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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Map Campaign for
Shorter Hours at Fur
Mass Meet Thursday

NEW YORK. - Furriers are
called to a mass meeting at Cooper
Union on Thursday Immediately
after work by the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union. The
meeting is to ratify the unanimous
decision made by the fur shop
chairmen last week to start cam
paign to establish the 35 hour week
not later than September 1 in all
fur shops. While the bosses are
flying the Blue Eagle in their shops
indicating that they have accepted
the Blanket code which calls for
a 35 hour week, they are taking
no steps to establish the shorter
hour week.
Fur workers are urged to attend
this important meeting to map
plans TO enforce the 35 hour week
in the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16

unity for the achievement of such
results. He was followed by re-
preventative Of the Anti-Fascist Ac-
ton Committee who expressed the
fraternal spirit between worker ath-
leteS here and those suffering under
the fascist regime in Germany. He
appealed to all workers present I'd
pledge anew their support of thu
fight against the murderous Hitlet
regime and was warmly received by
the audience.
A series of exercises followed.
Swimming and diving contests in
singles between clubs were held and
water polo games.
The Workers lGymnastic and
Sports Alliance is affiliated with the
Socialist Guzerne) International.
but heated discussions are taking
place which will probably result in
the transfer of the organization 10
the Labor Sports Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Caves in from
Hunger; Boss Says
He Is intoxicated

JAMAICA, L. AT the Morris
Park, L. l., Railroad oil house a
worker collapsed from hunger while
working, The men picked him up and
laid him on some cotton waste. His
boss came over and, after going
through the motions like a doctor,
by feeling his pulse and so on, said
to another boss that the man was
drunk. The other boss said, cts
Indigestion" But the worker told
another worker that he hadn't eat
en- that whole day.
Due to the starvation wages paid
to labor under the New Deal and
through the NRA on the railroads
in this country, man with a fam
lily cannot hold skin and bones to-
gether.
While in Cleveland the well-fed
and overpaid Railroad Brotherhoods
chiefs are whiting away time
whether we need or don't need a
Code, the unity movement is pre-
pairing the workers for the stand
which we will have to take.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16

are the only satisfactory things at
Columbia.
The capitalist press can say what
it pleases and screen itself by dis
claiming responsibility for material
in letters from readers. But the
Daily Worker does not aim to con-
fuse its readers. Rather does it aim
to lead the workers in their strug-
giles, and it can best do so by giving
them an accurate factuaI picture OF
conditions which the workers meet
Liable as the DAILY" is to attack
by enemies of the working class, it
must verify as far as possible any
statements of fact in its pages. In
deed the Daily" has often pointed
this out.
If the toilet correspondent had
carefully studied the situation he
would have found plenty to complain
about at Columbia. The administra-
ton exploits its workers, numbering
about 1900, as ruthlessly as any other
boss. Wage cuts, layoffs and speeding
up have abounded. Elevator oper-
ators work Is hours a week.
During the past year, when the
workers have been building organi.
cation to fight these conditions, thu
administration has done everythin,
it could to smash the organization
resorting to stool pigeons, third de.
gree, and firing of union workers.
Most recently, John Donovan mil.
liant student worker and presiden
OF the Social Problems Club, wa.
dismissed from the position upor
which he depended to pay his tu,
ition. The authorities fired Dono,
van in June, when there were NJ
students at the university to figh
this action.
While this dirty deal was bein,
put over the Columbia brain trus
Moley and Tugwell, we're busy ir
Washington ballyhooing the NR.A
and promising the workers thei,
right to organize.
The attitude Of the administration
to students and faculty member,
who fight for their interests is jus
as liberal as the treatment give,
the workers. The cases of Reed Har
ris, expelled Spectator editor, anc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16

Doth cases the official report white
washed the camp authorities. The
Unemployed Council yesterday re-
ceived letter from Robert Fechner,
National Director of the camps, stat
ing that mo blame could be attached
to anyone connecIeu with the
camps"
The official report of Molletto's
death gives the cause as "pneu-
monia." They didn't say that the
boy had been in the hospital with
swollen ankles from July to July %.
And certainly they buried deep
the fact that right after his hos
pital experience, he was set to work
in the kitchen from $3.50 in the
morning to Z at night. Eleven and
a half hours work for a boy who
could hardly stand on his feet.
Made to peel potatoes, wash pots
in sloppy water, in hot smelly kit
chen of camp outfit. AS he said
in a letter to his mother on July
20, chat just about killed me. |
went to work right after l got out
of the hospital" he wrote. "They
didn't give me days rest and that
made my legs worse. They won't
give you the right kind of medical
treatment"
Neither will the official report
say that there was a food riot in
the Port Elizabeth camp. The boys
complained they were getting too
much canned stuff to eat. DR.. Paul
Luttinger, Medical Expert of the
Daily Worker, pointed out that there
was a definite connection between
constant diet of canned food and
swollen ankles. During the war
whole ships crews fed on constant
diet Of canned food were informed
on account of swollen ankles. Of
ficers on the ship, fed on fresh
vegetables and fruits suffered no
ailments. This is part Of the Off
cial war record, DR.. Luttinger added.
For the camp officials it is enough
to say he died from pneumonia. But
this peculiar case of swollen ankles
lowers the natural resistance of the
body to the point where an ordinary
cold can lead to death. And the
direct cause of the death was the
cheap grade of canned food served
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Workers Adopt De-
mands for Pipe Trade

NEW YORK.-Five hundre d
workers of the smoking pipe indus
try adopted a code which was for
warded to Frances Perkins, Secre-
tary of Labor, and Hugh johnson.
MIRA administrator in Washington.
The chief demands in the code are
for a maximum work week of 80
hours; a maximum of so hours over
time per man per year and no more
than five hours per week; a min
imum wage of $40 for the unskilled
and $35 for the skilled; time and q
half for overtime: time work in
stead of piece work; equal pay to
women and youth; wages to be ad-
justed to meet the rising cost OF
living; unemployment insurance tc
be paid out of a national fund Gre
ated by the employers and the gov
eminent and recognition of the union
and the right to strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Relief Conference
in Mesaba Range
Relief Is Cut; Taxes
Dodged h. Steel Trust

VIRGINIA, Nj. The workers and
farmers relief conference Of the
Mesaba Range will be held on Aug.
20 at the Vasa Hall, corner of Ma
honing and Second Ave, North Hib-
bling. This conference will take up
the problems of this territory and
the campaign for the adoption of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill.
The farmers of zin are organ
izing to get free food and clothing
for their children when school starts.
The Steel Trust, by its refusal to
pay taxes and by manipulating its
city and township governments, has
already reduced the valuation in sew
eral territories on ore and is get
ting tax reduction through this
maneuver.
The latest attack of the mining
companies, through their Steel Trust
run county boards of commissioners
is to try to force a slave contract"
on all who have gotten relief in past
months. In Markham farmer,
crippled so he can hardly walk, was
to have been forced to sign such an
agreement. When told that he was
crippled, the Poor Commissioners
representative stated: Have him
sign it anyway, and then we'll see if
he can work"
Every worker and farmer should
support the relief conference and
urge their organization to elect dele
gates.
Further information can be gotten
from the United Front Relief Com
mittee, 111-812 st. &c., Virginia, MINI.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Banquet Saturday to
Greet Ford, New C. p.
Organizer in Harlem

NEW YORK.-A banquet to wei
come James W. Ford, Communist
Party candidate for vice-president al
the last national elections, as sec
ton organizer of the Communist
Party in Harlem will be held next
Saturday, August 10, at 1870 pm.
at the Spanish Workers Center, 1413
Fifth Avenue.
The banquet will also be a fare
well to Steve Kingston, who pre-
coded Ford as organizer of Section 4.
Earl Browder, general secretary
of the Communist Party, Charles
Krumbein, organizer of the New
York district, Robert Minor, Jack
Stachel and other Party leaders will
be among the speakers. The Lib
orator Chorus, the Red Dancers, and
Girly Turner of the Duncan Dancers
will entertain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16

mands also call for an increased
scale for handling war munitions,
dangerous and noxious cargo. They
demand that a reserve" tax of
one cent on every hundred pounds
of cargo be set aside to pay un.
employment insurance.
The Harborworkers' code. gov
erning towboats, also calls for the
8 hour day which will be a big
reduction of their hours. The tow
boatmen now are working a ten
hour day, and seldom get paid for
any overtime at all.
The seamen's code calls for
three watches on all ships, for a
strict eight hour day and 40 hour
week for day workers aboard the
ships. This applies especially to
the stewards who often work six
teen or eighteen hours day.
Larger crews are demanded to
make the eight hour day possible
without speed up, and the wage
scale Of 1929 is demanded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
5000 at Court House
in County March
At Roswell, n. NJ.

z BOSWELL, N. M.-Three thou
Sand people we're at Court House
Eoua~e in the Chaves County Hun
ge- March Their demands were:
So cash relief weekly for two and rs
cents additional for each depen-
dent, stopping evictions, milk and
shoes for school children and keep
ing the relief stations open each
day.
The demands were presented to
the County Welfare Board and sent
by them to the governor. The gov
ernor took no action on these needs
o.. the jo,oless,
Despite the mobilization of strong
arm forces, mass meeting was held
the same evening, Aug. 9. There
they had display of SO deputies
and machine guns. One of the speak
ers at the meeting was arrested and
later released.
y Although the demands were not
granted the effects are already felt
b. the increase in relief which was
given following the march.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
a Get Year Probation
In COney Island for
Resisting Eviction

NEW YORK.-One year probation
IS the Justice meted out by Judge
Hershfield in the Coney Island mag
istrate's court to four workers who
resisted an eviction. Those put on
probation are Bessie Horn. her
daughter Pauline, Harry Baker and
another woman.
All Of them had participated in
fighting an eviction on West 28th
st. two weeks ago. When the fur
niture of the family was thrown on
the street, Mrs. Horn and the 9TH
ers who are active in the Unem-
ployed Council protested. Patrolman
A. Cohen stnt in a call for the riot
squad and on the arrival of addi-
tional forces started to make whole
sale arrests.
The police carefully planned to
thy them before Judge Hershfield
who is known for his brutal SEN
fences against workers. The Judge
now believes that with the threat of
a year in Jail he can stop the ac-
tivity of the Coney Island Unem-
ployed Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Philadelphia Sheet
Metal Workers Meet

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 49,
A meeting of all the sheet metal
workers and cornice makers and
roofers will be held on Thursday,
August IT, p. m. at 1927 S. 9Th
st. This meeting is being called by
the Metal Cornice and Roofers I'm
ion which was reorganized last
Thursday, August 10th. Many work.
ers have already joined the union
and are prepared for the organiza-
ton of the entire trade, including
sheet metal workers in the trade.
We call upon all workers in our
trade, employed and unemployed, to
come to the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Unemployed Council
Demands Removal of
the School Director

EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa.-The
Unemployed Council of Chalfant
Borough adopted a resolution de-
handing the removal Of School Di-
rector Milewski, who compels the
children to come for milk in the
evening though it could very we'll be
distributed in the morning. The
resolution points out that "the chill
dren were waiting for the milk de-
livery to the school building during
a heavy rain on Thursday, Aug. 8.
He was told that his action might
result in the children catching colds
and developing dangerous illness, and
he replied; I can't help it if the chill
dren die; they must die sometime Z"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16

nSLlper OF ILlS 1GSClSS Maxi oLllILE
Of America"
This action was authorized last
night at a memorial meeting in
honor Of Fierro held in Webster Hall,
1l9 East 18th st. Speakers there
charged that the Queens County au-
thorities had framed up Terzani and
were shielding the real slayer,
Real Murderer Known.
Fierro, a graduate of Dewitt Clin-
ton High School, was killed while de-
Tending friend who was being
elected from a meeting of the Khaki
Shirts in Columbus Hall, Astoria, on
July IA. Carlo Tresca, chairman Of
the memorial meeting, declared that
two reputable eye witnesses had
identified the Khaki Shirts member
as the actual murderer, but that As
sistant District Attorney Joseph Los
calzo chose to accept a contradictory
story by General Art Smith. ma
tional commander of the Khaki
Shirts, and caused Terzani to be in
dicted for the crime
workers do not come to memorial
meetings to cry over their dead, de-
clared Frank Spector, assistant ma
tional secretary of the I. L. D. They
come to mobilize themselves to beat
back against the capitalistic forces
! which lie behind the fascist terror.
If Art Smith thinks that Fierro's
death will net be avenged, let him
look at Cuba. Only over the dead
bodies of thousands of workers will
the American capitalists be allowed
10 bring in fasciSm.
Build United Front.
I'VE are going to avenge Fierro by
freeing Terzani, by freeing Mooney
and Billings. and by building a
powerful united front to act in every
case of frame-up by the boss class.
We will combine in such a mighty
alliance that the capitalists will not
dare use any mere terror against
the workers"
AT Spectors suggestion a resolu-
ton was passed unanimously calling
on the Governor Miller of Alabama
to bring to justice the lynchers of the
two Tuscaloosa Negroes slain on
Sunday, and the officials which, the
LID. charges, connived with the
lynchers, and to safeguard the other
three Negro boys in that case against
violence.
Five Other Speakers.
Other speakers were Arturo Clio
vsnnitti, Italian labor poet, who was
tried for murder in 1912 in Salem,
Mass; Roger II. Baldwin, director of
the American Civil Liberties Union;
Norman Thomas, socialist leader:
Vanni Montana of the Italian daily
newspaper, La Stampa Liberia, and
Herbert Mailer, of the General De-
tense Committee of the I. w. w.
2 Behind the fight to free Terzani
Is the strongest united front defense
since the Ettor- Giovannitti case in
1912. Tenants plight and the danger
OF fascism in this country, as exempli-
fed by the maneuvers of the Khaki
Shirts, are the themes of speakers
nightly on many street corners in
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and
the Bronx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
N. Y. Party District
Invites All Workers
to Italian Picnic

NEW YORK.-The New York Dis
trict of the Communist Party issued
call inviting the workers to come
out en-masse to the picnic Sunday,
August goth at Brandt Farm, for the
benefit of the only Italian paper
which leads the str sgle of the Ital-
ian workers again Sscism.
The picnic committee has announced
an unusual program. Among the
features there will be fireworks,
Venetian illumination, sport contest,
dancing, etc. Spaghetti will be
served at depression prices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
GOnShak Sentence
Reduced to Eight
Months by Board
Arrested for Leading
Relief Demonstration

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-The sem
tence of Sam Gonshak, unemployed
worker arrested for leading a DEM
onstration before the Home Relief
Buro at Spring and Elizabeth SITS,
was changed from two years TO eight
months in the work house. Con
shak was originally sentenced by
the labor-hating Judge Thomas
Aurelio, who invoked for this pur-
pose the long unused Section
of The Parole Law.
Over 100000 signatures have al
ready been collected by the In
ternational LABOR Defense on a
petition demanding that Governor
Lehman pardon Gonshak at once
and remove Judge Aurelio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
BAIL REDUCED
FOR 3 HELD ON
LEAFLETCHARGE
Labor Defense Frees
Young Workers on
Habeas Corpus

NEW YORK. - Writs of habeas
corpus have been obtained by the
International Labor Defense in the
cases of Ben Klein, Jack Goldberg
and Charles williams, young workers
framed for passing out leaflets be-
fore a shoe factory at Boerum Place
and Bogart Street, Brooklyn, where
strike is in progress, denouncing
the NRA slave code.
Trial for the three, framed for
attempted felonious assault" based
on possession of razor blade" will
be held next Wednesday, August IS,
at 9 am. at Bridge Plaza Magis-
trate'S Court.
The LID. urges workers to pack
the court and smash this attempted
frame-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Delegates from New York, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore to Go to Washington to
Present Workers Own Demands

The delegation will carry the
code" or demands of the marine
workers directly to the NRA Of
ficials and the Shipping Board,
which will probably be handed
authority over the marine indus
try by the NRA bosses.
The demands of the marine
workers are not being presented as
a "code" but as the minimum
wages and working conditions
which the workers will accept, and
Tor which they are prepared to
fight against every opponent.
Because of the wide differences
between the various crafts in the
marine industry, the "codes" have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16

Donald Henderson, dismissed in
structor, are known we'll enough. But
more has happened since.
The discrimination against the
Negroes is a burning grievance on
the campus. The Daily Worker has
already adequately handled that in
its Aug. 10 issue, in the report of the
World Problems Club.
These conditions smell much worse
than the I. R. T. latrines which the
previous correspondent mentioned.
But more and more workers, student
workers, and students, express their
determination to fight the admins
tration and it's repressive policies.
The workers and student workers
are learning to organize in spite of
the administration spies. The Campus
Workers Group, affiliated with the
Food Workers Industrial Union, at
4 w. 18th St, is continually gaining
new members. The workers and
students are on the way toward
throwing the Columbia brain trusts
hypccritical promises back in their
teeth and building powerful organi-
cation in spite of the MIRA. and its
codes.
Get in touch with the group and
act organizationally, the only effect
i've way, to get concessions from any
boss, including the Liberal" Uni
versity.
A Member of the Group.
Editors Note: We are always
glad when readers point out mis-
takes we may have made, but we
ask this writer on what authority
he contradict us when it is the
women's toilets that the CORES
pondent wrote about? The woman
student who wrote the original
item, lists three buildings in which
the toilets exactly fit the descrip-
ton she sent in. They are East
Hall, the Central Library Build
ing, and the School Of Business.
Now If there are any other ex-
cepticns to be taken on this sub
iect, we offer to send two investi-
gators 10 the campus, man and
a woman, to get the low down on
the subject first-hand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16

been drawn up separately for long
shoremen, seamen and harborcraft
workers. The fundamental demands
OF the codes are all much the
same however. All demand the 8
hour day, and 40 hour week, with
a guaranteed living for the work.
ers in the industry to be supplied
out of government and employers
funds if the industry does not pro-
vide the guaranteed forty weeks
work year.
The demands of the longshore-
men call for a return of the wage
cut put across by the lila last fall,
and a guarantee of 40 weeks at a
minimum Of 80 hours a week, with
$50 weekly minimum. The de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Bakeries Hang
NRA Signs and
Raise Price S

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. IS
Hanging out nice new NRA signs,
the restaurants in the working
class sections Of this city raised
their prices by 16 per cent. Thirty
cent meals are now thirty-fiv
cent meals.
The price of pie was also in
creased too by the Master Bak-
ers Association by 100 per cent as
a result of the Association going
under the codes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Farmer Kills Himself:
Has No M e ans of
Feeding 10 Children

CHISHOLM, Minn.-John Tanka,
a farmer of Balkan township, COM
mitted suicide, as he could not see
his family starving any longer.
Tanko leaves 10 children. The
county board has been cutting re-
lief because the metal mining COM
panies controlled by the U. S. Steel
corporation are not paying their
taxes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
WHAT'S ON.
Wednesday

ATTENTION Delegates to the Browns
vile Daily Worke- COMMITTEES. @cr''r~ 1T
1913 Pitkin Ave. Very important. All de-
legates be en- time at pm.
LECTURE ON MIRA by j. Schuder, French
Workers Club, 40 W. 65th st., $50 pm.
Adm. free.
OPEN AIR MEETING at E. 14th Street.
Kings Highway. by Flatbush Workers Club.
y
SECTION COUNCIL LEAGUE of Workers
Theater5.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
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Gene, Joe and Helen Make the Headlines
BY EDWARD NEWHOUSE
Financial Item

Genial Gene Sazen nheritor the
$500 Professional Golfers Association polished
melted $1,000
thousands publicity deplorabe suitable
financial column register this entry
Gene didn't scheduled for an
exhibition with Krkwood
meet nterfered with his plans Also he had little gaicope-
n was hot and the nhsrtor Of the Mantle of
baked quawked, to be precise. He issued ultmaum
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
FREEDOM OF ANTI-FASCIST
WORKER WILL Be DEMANDED
BY UNITED FRONT GROUP
Memorial Meeting for Slain Italian Youth
Authorizes Action Against Real Slayer

NEW 15Six spokesman will be
Attorney
demand by 1000 protesting workers that Sullivan murder ndct
pending Atho anfasc killing
his Anthony killer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Canned Food Kills Boy
in Forced Labor Camp
Report Leaves Officials Blameless in This
Killing and the De Noia Death
Ru PASCuAL.

NEW YORK-Domnk MoIetto
Labor tall healthy boy He brought back
mother at 1873 First Place, Brooklyn Sunday
Official indifference negligence the his
the killed falling
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
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ORGANIZATIONS:

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