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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15

= School News =
Brighton Parents Win
Wing for Overcrowded
School in Long Fight

Victory in two-year fight for
the construction Of a new wing for
P. S. 225, Brooklyn, was obtained by
the Brighton Beach Parent. Stu
dent, Teacher Committee with the
announcement of the ALLEGATION Of
1885 500 by the Federal Public
Works Administration for that pur-
pose.
Refusing to be put off by the
promises Of the Board on numerous
occasions, the bitter fight Of the
parents, students and teachers has
been marked by mass meetings,
parades, and frequent visits by del
egations to the Board. Two punt
tive transfers of substitutes who led
the struggle together with the pa
rents marked a crisis at one point
in the campaign for the new wing
The Oct. % meeting Of the
Board marked the last occasion,
when a delegation appeared to
protest against having been passed
over in the allotment of funds, al
though their place on the list Of
appropriations won through pre-
vious struggle was third A prom
Use of early action was given at
that time by Vice President William
J, Weber.
Agreement of the city and the
P.W.A, approval by the Board Of
Estimate and approval of the con-
tract must take place before actual
construction begins.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15

every rel1eI project and drew the
workers out on strike. Motorcades
today started tour of each project
and active mass picketing was es-
tablished.
The demands of the strikers in
clude an immediate SO per cent
increase in all work relief wages
with union conditions at a guar
arlteed six-hour day and thirty hour
week, union rates to apply. Abol-
ition of the stagger system by which
the relief workers are placed on a
budget basis is also demanded.
Central in the strikers demands
is for the endorsement of Initiative
Four, the State Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill. Under the
initiative laws of the State, the I'M
employed organizations here recent
ly started a campaign to obtain
$4,000 signatures to petition. The
petition, already filed at the State
Capitol, will place the Workers Bill
on the first order Of business when
the State legislature convenes.
Should it fail being passed, it
then becomes Statewide referen-
dunn at the next general elections.
Unions and workers mass organiza-
tons are actively supporting the
measure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
More Consultations
Is Campbell's Reply
to Listed Eligibles

Although the presence of classes of
so or more children in the elemen-
tary schools has never been denied
at the Board Of Education, Dr. Har-
old G. Campbell, superintendent Of
schools, defending the Boards
policy of continued overcrowding,
last week, in answer to the flood of
resolutions from % different faculty
groups and organizations demanding
the appointment Of the 80 eligbles
en- the License No. 1 list, offered the
excuse that there were more teach
ers than were needed.
Dropping completely all pretense
of sympathy with the eligibles, DR..
Campbell stated that SO more ele-
mentary school classes were to be
dropped before December 81; this
will bring the total of teachers "in
excess to 439 of whom $50 are still
working only because Of the vacan-
cies caused by teachers on leave of
absence.
Frankly aligning himself with the
bankers, who have been driving
hard for the last two years to re-
duce further the educational stand
ards as well as the standard of liv-
ing of the teachers, DR.. Campbell
reasoned" that the situation of the
eligibles was practically hopeless, be-
cause there was no money for ap-
pointments. Close to $l80,000,00O
has been appropriated in the 1895
budget to be paid to the bankers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
|MillHands Win
Court Struggle
In Worcester

WORCESTER, Mass, Nov. IA
Mass pressure, organized by the In
ternational Labor Defense, won a
signal victory last week when a
jury here returned a verdict of not
guilty in the case of four workers
arrested on Sept. IA, during the
textile strike. They are charged
with speaking without a permit"
Two Of the four, Evelyn Wellin
and Sidney Allen, who were beaten
by the police, were also charged
with "assaulting" police officer.
Two others, Henry Grossman and
Joseph Sacalaski were declared
guilty" of speaking without a per-
nit. So great was the mass pro-
test, however, that the judge only
imposed small fines on the two.
Donald Burke, District Secretary
of the International Labor Defense,
led the defense, assisted by Attor-
neys Croteau of Worcester and
Aaron w. Warner of Boston. The
arrests of the defendants followed
the revoking by police Of a permit
for a meeting when it was learned
that Ann Burlak, textile workers
leader, would address the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Wall Street Has No Illusions On Meaning
OF Recent Sweep for Roosevelt New Deal

why SO little immediate reac-
ton to triumph at the polls of
government-in-o office which
business men have so often and
so vehemently declared to be the
one impediment to the natural
recovery of private industry? This
newspaper ventures to believe :.
that the explanation lies in the
manner in which the Administra-
ton has itself reacted to the cleo
ton returns.
"Disregarding the usual first
minute exaggerations of their
meaning made in the monetary
political mood, no responsible
member of the administration has
attempted to read into the cleo
ton its license to add new expert
ments to those already in progress,
to carry further the substitution
of public for private activities I'M
der which trade and industry
carry on. So far, at least, the
election victory seems not to have
enlarged the familiar outlines of
the New Deal.
ION the contrary, official Wash
ington appears to be more than
ever interested In ways and means
Of encouraging private enterprise
to function more freely
Tho emphasized concluding Sec
ton gives the key. Not only is big
business aware that the huge pop
ular vote for the Roosevelt New
Deal does not contain any menace
to them in "leftward" moves of the
Roosevelt government, but, on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15

contrary, the Wall Street monopolies
know that Roosevelt will now adj
vance ito encourage private enter
prise to function more freely
Driving for Profits
ITO function more rreely"-what
does that mean? 1t means a more
ruthless drive for profits. And in
conditions of declining markets,
shrunk by crisis, what does that
mean? 1t means an intensified
sweating of every worker in the
country, a grinding of profits by
the smashing of the wage levels,
the crippling of the unions, the
breaking of strikes, and the intro
duction of the refined cruelty Of
more speed-up.
Thus what the masses will get
from the New Deal in the coming
months is not what they expect, or
what they thought they voted for.
What they will get is expressed
in the above quotation from the
Wall Street Journal.
The fact that the masses gave
Roosevelt his overwhelming man.
date does not mean that Roosevelt's
position is now impregnable.
On the contrary, the very sweep
OF his mandate, the very in
tensity of the hope with which the
masses look to him. will make the
inevitable disillusion with his pro-
gram all the more far-reaching.
1t is the essential trick Of the
Roosevelt trickery to pretend that
it is the Government which has sue
ceeded in forcing it's will upon busi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15

necessary, it will be followed by a
mass march of hundreds Of sea-
men from all ports.
The fascist character Of the pres
ent relief system was a major point
Of discussion. The governments
present efforts all tend toward
scheme of forced labor in all relief
projects. The seamen have 50 far
been able to defeat every effort at
forced labor but the government has
not stopped its efforts along those
lines.
The projects were analysed as the
governments effort to put over the
cheapest and worst form Of relief,
with the seamen housed in huge
barracks, and fed bad food in huge
eating rooms, at periods of time
so limited that the seaman had no
time to look for a job or anything
else.
The system of "deporting" mill
tant workers to places far distant
from the waterfront was condemned.
This system has developed largely
in New York, at the instigation of
the Seamen's Church Institute. 1t
was denounced as part of the gov
ernment's effort to isolate the mill
tants from the mass of the seamen,
and to drive them out of the indus
try.
The conference also opposed the
projects" on the grounds that,
while they provided good place for
organization work where seamen
controlled them, they became, in the
hands of the government officials
and religious racketeers, place
where seamen are spied upon by
government dicks, private stool
pigeons and religious takers, to
blacklist the militants, to lower the
standards of the seamen, and to
build up fascist groups among the
seamen through manipulating relief
and dispensing favors to chosen in
dividualS.
The seamen also discussed the i'm
mediate possibilities of Unemploy-
ment Insurance and decided to push
the campaign for H. r. 1898 and
the Unemployment Insurance Con-
gress that will be held in Washing
ton, January 5, s and Z.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Protests To Campbell
On Humiliating Drives
For Money in Schools

Protest against the practice in the
schools of intirnidating DOOR chill
dren into "plaguing their parents
for sums Of money which they can
Ill afford to give" was made to
Superintendent Campbell by the
Federation Of Parents, Teachers and
Students, which urged an investiga-
ton of the financial drives in the
schools.
Campaigns for Red Cross, school
organizations and school news
papers, and school charity funds
are whipped up frequently in the
schools. Teachers, very often
against their better Judgment, are
urged to attain 100 per cent in these
campaigns" said Mrs. Lawson, the
president of the organization.
This pressure upon the teachers
for 100 per cent record resulted
in students being praised for CO.
operation merely because they could
better afford to contribute. Such
money drives were "a drain upon
the students and a humiliation to
parents, teachers and students" said
Mrs. Lawson in making the protest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Fight
Leader Gets
5-Day Term

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. IA
Harry Bismark, section organizer of
the Unemployment Councils here,
who was arrested last week with a
number of other workers massed
before the home of John Sutko to
stop an impending eviction, was
sentenced to five days in Jail for
perjury"
Bisnark, who was at first released,
was immediate rearrested on the
second frafne-up charge.
The eviction of Sutko and his
wife and seven children was at
tempted two weeks ago by police,
who hurled tear gas bombs into his
home and severely gassed the young
er children. They fled before the
aroused neighbornood arrived.
Sutko has been arrested and
charged with attempting to Kill
a constable" A united front con-
ference in his defense was held by
workers in the North Side on Mon
day Six hundred dollars bail bond
was Immediately raised by the work
ers for his release. His wife was
also released on bail raised by the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15

ness, that it is the state which is
extending its sway over the econ
omy.
In this lie, the Roosevelt govern
ment is aided in one way or another
by the whole chorus of political
theorists, from the liberals Of the
Nation, through the editorials of the
Socialist Party New Leader.
But the comment of the Wall
Street Journal on the political
meaning of the recent elections is
supplemented by the remark made
by utilities magnate incorporated
in study of utilities submitted yes
terday to the Senate.
american business has captured
the government, and no other gov
eminent has been put to the service
of business as ours has" stated Mr..
E. F. Stone, of the Colorado Public
Service Corporation.
And how does this frank admis-
sion by an American capitalist diff
fer from Stains recent remark in
his interview with H. G.. Wells, on
the United States that sit is not
the state which has taken over the
economy, but rather the economy
which has taken over the state?
1t is the results of this process
which the American masses will
soon discover in their daily life.
Then they will proceed to act in
demand of the things they need.
A new wave of mass actions, of
strikes and struggles, is close. That
will be the first real result of the
elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
By Milton Howard

THE biggest Wall Street capitalists
1 are not fooled by the results of
the election. They have no fears
or doubts as to what the Roosevelt
New Deal will mean for them in the
face of the overwhelming popular
mass vote for it.
In its recent analyses of the cleo
ton results, the Daily Worker stated
that the American working class
supported Roosevelt because they
still look upon him as an opponent
of the Wall Street industrial and
banking interests, they still expect
from him 'leftward" moves in the
direction of a Social program, as
against the reactionary program of
the Wall Street monopolists.
The DAILY" also stated that these
hopes of the masses are an illusion
which the masses themselves will
quickly find out in the coming
months when they demand the full
filment of their hopes excited by
the promises of the Roosevelt gov
eminent.
The Daily concluded, finally,
that the Roosevelt government will
take the popular vote to mean that
1t can move forward to new capt.
taliet attacks against the masses,
to new capitalist measures in the
interests of the biggest Wall Street
moncpolies.
This analysis finds confirmation
in the editorial comment of the
Wall Street Journal, which evalu-
ates the elections as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Metal Union
Aids Paterson
Dye Strike
Rely on Own Strength,
Letter from Newark
Group Advises

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. 14.-The
Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union, 1874 Market Street, has
sent a letter of solidarity with So
donation to the striking dye work
err.
thousands Of workers are adj
miring your determined and heroic
battle for just demands" says the
letter, signed by j. w. Blumen,
financial secretary. Continuous
determination, such as you are dis
playing, united, solid ranks and
support from the working class will
win your demands.
Continue to rely on your own
organized strength and the support
of the working class and beware Of
arbitration and impartial boards,
which are instruments in the hands
of the bosses.
please accept this small con-
tribution ($5) from our members as
an expression Of solidarity and of
our sincere desire to help you win
your strike. The sentiment of or
ganized labor in Newark and vicin-
ity is behind the strikers. We are
certain that an official appeal from
you will meet with splendid re-
Spouse, which will enable the strik-
ers to strengthen their position on
the battle front"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Bronx Drivers
To Hold Auto
Parade Today
Laundry Transfers Get
Run-ArOund From
City Officials

After going from Office to Office,
seeing eighteen different city Off
cials, members of Local $40 of the
international Brotherhood of Team
sters, yesterday got permission for
an auto parade in the Bronx tonight.
Composed of laundry drivers, the
unionists are on strike for a wage
that will average at least $25 every
week and for union recognition.
The men had been shunted from
one police officer to another in
their attempt to get a parade per-
nit, Captain Farley, of the 40th
Police Precinct, Alexander Ave, the
Bronx, being the first to disapprove
the request of the strikers.
Appeal to Inspector Reynolds of
the Bronx police also proved of no
avail.
Strikers also saw Bronx borough
officers, but the latter refused to
help them. The strikers charge that
the attitude of the Bronx police and
other officials is intimately bound
up with the fact that the laundry
owners association has been spend
ing thousands of dollars to break
the strike.
Cops Blind to Thugs
A glazing example of the attitude
of the police is given by the action
Of patrolmen who were inside the
eastman Laundry, at $40 Gerard
Ave, the Bronx, when thugs
orutally assaulted pickets last Mon
day night, strikers charge. Although
they appealed to the policemen to
protect their right to picket, the
latter were conveniently blind to
what was going on.
A mass meeting of the drivers
and their sympathizers will be held
tonight at Royal Mansion, 169th
Street and Boston Road.
Getting Run Around"
Strikers are particularly resentful
of the feet that public officials who
promised much before elections,
have been giving them what they
describe as 'the run-around." Ac-
cording to George Alderman, assiS-
tant shop steward of the eastman
Laundry, and Nathan Schuster, an
other striker, of the De Francis
Laundry, there has been continual
violence against the drivers.
Five strikers were released yester-
day on bail from the County Jail
at 161st Street and Brook Avenue.
The men were charged with dis
orderly conduct" although their
sole crime consisted of distributing
circulars calling on drivers to or
ganize.
Employers are using strikebreakers
from the Burns Detective Agency
as drivers, the teamsters report.
The strike is a revolt of the men
against the miserable conditions
under which they shaved. Drivers
received on the average of about
$40 a week and Is per cent COM
mission. The men are striking for
SIS weekly wage and the same
commission, both to total a min
imum of $25 weekly, and union
recognition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15

BalClmOre, winch met IN New YORK.
Actions to win immediate ade-
quate supplies of winter clothing,
cash relief, increased food allow
anees, centralized shipping bureaus
and seamen's control of all relief
projects, were outlined at the con-
ference.
viii Oppose projects"
The conference went on record as
opposed to labor projects but urged
seanen to fight for control of such
projects wherever government off,
Gals succeeded in forcing them on
the jobless.
The conference went on record as
opposed to projects, but decided that
where the government insisted on
putting in project, the seamen
should fight for control of it.
The major demands of the seamen,
for immediate action, were laid
down as: adequate winter cloth
ing. 2-25 cents minimum per meal
for food and Is cents minimum for
a bed, the seaman to be allowed
to eat in any restaurant and to
sleep where he chose. 80 cents
carfare per man per day, to enable
the seaman to look for a job. A.
Cash relief instead of the present
system Of feeding and housing in
religious, semi-religious and other
private flop houses. 5--A Central
lied Shipping Bureau, run by the
seamen themselves. 6-Recognltion
of seamen's committees, and sea-
mems control of any project the
government set-up.
To put this program into action,
the conference proposed that every
port Immediately set to work devel-
oping a series of actions for better
relief, on these demands. The con-
ference proposed that mass delega-
lions visit the relief officials, cons
family, and that mass actions be de-
veloped in protest against the rot
ten food and housing, for cash re-
lief.
A mass delegation from all ports
is to go to Washington, and to de-
mand a conference there with the
relief officials of all the various
ports. Such a delegation will go to
Washington in few weeks, and if
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Lynn Stitchers Pick
Committee to Prob e
Persecution of Militant

LYNN, Mass, Nov. IA. = Stitchers'
Local IL of the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union here is be-
ing flooded with protests from To-
Gals in New England and New York
against the action Of the locals Of
flcials in moving for the expulsion
Of Vera Nabeshka, militant worker.
Miss Nabeshka was ordered eX-
PEELED by the local union officials
on the ground that she refused to
salute the flag at the opening of
the local meetings. She declared
she would not salute the flag as
long as the government deprived
her and her family of work or ade-
quate relief.
The Lynn local of stitchers has
now elected COMMITTEES of three
to investigate the case further and
report back to the local.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
NE. A. Report
Shows Schools
Closing Doors
Government Loans Add
Buildings But Burden
Towns with Interest

Rejecting its own complete sur
render to the forces Of finance,
which have victimized the children
Of the nation to spare profits, the
National Education Association
through figures Of its research divi-
sion presented dark view Of edu-
cation in the United States today,
An accurate picture Of the schools
throughout the United States in
cludes conditions which are paths-
tic" is the comment of the reseach
division on its latest survey. Trying
to see some hope" that educational
cuts have reached bottom at last.
the figures, nevertheless, show that
"the children Of some Of the South
ern States and the drought-stricken
areas Of the West will have less
schooling this winter than they did
last unless the Federal Government
comes to their aid"
Appropriations Still Low
The gain to the schools Of $780,
100000 for capital outlay, chiefly
federal loans, which the research
division estimates for the school
year 1934-1935 serves to make prorni-
nent the cut of more than a half
billion dollars which has been made
since 1880. Nor can this sum be
regarded in any way as an indi-
cation that appropriations are or
the upgrade, for it represents a loan
to the communities involved, which
have been forced to include a new
item of interest in their budgets.
The National Education Associa-
ton with about 100000 members has
followed a policy of investigations
and "deploring" conditions to such
an extent that today it must report
that, Fifty thousand children II
one state found the school door;
closed against them this year
and that "in one state an average
Of only 81 days Of schools will BE-
possible this year unless measures
are taken by the Federal Govern
ment to prevent this injustice"
MiIitants Demand Action
Awakened by the continual re-
fusal Of the supervisors, who doni.
nate the organization, to take mill
tant action on behalf of the chill
dren and teachers, the militant
within the organization are begin
ming to demand action The las
convention held at Washington, I'M
der pressure from the militants
passed a resolution urging all divi-
sions to hold demonstrations in be-
half of the schools during the week
of Nov. 8.
While federal loans have increased
the per capita outlay for education
by S1.13 in the last year and have
paid the Chicago teachers their bacl;
salaries, the situation is even worse
! than it was, since there have beer
almost no increases IN the actua.
appropriations for education. The
net result of these loans will I'M
doubtedly be to deepen the crisis in
education bp packing the local
budgets with further obligations to
the bankers.