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Evening star., 1933-01-10
Sweet Potato Custard.

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The Washington times., 1933-12-14

Heavy wOmbat collar.
Double breasted, 4 pockets.
Sizes SO to 46. There are
Is all wool Navy Pea Jack
cts in this lot.
The Hecht Co. Bargain Annex
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
RAID OF THUGS
BEATEN OFF AT
FURNITURE UNION

NEW YORK.-The third in d series
Of recent attempts by the bosses to
break up militant trade unions
through gangster- attacks occurred
yesterday at 7 a. m, when 7 gang
sters broke into the headquarters of
the Furniture Workers Industrial
Union, $50 Newport St., smashed the
windows, then attacked Max Perloff
and Jack Novack, organizers Of the
union.
One Of the gangsters was identified
as the son of one of the bosses of the
Newport Parlor Frame Co.. $40 New
port St, against which the union is
conducting a strike for the last four
weeks for back pay amounting to
$4,000, and against speed-up. About
90 workers are involved in the strike
Beaten up by the workers who de-
Tended themselves heroically against
the attack, one of the gangsters had
Jack Novack arrested on q framed
up charge Of assault. Novack will be
defended by the N. Y. District Inter
national Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

lore the lay-oH OF more Chan nall
the miners.
Terrific Speed-up
If the miners cannot put out the
amount of ore required by the Cop
per Trust, they are fired and told
there are a thousand unemployed,
Anyone known to have any kind OF
connections with the National Min
ers Union is Immediately fired. The
relief is controlled by the Copper
Trust, which is reaping in big slice
of the money loaned out by the r.
r. G. for relief purposes.
Miners Organizing
The miners and laborerS laid off
by the Trust are looking forward to
organization as the only means out
of their present miserable conditions.
A series of house meetings were held,
where we elected Unemployed Miners
Relief Committees, which went to the
Relief Station demanding relief for
those miners who were being dis
eliminated against in relief. The
miners at the Relief Station, when
they saw a committee entering, said
that they would organize also.
The Foreigner From Minnesota
Then a series of mass meetings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
Rank and File Miners in Action =
Over Heads OF U.M.W.A. Officials
Repeated w age Cuts
Awakening Miners to
Necessity of Action
(By a Mine Worker Correspondent

(By a Mine Worker Correspondent
PREMIER, w. Vain this part of
the country the workers don't know
much about the class struggle, but
they are getting uneasy now, and
I will tell you why. At the Premier
they cut ten cents on car of coal
and we used to get SOC for little cars
and they pay Doc for big cars. Now
we only get 40c and roc. Motormen
get $3.50 per day, trap man $2.40 and
track man 1923. These cuts were
put through on April 1. But this did
not satisfy the company, and they
turned on us with another attack.
We were getting 80c a cut for
bug-dust from the middle machine.
Now we were cut to cars for 28c.
So I wonder what kind of cut the
next time will bring.
It is difficult to get organization
started here. Everyone is afraid to
lose his job and the married men
say the single men are the ones to
start something. 1t will be slow
work, but I'll keep at it and per-
haps they will begin to understand.
a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
ANAC. COPPER
HAS TIGHT HOLD
ON ALL RELIEF
Breaks Up Homes

(By Mine Worker Correspondent
BUTTE, Mont. My wife and I
went on the Montana State Hunger
March last Jan, doing our little bit
In demanding better living conditions
for the oppressed people Of the state.
We were on the relief then, but as
soon as we returned to Butte, we
we're cut Off. The relief headquarters
In the Chamber of Commerce is run
by the Anaconda Copper Mining
Conlpanys blacklist gang for the card
office.
asked just why we were cut off
Of relief and was told that I went
on the hunger march, so I must be
in sympathy with the Communists,
and anyone that associated with them
could not get relief at their head
quarters.
asked how we we're going to live
and he said to have my wife go home
TO her folks. Were they break
ers too, I asked. Everyone in town
was against this terrible discrimina-
ton here, but the Anaconda is die
tating to the people of Butte just
what they are to say and do. So
now we only eat when am able to
bum food from the warehouses and
stores.
Workers and jobless workers, we
must all fight against discrimination !!
Others worse Off than us are suffer-
ing through this deadly work Of the
Anaconda.
H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
200 NEWSB0YS
STRIKE, TOLEDO
Demand 8 Weeks Back
Pay; No Firing

TOLEDO, OHIO, April 28.-Two
hundred newsboys struck on Monday
demanding their back pay. For the
past ten years the Blade and the
News Bee have paid boys a weekly
sum of from one to two dollars in
order that the boys handle the papers
OF one company only. In addition
the boys were given three quarters
of a cent on paper For six weeks
the boys have been refused this
weekly pay and are allowed only
two-thir0s of a cent on paper. The
boys must take out more papers than
they can sell and are not permitted
to return unsold copies but must
stand this expense. The circulation
managers treat the boys brutally.
One was given a suspended sentence
for beating newsboy and breaking
his arm.
On Tuesday at Court House Park
the newsboys will hold a meeting
and explain their demands. They are
asking for eight weeks back pay,
a guarantee of the weekly bonus,
no payment for unsold papers, l cent
profit on each paper sold, a bonus of
81 week, a guarantee of the return
OF the corners and no firing of boys
when school lets out.
The strike is being assisted by the
Unemployed Councils and the Young
Communist League. The boys are
organizing union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
NEW YORK SALES TAX IS BURDEN ON
POOR; CAPITALISTS PASS 1T ON

ally by this tax, the share extracted
from the consuming masses will ac-
tually be much more than this
amount. Thus, for instance, the price
OF a flve-cent cake of soap would be
raised at least one cent. This makes
an increase to the consumer of 20
per cent instead of the mere 1 per
cent the retailer pays. The same is
true OF thousand and one other
commodities necessary for the exis-
tence of the workers family,
For Every Penny of Worker
The workers, who are poor and IL
wing from hand to mouth, and are
buying in small lots, always pay more
proportionately for what they buy
than the rich. The workers will thus
pay heavier tax per unit purchased
than the wealthy. In fact, a workers
family whose cost of living uses up
nearly the full amount of its small
income, as Is increasingly the case.
will actually be paying a tax on near
~ every cent of its income. The rich,
on the other hand, whose incomes
are, OF course, much larger than what
they spend, are exempt from the tax
on this part of their income. And
the richer the person, the greater the
exemption.
The Mystery" Of the Sales Tax
The capitalist press and the poll
tlcians, notably Mr.. Graves. have
shrouded the sales tax in mystery"
seeking to conceal the fact that IL is
the consuming masses upon whom
the weight falls. But the editorial
remarks Of the New York World
Telegram have, in part, cleared up
this mystery" Said the World
Telegram; "The idea seems to be to
keep 1t dark who is paying We tax
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

that the eight-inch topping was to
be taken off, with the price reduc-
ton in effect. The cars when loaded
carry sbout five tons.
Strike Spreads
The Suffolks miners Of the st.
Nicholas colliery were offered the
same reduction and at special
meeting refused to go back to work
for the direct cut.
1t is now quite evident that while
the operators and the officialdom of
the miners are negotiating to give
the miners cut, the company Is
already feeling out the miners. The
miners are preparing by electing
non-wage cut committees, and are
calling meetings one after another.
Rank and File Action
Last week the Shenandoah Gen.
eral Mine Board had a non-wage
cut conference OF the rank-and- file
opposition where important business
was transacted in regards to the
coming wage cut. All the delegates
of the union were instructed to 90
back to the miners locals and prepare
for the coming strike. The hall was
filled to capacity. Delegates from the
whole lower anthracite were present.
II. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
MINERS PRESERVE JOBLESS COUNCIL

WILKES BARRE. Pa, April 2S.-
Attempts of disrupters to destroy the
large Unemployed Council at Wyo-
ming, Pa, were definitely defeated
this week when the disrupters were
forced to resign. The Wyoming I'm
employed Council which meets every
Thursday in the town Highschool has
a regular attendance of 200-400 work
ers.
The council in the few weeks of
its existence has been successful in
obtaining increased relief for the
workers, and has forced the burgess
and the Town Councilmen to appear
before it and report on relief granted.
Elements in the town who are lined
UP with the politicians have raised
the "red Scare" and have threatened
to expel all communists in the hope
of disbanding the Council. A motion
to discharge Pacanka, a communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

from his position as secretary was
defeated.
Charles Laird who was Thomas
Maloney's candidate for president of
District of the United Mine Workers
of America in a recent campaign
made motion to change the IN
employed council into branch of
the Security League last week. Shop
pard, the Towns constable, who was
chairman of the council, declared the
motion carried and the name was
changed without discussion. The
pressure of the majority of the mem
bers, however forced Sheppard out as
chairman the following week and also
two other members who supported
the politicians The Council is active
in organizing the May LIST Free
Mooney" meeting to be held at Kirby
Park at three o'clock and has elected
a delegate to the Mooney Congress in
Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
LEWIS GANGSTERS
SLUGGING MINERS
Raid House in Illinois
and Smash Thru Doors

FRANKLIN CITY, April 28.-Six
miners were slugged by the United
Mine Workers gunner in Orient,
Illinois, last Saturday, two of whom
are in West Frankfort Hospital as a
result of injuries received. The coal
operators Of the U.M.W.A. machine
are determined to force the strikers
to return to work by means of slug
ging, raids upon miners homes and
the most brutal wave of terror ever
experienced in the history of this
community.
Last Wednesday gunner came to
the home of Vuko Draskovich, kid
mapped him, and took him out to
Malketown on the County line, there
beat him up and told him If he ever
returns there he will be killed on the
spot. This miner is known as mill
liant worker who has supported the
Communist Party and has been a
close friend Of joe Colbert, secretary
of the Orient local who was brutally
murdered last fall by the U.MW.A.
thugs.
Last Friday evening the same gun
men came to the homes Of Frank
Schorts, w. Comel, George Filkins,
Louis Tutario, Mike Vukmir, smashed
the doors of their houses and slugged
them so badly that two Of them are
now In West Frankfort Hospital.
These miners are known as support
ers Of the Progressive Miners Union
and were on strike since April l.
Similar attacks are being carried on
against the miners in Frankfort,
Benton, zeigler.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
FRANK WAGNER,
DIES IN PHILA.

PEILADELPHIA.-TIle Kensing-
ton section lost one of its most active
and militant workers when Conrade
Frank Wagner died recently at the
Philadelphia General Hospital. Hav-
ing ~-"..,ied most Of his lifc IN the
hard cC-l mines, 'c - @Tflioted
With miners as.h.---. l-, Ling I'M
employed for the east few years. lack
OF proper food left him in a weak
ened condition.
Co.---.Io Wagner was one of the
first to Din the Kensinston Unem-
ployed Council when it was organized
two years ago, and shortly afterward
Joined the Communist Party. He was
q candidate on the Communist ticket
on both the 1881 and 1882 elections.
His daily activity consisted in try
ing to build up the circulation of
the Daily Worker in Kensington,
serving his route Until forced to cease
on account Of i'll health.
He was SIS years old. and before
coming TO Philadelphia had been an
active member of the United Mine
Workers for over % years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
By labor Research Assn.

NEW YORK.-In line with Gov.
Lehman's budget proposals of Jan.
80, the New York State Legislature
has just slipped over a 1 per cent
sales tax which goes into effect May
l. and will continue at least until
July, 1884. According to the admi-
nistration, this tax would net the
state at least $30,OOO,0OO a year. The
law provides that the tax is to be
paid by the seller-the retailer.
However, II does not forbid the
seller to pass on TO the consumer,
either the amount of the tax, or a
larger sum, in the form of higher
prices.
Despite all protestations to the con-
trsry by Mark Graves, president of
the state tax commission, and other
capitalists, it is a tax whose chief
burden will fall upon the consuming
masses-the workers and farmers. For
although food, public utilities servi-
,es" and gasoline are exempted from
his tax, it still remains on goods
consumed. That is, shoes, clothing,
medicine, household utensils, coal,
ce. furniture and the host of other
commodities which the workers need,
vii still be taxed.
Rich Escape Taxes
The sales tax is advocated by mem
,ers Of the capitalist class to escape
teavier taxes on their incomes, gifts
md estates. 1t is an effort to shift
he brunt of the crisis on those who
till have any kind of job or the
bility TO purchase at least some of
he necessaries of life. For although
/ is declared by Gov. Lehman's
,sncEmen that the state will profit
I least thirty million dollars annu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

pony eNA1A OthAAA CsoAS SOetl WV oQGl1 do
reduction in rent, coal and lower
prices in the store. The mine strikers
are standing fTm, having been out
since April 1.
Immediately after the miners
struck, the relief agencies cut their
starvation doles in order to force the
miners back to work. A single man
who had been receiving $1.50 per
week was cut to IS cents. Families
of ten received $110 week, families
of 8, IS cents, families of 6, 65 cents,
etc. The Strike Committee decided
to carry on a fight for increased re-
lief.
The head of the County Relief
Board, Mr. Young, is a foundry
owner and a representative of Gov
ernor Pinchot. He receives wages of
5000 a month. Miller, an attorney
of the coal operators, receives $4,000
year for distributing the relief in
this county. Mrs. Murdoch, one of
the county Investigators stationed in
Avella, receives lac for every ton of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
CHI. TEACHERS
REFUSE TO EAT
WITH BANKERS
7 e a c h er Kills Self;
Politicians Make Spa
cious Excuses But
No Pay

CHICAGO, Ill, April 29.-Desper-
ate from fear of impending starva-
ton, Paul Schneider, a teacher in
Chicago for fifteen years committed
suicide yesterday.
Unpaid for nearly year, Schneider
was unable to buy food for his family,
has already lost his insurance policy
through failure to make payments
and was threatened with loss of his
property.
Teachers indicated today that they
would not back down in the militant
struggle to get the nine months wage
lue them. Invited to an exclusive
club for special dinner by six Of
Chicago'S bankers, six leaders of the
militant teachers kept the bankers
waiting for some time and then sent
two OF their number to inform them
that they would not be bribed by
such methods. The teachers stated
they would meet the bankers in the
board room OF their banks to discuss
the question of the immediate re-
turn of their back pay. Dawes, Tray
Tor and Fenton were among the bank
ers with whom the teachers refused
to dine. The teachers declared that
they did not want to be obligated to
the bankers" reply, the bankers
stated they had "other business and
set no definite time to meet the
teachers.
CHICAGO, H., April 27.-After
series of militant demonstrations
by Chicago's unpaid school teach
ers which eliminated yesterday in
brutal attack by special police
patrols, the teachers have again
been left to starve with specious
promises. Concerned with the COL
lection of taxes in order to finance
their corrupt political machine: the
politicians are telling the teachers
that their back pay hinges on legis-
latlon to force tax payments. Mayor
Kelly informed the teachers today
that only when such legislation is
passed will the bankers advance the
money. At the same time the bank
ers are demanding greater econo-
mics in the school system which
will involve the wholesale closing
of schools and firing of school en-
ployees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

4 o'clock to meet the strikebreakers
as they were escorted from the plant
by special police to be taken by au-
tomobile to their homes A detail
OF IA police charged the picketers
with clubs but were soon outnum-
bered by the strikers who allowed no
quarter to them or to the strike
breakers. So courageously did the
workers defend themselves and strike
back that they held the police jam
med against wall until yoley of
tear gas fired by a fresh detail Of pO-
lice dispersed them Women work
ers among the strikers were especi-
ally militant. A strikebreaker was in
jured and three strikers were arrest
ed on charges of melting to riot. An
active striker, Michael Staman. was
injured by police and treated at the
Lynn Hospital
At Peabody, 5000 strikers gathered
at the SouthWick Tannery to pre-
vent the strikebreakers from taking
their jobs and were met with a bar
rage Of tear gas. The strikers dis
played great militancy carrying on
the struggle against the police and
the strikebreakers for so minutes and
blocking police efforts to transport
the scabs. -Four strikers were arrest
ed on charges Of assault.
Injunction Issued
The B. E. Cox Leather Co. yester-
day secured q temporary injunction
which prohibits the strikers from
picketing and parading. The A. C.
Lawrence Co. were granted q similar
injunction by the courts last week
But the strikers are not intimidated
by the new attempt to use the courts
to break their strike. At the mass
meeting following the tear gas at
tacks the strikers unanimously agreed
TO continue the fight for recognition
Of the union and for wage increases,
The strike is led by the National
Shoe Workers Association, but the
rank and file is asserting itself and
under mass pressure the officials of
this union have been forced to con-
tinue the strike.
The strike is now spreading to the
tanneries in Haverhill. At the L. H.
Hamel Co, reputed to be the largest
tanne:y in the country, about one
half Of the 425 workers are out. The
entire crew of the Haverhill Leather
Co. is out on strike and it is ex-
pected that more shops will be out
soon. The militancy Of the strikers
is high and their ranks are intact.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

coal mined on her property, as royal
ties. ..,.
1t is these agents of the coal oper-
ators who are collaborating to starvs
the miners into submission.
A committee Of miners visited Mr..
Young, who evaded the question Of
increasing relief. The miners an
swered by organizing hunger march
to the Washington County seat. The
following week relief was increased
from IS cents to rs cents for single
men, and increases were given to
families also. The relief was increas-
ed a second time to $1.25 for single
man, family of IL receiving $3.50
for two weeks. 1t is only the mil~
liant action of the workers which
forced the relief agencies to graF1
these concessions.
The workers have no guarantees
that the relief will not be cut again
and are organizing to maintain the
relief they have already won and to
fight for increases and for unemploU>
ment insurance,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

The NMU. organizer, Koski, was
threatened with arrest because .hs
was a foreigner from Minnesota.
The Trust has barred the use of all
halls on the range, but now, with
warmer weather coming. on, a series
of local mass meetings are being ar
ranged.
The Unemployed Section Of the
N.M.U. is being built up and we will
smash through the terror of the Cop
per Trust, which squeezed 81 per cent
profits out of the miners during the
war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
Development Of the
Maple Hill Strike
Worker Describes the
Shenandoah Walkout
(By a Worker Correspondent


SHENANDOAH, Pa. - About $50
employees of the Maple Hill colliery
refused to work April % when they
failed to reach an agreement with
company officials concerning o re-
duction on the price Of car of COAL
The men reported for work in the
morning, but failing to reach set
Element, refused to enter the bowels
of the earth.
The Pennsylvania and Reading
Coal and Iron Co. posted a notice
the day before that there would be
a reduction for loaded coal cars,
varying from 35 to 60 cents on a
car of coal.
At meeting of the Maple Hill
local union N. 807 the miners unan-
imously refused to accept the pro-
position offered by the company.
The rate paid for loading coal at
the Maple Hill colliery varies from
SO to $3.50 a car. The cars were to
be loaded to water-leveI, meaning
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29
WELFARE HEADS JEER WORKERS
nv a Worker Corrasnoodevfl

HERKIMER, N. Y-There's a post
office job here. ]. Smith, the post
master, and r. Shell, the Welfare
Association, are the big push. Con-
tractors are hiring and firing workers
all the time at IS cents an hour.
Last year there was forced labor,
cutting brush wood on farms. But no
wood was given out when winter
came, or to cook with in summer.
Gardens were promised in lots so
by 100. Nobody has any seeds or
money to buy them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-29

on the theory that then nobody can
feel It'll" Just whose idea it is to
keep it dark" the World Telegram
does not disclose.
But the workers know that it is
the wealthy and those with the
highest incomes who advocate sales
taxes and similar schemes. For such
taxes help them to escape taxation
of their own property and incomes.
$500, 0O0-No Tax!
As to the ability of this parasite
class to pay, there can be no question.
Some light is thrown on il by the
recently issued Boyd's City Dispatch.
Special Bulletin, No. so. This study
reveals that even now there are at
least 5,S15 individuals and 1901 BUSH
ness concerns in New York State
worth S1,0O0,0OO or over. In other
words, individual capitalists and capt.
talistic enterprises in this state COM
mand between them a sum not less
than $500, 000, 600! A mere per cent
tax on this huge sum would net over
SSS million, or nearly three times the
$50 million annual revenue expected
by the state from the sales tax on
the masses.
Increases JObIcss
There Is still another consideration.
however. The sales tax would add
further to the more than 100000
1obless workers in this state, since
the purchasing power of those still
employed would be decreased by
means Of higher prices.
But thu capitalist government is
not conc - with these consider
atoms, for n |. its duty to protect the
inconYS, estates, inheritances and
geneI ! property rights of the CAPT.
tails class whose servant it is.