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retain under their control the LARGEST
portion of the organized workers"
The IRA. statement reads in part:
1.-THE raising of the struggle on be-
half of Mooney and Billings to new
heights through this Congress has a
great significance at this particular
time. Loosening the hold of the So
cial fascists on the organized workers
in the U.SA. means a tremendous
step forward in the struggle against
the war danger, the isl-fascists in
the U.S.A., like their prototypes in
other lands. being part of the ap-
parstus by which the capitalist class
holds the masses back from resistance
to their war plans.
The Mooney Billings cases are the
best means for exposing concretely
to the American working class the
treachery of these social-faScist lead
ers just as they are the best basis for
penetrating into the working class
unions and other groups which are
under the social-fascist control
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this a demonstration of the united
struggle of the workers for better
conditions and against the boss ter
ror.
May Day was born in the struggle
for an 8 hour day Today when the
A. F. L. burocrats and the bosses have
once more introduced long hours, low
wages and sweat shop conditions in
the trade, the workers must utilize
May Day as day Of mobilization
for united struggle for decent living
conditions.
A series OF open air meetings in
the fur, dress, cloak, millinery and
Whitegoods markets will be carried
through Wednesday. Workers are col
lecting funds for four bands OF music
and are preparing slogans dealing
with the demands of the needle
trades workers and the general la
Dor movement.
The Executive Council calls on
workers Of the A. F. of l.. to ioin in
the united front demonstration and
at the last meeting Of the Executive
Council it was decided to issue a call
to the members Of the I. L. G. w. U.
Cap and Millinery workers and hat
tiers, and Amalgarnated clothing work
ers not to split their ranks on May
First but to go to their local meet
ings and to demand that all locals
Join IN the united front May Day
demonstration so as to show the
unity of the needle trades workers in
their common struggle against the
bosses.
All needle trades workers are called
upon to see that not single wheel
turns in any Of the needle trade,
shops on Monday Nav FirSt
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MORE FACILITIES
FOR JOBLESS FIGHT

NEW YORK-In addition to larger
headquarters at 95 Avenue B, the
Downtown Unemployed Council has
organized Neighborhood Center at
the East Side Workers Club, 165 East
Broadway.
Increased activities in building
block committees and fighting for re-
lief has necessitatet larger quarters,
A committee from the Council will
be at the new center between IL and
5 p. m. each day to assist workers in
the section below Houston Street in
the fight for relief.
Employed and unemployed workers
in need are urged to register at the
two addresses.
Friday, April %, at 10 a. m, groups
will be formed at the Council Head
quarters and Neighborhood Center
for immediate relief All Unemployed
Committees of workers organizations
all workers in need of relief are urged
to come.
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ATTEND MOONEY SCOTTSBOR0 MEET COLISEUM THURSDAY PM
A T 7 E n ION !
Tom Mooney Delegates

NEW YORK. -Deleeate to the
Tom Mooney Congress are urged
to send their credentials AT ONCE
to the Free Mooney Confeernce,
12s East 10Th Street, New York
City.
Enclose at least part of the sl3
round trip bus fare. Secure 81 for
personal expenses. Come early to
sit on the platform at the Bronx
Coliseum mass meeting, Thursday
night, 8 p. m. Bring your organi-
zation's banner. if possible. Buses
will leave from north end of
Union Square for Chicago at 0
a. m. Friday, April 20. Don't miss
the bus!
The Congress convenes at I
p. m, April 30, at the Masonic
Auditorium, 80 w. Randolph st.,
Chicago.
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n. Y. TRADE UNION NEWS
End INJUNCTION
FILED AGAINST
FOOD UNION

NEW YOEK--The bosses of the
Folds-Fischer Company of chain ca
feterias has again filed briefs for an
injunction against the Food Workers
Industrial Union and the strikers,
Only two weeks ago, the mass pres
sure exerted by the New York work
ingclass stopped Judge Philip J. Nc
Cook from issuing the order against
picketing.
This move exposes the attempt of
the judge and the company to wait
until the pressure would die down
and then issue the injunction. Yes
terday in court, no defense argu-
mentS were allowed. The judge Just
took the briefs Of the company I'M
der adviSementg, and he will de
eide whether or not TO issue the
injunction.
Meanwhile, over 600 workers de-
monstrated yesterday against the
pending Foltis Fischer injunction at
the corner OF 40th Street and 9Th
Avenue. This demonstration was held
under the joint auspices of the Food
Workers Industrial Union, the Foltis-
Fischer strike committee, and the 9Th
Avenue Grievance Committee. Be-
sides denouncing the use of injunc-
tons in labor disputes, the assembled
workers passed resolutions for re-
cognition of the Soviet Union and
for the freedom of Tom Mooney and
the nine Scottsboro Boys.
The injunction OF the WILLOW
Cafeterias which was used in the
general cafeteria strike of 1929 will
come up again in court today.
Workers and workers organizations
are urged to send kilograms of pro-
test to Judge Philip j, McCook, Su-
preme Court, New York County, New
York demanding the right to organize,
strike, and picket, and for the non
issuance OF an injunction in the
present Foltis- Fischer strike.
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Camp Custer, Mich.
Dear Mack
I'm just writing few lines be-
cause haven't any more paper and
I'm broke. 1 can tell you what's do
ing in the camp. They got very
strict discipline. The Negroes got
their own tents and their own mess
halls and we can't go in their district
and they can't come in our district
We aren't allowed to even talk to
them, that's how it is.
Nineteen guys ran away Wednes-
day. Two ran away Saturday. ONE
GUY DIED THURSDAY from in
incubation. Well, as soon as I get
some more paper I'll tell more.
Don't tell my mother that it's bad
here because 1 don't want her tc
worry, and please try to send me
some stationery because I'm broke
and I don't get any money till the
S0th. Then can get some more let
tiers. Well, as soon as I can get some
stamps and paper I'll tell more
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ployed. The tentative proposals pro-
vide for a monthly wage to each dis
missed worker amounting to two
thirds of his or her regular salary for
as many months as his years of SER
vice.
Thus If one has worked ten years
he will get two-thirds OF his salary
for ten months and the government
will then have no further obligations
to him.
Thousands Of workers will be hit
by this vicious proposal II it is carried
through. The principal groups OF
civil service employees affiliated to
the A. r. of L. are, the National
Federation of Postal Clerks with 40
900 members; the National Associa-
ton Of Letter Carriers with $4,000
members, and the Railway Mail
Clerks Association with 10000 mem
bcrs.
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Camp Custer, Mich

Camp Custer, Mich.
Dear NJ
I'm writing you few lines to tell
you how they lie in the Detroit news
papers about the camps.
They say we had chicken gravy
and trimmings. Well, we got trim
mings and gravy. But no chicken in
side. We got veal and that was nc
good and the trimmings gave me a
lousy physic.
They say we had warm weather
here. Well, shey are god damn liars
Since we are here we had rain and
real cold weather and we nearly froze
But that's good, compared with the
last contingent. When they came
they were freezing and they couldn't
sleep all night. I was so cold. They
say we got uniforms. Well, if you ask
me, we got overalls. They are the
same as the prisoners get in Fort
Wayne.
We look like prisoners from the
Georgia Chain Gang. If 1 had a
camera l would send you a picture
OF me in the overalls and SO far as
the uniforms are concerned, we didn't
get them yet. But I heard they are
swell uniforms. They say visitors are
forbidden. Well, that also is a lie
We can go to town any day after sup
per and visitors are welcome Sun
days.
SO, as you know, they lie like hell
IN the papers. There are 1900 Ne
groes in the camp at the present
time. We can't see them and they
can't see us. They do all the dirty
work. Well, any time we want to
go into their territories, the officers
say don't go there because If you do
they might kill you. So the whites
don't go there. II we burn the tents
we have to pay s54 for them, and, if
we want to wash, we have to buy
soap and towels.
They don't give the soap and tow
els yet. But they say when we get
to the sticks then we will get everv-
thing free. But until then we have
to buy everything. Well, I'll close be-
cause it's late. Tell S. to come here
Sunday, went to see him. I'd write
him a letter, but I have no more
money. I borrowed 8 cents to send
you this letter. When I get some
more money for stamps I'll write te
you.
YOUR PAL"
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PORTLAND, Ore, April 20 (By
MaiD Within the next three days
the first Oregon contingent of vet
Grams will start on the long march
to Washington, D. C. to answer
Rooseyelt's new deal" economy pro-
gram, to demand cash payment of
the rest of the bonus as well as i'm
mediate relief for the impoverished
farmers and the unemployed.
The Oregon march is organized by
the Oregon Veterans Liaison Com
mittee, a state wide, united front
committee of 20 members, headed by
Richard Lovelace, Regional Organizer
Of the WE6.L. The Oregon contin-
gent will travel via Spokane and
Minneapolis, holding mass meetings
in cities along the way.
Workers in every community should
support this gigantic struggle OF the
veterans and show their unity by
waging constant battle against the
impending new war, which will re-
peat on more colossal scale the hor-
rors which the ex-serYicemen en-
dured in the last war ito end war"
BY n. e. BRIGGS
The Vets are marching again May
IL, and this time in a solid United
Front, as the following will show:
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Yes, the vets are up on their toes
in this city and modifying q large
contingent for the march. Expect
thousands. The sentiment is strong
for march in Western, Pa, also.
Butte, Montana.
The wide open spaces, where vets
are vets, are sending a contingent to
Washington including legionnaires,
who refused to take orders from
Louis A. Johnson about trusting
Roosevelt to deal fairly with veter-
ans.
Portland, Ore.
A large group is ready to leave here
about April az. We are behind the
U. M. L. Committee. So long, see
you in Washington. g.. 49,
~ California. e7st
The city officials and veterans
misleaders are doing their damndest
to stop the rank and file from march
ing, but we got them licked with a
United Front About 1000 will leave
in day or two with more to follow
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the Needle Trade Workers Industrial
Union was planned and executed
under the direction of the Associated
Fur Coat and Trimming Manufac-
turers Inc, is proven by q gleeful re-
port in the Womens Wear Daily
organ of garment bosses, which ap-
peared yesterday before the attack
"a. F. of L. To Enter Labor Situa-
tiOn,' read the full page headline in
the Women's Wear Daily. The head
line states further Fright Wing Group
attempts realignment of fur workers
Drive to start this morning." And the
drive started this morning by send
ing gangsters into the headquarters
of the Needle Trades Union to shoot
the leaders and workers present.
Where are the manufacturers in
this seeming fight of right and left
wing workers?" Here are their owr
words.
Just how TO enforce this agree
ment, of course, becomes a prob
lena for the International, but OBJ
servers assert the manufacturers
are apt to regard this as problem
that merely needs the application
of what is termed with a wink,
strenuous persuasion"
The nature of this strenuous per-
Suasion" was demonstrated in the
murderous attack at the headquar-
tiers of the Union.
The bosses show their open hand
behind this murderous attack and
their support of the betraying lead
ership that was smashed by the
workers last July as follows:
"And since that time the Assoc
ciased has been trying TO get the
A. r. of L. to step back into the
picture
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CT Ine TWO DisgeSt DankS 70 near tt1eir
demands.
The embattled teachers, awakening
to the need for mass action after
months of polite requests for their
back pay of $4,000, 900, concentrated
on the City National, Continental
Illinois, the Harris Trust and the First
National Banks. The first three banks
closed their doors, but the First Ma
tional remained open, after Melvin
Traylor, its president, agreed to meet
a teachers delegation.
Heckle Dawes
At first officials of the City Ma
tional lied, denying that Dawes was
in Chicago. The teachers redoubled
their insistent demand and Dawes
appeared outside the bank, greeted by
boos and Kisses. Some of the charges
made by the teachers were.
There's the man who borrowed
SOC, 100000 (from the Reconstruction
Finance Corp.l for his own bank but
won't lend any TO the teachers"
He went along with Samuel In
sull in cheating U.s."
A teacher in the crowd shouted that
his electricity had been turned off
while he was in Washington seeking
action on the payment Of their sala-
rics. Dawes had the nerve to answer:
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delegates from this city were elected
to attend the Free Tom Mooney Con-
greSs in Chicago, at local Tom
Mooney Conference attended by 80
delegates from % organizations, rep
resenting membership of 816.
Mass Send OFF in Kensington.
PHILADELPHIA, April "a. ALI
delegates going to the Free Tom
Mooney Congress in Chicago will be
present at a mass send-off meeting
IN kensington Labor Lyceum, Thurs
day evening, 1t was announced today.
The delegates will leave by car i'm
mediately after the meeting.
Al Delegates in BelIeviHe Meet
BELLEVILLE, II FORTY seven
delegates representing 81 organiza-
tons, with a total membership of
29,765, participated in the local Free
Tom Mooney conference. A plan was
worked out for involving an even
larger number of organizations in
Southwestern Illinois in the Chicago
Free Tom Mooney Congress.
Among the organizations represent
ed at the conference were three local
unions and three central bodies of
the American Federation of Labor,
six locals of the Progressive Miners
OF America, five fraternal organiza-
lions, and one women's auxiliary.
Rally Cleveland Workers
CLEVELAND, o. - Young workers
in the east side of this city are &C.
lively taking up the struggle for Tom
Mooney. AT meeting of the Harry
Simms Youth Branch of the Inter
national Workers Order, April 81,
Joseph Schiller, district secretary of
the TWO, spoke on the Mooney case.
A Free Tom Mooney dance will be
held by the youth group on April 20,
at the Metropolitan Hall, 10000
Superior Ave.
The Tom Mooney Branch of the
International Labor Defense announ-
ces Mooney banquet, April 20, at
Kinsman Workers Center 1410I
Kinsman Road
NEW YORK-The International
Red Aid, parent organization of the
International Labor Defense, has is
sued an appeal to workers in all coun-
tries to support the struggle for the
freedom of Mooney and Billings as
an important factor in the fight
against "war-dapger and against the
social fascists who in the U.S.A. still
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-25

A group Of Negro vets from Char
lesion are already on the outskirts Of
Washington waiting for May 10.
Nike Thomas and Foulkrod were
seen shopping around Washington.
Beware Of these misleaders, vets.
They betrayed the last march with
their venomous demagogy.
Ex-Serviceman Spots Stool.
A vet sends letter about Ger
tain John Alferi, who says he served
overseas with Co. K, 137th Ohio Ma
tional Guard, as sergeant. This OBJ
vious fraud is now in Cincinnati,
Ohio, trying to discourage the organ
ization Of group to march on Wash
ington. The comrade who sent me
the letter says he (Alferi) led group
ON the last march from Philadelphia
and betrayed them. All vets are
warned to beware Of this man. ANY
leader who doesn't work to the
United Front policy of the UNL.C.
in Washington should be thrown out
Of the march and new rank and
file committee elected.
Alferi Is Headed for Pittsburgh
SOOn-Beware.
Despite the Alferi tactics, 1000
men are ready to leave Cincinnati.
How's that?
New York City
A conference is called for the 28th
to rally vets for the march. Street
meetings are being held daily and
many vets are showing a desire to
go on the march. All legion, WV,
etc, men are urged to communicate
with the National Office, 1893 Broad
mau
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MANY SHOPS STRUCK
IN NEEDLE TRADES

NEW YORK. - During the last
week, a number of shop strikes have
been declared in the dress and fur
trades. The active workers are called
upon to assist the strikers on the
picket line in front of the following
shops:
Davis Dress, lo4 West 9th ST.: l.
Stating Dress, ST. Eighth Avenue:
Classic Dress, 4S3 Seventh Avenue:
Triangle Fur, 2sl w. 29th ST.; Coop
ernaan & Lister; KONG & Greenberg
$50 w. 3oth St; Oldham Bros, $50
Seventh Ave; B. Axel. $50 Seventh
Avenue.
Plans are being made for inten.
styling this campaign during tn,
coming week.
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Jobless Auto Worker
Commits Suicide; to
FOreclose His Home

DETROIT, Mich, April "a
Brought to despair because his home
was being foreclosed, John Kurzycki,
AZ committed suicide. He had al
ready paid $500 on a home which
was sold to him for 5000. 1t took
four telephone calls to get some aid
and by the time it arrived the worker
was already dead. The police how
ever were anxious to seize the fore
closure notice, SO that the widow
should have no evidence for the cause
of the suicide
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-25
CLOAK MASS MEETING TODAY
IN BRYANT HALL

Today at l p. m. all cloakmak ers
are called to mass meeting in Bry-
ant Hall, And Street and 9Th Ave,
where Joseph Boruchowitch and
Louis LYMAN will speak on the
united front policy of the Industrial
Union and the proposals with which
the committee of the Industrial
Union came to the General Execu-
tive Board of the International. All
closkmakers are urged to come to
this mass meeting without fail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-25
CITY OFFICIALS IN SCAB
MOVE.

CINCINNATI, o. - In the recent
milk drivers strike the city played a
strikebreaking role. The city politi-
clans told the workers who were
striking against starvation that ii
they refused to go back to work at
the terms made by the A. F. L. mis-
leaders and the bosses, the relief
workers would be called out to scah
on them.
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1900 STAND FOR
HOURS IN COLD

LYNN, Mass, April 24.--Standing
in the face of bitterly cold east
wind for over two hours, a crowd Of
nearly twelve hundred workers, here
today, acclaimed the remarks Of Ann
Burlak, the militant organizer of the
Textile Workers Industrial Union.
The meeting was in preparation
for the Massachusetts, State Hunger
March, which is to take place on May
the first in Boston.
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Not Wheel Shall Turn May Day!
Says Needle Trades Workers Union

NEW YORK-The murderous raid
on the offices of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union yesterday
has enflamed the whole needle work
er section in determined action, to
drop their tools on May Day and
join the mass demonstration.
The significance of May Day Is
being discussed in all shops, at shop
meetings and all other meetings of
the Industrial Union. A call has been
issued by the Union for all the work
ers to strike on May LIST and make
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-25
Mass Movement for Mooney Release
Spreads; Many Meetings Held

NEW YORK, April PA tentative
program for the Free Tom Mooney
Congress opening April 80 in Chicago
outlined by the eastern section of the
national management committee
calls for the broad fight for the re-
lease of all class war prisoners, in
Guiding not only Mooney, but the
Scottsboro boys, Angelo Herndon, and
the Tallapoosa share-cropper VIC
Tins.
The Congress Is to be called to or
der promptly at l p. M, on Sunday,
April 80, the committee decided. A
preliminary credentials committee
will spend Sunday morning in re-
ceiving those credentials which have
not already been sent to the head
quarters, 1870 West Adams st., Room
800, Chicago, in advance. Delega-
tons are being asked to mail Gre
dentials in advance because of the
fact that 1000 delegates are expected
and the task of handling the details
will be enormous.
1t was decided that with so great
GA SooCtliPid6C VI WI hCl dCiCSd bSc
with unlimited, varied problems that
it was necessary to limit the pro-
gram for discussion to three matters:
How to win freedom for MOO
ney and Billings.
2.-How to free other working class
prisoners, including the Scottsboro
boys.
3.-How to protect the rights OF
workers to meet, to carry on their
own press, organize, etc.
One session of the Congress will be
given to each subject, the Congress
will adjourn for the Chicago May
Day celebration Monday afternoon
and there will be great mass rati-
fication meeting May Day night in
the Chicago Stadium, which seats
Is. 900 and has arrangements for over
flow crowds.
900 Meet in Boston.
BOSTON, April 24.--Eight speak
ers, representing a wide defense uni
ted front, addressed a meeting OF six
hundred here In the Old South Meet
ing House, Frank Spector, assistant
national secretary, of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, who served a
sentence OF more than one year in
San Quentin with Tom Mooney for
his working class activities in the I'm
perial Valley, gave an intimate pic
ture of MONEYS life in prison.
10 sv KaAnrLa
KENOSHA, Wis, April 24.-Twslve
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-25
Kill Worker, Rushing
to Send Material to
Japan for Use inWar

tBy a Worker Correspondent
SEATTLE, Wash.--Jast an hoar
before writing this letter, L was
down at the foot of SenecAst
watching the japanese steamer
korOu Maru, loading steel rails for
Japan to be used in the war. The
usual speed-up in loading resulted
In load slipping, and crashing
into the hold. killing a Japanese
worker instantly. IT. X.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-25
VETERANS MASS IN FRONT
OF INDEPENDENCE HALL
AND PROTEST PAY CUTS
Oregon Contingent of National March on
Washington Ready to Start in Few Days

PHILADELPHIA, April 24-Hundreds of World War
veterans met in front Of Independence Hall yesterday pro-
test reductions in compensation disabled They
asked that June be made veterans protest day with
veterans marching through the streets without and
with muffed drums "in grim and silent protest"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-25
CALL PRINTERS TO SPECIAL
MEET FOR MAY

NEW YORK.--A special May Dsy
membership meeting has been called
by the Printing Workers industrial
Union for Thursday, April ~, sac
p. m. at % East 18th stree
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JoblesS Worker Dies After
Tnocnlation" in Labor Camp
Lynn Mass Meet Prepares for Massachusetts Hunger March, Viii
Reach Boston May LIST in Fight Unemployment

Only
m are orcedt to under
Below letters of
are in
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Chicago Teachers
Demonstrate for
Pay; Close Banks
Thousands Swarm Loop Demanding Back Pay
Militant Marchers Silence Dawes

CHICAGO,
been unpaid oE nearly marched into the
testing against the corruption Chicago city
that their back salaries be paid Immediately
their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-25

Hitch hike, drive, walk to the Chi
caso Mooney Congress, April 30 TO
May 2.