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Evening star., 1933-10-01

Crime and Cells.
From the Helena (Mont) Record d-Herald. :.
Everything grows by the multiplca-
ton Of cells except crime.
Evening star., 1933-10-01

A Free Choice.
From the Detroit News.
A London parrot can initiate . dog
fight and jazz band. Some say it Is
one and some the other.
Evening star., 1933-10-01
Fifty Years Ago
In the Star

Fifty years ago there was no Amer
ican militia system other than the
maintenance Of detached
American and individual oEganiza-
1r;l;+;. tions Of troops which were
0AAAsaa' the pride Of their respec-
tive communities The need Of such .
system was, however. being DISCUSSED.
The Star Of September a. 1883, says:
The subject Of IN effective militia
system that will enable the National
Government in an emergency to rapidly
mobilize . force sufficient to meet any
need that might arise has been fire.
quently discussed In Congress and out
of it. The first obstacle that always
confronts such Q scheme Is the one OF
expense. While the country Is enjoy
ing profound peace. without any sign
of 1t being disturbed. either internally
or from abroad, there is . strong senti-
ment against spending money for mill.
tary prcparations And in the light Of
our experience. it does not really seem
that 1t IL necessary to expend any con-
siderable sum in that direction. It is
well enough. Of course, to provide at
public expense arms and equipments
for military organizations, for without
such provision but few would exist. But
the States can provide for their militia
organizations respectively and keep
them under State control. The Amer
ican citizen = capable Of being quickly
converted into an excellent soldier. He
does not need constant drilling and
severe discipline to 1T him for the camp
and field. There is q soldiery instinct
among our people which manifested
itself throughout all the early contests
with the Indians and against the
French, subsequently. and in . national
sense In the Revolution. And the war
Of the rebellion Demonstrated that this
instinct had not abated with years Of
peace and the advance Of civilization.
In both the North and South the militia
organizations formed but the very small
proportion Of the soldiery drx In the
deld."
Evening star., 1933-10-01

Jud Tunkins says q college professor
may have his troubles in politics where
he sometimes has to admit he doesn't
know the answer himself
Evening star., 1933-10-01
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Evening star., 1933-10-01
Different Times.

When old Ben Franklin used to write.
He bade Us to toll both day and night
And try to save Q little money
At present such advice sounds funny.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
"J0hn Ferguson" To Be Re-
UiUed at Belmont Theatre
Tonight

st. John Ervines drama, John
Ferguson" will be revived this eve
ming at the Belmont Theatre by Wee
and Leventhal, with Augustin Dun
can heading the cast. Other players
include Barry Macollum, Lucy Beau
mont, Edward Favor, Angus Duncan
and p. ], Kelly. The play was origin
ally produced by the Theatre Guild
at the Garrick Theatre in 1919,
The Theatre Guild has acquired
two new plays: "They Shall Not Die"
by John Wexley, which deals with the
Scottsboro case, and a first play by
Tillman Breiseth, titled LAS We For
give Our Debtors" Wexley will be
recalled for his play, The Last Mile
which was seen on Broadway about
two seasons back Both scripts are
scheduled for the coming season by
the Guild.
Wiki Baum's new play, THE Divine
Drudge" adapted by the author and
John Golden from Miss Baum's
novel, may come to Broadway early
next season, The play is being tried
out this week at the Cape Playhouse,
Dennis, Mass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
SLAVE CODE IN
FURNITURE TRADE
SETS S9-S16 WAGE
Abandoning Tia TX of
30-Hr. Week in Slav-
cry Act

CHICAGO, July Each new
slave code that is prepared for &C
ceptance by President Roosevelt in
creases hours and shows the bosses
are abandoning talk of 30-hour
week, The latest code to be an
nounced is that of the National Re-
tail Furniture Association, repre-
senting 200 bosses in the furniture
trade.
The furniture code provides for
48 hour week, with a minimum"
pay schedule ranging from 50 to SIG
week. This is similar to the code
in the dry goods and department
stores, already in the hands of
General Johnson, administrator of
the industrial recovery act.
The 48-hour week, while stated as
being the maximum, will be the
basis for the extension of hours of
work, while the minimum" pay will
be used to keep wages around the
SO and $16 level
The SIC scale is set To- adult
workers, family men, employed in
cities with population Of 100000
or over, while the adult workers in
smaller cities will get a wage of
from $11 to $12 a week.
The wage of young workers below
10 is set at an average of SO a
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
Shoe Workers Prepare to Fight Recovery Act


turn for wages, giving them permits
sion" to sell and keep the proceeds
providing the company were released
from wage claims. The workers in
dignantly rejected this proposal and
are now fighting it with the unions
assistance.
Company Union-Od Weapon
Another vicious employers weapon
is the use of spies and company
unions, as in the case of I. Miller.
In the Miller plant workers are
forced to undergo a probationary
period or examination" when hired.
They are thoroughly investigated"
and should a steol-pigeon find that
they are militants, participating in
the workers struggles, they are fired
at moments notice. At the H ia
cobs & Son factory in Brooklyn, an
efficient spy system is in effect also.
Workers cannot leave the plant with
out passes.
Bosses Want a. f. of L. Union
Foremen and other bosses agents
are trying to put over the National
Industrial Recovery Act propaganda
by telling workers that unions will be
unnecessary under the act, and if
they want to join union it must
be a bona fide" union. BY bona
fide" unions, of course, they mean
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

the hearing confirm its charges that
the slavery act is weapon of a
conspiratorial kind against militant
workers. The drive against the left
wing union is an effort to re-estab-
lish the A F. of L. union in the fur
industry, which the employers know
will help them to intensity their ex-
ploitation.
Workers in New York City and
vicinity have had their eyes opened
wide as to the supposed beneficial
effects to- them of the slavery act
by the struggles of the furriers and
the laundry workers. The Laundry
Owners Association is attempting to
dictate the policies of the Laundry
Workers Industrial Union so far as
to call for the removal Of the present
militant leadership under penalty of
not signing agreements. The federal
government gives official sanction to
these maneuvers of the owners under
the recovery slavery law, the Pro-
visional Committee charged,
With the conference Of July Is
only five days of it is imperative
that workers in shops and factories
and trade unions who have not al
ready done so, elect delegates and
representatives to the meet. Address
the Provisional Committee In Defense
of Trade Unions, Room 637, 80 e.
18th St., New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

from this, the toll will be taken from
the poor workers and farmers who
are by far the largest section Of con-
sumers of shoes.
To insure such profiteering the
Board of Trade has set about to or
ganiZe the employers on an even
larger scale. Thus, for example, a
branch of the industry in which the
bosses have hitherto not been organ
ized-the slipper manufacturers
now preparing the path with the full
cooperation of the government.
AS in the textile and clothing in
dustries, minimum wages are in the
process of being worked out.
Schemes to Defeat Union.
Other tricks are being resorted to
under the present measure. Some
employers are announcing bankruptcy
plans, others are threatening to GO
out of business or to "re-organize.'
BY such means, they think to rid
themselves of organized workers. One
firm, N A. Paris, Inc, tried to make
a 10 per cent wage settlement under
such a scheme. The Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union
fought this and succeeded in gaining
the full 100 per cent pay due the
workers. Another concern tried to
make the workers take shoes in re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
Call on Furriers for
Picketing this Morning

NEW YORK.-All active furriers
are called upon by the fur depart
ment of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union to come to the
union office on Monday morning
from where the furriers will go in Or
ganized manner to picket the shops.
The scab Joint Council, together
with the manufacturers, are beconl-
ing more and more disappointed
over their failure to club the fur
riers into submission. They have
hired new gang who are again in
vading shops under control of the
N. T. w. 1. U. and trying by force
to get them into scab union. One
of the shops invaded Saturday was
Anfanger, zaltzman and Eisman.
About Is gangsters invaded the shop,
among them two prostitutes, and
after considerable resistance on the
part of the workers, succeeded in
taking them down, When they
reached the street, police met them
and asked if they wanted to go to
the Joint Council The workers re-
piled Immediately that they would
not, have anything to do with it
They were sent. back to work, but not
one of the gangsters was arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

such unions as the Boot and Shoe
Workers Union, affiliated to the
American Federation of Labor. Lo-
cal o, in New York City, has not
more than $50 members, according to
most optimistic reports.
This A. F. of l.. union, which acted
as scab recruiting agency during
the 1929 lockout, now has an agree
ment with one employer, Cohen, who
himself forces the workers into the
union. Trade union democracy" in
Local o is effectively demonstrated
when we see that these workers have
no voice or vote in their national or
ganization, the affairs being admin
istered by top leaders from the ma
tional office.
Industrial Union Battles for Union
Contrasted TO this is the new Shoe
and Leather Workers Industrial
Union, organized in 1891, an out
growth of the former Independent
Shoe Workers Union which was
crushed after the employers often
sive of 1929 This union has pre-
vented discharges and firing Of work
ers, and has won number of other
gains, as in the Elco Shoe Manu-
facturers and other strikes. The
union was prominent in the united
front established between morgan
lied and organized workers of two
unions at the Artistic Shoe Co., Inc.
1t has also prevented wage cuts in
one of the key factories which sets
the pace for other employers, and
thus saved hundreds of workers from
wage reductions.
In the slipper section of the indus
try workers in some Of the largest
plants are now organized ready for
struggle at the opportune moment
under the unions lead, The Shoe
and Leather Workers Union has now
about $500 members with a follow
ing of an equal number At present
efforts are being eXerted to organize
the hitherto unorganized shoe repair
workers, particularly in the 1. Klein
shops where skilled workers earn a
top of $22-24, while wages of $11, $12
and S14 a week are most common.
OcFcllty IlOuIo d Wcch ID IllS Iult Ill
the Klein shops, working Saturday
nights and all day Sunday.
Not in New YORK alone, but in
other important shoe centers through
out the country have shoe workers
conducted splendid struggles, start
ing with the Auburn and Lewiston,
Maine, strikes in the fall of 1882
Under the aggressive leadership of
the Shoe and Leather Workers In
dustrial Union, shoe workers are
girding for battle against the ex-
plotting bosses, who expect to carry
through further attacks on the work
ers under the protection of the Re-
covery Act In line with this, the
unions joint council, meeting on
June ~, whole heartedly endorsed a
resolution TO take part in and sup
port the Conference In Defense of
Trade Unions to be held at Webster
Hall on July. Is. This conference,
called by trade union and labor
groups. will be the center of the cam
paign OF militant labor to protect the
rights of workers and their organ
nations against the Roosevelt Recov-
cry (Slavery) Act.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
STAGE AND SCREEN
"26 COn,nlissdrs" Remains AT
Acme for Second Week

The new Soviet film, "26 Com
missars," now in its first American
showing at the Acme Theatre, will be
held over for second week. The
picture, which is a gripping story of
true episode of the Civil War when
the English invaders attacked the
workers of Baku and murdered their
26 leaders. The film is based on one
of the most popular plays of the Mos
COW Art Theatre repertoire.
The same program has as an added
feature the May Day Celebration in
Moscow, giving some intimate scenes
of the great celebration in Red
Square and showing closeup scenes
of Stain, Kalinin, Budenny, Molotov
the Red Army, the Young Pioneers
and massed band of l,400 musicians.
The jefferson Theatre is now show
ing Peg O. My Heart" with Marion
Davies and Onslow Stevens in the
chief roles. 'Ex-Lady," with Bette
Davis and Monroe Owsley is on the
same program as an added feature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
BY HY KRAVIF

Passage of the National Industrial
Recovery Act finds two drives in
progress in the shoe industry around
New York City. On the one hand,
there is the organization campaign OF
the Shoe and Leather Workers In
oustrial Union. In 1892, this union
led some 1000 workers in strikes
against I. Miller & Sons, Inc, and
Andrew Geller, two of the largest
shoe employers, as well as in num-
Der of smaller shops.
Opposed to them are the forces
marshalled by the Shoe Manufactur-
ers' Board of Trade. This employ
ers' association, like similar agencies
of the bosses, has secured injunc-
lions against strikers, recruited scabs,
kept blacklists and otherwise broken
strikes. But it has gone even fur
Their, compelling its members to be
secured by bonds and, in the event
of organized workers forcing an en-
ployer to sign an agreement, he would
forfeit thousands of dollars to the
association. In this way they have
ATTEMPTED to maintain the open
shop.
Shoe Bosses for Recovery Act
Meeting in New York City at the
Hotel Commodore, on June l6, the
Board of Trade gave its approval to
Roosevelts N. I. r, A; to the adj
ministrators that had been selected
and declared for a national organ
ization with a national committee
and city committees who would de-
termine prices. They spoke vaguely
of wage increases"
What they mean by wage increases
is seen in the recent restoration by
I. Miller of a 10 per cent cut BUT
this follows cuts of approximately 80
per cent in the past year and a half
The writer was shown pay envelopes
of a faster in this plant covering six
weeks during April and May, 1888
The six weeks average amounted to
$13 for a 55-to-60-hour week. A 10
per cent increase" therefore would
amount to a mere $1.30 for this
worker, or but one-third of the total
reductions inflicted on Miller work
ers since 1882.
The extent to which earnings of
shoe workers as whole have de-
clined can be CLEANED from the SO
per cent drop in payroll totals re-
ported in the four years from March
1929, to March, 1888, by the Monthly
Labor Review. There are numerous
instances of actual weekly earnings
which are but 80 per cent of the 1929
level, according to union officers
About one-third of the 10000 shoe
workers in this vicinity are totally
unemployed and another 40 per ce,ll
are on part time, that is, two and
three days work a week, it is fur
ther reported.
To Raise Prices.
But the employers have other anti
labor plans. At present they are
holding back the starting of work
with a view to raising prices Is to so
per cent. Wholesalers supplying man
ufacturers with material are already
getting from Is to 40 per cent more
for their products. AS can be seen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
Labor Union Meets


DRESS woRKERs-The dress depart
ment Of the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union calls upon shop chairmen, shop
committees and active workers to come to
meeting on Wednesday. July IL, at 5
o'clock at ISL W. oath st., to formulate
the wage scales and other demands, which
are going to be presented as a Workers
Code at the hearings in Washington, to be
held shortly.
Costume Tailors Meet Tonight
NEW YORK.--The Costume Tailors De-
partment is calling meeting of the Cos
tune Tailors tonight, right after work, N
the auditorium of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union l3l w 28th st.,
to discuss immediate preparations for a
strike for the coming season,
The trade board has worked out series
of demands, which include wages and
hours, which arc to be presented to the
Merchant Tailors' Association. The de-
mands which will be worked out at this
meeting will also be presented as . Work
ers Code when the hearings under the
Recovery Act Will Start In Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

the Webster Hall meet on July 10,
is composed of American Federation
of Labor locals, and Trade Union
Unity League and independent trade
union and labor groups.
Plans Of action and unity of work
ers and their organizations in de-
Tending the interests of labor against
the anti-labor provisions Of the Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Act will
mark the high spots of the confer
ence. The election of delegates to
the meet is proceeding, with repre-
sentatives already chosen by needle
trades workers, food workers, metal
workers. painters and iron workers
and plumbers.
Role OF Slavery Act Exposed
simultaneously with this announ-
cement come the revelations arising
out of the open hearings now going
on at Labor Temple on the fur in
dustry situation. Fridays hearings
brought out the fact that the fur
manufacturers had broken off nego-
tiations with the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union upon an
nouncement of the passage of the
National Industrial Recovery (Slay-
ery) Act. This revelation was made
by Irving Potash, union secretary.
Potash and eight other furriers
and leaders are now out on bail
after their arrest on July 5 in the
united front campaign of police, en-
ployers and the A. F. of l.. TO drive
workers from the militant union of
their own choosing into the Inter
national Fur Workers Union of the
A. F. of L. Horace M. Kallen of
the New School for Social Research
heads the investigation committee
which includes the noted novelist,
Theodore Dresser, who called the
A. +. OF L. furriers union practically
existent"
A Government Conspiracy
The Provisional Committee points
out that the facts made public at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
POCKETBOOK
STRIKE SPREADS
TO NEW JERSEY

JERSEY CITY, N. j., July "a
strike of pocketbook workers in all
union shops in New Jersey was de-
clared yesterday following mem
bership meeting Of Branch No. l
of the New Jersey international
Pocketbook Workers Union, at its
headquarters at 173 Webster Ave.
The strike follows the walkout in
which over 1000 pocketbook work
ers are now engaged in New York
against the bosses lockout and for
wage increases and a shorter work
week.
To spread the strike to the open
shops in New Jersey, meeting Of
employees of open shops has been
called for Monday morning at 10
O'Clock at 173 Webster Az.
Pocketbook workers are also out
in Philadelphia, Bridgeport, and in
Montreal, Canada, 1t was reported
at yesterdays meeting.
1t was pointed out that some of
the union workers formerly earn
ing SAB week are now working
for as little as $i1 q week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

ready, Klein said, to step in to pre-
vent strike of the 10000 cloak
makers for week work and better
working conditions. Cloakmakers in
the recent referendum voted over
whelmingly to insist on week work
under any circumstance.
A general meeting of the cloak
makers has been called for tomorrow
to lay plans for a strike of all cloak
makers.
The Labor Advisory Board of the
Recovery slavery administration has
rushed plans for meeting this morn
ing to consider how to make effec-
tive Gen. Johnsons s5rike-breaking
threat. The board sent a telegram
to Sidney Hillman, president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of
2 America and a member of the board,
to be sure to attend this meeting
and help them with his wide strike
breaking experience,
Meet Tomorrow Noon
The Cloak Department of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union is calling a memhe"-Ni'. meet
ing of cloakmakers, TUESDAY at l
o'clock, at Bryant Hall, 9Th Ave. and
And st.
At this meeting the leaders of the
Cloak Department of the N.TWI.U.
will discuss with the workers the
decisions for week work, and how
the decisions of the cloakmakers can
be carried through into life. All
members are urged to be present. \
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
WORKERS GET RUBBER
PAYCHECKS
by a Worker Correspondent)

IRVINGTON, N. il work at Me-
tuchen, NJ j. Under the Roosevelt
administration there were not sup
posed to be any more bank failures,
But the biggest bank in New Bruins
wick went flop on June 22nd. 1t
wiped out my bosses commercial ac-
count entirely, leaving me and sew
eral other workers with one or two
rubber pay checks on our hands that
cannot be cashed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
A. +. OIL. Fur Heads
"Censure" Dresser
But Dare Not Face
Open Hearing

NEW YORK.-The A. F. of L. Of
ficials of the defunct International
Fur Workers Union have issued a
"censure" of Theodore Dresser, ia
nous American novelist, for Dreiser's
condemnation of the gangster tactics
by which the A. F. of L. officials,
together with the bosses, the police
and the Socialists, have attempted to
smash the. militant fur department
of the Needle Workers Industrial
Union.
These A., F. of L. officials did not
dare to face an open hearing, and
now confine themselves to snarling
"censure" at an honest writer who
was moved by the facts brought out
at the hearing in Labor Temple to
express his sympathy for the mill
tant fur section of the N.T,WI.U,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
SHOE UNION ENDORSES TRADE UNION
DEFENSE CONFERENCE JULY IS

YORK-Endorsement of
Leather Workers Union contribution
the
Committee sponsored
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10
GOVERNMENT PLANS INTERVENTION
AGAINST CLOAkNIAKERS STRIKE
Labor Advisory Board, With Hillman Meets
Today to Help Bosses Put Over Piece Work

intervention, under the Slavery
cloak and suit industry threatened
Klein the Industrial Council
of andS Manufacturers.
Johnson of Recovery Administration,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-10

MCKINNEY, Tex, July 9.-More
than 200 workers of the Texas Tex
tile Mills won a reduction in hours
and wage increases ranging from Is
per cent to IS per cent in a short
strike.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-09-02
THE FIRST MOOSE

The first moose of the season in
 the Moose Pass district bit the dust at am. Friday morning when Jack Ebing, B. P. R. superintendent and reputed to be one of the crack shots of the country, drew down on yearling which was 300 yards from the Moose Pass highway. Tony Lanning, also of Moose Pass, carved the fat animal and packed 1t to the road This moose will eventually wind up in quart jars.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-09-02

Exposing another rich vein on Gilpatrick Mountain, Moose Pass, four men are now engaged strip ping what is called the east vein,, on the Gilpatrick-Hielo property. This work is being rushed for the benefit of New York people who will visit the property next week.