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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Call Conference to Aid
Roosevelt Hunger
New Deal
BY BILL GEBERT

The Communists will lead the
workers, and this we must pre-
vent" That was the dominant idea
that led the to calling of con-
ference by the Executive Commit
tee of the Chicago Federation of
Labor for April 29th, at 2 pm, at
Ashland Auditorium.
The calling of the conference
which is specifically designed to
counter the growing discomfort of
the A. F. of L. members and to
rally the workers behind the Roose-
welt program, followed the presenta-
ton of a resolution for the endorse
ment of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill, H. R. 1898.
Thirty locals of the A. F. of L.
endorsed the Bill. The Chicago A.
F. of L. Executive feared that when
the Bill was presented to the dele
gated body of the Federation it
might pass. John Fitzpatrick, pres
ident, moved to refer the resolu-
ton to the executive.
At this executive meeting the
plan to meet the mounting dis
content of the A. F. of L. by mobil-
izing it behind the Roosevelt hun
ger program was concocted.
In consultive capacity at this
executive committee meeting in ad-
dition to delegates johnson and
Cohn were also invited representa-
tives of the Chicago Workers Com
mittee on Unemployment; namely,
]. l.. Duffy, a Democratic politician
who succeeded Karl Borders now
on the payroll of Hopkins starva-
ton commission). and the Social
lists, Guss Patterson, w. C. Hart,
and Simon Fraio
A heart-to-heart talk was had
between Duffy. his Socialist friends,
and Hart said to Flt5ps trick be-
cause of the closing of c. w. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Workers Urged to Jam
Court Trial of Jailed
Unemployed Friday

NEW YORK-Police brutally at
tackled joint demonstration at the
l49th Street Home Relief Bureau
Tuesday, called by the UNEMPLOYED
Committee of the Alteration Paint
ers Union and the Charlotte st.
Unemployed Committee, dragged
four workers into the back yard of
the Home Relief Buro, and after
clubbing them with blsckjacks, took
them off to Jail.
These were released through the
International Labor Defense. When
they come up for trial on Friday,
April goth. at the Magistrates
Court at 161st st. and Washington
Ave, at 9 am, workers should jam
the court and demand their uncon-
ditional release. Workers organiza-
tons should write and telegraph
the trial Judge, protesting the brutal
police terror and demanding the
release Of the prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
To Demonstrate at
Coach Co. Sat. for
Jobs for Negroes
White Workers Rallying
to Mass Fight Against
Discrimination

NEW YORK demand Jobs
for Negro drivers and conductors!
We demand an end to discrimina-
toni" will be Numbered before the
office of the Fifth Ave. Coach Co.,
132nd st. and Broadway, by thou
sands of Negro and white workers
on Saturday, April 81.
The demonstration called by the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, 119 w. 135th St., is sup
ported by many unions, workers
clubs, Unemployed Councils, In
ternational Labor Defense branches
and other organizations throughout
the city The Communist Party
and Young Communist League have
stated they will mobilize their mem
bership in this demonstration
Three meetings will be held al
10 am. in front of the office of the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, 119 w. 135th ST., the Inter
national Labor Defense, 126th st
and Lenox Ave, and the Liberator
office, 1852 Seventh Ave, where
Harlem workers will gather, and
march in body to the Coach Co
headquarters.
Hundreds of organizations, speak
ing in the name of thousands Of
workers, have sent letters of pro-
test to President Frederick T
Wood, of the Coach Co., demand
ing jobs for Negro drivers and con-
ductors, and pledging that their
members will not use the buses
until the campaign is over Daily
workers from the Bronx, Brooklyn
and other parts of the city are
reporting to the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights for picket duty
and to distribute leaflets. All
workers, Negro and white, who can
take part in this important fight
against discrimination and for jobs
are urged to report for this picket
duty, and to turn out by the thou
sands in Saturdays demonstration
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Labor Dick, Who Is Bringing Libel Charges
Against ''Daily'' Staff Writer, Was Jailed for
Attempting to Bribe Union Leader

! powder puff and other aids to
beauty"
George Williams. who is now
working with Max Sherwood, head
Of the Sherwood Detective Bureau.
1887 Broadway, helped to supply a
band of thugs to the taxi owners
to terrorize and slug strikers in the
recent taxi strike.
Working for Williams and Sher-
wood in the taxi strike were the
well-known thugs Eddy GATH and
Chas. Kinda, recently arrested in
Philadelphia and held on $4,000 bail
each, for dehling the homes of
strikers Of the ski. industries.
While on the Philadelphia Job, the
thugs were said to be working for
the Bergoff Detective Agency, 2
Columbus Circle, New York. eve
will deal with Bergoff in future
articles)
The williams Service"
Williams, while for many years a
close associate of Max Sherwood,
also had a private detective bureau
Of his own known as the Williams
Service. This strikebreaking organi-
cation flourished in $780, The Will
liams Service had phone service at
II West And Street and Williams
had an Office in the Fisk Building
where he piled his nefarious trade.
In 1880 the Williams Service be-
came active in the Illinois coal
fields. At this time Williams made
oyertures to the mine owners asking
for a job, assuring the operators
| that for consideration he could
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Five New Forced Labor
Camps for New York

NEW YORK.-Five new forced
labor camps are to be built in New
York state to house "transients, -
Homer w. Borst, transient relief
director, announced recently. This
will bring the total enrolment in
New York state up to 1,4OO. Borst,
who characterized these homeless
and jobless workers as potential
hoboeS," stated that the wages
would be 90 cents a week at the
camps. The first transient" forced
labor camp in New York, located in
Bear Mountain, is called Camp
Roosevelt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19

Jobs, and growing discomfort, and
because the Communists we're ac-
tive something must be done to
keep them from leading the work
erS.
'NefariOus Schemes and Traitors"
John Fitzpatrick and Edward
Nockles, secretary of the Chicago
Federation thereupon decided to is
sue the call The call openly pro-
claims its aims as follows:
"The time is now at hand for
organized and unorganized labor
to rise to the occasion and take
immediate action in exposing the
nefariOus schemes of the traitors
to our country and our beloved
President, Franklin Delano Roose-
velt."
According to the same call, by
signing the N. R. A., Roosevelt
freed by millions more men, women
and children held in bondage and
slavery than did our Industrious,
martyred President, Abraham Lin
coin"
After all this praise for the N. r.
A. and Roosevelt, the Call quotes
from recent speech of Roosevelt
in which he proclaims.
THE government cannot forever
continue to absorb the whole bur-
den of unemployment"
They also speak in the Call that
the Conference is to devise ways
and means and:
ITO take action that will put
ten million unemployed people back
to work and back up our President,
the N. R. A. in their Civil and Pub
lie Works program and to demand
from Congress the passage of the
Wagner Bills as well as additionally
necessary railroad legislation"
From this it is very clear that the
Chicago Federation of Labor leader
ship, by calling this conference, is
not interested in really putting ten
million people back to work, but is
precisely and primarily interested in
demonstrating to the Roosevelt New
Deal administration that it is be-
hind it. The Chicago Federation of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Relief Workers on
Strike for Jobs
In Bridgeport
Bergin, Socialist Leader
Shows No Signs of
Fighting

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. April 10
Several hundred workers went on
strike yesterday on the FER.A pro-
jects and hundreds more went home.
when the relief administrators an
nounced that $50 men, one third
of the quote, would be transferred
to city relief, On city relief they
get $500 in scrip and a box.
Jack Bergin, socialist commits
sioner of education, who is one of
the safety engineers on the job and
receives good salary appointed
himself leader of the workers and
called upon the workers to leave
their jobs, elect a delegation and
see the superintendent of Public
Welfare.
The delegation, followed by about
200 workers went to the Welfare
building where the committee pre-
sented the following for "considera-
ton" Payment should be in cash
at the rate of fifty cents an hour
for twenty-four hours a week; con-
tinuation on the Fera, protest
against certain projects being trans
ferred entirely to city relief while
others were not touched. If these
proposals would not be met by the
Relief Commission, then it calls
upon the workers to strike.
An announcement was made by
Bergin, after returning from the
conference, where they received
little satisfaction, and hint that
that there was worse yet to come,
that kilograms would be sent to
President Roosevelt, Miss Little Gin
charge OF Fera work in Connecti-
cut to Mayer McLevy and to the
Relief Commission.
That there is no intention of the
present leadership Of waging a mill
tant struggle was revealed by one
Of the delegates who announced to
the workers who waited in the rain
for their report, that they wanted
no trouble of any kind. They just
want to express their grievances
and appeal to the proper author
tiles. If there was no results. then
they will abide by the decision of
the authorities in charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Protest Connection
Of School Official
With Silver Shirts

TOLEDO, Ohio.-Protest has been
aroused here against the reputed
connection between DR.. P. Bruce
Brockaway, health officer of the
public schools and the Silver Shirts
who have begun a membership
campaign here.
Clarence L. Wright of Columbus,
the organizer of the fascist group
spoke at meeting of the local lun-
cheon- discussion club at the invita-
ton of DR.. Brockaway, it was stated.
Protests are centered around the
demand that no officer connected
with the school system should be
connected with group preaching
discrimination against racial and
political groups.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Fear CrowingDiscontent
of Rank and File in
A. F. of L. Locals

took full advantage of their posi-
ton as an openly supported gov
eminent trade union organiza-
ton, to intensity agitation and
propaganda for the support of the
capitalist system; arbitration
boards-agreements with the
bosses against the workers. The
A. F. of /. has become the main
force that is sitting the militant
moods, dissatisfaction and radi-
calization of the Chicago work
ing class, through the suppression
of the growing discomfort within
the A. F. of L. unions; through
open attack against the revolu-
tionary and independent unions.
BY intensively injecting patriot
ism, white ehauvinism and ma
tionalism in the A. r. of L., is
helping the war machinery of the
government"
1t is in the light of this correct
Characterization Of the role and
character of the Chicago Federation
of Labor that the Communist Party
mobilizes its forces to expose the
Chicago Federation of Labor and
rallies the workers first of all in
struggle for the Workers Unem-
ployrnent Insurance Bill, H. R. 1898
for public works, for jobs and re-
lief for the unemployed, and ex-
poses the Wagner Bills and the
Roosevelt New Deal. of which
Fitzpatrick, Nockles and Nelson are
staunch supporters. The workers
of Chicago shall see clearly the real
role of the capitalist agents in the
ranks of the working class and in
the course of daily struggles in the
local unions to eliminate them
from the ranks OF the organized
workers and place the leadership
in the hands Of the militant, revo-
lutionary workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Peoria Unemployment
Councils Establish
Affiliated Branches

PEORIA, Ill.-Unemployed, fired
G. w A. workers, part-time and re-
lief workers are being organized
into branch locals Of the Unem-
ployment Councils here. Already
the Veterans Council and Councils
in Redwood Township, Peoria
Heights. Bsrtonyille and Limestone
Township have organized and affili-
ated with the Peoria Unemployment
Councils.
Committees are at work setting
up branch locals in all other work
ing-class sections of the city.
Through the daily struggles led
by the relief committees of rank
and file workers, much of the red
tape surrounding the granting of re-
lief has been broken down, and re-
lief is being won for jobless workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19

LnenL OIL Twelve dcJlVo union
workers.
After a delay of two weeks
the workers forced Interna-
tional ice-President j. M. Parker
of the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway En-
ployees of America to refuse to wait
any longer and Immediately the men
went on strike. The street car men
have been receiving So cents per
hour and are now demanding SO
cents. The basic pay used to be
SO cents when the street car COM
)any had two-men cars; now the
basic pay is SO cents for one-man
car
Parker is leaving the decision Of
the strike in the hands of r. L.
Blume. Secretary of the Regional
Labor Board at Kansas City. Parker
is prepared to betray the strike when
he said, I'VE are willing to arbitrate
on the scale"
Pickets are stationed at all car
barns.
The company is under the MIRA.
code which has clause to agree to
arbitration on the question of dis
charging men.
Agreement to Delay
Union officials had an agreement
with the Regional Board to delay
the strike by giving five days notice.
The five days would have been up
next Wednesday, thus permitting the
company time to prepare to defeat
the pending strike.
City Council of Omaha acts
against the strikers. Mayor Towl
called conference to discuss the
situation. City Commissioner says.
IF necessary we can mobilize autos
Just as We did in the war" Com
missioner Hopkins said he believed
that the council should license cars
as taxis for the emergency merely
by resolution.
Police at the 25th and Cummings
st. car barn let scabs go through
by the show of shot guns. Police
cruising cars we're ordered to stay in
the neighborhood of the strikes. The
A. F. of L. official, Parker, is re-
ceiving secret radiogram messages
sent by Washington to army Of
flcials in Fort Omaha. There is
an nti-picketing law in the state
Of Nebraska. This law will be used
against the strikers to force them
to accept the terms of the Regional
Board.
Daily Workers have been dis
tributed and sold among the
pieketers. The paper was eagerly
read and discussed. The distributors
we're told to come around again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Open c. P. Meeting
in Roxbury, Mass, On
9th Party Convention

ROXBURY. NASSAU members
of working class organizations are
invited to an open meeting of the
Communist Party to be held Satur-
day, April 81 at 8 pm, at the Dud-
ley Opera House, lib Dudley st. Re-
ports will be given by N. Sparks, j.
Mccarthy, j. Dawson and others on
the Eighth National Convention of
the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
z in Anti-War Student
Strike Are Suspended

NEW YORK Seven students of
De Witt Clinton High School, all
seniors, were suspended yesterday
from class needed for graduation,
for their participation in the ma
tional anti-war strike last Friday.
Among those suspended are San
for Speiberg and Matthew Amberg,
both members of the National Stu
dent League Chapter of De Witt
Clinton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Arrests Fail to
Halt Phila. Strike
Distillery Workers Vote
for T. u. u. L.

PHILADELPHIA, April 15.-rn an
attempt to break the strike of the
Continental Distillery workers the
city government has stepped IN
with a reign of police terror.
A squad Of cops is constantly on
gauard in front of the Washington
Ave. plant, A motorcycle squad
meets each trolley stopping at the
plant. This squad escorts the scabs
inside.
In spite of this very few workers
attempted to enter the plant yester-
day.
Vote for T. u. U. L.
At mass meeting held Sunday
the strikers voted unanimously to
affiliate their union, Distillery
Workers Union, Local /, with the
elected rank and file committee
Trade Union Unity League, and
of strikers representing every ma
tionality in the union.
Saturday striker was arrested
when he tried to speak to q scab,
and two others were pulled into q
patrol wagon when they objected
to this procedure. At a hearing
Sunday all but one were discharged.
Down tools May LIST. Show your
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
COPS ATTACK QUEBEC JoBLEss

HULL, Quebec, April 18.-Police
and firemen attacked demonstra-
ton of nearly 1000 jobless workers
here yesterday and arrested Jean
Lafontaine, one of their leaders. The
workers were demanding increased
relief, declaring that they could not
live on the pittance allowed them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
n. ]. Produce Drivers
Win Wage Increase

ATLANTIC CITY, April 10
Fifty produce truck drivers went on
strike here yesterday and won their
wage increase, which they demanded.
this morning.
Drivers bringing produce into the
city from outside will receive $50 a
week instead of the $40 before the
strike, while local drivers received
raise from SIS to $25 a week. :.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
300 West1nOreIand
Miners RejectNRA;
Elect Committees
Pit Groups To Have Nothing To Do With the
U.MM.W.A Heads and N.R.A. Labor Board
By TOM MINERICH

PITTSBURGH Pa.-The rank and file coal miners Of
the Westmoreand Coal Co. located Westmoreand County,
Pa held conference April The 300 miners present
from the eight mines of the coal company decided
to organze general pit committee made up the pit com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Soda Water Causes Illness of Three

Soda Water Causes Illness of Three
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. - Bottled
soda water caused the illness of
Marie Brennan and three daughters
yesterday. They were rushed to the
Northwestern Hospital. Police seized
samples of the soda which were
sent to the city chemist for analysis.
but no action has been taken
against either the makers or sellers
Of the drink, thus exposing many
other workers to the danger of ILL
ness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19

Down tools May / for the re-
lease of the Scottsboro boys,
against lynch terror, for equal
rights for the Negroes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
StrikeStopsAll
Cars in Omaha in
Spite of AL Heads
Rank and File FlOuts All Delay in WalkOut
Demanding Union and Pay Increases

OMAHA, Neb. April 18.-All street carmen of Omaha
and Council Bluffs went out strike o'clock Monday
ing All trainmen, shopmen and barnmen of the Omaha
and Council Bluffs Street Railway Co. walked out demand
ing increase in pay recognition of the union and renstae-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19

Down Tools, Demonstrate May
LIST to force the adoption of the
Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill, H. r. 1898!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19

Down tools May LIST. Show your
will for the overthrow of capital
ism, for Soviet United Statess
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19

Tomorr0w's article will deal
with Bergoff and Shaw, labor
spies, who have long been active
in the business Of breaking strikes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
Ticket Sale
Opened for
Circus Ball
Civic Theater Event to
Be Held April Z; Aids
Selected.

Organization meeting for the
Civic Theater circus ball to be given
Saturday night, April 7, was held
last night at the Athenaeum.
Mrs. Irving M. Fauvre, general
chairman, met with her committee
heads and assistants to arrange for
the event. Approximately $50 at
tended and received instructions for
the campaign.
The following committee chair
men were named to assist Mrs
Fauvre:
Entertainment, Mrs. c. c. Robin
son, chairman, and Mrs. John K
RuckelshauS, assistant; costumes
Mrs. Kurt Painter, chairman, and
Mrs. Henry Todd, assistant; boxes
William Kennedy, chairman, anc
Mrss. Hortense Rauh Burpee, as
SiStant.
Mrs. Perry Lesh is chairman OF
the patrons committee, to be as
sisted by Mrs. George T. Parry; Mrs
Thomas Harvey Cox, assisted by
Miss Rosamond Van Camp, will be
in charge of publicity; Norman
Green, chairman, and Miss Dorothy
Campbell, assistant, will be in charge
of decorations.
Ticket sales are in charge of Mrs
Carl Vonnegut, chairman, and Miss
jeanne Dissette, assistant Tickets
went on sale last night and may be
obtained from any of the chairmen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
Mrs. Frank Cox
to Direct State
Sorority Event

Mrs Frank Cox was named chair
man of the state luncheon and
dance of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority
to be held Saturday, March "a, at
the Indianapolis Athletic Club.
Members of the Indianapolis
alumnae of the sorority met last
night with Mrs. Leo M. Gardner,
1889 College avenue, to discuss
further plans. The hostess was as
sisted by Mrs. James Obear, Mrs.
Richard Mills and Miss Ethel NAL
loch.
Additional committees named are
Mrs. Lester Nicewader, dance chair
man, to be assisted by Miss Mary
10 Spurrier, Miss Charlotte Peele,
Miss Mildred Frazee and Miss Rose
mary Recap.
Mrs. Obear and Mrs. Clarence
DeitSch are in charge of the lunch
con with Miss Dorothy Boyle, in
vitationS chairman. Assisting Miss
Boyle will be Miss Malloch, Mrs.
J. Douglas Perry and Mrs. Clay
Trueblood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09


archy" according
the
written the book with the belief that the
personal experiences of author with problems of the
Turned Against Prohibition
book
l. have intimate first hand knowledge o
AS the book Mr.
and deeply concerned the liquor situation
disturbed have been Although national
prohibition,
convinced from direct observation that
its worst forms aWessneSs
before known
Il believe that repeal will At
of those who have been they prohibition solely
liberty"
Women
cation of living conditions
finding added young
Smith college graduate
experiences the had mining the
Miss Glfaen the
job
Smith college,
ditons which she has described in the book
Ne1O Offering of "Ahce IN Wonderland"
CTEWARTS chidens in
~ Wonderland" Through will
Charlotte Henry youthful actress who has been described
Alice the design the illustrations
posed photographs from the Paramount picture.
Another the chidrens books which
Born by Edna Dean Baker 1t of the life
birth and through His boyhood Miss Baker
College of Education The illustrations by Mary Royt
New animated pictures are shown in the Little Black
book recently published for children The
chdrens greeting illustrate
the acton of the
book department
picture OF Mother Goose Land
characters and
play by Sir James M Barrie The illustrations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
Parties Honor
Miss Burkert.
to Wed Shortly

The approaching marriage of Miss
Anna Louise Burkert, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George C. Burkert,
and Edwin Dugal Cree is the occa-
sion for several parties.
Mrs. Orien w. Fifer and Mrs.
Charles Walker entertained at
luncheon and bridge today at the
home of Mrs. Fifer, 3515 Winthrop
avenue, for Miss Burkert.
Appointments were carried out in
green and white. Gusts included
Miss Burkert, Mrs. Mark Hampton
of Plainfield, Mrs. Wilbur Carter,
Mrs. Douglas Hoskins, Mrs. Blaine
Miller Jr., and Miss Pauline Becker.
A bridge party will be given Mon
day night by Mrs. Malcolm Camp
bell and Miss Mary Hannah Peter
son, and Thursday night, Mrs. Adri-
an Nail will entertain for the bride
elect at her home, 1872 Guilford
avenue