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Evening star., 1933-09-24
PLAYB0Y Of 1870
LEAVES SING SING.
$1,000 Tips Meant Little to
Former Sailor, Who Made
ShoeString Start.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OSSINING, N. Y. September 23.-H
Russell Ryder, gaudiest Of the playhoys
Of the baudy l920's. walked out of Sing
Sing Prison today with his self conf
derce and his ssrtorial elegance un-
diminished.
The former sailor, who ran a shoe
string INTO q fortune playing the mar
ket during the boom. astounded Broad
way WltI his nocturnal antics and
finally caused his brokerage firm to fail
for $500 900 by spending his customers
money when the crash came, isn't Wor-
ried about job. He announced breez-
lily that he had offers of two jobs, but
hs would not say what they were.
His Beau Brummel aspect, for which
he was famous in the years Of his hey
day. was not due IN any way to the
State OF New York. which provides each
graduating inmate with one cheap suit
Of clothes. Ryder had had complete
outfit in the latest mode sent in from
the outside.
RIDERS rise in Wall Street was one
Of the most sensational in the boom
years, and he gave sensational pub
1icity to it by his reputed habit OF dis
tributing 81 600 bills as tips to people
who struck his fancy along the white
way 1t appeared that everything he
touched in Wall Street turned to gold.
He brought a tremendous amount Of
business into the brokerage firm Of
Woody & Co., of which he was q part
ner.
In June, 1880, Woody & Co. failed
for $2,000,000 and then it became ap-
parent that part of Ryder's genius lay
in appropriating to his own use large
sums which had been given him to in
vest. He managed to hide this from
his partners in the firm by allegedly
forging their names to financial state
mentS.
He was indicted for grand larceny
on a specific charge of the theft of
$4,000 from John E. Vanneck, and
was found guilty. After a stay of sen-
tence of several months while he CO.
operated with the receivers for Woody
g. Co. in Strengthening out the firms
tangled affairs, he was given term of
to 10 years. He was released today
on parole after serving years months
and % days.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
LABOR BOARD TO HEAR
PROTEST OF AVIATORS
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A hearing on complaints Of pilots
against airline operators will be held
by the National Labor Board here next
Tuesday.
Complaints were filed some time ago
over alleged discharge of pilots who
had been engaged in union organjza-
ton activities.
David L. Behncke, president Of the
Airline Pilots Union, made the protest
and charged the Industrial Control
Laws guarantee Of workers rights to
organize without restraint or discrimi-
nation from employers was being vio-
lated.
This forms the basis for the
scheduled hearing. In addition. the
board has before it a contention by
Behncke that the countrys large air
lines were attempting to incite their
pilots to strike
Evening star., 1933-09-24

NO more pricked fingers
no more scalloped edge
curtains no more
torn curtains the cur
tains are stretched evenly
and naturally by the
weight of the lower rod.
See demonstration.-Street
Floor.
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but in the course Of the strike the
majority of them have joined the To-
bacco workers industrial Union, af
filiated to the TUUL.
Militant picketing and daily strike
meetings are conducted by the rank
and file strike committee, and the
workers are determined to hold out
until all demands are won, including
recognition of the shop committee and
no discrimination against strikers
The Womens Council and the WIR
are providing relief to the strikers.
Rank and Eve Strike Against A.F.L.
MisleadeFs
One hundred and thirty workers of
the Max Schwartz Primadora) To-
bacco Company are on strike de-
handing recognition Of their shop
committee and the right to belong
to the union of their choice. These
workers are members of an AFII To-
cal and the strike is rank and fils
revolt against their fake leaders and
the check-o system.
Joint action is being developed be-
tween these workers and the strikers
of the Edwin Cigar Company, with
mutual assistance in picketing and
relief activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11
BEER IN HANDS
OF MULROONEY
Tammany Control Bill
Is Adopted at Albany

ALBANY, April 1o.-Tammany's
bill to dominate the state beer racket
has passed and Governor Lehman
has indicated that the Tammany
chief of police of New York is to be
chairman OF the State Beer Control
Commission.
The notorious labor hater and thug
who was put into the job Of Police
Commissioner by the CRATER, Mayor
James J. Walker, is the personifica-
ton of that unity of the Wall Street
bankers and the criminal underworld
which forms the base of the Tam
many machine.
Raeketeers In On Graft
The appointment of Mulrooney,
whose police have protected the thirty
thousand or more speakeasies, blind
pigs and shake-down joints, is the
guarantee that these elements will
be brought directly into control of
beer in New York City and that all
those throughout the state who do
not render homage and allegiance to
Tarnmany will be smashed and their
places taken by TaInmany regulars.
The republicans from upstate who
fought against Tanmany control be-
cause they wanted a share in the
beer racket have now to be content
with whatever Tammany chooses TO
throw at them for being good and
faithful dogs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11
SUPPORT d. Fight for New Trial for Patterson Change OF Vu
Pobonement of Trial for the Other Sconsboro Boys Pending Appeal
'Ronsed in Sorrow and United in
Anger Harlem SeetheS Against
Lynch Verdict on Patterson

babe in her arms goes over to him,
What do you mean? You get out
Of here"
About a hundred voices all back
her up, Go ahead, Mr., Speaker. We
want this meeting"
Lord knows I do" says one woman
as she closes in on the speakers box
protectively. The cop walks off.
An appeal for funds is made. One
worker comes over,
Give me back a nickel of this
quarter, 1t is all I've got"
Extra, Extra" Newsboys carry
ing the Enquirer, Tammany sheet,
come into Harlem, One worker reads
the story. Get out Of here with
that lying paper" Others back him
up. They don't want any such read
ing as this. Newsboys fly down the
street.
Patterson Must Not Die"
Later in the evening, the Daily
Worker appears. Hundreds read the
headlines, JURY ORDERS DEATH"
HAYWOOD PATTERSON MUST
NOT DIE" Eager hands reach for
it. THIS is more like they want.
A young Negro walks up to a
vendor. Come with me, I know
where you can sell ten of them"
Take them yourself" the newsboy
tells him
I'D take all Of them, but I have
no money" is the answer.
An hour later he returns with the
money for the papers he took, Lit
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tie boys take papers paid for by older
workers and distribute them, asking:
Are you unemployed, mister, take
enc" Into houses they go, putting
them under doors. Helping to save
the Scottsboro boys, Everywhere
there are meetings. Hundreds listen.
Fifty thousand have heard the mes
sage of Scottsboro in Harlem this
day.
Mrs. B, are you going TO the
Labor Defense nneeting?"
''bde and the family" Mrs. B
answers her neighbor.
Roosevelt won't DO nothing
'ceptin we make him." one young
worker replies to an appeal by &
preacher to trust the president.
That's the truth. Amt he got
home in Georgia."
Worker Died In Hamburg for
Patterson.
TON Mooney is the proof that
white as well as Negro are oppressed
by white and Negro masters. A
worker died in Hamburg for the
ScottSboro boys. J. Louis Engdahl
died for them. Aren't you ready to
fight for them?" A Young Com
munist League speaker gets thunder
Gus applause over on Lenox Ave,
where he has been speaking for four
hours.
Twenty-Five thousand signed the
Scottsboro petitions on one corner
alone. Hundreds took pieces of paper
around to their neighbors to sign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11
STRIKE OF 1000
ON FORCED LABOR
AT HIGH POINT
Enters Second Week;
Company Union Used
to Hinder Strike

HIGH POINT, N. c., April TO-
The strike OF 1000 unemployed
against a wage-cut, while working
on job which they are forced to
do in order to get relief, Is now in
its second week. With the help of
the Bradley organization, a company
union, the city and county officials
have tried to break the strike, but
without success.
Thugs have kidnapped the strike
leaders. They have taken some of
them for ride" out of town, beat
ing them up. I. M. Ritchie, secretary
Of the Central Trades body, himself
half starved and with leakage in
the heart, was given severe beat
ing by these thugs.
The Department of Labor, always
on the alert to break strike. sent
Its "conciliator" to help the city to
smash the strike here. The mill
fancy OF the men will also make 1t
possible to defeat this maneuver.
The strike is under the leadership
of the Unemployed League. The
men were getting a dollar day for
three days, earning 50. This was
cut to 80 cents day, making it $40.
The Unemployed League made a pro-
posal, iii the city cannot pay So
then the daily allowance should be
$i.20, but two days week" This
government throughout the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11
WORDS AND DEEDS OF
ROOSEVELT
What He Said When He Ran for President and
What He Did When He Got the Office

During the election campaign,
Roosevelt made a great to-do about
the unemployed, declaring in a
speech at Baltimore: ut is not time
for delay when nearly half of our
people cannot purchase the bare ne
cessities for their existence =. . when
eleven millions of honest, industrious
and willing men and women are
trarnping the streets and roads Of
our country looking for work"
And what did Roosevelt then say
was his answer to unemployment?
First, he said that he accepted 100
per cent the Democratic platform
which had declared for "unemploy-
ment and old age insurance under
state laws" And early in October, in
an address delivered In Detroit, he
approved the fact that "Some lead
ers have wisely declared for a sys-
tenn of unemployment insurance
throughout this broad land of ours,
and VIC are going to come to it."
Yet what has been Roosevelt's
main "relief" proposal? A bill under
which two hundred fifty Thousand I'M
employed are to be dragged into the
wilds for a year, subject to mil
itary discipline under army officers
and paid wages first reported at $50
a month"; Accusing a storm Of pro-
test on the part of workers, the $1-a-
day wage clause was omitted, leaving
it entirely to the dictation Of the
President. Tho federal government Is
not only to legalixe forced labor, but
this law is actually a signal 10 pri-
vate employers to set up a wage
standard" at about 81 day for
common labor.
Moreover, the 100000 unemployed
whom Roosevelt proposes to nilitar-
i5e on reforestation work are, even
according to his own figure Of II
million. an insignificant fraction OF
the vast number of jobiess in this
country. Contrast this with the fol-
lowing from a Roosevelt prediction
discourse:
what do the people Of America
want more than anything else? Work
and with work a reasonable
measure Of security-security fol
themselves and their wives and chill
dren." Security for an unemployed
worker and his family at this out
rageous low standard!
There is also the $500, 600, 900 're-
lief" proposal, backed by the Roose-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11

Make May Day Memorable for
Labor are the opening words Of the
call of the Trade Union Unity League
signed by its General Secretary, Will
liam z. Foster.
1t states in part: May First is
approaching. 1t Is the traditional
day Of struggle of the workers of this
country. May Day was born in the
fight of the workers of the U. S.
against their exploiters. 1t was the
fight for the eight-hor day in the
u. S. on May /, 1886, that set in mo-
ton the masses of many lands in the
struggle for the shorter work day, in
the struggle against capitalist exploit
alton"
The statement further shows the
policy Of class peace pursued by the
leaders of the American, Federation
of Labor Pointing out that they
have tried to replace the bosses La
Dor Day for the militant day of strug-
gle May First. 1t then gives the
facts of the conditions of the work
ers today after four years Of crisis
the world over"
The American workers are steadily
being driven to increased starvation
by cuts in relief for the unemployed,
and wage cuts for employed; attacks
on the small allowances of war vet
Grams and small farmers. Instead of
the policy Of class peace, "the only
road for the masses to resist this at
tack-is the road of struggle"
The call draws lessons from the
policy Of class peace by the German
socialists in contrast to the triumph
OF socialism on the basis of the revo-
lutionary program in the Soviet
Union, stating:
To-day we can clearly see the be-
trayal of the masses by the Socialists
with their policy OF class peace. We
can see this most clearly viewing Ger
many side by side with the Soviet
Union. In Germany fasciSln is in
power. In the Soviet Union the toll
ing masses are in power. In Germany
there is the bloody terror against the
workers. In the Soviet Union the
masses determine their own rights in
the interests of all the toilers. IL
Germany there is unemployment
mass starvation. In the Soviet Union
the standard of living is rising ever
higher and unemployment has beer
banished. In Germany Hitlerism is
trying to plunge the masses into q
new imperialist war. In the Soviet
Union the masses are fighting for q
genuine policy of peace, but at the
same time ready to defend their vic
torious revolution to the last drop Of
their blood. The capitalists are moi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11
"a HOUR STRETCH
WITH NO BREAK
CRUCIBLE STEEL

(By Steel Worker Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, Pa,--The Crucible
Steel Co. here employs around 400
workers OF various nationalitieS.
During the past two years the fac
tory has been working no more than
five or six days per month, each
worker getting only two or three
days. Wages were cut from 80 to SO
per cent and each worker Is COM
PEELED to do the work OF two or three.
The treatment by the bosses and
foremen is unbearable. The workers
are sometimes compelled to work Is
and even "a hours in a stretch with
out any rest, regardless Of whether
1t is hot Or cold work, Often the
workers don't get full pay for the
work done, They can't protest, for
they would lose their job,
Once last January the company
announced that It will donate two
tons OF coal to those who work less
than six days per month. The work.
ers had to hire trucks themselves for
hauling this coal. But when they
came to get it, it turned out to be
trash, SO that the workers even didn't
care to take 1t, But they we're COM
PEELED TO pay 80 for the trucks out
Of their own pockets.
The workers themselves can rem
edy this. They should read the work
ing class papers, should attend mass
meetings, and organize. Fellow
workers, join the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union and the
Unemployed Councils. In United
Front we will conduct q struggle
against the capitalist exploiters, for
Unemployment Insurance. for better
Lying and working conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11
Unite to Demonstrate
on May First Against
Hunger and Fascism j.!
Trade Union Unity League Issues Call to All
Workers for Action; Response Begins

slow in realizing that the Soviet
Union is like a bright star in the
darkness, lighting the road of the
masses out of capitalist slavery and
to Communism. They are therefore
preparing to try to crush the revolu-
ton in blood. Their desperate situa-
ton drives them to desperate and
adventurous acts. The masses must
ever be on the alert to defend the
Soviet Union, which is the fatherland
not alone of the Russian masses but
of the whole world.
MAY DAY, 1898, must become y
memorable day OF struggle of the
masses of this country. A day of
struggle against wage cuts, for higher
wages, for the reduction in hours
without reduction in pay. A day OF
struggle for relief to the unemployed
and for federal unemployment in
Surance. A day of struggle for the
workers rights, against deportations,
against lyncllings and discrimination
of the Negro masses. A day of strug-
gle against a new world imperialist
slaughter, and for the defense of the
Soviet Union. A day of struggle
against bloody faScism in Germany
and the world over. A day of Strug-
gle against capitalism and for a new
social order in the interests Of the
masses, which can only be achieved
by dethroning the capitalists and es-
tablishing the rule of the workers.
The Trade Union Unity League
calls upon the masses to prepare
themselves to demonstrate their pow
er and determination to resist the
attacks of the master class. Let the
symbol of MAY DAY enter into every
factory. into every city, town and vii
lage. Let it become a new incentive
for all workers to unite their ranks
against their common enemy.
Workers of all parties and all or
CARNATIONS, join together through
conferences, meetings, for the prep
aration of strikes, mass demonstra-
tons and parades on May First! Sup
port the Mooney Congress, which will
rally all workers against their ex-
ploiters!
Demonstrate on May First
For the united struggle OF the
masses against their exploiteFs!
Against starvation!
Against Fascism!
Against inpcrialist war!
For the defense Of the Soviet
Union!
For the Workers and Farmers
Government.
TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE,
VIM. u. Foster, Gen. Secy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11
Big COMMUNIST
VOTE IN SUPERIOR
Double in All Cases
Over Last Ballot

SUPERIOR, Wis.--The Communist
vote at the recent city primaries was
in all cases doubled. and in one or
two cases almost tripled over the
vote cast last year.
The Communist candidate for
school board received a total Of l,l78
votes, against AT votes received last
year.
Another Communist candidate for
the school board received total OF
66S votes, against little over 200
received last year.
Other Communist votes showed a
correspondingly larger vote.
TUCSON, Ariz.--In the municipal
election the Communist Party has
placed as candidate for Mayor, John
task in the election the immediate
needs OF the workers, the platform
distributed calls special attention to
the need of fighting the discrinaiila-
ton practiced against Mexican and
Negro workers.
D. Guptandos. Centering as its main
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11

liz IGpOI 10 WILL NC Lldd6 ny A1ANAtW
OYergaard, secretary of the TUUC,
and Jack Stachel, Assistant National
Secretary of the TUUL.
The response of the workers to the
Manifesto issued by the Communist
International calling upon all labor
organizations to join in a united front
struggle against the menace of fas-
cism, starvation and war makes it
imperative to develop that fight for
the immediate demands of the work
erS without loss Of time, In this Sit
uation, the unions affiliated with the
Trade Union Unity Council must i'm
mediateIy take the initiative in build
ing the united front for struggle with
out waiting for the outcome Of nego-
tiation5 with leaders of the American
Federation of Labor and refornist
unions.
On the basis of the actual situation
in each industry and trade, the meet
ing will work out concrete proposals
for the immediate application of the
united front policy as a means of
mobilizing all workers regardless of
their affiliations or political beliefs
for struggle for their most pressing
needs.
Cleaners and Dyers Win Partial
Victory
The workers of IT shops struck
last Thursday on the first day of the
strike called by the Cleaners, Dyers
and Pressers Union, while the leaders
of the ALL. local in the trade made
frantic efforts to break the strike.
A strike meeting of the entire union
membership at Irving Plaza on Sun
day laid plans for extending the
struggle through militant picketing
and demonstrations. Workers in the
settled shops will be called upon to
come out Monday in support Of those
workers still on strike.
Demands include a minimum wage
scale in the trade, 40-hour week, no
work to be performed by the man
ayers and recognition Of the union.
Tobacco Workers Strike
One hundred and fifty workers,
men and women, of the Edwin Cigar
Company are now in their fourth
week of struggle against a wage cut
of IS per cent. The workers were I'M
organized at the time Of the wage cut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11

welt administration, and introduced
into the u S. Senate March 81. IN
der this bili-which would not 80
into effect until some time in May
even should it pass-sums equal to
one-third the relief money expended
by States in the previous three
month period are to be doled out, un-
der the supervision of a Federal Re-
lief Administrator to be appointed
by the President. This means thou
sands Of dollars to be paid for ad-
illustrators and TAT political Jobs.
But assuming equitable lump sum
distribution of these funds to each
of the II million unemployed, 1t
would mean that the average iobless
Notwithstanding those with fani-
lies--would receive only about $40 or
$50. Such pitifully inadequate sops
are calculated to keep the unenn-
ployed in a state of semi-starvation
1t is a sop thrown out to prevent
adequate relief and to stop agitation
for unemployment insurance.
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est Negro center in the United
States-the move for the mass
delegation is only one of the
manifestations of the pro-
found STRINGS aroused by the
Scottsboro frame-up among
the Negro masses, who are
more and more by their sup
port acknowledging the stra-
tegic part played by the
Communist Party and the In
ternational Labor Defense in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11

NEW YORK.-A spontane-
Gus movement arising out of
the tremendous mass indigna-
ton at the Decatur lynch YER
dict has resulted in prepare
lions for a march on Washing
ton by $4,000 Negro and white
workers to demand that Presi-
dent Roosevelt take action to
prevent the execution of the
innocent Scottsboro boys.
Originating in Harlem larg-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-11

relied shotgun against farmers and
workers. It will boost the price of
milk to the consumer but will not
give the farmers enough of milk
price to meet cost of production. The
purpose OF the Pitcher Bill can be
best given in the words Of the author
Of this experimental effort TO solve
the dairy situation" Pitcher writes
for the Associated Press, April 10:
1.-THE question is whether the State
of New York shall leave the dairy
farmer in a position where he is sure
to be an apt subject for almost any
radical sentiment"