
persons were found to be suffering
from malnutrition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23

Roosevelt cheapening Of the dollar
can stop the clamping down of
deep, uniform, masked wace cut for
the entire American working class.
Roosevelt has already practically
exhausted all his infiationary powers
given him under the dollar devslua-
ton clause Of the recent Thomas
amendment to the Agriculture Emer-
gency Act.
AT yesterdays price of s3S.76 DER
ounce of gold, Roosevelt has gone
more than three-quarters of the
way toward a so per cent de-
valuation of the do'lar. For when
the price of gold reaches S34.4I.
the American dollar will be worth
80 cents.
At the present rate, it is only
matter Of weeks or days before
the so cent dollar will be fact.
In order, therefore, TO maintain
his fight against the imperialist ri
walls Of Wall Street for foreign mar
kets, and in order to keep the pres
ent artificial inflationary prices from
collapsing, Roosevelt will soon in
evitably be forced to issue the
$4,000 100000 of cheap paper money
which he is empowered to do under
the Thomas Amendment.
Wall Street Escapes
This explains the persistent weak
ness of the bond market. Today the
bond market sagged again. giving
sure indication that the Wall Street
investors are getting ready for floods
OF inflationary paper money.
1t is an open secret that the richest
Wall Street investors and nnillicraires
are swiftly shipping their fortunes
out of the country, through con-
verting their dollars into En7lieh
sterling, to escape the effects Of the
coming Roosevelt initiation. The work
ers cannot escape. They get the brunt
of the inflationary attack.
A Masked Wage Cut
Through initiation - every dollar
handed out to the American workers
will be reduced in value, since the dol
lar is no longer backed by gold. and
since the credit Of the government
is weakening. In addition, the in
crease in currency sends prices of
everyday necessities soaring upward.
The approaching Roosevelt parer
flood will mean wholesale robbery
of the American workers. It will send
the cost of living shooting sky high.
1t win catch the workers in a double
scissors and rising prices and cheap
ening dollars, cheapening even
faster than prices viii rise.
1t will result in wholesale expro-
priation Of the small savings accounts
in the banks, since this money will be
gradually wiped out as far es buying
power is concerned.
The Roosevelt initiation is a delib-
crate attempt to protect the profits
and interests of the capitais5 class.
driven along intensifying crisis, by
clamping down nationwide uniform
wage slash for all wage workers,
the cheapening of their wages
in terms of buying power.
Bank Crisis.
Not only does the Roosevelt govern
ment intend to crush the workers in
the screws of inflationary prices, but
its policy is, at the same time, I'M
driving the banking struc-
ture Of the country toward another
open crisis, in which hundreds Of
thousands of small depositors will
again be fleeced of their meagre
savings.
This was admitted yesterday by DR..
D. M. w. Spregua, leading capitalist
finance expert, who, as he resigned
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23

ried on by the National Miners
Union. The Communist candidate
was Lawrence Mower, a member of
the union and an outstanding strike
leader. The Democratic and Repub-
ncan parties combined their forces
against the workers candidate; and
then, only through fraud, did they
put their candidate into office.
The election returns show that
through the bitter struggles the work.
ers' spirit has not dampened, but
they are in more class-consciouS
fighting mood than ever.
Big Vote In Sacramento
SACRAMENTO, Calf. - Commu-
mist candidates running in the city
elections here for the first time re-
corded the high vote of 1910 as
against 1909 for the capitalist cam
didate who won office. The votes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
DOLLAR BEING SLICED IN HALF BY ROOSEVELT INITIATION
GALLUP STRIKE WON TERMS INCLUDE RELEASE OF 70 PRISONER
Old Press Delays "Daily"

NEW YORKThe Daily Worker has been
Many missed Many
and place
Daily 35-yar press down
printed
not equipped this speedily.
Despite financial situation
left but to viii
Meanwhile patient the DaIy.
does not them time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
City College Hires
Scab Window Washers

NEW YORK.-The College of the
City of New York, a city institution,
today hired strikebreakers to clean
its windows.
Escorted by police. six members of
the Enterprise window Cleaning Co.,
at $40 Broadway entered the school,
protected by an injunction taken out
against the pickets of the Window
Claners Protective Union, Local 2, of
the A. F. of l.. by the Nordham Win
dow Cleaning Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
Demand
Relief in Michigan
State Legislature
Protest Meeting Held
In Capitol Plans
Further Action
By A. b. MAGIL

LANSING, Mich, Nov 22.-Sixty
delegates of workers organizations in
Detroit, Dearborn, Hamtrsmck. Lin
coin Park, Grand Rapids, Pontiac and
Berkeley, today presented demands
70 a special session of legislature for
relief and a minimum living wage.
Inc delegates presented demands
adopted at the State Conference held
IN Detroit last Saturday and Sunday.
The demands included Endorsement
or the Workers Unemployment In
Surance Bill; eight dollars weekly for
single unemployed workers. SIS to a
family or two, with 50 additional for
each dependant; trade union wages
for all public works, but not less
than rs cents an hour for a thirty
hour week; immediate repeal of the
sales and head taxes and other de-
mands.
For the first time the speaker of
the House was forced to receive the
workers delegation, Earl Reno. Sec
retary of the Unemployed Council
and spokesman for the committee. ex-
posed the cynical indifference of the
legislators to the peoples sufferings,
Reno asked why did you reduce the
taxes on bankers and manufacturers
While putting over the sales and head
taxes on the masses?
The Speaker was unable to reply.
The Speaker took the COPY of the
demands to turn over 70 the Com
mittee on Labor, but refused to allow
the delegation to present them on
the floor of the Legislature.
The delegation then held a meet
ing. inside the Capital building with
no police interference. Reno gave
report and urged the delegates to
go back to their localities and build
powerful mass movement to force
relief from the legislature and pre-
pare mass march on Lansing.
Conference Scores Forced Labor
DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 22.-Launch-
ing the demand for a state initiative
referendum for the enactment of
Federal Unemployment Insurance, the
Michigan State Conference Against
the NRA closed its two day session
Sunday on the eve of a Board of
Commerce announcement of a point
drop in the employment index.
Workers and farmers, numbering
IT'S, from all parts of the state at
tended the sessions.
Workers at the conference scored
Roosevelt's Forced Labor scheme.
The employment index drop prov
ing the urgent necessity of such de-
mands, covers the year from Oct. Is,
1882 to Nov. Is, 1888 and dropped
from 48.5 to 412.
The conference endorsed the Ma
tional Unemployment Conference to
be he'd in Washington, D. C. on
Jan. 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
LIVING COSTS FORCED
UPWARD AS ROOSEVELT
MANIPULATES GOLD PRICE
Roosevelt Government Is Heading Fast for
Financial and Credit Crisis
Only Workers Fight for Higher Wages Can
Defeat Deep Inflationary Wage-Cut

NEW YORK, Nov. 22-Ihe buying power of the American
ong already drasticaly reduced By unemployment
parttime reduced and rising prices, is Immediately
threatened with another deep slash by the prospect swift
approaching inationay crisis in the Roosevelt government
Only fight for higher 'Iages to keep pace with the