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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-19
CITY EVENTS

MEMORIAL MEETINGS. JANUARY
Memorial Meetings
meeting relief Meeting be
23 Public School Abermae Dah Boro
WEINSTEIN FRAME TRIAL TODAY
fremont
INTERNATIONAL CONCERT AND BALL, BENEFIT OF G.
night Manhattan Lyceum for the
Of Communist District
TONIGHT MANHATTAN LYCEUM
will
at Manhattan 66 4th St All comrade
be
FIGHT EMOTIONS TODAY AT 2os, MONTEREY AVE
eyicon strike 2o2S
Monterey Third ~ TO fremont
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80 BARBER SHOPS
IN HARLEM SHIT
DOWN BY STRIKE
Many More Expected
Out Today; Meeting
Called Tonight

NEW YORK Fifty Spanish barber
shops in Harlem We're completely shut
down yesterday in response 10 The
strike call issued by the Spanish bar
bers Of Independent Local 1O1, and
strikes in many more shops are eX-
pected today.
This strike, which is endorsed by
the BARRIERS and Hairdressers League
of the Trade Union Unity Council,
is now spreading to include the Ne
gro workers, who have just received
q cut in their proceeds from SO per
cent to 80 per cent on the dollar.
A major demand of the strikers is
that the regular working day begin
at am. and end at pm. and from
8 am. to pm. on Saturdays. At
present the BARRIERS in Harlem are
forced to work II or l8 hours a day.
Another demand is for 60 per cent
of the week days proceeds, and 10
per cert on Saturday, with a guar
antee of $40 a week minimum.
A special meeting to lay plans for
spreading the strike further is to be
held tonight at $50 pm. at the Es-
tonian Hall, q West 115th St. Thjs
meeting has been called by the Bar
bers and HairdreSsers League. The
league announces that it is the duty
of every member to attend this inn
portant meeting, and that special ef-
fort must be made to draw in as many
Negro workers as possible.
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Amalgamated Bank Sloshes Wages
of Workers: Third Cut Since June

their own union to protect them in
this instance as in the two previous
times when their wages were dras-
tically lowered These workers are
treated in the same manner as any
business firm treats its unorganized
workers.
Union dues are collected, Of course,
but the bank officials take care of
that in the form of the check-of. A
group Of workers had to resort to a
leafiet distribution from the outside
in the attempt to mobilize the others
in the bank to demand hearing on
the question of this recent cut.
These workers should not accept
timidly the position into which they
have been forced, but must assert
themselves and demand their rights
as Union members, should take action
by organizing also the rank and file
opposition to the sell-out by the Off
Gals of the B. S. & A. U.
The Office Workers Union of the
Trade Union Unity Council wishes
to assure these workers that they
stand ready to offer them any assis-
lance that they may need in carry
ing through any action to protect
their working conditions.
Forced Through
The leaflet issued by the protesting
group Of Amalgamated Bank en-
ployes describes how the wage cut
was put over, as follows:
Monday, January 8, Mr.. Murray,
our cashier, asked for our signatures
agreeing to accept a 10 per cent cut
in our salaries. We were hurried, not
allowing us time to think it over. We
were given the impression that all the
other employees had already applied
their signatures TO this agreement.
Noticing our reluctance and hesita-
ton, Mr. Murray made a remark to
the. effect that there was no use
hesitating, as our salar.ss would be
cut with or without our approval.
Then why our signatures? If Mr.
Murray we're TRUTHFUL and frank, he
would answer: That's to save our
face. We're supposed to be labor
bank and we can't take any chances;
We must have PROOF that you all
agreed to the cut whether you did
or not"
"Tis is the third cut since last
June.
"1-June, elimination of overtime
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pay;
"2.-August, 10 to 10 per cent cut;
Snow, another 10 per cent cut.
I'm each case we had nothing TO
say about it!
We are supposed to have Union
recognition in our Labor Bank. Why
are we not given the opportunity TO
voice our organized orinion on ques-
tions regarding our conditions? We
must insist upon our rights"
Sells Out Strikes
The same Hillman clique which
slashes the wages of its Labor
Bank employees is cutting wages of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
The Daily Worker printed on Tues
day statement of the Rank and
File Committee in the Amalgamated
which told of instances of fake
strikes declared out of season in col
laboration between the Hillman clique
and the employers, of Hilllman's col
laboration with the bloody South
River bosses, who called in private
thugs and murdered a strikers son.
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POLICE FIRE ON
CHICAGO JOBLESS
Wound 5 AS Workers
Fight Back
BULLETIN
BULLETIN
CHICAGO, nI.-Fifty- three work.
ers, mostly Negroes, were arrested
today in a jObless relief fight.


CHICAGO, Jan. 19.-Five workers
were wounded here this morning
when police opened fire on q DEM
cnstration of 1000 unemployed at the
Enmerson relief station at 22nd and
Kedzie. The demonstration was held
to demand recognition Of the unem-
ployed committees, immediate action
on various cases and So cash relief
for single unemployed workers.
A committee of Is had been elected
to present the demands, but large
police force inside and outside the
relief station refused to let them en-
ter and began TO club the demon
strators. The workers fought back
militantly and the police started fir
ing, wounding Max Tenenbaum, Mrs.
Kaplan, Mrs. Booth, Francis Kirka
and Weiner, a member Of the Young
Peoples Socialist League. In the
struggle five cops were injured.
New squads of police we're rushed
to the scene and they finally succeed
ed in breaking up the demonstration
arresting three women and ten men.
Detectives armed with machine guns
patrolled the area throughout the
rest of the day.
Later in the afternoon another
demonstration of 500 workers was held
before the E. 50th st. relief station,
the workers shouting I'VE want
food and clothes and we want them
now Police broke up this too.
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STAIN FIXES THE
FAULT OF DEFECT
IN GRAIN AREAS
Rural c.. P. Members
Are to Blame; Out
lines Remedy
BY n. BUCHAWALD.
european Correspondent,
Daily NVorkerO


MOSCOW, Jan. Is (By Ra-
dio).-The Soviet press pub
lished today the speech of j.
Stain, general secretary of the
Communist Party of the Sow
let Union, entitled: Concern
ing Activity in the Village"
The speech was made at the
recently concluded joint plenum
full session. of the Central Com
mittee and Central Control Com
mittee of the Communist Party
and is devoted to an analysis of
Party work in the village.
Stain pointed out the difficulties
in this past years grain deliveries in
a number of regions Of the Soviet
Union despite a better crop than in
1881 as the main Shortcoming of the
rural Party organizations. The rea-
sons for the difficulties in the grain
deliveries, Stain said, are to be
found mot in the peasants attitude
toward the Party and the govern
ment, but in ourselves, in our own
ranks"
The first reason for the short
comings in rural work is the fail
ure of our comrades on the spot
to appraise the new circumstances
created by the institution of trade
in grain on the part Of the collective
farms" Instead of assuring an
energetic campaign for grain deliv-
cries to the state as a prerequisite
for the trade of the collectives, Stain
pointed out that many Communists
neglected state deliveries and en-
phasized the storing of the grain in
exaggerated quantities for other pur-
poses, thus retarding deliveries to
the state.
The second reason given by Stain
for the defects in rural work is the
failure of Party workers to realize
that THE transition to collective ag-
riculture as the prevailing form of
economy does not decrease, but in
creases the guiding role of the Com
zlunists in improving agriculture. !"
Party Must Guide Farms.
Under individual farming, every
peasant took care of his own plow-
ing, sowing, harvesting and sowing,
with the Party only occasionally Civ
ing advice or warning. With the
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
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2 Important Issues
of the Daily; Jan.
II and January Is

NEW YORK.--On Wednesday,
January rs, James Casey will begin
series of articles in the Daily
Worker on the plot of the capital
| list politicians end the A. F. of l..
leaders in New York State to block
an the demands of the workers
fer unemployment insurance and
relief at the expense of the gov
ernpent and the employers. These
politicians and a. +. Of L. leaders
| are busying themselves in carry
| ing through tbch orders of the
Wall Street bankers.
With the plans moving forward
forsthe United Front Conference
al Albany, called by the New York
AZ. CT l.. Trade Union Committee
for Unemployment Insurance and
Rs.jsf, it is imperative that the
role OF The .reactionary leadership
Esliould be made known to all en-
! pIoyed and unemployed workers.
Order your bundles ofthc Daily
EsScrker now.
Also Saturdays january ~
edition of the Daily Worker will
contain number of special Lenin
Day articles omitted through lack
lof space from the Lenin Edition
eof the week before. Among them
are articles on: Block Organization
Work. Unit Tunctioning, Filipino
workers, Exposure Of Kings Com-
ty Hospital, etc.
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ct. S. Dsres japanese to Pass
Great Wa!I.'-N. y. Daily News.
"Japans Course May Force [. 9.
TO Act in East."-N. Y. Herald
Tribune, an organ of ihc Hoover
Government.
Basing its actions on president
elect RooseVelt's declaration OF unity
with the Hoover foreign policy, the
Hoover Government has instructed
its ambassador at Toxic TO file a
sharp protest with the Japanese
Government on the anti-U. S. dem
onStration. U. S. news dispatches
from Toxic claim that the demon
stration was organized by 200 pro-
fessional thugs with the conniVaEce
of the authorities. The dispatches
stress the fact that demonstrations
are strictly prohibited by the Jap
anese authorities as q curb against
the anti-War sentiments OF the Jap
anese workers ana peasants, and that
therefore the demonstration would
have been impossible without police
knowledge"
Friction Grows Acute
The raid on the Offices Of the y.
S. imperialist firm follows on the
heels Of charges and counter charges
and war threats by the two imper-
ialist rivals, the japanese charging
that the U. S. was trying to organ
ize united front against Japan, and
had contracted to make a war loan
of 100000 to the Marking Gov
ernment.
The Wall Street Government has
declared that any attempt by Japan
to penetrate beyond the Great Wall
would raise a new International
problem" The Wall Street Govern
ment thus clearly expresses its in
teption to go to war with Japan at
the earliest suitable moment for the
protection of U. S. imperialist in
terests and spheres Of influence in
China, at the same time that, to-
gether with other imperialist powers,
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agreed upon, from three "1employed
council headquarters to Stone and
Pitkin and then in a l'cdy to a de-
monstration at Christopher and Bel
mont, near the Home Relief Bureau
in Public School $50.
Police Break Promise
Then the police suddenly revoked
the permit late Tuesday night. and
massed forces of police, a patrolman
every yard or so around the assem-
bly, points. with mounted police, side
cars, riot wagons, gas bombs. and
even one machine gunner mounted
on a roof near the Relief Bureau.
Every effort was made to prevent
the march from starting. Six work.
ers, walking. not marching, from the
Crown Heights Unemployed Council
headquarters at 1864 Atlantic Ave,
we're arrested and three of them:
Pollak and Manning were viciously
black Hacked, until Pollak was drench-
ed with his own blood and Manning
was so badly stunned that he had
to be carried The others arrested
are: Schneiderman, Papcin, Klein
and Cook.
All six are held on 5000 bail on
disorderly conduct charges and their
cases will come up this morning in
Gates Ave court. at 495 Gates Ave
International Labor Defense attor-
neys T2uber and Hauptman will de-
-
the courtroom. Witnesses of the
beating should report TO the Defense
attorneys.
Evade Police Trap
But the bulk of the workers simply
marched around the police trap and
started huge demonstration at the
Home Relief Bureau BY the time
the police realigned their forces and
got down TO Christopher and Bel
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NEW YORK. = Sidney Hillman,
who sells out strikes in the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers, is, just
like any other boss, slashing also the
wages of the workers in the Anal
gamated Bank.
On Friday, january 13, the workers
of the Amalganlated bank were
forced to accept a 10 per cent wage
cut, the third since June.
Although this is a Labor bank
and processes to recognize union
of its employees. it carried through
this cut in an arbitrary manner, not
consulting with the workers, just as
it did the two previous cuts.
Sidney Hillnan, president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Union, is the chairman Of the board
of directors of this bank at a salary
of $4,000 a year. The workers of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Union should be interested to learn
how Mr.. Hillmans sell-out policies
in their Union are carried through in
their own bank. The Amalgamated
Clothing Workers remember who are
constantly fighting this sell-out policy
of Mr.. Hillman in their own Union,
and should rally to the support of
the workers in the Amalgamated
Bank by bringing the question up at
their union meeting and comparing
the $4,000 salary of Hillman with the
meaSly wages of the clerks in the
bank. This show of solidarity be-
tween the rank and file are ready to
tween the rank and file of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers Union
and the workers in the Amalgamated
bank will show Hillman and his
clique that the rank and file are ready
to answer all and every maneuver
that they make to lower the condi-
tons of the workers, whether carried
out in the union or in the bank.
A. r. of l.. in Plot, Too
Although the workers in the bank
are supposed to be members of the
Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Ac-
countants Union of the A. F. of L., no
attempt has been made on the part
of this union to resist this w ge cut.
Hillman and the American Fedora
ton of Labor fixed things up among
themselves and in this manner are
workers protected"
So terrorized are the workers in
the Amalgamated Bank that they
have not even dared to call upon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-19

LEGAL Union 1887 OF GLACIERS,
affiliated with District Coun-
Gil No. 8, has voted to send de-
legates Sunday.
The Huntington, Long Island,
local of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of America
(A.FL) has voted to send delegates.
These are the latest of a number
of ALL. unions, Trade Union Unity
League unions, and workers mass
organizations which have rallied to
the call of the New York State AT.
of L. Committee for Unemployment
Insurance and Relief, for the preli-
minary conference.
Plans State Session
Sundays conference is to make ar
rangements for and make plans to
involve every type and kind of work
ers' organization in New York state
in a conference to be held in Febru-
airy in Albany. The Albany sessions
will last at least three days, and will
work out bills on unemployment in
surance. against evictions. against
child labor. against injunctions and
for other sorts of labor legislation.
1t is proposed by the A. F. of L..
Committee that the whole Albany
conference Their, proceed to the legis-
lature to lay these bills. the first
actual legislative proposals of the
masses of workers through their
elected representatives, ever to come
before the legislature in this session
Against Ihjunctions
Workers of New York State are
thoroughly dissatisfied with the pro-
posals made by Governor Lehman in
his message to the legislature. Leh-
mans proposals. where they mean
anything at all, mean something bad
For instance, the governor proposed
not the abolition of labor injunctions
but merely a change in the method
by which injunction 'violators" will
be tried
Lehman's proposal for a Shorter
work week." bears all the earmarks
of the stagger system of wage cut
ting.
Lehman's plan for minimum wage
and higher age standard require
ments for child slaves does not at
all lead to abolition of child slavery.
With none of these proposals of
the governor can New York workers
be satisfied. They will, themselves,
through their own delegates in con-
ference assembled in Albany, make
other and concrete proposals, and
will call for mass support of these
propcc9ls.
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TIL. U.C. CALLS
ALL TO ATTEND
LENIN MEETINGS
Ienin's t. a C hin G S
Are Guide to All
Worker Struggles"

NEW YORK. = The Trade Union
Unity Council of Greater New York,
ais upon all workers and all its af-
tlliated unions and leagues to rally
their membership for the Lenin Me-
i1lQEiad Meetings to be held Jan. 81
at the Bronx Coliseum, Nth St. and
the, Brooklyn Arcadia Hall, 918 Hal
sey st, Brooklyn The statement of
tae T.JU.C. says;
'Lenin, the leader of the Prole-
tartan Revolution, is honored and
respected by workers throughout the
world, Lenin's writings and teach
ings serve as guide to workers
everywhere in organizing for the
struggle against the exploitation Of
the capitalist class. for the establish
nlent of Workers Government This
great leader of the working class had
no interests apart from the toiling
masses; he was always ready to dis
cuss with workers their experiences
and problems. 1t was this intimacy
with the lives and requirements of
the workers and peasants which
made it possible for Lenin to outline
50 clearly and directly the path which
the workers should follow in riding
themselves of their oppressors.
1.-THE T.U.U.C. urges the workers of
New York to honor the memory Of
our great leader, Comrade Lenin. in
a fitting manner, by making the LIE
min Memorial meetings real mass
demonstrations of workers who in
the spirit of Lenin and under the
guidance of his teachings will carry
on the struggle for the organization
of the workers for their immediate
demands and against this system Of
capitalist exploitation"
Browder, Hathaway Speak
Earl Browder, General Secretary of
the Communist Party of America,
will be the main speaker at Arcadia
Hall. Pageantry and music is also
on the prc I'M, for both Arcadia
Hall and the Coliseum. C. A. Hath
away, District Organez rof the New
York District of the Communist Par
ty will be the principal speaker at
the. Coliseum. Both events start at
7;30.
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PRISON HERNDON
IS TO 70 YEARS
Negroes Barred from
Jury; Workers Crowd
Court
BULLETIN.

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 1S.--Angelo
Herndon, militant Negro organizer,
was sentenced to eighteen TO twenty
years for organizing Negro and
white workers.
BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 18.--The
habeas corpus hearing, at which at
torneys for the International Labor
Defense will demand the release of
Roy Wright, youngest of the Scots
boro boys, was postponed by the
prosecution until Monday, Jan. 20.
The trial of Mrs. Alice Burke and
Writ Taylor, arrested on Nov. 7,
when they attempted TO address an
Unemployed Mass Meeting here,
was postponed over the objections
Of the international Labor Defense
attorney r y Irwin. TO Feb. :,
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mont there were some 1900 workers
there and the meeting was in full
swing, with a committee being cleo
ted to present demands on the Relief
Bureau for:
l, Removal Of all police from the
Home Relief Bureau.
2. All workers arrested for max
ing demands on this bureau to be
released.
3. No more red tape and relief to
be given registered workers within
three days.
4. Ten dollars for each family per
week, with SO additional for each de-
pendant, and for single workers 81
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1000 COMMUNISTS
JAILED IN JAPAN

TOXIC, Jan. 18.--The Japanese
press today carried admissions OF the
arrest of 1000 persons last year for
working class activities. All are
charged with being members of the
japanese Communist Party.
The news stories followed the lift
ing today of the press publication ban
on Communist activities. The ban
was designed to cover up the growing
mass arrests and persecution OF revo-
lutionary workers and anti-war fight
ers. A large number of students.
physicians, lawyers and university
professors, have been arrested in 1882,
all charged with Communist sctiv-
tiles.
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Speakers Class
Starting; Urge
Responsibility

NEW YORK.-The District Agit
Prop Department of New York Dis
trict, Communist Party, announced
yesterday that the District Speakers
Glass will start on Saturday, Jan.
28tl at 3 p. m. at the Workers Gen.
ter, so East 18th St., second floor.
This class which will train a new
corps Of Party speakers is of para
mount Importance. 1t is a step for
ward which win enable the District
and sections to meet the growing de-
mand for Party speakers which has
increased tremendously in the past
several months, owing to the wide
growth of the influence of the
Party among broad sections of work
ers in the New York District.
The District urged all section agit-
prop departments to Immediately
turn in the blanks of their applicants
SO that the necessary check-up and
examination could be done. All the
blanks must be in at the District Of
flee no later than Friday.
Application blanks must be in by
Jan. %.
Protest Against Failure of Speakers
to Fulfill Assignments
The following resolution was adopt
ed by the Williamsburg Workers Club
for publication in the Daily Worker:
THE Williamsburg Workers Club
expresses its sharp protest against the
promises made by the District Of
flee Of the Communist Party and the
Jewish Bureau and the failure of the
lecturers assigned to show up at our
meetings We consider this the great
est crime on the part of the leading
comrades toward a workers organiza-
ton. In our club, on six different
occasions one after the other we ar
ranged for speakers. On each occa-
sion, large numbers of workers watt
ed several hours for the speaker. At
the end of this time, they had to
leave, disappointed, with extremely
bad results for our club. Among the
speakers who failed to show up we're
Comrade Anis, Puritz, Bedacht, Jer-
ONE, Hathaway and De Santes.
"We demand statement in our
press from the District and also from
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FOUR MORE A.F.L. LOCALS
ELECT THEIR DELEGATES To-
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE
Representatives of Workers Organizations to
Meet in Irving Plaza Hail. Sunday
Will Plan Huge United Front State Wide Con-
ference on Labor Legislation

He NEW YORK-Loca Union and Local Union 81 both Of
the Brcayers Masons and Pasterers international Union of
America AFL have voted to send delegates the prel-
nnary conference for unemployment insurance and labor
gsation meeting in Irving Plaza Hall SUNDAY at 2 pm.
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14s OHIO BANKS NOW CLOSED

COLUMBUS, O.-Two more Ohio
banks have collapsed this month.
The Farmers Bank of Savannah, in
Ashland County and the Farmers
Banking Co. of Wayne, in Wood
County, making total of 142.
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RTnLETIN

WASHINGTON IAN IS.-Presiden
Hoover the white House FRIDAY the increasingly stu
alton between L. rivalry
supremacy in The Pacific and control China.
Fierce eovermenponsored outbreaks against the Toxic
offices Of the IT, s. Singer Sewing Machine Company yeser
day grim emphasis to terrific sharpening Of
struggle between Wall Street and japanese imperialism Tor
supremacy Of the Pacific and control China while head