The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1933, Page 2

Page Two DAL « Are You in the Market for A Luxurious Satin Spread? For Only $270 Altman’s on. Fifth Avenue Offers a Real Bargain “By SENDER GAR) RLIN NEW YORK.—An opportunity of a lifetime! New York’s million unemployed were able to learn of this opportunity thru a quarter-page ad in the ‘Times’ inserted by Altman’s ritzy depart- ment store on Fifth Avenue pliers the ad doesn’t say definitely that Altman's accepts if merchan- “relief” ‘News Briefs perhaps, to the smaller od tickets distribute ny Home Relief Bur, | ad-writer de-| Snoopers Lose Jobs PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 8.—Com mander John D. Pennington and 352 | prohibition agents of this area were | “Altman believes that the period of getting things just for today is about to pass.” For he goes on to say |Rotified from Washington Monda} ¥ | that they are discharged from , ‘ | vi They will be laid off V Now people are looking for |nesday. The order wipes out the more permanent possessions . - ~ | prohibition bureau for the whole not just things to ‘tide over.” The | areq which includes Pennsylvania, quality of. fineness and beauty | Now Jersey and Delaware. must go with permanence.” ie ate ~ tine Re. Hull Seeks New Pacts the starving WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull has begun plans for holdir American for bi-lateral trade agreements. will also hold preliminary “disc ” with them on the Pan-Ami reciprocity tariff conference is to be held in Montevedio December. This is part of the | mpaign of American imperialism o gain advantages over England in the southern Tepublics. | run; bed- Masons Can’t Sell ‘Heer PENDER, Nebraska, Aug. Nebraska masons were today orders net to sell 3.2 beer penalty of being ousted from the |lcdge. The masons were the back ;|bone of the Ku Klux Klan move: .|ment here a few years ago. Beer becomes legal in this state Thursday. eae ass 6~ under both Gulland t by Remney of of the fin- group of Tammany Labor Faker Dedd NEW YORK, Aug. 8—John Mc- Ardl agent of the mailers’ union. vice president of the Interna: Typographical Union, presi: the Mailers Trade Distr rd al of | P. Davis, noted engineer, died at his home here yesterday. He engaged in many big engineering projects, the | last one being the Soviet project in- ee = Caucasians through dams, p improve the “Da Worker.”| and flood control. He was more in your suggestions and criticism! | than two years in the Soviet Union what the workers ar consulting engineer. He was 72 yeur shep think about the “Daily.” years of age. MUSEMENTS 7 ——— 51 ATH OF A LIVING GRAVE? The Strange Case of TOM MOONEY” |tHearne| is TH STREET AND “Urge workers to see film without fail"—D AILY WORKER UNION SQUARE ay CME” 6 9 The new Soviet| Cont. from 9 AM. ALSO moralality! First film || MIDNIGHT SHOW of second 5-Year Plan SATURDAY RKO Jefferson Mth st. & | Now 3rd Ave, EDMUND LOWE and NANCY CARROLL in “I LOVE THAT MAN” Added Feature:—“TOMORROW AT SEVEN’ | with CHESTER MORRIS | MUSIC TADIUM CONCERTS™=——= Philharmonie-Symphony Orchestra Lewisohn Stadium, Amst. Av. & 138 St. HANS LANGE, Conductor EVERY NIGHT at 8:30 PRICES: 25e, 50c, $1.00. (Circle 7-575) BOOK YOUR DATES Now— At FCFTH AVENUE THEATRE Broadway and 28¢ | CLASSIFIED Street | PICTURES, ETC, | FURNISHED ROOM—For rent. 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We will attend to the rest. For Torgsin Order for $5.00 send.......... $5.50 For Torgsin Order for 10.00 send...... .. 10.60 For Torgsin Order for 15.00 send.......... 15.60° For Torgsin Order for 20.00 send... . 20.75 For ,Torgsin Order for 25,60 send. . ~ 25.75 For Torgsin Order for 30.00 send eo. 31,00 Icor Biro Bidjan Corporation — 799 Broadway, | N. Y. os under | for more then 30 years busi- | Union and treasurer of the Allied Trades Council of New| d suddenly Sund Mc- | a member of the Tam-| many Society and a member of the va County Democratic (Tam- y) Committee. Arthur P. Davis Dead | OAKLAND, Cal. Aug. 8—Arthur | volving the reclamation of a maxi- | mum of 10,000,000 acres in the Trans- | # drainage | [MILITIA READY TO INVADE FARM STRIKE REGIONS! |Strike Spreads, Covers | Almost Entire Milk Producing Area | ALBANY, Aug. 8—New York's state militia is prepared to proceed to the scene of the farm strike in the milk producing belt at a moment's notice it was learned today. Officers and their staffs have assembled at Albany and the militia units are ordered to | conclude all preparations for moving | against the farmers who are fighting the milk trust. Governor r sent telegrams to district attorney urging them to | prosecute striking farmers. At the ame time a provocative story was circulated thet strikers plotted blow- ing up of bridges to stop carrying of | milk in trucks over highways, Lieut. | Gerard A. Vane was ordered to in- vestigate the report and stated that pes story was “the product of a fer- | tile imagination.” | Senate Votes Investigation In a late session last night | State Senate, by a solid vote of the conferences with Latin-.| hiplomatie representatives He Tammany democrats against the re- | publican minority, adopted a resolu- | tion to create a lesislative committee of 12 members to inquire into the milk situation in the state. Announcement was made that the | committee would be required ‘to ob- tain information on whether the milk control law had been of benefit to the modified. altered or repealed.” With the milk strike rapidly spread- jing, and embracing approximately 50,- 000 dairy farmers the Lehman admin- istration is alarmed. The biggest ad- dition to the strikers yesterday was |the spread of the movement to chenectady, where the farmers voted on Sunday to join the producers’ em- bargo and to stop milk by mass pick- eting of the highways. A truck containing a load of milk | | | was pursued into the city of Schenec- | tady to Eastern Avenue where the contents were dumped while hundreds f city spectators looked on and cheered the farmers. | At Sherburne, in Northern Chen- ango County, more than 1,500 farmers d yesterday and compelled the nen’s League plant to agree to down and not accept any more until the strike is over. D | close milk Stage and Screen \Is “Star” in New Film TOM MOONEY, now serving his lith year in San Quentin prison on | framed-up charges, is the central figure in “The Strange Case of Tom Mooney,” now playing at the Acme Theatre, 14th St. and Fourth Ave. This film, sabotaged by the capital- ist press, is a dramatic presentation of the frame-up, and includes, the Preparedness Day parade of 1916, court-room scenes at the Mooney and Billing trials, the perjured wit- nesses, and winds up with an appeal by Mooney himself, recorded in the San Francisco county jail while Mooney was awaiting his recent trial. All workers are urged to see this thrilling talkie! ILD to Defend Framed Negro Peon, 19 Years Old, Held on ‘Murder’ LYNCHBURG, Va. — The local Scottsboro Action Committee and jthe International Labor Defense have taken up the defense of Reginald Leftwich, 19-year-old Negro farm laborer framed on a charge of murdering A. B. Coate, his employer, and wounding Coate’s wife. Leftwich, arrested at his father’s home, protested his innocence until Captain Grow, County Officer Farm- jer, and Officer Fizer, experts in third degree put the screws on him, when they announced that he had signed a “confession,” giving as the reason for the killing an accusation of “drinking” and the disposition of a pail of milk. Leftwich, his arrest disclosed, was given only an old chicken-house to sleep in on the Coates farm, where he was held in peonage. Jobless Die in Wreck PITTSBURGH, Aug. 8—Four un- employed-men, riding a freight train in Gah cx of work were killed and two others seriously injured when the engine and twenty box cars left the rails near Portage, Pa. TRY ORGANIZERS AUG. 22 HIGH POINT, N. C.—Larry Hogan, | Beull ih Carter, Hazel Dawson, Bill Pre I. M. Ritchie and others arrested as the result of the strike of High Point unemployed relief workers, demanded a jury trial when arraigned in municipal court. The request was granted and the cases were set for Aug. Hogan and his leeted retes "assoclates were re- MIN AAN end V. Useemamers 24 - the | farmers and whether it should be} Demonstration This Saturday Against Altona Executions NEW YORK.—The New York dis- trict of the Communist Party and the workers’ anti-fascist organiza- tions of New York have called an anti-fascist protest demonstration this Saturday at 10 a.m, at the cor- ner of South and Whitehall Streets. The meeting is called to protest against the beheading of the four Communist workers of Altona, Ger- many; against the order of the Nazis to shoot at sight all Gerfhan workers distributing revolutionary leaflets and papers; for the release of other Ger- man workers under sentence of death; and agajnst the terror in Fin- land, where 400 Communists are on hunger strike in prison, and six of them have been murdered. The demonstration at South and Whitehall Streets will culminate in a march to the Finnish and Ger- man consulates, where delegations will present the protests of the work- ers. Evicted From East Side Tenement As Relief Is Reduced Families Face Hunger As Officials Refuse To | Give Food | Tickets NEW YORK, August 8.—The effect cf the city’s drastic reductions in the payment of relief and emergency rents is causing the greatest misery and suffering among hundreds of thousands of workers’ families. A typical case is the tenement house at 55 Suffolk Street, where almost a score of evictions have taken place in the last few months ag the relief payments continued to drop. The case of one of the tenants, Mrs. Goldman, is typical of the way in which the city’s relief bureaus are forcing the workers into actual star- vation. Dependent for support on her only son, who is a cripple, she visited the relief bureau to get the food tickets promised her on Mon- day. At the bureau, she met with the same experience as the rest of her neighbors. She was told that the city “has no money.” Only the most persistent demand on her part finally resulted in the payment of some meagre relief in the form of tickets, seven days after it was promised. It is not uncommon for the ; mothers of the families, made des- perate by the hunger of their chil- dren, to go begging for food among the neighboring families, who them- selves are suffering starvation. The house has not been repaired for many years, the windows are broken, and. the walls are actually falling to pieces in many apartments. Rats infest the entire house. Many of the apartments, officially listed as having three rooms, have, in reality, only two, one being totally dark and without any windows at all. Even when the mothers get food tickets, they are robbed by the gro- jceryman to whom they must go to redeem them. He charges them the highest prices and gives them the stalest food. ‘The workers in this typical helihole of a capitalist tenement are banding together to fight for relief and against | evictions. They are making contact | with the Unemployed Council of 95 | Avenue B, near 6th Street. \Call Riot Squad on Jobless; Uremployed Groups Split Unity NEW YORK.—A police riot squad | attacked 150 unemployed workers at | the Spring and Elizabeth Streets | Home Relief Bureau after a united | front meeting split by the Association of the Unemployed and Local 10 of the Workers Committee was taken | over by the Downtown Unemployed Council. | The Downtown Council led the worker into the relief bureau demanding bread. The policeman on duty there slammed the door on them and then phoned for the riot squad. The demonstration was reformed after the police attack. None was arrested. | Earlier, the Council was refused the platform by the chairman, Lassrer, of the Association of the Unemployed despite the united front agreement. Cortribute $67.25 to Needle Trades Union NEW YORK.—Answering an appeal by the “Defend the Union” Commit- tee of the fur section of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, three organizations have contributed funds. Camp Croton Avenue, Peekskill, N. Y., have made their second contribu- tion, this time $45. The Harry Sims branch of the Workers International Relief contributed $15 while $7.25 was received from the International Workers Order, Branch 6, By DAN DAVIS NEW YORK. — Several reporters lolled around the desk at Brooklyn Police Headquarters last Saturday night. It was sort of hot and stuffy and they'd rather have been sitting over a gin fizz at Joe’s. But some- thing might break and the boss had to get all the latest rackets and mur- ders in the naper. So they stuck around. The desk lieutenant himself felt kind of heavy after packing in a big meal just a few minutes before. A worker and his wife walked into the police station. They glanced about them rather nervously and then welked over to whi e lieutenant St reso a aes a , WEDNESDAY, AUGUsr », Ie PERKINS DODGES COMMITTEE FOR FOREIGN BORN, Uses Feeble Excuses To Avoid Delegation of Workers NEW YORK.—‘Miss Perkins is not in the city,” her secretary told T. J. McHenry, secretary of the Commit- tee for the Protection of the Foreign Born in answer to a demand that she meet with a delegation of work- ers under order of deportation for} working class activities, and of wives and children of workers whose hom: have been smashed by the deporta- tion terror. While this answer was written, news dispatches told cf lengthy conferences between Miss Perkins and the indus- trialists and labor fakers, in Wash-/| ington. The answer tried to dodge the is- sue also by requesting that “any matters you may desire to present to her” be submitted in writing. Pre- viously, Miss Perkins had tried to dodge the delegation by announcing she would be out of town on Sept. 1, when the delegates said they would} call on her. In answer to her latest move, the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign-Born put the matter squarely up to Perkins by demanding that she herself set the earliest possible date after Sept. 1 for a meeting with the delegation. At the same time, the Committee called on all workers and organiza- tions opposed to the deportation ter- ror, to back this demand with pro- tests to Miss Perkins, demanding that she meet the workers delegation, Albany Delegates Must Report Today NEW YORK.—All members of the delegation of the Unemployed Councils and affiliated organiza- tions going to Albany to present the demands of the unemployed and small home owners to the’ state legislature must get their tickets fod the boat before 4 o’cleck today at the office of the Greater New York Unemployed Councils, 10 East 17th Street. The boat leaves at 5 p.m. The round trip fare is four dollars. Huge Wave Sweeps 7 Orphan Children to) Death in Rockaway NEW YORK- —A —A huge wave swept | across a sand bar 400 feet off the main beach at Edgmere in the Rock- | aways carrying at least seven chil- dren to their death yesterday. Eight of fifteen children playing in the shallow waters at the time were rescued, by life guards. One was brought ashore dead. Six are still missing. | All the children, whose ages range | from seven to fifteen, were inmates of the Pride of Judea Home, an or- phan asylum at 992 Dumont Ave., Brooklyn. They were part of a group of 150 taken on an outing for the day. ‘FORCE FREEING OF FRAMED NEGRO Mass Might Smashes Arrest of Bryan NEW YORK.—Another instance of the effectiveness and might of de- termined mass pressure was brought about when the frame-up of William Bryan militant Negro leader charged with “attempted assault” was exposed and dismissed at the Special Sessions, Smith and Schermerhorn Streets, yesterday morning. He was defended by the Brownsville Section of the In- ternational Labor Defense. The brutal treatment the worker recsived at the hands of the police at the time of his arrest on April 20th, inspired a series of mass meet- ings and demonstrations in Browns- ville. On July 18, 500 neighbors marched to the Home Relief Buro to demand the payment of rent for Bryan. When police with drawn guns and gas bombs broke thru the windows of the home of the worker on July 21, they were met with the resistance of 28 neighbors who were prepared to defend his home. Meanwhile out- side the house 1,000 workers had gathered to protect and demonstrate, during which three people were beaten and _ arrested. When the authorities refused to grant a permit for a parade held on Saturday, August 5, protesting Po- lice Terror, evictions and demanding relief for Bryan, the pressure exer- cised by the workers forced the ad- ministrative board to reconsider and concede the strength of the organized masses and to grant the permit. Youth Who Won Soviet Trip at ‘Daily’ Picnic Sails for USSR on Hi NEW YORK.—Sam Silverman of; 751 E. 160th St., a paint salesman | who spent some years as a fur Worker | in the fur market is going to the Soviet Union. For the first time in his life he is leaving his native coun- try to go to the only country where the misery starvation and unemploy-. ment he witnesses here is not found Not being a member of any of the working class organizations Sar Silverman still has the typical illu- sions of the present day American Youth.. The buying of the advance drawing ticket to the Daily Worker Picnic recently held at Pleasant Bay Park from a student of the Workers Schoob was the fiv~’ contact this young worker had with the fighting organ of the working class — the Daily Worker. The time that he will spend in the Soviet Union, Sam hopes will answer many of the questions that have formed in his mind. Are the reds really bearded individuals with bombs in their pockets or are they workers that one sees“ every day. A secd-off meeting is being pr pared before the Ile de France de- part for the Soviet Union, August 19 with Sam Silverman. Mass Picnic of Trade Unions This Sunday in Pleasant Bay Park NEW YORK.—The militant Trade Union Unity League, independent unions and A, F. of L. opposition groups have organized a mass picnic) for Sunday, August 13, at Pleasant Bay Park, This will be a gathering of all trade unionists and their sym- pathizers of New York City, irrespec- tive of their political views or opin- ions. i ‘The picnic will be more than just an outing. It will be a demonstra- tion of the mass support for militant trade unionism. A very interesting program of sport, entertainment and dancing has been arranged by the commit- tee. Prominent sneakers from the labor movement will address this mass gathering on the most vital issues confronting the workers and especially the trade unionists in New York City. ‘The committee has also made ar- rangements for every orfganization, clubs and other organizations to sec- ure tickets under their own name at the rate of 5 cents per ticket. Tick- ets can be gotten from your union, league, or the T.U.U.C. Organize your shop to come down as a body to the picnic, “Pardon me, sir,” the worker began, “but can you help us? You see,” he continued swiftly as though he feared the lieutenant would cut him short, “me and the wife were just put out of our house, The Home Relief Bureau said they could not pay our rent. Our baby is sick and is in the Kings County Hospital. We have no money and no place to sleep. ‘We thought maybe you could help the wife. I can sleep in the park, but I don’t want to bring that on the wife.” One revorter looked un and then turned away, It was the old stuff. Just another worksr’s family shot to hel). Ob. ~~"! the boss wouldn't de France August 19 SAM SILVERMAN “Soviet Russia Today” |Features National Minorities Problem Joshua Kunitz, Corliss Lamont and H. R. Habicht, writers ‘who have studied the national minority situa- tion in the Soviet Union, contribute articles on this subject in the Aug- ust issue of Soviet Russia Today, just out. The first autonomous Soviet Re- public to achieve 100 per cent collec- tivization and the complete elimina- tion of illiteracy, Adygea, in the North Caucasus, is described by Jo- shua Kunitz who has just returned from his fifth trip to the USSR. Writing on “National Minorities in the Soviet Union,” Corliss Lamont tells of the complete absenee of chauvinism and ele hatreds in the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new culture “National in Form, So- cialist in Content.” An article by Donald Henderson on “The Struggle Against War” urges all friends of the Soviet Union to par- ticipate in the U. 8, Congress Against War on Sept. 2, 3, 4, In addition the issue contains “So- viet Art” by Louis Lozowick; “The Tragedy of Will Durant” by Liston M. Oak; “Soviet Armenia,” by Alice Stone Blackwell and a call for the election of worker delegates to the November celebration by Cyril Lamb- kin, U. S. DEPOSITORS MEET NEW YORK.—Depositors who have lost their money in- the U. 8. Bank will meet tonight, 8 p. m. at 1447 Cherlotte St., Bronx, to elect a dele- gation to present their demands for payment of the deposits out of R. F. C. funds. Family Crushed, But “Not a Damn Thing Happening”, Says Boss Press Reporter The lieutenant questioned them a bit more. After all they might be lying. The worker said he eouldn’t find a job, He had tramped the city for several davs, trvi to sell vacuum cleaners. That failed. Even NRA firms ignoved him, he said. The wife started to cry. The lieu- tenant wes annoyed. Painfully he dug his hand into @ pocket, handed them a quarter, and then the ad- dvess of a “home for friendless wo- men.” He agreed that the worker could sleep in the park, > In a corner of the room tHe re- during the past week an organized an The “Montgomery Advertiser” of businessmen are “encouraged” ov: the report that Dr» R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, has| requested Hugh S. Johnson, national administrator of the N. I. R. A., toj| differentiate in the setting of mini- mum wages, between white and Ne- gro labor. Moton, it is reported, said | that it would be to the advantage of Negro labor to have a $14 minimum wage. He cloaked this treachery in phrases about “possible substitution | of white for Negro labor.” Moton does not, of course, suggest a united | struggle of white and Negro workers | to gain higher and equal wages for | all, with equal opportunity for Ne-| groes on all types of jobs. | Meanwhile, despite this damaging evidence, Dr. Moton is quoted in the| Aug. 5 issue of the Pittsburgh “Courier,” unofficial organ of the| National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, as de-| nying that it had proposed discrim-) ination in wages for Negro workers. | Negroes’ Enemies At Work A few days before Moton’s alleged | action, a group of three Negro mis- leaders from Selma, Ala., appeared before the N. I. R. A. directors in| Montgomery and testified that it is not necessary, in their opinion, that Negroes receive higher wages, or ‘wages equal to the minimum set for skilled and semi-skilled white work- ers under the government code. Prior to this, J. Ames, owner of the Selma Manufacturing Company, made a public statement that he would not pay a minimum of $12 a week to his textile workers. Ames has two mills in Selma, one of which employs only white workers and the other only Negro workers. Only the mill em- ploying Negro labor {8 running at present, with the workers receiving from $4 to $8 a week. Following Ames’ statement, a meet- ing was called of leading Negro citi- zens of Alabama, in which the mat- ter was discussed. The meeting was urged to adopt a resolution stating | that Negroes are already getting a living wage. However, fear of the opinion of the masses of Negroes in and around Salem prevented the formal adoption of such a resolution. Then Dr. N. D. Walker, A. G. Car- rol and Professor S. Creed, treasurer of Selma University, all leading middle-class Negroes of Selma, went as a committee to the NIRA officials in Montgomery to urge a legalised lower wage-scale for Negro labor. Lower wages for Negroes are, as & matter of fact, provided indirectly in all the industrial codes now being Workers’ Reference Bulletin Features “New Deal” Exposure CHICAGO, MIl.—Articles on the Na- tional Industrial Recovery (Slavery) Act and te varlous phases of the “New Deal” ieature the August issue of the Workers’ Reference Bulletin, put out by the Chicago Labor Re- search Association. A summary of the latest legisla- tion in the offensive against the workers and account of the war pre- parations and an exposure of the starvation regime in Chicago are in- cluded in the issue. This Bulletin is only 5 cents a copy, 65 cerits a year postpaid. It can be gotten at the Workers Book- store, 2019 W. Division Strect, or at the Workers School, 2822 S. Mi- chigan Avenue. i Y. C. L, DISTRICT FUNC- TIONARIES MEET NEW YORK—District functionaries | of the Young Communist League have been called to a meeting tomorrow, Thursday night 7:30 in Room 205 at the Workers Center, 35 East 12th St. TRY 2 RENT STRIKERS TODAY NEW YORK-—Two workers arrested at the picket line before the rent strike at 128 East 111th St. stand trial this morning after they were arrested on no charge at all. They appear at 10 a.m. in the East 121st Street Court. The workers, Joseph Highkin and Albert Silis, frustrated the attempts of the owner of the building to man- handle an eight-year-old child who was carrying a rent strike sign before the building. WHAT'S ON Wednesday pee yagionas. conburrtas Ge paris RGANIZED Daily Worker —Volunt Slected At last meeting meets today at city office of Daily Worker, 95 E. 12th St. 8 p.m. sharp. ‘ CITY WIDE MEETING of all Carriers! mects today at clty office Daily Worker, 35 E. 12th Bt. Important meeting. All car- riers be on time. 3:15 p, m. LEN — J, Portell on The Chineso Eastern Railroad and Soviet Union. Labor Temple, 243 F. sth St. ree Lemonade Will he xorved, IMPORTANT MEMBERSHIP MEETING cf Sacto-Vanzett} Br. ILD, 792 E. Tremont Ave. | 8:18 p.\ m. Executive committes will bo elected. : 1 LACTURE—Anti-Pescism, J. Adler, 40 W. 8th St. Auspiess French Workers Club. | Admission free. Electricel transcription of classical music. A, officials, and misleaders of the Negro pcople, legal approval set on lower wages for Negro labor. story to the effect that Montgomery HEAD OF TUSKEGEE SEEKS LOWER WAGES FOR NEGROES UNDER N. R. A., iS REPORT Montgomery “Advertiser” Says, Businessmen Are Encouraged By Dr. Moton’s Action By JIM MALY BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. §8.—There has come to_light in Alabama RY d united effort of employers, N. I. R. to have the stamp of July 28 carricd on its * | approved by the N. T. R. A. admin- The textile code as cifically exempts cleaners 's from the mini- mum wage pro’ m. Practically all Negroes in the Southern textile in- dustry come under these classifica- tions, as it is a well-established cus- tom in the South to employ no Ne- groes on skilled or semi-skilled tex- front page a tile jobs. The discrimination con- tained the code was specifically brought to the attention of the N. J R. A. officials and of Roosevelt, but the code was nevertheless approved. 2244 Cents An Hour In Lumber The lumber industry is another case in point. The diffeterice be- tween the minimum for Southern labor and the minimum for Northern labor is greater in the proposed lum- ber code than in any other industrial code so far considered. Under the code, labor in Southern saw and planing mills will work at 2214 cents an hour, while the same labor in a Northern mill will bring 40 cents an hour. This is a much greater dif- ference tham exists in the textile code. The explanation is that labor in the lumber industry of the South is predominantely Negro. whereas in the North and West it is predomin- antely white. Or take the following figures from the code adopted by Montgomery re- tail grocers: minimum wages of $25 for store managers, $15 for clerks and helpers, and $6 for Negro porters and delivery boys. The Alabama mine operators have asked to be exempted from the na- tional mining code and have sub- mitted a special code under which mine workers in Alabama will receive far less gs a minimum wage than miners elsewhere. There is a def- inite connection between this. special code and the fact that three-quar- ters of the Alabama coal miners are Negroes. The administrators of the N. R. A. have said, in response to queries, that agricultural and domestic labor are exempted from the blanket code. Now agriculture tops the list of all occupations for Negroes, while do- mestic service comes second. 1 Discriminate Against Negroes The industrial codes, which slash wages for the enormous majority of workers/and which in no case pro- vide an increase proportionate to the rising cost of living, differentiate in practice between white and Negro labor by excepting the lowest grade jobs from the minimum Wage pro- visions. These lowest grade jobs are those which are forced upon the Ne- gro workers by the employers and by the discriminatory practices of the A. F. of L. But this discrim- ination against Negroes in practice is not sufficient for Moton and others of his type. What these misleaders want is an open understanding and a written agreement that Negroes are to work for less than white labor, It is no wonder that the big busi- nessmen of Montgomery, capital of the slave-holders in the civil war and today headquarters of the land- Jords of the Black Belt, are over joyed at Moton’s action. DR.. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Pitkin and Sutter Aves,, Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M. 1-2, 6-8 P.M. Intern’! Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE TH FLOOR AM Work Done Under Personal Care of Dr. C. Weissman Hospital out Ocalist Prescriptions Filled One-Half Price $1.50 + $1.00 White Gold Filled Frames. ZYL Shell Frames --——___ Lenses not included COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St. First Door Off Delancey St. Telephone: ORvnard 4-1520 The Provisional Commit- tee of the newly organized Daily Worker Volunteers | that was étected at the last meeting will meet this Wed- | nesday at 8 p. m. sharp at } the city office of the Daily Worker, 36 E. 12th Street. WORKERS PATRONIZE CENTURY CAFETERIA 154 West 28th Street Pure Food Profetarian Prices Tel.: Fordham 7-4011 porter who had looked up was phon- ing his poner. “Hello, city desk, oh hello boss, nothing doing tonight, not a doz:n *ian~ henpening.’ ¢ 2157 PROSPECT AVENUE FIRST TO SETTLE BRONX WORKERS! Columbus Steam Laundry Service, Ine. PATRONIZE BRONX, M. & WITH WoR!