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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

men in the strike are taken up. I'VE
have to push heavy trucks. We do
the same work as the men and we
get is cents an hour less" the wo-
men report. THE same pay as the
men for the same work-no women
to push trucks" the demand is
formulated.
Many of the strikers have not yet
signed up in any union. Others, con-
fused by the propaganda Of the CAPT.
talist press of Paterson, and the dis
ruptive activity Of Eli Keller and
other United Textile Union organi-
zers, have signed up in the United
Still others are already in the NTWU.
But they are all marching on the
mass picket lines of the NTWU.
The AFL United Textile officials,
supported to the limit by the bosses
papers OF Paterson, take a very re-
gretful attitude at the strike call Of
the NTWU and the response Of the
dyers. The Paterson Call, mill
owners sheet said today, AT present
it appears as If the National Textile
Workers Union the radical left wing
labor group, has taken the most &C.
tive part in the strike leadership
The AFL officials claimed that the
large majority of the dye house strik-
ers are at present answering the call
of the NTWU because they (the A..
F. of Id do not want to work under
a picket line" =.
Today United States Labor Concili-
ator Moffitt came into the situation
to try to help Eli Keller and the other
AFL leaders to break the dye strike
Moffitt is comforting with the United
Textile {dyers local, which has few
members), and with the manufacture
ers. The AFL leaders are trying to
dampen the strike by the negotla-
lions in New York and Washington.
The Associated Silk will use the code
to try to break the strike. The boss
papers are already spreading lies of
violence" about the dyers. The
police cars and motorcycles are run
ming through the streets sounding
their sirens But the strike is spread
ing, and by tomorrow, the entire dye
industry will be closed down by the
mass picketlines of the National Tex
tile Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
JObleSS Insurance
Is Safeguard for
Needs Of Workers

WASHINGTON, Sept 8.-Heading
the speakers list at a conference Of
officials who are in charge Of local
community chests, President Roose-
Velt sounded the note in speech to-
day that relief problems must be
taken care of first by private citizens
and private agencies" and not by the
federal government. The speech OF
Roosevelt as we'll as speeches by other
government officials were made on
the occasion of the 1888 Mobilization
for Human Needs Conference-com-
prising heads of local relief agencies.
While predicting increasing needs
for the unemployed during the winter
months the tone of the speeches were
against the federal government tax
ing a hand in alleviating the suffer-
ing of the 100000 jobless. The
conference proved once more the
bankruptcy Of private relief agencies
who are mainly interested in utilizing
the present situation to fill their
community chests" and brought out
sharply the need Of federal program
in the form Of unemployment insur-
RnCe.
Following the same program as the
Hoover administration, Roosevelt en-
phasized that distribution of relief
must not be coordinated on a ma
tional basis, but broken up into thou
sands Of parts whereby each little
community handles its own problems.
That this leads to utter failure was
seen by the experiences in the past
four years. Various divisions of the
government, such as state, county,
city, etc., shifted responsibility
Harry L. Hopkins who is in charge
of distributing federal relief funds
told the assemblage that "the diff
ficult task of healing the wounds OF
the depression" must be taken care
of by private agencies" Expressing
fears for struggles of the unemployed
the coming winter, Hopkins said, eff
this nation is to withstand the forces
which endanger our community life
then steps must be taken by local
relief agencies to give aid
Mrs. Roosevelt added her advice to
Lllc 1OI bilCOllIl11s NOu1ILlu1l4by NA1Col
drives by urging the delegates to
make people understand why they
must give money" This mainly re-
fers to employed workers who will
be forced to make contributions in
their factories to the community
chests.
The presidents speech makes it
clear that the new deal" has nc
intention to take measures to assure
the necessary unemployed relief fo1
winter. 1t will pursue the same policy
as it has done in strikes where brute
force Is used to defeat the efforts OF
the workers to gain better conditions
But this new attack has already
found a response in movement
which is gaining increasing support
to force the government to adopt I'M
employment insurance. In every city
this movement will undoubtedly re-
ceive increased support now that
Roosevelt has issued his hunger pro-
gram for the coming winter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Relief Packages
Due to Stop Here
on September z

NEW YORK. -The million or more
unemployed Of this city face an al
most rehef-less winter.
This was indicated by two startling
Developments, first, that no more
clothes are being distributed, and
secondly, that beginning Friday,
September %, all relief food packages
at present distributed by the Home
Relief bureaus, social service and
charity organizations, will be stopped.
This was revealed yesterday after
an investigation by the Communist
Election Campaign Committee, 799
Broadway.
Added to this cut in Unemployment
Relief, the heads of 1000 families now
being carried on the payrolls of the
Emergency Work and Relief Bureau
will be fired on September S0th,
$28O,00O set aside to continue the
present work relief payrolls, for
September will be the last money ap-
propriated for the emergency work,
stated Harvey D. Gibson, chairman of
the Emergency Unemployment Relief
Committee.
About 375 Emergency Relief Work
ers assigned to the "B" shift in the
Magistrates Court, were told that
their pay, due yesterday, was mot
| ready" During the month of August
these workers were swindled out of
So of their pay through having their
time split up.
A letter, dated for August %, 1888,
by W. H. Matthews, Director of the
Emergency Work Bureau sent to all
organizations informing Of the relief
cut and who are now giving out the
food units reads:
'Tt is with regret that we notify
you that the food units that you
have been receiving during the past
winter from the Red Gross will
come to an end on Friday, Septem-
Der 22nd. The reason for this is
that the flour contributed by the
Federal Government to the Red
Cross and which was exchanged by
the Red Cross for these food units
has all been used.
You will be interested to know
that this total distribution of food
units by the Red Cross has amount
ed in the year to approximately
1,500, 900 packages of food.
1--WE would have this letter bring
to you our thanks for the help
your agency has been in this food
distribution program. Without the
cooperation of the family welfare
and other organizations. that have
been our agents of distribution 1t
would, of course, have been quite
impossible to carry through this
project"
THE flour contributed by the Fed
eral government to the Red Cross has
all been used" an excuse offered the
starving workers, when farmers are
instructed to pillow under not only
wheat but cotton, also. Rather than
let the Golfers of the city govern
nent, and the pockets of the grafters
go empty, the city will fire 1000 men,
and cut off their only source of SUBJ
sistence, the relief baskets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Artificial Flower
StrikersRejectNRA
Settlement Plan
Decide to Con tin ne
Strike to Win Demands

NEW YORK.-The TOO artificial
flower workers of Kaplan Brothers
who walked out on strike this week
against sweatShop conditions and the
exploitation of children and women
in homes, registered complaint with
the MIRA. and were in session with
the officials of the Complaint Bu-
reau on Thursday.
1t was agreed that at the second
session on Thursday the bosses would
be called in to hear the complaints
of the workers. Instead of sticking to
his agreement, Wolf, the deputy of
the Complaint Bureau, conferred
with the bosses alone and refused
to permit the workers to be present
when the issues of the strike were
being discussed. The workers were
finally admitted just as the owners
were leaving, but only after they had
lodged a vigorous protest.
The bosses launched slanderous
attack against the T.U.U.L., claim
ing intimidation of the workers. The
strikers denied every charge, declar-
ing that they had willingly sought the
guidance Of the T.U.UL. Later the
boss was compelled to take back his
charges.
Wolf finally proposed a 10 per cent
increase in wages and advised the
workers to go back to work to wait
for their code to go into effect. The
workers rejected this proposal declar-
ing that they want to be protected
against discrimination and we're no
longer willing to be patient. They
have decided to continue the strike to
win their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Deportation Drive?
Mrs. Perkins Aides
mot Aware of It"
Labor Sec'y Absent
AS Mrs. Borich Calls
to Make Protest

WASHINGTON, DC, Sept. g.
Complete ignorance of everything
that is done in their departments,
including the persecution by the De-
partment of Labor in its deportation
drives, was feigned by two assistants
to Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins when a delegation Of foreign
born workers, organized by the Ma
tional Committee for the Protection
of Foreign Born, called at her office
here Thursday.
Miss Perkins herself, who was no.
titled weeks in advance that the dele
cation would arrive, was reported by
her assistants as ID At her summer
home, and ca visiting factories to
survey results where codes have been
applied"
The delegation, headed by D. G.
Morgan, Of the New York Foreign
Born Committee, included Mary Boz
rich, wife of Frank Borich, secretary
of the National Miners Union, who
brought her year-old twin girl ba-
bies; Anna zazuliak, Sister-in-law of
William Zazuliak, secretary Of the
Auto Workers Industrial Union; Tom
Antonoff, Detroit automobile work.
er; Mike Zackler of Detroit, born In
Chicago, but held "for deportation
for 10 months; and Mrs. Agnes Ka-
menovitch, wife Of Vincent Kemeno-
witch, organizer for the N.M.U.
All the delegates were either mill
tant workers prosecuted and held for
deportation for worKing-class activi-
ties, or members of families which
Perkins has threatened to break up
by deporting their heads.
AS the Department of Labor off,
Gals blandly denied knowledge" OF
the main activities of their subordi-
mates, the delegates told story after
story of terror and brutality, by de-
portation agents, theil activities in
smashing strikes, breaking homes.
and conducting wholesale, illegal
raids, against the foreign-born.
The delegates presented a series Of
demands. These included cancellation
of all pending actions and of all de-
portation warrants; immediate re-
lease of all militant workers held in
the deportation hells; return to the
PthiSiPAC Va U1lC 1lbltt VI PJlAIlCdA
asylum" to which the American gov
eminent for years pretended to sub
scribe, and an automatic right to citi-
zenship to follow five years of resi-
dence in the United States.
The officials tried to squirm out of
it with long winded discussion OF le-
gal technicalitles.
Mary Borich, who had brought her
children with her, said: II do not
speak merely for myself and my
twins. am speaking for the right of
the miners to organize and strike.
About is months ago Philip de
Giambatista, miner, was deported
His wife and three American born
children are still here, somewhere In
New York, starving I am an Ameri-
can-born woman. 1 have American
born children. BY deporting my hus-
band aren't you breaking my home
and taking the fathe OF my children
away from thems
GAS an AInelicsn-born woman
mother of American children, and g
representative of the miners wives,
insist that these deportation proceed
ings be stopped, that workers homes
shall not be broken on account Of
their activity in the labor move
ment, and that they shall have the
right to belong to any organization
they see fit."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Labor Sports News

The Kay Tee Athletic Club is ar
ranging track and field meet at
College Point. Sept. 10. The feature
for men will be pentathlon for
club competition for q trophy. The
five events will be 100 meter dash,
high jump, javelin and discus throw
and 400 meter run. Other special
events will be 800 and 5000 meter
runs and six-rnen relay Of 1900
meters.
For boys: 6o-meter dash, high
jump 8 ID. shotput. 4xl0o relay.
For girls: 60-neter dash; broad
jump. basketball throw, 4xeo relay
For women: go meter dash, 8-lb.
shotput, high Jump, 4x100 relay.
The meet will start promptly at
10 A. M. Entries and information
can be received from Kay Tee A. c..
764 4oth Street. Entry fee Is 10
cents for Seniors and FIVE cents for
juniors. Prizes will be awarded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Huge Shoe Rally
Pie dges Figh t
Against Injunctions
Big Ovation for tn e
|. Miller Strikers

NEW YORK.-In one Of the most
militant strike rallies ever held by the
Shoe and Leather workers Union, T.
900 strikers meeting at Arcadia Hall,
Halsey St., Brooklyn, enthusiastically
pledged their support and loyalty to
the union and to the struggle for bet
ter conditions for which the general
strike was called.
The hall packed to the doors, rang
with cheers and applause as speaker
after speaker rose to condemn the
strikebreaking attacks of Whalen, the
injunction at the Elco shop and the
drive Of the shoe bosses aided by the
government to break the strike.
Frank Costello, shop chairman of
the La Presti shop and chairman of
the general strike committee during
the 1929 strike and veteran fighter for
the shoe workers opened the meeting
declaring that it was "the biggest I
have ever seen since am in the
trade"
Fred Biedenkapp, general secretary
Of the Union received a prolonged
ovation. He delivered a stirring speech
declaring that injunctions will not
stop the forward march of the strike
and the union to victory. I. Rosenberg,
organizer of the slipper strikers
pointed to the I. Miller strike as an
example of the vitality of the union
He said that at the last fight when
the I. Miller workers were forced to
retreat, they said they would come out
again and this prediction is now true.
Tremendous applause shook the hall
when the I. Miller strikers marched
into the hall.
Other speakers were Maglicano,
Italian organizer; j. Buitenkant, at
torney, who urged the strikers to de-
feat the injunction by continuing
on the picket line, and many shop
chairmen. The meeting closed with
an enthusiastic and determined note
to completely organize all sections of
the trade to defeat the betraying Boot
and Shoe Union, Whalen and the
bosses by fighting "till the last drop
Of blood"
Today the workers Of Andrew Geller
shop came out and joined the shoe
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
A..
Leo Litvin.

Comrade Leo Litvin is requested to
report Immediately to the union head
quarters Of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Forced Arbitration
Under Miners Code
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

by the code to strangle all strikes.
At the same time, the tremendous
mass pressure exerted by the big
strike, and the whole series of small
er strikes which continued after the
main battle line had been broken by
the treachery of the UMWA officials,
and the direct Intervention of the
Roosevelt administration; the effect
Of the work of the National Miners
Union, the militant opposition within
the UMWA local unions, and the
activity of the Communist Party
among the miners has forced into the
code more far-reaching and favor
able provisions for the workers than
appear in any other code. Roosevelt
is said to have told the operators
that their hardboiled attitude was
spreading Communism"
Many of the provisions are in
conformity with demands made in
the code amendments submitted by
the NMU delegation to the coal
hearings but which were never even
mentioned publicly by the UMWA
officials. They include:
1. A ban on the payment of wages
in company scrip by provision for
the payment of wages at least twice
per month in cash or par check.
2. Prohibition of arbitrary deduc-
lions from wages by providing that
all deductions must be by agreement
with the representatives of the
miners.
3. No mine worker is required to
trade at a company store as a condi-
ton of employment.
4. No mine worker is required to
live in company house as condi-
ton of employment.
5. It is provided that all coal mined
on tonnage basis shall be paid for
on the basis of 1000 pound ton.
6. Miners are given the right to
elect their own acknowledgment.
These are real gains-but mine
workers can establish them securely
only by organization and strike
struggle.
The eight-hour day is establish I'd
as the basis with thirty-six hours rs
the maximum to be worked in any
one week.
The wage scale of the code, how
ever, is another tremendous conces
sion to the operators. For the three
main coal fields, Pennsylvania aad
Ohio, Northern West Virginia, South
ern West Virginia, Northern Ten
nessee and Eastern Kentucky, the
wage scale is respectively $3.50, $436
and $40. This means that at the
highest rate, miners, engaged in the
most hazardous work in any industry
on the basis of a 36-hour week, vii.
be able to get maximum of $20.7(
per week. The average weekly wage
under the code, because of the pre-.
ponderance of part time work, vii
be far below this. The code, there
fore, legalizes the present starvation
income of coal miners.
Because of this, and because o!
the compulsory arbitration provision
WHICH the whole history of coal min,
struggles shows the miners will no
accept, no matter what union Off
Gals agree to, the, organization of thu
soft coal industry which is being car.
ried on by the miners themselves
will most certainly result in struggles
involving far greater masses of minS
workers than the recent Pennsyl.
vania strike.
The intention of the coal code 1.
to stop these struggles. It will MOI
succeed.
In the coal code the Roosevelt adj.
ministration has best exposed its
anti-strike policy. 1t has also ex-
posed its chief labor agents-Lewis
and Green.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

house. Everybody inside the mill"
the cry goes up. The line marches
into the inner courtyard of the mill.
A large picket gate padlocked, topped
by barbed wire bars the way Hun
dreds of workers stream in pressing
against the gate. The gate goes down
like straw and the strikers are face
to face with the dyers of the Com
mercial Join the strike" is the
call Today the Commercial plant
is closed down with every dye worker
on strike. This scene is duplicated
in dozen dye houses this morning
throughout the city AS the picket
lines march through the streets men
and women workers call out sympa-
thetically along the way, Get every
worker on strike" Among the new
shops out today are the GATH shop,
the Commercial, the Rayon Co., Vic
tory and others.
The Riverside strike hall of the
NTWU at 612 River Street teens with
activity. A shop meeting of the Gatti
strikers is being held, the workers
having just walked out. Many ques-
lions are asked "They say you fell
lows are bunch of Bolsheviks' one
striker asks. They say you are
forcing us to join the NTWU whether
we want to or not" another brings
in. Moe Brown, Paterson organizer
of the NTWU, members of the Weld
mann strike committee on the plat
form, explains that the NTWU has
called the workers on strike, that they
must elect a strike committee, and
regardless of what union they are in,
take part in the strike. The strikers
elect strike committee, representa-
tives from each department. Many
sign up Immediately in the NTWU.
In one corner of the hall the women
of the Gatti shop hold special meet
ing where the demands of the wo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Roosevelt Makes Speech Against Federal Jobless Relief
City Events
Harlem Forum.

Harry Haywood will speak on '"The
Negro Worker in the Black Belt" at
the Liberator-LSNR forum to be
held in Coachmen's Hall, 254 w.
18Th St., at O'Clock tomorrow eve
ming. Admission is free to all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
a8&A9(ST&|
Mike Goes to the Yankee Stadium
BY EDWARD NEWHOUSE

ry page I
ogy certain Of at least dozen letters asking what tne
poem means Please comrades do not ask me TO fully explain
ache enough these things without being forced INT
iage"
Folks is getting desperate in the Bronx by jimmy
Ruth is cracking up
Listen to the drums of strange American tuners
His legs have gone back on him, he's batting 29O
Wah! wah mourn the bleacher jackals
Brown old scavengers
Waiting for man to fail
Waiting for man to die
Weaklings talk of month on the bench
And lads with CUTS whisper "Dixie Walker"
L. Oscar Swanson. haze seen it clear
Ihaue seen Pennock come and go and HoE
But this is the last strnU
Ruth must neUer go
uoish I'd never honesteaded this land
1t hoyts me more than it h0yts you
Folks in the bleachers gifts desperater
And desperater, by cracky
But Joseph Mccarthy in statement to the press
Said, Lads, Ruth will yet get us out of this mess,
In all my baseball days amt never worried less,
The Babe amt through, by gum"
Don't listen to no drums.
| went to dance hall and the hostess said
about old Babe don't you bother your head,
Just beware the hot cha cha va hoo
OF the jazz skunks!
You'll be okay, Oscar"
/ don't glue boot in hell
Why should roorry
But thinking lonely one night in little room
Me, midwife to much free verse,
Thought thought
Why should Ruth sying high and ssass6s
High and outside is bad place
Ruth should uUait for balls that come los0
Lou balls are the ones to sUing at
Stop biting at curUes and screlDbaEs
Wait for spitbaIls breaking slOD
(Stop biting my chest, you pain in the neck)
uriH mail Ruth all these hot tips
Tell him to lay ofd beer sips
Watch the uay old Lefty Grove fips
He'll be damn sight better off
Wah! wah comrades,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Paterson Strikers
to TieUpDyePlants

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
NATIONAL LEAGUE

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
r. H. E.
Montreal ..... 100 900 ooo-l 8 o
Toronto .0l0 ol0 01x-s 10 0
Ogden, Fisher and Stack. Mum;
Frazier and Heving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Union Dance at Conev.

Novelty workers of the Majestic,
Empire State and Durable Companies
are especially invited by the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union to
a dance to be held Saturday, at the
Coney Island workers Center on 9th
st. and Mermaid Ave.
The Nome nugget., 1933-07-08
HONOR AMONG LOVERS"
 AT DREAM THEATRE
 TUESDAY NIGHT, JULY II

If she had never done any other play or picture, but The Lady Lies" Claudette Colbert would rate place with the worlds most popular actresses. Her fam ous line, spoken in the voice that laughs and cries even as it enun- ,riates words, Let's talk it over" is still bright in memory when even this fascinating lady makes her entrance.
 If he had ever done another pie ture or play, but '1The Royal Fam fly of Broadway" Frederic March would be ranked by press and pu- bile as the most inspired thespian of this decade.
 Together they gave you Man a picture still the fans are still talking about, a picture still crossing big in second, third and fourth runs. In 'tManslaugh- ter.'' Miss Colbert and March un- covered emotions you never knew you had, they pumped your heart full of new Life and left it over
The Nome nugget., 1933-07-08
AN APPRECIATION

Frank Messenger, business man ager for the MGM colony who were with us for over a year, filming The Eskimo" in this sec ion, left July 4th for Culver City studio of the MGM. NIT. Messenger asks the Nugget to convey his appret- iation to all the people of Nome, Teller and other places in the north land for the generous help and assistance given him and other of the MGM colony while here.
 In August MT. Messenger ex- poets to go with Director Van Dyke to spot near Flagstaff, Arizona, where another picture to known as Laughing Boy" will be filmed