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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
SKY PILOT CALLS
POLICE TO DRIVE
SEAMEN OUT
(By Marine Worker Correspondent

by a Marine Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK; arrived at the Sea-
mems House, $50 w goth st. and got
seated in the social room, when one
of the heads Of the house came in
and stated that no seamen are al
lowed in the social room after 6 p.
m, unless they have bedroom tickets
or belong to the YM.C.A.
Just as he was through talking, up
Jumped fellow worker seaman and
gave a talk, stating that this place is
for sean1en and the seamen on ships
have been giving money for the last
two or three years for the relief of
unemployed, and have donated thou
sands of dollars to feed the sealnen
out of work
The speaker made motion to stay
In the room and all the seamen
agreed, SO the sky pilot called the
police and down came car full and
chased all of the crowd out.
The line I was on in 1892, the Clyde
Mallory Line. that year donated over
$4,000, and that was only one line.
WSen we were paid after a trip there
was poster stating the amount do
mated and money was coming very
fast. enough to take care Of every
seaman out of work. The Seamen's
House don't have to pay taxes, as
they have a chapel inside The Sea-
mems House has said how much good
they have done for seamen, but let a
seaman ask for credit or for meal
and out he goes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08

commander with staff of two vice
commanders and committee to be
composed of platoon captains.
A disabled veteran spoke and an
nounced that two busloads of dis
abled veterans were going on the
march and if agreeable would leave
with the V.E.F. contingent. The
meeting cheered this move.
A former member of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars spoke and told how
he had been expelled for opposing
the Roosevelt economy cuts in his
post.
A woman. representing the women's
auxiliary of Brooklyn Workers Elk
Servicemen's League Post, pledged
the support of the women to the
march.
Walter Trumbull, national secretary
Vt the Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League who was present at the meet
ing issued a statement today calling
upon his organization to support the
vEF.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
Board Rejects Farm
Minimum Milk Price
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
SYRACUSE, n. Y, May 7.-0ne
hundred and fifty farmers, repre-
senting 10000 farmers, met here
yesterday and voted TO go out on
strike, beginning May IL, unless
they get 31a cents quart for their
milk. They flatly rejected the
Zone Plan which the board intends
to establish.
ALBANY, N. Y, May In order
to fool the farmers and stop them
from striking for fair return for milk,
the Milk Board announced yesterday
that it would act this week to estab-
lish zones for minimum prices to be
paid to the farmers. The board will
hold a hearing Wednesday. 1t in
tends to make these new prices for
the farmers effective May Is. The
board does not intend, however, to
give the farmers 80 cents for each
quart of milk. Many farmers are
getting half a cent a quart. The
move to create zones is for the pur-
pose of splitting the ranks of the
farmers, who are threatening a state
wide strike.
Thomas Parran. Jr., State Com
missioner of Health and a member
of the board, told the farmers that
a general strike would ruin" the
dairy industry of the state. He stated
that the consumers would be antag-
onized il the farmers went out to
dump milk on the roads. Strike or
no strike, the Milk Control Board viii
not set uniform minimum price for
all milk produced in the state A few
lives and the loss of property would
not amount to row of pins com
pared with what would happen If we
established statewide uniform
minimum price for the producers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
n. Y. TRADE UNION NEWS
NEEDLE " ORKERS PROTESTLN UNION
So WE'D AGAINST THUGS, RACKETS
ToIers Cheer Newly Elected N. 7. w. l. U. Leaders
ToiIers Cheer Newly Elected N. T. w. l. [

NEW neutrality-suspicious. for the
needle workers demonstration May
13 in Union Square, led by the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
against gangsters and racketeering, is
in full swing.
At joint meeting of the newly
elected trade boards last week it was
decided that each department inten-
sify its work in rallying all its mem
bers. A committee of IS was elected
at the meeting who will be respon-
sible for carrying out a series of
open-air meetings in all the needle
trades markets.
NEW YORK.-About TOO needle
trades workers we're present at an
enthusiastic meeting at Webster Hall,
Saturday afternoon, to greet the
newly elected officers and trade
boards of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union.
Bouquets of flowers we're on the
stage and kilograms were read from
workers in various shops, greeting
the newly elected workers.
J. H. Cochin was chairman. Ben
Gold, national secretary of the N. T.
w. I. u; Andrew Oyergaard of the
Trade Union Unity Council; zamora,
a Negro worker one Of those
elected; Ruth Miller of the white
goods department and Malich Epstein
of the Anti-Fascist Committee we're
some Of the speakers.
Gold made a fiery speech, rally
ing call to fight the miserable condi-
tions in the trade.
zamora spoke on the Negro prob
lens in the industry.
Overgaard greeted the officers in
the name Of the T. U. U. G. He ex-
posed the Roosevelt Wall Street pro-
gram of initiation, wage-cuts and
forced labor and pointed out TO the
newly elected officers that 1t was
against this program they should ORR
entate the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08

where strikes are still on. enthusins
the picketers and showing the bosses
their mass support.
The night before, 1000 bakers ant
their wives and children crowded
Royal Mansion in a strike rally
Smith, speaking for the Communis
Party and touching on the Daily
Worker and Il. b. Balon, speaking
for the F'reiheit, Jewish workers
paper, were cheered by the workers
for their support OF the strike.
The Mid-Bronx Unemployed Coun-
Gil has also co-operated in the strike
A committee Of various A. F. Of L
locals and attorneys for the worker!
protested to the Commissioner the
police brutality against the strikers
and the mass arrests last week. Bo-
Ian promised" to investigate but
meanwhile the strikers and support
ers will continue their militant ac
tions
A conference Of workers orasniza-
tons will be held this week 70 sup
port the stril
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
-, 4isSg-Ise
Three In Suicide Leap
When Tan,maHy Stops Rent

NEW YORK her baby
son in her arms 23-year-old mother
OF lit E. l05th st. attempted suicide
Friday by jumping in front of an
elevated train at the 105th st. station.
Her husband, Juan Miranda, was
dragged to the tracks as he tried to
stop her. The quick action of the
motorman saved them from being
ground under the wheels of the train.
The near tragedy is direct result
of the Tammany's mo rent" edict.
Miranda came home from the Belle
vue Hospital after several months
treatment for tuberculosis to find the
Home Relief Bureau had stopped re-
lief and his wife had a dispossess
notice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
SC0TTSB0RO MARCH IN CAPITOL
TODAY TO PRESENT DEMANDS

That's why TIM going, declared
Mrs. Myra Reid, delegate of the
Navy Street, Brooklyn Block Com
mittee
Alberta Ruffin, who has two chill
dren, and Maria Walker, who has
three children, came with Mrs. Reid
representing Women's Council As
The Spartakus Greek Workers
Club and the 51st st. Block Commit
tee brought their own truck into the
Square, with over twenty workers
going to Washington to carry on
their fight. They come from local
ity where Negro and white workers
have already learned the value of
united struggle in rent strikes.
At 2:30 in the afternoon, the COM
mittee announced that only 500 would
be able to go. A committee of cap
tains met to decide who would have
to be left behind. Not q person left
the hall, all hoping to go. The selec-
ton was made and still they stayed
Later, however, the necessary number
of trucks were obtained.
Will Report Wednesday.
NEW YORK. - The Scottsboro
marchers who by that time will have
returned from Washington, will re-
turn to a mass meeting in Rockland
Palace, 900 W. 155th ST., this We'd
nesday evening at p. m.
Representative of the marchers
who will describe the events in Wash
ington, and Joseph R Brodsky, chief
counsel of the international Labor
Defense in the Scottsboro case, will
discuss next steps in the fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
Brotherhood Officials
Accept Roosevelt Bill
to Lay Off 100000

WASHINGTON, May THE "op-
position" of the Railroad Brotherhood
officials to the Roosevelt railroad
program which will admittedly throw
from 100000, to 100000 more rail-
road workers into the streets has
now boiled down to the demand that
railroad workers be given "a modest
amount of economic protection" it
was announced today.
1t is reported that they will ask
that the Robinson Rayburn Bill in
clude provisions for a dismissal
wage" some small sum TO be given to
railroad workers when they are fired
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
STATE PROBE in
ALLENTOWN WILL.
HIDE THE FACTS
Workers Are Kept Off
Committee Chosen by
Governor Rinchot
N. T. w. l. u. LEAFLET
Questions Expose Role
of Mrs. Pinchot

ALLENTOWN, Pa, May THE
notorious conditions in the sweat
shops which came TO light as a re-
suit of the child laborers on strike,
las compelled the state to make an
investigation" The state senate APP
proved joint legislative inquiry.
on the committee making the Gin
5estigation," neither strikers nor
workers are to be represented Three
senator's, three representatives, and
,hree selected by Governor Pinchot,
Who was well aware of these condi-
ions beforehand, comprise the COM
nittee.
In the meantime the wife of Cover
lor Pinchot is taking advantage of
5he child misery for personal pub
lefty. She has arranged to come in
Ter limousine to picket tomorrow.
This ostensibly is arranged with the
Paramount news reel who will be on
land to photograph her.
A leaflet signed by the National
Textile Workers Union and the IN
employed Councils distributed among
he strikers, asks Mrs. Pinchot the
'ollowing questions: 1-Governor
?inchot, the husband of Mrs. Pin
shot has forced the Commissary plan
on the unemployed. This plan pro-
tides AZ cents a week for adults and
n cents for children. What do you
'ay about this, Mrs. Pinchot?
2-On April 2, 1925. your husband
signed the State Eviction Law. Under
this law, we, the unemployed and
Sweatshop workers are being evicted.
3-You, Mrs. Pinchot, claim to SYM
pathize with US workers, but will you
explain why your husband had
nothing to say when state troopers
were sent to Allentown to break the
strike of silk workers two years ago?
Why does Governor Pinchot send
ltate troopers every time the miners
strike in western Pennsylvania. a
Mrs Pinchot, your average income tax
for the last few years has been over
100000 a year You live on coupon
Tipping Your money is invested in
shops and factories where workers
ike ourselves sweat and slave for
low wages.
The leaflet exposes the shallow
hypocrisy OF Governor and Mrs. Pin
cslot. who together with other poll
ticians want to crush the strike with
their smooth words.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
Foltis Striker Appeals for
Solidarity Against Willoev
Asks Workers, Friends and NeighbOrs Not to
PatrOnize Stores

ever you may happen to meet. NOT
to pstronize the Willow Cafeteriss
Although, there is no strike or picket
lines on at the willows, they want
to be secure in keeping the conditions
OF the Willow workers miserable sc
they got a permanent injunction
against the FWIU
Every member OF the Trade Unior
Unity League is in danger of para
graph 500 by sitting in these places
with lesfiet that might in any
way desg with Willows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08

the mills got $275 for So hours
work worked at night shift. Eleven
hours from at night to in the
morning. After the trial, I began to
be worried. read in the papers about
the fight the LID. was fighting. So
went back into Decatur where was
born and raised. My life was threat
ened. But l didn't think of my life
I want to say to you all that I'll go
on with the fight for the nine Scots
boro boys"
Gen. Chamlee Cheered
It is about midnight. General
George w. Chamlee, gets up to speak.
The loudspeaker is out of order. He
has bad cold. His voice is hoarse.
His face is pale and drawn. But he
has come hundreds of miles from
Chattanooga with a message from 500
Negro and white workers. He PAGES
up and down the platform, his voice
only above a whisper. Workers stand,
SO that they can hear him. Others
come down from the galleries.
AND so this tremendous mass meet
ing surges to the street. Each Negro
worker knows now full well that in
William Patterson's words: IF not
for the white workers of America and
Europe the Scottsboro boys would
have been rotting for these two years
in the lime pits of Kilby Prison"
Again in William Patterson's elo-
quent words: 1T won't be a De Priest
or Booker T. Washington, who was
supposed to represent the Negro
people, it won't be even William
Patterson, but it will be you repre-
senting 1000 times 1000 and more
that will free yourself from this
system The march to Washington
is on.
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were heard in court on Tuesday
morning. The strikeNended on Satur-
DAY when the workers inundated
and terrorized by series Of gang
ster attacks planned by the owners,
returned to work. Ten active strik-
ers were blacklisted.
Judge Hirschfeld who heard the
cases Of the arrested workers released
all but one worker. Ray Gordon who
was held for investigation until Fri
day morning Gordon. worker in
Blyers Paper shop was one Of the
leaders of the strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE


were unregistered workers who came
into Union Square with the necessary
funds to pay their share of the trip.
This influx Of unexpected workers
caused the delay of more than five
hours, which everyone cheerfully sc-
cepted however, seeing that New York
was sending a real representation in
the fight for the rights Of the Negro
people,
Arrive Early,
Several hundred workers we're In
the square two hours before the Har-
lem contingent was due to arrive.
Workers from all over Greater New
York, IS from South Brooklyn, in
Guiding three Negro women delegates
from Women's Council Nos. As and
IS from Jamaica and Richmond. The
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union sent 25 representatives and the
Food Workers Industrial Union sent
seven. The union had been very &C
tive in raising food for the march.
Bristol, Conn, sent two Negro dele
gates, and Schenectady, N. Y, sent
two Negro and one white worker.
Rain drove the marchers into the
Irving Plaza Hall, near Union Square
and there they waited for hours.
many fearing they might be left
behind.
II certainly want to see that man
Roosevelt. l want to tell him you
promised us plenty. left three
barefooted children at home and /
want the Scottsboro boys cleared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
NJ. City Employees Get
IS p. C. Pay in Scrip

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., May 7. -
City employees will receive only %
per cent of their April salaries next
week in cash. The remaining rs per
cent will be paid in scrip which re-
tail merchants here are refusing to
take. Since the scrip is worthless for
exchange, workers are virtually re-
ceiving pay cut of rs per cent.
Mayor Bacharach claims that pay
ment of salaries in scrip will continue
and will depend on the amount of
funds raised from tax collections
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
THUGS BREAK
PAPER STRIKE

Ray Gordon was sentenced to s
months probation in the Bridge Plaza
Magistrates Court FRIDAY Tor her ac-
tivity in picketing during the strike
of the workers OF the Equitable Pa
per Box Co.
NEW YORK - The cases OF 81
workers Of the Equitable Paper Bag
Co, arrested dufing the recent strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
LABOR UNION MEETINGS

Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers Union--im-
portant membership meeting tonight at $50
pm sharp at Irving Hall, 18th St and
Irving Place. Bring membership books and
dues
Frday-Irying Plaza Hall--Meeting Of all
unemployed members at 10 am
The Hospital Workers League meets
Wednesday night at pm, at the irving
Plaza Hall, 18th st. and Irving Place
Prominent speakers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
By MOE BRAGN

NEW YORK.-More than 5000 Ne
gro and white workers pack st. Mich
olas Arena Friday night for a mighty
send-off of the Scottsboro Marchers
to Washington. They listen to Ruby
Bates and Lester Carter tell their
stories of the Scottsboro frsme-up,
They cheered the delegations from
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
coming in during the middle of the
meeting. For almost five hours the
hall sounds like a great drum pound
ing the militant beat of this historic
march, on washington, in the fight
for the liberation of the Negro
masses.
At 9 o'clock the floor and the gal
leries are impatient to get started.
Ushers with red bands and flaming
carnations are rushed off their feet
helping the workers get settled. Here
is an old Negro miner who says, THE
boss class hates this unity more than
the devil hates holy water" Near
the platform leans a white laundry
worker, member of the 1cor. On the
other side Of the hall there are work
ers affiliated with the Needle Trades
Industrial Union, Negro housework-
ers, ex-servicemen, worker con-
nected with the United Farmers Pro-
tective Association whose hands are
still raw from blowing, men and Wo-
men in sheepskin coats and creased
HI1a IF the
days work still wet on many of their
faces They wear tags with these de-
fiant words, The Scottsboro Boys
Shall Not Die. On to Washington"
And on the gallery ratings are the
great demands which strike the eyes
like strong bare fists, I'VE Demand
Equal Rights for the Negroes. We De-
mand the Enforcement of the 10, IA,
18th Amendment"
Tell Aim of Meeting
Louise Thompson, secretary of the
National Scottsboro Committee Of
Action, opens the meeting. She
stresses the character of the meeting.
She shows that this is a fight not
only for the lives of the nine boys but
for the lives of all the exploited Ne
workers under the. iron heel. And
then Leonard Patterson stalks up to
the microphone. He Is tall and lean
as a whipstock His words crack out.
This Scottsboro March, he cries, is
not merely bus ride Or playtoy,
i- i- t-ro
are bent on, We 60 to Washington not
to plead, kneel or beg. We come to
demand.
A mighty cheer breaks out OF more
than 5000 Threats. And just then the
delegation Of Negro and white work.
crs marches in from Massachusetts
and Rhode Island The whole gather
ing rises as one man to its feet.
Through the boom of applause the
delegation with its lunchboxes swings
up to the platform.
Ovation for Carter
And then Lester Carter. The en-
thusiasm is so spontaneous and whis-
ting and stamping and clapping so
great that Carter only with diff
Guilty manages to face it. He tells his
dramatic story, and concludes:
These boys are framed and as in
nocent as any of you men. Friends,
I have found out there is only one
way and that is cooperate and be
thousands strong. 1 am glad was on
the freight. know if l was shot
down TO tell the truth and go back
down to Decatur, l would do So"
Samuel A. Liebowitz, trial lawyer
in Decatur, gets up on the platform.
He spikes the old lie that if not for
the LID, the Scottsboro Boys would
have long been free. He tells dra-
matically how Attorney General
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
lBy a Foltis-Flscher strikerl

Fellow workers: The Willow Cafe
terra chain has gotten out per-
manent injunction against the Food
Workers Industrial Union. the union
that is helping us Foltis- Fisher strik-
ers financially, morally and physi-
cally and every other way in their
power TO help win our strike.
We, Foltis- Fischer strikers in soli-
darity appeal to everyone of you, to
please not patronize the Willows and
tell your friends neighbors and whom
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08

For many a decade past the his
tory of industry and commerce is
but the history of the revolt of
modern productive forces against
modern conditions Of production,
against the property relations that
are the conditions for the existence
of the bourgeoisie and of its
rule.-Communist Manifesto.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08

WaBe-cut on them, settlement by
arbitration and collective agree
ment.
One boss after another quickly
bowed before the militant determine
ton of the strikers, backed by masses
of sympathizers in the Bronx.
Saturday a mass parade, led by
the Young Communist League,
marched through the neighborhoods
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
1000 LINED UP IN NEW YORK FOR
VETERANS MARCH TO WASHINGTON
Meeting Saturday Elects Altman of Bonus
March To Be Commander of Vets March
BULLETIN.

NEW York;. E. leave ercw Wednesday from
Union Square The veterans
sometime in the
NEW fORk-Oer 500 veterans
Casino here yesterday
March Washington the
Expedonay Force which
George Altman, former elected
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
THOUSAND BAKER SHOPS SETTLE
Strikers Greet Communist Party Speakers

NEW f0RKon hundred bakery shops cent have settled
The bakers struck May against the attempts Of the force
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
i. s. COMMERCE CHAMBER APPROVES
ROOSEVELTS INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM
Chief Wage Cutters Hail Him as Their Friend;
Are Not Fooled by His Promises to Labor

WASHINGTON ID. THE of COM
consisting the
passed resolutions Saturday endorsing
ment regulation industry aid
The United Of the wage cutting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08
LOWELL SHOE STRIKE.

LOWELL, Mass.-Strikipg shoe
workers stopped automobiles of scabs
from being brought to a factory
here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08

The Southern Railway increased It's
net income from s2,923 ,879 to s5,472,-
l40 during the same months
The Southern Pacific drew Sl3.-
907,004 in dividends from the Pacific
Fruit Express in 1882, This was
gain from this quarter of almost four
million dollars over 1881. The New
York Central reports a net income
Of SO 396,261 for the three months
ended March 81, 1888 while the Bal
timore & Ohio earned a net Of almost
four million for these months. Net
income means income after interest
and fixed charges (taxes, etc. have
been paid.
Swollen SURPRISES
But the most startling evidence OF
hidden loot can be found in the huge
SURPRISES which The roads have been
piling up for future dividends OF
mergers. Thus we find that the De-
laware, Lackawanna & Western has
surplus of S62 million on hand.
The Southern a surplus of 1913 mil
lion. the Pennsylvania one Of 5000
million, with railway income for 1882
of more than $40 million. The sur
plus of the Denver d Rio Grande
is more than So million, the De-
laware & Hudson. owned by the not
orious labor hater, D. F. Loree has
more than $50 million in reserve for
its stockholders, even after buying
$40, 100000 of New York Central stock
this year. The Wabash, the Erie and
the Illinois Central have been able
TO pile up more than hundred
million in reserves.
The Van Sweringen Roads we're
able to maintain their profits in 1881
at almost the same levels as those
for 1881. The Chesapeake g. Ohio
had a net income in 1882 Of twenty
three and a half million, while the
Chesapeake Corporation, a holding
company reported net income Of
$6,129,77 for 1892 as against se,4o4,-
$40.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-08

Many of the workers who are slated
for dismissal have been working for
the roads over Is years.
The Brotherhood officials are OPP
posed to Federal unemployment in
surance at the expense of the EN-
ployers and the Government.