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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MON AY, MAY 1933 Page Three | N. Y. TRADE UNION NEWS Roosevelt Rail Act 195 DELEGATES AT UNITED FRONT Aids R.R. Bankers; 300,000 Will Lose Jobs | CONFERENCE IN BRONX PLEDGE SUPPORT TO BAKERY STRIKERS Bye cated will Not Permit Pensions to Otfset : Jismissals”, Says I.C.C. Head, as-Billion s’ Pockets ORDER QUICK , MOBILIZATION FOR CAMPS Rate of Recruiting for Forcéd Labor to Sur- pass War Time NEW YORK.—What was termed as an historical achievement in the unity of. the workers of the Bronx in the fight against boss oppression occurred at a Conference held ‘yesterday at Golden Gates Mansions, Bronx, when 195 delegates, representing 118 political ‘his second ““ii- S340 PER DAY “A Waz-Maneuver,” Ad- mits €apitalist Press WASHINGT rogram €ERo a N. T. viusaads of needie t W, I. U, May 14. The echner to place into the foresi 1 was approved by cveltem@his decision was rea a conference : her and of: Mi the War Depariment will haveggg receive at the rate of 8540 men every day ‘He said: ut officials advise of 8,540 men re- be greater than the average rate maintained by both the army cities in 13 state: and navy of the United States during to seat the seven delegates represent- ing the national organization of the Unemployed Councils, The Western | delegations and delegates from the mining regions supporied the seating of the Unemployed Council delega- ‘iitinnt , tion. The Chicago committee was ee pahee only ok split three to three on seating the delegates, ¥ Karl Borders and his group have quietly anéftvith few people realizing for a long time opposed a united front with the Unemployed Coun- st | cils, In October of last year on the has | initiative of the Chicego Unemployed | Councils 2 united front with the Fed- eration of Unemployed was organized. ‘tment in this cas gh the test of the it can mobilize men hs sivength oesome $90.0 iy Some 250,000 men. ‘ough the réforestration . Phrough this Roos-velt is ups a tremendous reserve army, 2 geoup of men which can be whinped info fighting shape in re- cord tii he continued. Info ‘ion from the Navy is that under Roosevelt's order 169 naval doctors will be transferred to the foreed lab§r “camps. They will serve as oificerS@bifere. With all jis forces geared for war and -eve-y Z¥empt to force the un- employed aso the camps the federal government is meeting a number of sn Tee Department reports that by Meyt0 oni 090 men were reervited fer. his moy nt mobilized 50,000 in a demonstration and defeated a relief ut. At this convention again there is a desire for a united struggle. Guss, one of the Unemployed Coun- -| cil delegates, was elected on the or- |Sanization and policy committee of the convention. to the convention by Committee. | attacks on the workers’ and stresses that “to meet this situ- j ation we need the greatest united mobilization of employed and unem- | ployed workers we ever had.” | Fraternal delegates of the Com- |munist Party were also seated. They | are H. Newton, J. Williamson and W. | Gebert. its aoa M USEMENTS THE THEATRE GUILD Presents @SK ana tne Face” By LUIGI CHIARELLI Adapted by W. Somerset Maugham GUILD THEATRE “BIOGRAPHY” A COMEDY BY 8.N BEHRMAN ‘| INA CLAIRE, The combination seems to have been arrangea In heaven."—Gilbert Gabriel, American, THEATRE 45th West of Broadway. Matinees Thursday or, M 2nd St., West of Broadway. Evenings 8:40 Matinees Thursday and Saturday at 2:40 + and in » Evenings 8:36 i Saturday, 2:30 emcmeneinas — Shaw erarine — ng FIGHTING Kuhle-W: AMPe inrieRism -— Alded Attraction — SYMPOSIUM AGAINST HITLER By Mcthaway, Dahlberg, Thomas, Eac, PEGGY WOOD AND ERNEST TRUEX BEST SELLERS A NEW COMEDY MOROSCO THEATRE, 45th, W. of B'way Eyes, 8: Matinees Wed. & Sat. at 2:40 tvo-hour discuss‘on it was decided by a vote The delegates of the | U, C, introduced an open letter sent | orizinal company headed by Frieda Inescort, National | Spring Byington, jen The letter points to the | conditions | Ksifman and Ring Lerdner, will be revived | same progrem includes a Symposium on | Hitler, with Hathaway, Dahlberg, Pinchot, | | : | | | | day will present two features, ics worncrs demonstrating at the call of the turday, in Union Sguare to denounce the murderous atiacks by the hired gangsters of the employes. UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL DELEGATES SEATED AT CHICAGO JOBLESS MEET Convention Called by Borders’ Organization Debates Seating 2 Hours; Council Delegates Will Urge Proposals for United Front CHICAGO. IIL, May. 14:—"The sintional, convention of the Federation of Unemployed Workers Leagues of America is teing held in this city, and equipped per) organization is headed by Karl Borders. organizations with 473 branches are present. This Eighty-four delegates from 32 | They came from twenty-eight | \ of 26 to 9 Stage and Screen Elmer Rice Play Returns; “Of Thee I Sing” at Imperial ‘Counsellor-At-Law,” title role, begins ‘= oadway this evening t heatre. The sup- porting cast includes Regina Wellace, Jennie Moscnwitz, Anne Teeman and Jack Leslie, “Of Thee I Sing,” the musical satire by vith Paul Muni in t third engagement on with music by the Gershwins, opens a fort- night return engagement at the Imperial ‘The original cast is tam Gexton, Lois Moran and ening. a dramatization of the Vol+ with dialogue arranged by Ian my by Genevieve Pitot and Cciman, opens tonight at the Booth tre for one week, Charles Weidman heads the .arge company. John Goiden will bring Back Rachel Crother's comedy. “When Ladies Meet,” this evening at the Royalé Theatre, with the alter Abel, Selena Royale Her! Rawlinson. i “June Moon," the comedy by George 8. by Thomas Kilpatrick this evening at the Ambassador Theatre, Lee Patrick and Harry Rosenthal head the cast. | “Kuhle Wampe” at “Acme, “India Speaks” at Cameo © Acme Theatre is now showing “Kuhle * (Fighting Hitlerism), the German olutionary film dealing with the condi- Wlons of the unemployed in Berlin. The ‘Thomas and others, “India Speaks,” the firet travel film pro- duced with Richard Halliburton, ts now playing at the Cameo Theatre, ‘The pic: ture brings to the screen much ney material on Indian life and customs.© ~ “F ‘The Jefferson: Theatre, beginning Wednes- “Blondie Johnson,” with Joan Blondel! and Chester Morris, and “Forgotten,” with June Clyde and William Collier, Sr, DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bet. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) B’kiyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M, 1-2, 6-8 P.M. ge S$. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, | and non-political organizations, of various shades, unanimous- ly adopted a resolution to sup- port to the utmost the strike of Bakers Local 507, F. of L., against a wage cut of 30 per cent and work- ing hours of 12 to 14. A report by the resolutions com- mittee revealed that organizations represented included locals, branches and units of the A. F. of L., Amal- gamated Food Workers, Industrial Trade Unions, Socialist Party, Com- munist Party, Young Peoples Social- ist League, Young. Communisi League, Poale Zionist, Unemployed Councils, Unemployed Leagues. Workers’ Clubs, Women’s Councils, Block Committees, International La- bor Defense, Youth Clubs, student organizations. Elect Presidium A presidium was elected consist- ing of Joseph Alef, secretary Bakers Union 507, Edward Smith, Section 15, Communist Party, and Tyrrell Wil- son, Socialist Party. i The resolution adopted without a dissenting vote pledged confidence in the strike committee, support of | ns to be heid against the scab bakery shops, and called upon | all not to buy bread that failed to carry the union label. The resolution brought in by the | resolutions committee underwent one | correction. As originally read by the | coramittee, the conference was called |“The Peoples’ Conference.” John | Szanto, member of Section 15, Com-| | munist Party, and member of the | resolutions committee, declared that | Conference” | desire of organizations of various | | Shades participating in it for united | | struggle but Szanto also said he did not want the matter of a name to be a stumbling block in the efforts of | | the organizations to achieve unity of action against the bosses. Socialist workers and left wing WHAT'S ON | Tonight— REGISTER NOW! Jolm fees Club School _| @ Art Suinnger Term begins May 15! Classes ‘Poster: Design; Life. Drawing, Composi- “| tlons, Children’s Art Class. For further in-| | formation address 683 6th Ave., 2nd floor, or telephone Gramercy 17-9629. 'W. I. R. BAND changes headquarters to 29 St. Marks Place (8h St. between 2d and 3d Aves.). Meets tonight at 6:30 p.m. Re- | hearsal of band, 8 p.m. | VELT'S “NEW DEAL,” subject at | mass meet, Marlboro Workers Center, 2462 | 6éth 8t., Bklyn. Auspices Lawrence Emery Branch T. L. D. Admission free. ‘The INDEPENDENT| HOUSEWRECKERS UNION, which has moved to 64 E. 4th St. ((tel. Orchard 4-4378), is offering its new headquarters, capacity 1,000 seats, for meet- | ings. affair as@nable ‘MIDNIGHT DANCE “and MOVIE POTEMKIN” Saturday, May 20th wld 1¢ Intern’) Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 1th FLOOR AM Work Done Under Persona) Care of Di . WEISSMAN RKO CAMEO BROADWAY and 4end STREET wormereAcme Theatre 1ATH $B -AND UNION SQUARE | | Hospital and Oculist Prescriptions Filled At One-Half Price . 35 E. 12th St., 2nd Floor Auspices: Sec. 2, Communist Party | Tickets 25 Cents Refreshments GOOD DANCE*MUSIC Tickets on sale at ‘ORKERS BOOKSHOP—50 East 13th S(. DAILY WORKER BUSINESS OFFICE GARMENT DISTRICT Garment Section Workers he favored calling it a “United Front | since it -expressed the | | delegates, rising from th city L.W.O., was fe ttee of iTlior the of bi sisted that loudly applauded p ent | Front Confe ie the support of that organization to : of the 100. ° the - Interna Order, | the strik in the form of hel, 3 | 300,000 r o be made cheer 3 that such ajon the picket line, and in job! b s bill “To vague wor would be a| and distributing leaflets in relieve the existing national emer- sign of weakness, while a truer de-| calling on all workers to support thelgeney on the railroads,” the seription, “United Front Conference,” rs, | Spmmcmy would nat pet would make the be: realize that applause also gréetedy tirement al ¢ the work ave uniting in solid/a presentative of the Daily Worker vanks to fight for better conditions. | who pledged the support of the Daily An amendment to call it “The United | Worker to the United Conference and: {ore ‘the | Workers and Peoples Confezence,” to the str State Co was unanimously adoy : hiller e for the Demand I for Jobless aking ab m meeting of ‘thé Eco- Harry Schiller, sp for the |" = vesanting Mame Boone Nat irn Coa = mployed Council, Lola Fein called tent cor Ine "De. of all unem- al hy 7 ANT NEEDLE PLENUM s to create great- nity among all workers, employed unemp and avoid the tak- 1e PLANS STRUGGLE economies” propos: ing of jobs by the jobless at lower he government by’ the Eastern NEW YORK.—The plenary session | wages, She called for the support of | Gonterence of Railroad Presidents of of the General Executive Board of in6 demand for Federal unemploy- which he chairman, There is no the Needle Trad= Workers Industrial | ment insurance “which would shift | idea of using any.plat ofthis. billion Union was held yesterday at! ihe burden of supporting the mil- | aojars a year for unemployment re- Irving Plaza after being postponed |jions of jobless kers from the | tee . ; Saturday due to the demonstration in Union Sq. The main points under cot tion were the forthcoming ing class to the shoulders of the worl | bi Railroad Workers to Go on Charity backs of the bosses ding to the ca by Jose} of. the furri kmakers nan of the Cor dressmakers, th m of the un- port of th employment, out of town centers and Daily Worker will c the strikers along active lines, such as joining in the picket line and par- ticipating in demonstrations against the scab shops. The rike of the bakers, he declared, is not an iso- lated event, but a part of the na- tion-wide struggle by the American workers against the bosses. The achievement of a united front to upport the striking bakers and help ry a detailed eport of the Plenum. ‘WORKERS STRIKE AT KARP METAL NEW YORK.—The workers cf Karp Metal Corporation, 129 30th St. Brookiyn, are out on strike 169. p21 s already “eliminated” from e industry in the interest of re- ng operating costs are to do Mr. Eastman does not say. He hi a “practicable plan c: could be up of defe: now amount | labor over through a the “reclassifying order regular sec- “extra gang on men were jaborers.” The fied” johs is cents an hour, from to an 8 hour day. Track is for the most part. employed a week, in some places $1.60 The Danger is Immediate— Act At-Once The government is at the beck and of the railroad bankers. It to put a million rafltoad under the feudal control of ‘oad czar solely for the benefit handful of millionaire railroad owners. Hearings on the railroad bill, fraught ‘h.Such-danger to railroad ', have alteady- been cut off. n a tesolution: passed ata recent nal conference of the Railroad Brotherhoods’ 1 Committee and 4 y the Free Tom Mooney 1 Col only recognition of labor's in the Emergency Railroad nsportation Act is a provision re- collective bargaining = in and agreeing that labor is to be notified of any contemplated chan before they take effect. We know to our sorrow just what these So called safeguards will do for-ws. Collective bargaining has heen recog- | nized while half a million men have dropped from the industry in years, And practically | cent under the leadership of the Sitesi rs Industrial Union for the following demands: 1—Recognition of the Shop Com- mittee. 2—No victimization of work- | ers. 3—Division of work; no day-ofis. |4—Return of wage-cui; amount to be | paid same as béfcre piece-work was |introduced. 5 jo. overtime un- less absolutel; 3s Overtime to be paid at rate af time and one-half 6—Forty ur, five-day week: ‘ive men previously laid off to be put back to work, 8—No firing. CLEANERS MEET TONIGHT | fhe Cleaners, Dyers ‘and Press Union, 223 Second Avenue, will nor them to victory, he added, will help) maintenance. pave the way to victory for the en- |b mor tire working class against capitalist and so giving on, and for the final libera- unemployed j nge which ended in lay Offs and changes in working rules has been published in the press before it took than a billion a few thous dollar and of the tion of the workers from the capital- | clear, from Eastman, himself, that no | P’8C°- ‘s ist yoke, provision will be made for unemployed $s bill means the enslavement The singing of the Internationale | railroad workers and that these wl of railroad labor. The only answer which railroad labor can give is im- concluded the Conference. | * mediate widespread action against ers are to be herded into $1 a ¢ forestry camps or put on $5 a week Cops Attack Children Marching in relief or go hun: along with the | this feudal measure. Bronx Baker Sirike 17 million jobless. “Not a lodge must be allowed to NEW YORK.—A. parade of 300 Railway Labor Act No Safeguard | meet without a resolution condemning childten of striking bak in the this act. The ‘Railway Labor Act which de- pends for its interpretation on re- Bronx, was brutally, attacked ‘by po- lice and ‘gangsters: Saturday, night, five workers beifig arrested for de- fending the kids 4¢sinst the -uni- formed and ununiformed thugs. The are held in bail of $500 each. “All workers throughout the coun- try must be enlisted to send pro- tests against this bill to Congress and the President. “Any attempt to pass should be immediately answered by no safeguard for railroad workers, On the ‘Illinois Central, for example, it now comes to light that the track] walkers who were supposed to be this bill |mate officers at its meeting tonight,| One of the gangsters, mistaken ees protected by an agreement with the| referendum vote for a strike and 6 pm. at Irving Hall, 1sth a cop for a striker, wes severely | inion have been compelled to sub-| Where our union leadership refuses Street and Irving clubbed. mit to a e reduction of as great|to act we must take the organiza- IG eam = as 18 cents an hour, almost a 50 per | tions into our own hands. cent cut on top of the flat 10 per cent out offiiially accepted by the Farmers Forced to Road Work Without Shoes to Get. Seeds Protest Stabbing of Patterson to plan’ from $10 rities think May 14—Unable to buy S of ners are obtainicy: to $15 from the counties in which they live. If the | they can collect the money in cash they take a note s a a ee | other farmers agree to give up a pcrtion of their érop to pry back the) NEW YORK. protest “loan.” “But there ave hundreds of € eet the bbing of | | budlding and meiniéaini coun Patterson in the prison c MINNEAPOLIS, | their ctops thouse, 01 meeting z é gg dt y money or credit with which to mingham, Alaba by the guards, be Late ta because they haven't any y ‘and (nat) Sie pwatene wnling’ Yor eee bidding visitors from ng the Pad eI ——~ Scottshoro boys, will be reld tonigh| and Lenox Av The tention of the workers to the da nue, at 4 pm onstration will call th: ‘MILK CONTROL BOARD BOOSTS at~ PRICES T0 CITY CONSUMERS facing the Scottsboro boys from, the /. ire tle vicious prison regime. and will ‘wage Fag ERR RTE Negro and white w to deniihd the ‘immediate release of all ‘ine Averts Strike by Trying te Arouse Antagonism | Between Workers and Farmers ALBANY, May 14.—A few hours before the milk strike was to go into | effect the State Milk Control Board announced that the price to the farm- ers for Class 1 milk fluid would be increased to 4 cents a quart, This move was forced as a last resort, after threats and trickery failed to sway the farmers from their determination to strike. | innocent Negro boys. Prisoners Fight Guards Over Rotten Food In Concord; 12 In Solitary “No man must be fired unless he is compensated by the company or the government with a living wage until a national unemployment in- surance bill is passed for the pro- tection of all unemployed workers, SCOTTSBORO FUND PUBLISHED BY ILD Financial -_ Accounting Is Rendered NEW YORK.—A financial state- ment, certified by a publie account- ant, of receipts and expenditures by the International Labor Defense in the Scottsboro case, was made: public last week by the organization, The accounting covers the first four of 1933. A more detailed statement of expenditures can be seen by interested parties, at the na- tional office of the I. L, D., Room 430, 799 Broadway. The stetement shows total receipts of $8,243.40, as against a total expend- iture of $8,408.45. A great deal of money “INDIA SPEAKS” | Patronize with RICHARD HALLIBURTON | Navarr Cafeteria has been collected by other organizaiicns for the Scottsboro de- f of them authorized ahd AMERICAN SA Burning Problem of the PREMIERE | Ages Dares to be Answered! CONCORD, Mass., M: prisoners in the Massaghuseti y 14 ve Re- However, this price for Ciess I milk is partty offset by regulations that in practice will reduce the price of - i Dialogue Titles in English 'N “THE EXPOSURE” / EUROPA, 154.1455 St. Cont. from 11:30 a.m. and SPECIAL ADDED FEATURE COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St. First Door Off Delancey St. Telephone: ORchard 4-4520 SPRING SEASON SPEND YOUR VACATION al In the WORKERS’ CAMP NITGEDAIGET on, N. ¥, ae rs $12.50 Per Week us (Including Tax) Rest and Recreation -- Sports and Cultural Activities Every Day er For Information call: Estabrook 8-1400 Cars leave for camp every day from 2700 Bronx Park Kast Special Notice To All Working Class Organizations, Clubs, Unions, Etc.: THE DAILY WORKER asks that representatives to the District Daily Worker Office, 35 East 12th Street, Ground Floor, within the coming week, to take up a matter of great importance and of financial interest, both to your organization and the ia ‘ae = a Daily Worker. Your representative can call any time between 9:30 a. m. and 7:00 p. m. you send one of your Organizers and secretaries of these organizations, it is not necessary to wait for the election of a represen- tative, either come yourself or delegate one of your membership to call. is City Committee, Daily Worker, WORKERS—EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE Near Hopkinson Ave. Brooklyn, N. DOWNTOWN Workers Welcome at Ratner’s Cafeteria 115 Second Avenue Food Workers Industrial Union. JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12.& 13 Welcome to Our Comrades Phone Tomkins Sq. 6-9554 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radienis, meet PATRONIZE SEVERN’S CAFETERIA 7th Avenue at 30th St. Best Food at Workers Prices MENTION THE DAILY WORKER DENIS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL FLORIST FLORAL DESIGNS A SPECIALTY 101 W. 28th St., New York PHONE: LACKAWANNA 4-2470 BRONX Au Comrades Meet a: BRONSTEIN’S 558 Claremont Parkway, Brens Comrades Meet At FIELD'S CAFETERIA ‘$824 THIRD AVENUE 302 E. 12th St, New York (Neat Claremont Parkway) BEST FOOD, COMRADELY ATMOSPHERE All Comrades ‘Meet at the NEW HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA ———— Fresh Food—Proletarian Prices 50 E. — 18TH $T., WORKERS’ CENTER--——— |announcement of the milk control THE JEW. + - . Nitgagi, . es . Som ANKINO'S FAOVDFST ACHIEVEMENT | RROJ EE PERSON Wm Be aiINOW! butter, fat and establishes a lower | policy to try to create antagonism formatory at West Concord were authorized, William L, i ‘anderin, . WwW ‘ » milk uses i "24 th 2 aay p in s fy nt. an “HORIZON” ( sy la Lily Lee and Bs a Ze ‘shel Frames hits 31.00 385 ith AVENUE kere Soe aauety thie re is cut Re vomes cathe Peon sade Bay ee a rermer es gue te Pi ite oy Apanntane * ily an alter Byron | oF sake Corner 28th St. | Pant , ae lowing: an attack by guards while . starring BATALOV (of “Road to Lite”) . Lenses not included to the farmers is not stated in the d by many ‘of thee more than 1,000. prisoners were in the prison dining hall: Reports given by -prison authorities and published .by the-capitalist press state that the trouble started when | board. Boost Price to Consumers, For the second time within ‘Wage Cut Will Affect two organizations has not been made. ~ Receipts & 3 The I. L, D, received $885.78 as con- tributions from: individuals; the ac- which the first grade milk is bottled. Thus the milk trust, the railroads and the middle-men get ten cents of every quart of milk bought from the dairy farmer for four cents. Grade “B” milk is 11 cents retail. Makes Millions for Trust. This price boost forces the milk ‘consumers of New York City to pay $239,127.20 a week more than before on the basis of the quantity soid in the city the week of May 6th, which amounted to 23,912,720 quarts. The two price boosts in two weeks in creases the bill to consumers more than $470,000 weekly, or almost $2,- 000,000 a month. Another $50,000 a week is realized in price increases for cream to consumers in the city. Thus the Tammany. state govern- ment’s Milk Control Board, under pretext of aiding the farmers, actu- ally aids the milk trust by enabling realized under the former schedule. Fight Against Rising Milk Prices. Workers in the city, facing i creased attacks on standards of liv- ing through wage cuts, unemployment and soaring prices due to inflation, should wage a determined fight to compel the milk trust to pay the farmers sufficient to enable them to exist and also to cut prices to the customer. This increased burden upon the DEMONSTRATE NOON TODAY FOR RELEASE OF 57 city consumers is part of the genéfal it to make millions more than was, weeks the retail price of milk nas Thousands of Negroes two rival factions of prisoners tributions from. lmdividuals,, the ‘e- "ne sey ei tenke. ie ie a barre i is the fabt tat’ the} 24 organizations; $1,079.82. from I. consum no" be , ve ienifican: is a act t he .| NEW YORK.—The railroad execu- ee age 11. L. D. districts; “$4,568.03 from the Seren Sec rien Dea Ree, toe eee tives are demanding a 25 per cent| ‘ouble o sate op Pha -openeth goed Scottsboro New “Trial “Emergency ers for Class I milk flnid out of which is rarely the scene of trouble cut in wages for all union employees jon June 15. Last January, 1932, rail- |road workers were forced to take a/ comprised 28 ‘per cent of the railroad | bets and subsequent punishment by laborers, and 90 per cent of the rail- | Prison authorities can’ be ayoided. road porters, are the largest non-| _ That the trouble took place in the unionized sections of railroad work- | ining hall indicates that the prison- lers. Although large numbers of Negro | Ts 1" all Jikelihood protested against and white workers have been latd| Toten food. Two guards were -hurt Fund Drive conducted by the I. L. B.; and $801.00 from the National Com- mittee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. | among the prisoners who settle their differences almost invariably in the cell blocks or in some ‘quiet places Disbursements. > ursements show $2,650 spent for ‘s fees and expenses; $923.55 expenses of investigations and for fare, etc, for trial witnesses; $781.21 Ft Rania he saan for publicity, including $297.45 for scion, | Uuting the outbreek, according to the OF due 10 the economic depression. |cfticial report, showing that the| coverage of the trial; $365.59 for pate geod siting ag’ | prisoners apparently defended them-| Stationery and supplies, $250 for ers is no doul © same. selves against. ana attack by the Printing of a pamphlet on Scotts- | The unorganized Negro railroad | guards. worker will suffer more from iby : a. wage cut. than the organized. worker. * ° | [Being tmorganized, non-skilled, and 400. Pa. Miners Strike. forPay for DeadWork’ | a Negro, he has always been under-| paid. As a railroad porter he has 5 Led hy Nat'l Miners U.. been forced to lick everybody's boots FAYETTE COUNTY, Pa., May 11.— to get tips to increase the small wage jhe received. The A. F. of L. officials who are’ Four hundred miners of the Isabelle getting ready to sell out the white mine, inspired by the recent victory railroad workers by putting over ies of the miners of the Republican mine s per cent ome cut way ais ‘teal which: resulted in a GO per cent in-| fread Pig ganize them. ‘Phe new | crease in:wages went out on strike on agreement signed by the Brotherhood TUesday: demanding pay for “dead| of Railroad Firemen with the Atlantic| Wo"” A strike committee elected | Coast Line Road states that “at least | bY the thiners called on the Super- 61 per cent of the firemen on the! imtendent and presented the workers’) Atlantic Coast Line must be white.”| demands. The,miners are having the |The railroad agreed “not to employ Support and leadership of the Na- n | | tional Miners’ Union. Mass picketing| Central Audit Bureau, New York, and Negro firemen and in the future new) I pieke . | vacancies will be filled by white fire- | has been organized and the miners’ signed by Morris Greenbaum of the | men.” are standing solid on their demands. firm. boro; $100 for extra copies and spe- | cial distribution of the special Scotts- boro number of the Labor Defender; $30.21 for orgattizational fares; $117.- 80 for fare and expenses. of Mrs Janie Patterson; $919.78 *expenses of the New Trial Emergency Fund drive; $253.27 for telegraph tolls; $156.10 for prisoners’ relief to the Scottsboro boys; $54.44 for printing 0 fthe Scottsboro petition; $130 for Scottsboro buttons; $176.71 for special wages in connection with the defense; $31 for the Scottsboro march; $70 as a loan to the Harlem I. L. D. sec= tion for Scottsboro activities; Gen- eral office overhead (Phone, rent, wages, estimated on the basis of 25 per cent of total expenses) $1,378.79. The statement is certified by ARRESTE® SEAMEN AT 18th AND WEST STREETS!

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