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The daily worker., 1934-11-28
Bellingham
County Men
Seek Pay Rise
United Front Strik e
Committee Demands
Workers Bill

BELLINGHAM, Wash, Nov. 2T.--
The Central Labor Council of Bel
lingham endorsed the demands of
the striking relief workers of Bel
lingham County at its last regular
meeting here. The strikers de-
mands call for an immediate so per
cent increase in cash relief; for a
six-hour day, thirty-hour week un-
der union wages and conditions on
all relief work, and endorsement of
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill and Initiative Four,
Initiative -Four is the State
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill for which workers groups are
collecting $4,000 signatures in order
that it might be placed on the first
order of business when the State
Legislature convenes on January
15-Editor.
The demands of the striking relief
workers, as drawn UP by the United
Front Strike Committee and en-
dorsed by the Bellingham Central
Labor Council, are as follws.
Board of County Commissioners,
Bellingham, Wash,
Gentlemen:
The relief program in this county
provides six cents per meal for a
family of two, 534 cents for FAM
lily of three. Each increase in the
number in the family results in a
corresponding decrease in the
amount given per meal
A family Of eight is forced to live
on z 40 cents per meal Totally
inadequate provision is made for
clothing, no provision is made for
lights, rent, medical care, etc.
Therefore we are demanding OF
the w. e. r. A. an immediate in
crease of so per cent in relief to be
paid in cash.
The w. E. r. A. has introduced
a forced labor program. A single
worker who works on relief job
receives $6 to maintain himself for
a month. This is only for food,
with no other provisions for other
needs, rent, lights, etc.
We demand that all workers en-
ployed on relief work, city, county
or otherwise, be guaranteed a
thirty-hour week, six-hour day,
steady work, at trade union rates
of pay.
We demand the County Conn1is-
siorers enforce the thirty-hour
week, five-hour day, trade union
rates of pay, with steady work on
all county work relief projects
We are supporting the struggle
for the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill, Initiative No. 4 and
the National Bill, H. r. 1898, which
will provide minimum of $40 per
week and SO for each dependent at
the expense of the government and
the employees.
For the winning of these demands
the workers have declared a strike
on the relief jobs.
We demand that the County
Commissioners endorse these de-
mands and give their whole-hearted
support toward the winning OF
these demands.
And that the County Commits
sioners memorialize the Congress OF
the United States for the Federal
Bill. H. r. 1893, and the State
LEGISLATURE for the enactment OF
the State Bill, Initiative No. 4.
And that the County Commits
sioners elect two delegates to sit
with the Strike Committee to help
win these demands.
The daily worker., 1934-11-28
NEWARK BANQUET NEXT
SUNDAY

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. 27.-The
Newark section of the Communist
Party will hold a banquet and red
vaudeville show next Sunday even
ing, Dec. 2, at the Slavak Workers
Home, 50 West Street, Newark. A
three-hour vaudeville show, consist
ing of comedy acts, drama, music
and solo dances, has been arranged
Subscription 35 cents.
The daily worker., 1934-11-28

S. o. of Claremont, Va, when he
renewed his yearly subscription,
sent an extra 81 for the Daily
Worker drive. "It is the best I can
do, as my income dried up out West
the past summer" The Daily Worker
fights for genuine relief for workers
and farmers. Contribute to the $780,
900 fund,
The daily worker., 1934-11-28
Industrial Union Holds
Shamroth Is Engaged
In Shady Practices
By Sender Garlin
Article /.

Startling disclosures Of corruption
among inspectors of the Compliance
Division of the Fur Code Authority
have recently been made by leaders
Of the Fur Workers Industrial
Union.
Chief among the charges, sup
ported by documentary evidence
and sworn statements of witnesses
are the following;
THAT inspectors of the Com
pliance Division are shielding man
ufacturers who are violating both
the Fur Code of the N. r. A. as well
as the agreement made with the
Fur Workers Industrial Union.
2-Thst Morris Shamroth, chief
inspector of the Code Authority
has been using his Office to solicit
business, for various and sundry
methods for a firm in which his
son-in-law is a partner. The firm
is Killers, S52 Seventh Avenue, New
York.
Charge "Nepotism"
The Industrial Union not only ac-
cuses Shamroth of these practiSes,
but declares that Abe Chalkin OF
the firm of Chalkin and Liss, $50
Seventh Avenue, New York, has
installed his son as an investigator
Of the Compliance Division and his
daughter in an office capacity with
the Code authorities; and that
another investigator is CHASER, a
son-in-law of Louis Fenster, a
manufacturer of 333 Seventh Ave-
nue., who never lives up to the con-
ditions stipulated in union agree
ments.
A sensation has been caused
among the furriers by these dis
closures. Workers gathered at a re-
cent meeting in Cooper Union heard
leaders of the Fur Workers In
dustrial Union recite the details OF
these activities. The workers
adopted a ringing resolution de-
nouncing these practises, and de-
nanding the abolition of the So
called Labor Compliance Division OF
the Code Authority, as well as the
immediate removal Of Shamroth, the
chief inspector.
An Old Hand
Shamroth was business agent ir
the old Furriers' International about
Is years ago, but was driven out
of the organization by the furriers
Later he went into the fur business
first as a dealer and later in a
dressing and dying firm. He has
always been close to the manufac-
turers, and his appointment as N
R. A. inspector, furriers charge, is
only an extension of his activities
as a pal OF the manufacturers. II
is also generally known that Sham
roth was appointed with the aid Of
the Associated to assist as a con-
tact man with the right wing In
ternational.
Not only is Shamroth charged
with using his Office for the pur-
pose Of soliciting business for his
relatives, but statements in posses
sion of the Fur Workers Industrial
Union reveal the fact that Sham
roth promised the firm of B. Dret-
tel that he would overlook viola
tions of the fur code and that he
would not molest Drettels out-of-
town shop in Bound Brook, N. j..
provided that the latter would bring
his support behind the American
Fur Association, Inc, instead of the
New York Fur Trimming Manufac-
turers' Association which has an
agreement with the Fur Workers
Industrial Union. The latter asso-
citation, which comprises more than
800 shops, has had working agree
The daily worker., 1934-11-28
Workers Demand That
Compliance Division
Be Abolished

tinued to work the same hours as
they did prior to the investigation
Workers Are Fired
Mr.. shamroth did not show any
interest in our general complaint
He was interested only in the COM
plant that we were making about
ourselves. He told me and showed
me the record Of raid made on
the shop in Easton, Pa, by the
Philadelphia Code Authority.
when Mr.. Shamroth asked us
foir our names we told him that we
didn't want our names exposed be-
cause we felt we would lose our
jobs. He assured US the names
would be kept absolutely confiden-
tial and that the complaint would
be made without our names being
exposed.
"On Sunday, June "a, Abe Small
got a telephone call from Mr.. Sam
Oldham of Oldham Brothers, that
Mr.. Oldham wanted to see Small
and me at his New York office
at $50 Seventh Ave, in the morn
ing of Monday, June 25. On Mon
day morning Small and myself went
to the office. Mr.. Max Oldham
spoke TO me and told me that there
was no need of me going back to
Easton because he was closing up
the place. He said that he would
try to get me job. He told me
that there was no need Of me go
ing out to Easton for my things
and my check because they would
be sent to me.
After Mr., Oldham got through
with me, Mr.. Max and Sam Old
man spoke to Abe Small and told
him the same thing. After leaving
the office Of Mr.. Oldham, we i'm
mediately went to Easton, Pa,
where we found all the old people
and the additional help working.
We demanded our checks and re-
ceived the same. The manager,
Mr.. Reiner, wanted us to sign a
statement that we have nothing to
do with the place and that we
would have no complaints upon the
place, which we refused to do. My
check amounted to S3225 for the
week of June 18, when I had worked
about 81 hours. On Tuesday, June
26, we again went to see Mr.. Sham
roth, because we knew that our dis
charge was caused by the informa-
ton about our complaint by Mr..
Shamroth to Oldham Brothers.
I'VE told that to Mr.. Shamroth,
whereupon he claimed that anyone
who gave out this information in
cluding himself would be fired. We
were not satisfied and Mr.. Sham
roth promised to get us job. When
we insisted on our old jobs, he
promised to get them for us. On
Wednesday, June 81, Abe Small in
formed me that he had gone up
to see Oldham and that he spoke
to Harry Bloom, who is the sales
man of Oldham Bros, who in
formed him that Mr.. Shamroth had
told the firm of our complaint and
that was the reason why we had
been discharged. Small also told
me that Mr.. Bloom remarked to
him that he had better not make a
fuss about the whole thing because
for such things, he, Mr.. Bloom, had
already broken the heads of some
people.
Signed
SYDNEY HANDELMAN,
$500 Mermaid Ave, Brooklyn.
The daily worker., 1934-11-28

TOMORROW: Concrete evil
dence of piece-work and long
hours in violation of the Fur Code
and union agreements.
The daily worker., 1934-11-28
WHAT'S ON

RATES: Soc for 3 lines ON weekdays
Friday and Saturday SOC. Money must
accompany notices.
The daily worker., 1934-11-28

Chicago, I'LL.
Br. 5eS Two Saturday, Dec at
Mirror Hail. Ilb6 N, Western Ave,
Adm. 25c in adv, $50 at door
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
Mass meeting in defense Of the
scottsboro boys. Ruby Bates, main
speaker, Saturday, Dec. J. at PASS
N, Soth st. Adm. I5c.
Concert and Report Of the Inter-
national womens Congress Against
War and Fascism, Mother Bloor,
main speaker, Friday, Dec. 7, pm.
at Bosicver Hall, 7ol Pine st. Adm.
i5c. Ausp.: City Comm. Working Wo-
mems Councils.
Jubilee Concert Of 20 years of pro-
letarian musical development Of
the celebrated proletarian composer.
Ccmrade Jacob Schaefer, Friday, Nov.
80 at Mercantile Hall, Broad and
Master Streets "Einziger SPAN
will be performed Tickets 4oc, at
3is washington Square Bldg, 7th
and Chestnut sts.
Boston, Mass.
Thanksgiving Dinner served from 1
to . p.m. Thursday. Nov. 49, "All
Proceeds for Defense of Scottsbero
boys. seottsScre Br. LID, 1929 Tre-
mont st.
Providence, r. 1.
First Annual Bazaar of Labor Educa-
tiDn Association. Three evenings:
Thursday, Ney, 29; Friday. Nov 80;
and Saturday, Dec. /. at l755 West
minister st. Starts pm. Adm 10c
Bargains, dancing, entertainment.
Chicago, I'LL.
Seventeenth Anniversary Celebration
given by Sec C.P. Thursday, Nov.
20, 2;3o pm. at workers Lyceum,
173s Hirsh Blvd. Eugene Bechtold,
main speaker. Adm. 10c. Unemployed
free.
CreUeIand, Ohio
Supper and Dance given by West Side
Hungarian LID. Br. Saturday. Dec.
at West Side Hungarian Workers
Home, 1900 Lorain Ave, 73o pm.
Benefit Political Prisoners. Adm. 35c.
Washington, d. c.
Film showing Of Road to Life"
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, to II
pm. continuous followed by special
midnight performance, ala H St..
NV. Ausp.; Washington Film and
Photo League.
Rochester, N. Y.
Michael Gold on lecture tour for the
New Masses, speaks on The Crisis
in Modern Literature" Friday Eve,
Nov. 80, at Lithuanian Hall, SIS
Joseph Ave. at meeting arranged
BY the Pen & Hammer Of Rochester.
The daily worker., 1934-11-28
Central Labor Council Backs West Coast FERA Stril
CORRUPTION CHARGED TO INSPECTORS OF FUR CODE yanc L
COrtBy
INSPECTOR OFFERS TO MAKE A DEA

sPtsSocr 1874.
ht1DaA< <RA4-yVR has poni,ed ne that if I would stop
the riosr,
Associated II could operate Q fsesory
just as / wished wi ru fear Of interference frOu the Code
'.'.'.' H. *
The daily worker., 1934-11-28

Chicago, I'LL.
First Annual Dance given by Painters
Br. 56S Two. Saturday, Dec. at
Mirror Hall, ilb6 N, Western Ave,
Adm. 26c in adv, $50 at door.
nLsT-InT-Ls. DE-
The daily worker., 1934-11-28

SYDNEY HANDELMAN,
$500 Mermaid Ave, Brooklyn.
The daily worker., 1934-11-28
Chicago, I'LL.
Rochester, N. Y.

Michael Gold on lecture tour for the
New Masses, speaks on The Crisis
in Modern Literature" Friday Eve,
Nov. 80, at Lithuanian Hall, SIS
Joseph Ave. at a meeting arranged
by the Pen & Hammer of Rochester.
The daily worker., 1934-11-28
Boston, Moss.

BOSt0H, IHnSS.
Thanksgiving Dinner served from 1
to . pm. Thursday Nov. 20. "All
the hxin's''-and more tool Adm 35c
Proceeds for Defense of Scottsbero
boys. scottsbore Br. LID, 1929 Tre-
mont St
The daily worker., 1934-11-28

tinued to work the same hours as
they did prior to the investigation.
WnrI.ars Are Eirad
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-04-13
ELY GETS TAX
ALLOTMENT
The Apportionment of Taxes
Gives City $22,O24 and
Schools $27,74O

The county apportionment of per-
sonal property taxes for the first half
of 1888 and delinquent real estate taxes
paid since November l, last, has been
made by County Auditor Walter H.
Bergen
The apportionment this year is less
than for perviouS years because of the
new law which permits payment of the
second half of personal property taxes
up to June 80. Out of the total APP
portioned by the county of $3.50, 446,
the City of Duluth gets $685., 1866 and
the Duluth school district s4O4, 1866. The
state government gets $173 ,957 and the
county gets $267 SIT.
In addition to the general appor-
tionment to the state the county dis
brrses $23, 800 to the state school taxes
fund; $1,252 to the state teachers re-
tirement fund; $11, 339 state grain taxes,
and Sill, 100 for state loans (this amount
to be credited to communities having
loans from the state)
The apportionment for the City of Ely
amounts to Sc, 024 and School District
No. IL is allotted $27,740. Outside of
the City of Virginia which received
$44,075 for the city and $48,244 for its
schools, the allotment for Ely is the
largest made for any town or city on
the ranges.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-04-13
GEORGE SOMERO
HEADS ROTARY
Election Wednesday Evening
For Rotary Makes George
Somero President.

Election of officers at the Wednesday
meeting of the Ely Rotary Club re-
suited in the following being chosen for
the ensuing year:
President-George Somero.
Vice President-E. c.. Jones.
Secretary-E. c. Bolitho.
Treasurer-B. j. Agnew.
Directors-O. w. Parker, Peter
Schaefer and 3. O. Strachan.
George T. Ayres gave a short eulogy
on the departed member, L. ]. White
and spoke very feelingly of the public
and private life of the deceased.
A quartet composed of Coral and
Kathleen Hillman, Berniece Needing
and Isabelle Nankervis sang a group OF
songs. Robert Moonan played the &C
compartments on the piano.
Walter e. Englund gave an address
on current events in which he diagnosed
the hearing now on before a congress
sional committee on the Writ charges
of an existing plan to overthrow the
government and put the country under
Soviet rule.
The M. E. ladies served fine dinner
Bob Watts was a guest of Tom Miller
at the meeting and Karl Tornberg a
guest of B. o. Strachan.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-04-13
University Officials
To Speak in Ely.

Three Northern Minnesota towns are
included in the list of speaking engage
ments which two deans of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota will make this spring
to open activities for the 1884 Freshman
week, state adviceS received from Min
neapohs Monday.
Freshman week at the university is
held each fall just before the formal
opening of classes and was designed to
give entering freshmen and other
students AN opportunity to get &C
quainted with campus life before classes
actually start.
Edward E. Nicholson, dean of student
affairs, and Anne Dudley Blitz, dean of
women, will address audiences through
out the state upon the problems of
the entering university student.
Included in the list of towns at which
the addresses will be given are Ely, on
May IA; Eveleth, May Is; and Hinckley,
May 16.
Underclassmen residing in the various
towns at which the talks will be given
have already begun a campaign of con-
tacting high school Superintendents,
parent-teacher associations and alumni
in preparation for the tour. Lectures
will be given in high school auditoriums.
The tour will be strictly informative,
and is being conducted to give both
parents and prospective students an
opportunity to study the student prob
lem before entrance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-04-13
Hatchery Code Will
Benefit Chick Buyers

Chick purchasers and the poultry in
dustry generally are expected to benefit
in several ways from the new hatchery
code, says DR.. M. A. JUL of the U. s.
Department of Agriculture.
For one thing, the code prohibits the
setting of small eggs. This will mean
larger chicks that will grow into larger
hens and these hens will lay larger
eggs than would hens Matched from
small eggs.
The code also requires commercial
hatcheries to observe practices that will
help to stamp out pullorum- disease
commonly called white diarrhea. This
disease carries through the egg from
hen to chick and also may be passed
from chick to chick during the hatch
ing time.
Hens that flarbor pullorum disease
may be detected by blood test" and
removed from breeding flocks. Under
the hatchery code, all hatcheries adver-
Using chicks from 'sblood-tested" stock
must state by whom the test was con-
Quoted, the date of the test and that
all reactors were removed. Chicks from
blood-tested stock may not be Matched
in the same incubator nor in the same
/ incubator room as chicks from stock
not blood tested.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-04-13
LEWIS ]. White
PASSES ON
Death of Popular Resident
Mourned by Friends in This
City and County.

1t was with general feeling of regret
that it was learned on Friday afternoon
that Lewis J. White, cashier of the First
National Bank, had naSsed away at a
st. Paul hospital that afternoon after
a short illness.
Mr. White left here three weeks ago
presumably for vacation from the
arduous duties with which he has been
confronted for the past two years and
it was somewhat of shock when the
announcement of his death came
Close friends of. Mr.. White were aware
that he was not in the best of health
but none were prepared for the shocking
news that came Friday
Lewis j. White was born in Parish,
N. Y, on July II, 1877. With his
parents, MIR. and Mrs. James H. White,
he came to Ely in 1888 and to Burnt
side Lake where the family settled on
homestead, afterwards removing to
this city. His parents preceded him
in death by several years.
He was always active in the civic life
of the city From 1893 until 1903 he was
assistant postmaster under P. r. Vail,
going from the postofice to the city
clerksfip which he held until 1910.
That year he became cashier of the
First National Bank wich position he
has since held. He also served six years
as member of the school board. He
was a member of the Masonic fra
ternity, the Shrine, the Vermilion Old
Settlers Association, the Ely Rotary
Club and last year was president of the
Shagawa Country Club.
The remains arrived from st. Paul
Sunday and were taken in charge by
the Laing Mortuary. The funeral took
place Monday afternoon from the Pres
byterian church where the burial SER
vice was read by w. H. Jones of
Duluth. Pallbearers were Henry Berg,
B. o. Strachan, William Nudge, George
T. Ayres, Robert Watts and George
Somero. Mrs. E. @. Jones sang at the
services to accompaniment played by
Mrs. H. N. Sutherland The church
was crowded with friends of deceased
and his family and beautiful floral
offerings banked the casket in which the
remains lay in state for several hours
before the services and were viewed by
large number of friends and neigh
bors. Many from Duluth and the range
towns attended the last sad rites.
Surviving are his widow and one
daughter, Mary Louise, who arrived
home from st. Louis where she is at
tending Principal College. The sur
vivors have the sympathy of host of
friends in the loss of husband and
father.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-04-13
Local Seed Loan
Committee Named

Due to hundreds of letters that are
coming in asking for information on
how to secure seed loans, r. A. Tro-
vatten, Minnesota commissioner of agri-
culture, dairy and food, gives this in
formation that any person that wants
to make application for seed loans may
do so by contracting the local county
Federal Emergency Crop Loan Com
mittee, or the County Agent, where
there Is one. In case the farmer is
unable to secure such loan he should
communicate with the Minnesota De-
partment of Agriculture, dairy and food,
Commissioner r. A. Trovatten, who will
be glad to render any assistance that
he may be able to give in the way of
securing seed for such persons.
The st. Louis County committee Is as
follows: M. l. Smith, Hibbing; AL john
son, Eveleth; Paul Lindholm, Cook; T.
s. Some, Iron; August Neubauer, county
agent, Virginia, and 8. H. Rutford,
county agent, Duluth, Federal Build
ing).
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-04-13
BUSINESS MAN
takes BRIDE
John Buccowich and Miss Joan
Markovich Married Monday
at Church Ceremony.

Before a church filled with friends
and relatives of the happy couple, the
Rev. Father Mihelcic at a high mass
ceremony on Monday morning, pro-
nounced the words that made Joan
Marie Markovich the bride of John
Buccowich.
Attending the couple were Steve
Markovich, brother of the bride and
Katherine Buccowich, sister of the
groom. The bride was attired in a
navy blue crepe suit, light silk blouse
and blue hat with veil and shoulder
boquet of white roses. She carried a
prayer book. The bridesmaid was
gowned in a gray and blue tweed suit
with blue accessories and a shoulder
boquet of pink roses.
After the ceremony wedding break
fast was served at the home of the
brides parents, Mr. and Mrs Joseph
Markovich of East Sheridan Street and
at noon reception and dinner followed
presented their fluctuations. The newly
WEEDS left in the afternoon for short
bridal trip which takes them to the
southern part of the state and the
Twin Cities. Upon their return they
will be at home at 944 East Sheridan
Street.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Markovich and for some
time has been with the Mary-L Eat
Shoppe. The groom is the son of Paul
Buccowich and both he and the bride
are natives of the city and graduates OF
the Ely schools. Both are too well
known to need an introduction. The
groom is the proprietor of the City
Meat and Grocery in the Kapsch build
ing. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Buccowich
have host of friends who join in wish
ing them all possible happiness.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-04-13

Honors bestowed on J. H.
Hearding and A. P. Cook by
the county commissioners, two
weeks ago, are highly pleasing
to the many friends of the
gentlemen in this city and the
county. The St. Louis County
dispensary has been named the
"Hearding Hospital" and the
st. Louis County home has been
named the "Cook Home" The
act was a fitting recognition of
the untiring efforts of these two
gentlemen who put a life's
work into the supervision and
care of the poor and sick of
the county.