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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12

tional Football League, captained by
Ken Strong, another N.Y.U. man. At
first Ross received eighty dollars a
game, but afterwards this was cut
to $40.
Nov college football is dirty enough,
with its graft and bribery and com
mercialism. But professional football
is much worse. Players are forced
to cut one snothers' Threats for per-
manent Jobs. But that should make
good material for another column.
Anyway, after season, Ross left
the Stapletons and joined the Gin
cinnati Reds, where he got a larger
salary. And after the past season
he found himself out In the cold,
without job, without even a pros
pect of a job for next season.
60 when some friend tipped him of
~ several weeks ago that the C.w.A.
was hiring college students he leaped
at the chance. Now he's working
shoulder to shoulder with my little
friend Joe Schmidt, who, I'm sure.
never wore a football helmet in his
life, never had his name on the lips
Of thousands Of students and alumni.
and who never saw his name in print
outside this column.
Ross Grant is pretty bitter about
II all. So is BeryI Toilet who works
on the same C,W.A. Job. CONNER
cialized sport dealt none 10 easily
with them. Maybe they'll come 20
realize that cOnmercialized sport
college and professional, never desls
easily with athletes-that sport
shouldn't be organized for profit,
but for the athletes and Sport-Iovczs
themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
Councils, CWAUniOn
TOJOin United Front
Feb15DemOnStrat'n
Urge Mass Turnout of
CWA Workers and Job
less on Feb. Is


NEW YORK.-The Unemployment
Councils Of Greater New York call
upon all workers to support the united
front mass demonstration on Feb IS
TO force the continuation and en-
largement Of the c. w. A. program,
and against Iay-offs and wage cuts.
The Feb. Is demonstration, in
which the three Socialist unemployed
-rorps ere part'cioo ting. did not at
first include an invitation to the IN
employment Councils. Only at the
last minute were the Unemployment
Councils invited to participate in the
demonstration. Despite the lateness,
which will not permit complete
mass mobilization, the Unemployment
Councils are participating fully, and
urge a mass turnout,
The demands will call for: restora-
ton Of all G. w. A. wage cuts; full
weekly pay, regrad less Of conditions
outside OF the workers control; union
wages to skilled workers; continual
ton and extension of the c. w. A.
program to include all iobleSs work
ers; cash relief for all the unem-
ployed; enactment Of the workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
Workers will mobilize at various
sections of the city, and converge on
Union Square at P. M.
Relief Workers League to Join
The Relief Workers League of
Greater New York urges its entire
membership and all organized and
unorganized G. W. A. workers to sup
port the mass demonstration at 3
P. M. at Union Square on Feb. Is, to
demand the continuation and en-
largement of the C. w. A. program.
Writers to Join Demonstration
The Unemployed Writer'S Associa-
ton, at a mass meeting held at the
Greenwich House, Saturday, voted to
support the Feb, Is demonstration at
Union Square.
The writer's association adopted a
:. w. A. program for jobless writer's,
and mass committee will present
their demands to Col. w. A. De-
Lamater. city c. w. A. administrator.
on Thursday, Feb. is, at IL noon, af-
ter which, they will procede to Union
Square to join the mass demonstra-
ton.
The writer's association will hold
its next meeting at the Greenwich
House, q Barrow St., on March 3,
at P. NJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
Anthracite Strike
Ends; Miners Fight
On Discrimination
Grievances Given To
Operators Tool
by MalOney

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Feb. 1.-THE
anthracite coal miners strike was
voted ended at the special convention
of the Anthracite Miners Union, after
district president Thomas NIaloney
had made many interpretations" Of
the National Labor Boards peace
plan.
The strike ends with all power
placed in the hands of umpire James
A. German, who is umpire" of the
original Cancellation board" consist
ing Of coal operators and U. M. w. A.
officials. It is under Germans "um-
piring" that tne conditions of the
hard coal miners have been steadily
worsened for the past two or more
years. Under Ehe Cancellation board,
the coal operators, the Boylan ma
chine Of the U. M. w. A. and Cor
man have in every mine violated the
existing U. NJ. w. A, agreement, cut
out pay for dead work, extended the
contract system, abandoned the col
liery rate sheets and thus reduced
wages drasticauy.
Demand no Discrimination
The convention recessed from Tues
day to Friday because the rank and
file delegates were demanding assur-
ances that there would be no dis
elimination. Both on Tuesday and
on Friday the rank and file delegates
raised their economic gievances and
demands. On Tuesday, Monsignor
CWran, Maloney's chief strikebreak-
ing aide, wanted the strike settled at
once, but the delegates instructed
their board TO find out regarding dis
elimination On Friday when the
miners again raised their grievances,
Maloney kept answering that all Of
these questions would be settled by
German.
Maloney invoked the name Of
Roosevelt repeatedly to end the strike.
He said that German was appointed
by the President, and that Roosevelt
would force the coal operators to
listen to the miners grievances.
Before the .strike ended German
telegraphed from his mentioning in
Florida and promised no discrinina-
ton and representation OF the An
thracite union at the arbitration hear
ings. However. Germans telegram
stated that the strikers must submit
their demand for no discrimination
to those in position to discrini-
nate"
The miners are to return to work
Monday, and all grievances are to be
taken up by German. The question
Of whether or not the operators will
try to maintain their scabs at work
and discriminate against strikers is
not yet clear Maloney claims that
Germans agreement to have repre-
sentatiyes Of the Anthracite union at
the hearings Of grievances constitutes
recognition Of the Anthracite Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
Taximen To Present
Own Code Today at
City Hall Hearing


NEW YORK.-The taxi drivers will
present their own code at the hack
mems code hearings, which open in
Citv Halt at pm. today.
THE drivers will refuse TO accept
any starvation wage code that the
N. r. A. viii ATTEMPT to put over on
US" said Joseph Gilbert. chairman
of the code committee Of the hack
mems committee of 10. '"The taxi
drivers, like the seamen, will write
their own code through strike action,
Gilbert added
The United Taxieab Board of
Trade has announced its intent to
fight against any ATTEMPT to estab-
fish higher wages in the taxi indus
try.
To work out the final draft of the
code the drivers code committee,
composed of Gilbert, Candall and
Krauss, was to meet at IL O'Clock
this morning. The first draft of the
code, published in the Daily Worker
Saturday, was presented to the COM
mittee by Gilbert. 1t calls for
minimum Of $50 a week for day men
and so for night men The code
further designates that where the in
dustry does not provide so weeks work
Der year, the city government and
the employers must guarantee the
difference by unemployment insur-
ance.
At a meeting Of the committee Of
10 Friday night the men ousted Jack
Altman, Socialist leader and head
Of the Socialist 'labor committee"
who had wedged his way into the
committee room and ATTEMPTED to act
as chairman of the committee.
During discussion which ensued
on organizational questions, j..
Buitenkant, International Labor De-
tense attorney, lawyer for the COM
mittee, proposed the immediate build
ing OF garage committees, SO that the
men would have proper representa-
ton and to keen out the racketeers
who are now attempting to become
active. Attorney Levy. assistant to
Judge Panken and leading Socialist,
fought against the setting uo of these
committees. He proposed merely that
the committee work out a statement
AGAINST racketeering in the garages
and let It 90 at that. 1--WE must study
the plan first" said Levy, in attempt
ing to stall off any form Of garage
organization which will guarantee the
men real rank and file represen !
| ton.
Many Join Union
Meanwhile the committee Of 13 set
up an organization committee Of five
to work out plans for the organiza-
ton Of the new union, the Taxi
Drivers Union of Greater New York.
All the union headquarters we're
crowded over the weekend with
hacknen waiting to sign up in the
union.
The union has now four feadquar-
ters where drivers can join. Two
headquarters in Manhattan are To-
Gated at 80 E. 18th ST. and 325 w. 41st
st. The Brooklyn drivers have set
up headquarters in the Ideal Ball
room. The Bronx drivers have their
office at 1903 e. 149th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12

IndC 5 WHAT L16 average col
lege athlete expects. That's
the general public impression,
too.
1t is something OF a shock, then,
to find among the C.W.A. workers
in one OF the colleges in New York
such names as Beryl Toilet and Ross
Grant, two football stars who played
with the N.Y.U. team several seasons
ago.
Two football stars, their names
on the lips of hundreds Of students
roaring, cheering from packed
5leachers on cold Saturday after
noon, hailed as college heroes"
by students and by alumni, and as
iron men of the gridiron" by en-
thuSiastic sports writers-and now
they're digging through books on
a C.W.A. job that pays $21.5O q
week and faces shut down any day.
EOLLET and Grant and the 80
4 backfield, the MacNamaras and
Tanguay, used to sit in front Of me
in one Of my classes in N.Y.U. when
was a sophomore. 1 very seldom
saw my instructor because my eyes
used to come just up to the shoulders
Of the big boys in front Of me. They
hung around together, were quiet in
class, never volunteering answers,
never asking questions, but always
to pull through with fairly
good grades,
Every Monday after Saturdays
game in which they had done par
ticularly well, the rest of the class,
especially the lower clasSmen, used
to look at them with admiration In
their eyes If the game was q poor
one and N.Y.U. lost they were re-
Sarded with a sympathetic "too-bad-
old-man" attitude but none the less
With admiration.
They were working their way
through college" in the typical
manner of star college athlete
getting twenty-five or thirty dol
lars a week for putting the lights
out in q room every night, or some
thing like that.
AFTER graduation the swell Jobs
"A they had been promised by doting
alumni all seemed to blow away, and,
like many other college graduates.
they seemed to be facing that curse
Of the American economic system
unemployment, The boys separated.
Luckily, Grant got a job with the
Stapleton professionals of the Ma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
Show Serious Lag in
First 2 Weeks of Sub Drive

NEW YORK. - The campaign to
Increase the circulation of our Daily
Worker in order to strengthen the
struggles of our revolutionary move
ment against Roosevelts fascist N.
R. A. and his war plots is tagging
seriously behind, it is shown by fig
ureS tabulated for the first two weeks
Of the subscription drive.
From Jan. Gath to Feb. 9th, a total
of 322 new subs came in for the daily
edition, and 259 for the Saturday
edition.
To reach the quota of 10000 new
daily and 10000 new Saturday subs
by the end of the drive, May 1st, we
must receive an average of 100 new
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
Roosevelt Gives Air
MaiIROuteS tOArmy:;
Huge Graft Shown
Continued from Page y

eral Douglas Macarthur, Army chief
Of staff, who declared:
This will give cur men more
time to fiy-since their flying time
had been originally cut by the
economy law--and will show that
the Army can do big job
Huge Profteering
The order Of Roosevelt came as a
climax to a long series Of astounding
revelations of widespread corruption
and huge gouging by leading aviation
companies controlled, for the most
part, by ]. P. Morgan and other Wall
Street banking houses. It was shown
by the Senate Committee investigat-.
ing the Government mail contracts
that on one occasion William Boeing
Of the Boeing Aviation Company had
reaped a profit Of over S5,OOo.O0 on
an initial investment Of not more
than 1854.
Roosevelt's Aide Approves
II was revealed that the Govern
ment has paid $50 100000 to these air
lines in the past i've years, most of
which has gone into dividends and
profits.
1t was shown that recent Army
contract, for example, to motorize the
artillery, ETC., had involved over
SlO,000000 in shady deals.
Roosevelt's Assistant Secretary of
War, Harry H Woodring, however
told the House Military Affairs com
mittee that he did not think that any
OF these profits were exorbitant, al
though he had to concade that even
after all bookkeeping Juggling, these
wall Street companies showed profits
Of 1913 per cent on their Investment /"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12

consistent denial of the framed-up
murder charge:
I'm just an innocent man going
to glory, that's ALL"
The executions were rushed through
III swift sequence, with John Thonp-
son next, Luther Williams third.
Ernest Waller fourth and Solomon
Roper fifth in the bloody holocaust.
One Of the nine victims selected
for this blood-curdling demonstration
against the Negro people died in
prison as a result Of ill-treatment.
OF the two others, mass pressure mo-
bilized by the L L. D. forced Gov
ernor B. NJ. Miller to commute the
sentence of Leo Fountain to life i'm
prisonment, and to grant elem
ency hearing" for Miss Feeney Au-
brey, the ninth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12

Continued from, Page II
cuts forced on them TO balance the
budget. Teachers were reported hay
ing refused. to join, but all newspaper
plants will be closed The fascist
royalist Action Franchise" printed
by scab labor, is reported to be the
only newspaper that will appear to-
morrow.
Textile workers of Lyons and mine
workers of the north Of France have
voted to join the strike. The PROV
inces of Lyons, Marseilles and Bor-
deaux viii be completely tied up, like
the capital, according to report.
Socialists Sabotage Militancy
The Socialists who control the Gen
erel Labor Federation, announced
they would do their best to prevent
their followers from joining in DEM
onstrations called by the Communist
Party and the revolutionary Unified
Labor Federation unions. They an
rornced they wanted their strike to
Je "digni6ed," so it would not annoy
the government.
Workers of Paris, expressing their
deep Indignation at the reactionary
Cabinet thrown into power by the
fascist forces which seized on 6he
mass discomfort Of the crisis, famed
to the point Of an upsurge by the
open government corruption, took the
streets again Friday night.
Called by the Communist Party
they surged toward the Place de la
Republtque, in the proletarian sec
tlon Of the town, to carry out a DEM
onstratton which had been forbidden
by the new project Of police.
More than 1900 were arrested. and
hundreds injured when police at
tackled workers demonstrations in
many parts of Paris Friday night.
The workers were charged by thous-
ands Of police, firing pistols.
Barbados Up Again
Barr1cades were thrown up in
many streets, near the Care de Fest.
IN the Rue de Forillon, Faubourg du
Temple, and Rue Saint Maur. The
police, who generally spared the
fascist gangs who were out last Mon
day and Tuesday, attacked the
workers with q violence so much In
contrast with their previous conduct
chat all observers noted it.
The struggle to reach the square
Tor the demonstration, which began
at night-fall lasted far into the
night, and no record has bean made
OF the number Of workers who fell
under the furious assaults and bull
lets Of the police
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12

daily and 244 Saturday subs every
DAY. We averaged only 20 and %
new daily and Saturday subs in the
first two weeks. Moreover. cancel
lations cut the total gain in the two
weeks down to net of 100 and IS
for the daily and Saturday editions
respectively.
Chicago Leads
Chicago leads all other districts
during the first two weeks with 80
new daily and 2l3 new Saturday subs,
California, District No. 10, is second
with % new daily subs; Philadelphia
is third with 81; Newark is fourth
with % new daily subs: Boston is
fifth with %. Cleveland, which chal-
lenges Detroit to see which will be
the first to reach its quota, gained
81 new daily and new Saturday
subs. Detroit in the same period OBJ
tanned l8 new daily and 2 new Sat-
urday subs.
A table on the inside of this issue
shows how every District stands SO
far in the circulation drive. Study
1t, comrades, and spur your District
to real activity and win the National
Daily Worker banner which will be
awarded to the district first to reach
its quota.
Gain Very Promising
While not what it should have
been, the gain during the first two
weeks shows that wherever some ac-
tiyity has been developed new subs
were easily secured. Workers are
eager to read our Daily Worker,
Without any organized effort we re-
eeived 157 renewals for the daily edi-
ton, showing that workers who read
our paper want to continue reading
it.
Our national quota can be easily
reached provided every class-con-
scious worker and working-class or
ganization swings into real action.
Follow UP old subscribers for sub
scription renewals. Reach new work
ers with our Daily" Every reader
obtaining only one new subscription
will put our drive way over the TOP.
Let's do this, comrades. Every new
subscriber means a new ally in our
struggle to destroy capitalism and all
the misery it heaps on our class.
District Standings
The following chart shows how
many new daily and Saturday subs
each Districe obtained during the
first two weeks of the Daily Worker
circulation drive. G. a. F. stands Tor
Canadian and foreign, Figures for
New York, which has quota of 5000
new daily and 10000 new Saturday
subs, will be given in the next chart,
Mem DaiIy Neu 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
College Athletes Succeed

COLLEGE athletes have their day. Cheered dozed in school,
hopes of good job when they get out wned feaste they
live life based dreams of future and happiness
They graduate get job selling bonds with list of we'll
todo alumni prospects and expect cash in life with
capital &C. Or they happen be gdiron men, and good
they pick nice fat job professional football
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12

Metal Workers Industrial Union, the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union. Messages of solidarity also
came from the National Furniture
Union Of Canada, and the United
Furniture and Allied Trades.
The convention viii continue until
Monday night, when it will adjourn
after the election of the National
Executive Committee p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
o.w.A. WORKER HANGS SELF

CHICAGO, 1ll.-James Lee, C.W.A.
worker employed on street repair
crew here, hanged himself from
door in his home on the eve of the
Roosevelt abandonment of the C.w.A.
program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
ALTERATION PAINTERS MEET

A special meeting of the Alteration Paint
ers Union will be held tonight at p. m.
to hear report Of the Washington uneni-
ployment convention.
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(CIaSsified)

WANTED business and promotion man
ager- Man or woman residing Ia N. Y, c.
Experience in magazine business and pro-
motion work. Ability to supervise ONCE. one
having background Of nnd association with
revolutionary movement. Write fully, giving
age, experience, salary desired, etc, I. b,
CO Daily Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
NAM Grectings

kilograms Of greetings were re-
ceived from the striking workers of
the Berman shop, the Steel and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
General Strike
In France Today
Against FaScisnl

Continued from Page II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
strike at Cabin Grin

NEW YORK. - A strike has been
called in three Cabin Grill restau-
rants, 1920 Broadway, 400 Seventh
Ave. and 26 w. S3rd St, by Local
j. Of the Restaurant Employees and
Beverage Dispensers international
AnseSer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
9 Negroes Killed
lnLegaILynchO
By Southern Rulers

Continued iron, Page u
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A l.. l.. Members Back Strike
NEW YORK. - A resolution that
alI members of the Hotel and Res
taurant Employees and Beverage
Dispenser International Alliance,
Local l, be taken off the job where
there is a hotel strike, was passed
Thursday night, through the pressure
OF the rank and file at meeting
in Beethoven Hall.
It also provided that on refusal
the member is to be called before the
executive board for scabbing. Greet
ings were sent by the meeting, hail
ing the general strike Of the hotel
workers and pledging financial aid.
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