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The Washington times., 1933-05-31
WILL ROGERS Says:

SANTA MONICA, CAL, May 31.-There is nothing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
5000 NeckWear
Workers Strike
Demand More Pay and
End of Home Work

NEW YORK.-After summer of
negotiations with the bosses, A. F.
or L. officials of the Neckwear Work
ers Union, feeling the overwhelming
sentiment of the workers for strug-
gle to win better conditions, were
finally compelled to call a strike.
Thousands Of workers are out in New
York, Bayonne, Boston and Phila-
delphia, in answer to the strike call.
In New York, strikers estimate about
1000 workers have joined the walk
out.
The demands Of the strike are for
35-hour week, the abolition Of
home work and sweatshops. a Is per
cent increase for week workers, IS
per cent increase on piece rates,
sanitary conditions, unemployment
insurance, and the abolition Of child
labor. At present the workers are
employed A hours a week on piece
work for the most part.
The practice of home work has
steadily lowered the piece rates of the
workers. Competition of outside and
inside workers has resulted in driving
wages down nearly 800 per cent since
the crisis. Fuchs, the union manager,
has permitted the manufacturers to
break the terms of the agreement
and no real struggle has been put
up against the continued attacks on
the workers conditions.
The strikers are firm for winning
all their demands and are warning
against the proposals of Fuchs that
If the demand for abolishing home
work is not granted, that the union
will ask for equal pay for equal work
for home workers. Strikers are also
warned against a compromise on
prices which will be covered up under
second gra.e" ties.
Eighteen neckwear pickets were ar
rested today while picketing at the
tie firm Of McKurach, 1910 Eastern
Parkway.
Strike meetings are held at Aris-
tocratic Mansion, St. Marks Place
Rank and file workers are recogniz-
ing that the strike committee which
was appointed by Fuchs, who only
recently was manager for the bosses
must be broadened to include rank
and filters, and that strikers must be
on guard to prevent any settlements
behind closed doors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
10000 Protest
Frame-Up Case
Against Negro

LYECHBURG, Va.--Ten thousand
people, one-quarter of the towns
population, attended a meeting Tues
DAY night and heard Frank Lewis,
of the newly-formed Scottsboro Com
mittee of Action, and T. H. Stone,
of the International Labor Defense,
who spoke on the frame-up of Reg
inald Leftwitch and the growing op-
preston of Negro and white toilers.
The meeting adopted a Plan of Ac-
ton to conduct militant struggle
against these conditions.
The unusual size of this meeting
can be attributed to the anger of
the Negro workers and their white
comrades over the frame-up of Left
witch, who was Immediately arrested
after he reported finding the dead
body Of A. B. Coates, white farmer.
The Negro and white workers were
stirred to action by this event. In
mediately the newly-formed Scots
boro Action Committee took up the
case. They invited a representative
of the International Labor Defense,
T. H. Stone, who investigated the
case and reported that the whole
thing was a palpable frame-up.
The Defense Conference held Tues
day night was big step in the
campaign for the release OF Left
witch. Thirty organizations, repre-
senting practically the entire Negro
population Of Lynchburg, rallied
around the lid and it's campaign
to free Leftwitch, and in support of
the Conference held in the local
Presbyterian Church.
The LID plan of action, including
concrete steps for building the cam
paign organizationally and financial
ly, was adopted at this conference
and committees elected to begin the
work Immediately.
The first resolution adopted pro-
claimed the belief OF the conference
in the absolute innocence OF Left
witch, demanded change Of venue
from lynch-spirit-riddled Rustburr
to Richmond where the organize .
workers can give more adequate pro-
lection to Leftwitch, and demanded
that Negroes serve on the trial jury
in his case.
Resolutions were also passed de-
handing the release Of the Scots
boro boys and demand the punish
ment of the Tuscaloosa lynchers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Call demonstrate
Against Attacks
on Workers Rights
Union Square Meet on
Tuesday at 5 p. m.

NEW YORK-The Trade Union
Unity Council and all its affiliated
unions and the International Labor
Defense issued call to all workers
organizations today to demonstrate
at Union So. Tuesday against what
promises to be one of the most dras-
tic steps vet taken by the employers
aided by the MIRA, the courts and the
police, to smash the workers right to
organize and strike, and to cut off
relief from the millions of unem-
ployed.
Urging all working class organiza-
tons to unite in protest against the
increasing number of attacks in the
form of injunctions, and whole71'e
arrests of picEets ON Tuesday at 5
pm. at Union So, the call to the
demonstration says:
The attempt of Mr.. Whalen to
raise Red scare is only maneuver
to hide the real issues of all the
strikes which are being carried on
against the employers attempts to
continue long hours, starvation wag-
eS, to reduce wages of skilled workers,
and even to refuse to pay the miser-
able minimum wages set forth in
the blanket codes of the NRA.
1.-THE daily increasing prices of the
necessities of life which we are forced
to buy makes it still more important
for all workers to unite and demand
the right to organize and strike to
enforce better conditions to meet the
high cost of living.
I'VE call upon all workers affiliated
to orr organizations, affiliated to the
A. F. of L. and independent unions,
to Join in the mass demonstrations IN
Union So. We call upon all strikers,
no matter whether they are led by
unions affiliated to the Trade Union
Council or to. TIE A. F. of L., we
call on all unemployed workers, to
march to Union So. with their ban
rers in a powerful united front in
order to smash the injunction men
ace and protect their civil rights to
organize and strike for improvement
of their conditions and to belong to
any union of their own choosing. and
to demand immediate relief for the
unemployed"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08

ternoon and in the evening he met
Stuffy McInnis, the great first sacker
who starred in the field for the other
team.
"That was a good game" compli-
mented Stufy.
Thanks, KID" Ruth said, where
were you sitting?"
Dempsey is fool. He does about
as much of the promoting attributed
to him as Coolidge did of the writing
under this name. Tennis players are
crowd CT dumb kids and wrestlers.
Just ask me about wrestlers.
There is no doubt about it. Under
the circumstances, no normal human
being can hope to achieve champion
ship calibre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Terrain to Speak
at N. Y. Welcome

QUEENS, N. "a new "investiga-
ton" in the case of Athos Terzani
was promised to a delegation headed
by Norman Thomas, chairman of the
Terzani Defense Committee, by the
District Attorney of Queens County.
Arthur Garfield Hays, who at present
is trying to participate in the defense
of the Reichstag fire frame-up cases,
will act as chief counsel for Terzani
when his case comes up for trial.
Terzani, out on $4,000 bail, will be
the main speaker at meeting to be
held tonight at the Irving Plaza Hall,
at 18th st. and Irving Pl. Others who
will greet Terzani at tonight's meet
ing will be William L. Patterson, Nor
man Thomas, Rober Baldwin, Arturo
Giovannitti, Carlo Tresca, Michele
Palumbo and Anthony Fierro's
father.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Mass Funeral
for Detroit
Negro Planned

DETROIT-A mass funeral Sat-
urday, Sept. 9, has been arranged
for Richard Johnson, Negro worker,
who was shot last Friday by a po-
liceman. The funeral will take place
at p m. from the Workers Home
at 1913 E. Ferry Ave, where John
sons body has lain in state for sew
eral days. The League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights is arranging for
the funeral.
The shooting of Johnson is a eli
max of several weeks of terroriza-
ton of the Negroes on the East Side
Of Detroit. 1t started when a Negro
woman was kicked brutally in the
stomach by the proprietor of a shoe
store when the woman wished to
exchange a pair Of shoes she had
purchased.
Last Friday johnson was shot by
a cop as he was picketing the store.
Six bullets were fired into his body.
He died short time later in the
hospital, the second death of a Ne
gro murdered by cops in three weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Custom TailMs
Strike 9Th Ave. Shop
1900 Out at Call Of the
Needle Union

NEW YORK.-The strike call is
sued by the custom tailors section of
the Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union and voted last Tuesday night
at an enthusiastic meeting of the
tailors has met with a big response.
Several high class tailoring shops
on Fifth Avenue have been shut down
as nearly 1900 tailors have joined the
strike. The following shops are on
strike: Schanz, Andrea, Ingerman,
Dunn & Levy and Bronstein. A call
has been issued to all bushelmen in
department stores working on ready
made suits to join the strike.
The striking tailors plan picket
ing demonstration on Friday at IL
o'clock noon at the Fifth Avenue
shops, preceded by a meeting at II
o'clock at Irving Plaza Hall, the
strike headquarters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Embroidery Work
ers Tie Up Industry
ILGW Officials Con-
fer With Whalen

NEW YORK.-Leaving their shops
yesterday morning, embroidery work
ers numbering nearly 1000 tied up a
greater part of the industry. The
strike was called by the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers
Local e6, which raised the demands
on the basis of which the workers
left their shops for: minimum wage
scales paying from $21 to $50 a week
for applique cutters, a 35-hour week
and unemployment insurance.
The strikers, enthusiastic for the
struggle to better their conditions,
gathered yesterday at Webster Hall,
where report was given by the I. L..
G. w. officials.
Although only a few hours old the
strike settlement is already in the
hands of Grover Whalen, and be-
hind closed doors some deals are
being made between officials Of the
union and the bosses. Union Off
Gals promised a settlement hot off
the fire at the Webster Hall meet
ing today, to be ratified by the
workers today. This hasty action has
already aroused suspicious among
the workers that the demands raised
to bring the strikers out of the shops
will be bartered away. The officials
at the meeting yesterday cited the
dress strike as an example and be-
hind the most enthusiastic speeches
covered up the real discussions which
took place between the bosses and
themselves.
The LETT wing workers in the strike
point out that the strikers must in
sist on their demands being won be-
fore any settlement is ratified.
Admitting that previous strikes
have not been real strikes, but called
with the help Of the bosses, the Off
Gals declare that this strike is in
tended as real strike.
The left wing calls upon the work
crs to hold the officials to their word
end fcr-r th"nn to ware q real strike
for all the. demands raised.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08

Jury on Friday, when he would
seek an indictment against all white
I. L. D. organizers on a charge OF
circulating discretionary htera-
ture.
No one was in the office when it
was raided, and no arrests were made.
This raid is a part Of the reign Of
terror against the Negro and white
workers of Atlanta, which has been
expressed recently in numerous wan
ton murders of Negroes by police
and shooting and manning Of others.
On Labor Day more than 5000
Negro and white workers took part
in a mass protest funeral for Glover
Davis, blind Negro worker shot in
cold blood by Policeman o. w. Allen.
Police sought to terrorize the work
ers at the funeral, searching and
questioning all white workers and
warning them to stay away from
Negro meetings"
The I. L. D. has led the struggle
against this reign Of terror, uniting
Negro and white workers in a mass
movement of protest, and in the de-
mand for removal, arrest and prose
eution OF the police mlrderers.
The Unity of Negro and white
workers, which the white rulers of
Georgia are trying to smash, has also
been expressed in the militant
struggle for relief, led by Angelo
Herndon, and the struggle for the
release Of Herndon, sentenced to
from 10 TO 20 years on the chain
gang for leading Negro and white
workers together in struggles. The
police attack upon the I. L. D. is
also part of the attempt to smash
the defense of Herndon, whose case
is now before the state Supreme
Court on appeal
A mass meeting will be called to pro-
test against the attack on the LID
office, and the effort by police to
illegalize and behead the I. L. D
movement here, it was announced.
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tempt of reactionary elements to
suppress preparations to resist the
landing of U. S. troops. No precise
details were available.
Thousands Of young workers
rnassed in Fraternity Park to cele-
brate International Youth Day. The
Youth Section of the Confederation
Nacional Obrera de Cuba distributed
thousands of handbills calling for the
mass meeting and voicing the de-
mands of the revolutionary workers
of Cuba.
This manifesto raised the slogan
of carrying forward the revolutionary
fight until government of
workers, peasants, soldiers, and sail
ors has been achieved.
Other demands include the follow
ing:
Against Imperialism
Down with the new government,
which intends to pay the debts to
the Yankee bankers; out with Am
bassador Welles and Caffery, CHS
appointed succesSor) and Secretary
Swanson; against the construction Of
airports, against the militarization Of
youth, against the menace of Yankee
armed intervention against payment
of debts to Wall Street, against the
Platt amendment; for defense of the
Chinese people and the Soviet
Union"
Railway Workers Give Ultimatum
An army corporal was killed at
Victoria de las Tunas, in a counter
revolutionary attempt which the SOL
diers and workers quickly suppressed.
Former army officers meeting in a
movie house at Campo Amor were
dispersed by an armed detachment
Of soldiers.
The striking railway workers pre-
sented an ultin1atum to the junta,
demanding that their demands for
wage increase and improved condi-
tons be granted by midnight of Sept
II.
Rodolfo Mendez Penate, who had
been assistant secretary OF the in
terror under De Cespedes, and whom
the junta sought to have remain in
his post, resigned. He is a brother
Of the leader of the nationalist.
Sergeant Fulgencio Batista, made
army chief of staff when the officers
were thrown out by the rank and file
announced that he was arranging to
bring back all officers who were not
directly identified with the Machado
regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08

NEW YORK.-Instead of putting
a brake on the struggles of the
workers, as he had intended by his
anti-strike threat and his arrest of
the Elco shoe pickets, Grover Whalen
is confronted with a wave of strikes
that are growing in number and in
tensity.
Motion Picture Operators Local 306
tied up 400 theatres yesterday, de-
claring that the theatres operating
under the NRA are hiring men at a
20 to 80 per cent cut in wages, and
that company union has been
formed. These theatres all fly the
Blue Eagle.
Yesterday 1000 embroidery workers
went out on strike, 700 artificial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08

Organizations Urged
to Elect Delegates
to Daily Meeting

NEW YORK.-Worker- delegates
from hundreds of local organiza-
tions will hear C. A. Hathaway,
editor of the Daily Worker, and
Charles Krumbein, district organ
izer Of the Communist Party, ut
1880 pm. Sunday at Irving Plaza
Hall, 18th st. and Irving Place,
where the drive to keep the new
improved Daily Worker will be in
augurated.
Organizations, groups and clubs
which meet tonight are urged to
be sure to elect delegates to this
important conference. Those Or
ganizations which have no meet
ings scheduled before Sunday
should be represented by their Of
ficers at Irving Plaza Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Whalen Threats Do Not
Curb N. Y. Strike Wave

flower workers, several thousand neck
wear workers, children's dressmakers
and 1900 custom tailors.
That Whalen will set to work at
once to arrange sen-out agreements
between the bosses and the workers
is evident from the statement yester-
day issued by Dubinsky that he will
attend conference called by Whalen
to settle the embroidery workers
strike. The aim of the A. F. Of L..
omclals in these conferences is to
gain recognition of the union in Or
der to get the dues Of the workers,
in return for which they will assist
the employers under the cover of the
NRA to beat down the workers wages
and conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Unit Begins Daily
Work by Raising 81
for Financial Driv e

NEW YORK.--Unit 10, Section g.,
of the Communist Party, began its
work for the Daily Worker Financial
Drive by bringing into the city Office
of the Daily 81 as part of it's work in
the coming drive. The unit challenges
all other units in socialist COMPETE
ton. Unit 10 promises to raise more
money in this coming drive than any
other unit in the section
All units in Section 8 are urged to
take up this challenge and report this
to the section and to the city Office Of
the Daily Worker. Unit 10 has also
pron,ieed to $780, - cN''i-' 70" the
Daily Worker in the near future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08

He had probably been drag
ged out there against his
wishes, kept asking for the
time and wondering about someone
he was supposed to have met. The
host did everything to get him started
but Ernie wouldn't talk beyond the
traditional commonplaceS that he
felt in the pink Of condition and
expected to beat Loughran in the
return bout. I had seen their recent
fight and Loughran had made mon
key out of him.
1 started asking questions while
drinks were being scared up but he
wouldn't bite and refused to COM
me1lt on inside material.
NAH" he answered each leading
question, ''nah."
What do you think about Tom
Mooney?" I said.
Who's that?"
Pause.
What do you think about the
Scottsboro boys?"
Never heard of them"
Pause
I pumped him on unemployment,
Russia, Roosevelt, the crisis, the Navy
in which he'd served. He reminded
me of the blackface comedian who
went through an entire motion pic
ture by repeating, 81 amt heard
nuff'n, I amt seen muffin and I don't
know muffin"
Russia? They got this Bolshevik
government there, amt they?"
The Navy? "Well, it makes a man
out of you in a lotta ways"
Sharkey? "Ain't got thing
against him"
At that, Schaaf was a comparative
n ly intelligent and likeable athlete,
a rarity among outstanding profess
sional stars. I asked whether he adj
vised young men to become fighters
and he said no.
Topnotchers are efficient morons.
Literate ones like Tunney and Benny
Leonard are Objectionable fools This
is not carping. It's true.
Too, it stands to reason. No mag
NATIVE person could ever become g
great boxer. no one with a variety
Of interests could climb TO the top
of the heap in diving, golf, anything.
You have to train too much, your
entire outlook is twisted into achiev-
ing perfection. Nobody with normal
impulses can score three cruel knock
outs in one night as Dempsey has
done.
Ruth's stupidity is common knowl-
edge. One of his teammates said
in the locker room that the Great
One doesn't know the names of all
the players on his own club. Rodger
Pippen, sports editor of the Baltimore
News" tells how for years he was
closely associated with Ruth, roomeo
with him on various occasions, play
ed in the game when Ruth hit his
first home run, yet to this day Ruth
looks blank when accosted by him.
Hello, buddy. how's Baltimore?"
Only yesterday Winchell ran an
other item about Americas Idol The
Babe pitched a two-i1it game one af-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Fake Paper Presented
In Soviet Union Warns
Workers Relief Head

NEW YORK.-The Daily Worker
has been informed by the Workers
International Relief that Morris
Grubin is presenting a document in
the Soviet Union purporting to be a
credential signed by M. Scherer, for
mer national secretary of the WIR.,
and is giving out lying statements
concerning himself and his standing
in workers organizations.
No credentials have ever been given
to Grubin. Any paper so presented is
a forgery.
Complaints have been made by
workers that Grubin has stolen funds
and is an unhealthy element.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Children's Reunion

Children of the Wo-Chi-Ca are to
have their reunion this evening at
8 pm. at the Central Opera House.
Over 400 children will perform and
a movie Of the activities will also
be shown. Come and see the splen-
did work done by proletarian chill
dren, Negro and white. There will
also be a mass initiation of camp
children into the Pioneer organiza-
ton. This is performance that
both adults and children should at
tend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Hathaway To Speak

NEW YORK-C. A. Hathaway, ed
itor of the Daily Worker, will speak
on the National Recovery Act at the
Workers Center, so E. 18th st., Sec
ond floor, tonight at pm.
Daily Worker Volunteers, under
whose auspices this lecture is to be
held, will be admitted free. The ad-
mission charge to other workers will
be 10 cents,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Youth Congress Dance.

A dance and concert to raise funds
for delegate to the Paris Youth
Congress Against War and Fascism,
will be held this Saturday, Sept. g.,
at the New Dance Group, % w. 18th
st.
The National Committee for this
Congress will provide music and
dance solos; Albert Herring, concert
pianist; refreshments; prominent
speakers and square dancing for the
% cents admission price.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Knitgoods Shop On
Strike

NEW YORK. - Knitgoods workers
in one of the most important shops
in the industry-the Elgin Knitting
Mills, 1109 Ingrin St., Brooklyn -
struck this week at the call Of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, for wage increases and union
recognition. The A. F. of L. union at
tempted to stop the strike but the
workers are firm for their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
City Events
NOTICE! TO ALL PARTY
MEMBERS

All Party members are instructed
by the District Secretariat TO report
at the respective section headquar-
tiers this Saturday latter 3 PM
FOR SPECIAL WORK IN CON-
NECTION WITH THE BASIC
CAMPAIGN OF THE PARTY TO-
DAY. ALL COMRADES ARE
URGED TO RESPOND TO THIS
CALL, AND SHOW THEIR BOIL
SHEVIK CALIBRE IN THE SPIR-
1T OF THE OPEN LETTER.
DISTRICT SECRETARIAT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
Harlem Forum

Harry Haywood, noted Negro revo-
lutionary writer and lecturer, will
speak on 1.-THE Future Of the Negro
in the Black Belt of the South" at
the Sunday, Sept. 10, meeting of
the weekly Liberator League of
Struggle for Negro Rights Forum.
All forum meetings are held at the
Urban League Building, 200 West
136th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
!&!8AA9lST&
Champion or Human Being
By EDWARD NEWHOUSE

MET the late Ernie Schaaf time after his losing fight
with Loughran He visiting the house of friend in
Long Island collector first editions dried butterflies and
dafy pugs The knew I'd be interested to meet Schaaf
and called me over The big blond heavyweight evidently
awed by the luxe bindings and the butterflies and sat deep
in an easy chair, lingering statuette.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-08
TO INDICT ALL WHITE
ORGANIZERS TO SMASH
LID. PROTEST EFFORTS
Seize All Documents In Sudden Raid; No
Arrests Made; Wide Protest Planned

Atlanta office of the International Labor
aded yesterday by
nd there seized
prosecutor Angelo Hndon and the
Atlanta presented to the Grand