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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-07
.S947 ISLOOT
. OF PICKPOCKETS
Southport Man Is Robbed
on Elevator After
Leaving Bank.

Sidney E. Wright, 81, Southport,
was robbed Of s947 yesterday by
pickpockets as he rode in an ele-
vator in the Consolidated building,
he told police.
Mr.. Wright said he drew 500 from
a bank yesterday and went to the
Consolidated building from the
bank. Meeting an acquaintance,
he and the acquaintance entered the
elevator. On the elevator, he said,
he was jostled by two other occu-
pants. Arriving at an office in the
building, he discovered that two
envelopes containing the money
were gone. He said he believed the
two men followed him from the
bank.
Practically all the peanut crop OF
the Unit ! States comes from the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-07
PROMINENT SURGEON
DIES AT Fl. WAYNE
Dr.. Miles F. Porter Passes
After Long Illness.

BIZ Times Special
FIT. WAYNE. Dec. 7.-Dr. Miles F.
Porter Sr., nationally known sur
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
2l2 Cloak Shops
Send Delegates to
Map Struggle Plan

NEW YORK.-Over 600 workers
representing PIP shops attended a
conference called by the Action
Committee for week work, in the
cloak trade Saturday afternoon at
Irving Plaza Hall. Reports of the
chaotic conditions of the unemploy-
ed cloakmakers, were made. Thew
condemned the fake stoppage which
the ILGWU leaders called TODAY. II
was brought out that meeting halls
were not provided for the strikers,
for fear that if the workers con-
gregated in headquarters they would
inevitably expose the falsehood of
the stoppage and would turn the
meetings into protest demonstra-
tons against the I.L.G. leaders and
the piece work code, who urge the
members to remain in the shops or
in the street around the shops.
A resolution was passed saying
that piece work under any form
means to maintain the system of the
sweat shop, starvation and slavery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
Union Painters Boo A. F. of L. Leader

the painters accept their leaders
program
Despite the betrayal of the Penn
sylvania coal miners and other work
ers under the NRA, Sidney Hillman
said, 1.-THE NRA establishes the right
of labor to organize. the MIRA is a
fundamental revolution in the coun-
try"
Lawrence Lindeloff, International
President of the Brotherhood, rosy
faced, fat bureaucrat, charged those
opposing the A. F. Of l.. leaders with
challenging the democracy and the
right of the workers to decide for
yourself"
Earlier at 1920 am, he was still
snoozing in his room at the Victoria
Hotel when delegation Of rank and
file painters demanded to see him
about the reinstatement of painters
expelled from the Brotherhood for
their militancy. Lindeloff, when
awakened, refused to see them.
The same delegation, which in
cluded Frank Wedl, Secretary of
Painters Local 499, Louis Weinstock,
Secretary Of the Provisional Commit
tee Of the Trade Union Conference
, for United Action to be held in
Cleveland August 26 and 81, paraded
in front of Mecca Temple with plac-
ards exposing the A. F. of L. lead
ership and urging the painters to
support the Cleveland Conference,
pledged to fight the NRA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
BY MORRIS KAMMAN

NEW YORK.-Dramatic rebellion
flared up among 5000 painters
against one of their ALL. leaders,
at special General Meeting of the
New York District Council No 8,
Brotherhood Of Painters, Decorators
and Paperhangers of America, Sat-
urday afternoon at Mecca Temple.
Edward A. Ackerly, General Vice.
President of the Brotherhood, who
had sold out the painters by agree
ing with the bosses on three scale
level of wages, was booed down when
he started to speak. Police and spe-
cial sluggers attacked the workers,
but the terrific protest that filled the
hall did not stop until Ackerly gave
up his attempt to speak.
This revolt of the workers came in
spite of long speeches by Fiorello La
Guardia, recently chosen fusion can
didate for Mayor of New York City,
and by Sidney Hillman, head of the
Amalsamated Clothing Workers, and
one of President Roosevelt's labor
lackeys on the MIRA. Both whooped
it up for the MIRA and urged the
painters to follow dutifully their A.
F. of l.. leaders.
Aside from this flare-up, the meet
ing on the whole ran along the
grooves oiled by the officials of the
Brotherhood.
After being told by LaGuardia and
Hillman that the MIRA is the hope
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14

= practically nothing. On the way
he visited five REPRESENTATION camps,
expressing qualification at the pro-
gress work as officers conducted him
around.
Everyone here is losing 10 and
20 pounds. The clothes they give
us won't fit and they are cheap
stuff, but if we lose something they
charge us about 6 or times what
it Is worth. They bought wash
ing machine and dccled us S154
for it and / saw the same thing
in Duluth for $751;" writes the
Daily Workers camp correspond
: ent from Big Lake Camp in Min
nesota.
In Camp Fechner at Big Meadows,
Va, the President joshed with the
cocks around the mess table He ate
with gusto. The menu consisted of
friod steak, mashed potatoes, string
beans, lettuce and tomato salad and
apple cobbler.
A correspondent from the Co.
guile River Camp in Powers,
tinctly less enthusiastic note: THE
feed which we get is just SO much
siop when it is poured into your
mess kit. One evening for supper
after a hard days work they work
us plenty hard, we had burned
rice, half done, peas which were
hard enough to use for seed, bread
without butter, and coffee which
you read a newspaper through in
the bottom of your cup"
Others who expressed gratifica-
ton at the existing conditions" in
the camps were Rexford, Tugwell, the
cerebrum of the Brain Trust and
William Green, the Peoples Friend.
From a Sacramento camp cor
respondent: "The only thing we
get is beans and hash. Sleeping
quarters are filthy and lousy. We
have to wash our clothes ourselves
and drink out CT the same crec:l.
No recreation Of any kind. When
one of the boys got ruptured bad
ly, probably crippled for life, the
officers were trying to lock in the
book to find out what was good
for a rupture. Many of the boys
were troubled with their stomachs
and appendicitis but to get medical
aid is impossible"
Mr.. Roosevelt had thoroughly
grand time at the Virginia settle
ment. "All have to do is look
at you boys to see what a success
these camps are" he told the youths.
I wish I could take two months off
from the White House and come
down here to live with YOU"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14

reading: "Mr. Welles, Get Quit"
More than 20 of Machado'S Porris-
tas have been killed, and rowing bands
of workers and students are scour-
ing Havana for others.
The hospitals are filled with
wounded, but it has not been made
clear who they are.
The full wrath of the people against
Machado was vented against Ma
chado's official newspaper, the Her
aldo de Cuba" the paper which pub
lished all of Machados hateful de-
crees. Machinery, office furniture
and other furnishings were smashed.
All documents were torn up and de-
stroyed Some of the invaders tried
to set the building on fire.
Smash Homes of Officials
Then large mass of people moved
to the house of Eugenio Molinet, Ma
chado's secretary of agriculture,
agent of the rich American sugar
barons. They sacked his house, de-
stroying Its contents and threw
the furniture out of the window.
Another group thronged the resi-
dence of Jose Sanchez commissioner
Of the central district, and one of
the largest landlords in Cuba. His
home was similarly treated.
Later today, Cespedes rushed SOL
diers to the homes of the leading Ma
chado politicians and other Cuban
landlords and capitalists in order to
protect their property from the en-
ragged populace.
1t was clear that the masses were
trying to wipe out by the roots the
Machado regime of terror, and that
the Cespedes government, backed by
Welles, was striving with all its
might to keep the feelings and ac-
lions Of the, masses from entering
more revolutionary phases.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
NeWCubanP resident
Acts toBreakStrike
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

and the pilot took off without a
signal for starting. He headed for
Miami, Florida.
The last statement of Machado be-
fore he fled Cuba praised the oppo-
sition and the forces who are now
in power.
Il wish to congratulate all the
members of the legislative body" he
said, "of all parties including the op-
positionists, for the cooperation ex-
tended and the patriotic labors ac-
complished during the past years,
which will go down in history"
When the news of Machado's flight
was circulated throughout Havana,
the masses flooded the streets hilari-
Gus with JOY, smashing into the presi-
Dental palace and destroying pic
lures and other mementos of the die
tator's regime. The police could not
interfere. They ransacked the homes
of all of Machado's chief supporters,
shooting down the most vicious of
his terrorists.
In an effort to keep back revo-
lutionary uprisings which would be
directed against the Cespedes regime,
now backed by Wall Street Ambas-
aador Sumner Welles, troops we're
ordered into Havana. More than
1900 soldiers, including $40 cavalry
men, were ordered into Havana.
The final crack in the Machado
regime came when the general strike
had drawn the entire workingclass of
Havana into participation, and arm
ed struggles were taking place in the
countryside. Mutinies began to break
out in the army on the demand that
Machado resign. Machado's futile
effort to put these down by person.
ally directing the executions of the
disaffected soldiers, was followed by
a hasty conference among the Off
GERS. They feared the army would
move into action on the side of the
masses.
Officers Maneuver Against Strike
Led by Colonel Julio Sanguily, the
officers at first suggested Machado's
chief henchman, Ferrerer, secretary Of
state, to replace him, but after con-
ferences with the oppositionists, they
decided this could not be put over.
They finally agreed on Cespedes
One of their demands, in order to
continue the forces who backed Ma
chado, was that General Herrera re-
main on the Cespedes cabinet.
The action of the army officers
came at a time when the army was
proving to be wholly unreliable to
maintain Machado in power, and in
order to prevent the armed uprising
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14

of the masses, together with the SOL
diers, they leaped into the van by
coming to an agreement with the OPP
position. This palace" revolution is
now moving into action against the
general strike.
Workers Defy Reformist Leaders
Just before Machado flew Cuba, the
yellow trade union leaders in his pay
attempted to call halt to the gen.
eral strike. But instead of following
their orders, more workers joined the
strike.
The main effort of Cespedes, aided
by the opposition and Welles, is to
give the present government a legal
continuity, to make it appear that
no revolutionary change is necessary,
but merely the succession of presi-
dent based on the leave of absence
Of Machado"
The purpose of this is to refuse to
accede to the demands of the masses
basis of Cuba, the driving out of
BASIS of Cuba, the driving out of
Yankee imperialism, distribution of
the land, the right of legality for the
Communist Party and all trade
unions, and to attempt to refuse the
demands of the workers for the eight
hour day, improved working condi-
tons, higher pay, and unemployment
insurance.
The army officers do not want the
masses to participate in wiping oW
the vestiges of the Machado regime.
AS one of them stated: 1T is gener-
ally agreed that Cuba is i'll prepared
for voting now"
The hatred against Welless and
Yankee imperialism was shown by
the slogan against Wall Street
shouted in the streets by the masses
when they celebrated Machado's dis
appearance. In one instance, they
toppled over a statue Of the bloody
dictator and labeled it with poster
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
Vines Publicity BalIyhoo
By EDWARD NEWHousR

Now that the United States Lawn
Tennis Association has received all
the gratuitous publicity that's needed
to jam the galleries Of the national
singles championships, whitewash-
ingS are in order.
Clifford Suffer, the third ranking
player, receives a. blandly ingenious
telegram instructing him not to coen-
ment on the recent exceedingly
timely charges of professionalism
against his fellow stars. Clifford, n
seems, is not sufficiently circumspect.
Copies of the telegram are sent to
| the press.
Helen Jacobs announces that she
is not going to autograph books in
that department store after all. Any
way, she was just going to do it as
favor. Days like this we all have
to pitch in and do our share. Re-
vival will not come of itself Tennis
players are not slackers. Helen's
statements are sent to all our best
papers. We don't get one.
And now Saul Stein, press agent
for sporting goods chain store sys-
tenn, reveals that the basis of the
U. S. l.. T. AS announced inyestiga-
ton of Ellsworth Vines, in which his
firm is involved, is another ballyhoo
gag.
81 conceived the idea of offering
Vines the job of general manager of
the firms sports goods stores at
$4,000 per-" Mr. Stein confides.
Getting permission from the firm, I
sent Vines cable. Then I gave the
story to the newspapers, getting end
less publicity for the firm, which was
the object behind it ALL
IF Vines ever accepted the offer.
I'm sure the firm would turn him
down as the stunt was purely a pub
licity affair from start TO finish.
They wouldn't give him crabs and
ice water, much less $4,000"
Mr.. Stein, who received SIS for
pulling the stunt, said he was going
to set Vines straight with the U. S.
L. T. A., "if Mr.. Carruthers will see
me. I've been over several times al
ready and he has been out every
time Maybe he doesn't want the
controversy settled until after the
mems national singles champion
ships"
The last remark will probably cost
him the interview All you have to
do is attend a Forest Hills champion
ship match to learn that Mr.. Car
ruthers and his associates are stick
lers for form. To be sure, other
sticklers will question their decisions
on minor formal matters, such as
seeding Helen Jacobs in the draw of
the national championships, so that
she will meet either Helen Moody or
Dorothy Round in the finals. But
obviously logic is with the moguls
when they assert that it is wrong
for Helen Jacobs to use her title to
sign books for sordid cash, although
there is nothing reprehensible in
their own use of the same title while
arranging the draw with a cultured
and not entirely impractical eye to
the box office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
Cuban Struggle Is
Hailed by 1000 at
N. Y. Mass Meeting
"Must Win Freedom
fromYankee Imperial
ism" Says Browder

NEW YORK.-'While the ousting
of the Butcher Machado is a victory
for the Cuban masses, yet the fight
has only begun" declared Earl Brow
der, General Secretary of the Com
munist Party of the U. S. at mass
meeting in Park Palace, 10th St
and Fifth Ave, held Friday night.
About 1000 Spanish-speaking and
American workers attended the meet
ing. A collection Of $57 was taken
up for the Cuban revolutionary or
CARNATIONS.
"The Cuban masses, to be free"
Browder declared, must free them
selves from Yankee Imperialism
and from the other native i'm
perialist agents. This task will be
carried out by the toiling masses of
Cuba under the leadership of the
Communist Party of Cuba"
A sharp attack upon the bloody
Machado government and denun-
citation of the interventicnist role of
the U. S. mediator" Welles, were
the keynotes struck at the meeting.
A report that Machado was fleeing
the country in an aeroplane was
greeted with great enthusiasm by the
audience.
Speaking in Spanish, Leonardo
Fernandez Sanchez of the Mella
Club pointed out that the Cuban
workers, entering the struggle against
Machado long before the students,
were the major factor in drawing
the students into the revolutionary
ranks.
Other speakers at the meeting in
cluded J. Mcdonald, framed up in
Tampa and recently released from
JAIL Emilio Cancio Bello, Cuban
student, and James w. Ford. Will
liam Sinons of the Anti -Imperialist
League, acted as chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
NRA Gas, Cops, Thugs
Help Leaders to
Check Revolt

of the American working class" the
painters accepted a program calling
for a special levy of so cents per day
upon each member working under
the jurisdiction Of the District Coun-
Gil, for special initiation fee during
the so-called organizing period under
the NRA, for the empowering of the
District Council to employ larger
staff Of organizers for "the unioniza-
ton and control of the trade"
Although fully 5000 workers were
present, only about third voted for
this action, while several hundred
workers braved the presence of slug
gers throughout the hall and stood
up to express their disapproval
Nevertheless, P. zausner, secretary
treasurer of the Brotherhood, an
nounced unanimous vote for the
main program. During the voting
more than half Of the workers left
the hail.
To delude the workers, the most
extravaganza claims were made for
the MIRA.
LaGuardia said, 1.-THE MIRA makes
possible the dream of every trade
unionist," and then demanded that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
TRIKE IN
DRESS SHOPS
SPREADING
Mass Meeting Tomor-
row to Combat
Sweatshops

NEW YORK.-With many
dress shops already on strike,
decisive steps for a general
strike to wipe out sweat shops
in the dress industry will be
taken at a mass meeting to-
morrow, 5 p. M, at the New
York Hippodrome, 9Th Avenue
and 43rd Street.
A referendum will be held by the
I. L. G. w. u. on the question Of
strike.
Pastors demanding one union and
one general strike will be distributed
among the dreSsmakers. These
pastors are to be placed on the
ballots at today's referendum.
1t is the belief of the workers that
the International officials will at
tempt to thwart an effective strike
of the dressmakers. The Industrial
Union in letter to the Dressmakers
General Strike Committee of the I.
l.. G. w. U. urges the calling Of
meeting of shop representatives to
allow the workers to discuss the
questions of one union and united
strike of all workers, these proposals
have SO far been rejected by the 1.
L. G. w. U. leaders.
At the Eleventh Hour.
AT the eleventh hour, reads q
statement from the Industrial
Union, Our organization there
fore again calls upon you to &C
cept our proposal. Let the dress
makers unite in one union and
one strike. No official of any union,
claiming to represent the true In
terests Of the workers. can honestly
reject such proposal.
If we cannot achieve the neces-
sary unity before the strike is cal
led,' the statement continues, then
we call upon you to notify us OF
the date when you intend to call
the strike, in order to make it pos
slble for our union to call upon our
members and followers to strike on
the same day. This will present
solid front against the bosses and
will encourage the dressmakers, and
will be step in the direction of
achieving their unity in the struggle
for better conditions.
I'VE maintain that even after the
strike is called it will not be too late
to bring about one union and the
unity OF the strikers. Even if thru
your action you will compel us to is
sue separate call for the workers
10 come out on strike, we on our
part Will nevertheless do everything
IN our power in the course of the
strike to unity the ranks of the
strikers for their common demands
on the dress bosses.
Our members have no ouarrels
with the members of the Interna-
tlonal. The dressmakers who will
respond to our call will have no
quarrels with those who will re-
spond to your call. Both are oppres-
SEQ ana exploited by the same dress
bosses. We will therefore encourage
and urge them to unite on the picket
line, to present one solid front
against the bosses and to fight
shoulder to shoulder until thev really
compel the dress bosses to yield to
their demands"
Whether there will be a favorable
answer or not from the Interna-
tlonal officials, the dressmakers must
De ready under all circumstances TO
enter Immediately the struggle for
better conditions.
the N. +. w. I. U. calls upon all
active members to report at 7 O'Clock
Tnls morning at the headquarter, 1871
w. 18th Street. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
Cultural Workers
Called to Meeting
With "VOlunteers'

NEW YORK.-An invitation to
all cultural organizations to send
official or unofficial representa-
tives to a meeting of its Cultural
Committee this evening has been
sent out by the Executive Com
mittee of the Daily Worker
Volunteers.
The Cultural Committee will
hold its meeting at 7.30 p. m.
today in the District Office of the
Daily Worker, on the street level
at IS East 18th Street.
The Cultural Committee pro-
poses to organize Daily Worker
chorus, band, and other cultural
groups as part of the activities of
the Daily Worker Volunteers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14

is cordially invited to join in
The campaign which is the first
vital step in the fight against
the present government at City
Hall.
In addition, the Committee has
issued statement listing five i'm
portant, separate tasks for all or.
carnations and groups.
They are as follows;
l. All organizations and groups
should Immediately send representa-
lives to the headquarters of the
Committee at 799 Broadway, Room
526 to get as many collection boxes
for the Dime Collection Week, Aug.
1927 as they can possibly use.
2. To procure and sell as many
tickets as possible for the Red Rally
and Election Picnic to be held on
August q at Pleasant Bay Park.
Robert Minor, Communist candidate
6or mayor will be the main speaker.
8. To arrange series of out
door meetings, with especial con-
centration on the collect-a-dime
week of August 1927.
A. The names and addresses of
all available speakers should be i'm
nediately sent in in order to receive
he weekly bulletin that the Com
mittee will issue.
5. To make immediate prepare
lions for the five Boro Election
Conferences which will be held on
he night of Sept. 8 at which the
platform and candidates of the
Communist Party for the coming
election campaign will be ratified,
Makes Further Suggestions
In addition to these five points,
the Committee urges that the Cen
tral bodies or leading officers of the
various organizations should take
steps to notify their lower organiza-
ton units of the above points, en-
phasizing particularly the dime-col-
lection week, pointing out that this
collection campaign is an excellent
opportunity to bring the Party cam
paign right down to the workers.
On the second point, the commit
tee urges that the organizations
send unofficial delegates or repre-
sentatives to the Red Election Pic
mic on August 27 to discuss the
plans for the campaign.
On the third point, the Committee
emphasizes that all open air meet
ings should feature the dime-collec-
ton boxes. Discussion of the col
lection-boxes and a collection should
be on the agenda Of every open air
meeting.
The Committee further emphasizes
that the Boro Conferences should
try to draw in as many A. F. of L.
unions and union locals as possible.
House committees, block commit
tees should be drawn in, and en-
couraged to send delegates to the
Ratification Conferences.
The Committee is working contln-
uously and with the greatest energy
to prepare to bring the platform OF
the Communist Party to the work
ers Of the city. The situation IN
the city has never been more IA
vorable for a successful campaign
than this year. Everybody must
pitch into the fight at once!