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

Rooseve Jobless Insurance Relief Packages Is Safeguard for Needs of Workers WASHINGTON, Se) the speakers list at officials who are in charge of local coximunity chests, President Roose- yelt, sounded the note in a speech to- day that relief problems must be taken care of first by “private citizens and’ private agencies” and not by the federal government. The speech of Roosevelt as well as speeches by other government officials were made on the occasion of the 1933 Mobilization for Human Needs Conference—com- | prising heads of local relief agencies. While predicting increasing needs for the unemployed during the winter months the tone of the speeches were against the federal government tak- ing a hand in alleviating the suffer- | ing of the 17,000,000 jobless. The conference proved once more the bankruptcy of private relief ve who are mainly interested in utilizing the present situation to fill their “community chests” and brought out} sharply the need of a federal program | inthe form of unemployment insur- | ance, | Following the same program as the | Hoover administration, Roosevelt em- phasized that distribution of relief must not be coordinated on a na- tional basis, but broken up into thou- sands of paris whereby each little community handles its own problems. That this leads to utter failure was/ seen by the experiences in the past| four years. Various divisions of the | government, such as state, county, | city, etc., shifted responsibility | Harry L., Hopkins who is in charge | of distributing federal relief funds| told the assemblage that “the dif-/| ficult task of healing the wounds of the depression” must be taken care | of by “private agencies.” Expressing tears for struggles of the unemployed the-coming winter, Hopkins said, “If this-nation is to withstand the forces which endanger our community life” then steps must be taken by local relief agencies to give aid Mrs. Roosevelt added her advice to the forthcoming community chest drives by urging the delegates to| “make people understand why they | must give money.” This mainly re-| fers to employed workers who will) be “forced to make contributions in their factories to the community | chests. The president’s speech makes it clear that the “new deal” has no} inténtion to take measures to assure | the necessary’ unemployed relief for leading | will Due to Stop Here on September 22 NEW YORK. nployed of this ci st relit less winter. This was indicated by two startling he million or more y face an al- wu developments, first, that no more clothes are being distributed, and secondly, that beginning Friday, September 22, all relief food packages at present distributed by the Home Relief bureau: social service and charity organizations, will be stopped. | This was revealed yesterday after an investigation by the Communist Election Campaign Committee, 799 Broadway. Added to this cut in Unemployment Relief, the heads of 4,000 families now being carried on the payrolls of the Emergency Work and Relief Bureau 1 be fired om September 30th. $280,000 set aside to continue the present work relief payrolls, for September will be the last money ap- propriated for the emergency work, stated Harvey D. Gibson, chairman of the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee. About 375 Emergency Relief_Work- ers assigned to the “B” shift in the Magistrates Court, were told that their pay, due yesterday, was “not ready.” During the month of August these workers were swindled out of | $12 of their pay through having their | time’ split up. A letter, dated for August 29, 1933, by W. H. Matthews, Director of the Emergency Work Bureau ‘sent to all organizations informing of the relief cut and who are now giving out the food units reads: “It is with regret that we notify you that the food units that you have been receiving during the past winter from the Red Cross will come to an end on Friday, Septem- ber 22nd. The reason for this is that the flour contributed by the Federal Government to the Red Cross and which was exchanged by the Red Cross for these food units has all been used, “You will be interested to know that this total distribution of food units by the Red Cross has amount- ed in the year to approximately 1,500,000 packages of food. “We would have this letter bring to you our thanks for the help your agency has been in this food | distribution program. Without the cooperation of the family welfare and other organizations that have been our agents of distribution it would, of course, have been quite winter. It will pursue the same policy | as it has done in strikes where brute | project.’ force is used to defeat the efferts of| ‘The flour contributed by the Fed- thé workers to gain better conditions. | eral government to the Red Cross has impossible to carry through this Bit this new attack has already |all been used,” an excuse offered the | fowhd a response in a movement] starving workers, when farmers are which is gaining increasing support | instructed to plow under not only to force the government to adopt un-| wheat but cotton, also. Rather than employment insurance. In every city|let the coffers of the city govern- this movement will undoubtedly re- | ment, and the pockets of the grafters ceive increased support now that/| go empty, the city will fire 4,000 men, Roosevelt has issued his hunger pro-| and cut off their only source of sub- gram for the coming winter. sistence, the relief baskets. 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All whitegoods members are asked to be in the headquarters of the Industrial Union on Monday, Sept. 11 at 7 a.m. without fail. Headquarters are at 131 W. 28th St. a as Youth Congress Dance. A dance and concert to raise funds for a delegate to the Paris Youth Congress Against War will be held tonight at 12 E. 17th St. Admission will be 15 cents, pane ae | Union Dance at Coney. Novelty’ workers of the Majestic, Empire State and Durable Companies are especially invited by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Unioh to a dance to be held Saturday, at the Coney Island Workers Center on 27th St. and Mermaid Ave. Forced Arbitration Under Miners’ Code | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) by the code to strangle all strikes. At the same time, the tremendous mass pressure exerted by the big strike, and the whole series of small- | er strikes which continued after the main battle line had been broken by the treachery of the UMWA officials, and the direct intervention of the Roosevelt administration; the effect of the work of the National Miners Union, the militant opposition within the UMWA local unions, and the activity of the Communist Party | among the miners has forced into the | code more far-reaching and favor- able provisions for the workers than appear in any other code. Roosevelt | is said to have told the operators that their hardboiled attitude was “spreading Communism.” Many of the provisions are in conformity with demands made in the code amendments submitted by | the NMU delegation to the coal | hearjngs but which were never even | mentioned publicly by the UMWA officials. They include: 1. A ban on the payment of wages in company scrip by a provision for the payment of wages at least twice per month in cash or par check. 2. Prohibition of arbitrary deduc- tions from wages by providing that all deductions must be by agreement with the representatives of the miners. 3. No mine worker is required to trade at a company store as a condi- tion of employment, 4, No mine worker is required to live in a company house as a condi- | tion of employment. 5. It is provided that all coal mined on a tonnage basis shall be paid for on the basis of a 2,000 pound. ton. 6. Miners are given the right to| elect their own checkweighmen, These are real gains—but mine workers can establish them securely only by organization and strike struggle. The eight-hour day is established as the basis with thirty-six hours +s the maximum to be worked in any one week. The wage gcale of the code, how- ever, is another tremendous conces- sion*to the operators. For the three main coal fields, Pennsylvania aad| | Ohio, Northern West Virginia, South- | ern West Virginia, Northern Ten-| nessee and Eastern Kentucky, the) wage scale is respectively $4.60, $4.36 | and $4.20. This means that at the highest rate, miners, engaged in the most hazardous work in any industry, on the basis of a 36-hour week, will be able to get a maximum of $20.70 per week. The average weekly wage under the code, because of the pre- ponderance of part time work, will be far below this. The code, there- fore, legalizes the present starvation income of coal miners. Because of this, and because of the compulsory arbitration provision, whigh the whole history of coal mine struggles shows the miners will not accept, no matter what union offi- cials agree to, the organization of the soft coal industry which is being car- ried on by the miners themselves, will most certainly result in struggles involving far greater masses of mine workers than the recent Pennsyl- vania strike. The intention of the coal code is to stop these struggles. It will not succeed. In the coal code the Roosevelt ad- ministration has ‘best exposed its anti-strike policy. It has also ex- posed its chief. labor agents—Lewis and Green, DOWNTOWN Phone: TOmpkins Square 6-9554 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY—ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet 302 E. 12th St, New York JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12 & 18 Welcome to Our Comrades Worker Center Comrades Welcome Universal Cafeteria 80 UNIVERSITY PLACE Corner 11th Street Sy Gutters of New York TRXICHB News Item: New Tax on Taxi Rides. | “Thanks for the tip, Mr. Untermeyer.” By del 5 Huge Shoe Rally Pledges Fight Against Injunctions Big Ovation for the I. Miller Strikers NEW YORK.—In one of the most} militant strike rallies ever held by the Shoe and Leather workers Union, 7,- 000 strikers meeting at Arcadia Hall, | Halsey St., Brooklyn, ‘enthusiastically | pledged their support and loyalty to the union and to the struggle for bet- ter conditions for which the general strike was called. ‘The hall packed to the doors, rang with cheers and applause as speaker | after speaker rose to condemn the) strikebreaking attacks of Whalen, the| injunction at the Elco shop and the) Artificial Flower Strikers Reject NRA Settlement Plan Decide to Continue Strike to Win Demands NEW YORK.—The 700 artificial) flower workers of Kaplan Brothers who walked out on strike this week against sweatshop conditions and the exploitation of children and women in homes, registered a complaint with the N.R.A. and were in session with the officials of the Complaint Bu- reau on Thursday. Tt was agreed that at the second session on Thursday the bosses would | be called in to hear the complaints of the workers. Instead of sticking to his agreement, Wolf, the deputy of the Gomplaint Bureau, conferred drive of the shoe bosses aided by the| with the bosses alone and refused government to break the strike. ‘ | to permit the workers to be present Frank Costello, shop chairman of| when the issues of the strike were the La Presti shop and chairman of | being discussed. The workers were the general strike committee during) finally admitted just as the owners the 1929 strike and veteran fighter for| Were leaving, but only after they had the shoe workers opened the meeting | lodged a vigorous protest. declaring that it was “the biggest I} vunae Leaner Th Laman iaave over’ Sean “shite: 1 Ata “Ht She | re ineininations. of tb gvakerks UNA strikers denied every charge, declar- ing that they had willingly sought the | guidance of the T.U.U.L. Later the | boss was compelled to take back his of, the Union received a prolonged ovation. He delivered a stirring speech declaring that injunctions will not charges. stop the forward march of the strike| wolf finally proposed a 10 per and the union to victory. I. Rosenberg, | increase in wage tnd advised “the organizer of the slipper strikers) workers to go back to work to wait pointed to the I. Miller strike as an/ for their code to go into effect. The example of the vitality of the union.| workers rejected this proposal declar- He said that at the last fight when/ing that they want to be protected | the I. Miller workers were forced to} against discrimination and were no retreat, they said they would come out | longer willing to be patient. They again and this prediction is now true.| have decided to continue the strike to Tremendous applause shook the hall Win their demands. when the I. Miller strikers marched! into the hall. men in the strike are taken up. “We Other speakers were Maglicano,| have to push heavy trucks. We do Italian organizer; J. Buitenkant, at-|the same work as the men and we torney, who urged the strikers to de-|8¢t 15 cents an hour less” the wo- feat the injunction by continuing Men report. “The same pay as the on the picket line, and many shop|Men for the same work—no women chairmen. The meeting closed with|t© push trucks,” the demand is an enthusiastic and determined note | formulated. to completely organize all sections of| Many of the strikers have not yet the trade to defeat the betraying Boot Signed up in any union. Others, con- /'and Shoe Union, Whalen and the/ fused by the propaganda of the capi- bosses by fighting “till the last drop/talist press of Paterson, and the dis- of blood.” Today the workers of Andrew Geller shop came out and joined the shoe strike. Paterson Strikers to TieUp Dye Plants (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) house. “Everybody inside the mill” the cry goes up. The line marches into the inner courtyard of the mill, A large picket gate padlocked, topped by barbed wire bars the way.’ Hun- dreds of workers stream in pressing against the gate. The gate goes down like straw and the strikers are face to face with the dyers of the Com- mercial. “Join the strike,” is the call. is closed down with every dye worker on strike. This scene is duplicated in a dozen dye houses this morning throughout the city. As the picket lines march through the streéts men and women workers call out sympa- thetically along the way, “Get every worker on strike.” Among the new shops out today are the Gatti shop, the Commercial, the Rayon Co., Vic- tory and others, The Riverside strike hall of the NTWU at 612 River Street teems with activity, A shop meeting of the Gatti strikers is being held, the workers having just walked out. Many ques- tions are asked. “They say you fel- lows are a bunch of Bolsheviks” one striker asks. “They say you are forcing us to join the NTWU whether we want to or not,” another brings in. Moe Brown, Paterson organizer of the NIT'WU, members of the Weid- mann strike committee on the plat- form, explains that the NTWU has called the workers on strike, that they must elect a strike committee, and regardless of what union they are in, take part in the strike. The strikers elect a strike committee, representa- tives from each department. Many sign up immediately in the NTWU, In one corner of the hall the women of the Gatti shop hold a special meet- ing where the demands of the wo- Today the Commercial plant | |ruptive activity of Eli Keller and other United Textile Union organi- zers, have signed up in the United. Still others are already in the NT'WU. But they are all marching on the mass picket lines of the NTWU. The AFL United Textile officials, supported to the limit by the bosses papers of Paterson, take a very re- gretful attitude at the strike call of |the NTWU.and the response of the dyers. The Paterson Call, a mill owners sheet said today, “At present it appears as if the National Textile Workers Union the radical left wing labor group, has taken the most ac+ tive part in the strike leadership .. . The AFL officials claimed that the |large majority of the dye house strik- ers are at present answering the call |of the NTWU because they (the A, |F. of L.) do not want to work under a picket line”. . . Today United States Labor Concili- ator Moffitt came into the situation to try to help Eli Keller and the other AFL leaders to break the dye strike. Moffitt is conferring with the United Textile (dyers local, Which has few members), and with the manufactur- ers. The AFL leaders are frying to dampen the strike by the negotia- tions in New York and Washington. to try to break the strike. The boss papers are already spreading lies of “violence” about the dyers. Tue Police cars and motorcycles ate run- ning through the streets sounding their sirens. But the strike is spread- ing, and by tomorrow, the entire dye industry will be closed down by the mass pickstlines of the National Tex- | tile Workers Union. Leo Lityin. Comrade Leo Litvin is requested to report immediately to the union head- quarters of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves, Broskiym PHONE: DICKENS 32-3018 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-3, 6-8 P.M. The Associated Silk will use the code) DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1933 It Makes Speech Against Federal J Deportation Drive? Mrs. Perkins Aides “Not Aware of It” Labor See’y Absent As Mrs. Borich Calls to Make Protest WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 8— Complete ignorance of everything that is done in their departments, including the persecution by the De- partment of Labor in its deportation drives, was feigned by two assistants to Secretary of Labor Frances Per- kins when a delegation of foreign- born workers, organized by the Na- tional Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born, called at her office here Thursday. Miss Perkins herself, who was no- tified weeks in advance that the dele- gation would arrive, was reported her assistants as (1) At her summer home, and (2) “visiting factories to survey results where codes have been applied.” The delegation, headed by D. C. Morgan, of the New York Foreign Born Committee, included Mary Bo- rich, wife of Frank Borich, secretary of the National Miners Union, who brought her year-old twin girl ba- bies; Anna Zazuliak, sister-in-law of William Zazuliak, secretary of the Auto Workers Industrial Union; Tom Antonoff, Detroit automobile work- er; Mike Zackler of Detroit, born in Chicago, but held “for deportation” for 10 months; and Mrs. Agnes Ka- menovitch, wife of Vincent Kemeno- vitch, organizer for the N.M.U. All the delegates were either mili- tant workers persecuted and held for deportation for working-class activi- ties, or members of families which Perkins has threatened to break up by deporting their heads, As the Department of Labor offi- cials blandly denied “knowledge” of the main activities of their subordi- nates, the delegates told story after story of terror and brutality, by de- portation agents, thei: activities in smashing strikes, breaking homes, and conducting wholesale, illegal raids, against the foreign-born. The delegates presented a series of demands. These included cancellation of all pending actions and. of all de- portation warrants; immediate re- Jease of all militant workers held in the deportation hells; return to the principle of the “right of political asylum” to which the American gov- ernment for years pretended to sub- scribe, and an automatic right to citi- zenship to follow five years of resi- dence in the United States. The officials tried to squirm out of it with long-winded discussion of le- gal technicalities. Mary Borich, who had brought her children with her, said: “I do not Speak merely for myself and my twins. I am speaking for the right of the miners to organize and strike.... “About 15 months ago Philip de Giambatista, a miner, was deported. His wife and three American-born children are still here, somewhere in New York, starving I am an Ameri- can-born woman. I have American- born children. By deporting my hus- band aren’t you breaking my home and taking the fathe of my children away from them? “AS an American-born woman, mother of American children, and a representative of the miners’ wives, I insist that these deportation proceed- ings be stopped, that workers homes shall not be broken on account of their activitity in the labor move- ment, and that they shall have the right to belong to any organization they see fit.” Labor Sports News The Kay Tee Athletic Club is ar- ranging a track and field meet at College Point, Sept. 10. The feature for men will be a pentathlon for club competition for a trophy. The five events will be 100 meter dash, high jump, javelin and discus throw and 400 meter run. Other special events will be 800 and 3,000 meter Tuns and a six-rhen relay of 1,500 meters. For boys: 60-méter dash, high jump, 8 Ib. shotput, 4x100 relay. For girls: 60-meter dash; jump, basketball throw, 4x60 relay. For women: 60 meter dash, 8-Ib. shotput, high jump, 4x100 relay. The meet will start promptly at 10 A. M. Entries and information can be received from Kay Tee A. C., 764 40th Strest. Entry fee is 10 eents for Seniors and five cents for juniors. Prizes will bé awarded. Manhattan Lyceum Hall for Mass Meetings, alls, Weddings 66-68 E. 4th St. Vj ° . t isitors to Russia! Pull Ovifite of LEerTvER COATS, BREECHES, SHOES, PANTS end everythin~ needed at guercnteed Lowest Prices in New York City. HUDSON ARMY and NAVY STORE 97 Third Avenue Between 12th and 13th Street Russian Art Shop Peasants’ Handicrafts 100 East 14th St, N. Y. C. from Ads ag (Bassin) Cigarettes, re jmeeks, Toys ‘Shawls, Novelties, Weodearving Phane! ALGONQUIN: 40004 ‘Tes, War = Mike Goes to the Yankee Stadi: By BDWARD NEWHOUSE The following effort is inspired by recent excursions into the realm of poetry by the columnist on page six. I borrow his winged words for an apology. “I am certain of at least a dozen letters asking what the follow: ing poem means, Please, comrades, do not ask me to fully explain. it i headache enough to write these things without being forced into extra’) verbiage.” > Folks is getting desperate in the Bronx, by jiminy Ruth is cracking up Listen to the drums of a strange American funeral His legs have gone back on him, he’s batting 290 Wah! wah! mourn the bleacher jackals Brown old scavengers Waiting for man to fall Waiting for man to die Weaklings talk of a month on the bench And lads with guts whisper “Dixie Walker” I, Oscar Swanson, have seen it clear I have seen Pennock come and go and Hoyt But this is the last straw Ruth must never go I wish I’d never homesteaded this land It hoyts me more than it hoyts you Folks in the bleachers gits desperater And desperater, by cracky But Joseph McCarthy in a statement to the press Said, “Lads, Ruth will yet get us out of this mess, In all my baseball days I ain’t never worried less, The Babe ain’t through, by gum.” Don’t listen to no drums. I went to a dance hall and the hostess seid “About old Babe don’t you bother your head, Just beware the hot cha cha ya hoo Of the jazz skunks! You’ll be okay, Oscar.” I don’t give a hoot in heli Why should I worry But thinking lonely one night in a little reom Me, midwife to much free verse, Thought a thought Why should Ruth swing high and outstde High and outside is a bad place Ruth should wait for balls that come low Low balls are the ones to swing at Stop biting at curves and serewballe Wait for spitballs breaking slow (Stov biting my chest, you pain in the neck) I will mail Ruth all these hot tips Tell him to lay offa beer sips Watch the way old Lefty Grove flips He'll be a damn sight better off * * * Wah! wah! comrades, , I like to dance occasionally. 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