The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1933, Page 3

= dl DAILY WORKER, 2W YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1933 Page Three Demand Winter Relief and Adoption of J obless Insurance CITY CHILDREN GET LESS MILK BECAUSE OF HIGH PRICES, REPORT SHOWS Over 143,000 Less ess Quarts. ‘of Milk Consumed in New York as W Reap Huge Profits NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—G milk prices and declining purchasing power mean to the} children of the working class in was revealed yesterday in the report of the New York State | Milk Control Board, which showed that during the month of August, the hottest month in thee-—— ‘Seamen Elect Rank’ city, 143,000 less quarts of milk were consumed in the city than the same month last year. Roosevelt Official Raises Prices At the same time, the Federal Milk Code proposed by Roosevelt’s Secre- tary of Agriculture, Wallace, raised the retail price of milk to at least ten cents a quart. | The city is served by two of the largest milk monopolies in the coun- try, Borden and the Sheffield Com- pany, subsidiary of the National Dairy Products Corporation. Both are controlled by the Wall Street House of J. P. Morgan. Both com- panies have paid hundreds of millions in dividends to their stockholders. Bread prices have also risen dur- ing this period. As a result of these rising prices, the largest grocery chain in the country, the A & P chain, reports that they sold 6 per cent less food this year than last, indicating that the standard of liv- ing of the consuming masses is now lower than last year, as a result of the Roosevelt price-raising program. Roosevelt’s Secretary of Agriculture is now working on a plan to restrict milk production still further in order to raise milk prices. As a result of these rising prices, increasing resistance is being offered to signing the NRA consumer pledges, @ survey revealed. In addition, bread strikes against rising prices have taken place in several cities, Celebrate the 14th Anniversary of the Communist Party SATURDAY, SEPT. 30th at 8 P.M. MANHATTAN LYCEUM 46 East 4th Street CONCERT DANCING SPEAKERS, RE] AUSPICES: SECTION 1, ©. P. ADMISSION 25¢. OUT OF TOWN AFFAIRS Pittsburgh SEPT. ae and Enterta Chg Side Section inment siven by by Communist 305 James St. N.S. (top fa s Denver OCT. 2nd: Film Showing of “1905,” at Eagles’ Hall, 1030 15th St, at 8 P. M. Admission ate Salt Lake City OCT. 4th: “1995”. Inquire, at showing. Film showing of 217 Ness Bldg. for place of all St. Monopolies rim evidence of what rising the amount of milk consumed, and File Delegates to Code Hearings | order to broaden the fight. Repudiate Action of A. F. L. Dockers’ Union NORFOLK, Va. va. (By Mail). — The | coal trimmers of the International Longshoremen's Association, Local} No. 1221 here, repudiated the steps | taken by their leadership and elected | two rank and file delegates to the marine code hearings in Washington. The members bombarded the official who attended the so-called wage con- ference in New York with questions. Local 968 followed the same course and elected one delegate. Other Tide- water locals are preparing the same action and a meeting of all delegates is planned to draft a common code to present at the hearing. Representatives of the Rank and File Action Committees are following a line of action proposed by the Marine Workers Industrial Union and are leading the revolt in the locals. Local 968 gave the floor to a M.W. LU. representative at a regular meet- ing. A delegate is being sent from the men laid off at Lambets Point by the bosses and I.L.A. officials recently. The men are calling on the seamen to act with them and refuse to trim coal or do any shore work. teen as a 4 NEW YORK.—A Rank and File Ac- tion Committee of International Longshoremen’s Association members was launched here to unite organized and unorganized longshoremen in a fight against the proposed code and sell-out of the ILA. officials. The committee calls for forming of dock groups of 10-15 members to conduct the struggle. Information can be ob- tained at Room 238, 799 Broadway, or upstairs at 196 State Street, Brook- Nes . * * NEW YORK.— With the formal hearings for the marine code only a few days off, the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union calls upon longshore- men in all ports to elect rank and file delegates to the hearings, to sup- port its code for the industry and to defeat the sell-out plans of the union officials. ILD Leads Defense of 27 Utah Miners HELPER, Utah, Sept. 29.— Irving Goodman, LL.D. attorney from Port- land, arrived here Thursday to help direct the defense of the 27 strikers charged with rioting, and of four others charged with Criminal Syn- dicalism. He will be assisted by three local lawyers obtained by the I-L.D. from Salt Lake City. Protest meetings against the arrest of the mine strikers now on trial have been arranged by the ILD. in five cities in Utah. Communist Party of Washington, D. C. 14th Anniversary CELEBRATION Enjoy the Week-End of September 30 and October 1 CAMP NITGEDAIGET, DRURY, MD. $2.80 for the Week-End. Free Parking. Free Transportation Gala Day Sunday. Comrade Mills, Main Speaker Spend Yom Kipur Week-End Camp Nitgedaiget — BEACON, N.Y. — FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS Saturday, September 30th and Sunday, October Ist SPORT PLAYS EVERY DAY :: DANCES AND CONCERTS EVERY . EVENING :: ALL PROFIT FOR THE STRUGGLES OF ‘THE NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS’ INDUSTRIAL UNION Specially Reduced Prices for Needle Workers @ Make Your Reservations Immediately in the Office of the Union—131 West 28th Street The F ighting | Vets By H. E. BRIGGS We are short on time and space, but bear with us. We promise some- thing startling for next week. Congress will be in full swing. Front fight against Imperialist War. To each and every delegate we pledge our wholehearted support. We par- ticularly extend a hearty welcome to president of the I.} A. C. with which the Workers Ex- | |Servicemen’s League is affiliated. On this historic occa ing point many a delegate will carry home new strength and courage. This congress is of special impo: American vett s; for this Congress links their struggle for their national demands of economic security international demand to fight against imperialist war. For by abolishing war we abolish one of the main causes of eccnoimic insec' y. Am- erican Legion, VFW and DAV del- egates must bring home the program to their respective rank and file groups, explain it and organize in For the workers this congress marks another milestone along the road to their complete emancipation | from the chains of capitalism—un- | employment, hunger, fascism and war. Coming Events Next week we intend to print the record of a fight for veteran’s relief that promises to equal the scandal of the Matthew’s Murder, Commission- er Taylor is involved. A full and detailed analysis of the| Veterans of Foreign Wars program and bid for “Unity” will be a feature of this column in the near future. Our old friend Patman, doublecrosser par excellence will also be brought up on the carpet in due time. ‘The next on the list for dissection | will be the leadership and non-pro- gram of the Disabled American Vet- erans, Don’t Leave Before Saying Hello All veteran delegates to the Anti- War Congress are cordially invited to drop into the National Office of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League; Comrade Hickerson, notional secre~ tary, will personally present each and every vet with the keys to the treas- ury and the hospitality of the organ- ization. And paste this in your hat, don’t forget the 3-point program. If you have any little news, side- lights or reports on your trip and the doings of your posts, please leave them at the National Office for the Fighting Vet. We repeat again, this is your column, and we are your mouthpiece. So let’s have that News, comrades, News. er. ate Welcome Jim Gralton The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s | League extends through this column an invitation to you to become a member. And this goes for any other vet of the Irish Republican Army. All worker-veterans from any war or country are also eligible for mem- bership. Now a word about the Irish. Speaking of Jim Gralton—my grea‘ grandfather was born on the road- side the night the Black and Tans burnt his home over his head at the battle of Vinegar Hill in the County of Wexford. One might say what has such a far-away event got to do with me? Just this, it made the family bitter rebels of one kind or another ever since. And so we find ourselves in the Communist ranks, where all true revolutionists should be today. TUUL Chemical Union Forces Wage Raise in Michigan Plant SAGINAW, Mich., Sept. 29.—A vigorous campaign among the work- ers of the Dow Chemical Co. in Mid- land to organize a Chemical Work- ers Industrial Union terrified the bosses into granting a 10 per cent raise, and an increase in the bonus. The Midland Times, organ of the Chemical Co., immediately raised the red scare. Denouncing the Industrial Union as a “Communist organiza~ tion,” it called for the support of the A. F. of L., with the statement, “no union organization is of any conse- quence unless affiliated with the A. F, of L.” Nevertheless, in spite of the cry of Communism, about 800 workers have already joined the union. Among these, many who had been members of the A. F. of L. ‘The demands put forward by the Chemical Workers Industrial Union call for a 20 per cent hourly raise, abolition of the bonus system, and double time for all overtime. Inspect Jails With Eye to “Better Business” AUSTIN, Texas.—Uncle Sam is now having the country’s free hotel sys- tem looked over, perhaps with an eye to increased business in the very near future. J. H. Strief, inspetcor of federal institutions and prisons, inspected the Travis county jail here and pro- nounced it to be “among the best.” He seemed very much impressed be- cause this A-1 jail affords sheets for the bunks. He also remarked upon the “excellence” of the food, although it is reported that two years ago prisoners rebelled against rotten stew. “Within the next 90 days the de- partment will have a report on every county jail in the United States,” he said. “The jails will be graded upon those reports. No report has been published in this connection with the Fort Worth jail, where Earl Barlow, organizer of the Unemployed Council, was brut- ally murdered. The officials there stated that the jail is old and in- secure, and that Barlow was killed in a fight with a man known to be a prize-fighter. Now they insist upon a new jail to be constructed under the Public Works program. As we go to press the Anti-War| Del-| egates of all sizes, shapes, shades and! convictions will be planning a United | on and turn-} ance to} y to the| & Scene at the gates of the Ford | plant in Edgewater, N. J., when Extending the Ford Strike to Edgewater 1,200 Chester Pa., workers pulled these strike workers out on Former Ford Employ ee 5 Ambri idge Workers Heads Dearborn Ticket Plan Relief March { | | constitute the local administration. front candidates off the ballot. The candidates are David Jones, for mayor; Otto Capp, Jr., city clerk; Charles A. Regan, city treasurer; Clifford Briggs, Nicolai H. Catana, William Goetz, Paul Kraucs, James Perry, Nick M. Romeevich, councilmen; Walter Colton, Frank Fraley and William V. Fayette, for constables. Primary elections will be held October 9. Forty organizations, including the Auto Workers Union, the Com- munist Party and the Young Com- munist League, are supporting the united front campaign. The Social- ist Party leaders refused to par- ticipate in the united front and are | supporting capitalist candidates, though many rank and file social- ists are backing the united front movement. The workers’ candidates are run- ning on an anti-Ford platform which includes cash relief, no evic- tions, no foreclosures or shutting off of gas, water or electricity; ab- olition of forced labor welfare schemes, regulation of speed-up in the plants by workers’ committees; the six-hour day for city employees with no reduction in -pay and sup- port of federal unemployment in- surance. The candidate for mayor, David Jones is Dearborn organizer and national vice-president of the Auto Workers Union. He is the son of a coal miner and started to work at the age of 12 in the Pennsylvania anthracite region, where he joined the United Mine Workers. Subse- quently he was active as a mem- ber of the International Association of Machinists, being at one time vice-president of District 6 of this A. F. of L. union. He worked in the Ford plant until the beginning of this year, when he was fired for union activity and blacklisted. Philly Cops Set for Attack on Strikers Police Armed With Guns Against Bakery Strikers PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 22.— Preparing another bloody attack on the workers, reminiscent of the Cambria hosiery strike, the Phila~ delphia police department has sent all reserve patrolmen and members of the motor bandit patrol to pro- tect the scabs being used to break the big strike of bakers, wrapping girls and bakery drivers of all large bakeries here. The strike which developed at Freihofer’s bakery has spread. Re- ports indicate that all home deli- veries of bread have stopped. Police are said to be protecting the big companies who are going to attempt to continue deliveries. Detectives are reported to be armed with auto- matic riot guns. This intimidation and terror, however, will not stop the progress of the strike, as the workers are displaying great militancy. The Freihofer plant where the strike started, recently reorganized its plant laying off the workers for two weeks and then forcing them to accept a 50 per cent wage cut or lose their jobs. At the same time they raised the price of bread. The drivers are demanding a $30 mini- mum wage guarantee and shorter hours. Workers in the neighborhood of the plants on strike are showing great sympathy for the strikers. They promise to be an important factor in any attempted attack of the strikers. Injunctions are also being’ threatened but mass picket line continue and all indications point to continued solid ranks of the strikers. Help improve the Daily Worker, send in your suggestions and criti- cism! Let us know what the workers in your shop think about the “Daily.” Auto Magnates Administration Unable to Rule} United Front Candidates Off Ballot for | | | DEARBORN, Mich.—Thousands of workers are rallying behind the united front working people’s platform which for the first time in this city | is challenging the rule of Henry Ford and his thugs and stoolpigeons that So strong is this movement, that the City Council was sempelien to abandon its plans to rule the united ® — 2,000 000 Striking Truck Drivers Sent Back With NRA Promises. |“Arbitration” Sell-Out Will Not Be Taken Calmly by Men NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The strike-| breaking nature of the \N.R.A. was again shown up clearly to the Con- necticut workers this week when Dr Edward G. Dolan, chairman of the State Advisory Board of the NRA | stepped into the general strike of Connecticut truck drivers, involving some 2,000 workers, and “persuaded” the striking workers to resume work and permit a Board of Arbitration to settle the strike. fight over the heads of their leader- ship in the A. F. of L. Threats of militia being brought in were made by authorities when it was seen that the strikers did not intend to let any scabs travel the roads. But Dr. Dolan solved the problem nicely for the bosses by breaking the strike with his promises of When the truck drivers, who are a fighting bunch if there ever was one, find out they have been sold not be so pleasant for the A. F. of L, leadership and the N.R.A. board. Dr. Dolan was congratulated by Governor Cross. for . breaking the} strike, The Governor referred to Mr.| Dolan’s activity as a “very fine thing.” | This same Mr. Dolan sent 1,500 silk strikers in Taftville a few weeks ago back to work by scolding them for} being unpatriotic and informing them | that only those workers who would| agree to go back and end the strike! would be worthy patriots of the N. R.A. The arbitration board in the truck drivers’ strike follows the regular pat- tern of all arbitration boards. One union official, representing the work- ers supposedly; one boss and one N. R.A. official. In other words, no rank and file workers at all on the settlement board. The truck drivers are to decide by “secret ballot” through the mail in two weeks whether or not they really want the right of “collective bargaining.” The N.R.A. officials, of course, employers and bosses, all “honorable” gentle- men, will count the votes. Meanwhile the truck drivers, according to the strikebreaking agreement, are pledged “pot to strike again during the con- tinuance of this agreement,” and “the agreement shall continue for a period determined by the arbitration board.” In all the N.R.A. board has hogtied and gagged the truck drivers as neat- ly as any boss could wish and deliver- ed them bound and tied over to the bosses, A leaflet is being issued to the! truck drivers by the New Haven Trade Union Unity League, calling on them to demand rank and file leadership and urging them to con- tinue the fight for their demands and not to depend on “arbitration boards.” Meanwhile in the Newman Corset Shop in New Haven a militant strike is going on under the leadership of the A. F. of L. despite all efforts of unions’ leaders to get the workers to “take it eeRy:! Thousands at Funeral | of Boy Shot by Police HAMTRAMCK, Mich., Sept. 29.—Thousands of sympathizers and friends attended the funeral of Mike Wasen, an unemployed youth, shot by a detective for bi ing” a pack of cigare four youths at the fu- neral joined to force the indict- ment of the detective, and also eas a at Ada ean rain to force unemployment relief. The strikers had been out for three | days and were putting up a militant) “arbitration.” | out so sweetly, the consequences may | | guardhouse, a dishonor against a wage cut and for higher pay- | Workers Pledge Strike in Solidarity AMBRIDGE, Pa—A hunger in Beaver county ed by |workers in the mil ned here |soon in order to put |miserable relief dis stop to the ilieHealonees 2 ne the: ttt esta’ t jof the sub-district a huge mass |meeting was called at which an |unemployed council was set up. Demands were formulated for cash relief, distribution of food, coal, flour and other necessities. Provi- sions also to be made for milk for |school children and medical atten- tion to the employed. When these demands were pre- |sented to the county relief board, jthe officials agreed with them but the buck to the state board apportions relief funds. To force the assurance of winter relief, |the hunger march is being prepared. |Steel union delegates are discussing lthe possibility of a one day when the hunger march takes pl: The recent strikes of the pressed |steel car workers and the worth foundry, convinced the steel workers of Ambridge of need of unity with the unemployed. With the union in the process of formulating their de- mands for presentation to the com- panies, the prospect of a strike in| several of the Ambridge plants is | Very close. The rs of the union are anxicus to ize the unem- ployed to participate in the stri by assisting the picketing of plants Wiss (0 come out, |Held as “Deserter” When Arrested for | Leaflet ibuti SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Paul Winkel- man, 24, who was arrested with| | Brown for distributing Unemployed | Council leaflets two we sent by the police to Sackett Harbor. | He will be taken to Madison barracks to answer a charge of deserting the | United States Army, | Conviction at a court martial for | desertion, according to Cc. Conrad} H. Lanza, chief of staff of the 98th Division, organized reserves, who questioned Winkelman in the Federal | Building following his arrest, ‘carries a sentence of six months in the le discharge Loss of citi- deportation to and loss of citizenship. zenship may mean fascist Germany, since Winkelman | came to this country from Germany. | Help improve the “Daily Worker.” | send in your suggestions and criticism! | Let us know what the workers in your shop think about the “Daily.” National Events Party Banquet Postponed. PROVIDENCH, R. i--The Party Recruiting Banquet origina'ly sched- uled for Sept. 17 was postponed to Oct. 1 on account of stormy weather. It will take place at the Swedish Workmen's Hall, 59 Chestnut St. Ma- lolo Mokiand and her South Sea Serenaders in native Hawilan mel- odies will entertain. Mass Meeting of Meat Workers. DETROIT, Mich. — The | Workers Industriai Union will hold | a mass meeting of all workers in the meat industries working as meat cutter, sausage makers, distribu- tors, and workers in the slaughter houses, on Wednesday, October 4, at 7:30 p.m., at Dom Polski at Forest and Chene. Union speakers will explain important union prob- lems. | | | Paterson Silk Workers’ Meeting, | PATERSON. Amter will speak | at a meeting in Paterson Sunday | night at Oakley Hall, Market St. | The meeting is to expose the N.R.A. and to analyze the general strike 2 the silk workers. | posed tl 2go, was| i UNEMPLOYED UTLINE PR QYED ACTIVIT} UsEMPE pad iV aE an . ee cies re all rev f strikers when 1 with the ex- when Sultz- action Was ex- to stay out on n’s strikebreaking Finding that this move had failed, the Helly bosses a ed for help h they know their low} ars. Last Tuesday the UTW held an open air meeting where the foreman, Joe he UTW organizer, their main argu-| the National Textile | 3 Union. Through the pres- sure of the strikers’ demands they were forced to give the platform to Morton, NTWU organiz who ex- sell-out of the Allentown silk strike in 1931 by the UTW and |@ more recent sell-out in the Haber} Knitting Mills in which the strikers | suffered a wage cut. In the evening at a meeting called by the NTWU the strikers produced a letter from the company declaring | that it would be against the govern- ment if the shop recognized the Na- Union since U. S. gov- gainst nt ‘of icials in Paterson have not done so and urged the strikers to form st an independent union. voted to send a letter to U.} Perkins. demand- | n of the letter in| m 7a of the NRA, which | ed to guarantee the right} to join a union of their to own choice, On Saturday the Di Worker has 8 pages. Increase your “bundle order for Saturday! ‘of budget to meet the present situatic _| should ir willing- | ( The} COUNCILS OGRAM OF Relief Problem oi After Collapse ent relief : shaniefally low, and winter ng at th door; the state governmen and depending mainly ¢ cates that private agenci collapse of the Gibson con 30,000 addition { neither, feders governments will tal ps to aid the jol by the worker nted to the need» ers on the broac 9 fight for unen for the imme of the worker it ee urance Bill,” sa t in the tiie ‘ ps were already take referendum on the bi Need Sharp Struggle t insurance,” tt y continued, “is n gan. It is an in mediate demai for the realizatic of which the sharpest struggle mu be developed in every working-cla hborhood, union, fraternal & , veterans and every other, 0 ganization.” As to the steps for immedia local relief Amter outlined foi points in a program of winter reli I ysed by the Unemployed Cou cils. They are The putting forward of a worker and the rising cost of living.’ each city a Workers Relief Ordinan: be formulated and not ! treated as a matter of agitation bi of _immediate action. This shou a decent rate of relief I for all workers, includir young and single workers; rent, ge water and electricity, fares etc., f the unemployed; a dismissal wat for workers laid off or discharge no discrimination against Negro ar foreign-born workers. Formulation of demands for reli workers at trade union rates and sufficient number of hours of wor per week (24 to 30) to maintain a family. The demand that the 5,000,00 hogs, wheat and fruit which t | covernment and capitalists are de: troying, shall be handed over f distribution among the unemploye Abolition of the reforestation cam) land the use of the funds ($250 000,000) for relief. Likewise all wi funds. In a number of cities activities a in full swing in the campaign fc the enactment of federal unemplo; ment insurance. A large number « localities are involved in struggh for immediate relief. OutstanBir among them is the county hung march scheduled in Los Angeles f next Monday. In Illinois and M chigan conferences will take plac soon to plan state hunger marche “Take Beating” “The unemployed will take tr worst beating of their lives th winter” is the opinion of Hari Hopkins, federal relief administrato ‘This year must not be a year ¢ beating. It must and will-be a wir ter of struggle. Organize in tt |neighborhoods, on the bread lines, the mass organizations and on th relief jobs,” this is the answer ¢ the ‘Unemployed Councils. Hariem Worke rs’ School — 200 WEST 135th STREET, NEW YORK — WEEK OF -Class LAST REGISTRATION es in— Principles of the Class Struggle—Williana J. Burroughs, —A. Markoff. Current Problems of the Negro Liberation Movement, ~-James W. Ford Revolutionary Traditions of Organization Principles English—Grace Lamb. Sidney the Negro People—James Allen Bloomfield. 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