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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
Ben Cold, Furriers' Leader, Answers
Attack of Editor of Socialist Paper
Police Collaboration and
Fraud Elections Re
vealed by Leader

think so perhaps you can use your
influence to have the Council elect
a committee to meet with a COM
mittee of ours and present the facts
before a meeting Of furriers?
Now a Few Questions!
l. Are you aware, Brother Chanin,
that the recent descriptions in the
ranks of the bosses association, the
Code Authority and the Joint Coun-
Gil are an outcome of the inability
of the united front of these bosses,
scabs and socialists to create a
union of furriers for the Joint Coun-
Gil?
2. Do you know that last week
there was a strike of the "'sluggers
committee" in the Joint? They de-
manded their back pay and they al
so were in fear that Dubinsky's or
ganization committee was moving
in to take their jobs?
3. Do you know that the profess
sional sluggers that work for the
Joint are occasionally employed by
the bosses to break strikes in other
trades? You can inquire of the
Yipsels, they will tell you. A few
Yipsels actually charged that the
gangsters from the Council worked
as gorillas in a strike of an electric
shop?
4. Can you present an open finan-
cial report of the income and ex-
penditures of the right wing union?
5. Do you know that the leaders
of the Council are on the payroll of
the bosses association?
6. Do you know that the bosses
have ordered the leaders of the
Council not to make any fuss about
the July raises and, they were
obeyed?
We are prepared, if Chanin is
willing, to furnish all the facts bear
ing upon these accusations to a
committee from the labor move
ment-on condition, if these charges
are proven to be well founded, that
that scab agency known as the Joint
Council shall go out of business.
In Conclusion
Why should Gold not pen enthu-
siastic articles about the Industrial
Union? With the record of con-
structive work and achievement be-
fore him, and the example of the
furriers, who with the bosses, police
gangsters terror and persecution
hunger and misery, enlisted against
them, have succeeded time and
again in thrashing their enemies,
building their union and carrying
on stubborn fight for their live
lihood and their conditions-is that
not source of inspiration for any
leader of workers?
Bear in mind, Brother Chanin,
that the heroic labor leader and
martyr, Morris LANCER, sprang from
the ranks of the furriers. Why then
do you begrudge me the enthusiasm
that 1 feel when 1 write about our
warriors? We leave you untroubled
to your vexation at the frequent de-
feats of your socialist union. You
ought to in turn refrain from be-
grudging our enthusiasm at the col
lective army of brave furriers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
Cites Instaces of Scab
Herding by Joint
Council
By BEN GOLD

] WCChCl AfaNohCLiIlEJs puDllSIl6Q ny
the Socialist ''Verband," there is a
searching" analysis of the situation
among the furriers, by the editor,
H. Chanin (Kirzhner).
Says Chanin: When I open the
pages of the Freiheit and see Ben
Gold spreading himself out in en-
thusiastic articles about the Fur
riers Industrial Union and how pow
erful the left wing is on the fur
rier front. I get a sneaking feeling
that Gold is whistling to keep up
his courage. and that his stuff really
ought to be read backwards.
The worthy editor goes on to say
that when further begin to indulge
in threats, curses and imprecations
against the right wing, that feeling
OF his is usually confirmed at the
same time by palpable advances on
the part of the Joint Council.
So much for a socialists ANALYSIS.
proof, and feelings. In passing it
would be worth while to ask the
worthy 'genosse" whether Gold ever
refrained from attacking the lead
erS of the Joint Council as well
as the leaders of the right wing in
general. Chanin well knows that
when Gold was still in the SIP. and
with the right wing union, he did
not treat their leaders with silk
gloves, nor did he ever hesitate to
show up the corruption and callous-
ness Of the right wing leaders. He
was constantly aiming blows at their
policy and tactic of class collabora-
ton and betrayal. The point of this
sudden discovery of Chanin's is be-
You'd us. If he can derive any con-
ISOLATION from that lemon he is well
come to suck on 1t as long as he
pleases.
Some Facts
We are willing to supply Brother
Chanin with few authentic facts;
we will let him investigate these
facts, although we fear that they
will lead the editor of the "Awak-
ener" (Which seems to awaken no
pody) TO some discoveries he will
not relish.
First. a few items about the activ-
tiles of the Furrier Industrial Union.
During July
It settled 400 comnIa;p,s
1t held 500 shop meetings.
II y;s;ted 1940 sbors
Led IN shon str;LeS-won thasa
~ shop strikes
Organized "a omen shons
Reinstated % fred vorLers
Collected wayeS for ,ba worLars
as follows.
Rack nav To the ,o;n,,nvr, SoAa &c
Rack nav for legal holidays I2e IN
Wages O00 M
Total 90 o6a oe
Tn 148 shons o52 workers roceived
.Tulv raises RANGING fropo % - s1s
a week This is only The besinr;ns :.
of our camna;er for ircreases II
is the fruit of only one roontl,, =
activity
p lnose iaSIs siiouio " eiloush Ior
49, "iiia ~ ee' soiile iooa
ooou' oui acViVi'ies. Inns Hlino
you' uui ne d scveie ciisis III Tic
u ioiS u aug "iieii iiuiluieuS %
Hl,opo "le iuie' anu liuiioIeus VI
oeiiois opei@ Ce olhy curing lSoiateo
uays ~ 'iie week. Inns, nii,io you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
Trade Union
Directory

MARINE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Business meeting.
Note: = Formerly an educational meeting
was held every other Wednesday but the
present situation demands weekly business
meetings.
Thursday-Open air meeting at evening.
Friday, 4 p.m.-Waterfront Unemploy-
ment Council Business meeting.
Sunday-Port Organizational Committee
Of Union meets at IL pm. 3 p. m. Sunday,
open Forum.
MEETINGS OF UNITED SHOE AND
LEAHER WORKERS UNION
Shoe Trade Board meets every wednes-
day at pm.
Shoe Grievance and Membership Com
mittee meets every Monday at pm.
Slipper Grievance Membership Commit
tee meets every Thursday at 6 pm.
Stitchdown Trade Board meets every
Monday at 6 pm.
Shoe Repair Trade Board meets every
Monday at pm.
Executive Board meets every Thursday
at pm.
Joint Council meets every second Friday
Of the month at pm.
All meetings are held at the head
quarters Of the union, % W. 18th ST.
BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS. DECO
RAToRS AND PAPERHANGERs OF
AMERICA
Local Union 2el, every Friday. at 2lO E.
1o4th St., N.Y.C.
Local Union 4s9, every Wednesday. at
Labor Temple, s4th st. and 2nd Ave.
N.Y.C.
Local Union $40, every Monday at
Labor Temple, 18th st. and 2nd Ave,
N.Y.C
Local Union se2. every Monday, at 2ld
E. seth St, N.YC.
Local Union 905, every Friday, at Hunts
Point Palace, Bronx, NYC.
Local Union 101l, every Friday, at 1Oe
E. 10th ST., N.Y.C.
Painters Rank and File Protective Assoc
citation meets every End and 9Th Thursday
OF the month at Labor Temple. slth
st. and and Ave, Room T.
In the above locals there are organized
groups Of the Painters Rank ana File
Protective Association.
Brownsviile-Meets every Wednesday At
521 Hopkinson Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
Bronx-Meets every Wednesday at 1899
Boston Road, Bronx, NY
SHOE REPAIEERs MEET
Every first and third Monday, pm. st
Union Hall, % w. 18th 81.
Brooklyn Section Meets-Eevery Wednes-
day latter work. at 1870 Myrtle Avenue.
Brooklyn
Bronx Section Meets-Every Monday (af-
ter work. at 1882 Boston Road.
Tell all Shoe Repair Workers in YOUR
neighborhood to Join and attend Union
Meetings.
TAXI DRIVERS UNION OF GREATER
NEW WORK
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
Unity of Employed and
Unemployed Is Stressed
By a Steel Worker Correspondent

DV q SUtEE correspondence
so. CHICAGO. III. = Time and
again steel workers and their fanli-
lies had been faced with problems
of class struggle in many ways. A
good deal of the workers know that
we have to organize. Those work
ers who participated in the east
preparation for strike should double
their organization work. and or
ganize workers that are on part
time and unemployed in unemploy-
ment Councils.
In that way we fight together for
relief and against evictions and
starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
With the Trade
Union Papers

BY PHILIP STERLING
The Shoe and Leather Worker,
Vol. 1, No. 8; Aug, 1884. Off
ciaI organ of the New York Dist.
Local rs. Published monthly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
TAXI DRIVERS UNION OF GREATER
NEW YORK

Headquarters go W. 45th St: shop
chairmen meet Monday; Active members
meet Wednesday; Shop Chairmen's Execu-
tive Committee meets Friday. All meet
lngs VIII be held in the evening at the
headquarters of the union.
JOIN THE SHOE WORKERS CENTER
in your neighoorhood.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27

10000 New Readers by September
means 10000 Additional Recruits
for Organized Class Struggle!
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

toad. 1t also disclosed two cases
of diphtheria and no on knows
how many seam rabbits. The
Militia soon cleaned up the un-
sanitary mess and jailed several
leaders. Some one later made
the mistake of turning them
loose, but all humanity is sub
ject to occasional errors.
At the present hour and min
ute, Sunday, IL 80 p. M, August
IL in the year A. D. "a Depres-
sion) we still have the strike,
we still have martial law and
the militia. And, very unfor-
tunately, still have the dearth
of brains required to settle
the strike or the courage to or
der and enforce a strictly truck
drivers election.
What saps we mortals be!
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

A gentleman, Mr.. Lawson,
of the Minnesota State Fed
Grafton of Labor, speaking
over WCCO Monday night ex-
pressed himself as dubious OF
communist activities in local Ia
Dor circles. To guy-rope his be-
lief, he quoted from a promi-
nent Catholic prelate who de-
cried alarm at the communist
menace. Both gentlemen would
do well to peruse a few commu-
mist periodicals, phamphlets,
handbills, ''Organizers" and
"Daily Workers. The commu-
nists themselves supply the
proof necessary to satisfy any
man willing to read. The "red
menace" is. no camoufaged
mackerel hauled across the trail.
It is Haunted in scores Of red
publications. The prelate and
the local "doubting Thomas
can easily establish the commu-
nist's claim to semi-control of
this country's organized labor
movement-if they so desire.
Perhaps they don't.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

One sure way of reducing the
burden of public relief is to root
out the nonresident commu-
nists and buns! No other city in
the U. S. is so generous with the
taxpayers money in the matter
of the unknown public" relief,
as Minneapolis. Demand a
check-up and a show-up. If the
applicant cannot produce evil
dence of citizenship except
through the "guest" book of
the Union City Mission, then
thumbs down on the chow and
cots.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

A lady writing in Monday
nights Journal expresses her.
self as amazed that the minis
tiers do nothing toward calling
attention to the communist
threat against our government.
The lady should remember that
the fall of mama ceased many
centuries ago and ministers
must eat, and few men care to
slap their meal ticket in the
face for a principle.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

When you feel your palate
itching for a luscious chicken
dinner and your feet feel like
patting the hardwood and you
know that an evenings good
music would calm down your
nerves, why not give the Har-
lem Breakfast Club a "try?'
You III find their ad on another
page. You III be welcomed with
trae Southern hospitality.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

If the embryonic scriveners
on the "Organizer" staff owned
a vocabulary in excess of the
words, rats" "scabs,"
"finks," ''murderers" and
"killers" they might, if given
time ,lnothing less than ninety
days. turn out a semi-intellS>
gent sheet.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18
From A Working Man
To the Editor of The journal :

To the Editor of The journal:
There is no question but that
laws have been broken and or
der disrupted in the strike. Nor
is there any question in my
mind as to the communistlc
character, if not affiliations, OF
the leaders of this union How
ever, it is hard to believe that
a few radical leaders could lead
several thousand workers in a
tie up of this sort, if working
conditions and wages were any,
where near satisfactory. The
communists have been accused
of fomenting strikes and riots
throughout the country, and |
believe rightly so. But if the
working class were satisfied
with conditions, these agitators
would make very little head
way.
1 am a working man myself,
employed by a company who
claims to pay unusually high
wages, yet it is easy to see that
the working men are coming to
the place where radicalism has
an appeal for them.
It is hard for people to think
straight when they are harassed
by debts and unable to supply
their families with the neces-
stiles of life. Especially is this
true when they see their en-
ployers living in luxury and ap-
parently suffering no i'll effects
from our economic distress, ex-
cept perhaps the necessity OF
combining their bet on a golf
shot to five dollars instead OF
ten.
It is not hard to see that
many employers have taken adj
vantage of the surplus of labor
and have driven their wage
scales down as far ais possible.
If some of these self-styled bust
ness and industrial leaders were
the only ones to suffer by such
ignorant panaceas as Governor
Olson's cooperative common
wealth, I would say let it come.
Unfortunately, however, turn
ing the management of business
and industry over to the type OF
self-seeking political climbers
who advocate such a move,
would only make matters worse
for everybody.
Unless the attitude of greedy
industrialists and equally
greedy and corrupt politicians
changes soon, I can see only one
outcome and that outcome is not
pleasant to contemplate.
Roy w. Anderson.
August 8.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

Before there can ever be
peace between employe and en-
ployer the communist element
will have to be famed out Of Ia
Dor circles. If labor has the in
telligence the Creator gave a
rabbit, it will attend to the fan
ming itself.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18
WHAT SAPS We MORTALS BE

Resume of Strike Incidents Accidents and Occurrences
Thereof and the Pauciy Of Brains The Citizens
Alliance Almost Forced to Exchange Headquarters With
Communists-Exchange or Fight They Didn't Exchange!
Can It be- That Like the Poor We Shall Have Martial Law
with Us Always?"
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

communist nlt-WltS cOulQ tnlnk
them up.
The employers had been pay
ing membership dues for years
to their union-the Citizens Al
lance. That organization was
about as active as a crutch tap
dancer. Naturally it snapped
awake when the communists be-
gan bouncing concrete and iron
pipes off its heads and belabor-
ing it through the radical press.
Even a rabbit will fight in self
defense. The Alliance either
had to fight or invite the COM
munists to exchange headquar-
tiers with it.
Some "smart guy" with a re-
ceding forehead and protrud-
ing ears in the labor movement
conceived the brilliant plan of
sending out conveys of "peace-
full pickets' armed with what
ever could be found in a junk
yard. These were to ask a truck
driver to take his pick between
laying down some American
money for a membership in STA
or getting his ears cuffed off
with a club. They were instruct
ed to disregard all law not ema-
mating from CHIC of the "strik-
ing truckmen.'' Rights of pri-
vate citizens were abrogated,
streets and highways were bar
ricaded, farmers denied access
to the public markets and pri-
waite stocks of edible stuff found
in confscated cars, were to be
considered as legitimate plum
der by the strikers. -" 1t was a
lovely racket.
Our local police force having
been deciminated to the dimen-
sion of a skeleton by ECONOMY
experts and sniveling, parsi-
monious citizens, numbers ap-
proximately four hundred and
fifteen men. The sheriff's office
could, in a pinch, supply ten
more. The communists sent out
a "call" for recruits. These
poured in from every quarter,
Inevitably the forces Of Moscow
and the forces of Law, FLASHED.
Law was outnumbered a hun.
dred to one. Thirty uniformed
police were "beaten up" and
sent to hospitals. Several hun.
dred men were employed as
special officers. They were in
civilian clothes, armed with
badges of authority and clubs
no fire arms. The police were
instructed to avoid trouble. Dit.
to the special officers. A second
clash came. Two men, both spe.
cial officers, were beaten to
death. One of them, G. Arthur
Lyman, was deliberately muir
dered. Knocked down and un.
conscious, a ''striker" deliber.
ately crushed his skull with ar
iron pipe-and then ran like the
cur he was.
At mass meeting held short
ly after Lyman death was an
nounced, a farmer-labor con
gresham, F. H. Shoemaker
told the audience that he haG
wired Satan and had received I
reply stating that the murdered
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

and talk this strike matter
over with some semblance of
calmness and absence of lurid-
ity9 I'm no employer, own no
truck, no delivery hack, buy my
chickens ready picked, have
pork chops for holiday meals
instead of turkeys, because /
can get three small chops for a
jit per chop and I couldn't buy
a turkeys gizzard for that
amount. In brief, I'm one of
the fellows who's Gin the mid
die"
I've been a member of labor
organizations, never failed to
back them in any fight they
ever made for improved work
ing conditions and increased
pay until this time-the first
time in more than a quarter of
century.
Labor gave me no choice this
season. They gave the employ
ers no choice. They gave the
public no choice-and they beat
themselves to any choice at all.
If the entire summers deplor-
able affair was a barbecue, the
strikers couldn t even dip a
spoon in the gravy. The best
they can hope to get, is the worst
of it. They had the employers
by the hair until they allowed
the communists to chisel in and
kick them loose! No question
about this. Not a chance for
debate.
The sleaders" made the mis-
take of listening to the Browns.
Dunn (e)s, Skoglunds, Karsons,
Bartletts and Davis These
made the few sensible local
leaders and the working
class believe that all they'd
have to do to locate three chick
ems in every pot and limousine
in every lunch bucket, was to
make "demand" for the local
industrial world and it would
be delivered.
Local 574 was organized. The
employers were not organized.
l never saw men so completely
f1abbergasted and helpless as
the employers against whom the
strike" was aimed. They ran
around in small circles. wrung
hands and almost wept. They
were more than willing to COM
promise. The workers had them
by the neck--and didn't have
sense enough to know it. Fiji
teen cents worth of secondhand
brains in the labor movement or
enough to give a bottle fly the
headache, distributed among
the labor ''leaders" and the
Nav strike would have ended
with the workers receiving their
wage increase and their "short-
err hour" demands. There s
where the total absence of grey
matter proved the undoing of
the master minds" (vacuums)
in the labor movement.
The bosses had chance to
catch their second wind. The
demands poured in on them in
sndless.; stream-as fast as the
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-08-18

the crowd cheered. Try and re-
member that Shoemaker is not
republican or a democratic
congressman, but a farmer-LA-
Dor party man. His sturdy,
muscular form was familiar
sight among the rioting mobs
except for such periods as he
was in court "explaining" to
one of our numerous judges,
why he rammed a strangers car
or cracked his knuckles against
some ones nose.
The death of Lyman had a
calming influence on the mob.
The strike was settled" in a
few days. The day after the
settlement, the same crew OF
brainless wonders began agitat-
ing for another, or the second
edition of the same strike. By
the middle of July it was ripe
for pulling. 1t was pulled.
The police had learned their
lesson. When called to con-
front iron pipe-armed "peace-
full pickets" they took their
shot guns along. The clash
came.
The wonderfully peaceful
pickets'' rammed a truck with
gravel gondola and then
grabbed uniformed policeman
and shanghaied him. They beat
him numerically. The police,
determined to rescue their fell
low officer, fired over the heads
of the mob. Nothing doing!
The next volley went high but
the third went "leg hunting"
Two strikers who neglected
to stay at home or attend the
carnival on stills, were pune
tured in vital spots and died,
unfortunately.
The howl that went up from
the radical and communist
ranks was enough to deafen the
Patagonians. They yelle d
"murderers" until their tonsils
collided with their esophagus.
The turmoil was terrific! They
demanded" that every police
officer in the city be drawn and
quartered. Some of the more
vociferous mentioned boiling in
oil but there is state and gov
eminent tax on oil so that plan
was discarded. Communists
hate taxes as fervently as the
devil hates holy water.
Headquarters were opened at
the edge of the downtown dis
trict. Streets were roped off.
Citizens who had the temerity
to imagine they had any right
to the use Of streets passing
GHQ were detoured.
Some one suggested that the
governor should be asked to re-
inforce the local police officers
with detachment of militia, as
was done during the May
"strike. The request was evil
IDENTIFY made but the results
were somewhat different than
anticipated:
Martial law was declared and
the militia moved in. They are
still with us and they have
maintained order. As long as
they continue to stay with us,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-02

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ing the attention of scientists in all
parts of the country.

ing the attention of scientists in all
parts of the country.
More than seventy-f1ve scientists
have contributed original papers
which will be read as a part Of the
three-day program. In addition,
large number nave submitted papers
by title. There will become a part
of the minutes of the anniversary
meeting but will not be read.
Several universities and industrial
houses will provide exhibits display
ing recent research which they have
done. Purdue university will dis
play some of its recent findings Of
a scientific nature which will bene-
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Butler is making elaborate prep
arations for the entertainment OF
its guests. Members of the general
entertainment committee are DR..
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DR.. K. S. Means. and DR.. H. G. Mes
ter. Day sessions Of the convention
will be held in Arthur Jordan Me-
mortal hall and evening sessions will
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State officers of the academy
who will be in general charge when
the convention opens, are, DR.. j. A.