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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Workers Bill
Farley Pushed
InBirninghan
Delegate Conference on
Dec. 10 to Support
National Congress

BIRMINGHAM, Dec. IA dele
gate conference in preparation for
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance to
be held in Washington Jan. 5, 6,
and 7, has been called by the Ala
bama arrangements committee for
Dec. Is, with Roger Baldwin Of the
American Civil Liberties Union as
the main speaker.
The main purpose of the confer
ence will be to gain wider support
for the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill and to rally labor
unions, unemployed organizations,
workers clubs, churches, ETC., to
send delegates to the National Con-
gress.
In the Birmingham area the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill has been endorsed by Locals
No. 1889 and 1865 of the United
Textile Workers of America, the
Daily Drivers Union, the Dairy En-
ployees' Federal Union No. 1877,
the Relief Workers League of Tar
rant City, and the Ensley Colored
Ethos Expigate Club. In Bessemer,
Unemployed Local No. l of the In
ternatioal Union of Mine and Smell
ter Workers and Federal Labor
Unions No. 1884 and 18435 have
endorsed the bill and signified their
intention to notify their represen-
tstives and senators in Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
ITALIAN UNITED FRONT IN U.s. FORMED ON APPOINT PROGRAM
William Green Betrays Workers Demand
For 3O-HOur Week With Full Wages

ductiOn in weekly earnings, serves
merely as a demagogic shield to
hide the fact that Green is carry
ing out the employers program of
wage cuts and relief cuts. Green
talks for the thirty-hour week to
cover up his campaign against the
Workers Unemployment and So
ciaI Insurance Bill.
At the last A. F. of L. convention,
Green opposed any federal unem-
ployment insurance. In the No
vember, 1884 Federationist, Green
said: ITO increase production and
to develop new employment oppor-
tunities, are the only ways to re-
lieye unemployment" This means
that the Roosevelt employers pro-
gram is the program of Green
only the demagogy differs-a pro-
gram of cutting down relief and
denying unemployment insurance
under cover of talk of increasing
production and developing new en-
ployment opportunities"
for Minimum Wage
The thirty hour week, if it is
to benefit the workers, must be
accomplished without any reduc-
ton in wages. Accompanying the
demand for the thirty-hour week,
must be the demand for higher
wages. The wages of the workers
have been further cut by rising
living costs. This must be given
back to the workers in higher
wages.
The demand for the thirty
hour week without reduction in
pay goes side by side with the
demand for the Workers Unem-
pIoyment and Social Insurance
Bill. The thirty-ho week will
not abolish unemployment. Mil
lions of workers would still be
unemployed. The Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill is the
only measure now before the
workers that would give these mill
lions some measure of security. 1t
is this bill, which calls for une-
employment and social insurance
to all unemployed at the expense
of the government and the en-
pIOyers and administered by the
wOrkers-which is vici3usly at
tackled by William Green.
The rank and file inside the A.
F. of L., in studying the record of
Green for years past, find that he
opposed federal unemployment in
surance, and in helping set up the
N. r. A. and the codes, surrendered
the interests of the unemployed and
employed workers by accepting low
minimum wages and worsened con-
ditions. At the present moment
Green is sabotaging the fight OF
the workers for unemployment in
surance, is surrendering their de-
mand for the thirty-hour week
without any wage decreases.
The rank and file of the A. F. of
L., despite Green, should form the
united front of the workers against
wage cuts, for adequate relief and
unemployment insurance, and for
the thirty-hour week, with higher
minimum wages and without any
decrease in pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

We go to press this week sur
rounded by headlines. In fact we
have just passed one. For the ben
eft of those who did not hear my
warning last week, want to re-
peat. December First marked the
end of the city's generosity to those
unfortunate workers and veterans
on Home Relief. All single vets
and workers were checked for the
axe; that is if they did not have
some one to fight for their rein
statement. But some vets found a
champion in the Workers EX-Ser-
vicemen's League. On Monday the
W.E.SL. took up the fight for inn
mediate relief right down to the
door of the Mayor himself. Now
the Mayor is a friend of the vets,
at least that's what he wants us to
believe. So the vets laid a list of
IL demands before him. The first
and most important = enforcement
OF the State welfare Veteran Law,
especially Article IA, Sections IT.
10. This calls for Cash Relief for
ex-servicemen. The Mayor knows
about this, so does the Governor.
But do they enforce it? Are they
going to enforce it? Yes-if the
rank and file vets Of New York get
together and join in the fight with
the W.E.SL. This is a clear cut
case and one that should not be
hard to put over 1t involves a
LAW already on the books. Mass
pressure will enforce it. Every vet
eran taken off relief and forced
into a labor camp should get in
touch with the WE.SL. They are
the boys who won't sell you out.
Every vet in New York should pro-
test these removals from relief as
a VIOLATION of the LAW.
How They Do 1t in France
Paris. One thousand war veter-
ans, each with an arm or leg miss
ing, braved a cold rain yesterday to
march down the boulevsrds at noon
shouting demands for payment OF
their full pensions. Our French
buddies are having trouble with an
Economy Act similar to our own
AS we can see by the above, they
are not sitting on their hands. Paris
is the home of the lac, the In
ternational of the rank and file vet
Grams Of the world. Like the w. E.
S. L. in America, which is an af1li-
ate of the lac, it is in the fore
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
By CARL REEVE.

workers will produce more. In his
testimony, Green endorsed the
speed-up as an accompaniment ia
reduced hours. He cited one firm, the
Kellogg Co., which he claimed had
voluntarily reduced wages with cor
responding rise in wages, and con-
cluded, THE Kellogg Co. found
from an actual examination of the
records that there was an increase
in efficiency, that the worker be-
came more efficient. He produced
more, and they increased his hourly
rate to correspond with that in
crease in efficiency"
We find, therefore, that Green
favored the Black Bill, or reduction
in hours with a reduction in pay.
He then pleaded with the employ
ers to increase wages voluntarily
and told them they can maintain
profits by increasing the speed-up.
Green Opposes Unemployment
Insurance
In every case, the immediate
program of the employers has been
carried out in labor's ranks by Will
liam Green. During Hoover's day
Green endorsed the share the
work" program of Hoover, to force
the workers on part time and thus
reduce their weekly earnings. I'm
der this stagger plan, endorsed by
Green, thousands we're taken off re-
lief, and given less pay than they
had previously received from relief
agencies. There are now nearly 20
million workers on part time, most
working already less than 80 hours
a week, in addition to approx
mately 16 million unemployed.
The proposal of Green before the
code authorities and in favor of the
Black Bill for reduced hours with
out increased pay is merely repe-
tition of the Green-H Hoover stagger
system, Green previously openly
endorsed this share the work"
plan. Green proposed this in the
Vancouver A. F. of L. convention
in 1881. In the Sept. 3, 1882 issue
of the A. F. of L. Weekly News
Letter, Green endorsed the Hoover
Teagle stagger plan, in a story
headlined, Green endorses Action
of Hoover's Business Conference to
Cut Hours"
OF this plan, Teagle admitted,
True, the method does not provide
more money for spending, but the
distribution of the money is avail
able among more people, more
spenders." Louis Weinstock, in his
testimony before the senate COM
mittee, quite properly called this
plan the share the misery plan"
At this time, Green's demagogic
At the present time, the National
Association of Manufacturers and
the MIRA. are preparing a sharper
wage cutting drive. They oppose
any restrictions to limit hours and
set minimum wage. They OPP
pose granting the unemployed
workers any unemployed insurance,
and are putting into effect drastic
relief cuts.
statement that he is in favor of
the thirty hour week without re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Dutch Railway Men
Attain Unity in Fight
Against Wage Slash

AMSTERDAM. Dec. THE OPP
position groups of all parties among
the Dutch railwaymen have achiev-
ed unity of action against the
threatened wage-cuts, and have is
sued a joint manifesto on the part
of all railwaymen.
These groups stand at the same
time for the resto-ati of unity in
the trade union organization Of all
railroad employees. In the manifesto
they call upon the railwayrnen 10
attend a joint demonstration at the
Hague in their uniforms. A collec-
ton of signatures is being organ
lied among the railwaymen for an
application to the committee Of the
reformist organization, calling upon
it to reinstate all expelled railway
men. This committee has contrived
to diminish the once mighty union
to only 5000 members, by means of
mass explosions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Many Picket
In Detroit
Relief Strike
Men at Fisher Lodge
Compel Reinstatement
of Workers
Especial to the Daily wOrker)

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. IA
larger picket line was set up yes
terday at the building of the County
Welfare Commission. 176 East JEFF
ferson Street, as the strike of I'M
employed single men at Fisher
Lodge, municipal institution
where over 1900 are quartered, en-
tered its fourth day.
The men are striking the relief
projects on which each of the in
mates is compelled to work one day
in every two and a. half weeks
Indications are that the bulk Of
the workers at the Lodge are being
involved in the walk out, which is
being led by the Unemployment
Councils.
AS a result of the strike, Roy
Duquette, Supervisor of Fisher
Lodge, has been compelled to re-
instate a number of workers who
were thrown out of the Lodge be-
cause of their militant activities
The men, who get only one dollar
for their forced labor, while one
days work inside the Lodge is en-
tirely unpaid for, are demanding
eight dollars work relief or six dol
lars direct relief and the right to
live where they choose.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
By Carl Reeve


William Green, president of the
A. F. of L., while at the present
time demagogically favoring the
thirty-hour week without reduc-
ton in wages" has in practice IA
yored only thirty-hour bills which
do not provide for corresponding in
crease in weekly earnings. Con-
cretely, Green has advocated only
a form of the share the work"
plan of Hoover and Walter c.
Teagle of the Standard Oil Com
pany.
Green, in his Weekly News Ser
vice" sent out an editorial on No
vember 10, since printed in num-
Der of A, F. Of l.. papers, attacking
the Daily Worker and defending an
article by Green in the New York
Times of Sunday, Oct. %.
In this article on the thirty hour
week, Green offers the thirty-hour
week, without pay reductions, as a
substitute for relief and unemploy-
ment insurance. Green says, I'VE
have considered and tried various
methods, all of which build up and
encourage agencies and tendencies
outside of our normal wealth pro-
ducing agencies and which do not
feed them" In other words, I'M
employment relief and social insur-
ance is frowned upon by Green and
his sole remedy for unemployment
is the thirty-hour week.
Green Favors Speed-Up
The thirty-hour week can be
made profitable to the employers,
Green says in this article, by in
creasing the speed-up. Running
industries at a higher capacity
would at once decrease the unit
production costs so that increased
labor costs would not necessarily
mean higher prices. Volume pro-
duction would ultimately bring the
profits from which to pay the costs:
Greater volume of output rvould
mean more wealth with which to
pay production costs"
This is Green's proposal: En-
ployerS could cut relief and deny
unemployment insurance, which,
Green says, will not aid the I'M
employed, and increase the speed
up, then the thirty-hour week will
be profitable.
Green, in his concrete proposals,
has time and again called for the
thirty-hour week while giving up
the demand for corresponding in
crease in wages. In the April, 1884,
American Federationist, official or
gan of the Executive Council of
the A. F. of L., is printed speech
delivered by Green to the Code Au-
thorities (employers) on March 5
1884. Green, speaking on the thirty
hour week, separated the question
Of reduction in hours from the ques-
ton of wages. He pleaded with the
employers: I'm the impending revi-
sion of the codes, will you courage
ously reduce hours to the general
level that will result in work for
all? What will you do with those
provisions which permit an averag-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
BY H. E. Briggs

front of the fight for the rights OF
the rank and file veterans.
While the vets in the East are
fighting for relief, the boys on the
West coast are not lying down on
the job either. Elk Serviceman
Quinn, a member of the W.E.S.L. in
Los Angeles, was recently beaten
up by thugs for participating in
the relief committee for the strik-
ing car workers. Quinn, disabled
vet from the Sawtelle Home is an
example of the growing solidarity
of the veterans and workers. The
veterans working with Workers In
ternational Relief, the Women's
Council and the Workers Protective
Union are supplying hot lunches to
the strikers and helping on the
picket line. This stand of the vets
is convincing the workers every
where that the ex-servicemen are
not "mercenary minority"
January Second is the dead-line
for all applications for the Adjusted
Service Certificates All those who
have not filed application by this
date will be out of luck.
Veteran Song Contest
The Workers Music League and
the WE.S.L. are launching a song
contest. The winning verse will be
selected by a joint committee of the
WESL. and the WML. 1t must
be q marching song. There is no
limitation as to the number of
verses, but the chorus must be of
a general nature, one that will have
some permanent value The song
must embrace the rank and file
veteran movement in America and
the struggle around the three point
program. 1t must contain some ele-
ment of the last war and deal with
the conditions of the vets today.
The New Deal and the vets, the
Economy Act Bonus, Unemploy-
ment Insurance, etc. The winning
verse will be printed in this colur1n.
The W.ML. will put it to music
and it will be widely distributed.
The contest closes Jan. 5, 1885.
REMEMBER THE DATE. The
contest is open to all. Here's your
chance. Workers, intellectuals and
veterans, clean the rust off your
pen and get to work.
Send all contributions to the
FIGHTING VET, Room 523, 80 E.
18th Street, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Children Out on Strike
In Philadelphia School

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Dec. T.
The children in two classes of the
Hamilton Public School at 57th and
Spruce Sts.. are on strike for proper
conditions, including adequate heat
and light.
SeVenty-five out of 80 pupils were
absent from their classes yesterday
and the children and their mothers
who are on the picket line with
them a-e determined to stay out
until proper conditions are won.
The children were forced to at
tend classes in tin shacks that have
no electric lights and insufficient
heat. They had to stay through
their classes bundled in sweaters
and overcoats.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Mass Action Gains
Delay for 5 Seamen
in Toledo Court Fight

TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. THE trial
of George Neiber, organizer for the
Marine Workers Industrial Union,
and four other workers, who are
held for obtaining food under false
pretenses, was again postponed
until next week.
The court room was so packed
with workers that the trial has been
continuously postponed on the
grounds that all available jurors
we're either members of the Unem-
ployment Councils or otherwise pre-
judice~'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Amter to Speak Sunday
AT Wilkes Barre Farley
For National Congress

WILKES BARRE. Pa. Dec. T.
I. Amter, national secretary of the
Unemployment Councils, will speak
at the United Front Conference
here Sunday which will prepare for
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance. The conference
will be held at the Crystal Ballroom,
1875 East Market Street, Sunday at
2 pm.
Local trade unions, benefit Or
ganizations, church societies and
branches of the Unemployed
Leagues have elected delegates to
the local conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

the stubborn resistance Of the Man
churian peasants, who have taken up
arms against the Japanese colonists
coming to occupy their land. They
have thus prevented these settlers
from carrying out the plan. The
Partisans are utilizing every oppor-
tunity for attacking the japanese,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
PHILADELPHIA FUNCTIONARIES
CALLED

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. THE
District Bureau of the Communist
Party has called an emergency
meeting of all fraction secretaries.
unit bureaus and language bureaus
for tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at
ADJ Pine st. An especially urgent
task will be outlined at the meeting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Japanese Colonization
Effort Proves Failure

SHANGHAI, Dec. with refer
ence to the new japanese plan for
settling 100000 Japanese reservists
in Manchuria, the Asiatic Agency
states:
The plan for military COLOMBIA
ton has proved failure, owing to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

Have you filed your collection
list and sent it in to the Daily
Worker office? Every available
cent should he rushed in imme-
diately to help raise the balance
to complete the drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
Communists Unite
With Socialist Body
In Fight on Fascisn'
Both Groups Call on All Affiliated Organizations
To Support United Struggles to Free
Victims of Mussolini Regime

The first fruit of the recently concluded agreement for
Joint action against Italian fascsm entered into by the Ita
ian Bureau of the Communist Party Of the United States
and the Executive Commission of The Italian Socialist Fed
Grafton Of America is stirring appeal signed by both call
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

If every reader. member of mass
organization and trade union does
his Part to raise as much as
pc1-lble for the Daily Worker
drive, the campaign will be a sue
cess by Dec. Is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-13
PLOT TO KIDNAP
 SON OF FACTOR
Eight=Year=Old Lad Was to Have Been Stolen
 From His Home

Los Angeles, March 13-CUP)-- Police today disclosed purported plot to kidnap Alvin Factor. eight year-old son of John (Jake the Barber) Factor, from the home of the boys uncle in Beverly Hills.
 The boy was brought to the home of the uncle, Robert Cowan. soon after Factor himself was kidnapped by the Roger Touhy gang in Chi cago last summer.
 Although police moved secretly, it was learned that one suspect had been arrested, and reeased after several hours of questioning.
 Detectives indicated that no early arrests were anticipated. The boy has been guarded since coming here, because of fears that he would be Kidnapped as reprisal for his fathers testifying against the gang members at the Chicago trial at which they were convicted.
 At present Alvin is recovering from an attack of pneumonia which nearly cost him his life last month.
 It was not unti his mother, Mrs Rella Factor, flew here to be at his bedside that it was learned the boy had been brought here secretly to live with COWan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-13
Local Woman To Be
 ,Honored In Bristol
Mrs Sophie Mcclure to Be Made Vce-Grand Com mander of United Order of Golden Cross Tomorrow

Mrs Sophie Mcclure of this city will be elevated to the next highest office in the state order at the forty eighth annual convention Of the United Order of the Golden Cross Grand Commandery of Connecticut to be held all day tomorrow in Bristol. Mrs Mcclure, member or Mattatuck Commandery of Water bury now holds the onice of grand prelate and her next office will be yice-grand commander Of the Grand Commandery.
 Those from Waterbury who will attend the convention are Mrs Me- Cure. MT and Mrs Walter J. Old royd, Mrs Catherine Earl, Mrs Myra Gillespie. From DeForest Commandery in Watertown the fol lowing will attend. MT and Mrs Burrus Bradford of Waterbury, MT and Mrs Walter Benham of Wa terbury, Miss Flora Fowler of Oak vile and Miss Ada Evans of Wa tertoWn.
 Mrs Earl and MT Aldroyd are past grand commanders of the -or- der and Mir Bradford is the pres ent grand herald.
 Supreme Commander Joseph r. Burlingame of Providence, R. l., and Charles Knapp, grand com- mander of New York States Con- mandery, are among the prominent personages who will speak.
 Officers of Mattatuck Comman- dery are: Noble Commander Wall ter J. Oldroyd; yice-noble com mander, Miss Florence Munson; worthy prelate, Mrs Walter J. Old royd: treasurer, Edward Futile;
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-13
Druggists Prepare
 For Liquor Sales
Records Must Be Kept to Compute 496 Gross Sales
 Tax-Figures Must Be Available to Officials

cent gross sales taxes. The liquor control bill, passed by the 1883 leg islature, requires that the four per cent tax shall be paid on all sales and that payment must be made to the tax commissioners office at Hartford.
 When the restaurants, hotels, taverns and clubs were given per- mission to handle the alcoholic beverages they were faced with a similar situation. Deputy Tax Com missioner Ernest s. Goodrich, when talked with, explained that those selling the beverages must have a complete record of income from this source and that the figures should be kept available.
 The system now in use in most restaurants, hotels, taverns and clubs is carried out through the use of the modern cash registers with tapes. The registers have special keys where the various types of sales are registered. Deputy Commissioner Goodrich ex- p1ained some time ago that this type of system is fool-proof and prevents the dealers from mixing up their other sales, such as sand 'wiches, soft drinks, cigars, cigar cites and so forth.
 The local druggits have applied for their new licenses on a large scale, hence the belief that they will take steps immediately to pro- tect themselves on the four per cent gross sales tax. On ordinary egisters they are likely, it was said, to leave themselves open. to the possibility of recording non- taxable goods along with the alco- holic beverages and, thus, pay a greater tax to the state than they are actually required to.
 State Tax Commissioner William Hackett has already taken steps to procure the names of the drug stores in Connecticut receiving li- censes from the liquor control board. These drug stores will be under the same surveillance as are the restaurants, taverns, hotels and clubs.