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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Win Strike Victory
At GOldSheer Shop
Militant Dressmakers
Led by Needle Union

NEW YORK.-The militant strike
of 10 workers of the Goldsheer dress
shop, 253 w. 35th ST., ended in a VIC
tory today when the company nego-
tiated a settlement with the Dress
department Of the Needle Workers
Industrial Union.
According to the terms of settle
ment, the firm obligates itself to re-
nounce its claim to reorganization,
thereby resembling the threatened cut
in wages against which the strike
was waged. The firm will also re-
employ all strikers without discrimi-
nation and send away all scabs pro-
vided by the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union to break
the strike.
News Of the settlement aroused
great enthusiasm among all the
dressnakers still on strike led by the
Industrial Union and inspired them
with confidence to continue their own
struggles.
The strike victory is of special i'm
portance in that unlimited support
10 oe1eaG the strikers was given by
the National Dress Manufacturers
Association and by the TL.G.WU.,
which sent scabs to the firm and sup
piled workers fo- the firms Long Is
land shop, where wages are 40 to so
per cent below the scale of the New
York workers, A celebration of the
strike victory will be held by the
union and all funds are to go towards
aiding the shops still on strike.
A mass picketing demonstration is
scheduled for today at the Mailman
and Sanger dress shop. Two pickets
were arrested yesterday on the picket
line after the strikers refused to be
terrorized by the police. The charges
against the pickets were dismissed in
court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Continue To Hold
5 Shoe Workers in
Shooting Frame-up
Shoe Union To Fight
for Release of
FramedWorkers

NEW YORK.-The five shoe work.
ers arrested last Friday on trumped
up charges of assault in connection
with the shooting Of william
Strauss. shoe worker, are still being
held on demand of the police. That
the head Of the shoe manufacturers
Is behind the arrest was seen in the
10th Magistrates District Court yes
terday, when the detective who made
the arrest characterized the militant
shoe workers as gangsters.
Bail was ordered reduced to $4,000
for each worker. The Shoe Workers
Industrial Union yesterday declared
the arrest to be a dastardIy frame
up designed to intimidate all mill
tant workers from activity on the
picket line. The Industrial Union will
defend these workers and mobilize
protests to win their release.
William Strauss, the worker who
was shot dung an alteration with
a scab, is reported to be improving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Chinese Factory Wages
AS Lou AS 1c. A Day

in front of the windows. The wage is
3 cents day and food. There is a
fine OF &c for sittin,, down, 15c for
ceasing work, even if only for few
seconds. . In the Shanghai cotton
factory there are fines for talking
and for going to the toilet too often.
In the month Of July $18 weer thus
collected. The number of hours of
labor day ranges from 10 to Is
hours a day. In the Ewo factory
women often work 16 hours in order
to complete a certain number of
pieces of cloth. The average work
ing day is y hours.
There are many men unemployed,
but still as many children as possible
are employed; boys 10 years of age
and older, girls and older. Their
wage is fifth of the mems wage.
Only one out of ten of the workers
children has q chance to obtain an
education. Seventy-five per cent of
the children working in the factories
die from accidents, tuberculosis and
other diseases
They haven't a moment to think,
a moment to enjoy life. They are
born as new machines. They are re-
fueled as little as possible, wear out,
die and there is always q new one for
these machines procrcate, and it does
not matter. Get the greatest value
out of the machine ard spend as
little as possible, that is the policy of
the exploiters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Maryland Rape"
Frame COllapses

BELAIR, Maryland. "A "rape"
frame-up against two Negro workers
collapsed today, after 16-year old
Marie Ball admitted that her feird
story of being kidnapped by Ross
James and George Hayman was con-
cocted in order to explain her stay
ing out late one night a few weeks
ago.
Marie's story was seized on by the
local boss press for Indictment for
the lynching Of the two workers and
for an intensification of the terror
against the whole Negro population.
Although Marie had told the author
tiles she had not been harmed by
the Negro workers, but driven around
in an automobile for several hours,
the press carried implications of
rape" in all its stories on the case.
Lynch gangs several times threatened
the lives Of the two framed workers.
Only the growing mass indignation
of white and Negro workers against
the lynching terror forced the au-
thorities to protect the men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Veteran Labor
Leader Endorses
F.S.U. Convention
Max S. Hayes Urges
All Unions To Send
Delegates

NEW YORK,-Max S. Hayes, vet
eran labor leader, telegraphed his en-
dorsement Of the first national con-
vention of the Friends of the Soviet
Union to the offices of the Friends
of the Soviet Union in New York.
Max Hayes is we'll known in Amer
lean labor circles for the past SO
years. He was one of the founders
of the Cleveland Citizen organ Of
the Central Labor Union, in 1890, and
was for many years its acting editor.
In endorsing the convention of the
F.S.U., which will take place in New
York Jan. 26, q and %, Max Hayes
calls upon all trade unionists to sup
port the convention and to send del
egates.
Hayes has been an active member
Of the international Typographical
Union since 1884, and has held al
most all offices in the local union
and in the Central Labor Union of
Cleveland.
He has been for 80 years a delegate
from his union and from the Central
Labor Council Of Cleveland to the
American Federation of Labor con-
ventions.
In 1900 he was the vice presidential
candidate on the Socialist Party
ticket, and was for many years a
member of the Socialist Party, until
his resignation when the Socialist
Party joined up with the Social Dem
ocratic Parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Anh-War League
Calls 3 Borough
COnfabS on War
To Send Delegates to
Congress Against
us. War Funds

NEW YORK.-Three borough con-
ferences against appropriations by
the United States for war and de-
handing public works instead viii be
held this month by the American
League Against War and Fascisn.
The conference will establish per-
manent anti-war and fasciSm bodies.
The League is also launching &
campaign to send delegates Of organ
izations to place anti-war demands
before the coming session of Con-
gress.
The demands, as listed in a reso-
luton prepared by the League, in
clude demands against war appropri-
ations, cancellation of all war con-
tracts financed by Public Works
Funds, the abolition Of the R.OT.C.,
the CM,T.C. and the C.C.C., and the
immediate withdrawal of all armed
forces from foreign waters and lands.
The Bronx borough conference will
be held Wednesday evening, Jan. 10
at the Bronx Union Branch of the
YMCA,, 470 E. 161st st. In Man
haitian, the conference will be held
in the Little Red School House, 1856
Blocker St., Friday evening, while the
following afternoon, Saturday, at 3
p. m, the Brooklyn conference will
be held at the First Unitarian
Church, Is Monroe PI., at Pierrepont
ST
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03

schools, clothing, shoes, books and
school supplies.
IS. Public works and an extensive
program to be started Immediately,
such as paving all unpaved streets in
Harntramck, grade separations at
Conant and Grand Trunk Railroad,
and Caniff and Grand Trunk Rail-
road, building of sufficient play
grounds and recreational centers in
the workers neighborhoods, elimin-
ating slums, especially in the Negro
sections.
20. Full union wages on relief jobs
and all public works, such as C.W.A.
In no case less than rs cents per
hour, nor more than six hours a day,
five days a week. No discrimination
against Negro, foreign-born, women
and young workers. Equal pay for
equal work.
40. Absolute prevention Of any
evictions of unemployed or part
time workers, such evictions to be
made criminal offenses. All relief
allowances to apply without distinc-
ton as to race, nationality, religion
or political beliefs or affiliations.
citizenship or length of residence.
Gas, electric, water, fuel and rent
to be paid by the welfare depart
ment to all unemployed and part
time workers.
"a Communist Administration will
organize and lead the workers in the
struggle against discrimination and
deportation of foreign-born work
ers. A Communist Administration
will have its task to educate, organ
ize and lead the working class against
imperialist war preparations and for
the defense of the Soviet Union. A
Communist Administration has as its
aim to defend the daily interests of
all workers and the toiling masses,
generally, to educate them, to Or
ganize them and to lead them into
final struggle for the abolition OF
the capitalist system and the estab-
lishment OF a Workers and Farmers
Government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Negro Question Meet
Jan. 5 in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Jan. 1.-THE Com
munist Position on the Negro Ques-
ton" will be discussed at a joint
membership meeting of Section 2 Of
the Communist Party and the Young
Communist League, Friday evening,
7.30 o'clock at the Ordina Hall, 6021
st. Clair.
The meeting is called as a result of
an attack by gangsters, calling them
selves 1.-THE %" on young Negro
workers at the recent Red Youth
Frolic at Ordina Hall. These gang
sters attempted to stop Negro workers
from dancing with white girls, and
attacked sever al Negro youths, but
were promptly jumped on by white
workers who rushed to the defense OF
their Negro fellow workers. The at
tack is one of long series of such
attempts against the growing solid
srity Of Negro and white workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Numerous Cities Preparing
Celebrations TOR the Daily

mist Party, will also speak. Eugene
Nigob, pianist, Julius Modlin, vio-
linist, the Jack London Group, rev
dictionary choruses will participate
in the program.
Muskegon Heights, Mich, will
hold its celebration this Saturday
evening at the Ukrainian Hall.
Haekley and 9th St., and Hibbing,
Mimi, will celebrate on the same
evening.
Rochester, N. Y, will hold its
celebration on Sunday evening, Jan.
7th at the Workers Center, 448
Ormond ST., with songs by the Lith-
uanian Workers Club, by the Negro
Boys Trio. Dance music will be
furnished by the AL de Grandis
Orchestra.
The celebration in Superior, Wis,
will take place this Sunday eve
ming ct the Workers Center, 1903
N. Fifth ST., with dancing and other
entertainment.
A celebration will be held on
Jan. 7th in Allentown, Pa. Omaha,
Neb., will celebrate on Jan. 9th |;
Aberdeen, Wash, on Jan. 10th at
the Workers Hall, 713 E. First st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03

PARIS, France How Chinese
workers are exploited at starvation
VICES in the foreign-owned and native
factories in China is told by Paul
Vaillant-Courie member of the
editorial staff of L'Humanite, French
Communist paper, who visited China
as member of the European del
egation to the Asiatic Anti-War
Congress.
A summary of Comrade Valiant
Conturier's findings follows:
A Chinese worker eats one quarter
of the amount Of food necessary for
a European worker To be Chinese
does not imply to have less needs
than European. To comprehend
this one only has to observe the life
of pleasure of the rich in Shanghai,
and contrast it with the life of the
workers Who are seen at nightfall in
front Of the shops grabbing scraps of
left-oVers, A Chinese worker eats
fistful OF rice and few cabbage
leaves day and on special occasions,
a bit of dried fish.
This insufficient daily nourishment
costs II cents (American money. The
minimum wage is from l cent Gin the
tobacco fields to 3 cents Gin leath-
er factory day. The maximum
wage is from 80 cents Gin glass
factory to $120 Gin a tobacco fac
tory day. Only three or four very
skilled workers in each factory re-
ceiye the latter wage. The average
wage is Is cents day for men, 10
cents for women and SC for children.
The average earning of the average
family Is $40 month. The aver
age amount spent is $3.50 month.
The result is that almost all of the
people have accumulated large debts.
A Chinese factory is sombre fort
ress surrounded by machine gun
trucks, There are prison doors on the
Outside and the door of each worker
is Of massive iron. There is usually no
ventilation, no water to wash, and no
protection against machinery. There
is a system of fines most convenient
to the eXploiters. In the Shun Hsin
textile factory $50 men and women
work in CELLAR with one door open
ing into dark hall, and iron bars
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Workers Conference Endorses
Hamtramck c. P. City Slate

HAMTRANfR, Mich, Dec. 2S-The
Communist Party slate nomi-
mated for the municipal primary cleo
lions here Wednesday, March T.,
1884, and endorsed by a workers
united front conference, is an excel
lent one.
The workers candidates are George
Kristalsky for Mayor; Richard Ruff
fini, CasS Bailey, Michael Laslo,
Jennie Romaniuk and Frank Dziubik
for Councilmen; Emil Sobol for
Treasurer and Michael zackler for
City Clerk.
The bosses politicians are claim
ing their candidates are "non-parti-
san" but the local section of the
Communist Party points out that
these candidates are supported by
the capitalist political machines in
the interest Of the bankers and real
estate sharks.
"The Communist platform is not
one of promises" reads a statement
by the Communist section, "but one
Of struggle in the interest of the
workers.
"A Communist administration, .
continues the statement, will tax
the big capitalists and corporations
and not tax the workers out of their
homes A Communist city admin
istration will make Chrysler- Dodge
and other large corporations pay for
relief of the unemployed and not
press more out of the poor to make
the rich still richer; will build homes
for the homeless and not evict the
workers. A Communist AdminiStra-
ton will organize the workers and
lead them into struggle against the
program of Chrysler-Dodge and all
other automobile bosses, against the
N. r. A. code, and will organize and
lead the workers into struggle for a
workers code such as proposed by the
Auto Workers Union, which calls
for:
81. A minimum of IS cents per
hour for all factory workers; 30
per cent increase for all now earning
So cents or more per hour, A six
hour day, five-day week. A guaran-
tee Of 40 full weeks work year;
a $2250 week minimum.
90. Immediate cash relief for all
unemployed without any discrinlina-
ton against Negroes or foreign-born
at the rate of $40 per week for each
single person, SIS per week for each
family of three, and an additional 81
for each dependent, pending the en-
actment OF federal unemployment in
surance.
%. Social insurance, paid by in
dustry and government, covering
sickness, occupational disease, acct
dent, maternity, old age pension
Opening of the City Clinic. to give
sufficient medical attention to the
unemployed and part-time workers
and their families.
g. No discrimination against Ne
gro workers and immediate hiring OF
Negroes on jobs in all shops.
IS. The right of workers to be-
long to the union of their choice, to
elect shop and department commit
tees without fear of victimization, to
strike to enforce their demands.
sc. The abolition Of the inhuman
speed-up system on the belt, etc
That the city pass an ordinance
making 1t unlawful to discharge OF
refuse employment to any worker
who has reached the age OF 40 Oh
more years
q. Free hot lunches in the public
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03

NEW YORK.-Numerous cities
throughout the country are COM
pleting arrangements for celebra-
tions of the tenth anniversary Of
the Daily Worker.
Five cities in New England will
hold such celebrations on the eve
ming of Sat-, Jan. 9Th. Lowell,
Mass, will celebrate with a con-
cert and dance at 1913 Central st.
There will also be speakers. An
entertainment will take place in
Lawrence, Mass, at the Loom Fix
ers Hall, 35 Margin st. The cele-
bration in Maynard, Mass, viii be
held at 20 Powdermill Road; Wor-
cester, Mass, will celebrate with an
affair at the Workers Center. In
Providence, R. l., the celebration
will take place in the Swedish Hall,
SO Chestnut st.
Newark Celebration
Robert Minor will be the main
speaker at the Newark celebration
on the evening of Jan. 9Th at the
Y.M.H.A. auditorium, High and
West Kinney SITS. Rebecca Grecht,
District Organizer for the Commu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
l20-Lb. Striker Framed
On Charge of Beating
195-Lb. Pharmacy Scab

NEW YORK David kaufman, s.
oct, 120-pound leader of striking
Pharmacists, was found guilty of beat
ing up Abe Goldwag, 5-foot- eleven,
l9S-pound scab. by three judges i'll
Special Sessions Court on the insist
ance of the pharmacy boss, Adolph
,. Lindemann, and sentenced to 80
lays in jail
kaufman was one Of a committee
representing the Independent Phar-
macists Union Of Greater New York,
Who demanded the reinstatement of
3 worker discharged because he be-
!onged to the union.
The strike is now in it's eleventh
week, despite numerous attempts by
the boss and police at intimidations
md arrests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
TORepOrtNRACOde
Hearing atFurMeetS

NEW YORK.-A detailed account
Of the fur code hearings held in
Washington last week, at which a
delegation Of more than 200 fur
workers were present, will be given
at meeting called by the Industrial
Union at Cooper Union Thursday at
l p. m.
Uncowed by threatening glances
and warnings Of guards, the fur
workers staged an enthusiastic dem
onstration at the hearings in sup
port Of Ben Colds demands on the
fur bosses for changes in the N.R.A.
code. Gold pointed out that a clause
providing equal division of work must
be inserted in the code as a guarantee
against wage cuts. He also argued
for the 80 hour week and an unem-
ployment insurance fund. In a bril-
liant attack on the MIRA, Gold
showed the sham of section Ia and
exposed the action of the fur bosses
in compelling the fur workers to
leave the Union at their own choice.
Other speakers for the Industrial
Union were j, Winogradsky, organizer
of the fur department, A. Cherkies,
S. Feinglass of Chicago, NJ. Gross of
Philadelphia and S. Harches,
The Industrial Union speakers de-
manded 80 hour week, an unem-
ployment insurance fund paid by the
bosses, a 20 per cent increase over
the minimum wage scale, equal divi-
sion of work and the right of the
union to determine the amount of
production of workers unable to carry
the full amount.
After the Industrial Union del
egateS had spoken, not a single fur
boss took the floor, indicating that
the bosses will perfect their plans
against the workers behind closed
doors in close cooperation with the
N. r. A.
Earl Dean Howard and Worth of
the N.R.A. and Pietro Lucchi of the
International Fur Workers have been
invited to state their stand on the
fur workers demands at the Cooper
Union meeting Thursday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Hearing on Strike of
Sheet Metal Workers

NEW TORK.-The Independent
Sheet Metal Workers Union has just
been informed that a conference
between the union and the Pech-
man Store Equipment Co., where
strike is still in effect against
a lockout of twelve metal workers,
has been ordered by the Regional
Labor Board, As Broadway, on Jan.
4th.
The union is sponsoring the call
Of the Joint Provisional Committee
Df Independent Building Trades
Unions for conference on Jan.
20, at 2 pm, at Irving Plaza, to
unite all unorganized building
trades workers in New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03

Those bozoes knocking out
sport news can get hot and
bothered about the nifty re-
verse that had the whole Stanford
team watching c. Montgomery while
Barabas scampered over the line with
the ball, but you and I know that
the whole idea took seed in the fertile
mind of one Lou Little. Or don't we?
nF course, there are those insidiouS
v characters who bring up statistics,
Statistics pOuf! Suppose Stanford did
gain 296 yards from scrimmage as
compared to Columbia's I24. What
about GraysOn's gains of 100 yards,
more than the whole Columbia back
field? Who the hell cares about first
downs? Suppose Stanford got IA first
downs from scTimmage to Columbia's
4? Columbia won the ball game, and
that's what matters, isn't it, Lou?
It's what matters to the alumni and
they matter lot, eh Lou? And,
besides, they dent pay off bets on
yardage figures. The only numbers
that count with the lads who keen
books are these on the scoreboard
and they read the right way.
NICHOLAS MIRACULOUS is going
~ to feel good about it, even if he
doesn't get the Republican nominal
ton for vice-president in 1925. And
I'm sure that Don Henderson-you
remember Don, the fellow that Nick
fired for being a Reds going to be
tickled, too.
Somehow it solves a lot Of prob
lens, that game does, Lou. can lift
my chin and be proud Of being a
New Yorker, a Fellow Citizen of Lou
Little. I'm sure the boys in the
Bowery feel the same way do. The
next time I'm there I'll ask 'em about
it. I'm going to ask that girl in
Klein's department store, too. She
walked into work at a quarter to
eight this morning, tabloid under
one arm, the headline COLUMBIA z:
STANFORD 0, peeping out. I'm going
to ask her at about 6:15 tonight when
she gets out of work.
OF course, You must have had a
tough time with those boys under the
grandStand at half time, Lou. They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Walters Meet to
Plan Gen'I Strike
Call AFL, AFW Mem
bers to Palm Garden
Tonight

NEW YORK.-Preparations for q
general strike viii be considered to-
night at a monster mass meeting
called by the Hotel and Restaurant
Workers Union and the Cafeteria
Workers, Union, section of the Food
Workers Industrial Union at Palm
Garden, SOC ", Sind St, near 9th
i've.
Rank and File A. F. Of L. members
ire expected to attend the meeting
0 hear the exposure Of their Off
ials who called off the general
trike for which the workers had
oted. Many members Of the Anal
amated Food Workers will also be
resent to hear a discussion Of plans
or the establishment Of unity Of the
workers in the catering unions.
Among the speakers will be s..
Xramberg, J. Rubin and VIM. AL
oertson Of the Food Workers Indus
rial Union, and a waiter from the
Park Central Hotel, where the work
ars recently won a victory under the
leadership of the Hotel and Res
aursnt Workers Union OF the F. W
I, u, etc. The officials OF the Anal
gamated Food Workers Union and
The American Federation of Labor
nave been invited to state their posi-
ions on the question Of unity and
he general strike before the assem-
1led workers.
Fred Biedenkapp, general secretary
II the Shoe and Leather Workers
Industrial Union. will be one of the
main speaker, who VIII reoort on
he recent AnlaIgamation ConYen-
ion held in Boston, where all the
Shoe and Leather Unions, regardless
Of their utilization or independence,
established one union in the indus
Try throughout the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Jewish Workers Hold
Ping PongT Tournament

A closed table tennis tou
ment for members of the Je
Workers Clubs Of New York W
held at the Workers Zukunst
rcoSns, 81 Second Avenue, toI
Large entry lists Of ping
enthusiasts frcm the Pros
Workers, Hinsdale, Brownsville
expected. The tournament ha.
been sanctioned by the Eastern
District Of the Labor Sports Uniop