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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Sluggers, Gunmen of
Hotel Strike Added to
Parmelee Payroll
By HARRY RAYMOND

NEW YORK. - Unable to
smash the general taxicab
strike by the use of company
union scabs, the ParmeIee
System operators have now resorted
to underworld forces, professional
gangsters and sluggers, to terrorize
and demoralize the strikers. Max
Schlansky, alias Sherwood, chief of
the Sherwood Detective Agency,
1887 Broadway, notorious for his
strikebreaking activities in the re-
cent hotI strike, has been unof-
ficially added to the Parmelee pay
roll, it was revealed through an in
vestigation conducted by the Daily
Worker yesterday.
Sherwood, working through his
lieutenants, Nat Shaw and George
Williams, has placed at the dis
posal of the Parmelee System for
strikebreaking duty the well-known
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
i. s. Court Finds
AdeSGuiItyOfFight
For Negro Rights
L awyer Reprimanded
AS NJ a SIS Protests
Block Disbarment

BALTIMORE, March IT (By
MaiD Bernard AIDES, International
Labor Defense attorney and leader
in the mass fight against lynching,
was found guilty of conduct un-
becoming an officer" of the CAPT.
taliSt court because he said Fuel
Lee was legally lynched, and that
Charles County officials were rail-
reading Page Jupiter, another Ne
gro worker.
This was the decision of Judge
Morris Soper in the U. S. District
Court in the disbarment proceed
ings brought against AIDES by U. S.
Judge Coleman. AIDES was found
not guilty on six other charges.
Faced by nation wide protests
against the attempt to disbar AIDES
for his activities in defense of
framed Negro workers, the court
contented itself with reprimand
to the militant fighter for the
flagrantly violated rights of the Ne
gro people. With typical capitalist
hypocrisy, Judge Soper praised
AIDES services to the state in en-
forcing the constitutional rights of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Aged Inmates Of City Home
Robbed Of Lifetime Savings
Cruel and Corrupt Racket Disclosed in Probe
Similar to Recent Fake Prison Investigation

Officials of the home admitted
that they had in many instances
appropriated" these funds, several
rendering their designations. 1t was
revealed that the community store,
supposedly run for the benefit of
the inmates. had been stripped of
whatever profit it made by the
grafters in charge of the home, the
inmates getting dividends" of Is
cents each on Christmas.
Like the recent fake investigation
of the Welfare Island Penitentiary
which dwindled to nothing within
less than a month, the present
investigation is accompanied by a
fanfare of Fusion publicity in the
metropolitan press. Present indica-
lions point to the possible appoint
ment of Fusion officials to take the
place of the Tammany officials now
supervising this cruel racket in the
home for the aged. No real change
in this, as in any other city institu-
ton under the present system, is
possible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
900 Gallup Miners
Demonstrate for
C.W.A. Jobs, Relief
Workers United Front
Candidates Head
Demonstration

GALLUP, N. Mex.-Led by the
National Miners Union and the
Women's Auxiliary of the N.M.U.,
900 workers demonstrated here
March 10 against the cutting off of
C.W.A. and demanded that Mayor
H. T. Watson face the workers and
state why the demands presented to
the city council by committee from
the unemployed local of the N.MU.
were not acted upon.
Mayor Watson was thoroughly ex-
posed to the workers. Candidates on
the Workers United Front Ticket in
the city elections, who led the DEM
onstration, clearly exposed the gun
men rule Of Gallup for the interests
of the coal operators and other ex-
ploiters of labor. Carl Howe, section
organizer of the Communist Party,
exposed the attempts of the white
chauvinists to disrupt the ranks of
the United Front Ticket by spread
ing rumors that If we only kicked
Bill Cuoton off the ticket we had a
chance to win. Bill Couton, is the
only Negro candidate on the ticket
and the first to ever run for Office
in Gallup. He is the president of
the sub-district board of the Ma
tional Miners Union of Gallup and
all the workers candidates on the
ticket are workers or sympathizers
who proved themselves to the work.
ing class during the Gallup miners
strike.
The local politicians have still
failed to form a ticket. They are
trying to have progressive ticket
and citizens ticket. They know that
they cannot come out under the
old parties. John Tomac, secretary of
the International Labor Defense and
candidate on the Workers United
Front Ticket, attended a meeting
called by the politicians sponsoring
the citizens ticket, and found that
they had his name listed. He imme-
diately exposed them and told them
to get his name off their list. That
ended their meeting, and they failed
to get ticket.
The other candidates on the
Workers United Front Ticket are
Pedro Sanchez, a Spanish American
worker, Limo Romero, and Oliver
Leone for city treasurer.
The candidates on the workers
ticket are boldly and fearlessly
bringing forward the line of the
Communist Party and the National
Miners Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Taxi Tn. May Call
Out Small Fleets to
Hit Big Companies
Continued from Page u

for his action the day before. DE
spite the fact that I had differences
with the union, in order to save the
union and keep the men together,
I am laying aside all differences, +"
said Gandel. 1--WE must have a
united front of all drivers. This is
no time for factional disputes
Samuel Orner, in commenting on
Gandel's new position, said that
mo doubt Gandel now realizes that
personal differences must be laid
aside when we are in the midst of
such an important struggle as the
taxicab drivers strike.
Practically all the small fleet own
ers in the city have now either
signed up with the Taxi Drivers
Union of Greater New York or have
entered their application requesting
settlement.
Meanwhile Mayor LaGuardia, who
has given many promises that no
police violence would be used
against the strikers, hints he will
use force to break the strike. The
Mayor thus aligns himself openly
with the Parmelee Company Union
and the gangsters and thugs of the
Sherwood Detective Agency, and
hereby becomes the Grand Field
Iarshall of the united forces of
trikebreaking.
Upon being informed by Daily
Yorker reporter that the Sherwood
lgency be driven out of business.
tack and terrorize the strikers,
MON officials stated that they
'ould take immediate steps to drive
r. Sherwood from the strike front.
Individual Owners Threatened
Samuel Orner, president of the
Xxi Drivers Union, pointed out yes
'rdsy that the General Motors,
Which has chattel mortgages of in
.vidual owners and small fleet
perators, has been threatening to
IKE away the cars if the operators
igned with the union.
The union was considering two
)lans yesterday in regard to their
llebiscite which Mrs. Elinor Herrick,
hartman of the Regional Labor
Board, proposed to conduct while
he men are still on strike. The
first plan calls for poll to be taken
Of all drivers in the city as to what
organization they wish to belong to.
The poll, the plan suggests, to be
held in public schools away from
the company premises, under the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21

NEW YORK.-Cancerous corrup-
tion-the robbing and swindling of
lifetime savings from aged and
crippled inmates of the City Home
for the Destitute on Welfare Island
was revealed yesterday at the
second hearing of an investigation
being conducted under the super
vision of Commissioner of Accounts
Paul Blanshard and his counsel,
Irving Ben Cooper.
Following the seventeen wit
nesses of Monday, old and infirm
inmates told their pitiful stories
yesterday-of life savings, ranging
from a few hundred dollars to one
or two or three thousands, being
taken from them by system of
joint savings accounts, in which
supervisors of the home became
sole beneficiaries upon the deaths
of the old men and women. One
witness told how he had entrusted
$500 to one of the supervisors, ask
ing that it be used to give him
proper burial" He never saw the
money again
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Shipyard Workers
In Br'kIyn Strike
ITO Demand Is Gents
Pay Raise

NEW YORK.-One hundred and
ten workers of the Wheeler Ship
yard Corporation at the foot of
Harvey Ave, Coney Island, have
gone on strike for a Is cent an houl
wage increase under the leadership
of the Steel and Metal Workers In
duStrial Union.
The workers demanded to know
why six workers were fired Friday
and demanded raise in pay. The
boss told them they were locked out
The workers left the shop in a
body and called in the SMWI.U
to lead their fight.
Among the other demands the
workers are striking for are: time
and half for overtime, rehiring with
no discrimination against union ac-
tivities, recognition of the yard
committee, explanation of why six
workers were fired just before the
strike. The strike so far is holding
solidly. A few scabs have been
hired by agencies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21

supervision of the city government.
Plan number 2, which Mrs. Herrick
calls the Labor Board Plan, sug-
gests that the plebiscite be conduct
ed separately for the drivers of Par
melee, Terminal and other systems
under the auspices of the Regional
Labor Board.
Company Cooperation"
Mr.. Ben Golden, Regional Labor
Board Secretary who is working
with Mrs Herrick, said that the
Board had the Assurance of CO.
operation of the company" despite
the fact that the companies refused
to meet with the representatives of
the union.
ut is joke to talk about the
companies giving cooperation" said
Joseph Gilbert, organizer of the
union. 1.-THE only way to make the
operators walk the chalk line is to
fight this strike out to victory"
Union officials, knowing that the
majority of the drivers in New York
are lined up solidly behind the
union, welcome poll while the men
are striking. They demand there
shall be no employers or MIRA. in
reference.
In order to prove conclusively that
the majority of the drivers are
members of the Taxi Drivers Union,
and that the charges hurled by ir-
responsible company union officials
are false, Samuel Orner told the la
Dor board that he welcomes inves-
tigation of union books and finances.
Relief funds are still rolling into
the union treasury and all strikers
are being taken care of through the
relief committee of the union. Trade
unions and workers organizations
are not to wait until they are Off
cially instructed to help the strike,
but should send funds and detach-
ments of pickets to the union head
quarters, which has been moved to
1923 w. 38th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21

Fuel Lee" although it was precise
ly because of AIDES fight for the
constitutional rights of his client
that the disbarment proceedings
were begun against him. Judge
Soper then warned AIDES that dis
barment would follow if he con-
tinued to participate in the fight
for the constitutional rights of the
Negroes in Maryland.
The courts retreat on its disbar-
ment proceedings is a distinct vic
tory for the white and Negro toll
ing mass modified behind the mill
tant class defense policies of the
LID.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
NoN-UNIoN PRINTERS MEET

There will be meeting of all non
union printers Wednesday, (Tonightl at
1880 pm, at the Workers Center. second
floor. All printers of the Communist Party
and mass organizations are especially
asked to be present with their organiza-
tion book
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Strike Won Near Elmira

Strike Won Near Elmira
ELMIRA, N. Y, March 20.-The
strike of 300 Chemung County G..
w. A. workers was reported settled
here on the basis of five cents an
hour increase in pay to forty-five
cents an hour, with a 24-hour min
mum week.
PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Five hundred
young working class boys and girls,
with 100 children paraded in Turtle
Creek Saturday afternoon demand
ing that the county government give
$3.50 cash relief to all unemployed
young workers. Thousands of youth
lined the sidewalks of East Pitts
burgh and Wilmerding as they
marched by.
The march was called by the
Joint Unemployed Youth Commit
tees of Turtle Greek Valley. Young
workers from Clarion, Trafford,
McKeesport, Duquesne, Wilmerding
and Turtle Creek participated;
many from the steel mills marched.
Hundreds of young workers marched
from Westinghouse Electric Co., the
buildings of which the marchers
passed, were present on the side
walks cheering the marchers. They
came in answer to a special leaflet
issued to them.
A delegation of 16 youth, sent by
The marchers to the Welfare De-
oartment, received the usual cynical
.efusal to their demands from the
county. Mrs. Nicholas, who re-
,eived the delegation, ran out on
hem after an hours interview. The
delegation proceeded to search the
,ity-county building for her, dis
covering her in one of the rooms.
They Immediately formed a circle
around her, demanding a satisfac-
DRY answer to their demands. This
the refused to give. The marchers
received the report of the delega-
ion kissing and booing the cow
lrdly antics of Mrs. Nicholas.
Although thousands of youth
IRE unemployed here, the relief bu-
eau refuses to give them any re-
ief. Only those who leave their
homes are granted measly amount
If ,relief The mass meeting after
he march pledged to hold demon
:trations and marches at each local
5ownship and welfare office in
turtle Greek Valley eliminating in
mass demonstration at the city
county building in Pittsburgh for
the demands of the unemployed
youth. In addition to immediate
,ash relief of $3.50 weekly, the
youth demand immediate passing
If the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill, hot lunches and free
clothes to students in schools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
TO ALL CARPENTERS

The Independent Carpenters Union has
called a special meeting tonight, pm,
at 800 Broadway. Strike situation in two
shops will be discussed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Toledo City Council Endorses
Jobless Insurance Bill 1888
ALL. Printers; Leather
Workers Endorse
Bill
Special to the Daily worker

TOLEDO. March 19.-The Toledo
City Council tonight by unanimous
vote endorsed the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill without
discussion. A resolution sponsored
by the c. W. A. and Relief Workers
Union and the Unemployment
Councils calling for endorsement
of the bill and asking Congress for
its immediate passage was intro
duced by Councilman Bernhard of
the First Ward.
Hundreds of workers and dele
gates from many organizations
jammed the two-by-four council
room and overflowed down the cor
ridors while the council was voting
on some other legislation. The
vote on the resolution came early
in the evening and then following
very brief introduction by Bern
hardt and the reading of the bill
and the resolution by the Secretary
of the Council, the resolution was
adopted.
On roll call all members of the
council voted aye, 20 in all, one
councilman being absent. K. F.
Osthimer of the G. w. A. Union
and H. Mungie of the Unemploy-
ment Councils were heading large
delegations of workers and were
ready to speak for the bill, but
there was no debate. The action
Of the City Council comes as a re-
suit of the continued unemploy-
ment and the constantly rising
mass pressure of the unemployed,
coupled with the strikes and I'M
rest among the auto workers of
Ohio.
Leather Workers Endorse
GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y, March
19.-The Independent Leaf her
Workers Union of Fulton County
unanimously endorsed the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill Oh. r. 1899. The union
is calling a conference of all local
trade unions for Saturday, April 7,
to take up the campaign for the
enactment of the bill at the present
session OF Congress. Miscellaneous
Glove Cutters Local SO endorsed the
Workers Bill and elected a dele
gate to the conference.
Cleveland Printers Endorse
CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 19.-
The last meeting of the Cleveland
local, International Typographical
Union CA. F. Of L. with $50 pres
ent, endorsed the Workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill
Oh. R. 1899. The action of the
union, together with the bill. was
printed in full in the March II
issue of the Cleveland Citizen "a.
F. of L. paper.) The bill was read
to the local union by a delegate
from the A. F. of L. Committee for
Unemployment Insurance and Re-
lief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Parmelee Gets Thugs
To Drive Cabs and
TerrOrize Strikers

professional thug, Eddy Gatty.
Gatty is working with man known
as Taxi" Murray, slugger from
Blocker st.
Gatty and Murray supply the
sluggers for the taxi operators,
while "HoOsier," a gsugster from
Cannon St, is furnishing the cars
in which the sluggers ride.
Assisting "Hoosier7 is a gentle
man known as "Smacky,' a plug
ugly with a dented nose. an en-
ployee Of the Sherwood Agency for
many years.
Get 81 Day
The thugs. who we're being put
up in the Cadillac Hotel. are paid
81 a day by the Sherwood officials,
3 by George Williams, Sherwood
chief aid.
Williams WOrmed his way into the
confidence of the fleet owners by
lying that he has connections with
Communists in the strike.
Williams a Forger
This same Williams is the one
who supplied forged documents to
the Hearst newspapers with which
Hearst tried several years ago to
prove that the Communist Party
was linked up with the Gales ad-
ministration in Mexico in a vague
and ridiculous plot to overthrow the
U. S. government. The documents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Youth March in
Turtle Cr'k;; Expect
Strike in Reading
(Continaed from Page II

rs is impending here for twenty
Der cent increase in the wage scale
# fifty cents an hour for laborers
md one dollar an hour for skilled
workers. Some have already walked
out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
500 Demand 80 Cents

LANCASTER, Pa, March 20. -
Tive hundred C.WA. workers voted
asst night to demand of County Ad-
ministrator Harry Brubaker an i'm
mediate return to the fifty cents an
hour wage scale for C.W.A. unskilled
workers. Wages were cut to forty
cents. The further demands include
pay for lost time, and a minimum
Of 80 hours a week work.
The Washington times., 1934-07-20
Well Dressed Masculine Golfers
Start New Fashions

The wearing Of a polo shirt
for golf has become almost uni
form around Washington and
at smart resorts. It started
last winter at Palm Beach and
such places, and moved right up
North with the socialites.
Navy polo shirt, usually left
open at the neck, and of meshy
material is the leader. White
polo shirts of similar material
are worn a good bit too, but not
quite as much by well-dresSed
men as the navy shirt.
Shirts Worn In or Out
You can wear your polo shirt
tucked into your trousers, or
outside, whichever you prefer.
Undoubtedly it's cooler when
you wear it outside, as the air
can circulate more freely around
your waist.
Fawn trousers or golf Slacks
are fast replacing the old uni
form gray slackS, especially
when worn with this same navy
polo shirt. For very hot weather,
cotton Slacks may be substituted
for the flannelS. There are
many varieties of cotton Slacks,
The Washington times., 1934-07-20
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The Washington times., 1934-07-20
By WILMA LAVILLE

Just for the sake of con-
venience we will classify the
many smart fur coats Of sports
or street furs as sports coats. E.
though we will all wear them
for school, work, for play, for
sports, and for general daytime
occasions.
Some of these coats are swag-
ger types, some just fairly
swagger or flared, others are
rather full Skirted but belted,
and some fitted in REFER fash
ion. Lengths vary. Forty-three
inches is important as length,
and furriers tell me that it will
be very smart. Other coats are
a mere thirty-three inches. The
rule is an old one. wear the
length that is becoming to you.
AS to the sport-like furs,
their name is legion. Included
are the kidskins, with beige ap-
. parently a little smarter than
gray; silver muskrat, leopard
and leopard cat, Russian cat.
raccoon, especially the very
dark skins, beaver, lapin, autria,
sheared lamb, and a few novel
ty or created" furs.
OF Finer Furs
You will see an occasional
swagger coat Of a precious fur
such as mink, mink paws or
Persian lamb, which is really
not a sports coat, but will prob
ably be worn for all purposes
by its owner. Some of these
coats may be made over from
a fine long coat, but they're
smart, and being bought new.
The swagger silhouette is
rather boxy, with full back.
The coats have natural shoul-
ders and deep armholes. Sleeves
are much palmer than they
have been in seasons past, and
II Cnere'S 1ullneSS 1t is at the
elbow or below.
COOlie Goats Smart
Other coats resemble coolie
coats, after those designed by
Molyneaux last year. They are
finger tip length, and more or
less take the place this year of
the fur jackets we've worn
before.
Colorful cloth or jersey lin
ingS and scarfS are an attractive
feature Of many sportS-like fur
coats, and give you q marvellous
note for matching up accessories.
The Washington times., 1934-07-20
Brown and White Checked Coat
With Brown Trousers

any rate, he wears it low on
his forehead.
Wesley looked very swank
at the Shoreham the other
evening, when he was host
at a reception. He wore
an ascot tie with a dark
blue flannel Norfolk jacket,
and I think, gray trousers.
At the Variety Club lunch
con he wore one of those
blue-blue shirts with an OK
ford gray palm beach suit
and a yellow tie.
Cute Liz Gere, Of Syra-
cuse, wears the shortest
shorts playing golf-and a
green short sleeved shirt.
Did you know that the lat"
est fashion notes include one
about Palm Beach styles for
the coming winter? And that
those who can afford will
wear white gabardine suits
which will be all the rage?
Charming Laura Curtis, Of
the famous voice-and smile
likes big hats, and printed
chiffons. She is now estab-
lished at her summer home
in Roslyn, L. I.
Who was that man wear
ing one of those linen coats
with the shawl collar the
other evening at the May
flower?
Bill Levy, impresario for
the Hangar Club, is a very
well-dressed man. He has a
brown and white checked
coat which he wears with
chocolate brown trousers.
X
Attractive Joe MacCam-
mon, just back from a world
cruise on a sailboat, prefers
seersucker in Washington. He
wears a suit of it with a felt
hat-and soft green socks.