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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
Brave Sergt. Boob
SnatcheS DailieS
to Stop the Sale
H arrison N. j., Cop
Bullies daily" Agent
Despite Court Action

HARRISON, N. 1.-THE old battle
is on again. Chief of Police Peter
A. Brady of Harrison, N. j., is on the
rampage once more His cops are
stopping the sale and distribution of
the Daily Worker, through the brave
and daring featS of Sergeant Sam
Boob. Stopping it, after the right
to sell and distribute the workers
paper was established in the courts
of Harrison.
On September Is, Marion Laughlin,
Daily Worker agent, was tried in
Harrison courts for distributing the
Daily Worker in front of the Cru
chile Steel Company The charges
against her were dropped through the
response of the workers rallied by
the International Labor Defense OF
Harrison to the trial.
Last Wednesday workers distrib-
uting "Dailies" in front of the Worth
ington Pump factory were stopped
by Police Sergeant Sam Boob. He
insulted and threatened the Daily
Worker Agent and two other workers
handing out back copies of the Daily
Sam Boob demanded of one work.
err, Now aren't you ashamed of your
self distributing the Daily Worker
This worker was on relief, getting
So on which he has to support his
wife and four chilren.
On Thursday, while Marion Laugh
lin was selling Daily Workers in
front of the Crucible Steel plant, she
saw police in places she'd never seen
them before. She gave a young
worker a copy of the Daily Worker
and was busy giving out others, when
along came Boob. Brave Sergeant
Boob came along the avenue in his
police car. He told Marion to move
on. She told him that she had the
right to give out or sell Daily Work
ers, and that she intended staying
there until she gave them out.
The daring Boob got out of his
car; came over to Conrade Laughlin
and demanded copy Of the Daily
AS Marion relaxed her arm, he
grabbed the papers, about II or 10
and rushed to his auto. Swiftly he
drove up the avenue, stopped the
young man who had accepted the
Daily Worker, asked him if he had a
copy. When he said mo" Boob SAID
that it would be just too bad for him
if he did have one.
Sam Boob brags that the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
BY HENRY PURo

BLOWING under and taking out OF
l production 10,304,000 acres of cot
ton and 100000 acres of wheat, the
slaughtering of 100000 pigs, and
even the intervention of Nature" in
the form of drought which has re-
dused the wheat crop by 100000, 600
br hels, has not eliminated the farm
crl is.
Quite the contrary: the agrarian
crisis is deepening. George N. Peek,
the chief administrator of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act, is compelled
to admit the "loSs of purchasing
power" of the masses and that bread
lines become coincident with plenty"
Secretary of Wallace admits that
the farmers situation has become
worse" because the gap between what
he gets from his products and what
he has to pay for the goods he needs
has become greater.
These two men are the chief adj
ministrators Of Roosevelt's New Deal
for the farmers. Their statements
constitute in essence the admittance
of the collapse of the Roosevelt farm
program. OF course, actually they do
1pt admit its failure, but are trying
ill to bolster up the hopes of the
Farmers.
Who has profited by the artificial
boosting of prices brought about by
the destruction of cotton and food
products and by instituting the vari-
Gus codes milk codes, etc.)? Specu-
lating food trusts and marketing
ronopolies are the ones now making
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
They Demand Cancellation Of Mortgage Debts
Which Roosevelt Program Has Clamped
Tighter Than Ever

workers and the toiling farmers in
order to declare martial law and at
tack against both groups of toilers
and arrest and brutally beat their
leaders and prevent the United Farm
ers League State Conference to meet.
The Yakima Valley incident must be a
valuable lesson of the necessity of
real unity between the agricultural
workers and the impoverished farm
ers.
The considerable section of the
farmers already being to lose their
confidence not only in the Roosevelt
government, but in the capitalist par
ties. In this juncture the reformist
politicians and social fascist come
forward with their proposals for the
necessity of the new party. offering
it in the form of various names, eg.
Progressive Party. Peoples Party, So
cialist Party, Farmer-L Labor Party.
And there are many workers and
farmers who believe that this may be
the way out. Here we Communists
want to issue solemn warning. This
is only the new way for the agents
of the bourgeoisie to induce the toll
ers to continue to support the ex-
plotting capitalist system. The his
tory of these parties in European
countries has clearly demonstrated
this fact. Experience in this country
also shows Enthusiastically that the
promoters Of these parties are moth
ing but the agents of the big ex-
plotting class.
1t is therefore necessary, that the
toiling farmers, while carrying on
militant mass struggles for their i'm
mediate economic demands, give their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06

political support to the Communist
Party, which fights for the cancella-
ton of farmers debts, against the
evicton5, sheriff sales and for the
immediate relief, and really uncom-
promisingly and honestly fights for
these interests of the toiling farm
ers and which aims to do away with
the system of mortgages, evictions,
and starvation.
The important task Of our Party
now is to help the militant farmers
organizations to mobilize broad dele
cations and support for the Second
Farmers National Conference. Every
state Of the union must be pene-
trated. 1t is not sufficient that only
those farmers are to be represented
who have already been organized into
the left-wing and progressive farmers
organizations or for the militant
Farmers Committees Of Action. 1t is
necessary to penetrate new masses of
unorganized farmers as well as the
rank and file farmers in the old line
farm organizations.
Nor do the farmers demands need
to wait for conference. The Con-
ference preparations and the elections
of delegates must be done in the
course of waging local struggles all
over the country, on the united front
basis. The conference preparations
must be utilized for the strengthen
ing of the farmers militant organi-
cations and organizing the united
front action committees, building up
the circulation of farmers militant
papers and recruiting the best ele-
ments of the toiling farmers into the
Communist Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
BURY Depression"
in Buffalo Plants
Increase Lay Offs

BUFFALO, N. Y.-Four weeks ago
The Chamber of Commerce together
With the MA. depression fighters
tremendously buried "Mr. Depres-
sion" One hundred thousand people,
turned out to the burial"
Only e month has passed and The
American Radiator shut down indefl-
n,tely, laying of 900 men. The Lark
ing Food Products eliminated 900
workers.
Mess lay-ofYs have started in the
FEEDERS Manufacturing Company and
,hc Dupont Rayon Works employing
together about 1900 workers.
The American Brass Co., employing
300 workers, has laid off large
-u-,ber Of workers and has put all
Ct the rest on the stegger system.
On the stagger system they work any,
where rom l to 4 hours a day and
from 10 to 20 hours a week. getting
from Sc to $40 week in pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
A. F. Of |. Officials
Provide ScabS in
Painters Strike
140 Shops Settled With
Union Conditions

NEW YORK.-As the Alteration
Painters strike increases in strength
and more shops are being settled,
A. F. Of L. officials are making ener-
getic efforts to break the strike and
destroy the union. Not only are they
planting pickets at shops settled by
the union but are sending scabs to
man the jobs Of workers on strike.
A number of rank and file painters
have refused to aid the officials In
their strikebreaking activity.
In Harlem where 80 Negro painters
are on strike against the Sun Leasing
Corporation, scabs sent by the
A. F. of L. were repulsed by the mill
fancy of the Negro and white pickets.
The corporation is sending dispossess
notices to the strikers who occupy
their apartments. A rent strike is
being organized in support OF the de-
mands Of. the strikers in Harlem.
About 1,100 painters In 140 shops
have returned to their jobs under
union conditions according to reports
of the Alteration Painters Union.
The Brooklyn Bosses Association,
after negotiations with the Union
found that the Union would not yield
an inch to the proposals of the bosses
to lower the union scale Of SO day
The bosses cancelled negotiations
when the Union rejected any Lowered
scale but Is bosses in the Association
signed UP individually conceding all
union demands.
Two pickets were arrested for dis
orderly conduct when Jake Wolner
business agent of A. F. of L. local
1902, Brooklyn, put scabs to vt,k I'M
der police protection at a shop on
strike. Police arrested the picketS
when they were pointed out by Jake
All painters are urged to attend the
trial of the pickets at the Coney
Island Court, Wednesday, October IL
at 9Th st. and Surf Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
Cleveland Wor kers
to Honor Murdered
Negro LeaderSOct.6
Israel Amter to Speak
at Memorial

CLEVELAND, o., Oct. Cleveland
workers will commemorate the second
anniversary Of the brutal police muir
der of two Negro workers. John Ray
ford and Ed Jackson, with a militant
demonstration on October 6, for the
demands for which they died: Ade-
quate relief for all workers. No evic-
tions! A home for every worker
Israel Amter, secretary of the IN
employed Councils of the U. S., will
be the main speaker He will discuss
1.-THE Coming Observation-Disclosures
and the N.R.A."
Rayford and Jackson were killed
Oct. 6, 1881, by police bullets while
leading 300 workers in putting back
the furniture of Mr.. and Mrs. Foster
Harp, who had been evicted from
their home in the heart of the Negro
district at 2693 E. 18th Street, by
bailiffs at the order of the municipal
court. Their murder was whitewashed
by the Republican city administration
which instead attempted to Jail the
fatally wounded workers and several
of their comrades.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
Farmers Prepare National Conference to Fight Ruin

leadership to organize and lead them
in fight for their demands.
Sensing of the new militant move
ments among the farmers, Milo Reno,
self nominated leader of the National
Holiday Association, speakers about
"the necessity of extending the MIRA
to agriculture" threatening that if
this is not done, "there is no posi-
bility of postponing longer the strike
scheduled for last spring, which was
delayed only to give the administra-
ton chance to make good its prom
ises."
This rch-betrayer, who last spring
arbitrarily called off the national
farm strike even before it began, on
the basis of Roosevelt's proposed Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act, is now try
Ing to retain his leadership Of the
farmers. He tries to make them be-
lieve that the wage-cutting MIRA
would remedy the farmers situation,
if 1t we're extended to agriculture.
Hasn't the NRA been extended to
agriculture? 1t has. What about the
Milk Codes, which have tremendously
raised the prices for the consumers
and greatly increased the profits of
the milk trusts?
But the program Of Roosevelt is
not directed towards the relief of the
unemployed workers and needy farm
families. His efforts are directed to-
wards destroying food and the other
life necessities, in order that prices
may be raised for the benefit of the
bankers and their agents. The meagre
STE, 900, 900 that Roosevelt now pro-
poses to use to buy farm products for
the distribution for the unemployed,
is like drop in the ocean.
This being the situation Of the
farmers, the Second Farmers Ma
tional Conference. which is to meet
in CHICAGO on November 1913. at the
call Of the Farmers National Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
Organize Against Inflationary Costs of Farm
Necessities, and for Slashing of Monopoly
Wall Street Profits

fabulous profits. Mr.. Peek himself
admits that of Fifteen companies re-
porting the largest corporate profits
in this country in 1882, nine dealt In
food and tobacco. Our biggest to-
bacco companies reported last year a
total net profit of about $l50,O00, 900.
That was almost as great as the en-
tire money they paid to American
farmers for their tobacco CROP"
The result is that the price of
bread, milk, wearing apparel and
other necessities of life has gone
soaring sky high, making life ever
harder for even those workers and
farmers who still have few inflated
dollars. On the other hand, bankers.
and food trust and marketing specu-
lators have made ever greater profits
under the New Deal. For the great
army Of unemployed workers and
penniless farmers, from whom even
meager relief has been cut out, the
New Deal means new starvation"
Southern cotton growers, who few
months ago compelled their share
choppers to pillow under 10,304, 900 acres
Of cotton on the basis Of advice from
Roosevelt's brain Trust" have now
come to Washington, demanding from
Roosevelt new imitation OF the dol
lar.
A great number Of farmers, who
did not participate in the great wave
of struggles of the past ten months,
adopted wait and see" attitude,
giving Roosevelt "a chance" They
now begin to realize, that their last
hopes are gone. They are becoming
militant; they begin to look for new
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06

| mittee Of Action and the affiliated
committees and organizations, is
bound to find even greater response
from the toiling population of the
countryside than did the First Farm
ers Conference a year ago.
This Conference will take up the
question of immediate relief for all
impoverished farmers, the question Of
struggle against new mass evictions,
which will inevitably take place when
the bankers and insurance companies
| with the aid of Roosevelt's Farm
Credit Administration begin new fore
closures. This Conference will also
prepare real militant mass strikes
against starvation prices and will
mobilize farmers in joint struggles
with the workers against the robbery
of food and market spectators and
profiteers.
The Communist Party gives It's
wholehearted support to the Farmers
Second National Conference and will
do everything on its part to make it
a success.
Our Party emphasizes the great
necessity Of all toiling farmers unit
ing their ranks for greater struggle
for immediate relief.
1t is necessary for the toiling farm
ers in their Chicago Conference, to
voice the strongest protest against
the murderous attacks on the farms
and at the same time to lay down
plans for mass defense against these
fascist actions. The Conference must
especially take up the defense of the
Negro sharecroppers in the South and
give every support for their liberation
struggle.
1t is necessary also that the Con-
ference will explain fully how CAPT.
talist officials and fascist elements in
Yakima Valley, Washington, provoked
fight between striking agricultural
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06

themselves and all groups-farnlers-
investors NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., etc., Will
benefit from this kind OF a contrlpu-
tion. Their responsible relation to
the modern state and its great IN
dustrialism is taken for granted.
Miss Perkins is nothing If not re-
snectable. Were she to be accused
of consorting with gangsters ana
racketeers, of aiding and abettlng
union corruption and racketeering as
private individual, doubtless she
would have her attorney file criminal
libel charges against the vicious per-
sons or publications guilty OF sucn
vile ISLANDERS.
But as Secretary of Labor, in her
official address to the A. F. OF L.
Convention, she delivered the follow
ing eulogy of one Edward Francis
McGrady, states witness in New
York courts against striking garment
workers, paymaster of gangsters used
to beat up workers, paymaster ana
procurer of perjury and perJurers
used against workers, alder and abet-
tor of police frame-ups against
striking workers, their organizers and
leaders, accomplice of Grover Whalen,
Matthew Vol and William Green
in splitting the ranks Of workers in
struggle against sweatshop condi-
tions, gangsterism and corruption OF
the lowest kind:
"And In this connection let me say
to you that the Assistant Secretary
Of Labor, Edward F. McGrady, who
is so well and favorably known to
you all, Is doing great service for
the country as General Johnson's
right hand man on labor affairs. He
has been assigned to N. R. A. at Gen.
eraI Johnson's special request by
which the Department of Labor is
honored. 1t is distinction of which
you all feel justly proud, I am sure
Speaking for myself I can assure you
that the Department is fortunate in
having such a capable official as Mr.,
McGrady."
1t is not our fault if the lady chose
to undress before the Fifty-Third
Annual Convention of the A. F.. OF
L. We merely report the facts. She
got big ovation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
Get. Down, or No
Work." Los Angeles
Fire Victims Told
City Park Commission
Hears Story From
Survivors

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5.-Foremen
on Reconstruction Finance work at
Griffith Park, where 60 men are either
dead or missing as a result Of their
being forced late Tuesday afternoon,
to fight fire in a canyon which
quickly developed into a blazing
prison, gave orde-7 to get down
in there and get &c N %lick if you
want any more work"
These and other sensational charges
we're made to the City Park Commits
sion here today which began the
usual official investigation" into the
avoidable tragedy.
One of the survivors of the doomed
forced la'S)r crew, A. G. Green, testi-
fed at the hearing that the men
were pushed into going down into
the Box Canyon" where they were
trapped. Others bitterly accused
straw bosses of ordering them down
the slope.
The Identification of the n
known dead was given up as
hopeless task by Coroner Frank
Nance, who ordered the bodies
cremated.
Immediately after the tragic, cri-
minal fire, Ralph Scott, Los Angeles
fire chief, characterized the burning
to death of the unemployed workers
as involuntary suicide"
Police today announced that Robert
D. Barr, who yesterday was arrested
for suspicion of arson did not cause
the fatal blaze. He did however adj
nit, according to the police, that ht
started a fire in the park later il
the evening. Told by officials to To-
cate fire in the recreational center
and unable to find it, Barr started ;
fire of his own, police say.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06

VI OLilClo d
Two hundred and fifty men
struck at Dawson, New Mexico.
A permit for mass meeting was
denied. Permits to collect relief
and to hold a dance were also
denied.
Novarro, a Mexican leader, Was
arrested and held incommunicado
five days without any charge
placed against him. An effort was
made to get him to go back to
work which he refused. 1t is re-
ported that he was put on bread
and water as punishment.
Three Mexican workers framed
on charges TO assault are denied
jury trials. The international La
Dor Defense is active in defending
all arrested workers and support
ing the fight for the rights of the
striking miners. ~
One worker was dubbed with a
revolver by the Mutual Mine Bros.
boss. He is now out on forty dol
lars bail.
One worker is in bed in serious
condition as result of being at
tackled.
The relief Office is patrolled by
guardsmen in order to intimidate
the strikers. Relief is very low
and is urgently needed. Funds and
relief should be sent to: National
Miners Union, Box 21s, Gallup,
New Mexico.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
NEWS BRIEFS
Blind Beggar Charged With
Cruelty to Dog.

NEW YORK.-Ray Edens, a.
blind beggar who frequents the
theatre districts in New York,
was arranged before MAGISTRATE
Louis Brodsky when brought to
court by summons from the
Association to Prevent Cruelty
to Animals. The Association de-
manded that the dog should have
hospital treatment, and not be
dragged around the Great White
Way by the blind man. We ask,
"What about the blind beggar?"
Edens received a suspended SEN
tence,
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to leave the strike area. When
she refused to leave Chester, the
judge held her for further investiga-
ton without ball.
After three days in Jail and with
numerous threats and intimidation,
including finger printing, the judge
held special session at eleven thirty
last night and released her.
v. NJ Mullin of the International
Labor Defense threatened to start
habeas corpus proceedings if Cooper
was not released.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06

of Harrison will eat and drink and
read what the authorities want them
to.
Marion Laughlin writes that the
workers Of Harrison enjoy the new
Daily Worker immensely, and that
workers near the shops accept our
paper eagerly. 1--WE will continue to
sell and give out Daily Workers and
break through this terror" concludes
the letter of Marion Laughlin, the
Daily Worker agent in Harrison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
Ecuador Volcano Erupts.

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador. = The
San Vincente Volcano suddenly be-
gan erupting boiling hot water af-
ter fifty earth tremors in "a hours
shook the coastal region here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
Man Embezzles $4,000.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-James E.
Gledhill pleaded guilty of embszz-
ling $4,000 from the Railway Ex-
press Agency, Inc, to protect pri-
vate stockholdings. Gledhill was
once civic leader of Pennwynne,
Delaware County, AMI former chief
cashier Of the Railway Express Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
Arrest T'avo Who Spread
"Daily" to Ford Strikers
Attack Instigated by A. F. of L. Official; Spurn
Demand of Judge to Leave Town

CHESTER, Oct official
called police to arrest Graham speaking
Ford workers about the Daily pedgng
strikers.
hearing Monday Cooper
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
TERROR INCREASED, LEADERS
JAILED AS GUARDSMEN RULE
new MEXICO STRIKE AREA
$50 Join Walk Out at Dawson; Denied Permits
for Relief Collections and Meetings;
Strikers in Urgent Need of Aid

5Th National Guard is Ozing and arresn
the strike of miners Those
relief Mexican leader and sub
secretary AIender youth organizer
Walkerneo union president and number
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-06
Comrade MAC HARRIS

touring for the Daily Worker
will be in the following cities
on the dates listed below:
up to October IA: Los Angeles, San
Diego, San Bernandino, Pasa-
dena, Hollywood, Long Beach.
October Is to 10: Oxnard, Ventura,
Santa Barbara.
October 20 TO 81: Monterey, Santa
Cruz, Watsonville, Salinas and
Carmel.