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Evening star., 1934-05-16

COLUMBIA will broadcast a de-
~ scription of the fifty-seventh
annual I. c. A. A. A. A. track
and field championships at Franklin
Field, Philadelphia, May IS and 26.
Six hundred and four athletes from
36 universities will compete.
X y \
THE Memorial day address of Pres
L ident Roosevelt at Gettysburg
May 80 will be carried by both
n. B. c. and Columbia. Bob Trout
has been selected to announce the
Columbia broadcast. N. B. C. is ar
ranging to send the Presidents speech
around the world by short waves.
x 4 x 4
TWO N. B. C. anouncers. and two
l. engineers will join the Navy tenn
porarily beginning May %, so
that President Roosevelts review of
Evening star., 1934-05-16
STARS Of SPORT
WILL BROADCAST
Columbia Will Present Car:
nera, Mel Larnin, Fried
man and Others.

~ UTSTANDING stars of the
sports world will be featured
in a special one-hour pro-
~ gram scheduled on Colum-
bia Saturday. Champions of
boxing. base ball, tennis, foot ball
and other sports will take part.
Primo Carnera, heavyweight cham
pion of the world; Jimmy McLarnin
world welterweight champion, and
Barney Ross, lightweight champ, will
represent the ring. McLarnin and
Ross may make a few predictions
about the milk fund bouts at Madi-
son Square Garden May 28, in which
McLarnin will defend his title against
Ross.
Joe Mccarthy. manager of the New
York Yankees, will be base balls rep
resentative. Benny Friedman, foot
ball coach of c. c. N. Y and con-
sidered one of the greatest quarter
backs of modern times, will talk about
prospects in his sport for next Fall
Gene SaraZen and Ellsworth Vines
are expected to represent golf and
tennis. respectively, but they have not
yet been definitely scheduled.
The broadcast will originate in New
York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16

dairy managers and the violent
dumping cf several milk trucks into
the Chicago River followed.
In the meantime militant rank and
file milk drivers issued leaflets to the
drivers, urging them to stand against
the wage-cut negotiated between the
representatives of thu big diaries and
the Central Council of the Chicago
Transfers Union contrary to the
unanimous vote Of the milk drivers
local. In their leaflet rank and file
drivers also urged their members to
support the farmers strike and their
struggle against the price cut.
Rank and file drivers also sent a
delegation to the farmers picket-lines
to express their solidarity and sup
port for the farmers strike and in
yited them to the drivers union
meeting. The farmers promised to
send their delegation, also promising
to support the drivers struggle against
the wage cut.
Officials Call Off Strike
AS the farmers strike assumed a
more and more militant character,
representatives of Secretary of Agri-
culture, Wallace, and Of the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration, city
officials, and representatives of the
big diaries, and high officials of the
Pure Milk Association got together
and declared the strike off. Just
prior to this a general manager of the
P. M. A, Mr.. Geyer, resigned his
$4,000 year job, stating that he
would not assume responsibility for
the strike. Only after the strike is
over, he said, might he resume his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Elect Delegates to
JObless Convention
from MINI. AFL Loca

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Jan. r.
A. p, Of L. Cabinetnskers and Mill
mems Local Union No. 1855, after
hearing q representative Of the IN
employed Council, voted TO endorse
the National Unemployment Conven-
ton and elect a delegate to Wash
ington. A City Unemployment Con-
ference held last Sunday by the
Minneapolis Unemployed Council, de-
cided to call a demonstration at the
Courthouse on Friday, Jan. 26, at
the time that the City Council is III
session, to demand that it endorse
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
snce Bill to be presented to Congress.
A send-off mass meeting for the
Minnesota delegation to Washington
will be held on Sunday night, Jan.
%, in Minneapolis.
Three delegates from Portland.
Ore, arrived here on their way to
Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Farmers Sought to Win
Gains, But Officials
Sold Them Out

interests of the dairy trust and its
quick betrayal was possible, in spite
Of the militancy and efficient pick
citing of the rank and file farmers,
because of the weakness and mat
tention of the Party district to the
work among the farmers, because of
the absence of left-wing within
the Pure Milk Association.
The United Farmers League has
not yet extended its work into I'LL
nois. 1t has only one local near the
Illinois border in Kenosha County,
Wisconsin, and there the Party sec
ton as we'll as the U. F. L. members
were actively engaged in the strike.
This strike again demonstrates
that the rehabilitation of the farm
ers and their readiness for struggle
is penetrating deeply even among
those farmers who formerly we're
more well-to-do and conservative
On the other hand, this strike dem
onstrated to striking farmers the
side which the capitalist govern
ment invariably takes in their strug-
giles.
1t is necessary now that the few
contacts which we're secured on the
one hand with the striking farmers,
and on the other hand with the city
workers should be Systematically de-
veloped by the Party and the United
Farmers League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16

strike. Already on the first day, the
strike was so effective that less than
20 per cent of the regular milk supply
reached the city of Chicago. The
suburbs got even less.
On succeeding nights and days the
farmers made their picket lines so
solid Chat no milk passed through,
Picketing assumed a very militant
character. Not only were the high
ways blockaded, but the militant
pickets seized express and mail trains
their milk loads were emptied.
Representatives of the United
Farmers League National Executive
CounciD, together with the repre-
sentatives of the Farmers National
Weekly, visited one Of the picket lines
on the Illinsoi-WisconSin state line
last Sunday. We got a first -hand
impression of the effective picketing
Every car, even passenger autos, were
stopped and searched. We talked
with the pickets and found that the
rank and file farmers were not clear
on the aims of the strike, except that
some of them expressed the opinion
that the strike had been instigated
by the big companies. AS to their
demands, they said that they were
against cut in prices. They wanted
the same price from all dealers.
Big diaries closed their plants Sun
day evening, making practically no
effort to get milk for their plants nor
to make deliveries. At the same
time they openly melted their drivers
to go after the drivers of the indie
pendent diaries. Some of the drivers
fell for the propaganda Of the big
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Custom TailOrS in
Gen'l Strike in Phil.
Resist Amalgamated
Contract With Bosses

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 15.-A
general strike Of custom tailors was
voted at meeting Of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
last Thursday night to prevent con-
tractors from forcing the workers to
Join the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers
The Arnalgamated officials signed
an agreement with the Custom Tail
nrs' Contractors Association last week,
although they knew that the work
ers employed in the industry are all
members of the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union.
The general strike was considered
imperative to stop the plans OF the
bosses to smash wages and force the
workers to join a union whose lead
ers will readily aid the bosses in low
ering the workers conditions, while
exacting high tribute from the work
ers in dues. It has been called against
the Merchant Tailors as well as the
contractors, since the former provide
work for the contractors.
The general strike was scarcely a
few hours old when the AmalgamAted
was functioning in its role Of scab
agency. The militant tailorB, how
ever, succeeded in bringing the scabs
out on strike with them.
The Industrial Union is appealing
to all A1nalgamated members to re-
fuse to scab and help the strikers
win their demand for the right to
belong to union Of their own
choice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16

position if the farmers wanted his
services. Mr.. Geyer was thus pre-
pairing the stage for the betrayal and
resigned in order not to be blamed
for the sell-out.
At the present moment, according
to reports, farmers are compelled to
accept price of sl80 hundredweight,
instead of the present price of $210.
In addition, it is said that this agree
ment will be made retroactive.
Thus the milk trusts, the auditing
of whose books recently made by the
A. A. A. divulged IAN enormous"
profit, through manipulating with the
strike with the veident cooperation Of
the PIMA. high officials, are now bent
on making even greater profits. Sec
rotary Wallace declined to support
a settlement unless the farmers were
ready to accept cut in prices. Wall
lace thus openly supported the milk
trust against the farmers.
Having been able thus through be-
trayals of the P. M. A. leaders to
crush the strike and compel the
farmers to take a price cut, the
milk trust with the aid of the gov
eminent, is ready now to cut the
wages Of the milk drivers from So
to 10 per week. However, the rank
and file left wing is preparing the
drivers to wage a stubborn fight
against the wage cut, which is being
prepared with the help of the re-
dictionary leaders of the Transfers
Union.
Work Of Left Wing Weak.
Utilization of this splendid strike
Of the rank and file farmers in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Big Diaries Instigate Ac-
ton to Hit at Smaller
Firms
BY HI. PURO

The farmers strike in the Chicago
milk shed is over. 1t lasted from the
morning of January 9th to noon.
January 10th. Eighteen thousand
members of the Pure Milk Assocla-
ton, farmers Cooperative market
ing association, composed in the main
of hard-hit middle farmers, were in
yited In the strike.
The strike was instigated by the big
Borden, Bowman and Wieland dairy
companies, in agreement with the
high officials of the Pure Milk Asso-
citation. 1t was directed ostensibly
against the independent or so-called
"cut-rate" diaries, but in reality it
was directed both against some 1000
milk wagon drivers in an effort to
create favorable situation for wage
cuts and against the 1900 and more
farmers, with the aim of cutting their
milk prices.
Farmers Take Strike Seriously
The big dairy trusts and the high
salaried officials of the PIMA. under
took to use the $4,000 farmers as play
things. But a strike is not always a
thing to be played with. The ma
jority of the farmers entered the
strike with the aim of winning some
thing for themselves. The struggle
on the picket line was taken most
seriously from the first hours Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Tacoma Convention
Send Delegate to
Natl JObleSS Meet
Trade Unions, Farmers,
Mass Organizations En-
dOrse Workers Insurance

TACOMA. Wash, Jan. 15-The
most successful conference of work
ers ever held in Pierce County was
the unemployment conference held
here on Jan. 7. Although the Central
Labor Council refused to support it,
many affiliated unions sent delegates
The number OF workers represented
by delegates from A. F. Of L. unions
was far in the majority. One delegate
was elected to the National Confer
ence AGAINST Unemployment to be
held in Washington on Feb. 3, 4, 5
Seventy nine delegates were pres
ent, representing e organizations
with total membership of 1889
There were seven delegates from A.
F. Of l.. unions representing 1,741
workers. These included the Carpen-
tiers, Longshoremen's Iron Moulders
and MachinistS Unions. Three tn
U.L. organizations were represented
the Fishermen and Cannery Workers
Industrial Union, the National Mine
Workers and the National Lumber
Workers. Seven fraternal organi5a-
tons, nine neighborhood committees
Of the Unemployed Councils, the
United Farmers League, six C.w.A
groups and the Liberty, Socialist and
Communist parties were also repre-
sented.
Delegates of the Liberty Party and
the Economic Equality Club reported
their organizations in favor of the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill.
The Socialist delegate present
declared on the floor that the Social
ist Party had no organization in
Pierce County but that the few mem
bers of the party there were in favor
Of the bill.
REPORTS from UpholSterers' local
No. 40, A. F. of L.. Carpenters loca
No. 470, the Iron Moulders and Long
shoremens delegates, reported Their
locals in favor of the bill, as did the
delegates of the United Farmers
League and the Nine Workers and
Lumber Workers Industrial Unions.
The conference decided to form,
local committees to take the bill be-
fore all workers organizations and te
take advantage Of every moment un-
I'll the Washington Convention tc
mobilize all possible pressure behind
the bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
US. EnIists Police, Relief Heads
In DriUe on .JObLess Trarlsients

lief Administrators for transporta-
ton to the nearest transient camp,
and state directors are asked ito have
q representative Of their organizations
accompany the person for whom the
ticket has been purchased to the
railroad station so as to avoid
the possibility of these tickets being
sold by the beneficiary before being
collected"
ANY future posters printed for
distribution would carry consid-
erably more weight and insure cor
rect understanding if these posters
showed the name of the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration at
the top" and the wording should be
80 arranged as to show that the
railroads are cooperating with the
Federal Emergency Relief Admins
trstion and other agencies with a
view Of restricting the use of their
properties for free transportation. 1t
was unanimously agreed lin con-
ference between relief and railroad
mem that such changes in the word
ing of those posters would have
a very good psychological effect upon
the public. In other words, it would
make clear that this movement was
primarily something being handled
BY the Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration."
1t is further explained that any
matters of a general nature" that
Lewis desires to take up with railway
police viii be handled through the
Secretary Of the Protective Section
CT the Railroad Association.
PLEASE advise me regarding any
development of this program SO that
we may discuss future planning with
the central railway authorities" Lew
is adds. He also repeats that il '-
necessary to contact local and state
police authorities Immediately"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington BHreau)

tDally worker Warrington bEreauJ
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-Detailed
instructions under which the home
less unemployed are being nabbed off
railway trains by the railroads private
police, hailed into court under local
vagrancy laws, and handed over to
relief" authorities to be forced TO
work for their keep in transient
camps, have been sent out by federal
authorities.
Morris Lewis, director of transient
activities of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration, has written to
the relief authorities II the various
safes: THE success Of this entire pro-
gram will depend upon the effective
ness Of your arrangements with local
and railway police and the courts"
These words appear in lengthy
directive to all state relief admins
traitors and state transient directors
Altogether, the letter gives full details
of what Roosevelts relief director
Harry L. Hopkins, means, when he
! announced the transient camps pro-
gram, saying that under it the
unemployed could choose between q
camp and jail.
Lewis directive urges vigorous en-
forcement of local vagrancy laws" III
connection with the transient camps
program. 1t tells how posters warn
ing the public that free rides or
trains is being restricted should
/ be placed-snd how this and Other
/ propaganda should create the i'm
| preston that all OF this is being done
| by the relief" agencies.
At the very outset Of his letter
however, Lewis reports that the pro-
gram is backed by the railroads
| that it was worked out in conferences
I between authorities here and officials
of the American Railway Association
The letter also explains how the
relief and transient camp authorities
are to contact" local police and court
/ authorities to arrange the Shunting
of the unemployed from the hands
Of the railway police, into those OF
the transient camp officials.
Railway police or special service
departments viii handle those tran
sients or Illegal train riders or tres
passers the same as in the past"
the letter says. Such persons wouI6
be taken into custody and arraigned
before the proper authority, the
same as person taken into Gus
fALw III
method of handling will practically
eliminate the possible claims for
illegal deseat.on which wonId UNI
dSu5tediy follow. il an Attempt
were made TO take such transients
into custody and hold them in
railroad yards or other places await
ing arrival of representative of
the Director of Transient Activities"
! Tickets will be supplied by the Re
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16

was nothing terrible in mulcting the
workers of half of their pay.
No capitalist newspaper outside OF
Pittsburgh has carried the story OF
this G. w. A.-A. F. of l.. Official
domS grating.
Pittsburgh is not alone. 1t exists
throughout the country. So putrid
has the stink become over this
vicious system, that the rank and
file in Pittsburgh in the A. F. Of l.
is beginning to organize.
The government is making a pre-
tense at Investigation. But, like
all graft investigations, the main
purpose is to cover up and protect
the real culprits. Whatever facts are
brought out will be used in the man
ner Of Hearst and Senator Copeland
to force through fascist measures
Of government control Of trade unions
in order to defeat the rank and file
keep them from throwing out their
corrupt officials, and building the
unions into fighting organizations
for better conditions.
The Daily Worker has only begun
its exposure of graft and corruption
in the A. F. of L. unions. We have
now in preparation a series of ar
ticles, written by workers and inves-
tigators from many unions, and on
the Daily Worker staff.
We urge workers in New York and
throughout the country to send us
their stories with the proper evidence
for publication
We particularly call on other
Pittsburgh workers Who have been
mulcted to send in full particulars,
giving dates and names, for pub
lication in the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Final Preparations
Being MadefOr Natl
JObIeSS Convention
Arrange Mass Meeting at
St. Nicholas Arena to
Send Off Delegates

NEW YORE-Final instructions to
all organizations sending delegates to
the National Convention Against IN
employment to be held in Washing
ton on Feb. 8, 4 and 5, are being
issued by the New York Office of the
Unemployed Council, 20 E. Goth st.
It is urged that all credentials and
expenses Of delegates be turned in to
the New York Office not later than
Jan. %. Twelve dol ars is required
for the expenses OF each delegate.
This will cover all expenses for food,
lodging, transportation, etc. Delegates
to the convention are to report on
Feb. End at 1850 pm, at % E. Goth
ST., ready to leave for Washington.
A mass meeting to send of the
delegates will be held at st. Nicholas
Arena, SO w. 66th st., on Feb. /, at
g pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Soviet Film. ShOtoings
in Calumet Section

Comrade Mac Harris, who is on
q National Tour for the Daily
Worker, will show the Soviet Film
WAR Against the Centuries" in
the following cities on the dates
listed below:
Jan. 2s-RooseYelt School Audi
forum, Elkllardt, Ind.
Jan. 29-Hungarian Hall, $40 w.
Indiana Ave, so. Bend,
Ind.
Jan. 3s-Stolzlnan Hall Calhoun
and Breckenridge, Fort
Wayne, Ind.
Feb. Washington Hall, 1915
Washington ST., Gary, Ind.
Feb. Trinity Hall, Howard and
Ames, Hammond, Ind.
Feb. 3-Indiana HarboY, Ind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Examination of CWA
Job Seekers Shows
Most UndernOurished

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -" The ma
jority Of the men examined for
C. w. A. jobs during the past ten
days are suffering from MANU-
triton and are physically unfit to do
the work" according to H. R. Ster-
rett, chairman of the c. w. A. COM
mittee here. About 3,4O0 workers
were examined.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
2 Delegates to National
Jobless Meeting Sent
By Providence Club

PROVIDENCE, R. Z, Jan. a.
Two delegates and one alternate to
the National Convention Against
Unemployment have been elected by
the Right to Live Club, an indepen-
dent organization of unemployed
workers, with 1900 members. The
two delegates elected are members OF
A. F. of L. unions, one of the Iron
Moulder and the other Of the Paint
ers and Decorators.
We are very much interested In
uniting our local struggles with the
struggles Of the other unemployed
workers in the United States" writes
James Rooney. secretary of the or
ganiSation. to the National Commits
tee Of the Unemployed Councils.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
WHALE WASHED ASHORE OFF
QUEENS: TO GO TO MUSEUM

NEW YORK, Jan. ia whale, of
the two toothed species, Is feet six
inches long, similar to the one found
on Rockaway Beach several weeks
ago, was found washed ashore yes
terday on the beach off Edgemere,
Queens. The Museum Of Natural
History intends skinning the whale
and placing its skeleton on exhibit
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Ruby Bates, Thibodeaux
viii Speak at Meeting
Against Lynching,Jan. 10

NEW YORK. - Ruby Bates and
Norman Thfbodeaux, Negro worker
saved from Louisiana lynchers by
white workers, will be the main
speakers at an anti-lynch mass meet
ing Friday night, Jan. 10, at the
Spartacus Club, 18th Street and 9th
Avenue. Other speakers announced
are Tauber, International Labor De-
tense attorney, and I. L. Weinberg
chairman. The meeting is under the
auspices of the Midtown Section Of
the LID.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
In the NeaUs
TWO KILLED BY HIT-RUN
DRIVER

BUTLER, N. j., Jan. 15.-Ernest
Fenner, 20, and his fisncee. Kathleen
Weaver, 10, who were to have been
married Feb. 8, were killed here by
a hit and run driver. Leroy Van
Orden returned later to the police
station and admitted running them
over, it was reported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16

Has your organization made
d)pct;oD TO the fund TO finance
the National Convention Against
Unemployment. Feb. ?. in Wash
ington, ID. c.? Send funds to Ma
tional Committee, Unemployed
Council, so e. nth St., New York
City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Ganman Hats Card Game to
Murder Racketeer

NEW YORK-A gunman halted a
card game which had been in pro-
gress all night in an apartment house
in the Bronx, lined up the five play
ers against the wall and shot Angelo
Pezullo, small time Bronx gambling
racketeer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16

Has your organization made 3
donation to the fund to finance
the National Convention Against
Unemployment, Feb. 3, in Wash
lngtOn, ID. c.? Send funds to Ma
tional Committee, Unemployed
Council, so z. 18th St., New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
axe Final Preparations for Natl obess Convention Feb 3
Pittsburgh Union Men Forced
To Hand Over Half of CWA Paw

Continued from Poge u
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16

Utilization of this splendid strike
Of the rank and file farmers in the