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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
RED CANDIDATES ACTIVE
IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
IN DETROIT AND FRISCO
Schmies Heads Ticket
in Auto City; Hold
Primary Oct. 10

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 26.-"The
Communist Party states that its can
didates will organize and lead the
workers in the struggle for their daily
and burning needs" declares the ring
ing election program in the municipal
campaign. John Schmies, district Or
lnizer of the Communist Party in
etroit and well-known leader of the
ito workers, heads the ticket as cam
didate for mayor. The members for
,ity council are Haywood Maben, Earl
Reno, Phil Raymond, secretary of the
Auto Workers Union; and Frank
sykes.
The election platform enumerates a
number of immediate needs for the
workers in this city, foremost of which
cash relief for the unemployed, a
minimum wage rate Of rs cents an
lour for workers in factories and
,ffice employees, and, the stopping of
he brutal terror towards Negroes in
tituted by city authorities. The
platform points out that all of these
truggles to gain concessions from the
capitalists, strengthen the workers
or their task to finally abolish the
apitalist system of exploitation and
stablish a workers and farmers gov
rnment.
Municipal, primary elections will
axe place on October 10. A record
ote of auto workers, who have ex-
'erienced on numerous occasions the
Guidance and support to these strug-
lies by the Communist Party is ex-
,ected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
MIRA, mcon Terror Fail Stop Big York CITY
Paper Box Strike Is
Sab0taged by A. F. L.

NEW YORK.-Called on strike two
weeks ago by the A. r Of L. Paper
Box Makers Union, paper box workers
we're led to believe that the strike was
being waged for improved conditions.
Demands raised by the A. F. of L.
officials were later pared down, with
out consulting the workers, on the
plea that I'VE must meet the bosses
half way" A deal between the A. F.
of L. ofncials and the bosses in New
York sent the workers back to the
shops, while in Brooklyn more than
1900 paper box workers still remain
out on strike.
The strike In Brooklyn Is becoming
demoralized with the failure of the
officials to call strike meetings and to
provide relief fol-. the workers. Funds
collected from the per cent tax i'm
posed on the workers, who are on the
Job have not found their way to the
strikers. The rank and file are organ
izing to demand meetings in every
shop to hear grievances on, shop con-
ditions and to demand special re-
port on the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
Ford to Broadcast
Comm uniSt Pro-
gram in Cleve. Polls
WillSpeakO Over VICAR
on Saturday in Final
Election Drive

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept 23.-With
primary elections on Oct. 3 drawing
near, the Communist Party is plan
ming an intense windup, which in
cludes radio talk over VICAR by Its
mayoralty candidate, I. o. Ford, on
Saturday, September 30, at Sis pm
1.-THE Communist Party enters this
election campaign to rally the work
ers, foreign-born and native, in q
united struggle for Bread said Ford
in recent speech in Probulov Hail.
1888 Broadway.
ut is vote for the Communist
Party that will raise havoc among the
ranks of the ruling class and force
concessions from them in the form Of
higher wages and more relief" he
forcefully maintained. "It will be a
mighty blow in the defense of the
homes of the small home owners, who
are in danger Of losing their homes to
the bankers and real estate sharks"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
Artists to Do Part
at Red Press Bazaar

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The John
Reed Club promises to Guido all
the great masters at the John
Reed Club Booth in the Red Press
Bazaar, to be held in Madison So
Garden on October 6-8.
Artists of the John Reed Club
will sell prints available for franz
ing by such well known artists as
William Chopper, Hugo Gellert,
Louis Lozowick, William Siegel,
Walter Quirt, Jacob Burck, and
many others.
Many of the artists mentioned
above will draw portrait sketches
for . small fee.
A bass relief plaque Of Maxim
Cork, world famous prolstrian
writer, by Adolf Wolf, will be
among the attractions At the John
Reed Club booth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
Knitgood Strikers
Call United Front Meet
at Cooper Union Today

NEW YORK. - Seven thousand
knitgoods strikers, in the third week
Of their struggle, led by the Indus
trial Union, staged mass picketing
demonstration in the mill sections
of Ridgewood and Brooklyn on Mon
day in which more than 5000 workers
participated.
Inspired by the nilitancy Of the
strikers, the workers Of the Daisy
Knitting Mills, shop controlled by
the United Textile Workers, enrolled
in the strike under the banner Of
the Industrial Union.
A meeting at Cooper Union Is call
ed for today at 2 pm to which
strikers Of the United Textile Work
ers and the I.L.G.W.U. are called to
effect a real united front n the
ctpp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
Demand Endorsement
of Jobless Insurance,
Is a Main Issue

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 90
Pledged to fight for broad work
ing. class platform of immediate de-
mands, six candidates nominated by
the Communist Party filed for the
city elections here.
Jack Bishop, longshoreman; Louise
Todd, stenographer; James Tracey
railroad worker; John Diaz, agricul-
trail worker; and Ed Harris, nachin-
list, are the candidates for the Board
of Supervisors. For the office Of city
treasurer the workers candidate is
Neil Hickey, miner. Two of the
present candidates, Louise Todd and
Ed Harris, polled over 10000 and
1000 votes respectively in the previ-
GUS election.
Laying bare the miserable condi-
tions in this city, the Communist
platform urges an intense drive for
the endorsement Of unemployment
insurance and placing every candi-
date on record as to this vital neces-
sity for the working class. 1t en-
phasizes the need Of the city govern
ment taking care of the immediate
needs of the jobless, at the same
time recording itself in support Of
federal unemployment insurance.
The demands from the city are
for cash relief to all unemployed,
stopping of evictions, union wages on
all relief jobs, medical and dental
care for school children and aboh-
ton Of the sales tax. Also number
of sother immediate needs.
Campaign headquarters have been
established in the Workers Center
in various sections Of the city. They
are:
Mission, 3470 10th St.; Fillmore,
1928 Fillmore ST.; North Beach, 1929
Powell St.; Downtown, 7o5 Howard
st. The central campaign headquar-
tiers is at 81 Grove st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
10000 Workers In
volved in Months
Strike Struggles

NEW YORK-Over one hundred
and sixty-three thousand men and
women have downed tools in New
York in the last few weeks.
Many have marched up and back
in front Of their shops, and in front
Of other shops Of the same industry
demanding the right to a decent
living wage and working conditions.
They have faced police, gas, in
functions. because they know that
the N. r. A. anti-strike edict means
less food for themselves, means sweat
shop conditions, and worst Of all less
food FOR their children.
Arrests and clubbings have not
deferred them. Bravely and tiercely
they have fought the talons Of the
blue eagle. Knowing full we'll that
the promises under the MIRA. would
not be fulfilled, and with stubborn in
sistance, and working class militancy
determined to succeed in their class
battle.
The Trade Union Unity Council
estimates that Of this number 5000
Of the workers in these strikes have
been led by the militant industrial
unions
Although many strikes have already
been settled with real gains for these
brave fighters, there ayA still; more
thai 10000 workers out on strike to-
day, val,antly carrying on the battle
for their rights
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
AFL Hired Thugs
Beat Pickets of Indep.
HOUSEKEEPING Union

NEW YORK-Following the secret
deal effected by the NRA which gave
exclusive authority over house wreck
ers' jobs to the A. F. of L. House
Wreckers Union with the consent of
the employers Association, the A. F.
Of L. officials have started their
strikbreaking campaign.
Making common cause with the po-
lice, they attacked two pickets of
the Independent House WreckerS
Union on strike at q job at 23rd
st. and 10th Ave. After clubbing the
strikers, F. Tatiev and A. Federo-
witch, the latter being chairman of
the union, the A. F. of L. hoodlums
called a policeman who administered
another clubbing and then sent Fed
orovitch off in police ambulance.
Two white guardists, Misha and
Trukhan were also involved in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
Move for Speedy Sell More Workers Join
Out of Drivers Strike Cleaners, Dyers Strike

NEW YORK. - Numerous clashes
took place yesterday between the
striking coal drivers and scabs en-
ployed by the coal companies. A
number of strikers we're arrested.
Joseph P. Ryan, president Of the
International Longshoremens Union,
and officials Of the Teamsters' Union
were negotiating deal with the coal
bosses and the MIRA. ofdcials at N.
RIA. headquarters yesterday. These
racketeers had no difaculty in con-
vincing the bosses that they were
ready to send the workers back to
their jobs at their terms, in return
for control over the workers dues.
Ryan claims Jurisdiction over 1000
strikers among the boatmen and
yardmen in the river front coal yards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
Armour Workers
WinRight toOrgan-
ize After Strike
Indus. Union Forces
Reinstatement of
Fired Packers

SOUTH ST. PAUL, MINI, Sept. 26
The reinstatement of group OF
workers of the Armour Co. meat
packing plant after walkout in three
departments, last Thursday, was
hailed by the Packing House Work
ers' Industrial Union as victory
for the workers right to organize and
for collective bargaining"
The strike started when a commit
tee of workers protesting to the man.
agement against wages of Is and &c
cents an hour paid to girl workers
were fired. Three departments then
struck. AS result the bosses were
forced to retract.
The Industrial Union with Offices
at 211 South Concord St., which was
instrumental in winning the workers
demands, issued a statement calling
for further organization.
"The workers went back to work
today" the statement reads, with
greater determination than ever tc
organize 100 per cent in Armour's and
all other plants, and fight for higher
wages and improvement of conditions
This incident shows what organiza-
ton, solidarity and unity can accom-
plish. We appeal to all workers tc
join the Industrial Union, and stick
together so that we can in the fu-
ture have organized action to win
our rights. AS result of this VIC
tory hundreds of workers from Ar
mour's and other plants are signing
up in the Industrial Union. Don't
hold back! Join and fight in your
own interestsl"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
500 Textile Workers
Strike Against Low
Pay inNorthampton
Bos Violated u. T. w.
Sell-Out Deal

NORTHAMPTON, Mass, Sept. 26
Five hundred workers at the Col
lege Weavers rayon plant in North
ampton have walked out for the sec
ond time in six months in protest
against wages which fall far below
the reputed American standard
The owner, Simon Levin, who also
owns mills in Michigan and Virginia
and who is preparing to open two
more in New Bedford and in Rhode
Island, has for the past few months
refused to abide by the compromise
agreement worked out last March.
At that time Joseph White, district
field organizer for the UTW, sold out
the workers In the plant by settling
for wage Of $1.15 hundred thou
sand picks, although the strikers
were easily winning the strike and
could without difficulty have OBJ
tanned the $3.50 per hundred thou
sand which they had originally de-
manded. White, following typical A
F. of L. tactics, pleaded for a quick
and easy settlement.
The result has been that the work
ers not only failed to win any great
increase in pay, but also that the
promises which Levin finally made
were quickly broken. There has been
direct discrimination against mem
bers of the shop committee, who
have been forced to wait a longer
time for materials than other workers
in the shop. Three letters from the
shop committee to Levin demanding
better working conditions received nc
answer whatsoever, despite Levin's
windy promises and the MIRA blue
eagle which he displays as a pledge
Of recognition Of collective bargain
ing.
MacMahon, head of the UTW and
representative Of labor" at textile
hearings in Washington, was in
Northampton about three weeks ago
and at that time admitted conditions
at the plant were extremely bad. He
urged the workers to do something
about it, despite the fact that his
organizer (White) had led the strike
negotiations last March. At that
time only the demands of the workers
kept White from refusing the aid OF
Amherst and Smith students and
from selling out to even further de-
mands to the bosses.
The workers at the plant are show
ing a spirit of unity and fight. More
than hundred pickets are con-
stantly in front Of the factory, where
at the present time about dozen
scabs are still working. A kitchen
to supply the strikers with food is
to be opened Monday. There has
been little disturbance so far, and
no arrests have yet been made.
Arbitration negotiations are to be
held next week, the first one at
Washington and the others in North
anpton. Superintendent Marshall,
of the College Weavers ,Chas. G.
Woods OF the MIRA arbitration board
well-known strikebreaker; White OF
the A. F. of l.. and members of the
shop committee will be present. To
brighten the workers as he did last
Spring, Levin is again making prom
ises to move the plant to another
section of the country. This cry, an
old one in New England, is not stop
ping the strikers from going after
their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27

NEW YORK.-Workers of the
Spotless chain factories, among the
worst sweatshops in the cleaning
and dyeing trade, joined the ranks
Of the strike led by the Cleaners,
Dyers and Pressers Union now enter
ing its third week.
Strike halls were crowded on Mon
day when the workers gathered to
discuss the strike situation. A reso-
luton calling on the tailors of the
Bronx Tailoring Association to join
the strike to win improvements in
their conditions in joint action with
the insiders was approved by the
strikers.
Drivers of Local 1876 present at the
meeting were aroused to indignation
by the A. F. Of L. officials action In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
PUNCH AND JUDY SHOWS
BY a Worker CORRESPONDENT

CASPAR, Cal.-The Blue Buzzard
the National Robbery Act, is in all
its glory in Fort Bragg (seven miles
from here. There. are established two
DANES in the post-office with some
thing that looks like Punch and
Judy show. They beckon and call to
all that come and go through the
office; they dip the pen in ink and
extend card for your endorsement
of the robbery act.
Well, here is one kid that don't
endorse it to encourage the common
enemy in their criminal ways against
labor. 1t must cost lot of money for
this Punch and Judy stunt all over
the United States of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
Arrest Picket in Strike
of BathrObe Workers

NEW YORK.-Bathrobe workers of
B. Brown and Sons at 305 It'll Avenue
went on strike yesterday demanding
better conditions. A mass picket line
succeeded in defeating the scabs who
tried to take the strikers jobs. In
the clash, one picket was arrested.
He was fined $40 in court and was
released after the union paid the fine.
AT strike meeting yesterday the
workers decided to continue mass
picketing and to actively aid the un-
ion in organizing the open shops in
the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
Strikebreakers Work
on GOmpers' Memorial

NEW YORK. - Strikebreakers
are working on the elaborate bronze
memorial statue of the late Samuel
Gompers, long President of the
A. F. of L., which is scheduled to
be exhibited at the coming con-
vention of the A. F. of L. official
dom. Forty-five workers of the
General Bronze Corporation, plant
No. 2 in Corona, Long Island, struck
two weeks ago, refusing TO accept the
starvation pay of $40 to $24 a week
and the innumerable hours Of over
time without pay.
When the strike was called, Iron
and Bronze Workers Local 48 of the
A. F. of L. refused to call OUT four
of their members. Nor were the
chasers called out. They are men,
bers Of the Chasers League of North
America. Strikebreakers will COM
plete Mr.. Gompers' memorial unless
the demands of the strikers are con-
coded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
Strike for More Pay at
N. r. A. Textile Shop

NEW YORK.-Textile trimmers
employed at the shop of Louis Hor-
mick, % w. 21st st. walked out on
strike on Monday. led by the Tex
tile Trimming Workers Union. The
strike was declared when the boss
refused to increase the workers pay
although he had signed up with the
MIRA. He discharged two workers
on learning of their union affiliation.
The strikers are demanding more pay
and recognition of their union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27

roads leading out of West Vir-
ginia, nevertheless some 1000 min
ers from the SCOTS Run section
succeeded in slipping through the
lines and were cheered by the more
than 5000 Pennsylvania miners
who were meeting on a farm just
a mile from the West Virginia
border.
The main purpose of the meet
ing was to make plans for the
spreading of the strike which now
involves more than 10000 miners
to the nearby West Virginia fields
from which coal is being shipped
into the Pennsylvania struck ter
ritory.
Miners Speak.
One after the other these rank
and file miners took the floor and
spoke of the necessity of the min
ers in the entire soft coal fields of
the country coming out of the pits
in order to force the coal operators
to give them complete recognition
Of the UMWA with a living wage.
Not single official of the UMWA
asked for the floor. And it was
a very unhealthy atmosphere for
them as the miners recounted the
betrayals of the UMWA leaders
particularly in the 1922 strike
when the coke region miners were
forgotten by John L. Lewis.
When speakers representing the
miners of West Virginia reported
that more than two hundred trucks
had been turned back by the state
police and that more than 5000
miners were unable to com e
through, shouts of let's 60 over
the line went up from all sections
of the crowd. The spirit of the
miners is one of determination to
fight to the end for the recognition
of the union with a decent stand
ard of wages but at the same time
to clean out Of the ranks of the
UMWA the officialdom which today
is working hand in hand with the
coal operators in trying to send
the miners back into the pits.
The West Virginia representa-
tives pledged that by the middle
of next week every mine in north
ern West Virginia would be out
and that no coal would leave that
state. .-.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
Blue Eagle Given
SweatshOp Boss

PROVIDENCE, r. T., September Is.
The Blue Eagle was given to a
jewelry boss here during a strike Of
workers for higher pay. Although
the boss refused the workers de-
mand for 80 hour week and 40
cents an hour, the MIRA came to as
sistance Of the boss by providing the
Blue Eagle to cover up the sweatshop
conditions existing in his shop. For
a 50 hour week the workers are being
paid $3.50. The strike continues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27

preventing them from joining the
strike and decided to petition their
general executive board for a special
meeting to take up the strike ques-
ton. If refused the drivers intend
to call their own meeting.
Five pickets arrested yesterday were
released through the efforts of the
international Labor DefeS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
ELECTION CARNIVAL IN
PITTSRURGH

PITTSBURGH, PA Communist
Election Campaign Carnival and
Dance is scheduled heer at Princess
Hall, at IS Miller St., on Friday, Sept.
%, at 8 pm.
The dance is being held under the
auspices of the Workers Cultural
Club, and the music will be furnished
by the Stoney Gloster Jazz Orchestra.
Many features of interest to workers
at an affair of this kind are being
held over as surprise. All workers
are urged to come. Admission is only
Is cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
GREET 14TH ANNIVERSARY

DULUTH, Minn.-"We are with the
Communist Party in the fight until
the final victory of the proletariat,' y
states the resolution congratulating
the Communist Party on its 14th an
niversary adopted by the Scandina-
Wan Club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
$500 Ladies' TailOrs
Strike, TieUp BigShOps

NEW YORK. - The strike call of
Local SO Of the IL.G.W.U. resulted
in bringing $500 ladies' custom tall
ors on strike yesterday. The big shops
in the industry are completely tied up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
10000 Miners Vote for
Rank andFile Convention
Not Single UMWA Official Asks for Floor;
Feel Atmosphere Is Too Unhealthy
for Their Actions

BOBTOWN Sept 26Tn thousand striking
Sept. 80.
all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
More TIL In 10000
Workers Were Led by
T.U.U.L. Unions
Strike Wins More Pay.

Strike Wins More Pay.
NEW YORK.-workers at the
Lamport Manufacturing Co., sos
Broadway, won 81 increases in their
weekly wages and recognition Of their
shop committee and the drygoods
workers union after a short strike
on Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27

clash and aided the police.
The workers in the Independent
Union are aroused by this attack and
intend to defeat any attempt of A. r.
OF L. gangsters to break their strike
or their union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
81 PICKETS INJURED BY
CHEMICALS FLUNG BY SCAB
In new MEXICO COAL STRIKE
Strikers Hear Bill Dietrich, Communist Party
Representative, Tell Party Role in the &
Strike of the National Miners Unioa

GALLUP Mexico, pickets
Friday when Bill Reese herder
Workers. chemicals
picket line his
old Julio Trombini ground
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-27
National
Events
Cleveland Showing.

CLEVELAND, GA slide. show
"The Life of Russia" followed by a
lecture will be given by Block No.
40 on Friday, Sept. 29, pm. at
Grdina Hall, 6021 st. Clair Ave.
I. c. Ford, Communist mayoralty
candidate, is listed to speak. Ad-
mission will be ten cents.