The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1934, Page 1

Ee Support Your ‘Daily’ by Aiding the Sif $60,000 FINANCE DRIVE Today's Receipt’s . DAYS ONLY are left in which to raise the $15,000 needed for the appeals of Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro Boys, Only $3,757 has been raised to date. Rush contributions to Interna- tignal Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., New York City. See blank on page four of this issue. Vol. XI, No. 203 <> WAGES OF COTTO Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1934 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. WEATHER: Fair, cooler. N GARMENT WOR Total to Date (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents KERS CUT Seventeen More Soviet Citizens Jailed by Order of Japan Release ta] ‘Demanded | "By USS.R. 300 in Los Angeles Rally for Freedom of 5 Jailed Workers LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23.— Three hundred Los Angeles workers under the leadership of the International Labor Defense and the Relief Workers Pro- tective Union demonstrated at Pittsburgh Rally Set By Miners Militant Paint Local Is Ousted Hathaway Stresses Vital Need lus: Gee Of $60,000 Fund for ‘Daily’ Says Party’s Voice Must Be Fntrenched on Mass Basis Before West Coast Cuts Total Week’s Pay 38 Prisoners Reported)| tne piaza sunday, determined a bee 1 Join oc Call Meeting Fascist Attacks Grow to Nationwide Proportions Shorter Hours Offset ah | ft the release of Harold emonstration i : Beaten by Police in | Hendricks, iach MeShann, "i * ‘ o Plan Fight 9 hes. Die ri ‘Boost’ in Hourly Manchukuo John Sanders, Earle Tennery Against Terror Zausner Gang By CLARENCE HATHAWAY, brunt of these attacks must be borne by the organ- Wage Rate then and Joseph Toth. a eben ee ihe as = — : Editor, DAILY WORKER izing elements of our Party and its press | rkers have TTT » Pa, : 33.—| NEW YORK. — The recently The Daily Worker remains America’s only daily IEW VORK _1T Ip SHANGHAI, Aug. 28.— Pa Oe sees Miners and steel workers from| ayowed policy of Will s : aay oy SE Se NEW YORK.—The N.R.A =: : iam Green to ‘ 7 % si 5 RAS With the arrest of seventeen pao on Bon eae Pittsburgh and surrounding terri-| Give militants from the Anoclean VENTS such as the West Coast general | newspaper supporting the struggles of the militant more Soviet citizens employed on the Chinese Eastern Rail- way today, and the confirma- years. The jury disagreed on Toth’s case and he has been arraigned for retrial. The ver- dicts against McShann, Sanders tory are preparing to mass in West Park tomorrow night in what prom- ises to be one of the greatest gatherings of workers against terror and for unemployment insurance in Federation of Labor has already been put into action here by Philip Zausner, illegal president of Dis- trict. Council No. 9 of the Painters strike and the Minneapolis truckmen’s | strike point a lesson which must be grasped by every militant worker if we are to working class. interests of Jab The fact that it is the chief target for the sharpshooting of the boss-press provides convincing testimony of its consistent fight in the or as opposed to capital. ruling decreasing hours in the garment industry 10 per cent and increasing wages 10 per + pie cig : cent, is an actual wage cu tion, Ey UREA Miceli and Hendricks are being ap- || years, the cect who announced that) break the foothold of Fascism in the United This fight must go on .. . must be intensified! | 64 ’o 9 gq9 Fe. See fon by the Manchukuo gov-|) peated, West Park band stand has been|heen revoked. ‘The euneuncement| States. These events clearly revealed the Our “Daily” must increase in size and circulation. | ‘OT ; CORNER BAT ernment of rupture of all rela- The speakers were James || secured for this monster demon- “ workers. tions with the Soviet Union, the danger of armed action by Japan imperialism was intensified. There are now a total of 88 So- viet. citizens held in prison by Manchukuo authorities on orders of the Japanese militarists. The Soviet government has pre- sented a demand to the Foreign Office of Manchukuo for an ex- Dixon, R.W.P.U.; Lillian Good- man, IL.D.; Harold Ashe, edi- tor of the Hunger Fighter; Carl Echols of the Free Thaelmann Committee, and Tom Patter- son of the Communist Party. Women Called stration, in which Ruby Bates and Congressman Lundeen will be the principal speakers and which has been designated as Sacco-Vanzetti and Anti-Terror day here. In addition to Ruby Bates and Congressman Lundeen, the speakers include Phil Frankfeld, district. or- ganizer of the Unemployment Councils; Carl Hacker, district or- ganizer of the International Labor came following a court decision favoring the Council’s order to oust all members of the militant local for their opposition to Zausner’s gangster and class - collaboration policies. Local 499 has been the leading militant force in the present paint- ers’ strike and is one of the locals which opposed Zausner in the re- cent union elections and supported emphatic need for a powerful and wide- spread worker’s press... a of exposing the round-table of boss, official, arbitrator and labor faker, as well as one prepared to face of armed attacks upon working-class solidarity. press capable collaboration must be firmly grow in the Worker must be by the first of necessary: A $60,000 deficit must be met! York Daily Worker and an improved national Daily It must consolidate and spread its influence over an ever-widening circle of worker readers. It | entrenched before the West Coast terror grows to nation-wide proportions. | To accomplish this purpose, three things are | | A New launched in October! Our present | circulation of the “Daily” must be at least doubled the year! The increase of 10 per cent in wages does not cover the loss of ten per cent working time. The garment workers have had | their hours cut from 40 to 36 hours per week. A worker ¢ 50 cents an hour would make $20 a week on the 40-hour week basis. On the new basis just announced this worker would get 55 cents an hour ‘ if 2 Louis Weinstock, the popular rank Limited finances, inadequate distribution facil- Comrades! W bout to take (10 per cent increase) d work planation of the arrests and de- NA Defense; James Egan, national sec- i om. 1s! e are about to take our greatest i and work manding prompt measures for their oO ear A@YIS | retary of the Steel and Metal| 24 file candidate for secretary of| ities and the lack of concentrated readers means step forward. The establishment of a New York |36 hours. This will reduce his release. Acting Consul General Workers Industrial Union; Ben the Council, who was defrauded of that our “Daily” is tremendously handicapped wages to $19.80 instead of $20 re- Rayvid of the U.S.S.R. presented | the demand to Shi Liu-ben, repre- sentative of the Manchukuo govern- ment at Harbin. Parley Report Carreathers, Communist candidate for Congress, and Fred Carreno, head of the Veterans National Rank and File. Tony Minerich will be the election by the Zausner gang. Following the announcement on Wednesday that Local 499 had lost its charter. members of the local during and following such incidents as occurred in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and Minne- Here, every reactionary element is mobi- apolis. resources have Daily Worker and a vastly improved national edi- | tion can be ack¥eved only with your aid. Our been exhausted during what has ceived formerly. Similarly a worker now making |a dollar an hot r $40 veek, proved one of the most trying years of the crisis. | . OUT. OF AAD See eee under the new schedule will re 33 ? a the chairman. met at the 84th Street Labor Temple lized against the striking workers, hut especially | Funds are urgently needed! i ; a aes ‘The arrests were made pe: Ella Bloor and Minor Sei ehceay and voted unanimously to support | against the militant leadership of the Communist Dik iel Siead De Gaae eee |celve $89.60 ($1.10 an hour for 38 searches of the apartments and of-| Head Webster Hall 5 Picketing E Kean nite nee Cacerenip of the | Party, its press and legal machinery. every Section and Unit. Organize th nus the N. yhaoela we searches of the mperenen is ane or ea ebster hia icketing mbassy} local in its fight against the cor- irae Suit ted RG : : es : ; nit. Organize the member- Thus the N.R.A. ballyhoos a wage fices of Soviet employes 0! e i? : ny! rupt practices of the District Coun- ughou' e country, Is reactionary mobi- ships of all mass, fraternal and language organi- cut as a wage increase and at nese Eastern Railway, which pare Program Tonight In Thaelmann Behalf cil, lization of the forces of capital, state and gang- zations and trade unions. tempts by means of an actual wa not been explained,” Rayvid said. ea GE 2 ‘ . Local Calls Meeting dom spread in anticipation of future strikes and Forward in socialist tition! § cut to prevent the cotton te: Pree eee ee Laas Ne paisa Seized in Washington The local will hold a special meet-| struggles of the unemployed. Open Fascism re- three-edition Daily Wane ees sal ‘tas wien ine old Macge’ e at a poe : : lew York were urged yesterday ing Monday night at the Labor : Stagger system MOSCOW, Aug. 23. (By wireless). /4, Clara Bodian, secretary of the| WASHINGTON (FP). — Five renee rm Saas oa Shik apart Places all pretense of New Deal liberalism and the of Fascist reaction! Hoover (share the work scheme of —Seventeen more Soviet employes 1» of the Chinese Eastern Railway were arrested in the past few days by Japanese gendarmeés, according to information from Manchuria re- ceived today. The Soviet Consulate at Harbin has cent a note of protest concern- ing the arrests, which now total 88, to the representative of the Man- ian Foreign Ministry in Har- (Special to the Daily Worker) KHABAROVSK, U.SS.R., Aug. 23 (By wireless).—Information re- ceived from Harbin relates details of the brutal beatings and tortures applied by the police to Soviet workers and clerks held in Man- chukuo dungeons. White guards in the service of the United Councils of Working Class Women, to rally at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., tonight at 8 o'clock to hear Robert Minor, veteran Com- munist leader, and the women dele- gates to the Paris Congress Against War and Fascism. oe " The call was issued to working women in trade unions, unorganized women, housewives and all women interested in the struggle against war and fascism, and emphasized the importance of carrying out the manifesto and resolutions of the In- ternational Congress, The main report of the congress will be given by Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, chairman of the American delegation and a member of the praesidium of the congress. Jessica Washington workers who picketed the German embassy demanding the release of Ernst Thaelmann and other anti-Fascist prisoners in Ger- many, were sentenced to fines of $25 each by Judge Ralph Given for “parading without a permit.” He overruled a motion for a new trial, asked on the grounds that five per- sons could not constitute a parade. Despite repeated arrests, picket- ing of the Nazi embassy has been repeatedly resumed, as a constant reminder of international labor solidarity with the victims of Ger- man Fascism, Reporters Plan Pier Demonstration Today When Publisher Lands take to fight against the tyrannical edict of Mr. Zausner. Following this there will be a mass meeting Tuesday night at Manhattan Ly- ceum to which #ll members of the Brotherhood are invited, to arouse all locals to demand the reinstate- ment of Local 499 and the restora- tion of the charter. A mass protest meeting against the red-baiting expulsion policy of the reactionary officials of the A. F. of L. has been called for Wednesday night at Webster Hall, 1ith Street and Third Avenue, by the A. F. of L. Trade Union Com- mittee for Unemployment Inser- ance and Relief. “The revocation of our charter is the first step in the move of Wil- liam Green and his henchmen to Dree® uo the trade union movement AFL. Leaders Ready to End Mellon Strike Accept Deal to Return to Work Without Any Agreement (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Aug. 23. —William Green and A. F, of L. leaders Dave Williams and Boris Vote Against Hitler In Plebiscite Now Is Set at 9 Million NEW YORK.—Confirming the statement in the Daily Worker that the total opposition vote to Hitler in last Sunday’s ple- biscite was far greater than re- ported by the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda, Johannes Steel, in the New York Post, yesterday declared that private cables to him show the vote was above 9,000,000. The Nazis had admitted only Labor Groups ToClaim Right To Yorkville Delegation to City Hall Today Will Insist On Free Speech Right | | NEW YORK.—A delegation con- | sisting of various organizations in Yorkville will call upon Mayor La- Roosevelt) in a new dress, Only ten thousand more workers will be Put to work, and the cotton gar- ment workers will foot the bill. This reduction in wages for the 200,000 garment workers is highly praised as an achievement by Sid- ney Hillman, who was one of the actual authors of the scheme, in his capacity as member of the Labor Advisory Board of the N.R.A. David Dubinsky, president of the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers Union (A. F. of L.), also “hails” the N.R.A. wage cut as “step in the right direction.” In the cotton garment industry, the minimum code wage of on! $13 has tended to become the maxi- mum, and under it, skilled and semi-skilled workers have suffered : ‘4 —_— “4 “ ! Se 4,300,000 votes against Hitler. i " e wage cuts. Manchurian police are particularly Sue oan PiGuces Inter-| NEW YORK.—The Newspaper |i? America by driving out the mili- | Shishkin caviyecetatig Alike Steel, however, did not point ae today Re re o'clock ss When the proposal was first vicious in these beatings. The pur— ace and | Guild yesterday called for a mass| tants,” said Louis Weinstock, rank | arms the strikebreaking pls out the added fact that the so- || Pro est against the banning pose of the torture is to get the prisoners to make “confessions” of crimes not committed by them, such as needed by the Manchurian authorities. (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug. 23 (By wireless). —The Japanese press on the au- Freedom, who returned yesterday will supplement the report, a Others who will speak will be Equile McKeithen, Southern Negro sharecropper, Clara Bodian, and Jennie Palermo, needle worker. Returns from U.S.S.R. picket line at the pier at the foot of West 14th Street at 3.30 p. m. to- day, when S. I. Newhouse, pub- lisher of the Staten Island Advance, returns from Europe, from where he cabled an order to fire Alexan- der Crosby, news editor, for having joined the Guild. Many labor unions, have voted to and file leader and member of Lo- cal 499. “The entire proceedings were unconstitutional and we pro- pose to rally not only the painters, but the entire rank and fe of the (Continued on Page 2) A.F.L. Executive Board by Fageral Government Conciliator Ped Weighty, which would drive the Aluminum Company strikers back to work “pending negotiations,” and pave the way for a typical A. F. of L. officials’ sell-out, through the medium of the National Labor Board. The only fly in the A. F. of L. called “spoiled” ballots, admit- ted at nearly 1,000,000 by the Nazi officials, were also greater than reported. Bosses Ask Settlement As Bathrobe Strike | street meetings on Eighty-sixth Street between Third and Lexing- ton Aves. in Yorkville. ; The delegation, headed by Paul- ine Rogers, secretary of the Anti- Nazi Federation of New York, in- cludes delegates from the Friends broached, high N.R.A. officials were forced to admit to the Daily Work= er Washington Bureau that the Proposal to decrease hours 10 per cent and increase the hourly wage ten per cent was an actual wage cut. idiok Boveun Weekes ° ea y - ‘ee of German Democracy, Anti-Fas- thority of some “Tokyo circles” is|'To Find Michigan support the Guild’s fight for ag. | Ointment: ts. that: Roy “Hunt, presi- cist Action, Workmen's Sick and A spreading information about an al- Home Crosby's reinstatement. A mong|Refuses to Call Strike|sent of the Aluminum Co, has de-| Spreads to New Shops/S%,,Agion, Workmens Sick 2:| Demand Open Hearings leged conclusion of “a secret agree- ment on the question of Sinkiang and Mongolia” between the U.S.S.R. and China, This “information,” according to tocay’s Tavestia, organ of the So- viet government, is exposed by the Chinese press as coming from Japanese semi-official sources. This cannot be doubted, contin— ues Izvestia: “When it is a question of plots against the U.S.S.R. then ‘certain circles’ are always the same circles which do not disdain any means to spoil the relations between the U.S.S.R. and Japan. The whole world knows how to judge the au- theticity of the fictions of this bureau for falsely informing public opinion. “But to prevent these specialists in dark deeds from saying their information was not refuted, we categorically state that all informa- tion on a secret agreement between the U.S.S.R. and China on the question of Mongolia and Sinkiang is the product of the dirty minds of certain organizers of a campaign egainst the U.S.S.R.” Unemployed Unio'n Leaders Resign As Members Vote Action JOPLIN, Mo., Aug. 23.—After the rank and file provisional committee in the Socialist-controlled Unem- ployed Union here had put forward a program of action which the mem- pership enthusiastically accepted, the fakers in the leadership, rather than carry through the actions, re- signed from the union. The workers’ demands include: a thirty hour week at minimum wages of forty-five cents an hour on all relief jobs, union rates to apply; right of the workers to organization, and free medical, dental and hos- pital aid for all unemployed. Already the workers have forced an increase of six hours a week for all relief workers, and are organ- izing to fight for the full demands. Burned by Ku Kluxers DETROIT, Mich. Aug. 23. — A mob believed to have consisted of Ku Kluxers burned to the ground the home and barn of William Mol- lenhauer at Holly, Mich., on Mon- day night. Mollenhauer, well-known in Detroit as a militant worker, re- turned from the Soviet Union on the day his home was demolished. Four deputies and Captain Ira H. Marmon of the State Police, who were called to the scene of the fire by neighbors, stood by and made no effort to put out the flames. News of the fire was not made pub- lic until today. Not content with having razed his home, efforts are being made to frame up Mollenhauer because four guns were found in the place. This is being used as a pretext for an attack on the Communist Party. The Hearst paper, the Detroit Times, speaks of a “red arsenal.” them are the Typographical Union (Big Six), the Motion Picture Op- erators Local 308, which contributed a sound truck, and the Metal Workers Industrial Union. The Staten Island Local of the Socialist Party and the Staten Island Sec- tion of the Comunist Party have both pledged support, as have hun- dreds of workers and small business men, Republicans and Democrats, who have signed cards pledging not to buy the paper until the fight is won. Picketing at the ferry terminals, and nightly street meetings are a part of the Guild’s fight. NEGRO CHILDREN IN CAMP NEW YORK.—The last group of Negro children to be given a two- week outing this summer by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, left this week for Camp Wo-Chi-Ca, Wingdale, N. Y. Wives and Children Join Men In Illinois Strike Picketing DECA' » IL, Aug. 23.—The strike of relief workers here last week continued solid today with workers in the shops declaring their support and discussing strike votes of the factory workers. Every re- lief job in the county is closed down solid, the pickets going from job to job in trucks. Men, women and chil- dren are on the picket lines to pull off the scabs recruited by the re- lief commission and the Chamber of Commerce. The relief workers struck last week under the militant leadership of a Negro and white workers’ united front strike committee repre- senting the Illinois Workers Alli- ance (a Socialist-led organization), the Progressive Miners local union, and the Unemployment Council. The united front strike is organ- ized around three main demands and is winning tremendpus support among the unorganized unemployed and the workers in the shops. The demands are: 1—Full 120 hours work a month at 65 cents an hour and on2 dollar an hour for skilled workers. 2— Recognition of all grievance com- mittees from all organizations. 3— Fifty per cent increase in direct relief, abolition of the “yellow dog” contracts, and the right to trade in any store. The united front strike commit- tee of 23 has organized mass picket lines and committees have placed ‘he demands before the City Coun- cil for withdrawal of the police from the jobs, the right to collect. money on the streets, and endorsement of the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill. ‘ On Chicago Rail Lines CHICAGO, Ill. Aug. 23.—While this city’s 20,000 transportation workers were demanding a general strike on trolleys and “L's,” word came from Detroit that the Execu- tive Board of the Amalgamated As- sociation of Street and Electric Railway Employes has failed to act on their demands, These A, F. of L. officials have been refusing to call out the street car and “L.” men for several days. The bus drivers are striking, and feeling for a general walkout is ad- mittedly high. The Executive Board of the A. F. of L. union instead of calling the sympathy strike, reffered the matter to “federal mediation.” Cut Pay, Fire 200 Relief Workers in Los Angeles LOS ANGEL) hundred more workers and profes- sionals were cut from all source of livelihood when the Los Angeles County Road Department cut by 40 per cent its staff of draftsmen, en- gineezs, construction crews, and inspectors. The wages of the remaining men were cut by as much as 50 per cent, The cut, effective September Ist, is directly in line with the policy of the county supervisors whose elec- tion campaign keynotes are in- variably centered on what “they will do for the unemployed” while at the same time they slash workers pay, smash their protests with vicious Police attacks, and use the courts to grant injunctions. These cuts and slashes go hand in hand with the attempt of the vigilantes: and other fascist hood- lums whose object is to reduce the zesistance of the unemployed, smash their organizations, arrest their leadership, and break their mili- tancy. Then they proceed again to cut and slash. Earn Exponses Selling the “Daily” Unemployed? Sell the “Daily”! clared the union proposals “not properly matters to be arbitrated,” and is banking on a back-to-work movement, carried on by company stools, to split the workers and smash the strike. Members Given No Voice Paul Howlett, president of the New Kensington Local, told a union meeting Monday night that no re- turn to work would take place un- til an “agreement is down black and white,” but at Wednesday meeting Williams announced that the A. F. of L. had approved the proposed re- turn to work without an agreement. The rank and file have not been asked to yote on a single move yet made by the A. F. of L, heads, Hundreds Picket ARNOLD, Pa., Aug. 23.— Police Chief Sherman Hill has purchased a supply of tear gas bombs and warned the Aluminum union against halting arf cars which attempt to enter the plant. The company has admitted stock- ing-up during the delay of the strike-call and announced yesterday that some departments would not be reopened when the strike ends, paving the way for discrimination against the most militant strikers. The Daily Worker made its ap- pearance on the picket lines yes- terday and met with the approval of the pickets and striking work- ers. The A. F. of L. leaders have de- liberately evaded the enlisting of strike sympathy among the towns- people, so that business men and merchants are agitating for a back- to-work move and attacking the strike, claiming it is ruining busi- ness, Despite curtailed picketing the Jeast rumor brings hundreds of strikers on to the picket lines in a few minutes, but this splendid mili- tancy of workers is being sabotaged by the A. F. of L. leaders, who are pressing forward for a sel!-out and an agreement which would guaran- tee against any strikes in future, an “open shop agreement with an anti- strike clause inserted,” NEW YORK.—As the general bathrobe strike continues to spread and become effective throughout the city, applications for settle- ment have already been made to the Bathrobe Workers Industrial Union by several manufacturers. The National Robe Manufacturers Association has stated that it is willing to meet in conference next week with representatives of the union, At a mass meeting held yes- terday at Irving Plaza Hall it was reported that The robe industry in Staten Island, Red Bank and At- lantic Island is completely para- lyzed on account of the strike. At South Norwalk, Conn., where 13 union members were arrested on Wednesday, the strike hs shut down the Royal Robes, Inc. Work- ers arrested in this center were released on $100 bail each. eration of Labor Painters Locals} 499 and 848; A. F. of L. Carpenters Local 2090, German Workers Clubs, Arbeiter Sangerchor, Friends of the Soviet Union, International Labor Defense and Hungarian and Czecho- slovakian organizations, Eighty-sixth Street between Third and Lexington Aves has been the traditional local meeting place for years until recently, when the police through the use of clubs and horses have dispersed anti-Nazi meetings at this place. While the Nazis are permitted to terrorize and intimi- date people in the streets of York- ville, anti-Nazi meetings and ac- tivities are attacked by the police and the city administration and the constituitonal rights of free speech and assemblage are denied. The delegation will present to the Mayor thousands of signatures from | Yorkville on petition lists demand- | ing the right to speak on any and all streets in New York and speci- fically on 86th Street in Yorkville. | CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—Details of a hunger strike by an entire regiment of Illinois National Guardsmen during the recent annual encamp- ment at Camp Grant were learned today by the Daily Workér with the return home of the ten thou- sand workers who were recruited for the, military drills. The strike followed the death of two workers from food poisoning during the first week at the camp Jocated near Rockford, Ill. All the men in the 124th Field Artillery Regiment refused to leave their tents at the call for “mess” until officers promised better food. Bet- ter food was served for a while but got bad again Jater in the week. Two other workers were also killed in accidents which were caused partly because of exhaustion after heavy Hunger Seeilie of Guardsmen Follows Illinois Camp Deaths The extent to which superior of- | ficers drove the Guardsmen at the camp is seen in the field manecu- vers which were carried on when the thermometer rose to 115 de- the heat. During the march from Camp Grant to Grant Park here in Chi- cago, a distance of more than 40 miles, the men were only allowed | four hours sleep in 48 hours. In the | city they were put on show for} civilians in a parade down Michi-} gan Avenue after their 40-mile trek. Special training in strike duty was given to the Guardsmen at Camp Grant. Lessons in the use grees. Many of the Guardsmen} were overcome at their posts from | On New Tax Plans NEW YORK.—The Home Relief Bureau Employes Association, in letters to Mayor LaGuardia, to the Board of Estimate and to the Board of Alderman yesterday demanded that immediate hearings be called on LaGuardia’s relief taxes, and that representatives of that organi- zation, of the unemployed and unions be given full opportunity to state their views on the mayor's tax program. ‘The LaGuardia tax program for financing unemployment relief calls for a tax on the gross receipts of shopkeepers, a tax on the gross re- ceipts of professional workers, and a “lottery” scheme whereby the city hopes to raise twelve million doi- lars. N. Y. Board of Estimate Passes Relief Tax Plan NEW YORK.—LaGuardia'’s re« lief tax program, one-half of 1 per cent tax upon the gross ree ceipts of all business receipts over $5,000, a similar tax upon the gross receipts of professional workers, and a municipal lottery plan, was passed yesterday at a special ses- sion of the Board of Estimate. The tax plan will go to the Board of Aldermen today when hearings will be held on the bill. 350 Strike on Jersey P.W.A. Tunnel Project CAMDEN, N. J., Aug. 23.—Three hundred and fifty construction workers struck on the tunnel work at the approach to the Delaware River Bridge today. The tunnel is being built out of P.W.A. funds. The employes, members of the Construc- tion Workers Industrial Union, dee manded wage increases and unio~ recognition. ; of a new type of tear gas were jineluded, Help the “Daily's” Drive