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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26

them dangerous psychopaths, some
Of them sexual degenerates, some Of
whom run bootleg businesses in their
off hours, and all o whom seem to
be Of the mental age Of children"
This expose told how the guards
traffic in food. 'gThe meat and real
coffee bought at public expense for
the prisoners does not reach them
unless they pay in addition, them
selves" said the report
Union of StooI-PigeOns
The Daily Worker at this time
disclosed kind of union" Of stool
pigeons existing in the prison at
Harris Island, called the Holy Name
Society, run by Father" Zema, a
Catholic priest who was also pro-
fessor of history at Fordham UniYer-
sity. This organization sent delegates
around the prison to terrorize the
ordinary prisoners into attending the
Catholic services, where Father Zema
preached sermons against the Soviet
Union, telling the prisoners to kneel
and pray against Bolshevism.
II is well known that those be-
longing to the priests organization
got favors Of good clothing. Cans
Of olive oil were struggled into the
prison for the Holy Name gang, con-
tanning considerable quantities of
morphine and heroin.
Prisoners Blackjacked
An eyewitness account of extreme
brutality of the Harris Island guards
published in the Daily Worker on
March IA, 1881, told of terrible
beating administered to prisoner
for resisting an unwarranted assault
on him by a prison official. ''The
prisoner got Is blows over the head
with q blackjack and had SIS stitches
taken in his head" said the account
THE prisoners work without pay
under gun and club, and do such
work as road building, farming
manufacturing OF beds, clothes, shoes
and broomS, all in competition with
free American wage labor" said the
Daily Worker report of March IA
1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26

izing the workers and making them
Subservient to hts corrupt graft
mulcting.
That is the reason We see that
from July 9th to Dec. 18th $2,761
were spent for BADGES. That Is
how they were listed on the vouch-
ers. On the badge should have been
inscribed two fists, a black-jack and
lead pipe.
This same Council Nov. 9th, en-
powered Sec. Treas. Zausner to ap-
point as many organizers as condi-
tons warranted at $50 a piece. That's
all he needed. More than a score
of Supervisors we're also appointed
($48 week each) to see that the
workers came across with their
daily so cent piece.
Take the week Of Oct. 18th, In
which strike activity consisted OF one
or two isolated strikes. There are
approximately IL vouchers listed for
picketing expense and organizing
campaign expense, ranging from $50
to $500. In the Month Of Now
embeE $2,5O0 was made available 10
his henchmen by the method Of
transferring the money TO the 'can-
paign" fund. (s25,000 was turned
over to the locals for administration
graft on the pretext Of Organizing"
the 1ocal.)
Painters ask where this "cam-
paign" was conducted?
All these items would indicate a
tremendous activity on the part of
the brotherhood oficialdon1, in re-
crAting new members, winning con-
ditions for the workers and aggres-
sively organizing unorganized shops
The truth however is a bitter pill
to honest workers. It shows the
rottenness Of officials In the A. F.
of L. unions, it shows how the work
ers were ruthlessly crushed to feed
the incomes Of these racketeer
union officials, to the tune OF
100000.
The membership did increase two
thousand in fact. But they were
old members persuaded to rejoin the
union. They made a grand total Of
some odd 1000 members.
And how did they organize shops
after conditions were won from the
boss, and he finally did agree to pay
the union scale. The workers would
find after two or three weeks that
the boss refused to pay this scale.
The same workers would complain
to the business agent, who would
grin and tell them not to worry.
Then the agent would collect the
back wages frnm the boss, pocket it
for himself and if any of the mulcted
painters dared to complain to
the union they would soon find
themselves without job. What
happened to the Organizing driye9"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26

the following conclusions: Build and
strengthen shop committeeSl" Dis
regard the cry Of the bosses Of reds"
and develop militant fighters in every
shop, who will help maintain the
conditions of the workers. Build the
unity of all workers in the leather
industry, together with the glove
workers, which will serve as an effec-
tive weapon to defend the standard
Of living Of the workers against the
planned attacks Of the bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26

benehmen, taking these prison SIN
ecares away from the old political
se$-up and serving them in silver
pAatters to his own aides and sup
porters.
There Is no doubt bot that, no
sooner Is the stencil Of the present
exposure blown away, the new
prison regime under LaGuardia will
nurture a new group Of corrupt and
grating prison racketeers. But in
this instance they will be LaGuar-
dia's men.
These conditions are universal
in prisons in all capitalist lands.
They cannot be changed by the
mere transfer of dominance from
one capitalist political party to an
other. Only under a system which
attacks the very roots Of capital
ism, such as exists in the U.S.S.R-,
can we hope for the elimination Of
prison brutality and corruption
and Of prisons themselves. And, in
the United States, it Is only the
Communist Party which attacks
these vile prison conditions at
their very base and which VIII
eventually destroy Them
In the process Of the much-pub-
licized raid, the full weight Of the
attack fell on the shoulders Of the
prisoners who were in no way con-
nected with the gangSters and the
dope-peddling ring. The great ma
iority OF the prisoners in the New
York penitentiary are serving terms
for vagrancy, for the crime of be-
ing unemployed in this, the fifth year
Of the crisis.
When the raiding gang made ia
sudden attack on the penitentiary
the cel-doors were thrown open in
discriminatory, and the few personal
belongings of the inmates were
dumped helter-slSelter into the prison
corridors-photo snapshots Of wives
and children and relatives, the few
books and magazines that these pool
convicts possessed, ragged articles o.
apparel, etc.
Gang Heads Treated Gently
Only the gang LEADERS, such as Rac
and Cleary, escaped the brutal maui
ing to which the other prisoners were
subjected. These notorious racketeers
Ill part of the same machine which
was in control of the prison, were
treated gently and with due con-
Liberation for their rank and office
Even the New York Times was forced
10 admit that "for the racket chiefs
and their henchmen the prison seem.
I'd to have been run on the lines o.
9, first class hotel. They even hat
0asses allowing them to leave the
prison and visit all parts of the
land"
At the same time the fact wa
dressed that the Welfare Island ex,
}osure, revealing the widespread ex-
-tence Of graft, corruption, unsan.
t&ry and degenerate conditions, re.
,ected a similar condition which pre-.
ais throughout all the penal insti-
ltiors Of the United States.
The reid on Wednesday brought
light a vast amount of narcotics
eapons Of all kinds including table
niyes sharpcned to dagger keenness
azor blades. blackjacks, lengths o.
cad pipe-all used by prison racket.
oers to maintain their power.
Two powerful gangs on the island
headed b. Joseph Rso, member o.
the Dutch Schultz gang, and Edwarc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26

CleaSy, ex-conyict, we're discovered
living in luxury in the hospitals at
Sached to the prison, at the same
time that hundreds Of actually sick
conYicts were living in the unSan-
itary and squalid filthineSS Of the
common cells. Among the belongings
of the politically influential gang
leaders we're radio sets, expensive
rugs, well-wrought pieces OF furni-
ture, canes, spats, as well as numer-
GUS articles of apparel-the ward
robes of the gangster-inmates.
Foster Exposed Prisons in 1890
Following his release from the New
York penitentiary in October, 1880,
where he served six months OF a
three-year sentence for leading the
great March 9Th unemployed demon
stration, william 2. Foster exposed
conditions on Welfare Island in a
speech delivered at Irving Plaza
Hall, and reported in the Daily
Worker of October Is, 1880.
Foster flayed the whole brutal
prison system, with it's forced labor,
its unsanitary and starvation condi-
lions, and its political graft and
corruption, which Is common to all
prisons and jails throughout the cap
italist world.
Officials Support Dope Traffic
1.-THE dope traffic" said Foster,
twas carried on under the very eyes
and with the full support and sane
ton Of the prison officials, who re-
ceiyed a generous share of the prof.
its of the trade"
Many Of the prisoners, according
to Foster. were forced to work at the
''paupers" field cemetery at Harris
Island, where the bodies OF unerf1-
ployed and homeless workers are
buried. The unsanitary conditions
existing ON this job he described as
appalling. The spacious common
graves Of the 'paupers' are left open,
and here one can see great rats
scampering to and fro, carrying in
their mouths bits of the dead bodies.
The prisoners, said Foster, are
forced to work in this disease ridden
atmosphere under the eyes Of guards
who got their jobs by doing small po-
litical favors to the capitalist party
| in power
Dangerous Psychopaths in Charge
The Daily Worker continued its
expose of conditions in the New York
per1itentiary in an article published
March IA, 1881. Harry Raymond
who served a term in the penitentiary
along with Foster, Minor and Amter,
reported at that time that the guards
were mostly drunkardS, some OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Welfare Island Scandal
Raises Lid On Brutal
TAIL Conditions in NY.
Las Hardia Tries To Hide
" age CWt Policy Be-
hind Speesaesalsr Move

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
500 Mixers in
Los Angeles Vote
TOCOntinueStrike
Los Angeles Dairy Men
To Stay Out Until
Demands Are Won

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Jan. 10. (By
MaiD Five hundred striking mixers
voted almost unanimously to continue
the strike, at a meeting of the Milk
Section of the Food Workers Indus
trial Union last night One after
another the strikers arose and spoke
in favor of continuing the strike
until all demands are won. One
mixer, back on his job under union
conditions, volunteered to share his
pay with any married mixer on
strike, and proposed that the others
who were working do likewise.
A milk-tester who goes into many
OF the diaries reported that condi-
tons inside are very bad, that the
diaries have to use two and three
scabs to replace every regular mixer
Reliance Dairy, which tried to re-
place the mixers with milk ma
chimes, yesterday removed the ma
chimes.
Newspapers continue their prop
uganda against the strikes, the latest
being an accusation of strikers kid
MAPPING scabs. The three mixers who
are declared kidnapped" were merely
persuaded by the pickets not to "a
to work, and, instead OF going back
to the dairy, signed up with the
union.
The union is asking support for the
strike in the form Of funds and food
to be sent to the headquarters at sac
s. Los Angeles st. SympathiSers
should send resolutions to the Los
Angeles City Council and Chief of
Police Davis, protesting against the
police terror against the strikers.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
DR.. FOsdick RenOlmces War:
REGRETS His Part IN Last One
Declares He viii Go to
Prison Before He viii
Serre Again.
attacks Men Who Write
Poetry and Music Clio.
rifying Conflict.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 8-Rev DR..
Harry Emerson Fosdick has made his
peace with the unknown soldier.
II renounce war" the pastor of the
Riverside Baptist Church (the Rookie
feller Church") told seminar on war
last night.
Rather than sanction another war,
directly or indirectly, I'll see you in
prison first" the minister said after
35 of the SO persons at another semi
mar had voted to refuse to serve in
the event of future armed conflict.
DR.. Fosdick reproached himself for
having counselled and exhorted soldiers
before they went "over the top on
their murderous and suicidal tasks" in
France.
"Penitent Reparation."
For what he had done as chaplain
in France, he said, he had IAN ac-
count to settle with the unknown
soldier" He made his remuneration
-of war, he stated, in 'penitent repara-
ton" to the unknown dead of the
World War.
Atll WIZ Wflle lIldI lldl lluSlC dIlu
poetry glorifying war do so, he thought,
because they never have seen war or
known its horror.
Gen. Sherman came nearer the
truth than these war gl0ritiers when
he said War is hell" the minister
added.
War, he went on, calls for courage,
faith and fidelity, providing "a tragic
paradox" for:
The noblest qualities of human
life, which could make earth a heaven,
make 1t, in war, a hell he said
Christ and War.
Men cannot have Christ and war
at the same time. renounce war!
Il renounce it because of what it
does to our men. I've seen 1t. I
stimulated raiding parties to their
murderous tasks. Do you see why I
want to make it personal?
Il lied to the unknown soldier about
a possible good consequence of the
war. There are times when l don't
want to believe in immortality-the
times I want to think that the I'M
known soldier never can realize how
fruitless was his effort The support
l gave to war is deep condemnation
upon my soul.
L renounce it, and never again will
I be in another war"
Evening star., 1934-05-08
EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON c, TUESDAY,

National Federation Of Federal EN-
ployes, Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Concert, Rubinstein Club, Willard
Hotel, $3.50 pm.
Meeting, Order of Christian Mystics,
Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Barry Farm Citizens As
sociation. 3001 Stanton road south
east, 8:l5 pm.
Meeting, National Capital Demo-
cratic Club, Chamber of Commerce
rooms. Homer Building, Thirteenth
and F streets, 8:15 pm.
Meeting, Columbia Heights Business
Mems Association, room 204. Riggs
Bank Building, 1908 Fourteenth street,
9 pm.
Meeting. Cleaners and Dyers. AM
bassador Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Iota Gamma Phi Sorority,
Ambassador Hotel, $50 pm.
Card party, benefit st. James
Catholic Church, auditorium, Thirty
Evening star., 1934-05-08
seventh street and Rhode Island ave-
nue., Mount Rainier. Md, pm.

seventh street and Rhode Island ave-
nue., Mount Rainier. Md, 8 pm.
TOMORROW.
Meeting, Starmont Aid for Con-
,sumptives, home of Mrs. A. P. Clark,
l778 Lanier place, 1890 am.
Luncheon, Monarch Club, Ambassa-
dor Hotel. 1890 pm.
Meeting, Mira Mccoy Andrews Day
Nursery, Ambassador Hotel, 1880 am.
Luncheon. Rotary Club, Willard
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, District of Columbia
Bankers Association, Willard Hotel,
l2:45 pm.
Luncheon, Soroptimist Club, Will
lard Hotel, l pm.
Luncheon, National Airport Cor
poration, Willard Hotel, ! pm.
Meeting, American Judicature So
ciety, Mayf1ower Hotel, 2 pm.
Meeting. International and Com
Evening star., 1934-05-08
FIRE AT CONEY ISLAND

NEW YORK, May CP).-Fire,
which threatened for an hour to send
Coney Islands multifarious conces-
sions up in smoke, was brought under
control last midnight with damage
estimated at only $4,000.
Twenty-four engine companies were
called to fight the blaze.
A two-story bath house 400 feet
in from the boardwalk was complete
ly destroyed. Flames spread rapidly
to scenic ride. spurred on by a
strong wind, but firemen checked it
before much damage was done
Evening star., 1934-05-08
Y. w. HEAD WILL SPEAK

Miss C. M van Asch van Wyck Of
Utrech, Holland, president of the
World Council of the Young Women's
Christian Association and also presi-
dent of the Y. w. c. A. of Holland,
will be guest speaker at the World
Fellowship luncheon at the Y. w. c..
A. in Barker Hall, Friday at 1890
o'clock. under the auspices of the
World Fellowship Committee.
Mrs. Albert w. Atwood. Mrs.
Thomas Edwin Brown, Mrs. Wilson
Compton, Louise A. Davidson, Mrs,
Herbert E. Day, Margaret r. Fox
Elizabeth Haney Mrs. Robert Lansing,
Mrs. A. Chambers Oliphant, Mary
Jane Winfree, Mrs. Fred E. Wright
and Hettie P. Anderson will assist
the chairman of the committee, Mrs
William S. CulbertSon.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

TODAY.
Meeting, Hope Lodge, No. 7, Order
of the Shepherds of Bethlehem, 1914
V street southeast, pm.
Buffet supper, Washington Sales
Representatives Association, Hamilton
Hotel, 6:15 pm.
Meeting, District Bar Association,
MayfioWer Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Women's Auxiliary. Dis
trict Dental Society, Mayfiower Hotel,
8 pm.
Meeting, Delta Chapter, Pi Omicron
National Sorority, Willard Hotel, 7.3O
pm.
Meeting Washington Chapter, Cath
olic Daughters of America, Willard
Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Bingo party, benefit Friendship
House, 8 pm.
Meeting, Women's Union, Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, Local l05,
Evening star., 1934-05-08

parative Law Section, American Bar
Association, Mayflower Hotel, all day
Luncheon, Maryland Cemeteries As
sociation, Mayflower Hotel, l pm.
Luncheon, Lions Club, Mayflower
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
COOL WEATHER ALL TIE WAY!

good on all trains leaving May
IS to Oct. IS. Ticket with Oct.
81 limit costs a little more. Still
lower fares good in tourist Pull
mans and chair cars west of Chi
cago and New Orleans. Pullman
charses are much lower than last
summer.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
PLUMBER FIXES LIGHTS
Electricians Sit in Dark ness for
Hour Awaiting Repairs.

SPRINGFIELD. Mass. P).-Sixty
electricians sat In darkness for a
quarter of an hour while a plumber
fixed the lights. The electricians
were attending meeting IN tie Gen.
trail Labor Union Hall when the lights
failed
The custodian of the huilding-a
plumber by trade-fumbled With fuses,
switches and wires in the cellar while
the electricians listened calmly to the
speaker.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
INFANTICIDE SENTENCED
Mother Gets 10 Years for Drown
ing 7-Day-Old Baby.

ing 7-Day-Old Baby.
POISON, Mont, May (P).-Mrs
Thelma Jackson, divorce, listened
passively in District Court yesterday
as she was sentenced to 10 years in
prison for drowning her last born, a
never have a chance"
Mrs. Jackson, the mother of several
children, was allowed to withdraw a
plea of not guilty to first degree mur-
der and plead guilty to second-degree
murder.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
faIseTeeth

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Killing. Guaranteed better than any,
thing you ever used or money back.
Large package, 35c at all druggists.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
Which ticket to
CALIFORNIA
would you buys

nERE two summer roundtrip tickets to California.
Both the One takes you straight Los Angeles
and back the The other takes you New
Orleans then Los Angeles famous Sunset Linn
ed the picturesque Old South and the Southwest
then the San Francisco and the Pacific North
west, and back home northern U.S. Canadian line
The first ticket shows you strip of the West
The other shows you the whole Pacific Coast and differ
ent part of the West each way Both the Which
ticket would you buy?
Our four leading trains California K Golden State
Limited Sunset Limited Overland Limited and Cascade
approach California through four entirely different scenic
regions BY going West of these trains and returning
on another you make roundrp that is really ronnd yet
the rail fare is not 1e higher!
COOL WEATHER ALL TIE WAY!
Club cars lounge dining and observation
cars on the Golden State Limited Sunset Limited Overland
Limited and Cascade will be unconditional this summer.
Our dining delicious Meals Selec"compete
lncheons and dinners for breakfasts for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
An ObHging Track Official

7 DO not mean to suggest that the proceedings are
l. wholly lacking in emotional interest. When Mr..
Long gets to his feet and invites barriser to meet
him outside in fstic combat that in itself is suf
ficent to yank you out of your ethargy Instructive
ly you look around for a bookmaker No man wishes
to pass up sure-thing bet.
At another stage Mr.. Long examining Colonel E.
R Bradley, the Palm Beach gambler makes the
gentle inSnuatiOn that in a where gentleman
owns operates and stats his track it might
be possible to predetermne the results of the
1t is here that you learn something
The colonel, priestly looking. with thin grazing
hair and wearing a high Starched white collar looks
at the senator and replies Solemnly:
Racing is the squareSt business in the world"
Another gentleman takes the stand to relate how
on visit to New Orleans he taken aside by a
track official who marked his program, giving him
the winners of the last three races the implication
being that the track official knew in advance what
was going to happen.
a square-faced senator hunched up against a
red-and-gold upholstered chair, pleaded with the
witness to repeat his testimony.
You mean to say this man said Bet on these
horses and these horses won?" the senator asked.
That's what happened"
Your correspondent still is trying to learn the
name of that track official and his present where
aboutS
Copyright. 1884. by The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
And Rest of Nation Waits

T TRUST not being disrespectful to the sena-
i tor or the business at hand, but I know of no
other reason why I should be here. This hearing.
to repeat involves the nomination of little gray
haired gentleman by the name of Moore as collector
of internal revenue louisiana
Just why in any sense my presence or background
should have any bearing this situation do not
know. But here 1 Sit hour after hour, in the COM
mittee room, wondering Among other things am
wondering why the appointment of this little gray
haired gentleman is a matter of national concern.
For four five hours each day the machinery OF
the government represented by the senate is
stopped to consider whether this gentleman should
or should not be allowed to function in compare
lively minor office. During these hours the national
government, theoretically if not actually, is at an
absolute StandStill
You sit here in the committee and wonder
how in the name of old Cy Young this hearing
have any possible bearing on the 100000 men who
out of work, the imaginative DR.. Writ, on the
army-navy program on the far-fung NFoA setup or
on the lively ball. Then you recall that you are
in Washington and that helps to explain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
Siqns of a Challenge Appear

T~HERE are many sacrihcial things L would at
i tempt for my country, but am in no mood at
present to enact the role of guinea pig for non
winner senatorial fist-slnger. 1 mean it doesn't
seem to me that there would be any great honor In
being the first man in America to lose a decision
to the senator from louisiana
How about letting get out of this joint and
scram back to New York;" I cajoled in my best
Addisonian English.
The senator thought it would be all right if 1
departed since he professed to feel pretty happy
about the progress of his caSe-up to the moment,
anyway
But just to make it official" he cautioned, you
go to the chairman of the committee and yet your
self excused"
The chairman is Senator Pat Harrison OF Mlssls-
sipp who is known as the greatest baseball fan in
Washington, a fact which may may not add to
his Importance as deep-thnking farsighted states
man.
do not know who is being joshed by whom, but
some minutes later the telephone rang and Senator
Harrisons secretary advised that it would be
necessary for to continue my temporary residence
here because the senator from Louisiana did not
want me to leave
I have a troubled suspicion to what that
means. I going to be challenged. Very likely
there is in the making contest between One-Punch
Long and Battling Williams. My black eye has
aroused a certain and, if I may suggest, undue
confidence in the senator's BOSOM 1 am apparently
the one guy he lick