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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
One Out Of 4
Live on Florida
F.E.R.A. Relief

One fourth of all the people in
Florida, 340,350 persons out of
population of 1,463,21f, are living on
relief which averages about SO a
week for each family during some
months, while at Other times drops
to as little as 81, F. E. r. A. re-
ports show.
Nor is the wild fluctuation in the
amount of relief granted the only
characteristic of relief to the desti-
tute workers in the palm studded
playground of the wealthy. While
some months show as high as %
per cent of the people on the relief
lists, other months show less than
7 per cent.
Included in the average relief
payments, of course, are high adj
ministrative expenses often running
to 20 per cent of the total money
spent by relief.
During the entire period of the
crisis Florida has never enacted
any relief legislation; not a penny
of State funds has been expended
for relief purposes. And city ex-
penditures have dwindled to an al
most negligible figure.
AS result, all relief payments
have ben haphazard, dependent en-
tirely upon what Federal monies
are allocated. A recent order from
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Relief
Administrator, cutting off all "un-
employables," sick, blind, aged and
crippled, has left an entire section
of the destitute population without
any source of sustenance whatso-
ever.
The very existence of tens Of
thousands of workers is hap
hazard matter of chance. In the
week of May 3, for example, 27o2o
heads of families were on the work
relief Jobs at an average wage of
$720. On the following week, more
than half were fired-only 1924
retained on the jobs.
The following table, showing the
number of families on the relief
Isis during 1888 and January, Feb
ruary and May, 1884, shows the
great number of families which are
dropped from the rolls during one
month periods and the haphazard
manner in which relief is adnninis-
tered wholly on the basis of the
amount of the Federal appropria-
ton
Oct Dec Jan. Feb. Nav
Jacksonville 22,o17 5.6os 1853 5,4sl 1850
Miami 1097p ASA oes $40 a3nae
Tampa 1851 Il, 90i 1894 6.547 1886
Eight thousand "unemployables,
lame, blind, sick, disabled, recently
cut off the F. E. r. A. relief rolls
on the order of the Federal admin
istrator, face starvation in Jackson
vile while the City Commissioners
debate how to tax the working
population to provide relief funds.
The Welfare Department has
asked SCI 900 month, an average
of 1882 month person, to pro-
vide shelter, food, clothing and
medical aid for these 5000 desti-
tute persons. ,
The City Council has under con-
sideration various tax measures, in
Guiding ten per cent on all electric
and wa'er bills, for financing the
relief. Federal relief agencies here
demand that all persons on the re-
lief rolls must work for their relief
budgets.
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prices for the commodities they sell
and high prices for what they buy
as a result of the growth of
monopolies:
Be it Enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress Assembled, That because the
operation of the Agricultural Adj
justment Act has resulted in intensi-
flying the already existing critical
conditions of the farmers, by:
(a) Eviction of tens of thousands
of tenants, sharecroppers and oper-
ating owners of farms, from their
farms and homes through the re-
duction Of acreage programs,
CD Imposing the full burden of
the cost of benefit payments upon
the farmers and workers through
the processing tax,
Co The waste of fertile farm
lands and the return to laborious,
primitive and subsistence methods
Of production. while millions of I'M
employed workers are starving,
I'd Further strengthening and
fostering monopolies among the
distributors and professors of agri-
cultural products through the
marketing agreements and licenses,
the Agricultural Adjustment Act,
as amended, is hereby revoked and
repealed
Section 2. The term farmer" as
used in this Act means any indi-
vidual who is engaged in tilling the
soil, whether a tenant sharecrop-
per or owner, who operates his farm
primarily by his own labor None
of the benefits or rights Of exemp-
tons from taxation granted by this
Act shall apply to any landlord or
absentee owner or corporation or
to any farmer who owns more than
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24

creation centers, parks and the like
would be erected in working -class
districts for the benefit of the work
ers' children and families.
A Communist Governor, for ex-
ample, would Immediately press the
housing needs of the workers. HIS
first step would be to open the I'M
used buildings and apartment
houses to the homeless and unem-
ployed. His second step would be
to fight for the housing program OF
the Communist Party. This would
give work to the unemployed, and,
in connection with the Workers IN
employment and Social Insurance
Bill, would raise the living standards
Of the whole working class.
To vote for the capitalist csndi-
dates is to vote for the continuance
of the sluns. 1t means that you are
satisfied to condemn your children
to the horrors of firetraps. 1t means
that you appgove the herding Of
homeless men in cellars and door
ways.
No worker can afford to abstain
from voting Communist. To vote
for Communist candidates means to
strike a blow for better housing con-
ditions; it means that you are
strengthening the fight against the
slums and the f1retraps. On hous-
ing, as on all other issues, it is only
the Communist Party which has a
program that will benefit the work
e-s and farmers Of the country.
Vote for workers housing and
the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill!
Vote Communist!
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Anti-FaSCist Unity
Farley Is Arranged

(Codtinued from Page u
come a part of your movement for
the liberation of political prisoners
Of Italy and for the sending of. an
international delegation to Italy,
I'VE invite you, therefore, to
nominate committee which should
be empowered to reach an agree
nent with our executive committee
in order to agree on the work to be
done. Please let us know soon the
names of your representatives and
the date on which the first meet
ing can be held. 1t is to be I'M
ders cod that the preliminary meet
ings will be held in Chicago at the
headquarters of the italian Social
ist Federation.
Confident that this will be the
first step toward complete agree
ment.
"Fraternally yours. for the Execu-
tive Commission of the Socialist
Federation.
"(Signed) CLEMENTE."
In reply the Italian Bureau of the
Communist Party sent the follow
ing communication
G. P. Bureau Replies
I'VE have read with pleasure
your letter of the 9th, i'm which you
inform us that the executive of
your Party has authorized you to
participate with us in the move
ment for the liberation of political
prisoners in italy, and for the send
ing of an international delegation
to Italy. We second with enthusi-
asm the expression of hope that
this will be the first step toward a
complete agreement. Your invita-
ton to nominate a committee to be
charged with establishing an agree
ment with your executive commit
tee, and to come to an unders.an
ing on the work to be done, has
been accepted by us, and we also
are in accord with holding the pre-
! liminary meetings in Chicago, as
you propose.
I'VE wish to inform you that the
international delegation has already
left for Paris. on its way to Italy
| oct 10), with a delegate repre-
senting the United States who was
already in Europe at the time. This
was due to the fact that we received
the invitation to participate in this
action too late. and did not have
time to develop agitation in this
country and elect our own delegate
here.
Calls for Support
There is left us, however, the
work of supporting the delegation
morally and financially. This doe
not prevent us from putting oul
forces and efforts together for Other
actions for the liberation of polit-
icsl prisoners in Italy. We cannot
inform you of the names of the
comrades who will constitute ON
negotiating committee and the day
they will be in Chicago This will
be determined in three or four
days, and we will inform you i'm
mediately.
with fraternal greetings for the
Italian Bureau of the Communist
Party.
"(Signed) TOM DE FAzIO."
There is every possibility of the
negotiations leading to definite
united front actions against italian
fascism, against war, and the many
burning questions confronting the
working class in this country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
Paul Butt, Communist
Candidate, In Relief
Fight in Washington

PINEHURST, Wash, Oct. 23-
Meeting with the stock excuse of
welfare station attendants that mo
one here has authority to grant
your demands" a determined com
mittee of II workers. among them
Paul Butt, Communist candidate for
Sheriff, and James Kelly. candidate
for County Commissioner, District
Two, from the Pinehurst Relief
work ers Protective Association,
took matters into their own hands.
At IL o'clock, the usual closing
hour for the STATEN, Butt closed
the door, the committee being in
side, and remarked, well, the door
is Shut From II until 4.30 the
committee and the welfare attend
ants waited for someone in author
ity to come from the main office.
AT 4:30 the officials arrived &C
companied by deputies who re-
manned outside the station. In a
short time so Of the demands of
the workers we're granted, includ-
ing shoes. grocery orders and med
ical attention for a sick baby.
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NRA for Bankers,
Convention Is Told
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formed his listeners that I'VE look
to you confidently for an intelligent
conservatism"
In discussing the fact that bank
ers are a conservative group" Crow
ley declared: This is necessarily
so because such great public re-
sponsibllity is placed on them in
handling other peoples money. I
wouldn't have them otherwise"
Other points in Laws address
we're:
1. Making it clear that he was
opposed to anything even family re-
sembling a system of unemployment
insurance for the is or IT millions
Of unemployed, he said the bankers
assert unshakable faith that the
natural forces Of the country. in
themselves, will in due time bring
about a full and complete measure
Of business recovery"
2. ut has been the endeavor of
the present administration of our
association to maintain with the
National Administration and with
the national legislative bodies effec-
tive and harmonious working rela-
tionships with respect to those
things vitality affecting banks. In
this policy there was nothing polit-
ical."
8. Ignoring the plight of the
many thousands who lost their saw
ings to the bankers, Law was re
minded that everywhere people are
returning to such old time habits as
thrift, self denial, hard work and
living within their incomes. There
in lies one of the greatest advances
which has been made toward recov-
cry. Perhaps the greatest"
4. Unanimous assent is &C
corded to the sentiments recently
expressed by Mr.. Donald Richberg,
Director of the Industrial Emer-
gency Committee. He said: Tt is
desirable and necessary to balance
the Federal budget at the earliest
possible moment"
5. There is a feeling among
bankers and business men every
where that recognition of the
vital need of individual initiative
and Of fair profit is sine qua non
(indispensable-Ed) to recovery"
g. "Superabundant bank credit is
available" to the business man, but
the demand for credit is distressing
ly low Many lines of credit put at
the disposal of business men by
banks are lying unused. 1t remains
for business men to shake off their
timidity and uncertainty and to in
dictate ability and willingness to
borrow" Law, of course, said moth
ing about using this "superabun-
dance" for unemployment insur-
ance.
7. I'm conclusion: All of us want
to help the other fellow. AS a people
we must realize that our social, bus
mess and political interests should
all be considered and brought into
accord. Bankers, in common with
other thoughtful and forward look
ing business men, agree to the prin-
ciple that sound, liberal business
doctrine and rational humanitarian
ism should go hand in hand in any
program of real and permanent
recovery"
Crowley announced that from
1920 to 1893, more than $4,000 OF
the 10000 banks in the United
States had closed their doors. -Four
billion, five hundred millions of dol
lars were tied up" He failed to say
however, how many banks did no.
open their doors after the end OF
the Roosevelt March 1888 banking
moratorium. Nor could his office
give this correspondent that infor-
nation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
ROOSEVELT PLAN
DESIGNED TO AID
BANKERS, SHARKS
Communist Platform Provides for Decent HOus'
ing for All Workers and Jobs for Million
In Construction Industry

In its efforts to garner votes The Administration
launched housing campaign last week The purpose of the
bayhoo to persuade the workers that they will get jobs
and to convince the small home owner that he should
modernize his home.
we contrast the plan Of the government with the pro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24

Every day of the Roosevelt New
Deal shows the growing need Of the
Daily Worker. But the Daily
Worker needs 100000 to be able
to deal more fully with the strug-
giles of the working class. Support
the Daily Worker! Send your con-
tribution today to the $4,000 drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
FEDERAL REPORTS
SHOW BIG DECLINES i
In JOBS, PAYROLLS
Bureau of Labor Statistics September Survey
Shows Wage Drop Is Greater Than
Employment Declines

WASHINGTON, Oct 23.-Sharp decreases in September
employment and reported by the United States
Bureau of Labor Statistics following similar declines in
July and August In manufacturing industries which the
bureau reports on number of jobs dropped AT per cent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24

Communist Candidates Are
Leaders in the Fight for the
Right to Organize, Strike, Picket.
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up. Pickets were sent to the shop
in compliance with the Mayors
proclamation. only to find that not
even the pickets would be allowed.
Two workers were arrested, Bill
Reich and Larry Heimbach, mass
picket line organizers.
This morning more than three
hundred workers formed a picket
line determined to smash the proc
lamation of Mayor Lewis and
strike the shop for union recogni-
ton.
Police made a vicious attack.
Steven Puckonics, Communist
candidate for Congress, was picked
out by the police and viciously
beaten and afterwards arrested.
Puckonics had just been released
from Jail for distributing a leaflet
exposing the sellout of German.
He with two other workers served
fifteen days. Several other workers
were arrested today, some from the
Unemployed League.
The workers are talking about a
general strike. Of1cials of the
Amalgamated Union state that
they are prepared to use every pos
sible weapon to stop the bosses
from smashing the union. The
workess are asking that all the
shops in town be called out In a
general strike 1t is very probable
that due to the pressure of the
workers for such action the Off
Gals will be forced to act.
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1.aON wooden WORKERS Strike

BURLINGTON, VT, Oct. 23.-
Thirteen hundred wooden textile
workers walked out on strike here
and in Winooski yesterday. in
defiance of the Geographic orders
from the national Office of the
United Textile Workers Union. The
strikers are in local union 2026 of
Burlington and the Winooski local
of the U. T. W. and are employed
in mills belonging to the American
WOODEN Company.
The immediate cause OF the
strike was discrimination against
union members who were fired by
Schmauski, a boss in the mill
Louis J. Guilment, general or
ganizer for the U. T. w. and bust
ness agent of the local union, was
opposed to the strike.
After the strike began, George
Whitney, agent for the American
Wooden Company, was forced to
declare the factory closed in all
branches Of production.
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Paterson DyerS
Strike Tomorrow

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Build Up Daily Worker Carrier
Route!
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in the presence Of Clarence's
mother, Mrs. Norris.
The Washington times., 1934-08-30
LEGION To GIVE
BENEFIT SHOW

Montgomery County Post, No.
1858, Veterans Of Foreign Wars,
will sponsor a special showing of
the film, "All Quiet on the West
ern Front" at the State Theater
in Bethesda tonight and tomor.
row night.
The proceeds Of the show will
be turned over to the Overseas
Military Band of the Drum and
Bugle Corps of washington for
use in sending it to the National
Veterans of Foreign Wars Band
competition late in october.
A. S. Magee is chairman Of the
arrangements committee and has
been assisted by L. j. Mccullough
and Leslie B. Bell,
The Washington times., 1934-08-30
DISTRICT JOINS
SAFETY MONTH
CAMPAIGN

Backed by President Roosevelt
and Secretary of Commerce
Roper, the District Commissioners,
simultaneously with the governors
of A States, will proclaim
September as Safety Month"
This was announced today in a
statement issued by Secretary
Roper, in his capacity as chair
man of the National Conference
on Street and Highway Safety,
who said the purpose OF the
movement is to combat the
rising toll of loss of life and
personal injury and property
damage caused by automobile
accidents"
Secretary Roper said the
present trend indicates that dur
ing this year, unless preventive
steps are taken, automobile
fatalities may reach the stagger-
ing record total of $4,000, with
injuries to more than one million
persons.
Secretary Roper added:
"The definite personal in
terest of the President is indi-
Gated in a letter which he
wrote me on August "a in
which he said:
"T note that the governors
Of many States are issuing
proclamatiOnS designating Sep
tember as Safety Month. This
should prove helpful if only to
the extent that it serves as a
focal point for mobilization. 1t
is also timely since we are just
entering a period of the year
which experience has shown
takes the heaviest toll.
Both the President and the
Commerce Secretary expressed the
hope that eventually there will be
uniform traffic laws, adding that
this would be a long step in re
ducing traffic accidents.
The Washington times., 1934-08-30

MISS KATHRYN HAYDEN
SEEKING fifty American girls
for forthcoming London revues,
Miss Kathryn Hayden, noted
British journalist and magazine
writer, is in Hollywood with
Clifford Whitley, the Ziegfeld
of London. Miss Hayden writes
principally about motion pic.
lures. Photo by International.
The Washington times., 1934-08-30
ArdmOre Citizens
Plan BingO Party

A bingo party, sponsored by the
Ardmore Improvement Associa-
ton, will be held at the Ardmore
School, September 7, at 8 p m.
The party will be conducted by
q committee headed by Mrs. Ed
win Thompson, assisted by Mrs.
George McNab, Mrs. George Knut-
son, Mrs. Frank Hall and Mrs.
Margaret He'll,
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Then the company proceeded to
sell homes, at cost, to its en-
ployes. A building and loan asso-
citation was set up to finance the
purchases. So successful was this
plan that today, it is said, almost
every home is owned by the family
occupying it.
This, then, was the village of
Kohler - a unique experiment in
American industry, a factory town
that was like a fine residential
suburb, place that was lovely
to look at, clean, filled with sub
Stantial citizens.
Through the depression, resi-
dents of Kohler got along; they
owned their homes, most of them,
and those who had not completed
their payments were able to take
advantage of liberal establishments
offered by the company.
DUT today-Kohler has strike,
- just like any other factory
town. Men are picketing the gates
of the plant, there have been
clashes on the streets, and the
old story of industrial strife is be-
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and the continent and saw how
things were done there.
Then, with a definite idea OF
what they wanted to accomplish,
they came back to Wisconsin and
got busy.
The town was laid out on the
rolling, wooded ground that Dor
ders the Sheboygan river. Nature
had made the site charming; Moth
ing was left undone to enable the
new town to take full advantage
of the fact.
CTREETS were laid out, cottages
- were built-With design, mate
rial and workmanship all OF
the highest order. Brick, stucco
and frame residences sprang up,
looking more like the exhibits IN
a gh-priced real estate subdi-
vision rather than homes for
workmen in an industrial center.
Provisions were made for parks
and Fairgrounds. A natural de-
preston IN one park was turned
into a charming outdoor theater.
A vast building, the American
Club, was set up to house the I'M
married men who would not re-
quire separate dwellings. An up
to-date high school was built.
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ing retold here, where no one
ever thought it would be heard.
Employees have organized a
union, under the auspices of the
American Federation of Labor,
They are demanding higher wages,
shorter hours, and recognition of
this union as the workers collec-
tive bargaining agency.
In reply, officials of the Kohler
company have said that the COM
pany already is complying fully
with Section IA of the national
recovery act and with all the
codes under which it operates.
Kohler, formerly a Governor of
Wisconsin, refuses to yield.
"If they can stand it," he says
of the strikers, I'VE can stand it
too"
So that is Kohler today-a
model town, named only a few
months ago as a model commu-
nifty by the National Society of
Arts and Sciences-torn by the
traditional kind Of industrial war
fare.
Somewhere along the road
something has happened to Wal
ter Kohler's dream of an indus
trial Utopia.