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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

Because of the difficulty of
obtaining and training additional
employees in the meat-packing
industry, General Johnson has
ordered that during this period,
when large numbers of cattle are
being brought to packing centers
from drought areas for slaughter,
certain classes OF workers may
work SO hours per week instead
of the 40-hour maximum for the
meat packing industry allowed
under the Presidents Re-empIoy-
ment Agreement.
''The order is that for four
weeks from June Is employees in
the following processes may work
So hours per week, but not more
than 10 per day: those engaged
in the unloading, penning, driving
and killing Of cattle; the chilling
and boning Of the beef; the
freezing df necessary and the
canning of the meat; the prep
araticn and handling of various
beef by-produots, such as hides,
offal, castings, fats and bones, and
the loading and unloading of the
product when it is necessary to
transfer it from the killing plant
to the canning plant, where both
operations are not conducted at
the same plant, and any opera
ton incidental to these specifi-
caIy enumerated"
Tens of thousands of packing
house workers are told they must
work an extra Is hours a week.
Not word is said about increases
in pay to correspond to the in
crease in hours. Thus does the N.
R. A. worsen the conditions of the
workers. Is it any wonder that
strikes are prevalent in the meat
packing industry, and that the
meat packing workers are seething
with protest against the worsening
of their conditions by speed-up,
wage cuts and increases in the
working hours, all enforced by the
N. r. A. and the company unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Win East New York
Rent Strike, Friday
Picketing, Mass Meets
Stop Evictions

NEW YORK. - Tenants at $50
Suffer Ave, East New York con-
cluded a successful rent strike, win
ming all demands, stopping the
eviction of six tenants, and forcing
the withdrawal of charges against
j. Lerner, strike organizer, which
were made by the landlord.
When the tenants receivd evlc-
ton notices. one applied to the East
New York Block Assembly, 403 Will
liams Ave, for help in organizing
the tenants. A committee made up
of tenants and members Of the I'm
employment Council was refused a
hearing with the landlord. j. Le;ner
was attacked and arrested by the
landlord, B. Kerner.
AS the police attempted to arrest
Lerner. the workers intercepted, and
a hasty call put in by the police
brought a riot squad, At the police
station Lerner was charged with
sending threatening letters" and
was released under $500 bail.
Open air meetings and picking
of the landlords home. leaflets dis
tributed in the neighborhood. ano
picketing by the Young Pioneers
and Young Communist League
forced the landlord to agree to the
terms of the tenants.
At a conference held Friday, the
landlord agreed not to evict the ten
ants, to pay $40 each to three ten
ants who will move in order that
necessary repairs might be made, tc
recognize the house committee, anc
to withdraw all charges against J
Lerner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
To Tell Daily Readers
What Goes on Behind
Scenes in Wall St.

hundreds of thousands lost their
life's savings.
Casey will also reveal how The
Times garbled and distorted news
about the Soviet Union, as well as
how it barred news about attacks
on starving jebless workers at Home
Relief Bureau and numerous other
attacks by the LaGuardia police.
JAMES CASEY'S long newspaper
= experience equips him especially
to aid the Daily Worker staff in
solving many vexing problems of
newspaper organization and tech
nique-a contribution which will
surely be noted by our readers.
Worked On Many Papers
Before coming to The New York
Times more than five years ago, he
served as makeup editor Of the
now-defunct Brooklyn Standard
Union. At other times he worked
as managing editor of the Scranton
Sun; city editor of the Waycross
(Ga0 Journsl-Herald; state editor
Of the Wilmington Morning News.
In addition he has held executive
posts on other daily newspapers.
The action of the Party in bring
ing Comrade Casey onto the Daily
Worker is another step in our effort
to improve the paper, to make it q
more effective fighter for the
needs and aims Of the revolutionary
working -class movement. The cir
culation drive now well under way
should be pushed forward with the
greatest energy to permit the carry
ing through of many contemplated
improvements which are prevented
now only by our still too limited
resources.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
800 Strike at Phila.
Cigar Co. Plant

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July IA
mass picket line of over a hundred
girls and women surrounded the
Royalist Cigar Company plant, 2no
and Market Streets, where over 300
workers have been on strike since
last Tuesday, demanding wage in
creases for week workers, an in
crease of ten cents per hundred
cigars for piece workers, and recog-
milton of the shop committee. A
rank and file committee of fourteen
representing all departments of the
plant, conduct the strike.
At a mass meeting last thursday
"a out of Is members of the Cigar
Makers international Union "a. F
of L. tore up their union books and
Joined the other strikers in the
Tobacco Workers Industrial Union
affiliated with the Trade Union
Unity League.
A mass meeting has been ar
ranged for Friday, July s. 500 pm.
at Needle Trades Industrial Unior
Hail. 913 Arch st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Baltimore Seamen
Stop Forced Labor
Win Full Relief for All
JObless Seamen

BALTIMORE, Md, July 3.-After
a five week struggle, unemployed
seamen here defeated the govern
ment forced labor relief schemes.
Saturday, Harry Greenstein, State
F.E.R.A. director, informed a COM
mittee of seamen that he would
agree to their plans of feeding and
housing the seamen in rooming
houses along the waterfront, with
out forced labor, until the govern
ment could build permanent pro-
ject to house them
In this permanent housing plan,
seamen will be given room, board,
medical attention, etc., in return
for no more work than is necessary
to keep the building clean and san
itary, William Plunkert. national
transient relief director, informed a
delegation last week.
In long struggle last Winter,
the Communist Party, the Water
front Unemployment Council and
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union involved broad masses of
workers in the fight for workers
control of relief on the Baltimore
waterfront.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

the editorial staff of the DAILY
Worker" was attacked Saturday
afternoon by peddlers operating a
stationary stand on First Ave, as
he went to the defense of his wife
attacked by one of the peddlers
when she resented an insult.
Following an exchange of blows
between Briggs and one of the ped
dlars, Briggs and his wife were
threatened by two other peddlars
one of whom fiourished Ratchet
used for opening shipments of fruits
and vegetables. White workers, in
GLIDING a woman member of the
International Labor Defense, went
to the defense of the Negro couple.
Witnesses to the attack secured the
license number of the stand, which
is No. 2508, Market No. II. 1t is
situated on First Ave, between 10th
and 9th SITS.
A group of Negroes were attacked
by a mob of backward white work
ers on Cherry ST., near Scanned,
last Saturday night, when Walter
Miller, Negro janitor of 412 Cherry
St., resented an insulting remark to
his wife by an unidentified white
man.
A fight broke out in which
Miller's wife, and another Negro,
Frank Childs, joined. A group of
white men started punching the Ne
groes. Other Negro workers in the
neighborhood went to their rescue,
and general fight resulted in which
two of the white thugs were
stabbed.
The injured thugs, David Lipsky,
10, and Isaac. Greenberg, 81, both
of 391 Cherry St., were taken to the
hospital suffering from cuts in the
face and body.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Socialist Workers
Fight to Free Men
Framed by McLeUy

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, July 3.
Socialist workers, rank and
file members Of the Bridgeport
Socialist Party, and two Socialist
officials, indignant that Socialist
Mayor Jasper McLevy. together
with police officials, appeared as
states witness in an attempt to
convict unemployed workers,
have raised $50 toward the fund
for the release OF Sam Kreiger
and Charles Sparrow.
Kreiger. section organizer Of
the Communist Party. and Spar
row we're sentenced to SO and Al
days, respectively, for their par
ticipation in a march on the City
Hall on March 5, when city-em-
ployed snow shovelers demanded
back pay due them for two
weeks. Both we're sentenced on
the direct testimony Of McLevy
and police officials.
Numerous shop gate and neigh
borhood meetings are being held
by the defense committee for
Kreiger and Sparrow to raise
money for their release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
n. Y. Red Builders
Held Street Meeting

AS part of the determined pro-
gram for bringing the Daily Work
er to new working-class readers, a
group of New York Red Builders
held an open-air meeting at Sher-
idsn Square, Greenwich Village,
last Saturday night. When the
scheduled speaker was unable to
appear because of sudden illness
three of the Shock Brigaders vol
unteered rather than cancel the
meeting. These were Comrades
williams, Voss, Hughes and Clark
A collection of $3.50 was taken and
copies of the Daily Worker were
passed out to the crowd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
.By RI EEv E

THE beet sugar industry is an
other industry where the work.
ers are suffering unbearable condi-
tions. A highly seasonal industry,
the beet sugar industry is notori-
GUS for the most vicious exploita-
ton of entire families, including
thousands of Mexicans, who labor
in the beet fields during the season
for long hours and for little pay.
Sc Hours a Week
IN MAY Is, 1884, the N. R. A.
v (ofical press release No. $1,000
issued the following order
"a 30-day continuation of its
stay from the maximum hours
limitation of the beet sugar in
dustry labor code has been
granted the Great Western Sugar
Co., Johnstown, Colo, by Division
Administrator Arnlin w Riley, ii
was announced today. This stay
permits the company to operate
under a 56-hour work week in
stead of the code maximum of
40 hours, until June 2. The orig
inal stay was granted February
for so days on the company's
complaint that the code would
impose great and unusual hard
ship. Pending the enoctnent of
legislation affecting the industry
and complete investigation of
the merits of the complaint, the
original stay and this extension
have been granted"
THIS is not an exceptional order,
l but is typical of scores of such o.
ders issued by the N.R.A. A decree of
the United S tates Government
overnight places the beet sugar
workers under the 56-hour week, in
order not to place 'hardships" on
the sugar trust.
The government watches closely
the interests of the employers. Re-
quests of employers on the N. R. A..
providing the employers are in the
trusts receive a ready response
from the N R. A. And such stays,
once granted, are renewed upon re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Duluth Relief Men Return;
Prepare Further Struggles

DULUTH, Minn.-The work relief
strike, involving over 1000 workers,
which has been in progress here
for the past month, has been called
off with slight gains to the workers.
The original demand, 3O-hour
week at minimum rates of SIS cents
an hour, no budget system, was not
won, but as a result of the strike,
many workers report increases
ranging from Is to as high as 80
per cent.
As the strike progressed, it be-
came increasingly difficult to or
ganize mass picketing and to prop
erly coordinate the activities of the
workers. The Labor Advancement
Association of West Duluth, which
was leading the strike, and workers
from uptown became isolated from
the strike committee. Despite the
confusion, mass picketing was con-
Quoted; the Finnish Workers Club
was the last to call off its pickets.
The workers are going back to
consolidate their numbers and to
strike again. The Association is
calling meeting to organize fur
ther and a city council will be set
up composed of representatives of
working class organizations to give
co-ordinated leadership to further
struggles. Attempts are being made
to organize county council to
unity the Duluth and Mesaba Range
relief workers and unemployed or
ganizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
M as s Picket
Lines Halted
By AFL Heads
In Rochester
Five Thousand Were on
Lines in Truck
Drivers Strike
BY a Worker Correspondent

ROCHESTER, N. Y, July Am
injunction issued this week gave tbs
leadership of Local lis, Teamsters.
Chauffeurs and Helpers Union, the
excuse for calling off mass action
and preventing the winning of their
strike at one of the biggest departs
ment stores here, the Sibley, Lind~
say and Curr. After the announce.
ment Of the injunction came, both
the Analgamated Clothing Workers
and the Central Trades and Labor
Council oyer-rode the striking truck
drivers militancy and refused TO
carry on mass picketing TO break
down the injunction.
This action followed mass pickett
ing by 5000 workers under the leads
ership of the Central Trades Coun-
Gil, the Amalgamated, and sup
ported by the Communist Party,
the Unemployment Councils and the
Rank and File Relief Workers or
ganization.
Harper Sibley is one of the six
directors Of the U. s. Chamber Of
Commerce. The company is spread
ing thousands Of leaflets TO discredit
the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
James Casey, Editor on the ''1'nes, .
Resigns to Join Daily Worker Staff
Political Writer To Take
Up New Duties as City
Editor on July 20

JAMES CASEY CGlsser) yesterday
) resigned as editor of the New
York Times to become city editor
Of the Daily Worker.
He will assume his new duties on
July 20. Comrade ST Gerson, who
is now city editor, will continue as
a political writer on the paper.
1t is not usual for the Daily
Worker to recruit its writers and
editors from the bourgeois press.
They usually come out of the very
fires Of the class struggle, from the
factories and the trade unions. 1t
is possible to vary the procedure in
this case only because Comrade
Casey, after four years member
ship in the Communist Party, dur
ing which time he has frequently
contributed articles to the Daily
Worker and participated otherwise
in Party work, has shown his 10y
atty to and understanding Of the
fundamental principles of the Com
munist Party.
He was the first writer to expose
Tammany Halls fake relief activi-
ties in an incisive series of articles
which appeared in these pages more
than two years ago. Since then his
contributions to the revolutionary
press have been steady and valu-
able. His intimate knowledge of
what goes on behind the scenes in
capitalist life, his first-hand ac-
quaintances with city, state and
national affairs, have made his ar
ticles in the Daily Worker of serv-
ice to the workers who read the
paper.
He has also written articles on
the persecution of political prison
ers, on the torture Of anti-fascists
by Hitler, about the famous Vickers
trial in Moscow, as well as on a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Dept. of Justice Thugs
Raid East Side JObless
Workers Organization

NEW YORK. - Department of
Justice agents, acting under orders
of Congressman Samuel Dickstein
of the 18th New York Congressional
District, who came to the Workers
Committee on Unemployment locals
2 and g. affiliated to the Unemploy-
ment Councils, were denied access
to the membership lists of the or
ganization.
The Department of Justice thugs
visited the locals at 29S Henry St..
Tuesday, June rs, at $50 p. M. and
were told by Milton Stone that the
membership had voted to deny them
the lists. Stone was threatened with
arrest.
Open-air meetings are being held
in the neighborhood to protest
Dickstein's raids on working class
organizations. A meeting held at
the Neighborhood Playhouse to pro-
test the LaGuardia police terror
sent kilograms of protest to Dick
stein and to Roosevelt demanding
that the federal funds allocated to
the Dickstein Committee be used
for the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
St. Louis Workers
inMaSS Violation of
JimCrOw Practices
New York Thugs in Two
Attacks on Negroes
Last Saturday
BY a Worker Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Mo, July 2. - st.
Louis workers took the first steps
last week in smashing jim-crow
rules and practices in the public
parks here.
Carr Park, located In mixed
neighborhood, had for some time
been a concentration point for the
efforts of the Board of Public Parks
to set up jin-crow rules. Certain
days were set aside for Negroes and
other days for whites.
A mass violation OF these jim
crow rules was organized by the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights. About 600 white and Me-
gro workers attended the demon
stration, defying the threats of the
Park Commissioners and police to
break it up. Speakers from the L.
S. N. r., the Young Communist
League and candidates of the Com
munist Party in the election cam
paign were Justify cheered as they
exposed the class character of jim
crowism and its aim to split the
toiling masses and prevent united
struggle for better conditions.
Resolutions demanding the free
dom of the Scottsboro boys, and q
resolution demanding arrest and
punishment of the policemen res
ponsible for the murder of two Ne
gro workers here were unanimously
adopted.
Thugs Attack Briggs, Other
Negroes
NEW YORK.-Cyril Briggs, we'll
known Negro writer and member of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
POlishers Strike
In Grand Rapids
Fights Injunction

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. = The
rank and file metal polishers and
buffers of the Winter and Cramp-
ton auto parts plant are still con-
Quoting strike activity, although
the presence of State police and
the injunction issued by Judge
Verdier prevents mass picketing.
The strikers have accepted the
support of the T. U. U. L. and
have united with number of
other fraternsl organizations in
calling an Anti-Injunction Confer
ence to be held at the A. A. S.
Hall, 439 Ottawa Ave, N. W., on
July 8, at 7:30 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Chicago Fraternal
Societies Demand
Social Insurance
Workers To Mass at the
City Hall on
July III
cDaiIy worker Midwest BursaW

CHICAGO, July 3.-Representa-
tives of $1,000 workers organized
into fraternal and benevolent or
CARNATIONS, will demand the en-
dorsement of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill by the Chi
cago City Council at hearing be-
fore that body July IL.
A delegation of fifty will be sent
by the Federation of Fraternal Or
CARNATIONS in Struggle for Unem-
ployment Insurance.
Committees of the different lodges
participating in the work of the
Federation are visiting aldermen in
their wards, demanding their sup
port for the Workers Bill. The
Federation has sent all aldermen
letters containing copies of the bill
The Federation has issued call
for all members Of the fraternal
organizations and persons Sympa
thetic to the Workers Bill to attend
the hearing at the City Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Jersey City Jobless Back
Workers Social Insurance Bill

JERSEY CITY, N. 1.-THE C.W.A.
Association here, an unafiliated or
ganization, unanimously endorsed
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill. A committee was elected
to demand that the city and State
officials actively support the Work
ers' Bill, and an active campaign to
popularize the bill is being initiated.
The workers, over the heads of
the leadership, voted to support only
those candidates in the coming
Congressional elections who have
actively supported and fought for
the Workers Bill.
Again going over the heads of the
leadership, the workers in the c.
w. A. Association drew up local re-
lief demands calling for the pay
ment of minimum cash relief of $40
for each worker plus So for each
dependent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
COvington, Ky. City Council
Endorses Social Insurance

CONVICTION. Ky.-The workers
of Covington, who are organizing
against the relief which is as low
as so cents a family per week,
forced the City Common Council to
endorse the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill.
When I. Amter, secretary of the
National Unemployment Councils
was on tour of Ohio, a meeting
of unemployed workers in Coying-
ton, who are as yet not affiliated to
the Councils, enthusiastically greet
ed him when he spoke of the need
for militant. organized mass action
in the fight for adequate relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Picket Shoe Shop
in Denver. Mass.

BOSTON, Mass, July 3.-An at
tempt by a shoe factory to break
the union by moving to another
town failed as the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union threw
mass picket line about the Arrow
Shoe Co., in Denver, Mass. The Ar
row shop was formerly of East Bos-
ton and employed over 900 workers
The bosses broke the agreement
with the United and moved to Den
yer, after the local Chamber OF
Commerce had guaranteed an open
shop town.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Force Pauper s Oath on
Flint, Mich, Unemployed

FLINT, Mich.-All applicants for
relief h3ie are forced TO sign a pau
per's cath questionnaira listing Is
questions inquiring into every detail
of the workers life.
Mimeographed on yellow sheetz
the questions demand that the
worker secure papers to prove: all
payment books on furniture, loans.
automobiles, clothing and groceries;
bank books and insurance papers:
tax receipts; proof Of residence IN
Genesee County for the past year:
citizenship papers; relatives and adj
dresses; etc"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
BREAK DOWN Jim CROW

NEW YORK.-A member of the
cast of "Stevedore" was refused
service Saturday afternoon at the
Beatrice Inn, 285 w. 18th ST.. be-
cause of his color. United protests
by white patrons in the restaurant
at the time forced the management
to suspend its JIM Grow rule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Communist Youth
and Pioneers Active

Members of the New York Y.CL.
and Pioneers are in the forefront
of the Daily" campaign. Com
rades Ain Freeman, Borax and Ed
wards are all selling from so to 125
copies daily, and Davis has just re-
cruited Sullivan, who is selling from
rs to ITS daily. j. Caraway, OF the
Workers x-Servicemen's League,
averages daily sales of from SO to IS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

score of other subjects, on interna-
tional, national and local affairs.
viii Expose MOrgan-T Times Link
Shortly after he assumes his new
position on the Daily Worker he
will publish a series of articles ex-
posing the link between The New
York Times and the J. P. Morgan
interests. The same series will pre-
sent the inside story of how The
Times handles news stories against
strikers and in the interests of the
employers in all industrial disputes.
1t will also treat of the methods
whereby The Times helped the Wall
Street bankers to loot the vast saw
ings funds before the Bank Holt
day was declared. last year-a
wholesale looting and pillsging in
which they amassed huge sums
while the public, many of them
workers, holders of small savings
accounts, were left in the dark and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

Irving Plaza Hall, under the aus
pices Of the Knitgoods Workers In
dustrial Union. These men have been
charged with scab-herding. Schsef-
fer has challenged the charges. Both
Schaeffer and Goldberg will be given
the opportunity to appear at the
trial and repudiate statements made
against them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
To Hold Open Trial of
Leaders of |. L. G.. W. u.

NEW YORK.-An open trial of
William Schaeffer, organizer of
Local 155 of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union, and
Goldberg, the manager, will be held
Monday, July 9, at $50 p. M, at