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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
General Board Of
NTWIU In Open
Sessions Friday
To Discuss Situation In
Trade and Make Plans
For Struggle

NEW YORK.-To discuss plans to
resist the attacks Of the bosses now
being launched a~ainst the needle
trades workers with increased vigor
through the N. r. A., the ENLARGED
meeting of the General Executive
Board of the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union will OMEN here
Friday, March 9. This meeting, or
plenum, will open at Irving Plaza
Hall and will continue taking UP
reports and discussion throughout
Saturday and Sunday.
The following are the points on
the agenda:
i. Report of past activities and
recommendations, by Ben Gold.
2. Report of outlying districts.
5. Present situation in the fur
trade.
4. Organi1ationaI changes.
S. A weekly Needle Worker"
This meeting Of the General
Board will deal with the burning
problems confronting the workers
in the industry. 1t will review the
situation in the trade and make the
necessary proposals and recommen-
dations for future struggle to main
tain union conditions in the shops
All needle trade workers are invited
to attend the sessions Of the
| plenun.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Try 9 JObleSs For
Demanding Relief
In Demonstration
W ere Fighting For Porto
Rican Worker, Denied
Relief For Year

NEW YORK-As the Daily
Worker went to press, the trial of
nine jobless workers, arrested in a
demonstration before the Home Re-
lief Bureau Tuesday, was proceed
ing in the Magistrates Court at
Franklin and Centre SITS.
These nine workers, charged with
disorderly conduct, were in dem
onstration called by the Unemploy-
ment Council, to secure relief for
the Porto Rican worker, Catello.
Catello, whose wife is to have a
child within month, has a three
year old child. He has been refused
relief for a year because he is Porto
Rican.
At the demonstration Tuesday,
Sidney Ringold, instead of granting
any relief to Satello, called the
police, who slugged Joseph Sher-
merko into conscious and ruptured
him, and arrested Jane Williams,
Bessie Shapiro, Bertha Lowenthal,
Dorothy MARLIN, 2. K. Lawson,
Jacob Herench:k, Sowinski and
Shermerl1o.
Yesterday the Unemployed Couns-
ellis carried out another demonstra-
ton in front OF the Home Relief
Bureau. They forced the super
visor, Pagan, to agree to "investi-
gate" Catello's case by three O'Clock
yesterday. The trial was proceed
;,orr &c Tho no il,r Nynf.lyar uror1t IN
press.
The Unemployed Councils,
through Ed. Sullivan, New York
secretary, declared that the DEM
demonstration wss carried through
in accordance with the decisions of
the March 4 united front confer
ence, for local actions to secure re-
lief or jobs for the unemployed
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Rupert Brewery
Holds Contest
Cash Prizes Offered for
Beer Glass Design

Artists, amateur and professional,
are invited to compete in a contest
to determine the best type Of Amer
lean beer glass. The contest which
closes May is, 1884, is being con-.
Quoted by the Art Students League
and is open to the general public.
Fourteen cash prizes, totalirlg $685.,
will be awarded by the sponsor OF
the contest, the Jacob Rupert
Brewery.
The winning designs will be Sc
1ected by a committee of competent
judges, representing a leading retail
store system, q representative of the
Jacob Rupert Brewery and Well
known artist. There will also be g
representative of the Hazel-Atls.s
Glass Company, who viii inspect.
the designs With a view of placing
one or more in production for sale
throughout the country.
Commenting upon the contest. Mr.
George Rupert, yice-president Of
the Jacob Rupert Brewery, said:
I'VE are, of course, primarily in.
terested in encouraging the selec-
ton of an outstanding and fine
design of beer glass-gracefnl and
beautiful in appearance, conducive
to the maximum pleasure in beer
drinking, and still so practical in
design that it may be manufactured
and sold at low price. Secondly,
we are interested in encouraging
the development of practical art
work among the people Of this en-
tire country, as we believe there is
great opportunity for closer rela-
tionship between the practical
manufacturer and the artist who
can add beauty and purity Of de-
sign to the manufactured product"
Contestants may submit as many
designs as they like. Address ali
designs either to the Jacob Rupert
Brewery, 1889 Third Avenue, New
York, or to the Art Students League
Of this city. They must be post
marked on or before May Is, 1884.
Prizes will be announced and awards
made as soon thereafter as the
Judging is completed. (Adv.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Hayerhill Shoe
Strikers Force
Many Settlements
New Crews of Workers
Join Strike; Picket
Bosses Club
lspecial . the Daily wOrkerl


HAVERH1LL, Mass, Mar. 1.-THE
striking shoe workers won a sweep
ing victory today, forcing 2s shops
to sign an agreement with the
United Shoe and Leather Union.
Four Of the shops broke from the
bosses Board Of Trade organiza-
ton.
The strikers in the settled shops
won the hourly price rate and all
future differences viii be settled
through the shop stewards elected
by the workers. The agreement
provided that there shall be no ar
bitration by the so-called impartial
chairmen.
Meanwhile the strike continues in
other shops. The remainder Of the
Bowdoin crew has joined the strike.
Several hundred strikers picketed
the headquarters Of the former Pro-
tectiye Union smashing the an
nounced plan Of the leaders Of this
organization to call separate meet
ings to break the strike.
Yesterday over a hundred workers
picketed the Haverhill Yacht Club
where manufacturers had arranged
a drinking party with workers In
an attempt to break their ranks
The Haverhill Gazette opened vi
cious attack on the leaders Of the
strike, stating that they are unnec-
essary trouble makers. The Re-
gional Labor Board has attempted
to intervene and has called hear.
ing in Boston to be held Saturday
morning to take up the question o.
arbitration. There is a possibility
Of the strike spreading to neighbor-
/ ing centers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Call to Back
Left Wing at
Local % Pol
Fight To Maintain
Conditions Won in
Their Latest Strike

NEW YORK-To maintain the
conditions won In the last dress
makers strike and to strengthen the
work Of building one militant union
n the trade, the Left Wing Group
y focal % Of the International
ladies' Garment Workers Union is
sued cali yesterday to all dress
makers to vote for the full left wing
slase,. for the Election Objection
Committee at the section polling
places tonight.
fae following are the left wing
ca1ala ties;
Gezt-ude Bremen, Ida EliseWitz,
Afman Goldman, Edith Feldraise,
Max Ge-3a1t, Abraham Gold, Nor
IA Horowitz, Mary JOffe, Joseph
Krans, Meyer Kr1witz, Max Mag
ner, Rose M1zer, Raphael POmer-
aptz Manuel Romagoso, Ella Rox-
iztEz, Max Schor, Harry Smithberg,
Sam Waxman, Abe Wenglisky,
MoIIie Wolf.
The left wing candidates, fghtins
agaHfSt the corrupt Zimmerman
Lo4estone clique, are demanding the
rathirnum scale fer every w0r6er II
the.shop, reduced dues for the IN
enlulcyed members and mtmploY'
n1ent insurance st the expense q
tl2ebossLs
z8s Must Bring Books
Banembers Of Local % are urged
to1isome to the following polling
PLACES at F:30 pm. today with theil
membership books bearing the mem
ber's signature:
Bronx: Ambassador Hall, S87;
Third Ave: Labor Center, 800 West
chester Ave, Harlem; New Harlem
Casino, 100 w. 11GCn St.; .125 W
1sOth st. Manhattan: 140 Seconc
Ave. Williamsburg: Amalgamatet
Hall, II AKRON Pl. Brownsville
Labor Center, 216 Sackman st. Bort
Park: Labor Lyceum, 1877 Forty
Second st., Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
LinOJeun1 Plant Worker Sets
Splendid Example in Sub Drive

LANCASTER, Pa, March SAN
inspiring example in the Daily
Worker circulation drive is being
shown by a worker in 8 local lino-
leum plant who joined the Commu-
mist Party less than three months
ago.
Immediately on joining the Party,
this worker became a reader of the
Daily Worker. He took his copy to
the shop and gave it to the fellow
working next to him, saying, Now
listen, John, better read this paper
carefully. Tell me what you think
of it when you are finished reading
it, and don't forget to give it to Joe
to read when you are through
with it"
This he kept doing every dag.
When his shop unit decided on
Socialist competition between the
members In the Daily Worker cir
culation drive, this new Party mem
Der, Comrade Bill, took up the chal-
lenge Of Comrade James as to who
could get the most new subs
After the days work, Comrade
Bill went up to every one Of the
workers he gave the Daily" 10, and
said:
even, now that you have been
reading the Daily Worker, how do
you like it?"
'Ffne!" said the workers.
Comrade Bill then explained the
special subscription offer Of the
Daily Worker for one month for so
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Fight Looming In
Cuba In Answer TO
Mendieta Terror
(Continued from Page ~

parts Of the army, and also Of petty
bourgeois adherents Of Antonio Gut
teras, who was Secretary Of War
and Of the Interior in the Grau San
Martin Cabinet.
Machine guns have been mounted
on the presidential palace and 800
police added in Havana, while all
sections of the army which are loyal
to Mendiets are modified for
strikebreaking duty.
Ships Cannot Unload
Ships cannot unload at Havana,
and three American ships have been
forced to sail without cargoes be-
cause Of the effectiveness of the
dock and truck workers strikes.
STREET cars and trains between
Camaguey and Santa Clara are OPP
Grated by soldiers.
The presidential decree orders the
immediate arrest of all "agitators, "
and the deportation of all foreign
born agitators. It permits arrest
and detention for ten days without
charges Of anyone suspected Of be-
ing an enemy Of the state"
Savage Decree
The law provides for setting up
special courts with power to i'm
prison up to two years and fine up
to $1,000, for the following:
Seeking to replace the present
government by any other system or
regime;
melting armed forces to rebel
against the government;
Inciting antagonism between mill
tary and civil authorities;
Breaking the laws governing
strikes-laws which in effect outlaw
all strikes;
Promoting successive and pro-
gressive strikes;
Spreading political, social, racial
or prolet arian propaganda In the
colleges and schools;
Storing arms, explosives or am
munition;
Belonging to associations break
ing the above laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08

(ConttnGed from PGge u
visor. offered to take back all but
the three workers who formed the
delegation, claiming that these three
we're "agitators and trouble-makers. "
After the C.wA. authorities Of
fered to take back all but the three
leaders, the painters met and un-
animouSly voted not TO go back to
work unless all were re-instated.
The workers are all going back
to work in body on Friday and If
any discrimination develops, they
will march again on the C.WA. Of
nee and continue picketing. Every
local Of the Relief Workers League
viii then be called into the picket
ing. The West Washington local Of
the Relief Workers League meets
next Monday at 5 pm. at ia w.
18th st.
Michael Davidow, president Of the
Relief Workers League, which car
rted out the protest, stated that the
demonstration Of the painters was
an example of the carrying through
in action Of the decisions Of the
March united front conference Of
the jobless.
This conference" said DaYidow,
called on the initiative OF the Re-
lief Workers League and the Unem-
ployed Councils, decided that we
must prevent firing Of C.w.A. work
ES, and secure jobs or relief for
the unemployed, through protests,
marches and demonstrations on the
local Jobs. The confere%e, led by
the Socialist David LASER, which
took place on March /, decided on
no actions. and has accomplished
nothing since It's March 1 confer
snce. The Soclalist-led March 1
conference was a splitting confer
ence, since it decided against any
united front with the Unemployed
Council or the Relief workers
League"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Son of Senator
Pockets $4,000 On
u. S. Mail Contract
Received "Fee'' From
Morgan Co. For
''Help'

WASHINGTON, Mar. THE son
Of Senator Fess, Republican and
staunch defender Of Wall Street
militarism, received a fee Of $4,000
for helping" in the swift passage
Of the Watres Bill, which gave fat
contracts to the airplane corpora
tions, it was revealed today in the
testimony Of Paul Henderson, vice
president Of the United Aircraft and
Transport.
This Is another revelation Of the
immense graft that has flowed since
the beginning Of government air.
mail contracts. One Of the officers
Of the United Aircraft, j. P. Nor
gan corporation, showed profits OF
over $1,O0O,00O on an investment Of
less than $500.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08

cents, and although the workers in
the linoleum plant earn very little,
working only between 16 and "a
hours per week under the N. r. A.
stagger plan, 1s Of them subscribed
in 4 days
As each worker took q subScrip-
ton, Conrade Bill said, @Be sure to
give your Daily Worker to the fellow
working next to you"
Comrade Bill expects to get even
more new subs In his shop. He Is
very active in the Party, attends a
class regularly, and helps to build
up the union in the linoleum plant.
All the members in the shop unit
are In Socialist competition In the
Daily Worker sub drive. The unit
as a whole challenges the unit in
Harrisburg, Pa, TO Socialist COM
petition in the drive.
Our comrades here are very en-
thusiastic about the book Karl
Marks Capital in Pictures" by Hugo
Gellert, which the Daily" Is offer
ing as a prize to those who obtain
at least $50 worth Of new subs. They
are trying hard to win this prize.
The work Of the comrades IN
this shop unit, especially the ac-
tivity Of Comrade Bill, Is revo-
Iutionary challenge to every class
conscious worker in the country.
What are You doing to get new
subs for our Daily Worker?
Latest figures on the drive win be
found on page 1, top, left-hand
corner. Help boost theml
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Isidor Silver Expelled
From Communist Party

NEW YORK.-The New York dis
trict organization Of the Communist
Party has expelled Isidor Silver as
an element unfit, for membership in
the ranks Of the revolutionary party
Of the working class.
Silver was found guilty Of appro-
priating the property Of working
class institution.
The Communist Party does not
tolerate In its ranks individuals who
are infected with the corruption of
the bourgeoisie and its influences
people who use their connections
With working class institutions for
heir own personal benefit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Jack Schneider Again
Held On Ellis Island

NEW YORK. - Jack Schneider,
leader Of the fur section OF the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, who was arrested two years
ago and held for deportation for
his activities in the fur strikes, was
arrested again yesterday and taken
to Ellis Island.
Schneider was out on $4,000 bail.
He was taken to the Island by Of
ficers who gave the excuse that the
bail bond is no longer valid.
The union is organizing mass pro-
tests to demand from Miss Perkins,
head Of the Department Of Labor,
the immediate release of the mil
liant labor leader.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Earl BrOtOder Speaks
On Theories of Unity
For Workers School

NEW YORK.-EarI Browder,
Secretary Of the Communist
Party, viii speak on 1.-TWO Theo-
ries Of Working-Class Unity" on
Friday, March 9Th, at 8 p. m, at
the Irving Plaza, II Irving Place,
under the auspices Of the Work
erS' School.
He viii discuss the meaning
and application Of the united
front in the struggle against fas-
cism and war, for unemployment
relief and unemployment insw-
Rnce.
All proceeds viii 60 for the
benefit Of the ten-week, fuu-time
National Training School Of the
Communist Party, which is now
IN its ninth week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Painters Meet Tonight.

NEW YORK.-To open an or
ganizational drive among the paint
ers in Bensonhurs and Boro Park,
the Alteration Painters Union has
called a mass meeting Of painters
tonight at 11O9 Forty-ffth Street,
Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08

children; and Mario Garafolo, his
wife and five children.
BY the time the fire was put out,
the entire interior of the old build
ing was destroyed.
The Red Hook section of Brook
Ign is one of the most VIGOROUSLY
crowded and filthy slum areas in
Greater New York-the others be-
ing the lower East Side of Manhat-
tan and various parts Of working
class Harlem. In these districts are
situated most of the $1,000 old-law
tenements. some Of them condemned
before 1900 in which $4,000 fami-
lies live undsr the constant threat
and fear Of death by flames.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
CORRECTION

It was incorrectly reported yes
tcrday that Fred Biedenkapp was
running for Secretary of the
United Shoe and Leather Workers
Union. Biedenkapp Is running for
National Organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Hear Browder the United Front Tomorrow Night Irving Plaza
Lansing eva Painters
Strike For Pay Rise

LANSING, AIich., March T.
More than lU0 C.W.A. painters
went on strike here at the be-
ginning Of the week, because Of
the small average weekly pay on
C.W.A. jobs. Indications are that
the strike viii be spread to In
clude all paperhangers, plumbers
and carpenters on federal pro-
jects.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Fire1OOOO CWAMen
WithinWeekInN.Y.
Continued from Page II

NNVhhttsGrU lEVHH a Wv
-----------------s
ness, it has already been announced
Even the limited compensation
which has been given by the Fed
eral Government will be taken away
from the workers on local forced
labor projects.
De Lamater stated that all C.W.A,
workers must now sign question
naire, before a notary, which will
be the basis for the firing Of the
10000 workers, and future firing
This QUESTIONABLE includes the
question as to what labor union the
C.W.A. worker belongs to, what frat
ernal and other orders he has
joined. The questions also include
name and address Of residence in
the past four years, names Of past
/ employers and wages received
names of employers Of other mem
bers of the family, a description Of
all property owned, insurance poll.
cies, and number of other ques-
tons.
300 Fired in TerTe Haute
tBy a Worker Correspondent
TERRE HAUTE, indian addi-
tional 300 C.W.A. workers were free
here in the second layon in two
weeks in Vigo County, swelling thu
number fired to almost 300.
Several hundred steel workers
employed by the Highland Iron ant
Steel Co. at its rolling mill here
were fired when the plant unexpec.
tedly shut down on Feb. q.
Fired In Peoria
PEORIA, Ill, March 7. Actinl
under instructions from Roosevelt
and federal relief adn1inistrato
HOPKINS, James r. McElwee, count,
C.W.A. administrator, fired GA CIV
A. workers here on March 2.
A previous cut by which 565 werr
fired from the county C.WA. OF
Feb. %, together with this lates
firing, reduces the county C. w. A
workers to 2,476, nearly a third les
than the original number.
In Wyoming, ILL.,, 43 C.W.A. work
ers out of total of 1873 were fire.
= on March 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
RACINE ELECTION RALLr

RACINE. wis The Communist Party is
1oidiug an election rally at Fosters Rau.
i1s Wisconsin St, Friday, pm, Candi-
lates will speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
lid Moves To Save
.SCOttSbOrO Boys
Continued from Poge y

Continued from PGge y
was accomplished in ten, and kept
three printing houses and six law
yers working day and night to de-
feat the sinister lynch plans of
Knight and Callahan.
Mrs. Wright, Gallagher in Boston,
March Il
BOSTON, Mass, March Mrs
Ada Wright, mother Of two Of the
Scottsboro boys, and Leo Gallagher,
International Labor Defense attor-
ney Just returned from Germany
where he participated in the de-
tense Of George Dimitroff, Torgler-
Popoff and Taneff, and now in
Canada where he is assisting in the
defense Of A. E. Smith, general Sec
retary Of the Canadian Labor De-
tense League, charged with "sedi-
tion," will be speakers at a Pari'
Commune mass meeting her
March 81.
The meeting, which will also bt
a celebration of the release Of Di'
mitroff and protest meeting
against the lynch-sentences against
the Scottsboro boys, will be held ir
Repertory Hall, Huntington Ave
near Massachusetts,.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08

ROCKFORD li-Integnational Womens
Day viii be celebrated V,'Heslr the
LOOT. pail 1915 TIL ave, $50 pm.
3peakers, musical program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08

BINGHAMTON, N. IA mass meeting
70 celebrate International Women's Day
md commemorate the Paris Commune will
oe held Thursday, at 7:50 pm. at the
Lithuanian Hall. Grace Gray, Of Buffalo
IS the main speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Britain, France
Use VinSOn Bill To
Speed Naval Race
Continued from, Page y

struction budget of 913,000,000
francs, providing for a 26,0O0-ton
man-of war, two submarines and a
torpedo destroyer.
The French Government is also
completing plans for a greatly en-
larged air force, including a fleet Of
new giant seaplane bombers cap
able of carrying q Acton load, and
of speeding fully loaded for HOO
miles at 1855 miles an hour. In ad-
dition, a fleet of 19o-mile an hour
pursuit planes are planned.
ROME, March z. The Giornale
dTtalia yesterday declared if France
goes ahead with a naval construc-
ton program, Italy will also begin
building new powerful battleships.
Over % War Craft for Britain
LONDON, March THE full
British naval building program for
1934-35 consists Of four cruisers, one
leader, eight destroyers, one aircraft
carrier, three submarines, two gen.
eral service sloops, two mine-sweep-
er sloops, one net layer, two coastal
sloops, one surveying ship, and a
number of smaller craft. The pro-
gram was submitted to parliament
yesterday.
1t was also reported that Great
Britain is spending $44,073, $40 on
the fertilization Of Singapore, an
increase Of nearly s5,000,0O0 over the
earlier estimates. OF this sum, ten
per cent is included in the current
appropriations.