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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
NRA Aids Furniture
Boss To Break Strike

NEW YORK-The MIRA. showed
its teeth as an instrument of the
bosses this week in its decision on a
strike called by the Furniture Work
ers' Industrial Union against the
Central Bed and Bedding Corpora
ton following the discharge of a
worker without notice or reason.
The NR.A. ruling ordered the
strike called off and picketing stopped
Immediately. Although the bosses
action continued a violation of the
agreement with the union, the MA.
ruled that two strikers shall not be
reinstated and that the scabs remain
at work for two weeks longer.
The employers were ordered to con-
fer with the union on the basis OF
this ruling and to call the union
when workers were needed. The de-
cision was made despite emphatic
protests by union representatives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Militant Students
Close Convention;
s. P. Blocks Unity

NEW YORK.-The National Stu
dent League third annual convention
just completed at Howard Univer-
sity, Washington, was attended by
2S7 delegates from IA states. The
delegates represented organizations
and student groups in A colleges and
Il high schools from Yale to the
University Of Southern California.
In contrast to this, the conven-
ton of the student group of the
League for Industrial Democracy, the
Socialist organization, meeting in
the Friends Meeting House in
Washington, a small hall, had only
about 40 delegates in all and about
30 visitors at the opening session
Thursday night.
The N. S. L. convention advanced
at least two steps forward. First, in
cementing the friendship, especially
on social basis, of the Negro stu
dents of Howard with the white stu
dents and presenting the N. S. l..
program of militant struggle against
discrimination and JIM Crowism in
the most favorable light to the How
ard students and the Negro students
throughout the country in particular
Second, in creating desire for stu
dent unity in the League for In
dustrial Democracy as result of
numerous calls for unity both by
words and actions by the N. S. L..
since its organization. The l.. I. D.
convention is, at the present writing,
split about 40 per cent for uniting
both organizations on basis of a
militant program of action such as
the N. S. LIS and so per cent
against. The unity is opposed by the
IL. I. D. leaders, Sweetland, Gomberg
and Lash.
The N. S. L. convention adopted
resolutions to carry out their pro-
gram of action of the three con-
centration issues-war, retrenchment
and the problems Of the Negro stu
dents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
''Daily" Agents Asked
to Insert Supplement-

NEW YORK.-To quicken ship
ments Of bundle orders for the
anniversary edition Of the Daily
Worker, the 16-page supplement-
magazine will not be inserted into
the regular edition at the Daily"
plant.
All those receiving bundle or
ders are asked to insert the sup
plement before distributing the
special issue. The ten page regu-
lar edition and the supplement-
will be shipped in the same
bundle.
Districts are asked to check up
Immediately on orders sent by
their Units and Sections directly
to the Office of the Daily Worker
so as to avoid Implications in the
main order by the District.
All orders for this 26-page issue
MUST be in The office of the
Daily Worker not later than Jan.
4th.
Rush all your greetings at once
TO make sure that they will APP
pear in the Jan. 9Th anniversary
edition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Needle Workers Celebrate
Fifth Anniversary of Union

NEW YORK.-"We send our en-
emles greetings for the New Year
greetings that viii make them
quake in their strongholds This
vast audience of needle trades work
ers sends them greetings, informing
them that we are ready to fight in
the sixth year of the existence of
our union as We did in the previous
hve." With these words, Irving
Potash, secretary, opened the fifth
anniversary celebration Of the found
ing of the Needle Trades Workers
industrial Union at Mecca Temple,
New Years eve.
Thousands of needle trades work
ers, from every branch Of the trade,
hundreds from the A. t. of L. unions,
1ammed the Temple to hear the re-
ports Of their leaders, Louis Hyman,
Ben Gold, n. Hoffman and others.
Charles krumbein, bringing greet
ings in the name of the New York
district of the Communist Party, re-
ceived q tremendous ovation, when
introduced by Hoffman. The audience
rose to its feet in tribute to the
Party that has given it the leaders
who have forged an instrument of
struggle for $4,000 needle trades
workers in the Industrial Union, and
who also represent tens of thousands
Of workers blackjacked into the A.
T. Of L. unions.
Highly significant of the gathering
was the tremendous ovation given to
j. Holmes, Negro worker and head
of the Negro committee of the union,
Holmes stated that "the Negro
workers organized by our Industrial
Union see. as I have seen, that the
white workers carry out in practice
The slogans and program Of equality,
even as this past week in Washing
ton, when the furriers in the Cham
Der of Commerce restaurant, at the
n. r. A. hearings, forced the man
ager to feed the Negro delegates
with them. We are ready to 90 out
and win the masses of Negro work
ers to unity with the white workers"
Louis Lyman, president of the
union, brought the audience to its
feet when, after outlining the pres
ent position of the union, he stated
''as long as there are two classes in
this society, there will be Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
lighting with the revolutionary work
ers for the overthrow of capitalism
and for the establishment of a work
ers and farmers government"
Rose Wortis spoke in the name of
the Trade Union Unity League and
the mention OF the new United Shoe
and Leather Workers Union by her
brought forth cheering from the
entire hall. She greeted the needle
trades workers as members of the
first union of the T. U. U. L., which
now embraces over 10000 members.
The Morning Freiheit, Jewish rev.
dictionary paper, was loudly cheered
as Moisaaye Olgin, the editor, brought
greetings of the revolutionary press
md the Jewish Bureau Of the Com
N unist Party4
ghe ba94fsr Of the district council
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02

American workers are greatly inteas
c5tsd in professional spots far tod
much, in fact, for their own Glaze
interest. Does this mean that tn
Daily Worker, a Communist news
paper, a newspaper that must +
tbs agitstor and organizer of
American workers and farme j,
should report professional sports id
the same fashion as the capitalist
press? That would mean to ignord
the whole function Of sports today,
to accept the theory that sports are
somehow neutral" above classes, \
to accept the theory of the demo
crazy Of the gymnasium" one of the
favorite Y.M.C.A doctrines. Do you
honestly believe that you and l. are
equals" OF J. p. Morgan once we
all put on gym shorts?
"NON'T you feel that we have
y something of repetition o.
the old bread and circus theory
when developments on the Eastern
borders of the Soviet Union are
pushed Off the front page in favor
Of 3-cOlunn Worlds Series oox
scores? Dent you think that there
Is a union smashing motive in the
building Of a ball field and bleach
ers at the Endicott-J johnson plant
in Binghanit0n, n. Y? If you don't,
the owner certainly does. He stated
publicly that the ball field was Gin
sursnce against strikes" and wouIq
develop plant morale" 4
"Of course, neither Newhouse nor
the present cOlumnist care for
ridiculous extremes. One can't Very
welI-and we don't try to--eIaSS-
angle a double play on the balm
field. A nice double play is a nice
double play, whether made by
Ryan, Critz and Terry Of the
Giants or Smith, Jones and Brown
of the Daily Worker A. c., for ex-
ample. But it is true. however, that
in each case, the teams serve a
different purpose, yes, different
CLASS purpose.
In the case of the Giants, I don't
believe land don't say) that Blonde
Ryan, for example, is a conscious
agent Of the capitalist class seeking
to dope the workers with his swell
Unfolding. That would be the Shee-
est nonsense. But when a col
of dozen Blonde Ryans and
Terrys, with the aid of hundreds
sport writer's, rivet the attention
millions OF workers upon themsel
rather than upon unemploynt
wage cuts and wars, then we
draw the conclusion that Ryan, ct
unconsciouSly serve the purposes
the ruling class. Therefore,
necessity of the Daily Worker coz
ing sports in a manner different fl
the capitalist press.
AS far as labor sports activit
are concerned, you'll see plenty
it in the column. And how abe
some news Of labor-or farmer
sports activity in Hillsboro?
Comradely,
81 GERSON.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02

tC0httIlued from PGge ]
employees, to stop the mandatory
salary increases OF teachers and
Civil Service employees, TO CUT
RELIEF, to tighten the attempt to
outlaw strikes and saddle compul-
sorry (strike breaking, wage cHtting)
arbitration upon the workers.
The Communist Party calls upon
the masses Of employed and unem-
ployed workers. upon the city en-
ployes and small home owners TO
REMIND MAYOR LACUARDIA OF
HIS ELECTION PLEDGES AND
PROMISES. OF ADEQUATE RE-
LIEF TO THE UNEMPLOYED, NO
WAGE CUTS, ETC. THE COMNGU-
MIST PARTY CALLS UPON THE
MASSES IN THE SHOPS, IN THE
UNIONS, UPON THE UNEM-
PLOYED AND C. w. A. WORKERS
TO ORGANIZE AND FIGHT FOR:
NOT A CENT TO THE BANKERS!
ADEQUATE CASH RELIEF TO
ALL UNEMPLOYED WITHOUT
DISCRIMINATION!
AGAINST SALARY OR WAGE
CUTS OF ANY KIND!
AGAINST ANY INCREASE IN
SUBWAY FARES!
NO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST
NEGROES, ESPECIALLY ON JOBS
OR RELIEF!
FOR THE UNLIMITED RIGHTS
OF THE WORKERS TO ORGAN
IzE, STRIKE AND PICKET!
AGAINST INJUNCTIONS AND
COMPULSORY ARBITRATION!
FOR UNEMPLOYMENT AND So
CIAL INSURANCE AT THE Elk
PENSE OF THE GOVERNMENT
AND EMPLOYERS!
AGAINST ANY CURTAuMENT
OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES!
That reductions in jobless relief
and wage cuts are looming under the
LaGuardia program was definitely
indicated yesterday by LaGuardia's
statement that "a major operation is
necessary to balance the budget"
The City Budget is balanced by
guaranteeing the payment of the
$100,G00,000 in interest and loan pay
ments which it pays the Wall Street
bankers every year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Philadelphia nitgoods
Strikers Choose LID.
To Defend Their Cases

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-one hun
dred A. F. of L. knitgoods workers
now on strike at the Joseph B. Haber
Knitgoods shop followed the example
of their victorious brothers in the
cleaners and dyers locals, by acclaim
ing the International Labor Defense
of the Philadelphia district as their
official defense organization.
The endorsement of the LID. was
won as a result of the spirited mass
struggle conducted in the defense of
two arrested strikers, Joe Velluce and
Tony Murillo, who are out on $1,000
bail each, furnished by the LID.
The knitgoods strikers are affil-
lated with the A. F. of L. in Local
1853. After welcoming M. Stern,
district organizer of the LID, a
defense committee of three strikers
was elected to work in conjunction
with the LID.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Daily Management
Apologies For Lack
OF Heat In Coliseum

NEW YORK-The Manage
ment of the Daily Worker apollo
gizes to the many workers pres
ent at the tenth anniversary cele-
bration in the Bronx Coliseum
Saturday night for the discomfort
caused by the breaking down of
the heating plant in the large hall.
The Coliseum was rented with
the assurance that the heating
plant would be in perfect work
ing order. The workers are to be
congratulated for their splendid
revolutionary enthusiasm at the
celebration despite the discomfort
of cold.
The Daily Worker management
assures the workers that there
will be no repetition Of such
shortening at any future affair
held by it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Starvation and
Suicide Take Toll
of I'm employed

NEW YORK.-Major Ellis Robert
son, 81, veteran Of the Spanish
American and World Wars, commit
ted suicide at his home, 80 Jorslemon
St, Brooklyn, by shooting himself
with an army revolver.
His wife said he had been des-
pendent since last May when ne lost
his job as paint salesman and
had been unable to find work since.
A poorly clad unidentified man
about so years old, was found dead
yesterday at Bank and Washington
SITS.
Ann Clark, 70 year old Negro, was
found dead in her home, 29O Bay St.,
Staten Island, dead from starvation
and exposure. Investigators found no
heat nor any food in the entire build
ing which houses several Negro
families.
Fred Nordham, homeless unem-
ployed worker, collapsed yesterday
from starvation He was taken to
Bellevue Hospital where he said
that he had not eaten for several
days.
CHICAGO. - Unemployed an d
homeless, Mrs. Sylvia Lacoco, at
tempted suicide by shooting herself
in front of the Chicago Lawn police
station.
SAYRE, Pa, Dec. 29.-Wayne Ia
lada, unemployed world war veteran,
and father of five children, died OF
starvation in his shack here. Tall
ada, who was stricken with rheu-
matism while in camp and from
which he had never fully recovered,
had applied for veterans compensa-
ton, but had been refused.
STAPLEHURST, Neb.-Enlil Rezac.
unemployed world war veteran, shot
and killed himself here rather than
see his wife and children starve.
Rezac, who has had been wounded
in France. had been receiving $45
monthly compensation until April
when he was cut off after the pas
sage Of Roosevelt's National Economy
Act.
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho-Unable
TO live with his reduced pension, F.
Dahlgren, unemployed veteran, killed
himself here.
MINNEAPOLIS. = An unemployed
worker was found frozen to death
near the Hooverville shacks on the
bank of the Mississippi River. The
temperature was Is degrees below
zero.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Local z Officials
Protest" Overtime,
Don't Stop Pay Cuts
Left Wing Demands
Action To Maintain
Union Conditions

NEW YORK. - Following on the
heels of the protest" meeting called
by Local % Of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union,
where Zimmerman played the role
of his Majesty's opposition to the
Dubinsky Hickman controlled Joint
Board, the sample makers, who had
been compelled to work overtime in
violation of the code and the agree
ment, were handed a wage cut of
50 to So a week.
The meeting called by the thinner
man clique last Thursday night rail-
roaded through a resolution which,
while pretending to oppose overtime
allowed to the bosses by the N. R. A.
and the Joint Board offered no con-
crete program of action against the
violations of the code and the agree
ment in the shops. The left wing
resolution was suppressed by bull
doing tactics, although the majority
of those present favored it.
In a statement yesterday, the left
wing opposition scored the thinner
man tactics and demanded that rep
resentatives of labor withdraw from
the code authority or demand equal
representation. Otherwise the left
wing group declares the presence of
q small committee representing labor
serves only to put labor's stamp of
approval on every action of the N.
R. A. code authority against the
workers.
''The manner in which the press
reported the meeting indicates that
in no quarter was the action of the
Zimmerman administration taken
seriously, but as mere stage play"
declares the Left Wing group. THE
Forward Socialist daily, said that
the action of the Executive Board
took the wind out of the sails of
the Left Wing opposition by calling
the meeting. This merely cor
roborates our statement that Zin-
merman's intention is to divert the
dressmakers from the real struggle
against wage cuts"
The Left Wing opposition calls on
all dressnakers to mobolize in every
shop to resist the wage cuts and
support the policy as outlined in the
resolution of the Left Wing, which
Zimmerman feared to bring before
the meeting for a vote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
$4,000 Registered For
2,793 Civil Works Jobs
lBy a Worker Correspondent


FAIRMONT, w. Va, Jan. 2. = Al
though 10000 unemployed have reg
istered for Civil Works jobs here, the
quota assigned by the Federal Gov
eminent has been 2,793. This quota
has not yet been filled because of
lack of projects"
There is much discrimination in
allotting C. w. A. jobs. Each foreman
is supplied with a list of names of
those eligible for work If the work
ers politics does not suit him, he holds
back on the jobs
A notice signed by the General City
Foreman is posted in the city C. w.
A. Office, stating that those fired can
not again be hired by the c. w. A.,
and will no longer be eligible for
direct relief.
The largest factory in Fairmont is
the Owens Bottle Co. Each Monday
this company hires 80 workers, and
at the end of the week fires those
who cannot stand the speed-up. When
hired, the men are told that they may
join the company u..ion, the officials
of which are company executives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Wilmington Jails Two
in Soviet Film Case

WILMINGTON, Del, Dec. 23.-For
promoting the showing in this city
of film depicting the victories of
Socialist construction in the Soviet
Union, Anna Krause and John Adj
ans, representative of the Daily
Worker, were fined 500 each today,
with the alternative of spending 80
days in jail.
The police had prevented the show
ing of the film under city ordinance
that permits the chief of police to
break up any meeting where "in his
opinion there is a danger" thus max
ing it possible to gag workers meetings
at all times. The two workers were
convicted under the ordinance. The
LID. is appealing this vicious deci-
sion, and is urging protests to the
attorney general and mayor of this
city. -r-.~-------~---y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Nazi JaiIerS Hold
4 Communists Ten
Days After Verdict
(Continased from Page y

Continued from Page
cables to the German Minister of the
Interior, Prick, at Berlin.
NEW YORK.-To celebrate the &C
quittal of the Reichstag fire trial de-
PENDANTS, and to demand their i'm
mediate safe release from the hands
Of the Nazis, a mass meeting will be
held at the Central Opera House,
Jan. 10, at pm.
MONTREAL, Canada, Jan. IA
delegation visited the German Con-
sulate here last Friday, while hun
dreds of workers massed before the
Consulate, to demand the release of
the four Communist defendants in
the ReichStag arson trial. Despite
the bitter cold, the workers stood for
over an hour in front of the Con-
sulate.
ZURICH, Switzerland, Dec. 81
Eight thousand people attended meet
ings in three halls arranged by the
Zurich Defense Committee for Tor
gler, Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff,
demanding the framed Communists
immediate release. Hundreds were
turned away from the overcroWded
meetings which were also under the
auspices Of the Communist Party, the
Social Democratic Party and the
Fighting Committee Against War and
Fascism.
On the same evening a denonstra-
ton was held in the industrial town
Of Winterthur, arranged by the same
organizations.
BELGRADE, Servia, Dec. 31.-The
Belgrade students association, which
includes students of all the Belgrade
colleges, has telegraphed the Supreme
Court in Leipzig demanding the re-
lease Of Torgler.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Dec. 81
A meeting arranged jointly by the
Friends of the Soviet Union and the
Socialist students organization to
hear a report on Socialist construc-
ton in the Soviet Union, passed q
unanimous resolution demanding the
immediate and safe release of Tor
gler and his three Bulgarian code
PENDANTS.
In the name of its 1000 members
the Committee of the trade unior
cartel at Vasteros demanded the re-
lease. Of the Communist prisoners.
Two mass meetings of unemployed
in Stockholm also protested the ter.
ror of the Hitler Government.
OSLO, Norway, Dec. 31.-A work
ers' meeting in the Akers mechanical
Workshops, and another in the Myh.
rens Machine Factory, passed SHARP
resolutions protesting the Hitler ter.
ror and demanding the imnediat,
freeing of the jailed Communist lead,
erS in the Reichstag trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
2 Pounds OF Pork,
| Pound Of Apples
christmas Basket"

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1.-Unem-
ployed workers here were given
Christmas baskets" containing
two pounds of pork and one pound
of dried apples, that being the
issue for a family of two The
baskets were given out at the gov
eminent warehouse on New High
st.
Others, although they had not yet
been given Civil Works jobs, were
refused baskets because they had
been removed from the welfare
rolls when they registered for c.
W. A. jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Alteration Painters to
Hear CWA Delegates

NEW YORK When the mass
delegation of painters from the
Alteration Painters Union pre-
sented the demands of the unem-
ployed painters of New York to
7. H. Whitney, they were told
that there were no jobs for paint
ers under the c. w. A.
All members of the union are
urged to attend the next regular
meeting of their local, which will
be held Tuesday, Jan. 2, instead
of the usual Monday meeting. A
detailed report of the delegation
to the C. w. A. offices will be
given.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
10rH
ARRIVE RSARY
.DRsIgzs az dSRkeR
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CELEBRATIONS

DISTRICT !
LOWELL, Mass.-Jsn. at 338 Central st.
Dance Concert and Speakers. Adm. 15c.
LAWRENCE, Mason Jan. 8 at Loom
Pixers Hall, 30 Margin st. Entertain
ment and Dance. ADM. 7se.
PROVIDENCE. r. lon Jan. at Swedish
Hall, SO Chestnut ST.
MAYNARD, MaSs.-on Jan. at 70 Pow
dermiIl Roed.
BosToE.-on Jan. at Workers Center in
worcester, Mass.
DISTRICT
fHILADEL2HIA.--On FEB. at Girsrd
Manor Hail, Gil w. Girard Ave. Good
program arranged.
ALLENTOWN, Ps.-On Jan. 7.
WASHINGTON, D. Con Jan. 10,
DISTRICT
Center, AS Ormond 81. Negro Boys
Trio: Songs by Lithuanian workers
Club; Al de Grsndis Dance Orchestra.
DISTRICT
HILL SECTION, Pittsburgh.-an. IS.
SOUTH SIDE, Pittsburgh.-Jan IL
SoRTH SIDE, Pittsburgh-Jan. Is.
YUKON, Pa-Jan. ~.
TURTLE GREEK, Pa.-Jsn. IL
LIBRARY sECTIoN-Jan. 10.
NEW KENsINGToN, Pa.--Jan. ls
McKEEsPoRT, Ps.-Jen. 10.
DISTRICT
uusREGoN HEIGHTS, Mieh.-on jan. g.
ri Ukrainian Hall, corner Haekly and
9Th st.
DETROIT, AIich-on Jan. IA at Finnish
Hall 5969-l4th St A w Markod
from New York, VIII be the main
speaker. Musical program arranged
Dance vii follow.
DISTRACT
cMxCAaO-On Jan. IL, auspices Section s
a Craftsmen's Masonic Temple, Harding
and LeBFoyne, at pm. Admission 25c
DISTRICT
nEBBISc, Minn.-on Jan. g.
svFEREOR, Wis.--on Jan. q WORKERS
Ceufcr, 1903 N. 5th st. MNsies1 pro-
srsm and dance
DFszakCT n
C,hezEzA, Neh.-on Jan. . in So. ornsss.
DISTRICT IL
ABERDEEN, WaSh--On Jan. 10 at Worker,
Kali, Ti3 9. First ST., at D. m. Good
program. Admission loc in advance; 15c
al door.
BIRMINGHAM, Wash.--on Jan IL at Talip
Hal, Cornwall Ave.
DIsrexcT IA
NEWARK. NJ Jon Jan. al the I'M
HA. Auditorium. Robert Minor. main
speaker. Excellent program arranged
Adm. soc; in advance 2se.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-02
Butchers Vote $40
Greeting to "Daily"

NEW YORK.-The Butchers
Section of the Food Workers In
dustrial Union pledged its support
to the Daily Worker by voting a
$40 greeting to the tenth ami
yersary edition.
The greeting will be published
in full in the 26-pege, Jan. 6 issue.
So far the response from other
trade unions has been poor. The
greeting by the butchers union is
challenge to all other working
class organizations, trade unions
and otherwise. Will the revolu-
tionary greeting of your organiza-
lion be in the tenth anniversary
edition? Rush your greeting to-
lay!