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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Unemployed Workers
Hold Mass Picket Line
In Linden, New Jersey

LINDEN, N. j., Aug. ia strong
mass demonstration of unemployed
workers was held here in spite Of
the manoeuvers of the Emergency
Relief Bureau and city politicians to
block it, A picket line Of 400 mar
ried unemployed workers was
formed around the Relief Bureau,
against the attempts of the Emer-
gency Relief Director, who tried to
convince individual workers to re-
turn to work at ten cents an hour.
For the last few weeks, the relief
investigators have been canvasSing
from house to house, trying to urge
workers to go back to work begin
ming Aug. 9, and promising them
new registration cards to fool them
into thinking that conditions would
be improved. At the last council
meeting of the city, politicians had
proposed arbitration, and advised
the unemployed to go back to work.
However in spite of all these
demmagoguic phrases, the workers
are strengthening their protests
against starvation wages and
pauperization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
St. Paul Council Fears to Ban Workers Bill
Florida LegiOnPOst
Opens Lynch Drive
FERA Official Cites Unity of Negro and White in
Struggle for Relief in Raising Slogan of
stamping Out Red Menace

ORLANDO, Fla, Aug. 1s-At-
lacking as "un-American" and
"seditious" the Communist program
for unconditional equality for the
oppressed Negro masses, the Amer
lean Legion post here has launched
a violent lyneh-inciting campaign
against Negro and white Commu-
nists and the Negro masses gener-
ally, under the slogan Of stamping
out the Red menace" It is in this
district that Frank Norman, inter-
national Labor Defense organizer,
was kidnapped and murdered sew
eral months ago by Klu Kluxers.
The Khan is also behind the present
terror campaign.
The campaign was initiated by
Major Paul Crank, chaplain of the
Legion post and an executive officer
of the F.ER.A. project. AS evidence
Of the Red menace" Crank cites
his experience in the F.E.R.A. offices
here with impoverished toilers mill
family demanding relief and the
right to live. He attributes the surg
ing unrest among the harassed toll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Tim Buck, Tom Even
Are Still Held in Jail
By Canadian Officials

TORONTO, Aug. 10. = Though
forced to release five of the eight
Communists arrested in the police
raids of 1881, the Conservative
Price-Henry government still keeps
Tim Buck and Tom Even, Com
munist leaders, in jail.
The government. which was forced
to admit that eleven shots were
fired into Bucks cell in October,
1882. refused to indict those respon-
sible. and Is making use of the nine
months added sentence as an excuse
to keep Buck longer in jail, IN
the case of Even, the government
has not even a technical excuse,
but is nevertheless keeping him, and
from strong rumors, it seems, in
tends to keep both Buck and Even
as long as possible, for they fear to
have these leaders of the Canadian
toilers again in action.
The working class mass pressure
that forced the release of the five.
can be strengthened to force the
release of the remaining two, and
must be strengthened through all
possible demonstrative actions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Dressnakers
Score Attack
on Left Wing
Call Meeting Tonight to
Protest Assault on
Shop Chairlady

NEW YORK.-The latest acts OF
terrorism against militant members
and shop chairmen by reaetionary
officials of the International La
dies Garment Workers Union are
cited in statement Of protest is
sued yesterday by the Left Wing
Group of Local %. The statement
also calls for a protest meeting at
Irving Plaza Hall, 18th st. and r.
wing Place, Immediately after work
today.
"At the shop chairmens meeting
on Aug. o." the statement declares,
many militant shop chairmen we're
refused admittance to the hall,
while hundreds of strong-arm men
were brought in by the administra-
ton officials, HICKMAN, thinner
man and Antonini. A deliberate
attempt was made to prevent mill
tant chairmen who managed to
gain admittance from expressing
their stands. Only one left-wing
chairman, Sol Lipnack, was given
the floor.
'Iipnack's proposals so enraged
the officials that they sent their
strong arm men to attack the left
wing chairmen. In the course of
this assault, Shirley Blumenthal, a
left wing chairlady, was brutally
beaten about the eyes and head,
and a number of other shop chair
men were injured"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

ers and the growing unity of white
and Negro workers and poor farm
ers to Communist influence and
leadership.
The attack on the Communist
Party follows a series of mass strug-
giles Of unemployed workers under
the leadership of the Unemployment
Council and Of resentment of 1900
F.E.R.A. project workers over the
betrayal Of their strike by Fred Bass
and other Klu Kluxers who had
wormed their way into the Unem-
ployment Council, and, with the aid
Of city officials, captured the leader
ship. and sold out the strikers.
Dixie Kuhr, post commander, and
other Legion officials engaged in a
yelled threat against local Commu-
mist leaders, declaring they knew
where to place their hands on seven
Communist organizers in the county.
The local Communist Party unit
is issuing leaflet calling on the
workers to resist the growing at
tacks upon their organizations and
unity and the mass fight against
starvation and fascist terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Cleveland Consumers
Win Fight To Compel
Cut in Bread Prices

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug 13-
William Weltman, secretary of the
consumers bread strike committee
announced today that the fight Of
Jewish workers here for reduc-
ton in bread prices has been won.
A settlement reached last Thurs
day night establishes the following
price schedule nine cents for an
18-ounee loaf, II cents for a &C.
ounce loaf and Is cents dozen
for rolls.
The terms were approved by a
mass meeting of the strikers at
Carmel Hall before they were
agreed to by the settlement commit
tee. The master bakers also agreed
that they would make no effort to
raise bread prices without the con-
sent of the consumers.
Following announcement of the
settlement, the Jewish World, con-
sentative newspaper with liberal
pretensions, attempted to create the
impression that the settlement
amounted to defeat, claiming rep
resentatives of the paper could
have won a settlement of eight
cents pound for bread, which is
the exact equivalent of the newly
price.
The newspaper sought to incite
its readers against all workers who
accepted Communist leadership in
the strike and justified the reduce
ton of bakers wages as an I'M
result of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Lay Off Half
of Steel Men
in Rockford
Meeting to Organize
Resistance Planned
by Steel Union

ROCKFORD, nl-Half of the
workers at the Drop Forge plant
here have been laid off and the
speed-up for the remaining workers
almost unbearably increased.
Ameeting of the workers has been
called for next Tuesday evening at
Black Hawk Park to elect broad
rank and file committee to present
their grievances and if necessary to
prepare for immediate strike action.
The workers have already through
organized action prevented the at
tempt to force them to work an
extra hour without pay to heat the
iron and set the dies.
At the last meeting the officials
of the company union used their
influence to prevent the men from
adopting militant program.
These tactics are being fought by
the members of the local of the
Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
1000 Workers
Act in United
Anti-W Alright

PARIS, Aug. ia united front
meeting was held in Tours, at
tended by 1000 persons, and adj
dressed by the Socialist mayor Of
the town and the Communist mayor
of st. Pierre de Corps. In Bourges
similar meeting was attended by
1900 persons. After the meeting
an enthusiastic demonstration was
held. The demonstration process
sion ended in front of the Prefec-
ture, where a speech was given by
a representative of the c. C. Of
the G. P.
An anti-fascist regional confer
ence was held in st. Etienne, at
tended by 800 delegates represent
ing many thousands of workers.
Resolutions we're adopted unani-
mously for the struggle against fas-
cism and imperiahst war, and
stressing the successes of socialist
construction in the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Need Admitted for $50
More Slum Inspectors
After 81 Are F ir e d

NEW YORK. - That New York
CITY lacks at least $50 tenement
inspectors has been admitted by
Commissioner Langdon w. Post, who
stated in his report for 1888 that
the present inspection force of his
department is inadequate to make
inspections required by law.
Since last year, however, thirty
two inspectors have been dropped.
Despite the inadequate investigation
5000 violations of tenement laws
we're reported. Nothing has been
done to decrease the danger of an
other outburst of fires in the slum
areas such as broke out last winter.
Mayor La Guardia claims that
nothing can be done about it be-
cause of the lack of funds. The
real reason is that the Astors and
Vanderbilts and the other wealthy
owners of tenements in the Slum
areas are the biggest taxpayers who
dictate smaller municiples budgets
for providing safety and comfort to
workers. AS large landlords, they
are against spending money for re-
pairs and would rather collect in
surance in case of fires. with no
regard for lives of workers and
--~tere' ihiliien,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Artists viii Discuss
Fight for Relief Jobs
on Meeting Tomorrow

NEW YORK.-The Artists Union,
under its new organization plan,
will hold a meeting tomorrow at
II West 18th ST., at $3.50 pm. The
demands formulated at the last
meeting will be discussed and ac-
ton taken to put these demands in
to effect.
The fight for jobs for all un-
employed artists, for relief until
jobs are given, the struggle against
wage-cuts and lay-offs, will be
handled by the new Grievance
Committee, which proposes to
strengthen its struggle by a fight
ing picket line and mass protest
at the Offices Of the College Art
observation-disclosures center for
art jobs-at the home relief sta
tons and at Commissioner Hold
sons Office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

mothers and young babies are be-
ing brutally thrown out to combat
the elements. Gardens are being
moved down in a futile attempt to
starYe the strikers into submission.
What all this vile treatment is
doing, however, is to make the
striking workers more determined
than ever to fight to the bitter end.
They are learning that they belong
in one class, the working class, and
that the growers belong in another,
the master class. They are learn
ing that to get anything they must
unite with all other workers into
one big unit and fight for what is
rightfully theirs: the right to life,
liberty and the pursuit Of happi.
ness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

twisting and turning, the coun-
cilmen tried to turn aside the de-
mands for their endorsement by
several hundred workers who
crowded into their meeting hall Fri
DAY morning. Mayor Gehans said
the bill wouldn't work and anyway
he had a different philosophy
about relief" Councilman Milton
Rosen, reactionary agent Of the big
corporations, called for a vote to
defeat the bill. Herman WenzeI,
Farmer-Labor politician, said he
favored the fake bill sponsored by
the FL. p.
In spite Of the fact that the
comcilmen obviously were against
the bill, they didn't dare vote it
down decisively but delayed action
Tor 80 days, hoping that by that
time the workers mass pressure
would become weaker.
Speakers for the workers at the
meeting were Bob Turner, Negro
secretary of the United Front Com
mittee and candidate for Secretary
OF State on the Communist Party
ticket, and Morris Karson, Section
Organizer Of the Communist
Party.
When the demands of the work
ers for endorsement of the bill and
for more immediate relief grew
louder, the councilmen hurriedly
closed the meeting and walked out.
A joint meeting of the City Coun-
Gil and the Welfare Board to dis
cuSs the relief question had been
prommised the United Front Com
mittee for Thursday, Aug. 9. When
several workers showed up, how
ever, they found the officials abb
sent and were given excuses by
three councilmen for the failure of
the meeting to materialize.
The United Front Committee is
organizing workers of A. F. of l..
locals and other organizations for
a stronger united movement for the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill and for more immediate relief
so that at the next meeting of the
City Council the councilmen will
not be able to stall of action
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Beating of Organizer
by Police Protested
by Furniture Union

NEW YORK.-Following the DO
lice attack last Friday on Jack
Gordon, organizer of the metal bed
section of the Furniture Workers
Industrial Union, the union sent a
sharp letter of protest to Police
Commissioner Organ. Gordon was
beaten by policemen and detectives
at the Grand Metal Bed Co., 1915
Taylor St., Brooklyn, where strike
is in progress.
The letter, signed by Max Per-
low, local general secretary of the
union, follows:
In the name of the membership
of our union we protest against the
actions of the police and detectives
at 1916 Taylor ST., Brooklyn. Yes
terday, Aug. 8, one of our organ
izers, Jack Gordon, and a commit
tee of workers went to the Grand
Metal Bed Co., 1916 Taylor ST.,
where we are conducting a strike.
They were suddenly approached by
a group of police in uniform and
several detectives.
"One of the detectives called the
organizer, Jack Gordon, into the
shop, and, having cornered him,
rave him a terrific beating After
the detective exercised his physical
brutality he took the organizer and
the committee to the police station.
The employer, Mr.. Abe Denenberg,
and his sons were also forced to go
to the police station to make out
complaints. After the committee
and Jack Gordon were held there
for an hour and half. without
questioning, they were released be-
cause no complaints or charges had
been made against them.
"This is an outrageous act on the
part of the police of that precinct.
We protest against these brutal &C
tons and demand from you, the
Police Commissioner, to immedi-
ately call to responsibility those who
are guilty"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
War Opponents Plan
City-Wide Conference
In New Haven Friday

NEW HAVEN. Conn, Aug. 49,
A city-wide conference Of anti-war
and ani-fascist organizations will
be held here on Friday at p. m,
in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium IN
preparation for their participation
in the Second United States Coli
gress Against War and Fascism to
be held in Chicago on September
%, % and 80. The local conference
is being called by the American
League Against War and Fascisnl.
Calls have been sent to 800 groups
engaged in labor, religious, cultural,
political and fraternal activities. Il
delegate from the international Wo-
mems Congress Against War and
Fascism which recently completed
its sessions in Paris has been IN
yited to address the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
WOrkerSEnemieS
Exposed

Golden Head and Maxwell Golden,
both of Dayton, Ohio, have been
expelled from the Communist Party
as police agents and vicious dis
rupters.
After private interviews with the
district attorney they came out with
lying anti-semitic and anti-Party
statements and with ISLANDERS
against the Soviet Union.
Walter E. SwalIey of Dayton,
Ohio, has been expelled from the
Communist Party as a doubIe-faeed
disrupter and an agent of the bosses.
He has collected signatures for a
capitalist politician and has tried
to mobilize new Party members
against the Party leadership.
Description: Age-about IS years;
heavy weight; light complexion; he
has no fingers on his right hand
(from BIRTH.
w. T. Foster of Dayton, Ohio,
previously may have been in Gary,
Ind, or in Flint, Mich.), has been
expelled from the Communist Party
as descriptive and provocative eIe-
ment.
He became member Of the Party
in January, 1884, on the recommen-
dation of w. E. Swalley, and man
aged to be sent to the District
School of the Party, where he raised
all kinds of provocative questions.
Description: Battery repairer by
trade; about 80 years old; about S
it. in. in height; weighs about 1870
pounds; light hair.
Henry HuIs, VIM. w. Tanner and
Jaequeline Franks Mrs. A. Franks)
of klamath Falls, Ore, have been
expelled from the Communist Party
as fractional disrupters who have as
ISOLATED themselves with the police
in their vicious efforts to disrupt
the Party and the unemployed or
ganization.
Henry Huls. former head Of the
Unemployed Council, was the leader
of the faction. Working in close
alliance with the Mayors office and
other city officials, he tried to stop
any efforts to organize the unem-
ployed. VIM. Tanner and j. Franks
aligned with him in this vicious dis
ruption and betraying of the I'M
employed workers and their strug-
giles.
All three of them later Joined
the Relief Workers Protective Assn
only with the intention of trying to
disrupt and break it up.
Workers should be on guard
against these individuals. Place no
confidence in them. Give them no
funds. They are enemies of the
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Eleven FERA Workers
Are jailed in Tampa

TAMPA, Fla, Aug 49, Eleven
F.E,R.A. workers who were organic
ing workers to unite their demands
for $12 week for all unemployed,
with rent, gas and water free, were
arrested Friday morning.
They were arrested while speak
ing to their fellow workers at the
F.ERA. sub-station at 2415 E. Mi
chigan Ave. on charges of breach
of the peace" and "agitating"
The jailed workers are: M. M.
Kingston, w. A. Sweetzer, B. A.
Mann, X. Chastain, William Lee,
Roy Smith, Edward Harris. A. G.
Smith, M. A. Gonzalez, Cecil Asbel
Gus English paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Cowper Powys Backs
Callagher's Candidacy

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 13.-
The Nom Partisan Committee cam
paigning for the election of Leo
Gallagher, Communist endorsed
candidate for Associate Justice Of
the California Supreme Court, today
made public an endorsement of
Gallaghers candidacy by John
Cowper Powys, the novelist and
critic.
Powys' letter of endorsement, adj
dressed directly to Gallagher, says
in part:
Il am overioyed to learn that
you are candidate +. Your back
ground is exactly right for this i'm
por .nt pc ion and your election
will indeed raise a standard to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Tampa Workers Need
$50 to Defend Leader

TAMPA, Fla, Aug. 10. For
speaking at a meeting of project
workers on a Federal Emergency
Relief Administration project, Will
son, labor organizer, is to be tried
tomorrow in City Plant on a charge
of disturbing the peace" The
meeting was called to protest the
brutal methods of the F. E. R. A.
manager in dealing with the relief
workers.
Wilson is being defended by E. l..
Bryan, who brought habeas corpus
proceedings to force his release on
bail. The sum of $50 is urgently
needed for the defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Opticians Cooperative
to Give NOn-PrOfit
Service for Workers

NEW YORK. Cooperative
Opticians, an organization ac-
curately described by its name, with
quarters in the Office Workers
Union, ia w. 18th ST., has been
commissioned by the International
Workers Order to care for all its
members. Individual members of
the Communist Party or other mass
organizations will also be accepted
for treatment. Cooperative opti-
clans is non-pTof1t making or
panizatinn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

y
The wages paid these onion work
ers are from four cents to 1915 cents
per hour fo- a ten-hour day. Chill
dren from six years Of age up are
worked in the hot blisteFing sun,
crawling an average of Az miles per
day, pulling out weeds from be-
tween onions. Their little bodies
and minds are stunted that the
onions might grow big and fat to
bring more profits to the money
lords who own them, both the
onions and the children.
Most of the families live in what
are known as company houses"
Many of these houses" are Just
shacks, nine by fifteen feet, with no
floor, no windows, and the walls
papered with newspapers to cover
the cracks and knot holes.
The women and children have no
shoes, stockings, nor underwear.
There are no sanitary conveniences
and in many instances water is
obtained at a common well, used
by ten to twelve families, carried as
far as 200 yards.
Proper food and medical atten-
ton are practically unknown, re-
sulting in the largest percentage Of
tuberculosis of any county in the
state. Epidemics Of typhoid fever
have been frequent and other pre-
ventable diseases run rampant due
to neglect.
Such were the conditions when
on June goth Dixie O'Dell, valiant
and fighting leader, called the strike
now nationally famous. These
workers are asking for IS cents PEI
hour and an eight-hour day. They
went out almost 100 per cent and
those who did not go out volun-
tarilly were forced out by the picket
line maintained over mile
area. The strikers have now been
organized into the Agricultural
Workers Union, No. 1924, affiliated
to the A. F. Of L., the first agricul-
tural union ever to affiliate with
the A. F. of L. Headquarters have
been established at McGuffey, Ohio.
On June %, Judge Hamilton j.
Hoge granted one Of the most
sweeping injunctions ever issued in
a labor dispute. Picketing is con-
fined to two at any farm entrance
and it is violation of the injunc-
ton for strikers to congregate in
groups of more than two. Sheriff
Wilbur ("Buck- PassingO Mitchell !
Immediately, over the protest of |
labor leaders, appointed National |
as deputy sheriffs to
uphold the injunction and break
the strike. These hired thugs, many |
of whom saw service in the famous
Toledo Auto-Lite strike where two
workmen were murdered and scores
Of others gassed and wounded, have
lived up to their evil reputation.
shooting, clubbing, stabbing and
otherwise manhandling strikers on
the slightest provocation.
COurL TERRORISM
A continual stream of strikers are
being arrested, dragged to Kenton,
the County seat and fined, thrown
into Jail, bail refused; and mock |
trials held. The courts Of Hardin
County make no pretense of met
ing out justice. They are on the
side of the money baronS and make |
no bones about it. Company at
torneys act as prosecutors in all |
cases. The laws are flouted and |
an arrest is tantamount to a con-
however slight and trumpet
up evidence.
Families are now being evicted |
and forced to live in the bitches
and on the roads. Expectant |