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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

and other employment rates. Then
relief rates will be worked out 50
that the income will be no more
than factory workers get" This
means that the F. E. r. A. s12
week and $3.50 average city work
relief will be still further cut. Nc
Levy's experts will figure out so
cialist statistics" how $3.50 for 3
days and rotten baskets of food
will be more than days average
pay received in sweat-shops and
speed-up ammunition factories.
McLevy has therefore appointed
new Socialist controlled Welfare
Board which in the name of so
cialism" will do the dirty work. The
Herald states this Enthusiastically
in the following sentence; These
changes are bound to be reflected i'll
lower welfare costs. The huge
budget that the old welfare board
passed on will be largely disregarded.
This gives the taxpayers breakl"
The Sunday Herald ends the item
with the following: Mayor McLevy
is determined to end all forms of
racketeering on relief. He is in back
of the Welfare Board and the Wei
fare Board is in back of him.
While this worthy and represent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Rally
Radio Time
Is Cancelled
Philadelphia Broadcast
Observation-Disclosures.
Newark Meetings

PHILADELPHIA, Jan II. - The
management Of Station WRAx
yesterday refused the use of the
station to broadcast the speeches
at the Lenin Memorial Meeting, in
spite of a previously completed
agreement for two broadcasts on
Monday, Jan. IA, and Thursday,
Jan. IT.
This action follows on the heels
Of a series of recent attacks on the
civil liberties of workers here, in
Guiding the cancellation by the city
Of a contract for the use of the
city-owned Convention Hall for the
Lenin Memorial Meeting on Jan 10:
the poisonous attack by Judge Nc
Dewitt on the Communist Party and
the working class, the order by the
Pennsylvania Superior Court re-
handing six young workers to Jail
for participating in an anti-fascist
demonstration, and the re-opening
of the drive by Federal authorities
to deport A. w. Mills, district or
ganizer of the Communist Party
here.
In answer to this concentrated
terror drive, Philadelphia workers
are planning huge turnout for
the Lenin Memorial Meeting, which
will take place at the Market Street
Arena, 45th and Market Streets, on
Friday evening, Jan 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Jan. II. -
Hiding under demagogic attacks
against shirkers' and "racketeerins
in relief" the McLevy Socialist
Party administration is preparing
fur further drastic cuts in relief in
the city of Bridgeport.
Mr.. McLevy is following in the
footsteps of the Roosevelt admin
istration in preparing severe attacks
on the unemployed. In the January
g. Bridgeport Sunday Herald is
flashed the line of the Socialist adj
ministration about politicians who
got soft jobs on relief" and state
ments from Jasper McLevy threat
ening attacks against such ''politi-
cians," which are in reality only
made in order to hide the coming
attacks against the relief workers.
According to the Sunday Herald
The city officials are determined
to change the system which gives
to many families on relief larger
income than is earned for longer
hours by workers in factories and
ether employment.
Average Relief $3.50
1t Is interesting to note that the
average relief pay on city relief jobs
is $3.50 week for days work, plus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Detroit COP.
Like Hitler
Shoots Jew
Murder by Jew-Baiter
Arouses Mass
Indignation
BY A. B. MagiI

DETROIT, Jan. 11.-"You god
damn Jews ought to be run off Hast
ings Street. You need a Hitler in
this country to take care of YOU,
and you're going to get one"
1t was one of "Detroit's finest"
speaking, Policeman Startling Mark
ham. He and another cop, Robert
Brinkham, had just entered the
grocery and meat market owned by
a Jew, Simon Cash, on Hastings
Street, near Erskine. They came in
to give the owner a ticket because
he had his chicken coops protruding
six inches over the property line
onto the sidewalk. Cash was away
at the time and the only ones in
the place were his son, Charles. a
student at Wayne University, and
another young Jew, David Meister,
who worked there as butcher.
At Markham's insulting fascist
remarks, Meister replied that if the
cop were not in uniform, he would
take him outside and show him
what Hitler looked like. He also
said that he would report both
policemen for insulting the Jews.
The next day Markham ~and
Brinkham appeared again, wrote
out another ticket and again in
sr'tod the Jews. asking Meister how
he liked Hitler now. Meister
angercd, walked from behind the
meat counter, went to the fish
counter and picked up a plunger, a
stick about four feet long with a
rubber vacuum cap attached to it,
Brandishing the plunger, he ordered
the cops to get out. He followed
them to the door where Policeman
Brinkham put his foot on Meister's
foot, pulled out his gun and fired.
For Is days Meister lay in Re-
ceiving Hospital, critically wounded.
On Dec. % he died.
Immediately after the shooting,
detectives took Charles Cash, son
of the owner, who had witnessed the
affair, to headquarters for what they
said was questioning. At head
quarters the 1-year -old youth was
thrown into cell and treated like
criminal. He was held till the
next afternoon and released on
ST 900 bail on a charge of felonious
assault with intent to do great
bodily harm.
The attitude of the authorities is
further indicated by the behavior
of Judge Arthur Gordon, who when
young Cash appeared before him
for examination Jan, 4, declared the
policeman should have shot both of
them.
Large sections of the Jewish pop
ulation of Detroit have been aroused
by this brutal murder and frame-up.
Simon Cash, owner of the store,
wanted to rally mass protest move
ment to demand actions against the
fascist murderers. He has, how
ever. been restrained by the attor-
ney for his son, Larry Davidow,
who is a Socialist Party leader, and
by the Socialist Jewish Daily For
ward, who want to hush up the
whole matter.
The American League Against
War and Fascism has appointed a
committee to inv2Ssigsae the case
and offer its full support
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

tative of the Socialist Party leader
ship, Jaspe-. McLevy, is demagogic-
ally speaking about ''racketeering
in relief he is having a hard job
to whitewash another Socialist
leader, the city clerk Fred Schwartz
kopf. Mr.. Schwartzkopf is under
charges for receiving graft in the
form of loans" of nearly $500 ito
buy himself an automobile" from
an insurance broker. This would
not in itself be so terrible, but the
joker in the matter is that this
same insurance broker was awarded
a contract for the city by the same
Mr.. Schwartzkopf. Even five So
cialist Party representatives voted
in the Board of Aldermen to turn
over this matter to the prosecuting
attorney for action.
Things Smell Bad
Mr.. McLevy is now attempting
to put his fellow Socialists in line,
and have this little matter" set
aside Things smell bad in the
Socialist Party administration ana
in order to continue fooling the
workers McLevy is taking lessons
from Franklin D. Roosevelt in DEM
agogy TO save the face OF Social
Fascism at its best in Bridgeport.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Reply Shows Weakness
Of Linville's Protest
Against Loyalty Test

The weakness of the position
against the loyalty" QUESTIONABLE
taken by Henry R. Linville, presi-
dent of the Teachers Union, was
laid bare last week when George
j. Ryan, chairman Of the Board of
Examiners, delared that the ques-
ton of loalty is properly an ex-
animation question coming under
the head Of general fitness"
Linville had sent letter to DR..
George j. Ryan, basing his opposi-
ton to the QUESTIONABLE chiefly on
the legal ground that it was an
eligibility requirement and that
therefore only the Board Of Super
intendents had the legal power to
make such a test. The reply of Dr.
Smith denies that it is anything OF
the sort, but that it is simply an
examination question for candi-
dates and therefore completely
within the power of the Examiners
to force on candidates.
Although Linville had at first
agreed that the loyalty" question
naire was perfectly fair" he had
been forced by a Union Delegate
Assembly to make a protest against
it. The rank and file had tried to
widen the protest to include the
entire campaign against academic
freedom which the school author
tiles have been making.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
C.P. Endorses
East St. Louis
Worker Slate
4 Leaders of Struggle
Chosen TO Run for
City Offices
BY Bill Sentner

EAST ST. LOUIS. IL. Jan. IL
The Communist Party entered the
local election campaign yesterday
with an endorsement of the Work
ers Ticket on which one Negro and
three white working class leaders
are running for the offices of Mayor
and City Commissioners. This slate
will be the only one in the pri-
maries that comes off on February
10 that will include a Negro worker
for office.
The candidates, Mack Sheppard,
William z. Lipe, Ray Wycoff, and
Jessie Blue are known to East St.
Louis workers as organizers and
leaders Of many unemployed demon
straticns and struggles against evic-
tons, and in the fight for higher
wages. as in the Nut Pickers Strike,
the Levin Metal Strike, Federal
Barge Line Strike, the Philip SO"
strike, and many others.
The platform of the Workers
Ticket calls for the passage of the
W OAhCAs Nf44L.AAt JAOh AAIEtAg anu lAlcuA
ance Bill, H. r. 1927; for immediate
winter relief; for the demands of
the school children; protection Of
home owners and workers from
evictions and foreclosures; repeal of
the sales tax; loans to the vet
Grams and payment Of the bonus;
for full social. economic and politi-
cal equality for the Negro people,
the construction Of free City Hos
pital and clinic. free lighthouses and
swimming pools,
The Communist Party is issuing
an appeal to the Socialist workers,
and the members Of the Pacific
Movement and the Federal State
Aid Association to support these
worker candidates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

oughly csnvsssed with the paper.
The workers who received the
thousands Of extra copies Of the
Daily" which were printed during
the textile strike, and who were not
followed up, must be approached
again. Boston's past record shows
that it can succeed in increasing
the Daily Workers circulation.
Special Anniversary Edition
Boston, Furthermore, has set it,
self a minimum of 5000 sales for
the Special Anniversary and
Lenin Memorial Edition. 1t must
get off to good start in the cir
culatiOn campaign by achieving a
truly mass distribution of this
issue. This issue will be a great
incentive for new readers to be-
come regular readers. It should
be used as a groundwork for gain
ing BOstOn's quota in the drive.
Bundle orders and greetings for
this edition must be in by Jan. II.
Every workers organization and
Communist Party unit should be
urged to greet the Daily" on its
eleventh anniversary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

the circulation drive was already
speeding to the units and that dis
trict-wide publicity on the subscrip-
ton contest was under way.
Boston will have to secure 125 per
cent of its quota in the present
drive, if it is to equal its work in
the financial campaign.
II will have to go further, how
ever. to equal its record in last
years circulation drive. In that
drive it raised I2S per cent of its
quota, gaining 1928 new readers,
more than any other district ex-
cept New York.
In the present drive. its quota is
400 daily and 800 Saturday subscrip-
lions.
Why Boston Should Succeed
With the proper activity, Boston
can not fail to get the required
number of new readers and sub
scribers. New England like all other
parts of the country has tens of
thousands of militant workers, and
every one is potential reader of
the Daily Worker. Lawrence, New
Bedford, Haverhill, Fall River, Wor-
cester-these cities must be thor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
A MOTHERS BILL OF RIGHTS

In the article appearing in the
Daily Worker of January g. 1895, on
Maternity Aid Drive Planned in
Session. by Grace Hutchins,
there was an error in the report of
Margaret Cowl's speech at the wom-
ems session of the National Con-
gross for Unemployment and Social
Insurance. The sentence should
have read: After a report by Mar
garet Cowl, editor of the Working
Woman, on what is involved in ma
ternity insurance and a Mothers
Bill of Rights, Mrs. Nelson, of the
Reading Socialist Party. described
what she saw last summer in the
Soviet Union"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Grocery Clerks Vote
Strike in Chain Store

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 11.-By
a vote Of 295 against five, members
of Local 712 of Retail Clerks of the
International Protective Association.
voted Tuesday night to call strike
at the 200 stores of the Kroger Gro
Gerry and Baking Company, chain
grocers, with stores in Cleveland.
Akron, Kent and Barberton. The
date when the strike is to be called
is left in the hands of the execu-
tive board of the local, which will
meet Monday evening to make the
decision. The strike decision was
taken after negotiations extending
for over two weeks failed to bring
an agreement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Robert Minor Will Give
Main Report on Tasks
in Municipal Poll

CHICAGO, Jan. II. - In tn e
Eighth Ward here, two hundred
workingmen and women met in a
united front conference and nom
mated young milk wagon driver,
George RACE, as their candidate for
Alderman.
From his past record, which had
won their esteem, they know that
il they elect him. they will have
someone in the City Council who
would speak for their interests,
someone who will fight for their
daily needs, for better living con-
ditions.
Approximately every third person
in this ward is totally unemployed,
and thousands are on part-time
work. There are hundreds on the
miserable, inadequate relief, living a
life of slow starvation. Other fam
lilies are denied any kind of relief
at all.
Immediately on learning of RACE
nom'nqtion, the Capitol Dairy Com
pany, for which he drove wagon,
fired him, and refused to refund
his bond of 5000. The company
figured, of course, that it would
make a horrible example of him.
But the Capitol Dairy Company
now wishes that it had not been so
hasty. The workers who nominated
RACE rallied their relatives and
neighbors, thereby bringing strong
pressure to bear on the dairy COM
pany, and demanding RACE re-
instatement. Telephone calls from
working class organizations all over
the city. kilograms of protest, and
other effective forms of protest, gave
the dairy company something to
think about
RACE, they discovered, had become
figure of Importance. The voters,
aroused by this fragrant Fascist
persecution, and its denial of fun
damental American rights, dug in
for real fight. And then the
regular politicians began to worry.
In no time the workers had COL
lected more than enough signatures
to place RACE on the ballot; and in
their house-to-house canvass and
their mass meeting they made con-
tact with the dissatisfied rank and
file of the Democratic Party who
are in almost open revolt against
the present incumbent who is can
didate for reelection. The RACE
struggle has spread throughout the
city, almost as if it had been routed
over the Capitol Dairy lines. His
candidacy has become a concentra-
ton issue in the workers United
Front Election campaign. He will
be introduced at the city-wide
united front election conference
which is to be held tomorrow morn
ing at Mirror Hall, 1876 North
Western Avenue.
The RACE case, in addition to
stripping all pretense OF fair play"
and democracy" from the employ
ers, has likewise exposed once more
the footing of the leadership
of the American Federation of
Labor and its alignment with the
employers against militancy on the
part of the workers. RACE was a
member of the Milk Drivers Union
for six years; yet the union failed
to come to his defense when he
was fired. Against this open chal-
lenge to the American Federation
Of Labor, the leaders do nothing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Workers Clubs to Give
Course in Principles
Of Club Organization

A call was issued yesterday by
the Associated Workers Clubs to all
members of the clubs to register for
the class in Principles of Club Or
ganization" which will begin next
Tuesday evening, Jan. IS, 7 to $50
o'clock at 35 East Twelfth Street.
The tremendous growth of the
clubs in recent months has brought
with it an increased demand for
trained leaders. The classes will be
open to both members and non
members at a nominal charge OF
$3.50 for employed and S125 for
unemployed workers or students.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Newark Rally

NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 11.-New-
ark's Lenin Memorial Meeting will
be held at Laurel Garden, Asst
Springfield Avenue, Newark, on
Sunday afternoon, Jan. 20, it was
announced today by Henry SAFER,
district organizer.
The Soviet film masterpiece.
Three Songs About Lenin," will be
shown. The featured speaker will
be Carl Reeve of the staff of the
Daily Worker.
The meeting will close with vio-
lin selections by Carlo, 14-year-old
musician. accompanied by Mae
Globerman, and presentation by
the Jack London Theater.
The meeting will begin promptly
at $50; doors will be opened an
hour earlier
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
PoINDExTER OPENS FIGHT

4 CHICAGO, Jan. 11.-Demanding
the immediate release of Herbert
Newton as one plank in his platform
1 for Negro rights, David r. Poin-
/ dexter. city secretary Of the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights, fired
the opening gun in his campaign
for alderman of the Third Ward at
the Royal Circle Hall on Wednesday
nigit
1.-THE Imprisonment of Herbert
NeWton for seventy-two days in
Brideweu is not a case against
Newton alone, declared Poindexter,
but an attack on every Negro in
Chicago. Newton was imprisoned
for picketing Wendell Phillips High
School demanding t he right Of
Negroes to jobs on public works. He
was imprisoned for insisting on his
right to live in a fiat for which he
had paid rent.
IF we allow his sentence to go
urchallenged, no Negro will be safe
in his home if landlord decides to
make it white building; no Negro
will win the right to work on public
works and other constructions"
Other speakers at the meeting
Fvere Jane Newton, wife of the Com
munis5 candidate for City Clerk,
recent victor 10 a sanity trial follow
ing her eviction, Dr. Arthur B. Falls,
OF the Interracial Commission of
the Urban League, and Robert
Minor, of the Central Committee Of
the Communist Party. A telegram
was sent to newly elected Congress
man Arthur Mitchell. insisting that
he take action on the Newton case
by wiring the court to vacate the
sentence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Living Costs Go Up

WASHINGTON (FP)--Consumers
have been paying SAL per cent more
for lard, 272 per cent more for
canned peas, 236 per cent more for
butter and 214 per cent more for
oranges in November, 1884 than in
the same month of 1888, according
to the Consumers Guide, publica-
ton of the Department of Agricui-
ture. For most other foods con-
sumers a-e paying anywhere from
5 to Is per cent more this year
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Chicago Mass Meeting
To Expose Hearst Lies
Against Soviet Union


CHICAGO, Ill.-A mass meeting
to expose the ISLANDERS Of the Hearst
press and rally support for the
Soviet Union, has been called for
Wednesday evening at o'clock at
the North Side Turner Hall, $40
North Clark Street. by the Friends
Of the Soviet Union.
In the call it was pointed out
that it is of vital Importance at
this time when all the imperialist
countries are trying to prepare a
war against the workers father
land, that the American workers
understand the facts surrounding
the Kirov assassins ton so that they
will be prepared to defeat the plans
of the war makers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Toledo Labor Unions
Endorse Fight Against
War and + ascis M

TOLEDO, Ohio Jan. 1.-THE
Central Labor Union of Toledo, rep
resenting more than 10000 organized
workers, endorsed every resolution
passed by the recent Conference
Against War and Fascism. The con-
ference was initiated by the Amer
lean League Against War and Fas-
cism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

Sellers of he Daily Worker:
What have your experiences been
in SLING the paper to workers he
fore factories, on street corners,
AZ meetings. and in the home?
Write the Daily Worker. Letters
will be published to stimulate
participation in the circulation
campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Police Fire Into Ranks
OF Minneapolis Strikers

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Jan. IL
A picket line of fifteen striking gar
age workers was fired into at the
Tri-Motor Company Garage Offices.
This is the second time gunfire
has been used against the garage
employees. Lewis lie Mieux was in
iured by the gunfire
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Milwaukee Meeting

MILWAUKEE,, Jan. II. = The
Lenin Memorial Meeting in Milwau-
kee will be held Sunday evening,
Jan. 20. at 7:30 PM, in the Plank
linton Hall of the Milwaukee Audi
forum. Max Bedacht of New York,
national secretary of the Interna-
tional Workers Order. will be the
main speaker in addition to local
speakers. An attractive musical
program has been ARRANGED.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
Wages Drop

WASHINGTON (FP) = Average
weekly earnings of factory workers
in December, 1894, show drop TO
$1,000 from the years high point
of $2100 in May, according to De-
partment Of Commerce estimates
based on reports from 25 industries
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12
cTYWIDE ELECTION RALLY TO MEET TOMORROW IN CHICAGO
Conference to Launch
Fight of c. P. Candidates
Workers to Push Fight
for Election of RACE
in Eighth Ward

CHICAGO, Jan. 11.-Their fight
ing. spirit aroused by the flagran
fascist attacks of the Hearst pres
and the American Legion leader
and their courage heightened by the
Hlflsboro victory scored this week.
the working class of Chicago, led
by the Communist Party. is making
last minute preparations for the
workers united front election con-
ference which is to be held tomor-
row at 1880 am. at Mirror Hall.
ll36 North Western Avenue.
The workers assembled at Sun
days conference will hear men and
women from their own class who
have risen to leadership because
they were always in the forefront Of
the masses struggles.
Robert Minor will give the main
report. When he finishes, the floor
will be open to discussion by the
delegates from working class Or
CARNATIONS. There will be six dele
gates there from American Fedora
ZION OF LABOR locals. In true demo-
cratic fashion they will discuss the
program presented by the Commu-
mist Party, and organize their forces
to carry this program to Chicago's
masses Of working men and women.
Other speakers will be the Com
Imunist candidate for Mayor, twenty
five year old Karl Lockner, leader
of the Cook County Unemployment
Councils, and the Communist can
didate for City Treasurer. Sam
Hammersmark, veteran leader of
the working class. Every effort is be-
ing made to get the candidate for
City Clerk, Herbert Newton, Negro,
released from Jail to appear at the
conference. He is in Jail for his
leadership in the struggle against
racial discrimination.
The thirty-f1ve candidates nom
mated for Aldermen at Workers
United Front Conferences in the
wards, will be present. Six of these
are Negroes; four are women work
ers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-12

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES your greet
ings to the Daily Worker on its
Eleventh Anniversary. Your
greetings should reach the Daily
before January 18th.