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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Fight Against Runaway
Plants Second Issue
Before Farley

advance as bonus to workers not
transferred to jackson.
Scaling Of a joint meeting
with the A. F. of L. workers in the
other two Eaton plants for united
action and to send organizers to
unionize the plants in Jackson.
The Eaton Local 1101 has won
wage increases from 80 to 40 per
cent since the organization of the
union, and the company is trying
to use this as an argument against
the union. But this announcement
has only raised the prestige of the
union, and the figures of the rise
in cost of living show that more
wage increases are necessary to
meet the rise in living costs.
The Cleveland Conference of the
S. NJ. w. I. u, which meets on Sum
day, Sept. 9, has these important
problems to solve. Every local of
the S. M. w. I. U. in the district
should send delegates. ~The first
session is open to all steel and metal
workers and invitations have been
sent to the A. F. of L. and M. E.
S. A. locals to hear a report on the
recent national Convention of the
S. M. w. 1. U.
The Conference opens at 10 a. m
at the I. o. o. F. Hall at East 55th
Street and Lexington Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05

Through the efforts of the Paris
Inquiry Commission, the American
Commission was able to arrange for
Kruse to come to America to repeat
his story of the Reichstag fire and
submit to direct questioning by
members of the American Inquiry
Commission and by guest members
from the French and British Com
missions who are to come here to
sit with the American Commission.
These, as recently announced by
the American Commission. are to
include: From England-Sir STAFF
ford Grips, parliamentary chair
man Of the Labor Party; Sir Sles-
ser, eX-Chicf Lord Justice for Eng
land; the Honorable D. N. Pritt,
Kings Counsellor, former Attorney
General of Great Britain. From
France-Gaston Bergery; Maitre de
Moro Giafferi, and Senator Morizet.
Kruse, after his escape from Ger
many, not only made his statement
voluntarily, but had a copy sent as
communication to the late President
Paul Won Hindenburg, in order to
lay before him also the charge that
the fire was planned, ordered and
executed by the leaders of the Nazi
Party.
According to the Paris Inquiry
Commission, the communication APP
parently never reached Hindenburg,
but was withheld from him by the
Hitler regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Federal Law Invoked
in Oklahoma Against
JObless Demonstrators

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla, Sept.
4.-No date has yet been set for
the trial in Federal Court here of
IA workers recently indicted on
charges of criminal conspiracy" in
connection with a demonstration
organized by the Unemployment
Councils before the federal relief
offices here May 81.
Three of these arrested are still
held in Jail without bond. They
are: George E. Taylor, Negro;
George Wilson, section organizer of
the Communist Party, and Robert
Seymour.
The Federal district attorney has
announced that he will make an
example" of the defendant. They
example" of the defendants. They
eral officer in the conduct of his
duty, and with conspiring to steal
or seize Federal property, because
their demonstration was held be-
fore a Federal food commissary.
No Federal property was damaged
by the demonstrators, who were
peaceful and unarmed.
Protests against the indictments,
and demands for full freedom for
all those indicted, and especially
for those held in Jail, should be
sent to the Federal attorney, Okla
homa City, Okla.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Borough Park Jobless
Meet Tonight to Plan
Sept. % Hunger March

NEW YORK.-To mobilize the
employed and unemployed workers
of Borough Park for the city-wide
hunger march to City Hall on Sept.
%, the Boro Park Unemployment
Council will hold a united from
conference tonight at the Council
headquarters, 41o9 Thirteenth Ave-
nue..
The conference will also formu-
late plans for a local demonstra-
ton on Friday, Sept. 81, to rally
the workers to the city-wide march.
According to the Council Secre-
tary, Carl Mitchell, calls to the con-
ference have been sent to all work
ing-class organizations in the
neighborhood.
A mass fight for the enactment
of the Workers Unemployment IN
surance Bill will be planned at the
conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Agency Scored
For Refusing
Y eterans Aid
Demonstration Gale d
To-day Before Harlem
Relief Bureau

NEW YORK.-A demonstration to
protest the treatment given to Negro
and white veterans by the Harlem
Home Relief Bureau will be held
today at II am. in front Of the
bureau office, 1871 w. 135th st. The
demonstration has been called by
the League Of Struggle for Negro
R g h t S, Harlem Unemployment
Council and Harlem Veterans Relief
Committee of the Workers Ex-Ser-
Yicemen'S League.
The demonstration will protest the
negligence Of the relief bureau in
the case of William Alfred, Negro
veteran, who died week ago of
starvation, and in the case of Cam
clio Vanzzeno, unemployed white
veteran who committed suicide after
he had not been given relief.
The demonstrators will demand
the removal of Mr.. Wright, Mrs.
Mason and Miss FLORES, relief off,
Gals whom they charge are respon-
sible for the discrimination and
neglect.
White and Negro workers are
being urged to rally in front of the
relief bureau this morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Unemployed Groups Form United Front in Ohio Steel Area
IL Furniture
Shops Settle
With F.W.L.U.
New York Upholsterers
Strike Under Joint
Leadership

NEW YORK. - Seventeen shops
which were called on strike by the
National Furniture Workers Indus
trial Union have settled with the
union, agreeing to all the demands
Of the strikers, which include an
unemployment fund to be paid by
the bosses.
Among the shops that settled are
the most important firms in the
trade: the L. I. Mattress Co., the
Diamond Mattress Co. and the Ideal
Mattress Co. The Longwood Parlor
Frame Company, $50 Barry ST.,
Bronx, and the S. and K. Parlor
Frame Company, Al TompkinS ST.,
Manhattan, have also settled with
the union.
Upholsterers in Greater New York
have been called on strike yester-
day by Local rs Of the Upholsterers
International CA. F. of Ii and the
Furniture Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Furriers Win
Rapid Victory
In n. Y. Strike
Bosses Agree to Sign
Agreement With Fur
Industrial Union

NEW YORK. WORKERS in the
New York fur trimming trade won
a rapid and smashing victory over
the Fur Trimming Manufacturers
Association. The strike which be-
gan week ago under the leadership
of the Fur Workers Industrial
Union forced a committee repre-
senting the manufacturers to agree
yesterday to recognize the Industrial
Union and to establish contractual
relations with this union.
The agreement was ratified at
4 p. m. by the Trade Executive
Board Of the union, and at 5 o'clock
the strikers were meeting at Cooper
Union Hall to vote on the settle
ment. 1t will affect 400 shops en-
ploying a total of 1000 workers.
The strike was called last week
after the Manufacturers Associa-
ton had refused point blank to
continue a collective contract with
the Fur Workers industrial Union
which has the majority of fur
trimmers in New York organized in
its ranks. Representatives of the
manufacturers said that they would
sign with the A. F. OF L., which
has been proven by the strike
as not a representative organization
of the workers in the trade.
Besides recognition of the union,
the contract agreed upon by the
manufacturers calls for better con-
ditions in the shops and establishes
basic wage improvements.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Workers and Farmers
In South Dakota Issue
Anti-F ascism Protest

SISSETON, S. D., Sept. 3.-"Fas-
cism Comes to South Dakota"
the title of a leaf1et issued by the
State Executive Committees of the
United Farmers League, and United
Workers League, is being widely cir
culated throughout the state in
protest against brutal attacks on
workers and farmers meetings in
Marshall County, Aug. 25. The leaf
let says in part:
South Dakota farmers and
workers experienced a sample of
fascism on Saturday, Aug. Is, when
a gang of reactionary business
men and drunken hoodlums broke
up mass meeting of farmers and
workers at Britton, So. Dakota, and
when the same evening a larger
gang of thugs, led by Sheriff Roehr
of Marshall County attacked a
dance held by the United Farmers
League School at Clear Lake"
The leafiet pledges the two or
CARNATIONS to continue the fight for
relief, against fascism and war, and
asks that protest against fascist
attacks be sent to Gov. Berry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Flop House Officials
Order Attack on Local
Of Unattached Men

NEW YORK.-Regretting having
recognized the Grievance Commit
tee of the New York Local of I'm
attached jobless workers in the
Municipal Lodging House, officials
have ordered police to throw
out and beat up members of the
committee when they brought new
grievances to the officials atten-
ton.
Pickard, Negro chairman of the
committee, was badly beaten by a
police officer of the 18th precinct,
who wore badge No. 1903. His
clothes were nearly torn off of him,
and he was told to stay away from
25th Street." and called a "black
son of a D." White workers had
been told by the supervisor, Mr..
Hammond, not to associate with
Negroes.
The New York Local Of Unat-
tached, AIT East 14th St., affiliated
with the National Unemployed
Council, has called upon all
workers and their organizations to
support its efforts to organize the
homeless workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Office Workers Help
Telegraph Mems Union

CHICAGO, Sept. 4.-Employees of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany are being given the utmost
assistance in organization work by
the Office Workers Union, an an
nouncement from the latter organ
ization states. A dance for the ben
eft of the w. U. employees will be
held on Sept. 8, at 209 w. North
Avenue, the proceeds of which will
go to further organization activity.
Increasing dissatisfaction is being
shown by the telegraph workers
with the Association of Western
Union Employees which, workers
charge, is doing nothing to protect
the men from pay cuts and "fur-
loughs." A special meeting of the
A.WU.E. is demanded by rank and
filers in the association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Herbert Benjamin Will
SIP e ak at Philadelphia
Unemployed Convention

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. A.
Herbert Benjamin, national organ
izer of the Unemployment Councils,
will be the principal speaker at the
conference of the Philadelphia
District Unemployment Councils,
Sunday, Sept. % at 10 a. M, at
Garrick Hall, 597 South Eighth st.
The conference will map out
plan of action leading to the hunger
march to Harrisburg on Oct. IA,
and will formulate demands to be
presented to the relief administra-
ton. Approximately 5000 workers
are expected to form the mass
march on Harrisburg, where elected
committees will present the de-
mands of Pennsylvania's unem-
ployed to governor Pinchot
The Philadelphia conference will
also plan the fight for the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Relief Men Employed
By Sewer Department
Get New Wage Slash

NEW YORK.-Last month the
Sewer Department, under the La
Guardia administration, was cut so
per cent. They had been receiving
S12 week, $24 for six days work
every two weeks. In August the
working days were cut to three, and
the men received only $12 every two
weeks. The excuse given is that the
August month is a long month and
the maximum salary is fixed at $48
month.
Now there is another cut for Sep
TENDER, the days reduced to five
days the first two weeks, for the
reason that the Labor Day holiday
comes during that time.
These changes are made by word
Of mouth, from foreman to time
keeper and checker, in order that
the men may not be given chance
to discuss conditions and to give
them publicity.
Protests should be made to Major
Gray, Borough Hall Building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Youth Leaders Speak
In Symposium Friday

NEW YORK.-Plans for carrying
out the decisions of the first Amer
lean Youth Congress will be formu-
lated at the meeting today of the
executive board of the Congress.
The Congress represents a united
front of young Socialists, Commu-
nists and liberal groups.
Three of the leading members of
the executive board, Gil Green, ma
tional secretary of the Young Com
munist League; Alfred Bingham,
editor of Common Sense, and Theo-
dore Draper, editor of the Student
Review, and Monroe Sweetland of
the League for Industrial Democ-
racy, will speak at a symposium on
1.-THE First American Youth Con-
gress and After" on Friday evening
at 8 o'clock at the Labor Temple,
14th Street and Second Avenue.
James Wechsler, editor of the
Columbia Spectator, will be chair
man. The symposium is under the
auspices of the Student Review,
monthly organ of the National
Student League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
SO Missouri Crusher
Men Strik e Against
yellow Dog Contract

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. A.
Fifty workers of the CentropoliS
Crusher Company are on strike here
after As of their number had been
fired for refusing to sign yellow
dog" contract. The walkout began
last week.
The drillers, who are leading the
strike, get As cents an hour, while
the others get 40 cents an hour for
q 40-hour week. The quarrymen are
on a piece-work basis of 1912 cents
a ton and are consistently short
weighted, they charge,
Scabs have been protected by
police, armed With rifles. Machine
guns have been set up near the
picket lines.
No aid has been extended the
strike by the American Federation
of Labor, although the men organ
lied themselves into Local 663 Of
the A. F. of L. union in the industry.
The job is controlled by the Prem
dergast machine, the Democratic
ruling clique in this city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Cleveland Conference of
S.M.W.I.U. to Demand
Relief from Firms
BY FRANK ROGERS
Secretary, Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union

OCSACtaAJy OWL anu NAOta1 w hVA9
Industrial Union
The few days work each week for
Cleveland steel workers, secured by
the grace of cut-throat competition
of independent steel companies with
the steel trust, has now been re-
duced to practically nil with the
merger of the Corrigan-McKinney
and Truscon Steel Companies with
the powerful Republic Steel Cor
poration. The only remaining in
dependent in the city is Otis Steel
and everything indicates that it too
will be swallowed by the Republic
Steel Co.
With this merger the fight now
goes on between the huge industrial
giants-U. S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel,
and Republic Shetland this strug-
gle between the steel trust capital
lists will be carried on at the ex-
pense of the steel workers. The
American Steel and Wire Co. GU. S.
SteeD, has already cut wages 10
per cent of its salaried employees,
which no doubt will be followed by
the other steel companies, and
which will soon effect the produc-
ton workers.
Steel production is at 10 per cent
of capacity today. This means only
a few days work per month for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Farmers Indignation
Wins Release of Man
Who Fought Lynchers

LUDINGTON, Mich.-In the face
among the farmers of this section
of the stormy indignation aroused
by the vicious lynch-mob attack on
a meeting of 500 farmers at Custer
on Aug. 81, the Justice court here
was compelled to dismiss the frame
up charges Of felonious assault
against Fortenatis Zukas, militant
farmer. zukas was accused of hay
ing stabbed Lloyd Smith. Not a
single member of the mob, who tried
to kidnap and lynch George Casper,
State organizer of the Michigan
Farmers League, was arrested.
The 1ynchers were organized by
the Roach Canning Company in an
effort to smash the growing move
ment, led by the Michigan Farmers
League, against the low prices paid
the farmers by the company for
their crops. zukas was defended by
the international Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Fight Relief
Discrimination
In Pittsburgh
Mass Meeting Tonight
Will Demand an End
to Persecution

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 4. =
Demanding that the police and re-
lief officials stop their persecution
of Juliet Graczy, 57-year-old woman
who has been taken off the relief
lists, steel workers and unemployed
will hold a mass meeting here Fri
day evening at 7:30 o'clock at
Liberty Hall, 2604-68 Josephine St.,
corner 26th St., South Side.
Juliet Graczy was taken off the
relief lists and is being bounded by
the police after she took her
daughter Rosie out of the Allegheny
County Home and Hospital in May
view, wheye the girl was being
forced to do hard physical labor,
She was persuaded to send her
daughter to this institution under
the pretence that the girl, who,
hurt in an automobile accident in
her childhood and is unfit for hard
work, void be taught sewing or
some other Eight work" Instead,
the girl was put in the insane
ward and made to do floor scrub
bling and like work. Miserably fed
and badly treated, the girl had her
front teeth knocked out by nurse
when she asked for a decent dress
instead of the rags she was forced
to wear.
After she was unable to obtain
the girls release by application to
the authorities, Mrs. Graczy took
the girl from the institution with
out permission. She was Immediately
cut off relief, told that she would be
denied all relief until the girl was
sent back, and threatened with be-
ing sent there herself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Mass Demonstration
Planned for Davis in
Niagara Falls Tonight

BUFFALO, N. Y, Sept. 4.-The
Niagara Falls section of the Inter
national Labor Defense has called
a mass demonstration against fas-
cist terror and for the release of
Alphonso Davis, Negro, who is being
framed on charge of attacking"
a white girl, tomorrow night at z
at the Public Market grounds, Mia
CARA Falls. A permit for the dem
onstration has been refused.
Leaflets, both in Polish and Eng
fish are being circulated throughout
the city calling for a united front
of Negro and white workers to rally
to Davis defense.
District Attorney Knowlse, of Mia
CARA County, has been forced to
agree to a reduction in his demand
for bail for Davis by flood of pro-
test kilograms and resolutions from
all parts of the nation. Bail is now
$4,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05

ployment situation in Cleveland is
the moving OF metal manufactur-
ing plants from the city to smaller
towns. One of the largest plant,
the Eaton Manufacturing Co., has
taken the lead in this by moving
three of its plants, employing some
1000 workers, to Jackson, Mich. The
reason for this action by the COM
pany is: ca The N. R. A. permits
a lower wage standard for cities of
less than $4,000 population. Gb) The
Cleveland plants are unionized, but
Jackson is open-shop. Co Jackson
is nearer to the auto center and this
cuts shipping costs.
The question of organized labor,
of course, is the main reason as Mr..
Eaton in confidential converse
ton is reported to have stated:
Move your plant to the sticks and
the hicks will not give you labor
trouble" But he is mistaken, as the
union has already taken steps which
will not permit the company to pay
starvation wages to its employees,
The Eaton Local 1101 of the S. M.
w. I. U. worked out the following
program which is now being carried
into action, when it was notified
that the plant will be moved from
Cleveland.
Union Demands
demand that the company
shall transfer at least so per cent
of the workers from Cleveland to
the Jackson plant.
demand that the company
shall pay four weeks wages in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05

n The conference was attended by
Roout 40 delegates from both or
carnations who enthusiastically
greeted all proposals for united ac-
ton. A program Of action and
JOINT demands were worked out.
The plans include united county
VIDE hunger march on Sept. IT.
In addition, the conference adopted
a motion for state united front
conference and statewide hunger
march. A United County Unem-
ployed Action Committee was elect
ed to proceed Immediately with
Preparations for the hunger march.
Every decision was adopted unani-
mously by the delegates from each
organization.
Mrs. Cross, Marshall, Collins and
other leaders of the Ohio Unem-
ployed eague in Columbiana
County spoke with great enthusi-
asm for united action and received
the full support of the delegates.
Mrs. Cross said, in commenting
on the united front, %We could not
get a united front at our state con-
vention in Columbus, but we are
going to get united front in Co.
lumbiana County no matter what
happens"
Collins, chairman of the Column
biana County Unemployed Leagues,
said: ut has been my dream since
1919 to unite the working class in
our county. Today my dream comes
true"
Frank Fiber, Roy Elias, George
and Rowley, of the Unemployment
Councils were enthusiastically APP
plauded when they outlined the
proposals for united and militant
action. Ben Gray greeted the con-
ference in the name of the Ohio
State Unemployment Councils, and
gave suggestions on how to pre-
pare for the hunger march.
The conference ended with great
enthusiasm and the singing of
Solidarity" Immediately after adj
joIrnment, the United County I'm
employed Action Committee went
into session and worked out a series
o. proposals in preparation for the
hunger march.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05

fascist terror. The Commission,
which conducted the first part of its
inquiry on July 2 and 8 at the
County Bar Association, will con-
tinue its public probe in the first
week of october with a number of
added legal forces from Europe.
Among members of the American
Inquiry Commission are Clarence
Darrow, U. S. Senator Edward P.
Costigan, Stanley High, George q.
Medalie and Roger Baldwin.
The name of Ernst Kruse became
widely known recently when he con-
fessed his role as one of the Storm
Troopers assigned to handle the
fire. He had been per-
sonal aide and servitor of Captain
Ernst Roehm, Storm Troop leader
executed summarily on June 80 as
chief victim of the Hitler blood
purge" Kruse fled from Germany
and made the sensational confess
sion which the Paris Inquiry Com
has analysed in its COM
to the American Inquiry
Commission, the announcement ex-
planned.
The French Commission is COM
posed of a number of noted polit-
ical and legal personages, including
CASTOR Bergery, former secretary
of the parliamentary foreign affairs
committee; P. Campinchi, member
of parliament and associate of Ed
ward Herriot; Maitre de Moro Giaf-
feri, criminal lawyer; and Senator
Morizet,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
West Coast Meeting
Denounces Attacks on
Workers Organizations

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. A res
olutlon denouncing attacks on
workers and their organizations
under the Criminal Syndicalism
laws was unanimously adopted at a
civil rights rally last Tuesday night
at the italian Federation Hall.
Harry Gross, International Labor
Defense attorney, was chairman.
Speakers included Louis Olson,
framed on criminal syndicalist
charge; Matt Mehan of the Inter
national Longshoremen's Associa-
ton, and Mary Good of the I. L. D.
Attorney Irwin Goodman Reviewed
the history of the Criminal Syn
dicalism laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Cuban DaIegate Elected

HAVANA, Cuba-The Cuban Ma
tional Congress Against War, IN
tervention and Fascism has elected
a fraternal delegate to the U. S.
Congress Against War and Fascism,
to be held in Chicago the last three
days of this month. The delegate
will carry greetings from the Cuban
masses to the fighters against war
and fascism in America.