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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
lila Heads Use Union
In ExtOrtiOn Scheme
AgainstDOckWOr kers
Leaders Run Union Button and Ticket Craft

Tickets for affairs at ritzy places
are sold by the thousands to the
workers, and longshoremen have to
buy five and six Of these tickets at 81
each for the right to work. Last
October, the au-powerful City DEM
ocratic Club in Red Hook sold $4,000
tickets to longshoremen on the piers
for a ball that was held in the
Grand Ballroom of the Hotel st.
George. Not a single one of the
workers forced to buy S. and $40
worth of tickets, attended this
swanky affair.
But the I. L. A. delegates Patti and
Camarda, the bootlegger MARITIME,
the gangster Berto and his lieuten-
ants Esperanto and Atanasio, all
members of the club, did not give a
hang whether they attended or not
Neither did the stevedore bosses and
company contractors, also members
of the club which now supports La
'Guardia. They all raised plenty of
money for charity" and had a swell
time at the affair.
All the racketeerS in Red Hook
centralize at this City Democratic
Club. This is the place from which
the gangster MARITIME operates his
wine distribution to the "cantinas" in
the section.
The "cantina" in Red Hook operates
in the back room OF an apartment
and acts as wine selling employ
ment agency. That is, MARITIME tells
the owner if he sells so much wine,
he will fix it up with the lila. and
stevedore bosses SO that he can place
five or twenty Of the longshoremen
who drink his wine TO work on the
piers.
The longshoreman in order to get
enc or two days work each week, has
to drink 81 worth of wine and then
he is compelled to pay 81 to the
cantina owner for fixing things up
for him. The job control of the
7. L. A. delegates, the gangsters and
stevedores is so powerful, that any
complaint from worker caught in
this Vice-like extortion plot, is
enough to have him blackiacked into
silence and blacklisteo from every
pier job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
Copper SmeIterS
Win 10 Pc. Raise
Cleveland Workers Gain
By Vote To Strike
for Demands

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 22.-The
workers of the National Copper and
Smelling Company of Cleveland, won
a wage increase of ten per cent after
taking strike vote and also one
years agreement. The committee
negotiating the agreement was led
by Joseph zack of the Joint Coun-
Gil of Industrial Unions. Included in
the agreement is a provision that
whenever the cost Of living increases
10 per cent OF more, The union has
p right to demand corresponding
increase i'll pay.
The company at first proposed
arbitration and experts to investigate
its expenses, etc on the plea that
they cannot afford a wage increase,
but under pressure of the Copper
and Smelling Local of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union who
waived this proposal Of the company
and forced the signing of the agree
ment for year granting a wage
increase.
The Local voted $40 to the or
ganizing fund and voted to attend
the annual winter affair of the Joint
Council of Industrial Unions to be
held on Saturday evening, Feb. 14th
at 730 p. m. at the Prospect Audi
forum, 26l2 Prospect Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
St.PauLJObIeSSH Hear
Convention Reports
800 Greet ID eIegate to
NATL JObless Convention

ST. PAUL. MINI, Feb. 22.-Eight
hundred workers crowded the audi
forum of the safety building here, at
the call of the Young and Single
Workers Club. They greeted with
tremendous enthusiasm the an
rouncement that the club. was de-
dicated and actively involved in the
struggle against discrimination of
youth and the single unemployed IN
the matter of relief and jobs.
At this meeting the report of the
delegate to the National Unemploy-
ment Convention at Washington was
rendered The Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill was read: both
the report and the reading Of the
bill met with great applause.
At this meeting more than one
hundred workers joined the club, and
pledged themselves actively to par
ticipate in the struggles Of ali the
unemployed.
The demands outlined by the work
ers of the club are as follows:
/. Jobs at union wages or ade-
quate cash relief.
2. No discrimination in giving
out of federal or local jobs because
of age, race, sex, nationality, mari
tai state, creed or political affilia-
ton.
3. Abolition of vagrancy laws.
4. Abolition of flop houses and
the right of the unemployed work
ers to choose their own place to
eat and sleep.
5. Abolition of all forced labor or
concentration camps.
6. Public audit of Welfare Board
periodical publication of same.
Z. Immediate enactment of the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Act, Oh. r. 1899.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
Cleveland Furniture
Men in ALL Vote To
Join InduSt. Union
M a jOrity Afiliates to
Furniture Workers In
dustriaI Union

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 22.-At
a meeting of 80 workers of the
Cleveland Furniture Company, en-
ploying about 300 workers, the work
ers in discussing the need for OBJ
tanning improvements in the plant
and the action of the A. F. of T..
since their affiliation which has kept
on collecting dues without the work
ers deriving any benefits from their
utilization, decided by a majority
vote 90 voting for an independent
union) to affiliate with the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union there and
elected officials for the union and
decided to ask for a charter from
the Industrial Union.
This plant was the first one, dur
ing the beginning of the strike wave
in 1888 to affiliate with the A. F. of
L. and is the first one to disaffiliate
from the A. F. Of L. Those present
ut the meeting represented the most
active force in the plant and the
leaders of the various departments
of the plant.
The action Of the workers of the
Cleveland Furniture Co., which is the
largest plant in the furniture in
dustry in Cleveland, is expected to
have a large influence on all the
other furniture shops,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23

sugar coating one month drop of
half million in the number of jobs,
calls to mind the statement Of the
Annalist Of Feb. on the statistics
of the Roosevelt government.
who would testify that the data
emitted today by Federal agencies
have not already been warped by adj
nlinistration statisticians to show
whatever the exigencies of the
moment require" states this finan-
cial and business journal. THE ad-
miniStration prostituted our money;
would it hesitate to pervert its own
statistics? The fact is that all of
the federal statistical agencies have
been brought under the absolute con-
troll Of one man, an interpreting
economist who perhaps has his
tongue in his cheek all of the time"
This certainly applies to the figures
Of Frances Perkins.
Speed Up and Wage Cuts
Added to the steady decline in jobs
for the past four months will be the
army Of those millions laid off from
C. w. A. jobs. Mrs. Perkins will
probably not include these increases
In her February Statistics" The
government wishes to hide the facts
of increased starvation it has
wrought.
The Annalist of Feb. 16 states edi-
torially: TN view of the well-known
fact that the G. w. A. and other re-
lief disbursements have been direct
cause Of part of the recent rise in
general business activity, the queS-
ton now arises as to how much the
curtailment of these expenditures will
bring about decrease in business
activity"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
Act on JObIeSS Bill
JObIeSS Councils
Telegraph Congress
Telegraph Connery in
Protest at C.. W. A.
Firing

NEW YORK.-The National Unem-
ployment Councils, sent telegram
Monday to the House Chairman,
William Connery, Jr., of the Commit
tee on Labor, protesting against the
C.W.A. firing and demanding jobs
for all unemployed workers. The
telegram demanded the enactment of
the Workers Unemployment and So
cial Insurance Bill (HR. 1899, which
is the Labor Committee.
The telegram, signed by 7. Amter
and Herbert Benjamin, states:
I'm behalf tens Of thousands work
ers and their dependents who are
about to be deprived of their means
Of existence by wholesale lay offs
which Civil Works Administration has
announced we protest this callous ac-
ton which displays same disregard
for workers lives as was shown by
DollfusS in the recent Austrian
events and by Hitler and other fascist
oictators elsewhere. Your committee
processes interest and concern in con-
ditions of masses and claims readi-
ness to act independently OF and even
in opposition to Roosevelt.
Action speaks louder than words.
We demand that you act to prevent
further increase in mass misery by
securing emergency legislation to di-
rect President and C.WA. Admin
stration to continue. and extend job
program.
I'VE are calling upon workers and
unemployed to refuse to accept lay
offs, to resist layoffs en- mass, to pick
ct C.W.A. Administration offices, to
demand cash relief equivalent to
wages they have received for all work
ers laid of C.WA. jobs. We insist that
you favorably report out of COM
mittee and help secure enactment of
H.R. 1898 which would make govern
ment assume obligation for providing
means Of existence for all workers
unemployed through no fault of their
own
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23

q. S. Department Of Commerce bull
letin for February admits this steady
decline with the words, Factory en-
ployment and payrolls declined in
December for the third consecutive
month Mrs. Perkins tries to show
that the decline is smaller than
usual in January.
Furthermore, Mrs. Perkins conceals
the fact that seasonal increase
in January in a few industries pre-
vented much more drastic decline
in jobs. For example, in the anthra-
cite industry payrolls increased in
January 65.2 per cent over December
and jobs increased 17.6 per cent
Mrs. Perkins does not state that jan
uary is the one busiest month in this
industry.
Similarly for the auto industry,
where jobs increased 21.5 per cent
in January. The speculation in this
industry on higher prices, the tenn
porary factor of this miniature
BOOM" the effect of new models, is
not mentioned by Mrs. Perkins. Her
figures do not tell the story of wage
cuts under NJ r. A. codes in the auto
industry, of speed up. She does not
give the facts that increase in auto
production, simulated by government
subsidies, came out of the hide of the
workers. Nor does she dwell on the
fact that in spite of these increases,
which prevented sharper drop in
unemployment, hard coal mining was
only 64.1 per cent in January of what
it was in 1929 and automobiles 1913
per cent Of the number of jobs in
1925 in that industry.
The manner in which the Depart
ment OF Labor gives these figures,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
Another Half Million added obIe Army Perkins Figures

265,ooo persons during the month of
January" She adds, 1.-THE Civil
Works Administration provided jobs
for over 100000 people during the
week ending Feb. l." These figures
Of C. w. A. jobs are highly inflated,
but certainly the rapid rate of firing
of C. w. A. workers is not inflated.
With all Of the Recovery" meas
ures Of the new New Deal, jobs have
decreased by half million in the
month Of January. This does not
take into account the nearly million
workers already fired from G. w. A.
jobs by Roosevelt. And another
100000 are to be laid off in the COM
ing few weeks.
1t is indeed revealing commen-
tary on the Unemployment pro-
gram" of the New Deal" when we
turn to Mrs. Perkins figures for
building construction, to which the
P. w. A. was supposed to be given
the most jobs. 1.-THE decreases in
employment, which were of consider
able size, included the building con-
struction industry, with decrease of
1875 per cent" says the Department
of Labor.
Regarding Seasonal Effects
The Roosevelt government is hard
put to it to dress up these figures in
such way as to give the impression
that Recovery is proceeding Mrs.
Perkins turns some fantastic somer-
saults. She says that Employment
in manufacturing industry was char
acterized by marked seasonal de-
clines" But she does not state that
January is the fourth month in
which there was a progressive and
steady decline in employment. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23

The employers, Of course, are not
concerned with how many millions
Of jobless starve TO death. They are
concerned with their profits. At what
cost to the workers has the "busi-
ness" index for January risen (ac-
cording to preliminary es-imates) 3.3
points, remaining at 1919 of "Esti-
mated Normal (Annalist of Feb. 49,
at the same time that payrolls and
jobs have markedly gone down. At
the cost of increased unemployment,
Of wage cuts put over by the Roose-
welt N. R. A. codes, and at the cost
Of the speed-up. This Speed-up is
admitted in the New York Sun of
Feb. 20, which states: Thanks to
the growing use of more efficient
that production slightly
increased. while employment went
down. THAT turn is forced by the
rising costs Of doing business under
the N. r. A." states the Sun.
The figures of Perkins and the
business journals leave out these fac
tors which vitality concern the work
wage cuts under the N. R.
A. codes; the speed-up; the increase
in unemployment for the four months
past; and the fact that wages are
doubly cut by the initiation and rise
in prices Of necessities Of life at the
same time that wages have been kept
down under the N. R. A. codes.
One-half million were laid off in
January. A million G. w. A. work
ers were laid off in the month of
February. Speculative booms, subsi-
dies to employers, initiation, and
slight temporary increase in produc-
ton has given the employers more
profits-but at the cost to the work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23

Buttons sold to longshoremen in
Red Hook representing three months
dues, price So. Non-union members
are given button for the same price,
but to protect their racket, no local
number appears on the non-union
button.
one of the ten locals in Red Hook
distributes 1000 of these buttons
every three months.
Except for Local 80S membership
meetings of the italian and Spanish
workers are never called. Sick and
death benefits have not been paid
since 1881. And the I. L. A. officials
here claim they are broke, and that
the union needs money.
As shown in the previous articles
on racketeering by A. F.. of L. Off
Gals this is the constant excuse used
by these union leaders to place
crushing dues and taxes on the
shoulders Of unemployed and part
time workers in the union. But the
I. l.. A. here in Red Hook and and
Manhattan uses out and out extor-
ton.
Outside the paymaster's window at
every single pier in the port of New
York the boss stevedore or one Of
his agents will be found with a col
lection box in his hand. Sometimes
he tells the workers the money is for
a longshoreman who was injured on
the job. Sometimes he does not
bother, but the workers know that if
they do not put from 75c to a dollar
into that box, they will never again
get work on that pier, whether they
belong to the union or not.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
Great Western Sugar Dictates
Colorado Relief

GREELEY, Colo-Charges that the
Weld County relief and civil works
committee had Disseminated against
Spanish American residents and had
made practice of refusing federal
aid unless applicants first had the
recommendation Of a field agent Of
the Great Western Sugar Co., were
made by Benjamin GlaSsberg, federal
relief director, in dissolving that COM
mittee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
St. Louis Officials Get
Rich ON Graft; 100000
Paid for Office Fixtures

ST LOUIS, Mo.-Over 100000
went for typewriters and Office fix
lures here, to give work to the I'M
employed who got S13 a week for
8 weeks work City trucks are
rented to the CWA at s35-40 a day
and the drivers are paid SO cents
an hour; however, small owners get
$3.50 a day for their trucks. The
paid SIG each for wheel
that retail at II; war prices
Of 50 were paid for axes, picks and
shovels that retail at 65 cents
Mayor Dic!,man and his Alder
men have made an enormous
amount of graft at the expense of
the unemployed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
By A. s. PASCUAL

NEW YORK.-Under the Shadow
Of the Brooklyn Bridge just across
from Wall Street is Red Hook, where
by the most ruthless gangster tactics,
American Federation Of Labor Off
Gals have temporarily beaten 5000
longsnoremen into submission.
The officials make no pretenSe
about maintaining a union. Dues are
collected right on the docks from
members and non-members at the
rate of So for three months. If non
members, the workers are given q
button by the International Long
shoreman Association delegate, which
has no local number on it. Every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
SiInmOnsBed Strikers
Win lOP. C. Pay Rise
By Militant WalkOut
Gas Workers Protest
Against Co. Union

NEW YORK. -, A demand that
company unions in the New York
Edison and United Electric Light
and Power Companies be abolished
will be placed before a stockholders
meeting Of the Consolidated Gas Co.
by a delegation headed by Jerome
Count, counsel for the Brotherhood
Of Utility Employees.
The resolution to be presented by
Count charges that $4,000 have
been spent by the two companies
since last October to finance COM
pany unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
MORE MILLIONS TO RAILROADS

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Despite re-
cent announcements that the R. F..
O. funds nad been completely ex-
bausted by loans to railroads, banks
a..d insurance companies, the Nickel
Plate Railroad was granted a S.
028, 900 loan yesterday with which 10
buy new equipment. This follows a
s20O00,000 loan to the New York
Central, and large loans to Penn
sylvania and New Haven railroads.
inuail1collectiveCe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
Cebert, CP Organizer, to
Speak to SP-Led Group

CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 22.-B. K.
GeoeTt, organizer of the Communist
Party, has been invited to speak on
''FaScism and War" before the Chi
cago Workers Committee on Unem-
ployment, a Socialist organization,
Tonday, Feb. rs, at 730 p. m. at the
Oliver Institute, 1441 Cleveland Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
IMPRESSED BY DAILY
Traverse City, Mich.

Sirs:
Am enclosing money for subserip-
ton 20 the Daily Worker. was
much impressed by the news l read
in two issues that were passed 20 me.
If they continue the same, / think
you will be sending several here in
stead of one. Please start my sub.
at once.
One Of the Unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23

oscar Nelson
is one Of the
best sub-getters in
this active Unit.
Workers here
w an t to KIN W
a bout Commun-
ISM" writes Com
|rade Nelson. I
tell the workers
that the Daily
Worker explains
inc Problems Of
! he working lass.
L state openly
az DaN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
COFFEE DESTROYED IN BRAZIL

NEW YORK.-The New York Cof-
fee Exchange reports that $4,000 bags
of coffee were destroyed in Brazil
during the first two weeks in Feb
ruary. The total destroyed since
June, 1881, amounts to 26,4O1, 900 bags.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
ActiUe Sub-G etter
Finds "D0Iy'' Helps
Organise Workers

On Feb. goth, the Party Unit In
Corning, N. Y, sent in 5 new subs
to the Daily" in addition to
previous ones sent in earlier IN
the sub drive
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23

Send to the Daily Worker, so e.
18th St., New York City, names of
those you know who are not read
ers Of the DAILY" but who would
be interested in reading it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
NeUs Briefs

BALTIMORE BREAD STRIKE
BALTIMORE, Md = Several or
ganizations have declared boycott
on those bakeries which have in
creased the price Of bread The
bakeries have blamed the increase on
NRA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
A RESULT OF MASS PRESSURE

PRESSURE
The above letter written
William worker him
the Workers Unemployment r. 1884,
immediate bringing of
The workers Brooklyn wngass
in
the bill by appearing the demanding
that the bill organizations
country letters
demanding that they r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23

DSCAR NELSON that The Daily
Worker is the central organ Of
the Communist Party, and that
it explains Communism. We find
the Daily Worker a real helper in
organizing the workers in this
small town"
Keep up the good work, Com
rade Nelson!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
Canada Labor Defense
Plans Wide Campaign
to Release Tim Buck

TORONTO, Ont, (By MaiD. =
Meeting on the eve of great strike
struggles and increased terror and
in a period in which attacks on the
Canadian workers are rising stead
lily, the enlarged National Execu-
tive Committee of the Canadian
Labor Defense League has Just COM
pleted its two days sessions in this
city. About 80 leaders of the de-
Tense struggles from eight of the
ten districts were in attendance.
The high point of the plenum
was the release and arrival of Tom
Even, who was suddenly and quiet
ly let out of Kingston Penitentiary
by the government in an effort to
stave off the indignation of tens
Of thousands of workers which will
be raised tomorrow when mass
meetings will be held from coast to
coast to demand the release of Tim
Buck, secretary of the Communist
Party of Canada, who still remains
in the Penitentiary. A national
delegation. was elected from the
floor of the plenary sessions to go
to Ottawa with this demands dur
ing the week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09

'menC 10 grant a permit Tor the mass
meeting at Reyburn Plaza for
Saturday, Oct. 20.
Despite the refusal to grant a
permit, the Unemployment Council
has stated that plans are being
speeded and the unemployed and
relief workers will mass at Reyburn
Plaza, Saturday, Oct. 10, at 2 pm.
The committee Of one hundred, re-
Gently elected to place the demands
Of Philadelphia's unemployed be-
fore the city, will report at the
meeting.
Speakers at the mass meeting will
outline the platform of the political
parties. Communist candidates will
speak on the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill, the bill for
genuine unemployment insurance
which was initiated by the Com
munist Party and is incorporated in
the Communist election platform.
All organizations have been asked
by the Councils to elect delegates
to the emergency meeting Sunday
where plans will be made for
full mobilization Of all workers for
the mass demonstration on Oct. 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
Forty Workers Strike
in Cold Storage Plant
of Atlantic Fisheries

PROVINCETOWN, Mass, Oct. 8.
Forty cold storage workers here
are striking for wage increases
while company officials are unsuc-
cessfully trying to recruit scabs to
replace them.
Workers at the Colonial plant of
the Atlantic Coast Fisheries re-
fused to start in work after their
demands for 371a cents an hour for
packers and laborers and SIPS per
hundredweight for SINNERS had
been refused them by Frank Rowe.
superintendent of the two company
plants.
Jesse D. Rogers, selectman in
charge of relief, has advised unem-
ployed fishermen, applying to him
for work on the E. R. A. project, to
seek jobs at the Colonial. Instead
of trying to scab the fishermen re-
ported their advice from Rogers to
the strikers.