The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1933, Page 2

Vage two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 193 = Will Presen O’Brien A t Petition to gainst Pay Cut on Work Relief Jobs Republicans in Control of Assembly Will Join Democrats in Putt NEW YORK.—Considerable protes' relief work <Phose pay has again been in othe; ing Over Sales Tax t among jobless workers on Emergency cut 10 per cent is spreading. In some ces the number of days was cut from ten to nine a month, while on jobs a direct cut in pay was made from $4.50 to $4.00 a day. The Bronx Action Committee of emergency relief workers have started | &@ petition to be presented to Mayor: O'Brien, the Board of Estimate and Commissioner of Welfare, Frank Tay- lor The demands to the city officials ave Immediate cancellation of wage cuts and reduction in working days; a m of 12 days work a month ull compensation in ts; and no staggering jobless workers the prices on Wall Street rose a ter points. Brokers reported an in- creased number of buyers than at any time in previous weeks. a The capitalist press hinted that the assembly which is controlled by the republicans will not back Mayor O'Brien's and Governor Lehman's program for an increased sales tax. But after numerous conferences of speaker Joseph A. McGinnies with republican leaders it is generally ac- cepted that the republican machine will give full support to a two per cent sales tax. Governor Lehman called the special session of Legisla- ture for next Wednesday. Mayor O’Brien stated yesterday that 21 cities are in the same posi- tion as New York concerning the relief situation. Among them are such important cities as Rochester, Schenectady and Albany, the state capital. The Greater New York Unemployed Council announced that many up- State cities have already indicated that they will send delegations to Albany when the special session be- gins. The demands of mass workers delegations in- ude crease in relief and the adoption of a/| state unemployment insurance pend- ing its adoption by the federal gov- ernment Nineteen Expelled from Oregon Camps @ drive of cutting the| ter of a point to one and a quar-| ‘WILL USE PUBLIC WORKS PLAN 10 CUT FEDERAL AID Roosevelt's S peech |. Indicated Program to Stop Relief WASHINGTON, July 19.—Four throughout the country will be re- moved and part of them placed on public works projects according to | @n announcement of the Emergency ere Administrator, Harry L. Hop- ins. | | appropriated. only for war construc- | tion purposes, $238,000,000 is to be| | used for naval construction and at least $150,000,000 is considered for | tion, construction of army posts and similar projects. Hopkins plans to Place a small fraction of the unem- | ployed on war construction jobs and | use it as a pretense to remove the | rest from relief. | The intention of the government to | stop relief was already indicated in | Roosevelt’s speech to the youth in the forest camps made on Monday. The president stated that “we are | seeking to get away as fast as we | possibly can from soup kitchens and} free rations.” This reference was mainly aimed at millions of jobless who live on relief distributed by local government agencies. | replaced by forced labor jobs. | The government program of even cutting out existing relief distribution continues to bring the urgent neces- sity of establishing Federal Unem- | ployment Insurance, army purposes such as mechaniza-| This will be| |SLIPPER WORKERS NEW YORK.—Nineteen boys have | been sent back from forced labor camps in Oregon for voicing com- | plaints about the food and other con- | yon yesterday by the slipper workers ditions, it was reported by the boys; under the leadership of the Shoe WIN TWO STRIKES NEW YORK.—Two strikes were here yesterday. These boys were taken by state troopers at night, un- known to the other workers in the camps, and shipped out. In several instances the mothers of these boys had to pay their fare back from the camps. In some cases, parents of these boys were required to pawn their belongings to raise the money to send to the boys. [.W.0. Will Develo Support inCampaign for Social Insurance The International Workers Order at its recent Chicago convention de- cided upon a special campaign for Social Insurance among the frater- nal organizations in the United States A manifesto was adopted calling and Leather Industrial | Union. | At the Progress Shoe factory, over | 100 workers, out on a strike for two | weeks, won the following demands: | Recognition of the shop committee, no hiring or firing without the shop | committee's consent, no discrimina- tion against active workers, and equal | division of work. | At the Oxford Slipper Co. the workers were out only one day, but compelled the boss to sign the ag- | reement granting recognition of the union. Slipper workers are called upon to come to the delegates’ confer- ence, Saturday, July 22, at Irving Plaza, at 2 p. m., Workers million workers now on relief lists| Berevue Hospital { NEWS BRIEFS Alabama, Arkansas, Wet. By a vote of three to two Alabama and Arkansas voters on Tuesday reg- istered their approval of the aboli- tion of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) amendment to the constitution of the United States, This represents the heaviest blow yet given the prohibi- tion forces, as both these states were} | included by them in the list of 13 that they claimed would refuse to vote two states represents half the num~- ber necessary to affect repeal. Not one state thus far has voted to re- tain the prohibition amendment. Harriman Turns Up. NEW YORK, July 19.—Joseph W. Harriman, banker who swindled de- positors out of millions and whose lawyer, Colonel Donovan, recently republican candidate for governor, is trying to prove crazy, again showed up after his latest disappearing act. Harriman returned late Tuesday aft- ernoon to the Regent Nursing Home, from which he disappeared Monday. His clothes were dripping wet and he said he fell in the river. who is trying to prove that Harriman is insane, had him committed to Soviet Orders French Steel. PARIS, July 19—The Soviet gov- ernment has placed orders for steel | with French concerns. The orders | The $3,300,000,000 voted for a so-| were for sheeting suitable for pipe | called public works program has been | jines and copper and chromium and nickel for automobiles, airplanes and | locomotives. The deal involves 400,- 000 francs, Much larger orders will be placed on conclusion of a Franco- Soviet Trade agreement. be ye Firecracker Kills General. SAN FRANCISCO, July 19.—Major General Charles G. Morton, 72 years old, for 42 years in the army and for- mer commandant of the Ninth Corps area, died here today as a result of tetanus caused by burns from a fire- cracker he set off on July 4th. ities Soviet “evelops Chemicals. NEW YORK, July 19.—In a report to the American Chemical Society yesterday by N. Almoian it was shown that the Soviet Union is rapidly de- veloping its chemical industry. Four huge plants are now in operation and five more are planned. Among those planned is one with an annual capa- city of 150,000 tons of ammonia at Chirchiki to supply cotton fields of that section with fertilizers. Two new nitrogen plants are being built at Magnitogorsk and Kuznetz. EASTERN METAL - STRIKE IS WON NEW YORK.—The workers of the Eastern Metal Co., 465 Greenwich st., have won their strike, which was led under the joint militant leader- ship of the Steel and Metal workers’ Industrial Union and the Metal Spinners’ Union. Every worker re- ceived from $2 to $4 weekly wage increase, The strike at the Keystone Silver Co., 32nd st. and Ist ave, is still go- ing on. Seventy workers have been out on strike for one week under the joint leadership of the 8.M.W.I. U. and the Metal Spinners’ Union for 30 per cent wage increase, re- cognition of the shop committee and no discrimination. inst prohibition. The vote of these} His lawyer, | | DAYTON, Ohio.—Here is a photo of a young Negro child that is actually |starving to death. There are three j others in the family—a mother, father BABY BELL KELLY This infant is slowly starving to | | death, Note the skinny limbs and | the swollen, misshapen abdomen, | typical of the last stage of starva- | tion. ' | the wall. laced in Closet fare allows the family about 80 cents worth of groceries weekly. The welfere doesn’t nrovide enov milk for the family to keep a cat alive, let alone two children, Baby Bell was sent to the Miami Valley Hospital here. The city kept the child there for three weeks and, as the child used to moan and cry for food, Bell being a Negro baby of an unemployed worker's family, the baby was discrim- inated against. The baby's mother went to visit her and when she got to the ward where the baby was supposed to be she got @ shock by seeing that the child she cherished was gone from the ward. She began to cry and weep, thinking her baby was gone forever. One of the doctors tried to pacify the mother and called a nurse, and when the nurse saw that it was a Negro, mother crying for her child she insulted Mrs. Kelly and told her that her child was alive, but on account of the baby’s moaning and crying for food, they removed the child to another room. She led Mrs. Kelly to the lower part of the room and pointed to a door, and said Boil s thee vas Mrs. Kelly opened the door and, to her surprise, she found herself look- ing into a lavatory where the bed pans and urinals were hanging on She heard a child crying and went in and found the child in a crib without sheets or attendance. Dayton, Ohio, is not supposed to be a jim-crow city, but the filth and the ways the Negroes are discrimi- |mated against is as bad as in many cities south of the Mason-Dixon Line. The mother took Bell home to try and feed the child but the child is not doing any building up, as the parents can’t get the proper nourishment for the child, A.M. | ‘Mooney Film Opens Tomorrow | Despite Bankers’ Opposition in San Quentin prison today to the Mooney Endorses “Strange Case” Film NEW YORK, July 19.—Tom Mooney, in a telegram sent from his cell “My picture opens at the Cameo Theatre on Friday, July 21, | | lieve the picture presents my case and my hope for freedom. May I im- | plore you for assistance in giving this the widest publicity possible,” International Labor Defense, said: I be. NEW YORK, July 19—Bitter op- position, believed to be backed by banking interests, manifested itself against the showing of the film, “The Strange Case of Tom Mooney”, which opens at the Cameo Theatre here tomorrow. The film a two- reeler, is regarded by those who have attended previews as the most ef- fective argument for Mooney’s re- lease yet to reach the American Negro Baby, Moans for Food | VETERANS RALLY in Hospital, P. By 3 Worker Correspondeni) | ald younger’ later, ‘The Family wel- DEMONSTRATION AT SCOTTSBORO Will Protest Murder of Antonio Fierro by Khaki Shirts NEW YORK, Juiy 18—A call to .ll members of the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League to turn out at the Scottsboro demonstration, to be held in Union Square Friday at 5 pm. under the auspices of the local In- ternational Labor Defense, was issued today by the city commitiee of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Leaguc. ‘The demonstration will also pro- test the Fascist terror in Germany and the growing fascism in the U. 8. A., especially the murder of Antonio Fierro, young Italian worker by Art Smith’s Khaki Shirt organization of Philadelphia, in Long Island Friday night. Graef’s Fate Unknown Hugo Greef, secretary of the Inter- national of War Vetérans and War Victims, with which the WESL is af- fillated, has been imprisoned by Hit- ler, it was pointed out, and no one knows whether he is living or dead. The veterans will also raise the de- mand for the release of Sam Wein- ‘tein, war veteran railroaded to jail ona murder charge for working class activities, and now serving a long term in Sing Sing. Preliminary Rallies Preliminary rallies for the Friday Gemonstration will be held by Post 2 of the WESL Wednesday evening at 125th St. and Fifth Ave., and on Thursday evening at 130th St. and Seventh Ave. On Thursday evening also @ membership meeting of the “Post will be held at Lafayette Hall in Harlem at eight o’clock, to prepare for the Friday demonstration. Harlem veterans will mobilize at 131st St. and Lenox Ave. Friday at 3 p.m. for the demonstration. | * ey Scottsboro Protest In Williamsburg NEW YORK.—Preparing for the mass Scottsboro demonstration to be held by the New York District Intérnational Labor Defense, Fri- day, July 21, at Union 8q., the Willsmsburg Section of Brooklyn is holding a protest meeting tonight on the corner of Bushwick Ave. and Moore St., at 8 p.m. The speakers of the evening, Rev. Gregory, prominent Negro minister, Sam Stein of the New York Dis- trict, I.L.D.; Ed Sagarin, eye-wit- ness of the Scottsboro trial in De- catur; Mark Braig, militant Negro people. | leader of the Unemployed Council, The National Mooney Council on | BP local workers. Action, in letters now being sent! ?. ‘ throughout the United States, urges | Tennessee Repeal Vote Today. all workers’ groups, A: F. of L.| NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 19.—It is unions, clubs and branches of mass | generally recognized that in the vote organizations to send letters to|on prohibition repeal tomorrow this neighborhood movie houses demand- | state will join the eighteen others ing that they show “The Strange Case of Tom Mooney.” = | that have voted to do away with pro- | hibition. Postpone Snipes Case NEW YORK.—The case of Ham- mie Snipes, Negro worker arrested on a framed charge of assault at a Harlem Relief Bureau demonstra- tion, was postponed to August 17 yesterday in Sp%eial Sessions Court, Franklin and Center Sts. Almost the entire court room of | Negro and white workers got up and walked out after the adjourn- ment of the Snipes case, Day By Day with the “Daily” How Section 15, Bronx, Spreads the ‘Daily’ By LANDIS During the past few weeks there has been great progress in our sec- tion (Section 15, Communist Party, Bronx, N. Y.) in the sale of the Daily Worker. We have succeeded By PHIL FRANKFELD (Secretary Unemployed Councils, Pittsburgh District) upon the millions of workers organ- | ized in the fraternal movement in America to join the I. W. O. in its efforts to achieve Social Insur- ance for the American workers. The national executive committee, elected at that Convention, there- fore considers the organization of this campaign its first and foremost duty. To facilitate its work, this committee, at its first meeting after the. convention, organized itself into four sub-committees. It elected an organization committee of nine mem- bers, an educational committee of nine members, an administration committee of seven members, and an appeals committee of five mem bers, Into the organization committee it elected Dczurick, Green, Meyers, Plotkin, Rosenthal, Saltzman, Shaf- fer, Wiener and a Negro worker yet to be coopted The Educational Committee was enberger, Gukofsy, Tkoch, Kubi- enberger, GGukofsky, Tkoch, Kubi- cek, Tolciss, Trouber and Sultan. Into the Administration Committee was elected Brodsky, Candela, Feher, Fidler, Mensher, Rosenbaum and Shipka. The Appeals Committee will be | composed of Holten, Korenic, Prim- off, Rosenberger and Spitzer. The National Executive Committee then elected Max Bedacht as the General Secretary of the Order. Organization Committee is preparing for tfe next full meeting of the Exectitive Committee propos- als for the campaign to organize a broad united front Social Insurance movement of workers organized in the fraternal movement in America. As part of this United Front ¢am- pa'cn, a membership recruiting cam- paign is to be initiated to increase the members of the order to 40,000 by January 1, 1934. HATHAWAY SPEAKS ON “ACTION AGAIST WAR” Clarence Hathaway will speak on “Action Against War” at @ sym- pesium against war and fascism to be held at St. James Presbyterian Church, 145 Street and St. Nicholas Ave. tonight. A young Negro workers who served five days in a prison at Preston Reforestration Camp, Irving Kaput, and Joe Starobin, who was one of the 21 students expelled from City | The National Convention of the | Unemployed Leagues, held on July |3—5 in Columbus, following the State Convention of the same or- | ganization, was marked with the | vacillation and hesitancy which is | typical of the Muste movement. | The convention was attended by 575 regular and 54 fraternal dele- gates from 13 states. Discounting | the inflated claims as, for instance, | 110,000 members for Ohio, 150,000 in | California, the fact remains that | many thousands were represented at | this convention. Of special im- portance was the fairly good dele- ation from West Virginia and | North Carolina, which included a number of Negro delegates. | The National Convention opened in | a somewhat depressed state. During the two previous days the Ohio Leagues had held their convention, | which registered a rapidly mounting wave of radicalization. On the other | hand, all the confusion and preju- | dices of the backward sections of the | working class could be observed. The | bulk of those present had undoubt- edly not heard a Communist speaker before. They were conscious of one thing, “conditions are bad and some- thing must be done.” It was there- fore possible for stool-pigeons, as Gerstner and Brag, to whip up a patriotic spirit. This even brought about a situa- tion where a Negro delegate, Mc- Keeney, from Allegheny County, was driven off the Fair Grounds and nearly attacked because he walked with a white woman companion. When this occurred the Musteites failed to take a sharp and decisive stand, evading the issue by not men- tioning it and even keeping Mc- Keeney from the convention. No Firm Position The whole preparations and ac- tions of the Musteites in the Ohio field helped prepare the ground for such conditions. Their program of “Americanism,” “of a realistic Amer- ican approach,” when translated into the arena of the class struggle had to result not in developing a class consciousness but in fostering a na- tionalistic feeling among its sup- porters. Their refusal to meet issues squarely in a principled manner ran like a thread throughout the pro- ceedings of state and national con- ventions, This position is not acci- dental. Their failure to have a line fe'ere will also spear is the very line they pursue. | Muste Position at Unemployed Leagues Con- vention Hampered Unification of Jobless Movement | part and parcel of Musteism as a, «An analysis of tendency. In the opening of the convention immediate friction was started by the Trotskyites, Lovestoneites, and other ques, who played a miserable role. The most insignificant point became an issue for these people to create differences. Their position is ex- emplified by a certain Mrs. Rose, a ‘Trotskyite from Los Angeles, who ap- pealed to the lowest emotions of the politically most backward sections of the workers. She stated that repub- licans and democrats are “playing with the lives of workers and their families” and pointing to the Unem- ployed Councils delegation continued, “now these people want to play with us.” The convention forced her to subside. Also, the New York Love~ stoneite, Becker, tried to introduce a statement against unity, but had to desist. The socialists, in the most under- handed manner, catried through their destructive tactics. They dis- tributed, secretly, a statement slan- dering the Communists and all those who supported united front action. It becomes ever clearer that the so- cialist leaders will oppose any united front movement of the workers. This was already seen in the action of Karl Borders, who bolted the ma- jority of thé Chicago Convention of his own organization when they voted to form a Federation of Un- employed Organizations. Clear Program The Unemployed Councils, through its National Secretary, I. Amter, was’ able to present a clear position, be- cause of its concrete program and its support and guidance from the Communist Party. Amter in his speech brought forth the need of developing a nation-wide movement for federal unemployment insurance, for the adoption of the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Billi, He con- trasted the conditions of poverty in this country with the complete elim- ination of unemployment in the Soviet Union, This was received with a storm of applause. The conven- tion hall was decorated with charts depicting the unemployment situation in various countries. At the head of the list was the United States and in marked contrast were the words written under the Soviet Union “No It is! Unemployment” the convention must place the center of responsi- bility on the Musteites, who were the leaders of the convention. There- fore, take the speech of Budenz, for example. It was clear and militant, yet failed to strike a single direct blow against those elements who worked against unity. All through his speech he failed to give any reasons why unity should be accom- plished with the Unemployed Coun- cils. He even avoided mentioning the name of the Unemployed Coun- cils. After all, unity is not an ab- straction, it is a definite relationship between organizations and a means of uniting the masses of unorganized workers. | All their spokesmen even avoided reference to the fact that the Soviet Union has abolished unemployment. It arose out of fear to be branded as “reds,” which they endeavored to avoid. But the rank and file. dele- gates did not take an indifferent at- titude to these questions. On the contrary they gave their whole- hearted support to them, Central Question A central question for any work- ing class body today is its ‘position towards unemployment insurance. Here again we note vacillation. A formal endorsement of Unemploy- ment Insurance, but no clear, direct reference to the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, It was hur- tiedly adopted so as not to affirm definitely the need of developing a struggle around this program. They did not raise the point, in the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill to assure the workers “average wages according to their industries’ and that money for this purpose be raised by using the funds appropriated for war preparations and by a gradu- ated tax on incomes and profits over $5,000 a year. On the contrary, a bill introduced by the program com- mittee had to be corrected by the writer, who was a.member of the Unemployed delegation. A number of other resolutions were adopted, among them the demand for freedom of Tom Mooney and. the Scottsboro boys. These. resolutions were adopted with enthusiasm, which showed the fighting spirit of the delegates. A letter from a group of Negroes, asking to be represented on Firm Program Cannot Be Developed by Vacillation all national, state and county com- mittees, showed the continuing fear of discrimination on the part of Né- eroes. That this fear was justified, was shown in the drawing up of the slate of officers. There no place was left for a single Negro, although later this was corrected by the withdrawal of one of the nominees for vice-| president, = A Shallow Interpretation Just as the socialist Continental Congress last May decided to adopt a “declaration of independence,” so the Musteites adopted one in Colum- bus, the last paragraph of which reads: “When our forefathers crushed the tyranny, America was born. When the men of 1860 destroyed’ ’ chattel slavery, America’s develop- ment as a great industrial state was made possible. And when the men and women of today shall finally crush the tyranny of bankers and bosses, America shall at last be free.” This paragraph indicates the whole/| shallow anti-Marxian interpretation | of the traditions of bourgeois reyolu- | tions. “Men and women of today,”) but no mention of the contradictions between the capitalist class and working class. fo mention of the) necessity to overthrow the capitalist system, but rather a suggestion of the possibility of a peaceful transi- tion from capitalism to socialism | without overthrowing capitalism, | The Columbus Convention, as al- ready mentioned before, was a pro- Gressive step to the extent that it recorded support for a unified un- employed movement; called for the organization of strikes, for the bet- terment of wages and. conditions on forced labor and public works pro- jects; and at least vaguciy endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, Tt is our duty, in the course of day to day activity, to de- velop a sharp and clear program as against the vacillations of the “left” reformist Muste movement. We must initiate and help to develop strikes on all forced labor and public works projects on a greater scale than we have done heretofore. In all of these movements we can develop the strug- gle for federal unemployment insur- ance. The Unemployed Councils must Strengthen its own organization, by organizing block committees and en- rolling hundreds and thousands of supporters into our organization. ‘Through such mass movement, on the basis of chrrying on united front ac- tivity with all other unemployed bodies, we can develop one national unified unemployed organization. {in getting 650 weekly subs, and the units are ordering the paper regu- | larly. | Two months ago the weekly order used to be from 480 to 485 copies. | Now our total hovers between 960 | and 1,075 weekly. We had two Red Sundays recently during which we sold 1,600 to 1,700 copies of the ‘Daily’, and on May 1, 3,500 copies were sold. We also had great suc- cess with the Scottsboro edition of April 20. Make Special Efforts. It must be said that the comrades in this section understand the im- portance of increasing the influence end sales of the Daily Worker among the masses. It is up to members of all sections and units to make special efforts, through can- vassing each house, each apartment in their territories, to convince workers of the importance of read- ing the ‘Daily’ regularly. I want to report here some good methods used by certain comrades in the different units of Section 15. Visits Apartments. Comrade Weiss, of unit 32, made it her business to become acquain- - with ¢he workers in her neigh- borhood. For two or three weeks sie went around to one apartment the Unemployed Council. Through this; these workers received relief. She also formed personal friendships 90 Daily Workers every week. Organizes Janitors, janitor. organizing their own union. and brought a number of them to meet- ings of the Trade Union Unity League and to local demonstrations. Com- rade Badate has succeeded in .this way in getting eight weekly stibs, and his unit sells between 65 ‘and 75 pa- pers every week. Sales at Meetings. Comrades Kaplan and Cohen of unit 5 make contacts in the parks and at open air meetings every Sat- urday and Sunday. Wherever they see a group of workers congregated they make it their business to be on hand with the Daily Worker, as well as language papers, the Liber- ator, and one or two-cent. pamph- lets. Through this method they have obtained 25 weekly subs. These two comrades alone sell from 30 to 40 ‘Daily's’ every week. Many exctises are often made by Party members who for various rea- Sons underestimate the sibilities of after another, talkirt to workers on | whooping it up for O’Brien. the local situation. She succeeded inj enlisting several jobless workers for Gibson Charity gang got a big with these workers, and since then | Comrade Weiss has secured six week- ly subs. Her unit as a whole sells | Comrade Badate, of unit 1, is a/ For ten days he spoke to: all the janitors in his neighborhood, | explained to them the necessity of | INMATES OF BIRMINGHAM PRISON TURN Scottsbo i | that stank to high heaven.” It Scottsboro boys. It is here too where Wirt Taylor, young unemployed or- ganizer, lies without medical atten- tion, in danger of losing a leg from an infection contracted here, and where Alice Burke, imprisoned on the same frame-up charge that holds Taylor, lies ill from bad food. Warden Spits Out vood At the time the supper was served, the head warden happened to be in one of the blocks with about 20 men prisoners. AS soon as they saw the meal, the prisoners began to swear, and demanded that the warden, Mr. Erwin, taste the food. He took one bite of biscuit, a taste of the peaches, and spit it out into | the toilet. The men then demanded supper, and said they would not go back to their cells hungry. Despite the fact that he himself was unable to swal- low a bite of the food, the warden had all the men locked up in soli- tary confinement for this demand. In solitary, the men protested by PRESTO LOCK PAY WHAT THEY LIKE Terrific Speedup, Then | (By a Metal Worker Correspondent.) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—I am 4 work- er in the Presto Lock Co., located at 70 Washington St. We work 48 hours. Most of us are on piece work, except the Tool and Plating Dept. There are about 180 work- ers. The speed-up is greater due to the piece work. In the departments where we work piece work, the big- gest grievance is, when we finish one job, we have to wait for two or three hours till we get another job. For this time wasted, we don’t get paid. We canot leave before quitting. This way some days we make 50 cents for 8 3-4 hours. In the Polishing Department they don’t know how much they are Getting until the end of the week. Today we are busy. We are mi stock, because of the inflation. With prices on goods going up, the boss will be able to make more profits. Workers of the Presto—organize in your department in groups. Be prepared for the attack of the boss. Fight to be paid for waiting time. Write to this paper about your con- ditions. This paper will help you in advising you how to organize. | Wage-cut to Employes Follows Charity Gift By the Plaza Hotel (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Here are two inci- dents which will be of interest to your readers and should get wide publicity so that the people who still have faith in the system will transfer their allegiance to the | united masses. Shortly before the O’Brien elec- tions, all the employees in the Ho- tel New Yorker were given a slip of paper on which were written or- ders to appear at an appointed place on a certain day and hour an< bring two friends with them. Failure to do this meant loss of their jobs. When they got to the place, they found a crowd of people all Number Two: Sometime ago the ‘check from the Plaza Hotel. There ‘was a great salvo in the press about {the big generous act of the |The next day all the employees of the hotel got a wage cut to make up for the “generosity.” One old man there used to get $14. Now he gets $13.50. WEBSTER KNITTING MILL WORKERS WIN DEMANDS NEW YORK.—Workers on strike at the Webster Knitting Mills have | returned to work with thé following gains: Reinstatement of the worker that was discharged, @ wage increase of 12% to 25 per cent, and recognition of their organization. ‘Workers of the Modern Knitting Mills, 1 Chester St. Brooklyn, are now on strike against the attempt of the bosses to discharge some of, the workers and to break up the unio of the workers. The union calls on all knit goods workers of Brownsville and East New York to help on the picket line. L, I. UNEMPLOYED IN ACTION A, L. T—Due to the ag- gravating condition of the unem- ployment relief in Nassau County @ conference was held in Hicks- ville on July 14th to discuss the situation. Delegates and représen- tatives from various towns and or- spreading the Daily Worker. We cannot go into them here, but we can state that our exeperience in our section fone! that no excuse is val- id, that the ‘Daily’ CAN be sold wherever and whenever it is pushed sufficiently. fanizations were present. A permanent organization was s¢t up to see that jobless’ demands are seoured. A demonstration before the Board of Supervisors will be held this Monday at 11 a.m DOWN FOOD ~ WARDEN COULD NOT EAT Placed in Solitary After Refusal to Eat; They Protest by Flooding Cells Charge Prisoners Go to Bed Hungry Every Night; Jail Holds Taylor, Burke, and the ro Boys JEFFERSON COUNTY JAIL, Birmingham, Ala.—‘“Three hard biscuits, two tablespoonsful of rice, and some peaches was after they had been given this supper that inmates at this jail revolted, demanding that more wholesome and palatable food be given to them. This is the jail which holds the¢————_——. flooding their cells, and were taken into the day-room, which has two benches and a table, and kept there several hours. Finally, they were per- mitted to go to their cells to sleep. about 1 a, m. Four Put in Solitary Next morning a really good break- fast was served, of eggs, meat, grits, and coffee. But the other meals were as bad as ever. Both men and women prisoners go to bed hungry every night. That day the men were taken one by one and questioned as to who started the flooding of the cells. When no one squealed, four were picked out by the warden and put into solitary confinement. Om Wednesday, an outside physi- cian, Dr. Elkourie, came to the pri- son to visit Alice Burke. Warden Erwin hung close over her to listen to what she might tell him. Deny Burke Medical Care In the presence of the warden, Burke, who is very ill, told the doctor how she had lost ten pounds, de- scribed the food, for which the pri- son authorities are paid 75 gent a day, and told how although the pri- son has a truck-garden, not a green vegetable had been seen in the jail all summer. Dr. Collins, the prison doctor, was also present, and Burke described how she had refused to give her médical attention or order for her the milk she was supposed Long Waits for Work! oni Collins walked off, without a word to say. “Do you mean to say you don’t get vegetables?” said the warden. “What about the peas and beans you get?” Burke pointed out that these were dried vegetables, The Southern district of the I. L. D. is conducting a campaign for funds to appeal the cases of Burke and Taylor, and to obtain their re- lease on bond, to save Taylor from losing his leg. Funds should be sent to the National Office of the I. L. D. Room 430, 80 East llth St. New York City, and marked for this pur- pose, Garment Section Workers Navarr Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE Corner 28th 8. 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