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The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-03-10
Bakery Accused Of
N. r. A. Violation

NUMEROUS instances of n. II. A..
violations by local business con-
Germs have occurred in Detroit dur
ing recent months. and in some
cases complaints have been regis
tered against the offenders.
One of the recent violations is
cited in the following statement
submitted to the Tribune-Independ-
ent. by leading attorney, regard
ing the small wages paid colored
workers in local bakery. The
communication reads:
March S, 1884
acknowledgement,
2146 St Antoine Street,
Detroit. Michigan.
Gentlemen:
There have been many abuses OF
the MIRA code for wages by various
employers.
One of the fragrant violations
of the MIRA code is the case OF the
Quality Bakery Shop. located at GAP
Hastings street. who employs sew
eral colored workers. working them
from ten 10 fifteen hours a day and
only paying four $4,000 dollars
week On each pay day he has
each worker to sign a book which
states that he receives fifteen
tSl5.00) dollars week However.
one of the employees. Erich Shcr-
man, complained of receiving such
small wages and engaged the firm
OF Jones. Piper d Golden TO enter
a suit for the difference between
what he was payed ana what ne
should have been paid.
THE case was assigned 10 the
Honorable Joseph A. Sanders who
unhesitatingly. after hearing the
testimony of the plaintiff and the
defendant. todd the defendant that
he was lying. and rendered Judge
ment in favor of the plaintiff for
the balance due him.
Judge Sanders did not hesitate
tate to frankly express his opinion
Of the defendant and stated that he
wished that he could send him to
Jail for perjury"
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-03-10
OFFICIALS ARE
READY TOHELP
SLUM PROJECT
Citizens Discuss Rent,
Homes and Tenants
At Meeting
Condemned Area Is
In Bad Condition

A joint committee of colored
and white citizens met Saturday
afternoon, March 10, in the Offices
OF the Housing Commission In the
Water Board Building. by invita-
ton OF DR. Stewart Wilson. chair
man of the Housing Committee. The
purpose OF the meeting was to dis
cuss the slum clearane project for
the East Side in this city.
The fact was brought out that
the majority OF buildings occupied
by colored citizens in the con-
demned area are in bad condition,
having no electric wiring or sani
tary connections. In one of the
sites considered for slum clearance,
II was discovered that only 10
buildings were in good condition.
Among other questions discussed,
the joint committee considered the
problem of what rentals should be
charged and whether or not the
tenants who now occupy the con
demned property should be per
mitted 20 reoccupy the new bnild
fngs, when completed. The typ
OF homes. the temporary location
and the relocation were also con
sidered.
IL was stated at the meeting thai
the T.. w. A. officials are anxious
10 put money into Michigan and
feel the local Stun clearance pro-
jects will furnish an excellent OPP
portunity. disappointment was
expressed at the delay OF the Mich
igan Legislature In push ! ng
through the legislation necessary
for securing the financial aid that
the +. w. A. stands ready to give
Detroit and the state at large.
The colored citizens invited to
the joint meeting included Rev
William II. Peck. John G. Dancy,
Wilbur Woodson. Attorney Harold
Bledsoe, DIR. II. f. Simms. Joseph
Duplessis. Mrs. &. S. Smith. Mrs
Marion Ames Green. and DR.. Aaron
c. Toodle.
Mrs. Josephine Gomon Is secre-
tary OF the Housing Commission.
and is working hard to put the pro-
gram over
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-03-10
cor USES GUN.
I'm BEATING OF.
JUNK PEDDLER
Unwarranted Attack
Of Officer Seen
By Onlookers
Victim Did Not
o ffer Resistance

George Coolidge. aged so. a junk
peddler residing at 1901 Riopelle
street. was brutally beaten over the
head with revolver, at noon.
Wednesday. by a plain clothes Of
ficer.
According to the testimony of
eye-witnesses. Coolidge pushed his
junk cart in front OF second
hand furniture store, at 1901 Rus
sell street. and went into the store,
which is operated by S. McKever.
While he was In the building, one
of the three officers in a Lincoln
filler, went TO the push cart and
taking a box from the pile of Junk
placed II over an open MANIFOLD at
the intersection of the street.
Removes Box
When Coolidge emerged from
the store, evidently not knowing
the plainclothes man was an officer
he went to the MANIFOLD and re
moved his box, which he place,
back on the cart.
The officer then kicked Cooiidg
4
| and taking out his revolver, begal
to beat him over the head. Will
about TWENTY-FIVE spectators locke,
on In disgust. Finally, the office
knocked Coolidge almost uncon
scious 10 the pavement. where h
lay bleeding profusely from sever
al scalp wounds. The officer theT
| callad tho nafroI waUon and haf
the injured man taken TO the Hunt
Street Station.
Witnesses say Coolidge had ne
weapon and made no attempt 10
resist Friends of the injured vic
tim state that the case will be call
ed to the notice OF the local Branch
OF the n. a. A. G. r.. with view
to taking action against the offend
ing officer.
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-03-10
Baby Born With Teeth

Phila.. Pa, (ANP)-Mr. and Mrs.
William Colman OF Dairy, Pa, near
here are the parents of baby
which was born at Mercy Hospi-
tai last week with three fully de-
veloped teeth. The babv who has
been christened. Donald Hugh Col
man. weighed seven and one-half
pounds when born and had one in
cisor and two molar teeth all in
the lower law.
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-03-10
Wolverine Rep. Club
To Hold Meet

The Wolverine Republican Club
will hold a special sectional meet
ing at the Urban League Center,
Wednesday evening. March IL.
business OF importane TO all colo
nels, captains workers. and we'll
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-03-10

wishers Of the organization will be
considered,
Don't forget the place--i534 Chest
nut street. at p. m. Come and
bring a friend. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Why UMWACan't
Make Roadway in
W. Virginia Area
(By a Mime Worker Correspondent

tBy Mine Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-How the district Of
ficials of the U. M. w. A. in Western
Va. helped the Ward Coal Co. to rob
the miners and to break their strike
in 1921 was told to me by an old
standing member OF this local, that
composed of about 1900 members
The Ward Coal Co. after signing
agreement with the miners, refused
to pay for the dead work (slate, etc.
as the agreement called for. The
miners protested, and an elected pit
committee investigated the matter.
The miners called strike. They were
on strike for about two days. The
District officials in agreement with
the company forced the miners to re-
turn to work or their charter would
be taken away from them, and said
that they, the officials, will settle the
matter.
The officials settled the matter with
the company forced the miners to o
the Ward Coal Co. How? BY fore
ing each miner to pay back to the
company So as damages by the strike.
This sum was taken out from their
pay checks.
This local was too hot place for
the officials to visit any more. They
have not stepped into that territory
yet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Western Pennsylvania Miners Tell How
They Rushed to Support of Daily Worker
Paper Is Being Read by Many NetU Elements in
Section, FinleyUiLIe Miners Write

by Group of Mine Correspondents
FINLEYVILLE, Pa. When the
$4,000 drive started for the Daily
Worker, the miners Of western Penn
sylyania were just starting back to
work after being betrayed by the
MIRA. and the officials of the UNI.
WA. and, of course, the conditions of
the miners are not very much differ
ent now than they were before the
strike. However, the miners began to
think how they could fill their quota
of the drive for $4,000, because we
knew that the Daily" was the only
paper that told us what to do to win
the strike, when the Gazette, Pitts
burgh Press and Sun. Telegraph,
along with all the propaganda of the
MIRA, told the miners to 60 back to
work and everything would be all
right and that conditions would be
better.
Our Daily came and told us the
truth, that the MIRA. ard Lewis,
Pagan and Company, was out to force
worse misery upon the miners, and
today the miners are beginning to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
GET INTO THE DRIVE

The February isr.e of the New
Pioneer" is out! aut do you know
how many headaches and heartaches
there were before it appeared
The printers wanted money. When
we said, wait, the readers will soon
send money" their ears turned to
stone. They refused to listen, and
before they would print one single
page of our magazine they wanted
a large part Of the debt! So you
could imagine how we ran around,
collecting funds, writing letters to
troops, urging them to rush money
and after days and nights Of
desperate appeals, we managed to get
just enough to enable our New
Pioneer" to come out on time! Can't
you see, comrades, how important it
is to speed the drive on, to rush
funds at once!
Shall our magazine, the only work
ing-class children's magazine In
America, shall 1t appear next month";
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03

realize the value of the only paper
for the working class, the Daily
Worker.
We began in the Library section of
district in the concentration points.
Library No. 10 is the largest mine in
the Pittsburgh district To sell the
Daily Worker was hard at first but
cur comrades did not give up. We
decided to try collection lists which
brought s463. Then the women held a
dance which returned s455 Oct. 81,
1888.
Then Nov. 10, 1888, the three units
held dance with fried chicken
supper which cleared $40, and Jan.
13, 1884, our three units held another
dance where the hall was crowded
with members Of the United Mine
Workers of America, and we cleared
S21 for the Daily"
Therefore, comrades, this shows
that the miners will support the
Daily" and we are not done.
One ccmrade sold Is copies of the
Jan. 9th issue. Our paper is being read
by many new elements in this section.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Bosses Won't Let
Even Sl2 a Week
CWA Pay Alone
By a c. W. A. Worker Correspondent

BY q c. w. A. Worker Correspondent
AUBURN, Me.-The City officials
here are feeling quite independent to
the c. w. A. Workers since there
IS no organization enlisted to pro-
tect ourselves from inhumane treat
ment. They are jealous Of the $12
the workers are receiving and are
trying to grab some Of 1t away from
them. They serve as agents Of the
storekeepers to collect bills for them.
They have had a policeman visit
the men on the jobs several times
to give the workers summons to pay
their taxes. If they don't pay by
Feb. 2, 1884, they have threatened
to serve warrants for their arrest.
The city officials receive large
salaries. Their homes are well pro-
v.ded with the necessities of life and
pleasures. They care not whether
the families of the workers grow
cold or hungry by paying bills when
the men only have $l2 per week to
support their families.
A lot of the workers realize that
individually they are helpless. A
group has met and have planned to
form an organization. We expect
to have a large C. w. A. Union in
the near future, as most of the
workers are in favor of organization.
! We are to demand, no .discrimina-
tons, fair treatment to every one on
the job and that the $12 we receive
be raised to SIS by relief from the
city with groceries or fuel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
by Mine Worker Correspondent

(By Mine Worker Correspondent
PRINCETON, Ind.-The Gospel
Tabernacle" whose sky pilot is and
has been, as all the rest here-Some
23-very antagonistic toward the
viewpoint of any radical or revolu-
tionary movement and this saint in
particular hardly ever misses an oc-
casion to villify the G, P. and the
workers government, the Soviet Re-
public. A few Sundays ago he called
the MIRA. a Communistic expert
ment. This sky pilots name is Cum
mings, and he established this church
here after having falling out with
his former chief" the General Bap-
fist Church, where he raved for a
number of years.
The writer also heard him rave
and rave, as only his type can,
against your unemployment insur-
ance, before a bunch of workers who
mostly all harbored infantile hopes
Of some time in the future occupying
a seat on the Golden Stairs" listen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03

NEW YORk,-Getting out Of an
employment agency where I was
looking for work, a fellow approached
me and asked me if a want a job.
I followed the man to an automo-
bile and another fellow asked me
if I am a tried cook. Because I
smelled something spooky I wanted
to see what it YVES all about and l
said yes, but I never was a cook.
We we're four Of us, and I noticed
that the other fellows didn't want
to give US jobs, but they wanted
scabS, so two Of them went away
and one remained.
So We kept on going to try to get
the other fellow of who promise
them that by noon he is going to
bring some more cooks and buckers.
I got every Information I wanted and
got off, trying to get the other
fellow with me, but this was impos-
sible. And at once I went to the
Amalgamated Food Workers Union,
giving them the place and the time
they go to get the scabs and for what
place
But after staying there to hear
what they are going to say in the
strike meeting, a fat fellow I guess
named Gitlow did not speak about
anything else but announcing that
the Food Workers Union the 18th
Street Union" is Communistic and
saying, They are going to make
Communists cut Of you fellows, and
ynu rot 10 stick to this union, as a
democratic union" announcing at
the same time that the 18th Street
Union" with the A. F. L. guild is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Miners Who Built
UMWA Denied Vote
(By Mine Worker Correspondent

CENTERVILLE, Iowa.-The mines
here are practically at a standstill
in the middle Of the winter season.
The Local Union here at Center
vile is one OF the largest in the
state Of Iowa, and it didn't send any
delegates to Indianapolis to vote or
make any resolutions against John
L. Lewis. There is a pro-Lewis
clique here in Centerville, but the
rank and file miners are tired of the
taxation without representation.
The Government G. w. A. is now
going to close down and people here
have no help, and what is given out
is meagre. I know the miners Of
Appanoose Co. are just as intelligent
as any other group of miners, and
they are waking up to the fact that
every achievement comes from eff
fort. Our forefathers, and some are
living yet, can tell of the hardShips
they endured to found the q. M. w.
A. 1t was founded with tears, hunger
and bloodshed, but now the officials
have all the say-so, which is against
the principles Of our constitutions.
The officials keep their jobs by
the check-off from the poverty
stricken pay checks Of those poor
miners or those who are fortunate
enough to have a little job. Some
mines have shut down, and let q
portion of their men work, those who
live in camp. The foreman told
the track-layer to lay only the
switcher, as the miners could lay
their own track.
1t is time for the miners, the UNI
employed and employed of Appa-
moose Co. to fight good fight and
not be faint hearted about anything
that's undertaken to make this q
better place for the people of this
generation and the next. Let the
rank and file miners have the vote
and the right to make the decisions
not the officers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03

rOMRADE Carlo Nemanich, IL
y years old, writes from Helper,
Utah:
Comrades: I wish to tell you of the
conditions in the Helper, Utah,
school.
There are three of us going to
school. One of my brothers has to
pay 81 tuition. The other, IS -
and me, So. I am in the seventh
grade and besides paying tuition we
have to pay for our own books and
paper. My father has been out of
work for three years. They won't
give us jobs on the G. w. A. and
we are blacklisted from all the mines
because we were too militant on the
picket lines. If we don't pay the
tuition by the end of the week we
won't get promoted. The reason they
want us to pay tuition is to pay the
300 gunner who broke the strike last
summer. The farmers are planning
not to pay any taxes this year, so
they are trying to get it out of the
school children.
The principal found a sticker about
Communists and stopped us in the
hall and said: This is no Commu-
mist school and if find the person
who put this here I'll take him in
my Office and will see who comes
out first. When the principal said
this is no Communist school, I
thought: This would be better
school if it was a Communist school
instead of a capitalist school"
The teachers say that in the U. S.
S. R. the people are starving. I think
it would be best if they said it about
the U. S. A. instead. I know this be-
cause I saw shows taken in the U. S.
S. R. and read a book telling about
U. S. S. R. Here in the U. S. A. they
feed soup (slop) to the children.
They get scraps of meat and vege-
tables from the stores and give it to
some women to cook the soup (Slop)
1 ate two bowls and was 1 sick,
was sick for about Q weeks.
The teachers tell us we all got a
chance to become the president of the
United States Gf we got plenty of
dough and promise to get couple
of guys all the money and make the
workers starve). If Roosevelt was
trying to bring prosperity back, why
does he spend billions OF dollars on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
THE NEWSBOY
BY BENNY REMINICK

AS walked down the street one day
Who should 1 meet but Billy Ray
I asked him what he did so late
'I'm selling News for Mr.. Tate"
/ asked him II his dad was working
And in his eye a tear was lurking.
why no." he said, my dad is dead.
And must earn the family's bread"
I,asked him where he lived these years
And told him about the Pioneers.
He said, "In Hillsvale town."
And the next night I took him down
Then I took him to our meeting
And he heard the Pioneer cheers.
The next time 1 met him selling,
He was shouting "New Pioneers!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Food Yorker Tells Of Strike
Breaking Tactics of A. +. L.
Supporters Of the N. R, 4. Scrape Up Scabs to
Curb Strike

trying to break the strike for the
benefit Of the bosses, without men
Jioning at all that Local No. Is is
trying to get an injunction against
the A. F. W.
Cannon also attacked bitterly the
18th Street Union"
But the Daily Worker gave full
support to the strike. The Food
Workers Industrial Union is work
ing for the success Of the strike
also. I did not scab, not because it
is a A. F. W. strike, but because I
have been a member Of the Focd
Workers Industrial Union. 1t does
not matter what union, A. F. L. or
A. F. W, as far as I see these work
ers are striking and fighting for
better conditions.
The A. F. W. leaders say that to
be a member Of cur union you have
to become a Communist, and that on
the contrary their union is demo
cratic" having the support of the
government and trying to get what
the N. r. A. code gives.
Our union denounced the N. R. A.
from the beginning, and the restau-
rant code as slave code, and says
to the workers to improve their con-
ditions, that to get what they de-
m2nd they have to fight for it, they
have to strike.
Suppose the N. R. A. is going to
do the same thing as they did to
the miners, to the steel workers and
automobile workers. If they take
it, G.tlow's and Cannon's principle
won't be far from Lewis and w
Green.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03

By ED.
Recently a comrade, who has been
member Of the Party for more
than ten years was asked whether he
would take over the work Of section
organizer. This comrade did not ask
where" when" "how," or consider
whether or not he was able to do
the work. He answered at once, with
a deep note of injury in his voice,
"Am not considered any more as a
Party leader?
1t is clear that after such an an
swer such comrade, If he ever was
a Party leader, has shown that he
has yet much to learn.
Units and Sections Basic
What are the most important or
CARNATIONS of the Party, upon the
building Of whose firmness and ini-
tiative the mass work of the Party
depends2 The units and sections.
What is decisive for the progress OF
the Party among the masses, for the
firmness Of the Party in the event
OF sharpening attacks against the
Party? The sections and units. With
out building and strengthening the
sections and units no concrete lead
ership is possible. without strong
sections and units a real firm con-
nection with the masses is impos-
Sible.
Who shall be the real mass lead
ers Of the Party? Who shall he
the leaders In the sections? The
best comrades-not those who are
revolutionaries in words, but those
best In deeds.
Since the Open Letter progress has
been made in this direction. In con-
nection with the Party Convention
with the election of new leading COM
mittees, further and quicker progress
must be made in this direction.
What is discovered in the answer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Tired Of Being
Betrayed, Writes
Miner, Joining CP
(By a Mine Worker Correspondent


ALPHA, IlI.-You stated in your let
ter, the Daily Worker is the paper Of
the Communist Party Of America. 1t
makes no difference. The worlds COM
munism has to come. have been in
favor Of it for many years.
Have been a Socialist for years, but
have not seen anything good in it.
1t seems to me that the whole world
locks toward Russia today.
am a miner. 1 joined the Progress
sive movement against Lewis, but
since Progressives turned Gerry AL
lard away and Mrs. Agnes Week
Burno, I have no faith in them. am
standing for the National Miners
Union. think they will have to take
us all over. Seems like the only hope.
Miners are sick and tired of being
betrayed.
I have three children, all of school
age. 1 am subscribing for your paper
and joining your Party I am for Will
liam z. Foster. I voted for him the
last time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Illusions Spread by Priest
Hurt Working Class Struggle
''COspeI TabernacIe'' in Princeton, Ind, Center
of Anti-SOUiet Propaganda

ing to and being entertained by the
1000 string harp, etc.
The immediate task is to destroy
the capitalist system and all its in
stitutions, but first we must drive
the illusions from the minds of the
workers concerning the many things
the priest and judge have taught
them.
The Daily Worker is improving
wonderfully. Each edition seems bet
ter than the last. Let's continue TO
make it so by writing of our local
conditions, the effect Of the NR.A.,
P.W.A., C.W.A., W.W.W., WIGGLEY-
WOBBLY-WONDERS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
PARTY LIFE
Build Strong Party Sections
Is Lesson Of Open Letter
We Need Leaders Who Can Lead in the B0s'c
Organizations, Units and Sections

OF this comrade, who has been K
so many years a member OF tn
Party? This is not an isolated, ina
cliyidual case. This answer signalizes
the absolutely insufficient under
standing on the part of the Ps==-T-
cadres of the Open Letter. This
answer signalizes an unbolshevik at
titude toward vital, living questions
in the Party, if the Party is to full
fill its revolutionary tasks.
We do not need Party LEADERS"
from the blue sky. We do not need
Party leaders" who have no time
to carry on revolutionary mass wokk
because they have to lead"
We need hundreds, yes, thousanS 5
Of new Party leaders who are closely
connected with the masses, who will
really lead the revolutionary mass
work in the sections and units. With
out having hundreds Of sections
guiding and developing the units in
the shops, with broad cadreS Of real
Eevolutionaries as leaders Of these
sections, we cannot build Party that
will be victorious.