The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1934, Page 3

| \ ) yStreet work are already laid off until ¢ l | ' DAITY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1934 Page Tifee Hunde Are Thrown Off Relief Jobs ynn Workers Discuss| Strike When Cut to | Two-Day Week | BOSTON, Aug. 14—Demands that the mass layoffs of relief workers on E. R. A. jobs in South Boston, Charlestown and other projects be halted immediately were made here yesterday to Mayor Mansfield by del- egations representing hundreds of workers on relief projects. Vavers, bricklayers and laborers on September 1, at the earliest. Since the men have no other means of Suppot, this layoff will force them on the welfare rolls and on Sep- tember 1 they will be refused their jobs on the E. R, A., under the city | “welfare” policy. The wor! most of whom have large families, are organizing to re- Sist the layoffs. They are deter- mined to keep their jobs and not be shifted back to the miserable wel- fare dole. The delegation from the South Boston Committee was yesterday headed by G. Adams, The Charles- town workers are demanding that the “week-on, week-off” stagger sys- tem be abolished and the full week givn to all workers. A delegate from the Unemployment, Council, 12 Hayward Place, is work- ing with the relief workers’ com- mittees, Lynn Jobless Plan Strike LYNN, Mass., Aug. 14—Faced with a cut to two days work a week instead of three, ordered by the E. R. A. administrator here, relief workers took steps to prepare for strike action following a mass meet- ing held last night. At last night’s meeting the work- ers passed a resolution demanding the right to organize, no discrimina- tion for organizational and strike activity, the immediate rescinding of the cut in wages ordered by the E. R. A. administrator, The cut from three to two days a| week work means a cut of 33 per cent in the already meagre level of wages, Find Children Underfed In German Areas BERLIN, Aug. 14—Damning fig- ures released by the Westphalian Social Service office today revealed nearly unbelievable social condi- tions among the workers of the | rich industrial region of Rhenish Westphalia. More than one-third of all school | children and youths in the district were definitely pathologically un- dernourished, the studies showed. Physical vitiation warranting the application of the term “cathexia” was often observed. Intensive studies in limited areas | showed the larger towns in a much worse condition. In Dortmund, for example, only one-third of the working class population failed to reveal signs of undernourishment. 9 Victimized Tuberculosis. was shown to be mounting steadily in numbers at- tacked and fatal results. Coincident with the proof of pro- gressive degeneration of the living standards of the working class in this region, the same agency an- nounced that coal, coke, iron and steel production had undoubtedly risen, in many cases as much as 35 per cent. Furniture Men Strike in Los Angeles Shops) LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14—Furni- ture workers in two shops, the Gillespie plant at 3011 E. Pico St. and the Martin” Young shop at 1129 E. 29th St., are on strike here. Workers at the small Martin Young shop are holding fast after five days of militant picketing un- der the leadership of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union. No scabs are working although one was sent to the shop by Thomas Mayhew, business agent of Local 15, Uphol- sterers Union, American Federation of Labor. The Gillespie workers, under the non-militant leadership of the In- dependent Furniture Workers Union, have not succeeded in keep- ing scabs out. Bathrobe Strike Nears As Labor Board Meets NEW YORK. — The Bathrobe Workers Union will continue its preparations for a general strike in the industry, despite the conference called for today by the Regional Labor Board, according to a state- ment issued by the union yesterday. The statement declares that it was the recent union membership meet- ing at which the general strike was enthusiastically received by the workers that caused the industry's bosses to seek the intervention of the Regional Labor Board. The board meeting has invited many large manufacturers’ and contrac- tors’ associations to meet with it. Unemployed? Join the Red Builders! Earn Expenses Selling the “Daily” “Daily” in Newsstand carrying JURY PARK, N. J. Putnam Ave. and Main Street — BRADLEY BEACH, N. J. Main St., near Brinley Ave. BELM: Stachel, Hathaway, to Speak at Weekly Bookshop Sessions NEW YORK. — Jack Stachel, acting secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, will give a review of Lenin’s pamphlet,” “Left Wing Communism,” this Friday at 8 p. m., on the second floor of the Workers Center, 50 East 13th St., under the auspices of the Workers’ Bookshop, 50 East 13th Street. Clarence A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, will review Bela Kun’s “The February Strug- gle in Austria and its Lessons,” and Wiihelm’s Pieck’s Thirteenth Plenum report, “We Are Fighting for a Soviet Germany.” on Fri- day, Aug. 24, at 8 p, m.,, in the same rooms. Admission is free on the pur- chase of one dollar’s worth of literature in the Bookshop. Tickets are twenty-five cents in advance. : CWA Workers Refused Jobs Workers Who Exposed Graft by the Foreman Are Not Reinstated NEW YORK.—Despite the fact that George Walker, C.W.A. fore- man, has been arrested on a charge of extorting money from workers on his project, nine discharged workers who were victimized and who exposed Walker, have not been reinstated to their jobs. An assistant of Oscar Miller, head of C.W.A. park projects, had promised the workers that if the accusations were justified, the work- erg would be reinstated. When the men call for their jobs, however, they are told to wait. One of the more persistent was offered a job if he would keep silent, but he re- fused to be bought off saying that he represented the other fired work- ers as well as himself. While Walker was arrested, four other foremen whom the workers had charged were demanding five dollars a week from the workers as a bribe to hold their jobs were not arrested. Union Forces Relief Heads to Reconsider Discharge of Teacher NEW YORK.—Decision to re-con- sider the case’ of Sylvia Ettinger, relief teacher discharged for hav- ing fed hungry children who had no food tickets, was forced at a hearing |yesterday before Arthur Schoellkopf, Chairman of the State TERA., Frederick L, Daniels, Di- rector of the T.E.R.A., and Henry Epstein, State Solicitor-General, by the Associated Office and Profes- sional Emergency Employees. The A.O.P.E.E. charges that Sylvia Ettinger was fired because she is an active member of the organi- zation. A complete report of the case will be made by the A.O.P.EE. Reconsideration had been previously refused by Robert Dixon, of the City Works Division, who discharged the teacher. The A.O.P.E.E. also forced the relief officials to investigate the dis- charging of nine City College relief workers and the case of discrimi- nation against a Negro relief worker on the Slum Clearance project 33. Towa Jobless Leaders Are Returned to Jail Tn Serious Condition DES MOINES, IOWA, Aug. 14. — Porter, militantt unemployed lead- ers, were thrown back into jail Saturday dangerously ill from the effects of their ten day hunger strike against excessive bail of $5,000. The promises Sheriff Charles Keeling and Judge Herrick that they would receive adequate hospital treatment were shamelessly broken, ‘The three imprisoned workers are held on charges of “criminal syn- dicalism” for having led the work- ers’ strike against relief cuts. They were taken to the Broad- lawns Hospital Friday where they were given sugar and water in- ence nurses causing Porter to faint. A hypodermic needle was needed to stimulate heart action. They were then fed meat and potatoes and thrown back into jail in a danger- ous condition. The Iowa State Federation of Labor issued a statementt Satur- day demanding lower bail bond and immediate trial. Protests are coming in from all over the country. Demands for the cessation of the fiendish torture by the police and release of the three relief leaders should be made to Judge Herrick and County Attor- ny Carl Burkman, Des Moines. Y. C. L. Shapes Plans for Los Angeles Rally LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13.—A rally in preparation for the International Youth Day demonstration will be held by the Young Communist League Saturday, Aug. 22, at 7:30 p.m., at Twenty-Second Street and Central Avenue. significance to youth of the C.C.C. program, the vast army of unem- ployed, the rise of fascism and the danger of war. The International Youth Day demonstration at the Plaza is sched- [AR, N. J. 702 10th Avenue Ocean Ave., near 10th Ave. SSL ae RN | uled for Sept. 1, anniversary of the founding of the Young Communist International i Tra Mead, John Norquist and James | given by} jections by internes and inexperi- ; Youth speakers will analyze the! | | ate |Hundreds of Small) Sums Made Up $18,724 Bail Total | By ANNA DAMON | The International Labor Defense ot record a great victory. | | Angelo Herndon has been wrested | temporarily from the hands of the | | Georgia tynchers by the determina- | +tion of thousands of workers and sympathizers; a determination which hurled its defiance at the| fascist vigilante terror sweeping across the country; a determina- tion which shouted from coast to coast, above the clamor of the jlynchers: “Angelo Herndon shall | not go to the chain gang!” | Angelo Herndon has become a} symbol of working class heroism, of the new spirit of the American youth, Negro and white. | His release on bail was made pos- | sible by the self-sacrificing devotion of thousands of workers and sym- pathizers, who, in 23 short days, |raised penny by penny and dollar | by dollar, the sum of $18,723.85, in | loans toward the oversubscribed bail fund of $15,000. The enthusiastic support given to this campaign by the Daily Worker was one of the most important contributions to its success, It would take pages to convey a real idea of the intensity and en- thusiasm of the response expressed in the hundreds of letters which tributions to the Scottsboro-Hern- don defense fund. What Workers Wrote Here are a few extracts from these letters: “I am 19 years old. Have been out of work for six months. This $10 is my first pay. May it help free Angelo Herndon.” (From a girl worker in Allentown, Pa.) “I collected tonight 50 cents from L.— for Herndon defense or bail fund and then I can’t give more than 50 cents myself, but I'll try to raise another dollar or so and send it in next Monday. He got to be free. “P. S- This is a donation to the case, so it does not have to be paid back.” (Moline, Til.) “We are enclosing $40. May we raised so he will be free.” (Karl Liebknecht Branch I. W. O., Phila- delphia.) | “IT am enclosing a money order for $5 contributed by a few teach- ers studying at the Cornell summer session, as one drop in the bucket for the $15,000 bail for Angelo Herndon.” (Ithaca, N. Y-) “I am just terribly sorry I can’t give or lend a thousand, This. $1 looks too trivial to send. But may it be multiplied a thousand-fold by some miracle.” (West Grove, Pa.) “I am sending herewith enclosed US. bonds in amount of $600 to get our Angelo Herndon off the chain gang. Enuf said. Yours for the revolution.” (Granada, Colo-) “Good people: Thirty cents in stamps, best I can do, Sorry.” (New York City.) “Enclosed find $2 for the Scotts- boro-Herndon fund. I wish I could give more, but I am a subject of charity myself. If it were not for my children I don’t know how I could live. I am only an old farmer, 77 years old.” (Howell, Mich.) And among the very first con- tributions was one of $10 attached to a bail loan blank clipped from Meeting Sets, For Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 14.—Re- sponding enthusiastically to the | Daily Worker financial drive, the | Pittsburgh district has drawn up > quotas for all organizations and challenged the Philadelphia district | to Socialist competition in fufilling quotas. | At a conference Wednesday night. which was attended by George | Wishnak, general manager of the “Daily”; Jack Johnstone, dis- trict organizer, gave a detailed re- port analyzing the weaknesses of the circulation drive and pointing the way to elimination of these weaknesses in the future and rapid fulfillment of quotas. ‘The general spirit of the confer- ence, backed up by the excellent work already being done by section “Daily” agents, indicated full real- ization of the responsibilities of the drive and the necessity of filling quotas in the shortest possible time, Wishnak said. Socialist competition agreements are also being drawn up between various units in the race to fulfill quotas first. Special affairs are to be held dur- ing the week of Aug. 20 by all or- ganizations participating in the drive. Vigilantes Assail 2 of San Pedro 1.L.D. Whe Help Workers LOS ANGELBS Cal. Aug. 13.— Annie Jamison and Grover John- son of the San Pedro International Labor Defense were brutally beat- en Saturday by two carloads of armed vigilantes who forced them at points of guns from the Ava- lon Blvd. Johnson had been securing wit- nesses for Melwin Doughty, framed on a kidnapping charge ——— While Contributions to NEW YORK.—That funds for national Labor Defense. To date, only $2,327 has come only seventeen days left to complet campaign. collections. Other contributions have been two dollars, collected by individua returned their certificates to free Funds should be rushed to the East 11th Street, New York. Herndon-Scottsboro Appeal Expenses Mount fense fund are lagging dangerously, endangering the entire campaign, was the warning issued yesterday by the Nationa! Office of the Inter- for preparation of the legal papers and other work essential to the presentation of the cases of Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris and of Angelo Herndon to the U. S. Supreme Court mounting steadily. At the same time, it was pointed out that the nature of the con- tributions coming in show the huge possibilities for developing this A group of share-croppers in Mississippi—the most oppressed and the poorest of the toiling masses—who sent to the national office of the I. L. D. for Scottsboro-Herndon collection lists, reurned three of them within a week, with $434 collected on them, and a promise of more A number of those who made loans to the Herndon bail fund have scribed for the bail fund. Special honor certificates, signed by Angelo Herndon, will be issued to all those making this exchange. HERNDON FUND DRIVE IS STORY OF WORKING-CLASS DEVOTION the $15,000 Fund Lag || the $15,000 Scottsboro-Herndon de- |} | in over a period of six weeks, with e the collections, and daily expenses | mostly in denominations of one and As. a portion of the amount over-sub- National Office of the I. L. D., 80 Boston, Lynn E.R. A. Workers Resist Layoffs New York Tag Days Planned Aug. 18 to 22 NEW YORK.—A specia to raise a large portion of New York's quota for the $15,000 Scottsboro-Herndon defense fund is being conducted by the distri of the I. L. D, here, which will hold tag-day August 18 to 22. The N. Y. district of the I. L. D. has called on all working- class organizations to lend their fullest support and take an ac- tive part in these tag vital to the defense of Herndon a: the Scottsboro bo; All material for the tag-days is ady now it was announced, and Now $15,000 Is Needed for Scottsboro-Hern- don Appeal Expense used to reach new masses of work- ers and sympathizers. The Scottsboro-Herndon petition and collection lists must be put into the hands of the members of the I. L. D. and of the mass organiza- tions, and especially of the trade unions. A thorough and constant check-up must be made on these lists, and the lists themselves as well as the money collected on them | sent to the National Office without | any delay. Plans should begin to be laid now in the various districts for the Herndon tour, which should help crystallize a tremendous movement over the entire country for the fight against terror and fascism, for the defense of the Scottsboro boys and of Herndon himself, of Tom Mooney and the 500 West Coast prisoners. In all of these activities steps must be taken to recruit members into the I. L. D., to strengthen it| organizationally, and to build the| circulation of the Labor Defender, nould be called for at the District I. L. D. office, 870 Broad at once, by all those who will take part the collections. Speed Urged In ‘Daily’ Drive By Members Is Stressed in Detroit Area | Official organ of the I. L. D. and \the only working class pictorial in By WILIAM WEINSTONE accompanied the loans and the con- | hope that the whole sum will be| town in Ontario, Canada, The simple facts of the bail fund | Aug. 2 the fund had been oversub- j had come in, and by the end ot | campaign are tremendously signifi-| scribed. After that hundreds of cant for the broad working class/ dollars in loans were turned back. defense movement Jed by the In-| During this period, about $1,200 ternational Labor Defense, indicat- jhad been raised in contributions for jing in broad strokes the tremen-| the $15,000 Scottsboro-Herndon de- | |dous, untouched reserves of mili-|fense fund, which must be com- |tant class solidarity which the I. | pleted by Aug 31. It is significant | |L- D, must, dropping the last ves- | that practically all of this amount| | tiges of sectarianism behind, reach | was contributed in very small in-| out and grasp: | dividual sums. | Seven hundred and ninety-seven| The entire campaign for the | separate loans from individuals and | Herndon bail was carried through organizations went to make up the | at an expense of about $125, thanks | fund. to the dozens of volunteers outside | | “ izga- | Of the regular staff of the I. L. D. AatieeD | ALCDOL SAS BAI | wey aaeettied? thelr spare time to j tions, with a total membership | reaching into the hundreds of thou- | Stuff envelopes, type and carry out other essential tasks. sands, participated. Approximately 5,000 workers and) Fight for Full Freedom | Sympathizers were drawn into ac-| Now we have brought Herndon | tive participation in the campaign.|out of his Georgia torture-cham- ber. We have saved him for a| |. Ten IL L. D. districts raised | $4,293.50 of the total. Of these the| time from the lynchers. Now we| New York District, though slow in| must renew and redouble our fight getting started, made the best|to keep him out. Every organiza- | showing, raising a total of $2,222.50 | tion of workers and sympathizers, | in bail fund loans. |hundreds of thousands of new Two hundred and fifty-five im-| forces, must be rallied to partici- | dividuals loaned from $1 to $5; 202) pate in the fight for the complete | individuals loaned from $5 to $10;| freedom of Herndon and the | 142 individuals loaned from $10 to Scottsboro boys. | | $25; 73 individuals loaned from $25, Aug. 22, the anniversary of the| | to $50; 50 individuals loaned from execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, is | | 55 individuals loaned the date set for huge demonstra- | $100 or more. tions all over the U. S. A. to de-| | Loans came came from 23 States, mand full freedom for the Scotts- including California, where the/ boro boys and Angelo Herndon. fiercest vigilante fascist terrorraged| Many of the I. L. D. districts| | throughout the period of the drive,/ have already begun preparations | and from Canada. | to make this a day which will put The campaign gained momentum feay into the heart of the ruling | slowly, but in the last few days} class. Preparatory conferences for jfunds poured in as fast as they | mobilization for this day, as well as could be entered in the books, The to put into action the machinery | first Herndon beil loan came n for sustained support for the de-| |July 9, By July 26, only $2,865.96 | tense of the Scottsboro boys and| |had been collected—15 days had) Herndon, and for a drive for the| | gone by, only seven days were left,| Bin of Negro Rights and the Sup-| |@nd only one-seventh of the tot@l| pression of Lynching, are on the| |amount had been collected. way in many districts. that day the Daily Worker began | to print totals collected every day. The Herndon Tour On July 26, the figure jumped to| There is little time left. The Dis- | a total of more than $5,000. On) tricts of the I. L. D. must- without | the 27th, with five more days to go,| delay renew the contacts previously | | $50 to $100; America. Only Mass Pressure The workers have saved Angelo | Herndon from the chain gang. But Angelo Herndon is not free yet. The nine innocent Scottsboro Ne- gro boys are still in prison, still un- der the shadow of the lynchers’ electric chair. While the sentence against him—18 to 20 years on the chain gang—is being appealed, An- gelo Herndon is at liberty. But if the U. S. Supreme Court decides against him, he must go back into the hands of the Georgia lynch of- ficials. The Supreme Court can be forced to give a decision in Herndon’s favor, can be forced to reverse the monstrous lynch decision against Organizer of Communist Party Detroit District of the Daily Worker in the Detroit District has been due solely to the perseverance and efforts of a rela- ers and sellers. There is “Daily” among the Scottsboro boys only by mass |! capitalist press pressure. Willia: which is keepi! | il im iS eeping It is this pressure that we must! Weinstone the truth from now organize, on a far broader scale | WHEE the sane epee ae the seat | deliberately misleading them. tempo, that we collected the Hern- | Without increasing the circulation don bail, the $12,673 still needed | of our “Daily,” the mass work of the toward appealing these cases. | District is endangered. We can in- The fight to free Angelo Hern-| crease the sale of the “Daily” by don, the Scottsboro boys, | Thaelmann and the victims of the| if only the Section Committee and terror on the West Coast, is the UKE negate (hs giowiig, enaee Units will realize the importance of of fascism in this country. What is at stake in the Herndon case is the right of workers to organize, to ts strike, to read workers’ literature, Units! Don't leave the sale of the to belong to the Party of the work- | “Daily” to a few comrades. Make ing class, What is at stake is the | Daily Worker circulation the actiy- right of two oppressed groups of, ity of every member. Get rid of workers, white and black, to organ- | the dead routine which prevents at ea to fight for their’ you from concentrating your forces ights. | pon the most important tasks, and What is at stake in the Herndon | thus limit the work to a few. Build and Scottsboro cases is the rights! up th re 1 of a nation of 13,000,000 Negroes, | p the semi-monthiy conferences of and of the millions of white work-|‘B¢ Daily Worker, carry out the ers, poor farmers and impoverished | Pl@” to get more red builders, subs, middle class people over the whole | M¢WS-stand sales, sales around fac- country. tories, and thus putting the “Daily” The victory achieved in raising | C¥eTywhere, so the workers can't the Herndon bail fund, in forcing | miss it. the release of Herndon on bail,) ——— must be made a complete victory— the complete freedom of Herndon and the Scottsboro boys. the workers and | getically to it. RED BUILDERS |the half-way mark was passed. On| Monday, the 29th, with only three |days more to go, only $8,627 hadjand broaden out still further. The) been sent in. more came in. In two days $4,000 Morga CLEVELAND, Ohio—M. J. Van Sweringen, the railroad magnate and J. P. Morgan associate, was called as a panelman in the trial of Leonard Barton and Frank Zoalar, arrested in the strike of the Chase Brass and Copper Company. In the preliminary questioning of jurors Van Sweringen stated that his occupation was that of a “rail- road man.” N, D. Davis of the In- ternational Labor Defense, repre- senting the strikers, challenged this statement, saying, “In language or- dinarily used are what is known as a capitalist, a banker, a man who employs workers. Will the fact that made through the Scottsboro Ac- | this case arises from a strike pre-pany, | tion Committees, consolidate them | entire working class movement | must be mobilized behind this cam- the Daily Worker, from a small! By the last day a little over $14,000 | paign, and every force available | Coast and all class-war prisoners! DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT Saturday, August 18 Forward in the fight to secure the freedom of Herndon, the Scotts- boro boys, Ernst Thaelmann, the prisoners arrested on the West — 8:30 P.M. United Front Sup- n Aide Called for Jury Shoe Workers “Daily” Quotas To Try Chase Brass Strikers Approve New vent you from judging this case fairly?” | The prospective juror refused to) ‘answer this question directly and| junder further questioning it was | |pought out that he has a financial | interest in Chase Company. | Davis asked him whether he| thought a worker, his wife and/ children could exist on $16 a week.| |Van Sweringen replied, “I don’t know anything about this.” | Judge Charles R. Ely, who is also Mayor of Euclid, came to the rescue and excused Van Sweringen from jury service. The court room was filled with workers of the com- Detroit Functionaries To Get Election Plans at Meeting Tomorrow DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 14. — All Communist Party functionaries in this city will attend a special meet- ing tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in Finnish Hall to lay initial plans for the local election campaign and the Daily Worker drive. Reports will be made by represen- \tatives of the District Committee and George Wishnak, business manager of the Daily Worker, will discuss new plans for building the circulaton and finances of the peper. All functionaries, Red Builders and sympathizers who were invited to attend the special meeting on the election picnic will attend this meeting instead. during the general strike. The ILD. is organizing mass potests, and calls on all workers and intellectuals to ficod police here with telegrams of protest. Jonnson, critically injured with a deep cut under one eye and bruises all over his body, yesterday urged all workers to the Gallagher meet- ine here on Friday. 5 Boot and Shoe Union Plays Strikebreaking | Role in N.Y. Strike, NEW YORK.—When the strike Committee together with a repre-| sentative of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union went to negotiate with the B. J. Feifer Slipper Co., 57 E. 11th St., Monday, they were tod that the boss had already signed an agree- ment with the Boot and Shoe Union. All workers on strike are members of the U. S. L. W. U. It was learned that the Boot and Shoe business agent had visited the homes of strikes in an attempt to induce them to switch their union affiliations. | porters’ Hall | 11 W, 18th St., 3rd floor | |]] “sniper,” Soviet Movie; | ||] “America Today,” | work- ers’ newsreel; Chalk Talk | ||] by “Del,” Daily Worker | cartoonist. Admission: 20 cents in advance; 25¢ at the door Obtainable at Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St.; Daily Worker Dis- trict Office, 35 E. 12th St., and from Red Builders. Proceeds for Red Builders’ WageDemands | NEW YORK.—A shop delegates’ | conference held last Saturday at| the headquarters of the United uniforms. Weinstone °:: self - sacrificing | tively small num- | ber of Red Build-| “Daily” | Ernst | one thousand as our plan calls for | | this task and apply themselves ener- | Wake up, Section Committees and | —$—<—<—$ $$ ~ *1° cottsboro-Herndon 15000F amilies Face Hunger As Relief Ends San Francisco Workers Are Left to Starve as Funds Run Out SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14—The terrorist attacks on militant work- Ss and their organizations by the administration were followed by a new assault on the ni dards of the unemployed, who were given their relief checks with the news that this would be the last from city funds. Fifteen thousand families are af fected. The excuse given for expos- ing men, women and children to starvation is that the city funds appropriated for relief have been exhausted. Only $1,000,000 appropriated in the c t get for relief. Another 00,000 was expected to raise forcing a is yage cut on ors have beer unable j they can rob from the meagre pay Co-operation of Party | envelopes of the city workers. to a An ordinance providing for the | appointment of a new Citizens Re- lief Committee under control of the | Board of Supervisors was vetoed by |Mayor Rossi because “no federal |funds would be alloted to the city if the control existed.” Rossi is try- |ing to borrow $550,000 from the |State relief funds appropriated in The small increase in circulation | j939 put never paid. Parade Against War and Fascism Set for Maynard, Mass, MAYNARD, Mass., Aug. 14. — A united front parade and demonstra- crying need fo: |tion against war and fascism and spreading the Roosevelt's hunger progam will be jstaged here tomorrow in conjunc- the auto workers |tion with a festival of the Boston and counteracting | section the poison of the | Club. of the Finnish Workers Invitations have been sent to all Maynard workers’ groups, Commu- nist and Socialist Party locals and ) Pacifist organizations to join in the |demonstration against imperialist | war, The local parade will be part | of the world-wide movement in pro- | test of war and fascism. The com- | mittee conducting the demonstra- tion has appealed to Daily Worker | Teaders in Maynard to mobilize | their friends in support of the af- fair. DAILY WORKER PICNIC SUNDAY AUGUST 26th NORTH BEACH PARK Astoria, L. I. Dancing Games | Sports | Admission 25c. Directions: I. R. T. or B. M. T. Subways, Second Ave. “L", to Ditmars Ave. Busses to the park Shoe and Leather Workers Union unanimously approved fhe recom- — Philadelphia, Pa. mendations and demands of the | == price committee elected at a meet- | ing of all crafts in the slipper in-| agreements expire. After Saturday's | meeting, where these demands were RED PRESS PICNIC dustry four weeks ago. These de-| os c |mands include the following: | IN - « (1) All skilled workers to receive | iv) SUNDAY, AUGUST 19th, 19 4 l- =} $1 per hour as a piece-work rate; | at Old Berkies Farm } (2) All workers who are classed|; ysl x btween semi-skilled and skilled, to| ear? | Teceive 75 cents per hour on piece- | ° ANGELO HERNDON o work basis; a bail fro (8) All semi-skilled, 80 cents per 3 Heroic young Negro worker just released on bail from res] agri aaticgacbeat ~ CLARENCE HATHAWAY ms (4) All unskilled young workers to | S get $15 per week. Beginners to re- —_ Editor Daily Worker, main speaker 2 eye $13 per week for the first six || Seas ered pace = weeks, ‘etheit Gesangs Farein These demands are to be pre-| ~ Music Baseball Prize = sented to the manufacturers before || ( Campfire and Dancing in the Evening | Sept. 1, when the present union DIRECTIONS: Take car No. 65 or Broad St. Sub. to end of line; pass to No. 6, =a ‘de to Washington Lane and Ogontz Ave.; walk two squares west discussed in full and endorsed, the | shop committees, together with the general shop chairman, were in-| structed to arrange immediately for conferences with the manufacturers | to enter into negotiations on these | demands and renewal of all agree- ments. } Delegates at the conference were | firm in the opinino that if the man- | ufacturers should try to evade or. year gor agraneras aaed refused to meet with the workers’ | FESTIVAL SET FOR SUNDAY | demands, they were prepared to) NEW YORK —Workers who|answer with a strike that would) |planned to attend the open-air | embrace every slipper shop in the} |dance and festival held by the | city. | | Brooklyn section of the Associated | Workers’ Clubs, which was post-| 600 STRIKE MILWAUKEE |poned on Sunday because of rain,, MILWAUKEE, Wis. Aug. 14— | will attend, instead, a similar en-| More than 600 workers at the \tertainment on Sunday at Frank's Geuder, Paeschke & Frey Company, | \Inn, 1307 B.'92nd St., Canarsie. The | manufacturers of kitchenware, went | seme program will be provided. on strike yesterday. | 20,000 New Readers by Sept. 1 Earn Expenses Selling the “Daily” Daily Worker Sunday, August 19th WHITE HOUSE GROVE Irving Park Boulevard and River Drive Program: DIRECTIONS: — CHICAGO, ILL. — RED PRESS PICNIC Games, Gates Open 10 A, M. Take Irving Park Blvd. car to end of line where our buses will take you direct to grove. of the Morning Freiheit Refreshments Admission 15 Dancing, iss