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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
BY H. O..


NEW YORK.-The mouthpiece of
the Blue Eagle, the capitalist press,
yesterday began to operate under
the newspaper code. The Hearsts,
the Scripps -HowardS, the Blocks,
Stearns and McCormicks are given
drastic weapon to slash the wages
Of all branches of the printing
trade, newspapermen and newsboys.
Minimum wages" range from
$770 to SIS per week. The stagger
plan is invited, with appropriate
wage cuts. Part time employees
shall receive pro rata rates of the
foregoing scales" says the code.
Hourly minimum wage rates for
the mechanical departments, who
have through long struggles won
much higher wages, are set at 40c
an hour.
With this code. and the strike
breaking National Labor Rcard, as
well as the anti-strike provisions
within the code itself, the news
paper owners have a powerful
weapon to drive down wages in the
entire industry.
Supervision OF the code rests in
the hands Of the newspaper bosses
themselves. An Industrial Board
(whose main object is to prevent
strikes against the coolie wage
levels) is set up with four labor
representatives" acceptable to the
bosses on it. That they will be of
the strike of Bill Green g. Co.,
whose interests are the employers
interests" as General Johnson said,
is a foregone certainty.
To make assurance doubly sure,
Article VI, Section sd, of the
newspaper code provides that:
Neither party shall change the
conditions existing at the time the
controversy arose, or utilize any
coercive or retaliatory measures. :"
No matter what the conditions
are that workers protest against,
they are in advance ordered to take
no organized action to protect
themselves, but to leave matters
just as they are for the Infamous
brand of adjustment for which the
National Labor Board IS notorious.
Rank and File Fight Back
The rank and file in the printers
and preSsmens unions have al
ready begun an attack against this
slave code. The March issue of
THE Printing Worker" published
by the Amalgamation Party, 40 w.
18th Street, New York City, prints
whitening expose of the code. 1t
points out that its "stagger system
is even more vicious in form than
the Infamous Saulter decision" The
starting time of any worker can be
juggled to suit the bosses. "Addi-
tional unemployment would be the
first result" they add. They also
declare that THE right to strike
is pointedly attacked in Section Sc
On the day the code went into
effect, a group of Communist work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
C.P. Calls Meet
To Discuss Local
MGWU Elections
Jack Stach el Will
Analyze Role of
Zimmerman

NEW YORK. - To discuss the
coming elections in Local 70 of the
International Ladies G a m n t
Workers Union, the District Com
mittee of the Communist Party has
called a mass meeting to be held in
Bryant Hall, Thursday, March IS,
at p. m. All members of Local
%, members Of mass organizations,
Women's Councils, TWO. branches,
the Freiheit Singing Society,
Mandolin Orchestra group and all
members of the Communist Party
and Young Communist League who
are working in the dress trade are
called on to be present at the meet
ing.
The meeting will be addressed by
Charles Krumbein, district organ
izer of the Communist Party: Jack
Statchel, acting general secretary Of
the T. U. U. L., and Max Bedacht,
general secretary of the Interns-
tional Workers Order. The strike
breaking role Of the Zimmerman
Lovestone clique will be fully anal
wed and discussed and compared
with the militant program of the
left wing group.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Negro Union Calls
Meet for Fight on
-CrOWiSm
To Launch Fight for
Jobs, Slum Clearance
on Chicago So. Side
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)
CHICAGO, Mar. 12.-The Amer
lean Consolidated Trade Council,
a Negro trade union which has
been refused admittance to the A.
F. of L.. has called a preliminary
conference to plan struggle for the
right of Negro workers to jobs to-
gether with white workers in all
trades and in the CW.A. and
P.W.A.
The conference, which will be
held this Wednesday, March Il, at
3 p. m. at 1884 State Street in this
city, will also draft a resolution to
the federal government requesting
slum clearance program for the
South Side of Chicago that will give
both better homes to the Negro
workers and jobs.
All organizations are invited and
urged to send delegates. The
American Consolidated suggests that
if organizations do not meet before
the conference, officials of the
organizations should appoint del
egates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13

past few Sundays). His article
entitled, Educating Our Soc
Ger Fans" will now be trans
mitted to you. Stand by i.
ONLY a few of the members of
v the staff know of or follow
the activities of the Metropolitan
Workers Soccer League" remarked
Comrade Hathaway editor of the
Daily Worker, speaking on REV
olution and Sports" at a recent
wrestling meet held by the Labor
Sports Union for the benefit of the
Daily Only one or two pay at
tention to the schedule and stand
ing of the league printed regularly
in the sports column. Comrade
Hathaway further claimed that it
was not an easy task to convince
the Daily staff of the Importance
Of the sports column. He urged
the revolutionary working class to
become sport conscious and to help
the Labor Sports Union build a
mass sport movement in this coun-
try.
Fifteen 10 twenty five thousand
soccer fans, mostly workers, watch
our teams play every Sunday on
fields in every borough of Greater
New York for the last seven years.
On rare occasions, when our
players boosted the Communist
Election Campaign, wearing signs
on their chests reading, "Vote
Communist" Robert Minor for
Mayor" or slogans reading, Free
the Scottsboro Boys" Free Tom
Mooney" the thousands OF our
fans, though in the past had been
ignorant of our principles, only
they knew that we were worker
soccer pIayers,-a part OF the
revolutionary working class. On
these occasions the fans showed
greater interest both in our games
ard in their respect to the play
ers and the referee. AS a whole,
our fans knew little of the exist
ence of our league and the Labor
Sports Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13

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bosses promise to give the U. T. w.
the closed shop and the check-off.
Paterson is seething with resent
ment. Many shops have already
voted to strike against the wage
cut. U, T. w. members are flock
ing to the headquarters Of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union seek
ing advice and leadership. At a
packed mass meeting, held at 222
Paterson st., Paterson, N. j., Sun
day, A. F. of L. union members took
the floor to denounce the sell-out
by their leaders. why should we
pay high dues out of our starvation
wages to pay our leaders to help
the bosses cut our wages?" they
asked.
Mass Conference March II.
The National Textile Workers
Union has issued call for unity
and action, to stop the wage-cuts,
which calls upon the members of
the Associated silk Workers Union
(U. T, W., the United Wrappers
League, the Loomf1xers and the
Twisters' Clubs, and upon all silk
and dye workers to unite and or
ganize into one big powerful in
dustrial union, based upon the class
struggle, controlled by its rank and
file members and devoted exclusively
to the interests of all silk and dye
workers.
The N. T. w. U. call points out
that the only way to stop this and
future wage cuts and to raise our
wages is to throw out the traitor
GUS Mcmahon, Schweitzer, Keller
bureaucrats, tear UP the infamous
no-strike agreement, unite all their
forces in one powerful industrial
union and strike under revolution
airy leadership in united front of
action.
A rank and file conference is
called to meet Saturday, March II,
at P. M, in Roseland Ball Room in
Paterson. All shop committees will
send representatives and all silk
and dye workers are invited. Ac-
ton will be taken to organize a
real struggle against the bosses and
their wage-cutting agents in the
U. T. w. Ballam, Biedenkapp and
Brown will speak. Discussion from
the floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Union Hits failing
Of Sign Painters

NEW YORK-A meeting Of the
Sign and Advertising Art Workers
Independent Union, affiliated to the
Joint Council Of Independent Build
ing Trades Unions, voted to express
its sympathy with the four i'm
prisoned members of Sign Writers
Union, Local $50, A. F. Of L., framed
by the notorious Lesky, large sign
manufacturer
A letter has been sent to the Ex-
ecutive Board of Local $50 offering
the cooperation of the Independent
Union in the fight to free the four
men, and calling for united action
to organize the unorganized and
getting relief for the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
800 Fur Workers
On Strike in n. Y.
Demand Enforcement
of Agreement

NEW YORK. - Eight hundred
workers from 100 fur shops downed
their tools and walked out on strike
Yesterday in answer to the call Of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union.
The workers are striking to en-
force the terms Of new agreement
and to renew the agreement which
expired January 81.
Workers answered the strike call
enthusiastically. Shops walked out
And by evening over 300 workers
were out.
The strikers are demanding the
elimination of contracting. which
has been legalized by the N. r. A.
code. They are demanding that all
fur bosses contribute to the unem-
ployment insurance fund which
shall be distributed by the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Stockholders
Reject N.R.A.
In HaverhiIl
Two More Shops Sign
Agreement; Thousands
at Mass Meetings

HAVERHILL, Mass, Mar.
12.-ThOusands Of striking
shoe workers, meeting at
Eagle Hail and the City Hall,
voted down the Regional La
Dor Boards proposal TO call of the
strike end srbitrate differences with
the employers later through an az
bitrator selected by the n. R. A. or
ga1ization.
Joe Costello. leader of the United
Shoe and Leather Workers Union,
branded the N. R. A. plan as a
strikebreaking maneuver and de-
signed to beat down the conditions
Of the shoe workers to an even lower
level.
The recommendations of the
LABOR Board to call OF the strike
and arbitrate it at later date was
the result of a hearing called by
the Board in the Federal Building
in Boston last Saturday. The union
delegation warned the Board against
interference with the strike. Work
ers on the delegation denounced the
arbitration moves, stating that the
only way to settle the strike is on
the basis of direct dealings between
the bosses and the union.
Leading the committee was Eula
Martin, secretary Of the dist,ict
council of the union. Sam Zeibel
and Ralph Holmes Of the shoe work
ers committee of action presented
the position of the strikers.
Hit Arbitration
While denouncing the arbitration
plan the delegation pointed out that
80 shops had already signed agree
ments with the union and that this
is the way the workers prefer to
settle the strike.
The City Hall meeting was
tamlned last night with strikers, wh1
came to hear Fred Biedenkapp
leader of the union, who brought
greetings and a donation of $50 for
the strike fund from the New York
shoe workers This was one Of the
most enthusiastic meetings of the
entire strike. An unanimous vote
Of thanks was sent the New York
shoe workers by the New England
shoe workers for their support Of
the strike.
"The shoe workers of New York
pledge TO support this strike TO
the utmost, for it is part of the
struggle of all the shoe workers to
better their conditions" said Bied-
enkapp.
On Sunday Biedenkapp spoke ir
Lowell, where the workers promised
to give their support to the Haver-
hiH strike.
Two more shops, the Tinter and
Bradford, signed agreements with
the union today, bringing the total
Of settlements up to 35.
The local capitalist press con-
tinues to attack the strike anc
especially the leadership. A former
labor arbitrator. Newdick, is lead
ing the attack through the press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Boss Press Placed Under NRA
Code, Wages As LOa0 As 81. 20
Gives Owners Wedge To Smash Wages Down to
40 Cents an Hour Minimum; Contains
Anti-Strike Provisions

ers employed in the Daily News in
New York distributed leaflet to
workers in the plant exposing the
code and calling for A struggle to
smash it.
Experience has shown" says
this Ieaflet, that the minimum
pay soon becomes the maximum.
employers can cut your wages
regardless of contract. This is a
direct threat to your standard of
living"
Their proposals to the newspaper
workers in the Daily News plant
applies to all workers, in their fight
against the newspaper slave code.
Organize in your departments.
Form contacts with similar or
CARNATIONS in other departments
Force your union to take
stand against this slavery code"
The rank and file in the unions
working in newspaper plants should
bring the issue up in their local
meetings and block every step to
slash wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
JObIeSS Die When
Chicago Salvation
ArmySerySPOiSOn

CHICAGO, March H. = An I'M
known number Of workers died and
hundreds fell seriously ill at the Sal
walton Army flop house, 500 North
Union Ave, here Saturday night af-
ter poisoned food, called hash" was
served on the evening menu for
1000 jobleSs. This was revealed af-
ter investigation by the Daily
Worker today, following refusal Of
the local press to carry the story,
Men were stretched out in the
aisles formed by the closely packed
beds at the flop house shortly after
they ate the food. Doctors were
hurriedly dishing out doses of medi-
cine. The floors of the building as
we'll as the toilets were covered with
food the men threw up.
At least six were reported to have
died. At the same time 200 work.
ers, mostly Negro, were taken i'll at
the 2641 South Wabash Avenue flop
house with at least two reported
dead.
Workers gathered at the Unem-
ployed Council, Local l, this morn
ing and sent committees to all the
newspapers demanding they carry
the story. Another committee was
sent 10 the Commissioner of Health
and were met by his Assistant, DR..
King, who said that he would not
recommend food fit to eat"
On one occasion in the past work
ers brought the food to the Health
Commissioner, Bundesen, and placed
1t on his desk for inspection. but
he refused to act.
Sanitary conditions in the flop
houses are a mockery At the Sal
walton Army there are four toilets
to every 100 men with no separate
provisions for those afflicted with
venereal and other contagious dis
eases. Diseased men are allowed
to handle the food. The beds, which
the law requires TO be four inches
apart, are placed tightly against
each other, while sheets and pillows
are never used. The blankets are
never washed, but instead merely
The bulk Of food bought for the
flop houses is gotten on the open
market where discarded food is sold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Clerks i'm 3 Grocery
Stores on Strike

NEW YORK.-Clerks of the Zion
Groceries Corporation, with stores
at 4109 Thirteenth Ave, 66 Belmont
Ave. and 1855 Prospect Ave, all in
Brooklyn, are striking under the
leadership of the Food Workers In
dustrial Union for an increase in
wages, shorter hours and recognition
of the union.
Five strikers have been arrested
since the beginning of the strike on
an injunction that was gotten out
against Local 1888 of the A. F. of L.
grocery clerks union. Their cases
will come up in the Pennsylvania
Ave. Court Friday morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
The Substitutes Union also en-
dorsed the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill.


ment Insurance Bill.
NEW YORK. -Aroused by the
vicious order issued by Postmaster
General Farley on March 2, which
forces postal workers, their wives
and children to starvation, 100 sub
stitutes representing $4,000 postal
employees, staged a protest demon
stration before the New Jamaica
Post Office, at the dedication OF
which Farley was to speak.
Placards held by the demon
strators were torn from their hands
and mutilated by detectives sta
toned at the Post Office. Undis-
mayed, the substitute postal en-
ployes waited for Farley to appear
But Farley did not show up after
hearing that a demonstration was
to be staged
Another protest parade will be
held tomorrow by the Association
and the Committee of One Organi-
cation starting from Washington
Square at noon. Regular and SUBJ
stitute employees will march with
their families up Fifth Avenue to
Eight Street, to Broadway, to
Forty-Second Street, to Eighth Ave-
nue. and to the General Postoffice
al, 33rd st., where mass meeting
will be held.
AT the post office a delegation of
fifteen will petition Postmaster
John j. Kiely to urge resembling of
the order and to ask for a living
wage for the substitutes.
For more news on the postal
workers. see page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13

withholding and destruction of
letters sent to Patterson and Norris.
Court Refuses Protest kilograms
SAN FRANCISCO, March ~
kilograms demanding the i'm
mediate release of the Scottsboro
boys, sent by the international
Labor Defense and its bazaar con-
ference 30 the State supreme court
Of Alabama, have been refused the
telegraph company notified the I.
L. D. today.
Among prominent individuals who
have sent protest kilograms to the
court, to President Roosevelt and
Gov. Miller, are James Cagney and
Mrs, Cagney, Victor Jorg, Marie
del WEIGH, DR.. Matt Crawford,
Dorothy Erskine, Ella Winter, Lang
ston Hughes, Marie Short and Noel
Sullivan.
In spite of opposition by the re-
dictionary leadership, the Pacific
Coast convention of the Tnterna-
tional Longshoremen's Association
passed a resolution condemning the
Scottsboro lynch verGicts.
NEW YORK. - The Spartacus
Greek Workers Club was notified
by the We1ern Union yesterday
that Judge w. W. Callahan had re-
fused to accept protest telegram
sent by that organization. The club
is mailing the protest, and at the
same time wiring similar protests
to Gov. B. M. Miller and President
Roosevelt, demanding the release Of
the nine innocent Scottsboro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
COPS CAN'T FIND DILLINGER
BUT BREAK GIRL PICKET'S
ARM

CHICAGO (FP).-Unable for days
to find the escaped killer John Dill
linger, Chicago cops nevertheless
found the opportunity to break the
arm of a girl picket in the neck
wear unions strike for better con-
ditions. They ganged up on her
as she stood outside the shop and
crushed her arm against the wall
The code says s1S for 40 hours, but
is violated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
MARCH ISSUE OF THE
COMMUNIST" NOW
READY
Contents

The Third International and It's
Place in History-V. I. Lenin
Milestones of Comintern Lead
ership-By Alex Bittelman
The Armed Revolt of the Aus
TRAN Workers-By v. ]. Jerome
How Not To Apply the Open
Letter-By Gertrude Haessler
Lessons of the Economic Strug-
giles, and the work in the
Trade Unions - BY Jack
Stachel
DeLeonism in the Light OF
Marxism- LerHnism-By Walter
Burke
Figures on the American Eco
nomic Crisis-By Labor Re-
search Association
Book Review
Two Months and Ten Days-A
Review by H. M. Wicks
Per Copy 20 cents-Yearly Sub
Scriptions, 50
Send your orders to your dis
trict or direct to
Workers Library Publishers
P. o. Box 148, Sta. D, New York
City $50 E. 18th ST.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Plumbers Win Strike;
Get Increased Wages

NEW YORK. = After a strike
which lasted two days workers OF
B. Rosenbluth plumbing shop, 225
E, Seventh St., succeeded in fore
ing the boss to concede to their
demands. The demands won include
recognition of the shop chairman
and the Alteration Plumbers, Steam
filters and Helpers Union; the pay Of
mechanics to be raised from 81 to
ST per day and that of helpers from
SO to 81 per day, time and half
for overtime and the 40 hour, 5 day
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Painters Answer Call
Of Union for Strike

NEW YORK.-A large number of
painters have answered the call of
the Alteration Painters Union and
have come out on strike. The
Spring organizational campaign to
build a strong fighting union of the
alteration painters and to wipe out
the miserable conditions in the
trade has effected shops in Brighton
Beach, Boro Park, Coney Island and
in the downtown section of Man
haitian.
The strike headquarters are
situated:-90 L. 10th St., N. Y. c.;
1900 Coney Island Ave-, and 100
45th st., Brooklyn. The Union is
calling upon all members to report
to the above headquarters and help
In the campaign Of the Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Dental Strike Ends;
To Discuss Agreement

NEW YORK.-After three days
Of strike, 500 members of the Dental
Technicians Equity have gone back
to work. After lively meeting the
workers forced reading of the
agreement over the heads of the
leadership
Discussion on the agreement was
left until the next membership
meeting.
This agreement, it was pointed
out, will remain scrap of paper
unless the workers themselves carry
out the terms of settlement in their
shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
CORRECTION

Tickets for the March 26 benefit
performance Of They Shall Not
Die" should be secured from the
National Committee for the De-
Tense of Political Prisoners, $50
Fifth Avenue, not from the dis
tri ! Office Of the international
Labor Defense as stated in yester-
days paper.
On the following night, March
n, the district Office of the LID.
will also have a benefit perfor-
nance Of John Wexley's popular
play, which Is based on the SCOTS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Shoe Union To Discuss
Constitution Tonight

NEW YORK.-All shoe workers
are urged to attend special member
ship meeting on Tuesday, March
18th at $50 P. NJ, at Irving Plaza
Hall, Irving Place, Corner 18th ST.,
TO discuss the Constitution adopted
at the Boston convention. At this
meeting members of the union will
be asked to propose amendments
to the Constitution which if
adopted will be put on the refer
endum ballot. The members of the
United Shoe and Leather Workers
Union throughout the country will
vote on the Constitution and amend
ments on April 10th, 1894.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
NEW DEAL CUTS $40 WAGE
TO SIT

WAUkEGAN, III. (FP). = The
Peoples Gas Co. has not cut hourly
rates since the N. r. A. came i'll,
but it has sharply cut purchasing
power of many of its employees. Men
who were earning $40 week last
year are making only SIT this year.
Layoffs and shorter hours did the
trick.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
TO DISCUSS POCKETBOOK
CODE TONIGHT

NEW YORK. - To discuss the
pocketbook workers code, which is
about to be introduced by the N. r
A. and will slash wages in the in
dustry to $14 and $18 week, the
Pocketbook Workers Rank and File
Committee has arranged an open
forum to be held tonight at s p. m
at Irving Plaza Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13

EDUCATIONAL director and president Of the Metropolitan
Workers Soccer League Sol Fisher writes coupled
of letters giving few practical suggestions and
educational material about the toe and head experts who
practice their art every Sunday with the exception of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13

boro frame up. The receipts from
both performances Will go for the
Scottsboro defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
Postal Workers
Protest Against
Starvation Order

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
4 SCOttSbOrO Bows
Are Put in Solitary
Confinement inJaiI

(ContiH,Ged irons Page IL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-13
NRA, AFL Heads,
Force Wage Cut
On Paterson Men

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