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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-07-13

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Sign-
ing of the railroad pension bill by
President Roosevelt and a 21a per
cent wage restoration made July l
a day Of rejoicing for more than a
million railroad workers and their
families.
The pension act and the wage
restoration mean increased employ
ment and increased purchasing power
for many thousands Of workers. The
pension act will retire 100000 men
on pensions this year, giving jobs to
100000 unemployed men, and the
wage restoration means $4,000,000
monthly pay increase.
The wage incraese, affecting 1,300,-
900 men, was provided in an agree
ment reached between the railroad
labor organizations and the manage
ments in April. On January l the
workers will receive another 21a per
cent and on April 1, 1885, the remain
ing 5 per cent of the original 10 per
cent pay reduction of two years ago
will be restored.
The pension act was hailed by A..
F. Whitney, retiring chairman Of the
Railway Labor Executive Associa-
ton, as one Of the finest pieces OF
railroad legislation since the eight
Lo,,x. Joxy xroc vxyoyo IN 1Q1R
Railroad men feel that they have
obtained two great concessions in the
wage restoration and the pension
legislation" Whitney said at Clevel-
land.
''The first increases our purchasing
power by $4,OOO,O00 month";" the
labor executive continued. "On the
basis of May payrolls, the increase
will mean an increases of $16,000,OOO
monthly by next April.
"The pension law, which becomes
effective in 80 days, will permit re-
tirement of 100000 men this year
alone. Not only will this take care
of the men who have broken down in
railroad service, but it will help the
unemployment problem by elevating
the young man who is looking for the
opportunity to work"
The pensions act provides for de-
duction of 2 per cent from workers
salaries and per cent from carriers
payrclls to set up a fund which is
expected to consist of at least $780,
100000 a year.
This fund will be administered by
a three-man commission appointed by
the president. One commissioner will
be selected from railroad labor, one
from management and the third will
represent the public.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-07-13
BAN ON PlCKETINC
UPHELD

Albany, N. Y. (ILNS)-The court
of appeals, by to 2 vote, has just
held that trade unions have no right
to peacefully picket distribution
points of manufacturer who is ex-
periencing labor troubles. The deci-
sion was based on an action brought
by George F. Stuhmer & Co., Brook
lyn bakers, seeking to restrain labor
unions from picketing groceries SELL
ing it's products because it was "de-
stroying the groceries business" and
in effect, was an illegal secondary
boycott" The decision confirmed the
orders Of the lower courts granting
injunctions restraining labor unions
from picketing distribution points.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-07-13
Hosiery Code Authority
Recommends Wage Boosts


New York.-A two-day conference
here by the hosiery code authority re-
suited in recommendations for in
creases in certain minimum wage
rates, reduction of work shifts from
40 to 35 hours per week, and an early
complete shutdown of factories for
two weeks to curtail production.
The authority also urged control
over new machinery, investigation in
to the open-price provisions of other
codes and study of possible limita-
tion of the number of machines as
signed to operators in mems half
hose and women's seamless branches.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-07-13
Factory Employment Shows
Small Drop in Two States

Philadelphia (ILNS)-The number
of wage earners employed by Penn
sylvania factories showed fraction
al drop while the amount paid in
wages increased 5 per cent from
April to May, the Philadelphia Fed
eral Reserve Bank reports. These
changes compare quite favorably
with the average changes between
April and May in the last II years.
Factories in Delaware as a whole
reported declines of less than l per
cent in employment, and over l per
cent in payrolls and operating time
from April to May.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-07-13
Federal Council of Churches
Upholds Labor in Demanding
Collective Bargaining Right

New York City (ILNS)-That the
principle of collective bargaining be
fully recognized by industry as essen
tial to justice and fair dealing is urg-
ed by the executive council of the
Federal Council of Churches in a
statement on "The Present State of
Industrial Relations" The statement
was issued in view of the existing
tension between labor and manage
ment in industry, the council said.
The statement deplores the ten
dency among employers to hinder in
dustrial workers in the exercise of
free choice with reference to their
representatives in collective bargain
ing and the widespread refusal of
employers to deal with the represen-
tatives of ORGANIZED labor. The de-
mand of labor to be represented by
persons in its own employ rather than
in the pay of employers is declared
to be just as reasonable as the in
sistence of employers upon securing
the ablest possible persons to repre-
sent their own interests.
The statement in part follows:
"The increasing tension between
labor and management in some of the
great industries of the nation Gre
ates a serious menace to civic order
and social progress. We have pre-
viously expressed our hearty endorse
ment of the policy of the federal gov
ernment, embodied in the national in
dustrial recovery act, affirming the
right of employees, as well as en-
ployers, to bargain collectively
through persons freely chosen by
themselves to represent their inter
ests. This principle has long been
advocated by leading church and civic
bodies, and has been amply demon
strated in major industries as prac-
ticable and desirable.
"This is not class legislation, but
a guarantee of rights without which
labor cannot hope to maintain its
standards against strongly organized
aggregations of capital when there is
conflict of interests.
Industry is in a much healthier
state when workers and employers are
alike organized with prescribed rights
and accepted responsibilities.
Serious conflict has arisen over the
refusal of strong employing groups tc
recognize trade unions and their de-
termination to limit negotiations with
labor to dealings with their own EN-
| ployes. The reasons for labor's in
sistence upon broad basis of organ.
ization and upon representation of the
workers by persons chosen and paie
by themselves are too plain for argu.
ment. They are precisely the same
reasons that impel employers to or
ganize and to secure the ablest rep.
resentatives Of their own interests
chosen and paid by themselves.
eve appeal for fair play in accord
with the plain intent of an act OF
congress and with a principle fol
which the churches have long con
tended. When labor is denied tn,
right Of free choice of representative.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-07-13

and when employers refuse to deal
with representatives SO chosen, the
spirit and purpose of justice and de-
mocracy are thwarted.
eve make this appeal, however,
not merely in the interest of what
is known as collective bargaining but
in the interest of democratic social
progress, which requires that the
many functional groups of various
types in modern society shall have
scope for the development of stand
ards and methods of action for which
they may be properly held response
ble."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-07-13
Rubber Plant Strike Ended

La Crosse, Wis. (ILNS)-A strike
of 1,400 employees Of the La Crosse
Rubber Mills Company, which began
April "a, was ended by an agreement
ratified by company executives and
officers of the United Rubber Work
ers' Federal Union. The agreement
contains a clause restraining the
company from making any statements
which might be construed as detri-
mental to the union"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-07-13
Gulfport LongshOremen's
Strike Ended

Gulfport, Miss. (ILNS)-The long
shoremen's strike here has been set
tied with this schedule of wages; 60
cents an hour between a. m. and a
p. M; rs cents an hour for all other
hours between p. m. and IN;
overtime of more than eight hours, 80
cents an hour. The former scale was
SO cents an hour and 60 cents for
overtime.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-07-13
FOUNDRY WORKERS STRIKE

Peoria, Ill. (ILNS)-Foundry work
ers affiliated with the international
Brotherhood of Foundry Employees
went on strike at the plant of the
Caterpillar Tractor Company, seek
ing union recognition and a standard
lied wage scale.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-07-13

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-The
Dongolia Box Co., Dongolia, ILL.,, has
been ordered to surrender its Blue
Eagle to the local postmaster, the
NRA compliance division announces.
The firm was found to have violat-
ed the wage and hours provisions of
the wooden package division of the
lumber and timber products indus
tries code.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-07-13
&,OOO,0O0 Monthly Wage
Boost Won By Railroad Men

Cleveland, Ohio.-Over $4,000,000
monthly increase in wages for rail-
way employees throughout the United
States became effective July /.
The increase in pay, affecting L.
100000 men employed on the nations
carriers in every capacity except ex-
ecutive, constitutes 2A per cent sal
ary restoration provided for in an
agreement reached between labor and
management on April 26.
Next January 1 the railroaders will
receive another 21s per cent, and on
April l, 1885, the remaining per cent
of the original 10 per cent pay cut
of two years ago will be restored.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-07-13

The union label on any product is a
guarantee that it was made in Amer
lea by American workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-02
The World of
the Theatre
By HAROLD EDGAR
TAMIRIS

Tanirie is a dancer in need OF
rehabilitation. This might be said of
all artists who have not yet associated
themselves in some direct way with
the proietarian revolutionary move
nent, but it is especially true that
rehabilitation in our direction would
be of immediate value to Tamiris and
to our cultural front. This observa-
ton is based on the evidence of her
own work at her latest recital in the
Booth Theatre.
Tamiris' dance, more than any
other American dancers, has a yigor,
a sturdiness and an enthusiasm that
derive from popular sources. One feels
in her a lyricism of big city streets.
of modern life not in the studio sense
but in the sense of actual contact
with everyday things-Shops, bus
rides, parks, department stores, cor
ner fiirtations, Coney Island, hitch
hikes. There Is nothing sickly in her
work, nothing pretty-pretty. There is
animal spirits, there is hope and
youth, and there is little vulgarity or
oheapness. Yet all these qualities so
much closer to workers than to the
arty audience Of Broadway dance
recitals, lack a focus. The forms
Tamiris chooses to express herself in
are largely foreign to her. They are
abstract and cold. Gwen when they
are supposedly based on Whitman
poems) In relation to what Tamiris
is, and to what we sense in her hand
some, energetic body, her subjects
seem pretentious and forced. They
seem borrowed.
If Tamiris would give herself con-
crete subjects Specific dramatic
themes) a19ng definite working class
lines with q clear revolutionary
theology, her forms would become
much her own, her art would become
organic and her capacity for hard
work, her ambitiousness, her beauty
would take on meaning, would count
for something. Tamiris' gifts should
not be wasted in the frigid realms
Of modern "neo-classic" dancing but
should be put at the service Of people
whose lives are rooted in the most
inescapable realities of our day, peo-
pie whose lives are constant strug-
gle, people in whose hands lies the
destiny Of the world-workers! These
people-their hopes, fears, defeats
and triumphs-can enrich her and
complete her. and she in turn can
bring Joy to them, a healthy pleasure
for which they would be truly CRATE
full as only workers can be. Her body,
now beating itself little futilely
against the vacuum Of 57th Street
art, could become a symbol of work
ers' splendor and workers whole
someness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-02
TUNING In
BELOW 200 METERS

BY I. MILMAN
During last u eek, not q single rennrt Ia
oeen received from our members about the
Moscow station. The extreme change of
Weather in the last few DAYS probably ex-
plains the failure in reception.
On Monday, due to heavy wind IL was
impossible to use any outside aerial, RE-
nenlbering a notice in the short wave radio
news that brass rod suspended vertically
can be used as an indoor aerial for short
wave I took 5o-inch brass rod 3-l6 in
diameter attached two insulators on the
'nds and suspended it vertically from the
eiling TO the floor. A piece of wire four
,eet long. attached to the bottom of the
rod, served as the leading First came in
Caracas, Venezuela, on 1879 Meters.
A few words to the comrades that are
using the tube S,w. sets, built in our
club:
The aerial should not be less than so feet
Long IA enameled copper wire is advisable
The lead N should be not less than two
feet from the building. The ground wire
should be connected to the cold water pine
and as short as possible When and what
meters to tune: From am. to II am on
IS meter band for RGE, Moscow, England
France and Italy. From 2 pm. to 10 nm
IN as. 10, SO meter bands for all American
Canadian. RV59 Moscow (bet 4 and s % M I
md all European stations.
Notice: All the comrades that uossess
rs. two tubs S.W. sets built in the clubs
are requested to send In their weekly re.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-02
Friday

STUDIO PARTY, Poet Danes Recital Rus
sian Singer, at % E. 14th st. at pm.
Auspices. Unit 9 Sec. 2. Benefit National
Convention Against Unemployment and the
at $50 pm. VIM. Partin speaks on "un-
LECTURE at American Youth Federation.
323 E. 18th st. at $50 pm. Subject "ShaH
Birth Control Be Legalized7" Speakers: Mrs
F. Robertson Jones, Honorary President Of
the American Birth Control League. Cues
tons and discussion.
MARIE HALBERSTAD, lecture on war
and Fascism" at Womens Council No. 49,
9S Avenue B. Adm. 1oc.
| MEETING OF Artef Club, 1873 Second Ave
at $3.50 pm. VIM. Partin, speak on I'm
employment Insurance"
BAZAAR given by East Side Workers Club,
l6S Z. Broadway, for the benefit Of Morning
Freiheit. Tonight-Concert and Dance; Sat
! urdf-, Cabaret night. Refreshments, en-
| tertsi2,1eRt. bargains galore.
DIR. G NSBURG, lecture THE Physician
| in the United States and in the Soviet
Unicnn at % st. Marks Place, at $3.50 pm.
Auspiceg, Br. 4o5 Two. Youth Br. Admis-
sion free.
PROF. OAKLEY JOHNSON lecture on
Soviet Russia Today" at Red Spark A.C.
Hall. 81 Second Ave, near 4th ST., $3.50 pm.
CONCERT and Bazaar to welcome Sam
Gonshak at Charlotte ST. Center, lat Char
lotte St. Bronx. Adm. Csc.
PROSPECT Workers Center, 1857 So. Bou-
levard, Bronx, lecture by DR.. Scion s. Bern
stein on Scientific Sex knowledge VS. Char
latanry."
FORDHAn Prog Club, sos E. Fordham
Ro., Bronx, lecture by Abraham Drsmow
on Mass Defense rs Legal Defense" $3.50
pm. Adm loc.
MosHULU Prog. Club. 1890 Bainridge Ave.
lecture by abe Harris on Growing Fascism
in the U.S.A" $3.50 pm.
LECTURE By Harry Cannes on 1.-THE
Cuban Revolution" at fremont Prog Club,
Se6 z. fremont Ave. at s:45 pm.
MT. EDEN Workers Center, 2S8 e. 174th
st. Open Forum. Sam Goldberg lecture on
Franc Ups" Adm. free; $3.50 pm
t. DAY BAZAAR, Friday Saturday
and q ay, arranged by Shule l6 TWO
Br. lSJ Two. and Womens Council 80 at
Westchester Workers Center, 1913 Westches-
ter Ave. Interesting program every day
Dancing and refreshments. Combination
ticket &c.
JAMES ALLEN lecture 'what Is The
Future of the Nero People" at American
Youth Club, 407 Rockaway Ave. $3.50 pm.
VIM. L. PATTERSON lecture ON 'why
Unemployment" under the auspices Of the
Powell and Suffer Assembly 1918 Pitkin Ave.
Brooklyn. Adm. 10c.
MAX BEDACHT lecture on "Fascism IN
Germany and U. S." at Two. Br. 467, 1909
Winthrop ST.. Brooklyn; $50 PM
COMRADE BAILIN speaks on 'Marxist
Theory and Practice" at Brownsville Youth
Center, i05 Thatford Ave. Lecture in Jewish.
BORo PARK Workers Club, membership
meeting; 18th Ave. and 47th ST., $50 pm
OPEN FORUM In Astoria, every Friday
night at 25-2o Astoria Blvd. at $3.50 pm
Prominent lecturer on topics OF the day
Admission free. Auspices, Two. Center and
School Of Astoria.
MASS MEETING on Terror OF Filipino
Workers In P. l. on Sunday at 230 pm.
at Irving Plaza, irving Place and 18th st.
Speakers from LID, Patterson, Civil Liber-
ties Union, prominent Japanese and Filipino
speakers. Auspices. Filipino Antl-ImperiaI-
list League and LID.
LOUISE THOMPSON will speak on 'Lenin
and the Working clsy 70 F4e-sE--' :" 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-02
Lunacharski's Great Gift as
Writer Cited by Bukharin

we're two aspects Of his deviation
/ which FOR many years kept Luna
chsrsd out Of the main stream Of
Bolshevism.
Did Not Become Chauvinist
The world War failed 10 turn Luz
nacharsH into q chauvinist and de-
fenstst. A man Of vast international
culture. he Cd not betray the posi-
ton Of decentralization. After pass
ing through the wreckage Of the July,
1917, days and after seeing the in
side Of a MenshcVist- Social Revolt
tionary jail, he returned TO the fold
OF the Bolsheviks.
lie hesitated in the October DAYS.
when the imaginary shells Of the
3olsheY!k guns aIegedly destroyed
the esthetic beauty Of St. Basil and
thereby Mortified the Blessed Ana
tole," as the leaders Of the great
battle then jestingly referred to Lii
nacharski.
AFTER that, however, Lunaeharski
a adopted a firm position. Through
out the Revolution, on all the fronts
in the Comnisssriat Of Education
and at street meetings, at gather
ings Of '.Komsomols" young Com
munist League) and in circles Of au-
thors and artists, in all his multi
farious activities, he was a Party
poet and writer, one Of the most
loyal and disciplined Of fighters. He
fully atoned for his mistakes anc
blunders.
Lunacharski was universally loved
especially by youth. Vladimir Il
yich forgave him much for he was
"devilishly talented" In the long rur
his "devilish talent stood the Revo-
luticn In good stead.
Fascinating" "LoYabIe+
AS man, Lunacharsk was ex-
.raordinarily fascinating and loVahle.
He was indeed a Helene" if Heine's
terminology may be used. He was
fun Of the heather craving for life"
Socialism he interpreted as the I'M
folding Of all the possibilities latent
IN man, a system making possible a
rich and integrated life, with steadily
growing demands, with the steadily
growing powers of organized hu-
manity.
In Lunacharski, one sees the pic
ture Of hopelesSly sick man glory
ing over new victories on the tech
nical and cultural front. His noble
mind and fiery heart responded when
he saw thousands upon thousands Of
new men rising from the new So
cialist soil He reioiced over every
forward step Of our Party. whose
banner he unwaveringly bore
throughout the post-Octobsr wears.
Ee took a vehement part in the bat
ties against the deyiations from the
Party line.
Anatole Vasilievich has passed
away. His loss will be deeply felt by
all the builders Of and fighters for
Communism. His image will remain
among US all as that Of a bold and
daring fighter, full Of strength. cray-
ing for life and battling for a beau
tiful life. His was q deeu mind and
a warm heart. He leaves behind the
memory Of a poet and scientist. a
many-sided personality, much like
the bold heroes Of the Renaissance.
As Party fighter and builder Of So
cialist education, his name will long
be recalled as that Of a profound
internationalist and ardent lover OF
toiling humanity.
Proletarian culture has lost a re-
markable leader. But proletariar
culture lives on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-02


Gives his slaves a rest on Sunday;
He gives them buildings, parks and
trees,
Everything" but wage increase!
CONE years ago this writer reviewed
y play called professional" by
John Howard Lawson. Intended to
be a serious telling OF the story Of
workers in the mine regions, West
Virginia the locale, I vaguely recall,
the whole thing struck me as a hor-
rible burlesque What seemed in
credible in it, also, was the appear
ance Of the owner Of the mine wear
ing high hat-and actually living
in the mine tOwni
That's possible, I'm convinced now
with the exception of the high-hat
part Of IL. Nothing Of the sugges-
ton Of "absentee-ownership" about
the town Of Bristol, Pa. It's Grurdy
all the way, and Uncle Joe,' the
'lobby-gow" has his estate in the
town where he works"
The massive brick chimney Of his
whitewashed cotton mill bears the
infamous six letters, ostentatiously
the six letters that actually spell
out terror, sweatshop, industrial OIL
garchy, built upon the blood, sweat
and muscle Of the mill workers
shaving in his mill for years:
G-R-U-N-D-Y.
It's bitter, a hard name, exactly
like the personality Of the arch-ex-
ploiter who bears it. You feel its
sinister influence all about you in
this Upper Delaware River town,
beautiful on its river side, with old
Colonial mansions, expensive shrub
berry, etc, and inhabited by COM
placent middle-class doctors, lawyers,
dentists-and bankers and brokers
who commute to Philadelphia. On
Grundy's side, around his mill and
worldly goods" are the novels in
which Give" the mill workers, stag
nant creeks, and all the other
evidences Of the miserable existence
Of the cruelty exploited mill workers.
Grundy treated a park for them a
few steps from his mill, the grass of
which is carefully manicured and
the trees skilfully pruned. There's
not bench in sight-and I saw no
children playing around. Are they
terror stricken, afraid that Grundy
might fire their parents if they hap
pened to raise hell in his nice park?
Or maybe they can't come out to
play because they've no shoes or
clothes.
Say. that5s possible, because Uncle
Joe" doesn't take care of his mill
workers like he does their" park.
Because the highest wage any Of
them get is $14 per week. That is,
they're supposed to make that much
when they put in a full week, but
who does in Grundy's mill? Not
many. And they work as many as
go hours per week for that $14. The
working conditions are said to be
the worst possible, typically Grundy
ones. The workers are terrorized;
they won't talk about the Grundy
mill. However, at one Of those
phoney investige tions inspired by
his political rival, the "liberal" Pin
Hhot some Of Grundy's ex-mill work
ers, land say ex-mill workers ad-
visedly, because Grundy won't let
them work for him AGAIN. told Of
the slavery existing in the mill of
Uncle" Joe Grundy. He denied it
in newspaper interviews-and that
was the last heard Of the "investiga-
ton"
NRUNDY is the epitome Of all
that " 81. bitter and sedistic.
Here's EXAMPLE Of the Grundy
technique a mill worker lost q leg
in an accident in Grundys mill.
Grundy commended it was the work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-02
WoR-71o' Kc

700 p M.--Sports-Ford Frick
7;15-Front Page Dramas
7;50--Jack Arthur, Baritone
f:45-TallS-Harry Hershfeld
8;c0-Detectives Black and Biue-slyster-
Drama
S'lo-Bllly Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs
s:3o-Wily Robyn, Tenor; Marie Gerard
Soprano
s:4S-The Old Neighborhood-
s:oO-A and Lee Reiser, Piano Duo
s:S0-variety Musicale
s;lS-De Marco Girls; Frank Sherry, Teuo,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-02
ZoLa's Mana" Nth Anna Stem
At Radio City Music Hall

Anna Stem makes her first appear
ance in an American film, in Mana,
at the Radio City Music Hall today.
This Is perturbation of Emil lola S
novel adapted to the screen by VIII
lard Mack and Harry Wagstaff
Gribble and directed by Dorothy Arr
ner. Miss Stem, who received her
principal training on the Soviet stage
and screen, will be recalled for her
exceptional work on the Soviet pro-
duction, 1.-THE Yellow Ticket" d.
rected by Feodor Ossip, which was
first shown in America some years
back. The supporting cast includes
Lionel Atwill, Richard Bennett, Mae
Clarke and Phillips Holmes.