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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
William Penn Hotel Strikers
Hold Ranks Solid and Strong
Militant Tactics Vim Vide, Popular Support; Force
Negotiations

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Here in the
stronghold Of capitalism, in the
homeland of the rich Mr.. Mellon,
we workers Of the william Penn
Hotel have pulled a good strike.
After months Of careful day-to-
day orgauizational work we were able
to succeed in building up a well dis
ciplined union. When the wage cut
struck us We were able to withstand
the attack and counter Immediately
with counter attack strike.
We called a meeting in the hotel
Of the entire crew: cooks, walters,
busboys, kitchen help, chanbernaids,
housemen, etc. The workers, dissat-
isfied with the miserable conditions
which prevailed in the hotel, re-
sponded 100 per cent. Unorganized
men and members of the A. r. of L.
union came down and listened to
our justified demands.
We forced the manager TO come
down and listen to the demands.
In four days Of conferences we won
several minor demands and a reduc-
lion in the projected pay slash. But
the workers, encouraged by the firm
stand Of the leaders of the Food
Workers industrial Union, voted to
go on strike rather than to submit
to such a partial victory.
Immediately the bosses strike
breaking machine got into action.
First the boss tried to trick the
workers back to work by a nice
speech. The workers, however, in a
well disciplined manner walked out
100 per cent, 400 strong. AS soon as
we walked out, a mass police force
was thrown around the hotel, and a
few minutes later our organizer was
arrested.
This incident was used to raise the
Red scare" but it strengthened our
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
By Frank HeIIman.

At the District Plenum of District
3, held in Philadelphia on Feb. 10
and IL, the basic problems of our
District were discussed in line with
the 18th Plenum of the Central Gem
mittee Of our Party and the 18th
Plenun of the E.C.CI. The report
of the District Organizer and the
representative Of the &C. were
unanimously accepted and approved.
We could register at this Plenum a
number of important definite achieve
ments as well as q number of short
comings. The achievements consist
Of having organized about 1000
workers in the revolutionary trade
unions as a result OF struggle and
leadership in these struggles; of hav-
ing brought under our influence a
number Of independent unions, with
workers, many more in number than
in the TU.UL.; Of having organized
around Is opposition groups within
the various locals of the A. F. Of L.,
q number Of Party comrades elected
to the Central Labor Union.
Some definite advancements among
he longshoremen and seamen (suc-
ceSsful strikes on several ships, the
victory of the unemployed seamen
in Baltimore, establishment Of a local
Of the longshoremen in Baltimore in
the MW.I.U., recruitment of long
shoremen into the Party, and the es-
Enlistment Of dock nucleus in
Philadelphia; definite achievements
in steel, Successful struggle of the S.
M.WI.U. in Baltimore in the tin mill.
the reorganization Of the shop nuclei
and the union, new members recruit
ed into the union and the Party.
Good work has been accomplished
in the textile industry (Easton), shoe
industry, (Philadelphia) and a mass
movement is being developed among
the unemployed in the coal region;
good work has been accomplished
by the farmers and we will be in
a position to organize a new Party
section st the time OF the conven-
ton. The recruiting drive Of the
I. W. o. brought in over 1000 mem
bers into the Two. In Philadelphia,
extending our sphere Of influence
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
New Orleans Relief
Den es Aid; Work
er's Family
(By . C.W.A. Worker Corresnondent

by a C.W.A. Worker Correspondent
NEW ORLEANS, lathe condi-
ton Of Ben Turner's family shows
the condition Of relief here.
Ben Turner is married and has five
children, all under IA years Of age.
Turner suffers from tuberculosis of
the glands and low blood sugar caused
by starvation, according to DR.. Sui
Ivan Of Charity Hospital here. In
March 1888, the last Of the family,s
belongings were sold to buy food, and,
while trying to get relief, Turner's
weight dropped from ITO lbs. to 1913
lbs. in few weeks, and his children
grew pale from hunger.
Since last March he has had no
more than 30 days Of relief work at
s1.80 day, which means that in al
most year, family Of Z has had
S54 to live on. Begging, when finally
resorted to, brought in little food
occasionally.
The Federal government came
around with one small piece OF salt
pork in October and hasn't been
heard from since.
Turner got good-sized grocery
order January 81, because the activity
Of the Relief Workers Union and the
Unemployed Council, in his behalf,
frightened the Welfare officials. ''This
is the first help I've had from the
Welfare since November 1885," de-
clares Turner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
RoOsEyELTs BIRTHDAY


BESSEMER, Ala.-Roosevelt birth
day would mean something only if
the industries open up, as President
Roosevelt said, so that millions Of
workers would be put back to work.
Mr.. Roosevelt took good pain to
eat his dinner at home while millions
Of workers had to go out in the parks
and Fairgrounds to get little to eat
And what does Mr.. Roosevelt mean
with his birthday party, fooling the
sentimental people in Alabama where
the workers had given hours of work
for the Roosevelt birthday party?
What can workers think of MIR.
Roosevelt when he carries out his
plans to Cypress the workers with
the new deal and take the pennies
that we are receiving from the CWA
jobs? I wonder does Mr.. Roosevelt
think the workers believe the Indus
trial Recovery Act is any good? 1t
is no use at all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Offensive Breath


r. C. NJ, Brooklyn.-If you refer
to the Feb. LIST issue of the Daily
Worker" you will find an article on
this subject. If your family ply
sician was unable to diagnose the
case during the seven months that
you were under observation, how do
you expect us to do so from your
letter. We are inclined to believe
that. like most sufferers" of hall
tosis, your trouble is mainly imagin-
airy. The very fact that you are SO
sensitive about it and that you are
even afraid to sign your name shows
that there is strong psychological
factor involved. You must get q
thorough physical examination in
order to rule out the various causes
of offensive breath which we men
toned in our article.
Information About Speech Defects
L. L., Brooklyn. The Board OF
Education maintains speech clinic
every Tuesday afternoon, at four
o'clock, at P. s. At, 480 Pacific ST..
Brooklyn. For additional informa-
ton, write To Mrs. Letitia Raubi-
check, Director Of Speech Improve
ment, 500 Park Ave, New York City
Observation-Disclosures
Alice b. Chalazion is a small
cumor due to the inflammation o.
one of the tiny glands Of the eyelid
The tumor is due to accumulation
and retention Of the secretion Of th'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19

table covered with shiny little COM
passes and other instruments and the
wall plastered with placsrds and pic
lures Of the navy's big gun" ships.
''t--I'72 Younger students, the a.
year-old minds, stopped with "goshes"
,.--- sees" before the placards
which read, Get Your Land and Sea
Training Now! Join the Sea Scoutsl
And q sea scout recruiting officer
stood by and wrote the names of the
"brighteyed, patriotic lads" who Of
fered to join, while two white capped
sailor boys in natty blue uniforms
posed with arms folded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
A Message From
Pittsburgh to NY.
Food Workers
BY a Food Worker Correspondent

PITTSBURGH, Pa. To the New
York rank and file members Of the
Amalgamated and the Food Workers
Industrial Union, we who are strikers
at the william Penn and the Fort
Pitt Hotel, 500 strong under the lead
ership of the Food Workers Indus
trial Union, are out in the battle
field the same as you are. We are
determined to smash the miserable
conditions that the bosses have i'm
posed upon us for the purpose Of
raking more profits for themselves
and their parasite bond holders at
the expense of the workers.
The Pittsburgh hotels this period
are facing one of the biggest strikes
that they ever did before. Out Of
the 500 employees Of the William
Penn Hotel, 400 strong walked out,
parading in front for half an hour.
For once Pittsburgh has witnessed
such a march of united front. white
and colored men and women with
placards of protest against the wage
cut which we rejected. The spirit OF
the workers Is 100 per cent. We are
out and will stay out until our de-
rsands are granted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19

This Il the second of = series Of
articles taken from the mastery
speech Of AIanuilsky on the betray-
ais Of Socialist leaders in Austria,
delivered more than a year ago be-
fore the Communist Youth Inter
national. In the first installment
printed on Saturday, Manuilsly
posed the question as to why the
working class of Austria was now
faced with the hunger, unemplOy-
ment, and Fascism, more than 10
years after the working class Of
Austria had had power in their
hands as a result Of the revolution
airy overthrow OF the monarchy i'm
mediateIy after the war.
In tcday's instaIlment, ManuilsLy
continues to describe the situation
as it existed in Austria and Europe
Immediately after the World War.
N@-r''~'Jv's pan,nllet must be
mastered by all workers, as it con-
tai1s a rerna- kabIe analysis of the
policies OF the SOcial-DemOcratic
leaders which, step by step, led to
the present triumph Of Fascism In
Austria.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19

ranks.
The next strikebreaking trick was
to send personal calls to most of
the skilled help and the boss went
so far as to send taxi cab and de-
tectives and kilograms to the work.
ers' homes, containing promises and
threats. FSiSe run1orS were spread
but also msuccessfully. Then the
mayor stepped in, but exposed HIM
self when he declared we were work
ing not for the hotel but for the
city taxes. He left the strikers meet
ing amid boos and jeers Of all Of us.
In the meantime a strong picket
line was continually on duty, even
during the very cold weather, with
our women even more active than
the men.
A strikebreaking hotel, the Pitts
burgher, was also picketed. A few
arrests were made but they were dis
posed Of the morning after. The re-
suit Of our activity was a telegram
from the manager Of the Pitts
burgher promising = hands on
policy. The same tactic was applied
successfully TO Keufnann's depart
ment store.
It goes without saying that the
capitalist press was bllsily occupied
trying 10 break the strike.
Finally the bosses made several ap-
proaches TO us; through the maitre
d'hotel and the Labor Board. Today,
the seventh day Of our strike, we are
arranging for two conferences.
stronger than the first day, and more
educated in the class struggle.
Thanks to our activities we have
modified public sentiment in our
favor, as is shown by the financial
support from many organizations.
We have also obtained the full sup
port Of TIRE A. F. of L. members.
Strike Committee Chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
Punch Time Card,
Then Continue on
Job at CudaEly'S
tBy a Worker C9rrespOndent)


OMAHA, Neb.-xn Cudahy's pack
g plant in South Omaha, before the
N.RA., the men would work so or go
1ours and get paid for the same. But
now I know in the hide cellar, where
men work up to 40 hours, they are told
to go ring the time cards and come
back and work sometimes five or six
hours to finish a certain work, and
they get no pay for that. II you are
new hand and are not willing to
do that, you won't work very long
before they will lay you of.
The speed up is practiced through
the entire plant so that you must do
SO hours work and get 40 hours pay.
In the hog kill they kill 4,50O head Of
hogs now in eight hours. Before, they
would kill $500, or some times 2,7O0
You are not allowed to say anything
about it, however, because If you do
you will find your time slip pinned
to 1t.
One young worker was working for
this company two weeks ago, and
when he hurt his hand, he asked the
foreman for a pass to see the doctor
The foreman told him if he wanted
to keep his job he lad better go back
to his work. The worker demanded
that he get his hand cared for, and sc
the foreman sent him to the Office
for his time.
Another such incident happened
when woman working in the hog
kill got some trash in her eye. She
was told she had no time to go tc
the doctor. Thus, she had to continue
her work and have her eye treated al
night at her own expense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
AFL Helps Break
Food Workers
Strike in Detroit
By a Food Worker Correspondent

By . Food Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-Monday morn
ing, Jan. %, workers in the Book
Cadillac Hotel Largest in Detroit
went on strike. BenboyS, elevator OPP
orators, chambermaids, cooks and
kitchen help and dishwashers, walters
and mattresses and bus boys and girls,
walked cut from main kitchen, cof-
fee shop and employees cafeteria.
Pickets were put at all entrances
to the hotel, and department COM
mittees were elected Except walters
Walters were organized" in the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees In
ternational Alliance "a. F Of L."
Some cooks too, were organized" in
a local Of the A. F. Of L., while bell
boys, elevator operators, and some
others organized recently Hotel
Workers Association" independently
The elected committees got together
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
TWO Plans to Have Trade Union
Members Affiliate With Order

Material for this work will reach
all branches and City Central Com
mitteeS concerned.
Social Insurance Campaign
With the introduction of the Work
ers Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill in Congress, our I. w. o.
campaign for social insurance re-
ceived new stimulus. The House of
Representatives Bill No. 1898 opens
up an additional avenue Of approach
to fraternal and workers organiza-
ticnS.
With the introduction Of this Bill,
our demand for social insurance has
taken on more concrete form in the
eyes Of the workers. The House of
Representatives Bill has substance
which many workers could not see in
cur mere demand for social insurance
And, what Is more, 1t has a "res~ec-
table" substance which can open for
us the docs Of many an or 5aniz- IN
on which hitherto we knocked in
vain,
The National Executive Committee
CT our Order will get copies of the
Bill, supply them to our branches and
will prepare material for the effort to
organize the fraternal united front for
social insurance, which is our aim to
establish.
Build the English Section
| March list marks the beginning of
; special campaign to strengthen our
ngliSh Section. All branches Of the
Order must be activized In this cam
paign. The task of the campaign is
to STRENGTHEN all our English
branches in a few selected workers
districts in our concentration cities
and thus increase the membership of
cur English Section by at least 1000
A large number of these new members
must be Negroes.
This campaign aims to repair a
weakness Of our last Car, aign. II
aims to create the quicker growth Of
the English Section. We must raise
the English section to strength In
proportion to the relative strergt'1 oil
the native American workers in the
American working class.
This task is so important that +he
discussion of it and preparations for
its fulfillment must dominate th<
coming meetings of all of our
branches throughout the country.
The charres for success are great
Our branches are still active as ar
after-effect Of our last campaign. The
three weeks after the big campaign
have brought us an average of 45t
new members per week. These are
almost campaign figures. Let then
become the figures OF our norma
growth. Forward to new victories!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19

and drew up demands expressing the
wishes Of respective departments.
Then all went to the walters union
local to urge the walters to elect their
own committee, which however, they
failed to do. The locals boss, Mr..
Louis Koenig thought" that there is
no need for committees to present the
demands. At this point he tried to
inSimidate the committee, that they
might lose their jobs, because the
manager will know them while II do
not have to be afraid, because I am
not employed there"
Calls in Big A. F. Of L. Boss
Then he tried another trick, ad-
vising the committee to get the
names Of their respective groups, and
bring them In, so we could sign them
up in their respective unions" All
these tricks were dismissed by the
committee, whereupon Mr.. L. Koenig
realized whats what" and decided
to call up the management Of the
hotel, the big boss of the A. F..
of L. in Detroit, Mr.. Frank x. Mar
tell and the business agent Of the
cooks local.
This time Mr.. Marten insisted that
the committee be cut down to two or
three. Two members of the COM
mittee yielded, but others steadfastly
refused. A managers crony escorted
he committee to the conference
room, where Mr.. Rolph Hitz, presi-
lent of the Hitz Hotel System was
waiting.
Secret Conferences
Mr.. Hitz took Martell in a side
oom, where they remained in secret
for some time. Upon their return,
Mr.. Hitz called Martell and his aids
to a larger side room, where they
remained for nearly two hours, while
the committees YVES I'd tn wait.
When they came out, Mr.. Koenig
handed typewriter copies of the
agreement to the committee.
The agreement is typical piece Of
betrayal for which the A. F. of L.
bosses are famous. Under the pres
sure of Mr.. Koenig, some of the mex
perienced members of the committee
yielded, and decided to return to
work, and thus ended the first hotel
strike in the United States since the
hotel code went into effect.
The workers struck, partly in pro-
test against the dismissal of some 10
workers; and partly as a spontaneous
outburst of dissatisfaction with the
hotel code which permits the bosses
to practice all kinds of rackets, such
as q deduction Of so cents for two
meals whether one eats them or not,
The workers are beginning 10
realize that SO far as wages are con-
cerned they have gained nothing and
will never gain under the A. F. of L
leadership.
1t is the duty of hotel workers TO-
ward themselves and toward theil
class to Illustrate these racketeering
schemes, and organize themselves in
an industrial union that will recog-
nize no arbitration boards, nor judges
to decide whether the dismissed
workers shall be returned to theil
jobs or not. Workers of the Booh
Cadillac, do not yield to the rack.
eteering schemes of A. F. of L. bosses
Elect your department comm tees X
discuss the future course of action
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
Lure High School
Students Into
W ar Training
BY = Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA. Pa-The cap
italist system added a new twist to
its war training technique. The new
experiment for recruiting was held in
the South Philadelphia High School
In Philadelphia. The older and I'M
derstanding groups Of students with
out more than a glance EaSSec thr
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
BY D. z. MANUILsKY
PART TWO

THE masses were rising up against
the war which had lasted almost
four years; their class instinct told
them that they must put an end to
the social and political order which
had led them into war and disaster.
The working class Of Austria were
organized better than the working
class Of Russia. The nationalities
downtrcdden by the ruling classes Of
the old Austro-Eungarian empire
were the natural allies Of the prole-
tariat in their struggle for social lib
Grafton. It was only the policv Of
social-demcc-acy, which, by limiting
the aims of the revolution to the win
ning Of a ca1italist republic. delivered
the toiing masses Of these nationali-
ties into the power Of their corru0t
bourgeois and social-denocratic poll
ticians.
Revolution Was Rising.
The whole Of Central Europe was
enveloped in the flames of revolu-
ton. In Germany and Austria
Hungary. the workers and soldiers
founded Soviets. On the vast plains
Of Russia the proletariat had already
oyerthrown the power of their land
lords and capitalists, swept away the
government Of Kerensky and estab-
lished the proletarian dictatorship.
And what was taking place in the
camp Of the Entente and its 'vic-
tor'ol'S" armies? TIE Austrian VOL
ers should read the memoirs Of
Poincare and Churchill, about which
the social-democ-ats are deliberately
silent. Mutinies, hushed up by the
press, were taking place both in the
French and the British army. Whole
army corps, whole armies, were Gin
fected" with the spirit Of active strug-
gle against war and capitalism.
''The soldiers are shouting down
with war and long live the Russian
Revolution" writes Poiucare anxi-
ously in his diary, "Mutiny in the
21St Army Corps Men refuse
to go into the trenches. Next day
another division of the tn Corps re-
fused to go into position"
Exactly a week later. Five corps
almost entirely infected" In a single
day, 10 r2en were shot as warning
70 others.
Poincare writes OF the collective
madness" which has token hold Of the
French army In this CONSERVATION,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19

Material for this work will reach
all branches and City Central Com
mitteeS concerned.
Evening star., 1934-12-14
GREEN FORECASTS
PAY RESTORATION
Labor Head, After Brief
Talk With President, Sees
Congress Action.

William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, pre-
dicted at the White House today that
Federal employees would have their
full pay restored by legislation retro
active from January l.
Green, who spoke with feeling about
what he termed Justice" for the
Federal employe, said he expects to
go into the matter very thoroughly
with President Roosevelt in the near
future.
The labor head had a brief con-
ference with the President today, but
it had to do entirely with labor's rec
concentrations for continuation of the
National Recovery Act. Lack of time
prevented discussion also of the pay
restoration and other matters of in
terest to Federal employees. including
extension of the civil service claSsi-
fication to all agencies of the Govern
ment as well as the emergency agen-
cies.
"a definite drive will be made this
Winter to restore the pay cut of Fed
eral employees" Green said with en-
phaSis. II am confident that the
necessary legislation will be passed. l
am confident the pay restoration will
be as of January /.
There is every justification for this
pay restoration. The cost of living
has increased far beyond the point
warranting restoration. The Federal
employe has long since made his con-
trihlltiOn tn the Government and
should no longer be compelled to make
this sacrifice which Is unwalra1ted
and unfair"