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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Natl furniture Workers Union Prepares for General Strike

tee for the coming struggle.
These achievements, however,
cannot obscure the possibilities
which have presented themselves in
every city, in every locality, if our
locals would undertake a correct
approach and tactics to establish
united action with rank and file
workers.
Preparation for Our General Strike
The General Executive Board of
our Union, at it's last meeting, MAY
27-28, decided to undertake the
preparation of general strike thru
out the industry in the fall. In TAX
ing this decisive step, we have taken
into consideration all the factors
which confront us at the present
time in the industry. The General
Executive Board in preparation for
the general strike, has decided to
issue $4,000 manifestos addressed to
all organized and unorganized fur
niture workers to be distributed
throughout the country and that
each local of the Union shall pick
a concentration factory In its locality
in preparation for the general strike
The General Executive Board also
decided that in issuing the general
strike call for September, it puts
forward seven main demands around
which the local demands shall be
formulated giving a unified line on
the demands thruout the country
The demands thus put forward were
as follows:
Increase in wage scale ac-
cording to local situation.
2.-Thirty hour week, 5 day
working week as maximum.
3.-Equal pay for equal work for
all young, Negro and women work
ers, without discrimination.
4.-Recognition of the local
Union of the National Furniture
Workers Industrial Union.
5.-Provision for additional wage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16

evade the union contract by moving
out to Jersey City, N. j., where they
were assured by the city officials mo
strikes and mo picketing' would
be allowed. Thus four Brooklyn,
N. Y, frame shops moved over to
New Jersey under the personal
promise of Mayor Frank Hague,
that they would be given police and
court protection against the union.
The New York Local mohilized
its members for picketing 1t asked
for voluntary 8 per cent tax from
each of it's employed members to
support the struggle. 1t mobilized
several liberal organizations in sup
port of the workers struggle for civil
rights in Jersey City. Among them
were the American Civil Liberties
Union and three of its members:
Corliss Lamont, Alfred Bingham and
Justine Tulin Wise, Rabbi Wise's
daughter. They were arrested to-
gether with some Is members of
our Union. The Union mobilized
all it's locals nationally to lombard
Mayor Hague, Chief of Police Casey,
President Roosevelt, and Senator
Wagner at that time still chairman
of the National Labor Board, with
demands as to the rights of strik-
ers and pickets. Through this mass
pressure and the determination of
our Union to carry this fight to the
finish, the National Labor Board in
its final decision of July 2, 1884, was
forced to decide in favor of our
Union, instructing the evading
companies. now located in Jersey
City, to take back without discrimi-
nation all of its former employees.
The second major attack was
opened against our Boston Local
which during the month of April
was sWamped wi tn wholesale
breaches of their union agreements
as in the case Of Columbia e. Myers
Upholstery Co, This was followed
by court decisions of sweeping in
functions prohibiting the union to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Calls Meet To C0mbGt
Police attacks on
Anti-N All Protests

BROOKLYN. - Urging all
workers organizations to answer
Police Commissioner Organs
fascist edict that he doesn't
want ANY more anti Nazi
parades,' the Brooklyn Section
of the Associated Workers Clubs
has called for an emergency
mobilization conference of the
executive committees of all or
CARNATIONS for Tuesday eve
ming, o'clock at 572 Suffer
Ave, Brooklyn.
On Saturday, for the second
time within a week, a Free
Thaelmann' demonstration was
attacked by Brooklyn police, who
refused to grant a permit for the
action. The conference will be
asked to endorse a plan for
Free speech anti-Fascist parade
n Brooklyn within the next week.
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creeping through the city. Few Eehi-
cles are on the streets, as the gas
supply is practically exhausted
Stores are running short of food
supplies.
A statement issued by the Com
munist Party here denounces the
strike committee officers and the
executive. committee of Is picked by
Chairman Vanderleur. This state
ment calls for the election of rank
and file delegations at tomoTows
conference, and to effect a change
in the leadership, bringing it under
the leadership of the rank and file
workers. The Communist Party
warns against proyocation and the
possibility that Roosevelt win come
here personally in an arbitration
mcJe. 1t appeals also that the food
problem for the workers be solved
by proper distribution, by fighting
against profteering.
Portland, Oregon also has reported
that it will meet on Monday to de-
eide upon its participation in the
general strike. The Los Angeles
Central Labor Union has thus far
confined its aid to finances. The
likelihood of a general walkout is
strong in San Pedro.
President Roosevelt's trip t o
Hawaii has been cancelled, it is
known, and he is undoubtedly COM
ing here to intervene personally in
the strike situation
The solidarity and spirit of all the
people here in favor of the strike
is unprecedented in the country
The prestige of the Communist
Party here, which took a leading
part in the organization and prepa-
ration of the general strike, is ire
mendous.
Provocations against the workers
are undoubtedly brewing, as the en-
tire capitalist press featured story
about an alleged Communist march
on San Franciso to blow up
bridges" etc, as well as other in
cendiary anti-working class stories
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
German Apti-Faseist
Action Calls Meeting

BROOKLYN. = Why did Hitler
butcher his former pals9 What is
the new Peoples Court" which is
to try Thaelmann and 5000 other
anti-fascist fighters?
These and other questions on the
German situation will be answered
at q Free Thaelmann" protest
mass meeting Tuesday night,
o'clock, at the Brooklyn Labor Ly-
ceum, $40 Willoughby Ave.
Speakers include DR.. Kurt Ro-
senfeld, former Minister of Justice
in the Prussian Cabinet; Aneurin
Bevan. member of the British Par
lament for the Labor Party, and
Franz Hoellering, former German
editor
The meeting is called by the Ger
man Fascist Action.
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0ninOus Silence in
Capital on Strike
Continued from Page y

cation battleship Houston.
The Navy kept the channels of
radio communication open between
the Presidents cruiser and Secretary
Perkins.
The third member of the Labor
Relations Board came to his office
for a few minutes, discussed the
San Francisco situation briefly with
subordinate official, shook his
head, and left.
A suggestion tn a t President
Roosevelt might hasten his arrival
in San Francisco was secuted by an
official close to the White House
Observers generally freely remarked
that one factor against direct per-
sonal intervention by the President
is the blow it would be to his polit-
ical prestige for him to attempt
and fail, to end the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Establish 6 New Locals
Since Convention
In February
BY JOE KISS
National Secretary, National Furni-
ture Workers Industrial Union.

ture Workers Industrial Union.
THE first National Convention of
the furniture and allied workers
met in New York City February
to II, 1884, with representatives
from 1880 organized workers. This
gathering organized its rank and
file directed organization, known
today among thousands of furniture
workers as the National Furniture
Workers Industrial Union. 1t has
as its main aim, to unite all exist
ing furniture organizations into one
powerful national industrial union
to extend is organizational in
fluence over the unorganized field
workers, in an industry which
counts today nearly 100000 workers
At our first national convention
in February, 1884, delegates ana
lyzed the effects of eight months OF
MIRA, approving fully the line and
tactics followed by the National
Committee.
AS a result of our work among the
unorganized furniture workers, to-
day we can report the organization
and functioning of six new locals,
namely: In Hartford, Conn; Cleve-
land, O.; Minneapolis, MINI; York
Pa; Rockford. Ill, and Albany
N. Y. Three more locals are to be
formed in the near future.
Vicious Attacks Against Our Union
Seeing the rapid growth of our
union, the consolidation Of our ma
tienal strength and influence, the
bosses opened a vicious campaign
against our union on several fronts
The first local to be attacked was
our New York local, where the
bosses decided to get rid of the
union agreement. They decided to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Painters Plan
8 Boycott on
n. 7. Council
Will Refuse To RecOg-
nize Officials Elected
By Illegal Votes

NEWY ORK.-Resoiutions edopted
by 800 painters at protest meet
ing in Irving Plaza Hall on Sat
Mrday declared that the rank and
file of the local union attached to
District Council will refuse to
recognize that body until after new
elections have been called. The
resolution called for the immedi-
ate ousting Of Philip zausner and
his four Illegally elected business
agents from Office.
The meeting left no doubt in
the minds of outside observers
that RhnED zausner, sslf-styled
secretary Of the Council, holds Of
flee only by the force OF arms.
Speakers described how the rank
and file members of Locals 26l
and COS were attacked at their To-
cal meetings the night before by
Zausner gangsters and beaten into
silence when they protested
against the installation of Illegally
elected local officers. Max Gait, a
widely-known Socialist, was de-
nounced from the platform by fel-
low Socialists as one of the zaus-
ner- officials who effected his in
stallation with the aid Of brass
knuckled gorillas.
The principal speakers at the
meeting were Herbert David, rep
resentative of the American Civil
Liberties Union; Harry Sacher, at
torney for Local 400; NJ. Rosen-
berg, Of Local 26l; ]. Nissen, OF
= Local 400, and Louis Weinstock
militant rank and file leader. I
-,6chnurman was chairman.
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picket the shops. This was answered
by our Boston Local with mass
picket lines. Twenty seven were
arrested at one time. Here too,
the Union demonstrated to the
bosses that it would not give up its
militant policy of mass action, when
the bosses try to break union agree
ments under the pretext of chang
ing the company's name.
Weaknesses Must Be Overcome
Our National Union still has a
number of major weaknesses, which
must be overcome if we want to
grow and become a decisive factor
in the furniture industry. In the
first place we have been unable to
tackle the large furniture places,
especially in the South where there
are tens of thousands white and
Negro furniture workers without
organization.
Our United Front Actions
Some of our locals have carried
on splendid activities in uniting the
workers under the slogan Joint
Actions Against the Bosses" Thus
we have on record the successful
united front action of our New York
Local with the Woodcarvers Assn.
Local, an A. F. of L. union. The
Mattress and Bedspring Local A of
the A. F. of L.; Newark Local with
Local 80 of the Upholsterers Inter
national of the A. F. of L. Our
jamestown, New York and Chicago
Locals, are also carrying out united
actions with the Independent Fur
niture Unions in these cities. The
appeal of our National Union tc
Gardner, Mass. United and Allied
Furniture Workers Union, with a
membership of 1900, has resulted
in the election of a committee tc
meet with our General Executive
Committee. They have met already
and decided to take under advise
ment the question of affiliation OF
setting up joint action commit
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GENERAL STRIKE SWEEPS FRISCO
tContinued from Page u

5000 cooks walters and culinary workers voted to strike
morning Over 5000 cemen and almost 1000 retail
butchers today also voted to quit work tomorrow morning
The general strike will not be limited to San Francisco
but to the entire Bay region 1t will affect the cities of Oak
land Berkeley, Richmond, Alameda Palo Alto Redwood
City San Mateo SausatO Rafael and other towns along
San Francisco and San Pedro Bays.
Oakland workers are expected to walk out at on
Tuesday.
The call for the San Francisco strike vote conference was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Cleveland Aroused
By Relief Murders
Continued from Page u

Director A. v. Cannon; (3) compen-
sation for the families of the vic
Tins; "a withdrawal of all police
from the relief bureaus; 60 no dis
elimination agains Negro and
foreign-born workers; (6) cash re-
lief to all unemployed to be adj
ministered by the workers.
Death to the MurderersY
AS the delegation reported back
TO the workers, mighty roar, the
electric chair for the murderers''
rose from the assembled workers.
Mass Funeral Wednesday.
wednesday has been set as the
date for The mass funeral of the
two murdered workers. Further
details of the funeral will follow in
the columns of the Daily Worker
The two murdered workers (not
three as reported in Saturdays
Daily WorkeD are: Winnie Williams
Of 2513 Scovill Ave, At, Negro
widowed mother of four small chill
dren, and Sam Arsentini, As, of 2542
East 29th ST., member of the IN
employment Councils. Andrew Ma
sisk, and hi wife. Anna, lie in q
hospital. His condition is critical.
Other workers massed at the
neighborhood relief offices. Workers
denied admittance to the Miles
Ave. relief Office smashed down the
door. Similarly, aroused workers
smashed their way into the Wood
hill Office.
City-Wide protest meetings are SCI
for today and mass delegations will
go to the City Hall at 10 am. Scores
Of meetings are being held in every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Turkish Worker in NY,
Mass Meeting Arrested,
Held for Deportation

NEW YORK.-Nazmi Jamiel, "a
yesr-old Turkish worker, was ar
rested by police of the alien squad
Saturday while taking part in the
Free Thaelmann" demonstration
before the German Consulate, II
Battery Pl
Jamiel is being held for deports
ton on charge of illegal entry of
the country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Philadelphia Left-Wing
Painters Win Election

PHILADELPHIA, July 15.-Un-
der militant left-wing leadership,
the rank and file of PaperhangerS
Local Union 3O6 succeeded in
: electing A. Shankman as alternate
delegate to District Council 81,
and 1. Cohen as trustee, at the
special election on July 10 held
after the regular election resulted
in a tie.
PHILADELPHIA, July Is. BY
an Overwhelming vote of 900 to IA
painters on strike in the largest
shops of this city rejected the Of
fer of the bosses to settle the cur
rent strike by fixing wages at 80
cents an hour until July "a, when
the scale would be cut to 80 cents
if the code for the industry were
not yet approved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Industrial Union Has
Conducted Successful
Activity on Unity

increases in case of rise of liy-
ing cost.
6.-For time work In all shops,
for abolishing of the speed-up,
piece work system in the furniture.
industry.
THE demand of | or 2 per
cent of the amount of payroll paid
out by the bosses every week, to
be paid to the Union unemploy-
ment fund at the expense Of the
employers, managed and controlled
by the workers committee of the
Union. That this shall continue
until such time as the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill, HI.
r. 1898, is adopted and put into
operation by the Federal Govern
ment.
In addition, the Furniture Work
err" the national organ of the Union,
has already issued an enlarged edi-
ton of 16 pages, appearing in 10000
copies to popularize the decisions
brought forward by the General
Executive Board.
Unorganized furniture workers
groups, Action Committees must be
Immediately contacted with our Ma
tienal Office, 1893 Broadway, Room
638, New York City. Wherever
there are possibilities of establish
ing contacts with furniture ane
allied workers, our National Com.
mittee must be notified to send GU
the necesss =. information, guidanct
and literature Immediately. With
the help of the revolutionary move.
ment in the United States, we fee
fully confident and competent, tina
we will come out victorious in thu
coming struggle, the first genera
strike, in the Fall
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Gestapo bands and the Goering
picked police.
Unity of Hate Against Fascism
: Socialist and Christian Workers,
men, women and youth! We are
united in joint hatred against the
fascist oppressors. Together we will
dethrone Hitler. But we do not wish
to lead our struggle so that instead
of fascist oppression that marital
law of the military dictatorship or
the Zoergiebel-terr Of the Weimar
Fepublic or the police sabre of the
,Hohenzollern regime should take its
place. Your leaders want to hitch
YOU to the cart of their capitalist
coalition interests. The task Of
liberation Of the working class can
be the deed only of the working
class itself.
only the BolsheVist way out
makes an end of chaos, will lead us
to peace, well-being and happiness.
Our comrades and friends in the
factories, in the shops in the work
ers quarters, in villages, will meet
you in joint fighting organizations,
The Stink of Degeneration
Form fighting committees with
usl Come with us over to the at
tack against the capitalist offensive
and terror. Workers, peasants, en-
ployes and fighting youtht! From
the Hitler regime mounts the stink
ing odor of moral degeneration OF
perversion and corruption and the
odor of murder and bloody adven-
ture. We Communists after gain
ing power, will bring socialist Or
der. We shall demand reckoning
for all the crimes of the bourgeoisie.
= Let us join against the fascist
butchers. Do not let the terror 81
lence us any longer Let us shout
that Hitler is planning new provo
cations to be able to butcher the
leader of the German proletariat,
Ernst Thaelmann, and hundreds Of
anti-fascists in the contration
camps.
Let us utilize each crack in the
dictatorship to advance the open
position of our revolutionary work
ers and peasants movements in the
factories, in the workers districts,
in the anti-fascist mass organiza-
tions, to burst the letters of the
terrorist oppression.
: Let us awake the will power to
! prevent by the proletarian revolu-
ton the economic and war catas-
trophe organized by Hitler. Tell all
those still in doubt of the strength
of the proletariat that already twice
has the adventurist crowd of the
Krupps and Kunows been swept
away by the general strike of the
German working class
Let us be ever conscious of the
fact that our unalterable goal, So
cialism, can be attained only by the
armed uprising and the formation
Of revolutionary Soviets as organs of
the proletarian fight for power.
open the prison doors and
concentration camps! Out with
Thaeimann and all imprisoned
antA-fascists. Down with the
Hitler regime. Long live Soviet
power. Long live socialism!
Central Committee, The Com
nunist Party of Germany Section
IF the Communist internationally
Central Committee of the Young
. Communist League of Germany"
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workers neighborhood. Protest dele
cations and hundreds of kilograms
and resolutions are pouring into the
City Hall Workers organizations
are asked to protest at once to
Mayor Davis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
DemOnstrateTOday
Against Scab Ship
(CoatiRued from Page y

81. One dollar per hour, $3.50
overtime.
q. A six-hour day and five
day week.
%. A 1929 size of gangs and
drafts.
4. For central hiring halls, con-
trelled by elected committees of
longshoremen.
Join the Rank and File Action
Committee Of the /. L. A. and the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
in the demonstration today at
noon at 21st st. and 18th Ave-"
Philadelphia Hosiery Workers
Protest Terror
PHILADELPHIA, July 15.-Ex-
pressing the outraged sentiment of
millions of American workers, the
Executive Committee of the Amer
lean Federation Of Hosiery Workers,
Local 706, sent a telegram to Gov
ernor Merriam of California in the
name of its 10000 members, de-
handing the immediate withdrawal
of troops from the San Francisco
waterfront, and the guarantee of
the right to picket to the striking
seamen and longshorenen
VANCOUVER, July 15-Members
of the Vancouver and District
Waterfront Workers Association
planned to hold a mass meeting to
vote on a proposal to refuse to work
any United States ship manned by
non-union crews which dock there.
The workers here are collecting a
fund for the aid of the striking
longshoremen. They have also en-
dorsed an order of the Northwest
Longshoremen's strike committee to
stop all work today in order for the
members to be able to attend mass
sympathy meetings.
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Classified

CAPABLE stenographer wanted Come
between 1912, National Committee De-
Tense Political Prisoners, Room 5s4, 1856
Fifth Ave.
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jsudent League, and Clara Wer-
nick of the Young Communist
League.
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ting forth a seyen-point program
of action to support the strike.
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Mass Trial OfHitler
Tonight in N.Y.City
Continued from Page u

quiry Commission, will act as prose-
cutor.
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Twin Cities Truck
Men StrikeTonight

Continued from Page ~
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German C.P. Urges
End of Hitler Rule

(Gontinaed from Page y
The Washington times., 1934-06-22
VOMEN'S CLUB NOTES - I
TIMES TABLE
TODAY

All OUHVeHEUus' OlVlU SUOlaI
TODAY
CODE HEARINGS
100 AM-Lumber and Timber Products industry Carlton Hotel
100 AM.-Graphic Arts industry. willard Hotel
100 AM-Newspaper Publishing industry. willard Hotel
100 AM-Manufactured industry Department Of Com
merce, Room 33O9.
100 AMIndependent Telephone Subdivision Of
industry Department Of Commerce, 33O9
100 AM-Be System Subdivision Of the Telephone industry
Department o Commerce, Room 3300.
100 AM-SauSage Products and Prepared Meat Carlton Hotel
100 A.M.-COFk industry. willard Hotel
TRADE BODIES
80 PM-COlumba Wholesalers, meeting. MayflOwer Hotel
CIVIC AND SOCIAL
P-Ssters Shepherd blessing the sta
Of the Cross Chapel Of the Good Shepherd
Convent.
3O PM-Knghts Columbus Educational Committee dinner
MayflOwer Hotel.
$50 P.M.-Upfted States Army Band concert. Capitol
80 PM-COmmunity Band, judiciary
soc PM-American War Mothers, District Chapter meeting.
Ambassador Hotel
15 PM-Gertrude SmaIwoOd MOCkbee students
ton Temple Presbyterian Sunday school room
$3.50 PM-EiEabeth Girls Homecoming At 11O4 M
st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1934-06-22
Sorority Convenes

Beta Chi National Sorority is
now holding its sixth national
convention in South Bend, Ind,
with the chapters in South
Bend and Elkhart acting as
hoSteSSeS.
Delegates from Washington.
who were scheduled to attend.
are Margaret Dougherty, Grace
dis, Miriam Draeger, Dorothea
Welsh, Mary Bryan, ISobel
Steing, Virginia Mason, Mary
Costello, Evelyn Berger, Lucille
Bonucelli, Mary .Harton, Dor
othy Davis, 10 Hummer, Louise
Mills, Theresa Trant, Garland
PyleS, Mae Taylor and Marion
RiSdon.
There are eight chapters Of
the sorority in Washington.