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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18

petent and easily beguiIed are the
experts who sit on the newspapers
and hand down judgments.
If I remember correctly, there was
hardly genius among them who
did not portray Camera as a dismal
fighter, when he landed on these
shores, under the benevolent wing
of Bill Duffy, now unfortunately
guest of our bosses in one of the
better prisons. When he fought
what is known in the vernacular as
tankers, the holder ones among
them intimated to their customers
that all was not obstruction in his
path. Certainly, not one of these
performers intimated that Camera
had any skill or would ever amount
to magnificence. When he met
Sharkey, the sailor was the favorite
with nearly every one of them.
Yet in this match many of them
picked Camera. Baer has ten times
the better record and yet they
picked Camera. Nor did they pick
him because Baer had not trained
well or lacked the stuff They
picked Camera on his boxing abil-
ity. Overnight they made the bum
a master.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
East Side JObleSs Demand
Workers Bill, H. r. 1898

NEW YORK. - Two thousand
workers massed at the home of
Congressman Samuel Dickstein Sat-
urday, demanding that he support
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill III. R. 1899, and sign the
round robin motion to release the
bill from further consideration by
the House Committee on Labor.
Dickstein, surrounded by so cops
and detectives and accompanied by
six special agents" from Washing
ton, answered the demands for the
Workers Bill by subpoenaing Mil
ton Stone of the Workers Commit
tee on Unemployment Local and
3 affiliated with National Unem-
ployment Councils) to appear be-
fore the Congressional Committee
Investigating Un-American Actiy-
tiles"
During the week, the city admin
1stration had been forced to erect
q huge speakers platform in the
street facing Dickstein's house
While the demonstration was in
progress, police roped off the entire
street.
Boos greeted Dickstein as he re-
fused to support the Workers Bill,
dragging red herring in as answer
to the workers demands.
The subpoena, Dickstein ex-
planned, was to determine where
the money for the demonstration
and the speakers platform came
from. AS Dickstein drove off in
his car the workers booed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Meet Tonight at
L.S.U. Office To Plan
City Soft-Ball League

A soft-ball league to include teams
Of the T. U. U. L. youth sections,
A. F. of L. shops, unorganized shops
in all trades and I. w. o. branches
will be the subject of a conference,
to be held tonight. 7:30 o'clock, at
the office of the Labor Sports Union,
ia w. 14th st.
Several teams from the United
Shoe Workers have already signifled
their intentions of joining the
league. ALI T. U. U. L. youth sec
tons especially are urged to send
delegates to this conference.
The league will be run by the
teams who are members of it and
will begin to function Immediately
after Monday nights conference.
It is planned to engaoe in COM
petitions with the S. M. w. 7. U.
league recently formed in Cleveland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
RYAN Tries
To CalIOff
Dock Strike
Agrees To End Strike;
But Rank and File
Have Final Say

NEW YORK Press reports an
nounced yesterday that Joseph P.
Ryan, president of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Association,
and Michael Casey, head of the San
Francisco Transfers Union, had
signed an agreement with the
Waterfront Employers Association
and the Industrial Association
agreeing to call off the coastwise
maritime strike.
The rank and file of the I. L. A.,
however, will decide by vote on the
proposition Meanwhile the strike
continues. Latest reports from
Frisco show that the rank and file
in that port have repudiated all of
Ryan's attempts to get the men
back to work on the basis Of an
agreement demanded by the Indus
trial Association.
In fact, longshoremen in Seattle
rejected Ryan's proposals to return
to work and decided to continue the
strike for their original demands.
When it was reported that 1,10O
special police were being modified
to open the Seattle port and that
the bosses through an emergency
committee had raised 5000, 900 to be
used to smash the strike, the execu-
tive board of the A. F. of L. Shoe
Union voted to support a general
sympathy strike.
The Communist Party issued
call to all organized and morgan
lied workers in Seattle for a gen.
eral strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
attempt Frame Up
of Negro Yorker in
Beacon, NetU York
Special to the Daily Worker,

BEACON, N. Y, June 15.-The
frameup of a Negro worker poked
its ugly head through the squalor
of Dutchess Junction. a shack town
in which Negroes have been jim
crowed, within a stones throw of
Camp Nitgedaiget.
David Bradshaw, %, unemployed
Negro worker, is being held in
Poughkeepsie on a charge of second
degree burglary brought by Mrs.
Angelo, a local inn keeper. Mrs.
Angelo claimed, in a highly contra
dictory story, that someone had
attempted to break into her home
and that in a fleeting glance she
had recognized Bradshaw.
Guests and workers at Camp Nit
gedaiget, and workers at Duchess
Junction are taking action to smash
the frameup with the help of the
I. L. D. and the L. S. N. R. Over
$50 has been contributed by camp
ers and kitchen staff to defray ex-
penses, while the International
Labor Defense has assigned an at
torney for legal defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18

AONo q 4dlIIS oCGOllu DIS al IS
sue. There are readers for
every point, in boxing.
A heavyweight champion
ship fight is a matter of
universal interest. The papooses in
the African jungles and the inhabi-
tants of the Arctic igloos subscribe
to the New York Times for the sole
purpose of getting all the news
that's fit to print about it. Four
full rows were filled with news
papermen last Thursday night.
These came from the north and
south and the west; and I did not
see Trevor Wignall there, but the
London Express" always used to
send him over especially for the
contest.
IT is said that more than $500, 900,
a goodly sum, was collected from
the customers. I admit that I
never expected that such tribute
would come into the Golfers. I esti-
mated the crowd at no more than
100000, at most, but the Madison
Square Garden Corp, having once
been nurtured by the Six Hundred
Millionaires, and having thereby
learned the policies of honesty at
the cradle, so to speak, is undoubt-
edly telling us the truth. Indeed, I
saw one of the brethren walking out
of the Arena Thursday night and
his eyes were bullying and he had
one Of the most ecstatic expressions
I have ever seen.
On the exchange, where the
money-grabbers are, the stock of
the Madison Square Garden Corp.
has gone up half point. Mr.. Baer
is now established as killer de luxe
and big doings are expected of him.
A feeler has already been thrown
out in the inspiring accounts of Mr..
Steve Hamas' ability, which APP
peared in the prints the last three
days.
1t happens to be a painful thing,
though, that Mr.. Baer really has no
opponents to feed on. Mr.. Hamas,
though he has good connections, is
a third-rater at best. Perhaps they
can resurrect Adolph's boxing tutor,
Schmeling, but even Herr Schmel-
ing, am afraid, my prove gauche.
There is a dearth in the land and
men will tremble when they realize
it.
Mr.. Baer, of course, follows in
the established tradition. He has
promised Primo another chance. 1t
is not despoiling Mr. Baer's virtues,
however, to remark that this return
battle will never eventuate. Signor
Camera has gone down the river
and he will stay there. He may
now return to the bosom of Mus
solini, at whose instructions Arthur
Starce, secretary of the Fascist
Party of Italy, cabled Primo the
following: you must win"
THIS fight ended the career of
l Primo, the Giant. 1t showed
again, at least, how utterly incom-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18

workers are confronted" Lewis, a
member of the Independent Radio
Workers Union, details experiences
in the Teleradio and Dejur shops.
Also the turn in their work which
led to the strengthening of the
union and of the shop nuclei.
One of the delegates from
Schenectady in the league a few
weeks, gets up. He goes to high
school. The principal saw Y. c. L.
emblem on his sweater. Whats
that" he asked. cts club" an
swered the new League member, ut
stands for You Can't Lose"
The high spot of the convention
comes when Lou Cooper, the or
ganizer Of the Independent Radio
Workers Union, takes the floor.
There is an announcement. Cooper
has just been elected chairman of
the Radio Unity Conference, a
united front of all the organizations
in the industry, representing 1000
workers. He has been elected by
vote of 1918. There is spontaneous
cheering at this news.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
FOrbeck Admits He
Never Was for Strike
Especial to the Daily worker


YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June IT,
Earl Forbeck, chairman of the
abdicated Committee of Ten, in a
statement to the newspapers yes
terday said, 81 believe the action
taken at the convention will create
public sentiment in our favor and
that President Roo4velt will realize
that the steel workers do not want
strike which would interfere with
his recovery program. was not
disappointed in the Conventions
action. The whole thing is now in
Roosevelt's hands and we have con-
ffdence in him."
Forbeck said he had never ad-
vocated q strike. He said he be-
lieved the steel workers will win
their rights without a strike.
At the Amalgamated Association
picnic in Canton, one of the speak
ers was William Pickrel of Dayton,
now candidate for the Democratic
Gubernatorial nomination.
In company union elections at the
Shenango-P Penn Mill in Sharpsville,
near Youngstown, two out of the
three representatives elected are
members of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union and
openly ran in elections as such.
Company union elections in
Youngstown show how workers are
forced to vote for company tools.
In the Republic Steel company
union elections every worker was
given a printed ballot with the
workers badge number on top of
each ballot. The company is thus
able to single out and fire all those
voting against company tools. This
also happened in the sheet and tube
mills here, U. S. Steel corporation
mill. In spite of this terrorization
many workers voted with the
sticker distributed by the S. M. w.
I, u, stating 81 vote against COM
pany union" An A. A. official here
made a statement that these terror
lied elections were fair, showing the
link of some A. A. officials with the
company.
Yesterday all Youngstown mills,
especially the sheet and tube, were
covered with barbed wire. Machine
guns were on the bridge at Struth-
ers, Ohio, and all streets around the
mills were cleaned of bricks, stones,
ETC., in fear of the workers. The
Youngstown Press greeted Tighe
and Green as heroes. Editorials
state that they achieved not post
ponement, but the strike is def
initely off.
Yesterday, the date of strike call,
the American Legion Post 472 held
a sham battle at Idora Park,
youngstown, in which two compan-
les of National Guard we're mo-
bilized and participated, including
a machine gun battalion. Airplanes
took part in the mobilization.
In Pittsburgh Friday night even
after adjournment of the conven-
ton there was a heavy mobilization
of police, and company thugs, we'll
armed, including armored cars
fearing strike of the night shift
at midnight.
j. and L. on the South Side par
ticularly were heavily guarded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Delegates to Demand
Endorsement of II. r. 1898

NEW YORK.-Twenty-five dele
gates representing $50 fraternal and
mass organizations with combined
membership of 10000 will meet with
Mayor La Guardia, Sat, June 80,
at 1 pm, demanding that he en-
: dorse the Workers Unemployment
Z Insurance Bill III. R. 1889. While
the delegates are meeting with La
Guardia, the members of the or
carnations participating will hold
mass meeting on the City Hall
Green.
This meeting with La Guardia is
one of the outgrewths of the con-
ference Of the Federation for Social
Insurance held on April %. Organ
izations participating include lodges
of the Elks, Sons of Italy, Knights
Of Columbus, Sons of Italy Grand
Lodge, Foresters, and some 80 other
fraternal organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
HanfStaengI Is
Greeted by "BOOS"
Continued from Page y

by police, Haunting their presence
in order to provoke a disturbance.
The demonstrators for the most
part ignored the fascists and went
on with the meeting.
Unable to hear the speakers in
the front, the back half of the
meeting rugged up their own plat
form and heard speakers hit fas-
cism in Germany and in the United
States.
The demonstrators, most of them
young workers and students, car
ried placards in English and in
German, denouncing the Hitler re-
gime. Some of them read: "Oust
Nazi Hanfstaengl, Ship the Nazi
Agent Back, We Don't Want Him
Here" Free ErSst Thaelmann,"
Drive Out the Nazi Agents, .
'Down with Fascism," and others.
Among those who spoke were
Hans Baer, young German refugee,
who recently escaped from a Nazi
concentration camp, Joseph Cohen,
of the National Student League, Joe
Lash, of the Student League for
Industrial Democracy, a socialist
student organization, P. Caccione of
the workers Ex-Servicemen's
League, Sam Richardson, of the
Anti-Nazi Federation, Nate Bruce,
of the International Labor Defense,
and others. Pauline Rogers Of the
Anti-Nazi Federation was chair
man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Relief Workers Plan
For City-Wide Strike
Action on July 18th
Series of Mass Meets on
Projects To Take
Strike Votes

NEW YORK. - Raising the de-
mands for the S. day, 4-hour day
on all relief jobs throughout the
city, trade union rates for skilled
workers and the restoration Of the
lime cut, the Relief Workers League
has adopted a one-month citywide
job program leading to a general
strike on all city relief jobs in July.
$ The plan of action adopted by the
Relief Workers League calls for the
setting up of functioning job CON-
'mittees on those projects where
committees do not already exist,
the establishment Of neighborhood
Relief Workers Leagues to exist
side by side with all Unemploy-
ment Council locals and a series Of
mass meetings throughout the city
eliminating in a meeting of del
egates from all projects at which
strike action will be determined.
On June %, clty-wide neighbor-
hood meetings Of all relief workers
will be held. In the meantime the
project action committees will call
meetings on all the projects where
strike votes will be taken and COM
-mittees elected to the general strike
conference on July Is.
In preparation for the strike call,
q concerted drive is being made
through all mass organizations and
trade unions. To enlist the sup
port of the painters on the relief
jobs, unemployed painters and
workers in the A. F, of L. trade
;. unions, a meeting centering on the
support of the election of Louis
-Weinstock to the Painters District
Council will be held at ia w. 18th
Street on June 26. On June 81, a
meeting of A. F. of L. workers and
the Relief Workers League will be
held at 116 University Place.
2 Since the beginning Of G. w. A,
unskilled workers have had wages
cut from SIS a week to S13.44, and
at the termination of C.W.A. those
who were not fired outright re-
ceived wages cuts to Sl2 a week.
3. Skilled workers received a wage
slash of as much as SIS per cent.
Supplementary relief in the form
OF surplus food orders has been
stopped completely, and last week
saw the beginning of the drive to
cut all large families off Home Re
lief supplementary relief when Ed
a Corsi discovered" 1892 "chiselers"
ii on the lists.
Sporadic one day strikes have
broken out on many projects, where,
despite weak, isolated actions, i'm
-portant concessions have been won.
=, In leading up to the July Is gen
eraI strike vote, all strike action
will be determined by the votes Of
the men on the projects.
81. The first citywide mass meeting
will be held Monday, June Is, at 8
p. m, at Irving Plaza, 18th st. and
. Irving Place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Strike in Sterling
Laundry in New York

NEW YORK. - Workers Of the
Sterling Laundry, 3400 Park Ave,
are striking under the leadership Of
the Laundry Workers Industrial
Union to force the reinstatement of
an active union member.
The Sterling Laundry is the back
bone of the Laundry Owners AS
ISOLATION and has led the work of
trying to break the union. The
union urges all customers to refuse
to give their bundles to this laun-
dry until the strike is settled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Zausner Hoodlums Try
To Drown Out Program
OF Militant p ainters

NEW YORK. While Zausner
hoodlums kept up an incessant din
of shouts, vile curses and lying
charges, Louis Weinstock, Rank and
File candidate for Secretary Treas
urer of the Painters Union, District
Council No. 9, outlined his program
at a meeting of Local 261 Friday
night.
Weinstock exposed the zausner
machine and called for real trade
union democracy. I'VE are cut this
year to clean out zausnerism," he
said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Win Strike in Brooklyn

NEW YORK-Bosses of the Jaffe
Paper Co., 619 Sheepshead Bay
Road, Brooklyn, were forced to
grant all strike demands after
workers picketed the plant for two
days. The demands won were: a So
increase to the truck driver, REIN
statement of fired worker, author
ization of compensation and the AZ
hour week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Workers to See Lyons;
viii Protest Jim Grow

NEW YORK.-A delegation of
Negro and white workers will go to
BorcEgh President Lyons of the
Bronx, Monday, June 10, to show
him factual proof that the IA Negro
tenants of 1636-1640 University Ave.
have been Disseminated against, al
though Lyons denied it. The dele
gation is composed of the House
Committee, members of the Bronx
international Labor Defense and
those Of the Isaac Meyers Branch
of the League Of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights. The delegation will re-
port tonight at an open air meet
ing at Nelson Aye. and Featherbed
Lane.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 17.-Eyi-
dence of complete disgust of Anal
gamated Association members with
the sell-out in Pittsburgh was clear
in South Chicago today. Already
members and even local leaders
have contacted the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union and ap-
piled for membership.
Militant workers of this steel re-
glon are modifying their forces in
side both unions and the mills in
preparation for local actions on a
plant or department scale for i'm
mediate economic demands.
Cruising squads of police contin-
ued their intimidation of the work.
ers even after the news of the delay
Of the strike was received. An open
air meetings, called by the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
at 106th and Avenue o, Friday night
was attacked, in spite of the fact
that a permit had been issued. The
speaker, a young woman, was drag
ged into a squad car and taken
to jail when she protested the at
tack. A worker going to her de-
Tense was injured by vicious blow
from cops club
Another girl was arrested the
same night for distributing leaflets
near the Illinois Steel plant.
Workers entering the Illinois plant
Saturday passed so Pullmans inside
the yard, which had been obtained
for housing for Scabs.
YOUNGSTOWN Sheet and Tube in
Indiana Harbor announced in the
press today that it intends to shut
down in case of a strike. The sig
nificance of this is that the steel
trust feels it can more easily smash
strike in some other section.
Workers distributing leaflets at ar
Amslgamated Association meeting
Friday we're driven away.
While the shop gates were ouiet
this morning. in every restaurant
and saloon in the area strike tall
dominated the conversation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
WILLIAM FUCHS

THE week after heavyweight championship fight in this
land of the free is always period of speculation Pro-
found men sit down and dope No other sports event so
conducive to ideas and controversies The World Series
though it brings glamour into many humble lives yet fol-
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Workers Resent
Strike Betrayal

Continued from Page y
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trict, made the following statement
Saturday:
There will be no strike and the
steel industry will grant recogni-
ton of the Amalgamated."
Curtiss has continually sabotaged
efforts to organize a strike ap-
paratus, and he is now trying to
weaken the workers ranks further.
Roy Kelsey of Gary, who was on
the Committee of Ten, and Dan
McAllister are reported in the local
press as having gone to Pittsburgh
with a plan similar to the traitorous
scheme of Bill Green. And these two
men are well known to have gone
determined to prevent a strike.
Attempts to raise the red scare
and provoke terror against militant
workers have been made constantly
in the steel trust newspapers here.
Militia Head in Town
Claims that Communists had
used telephones to call up and in
timidate workers to force them on
strike were made. Also, police were
said to be investigating red agit-
ators sent in from the outside.
Major Norman L. Thompson of
the Indiana National Guard is still
in town, surveying the armament at
the mills and investigating the
reds" Steel Trust officials formally
thanked Governor McNutt for his
"alertness to the situation" His
speed in rushing a competent mil
itary expert to give advice to the
companies on the strategic place
ment of guns and thugs is obviously
the proof of his "alertness."
The city, aided by the Steel Trust,
found itself able, in spite of NUM-
cipal bankruptcy, to pay four to
five months back pay to its flremen
and police. Realizing the need for
a loyal police, the steel barons irt.
structed the Gary State Bank,
which they control, to buy NUM-
cipal bonds sufficient to raise the
full amount of back pay which was
i'm M dat e1y distributed. The
broke" city also spent two thou
sand on machine guns, tear gas,
and ammunition.
What was practically a decIara-
ton of martial law was issued by
the mayor Friday. In the event of
a strike, all open air meetings, large
or small, were to broken up and
absolute guarantees of safety to all
scabs was promised.
A large mass meeting was called
for Sunday in city park by the
mayor, and it was cancelled as soon
as the Pittsburgh sell-out was made.
Workers in Gary and throughout
the steel area are determined to
carry the fight on and to follow up
the victories in departments of the
American Steel and Foundry and
other plants by every means pos
Sible.
, 1934-12-07
Games Mixed With Study

The little king Is somewhat back
ward In his studies and therefore
must be taught very slowly the
things he will be called upon 70