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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
Union Submits Code
for Needle Workers,

NEW YORK-The code for the
needle trades workers drawn UP by
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union will be submitted for dis
cussion at a meeting of all shop
chairnaen and active members Of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union on Wednesday. The meeting
will take place at union headuuar-
tiers, 1sl West 28th Street immediate
~ after work.
The Union code will be submitted
to the administration in Washington
and will be the basis on which the
Union will mobilize the needle work.
ers for struggle to improve their
working conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
LiVes OF Jobless in Danger

Ar 100000 in City
- Relief Chicago
consider
Of groceries Is really worth
Wholesale sashes in relief the
The Topping of of relief at this critical
the city authorities
Take New York for The officials
Guilty found $500 bonohodes
from rich parasites But when it relef-money missing
TIE position the becoming
ton faces millions 1t
is hitting the unemployed they
rising Of bread and other food
AT will cut
livelihood what the
to give them At the rising
snachcd
for struggle forcing exploiting
masters to steady payment provide
poyed and their families They the billions
for TO provide this fund.- coming
greater exploitation, initiation, prohteering
THIS situation calls for the especially
the widest organised
The demand for unemployment
organized shout supported by the
poyed We
give the workers least
this period Of yrocketng food
deep-gong struggle for
Organise behind the demand
insurance! Fight against relief
living!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11

ton"
Three small children are In the
family Of Mike zUwtansky of 24s Il,
End St His gas WIS m nad OF &
months ago. The rent of SIS is in ar
rears four months. He has dispos-
scss.
Fifty cents was deducted from the
$3.50 the Frumkin family of Isl East
18th st. received every two weeks. One
child is thirty pounds under weight.
Electric and gas bills which have been
with the bureau for two weeks are
still unpaid. The family faces evic-
zion.
AT the 18th Street and York Az
enue ZONE Relief Bureau, where a
militant all day picket line was estab-
iished by the East Side Unemployed
Council, worker threatened to CON-
nit suicide.
A Civil War veteran spent all day
On the picket line. He had been
refused relief because of his sympa-
thies with the Unemployed Council.
Meanwhile, the members Of the
Board of Estimate whose failure to
make the July appropriation caused
wholesale misery and hunger, and
who went calmly off TO their coun-
try homes for the week-cnd, has no
suggestions to offer.
Mayor OBricn, Comptroller Bcr-
ry and Deputy Comptroller Prial
were visiting Governor Lehman at
Lake George. talking about spe-
cisl session Of the Legislature, which
will take days If not weeks TO call,
while the city has S24,000. 900 In cash
which could be drawn on to relieve
the misery and hunger Of the n10-
han unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11

raising pIiCSS OH du DdhcAy 8OOuc.
The American Bakers Association
announced last Friday that all the
bakers should raise bread prices at
least 1-3 cents, or cut the size OF
the loaf two ounces.
In the small bakeries the prices
have gone up from ! to 3 cents.
Not only is the price of bread up
but the cost Of all flour products viii
rise.
The excuse given for the rise in
bread prices is the starting on July
8 of processing tax on wheat where
by the flour mills pay $1.38 barrel
to provide a fund to cut wheat crop
and other crop acreages. The pro-
gram of Roosevelt is to put process
sing tax on cotton and wheat to pro-
vide funds to pay the rich wheat and
cotton planter for cutting acreage in
order further to raise wheat and cot
ton prices. The first levy for this
fund to the rich farmers comes from
the rise in bread prices.
There will be a still further rise in
bread prices, the American Bakers
Association made it clear, when the
slavery code for the bakers comes
up. One of the main purposes Of
these codes is to raise prices and in
crease profits for the bosses. Hence
a further rise in bread prices is as
sWed.
The increase in bread costs imme-
diately acts as wage slash for all
workers, as bread forms an import
ant part of the diet. 1t means a cut
in all cash relief payments to the
unemployed, and an especially severe
cut as bread is the predominant part
of the diet of the unemployed.
In New Orleans, Bakers Local No
IS has protested against the rise and
is demanding cut in bread prices
and raise in wages (see story or
page 81. A united front has beer
urged by other workers organiza-
tons, the organizations of neigh
borhood committees to fight against
the bread price rise.
Immediate organization against the
rise in bread prices should go on in
all shops and factories demanding
higher wages 10 meet the highx
bread and food costs. All workers
should discuss this in their shops
and formulate demands for wage in
creases using the fact of rising food
costs to agitate FOR organization to
carry through the demand,
Along with the actual cut in relief
for the unemployed there is now ad-
ded the higher cost Of bread. To re-
sist this, organization and struggle
for more relief, for Unemployment in
surance should be pushed more than
ever.
In the neighborhoods, housewives
committees should be organized to
demand reduction in bread prices and
for struggle against the rising cost
of living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
NaziP Propaganda Sheet
Appears in New York

NEW YORK.-The first issue of
Eazi propaganda paper for America
has just appeared. 1t Is called Die
Bruecke" (The Bridge. The publi-
cation address Is given as 308 East
86th Street. The first issue contains
attacks on the. boycott movement
against Germany and seeks to de-
fend the HITLER regime IN venerA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
Strike Looms in N. C.
Textile Plants, Demand
Is Per Cent Raise

HIGHPOINT, N. c., July TO-
Threat OF a strike If demands for a
rs per cent wage increase, an hour
working shift and for discontinuance
Of added work placed on knitters and
fixers were not granted was made
today by the Industrial Workers As
ISOLATION, an independent textile
union formed year ago. The gen.
eral strike Is announced to take ef-
feet Monday, July II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
City Had $24,OO0OOO Excess Cash AS Relief Stopped;
Workers Demand Estimate Board Vote Funds Today!
AZ p. c. of Children
in City's Hospitals
Are Underneurished

/ NEW YORK.-Forty-seven and
half per cent of the children In
New York City hospitals last
year suffered from malnutritlon,
according to the report of DR..
Charles B. Conklin, medical dir
ectcr Of the Children's Aid So
ciety.
DR.. Conklin indicated the ex-
tren1e seriousness OF such a con-
dition prevailing among such
large section of the City's chill
dren.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
Bread Higher in Conn.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, July 10. =
Bread prices went up throughout the
whole state today. The immediate ef-
feet of the Federal tax Of $l.3S on a
barrel Of flour and rising wheat pri-
ces was the reduction Of the Scent
loaf from "a ounces to 20 ounces, and
the reduction Of the Scent loaf from
IS ounces to II ounces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
Jersey City Workers
Given 40% Wage Cut

JERSEY CITY, N. j., July TO-
A fiat wage cut Of 40 per cent was
voted by the City Commission at a
special meeting today for all city
workers receiving more than $1,000 a
year, and becomes effective on July
18th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
500 Shoe Workers on
Strike at Carlisle, Pa.
for Return of Pay Cuts

CARLISLE, Pa, July 10.-Five
hundred workers at the Carlisle
Shoe Co. went on strike today de-
nanding more than the ten per
cent increase in wages offered by
the company. The workers are de-
handing that wage levels in effect
last October before slashes Of S to
30 per cent had been made be re-
stored. The Carlisle Shoe Co is
owned by the l. Miller Co. of New
York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
Bread Prices Raised.
throughout Nation;
to Soar Still Higher
Government Approves 20 Per Cent Increase in
Cost of Bread to Employed and Unemployed

WASHINGTON, July 10-An boss bakers entitled to
raise the price of cent loaf of bread to Is cents said
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and they want to they
cut down the size of the loaf.
This followed the actual raising of bread
prices throughout the entire country.
The leading bakers and grocery stores like the Atlantic
and Pacific Ward Baking Co., the General Baking Co.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
Photo top
shows police
guarding the

Photo top
shows police
guarding the
Home Relief
Buro, Spring and
Elizabeth SITS,
TO prevent star
wing workers
from demanding
that The bankers
provide relief
for the 100000
persons facing
restitution fol-
lowing the cut
ting off Of city
aid by the Tam
many govern
ment. Photo
right shows
Mrs. Rose Yizzio
of 30S Broome
ST., New York,
and her five
children. Mrs.
Yizzio was re-
FUSED her next
rent yesterday.
Her husband
was fired by the
Edison Company
about two years
ago,
DAILY Worker
Staff Photos
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
Bread Up in Mich.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, July TO-
The price Of bread has been set at
a half cent an ounce, it was an
nounced here today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
No One VIII Starve,
Hungry Workers Told
Harlem Relief Official Then Refuses Aid to
Pregnant Mother
By DAN DAVIS

NEW YORK.-Worried workers. mothers with children in
children cngng skirts and holding the hands of
fathers who YEARLY leaned against picket school fences all
waiting waiting in line to ask for relief that is finally refused
This the the Home Relief Bureaus throughout the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-11
Chicago Bread Up.

CHICAGO, July 1o.-Bread; former
ly 5 cents loaf, sold at cents, and
the Decent leaf of bread was reduced
four ounces today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Young Bremen Toilers
Disarm StormTrOOpers

BREMEN, July 2o.-The young
revolutionary workers of Bremen
have carried out well-organized
series of raids on the Storm Troop
patrols, disarming and beating q
large number of them.
-Four young workers forced their
way into a Storm Troop cafe, held
up the Brown Shirts with rusty
pistol and took six revolvers from
them. The Nazis did not dare go
out into the street again for several
hours.
Six armed anti-fascists held up
207 Storm Troopers in another cafe,
and got away with a booty of 16
revolvers. An attempt to storm
Nazi barracks, housing so Storm
Troopers, was unsuccessful, but the
anti-fascists were able to retire
without loss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
1900 Rebellious Nazis
Put Into Prison Camps

VIENNA, July 20-Thirteen hun
dred former Brown Shirts are held
in the concentration camp near Will
sede, in the Luneborg plain, for
mutiny The camps previous popu-
lation of 1000 communists and So
cial democrats has been distributed
in other camps to make room for
the rebellious storm troopers.
Buch Rutker, organizer of the
Black ReichsWehr, who joined the
"black front" of Otto Strasser, ex-
PEELED aide of Hitler, has been spir-
tied away by the Nazis, who refuse
to reveal his whereabouts.
More than 100 Nazis of Munich
have been stripped of their uniforms
and taken to concentration camps,
after series of violent disagree
ments between the Brown Shirt
rank and file and their leaders.
These sharp attacks on erstwhile
followers, which become more nu-
merous every day, reveal the power
full insurgent movement which is
rising in opposition to Hitler's pro-
gram.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
By JOSEPH FREEMAN

Harry Alan Potamkin, noted revolu-
tionary critic and poet, died late
Wednesday afternoon at Bellevue
Hospital, after a surgical operation
for stomach ulcers, from which he
had suffered for the past three years.
Comrade Potankin entered the hos
pital on June 25th. Efforts to save his
life included six blood transfusions.
Twenty-six members of the John Reed
Club, of which Comrade Potamkin
was secretary, the Workers Film and
Photo League and OF the Daily
Worker Staff volunteered their blood.
Three of these qualified, giving their
blood several times. The three were
Robert Hamilton of the DAILY" Ben
Field and Paul Beach of the John
Reed Club.
The untinely death Of this gifted
revolutionary writer at SO came as a
profound shock to all who knew him.
The John Reed Club, the Film and
Photo League, the New Masses the
New Pioneer and ether organizations
and publications with which Com
rade Potamkin was connected are
arranging the funeral, which will be
held today at . ". m. at the
Workers Center, so East 18th Street.
Joseph Freeman, of the John Reed
Club, Alexander Trachtenberg, of
the Communist Party, and Martha
Millet, Young Pioneer, will speak at
the ceremony. The body will lie in
state at the Center from IL O'Clock
noon. The body will be cremated.
Despite his youth, Harry Alan Po-
tamkin had already achieved lead
ing place among the best movie critics
in the world. His work was known In
England, France and the Soviet
Union, as we'll as in the United States,
where he was also known as revo-
lutionary poet and literary critic.
Comrade Potan1kin was born in
on April 10, 1900. He
studied at the University Of Pennsyl-
vanla and New York University where
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Anti-Fascist Relief
Fund Raised inLOndOn

NEW YORK.-More than 200
Pounds (nearly $1,000 for the relief
of victims Of the Nazi terror, was
collected at a meeting in Kings
way Hall, London, England, recently.
according to a report received here
by the National Committee to Aid
Victims of German Fascism.
On the platform, among represent
tatives of the United Front against
German Fascism, were Lord Mar
ley of the Labor Party, Isabel Brown
of the Communist Party. Ellen Will
kinson, Harry Pollitt, Lord Russell.
Saklatvala, Prof. j. B. s. Haldane,
James Maxton, Miles Malleson, E.
F. Wise, and G. E. M. Joad. The
hall was crowded with $500 work.
ers, and hundreds more we're turned
away at the door.
Among the speakers was Egon
Erwin Kisch, well-knoWn German
writer, who got away from Nan
dungeon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Red Press Growing
in Germany Despite Terror
Party, Young Workers
Have 3 Organs
in Berlin

BERLIN, July 20. The "Rote
Fahne." illegal central organ of the
Communist Party, is coming out reg
ularly with four pages, SO much like
the old legal edition in technical
quality that the reader almost for
gets the conditions under which it is
published. All the efforts of the Nazis
to discover the secret printing press
en- which it is printed have so far
failed,
The latest issue, on the first page,
calls on the German workers to de-
fend the arrested Communicative
sentenced TO death in Altoona, two in
Chennitz, Ernst Thaelmann. facing
trial, and Torgler, Dimi5roff, Popov,
and Tanev charged with burning the
Reichstag. Another front page ar
ticle is an exposure of the Hitler
work schemes, and an analysis of
his whole economic program as a
gigantic fraud
The third and fourth pages are
devoted TO an Open Letter of the
Central Committee OF the Communist
Party of Germany, addressed to the
social-democratic workers of Ger
many.
Another article, analysing the posi-
ton of the revolutionary movement
in Germany, concludes that the sit
uation has greatly altered in its favor
since the beginning of May, but that
work in the factories is tagging be-
h'rd the other aspects of the move
ment.
The "Junge Garde," organ Of the
Young Communists, is also appearing
regularly. The current issue contains
a report of the Workers Anti sFas-
cist Congress in Paris, and calls for
increased activity of all young work
ers against wage-cuts and for the re-
lease of the imprisoned workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Takers on Waterfront
Trying to Lure Seamen
Into A. F. of L. Union
fBy a Marine Worker Correspondent

(By Marine Worker Correspondent
BALTIMORE, Ndd.-In looking over
the past mistakes of the International
Scamen's Union officials, I see now
that never made mistake when
left that organization and joined
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union. The secretary of the Balti-
more branch of the I. S. U. stands
outside of the headquarters and
stops all the old time seamen that
used to be good dues-paying mem
bers. His line of bull is almost the
same as the old Wobbly line, only
the Wobblies were more open,
Hello, Mac: Why don't you come
up once in while to a meeting?
Most of the o1d-timers are coming
back to the I. S. U. 1t won't be long
now until we have job control again
and we need you old seamen in the
organization Gee, you I-cl I be
one of the best dressed seamen on the
Pacific Coast, and now you are not
much better than bum. You old
timers got discouraged too damned
easy. Roosevelt is going to make
o,,ly GOING IN let Americans work on
ar,srican shins
And To ton off his line he tells the
rorte,. n inst nav a visit In the hall
srd he ran ret a stew. as the union
e now n,,ttine ont two stews a dav,
ard there Is no forced labor attached
IN the stev
coffin in this union manv Years. and
,,ou an, over fifty and the secre-
tarv offers me stew to try and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Many Pay Last Tribute Life and Work of Harry Alan Potamkn
Colleagues Workers, Mourn Untimely Death
At 80 of Revolutionary Poet and Critic

he specialized in bellies lettres and the
social sciences. Afterwards he spent
five years directing the Children's
Play Village, an enterprise in educa-
tive play.
While still at college, he began his
literary career in the Liberator, with
a diatribe in verse against Woodrow
Wilson. Subsequently he published
here and abroad verse, stories, and
criticism of the theatre, the movies
and books. He was for a number Of
years the New York correspondent Of
Close Up, Experimental Cinema and
other film publications. For time he
also edited the Guardian.
Comrade Potamkin, always sYmpa-
thetic TO the revolutionary movement,
entered 1t as an active fighter in 1927.
He was one Of the first members Of
the John Reed Club and held various
positions in it. At the time of his
death he was It's executive secretary.
In 1880 he was one Of the John Reed
Club delegates to the Kharkov con-
ference Of revolutionary writers,
where he helped to formulate the pro-
gram of the International Union Of
Revolutionary Writers. In the last
six years of his life he was a frequent
contributor to the New Masses, the
Daily Worker and the Labor Defender.
He was particularly interested in
workingclass children, and wrote
quantities Of verse and prose for the
New Pioneer as well as songs, plays
and operettas for the pioneer groups.
His revolutionary children's songs
are being sung this summer by the
children at Kinderland, and num-
Der of them have been issued today
in book of songs published by the
New Pioneer. He was also co-author
Of the Forthcoming book for children
called Our Lenin," to be issued by
international Publishers.
An intelligent, witty and profound
analyst Of the American and Euro
pean film, Comrade Potankin, was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Body to Lie in State at Workers Center To-
day from IL Noon Until Funeral

charming person, a loyal comrade, a
brilliant conversationalist who pro-
fusely and generously poured out new
and stimulating ideas, and devoted
fighter for Communism.
He kept up his work almost to the
end, contributing articles to the revo-
lutionary press until he entered the
hospital
A resolution adopted by the John
Reed Club upon the announcement
of his death says in part:
1.-THE tragic death of Comrade
Harry Alan Potamkin in his early
thirties has taken from the revolu-
tionary movement one Of the most
gifted and loyal of its writer's.
Conrade Potamkin devoted his talents
and energies without reserve to the
struggle of the working class for the
overthrow Of capitalism.
Developed Revolutionary Criticism
I'm the John Reed Club, the New
Masses, the Daily Worker the New
Pioneer and in various liberal publ
cations for which he wrote he con-
sistently developed revolutionary crit
icism and upheld the Communist
views on art and literature.
Despite the fatal illness which
finally took him from our ranks, he
continued almost to the end to de-
vote his prolific and brilliant pen
to the revolutionary movement. While
suffering intense physical pain, he
gave freely Of his time and effort to
his duties as secretary Of the John
Reed Club and participated in vari-
Gus campaigns of the Communist
Party
1.-THE writer's and artists of the John
Reed Club who took pride in his life
deeply mourn his untimely death. We
honor the memory of Comrade Harry
Alan Potamkin and pledge ourselves
to continue the struggle for COM
muuast culture to which he gave him
self so Fundamentally"
The John Reed Club is preparing
an exhibition Of Conlrade Potamkins
work at its headquarters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21

suit of the restrictions on importa-
tons of fats instituted by the Fas-
cist government. and consequent
rise in prices. More than 1000 shops
selling chiefly fats have been COM
PEELED to go out of business in the
Palatinate.
All food prices are rising in Ger
many, while the wages of all work
ers are being cut as a part OF the
Nazi economic program,
At the same time the Russian
White Guards are being especially
taken care of by the Hitler govern
ment. The White Guardist paper
"Probushdenye Rosy" carries an an
nouncement that the White Guard
restaurant in Berlin will serve food
free to anyone showing a member
ship card of the German White
Guardist organization. The same
restaurant serves it's White Guard
customers full dinner for Is to 81
pfennigs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-21
Jews Meet to Sharpen
Anti Boycott

LONDON, July 20.--Jewish leaders
of 35 countries met in Amsterdam
today to work out plans to extend
and intensity the anti-German boy
colt in retaliation against the Nazi
anti-Semitic prosecutions.
The United States, the Union of
South African States, Egypt, and
most of the countries of Europe are
represented at this conference, which
is preparatory to q, Jewish World
Economic Conference to be held in
London in October.
The present meeting is planned to
organize the boycott, and to publicize
non German products as substitutes
for goods hitherto imported from
Germany.