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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
BARRIERS STRIKE
SPREADS; 900 OUT

NEW YORK,-Over 900 BARRIERS of
Local $50 Of the Journeymen BARRIERS
CA. F. of L. in more than 700 shops
are now on strike to establish decent
wages and working conditions. The
local union is demanding $25 a week
and so per cent commission for all
chairs taking over $35; the hours Of
labor to be from a. m. to p. m.
and a. m. to 9 p. m. on Saturday
night; day off every two weeks for
every journymen barber; free at
p. m. on all holidays with the excep-
ton of four when workers are to be
free all day.
An error in reference to the lead
ership of the strike was reported yes
terday in the Daily Worker. The
strike was declared by the members
of Local $50 and is conducted under
the supervision Of the Local Executive
Board. A strike committee of ten
was elected at the mass meeting
when the strike was declared for the
purpose of cooperating with the ex-
ecutive board in the successful con-
duct Of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
STAGE AND SCREEN
FiUe Year Plan to be Sh0Wn
At City Theatre TOMORROW

Today the Soviet Union is the only
large country of the world where
there is no economic crisis. Instead
of unemployment there is actually
great shortage of labor for the build
ing and operating of the great new
industries which the Five Year Plan
has brought into being.
The various phases of the Soviet
Unions great program of economic
development which is fast industrial
izing a formerly predominantly agra
rian country and is changing the
habits and lives Of the population,
are shown in the film, THE Five Year
Plan: Russias Remaking." to be
shown tomorrow, Thursday, at the
City Theatre A glance at the huge
industrial projects under construc-
tion-the power plants, steel mills,
coal mines, automobile and tractor
factories-some of which are among
the largest projects Of their kind in
the world, makes it easy to under
stand why everyone is busy at work
in the u S. S. r. and why unem-
ployment has been eliminated
The film is accompanied by an en-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24

unity League.
THE fact that the Food Work
ers Industrial Union has recently
started to organize the workers in
the basic sections of the food in
dustry in order to better their
working and living conditions,
such as the Hotel Commodore,
the FOitis- Fischer cafeterias, the
large milk and dairy plants, ETC.,
is another important reason why
the bosses together with the po-
lice, the press, and gangsters have
decided to smash the Food Work
ers Industrial Union. But the
workers know who the real rack
eteers are, and they will not allow
their militant organizations to be
smashed.
The press, especially the New
York Times, has in lying stories, at
tempted to point out that the Food
Workers Industrial Union has COM
mitted acts of sabotage against the
Foltis-Fischer Cafeterias now on
strike under the leadership of our
Union. This is a brazen lie. The
history Of the Food Workers Indus
trial Union in its fight for mass ac-
ton Of the workers as against the
individual action and sabotage as
proposed and practiced by the
l.W.W. and other such organiza-
lions is sufficient proof that the
Times statement is not a statement
of fact, but an attempt to whip up
a sentimental hysteria against the
Food Workers Industrial Union.
This is the game of the Foltis-
Fischer bosses who are trying to OBJ
tain an injunction which will elimi-
nate the elementary rights of labor,
the right to organize, strike and
picket.
THE workers of New York will
not allow these lying press state
ments and these frame-ups to go
unanswered. These attempts TO
smash the organizations of the
workers which are really leading
them in struggle for better condi-
tons will fail. The working class of
New York will organize now to fight
and smash these attempts to worsen
their living and working conditions.
Workers and workers organ
izations should Immediately call
protest meetings and send tele-
grams of protest to Mayor O'Bri-
en- and Police Commissioner
BcIan calling for the immediate
release of the arrested and franz
ed workers and for fight against
the real racketeers."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24

ests of all food workers and has
always organized the food workers
in struggle for better working and
living conditions.
1T is no accident that the charge
of racketeering against the Food
Workers Industrial Union comes at
the present time. The workers have
long demanded that action be taken
against those real labor racketeers
who have continuously MIXED them
Of their hard earned money and
have betrayed their interests. The
police and the press, working to-
gether with these racketeers who
are hired by the bosses, are now
trying to place the responsibility on
the workers controlled unions af-
filiated with the Trade Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
An 84>Hour Week Among Features OF
Chicago "Century of Progress" Fair
l2-H0ur day, Seven
Day Week on Job
at the Worlds Fair
Bv a Worker Corresuondent

CHICAGO, III. - On a bulletin
board in the hall of Northwestern
University Medical and Dental School
is the following information about
jobs at the Worlds Fair
/ Pushing roller chairs-a chair
holding one person around to the
various points of interest in the Fair
GTounds-in the shortest amount Of
time Paid on an hourly basis, and
working hours are from about II 80
in the morning to 10 or IL in the
evening, seven days a week.
q Counter clerks, sales persons in
refreshment stands and small lunch
counters-these Jobs involve same
hours of work as roller chair push
ers.
3 Guards A combination Of eusrd
and guide. These jobs olive
same hours as for roller chair push
ers.
I spoke to a destitute student who
took an examination for a job as
guard and guide He told me the
mental examination was ridiculous.
They ask many silly questions to be
answered very quickly. He said they
asked questions something like this !:
Should it be foolish, ridiculous or
absurd to say the moon was made Of
green cheese"
According to this information the
workers inside the Fair Grounds
must work u hours a day-seven
days a week And this is the Gentry
of Progress" exposition. After 100
years Of progress we have over II
million workers jobless. and this great
Worlds Fair has an 84-hcur working
week. r..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24

need for unity of action and the pos
sibilities TO achieve this unity if ap-
preached correctly.
Dear Comrade Editor:
The nearest Home Relief Bureau
is at l02d st. and it is a hardship for
the unemployed Of the Heights and
Inwood to spend their car fare to
travel such distance.
The issue of demanding the estab-
fishing Of Home Relief Bureau was
originally proposed by the Unem-
ployed Council Subsequently the
Workers Unemployed League took up
the issue on its own initiative and COL
lected signatures from all over the
Heights on petitions which were pre-
sented to Commissioner Taylor.
On May 5 the U. C. received a letter
from Mr.. Berry, chairman of the
Workers Unemployed League, asking
us to send two delegates 10 a confer
ence to map out program Of action
to secure a Relief Bureau on the
Heights.
Hold Conference
Out of this preliminary conference
a broad united front has developed in
which the Unemployed Council
Workers Unemployed League, Com
munist Party rank and file of the
Socialist Party, Young Socialist
League. Young Communist League,
International Workers Order and IN
wood Mutual Exchange "a socialist
affiliation) are participating
The United Committee to secure a
Home Relief Bureau on Washington
Heights was formed and in response
to our invitations the Inwood Repub-
lican Club half -heartedly promised
support, the rank and file of the Irish
American Independent Political Or
CARNATIONS were for participation and
the leaders have still to let US know.
The Veterans Of Foreign Wars refused
to take part because Communists are
in it."
The program Of action carried out
this past week has been the holding
Of two joint open air meetings each
evening with Socialists and Commu-
nists speaking from the same plat
forms. All this is leading up to
joint torchlight parade starting on
Wednesday, May "a, at 8 pm. from
Amsterdam Ave and 155th st. and
proceeding north up st. Nicholas
Ave. and Broadway to Dyckman ST.
In this parade we expect to mobilize
thousands of workers from the
Heights.
Better Relationship
Ever since the start Of this joint
action there has been marked friend
illness between the members of the
Young Peoples Socialist League and
members OF organizations sympa-
thetic to the Communist Party Last
Saturday for the first time YP.SL.
members came up to one of our
dances at the Center.
We hope the sincerity and success
of this one will be an inspiration to
the formation of other united fronts
throughout the city.
Secretary,
Washington Hgts. Unemployed
Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
S2.O6 OFFERED
FOR 4 DAYS WORK
WITHLONG HOURS
Workers Send Tricked
Employe to Daily"
for Help
BY Domestic Worker Correspondent
NEW WORK - The Fr11rlOv11oey1

BY Domestic Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. - The Employment
Agency at SO Leonard ST. sent me to
Mrs Shapiro, 1918 10th st., Brook
lyn, for homework by the day. I
worked Wednesday from II until 9
at night, without any stop
The whole house was in terrible
condition and the work was very
hard had to do the family wash
ing too. including the childrens
wash. At the Agency they told me
there were four children, but, when
I came there, there were seven chill
drer and a brother and an old
mother.
Thursday and Friday 1 worked
from 8 in the morning till 8 at night
They had chicken for dinner, but I
got only some stale black fish to eat
Saturday / came back at again
and worked long enough TO clean up
the breakfast things. 1 started to
clean up, but the woman told me to
go now, that everything was clean
and the job was finished. So l asked
for the pay and they wanted me to
sign for $206 for all these four days,
and even then 1 knew he wouldn't
give me that, so I didn't sign any
thing.
I looked for long time for a cop
and when 1 finally found one far
away, he wouldn't do anything but
told me to go back to the agency
or go to court about it,
| went to Union Square wonder
ing what to do, and began to talk
to some Of the workers about IT, They
advised me to go to the Daily Worker
for help. SO did And they told
me they would print my story and
get the Domestic Workers Union TO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24

members on charges of as
sault and kidnapping, and the
high bail of $500 each, is
one of the most brazen frame-ups
known The workers, who accord
ing to the press we're kidnapped"
were members of the Food Work
ers Industrial Union who had voted
to strike and who came down on
strike. They came to the Union
headquarters in order to discuss
the next steps to be taken in the
strike. 1t was the police who kid
mapped these workers from the
Union headquarters and forced
them to go back to work
THE charges of kidnapping,
racketeering and assault are frame
up charges. The Food Workers In
dustrial Union has since the time
it was organized in 1929 been in
the forefront in the fight against
all labor racketeers. Its fight against
the grafters and racketeers in Wait
ers Local No. l, Local No. 16, ETC.,
is proof of this.
'The police, the press, etc, in
stead of really fighting and wip-
ing out the real labor racketeers
such as those mentioned above
and those who recently made
armed attacks on the headquar-
tiers of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union, the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union, etc,
are trying to charge that union
with racketeering - the Food
Workers Industrial Union, which
has always protected the inter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
Urges Higher Wages
But Slashes Pay of
Federal Employees
BY Federal Worker Correspondent

BY Federal Worker Correspondent
WASHINGTON. D. Washing
ton is staggering from President
Roosevelt's New Deal, which consists
of a series of blows dealt at the
workers First there was 1850 pay
cut for all Federal employees. This
l5fa pay cut was accompanied by
reduction in annual leave from 30
days TO 49, in spite of the general
movement for shorter working hours.
Now. intoxicated with the success
OF his slash at veterans compense-
tlon, Roosevelt turns upon the Fed
eral employees again giving them IS
to 9o-dsy enforced furloughs"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
STRIKES SPREAD
OVER j. s. HITS
WAGE CUTTING
Thousands Out to Fight
For Living Wages

ST LOUIS, Mo- May % - One
thousand Negro and white women
strikers from the nut factories. pa
raded through the streets of st. Louis
to City Hall staging a demonstration
ON the steps OF City Hall for their
demands and against police terror.
Nine locals Of the Food Workers
Industrial Union have been organized
with a membership of over eleven
hundred.
GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y. May 3D.
A spontaneous strike occurred here
today when the workers in the cut
ting department Of the Lessers Glove
Shop walked out demanding higher
wages. After an hours strike, the
bosses conceded their demands and
the workers returned to work.
DOVER, N. H. May 21.-A.5 a strike
meeting of over 1000 textile workers
of the Pacific Mills a unanimous vote
was taken to continue their strike
The strikers are demanding wage in
creases,
WILKESBARRE, Pa. May 23-40O
weavers in 5 silk mills here walked
out on strike demanding wage in
creases. Following the action of the
workers, the company posted notice
Of lockout
KENOSHA, Wis, May %. - A
strike movement has developed in
the Simmons Bed Co. plant with
the walk out of workers from two
departments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
AmaLgGmated Food Workers
Union Backs Relief Fight
OF United Front Committee

NEW YORK. 49, The Amalgs-
mated Food Workers Union OF
New York, representing thousands
Of food workers, hailed the Pro-
visional United Front Committee
Against Evictions and Relief Cuts
and the conference of all workers
organizations called for June 3.
We urge upon all labor organi-
cations" concluded the statement
that the ranks of labor shall not
be split by divided actions. but
that all workers organizations
shall join and support the Pro-
visional United Front Committee
and elect delegates to the confer
ence Saturday, June 3rd, 10 a. m.
4 Irving Plaza to organize joint
city-wide action for rent and
relief"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
Return of Nathan Becker"
First Soviet JeWish Tdlkie
Opens al the Acme Tuesday

The Return Of Nathan Becker"
the first Jewish talking picture pro-
duced in the U. S. S. r.. will open at
the Acme Theatre on Tuesday,
May 30.
This film also contains the first
Russian film statement on conditions
of the American depression and a
Russian summation Of American
civilization by a vivid presentation
and cross section Of American dew
elopments.
All the dialogue is in the Jewish
language. the special musical score
written for the film is based on Jew
ish folk songs and recalls all the
haunting melody Of the race. 1t IS
played by the famous Leningrad SYM
phony Orchestra.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
Shop Chairmen and Delegates
Meeting of the Entire Fur
Trade TomOrroW
rade Tomorrow

Tomorrow, right after work, joint
meeting of all shop chairmen and
delegates of the entire fur trade will
be held at the auditorium of the
union. 131 West 28th ST.. New York
City. AT this meeting a report of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
in Hotel
New Yorker Hires
Children of Is
Workers Warned Not
to Protest Their
Conditions
Br a Laundry Worker Correspondens

DIV IdTFUTV WWf NIT NUTTE5VTFFEEiFEV
NEW YORK.-At the laundry in
the Hotel New Yorker you find girls
of Is and l6 crippled from the sweat
ing hard work There are sl@ mar
ried women who are forced to work
for $9-10 and sl2 week.
A number Of the workers COM
planned that sometimes they have to
take two and three days of every
week because there is not enough
work and that it is actual robbery to
take SO of their miserable wages for
the Emergency Unemployed Relief
Bureau.
The answer Of the bosses was that
if the workers dared to protest they
would be thrown out of their Jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
LABOR UNION MEETINGS

membership meeting Of all fur dyers
tonight p. m at Manhattan Lyceum, Sc
East 4th St. New York. This meeting will
take up the question of establishing q
minimum wage-scale in the industry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
Seamen's Wages Cut
SO on Export Line

NEW YORK. Seamen on the Ex-
port Line, Baltic and Levant trade
ships, received a five per cent pay
cut this week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24

first meeting of the industrial Fur
Council recently set up by the union
will be given and plans for coordinat-
ing the activities of the various de-
partments will be discussed. All shop
chsrmen and delegates must not fail
to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
Washington Heights Council
Unemployed League Unite in
Joint Struggle on Local Issue
Broad United Front Formed Open Relief Bureau; Includes
lists, Communists and Others Parade Today

NEW YORK-Thugh the initiative Of the Washington
employed Council united embracing
organizations established burning
from the of the councils printed
Washington Heights realization
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
BUILDING TRADES WORKERS
MEET TONIGHT

The Building Maintenance Workers
Union meet tonight at the Finnish
Workers Hall, Is West 126th St., at 8
p. m. Room sB.
Steps toward city-wide organiza-
ton will be planned at this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
POLICE KIDNAPPING AND ARRESTS
BRANDED AS BRAZEN FRAME UF
Worker Police Say Union "Kdnapped Are Members of Food Work
Industrial Union and Had Vot Strike Voluntarily
Police Trying Shift Blame for Rackets They C0ndone
Union Unity League AffiIiates

o of
of1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
General Strike and
Unity to Be Topics
of Needle Union Meet

NEW YORK.-The decision OF the
General Executive Board for one
united general strike in the dress
trade and the methods of achieving
unity in the ranks Of the dressmakers
will be the subjects of discussion at
a meeting called by the dress de-
partment of the Needle Workers In
dustrial Union on Thursday.
The meeting will take place at
Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. and
9th St. p. M
Demonstrate National Youth Day.
May 30, aga INST sweatshop conditions,
and for increased wages for young
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24

Editors Note This worker has been
put in touch with the Domestic
Workers Section Of the Food Workers
Industrial Union, which has its
headquarters at Is w l26th St. This
organization will help her get her
wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24

and instructive lecture in
which amounts to course
in present day Russian history.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24

help me get my money.
The Bismarck tribune., 1933-06-15
AT THE MOVIES
All the Excitement
OF the Circus

Veritable circus atmosphere, even
down to those African ladies with
broad, duckbill lips, known as the
Ubangis was used for the mystery
film, The Circus Queen Murder"
showing today and Friday at the Cap
ital Theatre.
This is one of the famous Anth-
ony Abbot thrillers, the last of which
The Night Club Lady" proved a
tremendous success. The Circus
Queen Murder" which is best-selling
novel, recently ran serially in Liberty
magazine. It contains. as do all the
Anthony Abbot yarns of the series.
the debonnair detective, Thatcher
Colt. Colt is of the same stratum
though he operates difirrently-as
the celebrated Philo Vance of the
S. S. Van Dine mystery tales.
A big top is the locale of the new
est mystery that Colt must solve. A
beautiful woman aerialist is killed in
the presence of great assemblage
OF spectators. while aloft on her
trapeze-and killed in such myster-
ious way that no one can say how
until the detective unravels the clews.
Greta Nissen, charming Norweg-
jan-bcrn actress, appears opposite
Menjou. depicting the Circus Queen
Others playing major roles are DON
aid Cook, Ruthelma Stevens, Harry
Holman and George Rosener.
The Dead Sea is 1890 feet below sea
The Bismarck tribune., 1933-06-15
"SailOr's Luck" Has
Premiere Here Today

Following their rise to popularity
as a starring team in such successes
as bad Girl" "Over the Hill' and
Dance Team," James Dunn and Sally
Eilers have been cast together again
in Sailors Luck" the new Fox film
opening an engagement at the Para
mount Theatre today
The picture, directed by Raoul
Walsh. tells the story of sailor with
the Atlantic Fleet who becomes en-
tangled in a love affair with girl
that's different. The two get along
famously until Dunn, thinking she
has been untrue to him, quarrels with
her and sails away with the fleet. He
later learns that it was all mistake
and he returns to patch things up,
only to learn that she is not so will
ing to come back.
Dunn's love for Sally Eilers car
ries him through every imaginable
sort of excitement, through comedy
scenes in public swimming pool
over to gang-fight on the street
and grand finale in dance mara
thon, with the Navy. as usual, win
ming the honors.
Much of the comedy is supplied
by Sammy Cohen, dialect comedian
who is cast as Jimmys pal "Barnacle
Benny
The Bismarck tribune., 1933-06-15

The 69-inch telescope Of the Per
kins Observatory III Delaware is the
third largest in the world.
The Bismarck tribune., 1933-06-15

The Dead Sea is 1890 feet below sea
level.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-06
Agreements That Count

AkICcNvclllS ludL OUuNI
In the glare of publicity which at
tends President Roosevelt's confer
ences on world affairs, little things
like a trade agreement between an
American jewelry firm and the Re-
public of Colombia are lost sight Of,
but it is arrangements such as one
recently brought to light which,
multiplied a thousand times, make in
ternational action effective.
Colombia, it so happens, is the chief
producer of emeralds In the world.
Most precious among all stones.
emeralds are one of Colombia's i'm
portant natural resources and the
mines are owned by the government.
But difficulty has been experienced
in marketing the product and so an
American firm has been retained to
act as agent for the cutting and sale
Of the gems. In addition, it will SUI
pervise the training and instruction
Of young Colombians in cutting and
marketing the jewels.
The deal should prove good one
both for the New York firm and the
South American nation. Very fire.
quently both parties profit by such
arrangements.
It is such agreements between
people living in New York or Bis
marck, Timbuctoo or Samarkand
which make for international good
will. There Is no better ambassador
than mutually profitable trade.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-06

road competition, we have arrived at
the necessity for immediate, complete
and direct public control.-George N.
Harrison Of the Railway Labor Elk
ecutives' Association.
Y X Y
The world is upside down.-Former
Premier Edouard Herriot Of France.
We may raise the question whether
there can be an important Socialist
movement in this country 50 long az
the party makes its principal impress
son on the high-brows and women
Prof. Edward S. Robinson of Yale.
Y 4 y
I do not think Great Britain owns
Canada any more than Canada owns
Great Britain.-C. H. Cahan, secretary
Of state for Canada.
4 X \
Young and modern" Japan are
given over to everything American
jazz, fashions and all, while the COM
mon people like and admire anything
American-Sometaro Sheba, Japan
csc publisher.
Beer Is having a psychological e.
feet and happy one.-W. p. Ken
ney, president Of the Great Northern.