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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
liz GROUPS JOIN
DEMAND i. S. TO
RECOGNIZE USSR
Collecting 100000 Sig
natures in NY.

NEW YORK.-One hundred and
forty-six delegates from lit labor
and fraternal organizations met
Monday night at Manhattan Lyceum
at the call of the Friends of the Sow
let Union to form the Greater New
York Conference for Recognition OF
the Soviet Government. The dele
gates unanimously adopted a plan
proposed by the organization COM
nlittee which was elected by the Con-
ference, for a broad united front
campaign to compel the Wall Street
Roosevelt Government to extend i'm
mediate and unconditional recogni-
ton to the first Workers and Farm
ers' Government. The plan includes
a series Of larger meetings of the
Conference, the next one to be held
on March 81; a city-wide demon
stration In St. Nicholas Arena on
Sunday afternoon, April IS, and a
number Of other public mass meet
ings.
The Conference set 100000 sign
atureS as the quota of the New York
area in the drive for signatures to
the recognition petition. An exec
utive committee of the Conference
was elected, consisting of IA men,
bers. Plans were made for getting
delegates from many organizations
not represented at this first confer
ence, to attend the second Confer
ence on March 81.
Norman Tallentire, National Field
Organizer, and Cyril Lambkin, Ma
tional Secretary of the Friends of the
Soviet Union, spoke, appealing for
the widest support of the Recognition
campaign and of the work of the F.
S.U. in exposing anti-Soviet propa-
gandists and in building up organ
lied defense of the Soviet Union.
Liston M. Oak was chairman Of the
Conference.
BESIDES the Recognition resolution,
resolution calling for united front
fight against fascist terrorism in
Germany, for defense of the German
workers, for opposition to imperial
ist war and to invasion of the Soviet
Union, for support and defense Of
the Soviet workers and peasants who
are building Socialism, was adopted.
The Conference also passed a reso-
luton endorsing the International
Labor Defense in its fight to free
the Scottshoro boys and all class-war
prisoners, and the Free Tom Mooney
Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17

and as the recital went on, Kidde
flew into rage, interrupted, bu;
was unable to stop the recital OF
specific charges made by Hoffman.
Fired for Knowing Too Much
Hoffman told how three uneui-
ployed needle workers, put into the
8. and g. Novelty 90. shop, SOS
Trautman ST., Brooklyn, the owner
OF which has a contract with the Glib
son Committee, were fired several
days ago. They had originally got
the work through pressure brought
by the Needle Trades Unemployed
Council.
On of them, Morris Goldberg, In
formed the Council how KATE and
Darcy, tinekeepers there for Gibson,
keep dummy cards at the desk, punch
them and take the money. Hew girls
working with Katz stand In line sew
eral times with different cards on
pay day. How the girls did this
through fear of discharge BY Katz,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17

But the Minimum Wage Commission
does nothing about the situation eX-
cept to threaten vaguely that it will
publish the names of concerns Vio-
lating the minimum wage Standard
This farcical Massachusetts law is
one Of the new minimum wage laws
that has never been declared uncon-
stitutional by the capitalist courts,
In 1923, the U. s. Supreme Court de-
Cided that the District of Columbia
act was unconstitutional and in 1925
it declared the Arizona and Kansas
laws unconstitutional,
The Wall Street Journal describes
the Massachusetts, law as one (which
has so far stood the test of constitu-
tionality, 1t has no mandatory pro-
visions and therefore the capital
lists like it as harmless. For the
working class, it is positively harm
full, since it creates an illusion of a
living wage standard, while really
fastening upon the workers the low
est imaginable rates.
The California minimum wage law
is the boast of reformists and social
workers all over the United States.
They point to it as model legisla-
tion.H The National Women's Trade
Union League halls it as their ideal
of law, because it seems to establish
a rate of SIG a week, below which
wages are not supposed to fall. In
actual practice, however, experienced
III "a
(Who are not covered by the law
and kept for months, even years, ON
pay much below this so-calied stan
dard,
The Industrial Welfare Commission
in California now allows 65 per cent
instead of 80 per cent of women in a
plant to work at learners" wages,
and the canneries have been allowed
a $l2 minimum insead of SIG, while
half of the capnery workers are on
piece work at starvation rates.
A determined drive against such of
the law as remains in effect is now
being carried on by the employers
Mrs, Mabel Kinney. Los Angeles soci-
ETY. woman, appointed by Gov. Rolph
as chairman of the welfare commits
sion, is more than ready to do the
employers bidding.
From these facts workers can see
that minimum wage legislation, as
urged by capitalists and their ODE
dent servants, tends to bind the
workers to the lowest wage levels and
make permanent the present out
rageously low rates of pay. The low
STANDARD" Iegalized for women and
children thus pulls down the level
of all workers wages. AS Gov Leh-
man frankly admits, the pay under
the minimum wage law is to be based
mot on living standards but ON the
minimum value OF the services rem
dered," and under the law the en-
ployers would decide how low that
rate can be.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17


paper organizations created and
puffed into existence by the bourgeois
press to keep the workers passive.
However, they will not be silent;
meeting will be held today at $50
pm, in Irving Plaza by the Unem-
ployed councils of Greater New York
for the purpose of taking up not only
the firing of the workers from the
E, w. 3, but also the situation Of the
small depositors created by the bank
crisis,
Carl Winters will give the report
on the political situation, and Rich
ard Sullivan will give the organiza-
tional report. Unemployed councils,
trade locals and affiliated organiza-
tons are urged to come at the speci-
fed time, SO that thorough discus
sion of this acute situation can take
place,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
Foreign Workers
Warned by LID. of
Deportation Trap

NEW YORK. - The New York
District of the international Labor
Defense, in view of the attempt of
the u. S. Government TO deport
non-citizen workers who struggle
against capitalist oppression, is
sued today the following sugges-
tons, to be carried out by workers
in defeating attempts to deport
them.
!. Non-citizen workers arrested
during raids or demonstrations,
meetings, strikes, etc, are entitled
by law to refuse to answer all
questions put them by police, i'm
migration officials, judges or any
other court officials if thy are not
represented by a lawyer,
2. Workers should refuse to an
sWer questions, which are usually
asked for the purpose of getting
information for deportation.
3. No papers should be signed.
4. AS soon as the worker is
brought to jail Or to the imnligfa-
ton office, he should demand
lawyer.
5. He should refuse a ''prelim-
mary hearing until his lawyer
comes.
6. On being arrested for depor-
tation, the worker should write
Immediately or have his friends
notify the local Office of the Inter
national Labor Defense lin New
York City, Room s3B, 79s Broad
way, and a lawyer will be sent
to his assistance.
7. Until the lawyer comes, refuse
to answer questions, refuse to sign
any papers, refuse any hearing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
VET OFFICERS
FIGHT JOBLESS
Frame Ex-Serviceman
for Demanding Food

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., March 16
War on every struggle of the starY-
ing unemployed for food has been
openly declared here by the courts
and the leaders of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, Because he agitated
in the state relief soup-line at the
armory for decent food, Edwin Pharo
was sentenced to six months in Jail.
Bailed out in $1,000 through action of
the International Labor Defense,
pending an appeal, he was Fe-arrest-
ed and is held for the Grand Jury
on framed charges of "unlawfully
wearing v. w, F., badge"
Officials War on Jobless
This frame-up Immediately follow
ed an open declaration war on COM
nlunism and Communists, even to
physical violence" by the local V,
r. W. post officials, coupled with a
communication of City Recorder Jo
seph Altman for his vicious sentence
Threats of kidnapping against any
worker who dares ask for food were
made al the " F, w, post meeting by
Past Commander John ]. Mullin, on
the basis of Pharo's demands for de-
cent treatment for the unemployed,
Labor Defense Starts Drive
The !. L, D. is building mass de-
Tense for Pharo, to fight against the
vicious terrorism of the police and
the V. F, W., here. Protests against
the Frame-up of Pharo should be
sent to City Recorder J. Altman, At
lantic City, New Jersey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
sLRPER WORKERS
outrageous Grating by Gibson "Rele" Committee NYC

Gibson's director OF the Red Gross
jobs, and McCulloughs answer was
that everything was arranged TO
seize Goldberg and have him held in
the psychiatric ward at Bellevue
Hospital for examination and possible
commitment to an insane asylum,
One worker has already been sent
ever this route, because she found
out too much, Her name Is Helen
Baumsn, who was working in the
Red Gross shop At $50 Bergen Ave-,
Bronx and Is now held In q mad
house.
Hoffman and Secretary Potash OF
the Needle Trades Workers Indust-
rial Union, further protest formally
to the Gibson Committee against its
permitting and helping Dubinsky,
president OF the International Ladies
Garment Workers, sending agents to
forcibly collect 81 initiation fee land
in the case of cutters, $3.50 from the
meager charity wages of workers in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17

non-citizens from receiving work.
relief, makes it imperative for all
mass organizations and liberal groups
to be represented at this meeting by
delegates.
The 100000 foreign-born in
America, almost half of whom are
not citizens and who, with their fam
lilies, comprise about one-third of the
population, are being openly terror
ICED and threatened with deportation
when they apply for food at the
relief stations.
An order recently given out by
Secretary Doak requires the finger
printing of all aliens arriving in the
United States. The Dies Bill, passed
by the House of Representatives at
the last session, would deport nom
citizens for going on strike or for
advocating any changes in our pres
ent system of government, with its
wage cuts, unemployment and hun-
ger. Another bill recently introduced
in the House of Representatives
would subject employers to a $1,000
fine and six months in prison for
hiring non=eitizens while citizens are
cut of work.
These bills present clear picture
of the vicious drive being made by
the capitalist government to crush
the militsney of foreign workers by
deportation and discrimination. 1t
presents the very great need for a
broad organization of foreign-born
regardless of race, color, religion or
political athliation, to be united on
this issue and fight this fascist terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17

NEW YORK.-Outrageous
grating of the GIBSON Com
mittee Red Cross Cloth funds
by officials of Che committee,
especially one time keeper,
have been discovered In a SER
les of shops here. Coupled
with this is a deliberate at
tempt to railroad workers who dis
covered the graft to the insane asy-
lum in order to silence them. One
has been sent up already.
There is evidence duplicating both
the officials of the International La
dies Garment Workers Union and the
Lovesteneites in this mess.
This graft is at the expense of the
workers on the jobs, who are being
fired when they know too much
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17

New York is one of the states in
which bill looking toward a mini
mum wage has already been intro
duced and Gov. Lehman in a special
message to the Legislature has urged
it's adoption. The N, Y, Times
reports that it is almost certain to
pass at the present session, Gov.
Lehman is supported by influential
employers" in this move, and a num-
Der Of manufacturers in the state
are quoted as saying that instead OF
being a hardship, the minimum wage
system would be help to industry"
In other words, it would mean more
profits in their pockets.
How the Minimum Wage Laws
Have Worked
Massachusetts,, California, Wiscon-
sin, North Dakota and Oregon already
have minimum wage laws supposedly
in effect, but in Wisconsin and North
Dakota the minimum" has been re-
Gently cut down TO still lower levels,
while in Massachusetts, and Galifor-
MIA the standard" has been largely
ignored as a dead letter. Actual
wages paid to workers in all these
states are often far below the amount
called for.
In Wisconsin. following a reduction
of 10 per cent in minimum wage rates
for young workers II to 81 years old,
certain industrial interests"=that
is, the leading manufacturers Of the
state-have started drive for fur
ther reductions. North Dakota put
into effect new and lower rates in
December, 1882, cutting the existing
standards by 10 per cent.
What are women and children ae-
tually earning in Massachusetts,,
where a kind of minimum wage law
has been in effect since 1912, which
is supposed to enforce vague and
flexible minimum? For a. full
weeks work in certain shoe factories
Of Lynn, Mass, workers are getting
only So, while wages as low as cents
an hour are officially reported in a
survey of - Massachusetts, clothing
shops. Commissioner of Labor, Edwin
s, Smith, admits that II per cent of
the workers earn less than $40 week
and 81 per cent less than SIS a week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17

WASHINGTON, D. c., 4uaIch IA
A frank admission of suppressing
news items is found in the Financial
and Commercial Chronicle" o. Feb
ruary 10, 1888 page 1864. In regard
TO the increasing number of bank
failures during February, which cul-
minated in the national banking
holiday on March g. this capitalist
financial magazine stated.
Policy Of Silence
HT'here has latterly been a reGrud-
escense OF bank embarrassments at
quite a number Of financial centers
in different and widely separated
parts of the country-at st. Louis, in
California, with minor banking
troubles at Kansas City, at Atlantic
City, N, j., and some other local
points, to which is now added the
worst collapse of all in the closing
down of all banks in Michigan.
There have also the present week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
Bill to Slash Govt
Workers Wages More

NEW YoRK.-Efforts to suspend
all State laws governing the wages OF
teachers, firemen and other local gov
eminent workers for period of two
years is being made through the pass
age of the Pratt Bill now pending
before the N. Y, Assembly. The bill
would allow local governments to
eeonomize at the expense of the work.
ers by imposing further wage cuts.
Teachers and other civil employees
were present at the assembly hearing
today to protest against the adop-
ton of the bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17

ing them that the funds of the Bu-
reau are rapidly diminishing. Stern,
when interviewed by reporter from
the Daily Worker, stated that he had
about 500 ames of people who had
been fired from the Emergency Work
payroll and that his intention was to
get as many of these as possible, then
to present the cases to the Gibson
Committee and the Mayor,
When pressed by the reporter,
Stern stated that no meetings would
be held by this organization, that it
would be more in the way of case
study organization. The organization
as yet does not even possess a name,
and still the capitalist newspapers
hasten to open wide their pages to 1t
In the hope that any promises it can
hold out TO the fired workers will
help dampen their wrath.
This is clearly another of these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
Labor Sports
AMBITIOUS ATHLETIC PROGRAM
SCHEDULED BY LABOR SPORTS
UNION

Worker Sportsmen in New York
will get plenty of athletic COMPETE
ton during April, including basket
ball, boxing, wrestling, track-and-
field. Junior and women athletes
will also have plenty OF opportunity
to strut their stuff.
Following is the program of events
arranged by Labor Sports Union;
APRIL /, 2.-EstionsI Basketball Tourna-
ment OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Hall, 7e4 4oth
St., Brooklyn.
APRIL s.--Indoor field meet-Kaytss Hall
APRIL 1+Basketbsli game and dance
Jointly with Two Youth Section--Stuyves-
ant high School.
APRIL 15.--Junisr Basketball elimination
tournsment-kaytee Hall.
APRIL 1s-open boxing tournsment-aus-
piees, spsFtacus A,C-
APRIL a2 (tentativcl, --BrewnsviiIe Ton,
Mooney Street Run--auspices Sports Section
Of Brownsville Youth Center.
APRIL 2s.=-NsYice wrestling meet tfer
LsU members oniy)-Esthonisn Hall, ~ W,
Il5th ST.
APRIL 2s.==City Tom Mooney Street Run
auspices, Yesa A. G,
APRIL 80.-Spartakisd United Front Con-
fsrencs-IrFing Plaza Hall.
MAY s,-x-eeuntry mest-Ysn eortlasdt
Park.
MAY 6.-spartakiad gymnastic sxhibi-
tons and dance-zuspiess, Fiehte, and Spar
taeus A. e.
Entry blanks and further inforrna-
ton can be obtained at the Labor
Sports Union office, 8l3 Broadway,
n. Y. Q.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
Youngstown Tin Mill
Installs Machines to
Lay Off Workers

INDIANA HARBOR., March L.
The Youngstown Sheet and Tube tin
mill has just installed a new con-
tinuous furnace mill which will do
twice as much work in the same
number Of hours with fewer workers
The new mill is not working salts
faetorily yet but the company is ex-
perimenting with it and lay-offs Of
many workers are expected shortly.
At the same time the company is
preparing to cut wages and is break
ing in men from the pipe mill which
has been shut down for the past
year, for work in the tin mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17

Kats has two brothers, working,
against even Gibson Committee rules
In the Seamore shop, under assumed
names.
Real workers are deprived OF jobs
by this trickery. Other workers in
the shop have to work harder to
make a showing for the dummies"
The Loyestonite, Sasha Zimmerman
is working in this shop, and is Katz's
closest friend, cooperating with him
and constantly comforting with him,
Katz himself, time-keeper for the
Gibson Committee, was a hired
gangster for the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers, in 1925, and spent his
time slugging militant workers.
Slayery--And the !. L. g. W, u.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
Officials of international Ladies Garment
Workers and the L0vest0nites In Mess

Over in the Seamore shop, where
Katz keeps his brothers on the pay
roll, a Negro worker, Pearl Strong,
was fired because she refused the
orders of the boss to go up to his
apartment to wash floors, clean halls,
do homework, etc, without pay, 10
become a personal slave in return
for being allowed to work on this
charity Red Gross Cloth job. Mem
bers of the executive of Local %,
International Ladies Garment Work
ers, work in this shop, and prevent
shop action,
Hoffman dictated to the steno-
grapher how he exposed this racket
eering of Gibson officials to first
Gibson himself, then to Sssccuilough,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17

and informing him of the conditions
in the hotel, not only the wage cuts
in the laundry department., but in
dining room, kitchen, for chamber
maids, etc, Hours range up to Is a
day. and no overtime is paid. Layoffs
and Speed-up go together.
The Foltis-Fiseheg cafeteria strike
led by the same union is sound and
preparations continue to spread it to
all the remaining seven cafeterias in
the chain,
Yesterday police arrested six pickets
at the 269 West 25th st, place, but
they were Immediately released.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
Strikers Tell Einstein Conditions
In Hotel in Which He Makes Speech

NEW YORK American Friends of
Hebrew University in Palestine, and
other arrangers of the Einstein
speech Wednesday night at Hotel
Commodore shuffled the scientist
around and concealed from him the
fact that the Commodore Hotel is on
strike The Laundry department, led
by the Food Workers Industrial
Union, has been picketing the place,
fighting against So a week wage.
The strikers sent Einstein a letter
by Western Union messenger: adj
dressing him as one who has parti-
cipated in various social activities,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
TEAR GAS USED ON
FARMERS IN MICH.
Expose Cochran Frame
Up in South Dakota

WHITE CLOUD, Mich, March i6.
Attacking a demonstration Of 400
farmers who gathered to prevent a
mortgage foreclosure sale, Sheriff
William G. Biard and twenty depu-
ties hurled tear gas in an effort to
dispense them. Three farmers. John
w. Rose, John Bahcock and John
Casper, were arrested.
The demonstration was held in
front of the NeWaygo County court
house and succeeded in preventing a
mortgage foreclosure sale of the
farm owned by William Leughton,
Expose Frame Up.
ELK POINT, S, D., March i6-A
hearing held here today in the case
Of Miles Cochran, farm picket, fur
ther proved his innocence of the
charge that he shot the rum and
seab-milk runner, Markell, during the
recent milk strike around Sioux City,
Ia, last February,
The doctor who operated on Mar
KEEL testified that only high-poW-
cred rifle could have inflicted the
wound No witness could establish
just when Markell was shot and all
stated that there was a barrage go
ing on with gun fire on all sides.
Even if Cochran had a rifle there is
no reason for believing that his bull
let was the one which killed Markel
it was pointed out. At the end of
the testimony it appeared that Coch-
ran had shot gun and not rifle,
which completely clears him of the
first charge of murder.
The trial in court is scheduled TO
come up March 81. The background
of this case is the milk war when
farmers were picketing the highways
around Sioux City last February.
The strike had been directed against
the Roberts Dairy, which had been
making 800 per cent profit while
milk remained high for city workers
and farmers got almost nothing
Farmers are certain that the
Roberts Dairy hired Markell to run
the picket lines with seab milk. H
was we'll qualified, since ne is known
as a rum runner. A week before the
shooting, when he was killed, Markel
ran the picket lines at another point
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
FURNITURE WORKERS STRIKE

NEW YORK.-A strike of mattress
makers and box spring makers is on
at the Liberty Red Spring Co., ass
East l66th St., Bronx for the rein
statement of worker fired for union
activity. The strike is led by the
Furniture Workers Industrial Union.
The union is also leading strike at
the Regent Furniture Shops on $40
East 73rd Street. Furniture workers
are asked to help win these strikes by
picketing the shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
Needle Trades Unemployed Council Points
to Struggle for Workers Control of
Relief Administration

NEW YORK. The yesterday
pointed revelations discrimination
Cross Jobs hundreds of exist declared
relief
bills administration,
Conference Unemployment 81 Albany.
The NTUC starts Of meetings special
o
and pcketng
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17
HATHAWAY DEBATES MUsTE

NEW YORK.-District Organizer
G. A. Hathaway, of the Cemmunist
Party will debate A. j. Music OF the
Conference for Progressive Labor
Action on the topic: Policies and
Methods of the American Working
Glass" 8 p. m. tonight at fremont
Workers Club, BOTS Clinton Avenue,
Bronx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-17

a Red Cross shop recently opened at
Essex ST., Brooklyn.
1t is evident that the graft in tn
Gibson Committee jobs is rampant,
that these revelations Just scratch