The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1933, Page 1

SEND GREETINGS FOR THE ANNIVERSARY EDITION! EVERY READER GETS A NEW SUBSCRIBER! 1, Mention the Daily lets, posters and cards issued in your district. 2. Visit former expired subscribers and ask ‘hem to renew their subs. Worker in all leaf- 3. Take advantage of the combination of- fers in subscribing for the “Daily”. Dail Central Orga -Cd 4 “OD (Section of the Communist International) Vol. X, No. 6 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office s¢ <2 New York, ¥. » under the Act of March &, 1878. Lower Standard of Living Is the Roosevelt Plan NEW YORK—“The Democratic Party leaders’ conference with Pres- ident-elect Roosevelt here Thursday brought out as was expected an- nouncement of drastic attacks on the living standards of workers and plans leading straight to more unemploy- ment,” the Department of Agit- ation and Propaganda of the New York District of the Communist Par- ty stated yesterday. District Agit- prop Secretary Alexander pointed out that Roosevelt, Garner and Senate leader Robinson were so much against even hearing the demands of the unemployed for relief and insur- ance that they denied admittance to the delegation of five from 4,000 un- employed demonstrating at Columbus Circle, and sent police sluggers to attack the 4,000 when they marched on Roosevelt’s house. Instead, the Roosevelt conference announced that legislation would be shoved through for reduction of ap~ Propriations by $100,000,000 which means even less public works than even the little now going on, and lower pay for it. In addition, the income tax will be brought to bear more heavily, not on the rich but on the poor who still have jobs, by reducing the exempt level for married workers from $2,500 a‘ year to $2,000 a year income. In this group come many teachers, civil service and government employes, skilled workers, etc. The proposat to tax beer is another way of looting the workers, and leads to still more sales taxes on other goods. “*These proposals of Roosevelt, his chiefs and the bankers and capital- ists are evidence of the intention of Roosevelt to continue the hunger pol- | icy of Hoover,” said Alexander. | “Tt necessitates that the workers of | New York push with ever greater | energy the struggle for adequate re- \Ijef and unemployment insurance. |The Communist Party sections are \to work harder at organizing bloc (committees and building the Unem- \ ployed Councils, as the basis of the | struggle by the unemployed. Mrs, JAMES TELLS MURDER STORY ‘Vivid Picture of Negro ! Oppression in South BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 6—The inside story of the bloody murders of “\ Negro croppers by landlord-police \gangs at Reeltown, December 19, was told today by Mrs. Hancy James, who, with Mrs. Gussie Bentley, came to Birmingham to attend the mass funeral held today for their murdered husbands, Cliff James and Milo Bentley, leaders of the Sharecroppers Union, A vivid picture of the murderous national oppression of the Negro masses and the landlord robbery of the croppers of Alabama is contained in this simple statement of what took place. The story is in itself a challenge to the workers of the world to join in the struggle against the frightful oppression and exploi- tation of: the Negro masses in the Black Belt. It is a call to all organ- izations to take part in the mass fight against murder and terror in Ala- bama which is being waged under the leadership of the International Labor Defense. The conditions de- scribed ate those which are most in- timately and inseparably connected with the fight for the lives and free- domi of the Scottsboro boys, which is part of the fight for national libera- tion of the Negro people. _ Statement of Mrs. James Following is the statement of Mrs. Nancy James, wife of Clifford James, Negro farmer whose house was orig- inally attacked, and who was turned over by Tuskegee Hospital officials to the sheriff's lynch-gangs, to die of infected wounds in Montgomery County jail: “My husband, Clifford James, and I, were both born in Macon county, and lived on farms in that part of the country all our lives. Cliff was 46 years old, and he was a sharecrop- per until seven years ago, when he bought a farm from T. M. Fuller for $1,600. Cliff did not have any money, and W. S. Parker, who owns a gen- eral store in Notasulga, loaned the money and took a mortgage. The only other money that Cliff owed to Parker was $6 which Cliff had bor- rowed a few weeks before he was | “Our stock consisted of two cows, two mules, two calves and a heifer. “Saturday, December 17, Cliff told (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Christian Co. Terror Protested by LL.D. NEW YORK —Protesting against the reign of terror in Christian County, Ill., which has resulted in the past two days in the murder of @ man and 2 woman, the wounding of 17 others, and the arrest of 18 miners and their wives, on framed charges of murder—tor killings by coal company thugs—William L. Patterson, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, has wired Governor Henry Horner of Il- linois, demanding that the reign of terror be stopped, the militia who are aiding it withdrawn, and the framed prisoners released, Aim Is to Curb the G The Senate sub-committee FOSTER EXPLAINS DEMAND ON HOURS' Exposes Black Bill As Boss Instrument Wm. Z. Foster, National Secretary of the T.U.U.L. has issued the following statement relative to the Black Senate Bill which ostensibly proposes by prohibiting from interstate commerce commodities pro- duced by workers employed for more than 30 hours per week, to initiate the thirty hour week in in- dustry by Federal Legislation: A rep- resentative of the T.U.U.L., William F. Dunne, a member of the National Committee ot the T.U.U.L. will ap- pear before the Senate Committee and state the position of our organ- ization as follows: Against Wage Cutting. 1.—In the fourth year of the crisis with "16,000,000 unemployed workers in the U. S. and with no provision | made for their support through com- | pulsery unemployment insurance at (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) BEAT JOBLESS AT RELIEF BUREAU Coney Island Council Calls Demonstration By BEN STALLMAN. NEW YORK.—Lena Rosenberg, of the Brighton Beach Unemployed Council, was severely beaten and ar- rested at the Home Relief Bureau, 25th and Benson Aves., because, as a member of the Brighton Beach Un- employed Council, she came to de- mand relief for a starving family. When the police attacked Rosen,- berg the Unemployed Council of Brighton Beach, whose committee of 30 had just come up to demand re- lief for 16 families, swung into ac- tion in defense of the Brighton Beach comrade, Reinforcements of 50 cops immed- jately rushed in and set to work swinging their clubs and blackjacks on the unarmed workers. A woman bystander witnessing this horrible scene and hearing the curses shouted by the cops, declared, “Good god, if these poor souls are Commu- nists, I’m a Communist myself.” This woman was instantly attacked, beat- en and arrested by the police. ‘The Unemployed Council, at a huge mass meeting in the Coney Island Workers Center Hall held that eve- ning, issued a call of mobilization of its forces for a huge demonstration to be held next week before the Home Relief Bureaus. Trial Monday Morning Lena Rosenberg’s trial will come up this Monday at i0 a. m. All work- ers are urged to attend the trial, which will be held at the West 8th St. Court in Coney Island. To show what the conditions are at the Home Relief Bureaus, the writer of this report filed an appli- cation for relief at one of these bu- Treaus over three weeks ago, but still is starving and waiting to be “in- vestigated.” Boro ParkUnemployed Council Forces Relief for 16 Needy Cases |-NEW YORK.— Sixteen workers were given relief on the spot when a@ committee of 40 members of the Boro Park Unemployed Council ac- companied them to the Home Relief Bureau in Boro Park and demanded immediate relief. This victory is the result of a militant struggle of several days. Several days ago the Home Relief Bureau thought it had proken up the Unemployed Council by throwing its committee out and arresting some members, who were given suspended sentences. But yesterday a committee of 40 came back, and despite a police at- tack forced their way into the Home Relief Bureau and got relief for the 16 workers. Mass pressure of the workers also forced the police to allow an open air meeting, which was at first denied. Union Members bill which proposes prohibition of interstate commerce in articles produced by workers employed more than 30 hours} per week heard William Green, President of the American Fed-| eration of Labor, Friday. The bill itself is the latest move At the open air meeting, in response BEDS PRA GREEN SIDETRACKS HIS - JOBLESS INSURANCE MOVE; | NOW OUT FOR BLACK BILL A. F. of L. Officialdom Makes Maneuver on. _Shorter Hours rowing Revolt of the holding sessions on the Black designed to feed hungry work- ers with futile hope of more jobs, New Form of Demagogy. Green’s statements in favor of the bill and for the 30-hour week it is supposed to establish in manu- facturing and other industries such as mining, accompanied by advocacy of strike action to obtain it, “by calling strikes wherever men are or- ganized, by withholding the services of the employes,” marks a new man- euver by A. F. of L. officialdom in relation to the whole problem of the working class and its struggles against the whole hunger system, the “share-the-work-plan and for com- pulsory federal unemployment in- surance. Now Its “the 30-Hour Week!” At the recent convention of the A. F. of L. in Cincinnati Green yelled at the top of his voice for unem- ployment insurance on a state basis. To the Senate Committee Thursday he stated that “organized labor did not want the dole.” One day it is unemployment insurance—the next it is the 30-hour week. But it is al- ways in line with capitalist party tactics. It is clear that the demagogy of the A. F. of L. leadership centering around the idea of splitting up the mass movement for compulsory fed- eral unemployment insurance at the expense of the government and the employers into legislative Jobb; in various states, has not.checke the growth of the mass movement— at least not sufficiently to sult Greet and his capitalist masters. Hunger March Big Factor, The National Hunger March and the tremendous support accorded it throughout the country has con- vinced the A. F. of L. leadership and the employers’ representatives in (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BONUS FOES IN A NEW VET ATTACK Veterans Must Answer With Struggle NEW YORK.—Slandering hun- dreds of thousands of ex-service- men, whom he called “swivel-chair veterans,” Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, one of the leaders of the recently or- ganized American Veterans Associa- tion, in a radio address over Station WJZ demanded that the government refuse to pay the bonus till 1945 and that more than 400,000 disabled vet- erans be deprived of the paltry com- pensation they are now getting. Colonel Adler’s speech was an- other shot in the campaign, inspired by Wall Street bankers and led by such organizations as the National Economy League, in which leading republicans and democrats are coop- erating, against the men who risked life and limb to swell Wall Street's profits. The American Veterans Associa~ tion, which cicims members in 42 states, is composed largely of officers and well-to-do veterans. The over- whelming majority of the more than 3,000,000 bonus holders, thousands of whom are unemployed, are solidly in favor of bonus payment now and against any cuts in disability allow- ances. Around these demands and the demands for local relief for job- less vets a real united front move- ment is being built under the direc- tion of the committee of five elected at the bonus marchers’ conference in Washington Dec, 8. Workers Force Relief for Negro Comrades; Disposses Withdrawn NEW YORK.--stx Negroes were granted $10 cash relief immediately and promised jobs in the near future,. as the result of a demonstration of the Needle Trades Unemployed Coun- cil before the Emergency Relief Bureau at 297 Fourth Avenue. A single woman worker was granted relief at the Elizabeth St. Bureau through the aid of the Jewish Social Service and the Unemployed Council. A threatened di was with- drawn and a $15 food ticket was granted at the 102nd St. Bureau thru the militancy of workers who came to the aid of a poverty stricken family. to the call for united struggle made by Michael La Vera and many workers joined the Council, Roosevelt Handles “Forgotten Men” 4000 New York Jobless received the answer from President-elect Roosevelt when they demonstrated before his city home at 49 E. 65th Street and asked: “When Do We Eat?” with his congressional agents ignoring the hunger march demands and planning new attacks on the masses, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1933 orker unicst Party U.S.A. Roosevelt was in conference “Who Said We Accepted WageCut?” Demand IRT Men, Planning Fight Company, Tammany “Receivers” Cut Pay Ten To 30 Per Cent, Gave Bankers $5,683,925 Demand Meeting to Vote Against Slash; Group Calls on Workers to Pass the Word Around NEW YORK.—“Who said, We Accept the Wage Cut?” demands a state- ment issued in leaflet form today by a group of I. R. T. workers. The statement points out: “The receivers of the I. R. T. (subway) Co. announced a general wage cut ranging from 10 to 30 per cent. At the | same time that the Company gives us a wage cut, it turns over to the | bankers $5,683,925 for interest pay-@— = ments! This wage cut was announc- ed in the press after a secret con- ference between the company offi- cials and their spotters—the presi- dents of the Brotherhood locals. It is stated that we accept the cut.” (Note by Daily Worker: the “Brother- hood” is a company union), The Group of I. R. T. workérs, con- tinue: “Did the “deléeates of the “Brotherhood” call a meeting to con- sult with us on the wage-cut or did they issue a referendum for our ac- ceptance or rejection? No! The bankers and the companv demanded a wage-cut and these “Brotherhhod Officials” agreed at our expense. “This wage cut will mean slow starvation for many of us on the job! Some of us have had our pay reduced time and time again through the speed-up system, cutting hours, efficiency methods and through gen- eral worsening of conditions. Now they demand a big $3,500,000 wage slash! It means from $3 to $10 taken out of our pay. “We must unite our strength to stop this robbery. The first and im- mediate step is for all of us to de- mand from the delegates a meeting to take up the wage cut and a vote under the supervision of a committee elected by the men. “Insist on a meeting and vote down the wage cut! Talk it over with the man next to you in the shop, on the run, at the terminal! For further in- formation communicate with Joe Gilbert, 1485 East 96th St., Brooklyn.” There have been mutterings of op- Position to the cut ever since it was announced, not even by posted no- tices but with ruthless suddenness, in the capitalist press. Various newspapers have sent around their reporters to make fake stories about the willingness of the men to accept the cut, and theh ne- cessity for the cut. In Monday’s edition the Daily Worker will publish an exposure of the hook up between the I. R. T. Company; the Tammany. graft, and: the whole crooked intrigue of the Brotherhood heads. Furniture Workers Picket Outside Of Cop-controlled Line HOBOKEN, N. J., Jan. 6—Louis Budenze, an A. F. of L. organizer and well-known misleader of workers’ struggles, has tried to force himself into the leadership of the strike of 300 workers in the Ferguson Bros. Novelty Furniture Co. factory, with the help of, the police.. He appeared on the scene at the same time that the organizer for the Furniture Workers Industrial Union was put out of the city by the police. Budenze immediately arranged with the police for the establishment of a picket line, under police control. Seeing the uselessnes of such a picket line, the workers said they were dis- gusted with it and would not parti- | cipate. Instead the strikers formed a real picket line a few blocks away where the scabs were passing. There they showed real action. At the strikers’ mass meeting yes- terday, Jack Hochstadt, Furniture Workers Industrial Union organizer, exposed the way in which Budenze and his crowd were holding back the organization of committees needed to carry on a proper fight. CITY EVENTS CONFERENCE TODAY ON ORGANIZING UNEMPLOYED Unemployed Council calls all leading officials of unions, members of unemployed committees, unemployed council, representatives of opposi- tion groups, unemployed committees in A.F.L. to a conference on problems of organizing unemployed and part time workers, today, 6 p.m., Manhat- tan Lyceum. . WORKERS SCOOL OPEN FORUM TODAY AT IRVING PLAZA Amter will speak on “The Political Significance of the National Hun- ger March,” at 8 p.m., today, at Irving Plaza, in the Workers School Forum. Note change from usual time and place. . . * ‘WORKERS’ CENTER BANQUET Provisional Committee set up by the Central Committee has arranged a Banquet to help save the Workers Center, which is in serious financial danger. Banquet is at Workers Center, 35 East 12th Street, Second Floor, at 7 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 8. Special program. All mass organizations urged to prepare for it. Club, 140 Broad St. A the bank at the expense of the * DEMONSTRATE BEFORE ITALIAN CONSULATE TODAY United Front Committee for Liberation of Italian Political Prisoners calls all to a mass meeting at 350 East 81st St., at 11 a.m., today, and to demonstrate at noon before the Italian consulate, at the corner of Lexington Ave, and 70th St. MARCH ON RELIEF BUREAU MONDAY . THEATRE PERFORMANCE, “DAILY” TO BENEFIT Performance of a revolutionary play in Russian, “The Mutiny On A Cruiser” and dance Sunday at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth Street Daily Worker to get 40 per cent of proceeds. Doors open 4 a.m. . * « DANCE, BENEFIT OF MARINE UNION Marine Workers Dance, today, at 8 p.m., at International Seamen's DEMONSTRATE AGAINST HOSTILE NEWSPAPER Victims of the U. S. Bank swindle will meet to protest in front of “The Jewish Day,” today, at 4 p.m., against that paper’s favoring owners of cheated depositors. Anniversary-Lenin the Daily Worker, 1. Send greetings for the special Ninth Memorial edition of Jan. 14. 2. Get your friends and shepmates and sympathetic organizations to greetings. send All greetings must be in not later than Jan. 9. CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents JAPANESE CONTINUE ADVANCE OVER RUINS OF SHANHAIKWAN; TOKIO BOSS PRESS THREATENS MORE MASSACRE “Chugai Shogyo” Refers to Murderous Bombardment of Civilian Pop- ulation as “A Trifle” and “Only a Miniature of What Is Coming” city. Se Stes se FIRST MOVE FOR A WAR CABINET Stimson-Hoover Meet on Wall St. Policy WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6.—To| secure “confidential cooperation” and | “continuity” of Wall Street foreign Policy in the Far East in connection | with the spread of imperialist war being waged by Japan against the Chinese people, which once more sharpens the Japanese-American ri- valry at all points, endangering Wall | Street's investments and spheres of influence in China, a conference has been arranged between President- elect Roosevelt and Secretary of State Stimson. The conference can be taken as a step toward putting the State De- partment on a war basis by joint Democrat and Republican action. The White House announced through Theodore G. Joslin, Presi- dent. Hoover's secretary, that: “The President received a request from Présidént-elect Roosevelt that the Secretary of State should discuss matters with him relating to the De- partment of State. The President is arranging a meeting at the Gover- nor’s convenience,” Hoover and Mills It_is believed certain that President Hoover will attend the coming con- ference. Secretary of the Treasury Mills also will probably be present, since the Far Eastern question is bound up directly with the issue of the war debts and the coming world economic conference. | i} “Close Cooperation” The coming conference will not stand alone. It will undoubtedty work out a method by which, accord- ing to official sources, “a close co- operation will develop which will merge the present foreign policies of the Hoover administration harmoni- ously into those of the next adminis- tration.” In other words, the big banking interests which dominate both parties feel that the foreign situation is so serious that a common policy must | be carried through so that no organ- izational. friction shall hamper d2- cisive “action in a period which de- velops more and more rapidly toward imperialist war. Angered by Wheat Shipment It is known here that the Japanese government considers that the financ- ing of the recent shipment of 40,000,- 000 bushels of wheat to the Nanking government, by the Farm Board, as | a definite act in opposition to Jap-| anese military interests. The charge is made that this wheat went to the | armies of the Nanking government, and while principally intended to aid the Nanking forces against the Soviet districts and the Red Armies, much of.it fell into Communist hands. It is admitted openly in official circles that in the Far East “we are confronted with a dangerous situa- | tion.” It is stated that it is vital for | “American interests” to convince the world that “there is no important division of opinion on this question.” The first move for a “war cabinet” has been made by the arrangement of the coming conference. Plan Fight on Move to Cut Evening Hizch School Term in Half NEW YORK.—Students of the eve- ning high schools which are attended almost entirely by workers, are organ- izing a struggle against the proposed reduction in the number of nights of the school term. As part of the Tammany program to balance the budget at the expense of the workers, it has been proposed that the number of nights be cut by nearly half, from 95 to 50. The teachers, whose wages have been slashed 10 per cent, declare it is impossible to cram the work of 95 nights into 50. East New York Unemployed Council calls all workers at its head- quarters 481 New Jersey Ave., 10:30 a.m. Monday to march on Home Relief Bureau All evening students are urged to elect delegates who should get in touch with the National. Student League, .13 West 17th St. ° In the Day’s News HOOVER AT COOLIDGE FUNERAL NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Jan. 6. — Calvin Coolidge will be buried here tomorrow at 10:30 a. m. Herbert Hoover, the “hunger” president and patron of countless Hoovervilles will attend the funeral together with other capitalist dignitaries who will pay tribute to the fallen arch-enemy of the working class. eae de COP SQUEALS IN FRAUD TRIAL. NEWARK, Jan. 6. — The Jersey “ballot steal” trial resumed today, with the star witness, Patrolman Herter, who was assigned to guard the stolen 8,000 ballots continuing his testimony as to how a reporter of the Newark Star-Eagle promised him protection from democratic politicians, including William J. Egan, Director of Public Safety. THEATRE WORKERS STRIKE. CHICAGO, Jan. 6. — Six stage harids went out on strike at the Gar- rick Theatre in sympathy with the musicians who had been laid off dur- ing the time “The Family Upstairs” was being shown. The theatre was forced to close. ove’ Je TROOPS MOVE ON MINERS. WILDER, Tenn., Jan. 6.—Troops were again called out against the miners, but this time -in the coal fields of Fentress and Overton Coun- ties where the coal companies are calling on the government to drown in blood the mine workers struggle against starvation. The troops are under the direction of Gen. Boyd. PULL GIANT COFFIN OF 19, CHERBOURG, France, Jan. 6. — Tugs were still pulling at the wreck of the French luxury liner, Atlan- tique, slowly towing it toward Havre where the ship owners are in hopes of salvaging something of value that may have been left after the fire in which 19 sailors lost their lives. WORKERS, ARTISTS, PICKET THIS A. M. Rent Strike Rally ‘at; 11th and Ave. A. NEW YORK.—Artists, writers and workers on rent strike at the corner of East 11th St. and Avenue A urgent- ly request that as many workers as | possible, especially members of the John Reed Club, shall be on the scent of the strike at 10 o'clock this morn: | ing to help in mass picketing. | The landlord at 501, 503 and 505} East llth St. and 176, 178 and 180} Avenue A has not reduced rent in| two years. Jules Antonsen, the jan- itor, in fact, recently remarked to 4 neighbor that “we're still getting away with the old graft.” Five evictions are scheduled for this Monday, when an_ especially large turn-out for mass picketing is urged. The workers, artists and writers are united with the assistance of the lo- cal Unemployed Council, 96 Avenue A, to force a 25 per cent reduction in rents, recognition of the house committee and no evictions. Yesterday morning the landlord of 182 Avenue A, a policeman named Wertheimer, threatened one of his tenants who insisted on helping to picket. “If you go out on that picket line, I'll break your goddamed neck,” the policeman shouted. The tenant and his wife, however, were escorted to the picket line under the protec- tion of the committee of the rent strikers. Several weeks ago Policeman Wert- heimer locked this tenant and his wife in their room for twa days he- cause they had not been able to pay him rent. Another of Wertheimer's expressions yesterday was: “I would not think twice about going to the chair for a guy like you.” This death threat was only one of the many ex-- plosions, including an avalanche of swear words, of the cop, » All out this morning! U.S. Workers Called to Build Anti-War Committees; Stop Munitions; Demonstrate at Lenin Memorial Meeting Japanese planes yesterday bombed several Chinese villages near the smoking ruins of Shanhaikwan Japanese warships are gathering in the Chinwangtao harbor several miles south of Shanhaikwan, while additional Japanese troops and munitions are being rushed through Shanhaikwan from Manchuria. The men of the 19th Route Army are demanding that the Nanking government permit them to pro- ceed against the Japanese invaders. Japanese troops and tanks yesterday continued their advance into North China over the smoking ruins of Shanhaikwan and the mangled bodies of more than 3,000 Chinese civilians ruthlessly slaughtered by Japanese imperialism in its murderous 3-day bombardment of Shanhaikwan City, gateway to North China and Jehol Province. Japanese warships have ‘at the same time trained their guns on the working-class sections of Chinwangtao and other North China cities. The advancing Japanese forces have opened fire on Chi- nese troops on the banks of the Shi River, between Chinwangtao and Shanhaikwan. Meanwhile the Japanese boss press cynically refer to the destruc- tion of Shanhaikwan and the mur- der and maiming of thousands of civil'ans as only “a trifle” and but “a miniature of what is coming.” The Tokio “Asahi,” which is clos to the Japanese Government, de clares in effect that the destruction of Shanhaikwan and the slaughter o thousands of its civilian population is intended as a lesson to the Chines: people. The “Asahi” states edi- torially: “If the Chinese persist in thei present attitude, Japan and Manchu- kuo will be compelled to take positive action against China, Jehol is par: (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) VETS DEMAND RELIEF GRANTED TO THEM BY LAW Delegation Exposes Violation by Gov't NEW YORK.—The Department 0 Public Welfare has rejected a demani made by a delegation of veterans from Post 35 (the Bronx) and Pos: 191 (Lower Manhattan) the Work ers Ex-Servicemen’s League that i enforce the law providing special re lef for unemployed veterans, irre spective of whether they are marrie or single, peace-time or war-time ex- soldie: ‘The delegation asked for an inter- view with Commissioner Taylor; the’ were told Taylor was out and wer: received by Deputy Commissione: Kelley. They asked Kelley why th» law was so flagrantly violated ancl demanded the special relief all jobless veterans’ are entitled to other thai public charity and flophouses. Kelley” replied that Corporation Council Hil- ly interpreted the law differently—- that is, in a way that saves the bosse money and denies relief to tens 0: thousands of starving vets. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Lea- gue relief committee will now sen a delegation to Corporation Counse! Hilly to demand that the law be in- terpreted as written. The law state? quite specifically: ’ “A person, male or female, who has served in the military or nayal service of the United States and has been honorably discharged from such service, and his or her family, including a dependent wi- dow or daughter and the families of any who may be deceased, when in need of public relief and care, shall be eligible for veterans’ relief if such person or persons have re- sided in the state for the year next preceding the application for relief. ‘They shall be given relief and care in their homes, or if not practicable to care for such persons in their homes, they may be committed to a soldiers home or other state in- stitution or to any other home or hospital, but no person eligible for veterans’ relief shall be committed to a public home as defined in this chapter.” All veterans are urged to back up the fight to force the city government to grant veterans’ relief to all unem~ ployed ex-servicemen. ‘Daily’ to Expose Gibson Swindle and L R. T. Cut Intrigue Be sure to get Monday's edition o! the Daily Worker next week for the story of the dirty plotting that wenf on between Tammany and the IRT heads and Brotherhood to cut the wages of the subway and elevated workers. Be sure to get Tuesday's edition of the Daily Worker for James Ca~ sey's exposure of the bankers’ fake relief drive, the Gibson Committee campaign! Place your bundle orders now for these two issues! i