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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05

VINO struck on Aug. 7 for higher
wages, were locked out and replaced
by nonresident workers. the Mayor
declares, because they refused to give
up their membership in the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union and
join the International Fur Workers
Union, affiliated with the A. F. Of L.
AS a result of his efforts to mediate
between the employers and the work
ers, the latter agreed to waive the
question of wage increases provided
their rights as union members were
not infringed upon and the MIRA
guarantee of such right was not vio-
lated by the employers, the Mayor
declared further. The Arm which
operates under the NRA accepted the
conditions stipulated by the workers
in the presence of the Police Com
missioner and several outstanding
witnesses including the representa-
tive of the local press. but when the
workers returned to the factory, they
were denied admission unless they
Joined the International Fur Work
ers' Union.
The Mayors affidavit and that of
several strikers have been submitted
to the court Of chancery in New
Jersey before which the case is now
pending. In his sworn AFFIDAVIT Peter
Doornbus, a striker, declares in part:
IT quit the international IL years ago.
At that time 1 did not like the way
the union leaders were running the
union because they were not working
for the interests of the union. When
I went to the open shop I worked
under better conditions and earned
more money. Since I have been in
the Needle Trades Union, the Union
always treats me good and I get al
most twice as much money as 1 got
before f. do not want to go back
to the International :. 1 don't
know why my boss should picks my
union for me-"
Other affidayits sworn out by
strikers point to the intimidation and
threats Of violence made by A. F. Of
L. organizers. when their members
international Fur Workers. came
past the picket lines of the Needle
Trades workers they took out their
big beam knives and swung them
around right on the street. II do
not want to be mixed up with any
men who do things like that" one
striker declared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Rochester Workers
Mourn Loss of Vet
Fighter, DavidLevin
(By a Worker Correspondent


ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Workers here
mourn the loss OF David Levin, al
ways a devoted worker in the revc-
lutionary movement, who died at the
age Of SO from ulcers Of the stomach.
Comrade Levin was the first secre-
tary of the International Workers
Order. He helped build the Jewish
cultural movement along class strug-
gle lines, was always ready to assist
arrested comrades, and helped give
and collect funds for the workers
press, for strikes, and all left wing
organizations. He was rs,mber Of
the Communist Party until given
leave of absence because of illness.
Conlrade Levin's funeral was one
of the most impressive ever witnessed
in Rochester = significant, too, be-
cause of attendance of Negroes. One
of the weaknesses of the workers
movement here is the small proper
ton of Negroes, but to these Com
rade Levin paid special attention.
At the cemetery, Comrade Sam
Essman delivered an eloquent plea
for the assembled workers to follow
the example set by the departed COM
rade to build Jewish movement free
from the religious poison and ma
tionalism propagated by the Jewish
bourgeoisie-a movement that will be
part of the working class of all ma
tionalities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
General Strike of
Cleaners, DyerS Is
Called in Hartford
Bosses Work with AFL
to End Strike for
Higher Pay

HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 4.-The
Hartford Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers
have decided to call a general strike
by unanimous vote taken at the
union meeting Friday. Workers are
striking against conditions under
which the average wage scale was
$40 week.
The A. F. Of L. officials called a
meeting Friday in order to split the
union with the help of the bosses,
but the workers were not tricked.
Many bosses approached workers TO
join the A. F, of l.. union instead
of belonging to the independent
union. Workers refused to go to the
A. F. of L. meeting and over 235 came
to the independent union. Only IL
went to the A. F. Of L. meeting.
The date of the presentation of the
demands and the calling Of the gen.
eral strike has not been set yet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Whalen Boosted Plan to Place Foster In Jail
For Life" After Unemployment
Demonstration In 1880

BY Labor Research Association
II HOPE to put him in Jail soon
for good"
1t was the Tammany Police Chief
Grover Whalen, talking about Will
liam 2. Foster, Communist leader,
as the notorious New York police
swooped down upon the hundreds of
thousands of workers meeting in
Union So. at the historical March,
1880, demonstration for Unemploy-
ment Insurance.
Later Whalen boosted of how he
had planted police spies in the ranks
of the workers.
This is the training by which
Grover Whalen prepared himself
for his present job-head of the
NRA in New York City.
IN New York City, on August 81,
"a sweeping Injunction order re-
straining two union locals" of the
Bakery and Confectionery Workers
International Union from picketing,
was granted by Supreme Court Jus
tice Strong, according to the New
York Times. The judges decision
terms picketing nuisance to the
public, as well as to former employ
ors," and shows how much faith
may be placed in the A. F. Of l..
claims that under NRA, workers have
for the firss time the RICH. to c~S-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Whaen and Berry, Proud Skebeakers Chosen for Heads

national Printing Pressmen's and
Assistants Union Of the A. r. Of l.
Berry has again come into the lime
light by virtue OF his appointment
as labor representative" of NRA's
Cotton Textile Industrial Relation,
Board, Coal Mediation Commission
and the National Labor Board.
This man, who has been termed
by William q. Foster as the peer
of the worst labor takers ever de-
veloped in the entire history of the
labor movement" is an old Demo-
cratic Party hack. (See Foster
book, Misleaders of Labor. Prom
inent in Tennessee politics of this
capitalist party, his name figured as
possible nominee for the viccNpresi-
dency when Morgan's lawyer, John
w. Davis, ran for president in 1874,
and aagin in 1928, when AL Smith
was the candidate.
At the 1925 convention of the A.
F. Of l.. in Detroit, Berry told news
papermen the following, in discussing
the 1923 web pressmen's strike in
New York. According to the Fed
Grated Press, October 9, 1926, he told
publishers:
This isn't your strike I'll break
this strike! Well, / brought In
strikebreakers from all over the
country to man the presses, broke
the strike, and then got . 81 in
crease (but less than the scabs were
paid-LR.A). Just two weeks ago
went back to New York on the
expiration Of the contract. The
publishers came to see me at my
hotel. (He maintained a suite at
the millionaire's Waldorf Astoria.
--LR.A). A week later they
brought back an offer Of . $3.50
increase. That meets my request
for a small raise, I told them, but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05

1872 locals and yet ''lost" the election
1t was proven in open court that
Berry robbed $l65,00o Of union funds
to finance his own enterprise, the
Hinchfield-H Hydro Electric Power Co,
and allied interests. When Chicago
union members rebelled, Berry broke
the strike at the Cuneo Press, Inc.
plant, in return for the immunity
granted him by the employers and
their courts.
On the unions book it is recorded
that 100000 was spent for the
palatial Pressmens Home. construct
ed under Berry's direction. How
much of this found its way into
Berry's pockets is not known. An
example of Berry's freedom with the
hard-earned money of union men,
bers, is the s42.50 fare he charged
in 1920 for going from New York
to New Jersey to address a meeting.
The unicn's financial report for
1924 reveals expenditures for one day,
March Is, of over 81 900 for Berry's
hotel, fare, phone and other such
items. The tale of Bsrry's czaristic
methods and crimes against union
lists would fill pages.
Both the Prince OF Wales and ex-
mayor of New York. Jimmy Walker,
Tammany agent and Whalen crony,
were made honorary union members
by Berry.
Yet Frances Perkins, Secretary of
Labor, writing for the United Press,
recommends to workers such out
standing representatives Of labor as
William Green, John Frey. George
Berry. 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Grant Demands or
We Strike Say Men
at Republic Steel

YOUNGSTOWN, O., Sept. A
committee of clippers of the Repub-
lie Steel Co. will 60 to the manage
ment Tuesday to press the demands
originally sent by letter. If the de-
mands are turned down or any
member of the committee is fired
for presenting the demands, the day
turn will walk out and picket the
plant.
The demands originally sent by
registered letter were signed by 100
clippers, who noted down their
check numbers. The men are asking
for 60 cents an hour, and eight
hour day and five-day week.
The clippers are heartened by
news that in several other depart
ments petitions have been signed
with demands, and the men are pre-
pairing to back them. Meetings are
taking place with men from other
departments. Every day new men
sign up with the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
BOwery " Workers
Refuse to Act.
as Strike-Breakers

NEW YORK.-Two weeks ago,
the young workers who live at the
Bowery Y. NJ. C. A., 20 East Third
Street, New York, were sent out to
distribute circulars for the Peck
Company, $50 Atlantic Avenue,
Brooklyn. They were instructed to
carry them to several factories and
distribute them there among the
workers.
When they saw that the circulars
contained stupid attacks against the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, which was heroically rally
ing workers to strike against the
rotten working conditions brought
about by the N R. A., they dumped
all the circulars instead of distrib-
uting them.
We accepted the nay of rs cents
handed to us for thre hours work,
out of which the Bowery Y. M. c..
A. (You Must Come Across took 40
cents; part of this went to Mr.. Blue
Vulture" Rockwell for his cut.
Monday morning we were sent
out on another distributing JOB by
the "Y," to Tillman Bros. Seventh
Avenue and 18th Street. New YorE.
These are the worst bunch OF slave
drivers in the advertising business.
Last Monday morning we got our
usual lecture of terrorism. The men
asked where the Blue Eagle was.
We are paid S1.50 a day by Tillman
Bros, out Of which the "Y" takes
SIPS. When we protested Tillman
told US we were "bums," and we all
agreed to strike for $3.50 a day. We
were Immediately sent back to the
"Y," and Blue Vulture Rockwell
gave us all tickets to South Ferry,
"The Bowery 'Y' is a home of
terror" is the byword of every
young and old worker who has had
the misfortune to be sent there
I just want to add that most Of
the workers at the "Y" are ardent
readers of the Daily Worker, and
some of them have already pledged
contributions to the Daily Worker
Sustaining Fund.
A Former Bowery "Y'
Flcphouse Correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Number of Strikes
on at Penna. Mines
Union Recognition and
Checkweighman Are
Chief Issues

FREDRICKTOWN. Pa.-Efph {
hundred miners Of the Mather Mine.
Pickands Mather Galleries Command
have lust ended their strike for the
right to have a checkweighman at
the mine. The strike was 100 per
cent strong and lasted three, DAYS
The company agreed to the demands
of the miners and thew went, back
) work.
The Vesta Mine No. mine Of the
bnes and Laugh,in Steel C,ornora-
ton came out on strike Thursdav
morning. The men are demandino
that Joseph Falbo, EMPLOYED AT the
mine. ioin the local union. hi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Free Killer, Hired
by Coal Barons;; But
Jail Mine Strikers
Indict Union Miners,
Make No Effort to
Jail Gunman

UNIONTOWN, Pa, &Sept. 4.-Sev-
enteen indictments against striking
miners were handed down by the
September Grand Jury. in Judge S.
John Morrow's court. This followed
the releasing on parole of Yoder,
gunman convicted of the killing Of
Fillopovich, striking miner in Fay
cite City few years ago.
Among those held by the grand
jury are John Simon, Colonial Mine
No. 3; William Ralco, Colonial No. a;
and Charles Tokar and John Simek
OF Luzerne Township.
John Simon is charged with "ag-
gravated assault" The superintend-
ent of the Colonial No. 8 mine ap-
peared against him. The super
claims that Simon assaulted Ralph
Cook and Sam Shelton on July IS,
VIM. Ralco and Mike Pellick are
charged with aggravated assault" on
Dan Steech. Chas. Tokar and John
Simek are charged with assaulting
Geo. G. Gilmore.
The other cases were held over to
the December Grand Jury. None Of
these cases were to come up now, as
the miners are very much in fight
ing mood. District Attorney Wade
X. Newell, decided to hold the rest
of the cases over until December.
His intention was to hold every one,
but there was mixup soneplace
and some of the cases were heard.
The district attorney in holding the
other cases over until December, ad-
mitted the thing got mixed" 1t was
not to be heard
The facts prove clearly that
frameup is in the making. The
should demand the freeing of
all the arrested miners and the ar
resting of the killers OF Podrovsky,
who was killed in the recent strike.
His killers, although known, were not
taken before the grand jury, because
the bosses felt that this was not the
time to free the killer as the miners
may come on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Anna Block, c. P.
Organizer, Fined
for Hill Meeting
NRA Meet on Federal
Hill Permitted
by Police

PROVIDENCE r. 1.-THE three
workers. D. Glass, L. Carbone and
Anna Block. arrested Aug. 20 for
holding q Sacco-Vanzetti meeting
on Federal Hill. have been released
Anna Block. of the National Textile
Workers Union, who defended the
workers in court, received a fine Of
$40 and costs, which will be APP
pealed.
The regular weekly meetings have
been called by the Communist Party
of Providence, and the police foi
three weeks prior to the arrest had
been attempting to break them up
The Federal Hill district is thickly
populated, and there were 5000.
workers present at the meeting when
the arrests were made.
The day before the trial, local bus.
mess men held an N. r. A. meeting
In the very same place where Com.
munist speakers had not been per.
mitted to hold meeting. Since the
trial one Communist Party meeting
has been held on Federal Hill and
meetings will be continued regularly,
despite police terror and arrests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Forced Labor Boys
In Wisconsin Drill
for Strike-Breaking
Deaths and Injuries in
the Conservation
Camps Mounting

MILWAUKEE,, Wis.-Mass forma-
ton drill and quick movement tao
tics are being taught to the boys
in the forced labor camp at West
Allis here, for the purpose of break
ing future milk strikes together with
the National Guard, according to a
worker correspondent.
The company commander stated
that for lease and facility" in move
ment they would adopt 8 military
procedure in the future. On dis
cussing these movements with regu-
lar enlisted army men, it was learn
ed that they form the regular part
Of riot drill. The keynote of the
movements is how to act in an
emergency, something which is GER
tainly not required in the work of
planting trees. And that is supposed
ly the work of the conservation
camps
In the meantime deaths and in
juries received by boys in these
camps continue to mount. From
Renoya, Pa, comes the report that
truck loaded with forced labor boys
plunged into a ravine after the steer
ing wheel broke. william Arnold
was killed instantly, and at least IA
others were injured, four seriously.
The funeral of John Cassidy 81
of jersey City. took place last week.
He had been killed in a collision be-
tween two Civilian Conservation
Corps trucks at Mccall, Idaho. AL
bert Anema of Paterson. seriously
injured in the same accident, is ex-
pected to recover.
The death of Joseph Schapiro,
while attempting to board a moving
freight train on August IA, was re-
ported to the Daily Worker The
boy had run away from the camp
at Springville, Utah, together with
a friend. Unbeatable conditions in
the camp forced them to take to
the freights in order to get home as
quickly as possible. Schapiro lived
at SIT e. 51st ST., Brooklyn.
And now since Roosevelt Is plan
ming winter session for the forced
labor camps, other deaths and in
juries of these boys compelled to
work in the camps so that their fam
lilies may exist, will take place.
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munist and "conciliator" (read strike
breaker) for the U. s. Department
Of Labor.
Whalen likewise directed the police
force in brutal attacks on workers
demonstrations, placed agents pro-
vocateurs in Communist ranks and
employed a blacklist whereby mill
tant workers were to be deprived of
jobs. New York Times, March IT,
1890. Subsequently the Trade Union
Unity League leader and other work.
ers were jailed for heading the March
8, 1890, demonstration of unemployed
And on May /, of the same year,
Whalen placed 10000 police on duty
ito cope with any emergency" as 1t
was termed, in the celebration by
New York workers Of their interna-
tional holiday. 1t was perhaps the
greatest military display ever seen
in New York against workers, with
"horsemen, klfantry, machine gun
men, chemical squads with their tear
gas and all the rest of the personnel
and equipment of the finest force on
earth, as Whalen boosted. At the
same time police were placed ION
guard" at the homes of prominent
men, including j. P. Morgan and
other capitalist exploiters. For this
Whalen was rendered banquet by
his Wall Street friends one week
later.
A reign Of terror against all mill
tants is what can be expected from
Whalen, the New York City NRA ad-
ministrator, as his actions since as
Stunning that position clearly indicate.
0F the same stripe as Whalen and
" other capitalists is the ex-Amer-
lean Legion chief, Major George L.
Berry. now president of the Inter !
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05

'in expressing in It's code such Ian
guage as appears in the automobile
code"
The automobile code, approved by
William Green and John l.. Lewis,
provide for the open shop through
the right of the bosses to deal with
workers individually"
Harrimans letter analyses Section
7 (a) of the MIRA and shows that
1t does not change previous relations
between the bosses and the workers,
except for few phrases about the
workers not being forced to Belong
to company unions, which Hartman
advises the employers doesn't mean
much.
He points out the big victory was
won, and the spirit of the NRA car
ried out, when the auto industry was
permitted to write the open shop
into its code.
Hartman said his organization al
ways favored the open shop and
finds it fully consistent with the
NRA.
quoting President Roosevelt against
any struggle Of the workers to OBJ
tain higher wages or improved con-
ditions, Hartman says:
1.-THE President has we'll said, This
Is not law to foment discord, and
1t will not be executed as such. This
IS a time for mutual confidence. We
can safely rely on the sense OF fair
play among all Americans to assure
every industry which moves forward
promptly in united drive against de-
preston that its workers will be with
it, to man."
The letter of Hartman will be fol-
lowed by vicious attack on workers
belonging to trade unions, as already
indicated by the firing of 100 Chev-
rolet workers in st. Louis for men,
bership in unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Deny A. FL. Right
to Picket NRA Firm
Injunction Issued to
Break Radio Strike


NEW YORK.-A temporary in
junction restraining them from pick
citing, meeting and from any other
form of strike activity has been is
sued against the 600 strikers of the
Leviton Manufacturing Co. in Brook
lyn. The firm manufactures cleo
trio light sockets and appliances and
has signed the code of the National
Electrical Manufacturers Association.
The workers are on strike for wage
increases due them under the code.
The Injunction is part of the at
tack instigated by Whalen and the
MIRA to smash strikes and already
used against shoe, furniture and
bakery strikers.
Hearings to make the injunction
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05

Meanwhile indignation among the
clippers is mounting higher. The
men are being staggered, and their
wages are cut. On top of this come
rumors that the company is prepar-
ing to offer the men bonus for
tonnage. eve don't want any boz
nus the clippers say. I'VE don't
want to kill ourselves for a few
cents more. We want a straight in
crease in wages and we will fight
for it,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05
Victory Dance

CHICAGO, Ill. = The Paper and
Wood Box Workers Industrial Union
will hold Victory Dance" in cele-
bration Of the strike gains of the
workers of the Chicago Containers
Corporation, Saturday, Sept. 9 at 8
P. M. in the Peoples Auditorium,
PAST w. Chicago Ave. Refreshments,
good music, cash prizes and free
wardrobe service will be given for the
Is cents admission price.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-05

permanent will be held at the SUI
preme Court in Brooklyn today.
Samuel Cohen, attorney for the
Radio and Electrical Factory Work
ers Union, an A. F. Of L. union, de-
clares that he will make the case
test to determine whether the col
lective bargaining actions of the MIRA
and the electrical code have any
teeth"
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lective bargaining.
And in the same city, a new
crime" has been invented with which
to charge workers striking against
MIRA slave terms. The ridiculous
charge Of which ex-Pclice Chief
Whalen Is author, reads: "disorderly
interference with the NRA." Follow
ing the lead OF Whalen, who is the
local NRA campaign chief, six pick
cts, members Of the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union, have been
arrested on complaint of the owners
Of the factory which they struck, and
accused, among other things, Of be-
ing Communists. Such efforts Of
the MIRA administration are aimed
directly at outlawing picketing, hav-
ing already set up an agency to pre-
vent strikes nationally-the National
Labor Board.
In this connection, 1t might be well
to review the recent history of Mr..
Whalen, MIRA chief in New York
City.
IN May, 1880, newspaper headlines
tcld Of the red plot" uncovered by
Whalen, then Police Commissioner OF
New York. The documents involved
in this alleged plot were proven to
be clumsy forgeries, and were even
admitted to be such by the Fish
Committee investigating radicalism
in the U. S. At that time Whalen
was linked to Ralph Easley and Mat
thew Vol Of the Notorious National
Civic Federation, patriotic anti
labor and anti-Soviet body. and to
Charles vs~-as- leading anti-Com-
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n atiOnal
Events
Cleveland Picnic

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Speakers at
the picnic Of the Unemployed Coun-
Gill will be the Communist candidate
for Mayor, Conrade 1, o Ford, and
Mr. Sweeney, the candidate Of the
Independent Democrats The picnic
viii tc held Sunday. September 10,
at Gycpjas Farm, en- Short Road.
Buffalo Anti-War Conference
BUFFALO, N. Y = An anti-war
conference, under the auspices OF
The Buffalo Committee for the Strug-
gle Against War, is called for Men
day, September II, at Q PM, to be
held in Valo Hall, $50 Order St.
Committee members are urged to
report early.
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Write 10 the Daily Worker abom
every event of interest to workers
which occurs In your factory. trads
union, workers organisation or 10
cality. BECOME A WORKER COR
RESPOND
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NJ. Boss Forces Workers
to Give Up Own Union
Recognizes Needle Union in MIRA Agreement
But Refuses Jobs Unless Workers Sign
With A. F. of L.

FARLAWN, N Sept 4-Coerce compel
give membership the
pathetic to the employers revealed
Kuiken Mayor of Failawn, County, N.
workers the NewJ