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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

committees and improvements in
their working conditions.
The most significant aspect of the
strike victory was the gaining of q
uniform scale of wages for Negro and
white workers. Previously the white
workers received higher pay for the
same work than the Negro workers.
With the strength Of the union be-
hind them, the workers will put a
stop to all of the determinations
practiced against Negro workers.
Following the announcement grant
ing all demands, the strikers of each
shop decided to hold meetings tomor-
row to elect their shop committees,
to consolidate their union and to work
out detailed demands for each shop
based on the existing conditions.
st. Louis is the center for the
shelled nut industry. The industry
employs women workers almost ex-
clusively. Negro women have been
working on piece work basis earn
ing at most SO week and often less
than a dollar a week. Workers were
paid and cents pound for pick
ing half nuts. They will now receive
10 cents pound as result of their
strike victory. For picking small
pieces Of nuts they were paid 2 cents
pound. They will now receive 4 cents
a pound for this work. The total wage
increases amount to 80 per cent more
than previously received. A minimum
OF the strike in these factories has in
spired thousands Of st. Louis workers
who now have a concrete example of
what may be gained through militant
struggle and organization.
arrests and brutality during the
strike meeting and tried to take credit
for the strike victory, parading as a
friend Of the strikers. The strikers,
however, recognized his responsibility
as a strikebreaker and know that
their victory came only as the result
of their solidarity and militant strike
action.
So great was the effort to smash
this strike by the bosses and the local
government who feared its effects on
the st. Louis workers that just prior
to the settlement, mass arrests took
place on the picket line and SO work.
ers were Jailed including an active
member of the Young Peoples Social
ist League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
How the Dairymen's
League Is Owned"
by the N. Y. Farmers
(By a Worker Correspondentl


CORY, Pa.-The price for milk
paid the farmers by the Dairymen's
League in this vicinity for the month
of April was 81 cents cash and 10
cents debenture certificates per hun
dred. This is slightly less than 1 1-2
cents per quart in cash.
The Dairymen's League, whic h
seems to be losing prestige among the
farmers, published two articles in the
Erie Daily Times recently. It in
formed the farmers and the world in
general that the Dairymen's League
was owned by 10000 farmers and that
it cost the farmers less than one
seventh of cent per quart to market
their milk through the League.
But it failed to mention the fact
that that one-seventh of cent re-
presented nearly one-tenth of the
cash price the farmers received for
their milk during the month of April
And that is the only part of the
League which the farmers own in
common-the cost of operating it,
and paying high salaries to big" Of
ficials who tell them how they can
sell their milk for a cent and a half
a quart
Relief work here on the State roads
is paid for at the rate Of 80 cents per
hour Workers are allowed ely 80
hours per week. Many do not even
get that. Some have had no work at
all on these relief jobs for six months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

unity. The chairman stated that the
meeting had been adjourned. But
this worker insisted and following
him another worker took the floor
claiming that he was not a member
of any union bus the appeal for unity
was the best thing ever proposed.
He didn't care if the N. T. w. U.
did propose it. At this point, the
organizer of the N.T.W.U. walked to
the platform and Immediately Music
followed him.
Tries to Shift Blame
German and Schweitzer left the
hall and allowed Music to hold the
situation. Here Music showed his
colors. He told the members of our
union that they are breaking unity
because they broke up the meeting by
asking questions. But the meeting
was adjourned and the workers were
still remaining in the hall wanting
to know what position he had on
unity.
Music stated that we are not pur-
suing the correct line. He told us to
write a letter, appealing for unity.
He was told that it was done weeks
ago. Then he told us to send a COM
m.ttee to the U. T. Associated
and other organizations. He was
answered that this was done, many
times.
Evades Direct Question
A worker demanded from Music,
why didn't you speak for unity if
you are sincere?"
This was a little too much for
Music. He told a group that Lenin
once said that, in order to win your
point, you sometimes have to crawl
on your belly through the mud. One
of the workers wanted to know what
book of Lenin's Music was quoting.
Music didn't answer. The organizer
of our union told Music that as far
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
Union Carpenters Call
UnOrganized to Join
Strike for Pay Rise

LONG ISLAND CITY, May %.
A strike under the leadership of
rank and file members of the A..
F. of L. Brotherhood of Carpen-
tiers was declared today against
the Forest Box and Lumber Co.,
1856 Vernon Ave, L. |. The car
penters of the sash, door, trim
and cabinet departments are in
volyed, but call to strike has
also been issued to the workers of
all other departments who are I'M
organized.
The workers are on strike for
the following demands: rs cents an
hour, no overtime while members
of the union are unemployed, rec
ognition of shop committee
elected by the workers, no discri-
mination against any worker for
union activity. The strike is en-
dorsed by locals 2O90, 1884, and
2717.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
Music Sabotages Unity in Paterson Mills,
While Speaking tor Unity>~"In General

of the silk workers and were asked
to support it.
Didn't an article appear in the
Daily Worker signed by the c. P.
l. A. for the unity of the workers to
fight for better conditions and
against Fascism? Didn't they march
in New York with the rest of the
workers against Fascism? Didn't they
unite forces in the Continental Con-
gress at Washington? Looked good,
didn't it? But thus far it was only
words. When it comes to battle for
the unity of the workers in their
struggle for bread and butter: For
increases in wages and shorter hours,
Let us see how different are their
actions.
Music Silent on Unity
AT a mass meeting called by the
United Textile Workers Associated,
Music appeared on the platform with
German, vice-president of the U. T.
w. However, Music, who calls him
self labor leader, says that he is
for the united front Of all workers.
What stand did he take at this i'm
portant mass meeting, regarding the
unity of all the workers irrespective
of union affiliations?
lie didn't say that the workers
should unite to fight against wage
cuts and long hours. He didn't con-
denim the United Textile Workers
Associated for its refusal to accept
unity. He didn't credit the N. T..
w. U. or the United Twisters Club
for their efforts to bring about such
unity. He didn't say that our union
is making proposal which every
worker in the city is talking about
and looks forward to for its reali-
zation.
AT the close of the meeting,
worker rose from his seat and asked
why the U. T. Associated refused
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
NEGRO WORKERS
AID MASS FIGHT
Buy Save Scottsboro'
Defense Stamps

NEW YORK.-Hailing the Inter
national Labor Defense in its milit-
ant defense of the nine innocent
Scottsboro boys, hundreds of work.
ers, responding to an appeal sent out
together with 100 Save the Scots
Ioro Boys penny stamps now being
circulated throughout the country by
the thousands, are sending warm ap-
precautions along with their contri-
buttons. Typical of these is a let
ter received recently by the Scots
boro New Trial Emergency Fund Of
the LID. from worker in Raleigh,
N. c.:
Dear sirs: Enclosed please find
check for So. which I should like you
to accept as small contribution to
the defense fund of the Scottsboro
boys.
It cannot close this letter without
thanking you for the courageous de-
Tense of those unfortunate boys.
Through your effort the case has
been taken out Of the category of a
mere trial in which a colored mans
life is at stake. The issue which you
have raised is whether human JUS
tice shall prevail not only in Ala
bama but throughout the United
States The IL millions of colored
people in this country as well as the
other minority groups must forever
be grateful to you May your organ
ization continue fearlessly to defend
the rights of the oppressed"
This is one of the many Negro
workers whose eyes have been open
ed by the heroic struggle of the mil
lions Of workers throughout the world
led by the LID. and its sympathetic
In order to carry on
the struggle and prepare the appeal
from the vicious lynch verdict of
Haywood Patterson, funds are need
ed desperately by the Scottsboro New
Trial Emergency Fund of the LID,
so East 18th ST., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
$4,000 BAIL FOR
FRAMED FOOD
UNION WORKERS

NEW YORK.-The II members of
the Food Workers Industrial Union
who were framed and arrested on
kidnapping" charge last Monday had
their bail reduced to $1,000 each from
the original $500 after the Interna-
tional Labor Defense obtained writ
of Habeus Corpus yesterday.
The IL workers were brought into
the N. Y. State Supreme Court
shackeled and manacled as though
they were criminals. Judge Bernard
L. Shientag, who was forced to re-
lease three other workers held for
violating the injunction law, under
$25 bail, presided.
Seventeen workers, arrested for
violating the mythical Foltis injunc-
ton against the Union, were released
under custody of the LID. attor-
neys and their case adjourned until
tomorrow at the 57th Street court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

as he knows Lenin, he always stood
erect.
When one worker rose and asked II
the workers wanted to hear Brown,
N. T. w. U. organizer speak, the
workers replied in the affirmative.
Music interfered and put the Ques-
ton to some workers in the back.
Because Of the noise no one could
tell what the answer was, and Music
decided that they didn't want to hear
Brown speak. When the organizer
rose to speak, Music threatened to
publish in his papers as well as in
the local newspapers that we are
breaking the unity of the workers.
The N. T. w. organizer spoke.
Our records in the many shop and
dye strikes are concrete proof to the
workers that we carry out our policy
Of unity in deeds. When our union
called a mass meeting, our leaflet
stated that any labor organization
can send anyone to speak on unity.
We saw no Musteites taking the floor
at such meetings.
Words and Actions
We can draw only one conclusion
from Mustes tactics in Paterson, thus
far. While he speaks against Fas-
cism, his refusal to speak and fight
for unity of the workers for better
conditions only helps to pave the way
for Fascism TO come to the U. S. A..
His Unemployed Citizens League
went out of existence when it re-
fused to fight against forced labor.
That job was left for the N. T. w. u.
and the Unemployed Council, who
killed the attempt to put forced labor
over on the Passaic River.
Music cannot fool the textile work
ers in Paterson. If he is for the
unity Of the workers, he has got to
show it and fight for it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
ALL. OFFICIALS
CONDONE RACKET
ON BRICKLAYERS

NEW YORK-The District Coun-
Gil of Bricklayers and the Executive
Committee of Local 9 F. L. have
taken no steps to put a stop to rack
eteering on a government post office
job which was recently brought to
light by union member whose wages
were feeced $500 day by the boss.
Although the membership of Local
voted unanimously to present the
affidavits of the workers employed by
contract for Dave Slote on post Office
jobs in Jamaica and Flushing, to the
District Council and press for imme-
diate action, nothing has been done
to strike the jobs of this contractor.
The rank and file of locals ST. "a
and 9 are up in arms against this
deliberate sabotage on the part of
the officials who are aiding the bosses
by refusing to enforce the union
scale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
To DepOrt Militant
Seamen to DanZig

NEW YORK.-The deportation de-
partment of Frances Perkins signed
an order this week to send Frederick
Liedke, militant seaman who has been
held since March 90 on framed
charge, to Danzig.
Liedke, together with a worker
named Trevor, were arrested after an
International Longshoreman official
attempted to break up meeting of
the West Side Unemployed Council.
The lila official was sent to the hos
pital. Later, police raided various
stores and restaurants and together
with two others Liedke and Trevor
were arrested. The latter is still on
Ellis Island with Perkins officers pre-
pairing to deport him to Canada.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
Jail JObless, Don't
Tell Friends Where

NEW YORK. Without informing
their relatives or friends of what
Jail they were to be taken, IS unem-
ployed declared guilty by Magistrate
Burck for taking part in a demon
stration were hustled away to I'M
known pens after their trial Saturday.
The International Labor Defense
made inquiries and learned that all
women workers were taken to the
Women's Jail at 10th Street and
Greenwich Avenue, near Sixth Ave.
visiting hours are from 10 a. m. to
1880 a. m. The men were taken to
Welfare Island, visiting hours are
from 1870 a. m to l p. m. isiting
is not allowed at either place Satur-
day and Sunday Worker are urged
to visit these fighters and show their
solidarity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
Roosevelt Administration Officials Get
Morgan FavorS; Make Easy Money

gan Company at $40 a share, the mar
ket price was $35. BY selling their
stock as soon as they got it from the
Morgans, the insiders could make a
quick, easy profit of $40 to SIS a
share without even putting up any
money of their own.
A person like George F. Baker, for
example, could have sold his share Of
the Morgan inside deal for an i'm
mediate profit of $4,000 for single
transaction taking only a few min
utes.
The Morgans handed out 100000
shares Of Allegheny stock to the "se-
lected" list, giving a clean profit OF,
at least $12,500,0o0 for the insiders.
Sold Out Before 1929 Crash
Today's investigation also revealed
that j. P. Morgan & Company had
liquidated practically all of its hold
ings in common stocks prior to the
stock market crash in 1929.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

At the end of 1928, the Morgan firm
had $6S,546,O0O invested in common
stocks. AT the end Of 1929, after the
stock crash, the Morgans had only
s7072, 900 in common stocks.
at the peak Of the stock boom. the
Morgans formed three large holding
companies into which they poured
their holdings and then sold the COM
mon stock of the holding companies
to the thousands Of small investors,
who paid the sky-high prosperity
prices for them.
1t was also brought out that scores
Of prominent government officials,
bankers and industrial magnates are
indebted to ]. P. Morgan g. Company
for loans. The amount of these loans
have not been made public. About
one-third have been repaid
Throughout the proceedings Sena-
tor Glass, one Of the leading Demo-
cratic Senators, continued his tactics
in defense Of Morgan. Yesterday, he
rushed to the defense Of Morgan on
several occasions Directing to Pecora' IS
question
National Banks Bankrupt
Today he continued these tactics
At one point, Senator Glass, who is
considered the leading Democratic
authority on banking and finance, as
serted that if the Controller of Cur
rency of the Treasury Department
had enforced the law during the Win
ter Of 1892, half of the national
banks in the country would have been
forced to go into bankruptcy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
BY M. BROWN

When the National Textile Work
erS Union sent its appeal for the
unity of all textile workers irrespec-
tive of union utilization for a COM
mon fight for higher wages and
shorter hours, only one organization
answered the call and that was the
United Twisters Club. The U. t. w.
Associated turned it down flat.
Committee after committee went
to see the Executive Board of the
U. T. W-Associated, calling upon 1t
to accept the proposal for unity but
to no effect.
The N. T. w. U. was called the
disrupters of unity by the A. F. of L.
leaders but this present test will
prove to the textile workers of Pater-
bon which union is sincere for such
unity.
Music Enters
With the workers talking about
unity and for a general strike, A. j.
Tuste Of the C. P. l.. A., came onto
The scene. He is remembered espe-
eially in connection with the STOP
page that he was instrumental in
FALLING last September, which proved,
rs our Union predicted that his hat
m hand conferences with the bosses
tnly meant more wage-cuts for the
korkers. He did nothing to organize
Ind strengthen the workers in the
hops.
Test Finds Music Wanting
Music is trying to find a place for
mis- c. P. L. A. in the present situa-
Fon in Paterson. We are told that
Muste is for the unity of the workers.
His first test came in Paterson and
has proved him to be wanting.
His aids, Budenz and Montress ap-
leared at the office of the N. T.
". U. ito get information" They
fere told of our fight for the unity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
REGAL STRIKERS
ASK SUPPORT OF
A. F. |. WORKERS

TRENTON, N. 1.-THE strikers of
the Regal Doll Workers Industrial
Union have addressed letter to all
locals and rank and file members OF
the A. F. of L. asking their support.
The letter relates the events which
led up to the present strike Of the
coll workers and traces the activity
Of the union from the time when it
was organized and won substantial
increases for the workers to the time
when the new agreement was to be
negotiated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

IMAM year by the international La
Dor Defense.
mass campaign will be begun i'm
mediately to force the complete and
unconditional freedom of the four
workers still in jail it was announced
by the LID.
IEy setting technicalities in the way,
and by fraudulently refusing to sign
the appeal papers for many months,
until writ of mandamus was Sc
Gu ed by the LID, from the Supreme
O. urt, the Tampa courts and authori-
tbs prevented reversal Of the cases
until four of the prisoners had served
their full time, two had been driven
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

Relief Bureau in the city at II am.
to press for the demands on the pc
tition.
The demands are:
l. Stopping evictions of unempIoy-
ed or part time workers unable to
pay rent.
2. Payment Of rents for the un-
employed by the Home Relief Bu-
reau.
3. Increasing relief to meet rising
cost Of living.
4. Ceasing Of police and court at
tacks upon the jobless who protest
the city's starvation and eviction pro-
gram.
Circulate Thousands
The petitions are being circulated
by the thousands by the Provisional
United Front Committee Against
Evictions and Relief Cuts, for work
CTS to sign. It is addressed to Mayor
OBrien and the Municipal Assembly
Of New York.
Every worker no matter what his
affiliation, race, nationality or beliefs
is called by the Provisional United
Front Committee to join at the bu-
reaus and give power to the demands
To Elect Delegates
Ten delegates will be elected by the
workers gathered at each bureau. All
the delegates will then meet and
combine as one large delegation to
bring the petitions with tens of thou
sands Of names to City Hall with the
demands.
/ The unemployed will remain at the
| bureau until the return of their de-
/ legates to hear their report. If nc
satisfactory answer is given by Mayor
OBrien, the workers will refuse to
leave the bureaus
The National Executive Commit
tee of the Workers Sick and Death
Benefit Fund Of the USA. pledged
cooperation in all directions pos
sible" to the efforts Of the Provisional
United Front Committee. A member
Of the Workers Sick and Death Ben
eft Fund is a member of the Pro-
/ visiCnal Committee. The Provisional
| Committee was initiated when the
Unemployed Council called sixteen
city labor bodies to an Emergency
Conference May IS. A broad united
front conference to EN- bra c
every workers organization in the
city was decided on for June 8 at
Irving Plaza.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
WEINSTEIN MEETS TO RAISE
APPEAL FUNDS

NEW YORK.-As part of the mass
campaign to raise $4,000, with which
to appeal the case Of Sam Weinstein,
who was railroaded to Sing Sing for
his activity in a furniture workers
strike in Brooklyn, the Ladies' Tai
lors Branch, New York District, Inter-
national Labor Defense, will hold a
Weinstein open air meeting this
Thursday, May Is, $50 pm, at 54th
st. and Madison Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
NEGRO
AT PROTEST MEET

NEW YORK.-M. Snipe, who was
charged with felonious assault after
being beaten unconscious last Fri
day at the Home Relief Bureau de-
monstration. spoke to an audience of
400 Negro and white workers at pro-
test meet Monday night at the Abys-
snian Church. The announcement of
another demonstration today at II
a. m. at the same Home Relief Bu-
reau, 70 West 131st Street met ready
response from the workers. cops
clubs and arrests will not and cannot
stop our fight for shelter and food"
they said
Clayton Martin spoke from the
platform of the Unemployed Council
yesterday and urged the workers to
mass together for Thursdays demon
stration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

insane by the inhuman treatment
they received on chain-gangs and in
prison. and six, among them these
two, deported to Spain, Cuba, Mexico,
and Uruguay.
The four remaining in jail are j. E.
Mcdonald and Henry Bonilla, each
sentenced to ten years; Felix Nor
zero, sentenced to three years, and
Mario Lopez, sentenced to one year,
which has been more than served by
now. BY keeping Lopez in the county
jail six months before transferring
him to the state prison, the authori-
ties heightened his sentence by that
period.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
Protest Terror on
Militant Unions at
Meet for Blum TOnite

NEW YORK. = TIE campaign of
terror by bosses, police and hired
gangsters against militant trade I'M
ions will be vigorously protested at a
mass meeting tonight at Ambassador
Hall, Third and Claremont Parkway,
Bronx. called to mobilize mass pres
sure for the release of Leon Blum,
victimized by the ruling class for his
activity in behalf Of the Laundry
Workers Industrial Union.
jacques Buitenkant, labor attorney,
will head delegation to be elected
at this mass meeting to see Gov
ernor Lehman and demand that he
release Leon Blum Immediately and
Internationally.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

of $40 This meant an immediate
profit to j. P. Morgan of at least
81, $50, 900.
John j. Raskob Of the General Mo
tors Corporation also was given inside
stock
Raskob, MacAdoo, John w. Davis
Morgan's attorney. Secretary Woodin,
and Norman H. Davis are powerful
political leaders of the Democratic
Party. Norman H Davis, it is admit
ted, is Roosevelts closest advisor on
foreign affairs, while Raskob is con-
sidered to be one Of the men respon-
sible for the financing of Roosevelt's
election.
The stock which Morgan sold to
the insiders at a price far below the
market price was the common stock
of Allegheny Corporation. At the time
when the insiders got it from the Nor