The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1933, Page 3

vant! Meeting in Auto Center for Cleveland Conference National Arrangements Committee Reports Wide Support; Urges Collection of Funds DETROIT, Mich.—Election of seites by Jabor organizations of this city to the Trade Union Conference for United Action to be held in Cleve- | jand, Ohio, August 26th-27th, will be vigorousiy pushed at a Regional Conference which will take place here Friday, August 11th, 7:30 p.m., at the Finnish Workers Home, 5969—I4th St., near McGraw. | Philip A. Raymond, ing the Auto Workers Union, Robert M. | > monte Tonpyeeree ne Auto. Workers Union, Robert M. | the latest ‘reports. of the ‘Inter:| ~~ | state Commerce Commission show. Kroon, the A. F, of L, Rank and File¢— Committee for Unemployment Insur- ance, Carl C. Reno, the Unemployed Councils of Detroit, Joe Hoffman, the Carpenters and Joiners Unity League, issued the call for the Detroit gather- ing. While taking up the matter of get- ting as many. Detroit labor bodies as possible to be represented at the Cleveland Conference, the regional Fierro Memorial Release of Terzani NEW YORK.—Demand that the Monday to Demand gathering here will also lay plans for winning increased wages, for the re- peal of the Michigan Sales and Head Tax which throws the economic bur- den on the backs of the workers, and the substitution for this law of a sharply graduated tax on incomes over $15,000 per year, and on property valued above $25,000. Plans will also be laid for fighting for unemploy- ment relief and insurance and for Coveloping a stiff struggle against the NRA slave code, The eall appealing to the auto workers to support the regional De- troit Conference points out that while the automobile industry claims a 10 per cent rise in production for the first five months of this year over the same period last year, employ- ment admittedly fell off 20 per cent in the’same -period as a result of the “New Deal” speed-up system, further cuts in the auto workers’ liv- ing standard threatened by the NRA auto code, pens Poe FUNDS NEEDED NEW YORK.—With the response to the call for the Trade Union Con- ference for United Action in Oleve- land, gaining momentum daily thru- out the country’s industrial areas, the National Provisional Committee ar- ranging for this Conference issued today an urgent appeal for funds to help make the Conference possible. A minimum of $2,000 is needed to carry on the necessary organizational work, including the sending out of letters to unions throughout the country, securing meeting places for regional conferences planned in all industrial areas, to secure technical assistance and to provide for the carrying through of the Conference itself. Trade unions, unemployed bodies, International Workers Order Branch- es, Workmen's Circle Branches, Sick and Benefit organizations, all work- ing class organizations and individ- ual workers are asked to help make the Cleveland Conference a powerful! weapon against boss oppression, espe- cially the NRA, by rushing all funds possible to the Arrangement Com- mittee, Trade Union Conference - for United Action, Room 412, 70 Fifth Avenue, The special appeal for funds fs signed by Edmond Ryan, Jr., Chair- man; James W. Ford, Vice-Chairman, Louis Weinstock, Secretary, Louis F. Budenz, Treasurer. Try 2 Who Protested Beating of Peddler NEW YORK.—Henry Tense and Isadore Izen, who were arrested June 16 at the Coney Island beach, where they protested against the beating of a peddler by police, charged with inciting to riot, are to be tried this morning at Special Ses- sions, Smith and Schermerhorn Sts., Brooklyn. ‘The Internationa! Labor Defense will conduct the defense. Workers wwe urged by the I. L. D, to appear @ court in order to demand the re- pase of the defendants and to pro- cst against police terror. Protest Jugoslavian Death Decree Saturday NEW YORK.—A mass meeting pro- testing the death sentence for one, and the life sentence given three other working-class prisoners in Jugo- slavia will be held Saturday night at 108 W. 24th St. The workers were sentenced along with many others for participation in the Lika Province revolt last year. CORRECTION In the article headed, “Only U.S. and Bosses May Draw Codes N. R. A, Tells Union,” on page three of yesterday’s Daily Worker, the Union referred to was the Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers’ Union of 223 2ND AVE. article incorrectly gave the ad- dress of the Union as 151 Clintor St. which is the address of the A. F. of L. union of the same name. with | Queens County authorities release Athos Terzani, young anti-Fascist, and prosecute instead a member of the Khaki Shirts of America, whom they declare was the actual murderer of Anthony Fierro, Bronx student, will be made by members of the Ter- night, August 14, at a memorial meeting in honor of Fierro. The meeting, of which Carlo Tresca will be chairman, will be held in Webster Hall, 119 E, 11th St., at 8 p. m. It is expected that Michael Fierro, father of the slain boy, will address the gathering. He has pub- licly repudiated the indictment of Terzani, son, calling it “an unmistakable frame-up of an innocent man.” Speakers at the meeting will in- clude Frank Spector of the Interna- tional Labor Defénse; win, American Civil Liberties Union; Carlo Tresca, Italian Defense Com- mittee; Norman Thomas of the So- cialist Party; Arturo Giovannitti, Italian labor poet; Vanni, itontana, of La Stampa Libera, and —‘evbert Mahler of the General Defense Ccm- mittee of the I. W. W. Fierro was mortally wounded on the evening of July 14, in a fight which broke up a meeting of the Khaki Shirts in Columbus Hall, As- toria, L. I. The fight was prec:pi- tated when a spectator who had in- terrupted a speaker was ordered out of the hall by Smith, head of the Khaki Shirts, a fascist organization. In the midst of the fracas a shot was fired, and young Fierro, with whom Smith was grappling, slumped down dying with a bullet in his back. Terzani hastened out of the hall and returned with several policemen. He pointed out one of the Khaki Shirts as the killer, and showed the police where the murder-gun, a 25-caliber automatic pistol, had been hidden under a piano, But the police framed Terzani. Needle Union Wins Demands in 2 Large Dress Jobber Plants NEW YORK.—Two large dress jobbers settled with the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union yesterday. Cutters in the shops, that of Wein- berg and Rothenberg, 500 Seventh Avenue, and Cohen and Klausner, 1400 Broadway, received wage in- creases ranging from $5 to $11 per week, Recognition of the Union was also won as was extra pay Yor over- time. Dressmakers in open shops are urged by the Union to bring their complaints to the headquarters, 131 West 28th Street. LL.D. To Force Jail Officials To Permit Relief for Prisoners NEW YORK—Action will be taken by the International Labor Defense to force authorities at Bellefonte Prison, Pennsylvania, to permit class war prisoners to receive prisoners’ relief from the I. L. D., it was an- nounced today. Three money orders addressed to Anthony Crillo, Michael Michalen and Michael Pehulic, were returned last week from the penitentiary. All three are serving long sentences as a result of their activities in the 1921 miners’ strike. Up to August, 1932, the prisoners received their prisoners’ relief, then the warden, J. W. Claudy, began to refuse them. “We reserve the right to decide as to who money orders will be received from,” he wrote to the I. L. D, DEBS I. L. D. BRANCH DONATES $50 TO MOONEY DEFENSE NEW YORK. — The Eugene Debs Branch, N. Y., District International Labor Defense, has pledged $50 to the Jocal Tom Mooney Council of Action, $20 of which has already been paid, including $6 collected from a House Committee of 2440 Bronk Park East. The Debs Branchs challenges other LL.D, Branches to a revolutionary competition to equal or beat the $50 pledge. fA. F. of L. Iron and Brine Workers’ Laadeins ‘Scurry Like Rats from One Bo Boss to Another From an Iron Worker Correspondent ‘ BRONX, N. Y.—The A. F. of L. officialdom of the International As- sociation of Iron and Bronze work- ers are running like rats from one boss to another, securing coopera- tion in breaking the unity of the iron and bronze workers. Some iron workers may ask the question, “Why did the International Officials becoma active suddenly?” ‘They were silent as long as the mem- bers of the various local unions si- lently paid their dues and obeyed or- ders. But lately there is great dis- satisfaction with the corrupt lead- ership. Local 52, in New York, ousted one of its officials, a vice-president of the International, who had misap- propriated tens of thousands of dol- local, together with Workers, have start- ed an organizational drive, A union of inside and outside iron and bronze ae Ie is formed already, ‘The corrupt leaders of the Inter- national, with the aid of the bosses, have set up two local unions, making all kinds of promises to the workers. The iron and bronze workers are not foolish enough to go to this racket union, where all they will just have to do iskpay high dues. The place of every iron and bronze worker is in the rawks of the newly formed union controlled by the mem- bers themselves. The initiation fee into the union is fifty cents for those who are em- ployed, and ten cents for unemploy- ed, and fifty cents a month dues for those who are working and ten cents for those who ate out of work. Friday, August 11, there will be a meeting of the Union at Labor Temple, 243 East 4th Street, at 8 p.m. Every iron and bronze worker who is not a member as yet is urged to come and join the Architectural Ornamental Iron and Bronze Work- ers Union Local 52. The address of the union is 222 East 31st Street, New York City | who was a comrade of his; Roger Bald- | RR PROFITS JUMP 350 PER CENT IN MAY; WAGES CUT 'Chicago Pocketbook Bosses Also Enjoin the | Roads Increase Profits By Spreading Work; |More Men to Be Fired NEW YORK, Aug. 9—The rail-| roads of this country increased their | profits substantially, at the same | time that rail workers’ wages were | The 151 Class I roads showed net operating income of $40,680,000 for) May, 1933, compared with $11,665,000 for the same period last year, an in- crease of over 350 per cent. This enormous increase in profit took place while the 10 per cent cut in the wages of the railroad workers was continued by agreement of the Brotherhood Chiefs and the railroad executives. There has been a slight increase from the crisis lows in the number of railroad workers em- ployed. But this increase has been at the expense of the individual work- ers, who have had their weekly wages reduced still further by the practice zani Defense Committee on Monday} of “spreading work.” The President’s Rail Co-ordinator, Eastman, has announced that the Co-ordinator Act does not prevent men from being fired whenever the roads see fit to do s0, ILD WORKERS ARE: ‘WARNED’ TO STAY OUT OF THE SOUTH NEW YORK.—Threats of lynch- ing for International Labor Defense organizers, lawyers, and representa- tives who interfere with the South- ern ruling class program of lynching, and try to save framed Negroes from lynch trials, are contained in both signed and unsigned letters sent to the national office of the organiza- tion here following the attempted lynching of three I.L.D. lawyers in Tuscaloosa, Ala. One letter, bearing the purported signatures of 28 “citizens of Mitchem Seat” at Coffeyville, Ala., says: “We the undersigned citizens of Mitchem Seat will hereby give you low browed negro loving skunks a warning to keep out of our southern negro affairs. “We believe our next attempt won't be a so-called ‘close- call’ you will not get to tell of your experi- ences. Now in case you degradéd skalawags don’t believe this we will gladly prove same, “Be sure and let us know when you all want to make a visit down here and we will have a grand re- ception awaiting you.” A copy of this letter has been sent | to Governor B. M. Miller of Ala- bama, with a letter announcing that the ILD. will hold him personally responsible for the lives and safety of IL.D. lawyers and representatives in Alabama. ANOTHER METAL STRIKE IS WON NEW YORK —All the demands thirty workers of the Seiden Metal Company, 67 Bleeker St., went on strike for last Monday were won yes- terday under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial | Union, The demands won are a 44-hour week instead of the original 50 hours | per week, all workers to receive a two-dollar increase and time and-a- half for overtime. The union is rec- ognized by the boss. Spread Bathrobe Workers’ Strike NEW YORK.—More bathrobe shops were added yesterday to those al- ready out on strike, thus increasing the number of strikers to 1,500. The Amalgamated, on the one hand, and the International on the other, are trying their utmost to in- terfere with the strike and are urging the cutters to remain at work and scab on the rest of the workers. At the meeting held in Irving Plaza Tuesday, where a report was given about the last conference with the contractors’ association, the ac- tion of the Conference Committee was approved and full authority was given them to re-open negotiations) for settlement of the strike, but not on the bosses’ terms, At the last conferences, the bosses were willing to grant the 40-hour week, 10 per cent increase for week workers and 15 per cent for piece workers and a $12 minimum for those who now receive $6, $7, $8 and $9, while the union demanded a 30 per cent flat increase, in addition to the earnings of the week and piece workers prior to the strike and a $15 minimum, Sample Card Workers Continue Strike for Better Conditions NEW YORK. — The 300 sample card makers striking under the lead- ership of the newly formed Sample Card Makers Union at a meeting in S‘uyvesant Casino yesterday decided to continue their strike for better conditions, Sam Nessin of the Building Work- ers Union, spoke to the strikers. Several unions of other trades pro- mised to help the workers, who are mostly girls, win their strike. In the face of maneuvers by the bosses to break the strike the picket lines will be strengthened. BAYONNE, N. J.—Socialist work- ers joined in the August 1st anti- war united front demonstration in this Standard Oil town, The vote in the branch which participated was 13 to 3 for particivation, '3 BANKS CLOSED AS TROOPS GUARD DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1933 ‘Watching’ of Shops Barred by Injunction 5, ADE PAPER Admits There Is N Basis for Increased Production ‘Red Internationale C. P. of the World’ CHICAGO, IL, Aug. 9.—A sweeping injunction against the 400 pocket- | book strikers of Chicago, banning all picketing and even threatening with arrest those strikers who “watch” the shops of the pocketbook bosses, has been issued by Judge Charles Williams in the Superior Court of Cook | | | | NEW YORK, Aug. 8—-TI | present inflation “boom” in Donets tile industry is bound to co No strikers, and no representatives of the Shoe and Leather Workers | cause of lack of m ss © Industrial Union were heard before | opinion of a leading the injunction was served. The only | Journal, the Textil Jits latest issue, the that “the sharp ri ness activity and pz tile activity is tot ‘even the most op ones that conferred with the judge were Mr. Morris, president of the | bosses’ association, and Mr. Gordon, organizer of the A. F. of L. Interna- tional Pocketbook Union. Socialist Party Sheet in Plot _ | effective consumer deman | these goods in t neg LJ Not only did the A. F. of L. of- | ahead. . . We ex i ficials conspire to get this injune-} curves (industry ¢ some of their fl [NO RETAIL BUYING (OF TEXTILES, SAYS |$658,000 Bonds Held By State Banks Are Forged TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 9.—Governor Alfred Landon ordered the State Militia to take over the office of State Treasurer T. B. Boyd as the result of the discovery of $658,000 in forged bonds. Governor Landon revealed that eight issues of Kansas municipal bonds totaling/$329,000, purchased by the State School Fund and held in the State Treasury vaults, had been forged in duplicate, making $658,000 in spurious bonds. One set of counterfeit bonds, the governor said, was in the State Treasurer’s office as security for State funds on deposit_in three state banks. The three state banks, whose deposits were se- cured by the forged bonds, were immediately ordered closed by the State Bank Commissioner, “for ex- amination and for protection of the depositors.” Ronald Finney, son of W. W. Finney, Emporia banker, surrendered after being charged with offering $20,000 in forged bonds to the National Bank in Topeka. He was released on $25,000 bond. MILLINERY WORKERS MEET TONIGHT Millinery workers meet tonight at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 4lst St., immediately after working hours, to discuss the N. R. A. and policies of the A. F. of L. bond broker and tion against the strikers, but the Jewish Daily Forward also entered! the plot with an article the day be- fore stating that “the strike is led by the Communist Party,” and that the workers should accept the lead- | ership of the strikebreaking A. F. of next month.” The opinion, of ce L. officials coming from New York} inf) at the request of the manufacturers and John Fitzpatrick. Following the line laid down by} the Jewish Daily Forward and the A. | F.L. officials, the injunction names | as defendants not only the Shoe and | Leather Workers Industrial Union and the Trade Union Unity League, | but also the “Communist Party of | Chicago” and the “Red International | Communist Party of the World.” Ar- thur McKenna, secretary of the Am- erican Civil Liberties Union, is also named as a defendant. comes up tomorrow. But the work- ers have already carried the battle against this boss-A. F. of L. injunc- tion to the street, where they de- | fiantly organized mass picketing and | | kept on even though a score of work- } ers have been arrested. Yesterday, two weeks after ‘the strike began, the bosses advertised for scabs: “unexperienced help.” However, they discovered that such help, and the help of gangsters, could not run the machines, and the shops | are practically dead. A 40-hour week, equal division of work during the slack season, re- cognition of the shop committee, and no hiring or firing without the con- sent of the shop committee, among the strike demands. Tell 150 Jobless, Homeless Women, ‘Go Forth WithSmile’ By SASHA SMALL NEW YORK.—“Go forth with a smile on your faces, go forth with the right spirit and try to give a helping hand to those you meet along the way,” said Mrs. Walter Nelson Sedgwick, president of the City Ho- tel run by the Women’s Federation of Clubs, to a group of 150 lone homeless unemployed women, who came there from the Municipal Lodg- ing House, Salvation Army shelters, park benches and rooming houses, where they owe more than three weeks rent. “I have your interest at heart,” she said to them, giving them a swell lesson in this art of smiling. They came as a result of leaflets issued at the various places where they stay by a Provisional Commit- tee of Homeless Women calling them to meet at this City Federation Ho- tel, 443 West 22nd Street. After keeping them waiting from 11 o'clock |when the meeting was called until ten minutes to twelve Mrs. Sedgwick asked them to be “fair, frank and honest in their statements and not complaining or finding fault. These are trying days and we must make the beSt~of: them.” ‘Well, they didn’t complain or find fault. They simply stood in their places in this beautiful cool room soothingly shaded by green drapes and hushed by soft carpets surround- ed by doors on each of which is a metal plate announcing the fact that Mrs. Sedgwick is the president and spoke up. “I only want a place to sleep so that I know every night where I’m going. I want a home and not just a place to go and find out where the next place for me to sleep is go- Ing to be. I want @ clean bed and freedom to look for work and enough food ‘to keep me strong enough to go looking for that work.” “I've been out of work for three years,” a woman of 60 announced. “I'm sick. I’m down to 95 pounds and as soon as they look at me that’s the end of it. you lose your courage.” “You mustn't say that,” purred Mrs, Sedgwick, “I don’t think rd lose my ambition.” “I’ve been earning my living ever since I was fifteen and now when I come for help I’m told like many others—she’s a little bit cracked — she’s hysterical. I’ve seen them send helpless women to the insane asy- lum because they haven’t had enough food in them to keep them stand- ing on their feet and talking quietly | about’ it.” ‘The meeting was called by a pro- | visional eommittee set up by a group of 12 girls who were thrown out of | Mrs. Roosevelt's Camp Tera and have been knocked around from one “shel- ter” to the other. 500 Delegates Plan Dress Trade Strike NEW YORK.—Five hundred shop chairmen and delegates of the dress| trade, at a meeting in the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union hall, decided to call a strike in the, near future under one union leader-| ship. The leadership, said the N. T. W. I. U,, should be left to the work- ers to decide. Symposium on Negro Problem August 11 NEW YORK.—A symposium on “Which Way Out for the Negro?— Legalism or Mass Action,” will be held at McMillen Hall, oe and 116th St., Aug. 11, at 8 p. Speakers will include Robert Minor of the Communist Party, W. L. Pat- terson of the International Labor De- fense, Donald Henderson, Columbia professor ousted because of his revo- lutionary activity; George Schuyler of the Socialist Party and represen- tatives of the National Urban League and the Brooklyn Civic Council. ate | It’s enough to make | | by consume! prices. I kets, which do nc inflation: lapse, bringing unempl | textile OEE FLORIDA CIGAR | GENERAL STRIKE Argument on the injunction writ; TAMPA, Fia., strike of the cigar ida, voted at 2 15,000 cigar wo! |has already b out the state. as |ded in the walkout The demands of the cigar workers jinclude the 1929 w scale and re Jognition of the union of the workers’ | choice. The strike is led by the independent union of the |} dustry of Florida. litant in- The strike vote was taken in the face of extreme terror. An indication of this terror was given last week, when police c: on | the platform at a mass meeting | of cigar workers in the Labor Temple at Tampa, surrounded the committee, and prevented a strike vote at that time by breaking up the meeting. DRESSES FROM SACK COSTING 3c. APIECE DELIGHT COTTON MEN ATLANTA, . Ga “Aug. 9.—Fash- ions in women’s wear that did not come from Paris were displayed here recently—and made a great hit. Before a cotton conference of rich Georgia farmers meeting in the Wesley Memorial Church, models paraded up and down, wearing dresses made from sugar bags, chicken feed sacks, cotton sheeting and guano sacks, Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agricuiture, was unable to restrain his enthusiasm when he learned the dresses had cost only three cents apiece. A young woman named Miss Paulk won honorable mention. She wore a sport suit made of fer- |'The movement among lthe wages of workers, tilizer sacks. Johnson Shakes His Finger at Stores That | Persist in Cutting Pay| WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. stores to nae through the stagger system and lengthening the lunch and rest potions ithout fr has become so wines ll of the country that General John- son was forced to come out with a/ statement today that the Blue Eagle} insignia “must be withdrawn” from} stores that carried out such prac- tices. Johnson admitted stores were using the N. R. A. Blue Eagle excuse to fire employes and cut their wages. How- ever, while Johnson says the Blue Eagle must be withdrawn from th stores, he mentions no concrete pro-/ posals as to who is to do the with-| drawing. Wages and Conditions Get Worse As Boss Puts Blue Eagle in Silver (By a Food ‘Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY.—Since Au- gust 2 the Blue Eagle is displayed in all the Silver Cafeterias, but the help is still laboring long hours for the old pay. The management is- sued a statement that the code would go into effect on Thursday. Instead | al of offering a raise in wages, a mini- mum of $10 is to be established. Part time workers are supposed to receive a 30 cents minimum wage per hour according to the Recovery Act. In some of the stores they have previously been working 5 days a week, 6 hours a day for $5 a week. Now they will be working 3 hours a day at their NIRA rate of 30 cents, and will be making $4.50, Thus the boss gets around raising wages and will not put on new help, so that actually no new jobs are being created, What the Recovery Act means to Silvers can be shown in some cases, where the management sneered at the employees for their hoves of more pay and shorter hours. Recently a big publicity stunt at the expense of the workers was put over at the Silver Cafeterias, Chances were being offered to the customers for free trips to the Cen- tury of Progress Exposition in Ohi- cago with all expenses paid, but the help of Silver Cafeterias is being ex- ploited as never before. It is a bit- ter irony that free Meal Tickets are being given away to Silver Custom- ers while the help, waiting on them, is denied any kind of decent food at 1. Silvers Cafeterias are showing up their meanest side by denying any kind of decent food fit for sale at the counter to their help. Only re- cently in one of the places a worker was fired for giving a -portion of good meat to a hungry fellow worker. If any meat is given to workers in Silvers Cafeterias it is absolutely not fit for sale any more. Only cheap, starcky food, such as potatoes, spa- ghetti and the like are given to the help, and if ever pies or deserts are allowed them for their lunch they have so far as a rule always been in the stage of fermentation. In several cases some workers had the courage to protest and demand better food; these were not actually denied them, but soon after they found themselves out of their jobs. If ever one of the more experi- enced help should have the nerve to ask for a raise in wages the man- agement knows how to get around this, In such cases the particular Cafeterias workers were promised a slight raise, ~ while at the same | time the staff was cut down and the! in the near future, speed-up was increased enormously. Sometimes employ: work overtime for no pay or as in one case 20 cents was paid to a} worker for almost 5 hours of over- time, speed-up, degradation and slop feed- ing, the company has got a system of spying on the workers, which is done through straw bosses, chefs and head countermen. These, for a few keep their jobs, are anxious to per- form this dirty work and so actually } make life miserable for the ordinary worker, and are quick in pointing out to the bosses those whom they think “they can do without.” As a worker of Silv I can see that only through resista and organization il we be able to better our condit You must join the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, which will lead you in the fight for your rights. Editor's Note: Food Workers’ Industria! Union is 4 W. 18th St., New York City. 15 | ss are asked to) | In order to enforce this system of | dollars more in pay, and in order to} The address of the Revolt; fa) Page Three California Camps Officers Grant Better Food Only 60 Out of 200 0 Left j in'Company 539; Fail (By a Camp eral outh First of in this com all, ny. Among t! : : Protest Warrant * for Vet Slugsed ¢ on Anti-War Day yekstra "Injured Wash inion Guard, feld for “Assault” Workers’ protested arrant issued for William Huck a charge of assa when he was handing out anti-war lets on Aug 1 and now lies near death in Gallinger Hospital in hat city ® Invest the police station zation of intended to for the but the rously injured, ‘or Hockstra’s arre: | order to cover up the criminal assault of his subordinate. nt a vigor me-up to the d ington, is in part: ict attorney The letter | by Ex- the , the} tol treated better. ad, in} ional headquarters of the protest over | wa to Break Solidarity Among Men Correspondent)‘ BEAUMONT, Calif—During the last two weeks there have been sey- ks among the boys of the CCC camps in California, particular case among companies 538 and 539. about the events in Company 539. are betaare California men and 180 Indiana In this There are 200 men The Californians have been | pu oremen, replace ing the Indiana men who held those jobs. On the first of July, when the raises in pay for 13 per cent of the | CCC men were to go into effect, there le grumbling and dis- because the Forest of the camp gave men raises and 180: Indiana men raised. The follow all only had their ng week all went on strike, demanding a s ution of the raise. They would rather return home pay but 24 of the Indiana ir demand. At present xty men remain in the camp, either have received dis- to Indiana, or have de- rted the camp. simultaneous there was @ men of Com- There t ie fellows also x the same demand as the men of 539. In addition, they struck for better food and against driving on the vart of the Rangers, some of whom were speeding up the fellows | working on the mountains. The first step of the men of Com- | pany 538 to win their demands was to circulate a petition to Governor McNutt of Indiana, containing a statement of conditions in California, | and asking that he see that they are They were getting, |for lunch, while working on the mountain, only two bologna sand- | wiches and an orange apiece. One hundred and ten men of the camp Signed the petition and the letter sent to Governor McNutt. The Company Commander, upon hearing | of the letter, immediately took steps | to intimidate the leaders and threat- | “We demand the immediate with-|€2ed to imprison those.-who. signed wal of the warrant against Hock- until he recovers from his injur We hold the District of Columbia | authorities responsible for his free- | dom and well-being, We further de- | mand that the guard, Edward Beaver, | be fu m Hockstra. We| 's direct superior | also | equally re: The letter is signed by H. Hickerson tn the National Executive Commit- "| this was ly held to account for his brutal | ES petition. | deserted the camn. As a result, six men Prior to this, an honor company in Cali- | fornia, having had no_ desertions. | On the other hand, the Commander, | seeing he couldn’t break the organi- | zation, conceded to the demands for more and better food and for no speeding up by Rangers. The de- | mand for a raise for Indiana men | Was not granted. | Ar the men through their or- | ganization have overcome their | greatest grievance, that of poor food while working on the mountain Jobless Fill Clinics, Get No _ Medical Aid, Doctors Starve By PASCUAL \NEW YORK.—Free* clinic patients ve increased terrifically since Feb- ruary of this year. Thousands of white collar work who never saw the inside of a clinic are now crowd- ing them. Together with this con- Gition has come a drop of 50 per| cent in the Doctor's income. | These facts were revealed at a symposium held Thursday at the | Hotel McAlpin by the League for | Unity in the Medical Profession. According to Dr. Sloan, head clini- { cian of the Post Graduate Hospital, | there has been an increase in clinic | patients of 44 per cent since Febru- | The private clinic has been d out, because the rich philan- thropists have stopped contributing. Dy. Weinstein, speaking for the ; | Lelgue, pointed out that “even in | the supposedly good times, between | 1917-29, three-quarters of the people in the United States never earned | the necessary minimum for a com- fortable living.” What is happening to doctors in this depression, he con- | tinued, is that their practice is be- ing smashed, and they are taking to suicide. | Grace Allen, Medical Consultant of |the Home Relief Bureau, frail and | delicate, listed the simply wonderful things being done by the Bureaus. {“But,” she said, “we can’t give jenough medical care and relief be- cause of the constant increase of ap- plicants.” Doctors are supposed to |get $2 a visit to Home Relief Bu- reau cases. “We never just send a doctor,” she added quickly, “we first make inquiries.” In other words, | they wrap the sick worker around ut The weapons with which bourgeo'sie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself. But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons— the modern working class—the proletarians, — Communist Mani- festo, the | with plenty of red tape. -And the 1,900 doctors on the list haven’t been paid for months. An insight into the life of “physi- cians as a result of thé depression | was given by Dr. Strosser, chief of clinics for the Department of Health. One doctor, 18 years im the profes- sion. with a splendid reputation tried to make both ends meet. If not for his child he would have come mitted suicide. As he said in a let- ter to Dr. Strosser: “I haven't paid my rent for the last 3. months and I don't know what I’m going to do | for food in the next few weeks.” Moore, Mrs. Patterson, Carter in So. Dakota; |Get Time Over Radio MINOT, N. D.—Charlie Hill, a poor | tenant-farmer, rode a -horse eighty | miles from his home in Belden, NDS to hear Richard B. Moore, member of the National Committee of the International Labor Defense, Mrs. Janie Patterson, mother of Haywood Patterson, and Lester oe speak here, 8 The meeting, attended by fifty workers, was the first ever held un- | der LL.D. auspices in this little farm- | ing town. About half the workers and farmers present joined the LL. D. when they heard of the work it is doing in the Scottsboro, Mooney, Tallapoosa, and other cases. Three hundred attended the Moore, Patterson-Carter meeting in Aber- deen, South Dakota. About the same number attended the meeting in Grand Forks, N. D., but many more heard the speakers over radio broad- cast which was obtained here three times in two days. DONATES $5 TO 6-PAGE ‘DAILY’ NEW YORK.—Norkin, of Wo- men’s Council No. 5, wishing to show her appreciation of the as- sistance given her by Comrade Sil- berg of the same Council, is do- nating $5 towards the Daily Worker to help make it possible for the six and eight-page paper | to come out. YORK, — Bi which Fair,” | NEW ill include sport Union Unity Council Picnic Pleacant Bay Park be an occasion for ithe strike-breaking rallying against decree of ers, Jack Stachel, Clarence Hathaway, editor of Daily Worker, will both speak. sides the enter- | the | ers’ tournaments, refreshments and dancing, the Trade at his Sunday will the} government and the A. F. of L, lead- acting secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, and the Louis ‘Beside Entertainment Trade Union’ Picnic Sunday Will Be Rally Against Slave Act Hyman of the Needle Trades Worke Industrial Union will speak on the code ef the cloakmakers, fome of 4he shops are arranging so! huss to eome ts the vienic Sheps that have with t not yet made such arrangements can iy banners. | do it with the help of the T. U, U. C., 80 East 11th St. Clubs and fraternal organizations can still secure a batch of tickets. Make this trade union pienie a real united front demonstration. of the trade unionists and their sympa- thizers of New York City.