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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-16
AMMO JUDGEMENTS
5 Personals

ATTENTION LADIESl-Diathermy. ultra
violet. cleo. cab. mass, 81. HA-0474.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
Union Wins Strike
At SamaC Laundry

NEW YORK.-The Laundry Work
ers' Industrial Union registered a VIC
tory on Saturday, when the bosses of
the Giant (Samacl Laundry. after a
five day strike were forced to grant
pay increases, shorter hours and rec
ignition of the union to its $50 Negro
and white workers.
BY the terms of settlement. in
creases in pay from Is to 80 per cent
will accrue to the workers. In the
wash kitchen where the hours were
formerly 65-7o a week they are re-
duced to 491a week. Time and half
for overtime is granted.
The strike was won by the mill
fancy and unity Of the Negro work.
ers and white workers on the picket
line who defied police attack, the
red scare" and other methods of in
timidation. Prior to the calling of
the strike the shop had been unor-
ganized.
At the Oak Laundry, where the 1870
workers of the shop are members Of
the Laundry Workers industrial
Union, the bosses we're forced to give
full recognition to the union on threat
Of a strike.
At the Fordham laundry where or
ganization work is being carried on,
two active workers were fired last
week. The shop committee, with a
representative from the union are
presenting demands to the bosses
today and strike will be called if
the demands are not met.
A registered letter to Local ESQ of
the A. F. of L. appealing for one
united strike, one strike committee
and one plan of action was returned
unopened. Several shops are on
strike under the A. F. of L. local.
When A. F. of L. officials learned
that a committee of strikers from
the Samac were coming to the hall
to speak to the workers, they called
for a special squad of police to pre-
vent the strikers from entering.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
To Raise Fund for 6
Framed-up Workers

NEW YORK.-Five of the six shoe
workers held on framed charges of
felonious assault following the shoot
ing of William Strauss, fellow shoe
worker, last week were released on
$1,000 bail Thursday. At their trial
on Wednesday no one appeared to
testify against them and the Judge was
compelled to release them. Three
were rearrested and held for the
Grand Jury on 81 900 bail on trumped
up charges. Two were held on sus-
pcion on $1,000 bail. One, Sol Gold
bund was held on federal charges for
deportation.
All the workers involved were ac-
tive on the picket line during the re-
cent shoe strike and are being picked
for special persecution, as part of a
planned attack on the United Shoe
Union by the Shoe Board of Trade.
The United Shoe and Leather
Workers Union is preparing to
raise funds for the defense of the
framed shoe workers. The Union has
bought tickets for the entire house for
Wednesdays performance of Peace on
Earth. The play is being performed
at the Civic Repertory Theatre, 18th
st. near 7th Ave.
Proceeds OF the play will go to de-
fend not only the six framed shoe
workers but also the four workers
facing long jail stntences in Jersey
City for their strike activities and
the workers still on strike.
Workers are urged to attend per-
torrance on Wednesday and help
smash the frame-ups directed against
militant workers and strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
End Annual Conference
of N. Y. Workers Clubs
Elects Executive Body

NEW YORK.-The second annual
conference Of the City Club Council,
the central body of the English
Workers Clubs OF New York, took
place Jan. Z.
A new executive body Of thirteen
was elected for the coming year. The
members are: Edith Fucker, Joseph
Landy, Mike Rothman, Daniel Gro
den, Ralph Strauch, Morris Hoffer,
Claire Dinetz, L. Wright, Morris Co
hen, A. Shorr, L. Brown, Sid Klein,
and Lillian Jurmark.
Landy, the general secretary, re-
ported to 40 delegates that there were
in New York 0ty some 80 odd work
ers' clubs affiliated The new execu-
tive body has set itself the task of
contracting and guiding these clubs.
Workers who wish any informa-
ton on how to organize a workers
club should write to the City Club
Council at 81 E. goth St., for the
Club Manual" enclosing 10 cents in
stamps for postage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15

nell at Cambridge, Mass, in the time
of 1913, exactly One-tenth of a second
slower than that of the Soviet record.
The Russian time of 1917 was only
one-fifth of second under that
turned in by Ralph Metcalfe at the
A. A. U. National Championships at
Chicago last summer. The time for
the 5000 meters is three and four
tenthS better than that in which the
national A. A. U. championship at
that distance was covered
OF course, this is not to say, Cyril,
that the Soyiets have the worlds best
runners Not by a long shot They
have yet to produce their Tolans,
MetcalfS, Lovelocks, Ladomegues and
NrnliS. This takes a whole process
of years and years Of development,
whole system Of highly developed
track work. But they're getting
there, boy. They're on their way.
CYRIL, me hearty, you've got to re-
v member, finally, that these lads
are workers, not college boys who 60
to school to get liberal education
in knee action. They actually work
in shops. Athletics are really anna
teur there, and these boys run be-
cause they love to run and because
this love of running helps to keep
them in condition to build a socialist
society.
Some of our American comrades
got some of this first hand a few
years ago. 1t seems that the Labor
Sports Union sent delegation to q
Spartakiade that was to be held in
Berlin in the summer of 1881. The
Bruening- Mueller government broke
up the meet and 1t was held in frag-
ments in different cities in Germany.
After these small meets were held,
the American group went to the
Soviet Union to compete in some
meets there.
One day they were invited to com
pete with the track team of some
factory, the Electrozavod, a shop
producing electrical supplies, I be-
lieve. Our American team had been
practicing every day on Moscow
cinder paths and were in tip-top
condition They, Of course, accepted
The American runners arrived at
the appointed field at about 4:30 in
the afternoon and began to jog up
and down the track. Soon the Elec-
trozavod men came. The announcer
called out the 100 meter dash, but
something seemed to have gone
wrong. The Russian entry wasn't
around. Suddenly he appeared-in
work clothes. wait a second" he
told the officials, "I1l just take a.
shower to freshen up and I'll be right
with you"
He came out Of the shower, hur-
riedly donning his track shoes, hardly
waiting to warm up. He was off with
the gun and all the two American
sprinters saw the rest of the way
was the Russian comrades shoulder
blades. He eased up in the last ten
yards, turning to look backwards at
the Americanski tovarishtchi just
before hitting the tape.
"Shtot akoy?" he asked ("whats
the matter?')
Shtot akoy, Cyril? Don't leave
so soon, Cyril. Well. g'bye, Cyril.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
Arrest 26 PiCketS
in Blechman Strike

NEW YORK.-Twenty-six workers
were arrested Friday when the po-
lice broke up mass picket line at
s. Blechman and Sons, Inc, SOP
Broadway, where a strike has been
in progress for the past two weeks.
Under the leadership of the Asso-
ciated Employees of S. Blechman and
Son, the strike has been in progress
for two weeks after the arbitrary fir
ing Of seven employees. Picketing has
been going on daily, and twice daily
mass picket lines were formed.
Fridays mass picket line was
being led by a young girl carrying
"a strike banner when the police
broke the line and arrested 26 work
ers, and rushed them to the Fifth
Precinct Police Station. Later, four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
Brooks, Communist
Party Member, Dies

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 10.
Isadore Brooks, member of the Sec
ton Committee of the Communist
Party in Los Angeles, one time educ
ational director Of the International
Labor Defense, Negro director of the
Communist Party of Los Angeles, and
also prominent as a leader of the
youth revolutionary groups, died yes
terday.
Comrade Brooks has been a mem
Der of the Communist Party U.S.A.
since its formation in 1919. Every
moment OF his life was devoted to the
revolutionary movement. In Albany
he was instrumental in arranging the
gigantic -Vanzetti Protest meet
ing in 1927.
Dying as result of injuries sus-
tanned three years ago when he was
arrested three days in succession and
severely beaten by Red Hynes' Squad.
the life Of Comrade Brooks gives in
spiration to these comrades who knew
him as a class-conscious worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
InGWHeadS Plan To
Call Dress StOppage
TO Put Over Cuts
To Abolish Minimum
Wage Scales as Aid
TO Dress Bosses

NEW YORK.-A plan fostered by
the Joint Board Of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union.
with the support Of Charles thinner
man, manager of Local 80, to estab-
lish flat prices for lower grade gar
ments and abolish the minimum wage
scale in the code, was revealed as
underway yesterday from authorita-
tive sources.
This accounts for the sham battle
by the I. L. G.. W. U. officials against
the National Association of Dress
Manufacturers, which ostensibly is
for the purpose of demanding q
strengthening Of the dress pact.
Complaints are pouring into the
Dress Joint Board and the locals.
There are over 1900 complaints of
violations Of the minimum wage
scale.
A way is being devised to aIlay the
discomfort Of the members without
having the members see what is in
store for them. The officials con-
templated a stoppage with the con-
sent of the various factors in the in
duStry. AS result Of the Stoppage.
the workers will be sent back to flat
prices and the question Of the mini
mum wage scale will be referred to
the impartial chairman, thus remov-
ing all responsibility from the shoul-
derS of Zimmerman and HICKMAN.
HOFFMAN already forecasts a new
scheme Of settling prices in his
Christmas message.
The Dress Department Of the IN
dustrial Union is exposing this be-
trayal of the Hochman- Zimmerman
clique and is calling for a fight to
maintain the minimum scales and
for the 35-hour week.
The dress strike continues in full
swing with picketing at the shops
daily. The case Of two arrested
picketS Of the Dotty May, Mollie
Baker and Louis Migler, who are out
under $500 bail will be heard on
Wednesday.
All active dressmakerS are asked
to picket today at the Dotty May
Shop, 212 w. 25th St, at the Corinne
Dress Shop, $40 w. 35th St., and at
Mailman and Sanger, 462 Seventh
Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
Japan Openly Talks
OF Attack on USSR
Continued from Page ~

challenge Americas position in the
Pacific.
The Washington government is re-
ported to have joined Italy in ex-
pressing concern to the Japanese gov
eminent over its plans for a new
invasion Of North China to round
out" the boundaries of its puppet
state of Manchukuo.
TOKYO, Jan. 14.-Japanese Off
Gals celebrated today the completion
Of the new military railway connect
with the Changchun -Tumen railway
with Hardin Open admissions were
made in the press that the line will
enable Japan to throw troops speed
lily into the interior of Manchuria
in the event Of war with Russia. !"
The line was built at cost of ap-
proximately $1,330,000. Thousands of
Manchurian and Korean workers
were impressed into service to rush
the line through to completion.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE British
government is rushing the fortiflca-
tlon OF its great naval base at Singa-
pore in preparation, as the press
openly announces, for impending war
developments in the Pacific. The
London Standard, discussing the
forthcoming imperial naval confer
ence at Singapore, declares:
Singapore is fast becoming un-
recognizable. New barracks are
sprlnging up every month. Search
lights and gun emplacemenss cover
the coast. The island of Pulu Te-
kong, which guards the mouth of
the harbOr, is now a fortress"
LONDON, Jan. 14.-Invention of a
crewless motorboat, constituting a
giant torpedo and controlled by wire
less, was hailed today by the DAILY
Herald" as the newest engine of ma
val warfare.
The organ Of the British Labor
Party declared that the boat could be
used for dropping depth bombs
around ships, The boats reputed
speed of 40 miles an hour is said to
make it 6 difficult target.
1t was reported recently that japan
had developed a one-man boat of
the same sort, to be manned BY a
volunteer who would die when he
reached his target. Man-power Is
cheaper in Japan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
5000 Students In
Utrecht Fight High
LunChrOOm Prices
1000 in Distant Annex
Strike in Sympathy,
Make Own Demands

NEW YORK.-More than 5000 stu
dents Of New Utrecht High School are
supporting the boycott of the school
lunchroom, demanding lower prices,
reinstatements Of all students sus-
pended in the fight, free food for stu
dents whose parents are unemployed
and academic freedom.
AS result of the mass protest
meetings held by the students and
the letters and kilograms from alumni,
student and worker organizations.
seven of the nine students suspended
last week have been reinstated.
The annex students declared a boy
colt that was unanimously supported
by the students after one student who
bought a piece of pie had it smashed
into his face.
At the main building the boycott
gained force when the Executive
Council Of the General Organization
Of students, called to a special meet
ing by the Administration to condemn
the boycott, voted instead to support
it.
A delegation of prominent alumni,
including the former leaders of the
AriSta, editors of the school news
paper and the editor of the literary
magazine, will visit the principal OF
the school, DR.. Harry A. Potter today
and present to him the demands of
the students.
The students will also hold two DEM
onstrations today, at the annex and
at the main building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
18th Arrest Is School
Teacher in End Week
of Bronx Bread Strike

NEW YORK.-Two children and
a school teacher were arrested yes
terday afternoon in the second
week of a strike for lower prices on
bread at the Shereshecsky Bakery
at 182nd st. and Prospect Avenue
in the Bronx. The children were
later released but the teacher was
taken into an automobile with five
plainclothesmen.
The strike is now in its second
week. The Neighborhood Block
Committee is leading workers and
housewives in demanding the bread
prices of eight cents loaf for
bread and twenty cents for a dozen
of rolls be reduced.
The arrest was the thirteenth
since the beginning of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
Industrial Union To
Observation-Disclosures
RAKnitgOOdSCOde
Calls for United Front
Action To Change Slave
Scale of Wages, Hours

NEW YORK.-Aroused against the
knitgoods outerwear code recently
adopted by the MIRA, with the &C
tive support Of the A. F. Of L. OFF,
Gals, the Knitgoods Workers In
dustrial Union, afflliated to the Needle
Trades Union, has wired to General
johnson, N.R.A. administrator, to de-
mand that the code be reopened.
The knitgoods code, which provides
Tor a 40-hour week, with 48 hours
in busy periods, and a S14 to $40
minimum wage, was recently hailed
by the knitgoodS bosses who declared
that its success depended entirely on
the cooperation which the knitgoods
bosses would give the A. F. Of L.
officials.
In its wire to johnson, the union
demanded a revision Of the code, on
the ground that the hours allowed
by the code are in excess Of those
in existence in union shops The
workweek established by union agree
ment is IS hours, with 40 hours al
lowed in busy periods. The union
points out that employers are threat
ening to violate their contracts be-
cause of the longer hours allowed
other manufacturers under the code.
The wage provisions, declares the
union, will undermine the present
scale Of wages in the union shops
and a strike may result.
The knitgoods union organized a
general strike last Summer, and sue
ceeded in establishing union stand
ards in many shops.
The union, which has 5000 men,
bers, is modelling all shops to adopt
resolutions and to wire General john
son to request the reopening of hear
ings on the code. The union will
present 3 resolution, urging the
spreading Of the campaign for revis-
ing the code to the United Front
Conference OF A. F. of L. shops and
open shops, on Saturday, Jan. 20
where these shops will be represented
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
City Events

KNITTERs MASS MEETING
A mass meeting of all hand knitters. or
gained and unorganized, employed and UNI
employed, will take place tonight at s. D. m
at Irving Plaza Hall, Is st. and Irving Place,
to take up important problems confronting
the workers in the trade
LEFT WING OF LOCAL %, 1. L. c. W. U.
TO MEET
meeting Of the Left Wing Group Of
Local %, 7. L. G. W. U. will take place
tonight at p. m. in Memorial Hall main
HALL, S44 w. Seth st. The purpose of the
meeting is to discuss important develop
ments in the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
Philadelphia Workers
To Demonstrate for
P.W.A. Jobs, Jan. Is

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 14.-Phila-
delphia workers will hold a mass
demonstration on Monday, Jan. 18th
at IL am. at Reyburn Plaza to de-
.mand jobs or immediate cash relief.
Following the demonstration, mass
picket lines will be set up at the city
hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
BRONX ALTERATION PAINTERS TO
ELECT,

a special meeting Of the Alteration Paint
q p. m, at l472 Boston Road. Reports and
eiection OF new executive will be held.
CITY CLUBS OPENS NEW HEADQUARTERS
=, me City Club Council. central body Of the
Ehghsn Workers Clubs announces the OPEN
ing OF its new headquarters at 81 East Doth
o. Members OF clubs are invited to inspect
me sno new once which will be open every
night from six to eight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
Cynical Cyril Asks About
Soviet Track

CYNICAL CYRIL breezed in, swiped cigarette from Ed
ROlfe and planted himself in chair his feet on my desk
he wanted to know did expect kid him about sports
Russia He didn't believe damned thing and he to
KNOW. And when he knew, maybe he wouldn't be-
heYe me anyway. That's what kind of a cync he is.
Our unbeeving pal got particularly jeery about track
records in the Soviet Union What the hell have they done?
Who they got there? Which of those whskered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
Conference Pledges
To Secure 1000 NeIC
Readers for DAILY

NEW YORK.-Fifty-nine dele
gates, representing Communist
Party units and IL mass organ
cations at a Daily Worker con-
ference held at the Finnish
Workers Club, IS w. 125th ST.,
yesterday pledged themselves to
secure 1000 new readers for the
Daily Worker during the circu-
iation drive from Jan. ~ to
May 8.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
PERSONAL NOTE

Michael Lavera is asked to get in
touch with the Unemployed Council
of Greater New York, 20 f. goth
street, as soon as possible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15

were given suspended sentences, and
the rest were released.
The Trade Union Unity Council is
cooperating with the strikers to OBJ
tain their demands for the immedi-
ate reinstatement Of the discharged
employees and the recognition of the
shop committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
N. Y. Pickets Arrested


NEW YORK-Eight members of
the Young Communist League and
three from the International Labor
Defense were arrested last Saturday
for picketing the Woolworth store at
Brighton Beach and Coney Island
Ave, in support of the Cuban Wool
worth strikers.
More than 1000 workers gathered
to listen TO the pickets explain that
they were supporting the struggles
of the Cuban workers.
The police arrested the first picket
line, and, as they were being taken
away, another one formed immedi-
ately. When the second one was ar
rested a third line was formed.
The young workers were held on
$500 bail each.
When the manager of the store
saw the nilitancy of the pickets he
said to g. worker standing near him.
Il wish Hitler would come down here
and wipe out some of the goddam
Jews"
Protest Gallery Plot
NEW YORK.-The holloWneSs of
the recent Roosevelt statement that
henceforth the United States will not
intervene in the affairs Of other ma
tons is thoroughly exposed in the
call of the new interventionist AM
oassador to Cuba, Jefferson Caffrey,
for the crushing of the current Con-
gress Of the National Federation of
Labor, declares the Anti-Imperialist
League, in making known several
wires it had sent yesterday.
Wires sent to the Cuban President
and President Roosevelt by the Anti
ImperialiSt League protested Jeffer-
son Caffery'S interventionist tactics
and demanded complete freedom
from interference in the Congress of
the militant labor Federation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
10000 Present as
Fourth Congress of
Labor OpenSmCuba
Continued from Page y

and told OF the arrest of a group Of
sailors on the 8. S. Wyoming. who
refused to stay in Cuban waters. Ford
will make thorough investigation
Of The work OF the Cuban trade unions
during the course of his visit here.
Following Ford'S speech, the Con-
gress was addressed by representa-
tives from the Sugar Central "Naza-
bel" where the workers began their
sharp revolutionary swing in 1882, by
taking the Central and holding it for
two days, as well as the Central ia
roma, the largest in the world.
First Soviet
A stirring ovation was received by
the representative of the workers
from the sugar mill Malay" where
the first Soviet in Cuba was estab-
ished.
The delegates cheered CaIderio, Sec
rotary of the Communist Party of
Cuba, who greeted the convention in
the name of the Party. This was
the first open speech by a secretary Of
the Party since the rise of Machado
in 1925.
Struggle for Power
The speaker called upon the work
erS at the Congress to consider not
only the fight for immediate demands.
but also the intensifcation of the
light for power for the working class
Of Cuba. He showed in detail that
it was possible for the workers of the
Island to take power, and said that
the Communist Party was determined
TO lead the workers toward that goal.
The Communis leader called upon
the revolutionary unions to combat
the reactionary coup d'etat plans of
the Abe, even up to the point of
armed struggle and political strike
at the same time continuing and in
creasing the fight against the present
regime.
Loud speakers carried all the
speeches to thousands of workers as
sembled outside of the arena. The
Congress continues today at the Trop-
ical Arena.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
Greetings to Daily Worker on Tenth Anniversary

Regina Hyrkss
Mike and S.
WaStila
E. Antilla
Alma Helander
Emil Coleman
Mildred and
Veiko Vuoreala
Helen and Vic
Jacob Riberg
Jane Laine
S. Samson
H. Hanson
Loevenstein
Seamans Church
Institute
NJ. Raikav
Gallo
Medina
Rahlenbeck
Engel
Woke
E. Weiner
Miguel Erice
Juan Placencia
Angel Rivas
Norbert Roryes
Initial
Heinanen
Ranta
Maxi
White
PaaSG
Sheehan
A Worker
Heinz Marin
Kaskin
A. Miton
Apostolon
DR.. Reuben S.
Young
Dr.. Arnold
OonaWa
M. Brown
Akin
D. Haynal
Elm and E. Teppo
5. M. Wick
Eva Anttila
Aino Pirainen
James Hill
Louis M. Restreso
Jim Yssief
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15
Anthracite Miners
In General Strike

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