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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Cannery Thugs
Led Lynchers
Against Casper

DETROIT, Aug. 2S.-Further de-
tails received by the international
Labor Defense of the attempted
kidnapping of George Casper, State
organizer of the Michigan Farmers
League, reveal the organization OF
lynching bee in the best southern
style.
Casper and other militant farm
ers were attacked last Tuesday at
mass meeting of about 500 farm
ers held in the township hall OF
Custer, Mich. The meeting was
called in the fight the farmers are
making to compel the Roach Can
ming Co. to pay them higher prices
for pickles and beans. Ten minutes
after the start of the meeting, It
was broken up by deputies and con-
stables on the pretext that the hall
permit had been revoked.
This was the signal for the COM
pany thugs who had been planted
in the crowd and around the build
ing. A group of farmers jumped up
to defend Casper. Cries of Lynch
him." Here's the rope went up
from the thugs, many of whom were
drunk. Foremen from the factory,
under the leadership of the COM
pany manager, were seen arousing
the gangsters.
Casper managed to make his way
downstairs and leaped through a
window. The lynchers went after
him, but he succeeded in hiding
in a pile of lumber and thus es-
capped. The man-hunt continued all
night, while Casper made his way
To a friendly farmers home and
hid there.
Two other militant farmers, John
zukas and John Laiskonis, were also
chased by the mob. zukas was ar
rested and charged with having
stabbed one of the lynchers, after
the sheriff had first accused six or
seven others. He was released on
$l,50O bail. He will receive hear
ing tomorrow morning, at the Ma
son County Courthouse, Ludington,
Mich, and will be defended by John
Saffron, attorney for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
The company agents are continu-
ing their threats in their effort
to smash the Michigan Farmers
League.
The members of the Michigan
Farmers League are determined to
continue their fight to win better
conditions for the farmers.
The International Labor Defense
has sent a letter to Attorney Gen
eral Patrick O'Brien, protesting this
lynch terror and demanding the ar
rest and prosecution of the sheriff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Hunger March
Plans Speeded
In Pittsburgh
Wholesale Eviction Plan
Meets Mass Fight
by Unemployed
Especial to the DAILY worker

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. d.
Unemployment relief in Allegheny
County faces new crisis as winter
draws nearer. The governor still
refuses to call special session Of
legislature, and the threat of mass
fight against more than TOO evic-
ton orders which have been issued
during the past four weeks hangs
over the heads of relief officials.
Owners of slum tenements and
novels in Pittsburgh shave rebelled
against the policy relief authorities
attempted to adopt which would
pay the landlord property taxes and
one per cent Of assessed Yalution in
u monthly payments, are demand
ing SIS and more per month for
their miserable shacks and use evic-
ton threats to coerce the relief bu-
reau into paying their pound of
flesh.
The Unemployment Councils are
leading mass fight against evic-
lions and hunger. Families have
been moved right into relief bu-
reaus following recent evictions,
compelling authorities to find hous-
ing facilities, and no less than 16
workers were arrested within the
past week for participation in I'M
employed demonstrations.
Preparations for the giant hun
ger march on Harrisburg, October
II, are drawing in ever larger sec
tons of the unemployed workers.
Looking still further ahead, this
mass movement is beginning to
crystalline around the campaign for
enactment of the Workers Bill at
the next session of Congress, large
orders for copies of the bill are be-
ing placed, and its capitalization is
being carried into fraternal, bene-
fiical and trade union organizations.
Local after local of the United Mine
Workers of America is endorsing
the bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
American Delegate
to Recent Congress
Jailed in Poland

NEW YORK.-Kirylak- Kurowski,
American Polish Chamber of Labor
delegate to the recent World Con-
gress of Poles, and an American
citizen, is in Jail in Warsaw. it was
learned here yesterday.
Kirylak-Kurowski was arrested by
Warsaw police because he tried to
explain to Polish workers his revo-
lutionary program after he had
been barred from the congress.
The Polish Chamber of Labor in
Chicago and New York, informed
of their delegates Imprisonment,
plans immediate protests to the
Polish consulates and the Polish
Ambassador in Washington.
Secretary of State Hull will also
be called upon to demand KirNak-
Kurowski's immediate release. Mass
meetings in protest are also planned
by the International Labor Defense
and the American League Against
War and Fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
JObless Meet in Trenton
To Demand State Relief
200 n. j. Delegates Endorse Workers Bill, Plan
United Actions for Unemployed

wages. All workers to be guaranteed
a minimum of hours to insure a liv-
ing wage Of not less than S1S q
week. Not more than eight hours
to be worked on any one day.
To win security by the enact
ment of a Workers Unemployment
and Social Insurance Bill that is
now pending in the House of Rep
resentatives, Washington, D. c.
All of these points were made a
part of the Declaration of Prin-
ciples" of the new organization.
In addition, resolutions were
adopted calling for fire insurance
payments for relief clients and de-
handing that compensation and
liability insurance be provided by
the relief administration on all re-
lief projects,
Appeals to Save Home
An old unemployed worker with
tears in his eyes appealed to the
convention to save his home, which
was free and clear and cost him
$500. Municipal authorities were
selling it for unpaid taxes. The con-
vention unanimously adopted a
resolution condemning the New Jer-
sey Relief Administration and de-
handing that they pay this work.
er's taxes as provided by the rules
and regulations of F. E. r. A.
ODonnell, in the name of the I. L.
D., provided an I. L. D. lawyer to
bring legal proceedings against the
relief director to compel him to
save this workers home.
The resolution which brought out
the most heated debate was the
Cumberland County resolution pro-
testing the arrest and conviction
OF William O'Donnell, militant
leader of the unemployed workers
OF Cumberland County. The fas-
cist elements fought its adoption
bitterly, but the resolution was car
ried by q three to one vote.
A resolution was also adopted
condemning the terror released
against the unemployed and en-
ployed workers of South Jersey and
supporting their brave fight for
their political and economic rights.
TIL e convention demanded a
thorough investigation of the state
relief administration finances and
the immediate discharge of all DO
litical job holders and their replace
ment by unemployed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
JObIess Leaders Trial
Held Up as Colorado
Officials Plan Frame-Up

TRINIDAD, Colo, Aug. 2S.-The
trial of Dick Allander, organizer of
the Unemployment Council, framed
on a charge of vagrancy, has been
postponed three times while the
prosecution has attempted to per-
feet its frame-up. Allander is held
under heavy bond.
Unable to make the vagrancy
charge stick, the prosecution has
been making an unsuccessful effort
to induce unemployed workers to
testify that money collected to fl
nance the fight for unemployment
relief and social insurance had been
used by Allander for his personal
needs. The workers approached
have rejected these proposals and
are waging sharp fight for the
immediate and unconditional release
of the unemployed leader.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
PeddIers in BROOKLYN
Fight New Police Edict
Against Use of Streets

NEW YORK-The Brooklyn Ped
dlers Union, Local l, with headquar-
tiers at 2l9 Sackman Street, an
nounced yesterday through its act
ing organizer, Henry Hoffman. that
1t had launched a mass campaign
against a recent police edict aiming
to stop peddlers from making a liy-
ing in the Brownsville section.
Last week Magistrate William F.
ODwyer Of the Pennsylvania Avenue
Court, ordered the peddlers to get
of the streets" said Hoffman. @Po-
lice Captain Bernard Rourke of the
Liberty Avenue police station, has
instructed his patrolmen to follow
this order. Our union has now 400
members and we are organizing all
the peddlers to stop this attack on
their right to make a living, and
Tor central markets for all the ped
dlerS."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Gen. Hugh Johnson
Gets $8, 500 Raise

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. - Gen.
Hugh S. johnson, Recovery Admin
istrator, will get an increased pay
check next payday, it was an
nounced here today. The raise is
from $500 to $4,000 a year.
Whether the raise is a reward for
yeoman services in breaking the
not mentioned.
San Francisco general strike was
Gen. johnson, it is reported, has
been complaining for some time
that he is carrying on NR.A. work
at too much cost to himself, that
he is unable to give enough time
to his private business enterprises.
Bitter comment among textile
workers is expected While they
have not even gotten an audience
with Roosevelt on the question of
their meage- wages, huge salary
increase is given to an MIRA. Of
fetal by one stroke of a pen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
BY J. SCOTT

TRENTON, N. j., Aug. 28.-At
the convention of the unemployed
workers organizations held here
Aug. "a and 25, two hundred dele
gates endorsed the Workers Unem-
ploynent Insurance Bill, adopted
resolutions protesting against the
terror in South Jersey, and de-
manded the release of William
ODonnell, militant leader of the
unemployed workers of Cumberland
County.
Nine county and two state or
CARNATIONS were represented by the
two hundred delegates from forty
unemployed organizations. The La
Dor Lyceum was packed with work
ers. Hundreds of visitors listened
attentively during the two days o
heated debates on principles anC
resolutions and the appeals made
by the many delegates, men anc
women, Negro and white, for one
united movement for all unem-
ployed.
The call for a formation of q
statewide organization was issued
by the Mercer and Burlington
County unemployed groups of re-
dictionary leadership. A cut anc
dried anti-red program had beer
prepared by them for adoption;
elimination of foreign-bor mem
bership was the central feature Of
the plan.
Reactionary Proposals Defeated
Mercer and Burlington Counties
with 10 delegates at their command
felt certain that they would swamp
all radical" proposals. But they
were beaten by small majority or
the first test vote on the "red
scare" On the last roll call the
workers program won 116 to "a.
Among the many important and
militant resolutions adopted were
the following:
That we include in our organiza-
ton all workers, employed, unem-
ployed, partly unemployed and on
relief rolls regardless of their race,
creed, sex, color, nationality, re-
ligion, political faith or other af-
filiation.
That cash wages of not less than
90 cents an hour be paid for I'M
skilled labor, skilled workers to be
paid the prevailing union rate OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Lay Off 1859 Relief
Men in Brockton, Mass.

BROCKTON, Mass, Aug. %
Nearly LOO relief workers here were
laid off on Aug "a for the remain
der of the month at the order of
Relief Administrator Murphy of this
city.
Murphy's report to the State Re
lief Administrator, after citing the
proposed layoff states that at leass
$500 unemployed workers here have
filed application for relief work in
addition to the 1859 who were laid
off.
State Relief Administrator Car
ney, in answer to the request for
additional work relief expenditures,
ignored entirely the question of the
layoffs, and stated that the Brock
ton Situation will receive SERIOUS
consideration for the month of
September"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Jobless Plan Relief in Cash
March Despite Won by Strike
Permit Denial In Bird geport

NEW YORK-The Unemployment
Councils of Yorkville yesterday APP
pealed to all City Councils and
workers groups for support in their
march to the relief bureau here on
Friday. Although the Yorkville
Council has repeatedly requested a
permit to march and demonstrate,
the permit has been denied by the
Police Department.
Two weeks ago the Yorkville
Council filed an application for a
permit to march. Yesterday the
Council again asked for the permit,
and again it was denied. The coun-
Gil declared it would march, regard
less of the permit, and would hold
the city administration responsible
for the safety of the marching
workers.
The march will start Friday at
10 am, at 8lst Street and Second
Avenue, and will converge on the
Home Relief Bureau at 18th Street
and York Avenue, where a commit
tee will present the workers de-
mands for increased relief and an
end to all evictions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Aug. %,
F.P)-The 300 striking relief work
ers here won a partial victory when
Relief Administrator Elinor Little
was forced to return all work relief
to a cash basis.
The workers struck three weeks
ago, after all work relief had been
put on a forced labor basis under
which the men worked for $3.50 in
scrip and weekly food basket. They
demanded $12 weekly cash wages
for all laborers.
Under the new set-up the men
will receive $3.50 in cash and the
weekly food basket.
After breaking with the Socialist
controlled Unemployed League, the
unemployed formed the Bridgeport
Unemployed and Relief Workers
Union and voted for affiliation with
the National Unemployment Coun-
ellis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Frisco Emergency
Brings City Workers
$l,OOO,OOO Wage Cut

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 2s-
Wages of municipal employees were
cut total of $1,000, 900 by an or
dlnance of the Board of Supervisors.
The Board claimed they had no
relief funds, and declared an "emer-
gency." This ruling forces city en-
ployes to pay unemployment relief
funds.
Inc heavy cut in wages of all
CITY employees follows up the general
attack of the Industrial Association
and the city administrator on the
standard of living of the entire
working class in San Francisco.
The terror campaign against mill
tant working class organizations
now raging, serves as a cover for
the union-smashing, wage-cutting
drive which broke the general
strike and which continues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

therefore, is it imperative for our
New York local to raise an impor-
tant amount of this 6O,OO0-as it is
the largest local in our National
Union and with the extra pages and
editions that the $50, 900 will provide
for the Daily Worker, our New York
membership will be able to find out
within the course of a few hours
the latest and complete develop
ments of our strike activities in New
York-news not published by other
newspapers.
"For our membership to raise as
much money as is possible-through
affairs, collections, etc. - means,
therefore, that the Daily Worker
will be able to devote space to our
national activities that it is unable
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
N. Y. Metal Bed Strike
Strong in Fourth Week

NEW YORK.-The strike of the
metal bed workers, led by the Fur
niture Workers Industrial Union, is
still in full force after four weeks.
All the efforts of the bosses to break
the strike have failed, including
those of boss Federman, who closed
two shops in New York and opened
big plant, an open shop, in Phila-
delphia. The union went after him
there through the Philadelphia local
with mass picketing.
The bosses are now trying, by
canyassing the workers in their
homes, to herd them back to work,
but they have not succeeded.
The Strike Committee appeals to
all mass organizations to help the
strikers on their picket lines with
relief and financially, in their strug-
gle to win better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
'PhOnePrOtests
Pursue Judge
.inPhiladelphia
Long Terms to Anti-Nazi
Pickets Arouse
Mass Anger

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28.-Angry
workers are keeping Judge Heilig-
mans home telephone buzzing day
and night with calls protesting the
railroading to six months in prison
Of Ben Gardner, Communist Section
organizer, and five other anti-fas-
cist workers jailed for leading a
Free Thaelmann" demonstration in
front Of the local German Consul
late.
Last Friday evening, a delegation
of West Philadelphia women repre-
senting eight women's organizations.
with a membership of 5000, called
at Judge Heiligman's home to pro-
test the sentences and demand the
release of the anti-fascists. The
delegation was led by Gardner's
wife. Neither the judge nor his
wife We're lat home" to the dele
cation, which left a resolution, stat
ing in part:
We vigorously protest the
vicious and unjustifiable sentence of
six anti-fascist workers who were
arrested for the sole crime OF
picketing the German Consulate in
protest against the bloody Hitler
regime, which is daily numbering,
torturing thousands of Catholics.
Jews and Negro workers, as well as
all anti-fascists. In sentencing the
workers Judge Heiligman has
proved himself to be pro-Hitler and
denying the fundamental rights of
free speech, free assemblage and
peaceful picketing."
A giant protest demonstration is
being arranged under the sponsor
ship of Section 8 Of the Communist
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

during the night which contained
only the two words FREE THAEA-
MANN" This caused a great stir,
and now the consulate as well as
the home Of the NaA consular agent
has been given a police guard.
AS many as eight delegations have
gone to the consulate in a day. One
Of the largest Of these consisted Of
200 men and women of the Unem-
ployed Councils, who had visited the
city hall with relief demands and
went from there directly to demand
freedom for Thaelmann, Torgler
and other anti-fascists imprisoned
by the Nazis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Wire Brush Strikers
Picket N. Y. Factory

NEW YORK.-One hundred work
ers, most of them Spanish and
Negro, are striking at the H. Hertz
berg and Son plant, Al East Eleventh
ST., against discrimination, for in
creased wages and union recogni-
ton.
The plant, which produces wire
twisted brushes, has been organized
by the American Federation of La
Dor. A meeting of the strikers was
called last night at Great Central
Palace, 90 Clinton st. The plant was
picketed throughout the day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Demonstration Called
Against High Prices

NEW YORK. A demonstration
against the high cost of living will
be held tomorrow morning at II
O'Clock at Varet st. and Graham
Ave, Brooklyn. Demonstrators will
march to Borden's Milk Company,
$40 Metropolitan Ave, where they
will present demands for lowering
of dairy prices.
The demonstration is being or
ganized by the Action Committee
Against the High Cost of Living of
Williamsburg, which meets every
Thursday evening at 80 Graham
Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
More Unemployed Farm
Workers Are Reported

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-Fewer
hired workers were employed on
american farms in July than dur
ing the month before. The Bureau
OF Agricultural Economics, U. S.
Department of Agriculture, declares
that reports from 0,799 farmers all
over the country show average en-
ployment of 81 hired workers Der
100 farms on Aug. 1, compared with
lO2 hired workers on July l.
Even though wheat harvesting
was beginning at the time, total
employment in west north central
states decreased IA persons per 100
farms, "due to the extremely short
crops in drought-affected areas"
according to the bureau.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
YCL Members Working
on Both Street To Meet

NEW YORK-An important meet
ing of all members of the Young
Communist League working on seth
St, between Fifth and Ninth AYES,
will be held tonight at o'clock at
the District Office of the Y. c. L.,
Room sos, 35 E. 18th st.
Plans will be laid to form the
first industrial unit,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Workers Will Protest
Against High Milk Cost

NEW Brownsville work.
ers will demonstrate against the
high cost of milk tomorrow when
they gather at the corner of Hop
kinson and Pitkin AYES, Brooklyn.
at IL am. and march to Junius St.
and Pitkin Ave.
A mass meeting will be held out
side the offices of the Borden and
Sheffield milk companies. Workers
of Brownsville are being urged to
join the demonstration with their
children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Committee Urges More Protests

DIbVs NiOIb NIVttets
NEW YORK.-Citing the danger
to Ernst Thaelmann, from whom
nothing has been heard since July
80, the National Committee to Aid
the Victims Of German Fascism yes
terday urged all organizations which
have not yet done so to adopt reso-
lutions demanding the whereabouts
of Thaelmann, Ernst Torgler and
all other anti-fascist prisoners.
These resolutions, the National
Committee announced, should be
sent to the Minister Of Justice, Ber-
lin, by registered mail, return re-
ceipt demanded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

some Of the space
W hich it now
needs to recount
the working class
struggles in the
United S t a t e S.
The 100000 fund
will assure t h e
t W o New York
editions and the
National Edition
which we have
b e e n clamoring
for.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
''THAELMANN' SIGN
PUT ON PITTSBURGH
.CONSUL'S WINDOW
Minnesota Farmers Attend Rally To Demand the
Release of German Workers Leader-Com-
mittee Urges Registered Mail Queries {

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 26-Numerous delegations have
visited the German consul with resolutions demanding the
liberation of Thaelmann and his fellow prisoners.
huge sign pasted over the front window of the
Naz consulate the offices of which are on the ground floor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

to give now.
Furniture workers throughout the
country! Heed the call of the Daily
Worker 1t is our newspaper 1t
needs our helpl
DO your part in raising the $780,
900! Do your part in increasing its
circulation!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
.JOeKiss Adds
Plea Tn Drive
For 100000
By JOE KISS
National Secretary, Furniture
Workers Industrial Union

"The 100000 fund which the Daily
Worker seeks is the central factor
toward the development of mass
working class paper in that it will
enable the Daily Worker to add
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
LEFT WING I.L.G.W.U. MEET
TODAY

NEW YORK. - The Left Wing
Group of Local % of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union, will hold group member
ship meeting today at PM, at
Memorial Hall, 344 West Seth St.,
to discuss important matters of the
industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Organizer To Address
Uupholsterers' Meeting

NEW YORK.-M. Pizer, national
organizer of the Furniture Workers
Industrial Union, will report on
eastern district strike activities at
an upholsterers' mass meeting
tomorrow at 8 pm. at Irving Plaza
Hall. 18th st. and Irving Pl.
The meeting is one of a series
planned in preparation for the APP
preaching upholsterers' strike in
New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Daily Worker Agents
and Red Builders:

Push and sell the weekly Negro
Liberator, for white and Negro
workers. $3.50 for 100 or more,
&c each for less than 100 Sells
for SC. 20fo allowed on subs and
ads. Reaches any part of the
country by Saturday, date on
masthead. Write to M. C. Work.
1852 18th Ave, New York City for
information.