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The daily worker., 1933-08-11
Strikebreaker and
Clubber, Whaler and
WoIl Are NRA Heads

NEW YORK.-Appointed by for
mer police commissioner Whalen,
Mathew Vol, ce-president of the
A. F. of L., will head the strikebreak-
ing arbitration board in New York
City, it was announced today.
VOL, one of the most vicious enc
mics of labor associated with lead
ing scab bosses in the National Civic
Federation, has long strikebreak-
ing record. He is an avowed enemy
Of the Soviet Union and friend of
the Czarist Whiteguards.
The combination of Whalen, club
Der Of the unemployed, and strike
breaker Mathew Woll as arbitrator, >
is proof that the NRA in New York
will be used to smash strikes for
higher wages and improved condi-
tiOnS.
Woll will have on his arbitration
board, 27 presidents of local A. F, of
L. unions.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11


New York with anti-fascist workers,
spending much of his time at the
Italian Workers Center in the Bronx,
he began to learn, he began to feel
that his position, the result of auto
matte drilling in the Italian Fascist
schools, was wrong.
On May l, he joined the huge
united front parade, marching with
the Italian group. And here he be-
gan to feel the tremendous enthu-
siasm of the workers struggling
against fascism. He came home in
the greatest excitement his family
had ever seen in him. For the first
time he had marched through the
streets, taking part in an action, with
thousands upon thousands ef work
ers, and it made things much more
clear to him than ever before.
1t was after that, that he wrote his
Greed"
The Greed" is a fumbling, cropping
document, in which this student
sought to clarity his mind. One
thought ran clearly through it. He
must fight on the side of the work
ers, against fascism.
A Great Change
"a great change has come over me, -
he wrote, "a change which a few
months ago would have been un-
thinkable Nevertheless, am con-
yinced it has occurred. How differ
ent am, how changed I am! 80.
Revealed Cropping
1t was in this confused document
that the student Fierro revealed his
cropping toward a complete acceptance
of the working class position, against
fascism, exploitation, and oppression.
This is the man of whose murder
Art Smith, according to the reporter
for the Philadelphia Enquirer, boast
ed.
And Michele Fierro, father of An
thony. in an appeal to all workers,
has demanded that they defend Athos
Terzani, his sons friend, from frame
up for the murder committed by the
Khaki Shirt fascist gangsters.
The defense of Terzani is being
conducted by the united front Ter
zani Defense Committee, in which
the International Labor Defense. the
Italian Defense Committee, the Cen
eral Defense Committee of the IWW
the American Civil Liberties Union
are participating.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
STRIKERS TO ATTEND TUUC PICNIC

NEW YORK-Striking workers of
all trades, furriers, metal, shoe, fur
niture, plumbers, doll workers, ETC.,
will gather at the Trade Union IN
ity picnic at Pleasant Bay Park thie
Sunday.
The picnic will be used to strength
en- the ranks and solidarity Of the
strikers.
Stachel, Hathaway and Hymar
will speak on the meaning Of Roo
sevelt's strike-breaking decree. Sta
chel, who has just returned from
the strike swept mine fields, will
of developments there
The Century Of Progress of the
World Fair will be one of the out
standing features. A sport tonrna-
ment, in which the youth sections
of the various uniens and the Labor
Sports Union will participate, will be
held. The John Reed Club will sup
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
ORGANIZATIONS
SLOW ARRANGING
ELECTION WORK
Preparations for Dime
Week; Open Air
Meets Lag

NEW YORK.-Although 1000 let
ters have been sent to mass organ
izations asking them to take an ac-
tive part in the campaign TO collect
10000 dimes to aid the work of the
Communist Election Campaign, re-
sponse has been tardy. Only a few
organizations have arranged to do
their share in this work.
None Of the branches of the In
ternational Workers Order have
arranged to distribute collection
boxes or hold open-air meetings for
this work. Workers clubs and other
organizations also Jagged in this
work.
The Election Committee emphasizes
that these boxes must be on the
streets, circulating among workers
and not collecting dust in the office
Of the committee.
Red Rally Picnic
Organizations are also asked to be-
gin the sale of tickets for the Red
Rally Picnic to be held Aug. 27 at
Pleasant Bay Park. Special rates
are available to organizations for
these tickets available at the office
Of the committee, 799 Broadway,
Room 526.
All mass organizations should also
arrange for special unofficial dele
gates to attend the picnic to take
part in an open forum on the Elec-
ton Campaign work.
Election Pamphlets
The committee will publish special
pamphlets and leaflets on campaign
issues during the campaign. Topics
for these pamphlets as SO far an
nounced include: housing, graft. the
fusion ticket, teachers, public utili-
ties, transportation and the Scent
fare
The Boro conferences will be held
Sept. 9 instead of the date previously
announced. All Party sections are
requested to mobilize the trade
unions, unemployed councils, block
committees, mass organizations and
workers clubs to elect delegates tc
these conferences, to nominate can
III OOIO tlSCGlOIlS.
These nominations must be in the
office of the Election Committee be-
fore Aug. % at the latest. They will
be ratified at the city-wide confer
ence scheduled for a week or ter
days later
Tasks of Organizations
The immediate task of all organ
izationS who support the Commu-
mist candidates is to see to it that
the collection bcxes are distributed
throughout the boros.. as there arc
only 10 days left before the start
of the Dime Collection Week; to
secure tickets for the picnic; and
to arrange outdoor meetings to
mass support fer the candidates
and to collect dimes for the support
of the work.
All Party language newspapers ar,
urged to reprint material on the
campaign published by the Daily" il
addition to material sent directly By
the Communist Election Campaign
Committee.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
MARCH AGAINST
NRA WAGE SLASH

NEWPORT, R. 7, Aug. io.-Another
group of workers in the Navy Yards
have discovered that the NRA codes
are device for cutting wages. This
time it is the 1000 civilian workers
of the Naval Torpedo Station at New
port who paraded through the streets
yesterday protesting against the ap-
plication of the code to their yard.
The application of the codes will
result in a 16 per cent cut in wages,
on top of the recent is per cent cut
ordered by Roosevelt as an economy"
measure. The code will bring their
wages down to SO a week.
Strikes and protest meetings
against the codes have already oc-
CURED at several shipyards and Navy
Yards, notably the Bethlehem Ship
buildings yards, the New York Ship
building, and the Sun Shipbuilding
Yards at New Jersey. The Newport
protest is the fourth of such meetings
in the last week.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
Stage and Screen
John barrymore In "ReunioR
In Vienna"

The Jefferson Theatre, beginning
Saturday, will present John Barry
more and Diana Wynyard in Re
union In Vienna" based on the The
atre Guild play, and "The Silk Ex-
press" with Neil Hamilton and
Sheila Terry. The screen program,
beginning on Wednesday, will include
Robert Montgomery and Sally Eilers
in MADE On Broadway" and THE
Sphinx" with Lionell Atwill in the
leading role.
Pilgrimage" with Henrietta Cros-
man in the principal role, is the
screen feature at Radio City Music
Hall this week The stage show in
cludes "Blue Prelude" modern bal
let, based on the musical number
of that name, by Joseph Bishop;
Feline" Roxyette number; "Melo-
dies of Yesterday" with Viola Philo,
soprano; Jan Peerce, tenor, and the
choral ensemble.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
Hnrbi to Conduct At STADIUM,
.Sunday

Jose 1turbi, noted Spanish pianist,
will make his American debut as con-
ductor at the Stadium ON Sunday
night. Iturbi will direct the Phil
harmonic-Sylnphony Orchestra In
Wagner's "Tannhauser" Overture, and
the Prelude from "Lohengrin" Bee
thoyen's Third "Eroica" Symphony
and will play the Concerto in G Minor
of Beethoven
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
NOT TO DISCUSS
,JOBLESS RELIEF
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)

special suffering of the Negroes In
Harlem and other segregated dis
tricts in which Negroes are hemmed
in and compelled to live in jim Grow
residential districts where they are
charged fifty per cent higher rent
and showed that they are diScri-
minated against in the matter Of
the payment Of relief.
The city fails to set aside special
items in the budget for war veter-
ans relief. 1t sends the veterans to
the Home Relief Bureaus and de-
prives them as well as other unem-
ployed workers of the relief that is
due them The veterans are sup
porting the unemployed workers de-
mands and the unemployed workers
are supporting the veterans de-
mands.
The Governor coldly listened to the
arguments and then declared that he
was extremely interested and SYM
pathetic with the demands that were
made, that he has in fact done much
himself for the unemployed. He got
twenty million dollars for the un-
employed himself. He said he be-
lieves that the funds already paid
out have gone long way towards
relieving the emergency, and that
now he has made possible the ap-
preparation of sixty million dollars
more if only the people will vote for
the bond issue.
However" said the Governor, "the
things that you are proposing bring
up some extremely controversial
questions. AS Governor I should
not and cannot propose or hope for
those matters to be considered at the
special session of the Legislature.
The matters are of too controversial
a nature. If your proposals had
merit ] nevertheless would not pre-
sent them to the Legislature. l will
not discuss whether there is merit
in your proposals or not. The sixty
million dollar bond issue will be ad-
eouate when and If it is voted. AS
for the emergency of the present, we
will take care CT it as we are taking
care of it now. hope the city will
be able to raise some money"
The committee then pointed out
to Governor Lehman that he had
not met any of the issues. Carl
Winter said that his claim that the
home owners were helped by his So
called Moratorium Bill was entirely
false; that the bill did not help the
home owners, bus only the bankers
and mortgage holders.
Minor asked the Governor whether
he was ready to visualize the reac-
tion that would take place among
the unemployed workers when the
Governors answer was taken back
to them. Unemployed men already
starving were told yesterday" said
Minor, that relief will be cut IS
per cent. Now when they are told
that the Governor refuses to put the
question before the special session
and that they will have to wait un-
til January for problematic relief the
reaction of the workers will be one
OF rage and determination to COM
pei change of front. They will un-
derstand that the State Government,
like the City Government and the
Federal Government is ready to
starve them to the extent they are
, willing to bear it.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
AGENCY FINED SIS
FORSWINDLING 200
VICTIMS OF Sl,7OO.

NEW YORK, Aug. 10. = After
swindling job hunters out of Still,
Harry Augustern, head of the closed
Longacre Agency was fined $25 in
West Side Court yesterday, while
200 penniless victims screamed
"lynch him."
The $25 fine comes after weeks
Of hearings conducted at the License
Bureau. There it was revealed Au-
gustern broke the law by keeping
two receipt books, sending more than
one man after job, and refusing
to return fees. Workers jammed the
hearings, revealing they gave in
many cases their last savings on the
promise of getting good job. Dep
uty Commissioner Mary Kennedy in
charge of the hearings complimented
the worke \ on the absence of dis
orders. She said, "this court would
be fair and square"
Yesterday the sobbing and enraged
workers weren't so sure about that
Court proceedings were constantly
interrupted with workers jumping
up, shouting "gyp,' "cheat" and
other epithets.
When the crowning insult of the
low fine ended the session, the work
ers rushed down the circular stair
case in pursuit of Augustern. A po-
liceman trying to stop them was
knocked down and stepped upon
while the workers swept by attempt
ing to snatch Augustern out of the
taxi he jumped into. They were
too late; and job shark Augustern
was whisked away to his ritzy West
End apartment house.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
COrsi Resigns Then
Takes His Job Again
With Another Title

NEW YORK, Aug. 1o.-After re-
signing yesterday as immigration
Commissioner, Edward Corsi today
became head of the Department of
Immigration and Naturalization. fol-
lowing merger of the two depart
ments by presidential order and will
remain in charge of Ellis Island.
About 500 employees-most of
them political appointees-techni-
cally lost their jobs when the order
went into effect, but they have been
assured that most of them will be
retained under the new agreement.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11

special Grand Jury in Queens County,
for the murder Of Anthony Fierro
The witnesses before the Grand Jury
were members of Art Smiths Khaki
Shirts-Art Smith and others.-Art
Smith who boasted to Philadelphia
reporter that his gangsters had "mur-
dered Communist" and undoubted-
ly referred to the murder Of Fierro.
Fierro's Evolution
Fierro was an Italian schoolboy.
brought up a Fascist in Mussolini's
school. and only recently convinced
that his place was on the side of the
workers, against Fascism. His poll
tical convictions Were not yet clear,
He only knew that he hated fascism.
This is known not only from state
ments of his friends, it was revealed
in startling manner when, after his
murder, his father found a recent
document, written by Anthony, which
he called My Creed"
Anthony Fierro was born at Bis
caccia, in the province of Avellino,
Italy, on Dec. 25, 1911. His father
was farm lab0rer.
III 1919, Michele Fierro came to
the United States, leaving behind him
his wife and family, as many Italian
immigrants did, until he should have
earned enough money in the United
States to send for them.
Nineteen twenty four was the year
Of the great reaction. when Mus
solini and his black-shirts marched
on Rome, established the fascist die
tatorship, and proceeded to enforce
it with castor oil, bullets, clubs, and
Imprisonment In that year. young
Anthony Fierro entered the Ginnasio
fHigh School, at the nearby town
Of Cerigaola.
A3.ive Anti-Fascist
In America, Michele Fiarro was ac-
tive in anti-fascist activities. He was
put on the blacklist prepared by the
Italian consuls all over the world and
sent to Italy. And persecution of his
family j. Italy began. 1t continued
urtil 1881.
NEussolini's Black Shirts raided the
Fie-1o house in Bisaccia, searched it,
constantly, looking for letters from
America
Anthony was isolated. The only
neHsparers he saw were those of the
Fasc,sts. In 1929. be graduated from
the Ginnasio, and entered the Royal
Lioe9. z college.
Afte- these two years OF college IN
It2-T, his father sent for him and
for his mother to come to America
He learned English very quickly
studying at City College and in a
niqht school,
In the meantime, associating in
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
Facing Eviction and
Loss of Food Check,
Worker Tries Suicide

NEW YORK.-William Deyito. of
2ol3 Bergen ST., milk driver iobless
for a year, was taken to st. Maly's
Hospital yesterday afternoon serious
~ i'll after he tried to commit suicide
because he feared being cut off the
Home Relief Bureau relief list.
The worker, who has q wife and
child of 3, had been extremely worried
and despcndent because of irregular
food checks from the Relief Bureau.
The family was also threatened with
eviction. The Bureau had refused
them a rent check.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
Election Committee
Needs Volunteers

Volunteers are needed by the
Communist Election Campaign
Committee to work every evening
from 5 p. m. until 8 to give out
dime collection boxes and tickets
to representatives who call for
them. IhOse who can give some
time evenings are asked to get in
touch with Carl BrOdsky at the
Office of the Committee at 799
Broadway, Room $50 or rhone
ST 9-5557.
Volunteers are also needed to
give time Saturdays and for few
hours Sunday mornings.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
EXECUTIVEBOARD
OF VOLUNTEERS"
BRINGS Is SUBS

NEW YORK.-New subscriptions
to the Daily Worker continued to
roll in, as. the Daily Worker Volun-
teers got into action.
MAJ Shakian, who was framed up
for his work in the first Bonus
March, and has recently returned
from year in Welfare Island,
bTouEh5 in seven new subs. He is a
member of the executive committee
OF the volunteers.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
TRY STRIKER TODAY

NEW YORK.-Hyman Boris, who
is charged by Louis Scherr, a scab,
to have used threatening and insult
ing behavior with intent to pro-
woke and disrupt the peace" ON All
gust 8 at 85 Fifth Avenue, where a
strike was being conducted, is to be
tried at the 57th Street Magistrates
Court this morning. The Interna-
tional Labor Defense will defend the
case
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
KHAKI SHIRT" CHIEF
BOASTS OF MURDER OF
COMMUNIST, IN SPEECH
Try to Frame Terzani for Staying of Anthony
FerrO at Fascist Meeting

=
9 hospital
meeting receny"frOm account public Smith, the
Philadelphia Inquirer, a.
Who Communist" Smiths gsngster?
Athos anti-fasci indicted
The daily worker., 1933-08-11

ply artists to draw crayon pictures.
Music, dancing, entertainment and
revolutionary songs, will make this
picnic one of the outstanding gath
erings of the season.
Workers and workers. organiza-
tions are urged to come with their
banners.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
$50 Walk Out from
WOOnsCcket Mills

WOONSOCKET, r. l., Aug. 1O.--
Demanding 80 per cent wage in
crease, $50 workers of the Woon-
socket Falls Plush Mills struck to-
day. The walkout tied up two
plants. Altogether about 1850 work
ers are striking in this town.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11

P. Sagile, a painl-
ter by t + a d &,
brought in five
new subs.
OF the members
of the executive
committee, W h o
m e t Wednesday
night. Greenberg
brought in five
subs and two new
Volunteers; Tzuko
brought in five
subs and a Volun-
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
ADVERTISEMENT
"MOIST THROAT"
FOUND SECRET
OF COUGH RELIEF

Your throat and bronchial cubes are
lined With millions OF pores like tiny
bottles continually supplying moisture
to the delicate tissues Nntit goa
:"'catch cold"
Then these ''bottles" get plugged up,
phlegm accumulates, afording danger.
Gus germs a breeding place. Your throat
feels hot and dry. Tickling, irritation
and coughing set in.
Your cough will be cured only when
the flow of the natural fluid is sincreaseds
loosening the phlegm so that it can
be expelled. Many cough remedies
contain numbing drugs which merely
deaden the nerves but don't get at
the root of the trouble.
PERTUSSIN, a scientific remedy'
which doctors have prescribed tor
many years, is the extract OF famous
herb which opens the tiny glands,
stimulates the flow of the throat &
natural moisture and brings quick re.
lief. 1t helps nature heal that
cough from the inside out.
When you feel that warning dryness
take few spoons of PERTUsSIN. It's alb.
solutelysafe. Sold at all drugstores, 6Oe.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
BOILER BURSTS,
FIRES HOUSE

Damage of $1,000 was done by
one fire last night, while in an
other which did small damage,
nine persons, including two small
children, narrowly escaped injury
in an explosion which preceded
the blaze.
For an hour firemen battled a
stubborn blaze in the basement Of
the hardware store of Edward
Cooper, in the 1900 block of Four,
teenth Street Northwest, after two
alarms were turned in.
A house in the 900 block Of
Massachusetts, Avenue Northwest
was shaken last night when a
boiler in a basement exploded.
Hot steam flowed into the first
floor where Frank Pfeiffer, 38, his
wife and their two small children
were sitting.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
OXFORD GROUP
FINDS VARIETY
IN RELIGION

BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N. Y,
Jan. 4 QNS)-The zip of the
modern machine, big game, advice
on the dress design business, in
ternational peace, cure for a vii
famous temper, tolerance Of the
British. >.
These are a few of the mag
nets which drew so men and
women meeting in houseparty
here into the Oxford group led
by DR.. Frank N. D. Buchanan.
Their confessional meetings are
among the most popular of mod
ern religious growths.
A ''New Testament"
Yet that Rehabilitation of the
New Testament" which DR.. Buch.
man claims is, in essence, no new
religion, has brought something
personal to each member.
To Reggie Holme, who was
graduated from. New College, Ok
ford, last June, it brought the
speed of the modern machine in
religion.
To Donald McKaye, who has
spent much time hunting big game
in Africa, the Oxford movement
in religion presents another kind
of game-hunting, although the
game may be only a newspaper
reporter"
Cured His Temper
Carl Vrooman, former Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture under
President Wilson, said of the new
religion:
This religion is victorious
swhere I was defeated. 1 didn't
like to be defeated. 1 had a
villainous temper from child
hood, but now l am rid of it,"
Frau Mona Won Cramon, head
mistress of a girls school in
Silesia, conquered her hatred of
the British through the Oxford
movement.
There are no two men or women
alike at this houseparty. They
read the same books, hear the
same sermons, accept the same
philosophy-and to each it is diff
ferent.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
Negro odd FeLLOWs
Choose Officers

Frank Williams has been
elected worthy chaplain of the
Green Mountain Lodge of Col
ored Odd Fellows of the District
of Columbia.
Other officers elected include
j. S. Payne. treasurer; George
Mitchell, secretary; John M.
Mayes, vice grand; Herbert Jones,
noble grand; S. M. Cassell, noble
father; Nathan Smith, past noble
father; Ulysses Simmonds, past
noble father, and J. w. Twaites,
judge advocate.
officers appointed were DR..
Charles Fisher, physician; j. H.
William, William Slaughter, Ru-
bin Franklin, and Oliver Camp
bell, delegates.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
The Weather

For the District OF Columba-Mostly
cloudy, probably light rain tonight and
tomorrow; warmer, with lowest tenn
perature about so degrees tonight;
gentle to moderate south and south
west, shifting to northwest winds.
For Maryland-Mostly cloudy to-
night and tomorrow, probably light
rain; warmer tonight; colder tomor-
row.
For Virginla-Mostly cloudy tonight
and tomorrow, probably light rain
warmer tonight; colder tomorrow after
noon and night.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Yesterday Today
4 y. m........ So a. m.... 4S
p. m.... 46 a. m........ 80
DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
Accumulated deficiency of tempera-
ture since January /. 1888. 2.
Deficiency of temperature since Jan
Accumulated deficiency of precipita-
tion since January l, 1888, 81.
Deficiency of precipitation since jan
uary !, 1933, 81. q
TIDE TABLES
Today-High tides 2:O7 a. m. and
2:34 p. m; low tides $40 p. M.
Tomorrow-High tides a. m. and
1928 p. M; low tides 9:31 a. m.
and 1914 p. m.
SUN AND MOON
The sun rises today 7:27 a. m. and
sets 4:59 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow 7:27 a. m.
and sets s p. m.
The moon rises today 1859 a. m.
and sets 1885 a. m.
The moon rises tomorrow 1921 p. m.
and sets :jS a. m.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
SECRECY ASKED
IN NAVY LETTER

A secret report in which Capt
Alfred Hart Miles, former com.
mandant at Guantanamo, Cuba,
is allegedly DETAINED, would
destroy the morale of the Navy
if divulged in the $4,000 suit be.
tween Lieut.. Comdr. Leon w. Nc
Grath and Mrs. Miles, it was
asserted by District Attorney
Charles P. Page in a Baltimore
court yesterday.
The report declares Captain
Miles was "in a highly nervous
state and unfit for duty" and
was written byn McGrath, when
he was medical officer in
Guantanamo, at the instigation
of Capt. w. r. Van Auken, Mrs,
Miles charges in her suit.
To keep these papers secret,
Page will learn today if an in
junction will be allowed to pre-
vent Mrs. Miles from presenting
them. In the injunction pro-
ceedings, Page said:
"TheSe would involve the
Navy Department in serious
diplomatic tangIeS and have a
serious effect upon the morale
of the Navy"
He characterized the affair as
q MileS-Van Auken feud,