The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 8, 1933, Page 3

| ‘ —s Bankers Profit As ‘yuu’. Board of Aldermen ‘| Passes New Taxes Wall St. Pleased at Cit at City eae be anes: Workers | Demand Moratorium on Bank Payments | | to Provide for Relief NEW YORK, June 7.—Immediately upon the passage by the Board of | Aldermen of $30,000,000 of new taxes, took a sharp move upward on the New York Stock Exchange. creases the value and the profits of the bankers. Despite the alarms issued by the city government, Wall Street bond dealers are reporting very little sell- ing of New York bonds. The Wall Street bankers who hold the bonds feel sure that ‘Tammany will collect their interest payments for them, Tax Workers to Pay Bankers The occasion of the present budget “crisis” is provided by the fact that on June 10, a delegation of Wall Street bankers hgaded by Winthrop Aldrich, a Rockefeller banker, and Frank Polk, a Morgan agent will de-| mand payment of the $236,000,000 loan which they hold. It is to meet these payments to the Wall Street bankers that the city government is Win Sweatshop Strike in Penna.; Pay Increased | JEANETTE, Pa. June 7.—A} strike against sweatshop condi- | tions was called at Greensberge,| Pa., as a result of the activities| of the Unemployed Council here which won 12 and a half percent increase for the girl workers. The strike was initiated following the fermation of a committee of par-) ents and girl sweatshop workers. “Big struggles can he conducted on the basis of this experience,” declared the Unemployed Council aeanizer in commenting on iad e. (sTRIKES SPREAD IN JAMESTOWN FURNITURE SHOPS 100 Workers Strike for Pay Rise at Kling Plant JAMESTOWN, N. Y., June 7.—Over 100 workers of the Herrick shop, one of the 5 Kling plants employing about 500 workers struck on Wednesday, May 31, for a 35 per cent increase in wages, for guarantee rate work for piece work, a minimum wage scale of 25 cents per hour and recognition of the shop committee. The strike is led by an elected committee of the ri trikers. The officials of the company, realiz- ing the strong sentiment for wage in- creases in the plant decided to scare Be workers by closing plant opera- fons. Spreading The strike committee immediately took steps to pull out the workers of the other plants of the company. Latest information is to the effect that two plants have come out. Work- ers in one shop of the company have already presented demands for a 20 cent increase in wages. The company hes offered-a 10 p. c. | wage increase but refuses to recog- nize the shop committee. The work-| ers have rejected this offer and de- cided to continue the strike. The strike movement iti Jamestown shops is growing by leaps and bounds. | The recent strike of the Empire Goods workers which lasted for 9| weeks has inspired the workers here to strike for the return of all wage cuts. A number of shops have settled on the basis of substantial raises. The Jamestown Table Co., employ- ing about 200 workers granted a wage increase of 95 p. ¢. in the cabinet room and a ten per cent increase in ll other departments, after the work- rs had presented their demands to the company. The workers of the Premier Cabi- net Co. presented demands of 25 per cent increases in wages and recog- nition of the shop committee. At first the company dismissed the com- mittee refusing to discuss the de- mands with them. The workers then walked out and the plant went along) with them. The boss then offered a 10 per cent increase, which the work- ers in turn refused to discuss with him, On Sunday, May 28 the boss conceded all demands including re- cogniuon of shop committee. The workers joined the Furniture Work- ers’ Industrial Union which is being organized in Jamestown. the market for New York City bonds | This in- | eee atid tity cite path es cutting relief and levying taxes on the workers and small consumers. ‘The city is paying the bankers 544) Per cent interest on its loans, at the same time that the interest rate in the outside money market is less than | 2 per cent. This costs the city thou- sands of dollars in extra charges. | Workers Present Demands | Two days ago a delegation of 5,000} unemployed workers led by the Pro- visional Committee Against Relief Cuts and Evictions presented to the city government a tax program that will lay the burden of meeting the crisis squarely upon the Wall Street bankers and all residents and cor- porations of over $1,000,000 wealth. ‘The workers demanded that no relief be cut, that no salaries of civil service city employees be cut in order to pay the bankers and that all salaries. over $10,000 a year be taxed heavily. They demanded that the city declare a moratorium on payments to the bank- | ers. Tammany Officials Big Salaries At the same time, studies of the city payrolls, disclose that hundreds of leading Tammany ward heelers and district leaders are getting fat salaries, in addition to the graft which costs the city millions every year.@ The example of the Tammany city election officials is typical. For) the one election that is held every year, there are four Tammany elec- tion officials, each getting $7340 a year. The Law Department head $21,000 a year. His 85 assistant| jet) each $6,000 per year. When an im- | Portant case comes up, however, the city hires high-priced lawyers in ad- dition to its own staff. ‘Three Commissioners of the Board of Water Supply, who are rarely, if ever seen in their offices, and who play absolutely no function in the actual workings of the water supply, each get $10,000 a year. No one seems to know exactly what are the functions of the Commission-! er of Municipal Assembly. Neverthe- less, he gets $9,140 a year. In the Board of Transportation | more than 1500 engineers have been) laid off. But the three commissioners still get $17,640 a year, in addition to the’ host of lawyers and secretaries getting $10,000 a year and up. These examples can be multiplied many times over. Cut Relief to Pay Interest The city relief bureaus are cutting telief to the bone. It has been ad- mitted that over 60,000 families face immediate eviction because relief rent payments have been stopped. The Tammany Mayor, O’Brien admitted that 227,000 families are now wholly dependent upon city relief. Fall Heaviest on Consumers ‘The new taxes are being levied on all automobiles. It is estimated that the State and city taxes and fees on every car will amount to about $57.00 A toll of 25 cents will be levied on all cars using the bridges over the/ | East River. The licensing and inspection fees in the Water and Construction De- | partments have also been raised. Nu- merous other fees on selling stands, signs, elevator inspection, etc., have been increased. The $30,000,000 of ne wtaxes fall directly and heaviest upon the work- |ers, and the lower sections of the | population, ‘ts | Small | Businessman Ruined While Papers Announce Upturn By a Worker Correspondent WHITE PLAINS Y.—The so |loudly trumpeted business upturn re- ported in the capitalist press for the last few weeks can be seen in reality in this millionaires’ town. Small business men ara hit the hardest in this town in every branch. Recently a Lunch Wagon closed because the proprietor could not bring up any longer $270 rent per month for his | wagon, which is the property of the | Patterson Lunch Wagon sharks. An aged bookbinder who slaved | almost 40 years to be able to open a little shop of his own is to be evic- | ted from his quarter within this week, from the Realty Building, 185 Main Street, for inability to pay rent for the last eight months. The city has refused relief to him. Where will the small business men land, if the business upturn keeps up like this? Only organization can save him from starvation. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1933 ss March Throw Wall St. ae | 7 ( Init Led by Robert Minor (extreme right), unemployed workers march down Broadway after demonstration outside the City Hall, while dele- gates of the United Conference Against Evictions and Relief Cuts placed the demands of the jobless before the mayor and the Board of Esti- mate Tuesday. Scottsboro Fighter Faces Deportation NEW YORK.—Robert D. Smith, Negro worker arrested when police attacked a Scottsboro meeting in Harlem, is now in the hands of the He was to be tried yesterday ‘in General Sessions deportation officials. Court al- though the only assault that occur- red at the meeting was the police assault. Upon learning that Smith is from Panama the Federal government stepped in to dispose of the fighter for the 9 Scottsboro boys. His ar- rest was part of a series of attacks on Scottsboro meetings in Harlem to intimidate Negro and white workers aroused by the Scottsboro verdict. ‘1,500 STUDENTS STRIKE; POLICE on “felonious assault,” NEW YORK—The city government sent’ police to break up the strike be- gun yesterday at City College for the reinstatement of students suspended for taking part in an anti-war dem- onstration last week. The strike began at 10 am., with 200 students around the college flag pole. By 11 o'clock the number swelled to 1,500, when the police ap- peared and broke into the center of the demonstration. The students clasped hands and formed a large ring around the cops, shouting, “Cops off the Campus, Cops off the Campus.” on shoulders to speak were hauled down by the police. Protest Suppression. Indignant at the suppression of the strike meeting, Irving Dichter pro- tested to Dean Gottschall, who re- fused to send the cops away and told | the students they could meet inside in the Great Hall, hoping to keep the protest inside the college walls. The students marched into the hall and when addressed by the Dean be- gan firing questions at him on the suspension of the students, the right to hold protest meetings, and de- manded an open hearing for the sus- pended students. 2,000 In Hall. By this time there were 2,000 stu- dents in the hall. them to send a committee with the request for an open hearing, which later turned out to be a trick to meet with a small number of students so as to be able to say only a small number were in the fight. The students left the hall and marched to 138th Street and Amster- dam Ave., where the meeting was continued. Penging the Dean's announcement of his decision the students are pre- paring an open hearing under the auspices of a student committee elected at the meeting. Fight to Continue. The National Student League, a leader in the students’ strike, an- nounced that the campaign to oust President Robinson, Colonel Lewis and Major Holton and reinstate the students would continue. These three are directly responsible for the sus- pension of the students and are rabid war-mongers who led the attack on the students for their war activities. The full demands of strike are: 1, Immediate reinstatement of the suspended students. 2. Immediate reinstatement of the suspended clubs. 3. Immediate reinstatement of the expelled Campus editors and the Campus charter. 4, Immediate abolition of the R. O. T. C. in the college. 5. Immediate removal of President Robinson, 6. No police interference with stu- dent activities. The Civil Liberties Union sent a protest yesterday to the Board of Higher Education against the sus- pension of the students asking for “a reversal.” BROOKLYN o.D. Bere coeur! 8 raves AY. 333, ingeton (Near Fox Then rel, hitan 43007 To have good vision have your eyes tested yearly TOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE Brighton Beach Workers | WELCOME AT Hoffman's Cafeteria 282 BRIGHTON BEACH AVENUE OPEN DAY AND NIGHT CLASSIFIED rior lor mith comrades. Riches pavilore conn Sie Es ab sty apts iy, se ne SPORTS LS.U. SWIM MEET FRIDAY Over 30 entries have been received to date for the first Labor Sports Union swimming meet of the sum- mer season at the public pool on 54th St. and Ist Ave. this Friday, June 9. Men’s and women’s events are listed for the meet. The events are: 1.—40 yards, f 1—40 yards, 2.80 yards, 3.40 yards, free style. free style. breast stroke. 4.—80 yards, relay. 5.40 yards, back stroke, Schmeling Expected to Beat Baer The well-advertised Schmeling- Baer fight, scheduled for tonight at the Yankee Stadium, will probably decide who 1s to meet Jack Sharkey for the heavyweight championship of the world. Schmeling, who lost the championship to Sharkey on a de- cision which was almost universally regarded as raw, is favored to win to- night’s battle by better than two-to- one odds. If the odds tell the right story Schmeling* will probably meet Shar- key for the third time in his cauli- flower career. The first time Shar- key fouled him, the second ended in the infamous decision giving the title to Sharkey. Thus a battle between these two will still be attractive enough fof the fans. Jack Dempsey, promoter of the fight tonight, reports that he expects it to be a financial success. This is rather unusual, as most recent bouts, even championship affairs such as the welterweight title bout last week, have been miserable failures from the point of view of attendance, Students boosted | The Dean told| | and Oshkosh they will ATTACK MEET, TOILERS MARCHTO MADISON; DEMAND IMMEDIATE RELIEF MILWAUKEE, Wisc., June 7.— From Kenosha and in Northern parts | of Wisconsin unemployed workers in cities joined by farmers on the land have begun a hunger march that will bring them to Madison where they will present their demands to the state government. The demands are: Unemployment Insurance by the state pending its adoption by the Federal government; abolition of forced labor; immediate cash relief for the unemployed and impoverished farmers; higher milk prices for the farmers at the expense of the milk trusts; cancellation of debts of impoverished farmers and small home owners; use of National Guard funds for relief and against the sales tax. From northern parts trucks are used while from Milwaukee, Racine march to Madison. Commissaries have been set up for the marchers and funds are being collected. In West Allis the City Council voted $25 for the march. In Beaver Dam the city will feed them, Thousands of farmers will join in Madison when the marchers arrive on June 12. The farmers are donat- ing food and finances along the route. The recent farmers strike has ' shown the developing solidarity of the workers with the impoverished farmers on the land. Governor Schmedeman has signed a bill postponing the unemployment insurance law passed in 1931. This was to go into effect on July 1 of this year. Even this fake measure which considers only a small frac- tion of the unemployed and gives a maximum of a $100 a year “insur- ance” has now. been thrown into the waste basket.. The postponement bill cuts down the number which is to be covered by approved voluntary schemes from 75,000 to 139,000 work- ers, making it still easier for the em- ployers to avoid the so-called com- pulsory plan, Haye the DAILY WORKER at ev- ery meeting of your unit, branch, union, or club. By JOHN SCHMIES * (District Organizer of the C. P. Over. 35,000 workers participated in the Ford Hunger March during the 12 hours that it lasted. The march- | ers started to gather at 1 p. m. and ended their march at Midnight. In the course of the march, the number at times was as high as 15,000 work- ers, Never in the history, according ‘to the workers of Detroit, have we experienced such a brutal and power- | ful mobilization on the part of the |¥erd Motor Company which owns \factories and entire cities. Many | move. thousands of workers in auto- mobiles appeared trying to show their sympathy and solidarity for the pro- gram of immediate needs of Ford workers. These workers responded to a call of the Auto Workers Union| and Unemployed Councils, in spite of | the still fresh experiences of the last) | march, in spite of all the maneuvers| and promises on the part of the/ Ford Motor Co., such as giving relief, slowing down the murderous speed- up line and promising a general in- crease in wages. These thousands of workers re-| sponded in spite of the “new deal” prosperity ballyhoo of the Wall Street Government—and finally, these work- ers responded in such large numbers which challenged the Ford Dearborn police, mounted police, state police, deputy sheriffs, National Guardsmen, posts of the American Legion, as well as the murderous Ford gunmen and gangsters. They were all equipped with the most modern implements of warfare; such as poison gas, machine guns, military motor boats and air- planes. Keep Ranks Closed But all of this did not provoke the marchers—young and old—men and women solidly kept their ranks closed and in the most militant fash- ion carried out the working class fighting discipline. The strategy on the part of the leading committees not only surprised the enemy, but completely knocked them out of their position, The decision that the march- ers will camp only a short distance from the Ford factory came as an unexpected move and as a tremen- dous shock to them. It only took a little more than an hour and a half following the deci- sion of the leading committee which ‘was approved by the marchers to re- main until a permit was granted, that the workers from all over Dearborn, Lincoln Park, Ecorse, Detroit general- ly, responded with food, water and blankets in support of the Hunger Marchers. It was such a tremendous response that even the most pessi- mistic elements around the march were compelled to fall in line and support and work for the march. All the provocative moves on the part of the Ford Motor Co. as well as on the part of the provocateurs did not confuse the masses and also failed to break the discipline of the march and the confidence in the leading committees. Task Inside of Shop ers that in one department the power was shut off and in another depart- ment, the conveyor was stopped for a few minutes was received by tre- mendous enthusiasm on the part of RURAL SCHOOL TEACHER NETS $95 FOR A WHOLE YEAR OF TEACHING IN OKLA. By a Farmer Correspondent AKINS, Okla.—The beginning third grade teacher is paid $40 a month, for eight months, making a total of $320. She gets paid not in cash but in warrants. In one corner of her warrant is a little statement which says “Funds not available.” That little school teacher, her eyes aglow in anticipation of the sight of four crisp, ten dollar bills, walks boldly to the bank cashier. The big hearted, generous cashier shakes his head forcefully and thrusts the preci- ous yellow warrant back at the be- wildered school teacher. “Sorry, Miss Smith, but the bank is overloaded with this stuff,” he says and turns to wait on a big fat man who has pushed his way up to the Letters from Our Readers Importance of English Singing Chorus New York, N. Y. Dear Comrades: As an observer at the Olympiad of the Workers Music League last week, I must say that once and for all, I am convinced of the necessity and importance of an English singing Movement. After watching the var- jous groups, large as well as small, children as well as adults, competing, I forgot that I am in America. But how will you attract the American born children who don't speak Jewish into the movement—and mind you, those were also American-born. It was only at the evening concert that I was surprised and really made to Baty at home, when suddenly a small appeared. They sang English ind judging from the size of the chorus it was done well. I tried to find out what this is in order that I may join them. Then I saw the banner which read, “D, W. Chorus, a weapon in the class struggle.” I hope that by the next Olympiad, it will be just as large as the Freiheit. So , comrades, don’t overlook the importance of this weapon for it’s a great attraction to the American working class. It will be able to as- sist in the campaigns to raise funds and publicize the Daily Worker every- where they will sing and we are al- ready serving the movement partially. yours, —8.W. Ree yr agar Map ate local, or mass window beside the little school teach- er. “Come back in a week or tw he finally says as the girl walks away. “We may get in shape to handle more school warrants.” How the Bank Makes Money At the end of the specified time, the little school teacher comes back, this time with considerable misgiv- ings. She receives somewhere from $30_to $35. Consider that the war- rant itself draws six per cent interest. That, together with the $5 or $10 dis- count makes a nice little graft for PARKES | } b yy the banker, who quietly deposits the warrant about the vaults of the build- ing, and waits patiently for the next state ald to relieve him of the war- rant at its full face value together with accrued interest. Takes brains to make money in that way, doesn’t it? Eight $40 warrants discounted at 20 per cent leaves that little teacher $256 for her year’s work. She's a darn good hustler if she gets board at $10 a month, but let’s suppose that she does. Eight times 10 equals 80. Eighty from 250 leaves 126. So the girl has the magnificent’ sum of $176 for her year's work. But we are not through. That little teacher, a beginner, must attend sum- mer normal school, which will cost her another $80, This brings her year's salary down to $95, a rich sur- plus for a full year’s work. Little girl, go to Teachers’ College and get in line for some of those fat jobs awaiting you under Roosevelt's new deal for the forgotten man, Nine Demonstrators To Be Tried in L. A.|™ LOS ANGELES. — Trial of nine workers arrested hére in the May 1 demonstrations has been postponed until June 13, The trial will come up in Municipal Court, Division 7, Hall of Justice. Lawrence Ross, Communist candi- date for mayor, in the recent election, and Sot Davies are charged with speaking without a permit. The other workers are held on “charges” of bat- tery, interfering with police, and for Aistributing leaflets. News from the employed Ford work- | the marchers. It is clear that the at- mosphere among the employed work- ers was very tense, and demonstrated thereby, that if a better organization would have been established on the) inside, that we would have experi- enced the most powerful strike move- | ment in the history of the automobile | in the last three years. 2. $3 a day minimum wage for of Negro boys to the Trade School, paid workers. pay each week. 7. Free medical aid and hospital and their families. 8. Abolition of the Service Depa! committees to control the speed of co: equal opportunities to all jobs. ll. workers’ permission. .. 12. rest and jailing of 12 leaders of the? organization on a charge of “kidnap- ping and assault,” followed by the most vicious stories of “racketeering” in the capitalist press, is the most brazen attempt on the part of the District Attorney, together with the employers and the Tammany control- led Police Department and “leaders” of the A. F. of L. to smash the Food | Workers Industrial Union and sup- | press all news of the real racket- eering going on in the food indus- try. Employers Associations, starting with the National Dairy Products Corporation and other employers’ as- ‘sociations, as well as the A. F. of L. officials extracting hundreds of dol- lars from the food workers are the racketeers. Of this, the District At- torney is fully aware. “The Food Workers Industrial Un- ior has a clear record in its strug- gle against the grafters and racket- eers of Waiters Locai 1 and Local 16. | But the police and the press and now the District Attorney are working openly together with these racket- eers hired by the bosses and are spreading these lying statements in order to smash the organization of the workers which fights for the bet- terment of their conditions. The Facts “The District Attorney knows that the charges are absolutely false and the facts are as follows: In the Ar- row Dairy Company, the boss be- gan firing workers who were mem- | bers of the Food Workers Industrial | Union. The majority of the work- | ers, who were members of the union, | decided to fight and called for as- sistance from the union. The work- ers were assembled in their union headquarters to discuss their de- mands, how to organize and win their strike when the boss together with the Tammany police entered and forced everyone back on the point of guns. This is proof enough that the real kidnapping was done un- der instructions from the District Attorney and the police department. “These same servants of Tam- many and the underworld later forced some of the workers to sign “affi- davits” against the union in this most dastardly attempt to jail andj} frame up the leaders of the Food | Workers Industrial Union. “The attack upon the Food Work- ers Industrial Union, following close- | ly on the heels of the attempt to destroy the Fur Workers Union and institute a new dictatorship is only a further step in the whole Roose- velt scheme of “recovery” which will WHAT’S ON Thursday MEETING OF TRACTOR-AUTOMOBILE School remaining in U.S,, Manhatten Ly- ceum, 66 E. 4th St., 8:30 p.m. CARNIVAL PIONIC COMMITTEE of the N. ¥. District ILD., 7:30 p.m., Room 339, 199 Broadway, completion of plans for LL. » hal Event, July 16, Pleasant Bay ark, LECTURE - EXPOSE OF HOUSE OF Morgan and analysis of Morgan investiga- tion, E. Tremont Workers Club, Tremont and’ Prospect Aves., Bronx. Speakers: John Sonto and Peter 8. Star. COMRADES som ‘BuoLE AND mere Corps of W-E.S.L., apply any time, 69 E. A St. Applicants not necessary to be| servicemen, OFFICE WORKERS’ UNION MEMBER- SHIP meeting, Labor Temple, 242 E. 14th 8t., 7:30 p.m. Important questions—in- crease dues, tax on wages, organizational and unemployed work. ear gers MASS PROTEST MEETING. Anna Hall arrested second degree assault, 4108 13th Ave,, Brookiyn, at 8:30 p.m. Auspices Boro Park Ella May Br. I.L.D. Molly Jackson speaks! . LECTURE—“WORLD AFFAIRS," Leonard ‘Mins, National Student League, 583 Sixth Ave.’ Admission 5 cents. Friday NEW! LL.D. CHORUS, 8:15 pm, 8420 18th Ave. Brooklyn Siegmeister. New mem- ‘ fr. Lbers wanted, No experience needed. _ 3. No payment of relief when rehired debts due the Ford company on the part of the Ford workers. 4. Abolition of the $1 a day wage at the Ford plant. 5. A $5 a day minimum wage and corresponding increases for higher 6. Minimum of three days work, eight hours a day, Page Three y of Employed and Unemployed Main Task-- This Is the Lesson of the Hunger March of Ford Workers industry fighting side by side for their com- The failure to break this powerful| mon interests for which the Ford line of the enemy lies precisely. in| Hunger March was organized. This the fact of our still extremely weak organization among the employed in- side of the Ford shop. Unity of ac- tion means the organized merging of employed and unemployed workers DEMANDS OF THE FORD WORKERS 1. Immédiate cash relief of $3 per week and $2 for each dependent for all unemployed Ford workers and-Trade School students laid off Trade School students; admission at Ford’s, cancellation of or three days service to unemployed Ford workers tment. 9. Slowing down of the inhuman speed-up, setting up of workers’ mveyors and machipery. 10, No discrimination against Negroes, equal pay for equal work and Stop searches uf workers’ property (tool boxes, etc.) done without Tools to be turned in and taken out on company’s time. TRADE UNION UNITY COUNCIL HITS ATTACKS ON FOOD UNIO The following statement has been issued by the Trade Union Unity Council on the attacks against the Food Workers’ “The raid on the Food Workers Industrial Union and the recent ar- | Industrial Union: prevent ‘the workers from joining iy erganization they choose but will ee them into the American Fed- | ‘ation of Labor and completely put over the same fascist control as Hit- ler in| Germany and Mussolini in Italy. T. . Calls for Protest “The Trade Union Unity Council calls upon all of the workers organ- izations to immediately send tele- grams of protest to Mayor O'Brien | and Police Commissioner Bolam de- manding | the immediate release of | ers, acmandise the lowering of the | exhorbitant bail, and demanding in- stead that war be declared upon the real racketeers who for years have grafted on the food workers in Great- er New York, ‘Important Taxi Meet | | NEW YORK —All taxi drivers | | and members of the Taxi Work- ers Union are called to a special | meeting tomorrow, Friday night at | 8 p.m. in the office of the Union | at 80 E. 11th St., Room 240, | Preparations for a mass meet- | ing and demonstration, to wea the taxi tax, at the City Hall, 1 Tuesday, June 13, will be discussed at this meeting. }] Urge Workers to Vote Thru Petition for the | United Dress Strike NEW YORK.—Urging all members | of the International Ladies Garment | Workers Union to vote, the Ccm- mittee of Action of local 9 opened the balloting on a petition referen- dum, demanding one united strike | milétant | in the industry and cne class struggle union yesterday. ‘The Committee of Action was elec- ted at a shop conference initiated by the left-wing group of the local. Groppéd members are asked to vote as well either today or tomorrow et the local headquarters, 109 W. 38th Street. 'Munson Line Crew ‘Forces Draw Payment NEW YORK.—The crew of the Munorleans, Munson Line ship, took | job action yesterday to force pay- ment of a draw while in port. The crew's immediately got in touch with the shore officials, obtaining funds to meet their demands. The Munson Line is in receivership, held by the Chase National Bank, and its regular policy is to avoid paying the crews as long as possible, This is the eighth action on Munson ships in re- cent months, including several strikes for as much as three months back pay. Munson Line receives hundreds of thousands annually from the gov- ernment in subsidy. Shoe Workers Meet to Enforce Unity NEW YORK—The Shoe Leather Workers’ Industrial Union will hold a mass meeting next Friday, June 9, al 7:30 p.m. at Irving Plaza, | 15th St, and Irving Place, to bring pressure to bear upon the United Front Committee of Action to carry out the instructions contained in the resolution adopted by rank and file Shoe Workers’ United Front Confer- ence. Tomorrow's Daily Worker will carry a full story of the united front situation among the shoe workers by F. Biedenkapp, general secretary of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ In- dustrial Union, r All} committee presented | their demand to the captain and he | and | must be the outstanding political les. {son of our experience in the Ford Hunger March — increased activity among the unemployed, it is true | But from now on the hourly task of the union must be a much sharper orientation to the employed Ford workers the building of anti-wage-cut committees, grievance committees, ac- tion committees against grievances to | be acted upon immediately, anti-lay- | off committees, committees against the speed-up in the departments, ete. | And on this basis develop the struggle | against wage-cuts, against relief cuts, for inereases in wages and for a pro- | gram of Unemployment Insurance at | the expense of the bosses and their government. | The prestige of the Auto Workers Union developed as @ result of the Ford Hunger March to a very high degree. Hundreds of workers express- ed openly that this march has dem- onstrated the seriousness and honesty of the Auto Workers Union in their fight for relief for the auto workers— and not as the enemies are accusing | the union and its leadership that they are merely struggling for advertising regardless of what the consequences | are. The ending of the march was one of tremendous enthusiasm and deter- | mination on the part of the workers to get into the movement and to be- | gin to take part in the daily activity | for the building up of unity between | the employed and unemployed Ford | workers under the leadership of the Auto Workers Union. _N. Y. TRADE UNION NEWS | Labor Union Meets Laundry Mass Meet A giant mass meeting of organized and |unorgenized laundry workers to fight the | aitocion of the bosses to put over a star- vation “fair wage” minimum, will be held | tonignt at St. Lukes Hall, 125 W. 130th St, at 8 pm, Laundry workers will elect their own |threo representatives to serve onthe Ad- | visory Committee of the Minimum Wage Commission and to speak for labor. A mass turnout of leundry workers is ex- pected. A meeting of all fur pointers is to take place tonight at the headquarters of the Industrial Union, 131 W. 26th 8t., New York, where plans for spreading this cam- | paign will be discussed. A meeting of the dog skin fur workers will take place tonight, right after work, |in thegeadquarters of the Industrial Union, | 181 wMaath St., New York. At this meet- ing the. question .of enforcing the agree- | ment and plans against sub-contracting will | be taken up. A meeting of the furriers ex-servicemén and the war veterans will take place to- | night, right after work, at the headquar- |ters of the Industrial Union, 181 W. 26th St. The fur ex-servicemen have recently | organized 2 post and are now fighting for | the right, to, belong to the Union of their own choice and against police interference |All furriers and ex-servicemen are urged le attend this meeting, Barbers’ and Hairdressers’ League meets | | j tonight at Workers’ Center, 50 E. 13th St., | 2nd floor. | The Negro Committee of the Needle ‘Trades Workers’ Industrial Union has called a special meeting of all dresemakers who live in Harlem for tomorrow, Friday, night jat 8:30 pm. in St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. 130th St. | _‘The Office Workers’ Union meets tonight | at Labor Temple, 242 E. 14th St. N.Y. DR. JULIUS 5 LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M. 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