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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-31

| ton of 1881 While the election
this year does not entail the contest
that marTed it two years ago there
are certain conditions in the district
that dictate the need for the new
policy being invoked at the start
(July IA issue of ATDN0.
Certainly it must be a very repre-
sentative convention presided over by
officials enjoying wide confidence and
popularity among the dues paying
members that has to barricade it
self under police protection to pre-
vent working and unemployed union
members being present to see their
beloved leaders" in action. This
editorial explanation of the exclu-
sion of miners from the convention
supposed to represent them lights up
the whole picture in which dema-
gogue Of the Cappellini type is thrust
into the foreground.
Cappellini, in meeting where no
miner mentions the name of Lewis
without a curse, has only to quote
from the same paper the eulogy of
Lewis delivered by President Boylan
at the convention where CLOSED
doors" we're the prevailing style:
mo one who has not been init
mately associated with him can pos
sibly know what he has suffered dur
ing this trying period. I wish had
the power to describe what he has
been through, but I fear no state
ment Of mine can make you UNDER
stand the perils that have threaten
e6 him and our organization. He
nearly died of indigestion on two
different occasions. (T'his is an ex-
ceptionally neat touch at time
when miners and their dependents
are dying of tarvation.-B.Do. He
had death in the family; blow after
blow fell upon him. Storm after
storm enveloped that heavy set
figure; the hardest to endure were
forced upon him by members Of this
organization, (Hide faces red with
shame, you rank and file critics.
BD) but in the midst of the hur-
ricane, when things looked black and
we were nearly all discouraged, he
rejected every counsel of weakness
and cowardice and marshalled his
forces for another advance toward
his objective and finally achieved
victory in the form of federal legis-
lation J.. And say to you simply
and frankly that If prosperity does
return to this region, we can thank
no one but International President
John L. Lewis and his immediate
(Anthracite Tri-District
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News, Page Two, July 21O.
Uses Scab Labor
Cappellini makes skillful use o.
these examples of bellycrawling ora.
tory as practiced by a Boylan whose
devotion to union principles is showr
by the fact that a sum of $4,000
from the union treasury, being placed
at his disposal for the repair Of his
house, damaged by bomb which
some miners are unkind enough tx
say he had a friend place, he hired
a scab contractor to do the work
Even officials of the Central Labor
Council have denounced this action
Neither has the Boylan offlcialdon
taken any action in the numerous
strikes of miners wives, daughters
ana sisters working for a paupel
wage in the local silk mills and gar
ment shops.
Under such circumstances the ex-
posure of Cappellini and all his chief
supporters is pivotal point of the
work of the Rank and File Opposi-
ton in preparation for their con-
ference and for the struggles that
are certain to develop as relief is
cut down, incomes of the employed
reduced and the pressure from the
coal operators and their auxiliaries
becomes heavier under the work
ings" of the Roosevelt recovery
measures.
Cappellini should<be shown up for
the tool in the hands of the opera
tors that he is. His record stinks
to high heaven. In 1922 he united
with the opposition to Lewis, and the
then District President William
Brennan, which was led by the Trade
Union Educational League (the fore
runner of the TUUL. He sold out,
became part of the Lewis machine
and denounced "the reds" and the
rank and file opposition at the 1924
convention of the UMWA, at the
behest of John L. Lewis.
Feathers His Own Nest
Later he organized another "op-
position but helped Lewis put over
the five-year contract signed in 1925
and the contract of 1880, which for
the first time included the checkoff
of S14 per year for the Lewis mach
inc, and under which the conditions
of the miners have been forced down
to the starvation level
Cappellini, even more than Boylan,
is expert when in Office organizing
movements for his own financial
benefit. He engineered one such
testimonial for himself in the form
of car costing several thousand
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Daily Answers Organization
Using EUicti0ns in Its House

The official organ of the Work
mems Sick and Death Benefit Fund
Solidarity" by its own admission,
states:
Nov it has come to pass, after all
that two tenants were dispossessed at
$50 Fox st. and third one will have
followed by the time this issue of
Solidarity is in the hands of the
members"
The reasons for the eviction, as al
ready mentioned, are undesirable
tenants. But no worker will accept
such decision. Every worker will
agree that the capitalist courts and
its evicting marshals are not the peo-
pie to settle any question in work.
ers organization.
We cite the example of the evic-
ton of the Elton family and quote
their own organ, Solidarity" as
proof that our reports in the Daily
were correct. We did not print out
rageous lies and Misrepresentation
as that organization accuses us Of,
but reports from workers who were
aware of the true facts.
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BathrObe Workers
Strike Plans Ready

NEW YORK.-The bathrobe work.
ers' union, affiliated with the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union, for
the last several months conducting a
campaign for organization, has estab-
nshed contact with every important
shop in the industry, and is now
completing preparations for gen.
eral strike in the industry.
The bathrobe workers demands
are: 35-hour week, minimum wage
for each craft. establishment of an
unemployment insurance fund, rec
ignition of the union.
A final meeting of all bathrobe
workers of New York and vicinity
will take place on Monday night at
7 o'clock at Manhattan Lyceum. &C
E. 4th st. The meeting will be ad-
dressed by leading comrades Of the
union, as well as the organizer of the
department, Guisepe, Oswaldo
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! file even with the aid of the check.
off and the Roosevelt recovery bally-
hoo.
Confuse Real Opposition
Cappellini and Maloney have beer
called upon or at least allowed by
the operators to launch the pretense
of opposition. Its main purpose is
to confuse and split the genuine rank
and file opposition.
Cappellini has brought out no pro-
gram except that of refusal to pay
dues. The check off here is some
what different than that in the BIZ
luminous fields: On pay day min
ers receive two checks. One is made
out to them and the other to the
District office of the UMWA. This
they are required to turn over to
the union officials. Failure to do SC
means discharge. Cappellini and
Maloney adHise the miners to re-
fuse to turn over the dues checks
to Boylan but to hand them to them
Cappellini announces that he has
retained lawyer who will make a
Meanwhile he is preparing a rump
district convention where the deleg-
ates will probably be called upon to
split from the UMWA and form a
new union under the Cappellini-
Maloney leadership.
For about twelve years there has
been constant rank and file opposi-
ton to the Lewis machine in the
Tri-District. 1t has been necessary
for the operators therefore to have
a reserve line Of misleaders, career
lists and operators agents appearing
as leaders Of rank and file move
ments which at the proper time they
break up or desert OF all these ele-
ments Cappellini is the outstanding
figure. His chief stock in trade now
is the tyrannicaI rule of the Lewis
Boylan machine. He has only to
quote such choice bits as the fol-
lowing from Kennedys paper, AN
thracite ri-District News" to get
applause at the many mass meet
ings he is calling throughout District
One:
CLOSED Doors"
CLOSED doors will be the prevail
ing style at the biennial convention
OF District One which will open
next Monday morning in Town Hall
at Scranton. This policy is designed
to aid the officials of the district in
the proper conduct Of their business
and to protect themselves and the
accredited delegates from repiti-
ton Of the incidents Of the conven-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-31
Auto Workers Union
Forces Wage Increase

DETROIT, Mich, July 30.-Wage
increases of to 10 per cent, on an
hourly basis, we're won at the Hud-
son Motor Car Co., for over 5000
workers as result of the organiza-
tional activity of the Auto Workers
Union inside the shop.
A committee representing 20 de-
partments had been elected in the
course of the unions activity, and
the demand was raised for an in
crease in wages of Is to 20 per cent.
That the workers realize the
unions activity was responsible for
the increase was shown by the fact
that TO new members joined the
Auto Workers Union in the course
Of this campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-31

NEW YORK.-The Daily Worker"
received a letter from the National
Executive Board of the Workmen's
Sick and Death Benefit Fund pro-
testing against the printing of evic-
tons at 556 Fox ST., Bronx, NJ Y, a
house owned by the organization.
They state that this is Outrageous
lies and Misrepresentation"
The Daily" has always guarded
with the greatest possible care to
print in its columns facts which are
verified and correct. On occasions
where a Misrepresentation occurred
we were only too glad to be corrected.
But what are the facts in this case?
On July Is the Daily" reported
the eviction OF Elton, his wife and
three children at $50 Fox st. We
even printed the picture of the fur
niture lying in front of the house
This worker and two others were
evicted, according to the organization,
for being undesirable" They, among
many other workers in the building,
were militant and participated in a
strike in the building last March.
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ally no additional forces. The Penn
sylvania increased freight revenue by
100000 in June, but while it spent
$22, 900 more in that month to keep
up equipment, it spent S24,694 less
in keeping up its trackage. In other
words, the roads are able to handle
traffic increases of from Is to 40 per
cent without increasing payroll costs.
And union leaders, like Secretary
Darling, are trying to make the men
believe that ordinary channels of
protest" that is strikes, are not pos
sible against this vicious and increas-
ing exploitation.
Mediation Used Against Workers
With strikes banned and all dis
putes going to mediation, the report
of the emergency board appointed by
President Roosevelt to mediate the
Kansas City Southern dispute will
give concrete expression Of the Pres
ident's New DEAL for railroad labor.
The union membership on this
Loree- controlled road refused to &C
cept the D. 81 H. plan proposed by
the KC.S. They voted overwhel-
mingly for strike. The report of
the mediators is said to be against
the workers. Will the government
force this obnoxious plan, which
abolishes seniority and overtime pay
mentS, on the unions? And will the
membership sit by and allow their
right to strike to be taken from un-
der their feet? If this is so, then
the roads will indeed be free to 90
ahead with every one of their wage
cutting economy measures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-31
GANGSTERS SENT
TO B R E AK PA.
MINE STRIKES

NEW YORK.-One hundred Sc
venty five thugs and professional
gangsters have been secretly sent to
Pittsburgh in the attempt to smash
the strike of the miners who are
out in Western Pennsylvania.
This is part of the general move
all over the country to smash the
rising strike wave by using terroristic
methods against the strikers. State
police, the national guard, and, es-
pecially, professional thugs and strong
arm men to act as deputy sheriffs.
are being modified to force the Slav-
cry Act on the workers
The company sending these men
to Pittsburgh to act as mine guards
and deputy sheriffs is the Railroad
Audit and Inspection Company
under the direction of Whitney
("Boilermaker' Williams. This COM
pany has offices in the Garnd Cen
trail Terminal Building in New York
City, the Commonwealth Building in
Pittsburgh, as well 40 offices insev-
eral other large cities
The financial hackers of this COM
pany is the Brown Brothers Bank
ing Corporation in Philadelphia. It
has engaged recently in several other
large Operations including the
Follinsbee, w. Virginia strike, the
street car strike in New Orleans.
According to the latest reports
= Il
coal region near Pittsburgh. State
police have been rushed to the re-
gion to aid the thugs in breaking
the strike. Reports have come in
that pickets have been shot down
and that general campaign of ter
ror is being organized against these
workers striking against the slavery
tory1oc of tho dPonoverxyy oo5p
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PARTIAL VICTORY
WON BY HATTERS.
AS STRIKE ENDS.

NEW YORK.-The hatters' strike
ended last week with a partial victory
for the 1000 strikers, who retudn to
work today and tomorrow. The
workers have received an increase to
35 cents per dozen. The original de-
mand was for so cents.
Two hundred and fifty workers of
shops that were unorganized before
the strike are still out.
The percentage increase is from is
to about 80 per cent for the finishers
(men, Local 8, United Hatters of N.
A. and from 10 to 20 per cent in
crease for trimmers (women, Local y.
The shops that have not settled
yet are those that were unorganized
before the strike. The demands of
those workers are an increase of rs
cents on the so cents per dozen that
they were paid until now
Those workers who are returning
to work, voted, on a motion made by
members of the opposition group in
Local 8, that half of the shops re-
turning to work should start work
ing at later hour each morning in
order to help in the picketing of the,
shops that have not settled, while
the other half should, stop work
earlier and picket in the evening.
This will be continued until those
shops are settled.
The opposition group in the union
was active throughout the strike,
pointing out to the workers that they
can win their demands only if they
stand united and put up militant
fight. Many times the officials of the
union were forced to give in to mo-
tons and proposals made by the
members of the opposition group and
favored by the workers.
This was the case in the motion to
declare a general strike, to elect a
strike committee, to hold a demon
stration, and in the admission of the
officials that their policy against
mass picketing had to be discarded.
Naturally, while coming out in favor
of these proposals under pressure of
the membership, the officials followed
a line of sabotage, such as the dem
onstration which they refused to hold
in spite of the fact that the over
whelming majority voted for it.
They also tried to use the strike
committee as a rubber stamp.
The acceptance of the 35 cents in
crease per dozen took place Friday.
The opposition pointed out that the
entire SO cents demand could be won
if the workers remained on strike
little longer, pointing especially to
the fact that the bosses were con-
stantly weakening, which was shown
in their offer of Is cents increase
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of the government"
This fatty contradicts the state
ment of Welles made a few days ago
that his direct intervention in the
Cuban government was "spontan-
eous and PERSONAL affair.
1t also gives the direct lie to the
statement made before the Cuban
Senate by the bloody President Of
Cuba, Machado that Welles' inter-
ference was the act of an individual,
and did not represent any foreign
government"
Welles is now In Cuba meeting with
the Machado government to see il
he can not arrange some sort Of unity
among the various factions among
the Cuban upper classes, so that
they, together with American impe-
rialism, can establish a united front
against the Cuban workers and peas
ants, whose revolutionary activity
against Machado is growing more
violent every day.
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INK MIN up )QlreCCly WIN the recent
gangster killing Of Henry Godel, be-
cause he was an active fighter in the
rank and file opposition movement
against the Breach machine.
Breach started out as an I. w. w,
and capitalized on this connection
to pose as progressive in the labor
movement. AS head of Local Union
number 8, the largest local in the
Brotherhood, he soon built a strong
machine bolstered up by gangsters.
Tammany police and the building
bosses and became undisputed ruler
over the union. Any expression of
opposition by the rank and file was
crushed by terror, gangsterism, MUIR
der, acid throwing and the institu-
ticn of the black list. ANY one
against us or suspected of being
against us will be thrown out of their
jobs and kept from working" he told
members of the union.
Some time ago, members of local
brought suit against the officials
Durin9 the trial it was revealed that
Breach had given twenty-seven $500
bills to Dist. Attorney Grain when he
was judge to get 2 fake injunctions
against the old cf1esrs OF local in
order to GUST them and gain control
Of the union.
Of1cials of the local are said to have
squandered 100000 of the members
money. Breach is listed as having
en- income of $4,000.
Although Breach has been respon-
sible for murder and terror in the
local, his resignation has not wiped
out the nest of racketeers and cor
rupt officials which he has left be-
hind him. The rank and file of the
union will not stop until its work of
cleaning up the union Of graft, ter
rorism and murder is completed.
We are working to win the whole
membership to struggle for low
dues, unemployment insurance, re-
duction of officials salaries to the
same amount as the members earn,
democracy in the union, rank and
file control and other measures af-
fecting the welfare Of the member
ship.
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absolute protection to railroad work
ers against furloughs or dismissal
by individual railroad companies,
said Eastman in an official statement
from his Washington Office, July %
This statement was forced from hin
because he is being deluged witt
complaints of railroad workers whC
have been fired since the Emergency
Transportation Act went into effect
June 1.
The restrictions do not apply tC
| any lawful action taken by indi-
vidual carriers or by carriers jointly
which does not result from any au-
thority conferred by the act" accord
ing to Eastman (our italics L. r. A.
Perhaps it is no accident that Don
aid Richberg, former lawyer for the
railroad brotherhoods and loud pro-
claimer Of labor's victories" in the
Coordinator Bill, is no longer with
the brotherhoods, now that the bill
is being interpreted for the benefit
Of the roads. In the transfer of jobs
from labor counsel to counsel for the
Industrial Recovery Administration
at $4,000 a year, Richberg is well
taken care of, especially since rank
and file revolt in the brotherhoods
is cutting salaries in these organi-
cations. CT'he Engineers last week cut
Johnston's salary from $4,000 to
$4,000 a year and assistant grand
chiefs from $4,000 to $4,000.
Eastman's statement comes at the
time that Labor, official railroad bro
therhood weekly, features the cases
Of 10 railroad clerks on the Boston
& Maine and Maine Central who
have been compelled to move
through the consolidation of the Of
fees of these two roads. The clerks
claim that the roads must repay
them for their expenses and losses
in moving. But the action of the
roads was taken voluntarily" be.
fore the Coordinator Bill even be-
came law. Eastman's ruling in this
particular case will show just how
lllQC1l ldDOL lCd4IS
benefit the men in practice.
Another "loophole," which the rail
road labor chiefs conveniently for
got, but which they now seem to re-
member, is that nothing was said
about putting on more men il traffic
picked up. 1.-THE speed-up is hitting
railroad workers hard now with the
increase Of traffic" said Secretary
Darling of the American Train Dis
patchers Association. For example
the added passenger business brought
by the worlds fair, though it means
extra trains, has to be handled by
the same number of train dispat-
cheers as before, and they were al
ready overworked. While extra trains
mean extra crews, much Of the traf-
fic is handled by additional coaches
on ordinary trains, meaning the ad-
ditional responsibility for the ordin-
airy crews. There is no way of for
cling the roads to maintain adequate
personnel and if they decide to lay
off men or make no requirements
the ordinary channels of protest are
not provided against this form of
speeding up" Qtalics ours.
Freight handled by the New York
Central is running over 40 per cent
above the same period last year, but
this traffic is handled with practic
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Fur Dyers Ready
For General Strike

NEW YORK.-The fur dyers are
ready fer their general strike today.
The conference with the bosses asso-
citation has made no progress.
A statement issued by the Fur
Dyers and Fur Dressers' Department
Of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union declares that the
union expects every fur dyeing shop
OF New York and suburban New Jer-
sey towns to walk out on strike this
morning, completely paralyzing the
industry.
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Wound Fifteen

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, July 80
A demonstration of unpaid teachers,
demanding more than years back
pay, was fired upon by o detach-
ment of Cuban soldiers and police,
wounding Is of the demonstrators.
The large crowd had gathered in
front of a thertre which the au-
thorities had forbidden them to use
as meeting place.
A similar demonstration of teach
ers was broken up at Camaguey,
where over 1000 gathered to de-
mand back pay and to greet several
released prisoners. Many of the
women were beaten and trampled
upon.
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Workers Denounce Welles

HAVANA, CUBA. July 30
Thousands of workers demonstrated
today before the offices of Am
bassador Wellss, shouting their de-
nunciation of his intervention in
Cuban politics.
Yesterday a crowd of workers in
a demonstration organized by the
Cuban Communist Party success
fully repulsed the attacks Of the
police, severely beating the Havana
Chief of Police and taking his gun
away.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-31
Printers Demand 30 Hours

UTICA, N. Y, July 30.-The Allied
Printing Trades Council of New York.
which closed its 37th annual conven-
ton here Friday, went on record for
the 30-hour- week in the printing in
dustry, with the same pay as now
prevails for the 44-hour week.
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LICENSE NOTICES

NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN that License
No. NYA-9907 has been issued TO the
undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail,
under Section Is Of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Law, at 4Ss Pleasant Avenue. New
York, N. Y, not to be consumed upon the
said premises. Angelo Caisbrese, ass Pleas
ant Avenue, New York, N. 7.
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H. H. Breach Resigns AS
Electrical Union Head
Feared Exposure by Rank and File of Connec-
ton With Godel Murder
BY SPARTACUS

NEW YORK H. H. Breach president of International
that his resignation
The
the
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CONTINUED lay OFFS GIVE
lie 10 JOB GUARANTEES
OF EMERGENCY R. R. ACT
Coordinator Eastman Forced to Admit Nothing
In Act Provides Against "Dismissals"


coming increasingly railroad
Nothing Emergency Transportation provided