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The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-04-14
:
MICHIGAN TO
GO HARLEM

What's all this we hear every
hour in the day in every corner
and nook OF this wide state?
Yes. everybody has gone Beauti-
can - Blue Rhythm Crazy. and
that m cans the BEAUTICIANS
FIRST ANIMAL FROLIC with
Mills Blue Rhythm Band All.
VIVA, good time we're going 10
have. There will be fun for all.
Having just put Fletcher Hen
derson back in his place at the
SavoJ in Chi and played rings
aroun' Je Hawkins virginians.
Lucky Millinder. Americas most
clever band leader. the ad with
personality plus declares that with
Edgar Hayes at The lyo'i los the
Mills Blue Rhythm Band the
hottest in the country.
MAMMOTH PARADE
The parade b gins II ..
Monday AT Norwood Hotel 10 be
led by Lucky Millindci and fol.
lowed by many hundreds 0f cars
and floats. Many business insii a.
iions and clubs viii be represented
S2roo in Gold viii b. awarded :
Lucky Nj Under for The ben decor
alod can There Nill be CONTEXT
balloons. noiscmakcrs and avora
IN abundance.
Co your tickle, todas from yWu
favoiiie Iieautician aud help her
win on" Of the cash prizes. Tickets
from you bcaulician 65c no tax. Al
Box Oilicc 75c no tax.
For all Information call TIE
2.79i5.
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-04-14
IN OTED RABBI
TO APPEAR in
JOINT RECITAL
Human Family" Re-
cital To Present
Racial Groups
Rabbi Leo Franklin
Will Address Group

The Rev DR.. Augustus p. Rec
cord. pastor OF the First Unitarian
and the First Universalist church
es, OF this city. and Mrs. Mabelle
Il. Davis, member of the joint op-
Grating committee OF the merged
churches. form a committe OF ar
engagements to sponsor Human
Family recital. to be held April
20, at the church auditorium, at
Cass and Forest, at p. m. There
VIII be no admission fee or collec-
ton.
The chairman OF the program
will be Sher M. Quraishi, a native
OF India. Words OF welcome will
be given by DR.. Record. The only
speaker will be DR.. Leo Frank
lin. OF Temple Beth FL. His sub
ject will be. "Unifying Elements
In Present-Day Civilization"
In addition to other numbers on
the program, there will be harp
music. by Miss La villa Tulias:
baritone solo. De Witt Jones: and
quartet singing, by the Melody
Lads. Of st. Antoine Y. M. c. A.
The public is United.
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-04-14
Editor G. c. Parker
Laid To Rest

Jackson, Tenn. - The Rev.
George c. Parker. So, editor of the
Christian Index. official organ of
thu Colored Methodist Episcopal
church. published here. died Mon
day morning. following an opera
ton said to have been for cancer
in the neck. He had been confined
to his bed for four weeks. He was
born in Dodge City, Kas. He had
been editor of the Chritian Index
for IL years. the longest term al
editor has served that paper.
Funeral services were held
Thursday morning. April S. at IL
O'Clock. Clergymen and laymen
from all sections OF the country at
tended.
DR.. Parker's mob violence edi-
torial which advocated hot lead
and steel jacketed bullets as the
best curb for lynching. attracted
nation wide attention and COM
ment several months ago
He was one of the most promi-
nently mentioned for the bishopric
at the coming St. Louis General
Conference next month.
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-04-14
Digesting
The News
by Clifford C. Mitchell
Some Impressions OF the week .

Some Impressions OF the Week.
In the field OF economies the city
OF Cleveland seemed TO have in
dugdrdted ,he most moons stent
policy OF economy that | have ever
Z al presuming, OF course, that
h. da ~ newspaper dispatches are
sorrcct. In Cleveland, in order TO
economize. they have shut off half
he ely ligh.s at night, and have
nsmisssd, or are preparing to do
so, half of the city policemen and
irelnen. III that is economy then
he merchants throughout the coun-
try m ght as woll lay their wares
III the open sidewalks. dismiss
heir watchmea and do away with
aul,s. he temptation is too
,lcat. Human nature. being what
IS. will always prey upon the
unsuspecting and the city of Cleye-
land Is only inviting crime, hun
dredfOld, into its midst One con-
soling fact is In reading that a
race man, Alderman Bundy. called
this situation 10 the other council
men. but in spite of his logical
pleas. apparently. Cleveland dccid-
ed To econom 10 by turning out hall
of its night lights and dismissins
half of its protective force. II this
columnist knows human nature al
all he can safely predict that II
this policy is adhered to that ClcvC
land will jump to the head OF the
crime centers of the country.
+ss~+s
Regardless Of the actual or i'm.
piled motives, the readers of ouI
national publications Of current is
sues, especially those who read the
proceedings concerning the act vi
ties OF our Congressman DcPriest
i will think of him as "A Savior of tn,
race indeed.
Apparently, the high colored of.
fice-holders in Washington. are L
be set upon pedestal. Looking
through the exchanges of the
week we see that two we'll known
publicists have. in the same week
undertaken to supply a historical
and biographical history OF the high
colored off ce-holders in Washing.
ton. The writer's are, Eugene Da-
wilson, and Lucia Mae Pitts.
srs*s*
Readers throughout the country
thought that Chicago represented
the extreme in CANISTER politics will
now be- able to readjust their think.
ing, what with the recent elections
and subsequent killings in Kansas
City.
For the benefit OF the many
thousands OF readers throughout
the country who contemplate visit
ing the Worlds Fair here I'm Chica-
go during the year Il have been
asked TO announce that the Ac-
commodation Service Bureau. 1897
l76 West Adams Street. Chicago
are acting as a central accommo-
dalton service bureau and will be
glad 20 assist all prospective visit
tors either in furnishing lIstings OF
suitable places in Chicago. or will
give Information concerning routes
interesting points or any service
information that the reader may
desire. This service Is absolutely
free and the Accommodation Serv-
ice bureau invites correspondence
from all Chicago visitors.
Writers who think there Is no
future for race authors should fol-
low the success of Wallace Thur
man now In Hollywood
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-04-14
Trotter Kills Self

windows for colored patrons.
Funeral services for this valiant
leader were held at Peoples Bap-
is; church, Tuesday afternoon. A
n torcade OF Boston police and
military escort by the Massachu-
sets National Guard, formed Il
guard OF honor. Thousands OF citi-
zens OF both races attended the
funeral and bowed their heads in
reverence. as the body OF this
champion OF human rights was laid
to rest.
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-04-14
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
Sunshine Biscuit Co.
Workers Cheated by
Piece Work System
By Food Worker Correspondent

BY a Food Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-The girls on the
fifth floor of Sunshine Biscuit Co.
are not getting enough money for
what they are doing. The floor lady
is very mean to the girls. She nagS
at them all day long. They pick
the girls they like best and give
them the best work.
When the girls are very busy on
their own floor and could make
money there, they have to go to
other floors if the floor lady sends
them, and make less money. In the
winter months we don't work much,
Our time work is $3.50 a day. We
should be getting at least $3.18. 1t
would be much better if we got a
steady salary instead of piece work.
During the last few days the girls
in Sunshine get better treatment
from the floor ladies because of
workers pressure in the company
organization Whatever small gains
will be forced by the workers in the
company union controlled by the
bosses will be used to fool the work.
ers and to keep them from joining
union that will fight TO-. their in
terests, the Food Workers Industrial
Union.
The girls must fight the COM
pany union because it is really
there for the bosses interests and
not the workers interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
BY a Food Worker Correspondent

By a Food Worker Correspondent
VANTAGE, N. Y-Jones Beach
is clean and beautiful for the rich
who can afford to have an auto, to
take nice ride, healthful bath,
and delicious dinner in this
supposed-to-be State Park.
The park, including a beautiful
beach, is developed by the funds of
the state, but the various conces-
sions are leased by some boss from
New York, Mr.. Levine of the Brass
Rail and the Central Park Casino.
What impresses you most is that,
besides all the evils of the bosses
exploitation, are t-rannical rules
and restrictions of q military camp.
Everything is beautifully ar
ranged as to provide the most
comfort and pleasure for the rich
parasites, and the latest profits
for the bosses, from which profit
I suppose the state gets a big graft.
All this out of the blood and sweat
Of the workers.
All the supervisors are in a mill
tary, naval uniform, in order to
enforce the military discipline of
the Navy. Their answer and rea-
soning is that you have to obey
orders, and if you don't like it you
quit, or else you get fired.
Inspector after inspector is there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
Sick CCC Youth Jailed
For Asking Permission
TO Return to His Home
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT


NEW YORK-When the C.C.C.
was first instituted as part of
Roosevelt's New Deal" New York
boy, who with his mother had been
living on home relief a few months.
enlisted. He served his time in
northern New York state. and was
honorably discharged. In April, 1884,
he reenlisted and was sent to C.C.C.
Company 1856, near Reedsville, Ga.
After three months he received
letter stating that his mother
was i'll and wanted him to return
home. He was also sick, despite
the camp doctors statement of good
health.
He went to the camp commander
to ask for his discharge. This wa
refused and he was ordered to &c
to work He refused, and the cap.
tain threatened to have him ar.
rested and sentenced to the chair
gang for six months. He still re.
fused, then the captain had tn,
sheriff of the county take him Il
the county jail. Twenty four hour!
later ne was called for his trial
The mayor of Reedsville acted a.
the judge. Upon the framed-ul
testimony Of the camp officers HI
was found guilty of agitation, etc
He was sentenced to 10 days il
Jail, and upon release to an ad
ministrative discharge (dishonor
able discharge under a new name)
In Jail he received two such rot
ten meals a day that only 10 day
were necessary to ruin his alread,
poor health. He is now home ant
will soon be living" on home re
lief.
Upon entry in the C.CC. yo,
are informed that you are civilian
free to leave at any time Is it ;
crime to refuse to work when yot
are sick (even in the C.C.C0, ant
since when does the mayor of {
town give our War Department dis
charges?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06

The Daily Worker "newsie" who
ends us this letter from Chicago has
Ter eyes wide open and her wits
about her. A few more Red Build
.rs like this and we could soon do
something concrete about changing
conditions such as she describes,
which illustrate with brilliant clarity
The doubly exploited position Of
working women under capitalism:
while selling Daily Workers at
The stock yards, I noticed the fol-
owing men stop at the news stands
and buy one of the daily papers Ca
few buy the Daily Worker but the
women rush for the street car. One
Negro woman never fails to buy the
Daily Worker but she is the only
woman I have sold to as yet.
During these hot summer
months, you can see tired and
WORKOUT look on the women's faces.
In the United Packers, every day
women are carried out after faint
ing on the job from the heat and
speed-up.
Most women can be seen carry
ing a small bundle from the factory
This is meat they must cook wher
they get home. Men do not carry
such bundle, therefore they can
buy a paper and read Their work
for the day is done, while the women
must cook supper and straighten UP
the house. The children have been
left alone all day and they surely
can scatter things around.
THE other day a mother stopped
and talked to me. She told me how
she had been frightened the evening
before. The youngest child had
strayed away several blocks, got
acquainted with some other child,
and stayed at its home, falling to
come home at supper time.
When the mother called the
children this baby was missing
(She is four years old She sent hel
other two children in two direc-
tons and she took the third. She
called all the police stations to see
if the child had not been picked
up, either dead or alive. She be-
gan to imagine all kinds of things.
She thought of little two and half
yeaa old Dorette who had been left
in an old ice house by fourteen
year-old George Ragalsky, and was
later found naked, dying in the
hospital from exposure.
1t was about ten o'clock that
night when the family found the
child and ate supper, but the
mother was too sick to eat.
I told this mother that in the
Soviet Union she would bring he:
children to the factory nursery and
after working hours take them
home all clear and fed; that she
would not have to rush home tc
prepare supper as she could get
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
NRA Covers
Up Stumble
At Resort
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-What the article
AN 18-hour day for Bachelors of
Science" by a worker correspondent
on July 26, 1884, said about the
Jones Beach State Park is true, but
this is NOT all
While I was working there as a
bus boy in the Marine Dining Room
they compelled us to 60 to work at
10 am. to mop the floors, and at
IL noon after we had cur breakfast
or lunch (only meals a day al
loved they told us not to punch our
cards personally in the evening. We
didn't have to do it because they
took care of them. They punched
them at 9 pm although we had to
work until II pm. or later.
Against those conditions many of
us went to the N. R. A. personally
to place our complaints, and they
told us that they will investigate the
case, but it seems that they still are
studying the matter, until the season
is over.
Also about month ago a fellow
working for the same boss (there is
one concessionaire on all restaurants
and stands, Mr.. Levin, also owner
of the Brass Rail on 49th st. and
7th Ave, New York City, got in
sane, and according to his fellow
workers, it was due to the long
hours and speed, up.
The manager of the Marine
Dining Room is Mr.. Doyle, we'll
known to the N. Y. walters as once
being charged with stealing their
tips while he was working as ban
quet head-waiter at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel. I don't know how
long ago.
So these are the true slave driving
conditions prevailing at J. B. S. P,
Long Island, where the State Pa. k
commissioner has his own private
dining room. I don't know if he
pays for his meals. But what 1
know is that nobody is allowed to
serve him except the head waiter,
and there is a special State paid
woman to clean it and his silver is
washed separately from the common
customers. Ar the State inspector
comes every morning to see if we
keep the place clean, but never asks
us about working conditions.
Instead of going to the N. R. A.
we must organize in the Food
Workers Industrial Union so we we
will act quickly and have better
conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
WE WILL SOON HAVE A
FINANCIAL COLUMN
August 2. 1884.

Angus x 1904.
Comrade Editor:
I think the Daily" can use
regular Wall Street column, if not
as a daily feature, then weekly
or twice weekly feature.
The workers, particularly the
white collar workers, do not get
enough facts about the corporation
affiliations of the members of the
bourgeoisie who figure in the days
news. For example, how many
workers knew that John Francis
Neylan who organized the strike
breaking press in San Francisco
was and is director of the 81 1885,
100000 National City Bank, whose
capital was so badly impaired by
miSmanagement that it had to and
could borrow $50000,0O0 from the
public treasury. How many work
ers could borrow IS let alone $780,
100000 from the public treasury
How enormous the loan to National
City is can be realized when you
learn it is more than one-third the
National City's capital.
How many workers knew for ex-
ample that the leaders of the San
Francisco Industrial Conference
William H. Croker, Mortimer
! Fleischhacker and several others
are the dominating trustees of the
University of California which
barred Lord Marley from the
campus and invited a Nazi speaker
named Won Kuhlmann to speak
with full university courtesies.
All these items and more could
be discovered and used in Wall
Street column. The Daily has
a column about Wall Street
Washington. Why not one about
Wall Street itself? It is true that
the Daily" runs feature stories and
feature editorials about certain
Wall Street activities-for example,
today's editorial on the profits of
U. S. Steel This was excellent
But there are certain less outstand-
ing (possibly) facts which none the
less would provide nourishment for
the speeches and concentrations of
class conscious workers. It is true
that the workers in the factories
and the shops need no statistics or
literary facts to prove the crushing
weight Of finance capital-they feel
it personally. But msny of the
white collar workers and profess
SIGNALS who feel the crisis less
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
Resort Workers Sho,o
That They Can Organise
For StruggLe-and Yin
BY a Group of Food Worker
CORRESPONDENTS

MONTICELLO, N. Y.-The A. F.
of L. has always raised the cry that
the resort workers can never be
organized. The reasons advanced
are as follows: % the work is
seasonal, lasting only two months
out of the entire year; 90 the
workers, because of the short dura-
ton of the season, do not feel that
it is while to put up any
struggle; 80 the workers, being
drawn from the ranks of DIVERSE
fed professions and trades, have no
common interests.
These arguments were on Satur-
day, July 81, proven to be un-
founded by the workers of Camp
Harmony. On that day the work
ers Of Camp Harmony forced the
proprietors to recognize the Hotel
Resort Workers Branch Local lit
of the Food Workers Industrial
Union.
The workers of Harmony are
students, teachers, musicians,
painters, artists, laundrymen, shop
girls, laborers, and unemployed
young workers.
Yet the determination of the shop
committee and the union represen-
tatives. backed with the solid sup
port of the workers, compelled the
bosses, Leshner, Reznick, Clashow.
and Rothauser, to realize that the
workers meant business. An agree
ment was signed recognizing Local
No. lit of the Food Workers Indus
trial Union, with clauses which
provide for the immediate satisfac-
ton of the workers grievances.
grant a wage-scale over 100 per
cent higher than the one given dur
ing 1888, give the shop committee
the right to negotiate, prevent dis
elimination for union activity and
the firing of workers without union
consent, and provide for reimburse
ment for additional work. The
agreement is binding from June 1st
on, SO that the workers can receive
back pay for work done before nego-
tiationS between the bosses and the
Union were completed.
The workers Of Harmony call
upon all the resort workers to follow
the path they took. Organize and
fight for decent wages and work
ing conditions. Join the F. w. 1.
u. which is a workers union that
honestly fights for the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06

In answer to Comrade PROVIDERS
appeal for the various districts to
take more seriously the appeal for
funds for a national training school
little note on the experiences of
District SIS committee, formed the
same day the letter came in from
the CO might make our Party
membership here in this concentra-
ton district waken up to a rather
grave situation.
After this campaign has been on
for two months and although the
district has already sent in $50 to
the national school, we have to re-
cord that in all only II units, out of
possible 120 units, responded in
any way at all, and four of these
units are out of one section-the
hill section, mostly unemployed Ne
gro workers.
The lack of interest in this cam
paign is all the more serious be-
cause we have decided to begin a
district school here, in District s. on
circuit scale, and also we are try
ing to establish a book store, and
we have made this Cincluding the
call for funds for the national
school one campaign.
The language bureaus responded
well in pledges but only the South
Slav, the Jewish and the Lithuan-
ians have MADE any attempt to
carry out these pledges. The Poles,
the Italians, the Russians, the Tx
ranianS, the Hungarians have re-
Sponded not at all.
The comrades who are working in
the mass organizations have the
attitude that it is asking them to
do too much to bring this campaign
before their membership. The I'm
employment Councils here (which
are supposed to be the best organ
lied in the country have leader
ship which is quite benevolent, to
say the least-benevolent in the
sense that they watch the unem-
ployed workers pennies and take
care that they don't spend them on
working class education.
However, in the case where the
unemployed have been approached
by leaders who are not so careful.
we have the small newly organized
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights,
nearly all unemployed who as soon
as they heard of school imme-
diately collected and sent in
So. After two months the Interns-
tional Labor Defense has been able
to raise 50 for our school fund.
We have carried on this cam
paign with the objective of having
establisRhhed by September 8 (the
time the school will begin and the
book store OPEN, educational COM
mittees and reading circles in the
organizations that we have ap-
preached. We have carried on the
campaign trying to increase the
almost nothing distribution of lit
erature in our district. We have to
say that our functionaries in Dis
trict 5 do not themselves read and
study.
At membership meeting
month ago when the speaker asked
for show of hands who had read
very important editorial in the
Daily Worker less than one tenth
were able to raise their hands and
say that they had read the editorial.
This is why our campaign to open
a school here has no life to it. This
is also why some times our hard
fought for small organizational re-
suits sometimes fall to pieces. Of
tentimes we do not know the next
step and there is no time to run to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06

By a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK; take pleasure in
tating that 7 agree with Commits
toner George E. Allen that a man
ant get a job nowadays, no mat
er how hard he is looking for one.
am sure ii he gave New York City
he once-over he would also find
ONE surprising things even in Gov
rnment Offices such as in the New
York State Employment Service
md in the Department for the
Crippled located at 1914 East 18th
Street.
7 called there to have an inter
Jew with Miss Clara Lewis, but
he sent her secretary to see me,
nd then it was to pass the buck.
Well, I have figured it out for a
org time, and a man must fight fo-
u rights or lie in the gutter and
lie.
I don't know much about the
Communists but I do know that
hey will fight for their rights.
I have had plenty of experience in
he past five years looking for a
ob. I call at one place and they
Isked me what parish do you live
n? I told them I was not Catholic.
Then they asked me what church
10 you attend? I told them not any.
Vel, what church was raised in?
. told him the Presbyterian. Then
re gaze me card to the Fedora
ion of churches, II Lafayette Ave,
Brooklyn
The same bunk there. was asked
# I could get letter from minis
;er.