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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Youth Committee Works Out
Union Educational Program
To Build Special Committees for Education OF
Young Unionists
BY Del

workers correspondence should be
organized.
9. All material dealing with youth
problems in the industry such as,
trade union papers, shop papers,
leaflets, etc. should be sent to the
youth committee of the T. U. U. c.
This material will be used for refer
ences, reviews, and exhibited at our
affairs.
10. A list of all young workers
who are speakers and are willing to
speak. should be sent into the youth
committee of the T. U. U. C. as soon
as possible.
IL. The educational committee
should organize particularly during
strikes, open forums in the union
halls, publish revolutionary songs,
utilize working class films in educa-
tional work, have discussions on
current events, reading circles, or
ganize drsmatics, dance and sport
groups. 1t will be of great interest
to develop competition in mem
bership drive, sport games, best bull
letins, etc.
The next issue of the Young
Fighter" will deal with the educa-
tional work in our various unions.
We request the youth committees to
send us all their experiences in edu-
cational work among the young
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
DIV a Worker Corresnondent

NEW YORK.-In the struggle to
win the Negro people to the revo-
lutionary program in New YorI;
City, the task of building a strong,
functioning Dome site Workers
Union, is of fundamental imporz
lance.
Recently case Of deliberate and
malicious mistreatment Of a domes-
tic worker, by employers who were
sure there could be no comeback,
came to my attention.
A young Negro girl, a college
graduate, forced into domestic SER
vice by economic conditions, was
refused the misery monthly pay
ment, $40, agreed upon. on the as
sertion of the employers that the
agreement had been made for $40
a season, that is, for three months,
instead Of for one month.
This was explained" after the
girl having worked two months,
and having obtained $40 of her
money, and being tired of continu-
ally asking for money due her, had
decided to pack up and leave for
good.
The last time the girl asked for
money, the woman had said she in
tended to pay her everything at
the end Of the season. Not at any
time was the agreement" about
$40 for 80 days work mentioned, or
even limited at.
When the girls family protested,
the employer angrily insisted that
she had made the agreement not
with the family, but with the girl,
and the school agency. (The job
was obtained through the Brooklyn
College Employment Agency)
That the whole thing was de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
To Demand Union Pay
On All Relief Jobs
In the City

The United Action Committee has
appealed to all trade unions to
mobilize their entire membership
for participating in the demonstra-
ton and mass march to City Hall
on Sept. %, to demand immediate
adequate appropriation of funds for
winter relief.
The recent manouevers of the La
Guardia regime around the question
Of relief tax legislation, the surety
that the relief administration will
attempt to ram relief cuts down the
threats of the jooless during the
coming winter, and the inadequacy
of all forms Of taxation yet pitt for
ward by LaGuardia and his Wall
Street advisers. make it doubiy
imperative that the greatest possible
numbers be modified for the march.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
AFL Taken So a Week
Dues From Unemployed
Funeral Chauffeurs
BY a Worker Correspondent

ny Il hOEhrT
NEW YORK; am one Of the
300 unemployed funeral chsufers
of the Funeral Chauffeurs Local
643 Of the A. F. Of l..
There are 1000 chauffeurs work
ing continuously, With no openings
available for these unemployed To
belong to the union, the unemployed
pay the same dues as those that
are employed, otherwise you are
forced out. These dues are paid
promptly, whether employed or not
In spite of this fact, no work is
given US, and there is no one to
complain to.
The situation is a very difficult
one. An employed man cannot
complain for fear that he will lose
his job, since the union delegate
does not sympathize with the work
erS, but fights for the boss. There
is no reason for this situation, as
there is plenty of work, if only the
employed in this trade, like all other
trades, worked reasonable hours,
and were not made to work inhu-
manly, long hours.
One cannot voice his opinion for
fear of being surrounded by the
racketeers, who are in control of
the union. For months now, the
unemployed have not averaged SO
per week. and still they are forced
to pay the So dues without any re-
turns.
Since this union is unlike all
others (where there is head to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Sailors Snug Harbor
House Employees Work
Up to 20 Hours Daily
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY Worker Correspondent
Recently the following came to
my attention:
I'd A strike of the painters en-
ployed by the Sailors Snug Haroor.
CD The hours of labor put in by
the employees Of the concern in their
apartment houses.
90 The 10 per cent cut in the
wages of the employees and the elm
nation Of their yearly one week
vacation.
"a The variety of jobs per-
formed by each employee.
90 The Sailors Snug Harbor is
one of the richest organizations of
its kind in the world. 1t is also tax
exempt.
The concern uses non-union
painters, paying them $40 per week.
Their house employees put in as
many as 20 hours per day, when
the shift from day to night is made,
and received wages as low as less
than S14 per week. To give an ex-
ample of the variety of duties per-
formed by the employees I'll take the
doorman.
The doorman is a combina ion of
the following:
Doorman and mailman.
Docrman and renting agent.
Doormsn and porter.
Doorman and messenger.
Dcorman and elevator operator
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03

These demands call for:
1.-The Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill.
2-Union wages and conditions or
all relief and P.W.A. jobs.
3-Increased cash relief without
discrimination to Negro, foreign
born, women and young workers.
Right of all workers, employed
and unemployed, to strike, picket
speak and assemble.
5-A public works program to pro-
vide jobs for unemployed workers at
trade union wages.
ga graduated tax on all incomes
in the higher brackets, stock trans
fers. public utilities, corporations,
trusts, etc.
Other demands call for 3 special
ses~ion Of the State Legislature on
Oct. 19 to pass immediate LEGISLATION
for unemployment relief, fer free
dom of political prisoners, etc.
Each organization participating in
the march and demonstration is
asked to subscribe to the general de-
mands presented at the conference
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03

Instead of having a multitude of de-
mandS, each participating group is
asked to carry, besides its organiza-
ticnal banners, large streamers or
banners displaying their Central
slogans. Thus, for example, trade
unions would list their main grlev-
ancss under the NR.A., unemployed
groups in the unions would demand
a system of public works in working
class centers at trade union wages.
Each worker is asked to carry a
symbol of his trade, or something
which reflects central grievance
under the NR.A. or by unemploy-
ment, Here, for example, relief
workers would carry their picks and
shovels, garment workers might
carry huge cardboard shears, etc.
All organizaticns are urged to send
kilograms and Listers to Mayor Is
Guardia in the meantime, demand
ing that he be present to receive
the mass delegation which will pre-
sent the workers demands.
Each city organization is asked to
elect two delegates to represent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Gold Dust Lodge and
Contractors Set Up
Free Labor Racket
BY a Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK-The first dav 1 cot
in the Gold Dust Lodge under the
supervision of the Salvation Amy
for honoeless men they asked nc
about Is questions, such as my
fathers and mothers name, Amer
lean citizen or foreign born. army
service, religion, name of my friends
in case I drop dead. how long in
the country and city, and what
kind Of work do, will I be able
to work again. etc.
When I got up the next morning
to put on my clothes. I found &
work ticket on my lapel of my
jacket. I went to work fixing and
painting skylights and water tank
there. I found out from another
worker there that I was working
for a contractor, with no pay.
decided to quit. When I quit the
contractor started to pat me on the
back telling me was good worker
and to keep on at work. 1 told him
to go to hell.
The contractor reported me to
Salvation Army officials and they
threw me out, SO I went back to
South Ferry to register again. When
I came back to the Gold Dust
Lodge they told me I would have
to be punished now and work ten
hours a day for the misdeeds
had done before. I am hungry and
l have to keep up with these rotten
conditions.
The food there is rotten and !
could hardly eat it. The beds are
lousy and full of bedbugs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03

H ing established starvation
standards for the relief workers, the
State Temporary Emergency Relief
Administration, in an official bull
letin issued on Aug. 25, declared that
all relief workers are denied" the
right to organize on the JOBS, to
strike, or to present organized de-
mands to the relief administration.
Rising food prices, coming relief
cuts, and the use of police terror to
terrorize all the unemployed who
organize and fight for increased
relief, hold the promise of the most
frightful winter yet experienced by
the unemployed
To force the city administration to
appropriate adequate funds for win
ter relief, employed and unemployed
workers will mass in Union Square
on Saturday, Sept. %. at 10 a. m
and march to City Hall.
The workers committee will pre-
sent the eleven main demands
adopted at the Aug. % United Front
Conference on Work Relief and Tn
employment to Mayor LaGuardia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03

Educational work among the
young workers must be one of the
most important activities of the
youth committees in the unions.
This work, however, has been neg
lected for some time. We are of the
opinion that if this work would be
conducted as it has been planned on
many occasions, we would not only
have the existing youth committees
much longer and stronger but many
new youth committees would have
been established in other shops and
unions.
The youth committee of the
t. U. U. C. is suggesting the fol-
lowing plan to begin the educational
work.
l. Every youth committee should
elect an educational director.
2. Those unions who do not as
yet have a youth committee, should
have on their educational commit
tee young worker who will take
charge of the educational work
among the youth.
8. Each educational dire t or
should establish an educational COM
mittee which should be composed of
one delegate from each trade section
of the union and large shop. Each
member of the committee is to be
an educational director in his own
trade section or shop His main
activity should be to conduct educa-
tonal work in his own trade section
Or shop.
4. Each educational committee
should see to it that in each large
shop where there are no shop papers
or bulletins, it should be issued as
soon as possible. The educational
committee must see to it that every
trade union publication should have
youth page or youth column which
will deal with the problems of the
youth in the. trade. One of the
members of the educational COM
mittee should act as the editor of
the youth page. (The job of the
youth editors should be to. encourage
young workers to write, to collect all
material dealing with the problems
of the young workers in the trade,
to publicize the activities Of the
youth committee.
S. One member of the educa-
tional committee should be elected
as literature agent. The job of the
literature agent is to see that the
sale and reading of all our trade
union publications and all our other
working class literature should reach
every young worker in the trade
Each trade section and large shops
should have its own literature
agent. All the literature can be Sc
cured from the youth committee of
the T. U. U. c. (Let us know week
in advance how much literature you
expect to get)
6. The educational committee
should encourage the young readers
Through their shop papers, youth
pages, leaflets, at union and shop
meetings, etc. to attend the workers
school. 1t should participate in
establishing special training classes
for the most active members of the
union in order to develop and train
them to become better fighters to
improve conditions of the workers in
the trade.
7. Each large shop, trade section
should have young reporters in order
to supply material to the youth
page ard union publications
Young FIGHTER shop bulletins ano
other working class publications.
8. If possible special class or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Fur Rabbit Dressers.
Resist All Efforts.
To Split Strike Unity
Proposals for United Actions in Strike Well
Received By Membership = Resolution
Is Unanimously Adopted for Unity

workers to a strike committee to
constitute the only body with power
to conduct and settle the strike.
2. That joint picketing be carried
on against all shops, union as well
as non-union. This was to guarantee
that no scabbing was going on in
any of the shops.
3. That a joint demonstration be
arranged in the fur dealers market
to block shipments to open shops
including the Van Dey Weghe and
other out-of- town shops.
The committee from the Interna-
tional rejected these proposals; in
stead they wanted to limit joint
picketing to the Singer shop only.
In a statement addressed to mem
bers of Locals % and IS, the Indus
trial Union said: "Our committee
has accepted everything that was
proposed by the committee that
claimed to speak in your name,
although we knew they we're not
elected by you. We did that because
we wanted to have one strike.
I'VE even accepted the proposal
that no settlements be made unless
rs per cent of the trade is ready to
settle. We did this so as not to break
with your committee although we
knew it was not the best procedure
in this case"
Heartened by the success of the
joint demonstration in the market
on Friday, members Of the Indus
trial Union met right after that in
the office of the union and passed
the following resolution:
We, the fur rabbit dresserS,
members Of the Fur DreSsers and
DyerS Industrial Union, of the
N. T. w. l. U. take note that the
efforts Of cur union to bring about
united strike of the members of
our unicn and the members of
Locals rs and IS have at last been
crowned with success. The unity
| in this strike has been achieved
after many months of strenuous
efforts on the part Of our union.
/ =
time is to bring about the closest
cooperation possible between the
members Of our union and the
members Of Locals rs and 85, so
that we may achieve victory In
our strike and win our demands.
This kind of cooperation and unity
between all the workers in the fur
dressing trade must be accom-
piished, no matter who is opposed
to it. We can bring about the
greatest and NEST effective unity
Of all the strikers by all of us
joining all our efforts to stop the
open shops and strengthen the
strike.
We therefore decide that In
order to complete our united eff
forts to win the strike we, the
strikers of the Fur Dressers and
DyerS Industrial Union will go TO
the hall where the strikers of
Locals 25 and IS are located and
unite with them, stay with them
and join our efforts with them for
the remainder Of the strike. This
will be the most convincing evil
dence Of our unity. The bosses
viii then no longer be able to take
advantage of our division. This
will lead us to victory for our lust
! demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Action Committee Appeals Unions Rally for City Hall March

All the relief tax schemes yet
devised by LaGuardia hold the GER
tainty of relief cuts during the COM
ing winter. BY its most inflated
promises, the LaGuardia tax plan
will raise only s35, 100000 for relief
during the coming winter. At the
present rate, the city is now spend
ing $4,500,000 for relief each month
This means that under the present
plans, the city will actually have
s10,000,000 less "earmarked" for re-
lief than present figures would war
rant. When the federal and State
grants are added to this, relief ex-
penditures for the coming year will
thus be cut by $4,000, Goa one
third slash in relief expenditures.
In the face of this planned relief
cut, LaGuardia and Welfare Com
missioner Hodson have both de-
clared that an expected rise will be
seen in the winter demand for relief.
Meanwhile. food prices continue to
soar, and governmental sources have
stated that food prices will continue
to rise during the coming winter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
March TO Take Place
September %; To Hit
Taxation Plan

their group on the mass delegation.
Every central organization is asked
to elect one marshal for its organi-
cation in the march. City and CEN
trail organizations are asked to elect
one speaker for the mass meeting
which will be held at City Hall.
In preparation for the march, in
addition to issuing leaflets calling
upon all workers to mobilize for the
mass march, organizations are urged
to gather detailed information such
IS lay-ofIs on the relief Jobs, wage
cuts, eTic.ions, graft. d'scsimina5 ion
at the relief bureau and en- TIE jobs,
terror. etc.
Mobilization points will be estab-
lishsd for all organizations partici-
pating in the march.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03

On Friday, Aug. "a, fur rabbit
dressers, members of the Fur Dress
ers and Dyers Industrial Union and
of Locals 25 and IS of the Interna-
tional, carried through a joint DEM
onstration and mass meeting in the
fur dealers market, 9th ST. and 7th
Ave. The purpose of the demon
stration was to stop shipments by
dealers to out Of town open shops.
The strike of the fur rabbit dressers
was then a little over a week old
and solid.
The solidarity of the rank and file
workers of the two unions as shown
in this demonstration was the cul-
mination of months by unremitting
activity on the part of the members
of the Industrial Union, aiming to
create unity in the fur dressing
trade. Time after time, this unity
came within hail of the workers in
this field, only to be dashed and
ssbotaged by their gang ridden
chiefs Of the International Harris,
onulHldn ana huCCDl.
Membership Meeting Endorses Unity
The wages of the fur rabbit dress
ers were meantime approaching the
vanishing point An exceptionally
dull season came to the aid of the
bosses. They thought they had the
workers where they wanted them
They had them working at one-half
the wages that had been paid in this
trade last year.
The need for united strike action
finally became clear to all When
the Industrial Union called a gen.
eral membership meeting of all fur
dressers on Aug. 4, the workers
flocked to the meeting in great num-
bers. Proposals for united strike
action were enthusiastically received
Unity Conference Broken
The unity proposals laid down al
that meeting were so broad and in
elusive that all but hardened pro-
fessional strikebreakers determined
to sabotage unity at all costs could
find ample freedom to operate. And
so it turned out Unable openly tC
discredit these proposals, Harris and
Shulman gave seeming adherence to
them only to throw them over at
the first opportunity.
The proposals called for united
strike led jointly by elected COM
mitteees, joint picketing and settle
ment, control committee from
each union to supervise the settle
ments and one unemployment insur-
ance fund jointly administered. In
addition, it was proposed to permit
members of either union to work
unmclested in shops controlled by
the other.
The strike was finally called or
August 18th and was almost 100 pei
cent effective. Only few shops re-
NAMED in operation. But when the
strike committee of the Industra
Union at a joint conference with
members of Locals 25 and IS last
Tuesday proposed further steps tx
make the strike mere effective, this
committee from the Internationa,
got up and walked out of the
meeting.
Three Proposals
The measures proposed by the In
dustrial Union were three:
!. That each shop elect three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Unorganized Domestic ToiIers
Are Prey to Rich Snea k $
Negro Woman Worker Tells of Mistreatment in
Homes of Wealthy People

liberate trick cannot be doubted.
This, however, is only one incident.
We Negroes. and those who have
worked among the Negro people,
know Of other cases.
There have been times when the
madam" framed up cases Of rob-
berry. She lost some valuables just
about pay time. Other times her
husbands business goes bankrupt;
or she intends to pay, but by the
time the maid has spent few dol
lars in carfare trying to collect, she
gives up all hope of ever getting
paid.
We are going to fight this case
presented here. We are going to
protest to the College Agency. But
we ought to make an example of
this. 1t is the duty of the militant
class-conscious worker to enter into
the struggle Of the Negro domestic
worker to fight not only for i'm
proved conditions, but for a cessa-
ton Of this outright robbery.
If actions like this are allowed to
go unchecked, they will do much to
retard the march of the Negro
woman worker toward joint struggle
with her white sister in fighting
against discrimination of all woman
workers.
call upon all domestic workers
to get in touch with the Domestic
Workers Union, AIS Lenox Ave,
New York City, to organize.
I call upon all revolutionary
workers to bear in mind these spe-
cial problems of the Negro worker.
It is not vague assaults on general
problems, but concrete action that
will win these workers to our pro-
gram.
A NEGRO WOMAN WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Worked For City But
Politicians Turn Him
Out Now To Starve
by a Worker Correspondent,

NEW YORK.-Here is the ex-
perience Of one citizen. Out of work
for four years. Every cent drawn
from the bank. Insurance lost.
Thrown out of union local for
non-payment of dues. Failed to
get work at any city or state en-
ployment Office. Can't get relief be-
cause he is not yet in the street.
He is not sick yet and ready to
fall out of window.
The undersigned has another
story to tell. He was employed by
the city Is years ago as a baker
in a city insti.ution-50 weeks a
year of work and two weeks of va
cation. The salary paid covered so
weeks, but was spread over 50.
I sacrificed four weeks of wages
in 1921 because the city was poor. /"
Now I ask them to throw me life
line-but they don't see me.
Now, maybe I can still become a
Communist and sell the Daily
Worker. I have failed as Demo-
era and a Fusionist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
With the Trade
Union Papers
By PHILIP STERLING

ON GALlAA . EE~Ll4N0
The Union Haekie, Official Organ
Of the Taxioab Drivers Union Of
Greater New York. Vol l, No. 5,
September l, 1894.
The Union Hackie reflects in its
snappy appearance and brief lively
handling Of news the fighting spirit
Of the organization which has car
ried through two difficult strike
struggles.
The issue publishes the news Of
victory by the union in defending
Sam Orner, Joseph Gilbert and
William Gandal against a libel suit
following publication in the paper
Of articles exposing a Mr.. Ksmm,
chairman Of the Terminal Drivers
company union. It IS to be hoped
that the paper will take fun adj
vantage Of this victory to continue
its exposure Of company unionism.
There is correspondence from
other cities, Philadelphia, Chicago
and Paris. There is a whole page Of
letters from local hackies which
mirrors the intensity Of the desire
among them for real union organi-
zation.
The editorials are brief and
pointed
The paper. as whole. is good
looking four-page index to what the
taxi drivers have learned from their
brief but heroic struggles for or
ganization.