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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Radio Unions in
Conference for
United Struggle
Set Up Provisional
Committee To Unite
All in Trade

The Provisional Committee of
Radio Workers called a conference
Saturday to unite all radio work
ers, both organized and unorganized,
to fight for increased wages, secur-
ity of the jobs and to prohibit
inhuman speed-up.
The radio bosses are united in
an association. Now all radio shops
and radio unions are uniting" de-
clared member OF the Provisional
Committee, eth radio industry is
paying miserably low wages to the
workers and we must unite. Only
unity of all workers can safeguard
our interests
Although radio unions and work
erS' organizations have made gains
in local shops, this is not enough.
he pointed out, saying that that
united action of all radio workers
with the aid of all existing unions,
can succeed Immediately in improv-
ing conditions"
The following unions have al
ready pledged their support in this
action. Instrument Workers Union
Independent Radio and Metal
Workers Union, Mechanics Educa-
tional Society of America, and the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. The shops participating are:
Aerovox Corp, DeWald Radio, De
Jure Ansco, General Instrument,
Insuline Corp, Pilot Radio, R.CA.
of Harrison, N. j. and Teleradio
Eng. Corp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Attitude ofHCW Leadership o'oards
Negro Workers In Words and Deeds

The Loyestonites, the lickspittleS
of the reactionary machine, came
out with the most vicious attack on
the left wing for bringing these
problems of the Negroes in the in
dustry to the attention of the work
ers. In leaflets full of the most
vicious SANDER, they accused the
left wing OF encouraging Hitherto
race prejudice among the workers,
and other similar accusations.
The recent convention of the IL
GNU. held in Chicago exposed
even more giaringly the attitude of
these reformist leaders including the
Lovestonites toward the Negro
workers. The dressmakers' Joint
Board was entitled to representa-
tion of 80 delegates to the eonven-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Arrests Fail to
Halt Pickles In
Jersey Strike
Right To Picket in
Strikes Demanded
By F.W.I.U.

JERSEY CITY, N j. Pressing
his organizations Interstate dis
pute with Brooklyn furniture man
ufactHrers who allegedly removed
their plants to Jersey City in order
to evade dealing with the union.
Abraham Eide, treasurer of the New
York local OF the Furniture Work
erS Industrial Union, announced
that picketing would continue in
front of the Miller Parlor Furniture
Company in Jersey City despite the
arrest Of two picketS. The pickets,
Marie Kiss, 1900 Bronx Park East
and Goldie Parlow, 3505 Broadway.
Astoria, were seized yesterday and
were later released in bail of $3.50
each.
At the same time Eide, on behalf
Of his union, and the New Jersey
Committee for Workers Rights,
with headquarters in Newark, issued
joint invitation to Mayor Frank
Hague, Police Commissioner Wolf
and Chief of Police Casey Of Jersey
City to observe in person the picket
ing OF the Miller plant where many
arrests occurred.
Eide explained that the invitation
is an effort to convince Jersey City
officials that the union is within
its rights. The invitation addressed
to the three officials said in part ::
This invitation is frankly intended
as a challenge to your consistent
policy OF prohibiting peaceful pick
citing and your failure to accept
the invitation will be regarded as a
denial not only of the rights of our
union members but also of the
rights of all organized labor in Jer-
sey City as guaranteed by both the
National and the New Jersey state
Recovery Acts"
A. j. Isserman, the unions New
ark attorney, declared that he in
etnded to file for an order enjoining
further arrests. Eight arrests have
been made since the Miller plant
was moved from Brooklyn to Jersey
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
BY ROSE woRTIS

Prior to the elections a few
months ago the left wing exposed
by innumerable facts in a leafet
the wholesale discrimination by the
ILGWU. against Negro workers
in the shops and in the union. 1t
exposed the fact. that the Negro
workers were. receiving lower wages
than the white workers, that the
complaints of the Negro workers
are not even given the same atten-
ton as those of the white workers,
that in a union with larger mum
Der of Negro members there was not
a single Negro worker on any lead
ing body. This forced the Love-
stonites to include some Negro
workers on their new executive
board.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Open Health Clinic
For Seamen at NY.
Marine Union Hall
Medical Advice Given
Every Thursday at
I4O Broad St.
By DOCTOR TANNENBAUM

The Seamen Health Bureau,
opened over one week ago at the
headquarters OF the Marine Work
erS Industrial Union, has already
succeeded in obtaining better con-
ditions and an allowance for a spe-
cial diet for NJ. Ramos, sick unem-
ployed seaman.
Ramos had stomach trouble" for
a long time, but in the past few
months he seemed to be getting
worse. He finally went to the clinic
at the Marine Hospital. where X
ray pictures were taken. He was
told that he had an ulcer of the
stomach, and was given instruc-
tions for diet. But the doctors
did not explain how he could buy
the special foods, mainly milk,
cream, eggs, and other expensive
articles, with the IS cents a day
allowed by the Transient Relief
Commission.
That was the problem be pre-
sented when he answered the inW-
tation of the Seamen'S Health Blu
reau to the sailors and longshore-
men to come up for advice about
their health. But a letter from the
WIR. doctor, and a delegation
from the union to the Federal
transient Relief Commission won
Ramos AN increase in relief and the
means to follow out his diet. He
is feeling better already.
The Seamen's Health Bureau is
operated jointly by the Medical
Unit of the WIR. and the Marine
Workers Industrial Union. 1t is
open every Thursday at 7.30, pm.
at 140 Broad st. All sailors and
longshoremen, regardless OF union
afhliation, may apply there, without
cost, for advice about their health.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Fur Workers To Hold
Meetings To Prepare
For Nail Conference

NEW YORK The Fur Workers
Industrial Union will hold a series
of meetings for the purpose of dis
cussing the National Fur Confer
ence to be held on June %, %, "a.
At these meetings delegates will be
elected for the National Conference.
Meetings will be held as follows:
membership meeting, T u es d ny,
June 10, S PM, at the Union Audi
torium; Unemployed meeting, We'd
nesday. June 20, 2 pm, Union Au-
diterium; Greek Fur Workers,
Thursday, June Il, 5 pm.,, Union
Auditorium; Hungarian Fur Work
ers, Tuesday, June 10, pm, Union
ONCE; Dog Skin Workers. Monday,
June 10, pm, Union Auditorium,
and Retailers, Monday, June 10, 5
pm; Fur Pointers will hold their
Inseting, Tuesday, June 10, at 5
pm. at the Union Once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Furriers Demonstrate
Against Overtime Work

The fur workers, under the lead
ership of the Fur Workers Indus
trial Union held a very successful
demonstration against overtime
work in the fur market on Satur-
day, June 18th. The Joint Council
with their henchmen did not dare
to come out in the market because
they have been very unsuccessful in
their past attempts. The Fur Work
ers Industrial Union calls upon all
fur workers to participate in the
struggles for union conditions
against the fur manufacturers and
their agents,-the scab Joint Coun-
Gil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Strikes in
Marine on
Upswing
Walkouts in Support
of West Coast Dock
Workers Gain i'm NY.
BY H. BAXTER

The ShipownerS, fearing mass ac-
ton OF the Seamen and longshore-
men in the North Atlantic, are using
every means possible to prevent
struggles of the marine workers.
Some of the recent struggles here
in New York, led by The Marine
Workers 1neGassTial Union in the
past few weeks show the willing
ness of the marine workers to
struggle and the shipowners busy
attempting to behead and kin these
struggles before they developed on
a larger scale.
Despite these attacks of the ship
owners, successful actions were
developed and concessions won.
On an English ship, the S. S.
Gypsum Prince, the crew struck on
May First for an increase in wages
and better working conditions.
The police came aboard and put
the crew off the ship. After four
days. the shipowners succeeded in
getting scabs aboard to take the
ship out
This struggle forced the Gypsum
company to grant a. IS wage in
crease in the entire company.
On the Munson Line
Mr.. Munson, the notorious wage
robber, saw a chance to make a
clean up when the fleet came in.
The SIS. Western World took
around 1900 passengers at $40 a
head to review the fleet. The crew
were to be given 81 each for the
trip-two days work-SI per day.
The union got in touch with the
crew and worked out demands and
a plan of action to present Mr..
MunSon the next morning when
the ship was ready to sad Next
morning. the docks were surrounded
by bunch Of fIatfeet and cops
(the shipowners always have money
for cops) The crew presented
their demands and were granted 81
for the trip which was a hundred
per cent wage increase. Mr.. Mum
son was given the works at cri-
tical time
The recent strike of the crew of
the SIS. Texan in support of the
West Coast strike has thoroughly
exposed the U. S. shipping COM
missioner as q strike breaker. Police
armed with rifles and tommy guns
drove the crew off the ship. Scabs
were herded aboard the ship by the
same guns The U. S. shipping
commissioner, representative of
the government, classed the crew
IS EdeserterS" and refused to pay
them their wages due. using this in
an attempt to stop crews OF other
intercoastal ships from taking strike
action in support OF the West
Coast.
Under False CeI0rs
A ship flying a Panamanian flag
with a Greek crew aboard came
into port. The crew had not re-
ceiYed any wages for approximately
seven months and were living on
a diet of beans. The captain
promised to shoot any one that
dared go ashore. However, some
of the crew succeeded in getting
away. Upon investigation. this ship
was found to be illegally registered
and in fact had no flag at all. The
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Settlement Announced
By knitgoods Workers

The Knitgoods Workers Industrial
Union announces the settlement
with the Triangle Sportwear of 115
w. 18th ST., which was formerly
MADISON Knitting Mills, located at
SGT Hendrix St., Brooklyn.
The Triangle Sportwear tried to
hide out from the Industrial Union
and had settled with the United
Textile Union, in order to install
longer hours and less wages. But
due to the energetic stand taken
by the Industrial Union, workers
are going back to work on the previ-
Gus Union conditions.
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ton, but in none of the locals did
the leadership put forth a single
Negro worker. Realizing that the
left wing would bring up this issue
in the union, these fake progreSsiyes
or second thought decided to take
along some Negro workers as fra
ternal delegates The Negroes who
are paying dues and initiation fees,
the Negro workers who are fighting
on the picketline we're not entitled
to the same privileges as the white
workers. They were placed in a
special category of fraternal dele
gates for which there are not even
provisions in the constitution This
Continued on Pags 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
WOmenIn
Industries
Fight w ar
Many Unions Support
Congress Against War
and Fascism

''You women make small metal
novelty containers. A slight change
in technical details, a slightly heav-
Ter metal-and you are making
deadly bHlletsl" declared Rina
Evans at the Metal Workers Indus
trial Conference last Monday The
conference passed a motion to elect
q delegate to the City-Wide Con-
ference on July 7, at which dele
gates will be elected to go to Paris,
France, where the Women's Inter
national Anti-W Congress will be
held from July % to July 30 The
workers voted to intensity work in
TIE shops for the organizing of
lsrger conference on June %.
In this most important industry,
women are now being trained in
work that suits the bosses admir-
ably for ffinging them right into
war industries. Women are stir
ring; they are realizing that it is
they who will make the bullets that
will kill workers in the next war
which is rearing its ugly head now,
In the handsome offices Of the mu-
milton makers. Women will fight
against war!
In the needle trades industries
the weme1 are working hard too.
A Needle Trades industrial Confer
ence was held June 16 Several hun
dred delegates were there from all
departments in organized and I'M
gnized shops. Plans were laid to
rr'e@ funds to send a needle worker
de'eaate to Paris Work in the shops
will be intensified for a broad rep
reSentation of all workers at the
July 7 City Wide Conference, from
A. F. OF L. and from unorganizsd
shops as well
Many Meetings
Many open-air meetings have
been and are being held in the fur
and needle markets. AS a result
of this activity, strong movement
against war and faScism has been
laid in the industry.
The Furniture Workers Industrial
Union had meeting where a
strong committee was elected for
the City-Wide Conference.
The Shoe Workers Industrial
Union met, with IS workers pres
en5, at which five delegates to the
City Wide Conference were chosen.
There was enthusiastic support for
the struggle against war and fas-
cism pledged by the audience, and
the workers adopted resolution
calling for the freedom of Ernst
T'haelmann.
The Cafeteria Workers will hold
a meeting June %, at W. 18th St.
Conference in Harlem
The Harlem Industrial Confer
ence will convene on June Is at
Browns Studio, 227 Lexington Ave,
to which, all women in trade
unions and shops are asked to send
delegates.
The newly organized and very ac-
tive Harlem Women'S Committee is
ECa,Ti,,ataT ~, p0up 9A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
T U N IN G IN

Chorus: De Wolf Hopper, Narrator
00-WEAF-Fred Allen, Comedian; James
Melton. Tenor; Haydn Orchestra
wOR-Hillbilly Music
WJz-20,0oo Years in Sing Sing
Sketch With Warden Lawes
WABC-Nino Martini, Tenor; Kostei-
anetz Orchestra
3o-WOR-Lum and Abner-Sketch
wJz-John Charles Thomas. Bari.
tone; Concert Orchestra
WABC-George Burns and Oracle
Allen. Comedian
e45-WOR-Garber Orchestra
0-WEAF-Lombardo Orchestra
WOR-Literary Justice-Sketch
WJZ-Cooperstion in Industrial Prog.
ress-Donald Riehberg, Executive
Director National Emergency Coun-
Gil, at National Association Of Man.
ufaturers Dinner, Hotel Waldorf.
Astoria
;l5-WJz-Beauty-Mme Sylvia; Sally
Milgrim, Stylist
0:30WEAF-One Mans Family-Sketch
WOR-variety Musicale
WJZ-Denny Orchestra; Harry Rich.
man, Songs
WABC-Eva Hadrobova, Soprano:
Symphony Orchestra
i:00-WEAF-Berger Orchestra
wOR-News
WJz-Coleman Orchestra
WABC-Belaseo Orchestra
l:lS-WEAF-Robert Royce, Tenor
WoR-Moonheams Trio
3o-WEAF-Dance Music (Afso WOE
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| receive. The older ones may have
suffered, but care was taken to keep
the children warm and fed and
we'll.
AND NOW-well, let the children
IA speak for themselves. Dozens Of
letters are received weekly by the
New Pioneer, the magazine of the
workers and poor farmers children
in the United States, from children
in the Soviet Union.
The letters tell of the life of the
children in the Soviet Union. They
tell of their schools. where the chill
dren help plan their own courses
of study, choose their own teachers,
and aid in the management of the
school. They tell of their parents
committee, who work with the
teachers to see that the school is
we'll run.
But, you may ask, how does this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
Soviet Children: Healthy and Happy
Citizens in the Land ofNO Unemployment

economic, and, yes, political - Of
their country, even during their
childhood
In the factories they inspect and
criticize. They prod the shirkers
and commend the shock troopers.
The Pioneers of the collective farms
report the kulaks who steal grain
and try to become capitalists.
When one examines pictures of
the kids of the Soviet Union, one is
struck first of all by their healthy
appearance. These children are
sturdy and muscular. 1t is easy to
explain why.
AS babies, they are cared for in
the creches nursery schools, where
each child is given individual care
by especially trained workers with
children. They are assured there of
the proper diet, sleeping hours, ex-
ercise, etc. When they go to school
they are given hot lunches and
milk between classes.
In summer, they go to camps-in
the resorts formerly frequented only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
In THE HOLD

THE ship shivers nosing out of
Muskegon harbor. Smoke pays
out in long rope from the single
stack. On the breakwater, a light
house with its great drop of blood.
The rigging slaps in the lake breeze
like the honing of razor. Euddled
up as if in a bag, couple on a
deck bench. They cannot pay for
cabin for the night.
In the hold the breeze sweeps
through the matches. The watch Is
being changed. The coal passer
heaves up from the boiler room,
thin, sucked-out. A deckhand comes
over towards me for chat. I make
room for him. Just then the sec
ond mate appears. The deckhand
steals off in the shadows.
The oiler waits at the hatchway
to the boiler room. The heat blows
up and swallows you. The oiler
smokes his butt feverishly. The cot
ton waste tucked into his dunga-
rees makes him look as if he were
ruptured. He mutters oilers are on
4 hours, off 8 hours. Wages are not
SO hot. His face is like a clap of
paste on the steel wall against which
he is leaning. Union? The union
is strong. He says nothing else but
that the union is strong.
Strong for whom?
He smokes the last life out of the
butt and does not answer. He grabs
hold of the guard rail and slips
down the steep hot stairs.
The grinding of heel back in the
hold. The Waterman. He cups big
dark hands like lanterns around his
cigaret. Hats cooked on head
curly and square as a young bulls.
He studies the lake.
Sometimes she's fired calm.
Sometimes she's fired rough. Winter
you can't trust her nohow. I been
through 3 ripsnorting storms when
We was scared she'd be fired against
the breakwater, cracked like an egg.
Twelve inches ice on her. Rudder
cable snapped. The boat with such
list on her a fellow on shore said
he could see right down into her
stack" He says this without fear
or anger, in Boosting cocky way,
as if the lake is some healthy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05

by the Tsar's family and the wealthy
aristocracy. Here they bathe and
take sun baths, play games, hike,
and strengthen their bodies in other
ways.
The photograph accompanying
this article was taken in the sum-
mer camp organized by the large
locomotive construction plant in
Lugansk.
They learn as they play in this
camp. They build socialist cities on
the beach, become young gardeners,
carpenters, architects, etc. They
collect butterflies, turtles, glow
worms, bats, ETC., and learn a great
deal about nature.
Surely a life we would like to
have for our own children! Surely
life worth fighting for so that oul
own children may grow to be free
and happy citizens of free and
happy country!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
By Ben Field

bad ashore. Maybe it's because you
got a hole here for yourself, even
if it's only sinking hole.
The fireman yanks the damper
chain. Maybe"
NV thios is a better boat than
most of the lake tubs. But she's
given them the gutache more than
once. That time when both we're
standing in II inches of water. Cold
enough to freeze man. And that
time when one of the deckhands got
his nose so bad frostbitten that all
the stink's gone out of the world
for him.
The coal passer wipes his smudged
face. DAY off? Take a day off and
you can have all the days off. You're
fired. They don't give damn for
you"
The oiler hurries through into
the engine room.
The great shanks CULVER, race,
pulling their knuckles Of steel. The
oiler leans over. He taps here and
there, patting them as if to get the
fire out of them. He must be quick
else his arm can be yanked of
easily as a f1y's leg. He dibbles his
oil can here and there. He screws
down the grease valves. The sweat
blisters his face.
A wad of underwear hops in and
out, churning about in a soapy pail
Weighted down, the wash is chained
to the shank. AS the shank moves
it raises the wash and then pounds
it back into the pail.
The fireman still stands in the fire
alley, bloodshot eyes hammered to
the gauge. Shorty spits on his hard
syeaty hands and humps over the
shovel.
The decks are deserted save for
the huddle couple. All night long
the engines throb like bad heart
In the morning you get up to find
the boat knotted to the docks of
the ratty Milwaukee harbor. Deck
hands are already working out in
the thin rain. I do not see the
couple that spent all night sitting up
though 100 cabins were empty. Nor
the men of the hold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05

the same morning. I just beat the
band home to see my wife. They're
talking of shifting ports. It'll be
kind of hard seeing her twice a
month then"
He looks at the lake. The breeze
whets the lake up like a knife. Nov
I got all my furniture in. We're
beginning to pay it up, She don't
like my working on the boat. 1t
kind of gets her sometimes. When
We broke the cable that storm, she
sat before the radio all day and
night. But we amt had storms like
that for over a year."
The ashgun is shooting in the
boiler room. I let myself down into
the heat. The coal passer blinks
up from Kissing heap of coal. He
is a thready little fellow looking
like skinned boiled shrimp. The
pockmarked fireman hangs over the
steam gauge. 1.-THE boss won't like
it if she blows off steam. Got to
keep her ITS all the time"
Shorty the coal passer turns the
water off in the ashgun. He climbs
into the coal bunker. Great chunks
clater out. Soft coal, which is easier
to fire, even smokes when you look
at it.
The coal dust drizzles back, over
your face and clothes. The coal
passer has worked the lake since
he was Is. Everywhere on the lakes
things are about the same. Around
Duluth boats carry 9 engineers and
S captains, so many boats tied up.
Sure and the deckhands are fired.
Wages cut down from Is per cent
and over. Dockwallopers fired for
fighting heavy loads, the fourth
sack of bran called Wilson" sack
because they added it on during the
war, 6 bundles of iron pipe that
ought to be 8.
IN the heat the steam gauge bulges
1 out suddenly like the eye of a
strangling man. The fireman looks
away from it for a second. He was
on shore for year once and then
back to the boat. THE boat kind of
gets into your blood"
Maybe it's because things are so
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05

:oo-WEAF-Pickens Sisters, Songs
WOR-SportS Resume-Ford Frick
WJZ-Amost n Andy-Sketch
WA8C-Myrt and Marge-sketch
T:l5-WEAF-To Be Announced
WOR-Marion Chase, Songs
WJz-Plantation Echoes, Mildred
Bailey, Songs; Robinson Orchestra
WABC-Just Plain Bill-Sketch
7:30-WEAF-Gould and Shelter, Piano
WOR-Vecsey Orchestra
WJZ-Red Davis-Sketch
WABC-Paul Reast, Baritone
45-WEAF-Uncle Ezra--Sketch
WOR-Dance Music
WJz-Dangerous Psradise-Sketch
WABC-Boake Carter Commentator
00-WEAF-Another Language-Play.
With Mary Pickford Actress
WOR-Lone Rsnger-Sketch
WJz-The Halfway Killing-Sketeh
WABC-Easy Aces-Sketch
;l5-wABC-Edwin C. Hill. Commentator
a:3o-wEAF-wayne King Orchestra
WOR-Variety Musicale
WJz-Lanny Ross, Tenor; Salter Or
chestra; veslie Mills, Harp
WABC-Everett Marshall, Baritone;
Elizabeth Lennox, Contralto; Mixed