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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
FLORIDA CIGAR
GENERAL STRIKE

TAMPA. Fla, Aug. "a general
strike of the cigar workers of Flor
ida, voted at a large meeting Of
$1,000 cigar workers at Tampa today,
has already begun to spread thru
out the state. Cigar factories Of
Miami, Key West, and Jacksonville
as well as Tampa are to be inclu-
ded in the walkout.
The demands of the cigar workers
include the 1929 wage scale and rec
ignition of the union Of the workers
choice.
The strike is led by the militant
independent union of the cigar in
dustry of Florida.
The strike vote was taken in
the face of extreme terror. An
indication of this terror was given
last week, when police came on
the platform at a mass meeting
of cigar workers in the Labor
Temple at Tampa, surrounded the
committee, and prevented strike
vote at that time by breaking up
the meeting.
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cago with all expenses paid, but the
help of Silver Cafeterias is being ex-
plotted as never before. 1t is BIT
ter irony that free Meal Tickets are
being given away to Silver Custom
ers while the help, waiting on them
is denied any kind of decent food at
all
Silvers Cafeterias are showing up
their meanest side by denying any
kind of decent food fit for sale at
the counter to their help. Only re-
Gently in one of the places worker
was fired for giving a portion Of
good meat to hungry fellow worker.
If any meat Is given to workers in
Silvers Cafeterias 1t is absolutely not
fit for sale any more. Only cheap,
starcky food, such as potatoes, spa
ghetti and the like are given to the
help, and if ever pies or deserts are
allowed them for their lunch they
have so far as rule always been in
the stage of fermentation.
In several cases some workers had
the courage to protest and demand
better food: these were not actually
denied them, but soon after they
found themselves out of their jobs.
If ever one of the more expert
enced help should have the nerve
to ask for raise in wages the man.
agement knows how to get around
this. In such cases the particular
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10

men. The CalifornianS have been
put in positions as foremen, replace
ing the Indiana men who held those
jobs On the first Of July, when the
raises in pay for IS per cent of the
CCC men were to go into effect, there
was considerable grumbing and dis
satisfaction because the Forest
Rangers in charge of the camp gave
all the California men raises and
only three of the 100 Indiana men
had their pay raised The follow
ing week all but "A Of the Indiana
men went on strike, demanding a
fair distribution of the raise. They
stated they would rather return home
before going back to work without
winning their demand At present
only sixty men remain in the camp,
all the rest either have received dis
charges back to Indiana, or have de-
serted the camp.
Almost simultaneously, there was
a movement among the men of Com
pany 536. There the fellows also
struck for the same demand as the
men Of 500. In addition, they struck
for better food and against driving
on the part of the Rangers. some of
whom were speeding up the fellows
working on the mountains.
The first step Of the men of Com
pany 538 to win their demands was
to circulate a petition to Governor
McNutt Of Indiana, containing a
of conditions in California,
and asking that he see that they are
treated better They were getting.
for lunch, while working on the
only two bologna sand
wiches and an orange apiece. One
hundred and ten men of the camp
signed the petition and the letter
was sent to Governor McNutt. The
Company Commander, upon hearing
Of the letter, Immediately took steps
to intimidate the leaders and threat
ened to inprison those. who signed
the petition. AS a result, six men
deserted the camp. Prior to this.
this was an honor company in Cali
fornia, having had no assertions.
On the other hand, the Commander,
seeing he couldn't break the organi-
cation, conceded to the demands for
more and better food and for no
speeding IN by Rangers. The de-
nand for raise for Indiana men
was not granted.
Anyway the men through their or
ganization have overcome their
greatest grievance, that of poor food
while working on the mountain.
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workers is formed already.
The corrupt leaders of the Inter
national, with the aid Of the bosses,
have set up two local unions, making
all kinds Of promises to the workers.
The iron and bronze workers are
not foolish enough to go to this
racket union, where all they will
just have to do isA pay high dues.
The place of every iron and bronze
worker is in the ranks of the newly
formed union controlled by the men,
bers themselves.
The initiation fee into the union
is fifty cents for those who are en-
ployed, and ten cents for unemploy-
ed, and fifty cents a month dues
for those who are working and ten
cents for those who are out of work
Friday, August IL. there will be a
meeting of the Union at Labor
Temple, 243 East oath Street, at 8
pm. Every iron and bronze worker
who is not member as yet is urged
to come and join the Architectural
Ornamental Iron and Bronze Work
ers Union Local So. The address Of
the union is 222 East 3lst Street,
New York City
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RR PROFITS JUMP
$50 PER CENT IN
MAY; WAGES CUT
Roads Increase Profits
By Spreading Work;
More Men to Be Fired

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-The rail-
roads of this country increased their
profits substantially, at the same
time that rail workers wages were
cut, the latest reports of the Inter
state Commerce Commission show.
The ISL Glass I roads showed net
operating income of $40,6 100000 for
May, 1898, compared with 81 ,665, 900
for the same period last year, an in
crease of over $50 per cent.
This enormous increase in profit
took place while the 10 per cent cut
in the wages of the railroad workers
was continued by agreement OF the
Brotherhood Chiefs and the railroad
executives. There has been a slight
increase from the crisis lows in the
number of railroad workers en-
ployed. But this increase has been
at the expense of the individual work.
ers, who have had their weekly wages
reduced still further by the practice
of spreading work"
The Presidents Rail Co-ordinator,
Eastman, has announced that the
Co-ordinator Act does not prevent
men from being fired whenever the
roads see fit to do SO.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
A. F. of L. Iron and Bronze Workers. Leaders
9Scurry Like Rats from One Boss to Another
From an Iron Worker Correspondent

From an Iron Worker Correspondent
BRONX, N. Y.-The A. F. of L.
officialdom of the International As
ISOLATION Of Iron and Bronze work
ers are running like rats from one
boss to another, securing coopera-
ton in breaking the unity of the
iron and bronze workers.
Some iron workers may ask the
question, why did the International
officials become active suddenly?"
They were silent as long as the mem
bers Of the various local unions si-
lently paid their dues and obeyed or
ders. But lately there is great dis
satisfaction with the corrupt lead
ersnip.
Local So, in New York, ousted one
Of its officials, vice-president of
the International. who had misap-
propriated tens of thousands of dol
lars from the Union treasury This
resulted in expellihg the local from
the International.
The expelled local. together with
the Inside Iron Workers, have start
ed an organizational drive. A union
Of inside and outside iron and bronze
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
FierrO Memorial
Monday to Demand
Release of Terzani

NEW YORK-Demand that the
Queens County authorities release
Athos Terzani, young anti-Fascist,
and prosecute instead a member of
the Khaki Shirts of America, whom
they declare was the actual murderer
of Anthony Fierro Bronx student,
will be made by members of the Ter
zani Defense Committee on Monday
night, August ID, at memorial
meeting in honor of Fierro.
The meeting, Of which Carlo TreSca
will be chairman, will be held in
Webster Hall, 119 E. 18th ST., at 8
p. m. 1t is expected that Michael
Fierro, father of the slain boy, will
address the gathering. He has pub
licly repudiated the indictment of
Terzani, who was conrade of his
son, calling it IAN unmistakable
frame-up of an innocent man."
Speakers at the meeting will in
clude Frank Spector of the Tnterna-
tional Labor Defense; Roger Bald
win, American Civil Liberties Union;
Carlo Tresca, Italian Defense Com
mittee; Norman Thomas of the So
cialist Party; Arturo Giovannitti,
italian labor poet; Vanni, 7Iontana,
of La Stampa Liberia, and Le-bert
Mailer of the General Defense Cen
mittee of the I. W. w.
Fierro was mortally wounded on
the evening of July IA, in fight
which broke up a meeting of the
Khaki Shirts in Columbus Hail. As
toria. L. I. The fight was prec;pi-
tated when a spectator who had in
terrupted speaker was ordered out
of the hall by Smith, head Of the
Khaki Shirts, fascist organization
In the midst of the fracas shot
was fired, and young Fierro, with
whom Smith was graphing, slumped
down dying with a bullet in his back.
Terzani fastened out of the hall and
returned with several policemen. He
pointed out one of the Khaki Shirts
as the killer, and showed the police
where the mTder-gun, 25-caliber
automatic pistol, had been hidden
under piano. But the police framed
Terzani.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
(By a Food Worker Correspondent

by a Food Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK CITY. = Since Au-
gust the Blue Eagle is displayed in
all the Silver Cafeterias, but the
help is still laboring long hours for
the old pay. The management is
sued statement that the code would
go into effect on Thursday. Instead
of offering a raise in wages, mini
mum of $40 is to be established.
Part time workers are supposed to
receive a 80 cents minimum wage
per hour according to the Recovery
Act. In some of the stores they have
previously been working days a
week, 6 hours a day for SIS week.
Now they will be working 3 hours a
day at their MIRA rate of 30 cents,
and will be making $3.50. Thus the
boss gets around raising wages and
will not put on new help, so that
actually no new jobs are being
created.
What the Recovery Act means to
Silvers can be shown in some cases,
where the management sneered at
the employees for their hopes Of
more pay and shorter hours.
Recently a big publicity stunt at
the expense of the workers was put
over at the Silver Cafeterias.
Chances we're being offered to the
customers for free trips to the Cen
tury Of Progress Exposition in Chi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
3 BANKS CLOSED
AS TROOPS GUARD
KAN. TREASURY
$658,000 Bonds Held
By State Banks
Are Forged

TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. 9.-Governor
Alfred Landon ordered the State
Militia to take over the office Of
State Treasurer T. B. Boyd as the
result of the discovery of $658,000 in
forged bonds.
Governor Landon revealed that
eight issues of Kansas municipal
bonds totaling 1929 900, purchased by
the State School Fund and held in
the State Treasury vaults, had been
forged in duplicate, making $658,000
in spurious bonds.
One set of counterfeit bonds,
the governor said, was in the State
TreaSurer's office as security for
State funds on deposit in three
state banks. The three state
banks, whose deposits were Sc
cured by the forged bonds, were
Immediately ordered closed by the
State Bank Commissioner, "for ex-
animation and for protection of the
depositors."
Ronald Finney, bond broker and
son Of w. w. Finney, Emporia banker,
after being charged with
offering $4,000 in forged bonds to
the National Bank in Topeka. He
was released on $25 900 bond.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10

Industrial Union were heard before
the injunction was served. The only
ones that conferred with the judge
were Mr.. Morris, president of the
bosses association, and Mr.. Gordon,
organizer of the A. F. of L. Interna-
tional Pocketbook Union.
Socialist Party Sheet in Plot
Not only did the A. F. of L. Of
ficialS conspire to get this injunc-
ton against the strikers, but the
Jewish Daily Forward also entered
the plot with an article the day be-
fore stating that "the strike is led
by the Communist Party" and that
the workers should accept the lead
ership of the strikebreaking A. F. Of
L. officials coming from New York
at the request Of the manufacturers
and John Fitzpatrick.
Following the line laid down by
the Jewish Daily Forward and the A.
FL officials, the injunction names
as defendants not only the Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union
and the Trade Union Unity League,
but also the Communist Party Of
Chicago" and the "Red International
Communist Party of the World" Ar
thur McKenna, secretary of the Am
erican Civil Liberties Union, is also
named as defendant.
Argument on the injunction writ
comes up tomorrow. But the work
ers have already carried the battle
against this boss-A. F. of L. injunc-
ton to the street, where they de-
family organized mass picketing and
kept on even though a score of work
ers have been arrested.
Yesterday. two weeks after the
strike began, the bosses advertised
for scabs inexperienced help"
However, they discovered that such
help, and the help of gangsters, could
not run the machines, and the shops
are practically dead.
A 4O-hour week, equal division of
work during the slack season, re-
cognition of the shop committee and
no hiring or firing without the con-
sent of the shop committee, are
among the strike demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
Spread BathrObe
Workers Strike

NEW YORK.-More bathrobe shops
were added yesterday to those al
ready out on strike, thus increasing
the number of strikers to 1900.
The Amalgamated, on the one
hand, and the International on the
other, are trying their utmost to in
terfere with the strike and are urging
the cutters to remain at work ard
scab on the rest of the workers.
At the meeting held in Irving
Plaza Tuesday, where report was
given about the last conference with
the contractors association, the &C
ton of the Conference Committee
was approved and full authority was
given them to reopen negotiations
for settlement of the strike, but not
on the bosses terms.
At the last conferences, the bosses
were willing to grant the 40-hour
week, 10 per cent increase for week
workers and Is per cent for piece
workers and a $12 minimum for
those who now receive Sc, ST. So and
SO, while the union demanded 30
per cent flat increase, in addition to
the earnings of the week and piece
workers prior to the strike and SIS
minimum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
BY SASHA SMALL

NEW YORK. = go forth with a
smile on your faces, go forth with
the right spirit and try to give a
helping hand to those you meet along
the way" said Mrs. Walter Nelson
Sedgwick, president of the City Ho-
tel run by the Women's Federation
of Clubs, to group of $50 lone
homeless unemployed women, who
came there from the Municipal Lodg-
ing House, Salvation Army shelters,
park benches and rooming houses,
where they owe more than three
weeks rent. 81 have your interest
at heart" she said to them, giving
them swell lesson in this art of
smiling.
They came as a result of leaflets
issued at the various places where
they stay by Provisional Commit
tee Of Homeless Women calling them
to meet at this City Federation Ho-
TEL 443 West 22nd Street. After
keeping them waiting from II o'clock
when the meeting was called until
ten minutes to twelve Mrs. Sedgwick
asked them to be flair, frank and
honest in their statements and not
complaining or finding fault. These
are trying days and we must make
the best~of them"
Well, they didn't complain or find
fault. They simply stood in their
places in this beautiful cool room
soothingly shaded by green Grapes
and hushed by soft carpets surround
ed by doors on each of which is
metal plate announcing the fact that
Mrs. Sedgwick is the president and
spoke up.
"I only want a place to sleep so
that I know every night where I'm
going. I want home and not just
a place to go and find out where
the next place for me to sleep is go
ing to be. I want Q clean bed and
freedom to look for work and enough
food to keep me strong enough to
go looking for that work"
"Ive been out of work for three
years." a woman of 60 announced
I'm sick. I'm down to 95 pounds
and as soon as they look at me that's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
|. L. ID. To Force Jail
Officials To Permit
Relief for Prisoners

NEW YORK.-Action will be taken
by the International Labor Defense
to force authorities at Bellefonte
Prison, Pennsylvania, to permit class
war prisoners to receive prisoners
relief from the I. l.. D., it was an
nounced today.
Three money orders addressed to
Anthony Crillo, Michael Michalen
and Michael Pehulic, were returned
last week from the penitentiary. All
three are serving long sentences as a
result of their activities in the 1921
miners strike.
Up to August, 1882, the prisoners
received their prisoners relief, then
the warden, ]. w. Claudy, began to
refuse them.
1--WE reserve the right to decide as
to who money orders will be received
FROM" he wrote to the I. L. D.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
Johnson Shakes His
Finger at Stores That
Persist in Cutting Pay

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. o.
The movement among stores to cut
the wages Of workers, through the
stagger system and lengthening the
lunch and rest periods without pay,
has become SO videsp-< d in oil rarts
of the country that General john
son was forced to come out with a
statement today that the Blue Eagle
insignia "must be withdrawn" from
stores that carried out such prac-
tees.
Johnson admitted stores were using
the N. R. A. Blue Eagle excuse to fire
employees and cut their wages. How
ever, while johnson says the Blue
Eagle must be withdrawn from these
stores, he mentions no concrete pro-
posals as to who is TO do the with
drawing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
lid WORKERS ARE
WARNED'TO STAY
OUT OF THE SOUTH

NEW YORK. - Threats of lynch
ing for International Labor Defense
organizers, lawyers, and representa-
tives who interfere with the South
ern ruling class program of lynching,
and try to save framed Negroes from
lynch trials, are contained in both
signed and unsigned letters sent to
the national Office of the organiza-
ton here following the attempted
lynching Of three LID. lawyers in
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
One letter, bearing the purported
signatures of % citizens of Mitchem
Seat" at Coffeyville, Ala, says:
1--WE the undersigned citizens of
Mitchem Seat will hereby give you
low browed negro loving skunks a
warning to keep out of our southern
negro affairs.
eve believe our next attempt
won't be a So-called close CALI you
will not get to tell of your expert
ences. Now in case you degraded
skalawags don't believe this we will
gladly prove same.
"Be sure and let us know when
you all want to make a visit down
here and we will have grand re-
ception awaiting you"
A copy of this letter has been sent
to Governor B. M. Miller of Ala
bama, with letter announcing that
the LID. will hold him personally
responsible for the lives and safety
of LID. lawyers and representatives
in Alabama.
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Moore, Mrs. Patterson,
Carter in So. Dakota;
Get Time Over Radio

MINOT, N. D.-Charlie Hill, poor
tenant-farmer, rode horse eighty
miles from his home in Belden, ND.S
to hear Richard B. Moore, member
of the National Committee Of the
international Labor Defense, Mrs.
jamie Patterson, mother of Haywood
Patterson, and Lester Carter, speak
here.
The meeting, attended by fifty
workers was the first ever held un-
der LID. auspices in this little farm
ing town. About half the workers
and farmers present joined the IL.
d. when they heard Of the work 1t
is doing in the Scottsboro, Mooney,
Tallapoosa, and other cases.
Three hundred attended the Moore,
Patterson Carter meeting in Aber-
deem, South Dakota About the same
number attended the meeting in
Grand Forks, N. D., but MANY more
heard the speakers over radio broad
cast which was obtained here three
times in two days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
DRESSES FROM SACK
COSTING Sc. APIECE
DELIGHT COTTON MEN

ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 9.-Fash-
ions in women's wear that did not
come from Paris were displayed
here recently-and made great
hit.
Before a cotton conference OF
rich Georgia farmers meeting in
the Wesley Memorial Church, rs
models paraded up and down,
wearing dresses made from sugar
bags, chicken feed sacks, cotton
sheeting and guano sacks.
Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of
Agriculture, was unable to restrain
his enthusiasm when he learned the
dresses had cost only three cents
apiece.
A young woman named Miss
Paulk won honorable mention.
She wore a sport suit made of fer
tilizer sacks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
Protest Warrant
for Vet SIugged
ON Anti War Day
Hockstra, Injured by
Washington Guard,
Held for assault"

NEW YORK.-The Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League protested the
warrant issued for william Huckstra
on a charge of assault. Hockstra was
slugged by a guard, Edward Beaver,
at Arlington Celetery, Washington,
when he was handing out anti-war
leaflets on August l and now lies
near death in Gallinger Hospital in
that city.
Investigation of the police station
blotter showed that the assistant SUI
perintendent Of Arlington Cemetery,
first intended to swear out a war
rant for the arrest of Beaver, the
guard who beat Hcckstra, but that
when he found out that Hockstra was
dangerously injured he decided to
ask for Hockstra's arrest instead, in
order to cover up the criminal assault
Of his subordinate.
The national headquarters of the
W.E.SL. sent a vigorous protest over
this frame-up to the district attorney
Of Washington, D. c. The letter
reads in part:
"We demand the immediate with
drawal of the warrant against Hook
stra, and adequate treatment of him,
until he RECEIVERS from his injuries.
We hold the District of Columbia
authorities responsible for his free
dom and well-being. We further de-
mand that the guard, Edward Beaver
be fully held to account for his brutal
smuggling of William Hockstra. We
also hold Beavers direct superior
equally responsible"
The letter is signed by H. Hickerson
for the National Executive Commit
tee. .....
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-10
BY PAsCUAL

NEW YORK.-F'ree' clinic patients
have increased terrifically since Feb
ruary Of this year. Thousands of
white collar workers who never saw
the inside Of clinic are now crowd
ing them. Together with this con-
dition has come drop of so per
cent in the Doctors income.
These facts were revealed at a
symposium held Thursday at the
Hotel McAlpin by the League for
Unity in the Medical Profession.
According to DR.. Sloan, head clini-
clan of the Post Graduate Hospital,
there has been an increase in clinic
patients of A per cent since Febru-
airy. The private clinic has been
forced out, because the rich philan-
thropists have stopped contributing.
D.. Weinstein, speaking for the
League, pointed out that 'even in
the supposedly good times, between
1923, three-quarters of the people
in the United States never earned
the necessary minimum for a COM
Portable living" What is happening
to doctors in this depression, he con-
tinued, is that their practice is be-
ing smashed, and they are taking
to suicide.
Grace Allen, Medical Consultant of
the Home Relief Bureau, frail and
delicate, listed the simply wonderful
things being done by the Bureaus.
But" she said, I'VE can't give
enough medical care and relief be-
cause Of the constant increase of ap-
plicants." Doctors are supposed to
get 50 visit to Home Relief Bu-
reau cases. 1--WE never just send a
DOCTOR" she added quickly, I'VE first
make inquiries" In other words,
they wrap the sick worker around