The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1933, Page 3

| | | “are demanding a, scale on U.S. CHAMBER TELLS BOSSES NRA AND AUTO CODE GUARANTEE OPEN SHOP “Any Industry Within Auto Code,” Says H WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—A letter mmployers, members of the Waited S shop. wae “Any industry is well within “in expressing in its code such lan-® parr as appears in the automobile le.” The automobile code, approved by William Green and John L. Lewis, provide for the open shop through the right of the bosses to deal with workers “individually.” Harriman’s letter analyzes Section 7 (a) of the NRA and shows that it does not change previous relations between the bosses and the workers, except for a few phrases about the workers not being forced to Belong to company unions, which Harriman advises the employers doesn’t mean much, He points out the big victory was! won, and the spirit of the NRA car- ried out, when the auto industry was permitted to write the open shop into its code. Harriman seid his organization al- ways favored the open shop and finds it fully consistent with the Quoting President Roosevelt against any struggle of the workers..to ob- tain higher wages or improved con- ditions, Harriman says: “The President has well said, ‘This is not a law to foment discord, and it will not be executed as such. This ‘s a time for mutual confidence. We can safely rely on the sense of fair play among all Americans to assure every industry which moves forward promptly in united drive against de- pression that its workers will be with it, to a man.’” “ The letter of Harriman will be fol- lowed by a vicious attack on workers belonging to trade unions, as’ already indicated by the firing of 100 Chev- rolet workers in St. Louis for mem- bership in unions, Teachers in Coal Region Get 25 P. C. Slash; Talk Strike Miners Urge Them to Walk Out to Fight Cut UNJONTOWN, Pa. Sept. 4—The school teachers of North Union To hip in Fayette County “just re- cei a 25 per cent wage cut. On the basis of this wage cut 7Bograde and 13 secondary teachers were?“ac- cepted.” 2 Tre miners in this section carried on one of the most militant.strikes of the entire American labor move- ment recently, And only. after, Mc- Grady came here as the “personal representative of Rocsevelt, did the miners go back to work. It ds ex- pected that this will have some ef- fect on the teachers, who» in some cases miners’ sons or daughters, and that a strike of the school teach- ers, with the help of the a great possibility. Some of the miners are discussing the question of “pulling” the teach- ers out. Recently these miners helped organize a strike of girl shirtmakers in one of the Uniontown shops. Many miners were on the picket lines, together with the girls, *~ While the miners here» have “hopes” in Roosevelt, the action in cutting the pay of the teachers and what the miners already see com- ing in their own pay envelope, will show them the role of Roosevelt and the New Deal. miners, is Number of Strikes on at Penna. Mines Union Recognition and Checkweighman. Are Chief Issues” FREDRICKTOWN, Pa.—E¥ght hundred miners of the Mather Mine, Pickands Mather Collieries Company, have just ended. their strike for the right to have a checkweighman at the mine. The strike was 100 per cent strong and lasted three. days. The company agreed to the demands f we miners and. they went. back The mpgs ted 5 mine-of the mes ani ug! Steel Corpora- tuon came out on strike Thursday morning. The men are demanding that Joseph Falbo, employed at the mine, join the local union. There is much talk about. coming out on strike in this mine for a'new scale, higher wages, and recognition of the union. So far the Vesta, mines do not recognize the union’ Check- weighmen and pit committees. The Vesta “mines are connected with” the group of operators that are demand- ing the “open shop” at their’miniés. It is expected that the™\Govern- ment, and the UMWA will try ‘to-put. the men back into the mines, The Vesta mines are amongst the largest coal mines in the world.» _! The Clyde miners-of the No, 1, 2 ond 3 mines of the Rainey Coal jJompany came out! on strike this ing (Sept. 1)¢-"The coal: is not ighed in this mine and the miners ale on the tipple as well as the firing of afew mine bosses. The strike is 100 per cent effective. But the company and the UMWA officials are busy trying to get the miners back into the mines, OF COMMERCE Its Rights In Expres- js sing In Its Code Language Appearing In | arriman, President addressed yesterday to thousands of tates Chamber of Commerce, by its | its rights,” said Mr. Harriman in his letter, | he} Free Killer, Hired by Coal Barons; But Jail Mine Strikers Indict Union Miners, | Jail Gunman UNIONTOWN, Pa.,“Sept. 4—Sev- enteen indictments against striking miners were handed down by the September Grand Jury, in Judge 8. John Morrow’s court. This followed the releasing on parole of Yoder, gunman convicted of the killing of Fillopovich, a striking miner in Fay- ette City a few years ago. Among those held by the grand jury are John Simon, Colonial Mine No. 3; William Ralco, Colonial No. 4; and Charles Tokar and John Simek of Luzerne Township. John Simon is charged with “ag- gravated assault.” The superintend- ent of the Colonial No. 3 mine ap- peared against him. The super claims that Simon assaulted Ralph Cook and Sam Shelton on July 26. Wm. Ralco and Mike Pellick are charged with “aggravated assault” on Dan Steech, Chas. Tokar and John Simek are charged with assaulting Geo, C. Gilmore, The other cases were held over to the December Grand Jury. None of these cases were to come up now, as the miners are very much in a fight- ing mood. District Attorney Wade K. Newell, decided to hold the rest of the cases over until December. His intention was to hold every one, but there was a mixup someplace and some of the cases were heard. The district attorney in holding the other cases over until December, ad- mitted the thing “got mixed,” it was not to be heard. The facts prove clearly that a frameup is in the making. The miners should demand the freeing of all the arrested miners and the ar- resting of the killers of Podrovsky, who was killed in the recent strike. His killers, although known, were not taken before the grand jury, because the bosses felt that this was not the time to free the killer as the miners may come on strike. “Grant Demands or We Strike,” Say Men at Republic Steel YOUNGSTOWN, O., Sept. 4.—A committee of chippers of the Repub- lic Steel Co. will go to the manage- ment Tuesday to press the demands originally sent by letter. If the de- mands are turned down or any member of the committee is fired | for presenting the demands, the day turn will walk out and picket the plant. The demands originally sent by registered letter were signed by 160 chippers, who noted down their check numbers. The men are asking for 60 cents an hour, and eight- hour day and five-day week. The chippers are heartened by news that in several other depart- ments petitions have been signed with demands, and the men are pre- paring to back them. Meetings are taking place with men from other departments. Every day new men sign up with the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. | che Buffelo Com President, Henry 1. Harriman, declares that the NRA supports the open | ole Against: War, is called. for M Wood Box Workers Indus will hold a “Victory Danc: - DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1933 National Events Cleveland Picn CLEVELAND, Ohio.—sS; the picnic of the Une the Conim The pi September 10. on Short Road Buffaio Anti-War Conference BUFFALO, N. Y —An an conferences, und! the at Gyepja September 11, et 8 P.M., to be in Velo Hall, 159 Grider St ra sare urged to Victory Dance CHICAGO, Ill. — The Paper and 1 Union ” in cele- bration of the strike gains of the workers of the Chicago Containers Corporation, Saturday, Sept. 9 at 8 M. in the Peoples’ Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. Refreshment: good music, cash prizes and fr Make No Effort to | wardrobe service will be given for the |25 cents admission price. In Wisconsin Drill for Strike-Breaking | Deaths and Injuries in’ the Conservation Camps Mounting MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Mass forma-| tion drill and quick movement tac- tics are being taught to the boys in the forced labor camp at West Allis here, for the purpose of break- ing future milk strikes together with the National Guard, according to a worker correspondent. The company commander stated that for “ease and facility” in move- ment they would adopt a military procedure in the future. On dis- cussing these movements with regu- lar enlisted army men, it was learn- ed that they form the regular part of riot drill. The keynote of the movements is how to act in an emergency, something which is cer- tainly not required in the work of planting trees. And that is supposed- ly the work of the conservation camps. In the meantime deaths and in- juries received by boys in these camps continue to mount. From Renova, Pa., comes the report that a truck loaded with forced labor boys plunged into a ravine after the steer- ing. wheel broke. William Arnold was killed instantly, and at least. 14 others were injured, four. seriously. The funeral of John Cassidy, 21 of Jersey City, took place last 5 He had been killed in a collision be- tween two Civilian Conservation Corps trucks at McCall, Idaho. Al- bert Anema of Paterson, seriously injured in the same accident, is ex- pected to recover. The death of Joseph Schapiro, while attempting to board a moving freight train on August 14, was re- ported to the Daily Worker. The boy had run away from the camp at Springville, Utah, together with a friend. Unbearable conditions in the camp forced them to take to the freights in order to get home as quickly as possible. Schapiro lived at 517 EB. 51st St., Brooklyn. And now since Roosevelt is plan- ning a winter session for the forced labor camps, other deaths and in- juries of these boys compelled to work in the camps so that their fam- ilies may exist, will take place, Meanwhile indignation among the chippers is mounting higher. The men are being staggered, and their Wages are cut. On top of this come rumors that the company is prepar- ing to offer the men a bonus for tonnage. “We don’t want any bo- nus” the chippers say. “We don't want to kill ourselves for a few cents more. We want a straight in- cere in wages and we will fight or it.” x. for the assembled workers to follow Hunger-Marching wor od and demonstrated nance and an immediate relief increase of 25 per cent. A-section ef the Chicago Hunger March on Aug. 30, in which 10,000 With Fists Raised for the Workers City Relief Ordi- N J . Boss Forces Workers | NEWS BRI suv seme’ Killed Two Pickets jand eleven ot<her ja suit filed by depositor Ford’s “Peace Ship” d by Henry Fo F 0 boys out of the tren has been sold to a | ing company as scrap. Sleeping Sickness Deaths Continue nore govern the attempt to find data that will enable doctors to combat the plague HEMPSTEAD, L. I. F Lieut. Governor airectors of closed First Natio: I have been named a for Keld- individually responsible about $870,000, it was stated. This sum represents about 45 per cent of the deposits. Loans of more than 10 per cent of the banks’ capi- tal were-made, depositors charge. to Give Up Own Union 9599 Nat Lock Co. ‘Forced Labor Boys Recognizes Needle Uni | But Refuses Jobs U With A. Kuiken, Mayor of Fairlawn, Bergen Rochester Workers Mourn Loss of Vet Fighter, David Levin (By a Worker Correspondent) ROCHESTER, N, Y.—Workers here | mourn the loss of David Levin, al- ways a devoted worker in the revo- lutionary movement, who died at the age of 50 from ulcers of the stomach. Comrade Levin was the first secre- tary of the International Workers Order. He helped build the Jewish cultural movement along class strug- gle lines, was always ready to assist arrested comrades, and helped give and collect funds for the workers’ press, for strikes, and all left wing organizations. He was a rs>mber of the Communist Party until given leave“of absence because of illness. Comrade Levin’s funeral was one of the most impressive ever witnessed in Rochester — significant, too, be- cause of attendance of Negroes. One of the weaknesses of the workers’ movement here is the small propor- tion of Negroes, but to these Com- Ttade Levin paid special attention. At the cemetery, Comrade Sam |'EsSmah’ ‘delivered an eloquent ‘plea | the example set by the departed com. rade to build a Jewish movement fre from the religious poison and na- tionalism propagated by the Jewish bourgeoisie—a movement that will be part of the working class of all na- tionalities, Deny A. F. L. Right to Picket NRA Firm Injunction Issued to Break Radio Strike NEW YORK.—A temporary in- junction restraining them from pick- eting, meeting and from any other form of strike activity has been is- sued against the 600 strikers of the Leviton Manufacturing Co. in Brook- lyn, The firm manufactures elec- tric light sockets and appliances and has signed the code of the National Electrical Manufacturers’ Association. The workers are on strike for wage increases due them under the code. | The injunction is part of the at- | tack instigated by Whalen and the} NRA to smash strikes and already | used against shoe, furniture and/ bakery strikers, FAIRLAWN, N. J., Sept. 4—Coercive measures to compel workers to give up membership of the Union of their choosing and join a union sym- | pathetic to the employers are revealed in a sworn affidavit by Nicholas A, | on in NRA Agreement nless Workers Sign | F, of L. | | { | County, N. J. | Forty workers of the Fair Lawn Dressing Co. a New Jersey corporation | @ who struck on Aug. 7 for higher wages, were locked out and replaced | by non-resident workers, the Mayor declares, because they refused to give up their membership in the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union and join the International Fur Workers’ Union, affiliated with the A, F, of L. | As a result of his efforts to mediate between the employers and the work- ers, the latter agreed to waive the question of wage increases provided their rights as union members were not infringed upon and the NRA guarantee of such right was not vio- lated by the employers, the Mayor declared further. The firm which operates under the NRA accepted the conditions stipulated by the workers | in the presence of the Police Com- misisoner and several outstanding witnesses including the representa- tive of the local press, but when the workers returned to the factory, they | were denied admission unless they | joined the International Fur Work- ers’ Union. The Mayor's affidavit and that of several strikers have been submitted | to the court of chancery in New | Jersey before which the case is now pending, In his sworn affidavit Peter Doornbus, a striker, declares in part: “T quit the International 12 years ago. At that time I did not like the way the union leaders were running the inion because they were not working for the interests of the union. When | I went to the open shop I worked | under better conditions and earned more money. Since I have been in the Needle Trades Union, the Union always treats me good and I get al- most twice as much money as I got | before ... I do not want to go back | to the International . I don’t know why my boss shot picks my union for me.” Other affidavits sworn out by strikers point to the intimidation and threats of violence made by A. F, of L, organizers. “When their members (International Fur Workers’) ‘came past the picket lines of the Needle Trades workers they took out their big beam knives and swung them around right on the street. “I do not want to be mixed up with any men who do things like that” one striker declared, permanent will be held at the Su- preme Court in Brooklyn today. | Samuel Cohen, attorney for the} Radio and Electrical Factory Work- ers Union, an A. F. of L. union, de-/ clares that he will make the case a test to “determine whether the col- lective bargaining actions of the NRA ~and the electrical code have any Workers Strike When 2 Are Fired Demand Right to Join Union of Own Choosing ROCKFORD, Ill., Sept. 4.—A strike of 2,500 workers has broken out at the| National Lock Company, the largest steel and metal shop in Rockford. | The strike began Thursday morning| mainly because the management dis- | charged two employees for attempt- ing to organize the workers into the A. F. of .L. | Many of the workers are under the illusion thet the NRA is beneficial to} them. They are being misled by) Adolph Germer, editor of the Rock- | ford Labor News, the former secre- tary of the national executive com-| mittee Of the Socialist Party. There | is a strong group of the Steel and! Metal Workers Industrial Union in| the shop, The entire shop is out with the ex- ception” 6f one department, which | | expected out soon. The workers are showing a great deal of militancy, having pulled the power switch, shut- | ting down the plant for half an hour. When the committee presented their demands to the management they were told that inasmuch as they were a bunch of reds they could not consider their demands. A thousand leaflets have been issued by the 8. & M. W. I. U,, pointing out the grievances and the basic demands of the workers and assuring them of the support of the Trade Union Unity League and other workers’ organ- izations. Two.more shops are expected out / in sympathy, | Red: Funeral Held | in Los Angeles | for Frank Forrest) LOS. ANGELES, Sept. 4.— An} impressive “Red Funeral” was held} for Comrade Frank Forrest, ex- serviceman and Education director of District 13 of the International | Labor Defense, who died as a re- sult of injuries sustained in the im-| perialist world war. | The coffin was draped in red} with a gold hommer and sickle. His comrades from the Workers’ Ex- | Servicemen’s League were the pall- bearers. Comrade Herman Metsc- hman of the W. E. S. L., Lillian} Goodman of the I. L. D. and Tom) Kirk of the Relief Workers Pro-| tective Union spoke. | The Guards of Honor were rep- resentatives ftom the following or-| ganizations: The International La-| bor Defense, Communist Party,| Young Communist League, Inter-| national Workers. Order, Friends of the Soviet Union and the Relief Workers Protective Union. The services ended with the singing of | Hearings to make the injunction teeth!” the International. 1 |contained stupid atta Page raree at Cambria Mill Account H 5 of the plant. 1 of scabs on the: General Strike of Cleaners, Dyers Is Called in Hartford Bosses Work with AFL to End Strike for Higher Pay HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 4.—The iartford Cl , Dyers and Pre; 2 i lla g al si - by a unanimous vote taken at th union meeting Friday. Workers are Striking against conditions under which the average wage scale was $10 a week. The A. F. of L. officials called a meeting Friday in order to split the a union with the help of the boeses, but the workers were not tricked. Many bos: approached workers to join the A. F, of L. union instead of belonging to the independent union. Workers refused to go to the A. F. of L. meeting and over 236 came to the independent union. Only 12 went to the A. F, of L. meeting. The date of the presentation of the demands and the calling of the gen- eral strike has not been set yet. Bowery ‘Y’ Workers Refuse to Act as Strike-Breakers NEW YORI wo weeks ag the young worl wlio live at the} Bowery Y. M A., 20 East Third Street, New York, were sent out to distribute circulars for the Peck Company, 930 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. They were instructed to| carry them to several factories and | distribute them there among the! workers. | When they saw that the circulars against the Industrial | Needle Trades W Union, which v ing workers to rotten working about by the N. R. A., they all the circulars instead of d uting them, We acepted the vay of 75 cenis handed to us for thre hours work, out of which the Bowery Y. M. ©. | A. (You Must Come Across) took 40} cents; part of this went to Mr. “Blue | Vulture” Rockwell for his cut. | Monday morning we wer? out on another distribut the “Y,” to Tillman Bros Avenue and 16th Street, N Th are the worst bunch of s drivers in the advertising business. Last Monday morning we got our | usual lecture of terrorism. The men asked where the Blue Eagle was. | We are paid $1,50 a day by Tillman | Bri out of which the “Y” takes | $1,25. When we protested Tillman told us we ” and we all| bigs as Blue Vulture Rockwell gave us all tickets to South Ferry, “The Bowery ‘Y’ is a home Of} terror,” is the byword of every | young and old worker who has had | he misfortune to be sent there vant to add that most of the workers at the “Y” are ardent | readers of the Daily Worker, and| some of them have y viedged contributions to the Daily W Sustaining Fund. A Former Bowery “Y’ Flephouse Correspondent. Whalen and Berry | Whalen Boasted Plan to Place Foster In Jail “For Life” After Unemployment Demonstration In 1930 By Labor Research Association a HOPE to put him in jail soon—|. for good.” It was the Tammany Police Chief, Grover Whalen, talking about Wil- liam Z, Foster, Communist leader, as the notorious New York police swooped down upon the hundreds of thousands of workers meeting in Union Sq. at the historical March, 1930, demonstration for Unemploy- ment Insurance, Later Whalen boasted of how he had planted police spies in the ranks of the workers. This is the training by which Grover Whalen prepared himself for his present job—head of the NRA in New York City, 7 8 8 New York City, on August 31,! sweeping injunction order re- straining two union locals” of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union from picketing, was granted by Supreme Court Jus- tice Strong, according to the New York Times. The judge’s decision terms picketing a ‘nuisance to the public, as well as to former ors,” and shows how much faith in this alleged plot were proven to and “we for the government to settte ty “O : lective bargaining. And in the same city, a new ‘crime” has been invented with which to charge workers striking against NRA slave terms, The ridiculous charge of which ex-Police Chief Whalen is author, reads: “disorderly interference with the NRA.” Follow- ing the lead of Whalen, who is the local NRA campaign chief, six pick- ets, members of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union, have been arrested on complaint of the owners of the factory which they struck, and Proud Strikebreakers, Cho munist and “conciliator” (read strike breaker) for the U. S. Department of Labor, Whalen likewise directed the police force in brutal attacks on workers’ demonstrations, placed agents pro- vocateurs in Communist ranks and employed a blacklist whereby mili- tant workers were to be deprived of jobs. (New York Times, March 17, 1930), Subsequently the Trade Union Unity League leader and other work- ers were jailed for heading the March 6, 1930, demonstration of unemployed. And on May 1, of the game year, Whalen placed 19,000 police on duty “to cope with any emergency,” as it was termed, in the celebration by New York workers of their interna- accused, among other things, of be- ing Communists. Such efforts of the NRA administration are aimed directly at outlawing picketing, hav- ing already set up an agency to pre- vent strikes nationally—the National Labor Board. In this connection, it might be well to review the recent history of, Mr. waeey NRA chief in New York . 8 IN May, 1930, newspaper headlines tsld of the “red plot” uncovered by Whalen, then Police Commissioner of New York. The documents involved be clumsy forgeries, and were even admitted to be such by the Fish Committee investigating radicalism in the U. 8. was linked to Ralph Easley and Mat- thew Woll. of the Notorious National may be placed in the A. F. of L.| Civic Federation, a patriotic anti- claims that under NRA, workers have labor and anti-Soviet body, and to At that time Whalen for the firss tima the righs to oN-| Charles Weewls, leading anti-Com- Fy tional holiday, It was perhaps the greatest military display ever seen in New York against workers, with “horsemen, #fantry, machine gun men, chemical squads with their tear gas and all the rest of the personnel and equipment of the finest force on earth, as Whalen boasted. At the same time police were placed “on guard”’ at the homes of prominent men, including J, P. Morgan and other capitalist exploiters. For this Whalen was tendered a banquet by ci Wall Street friends one week ter. A reign of terror against all mili- | tants is what can be expected from Whalen, the New York City NRA ad- ministrator, as his actions since as- suming that position clearly indicate. F the same stripe as Whalen and other capitalists is the ex-Amer- ican Legion chief, Major George L. Berry, now president’ of the Inter- national Printing Pressmen’s and Assistants’ Union of the A, F. of L. Berry has again come into the lime- light by virtue of his appointment as “labor representative” of NRA’s Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board, Coal Mediation Commission and the National Labor Board, ‘This man, who has been termed by William Z, Foster as the. “peer of the worst labor fakers ever de- veloped in the entire history of the labor movement,” is an old Demo- cratic Party hack. (See Foster's book, Misleaders of Laber). Prom- inent in Tennessee politics of this capitalist party, his name figured as possible nominee for the vicpresi- dency when Morgan’s lawyer, John ‘W. Davis, ran for president in 1924, and aagin in 1928, when Al Smith was the candidate. At the 1926 convention of the A. F. of L. in Detroit, Berry told news- papermen the following, in discussing the 1923 web pressmen’s strike in New York. According to the Fed- erated Press, October 9, 1926, he told publishers: “This isn’t your strike. I'll break this strike! Well, I brought in strikebreakerg from all over the country to man the presses, broke the strike, and then got a $¢ in- crease (but less than the scabs were paid—L.R.A.). Just two weeks ago I went back to New York on the expiration of the contract. The publishers came to see me at my hotel. (He maintained a suite at the millionaire’s Waldorf-Astoria.. —LRA.). <A week later they brought back an offer of @ $5.50 sen > for N. R. now I-want to issue a public state- ment that this raise is given the pressmen because of their (!) pol- ley~of cooperating with their em- ployers, helping the technical ad- vance of the industry and adding to the efficiency of newspaper pub- lication. “Write it yourself, George, they countered.” “That's the policy that wins,”) Berry told the press. “The idea that! we've got-to fight our employers is a relle of a bygone day,” he added. “For example, the thing to do here in Detroit is to send labor's efficiency and production engineers into Ford's plants, .... We can save him hun- dreds of thousands, millions, through our expert counsel.” In the 1023 strike mentioned above, Berry imported scabs from as far as Canada, at $20 a day. He recruited scabs through an employment office run jointly by himself and the no- torious labor-spying Burns Detective Agency. Four years earlier, in 1919, he had likewise imported strikebreak- ers to break a pressmen’s strike. me ee BRRy has perpetrated fraud after fraud on the rank and file union- ists in order to stay in office and squander the unian’s treasury. He and his agents have repeatedly stolen votes of opposition candidates by a slick method patterned after the U. S. electoral college. Thus in 1922, increase. That meets my request for a small raise, I told them, but Farrel, who opposed Berry, received 12,000 votes to the latter’s 2,600 in A. Heads — George L. Berry Plundered Treasury of Printers’ Union; Personally Broke * =" Pregsmen’s Strike With Scabs 122 locals and yet “lost” the election. It was proven in open court that) Berry robbed $165,000 of union funds to finance his own enterprise, the Hinchfield-Hydro-Electric Power Co.,| and allied interests. When Chicago union members rebelled, Berry broke the strike at the Cuneo Press, Inc. plant, in return for the immunity | granted him by the employers and | their courts. | On the union’s book it is recorded | that $2,000,000 was spent for the! palatial Pressmen’s Home, construct- ed under Berry's direction. How much of this found its way into Berry’s pockets is not known. An example of Berry’s freedom with the hard-earned money of union mem-~- bers, is the $42.50 fare he charged in 1920 for going from New York to New Jersey to address a meeting. The unicn’s financial report for 1924 reveals expenditures for one day, March 18, of over $1,000 for Berry's hotel, fare, phone and other such items, The tale of Berry's czaristic methods and crimes against union- ists would fill pages. Both the Prince of Wales and ex- mayor of New York, Jimmy Walker, Tammany agent and Whalen crony, | were made honorary union members by Berry. Yet Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, writing for the United Press, recommends to workers “such out- standing representatives of labor as William Green, John Frey, George Berry. 4. .” | with stones. Records Courage of ttling Seabs Protected by Police 3 account of the murder of two Mill Inst Thursday. The workers, yood had come to help their fellow strikers The were shot by police gunfire while ir way into the plant. BY AN EYE-WITNESS DELPHIA, Pa.—Like every ig in the past eight weeks strike, hosiery workers are d in front of the Cambria Silk Mill. Todav they have turned out in great numbers. It looked as h worker of this great- knitting center had come to give r fighting brothers a hand. Car- r h packages, in their working clothes, they came before going to work. ved up by the pend- ing general strii lecided almost un- y the night before at the 5 meeting in the militant f the hosiery workers, they mined to win this fight a stubborn boss, an ally of the cp2n shop manufacturer and ian, Fred C. Gartner. Seabs Arrive It is getting close to the time when, under poli protection, the scabs usually errive in cars and trucks. The police force is getting ready to do its ular work — protect the scabs. Many of these scabs are professional strike breakers and gangsters, because despite the length of the strike, there hardly any desertions of the strike 8 B The police, scared by the large number of workers around, make a feeble attempt at arrest and ence renulsed by the strong fists of the workers. Stones Fly open Cadillac bringing strike kers takes the mill gate at a clip, but not fast enough to escape the well-aimed stones. The pickets rush the car and a group is able to fight its way to the driveway to follow the scabs into the factory. But finding themesives surrounded by club- swinging police, they fight their way back to the rest of the pickets. ‘The cops take this opportunity to lock the iron gate lcading into the driveway. A hail of stones greets this action by the police. Almost every indow in the mill is smashed. At this time another car driven by Al Weber, owner of the mill, arrives. It is loaded with a number of scabs. The strikers, further angered by this brazen challenge of the boss, rush forward and before the police can An | open the iron gate, completely wreck thi The boss and his scabs est car. pe. Down Comes the Eagle Whil? all this is going on, the Biue Eagle of the “New Deal” still decorates the mill, shielding under his wings the skunks that entered the factory. A well-directed brick smashes the window completely. A young girl striker breaks through the police line and tears down this blue vulture, symbol of the NRA. The ¥ applaud and shout enthu- st then a shot is heard on Roose- velt Boulevard, adjoining the mill. | With full speed, the truck that daily brought scabs, herded like cattle, comes down Pheletorp Street, with a cop sitting next to the driver, flashing a gun in his hand. As the truck turns into London Street, this cop aims point blank at the pickets. Un- mindful of the danger, the unarmed workers begin to bombard the truck A big piece of wood smashes the windshield and a rock hits the cop in the face. Holding his hand before his face, he empties his gun blindly into the crowd. In the face of the bullets the workers rush the t stop it right in front of the iron gate and turn the truck ove. Before anybody realizes what hap- pencd, two workers, one the father of three children, lie in the street in pools of blood, brutally murdered. vy others are severely injured, rike breakers and cops un- New Deal in the City of Brotherly Love. ‘Anna Block, C. P. Organizer, Fined for Hill Meeting NRA Meet on Federal Hill Permitted by Police PROVIDENCE’ R. I.—The three | workers. D. Glass, L. Carbone and Anna Block. arrested Aug. 22 for holding a Sacco-Vanzetti meet on Federal Hill. have been rel i Anna Block, of the National Textile Workers Union, who defended workers in court, received a fine of $20 and costs, which will be ap- pealed. The regular weekly meetings have been called by the Communist Party of Providence, and the police for three weeks prior to the arrest had been attempting to break them The Federal Hill district is thickly, populated, and there were 5,000. workers present at the meeting when) the arrests were made, i The day before the trial, local bus- iness men held an N. R. A. meeting’ in the very same place where Com- munist speakers had not been per. mitted to hold a meeting. Since the trial one Communist Party eet has been held on Federal Hill’ an meetings will be continued regularly, despite police terror and arrests, Write to the Daily Worker about every event of interest to workers: which occurs in your factory, trade) union, workers’ organization or lo-' cality. BECOME A WORKER COR- ‘RESPOND ~~ 5 \ \