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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
Strike Shuts
Arms Plant
In Brooklyn
Workers in Gun Sight
Factory Demand
Wage Increase

NEW YORK.-Picketing has been
so effective at the QUAINT Products
Machine Corporation, 1884 seth ST.,
Brooklyn, which manufactures gun
sights, that the management has
been forced to close its plant
The strike at the plant, led by
Local 301 of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union, is now
in its second week. The workers
walked out when the employers re-
fused to negotiate with the shop
committee and union representa-
tive. Siding with the employer
we're the officials of the N. R. A.,
who agreed that the boss was I'M
able to grant a wage increase which
the workers demanded.
It was reported by the union yes
terday that authorities from the
army base, at the foot of 59th ST.,
Brooklyn, have herded scabs into
the army machine shops to COM
plete the finishing process of paint
ing and packing the gun sights
which were manufactured by the
QUAINT Products. Strikers have ap-
pealed to workers of the army base
to demand the ousting of the scabs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
NEARLY FOURTH OF URBAN POPULATION IN U.S. FEELS HUNGER
MISERY REACHES RECORD AS OFFICIALS SLASH RELIEF FUNDS
Fur Industry
Tied-Up 900
Needle Workers Union
Pushes Drive To Close
Large City Plant

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29-Wtih
80 per cent of the fur trade tied up
by the furriers' general strike. the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union began drive Monday to stop
the Mawson-Demany-F Probes shop,
one of the largest in the city.
A mass picket line guarded the
plant, and a fight resulted when
several scabs tried to break through.
This morning enough strikers failed
to show up to effectively hinder
production. Today the cops were
out in force.
The Needle Trades Workers Union
announces telegram and check
from the NTWIU. of Chicago
greeting the strikers and pledging
full support. The N.T.WI.U. Of New
York has likewise sent funds and a
pledge of support. The Interna-
tional Furriers Union, Local So, of
Cleveland (AFL) has also contri-
buted to the strike fund.
The union has sent a call to fra
ternal and all other working class
organizations, for delegates to con-
ference Friday night, August 81, at
Union Hall, 913 Arch ST., Phila., to
organize support for the three week
old strike
The workers are demanding a 35-
hour week, wage increases and a 3
per cent unemployment Insurance
fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
Negro Veteran District 2, C.P.
Saved from To Hold Picnic
Potler's Field On Labor Day

NEW YORK.-The Veterans Re-
lief Committee of the Workers Elk
SerYicemens League yesterday en-
erged victorious in its fight to save
the body of William Alfred, Negro
War Veteran, from burial in Potter
field. Alfred died of starvation in
Harlem Hospital, Thursday.
The committee received a tele-
gram yesterday from the Washing
ton Veterans Bureau informing
them the body will be taken from
the City Morgue by Veterans Bur-
eau undertaken.
Washington officials. viewer,
evaded the demand that the dead
veterans mother be notified, The
Veterans Bureau, tn telegram
stated, does not know her where
abouts.
Alfred received half of his ad-
justed compensation at the address
of his mother, Mrs. Annie Mills,
2l6 Railroad Ave, Jersey City.
Alfred's death of starvation, the
Veterans Relief Committee charges,
is direct consequence of the Home
Relief Bureaus refusal to give him
aid. The refusal of relief was made
on the ground that Veterans Bureau
records show him to be resident
of Jersey City, although documents
found on Alfreds person verified
his residence in New York for the
past four years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
Police Attack Relief
Pickets and Jail %

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 90
Twenty-nine seamen have been ar
rested here after police had broken
three picket lines established around
the Transient Relief Bureau by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
in their fight for decent relief. All
20 are out on bail raised by the IN
ternational Labor Defense. The
trial has been set for Sept. IL. The
union today appealed to workers
and seamen to protest the jailings.
The sesmen are continuing the
picketing, demanding that the relief
heads keep the promise wrung from
them in June, when they declared
that the seamen would receive
separate relief project, three meals
a day, clothing and necessary Incl
dentals
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30

NEW YORK-An obstacle race
over artistic obstacles created by
John Reed Club artists will be one
of the high spots of the picnic
which the Communist Party of Dis
trict will hold next Monday, at
North Beach Park, Astoria, L. I.
The competitors in the contest, as
noteworthy as the race itself, will
include Michael Gold, Isidore
Schneider, Butch" Limbach and
Sender Garlin.
A group from the 1884 Ziegfeld
Follies, sponsored by the New Dance
Group, will present dances. Other
organizations which will contribute
to the days program are the Labor
Sports Union, the Workers 1abora-
tory Theatre and the Workers IN
ternational Relief Band. The pro-
ceeds of the picnic will be con-
tributed to the State election CAM
paign fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
New Haven Railroad
Announces New Layoff
and Stagger Plans

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Aug. %
Hartford Railroad yesterday an
nounced that lin common with other
railroads" it would soon lay off
more workers and further reduce
the working hours of other en-
ployes.
The official announcement, which
did not state how many of the
$4,000 employees of the road would
be affected, read: due to continued
falling off in business the New
Haven, in common with other rail-
roads, has found it necessary to
make further temporary reductions
in personnel.
Some employees will be dropped
and others will be furloughed for
a temporary period. This applies
to all departments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
Demonstration
Protests Music
Black Shirts
Police Fail To Break Up
Anti-Fascist Rally
Outside Hall

NEW YORK.-Anti-fas gave
the Mussolini Blackshirt Band a
mass revolutionary reception" when
they opened their concert of fascist
and military music in Carnegie Hall,
Sunday.
Modified by the Committee of
Action Against Italian Fascism and
several italian workers organiza-
tons, several hundred anti-fascist
workers staged a militant protest
demonstration in front of the hall.
While inside, the fascist military
band played their martial music to
a select audience of Mussolini SYM
pathizers, the workers outsid e
marched back and forth singing the
international, The Scarlet Banner,
Italian revolutionary songs, and
other workers songs of struggle, in
English and Italian.
Eight attempts by police to smash
the militant demonstration failed
as workers reformed their ranks
again and again. Immediately after
intermission, the workers held an
open air meeting in Columbus Cir
Gle nearby and came back to the
theatre just before the audience left
REINFORCED by more than 300 work
ers shouting Down with Fascisnat'
"Abasso Mussolinil"; "Mussolinfs
Music Is Machine Guns!"; and other
slogans.
Several workers were raised on
the shoulders of their comrades and
managed to speak for few mo-
ments before police attached them
The police, however, could make no
arrests because of the militant atti-
tude of the workers, who advanced
menacingly on policeman if he at
tempted to seize a worker.
After the concert the workers
marched back to the Circle where
they listened to Tom DeFazzio OF
the Communist Party, Nunzio, edi-
tor of L'Unita OPERA, and speakers
from the Italian anarchists and
from the American League Against
War and Fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
Unions in New England
Act for An Independent
Federation of Labor

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Aug. 29-
A New England Conference to es-
tablish an Independent Federation
of Labor has been called to take
place here Sept. % by the Bridge
port Brass Workers Industrial
Union,
The call has been endorsed by
the Connecticut district of the Steel
nd Metal Workers Industrial
Union and by independent and in
duStrial unions.
After the program for setting UP
the federation is worked out, all
decisions will be referred to refer
endum vote of the unions involved.
A provisional committee for the
conference has been set up with Of
fees at 80 Fairfield Ave, Bridge
port, Conn. Delegates are to be
elected on the basis of one delegate
for every 100 members or fraction
thereof.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
Committee Wins a New
Hearing for Beijerbach

NEW YORK.-The Commissioner
General of immigration. Daniel w.
Mccormack, has issued an order
directing that a rehearing be held
on the case of Friedrich Beiierbach.
At this hearing evidence can be pre-
sented showing that Beijerbach is
political refugee who faces per-
secution if returned to Germany
and is therefore entitled to asylum
in the United States.
Beijerbach, militant fascist,
came to America as stowaway on
the Leviathan and at his first hear
ing was ordered excluded and re-
turned to Germany.
The Committee for Protection of
Foreign Born today will meet at Z
pm. at Room 430, 80 f. 18th st. All
organizations are invited to send
representatives
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30

gathered and unless the remainder
are collected by Friday, Communist
candidates here will not get a place
on the ballot
In an appeal for a last-minute
drive to put the petitions over the
top, Mills said: The workers Of
this State are looking to us. Those
of them who know and understand
our program have already indicated
their willingness to give it full sup
port. If we fail to give them an
opportunity to fight for the Com
munist Psrty's demands in the cleo
ton, we will be guilty of gross
neglect of our revolutionary tasks. /"
Mills urged all available Party
members, Young Communist League
members and sympathizers to re-
port at once either to their units
or section headquarters, or directly
to the offices of the campaign COM
mittees.
Jersey Election Drive Begins
NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 29.-The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
81 Wage Cut Restored
To Lynn Relief Workers
Victory Is the Result of Actions by 200 E. R. A.
Workers-PhiIadeIph Plans Relief Farley

LYNN, Mass, Aug. 29.-Following
a series of mass actions led by the
E. R. A. Workers Protective Union,
the 2,100 relief workers here won
restoration of the recent wage cut
of 81 a week.
Two months ago the local emer-
gency relief administration put over
a cut of one day for a single week
in that month. AS there was no
organized resistance to this, the re-
lief officials ordered a cut in wages
from $12 to SO weekly. Mass meet
ings were called, and the union or
ganized.
Demands were drawn up for the
immediate restoration of the pay
cut, recognition of the union, and
no discrimination against workers
for organizational activities.
Mass Delegation Formed
After committees to the local re-
lief administrator and to Mayor
McArdle were given no assurance
that the pay cut would be with
drawn, mass delegation marched
to Boston and placed the workers
demands before State Relief Ad-
ministrator J. P. Carney.
Union members collected sigma
lures OF small storekeepers, workers
and businessmen on a petition de-
manding restoration of the pay cut
While these activities were under
way, the relief administration an
nounced restoration of the pay cut
Several project superintendent
are now attempting with little sue
cess to circulate a petition among
the workers that they will have
nothing to do with the Relief Work
ers' Union. This yellow dog con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
A.F.L. Wheel Workers
Vote to Spread Strike
AS Negotiations Fail

TOLEDO, Ohio, F.P0-After ne
gotiations lasting more than two
months fell through, more than
1000 workers at three plants of the
Gendron Wheel Company and the
Toledo Metal Wheel Company, sub
salaries Of the American National
Company, decided to take a strike
vote. The workers, affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor,
demand a 15c an hour wage in
crease to bring their pay up to the
union scale.
About $50 polishers are already
out. The others have expressed
their opposition to passing through
picket lines in order to remain at
work.
The company's last offer, &C
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
Scabs Sought
To Break n. ].
Bridge Strike
Contractor for p. W. A.
Job Halted as Jobless
Refuse Offer

CAMDEN, N. j., Aug. 29.-With
attempts of the State Employment
Office to supply strikebreakers de-
feated, Mandel Marcus, contractor
for the high speed line project over
Delaware River Bridge, is preparing
to import 225 professional strike
breakers to resume the work. From
the list Of unemployed, Emil Dethel,
employment Office head, yesterday
sent thirty possible scabs to the pro-
ject. This group was intercepted
by pickets, and all but one refused
to scab.
Monday night, after Dethels had
announced the State of New Jersey
would bring in Scabs for Marcus,
there was such resentment and an
ger among the unemployed, that
Dethels was forced to drop his end
OF the plan to smash the strike.
Walter Brown, president of the
Construction Workers Industrial
Union, announced that mass picket
ing would begin immediately, and
that no scabs would be permitted to
work.
Secretary of Labor Perkins tele-
graphed that the case would be con-
sidered in Washington, where the
Union is not represented.
Four hundred and thirty-seven
men walked off the project last
Thursday, after Marcus refused to
recognize the Construction Workers
Industrial Union, raise wages of I'M
skilled workers from SO to 80 cents
an hour and skilled from $1.20 to
$3.50 an hour, and to Immediately
discontinue the practice of chasing
skilled men as helpers in order to
avoid paying them the wages his
contract specifies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
Crotona Park Councils
Fight Milk Price Rise

NEW YORK. = The Unemploy-
ment Council local with headquar-
tiers at 1896 Crotona Park East to-
day appealed to all neighborhood
workers to assist in the petition
campaign for obtaining signatures
demanding cheaper milk.
To date, more than 1000 sigma
lures have been collected on petit
tions circulated in the neighborhood.
The petitions, demanding the estab-
lishment of an eight cent milk sta
ton in the neighborhood, will be
sent to Mayor LaGuardia and Bronx
Borough President Lyons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
IA Per cent on Relief in Illinois

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 29.-Fourteen
per cent of the entire population of
Illinois is on the relief rolls, &C
cording to the figures released by
the Illinois Emergency Relief Com
mission.
In Cook County, Chicago, lib per
cent of the population is on the
relief rolls.
Terming the figure "conservative"
chief statistician R. j. Myers yes
terday stated that the number of
persons on the relief rolls would
soar from 275,O0 to $4,000 during
the coming winter, rise of 108 900
over the peak reached in November
of last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30

tract is being vigorously protested
and fought by the union.
Philadelphia Conference Of Unem-
ployed
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 30
The Philadelphia District of the
Unemployment Councils yesterday
issued a call to all working class or
CARNATIONS for a conference on I'M
employment and relief, and to plan
organi2ational steps for participa-
ton in the State hunger march to
Harrisburg on Oct. IL. The con-
ference will be held Sunday, Sept.
%, at 10 am. at Boslover Hall,
South Eighth st.
The conference will plan the mo-
bilization of employed and unem-
ployed workers in the fight for in
creased relief, for union wages and
conditions on the relief jobs, mass
fight against evictions. and for the
enactment of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill.
Plan State Hunger March
The conference will also prepare
for the mobilization of large dele
cation in the State hunger march
to Harrisburg on Oct. II.
Israel Amter, national secretary
of the Unemployment Councils, will
speak at the conference, and Con-
gresham Ernest LundNen Of Mime
sofa has been asked to address the
conference
All working class organizations
are urged to elect delegates and to
communicate with the Unemploy-
ment Councils, 919 Locust St., for
further information on the confer
ence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
More Herndon Loans
Donated to Fund for
Scottsboro Defense

NEW YORK. CONVEX
sions of Herndon bail-fund loans
into contributions for the Scots
boro- Herndon Emergency Fund we're
announced yesterday by the Inter
national Labor Defense.
Special honor certificates, signed
by Angelo Herndon, are being sent
to all who surrender their bail fund
certificates. The new list follows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
ADVERTISEMENT
Daily Worker Agents
and Red Builders:

Push and sell the weekly Negro
Liberator, for white and Negro
workers. $50 for 100 or more,
&c each for less than 100. Sells
for SC. 209o allowed on subs and
ads. Reaches any part Of the
country by Saturday, date on
masthead. Write to NJ. c. Work.
1852 It'll Ave, New York City for
information.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
$4,000 To Need Relief in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 90
July relief figures of the Allegheny
County Welfare Association, the lat
est figures available, show that 1871
per cent of the city population is
on the relief lists.
AS compared with the peak of last
year when $500 families were on
the relief lists on Dec. 23, 1898, the
welfare association estimates that
10000 cases representing 315 900 per-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
&c. p. SLATE In PERIL
AS SIGNATURE DRIVE
IN DISTRICT 3
deIpha, Organizer Says-EIection Rallies
Planned in Newark, Youngstown

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29. - With the deadline for
petitions Friday the drive for petition sigma
lures is tagging ominousy, A. W. Mills district organizer
said today
Only half of the required 10000 names have been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30

sons will be on the relief lists this
winter.
16 Per Cent Need Aid in Cleveland
CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 29-About
Is per cent of the entire population
of Cuyshoga County at the present
time, County Relief Supervisor A.
V. Cannon announced here yester-
day, are on relief. The present total
is greater than the peak ease load
reached last winter when Is per cent
of the population was on relief.
Cannon, picturing a gloomy pic
ture for the coming winter, declined
to comment on the expected totals
TO be reached, limiting his remarks
to lit will be worse"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30

cording to union leaders. granted q
small wage increase to the polishers
and machinistS, but not to the
welders This was rejected by the
workers, who demanded union
scales for all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30

the coming winter.
In New York City, according to
official reports, one-quarter of the
population is on relief. In every
city listed below, the figures given
are for those who are actually re-
ceiving relief, according to official
figures, and do not represent the
actual numbers Of the destitute,
which from these figures are actu-
ally near one-quarter Of the whole
population.
While admitting the growing de-
mand for unemployment relief, re-
lief expenditures are being slashed
throughout the country. In New
York City, under the new relief tax
plans, total relief expenditures are
to be cut, despite an estimate one
quarter rise in numbers on relief.
Throughout Pennsylvania, work re-
lief has been almost completely
stopped, and while the unemployed
face a winter of starvation, no APP
preparation has been made for win
ter relief.
In the face of this growing mass
misery, workers in the trade unions,
unemployed workers in the neigh
borhoods, veteran, farmer, youth,
and white-collar workers groups
throughout the country are intensi-
flying the fight for the enactment
of the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
Record Hunger in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Aug. 20
The present number on relief, City
Relief Superintendent M. U. s.
Kjorlaug S at d yesterday, was
greater than the peak reached last
winter. At resent, 14,400 families
are on the relief lists, compared to
Is, 155 last winter.
While the present figure repre-
sents 10 per cent of the cityS popu-
lation, Kiorlaug estimated that the
winter would show relief cases soar
ing to about 1900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30

election campaign activity of the
Communist Party in this State will
be opened formally with a State
wide campaign carnival on Sept. 3
at Walnut Grove in Clark Town.
ship.
Morris M. Brown, Paterson or
ganizer of the National Textile
Workers Union and Communist
candidate for Governor. and Max
Bedacht. head of the International
Workers Order, will be the prin-
cipal speakers.
Youngstown Plans Election Rally
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. "a
Leading candidates on the State
and local tickets of the Communist
Party will address the campaign
picnic and rally of the Communist
Party which will be held here on
Sept. in Kimmel Park. Hundreds
of Youngstown steel workers who
signed the nominating petitions of
the Communist Party have been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
CRISIS TOLL STILL
SOARING, SURVEY
OF NATION REVEALS
cedented TOIl-Fight for Workers UnemplOy-
/ ment Insurance Bill is Masses Answer

NEW YORK. = Reports yesterday from industrial
teners throughout the country show greater number
the relief lists and relief officials in all the major industrial
centers painted gloomy picture of increased demands for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30

A Red Builder on every busy.
street corner in the country means
= tremendous step toward the
dictatorship of the proletariat!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30

Our Readers Must Spread the
Daily Worker Among the Members
of All Mass and Fraternal Organ
izations AS Political Task of First
Importance,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
% Per Cent on Rolls in New York

% Per Cent on Rolls in New York
NEW YORK.-About % per cent
of the total population of New York
City is on the relief lists, Commits
sioner of Welfare William Hodson
announced Monday. This figure,
which Hodson admitted does not
represent the actual need, repre-
SCENTS 100000 families. Hodson esti-
mated that the relief rolls would
rise to about 100000 families by
next winter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
ouarter-MilIiOn in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 30
About 255, 900 persons, or IS, $50 fam
lilies, representing 1916 per cent of
the entire population, are now on
the relief rolls here, the County Re-
lief Board stated yesterday. In
August, 1888, 1894 per cent of the
city's population was on relief as
compared with the present figure
Of 1916 per cent.
After mass layoffs following the
refusal Of the state to appropriate
relief funds, only about 300 relief
workers are employed in the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
4 9TH Anniversary Celebrations
ID of the Communist Party
Detroit, Mich.

Gigantic State Picnic at Workers Camp. and
Halsead Road Sunday Monday Sept and 8.
Sports and dancing Speakers: Mother BI.OOR,
speaker; VIM. Weinstone Mary Himon John Pace Frank
Sykes; John Rose; Phil Raymond Anderson Trans
portation Street Grand River Buses
will leave 4 p M both days Automobile
Grand River TO Halstead Northwestern to IL Mile
Road and then left to sign.
Chicago, Ill.,
Celebration Sunday, Sept 9th 7 M, at Ashland
dtorum Ashland A big
musical vii! be presented Admission Csc
Ne,U England
Grand Outing to Camp Nitgedaget Franklin Mass
day, Sunday and Monday Sept l. g. Campfire
Banquet and Fun Saturday night
speakers. Rich program for the three Music,
ing games, swimming. Dram Group Group,
Choruses, Baseball Movies. Round
BUSES leave from all centers at M Saturday
A. M Sunday Take U. s. turn off at wrent-