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members of Secretary of Labor Fran
ces Perkins Committee on Ellis Is
land The Committee made pre-
liminary inspection of the island
few days ago. Most of the day they
spent in being photographed and hav-
ing lunch. They made superficial
survey" then Commissioner Corsi ex-
planned the guard situation
Guards-For Recreation
Il wanted to provide more recrea-
ton for the population" he said.
land so had to ask Washington
for more guards, to supervise outdoor
activities. They couldn't give me
more money for regular guards, so
they sent me border patrolmen. I
don't like to have men parading
around here with pistols in their
belts"
Even Corsi expressed dislike for
the present practice of OBTAINING
aliens in large rooms. He would
prefer cottage system" with guards
supervising less closely, less intima-
tely.
AS for naltreatment of aliens and
deportees, the Commissioner believes
that in most cases the attendants
follow the attitude of their head
officers. He implies that in the case
Of Ellis Island the treatment on the
whole is fair: but he confesses,
Our employees are Civil Service en-
ployes, and we can't get rid OF them,
and we can't change their nature
So if their nature happens to be
brutal there is nothing Commission
er Corsi can do about it,
Which might explain an incident
which went unreported in news ac-
counts of the Committees visit to
Ellis Island. Reporters were ques-
ttoning a Negro woman and her
three adopted daughters. The wo-
man was born in Texas, but went
to Liberia and married British
subject. Returning here she was
held up for $1,000 bond to satisfy
the government that she and her
daughters would not become public
charges" AS the questioning pro-
crossed, uniformed inspector ap-
peared, threw out his arms, and bel
lowed to the Negroes, Get along
there! Get along to lunch! Get
along there!'
A reporter interrupted the oficer.
DO you always shoe people here,
like that, as though they were swine?"
Sure" he shrugged, IT don't know
what language they speak"
The Negroes happened to speak far
better English than the interpreters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-03
Denver JObless Must
Work to Get Relief
tBy a Worker Correspondent

DENVER. Colo.-If we ask for
vork-at a living wage we are called
PoishevYks and if we refuse to work
for the so-called charity We are
branded as not deserving any help
In this city a man is told TO work
for the relief order which he has
been getting.
I was sent to work to one Of
the city Employment Offices by the
Bureau Of Charities. When asked
the man in the employment Of
ficc if this work which I am sup
posed to do was city work, he said
st was" asked him how much dc
I get day? He told me, You don't
get anything you are sent here TO
work for the relief you are receiving.
rhen / told him, When one works
l. Is not charity nor is it relief
I am willing to work for the city
II I am paid for my work. But now
we work and in return they give us
charity relief and no pay.
A Member of the United Front
Unemployed Council No. !
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illus to business and employment
made possible by Systematically
planned acceleration of public con-
struction projects is by no means as
great as it is popularity supposed to
be-"
What the Roosevelt industrial sla-
very bill actually tries to do under
the head of public works it to figure
up all the usual and ordinary amount
of public construction that will be
done anyhow for the next two years.
/ They lump this altogether into one
impressive figure and fling it into
the face of the workers.
Under the bill only two things
have been done, or, rather, may be
done. in the period of a year or two
and that is the laying out of s40o,-
100000 for road construction and
$3.50, 100000 for battleships.
The very first thing Roosevelt did
was to use the public works section of
| the bill as an excuse for continuing
and expanding war preparations by
ordering the immediate building of
"a battleships. This was a clever
means of hiding the great expendi-
lures for war, while nothing is paid
for unemployment insurance or for
| the vets bonus. AS the Daily Worker
has pointed out, even this work will
not employ an additional number OF
workers. The shipyards workers who
are on part-time will receive some
additional work, few will be en-
! ployed.
But this is not a new program
Preparation for war has always been
an integral part of the capitalists
during crisis when they we're en-
tering sharper struggles for markets
and this type Of building does not
at all take up even a rivulet in the
mighty stream of unemployment that
pours out of all the basic industries
THE public construction policy OF
the slavery bill has a clause in il
that effectively blocks real construc-
ton and will, after the work is tailed
up, show that less will be done I'M
der it than during the Hoover regime
The bill provides that the federal
government will provide the cities
with 80 per cent Of any public con-
struction they undertake. Sounds all
right But where's the hitch? Most
cities are bankrupt and could nc
more find the funds for providing
the 10 per cent than they could OF
providing the 100 per cent necessary
for the work. Chicago cannot even
pay the city employees, New York
cannot market its bonds. Smaller
cities are forced to close down schools
altogether 1t is of such stuff that
Roosevelt's grandiose public con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-03
ARTICLE VIII
BY HARRY CANNES

EVER since the present crisis be-
l. gan, the capitalists, from Hoover
to Roosevelt, have been promising tc
let loose the floodgates of public con-
struction. BY this means they were
going to wipe out unemployment
Title II of Roosevelt's slavery act was
supposed to be the master stroke in
this respect.
AS announced by Roosevelt, the
industrial recovery" act was to be q
sort of double barrelled affair Or
the one hand, industry would be
pulled up by its bootstraps. On the
other, public works would be the an
swer to unemployment insurance
Capitalism would be saved.
The Roosevelt public construction
section of the slavery bill is the big
gest hoax The bill is supposed tc
provide $500, 900 900 in public works
The impression given to the workers
was that this amount of work would
be released all at once, or within q
short period. and millions would be
employed In the first place this
three billion figure is a trick in book
keeping little analysis will show
this.
In 1880. Hoover, together with the
municipalities, spent $3,500,000 DOC
for public construction for that one
year. That is 100000 more than
Roosevelt proposes to spend in two
years. The number of unemployed
during that year increased by over
100000 Most interesting Of all, the
building construction workers, who
were supposed to benefit most by
public construction, suffered the most
from unemployment. At that time
over 10 per cent of the building
trades workers we're without jobs.
THE conclusion reached by the lead
i ing capitalist economists at that
time was that public construction
could not help capitalism out of its
crisis.
On June as, 1890 Hoover's Com
mittee on Recent Economic Changes
consisting of Owen D. Young, william
Green, John T. Raskob and Julius
Klein, said that public construction
has long been tried and found in a
great measure wanting
The journal of Commerce, Novem-
Der 8. 1880, commenting on this re-
port said
If the elaborate and careful study
OF Planning and Control of Public
Works, recently published by com
inittee Of the Presidents Conference
on Unemployment, is to be accepted
as authoritative, however. the slim
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ers than ever before are Jailed.
beaten up by police and initimidated.
To Build Auto Union
The conference adopted after full
discussion and considerable amend
ment draft platform and organi-
rational report which connects the
election campaign directly with tleI
everyday struggle of the workers. NJ
makes the building of the Auto
Workers Union and of unemployed
councils a vital part of the cam
paign Another essen tial task
pointed out in the platform and or
ganizational report, and amplified by
John Schmies in his report to the
conference and acceptance speech is
the building of Anti-War Commit
tees for the August l anti-war dem
onstrationS.
Campaign Opens TOMORROW
The campaign VIII be officially
launched at a mass meeting at the
Workers Camp on July 4. The can
didates will speak at the meeting.
A signature drive to put the can
NtldoOCO VII IllG Ddl4OO Will u4lCll D6Slll,
also the collection OF $4,000 sigma
lures demanding amendment of the
city charter to provide for increased
unemployment relief from the city.
The campaign will be directed by
a committee of "a elected at the
conference. William Reynolds was
chosen campaign manager.
The Ticket
The ticket nominated at the con-
ference is as follows
For Mayor John Schmies, Com
munist Party
For City Treasurer, Anthony Ger
ZACH, of the National Executive
Board Of the Auto Workers Union.
For City Clerk, Jack Fisher, of the
N. E, B of the Auto Workers Union.
For City Council, Phil Raymond,
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ID Az Is T ID A 7
With the ''Daily"
Use Saturday Feature Page
to Get NeWSubs and Readers

Il am glad to see that the special
Saturday feature page has been re-
vived," writes J. G. M. of Madison,
Wisconsin. Several years ago, when
the page appeared regularly, group
OF US used to sit up pretty late on the
night the paper arrived, discussing
the short stories, the book reviews,
the poems, sketches and articles.
Il liked especially the article on
Fred Ellis and the poem, 'Mecklen-
berg County by Harry Alan Potam-
kin But where are the stories, the
book reviews?
1T would be good idea to keep
this up regularly, because, in my
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unskilled."
Have the workers a word to say
about their wage rates' Not at all.
The state grating politicians will do
all the talking about that, and the
workers cannot violate the agree
ments, according to the law, as they
face fine of $500, a Jail term of
S months, or worse under the fed
eral Jurisdiction.
THE main note that t1s capitalist
press has sounded on Rooseyelt's
public works program is the ire
mendous speed with which it will go
into effect. But at the hearings on
the bill, Congressman Watson. one of
its most ardent sponsors, said.
ut would take over year before
We could get into condition where
very much money could be spent
on buildings
Henry 1. Hartman, president of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce, said:
Personally I should not like TO
see the amount of $500, 00O, 900 in
creased at this time, because it Is
my belief that it will take at least
two years to spend this money"
Subtracting the war expenditures
which are an inseparable part of the
capitalist government progr
throughout the crisis, it will be seen
that the Roosevelt building program
in practice will drop below that spent
by the Hoover government in the
first two years of the crisis. 1t will
not increase employment 1t will
not provide immediate work 1t will
not bring relief to the 100000 I'M
employed. It's only tangible result
will be the 25o,0oo,o00 yearly added
to those bondholders, those parasites
who under the Roosevelt regime are
protected against tax levies to pay
Tor unemployment insurance.
|
in the struggle against the Roose-
! welt schemes of public works which
are designed primarily as prepare
lions for war, as wage-cutting expe-
dents and systems Of forced labor
we must put forward our program
We must demand the immediate in.
auguration of the building Of work
ers' homes to replace the present
horrible slums and barracks inhab.
tied by millions Of underpaid ane
unemployed workers, the building o.
workers hospitals, nurseries, etc. AL
public Buildings to be at trade unior
wages and on the basis Of the 30.
hour week without any reduction ir
pay. We must demand thet sum.
laid out for battleships anti Other
war paraphernalia be immediatel,
transferred to this type Of BUILDING
construction
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rette money out of it.
We had Union once, an A. F. OF
L. union. But the secretary ran
away with the money, and the Union
broke up. Most of them think that
all unions are like that one. But
one thing is sure, we've either got to
get union, or starve to death en-
tirely.
Roosevelts Nice Promises.
Roosevelt came by here, in his neat
little yacht. 1t isn't like the fish
ing boats. He talked friendly to the
captains, and they gave him fish.
He made lot of promises, but l say
the only way we'll get anywhere is to
ct organized and fight the freezers,
like they fought the canneries on the
West Coast. The West Coast fisher
men won their strike. So can we.
Editors Note:-The Marine Work
ers' Industrial Union helped the West
Coast fishermen in their struggles,
and will help the Provincetown fish
erlnen also. The national headquar-
tiers are at 140 Broad ST., New York
City.
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2 YEARS. PRISON
FOR DEMANDING
WAGES IN CASH
Wisconsin Worker Led
Forced Labor Fight

BEAVER DAM, Wis. (by mail -
On Saturday, June a. Herman zitlow
was sentenced to serve from one to
two years in the state prison for re-
fusal to work for relief. He was SEN
fenced in the circuit court of Dodge
County, at Juneau, by Judge David
son and a jury of rich retired farm
ers and business men. Zitlows arrest
and conviction are part of the attack
being made upon the workers in
Dodge County, who are now organiz-
ing their Unemployed Councils and
carrying on with greater vigor the
ctruggles against forced labor.
zitlow was arrested Immediately
after his return from the State Hun
ger March to Madison. On the day
the marchers passed through the city
of Beaver Dam, every worker on
forced labor jobs stopped work to
greet the marchers. zitlow and sew
eral other workers joined the line OF
march as representatives. of the work
ers in Beaver Dam. On Zitlow's re-
turn from the march he was served
with a warrant for "desertion while
working on the job"
Threaten Jobless
The courtroom was filled with about
$50 workers, some of them from sur
rounding cities. The whole process OF
the trial proved to the workers the
boss-control of the courts. In his
speech to the jury, the district attor-
ney said, IF you find ZitloW not
guilty, then there will not be a man
who will work for his relief in the
whole of Dodge County. They will
just loaf and let you taxpayers feed
them in idleness."
Workers from the foundries, where
zitlow had worked in the past, were
forced by the bosses to come to court
and testify that Zitlow was an "agita-
tor" that he had told the men to TASK
for more wages" that she was lazy and
did not want to work" There is no
doubt but that they we're forced to
testify or be discharged from the job
The International Labor Defense
which defended zitlow, will take the
case to the state Supreme Court
Samuel Berg, I. L. D. attorney
brought the class issues to the fore
front in his defense.
The verdict Of guilty in this case
the I. L. D. points out, means that
slavery is legal, that relief officials
have the right to make slave of any
worker whenever they see fit to do So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-03
WASHINGTON VETS
FORM COMMITTEE
TO PUSH DEMANDS
Denounce Roosevelt's
Economy Program

WASHINGTON, D. c., July "A
group of veterans met here to elect
city Rank and File Comittee and
adopt a series of resolutions as a
basis for a determined fight to be
waged against Roosevelt's "Econo-
my" program, and for the pay
ment Of the bonus and immediate
relief.
The committee elected to lead
the fight for adequate veteran re-
lief, without discrimination against
Negroes, consists ef three white and
two Negro vets. -Four representa-
tives to the Continental Congress
Fourth of July meeting were also
appointed.
Resolutions adopted demanded:
That funds being expended by
our government for increased mill
tary and naval ornaments in pre-
paration for future wars be turned
over to the relief of veterans, work.
ers and farmers of the country.
Immediate cash payment of the
1SlldillStCI QuC VII AOJuoOCu oCl WIG
Certificates, the so-called bonus.
Restoration of Disability Compen-
sation, Allowances and Pensions
with no curtailment in Hospital
and domiciliary rights.
Immediate remedial relief for the
impoverished farmers and the un-
employed.
Withdrawal of the invitation to
Chambers of Commerce and Boards
of Trade to serve on special boards,
administering, among other matters,
the lives of 10000 tubercular and
neuro- psychiatric cases.
Copies of these and other reso-
lutions have been sent to General
Frank T. Hines, Director of the
Veterans Administration, to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-03
Police Attack Berry
Strikers in California


SAN JOSE, Cal, June 29.-Follow-
ing the police attack in which three
striking berry pickers were badly in
jured, 81 more strikers have been ar
rested on riot charges. The new ar
rests were made after an auto parade
by strikers and synpathizers. 49,.
Communist headquarters in the
Mexican quarter of Sunnyvale, near
San Jose, we're raided by police, who
destroyed literature.
Sheriff Enig has sworn in Is spe-
cisl deputies, armed with gas bombs
guns and pick-handles, and squads OF
highway patrolmen have been sent
int Santa Clara county from neigh
boring districts. The sheriff has
asked Governor Rolph to call out the
militia to smash the pickers' strike.
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ing rise in wages has automatically
slashed wages that were already at
starvation level
Brutal attacks on the Negro work
ers continue. They are jim
into section where housing conditions
are the very worst, they are the first
laid off at factories, they are even
given the worst end of it on relief
jobs and forced labor.
Both former Mayor Murphy and
the present Mayor Couzens have
flagrantly broken all their election
promises about adequate relief. Cou-
zens is even intensifying Murphy's
hunger and forced labor program.
More workers and unemployed work
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secretary of the A. w. u; Frank
Sykes, Negro worker and N. E. B.
member of the A. W. u; William
Brown, Negro worker. and organi-
cation secretary of the Detroit dis
trict of the Communist Party; Hay
wood Mayhem, Negro worker and
member of the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights; William Newell,
Negro worker and member of the
L. S. N. R.; Earl Reno, secretary of
the Unemployed Councils; Lee Sui
kowski, representing Polish Workers
organizations; Nelly Belunas, repre-
senting women workers organiza-
lions and Jack Bryman, representing
Jewish workers organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-03
CORRECTION

The letter from Claude Patterson
on the frame-up of his son Haywood
and the eight other Scottsboro boys
was published originally in the Chat
anooga Defender, Negro weekly,
and not in the Chattanooga News, a
oaily. as stated in the editorial note
70 the letter which was printed in
last Saturdays feature page of the
Daily Worker. Pattersons letter was
addressed to the News" which had
carried editorials advocating the
withdrawal of the LID. from the
Scottsboro case. The News" hav-
ing refused to publish the letter, it
was sent to the Chattanooga Defend
er where ii appeared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-03
Anthracite Miners =.
Form Body to Fight
Against Relief Gu is
nv a Worker Correspondentl


SHENANDOAH, Pa.-The Unem-
uloyed Councils OF Schuylkill County
called a United Front County Con-
vention, June %, of unemployed and
part-time workers, to defeat the 20
Der cent relief cut. Nineteen dele
gates were present, representing I'm
employed Councils, United M e
Workers of America and Unemployed
Unions. Anthony Truck, vice-presi-
dent of General Mine Board of Dis
trict acted as chairman OF the con-
vention, as we'll as being elected
chairman of Committee Of Action.
The Unemployed Councils program
was unanimously adopted. The dele
gates represented the following
towns: Shenandoah, Minersville, Port
Carbon, Shapt, Pennsylvania Eleven.
Delegates were elected to a County
Committee of Action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-03
PROTEST sCOTTsBoRo Ar
BUNKER HILL

BOSTON-Negro and white work.
ers, meeting at the foot Of the Bum
ker Hill monument to celebrate the
memory Of Peter Salem, Negro SOL
der who fought In the Revolution
airy War, adopted a resolution con-
demning the Scottsboro prosecution
and demanding abolition Of color
segregation by the federal govern
ment. The resolution was forwarded
to President Roosevelt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-03
Give. New Home for :.
Evicted Family When
Workers Demonstrate

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June 30.-A
militant demonstration of workers
here forced the charities to provide
a new home and moving van to
move the belongings of William Nell
son from S48 South West ST., where
he had been living for three years
until served with an eviction notice.
Nelson worked for basket on the
forced labor gang, and the landlord
wanted to eyict him while his wife
was suffering from nervous break
down. He is member of the Unem-
ployed Council and when the con-
stable came to evict him, he showed
him out and organized the neighbor-
hood for a demonstration.
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Breach OF Etiquette

LONDON, July O. - John Walter,
son of one Of the proprietors of The
London Times, was the victim OF
Nazi assault during his visit to Ber-
lin. He had unWittingly driven his
car past another containing high
Nazi official when he was peremp-
torily ordered to halt and dragged
from the drivers seat, His ears
we're boxed and his hair pulled for
the "intolerable outrage TO etiquette"
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NeWs Briefs
No Work? Go To the Park

NEW YORK, July Mrs Ogden
L. Mills, F. Trubee Dawson, William
Hale Hardness, Hugh Frayne and
Edward T. Kirby, director of the
National Recreation Association, in
itiated a campaign today calling at
tention to the value of recreation for
unemployed youths, THE associa-
ton holds that recreation is the best
substitute when work cannot be
found"
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Madden, Gangster, Says,
CLONE. James

SING SING, July 2-Owney Mad
den, big-time racketeer, murderer
and beer baron, left Sing Sing nine
pounds heavier than when he en-
tered last year. Il do not care to
make any statements" he said, get
ting into the green Packard which
called for him.
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Attempt to Lynch Two
Negroes Arrested on
Suspicion in Murder

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.-An organized
lynch mob OF nearly 800 men and
boys appeared at the county Jail
here and demanded the persons Of
two colored men who had been
picked up on suspicion" in connec-
ton with the murder OF q white
farm girl.
They searched all the cells but
failed to find the two men.
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20 in Texas Jail for
Protesting Evictions

FORT WORTH, Text. E. Bar
low, organizer of the local Unem-
ployed Council, Henry Gordon, dis
tricJ organizer of the Communist
Party and q other workers are under
arrest in connection with an eviction
demonstration here. Barlow is being
held in death cell, and others, held
mcommunicado, are said to be tor
tured in Jail while awaiting trial, set
for July IL.