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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
Fists Fly as NewsbOys
Demand S1.50 Gypped
by Boston Transcript

BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 24.-The
staid offices of the Boston Tran
script were thrown into an uproar
today when from twenty to thirty
neweboys stormed the business Of
flee demanding their full pay of
$3.50 a week instead of So a week
they have been paid for the past
year. The boys only recently dis
covered that the agent employed
by the Transcript to employ the
boys had been pocketing $3.50 a
week from each pay envelope.
Fists flew as one slender youth
newsboy resisted his boss. Tran
script business executives sepa-
rated the two but the verbal battle
ragged on, the Transcript executives
taking the side of the thief and
trying to whitewash him with var
ious excuses.
The boys continued to shout
their demands for nearly an hour
refusing to leave until the man
was ousted and they got their full
pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
Drive Toward Fascisan
FUNDAMENTALLY, the Roose'

FUNDAMENTALLY, the Roosevelt
1 program has for its purpose the
strengthening of monopoly capital,
the guaranteeing of its profits. Roose-
welt wants to reduce the cost Of pro-
duction for big monopoly industry
so as to give it advantages in the
home market and in the fight for
foreign markets.
The Roosevelt program is thus a
dual affair-the tightening of the
monopoly grip on the home market,
and the aggressive imperialist expan-
sion outward for foreign markets.
1t Is the central proposition Of this
article that the failure Of the MIRA.
to alleviate the crisis, the consequent
necessary for increased reduction in
the living standards Of the workers,
makes Inevitable the development of
more and more open Government
violence, more and more fascist re-
action against the rising struggles Of
the working class, more and more
preparation for impcrialist war.
ITO Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
Merger Of Two
A. T. [. Hat Unions
NOtCarriedThrOugh
Millin cry Workers
Meet Tonight, Hear
Gold and Minor

NEW YORK.-The struggle for
power between the officials of the
United Hatters of North America and
the Millinery, Cloth Hat and Cap
Makers Unions prevented the sched-
uled amalgamation of the two A. F.
of L. unions. it was revealed yesterday
when the national conventions of
both unions closed here. The Mil
linery delegates voted to authorize
their General Board to bring about
peace between the two officialdoms
after they learned that negotiations
were broken up.
Max zaritsky, president Of the Mil
linery Workers, in his report to the
convention delegates indicated what
the officials of both unions expected
to gain for themselves by bringing
both unions together. A secret agree
ment had been reached by the Off
cials of the two unions in which it
had been settled that Max Zaritsky
was to be president Of the union,
Michael Green of the United Hat
tiers, vice-president, and Martin Law
lor, the aged secretary Of the hatters,
was to continue as secretary with the
provision that one of the millinery
officials was to succeed him as secre-
tary. This was defeated by officials
of the Hatters' Union, who want
more of the spoils.
Rank and file millinery workers are
organizing their forces to bring about
real unity of the workers in both
unions with the purpose of exposing
and defeating the plans of the Off
Gals, who seek to gain greater con-
troll to enable them to sell out the
workers more effectively.
The Millinery Rank and File Com
mittee calls all headgear workers and
all other needle workers to a mass
meeting at Bryant Hall tonight, Oct.
Is, to hear report on the conven-
ton. The meeting also is called for
the purpose Of hearing the issues of
the election campaign. Ben Gold,
secretary of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union and candidate
for President of the Board of Alder
men, and Robert Minor, Communist
candidate for Mayor, will speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
WORKERS FROM IA
STEEL MILLS MAP
UNION BUILDING
Industrial Union Holds
Calumet Conference

INDIANA HARBOR, Ind, Oct. ~.
Steel workers from IS mills in this
district gave spirited response to
the call for a conference of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union.
The conference held Sunday at Ru-
manian-American Hall was attended
by 141 delegates from the Calumet
steel region.
There were representatives from "a
fraternal organizations, five unem-
ployed organizations, two indepen-
dent unions, and 10 locals of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. Ten per cent of the delegates,
coming from u steel towns, were Ne
gro workers.
Joe Weber, District Trade Union
Unity League secretary, reported TO
the conference, drawing the lessons
of the Standard Forgings strike which
has just been called off because Of
the strikebreaking carried through by
the N.R.A. and the A. F. Of L.
All delegates spoke Of waRecutting
carried through under the MIRA.
Every one called for action against it.
A Provisional Organizing Commit
tee Of 20 members was elected to put
the decisions of the conference into
action. 1t was decided to begin mass
meetings Immediately to open the
campaign, to be followed with confer
ences on local and mill scale and the
preparations Of actual struggles. Mass
meetings are to be held this week in
Indiana Harbor and in Gary, strong
hold of the U. S. Steel.
The conference endorsed the pro-
posal of the Chicl@O Workers School
(already endorsed by the S.MwI.U.
District Board, for the establishment
Of two schools in the Calumet region
for the steel workers. The conference
also endorsed the building of the
Women's Auxiliary of the S.M.WLU,
and cheered the talk Of Mrs. Jenkins,
who spoke for the Womens Auxil-
larry.
Reports of the Standard Forgings
workers points out that although TAX
ing temporary defeat, they intended
to go back into the shop and carry
on organizing work so that in the
near future they can come out with
the workers Of other mills and force
the steel trust to give in to the de-
mands of the steel workers and to
recognize the union Of the steel
workers, the S.MWIU. as.e
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prosecuting attorney, was heartily
cheered when he declared in his
opening statement that, This is no
mock trial; the Coroners inquest was
the mock trial.
Attorney Gottsdanker, having
stated that the witnesses before the
Coroner's Jury were witnesses for the
defendants and that the judgment
rendered at the Mass Trial would
be sent to the Grand Jury, proceeded
with the examination of witnesses.
Saw AZ Bodies
Russell Dell, the first witness, said
that the only protection that could
have been given to the men who
lost their lives was to have kept them
out of the canyon in which the fire
ragged. This was not done, according
to Dell.
That only 20 lives were lost, as re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
FASCIST TENDENCIES IN ROOSEVELT
GOVT GROW AS MIRA. DEEPENS CRISIS

fact that American economy, the
temporary shot Of initiation given If
by Roosevelt is wholly played out, S
plunging downward with accelerating
speed.
Steel production, now at a point
so per cent below the seasonal peak
made during July, is now at "a per
cent Of capacity, and faced with a
prospect Of one of the leanest winters
in the history of the industry.
The steel backlog of untitled orders,
sensitive index Of future business
has just broken downward through
the lowest point ever recorded, the
1910 level.
Railroad carloading? Never pene-
trated to any appreciable extent
above last years levels. And the
less-than-car loading figure, the in
dex to RETAIL buying never even
went above last years levelsl
Building construction? Plunging
downward to new lows all the time.
Now at the lowest levels of the crisis.
EOhCk8A 0SAl
at the low crisis level, over go per
cent below 1929.
Unemployment? Despite the DELHI
erately vague reports coming from
Washington, 1t cannot be hidden from
the workers that the vast army of
jobless remains around the 1900, 900
Of the peak unemployment in March.
Production? The New York Times
index shows a drop of 80 per cent
in the last eight weeks.
After six months of the Roosevelt
N.R-A. economic program, the capt.
talist solution to the crisis so glow
ingly heralded by the Roosevelt prop
uganda experts-American economy is
headed precipitately downward, after
having accomplished only the brief
est of seasonal spurts in few indus
tries.
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written statements of 81 workers
present at the time Of the fire, and
after it, have been collected, accord
ing to workers attorney, Frankel.
Communists Answer Frame Up
Charges
Lawrence Ross, representative of
the Communist Party and candidate
in the last election for Mayor Of Los
Angeles on the Communist Party
ticket, was next asked to take the
stand in connection with charges
made in an article in the Los An
geIes Times accusing Communists Of
having started the fire.
Communists do not believe in acts
of individual terrorism" declared
Ross. He then went on to state that
the only way in which the working
class can gain its detectives, and the
way in which it attempts to do so,
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down in there or no more work" he
said. Three hundred went down, he
averred. He testified further that
one worker out of his crew of 20
was lost that he knew of; that he saw
but one ranger and that he was
standing safely far up on the top
of a hill looking down at the fire
through his field glasses!
Another worker, not examine dby
the Prosecuting Attorney but pres
ent at the scene of the fire, charged
that a ranger declared in the pres
ence of the speaker and other work.
ers that all of the relief workers in
Griffith Park should have been
burned up! Then the city wouldn't
have to be bothered with support
ing them!
In addition to the verbal testi-
mony offered at the trial, sworn,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
Model N.R.A. City
Cuts Relief to
Jobless rs P. c
Cleve Gland Workers
Demand Jobless
Insurance

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 24.-Cleve-
land, which has been boasted about
far and wide by the Roosevelt gov
eminent and the employers as the
leading N.R.A. city, has come for
ward, under the leadership of the
democratic administration of Mayor
Miller, with an announcement oil
cuts in unemployment relief ranging
from 10 per cent for families of two
we see the NR.A.. policy in operation
to 26 per cent for those who have SIX
in the family, starting today. Here
as far as the unemployed masses are
| concerned.
While the steel mills in the city
OF Cleveland are cutting down on the
number of days per week and thus
throwing larger and larger masses
on a shorter part time week with
absolutely no unemployment at all
and the fifth winter of unemployment
facing the Cleveland unemployed
Mayor Miller, who is claiming he
represents the Roosevelt administra-
ton, comes forward boldly with the
policy of the big steel companies and
bankers Of Cleveland-with a new
attack upon the workers.
The Unemployed Councils have
Immediately reacted to this challenge
of the ruling class and have decided
to mobilize the masses of Cleveland's
unemployed to fight relief cuts at
demonstrations in front of seven re-
lief stations on Thursday afternoon
Oct. rs at 2 p. m. The Unemployed
Council is also sending mass dele
cation to the regular meeting of the
City Council on Monday night, Oct
%. The main demands that the
unemployed workers under the lead
ership Of the Unemployed Council
will present before the city and coun-
ty authorities are:
1. Immediate withdrawal of the
relief cut.
2. Immediate increase in unem-
ployment relief to meet the higher
cost of living.
3. Single men to receive relief at
the local relief stations instead OF
being sent to the wood-pile.
There are IL relief stations In
Cleveland but the demonstrations on
Thursday will gather at the seven
most important. These are as fol-
lows:
1. DeniSon Branch-West 22nd
and DeniSon.
2. 33rd and Lorain.
3. Doan Relief Station-Bast 1O6th
and Superior.
4. Broadway and saith
St.
5. 1901 Kinsman Road.
6. 4Oth and Broadway.
7. 10th and Hayden.
The Unemployed Council is de-
manding not only the return OF these
cuts to the impoverished workers, but
the immediate passage of the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill,
and that the city council shall in
dorse the bill and demand its passage
by the federal government.
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ported by the Los Angeles Times and
other local capitalist papers, Dell
declared was lie. He said he
counted AZ dead bodies at the scene
Of the tragedy
The second witness asserted that
no protection had been provided by
the city in case of fire, and that he,
himself, helped to carry out 81 work.
ers' bodies burned black. This wit
ness also added that no straw
bosses" went down to help fight the
fire and that, so far as he knew, no
straw bosses" had been burned.
Knocked Him Down
This witness testified that he was
at a distance Of two to three blocks
from the fire and that it took him
about ten minutes to get to it; that
straw boss knocked him down
twice in an effort to force him into
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is by mass action. This, he said, is
the belief of Communists and that,
therefore, it could not have been a
Red" who set the fire, if it was set.
A committee of 20, he added, had
visited the Times office and had pro-
tested against the lying article app
pearing in that paper laying the re-
sponsibility for the fire on Commu-
nists. The Times offered no apol-
ogy and no retraction of its false
statement. The only action it took,
according to Ross, was a threat to
call the police!
Attorney Gottsdanker summed up
the testimony in the case by declar-
ing that the fire started at 2:20 pm.
Tuesday, Oct. 2; that 100 lives were
lost; that the city took no precau-
tionary measures either to prevent
the fire or to combat it.
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the flames of the Griffith Park fire
by threats and beatings from their
foremen, was described by worker
eye-witnesses to the mass jury which
has returned against Los Angeles Of
ficials a verdict of murder dut to
criminal negligence"
The trial of 1.-THE Workers Against
the City and County of Los An
geles" was held in the headquarters
of the Los Angeles Relief Workers
Protective Union, TAI South Wall st.
The five worker judges who pre-
sided, and the mass jury of $500
which jammed the hall, demanded
immediate removal of the city and
county authorities. The defendants
did not appear, but the trial pro-
ceeded without them.
Theodore Gottsdanker, veteran Los
Angeles lawyer who was selected as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
The Fighting
Vets
BY H. Z. BRIGGS

TAPS
srOMRADE ANDERSON of Post
v 169, W.ESL., Chicago, went
West this week. He was murdered
by thugs. The Post participated
officially at his funeral. The
Workers Ex-Servicemen are sorry
to lose good comrade but we
want no tears. The best way to
honor a comrade is to build big
ger and stronger posts and through
militant organized action win the
support of honest workers and
vets everywhere. Disciplined mass
action is the best defense against
gangsters and their ilk. Rats don't
attack bulldogs. Hang on, BUILD,
act nowl Keep the Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League on the front
line Of the class struggle.
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the burning inferno.
This witness, young Negro
worker, said that he was told to go
down." that he did SO, but went
down the other way" out of the dan
ger zone.
The next witness was an aged
worker of "a years, whose eyes had
been injured and whose feet had
been burned in the fire which, he
stated, was AN ordinary brush fire"
He said he worked for three hours
fighting the fire; that he never
saw any rangers or even any fire
men till the fire was all out" He
was not called as witness by the
Grand Jury, he declared.
Rangers At Safe Distance
The workers were forced down
into the fire death-trsp, according to
this witness. They were told to "get
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
attempts of the workers to raise
them, as the daily costs of living
were steadily jerked upward!
It was, in other words, the DELHI
crate grinding out Of extra profit for
the capitalists through the widening
Of the gap between the cost Of pro-
fuction and the selling price, through
the cheapening of the dollar.
Through the N. R. A. mechanism
of fast rising prices and stationary,
or tagging wages, Roosevelt has de-
liberately in7-,,cc--H 2 uniform, masked
wage cut on the entire American
working class!
And the result is only too wildly
mirrored in the latest data on the
amount of goods that the American
under the Roosevelt N. R. A.
The A. & P. Grocery Chain reports
sales running from to IL per cent
below last year. The N. r. A. has
meant less food for the American
workers!
The Federal Reserve Bank reports
that dollar sales, of the country's de-
partment stores, despite every effort
Of the johnson N. r. A. ballyhoo, de-
spite the stupid, hysterical drum
ming Of the BUY Now campaign,
are running more than 2 per cent be-
low last year. And the bank points
out that since retail prices have
risen at least Is per cent, during this
period there must have taken place
IL per cent drop in actual amount
of goods sold!
This is the most damning proof that
the Roosevelt N.R.A. program has,
not only failed to fulfill its promise of
alleviating the poverty Of the masses,
but has, on the contrary deepened
and degraded it still further.
Roosevelt promises to increase the
purchasing power of the masses. But
his N.R.A. program has choked off
the buying power of the workers by
the deep cut in the REAL wages eff
ANStNu ou6h Vic AHshssThs
of rising prices and tagging WAGES,
And it is just this poverty Of the
masses (the glib "underconsumption"
of the Roosevelt vocabulary, that is
the basic cause of the crisis, and
that is being intensified, not dimin-
ished.
The Roosevelt MIRA. thus stands
revealed as utterly incapable Of get
ting the Wall Street rulers out of
the crisis, as nothing but the uncon-
scious instrument for deepening the
crisis by still further destroying the
domestic market, by driving the
people deeper into poverty and hun
ger.
IT certainly has not escaped at
l tention that the MIRA. publicity
is being quietly and swiftly eased off
the front pages of the capitalist press.
The press can no longer conceal the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
N. R. A. PLOT WEARING THIN

Mill here is closed down, that Is, the
hot mills. The rumor is: No Orders.
Many of the Celanese workers are
dissatisfied, and the same condition
is at the Kelly, Springfield Tire Co.
The high fever that boosted the N
r. A. is now cooling off and much
talk, by big number, is now tell
ing how the joke work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
FOOD VITAL FOR
SILK WORKERS IN
PATERSON STRIKE
Bullets Didn't Stop
Them; NowHungry
BY CAROLINE DREW
(SecretaEy Saak and Dye Strikers
Relief ConmitteS)

OOe~~@1@~NN~~(
PATTERSON, N. j., Oct. 24.-The
silk and dye strikers of Paterson and
Lodi tighten their belts another
notch. Monday was the start of the
eighth week of the first strike in
many a year which has shut down
bosh the silk and dye factories.
There have been many struggles
In Paterson. The silk city of many
loorss, which are divided among hun
dreds Of lofts where weavers grow
bent, old ard anemic, working many
hoHks for low wages, has a militant
history. But In this 1888 strike the
O. workers coming from large scale
Mdustrial undertakings employing
Eom two thousand to four thousand
workers, many of them young native
Americans, add their resentment
against starvation wages, split shifts,
doRble loads and unhealthy working
conditions.
BasRets Didn't Stop Them
Have you ever looked In dye
house2' one of these young Arneri-
cans asked the government officials
at the recent hearing in Washing
ton. He looked squsrely at them
when they answered mo" and told
them that since they did not have
the experience of working with
dyes which ruin me skin, lungs,
health, in rooms wet with chemicals
Which bring rheumatism and other
diseases, since they did not know
what workers life was, how could
they say the $13 granted by the N.
R. A. was sufficient.
IF SIS is enough wages, have your
wife icy to feed your family on it,
is what another worker said. I'VE
go to the stores and find the prices
high&r every day, we know we can't
live on it," said q third And they
mesa what they say. Tear gas, hot
lead, clubs, can't stop them. They
met tAs murderous police thugs in
Lodi the first days of the strike
Bullets critically wounded three and
wousaded others on Friday, the goth,
at Tire National Piece Dye Works in
East Paterson. That won't stop
them. Workers beaten by clubs and
STUCK by gas bombs did not run
agq hide; they stayed and fought
and rushed to save their buddies.
They Need Food
The silk and dye strikers are fight
ing for bread and batter. They need
little food to fight ON. They can't
go on the picket lines every day
without relief. They cannot see
their children go to school hungry.
Rub donations to Silk
and Dye Strikers Relief Committee,
W. I. 2. cooperating, 222 Paterson
st., Paterson, N. j.
New York Must Respond
Three picket line kitchens a
kitchen for unmarried strikers, a
food distribution center for families
Of strikers, are operating In COOP
Grafton with the Workers Interna-
tonal Relief. The w. I. r. is also
aiding IN the collection of funds and
food throughout New Jersey and in
New York City. Food in the strike
relief centers in Paterson has been
very low during the past week. The
W. I. r. calls upon all workers and
sympathizers in New jersey and New
York to contribute. Two pounds of
food, coffee, canned goods, beans.
rice, etc., from 1000 sympathizers
would mean ton Of food a week
Tor the Paterson strikers. We call
upon New York to respond to this
call. Bring food, funds, clothes,
shoes to the w. I. r., $40 Broadway
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
National Events
BrOwder to Speak in Cleveland

BrOwder to Speak in Cleveland
Recognition of Soviet Russia will be
the subject of lecture by Earl Brow
der, general secretary Of the Com
munist Party of the United States,
Thursday, Oct. 20, 8 pm, in the
South "B" Hall Of the Public Audi
torium.
Earl Browder has been to the So
Wet Union several times and will dis
cuss the issues involved in recogni-
ton in a thorough-going manner.
The public is invited to the meet
ing. Admission Is 10 cents.
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Dear Mike, What q World

Waddaya mean, musclin' in on my
territory? and stealing that English
admiral story under my nose2 How
ever, I'll have to forgive you as the
writeup was splendiloquent. And since
you too are fighter in thate great
est of wars, the Glass Struggle, you
many use my skirmish line any time.
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militant" Supports
Silk Strike Betrayers
Trotskyite Sheet Conceals Schweitzer- Keller
Strikebreaking Deals With MIRA
By CARL REEVE.

NEW YORK-The Militant"
issue special
Transforming itself into agitation Militant
its defend the United Textile Workers Union
leadership with mildly progressive phrases appng
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NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE

LAWRENCE, Mass.-New Eng
land District Convention of the
Finnish Workers Federation held
in Maynard, Mass, last week, halls
improved Daily Worker and pledges
to exceed its S225 quota before
Nov. 1. Circulation doubled al
ready. We pledge to go forward
to build "Daily" among Finnish
American masses Of textile, gran
tie, metal workers and farmers.