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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Seattle .JObless
Get Signatures
For Social Bill
Initiative Measure Ac-
tons Are Planned
in Washington

SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 5.-Under
the leadership of the State Com
mittee of Action and the Unem-
ployed Citizens League Cboth affih-
ated to the National Unemployment
Councils) workers here are collect
ing signatures for a petition on the
Unemployment Insurance Initiative
Measure.
Fifty thousand signatures must
be collected by Jan. 5, when the
initiative measure will go to the
State Legislature for vote on Jan.
IS. If rejected, the bill will go on
the ballot on the following general
elections.
The workers are using the orig
inal Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill, experimenting State with
national, and inserting a paragraph
stating that the bill will be in effect
until enactment on a national scale.
Each county Is setting up local
arrangements committees of dele
gates from all organizations and
from among liberals, university pro-
fessors and ministers, A. F. of L.
and independent trade unions and
others willing to work for the
enactment of State unemployment
insurance bill.
County conferences have been
called throughout the State for the
week of Nov. 10 to II, and a mass
conference will be held at the State
capitol on Jan. Is, the day that the
legislature convenes.
Demonstrations for the Workers
Bill are being planned throughout
the State, and all workers organ
izations are being asked to endorse
the bill and mobilize their member
ship for mass demonstrations to
force all City Councils to act on
the bill.
The Workers Bill is being made
the main issue in the election cam
paign as against the forced labor
plans of the State, city and Fed
eral governments for the unem-
ployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Philade lip hia Furriers
Enter Fourth Week of
Strike With 900 Out

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5.-En-
tering the fourth week, the general
furriers' strike continues to keep
80 per cent of the shops tied up.
Mawson- Demany- Forbes, one of the
largest shops in the city, con-
tinues efforts to operate, with the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union throwing a mass picket line
about the place daily.
A delegation of thirty strikers,
who returned from the furriers
meeting at Cooper Union, New
York, have reported at q strike
meeting, that they were highly
enthused by the meeting, and the
strikers are now more determined
than ever to stay out until their
demands for a 35-hour week, wage
increases, and a 3 per cent unem-
ployment insurance fund at the
bosses expense are won.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

in the last six months Akron paint
ers have beaten proposals to Dust
Wilcox.
The motion to expel Wilcox was
put in the last few minutes Of the
meeting, when the majority Of the
painters, including Wilcox, had al
ready left the meeting, Despite the
lateness Of the hour, the motion was
defeated by vote Of l to 13.
Last March, when Wilcox, who
had been unemployed for some time
and unable to pay his dues, reap
piled for membership in the local,
opposition to his return was raised
on the grounds Of his Communist
activities. Despite the attacks Of the
reactionaries the members voted for
his return 100 to 8.
The recent defeat Of the red
batting officials is considered espe-
cially significant in view of the fact
that Akron newspapers have been
carrying stories of the filing of the
Communist election with prominent
mention of Wilcox's name as CAM
paign manager.
Support for Wilcox in the Paint
erS' Brotherhood arises out of the
fact that he is known for his long
years Of service in the local labor
movement. The big rubber strike in
1914 found him taking a leading
part in the struggle. He was a
member Of the I. w. w. for years
until he joined the Communist
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Street Car WalkOut
In Detroit Prevented
By. Union Misleaders

DETROIT, Sept. 5.-The threat
ened strike of 1,700 Detroit street
car workers has been temporarily
held up through the maneuvering
of city politicians and the leader
ship of the Street Railway Mems
Union.
The whole strike movement is
being diverted by reactionary union
leadership in cahoots with the
Street Railway Commission into an
ATTEMPT to bring about conflict be-
tween the street car workers and
the bus drivers.
Last November the Commission in
an attempt to smother protests of
the street car workers for better
working conditions and higher
wages promised them 100 jobs held
by the bus drivers. This ruling,
although it was never put into eff
feet, split the two groups of workers
and effectively prevented united
front action against their bosses.
Recently this November subter-
fuge to take away jobs from the
bus drivers and give them to the
street car workers was tried again
when the street car workers called
for a strike vote.
This Scab ruling was again ruled
illegal and the whole question has
become political football with the
street car workers and the bus
drivers as the victims.
Militant street car workers are
urging breakaway from their mis-
leaders and union with their fellow
workers of the Motor Coach Opera
tors Union to force the joint fight
for better conditions and higher
wages down the bosses Threats.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

have forced the Government to
furnish them with food, clothing,
and shelter and have dug in" for
fight to the finish-to win! These
"hill-billies" are in revolt.
Fooled By Ohio Landlords
But who are these workers? They
are descendants of the earliest stock
from the hills of Kentucky and
Tennessee. Some of the families
came to Ohio from Kentucky twenty
or thirty years ago. They we're
coaxed and fooled by the rich Ohio
landlords that pot of gold awaited
them for their labor in the onion
fields. Most of them left their
homes with the expectation of soon
returning. But their labor only got
them further in debt with the en-
ployers. Now after thirty years of
toll many of them are still in debt
and none have earned enough to
get back home to the hills of Ken
lucky.
The work they do is backbreak-
ing. Their main job is to keep the
onion fields free from weeds, pull
ing them out by hand They work
from eleven to fifteen hours day
in the hot sun for from seven to
twelve cents per hour. The whole
family is employed-children four
and five years old can be found
working eleven hours day side by
side with adult workers. But the
children are not classified as work
ers, they are called helpers" and
receive only forty to fifty cents per
day. When they grow into young
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Bankhead Bill Limits
People in One County
To Raising a Bale Each
tBy a Worker Correspondent

CACHE, Ill-A small middle
class merchant influenced by fas-
cist teaching shot Negro boy,
claiming ha had stolen some chick
ems, though the man he was work.
ing for gave them to him. The
merchant, his son, and another
white fellow shot him, and the
merchants wife, a jim-crow school
teacher, hollered, Shoot him"
three times.
Old Smith is afraid they are
going to sue him. He is paying
the boys doctor bill and board
That's the first beginning of the
terror here under Roo3evelt's New
Deal N. R. A, A. A. A, and people
are stirred up. Here on their crops
(they raise crops in two counties
in southern Illinois) the Bankhead
Bill is putting a heavy tax on the
cotton. There are over 600 people
in both the counties and they give
them only 600 bales.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Y.C.L. of Philippines
Scores Lynch Verdicts
In Scottsboro Trials

NEW YORK.-Protests by the
Young Communist League of the
Philippine Islands against the
Scottsboro lynch verdicts have been
sent to President Roosevelt, the SUI
preme Courts of Georgia and Ala
bama, and to the Governor General
of the Philippine Islands, it was
learned when copies of the resolu-
tons were received by the national
office Of the International Labor
Defense.
The Y. C. L. of the Philippines is
working under conditions of ex-
IRENE terror, as the Communist
movement has been illegalized by
the infliction of long prison terms
on twenty-three leaders of the Com
munist Party there. A fight is be-
ing waged, with the support of the
I. L. D. and the Anti Imperialist
League of the United States, to
force the freedom of the impris-
oned leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
HGW He ad Railroads
81 Per Capita Tax On
Chicago Membership


CHICAGO, Sept. 5.-An open at.
tack against democracy in the In
ternational Ladies Garment Work.
ers Union was made last week by
zuckermann, business agent Of
Local 100.
you people have no right to re-
ject this decision" he shouted when
members objected to the imposition
Of a 81 per capita tax by the ma
tional convention of the IL.GW.U.
you will accept the decision and
pay whether you like it or not"
The bureaucratic machine then
proceeded to railroad through these
measures, in spite of the expressed
opposition of the greater part of the
membership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Phil DEPIA ALL GROUP CALLS FARLEY ON JOB INSURANCE
MONEYS RELEASE
FOR FUNERAL URGED
Wires from Organizations, individuals Demand
Leader Be Allowed At Mothers Graveside

NEW YORK.-Telegrsms urging
the release of Tom Mooney to at
tend the funeral of his aged moth
er, who died Monday, were sent
to Governor Merriam and to War
den Holohan of San Quentin
Prison by organizations and indi-
viduals in this city. Among the
organizations sending wires were
the International Labor Defense,
the National Committee for the
Defense Of Political Prisoners,
American Civil Liberties Union,
and the John Reed Club.
In the name Of its 10000 women
members, the International Work
ers Order sent wire Tuesday to
Governor Merriam Of California
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

and to Warden Holohan Of San
Quentin Prison, demanding that
Tom Mooney be released from
prison to attend the funeral.
The following message was sent
by the Cafeteria Workers Union,
affiliated with the Food Workers
Industrial Union, to Governor
Merriam: an the name of 5000
members Of the Cafeteria Workers
Union we demand you release Tom
Mooney to attend mothers fu-
neral"
Wires were sent in addition by
various noted individuals, includ-
ing Haywood Broun, Theodore
Dresser, and Frank P. Walsh, at
torney associated in the Mooney
defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Branch Pickets Store
To End Jim-Crowism

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5.-Initi-
ating a drive against jim-crowism
and job discrimination against Ne
groes, the Frederick Douglas Branch
of the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, 1889 Parrish ST.. began pick
citing the American Stores Com
pany branch store at Thirteenth
and Cambridge Sts., last Friday.
Picketing will continue daily, and
delegation of white and Negro
workers will visit officials of the
company to present the following
demands:
Immediate reduction in hours of
all clerks and the hiring of Negro
clerks at equal wages to do the adj
ditional work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

Trade Union Committee Hall, 1873
South Eighth st.
The call, addressed to all locals
and members of the A. F. of L.
in Philadelphia and vicinity asks
all local unions, shops organized
in the A. F. of L. and groups of
A. F. of L. members to elect dele
gates to the conference where
plans will be formulated for a
struggle for the demands Of the
jobless at the 54th National Con-
vention of the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Each local is asked to elect two
delegates as representatives at the
conference.
Thirty A. F.. of L. locals in
Philadelphia have already endorsed
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill by individual action.
These locals include carpenters,
painters, hosiery workers, moulders,
taxi drivers, knit goods workers,
teachers, upholsterers, oil workers,
railway carmen, radio workers,
weavers, cleaners and dyers and
leather workers.
All locals are urged to endorse
the Workers Bill Immediately and
send notice of endorsement to Will
liam Green, president of the A. F.
Of L., to their local congressman,
and to the A. F. of L. Trade
Union Committee on Unemploy-
ment Insurance and Relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
500 IN NEWARK PICNIC

NEWARK, N. j., Sept. 5.-Five
hundred workers attended the Com
munist Party Picnic at Walnut
Grove Monday and heard Jack Rose
and G. Sazsa speak on the Com
munist election platform and the
role of the A. T. of L. leaders. A
play America, My America" and
dancing followed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
US. Order You'd Distranchise
AUMen in FOrcedLabOr Camps

transients who registered were be-
ing removed from the voting lists.
Hopkins letter follows:
THE question has been raised as
to the exercise of voting privileges
on the part of transients.
This is a matter governed by
State laws of the respective States.
However, whenever a transient
elects to exercise this privilege of
voting, his relief needs from then
on, if they are such, must be taken
care of in some other way than
through the Transient Bureau"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Ben Gold Will Speak
On Role of Renegades

NEW YORK.-Ben Gold, national
secretary of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, will
speak on the role of the Lovestone-
sites and the struggle of the needle
trades at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving
Place and 18th Street, tomorrow
evening at 8 o'clock.
The lecture will be the second of
series of four arranged by the
Trade Union Unity Council on the
activities of renegade groups in the
trade union movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Rochester Transfers
Win the 46-Hour Week

ROCHESTER, N. Y. FP).-Ar-
bitration ended the 11-week strike
of transfers of the Sibley, Lindsay
q Curr Co. of Rochester with par
tial victory for the drivers. Rein
statement of Is out of II drivers,
better working conditions, a 46-hour
week and recognition of Local 118,
International Brotherhood of Team
sterS as representative of the work.
ers for collective bargaining pur-
poses, were conceded to the strikers.
More than usual Importance is at
tached to this partial victory be-
cause of the support given the
drivers by organized labor of the
city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. s.
No worker living in the government
forced labor transient camps
throughout the country will be al
lowed to remain in camp if he ex-
ercises his right to vote, according
to a recent letter mailed to all camp
directors by Harry L. Hopkins, Fed
eral relief administrator.
The ruling, which was made by
Hopkins shortly before he sailed for
Europe two months ago, was made
public recently after reports were
received from Joplin, Mo-, that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Y.CL. CONFERENCE POSTPONED

CHARLTON, Pa, Sept. S. The
Young Communist League confer
ence against war and fascism sched-
uled for Sept. % has been post
poned until Sept. 29th.. All organi-
cations have been urged to send
delegates. The conference will be
held in the headquarters of the
Unemployment Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

Unless Every Section and Unit in
the Party Throws Its Forces Vigor-
ously Into the Circulation Drive,
the Daily Worker Remains I'm
known to Thousands of Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Y.C.L. TO ATTEND PICNIC

McKEESPORT, Pa, Sept. 5.-All
Young Communist League members
have been invited to attend the
McKeesport section picnic to be
held Sept. at Finleyville, Pa.
There will be speakers, games and
dancing. Prizes will be awarded to
athletic winners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
vel. MEMBERS CALLED

NEW YORK.-The District Com
mittee of the Y.C.L. has called upon
all unemployed members to report
for special work this afternoon at
lao West 36th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

Our Readers Must Spread the
Daily Worker Among the Members
of All Mass and Fraternal Organ
izations AS Political Task Of First
Importance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Unions to Plan Fight
for the Workers. Bill
at A.F.L. COn0entiOn
Conference Called for Saturday-Unions Urged
to Elect Delegates-3O Philadelphia
Locals Have Endorsed Measure

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept 5.-The A. F. of L. Trade
Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief
has issued call to all A. F. of L. unions to conference
The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill The conference
will be held Saturday Sept g. at p m at the A. F. of L..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Painters Officials
Fail in Move TO Dust
Communist in Akron
Union Members Defeat Brotherhood Chiefs When
They Try to Carry Out William Green's
Drive to Expel Communists from AFL

AKRON Sept 5-Eorts by
Painters to out William Green's campaign expulsion
munis failed last week when motion Wilcox
muni election
by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

10000 New Readers by September
1 means 10000 Additional Recruits
for Organized Class Struggle!
The Washington times., 1934-03-02
WIDER FEDERAL
CRIME DRIVE
PROPOSED
~ International News Service

~ International News Service
A new Federal drive on bank
robbers, racketeers and gangsters,
in addition to the present cru
sade against kidnapers, appeared
. certainty today after a Senate
judiciary subcommittee approved
nine new anti-crime bills.
The measure, endorsed by Jo-
Seph B. keenan,, Department Of
Justice crime specialist, would
give the Federal Government au-
thority to capture and prosecute
racketeerS, bank robbers and a
host of lesser criminals. The
bills would extend the Govern
ment's power over kidnapers and
eliminate several technicalities
on which criminals have escaped
punishment in the past.
Provisions of Bills
The new bills would make:
/. Racketeering deral
crime, if it involved any phase
of interstate commerce.
2. Robbery of National bank
or O member bank of the Fed
eral Reserve System, a Federal
crime.
3. Assaults on any one in con-
nection with such robberies, q
Federal crime.
Z. Assaults of any degree on
any Federal officer, q Federal
crime.
S. Transportation of stolen Sc
curitieS across State lines or trans
portation of stolen goods, wares,
or merchandise in excess of 81, 900
across State lines, a Federal crime.
Greater Kidnap Power
In addition to these new pow
ers, the Federal Government would
be given greater authority to deal
with kidnapping cases. First, one
bill would give it jurisdiction in
any kidnapping case in which the
victim was not returned within
three days.
Second, another bill would make
it Federal crime to send mes
sage with intent to extort, by tel
ephone, telegraph. radio or orally
across a State line. These meas
ures would bring virtually every
kidnaper within the Federal
Governments jurisdiction. except
that kidnaper might escape Fed
eral prosecution by proving he
had not taken his victim across
a State line
Other bills would wipe out tech
nicalitieS. by which defendants
escaped punishment by challeng-
ing the actions of the grand jury,
which indicted them.
The Washington times., 1934-03-02
PARLEY SOUGHT.
ONPOSTALPAY
BY International News Service

ny International news service
Senate Postoffice subcommittee
today sought a conference with
Postoffice Department officials to
settle controversy over the mean
ing of House bill, providing a
SIS week minimum pay for sub
Stitute postal employees.
One association of substitute
postal employees appealed to Con-
gress to enact legislation forcing
the department. to maintain a nor
NAL number of regular employees.
They charged the department
with using too many substitutes,
without giving them regular en-
ployment.
The House Postoffice Commit
tee enacted the SIS minimum
pay bill. with a provision calling
on the department to maintain a
ratio of seven to one, between
regular and substitute employees.
The Association argued this did
not remedy their condition.
The Washington times., 1934-03-02

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The Washington times., 1934-03-02
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The Washington times., 1934-03-02
Course Increases
Social Workers

The volunteer, course in social
work, which concluded this week
under auspices of the Council Of
Social Agencies, brought many
new volunteers for social work
with the various Community
Chest agencies, it was announced
by Mrs. John Jay O'Connor, chair.
man of the volunteers committee.
The Washington times., 1934-03-02

CHICAGO, March 2 UN.SO.
Marjorie Swift, 1S, granddaughter
of the late George B. swift. former
mayor Of Chicago, and Mary Dick
inson, Is, are coming home today.
The girls. missing since Sunday,
called Chicago from Memphis.
Tenn. last night to say they were
sick of hitch-hiking.
The Washington times., 1934-03-02
SHIP WAGE PACT ASKED

A major strike IN private ship
yards that might tie up indef-
initely. the naval building pro-
gram was forecast yesterday by
an expert witness testifying be.
fore the House Committee on Ex-
penditures in Executive Depart
mentS.
Garrett Smith, president of the
National Association of Ship
The Washington times., 1934-03-02
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builders, said that unless the pay
of private and Government ship
workers is equalized, the former
will unite in a walkout.
Government workers are on a
40-hour week and receive slightly
higher pay rate. The private
shipyard employe is on a 32-hour
week in accordance with the NRA
code
The Washington times., 1934-03-02
DesertiOn Charged
By KeniLLUOrth Wife

Suit Tor an absolute divorce was
begun in the Prince Georges
County Circuit Court at Upper
Marlboro by Ann E. Dunkley, of
Kenilworth, D. c., against Charles
w. Dunkley, of Prince Georges.
In the bill of complaint filed by
w. A. Coombe, of Washington. as
legal counsel, Mr.. Dunkley was
charged with desertion.
The Washington times., 1934-03-02

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The Washington times., 1934-03-02
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The Washington times., 1934-03-02
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The Washington times., 1934-03-02

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