The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 7, 1934, Page 3

jisswe the demand for union wages DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1934 Page Three Jobless to Confer With Philadelphia Relief Chiefs Monday Group Will Dema Union Pay for Work Done on Relief Jobs (Special to the PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Se Daily Worker) pt. 6—The relief administra- tion in this city was yesterday compelled to grant an audience to a delegation from the Unemployment Councils represent- | ing the entire city. This conference will take place on Mon- | day at 3 p. m. at the county Cherry Sts. ‘The Unemployment Councils’ olegation will raise as the main on relief jobs as against the sys- tem that is to be introduced after Sept. 15. This is the budget system, which means that the unemployed will have to work for the relief | they will get from now on. The delegation will demand cash relief | of not less than $2 per person, as | well as coal, lights, clothing and free rent. The delegation will also demand food for all textile strikers in this section during the entire period of their strike. Workers’ organizations have been urged to send delegates to the un- employment conference to be held in Garrick Hall on Sunday, Sept. 23, at 10 am. Herbert Benjamin, national organizer of the Unem- ployment Councils, will be the main speaker. Tells of Graft In Bank of U.S. ‘Liquidation’ NEW YORK.—Charges of graft, bribery and widespread corruption involving high Tammany leaders, | judges, large corporations and wealthy lawyers, in the liquidation of the defunct Bank of United States conducted by the State Banking Department, have been made by Morris A. Greenbaum, accountant for the Bank of United States Depositors’ Committee. Many hundreds of thousands of dollars, Greenbaum charged, were paid from Bank of United States funds to prominent individuals and corporations for all sorts of fake “services.” Some of the deals made by the State Banking Department, as listed by Greenbaum, were: | James J. Dooling, leader of Tam- | many Hall, was paid $25,000; ~ out of the assets of the defunct insti- tution for “referee fees.” | A payment of $157,000 was made | to the firm of Olvany, Eisner and Donnelly, attorneys for New York | Investors, Inc., for appraisal of real | property. George W. Olvany, former | leader of Tammany Hall, is a mem- | ber of the firm. A mortgage of $250,000, held by the bank on a modern, fully-rented apartment house at 166 Second Ave- nue, was sold for $10,000. Loans amounting to $13,318,655.19 were erased from the books without any publicity. An enormous liquidation “ex- pense” amounting to $7,000,965.91 was spent since the bank closed, including “legal services” totaling $785,822.05. The Bank of United States De- positors’ Committee have issued a statement charging that the Banking Department and State of- ficials are purposely trying to stifle an investigation of the liquidation proceedings. The committee is going ahead in the fight for its own investigation into the liquidation of the bank. Harlem Jobless Mass At Home Relief Bureau; Protest Discrimination NEW YORK.—Three hundred Negro workers and ex-servicemen massed before the Harlem Relief Bureau at 181 W. 135th St. yes- terday and elected a committee of 35 to present their demands be- fore the borough supervisor of relief. The demonstration, called by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Harlem Unemployment Council and the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemens League, protested the re- fusal of relief to William Alfred, @ Negro veteran who died of star- vation last week after relief was denied him. The delegation marched to the borough relief offices at 124th St. and Lenox Ave., where a commit- tee placed the workers grievances and demands before Assistant Bor- ough Supervisor Levine. The delegates demand the re- moval of Mr. Wright, Mrs. Mason and Miss Flories, relief heads at the Harlem station. The Negro un- employed, the delegation pointed cout, are forced to live in disease- ridden fire-traps because rent al- Jowances for Negroes are lower than those for white unemployed work- ers. DEPUTIES IN STRIKE WITHDRAWN McGUFFEY, Ohio, Sept. 6.—Fifty special deputies who have been kept here to guard strike-breakers in the onion workers walkout were or- dered withdrawn by Hardin County Commissioners. The high price of the “army” is given as the official reason. Workers here, however, see the withdrawal as a result of the tre- mendous resentment against the © | lentown, disgusted relief headquarters, 15th and 5,000 Jobless Demonstrate in Allentown ALLENTOWN, Pa., Sept. 6.—Five thousand unemployed workers dem- onstrated here Monday demanding an immediate end to all evictions and sheriff sales and immediate payment for all rents and provision for light and fuel for the jobless. Pitched battles with the landlords and their hired thugs on one side and unemployed workers on the} other side are resulting from the | refusal of the Lehigh County Poor Board to make provision for paying rents. In many instances, police, sheriffs and constables are refusing to undertake the sales and evictions ordered by the landlords. One landlord smashed down win- dows and doors in entering a house and upset a stove placed there by | the poor board because of the birth of a baby. Another landlord hired men to tear the roof from a house in or- der to oust a widow and two small children. The men were pulled from the roof by an enraged crowd | | of workers. Still another landlord armed his friends with pick handles and suc- ceeded in removing half of the fur- niture from a tenant’s home before workers arrived and stopped the eviction. A member of the evicted family was ill in bed under the care of a doctor and a nurse. The unemployed workers of Al- th the con- ciliatory leadership of the Unem- ployed Leagues, who in the past en- gaged a lawyer to meet with the landlords on the question of evic- tions and advised the membership to take legal steps to stop evictions, are mobilizing the workers for mili- tant action to end all evictions and force the County Poor Board to pay rents, gas, fuel and electricity for all the jobless. Haitian ‘Authorities Jail Seaman Who Had Communist Literature | NEW YORK—A. Munoz, mess- man on the 8S. S. Postores and a member of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union, was arrested by Haitian authorities and is being held on a charge of smuggling Communist literature into Haiti. A member of the ship's crew who gave this information to the Daily Worker yesterday, declared that Munoz had gone ashore at Port-au- Prince to visit a friend, and had been searched by customs officials. They claimed to have found on him a bundle of Communist leaf- lets, describing protest actions of the American working class in sup- port of the struggles of the Haitian masses against American imper- ijalism and its native puppet gov- ernment. Munoz was placed under arrest and customs officials later searched his locker on the ship. The ship’s crew forced the captain to protest his arrest, but the Haitian author- ities refused to release him. The crew is now appealing to American workers, Negro and white, and their organizations to protest Munoz’s arrest and demand his immediate release. Jobless in Western Penn. Push Plans for State Hunger March PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 6—The Unemployment Councils of Western Pennsylvania are pushing forward plans for the state-wide hunger march to Harrisburg on Oct. 12, following the announcement of Gov. Pinchot that the State Legislature will meet Sept. 10 to discuss relief legislation. The unemployed workers from the entire State will converge on Har- risburg demanding that adequate funds for relief during the coming Winter be appropriated. Upholsterers’ Strike Hits All Union Shops NEW YORK.—Workers in all upholstery shops organized by the National Furniture Workers Ii- dustrial Union responded enthusi- astically to the strike call issued Tuesday morning. At the same time Local 76 of the Upholsterers International (A. F. of L.) de- clared a strike. The National Furniture Workers Industrial Union has issued a call to members of both unions to unite on the picket lines in one strike for one set of demands. Our Readers Must Spread the Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First Importance! deputies and the fact that public opinion in the county is firmly with the bitterly-exploited strikers. ‘The Daily Worker can Better Aid Your Struggles if You Build its Circulation, nd Neste Badly In Cop Attack NEW YORK.—A young Negro woman was brutally kicked and clubbed and several other workers badly beaten and arrested Wednes- day night when LaGuardia’s police peaceful demonstration of white and Negro workers protesting job discrimination against Negroes by the Empire Cafeteria, 125th St. and Lenox Ave. The attack occurred when, follow- ing a meeting at Lenox Ave. and 127th St., about 300 white and Ne- gro workers began walking toward the Empire Cafeteria to protest the refusal of the management to hire Negroes as countermen or in any capacity other than porters. Led By Haywood, Stachel The meeting was led by Harry Haywood, national secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and Communist candidate |for State Senator in the 19th As- sembly District, and by Jack of the Trade Union Unity League. Both leaders have been in the fore- front of the fight against the Em- pire Cafeteria. Last Saturday Mil- ton Herndon, brother of Angelo Herndon, was arrested before the | same cafeteria. As the last group neared the cafe- teria Wednesday night police launched a sudden and _ ferocious attack, seizing individual workers |and subjecting them to a terrific beating. A militant Negro woman was clubbed to the pavement and kicked as she lay helpless, before she was rescued by other workers. As a signal for the police attack, a man who, witnesses testified, later joined in beating the Negro woman, threw a brick into the windows of the cafeteria. Meeting Grows to 2,000 The meeting reasembled at 126th | Street after the attack and grew to | over 2,000. Haywood spoke immedi- ately after the police attack. He hailed the presence of hundreds of white workers, calling it a real an- *swer of the working class to those Negro misleaders who raise the | slogan of driving all white workers |from Harlem, and who declare the white workers are the enemies of the Negroes. His speech was fre- quently interrupted by enthusiastic cheers, especially when he men- tioned the role of the Communist Party in fighting for Negro libera- tion. He was followed on the stand by Jack Stachel, who declared that impressive demonstrations of soli- darity of Negro and white are oc- curring all over the country and symbolize the capitalist method of race division. He declared that a) | victory at the Empire would open | |the road to a whole series of im- | | portant victories. | Negro Liberator Pledges Aid | Ben Davis, editor of the Negro | Liberator, pledged full support when he addressed the large meeting. Other speakers were James Ash- Milton Herndon. Mike Walsh, Communist candidate in the 2ist Assembly District, acted as chair- man. The meeting was held under the united auspices of the Young Lib- erators, the I. L. D., the L. S.N. R., the Finnish Workers’ Club, the In- ternational Workers’ Order and the Communist. Party. 8 Jailed When Po lice Attack 1,000 Workers | (Special to the Daily Worker) BUFFALO, thugs yesterday brutally smashed a demonstration held in Niagara Falls by the International Labor Defense for the support of Alphonso Davis, framed here ona false rape charge. Stanley Chmiell, I. L. D. lawyer; George Hart, I. L. D. district secre- tary, and six others were arres‘ed and manhandled. The demonstration was held de- spite the refusal of Mayor Jenss and Supreme Court Judge Maloney to grant a permit for the meeting, which 1,000 workers attended. The I. L, D. has urged all work- ers’ groups to send immediate pro- tests to the Mayor and police chief of Niagara Falls. Needle Workers Move To Camp Nitgedaiget For Big Mass Outing NEW YORK. — Thousands of needle trades workers are expected to visit Camp Nitgedaiget, at Beacon, N. ¥., during the next 12 days, which have been set aside especially for the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. Ar- rangements have been made for special entertainment, sport and cultural activities during the period The price for the entire 12-day holiday in the camp will be $13. A four-day week-end starting today can be had at the camp for $8. Three days in the camp will cost $6.50. Gangsters and Police Attack Robe Strikers NEW YORK.—Police and gang- ster violence flared up against the bathrobe strikers during the past two days. On Wednesday seven workers, members of the Bathrobe Workers Industrial Union. were beaten by thugs at the Fd. Kantor Shop, 49 West Twenty-Third St., and were later arrested by police. ‘They were released in night court. Cutters of the Van Baalem shop. 126 West 26th Street, have joined the walkout. The strike is still ‘spreading. launched a savage attack on 2/| Stachel, acting national secretary | especially in strike struggles. The | | Empire Cafeteria, though not a) large plant, was held by Stachel to; ford of the Negro Liberator, and | in Niagara [Falls ‘Rally , N. ¥., Sept. 6.—Police |LaGuardia’s Tax Schemes Called Maneuver to | NEW YORK — Declaring that Mayor LaGuardia’s tax schemes are | @ maneuver preparatory to putting | jover the subway tax and taxes on/| wages and salaries, the New York District Committee of the Commu- | nist Party yesterday issued a state-| ment calling for organized strug- | gle against LaGuardia’s plans. The statement follows: “It is now clear from the action | |of the Board of Aldermen that the LaGuardia tax proposal is a ma- neuver in order to carry through |the fare tax and wage and salary |taxes in the interests of the bank- jers and big business. This sleekest servant of the bankers hides the planned plundering of the workers jand poor population generally be- | |hind the smoke screen of a pro-| posed business tax. LaGuardia in| this case runs true to form. Each time before slashing the relief of the unemployed, before firing} C.W.A. and other relief workers, | before carrying through salary cuts, he invariably indulges in his choic- jest demagogy, sheds crocodile tears | lover the unemployed, and pays lip | |service to the need for unemploy- |ment insurance, | “The revolt organized by La- |Guardia in his Board of Aldermen, |including the Fusion as well as |'Tammany and Republican mem- |bers against his proposed tax bill, jand the demagogic, weak, half- jhearted defense of this bil by the | | President of the Board of Alder- jmen, is one of the most cynical l|acts of treachery as yet perpetrated | |by LaGuardia. The action of the | Board of Aldermen and the failure |of LaGuardia to issue a special |message to the legislature on the |tax bill is a serious menace to jthe masses of employed and unem- ployed, to the poor consumers gen- | erally. Higher fare, wage and salary jraids, the drastic reduction of re- lief to a point below the present hunger level threatens the employ- ed and unemployed masses. “Behind the demagogy and ma- /neuvers of LaGuardia stands out \the stern and brutal fact that no relief funds are now available for more than 500,000 destitute fam- ilies. Relief workers are being fired |by the thousands. With winter set- ting in, even the so-called La- Guardia plan for raising 50 million dollars for the year, in itself a drastic reduction in relief allow- | Put Through, Tax on Wages and Fares | — ances, is thrown overboard by the | Board of Aldermen. “The schools are opening. Work- ers’ children, bare and ragged and hungry, are not provided with any guarantee of lunches and clothing. Hiding behind the planned excuse of opposition from the Board of Aldermen, instead of providing in- creased relief, LaGuardia is prepar- | ing wage taxes, higher fare, salary grabs for the employed and hunger and destitution for the unemployed in the name of the sacredness of the bankers’ agreement, in the jmame of the sanctity of the plun- dered wealth of the rich. Big busi- | ness must not be touched. The 160 | million dollars to the bankers is more important than the well-be- | ing and lives of the unemployed | and their children. “The Communist Party, the rev-| olutionary Party of the working | working class, in the last mayoralty elections, exposed the role of La-| Guardia and foretold his program | of carrying through the bankers’ | agreement at the expense of the relief of the unemployed and living standards of the whole working population. The Communist Party calls upon the unemployed and em- ployed workers to tear off the hypo- critical treacherous demagogic mask of LaGuardia, to unite in the de- mands: “For immediate appropriations of adequate relief funds for all unemployed! Tear up the bank- ers’ agreement! Fight against any fare tax, wage or sales taxes! Tax the rich—use the usurious interest paid to the bankers to provide adequate emergency cash | for winter relief te the unem- ployed! Organize—demonstrate in all neighborhoods, throughout the city for immediate adequate re- lief payment! Prepare to demon- strate for your demands by the thousands at the Board of Alder- men meeting on the 14th. Build the Unemployment Councils! “In the coming elections vote for the Party of struggle in de- fense of the living standards and rights of the masses. Vote for and support the candidates of the Commanist Party, the candidates who lead the fight for relief, for jobs, for unemployment and so- cial insurance. Vote Communist —vote against the parties of the bosses—the parties of hunger, wage cuts and police terror!” | Cleveland Jobless Will Meet Tomorrow to Plan Work Relief Demands CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 6—A | city-wide mass meeting of all relief workers and all unemployed will be | held here Saturday at 3 p.m. at Zahler’s Hall, E. 93rd St. and Kins- | man Road. The meeting will discuss the work relief problems of the jobless, adopt | a plan of action and elect a com- | mittee to place the workers’ de- | mands before the work relief offi- | cials. A preliminary arrangements com- | mittee, elected on the projects to} call the mass meeting and formu- late a preliminary set of demands, | is tentatively putting the following | proposals before the mass meeting for adoption and elaboration by the workers: 1—An increased working week of thirty hours at trade union wages. | 2—Union conditions on the jobs; accident and liability insurance; free transportation to and from work. 3—For the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. Leaflets are being distributed and meetings are being held on the re- lief jobs to mobilize the workers for the mass meeting. Federal Relief Grant Made to Pennsylvania; Special ‘Session Called HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 6.— Pressed by the demands of the 1,750,000 Pennsylvania unemployed and their dependents, federal relief administrator Harry L. Hopkins yesterday allotted $10,500,000 to the state to meet September relief pay- ments. Governor Pinchot, who yesterday announced the convening of a spe- cial session of the State Legislature on Sept. 10, later moved the date to Sept. 12, because of Jewish holi- days. He declined to say whethtr he will throw the assembly wide open or confine it to the issue of relief legislation. Hopkins is de- manding that the State match fed- eral relief grants dollar for dollar. Striking Pipe Makers Mass-Picket Factory NEW YORK.—A mass picket line of more than 300 workers on Wed- nesday strengthened the strike at the Supreme Briar Pipe Company, 125 Navy St., Brooklyn. Taxicabs which came to the. establishment to transport scabs went away empty when the workers appealed to the drivers to support the strike. The strike is now in its eleventh week and is 100 per cent solid. It is led by the Independent Smoking Pipe Makers Union. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the dictatorship of the proletariat! Twenty thousand new readers Ve Bere 1st means 20,000 addi- recruits for organized class struggle, | Attack on Maine C. P. | Opens with Frame-Up | of District Organizer (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Sept. 6—Dave Halper, Communist Party section organizer of Lewiston, Me., has been arrested on a framed-up charge of assault- ing an officer. The case will be appealed. Bail is set at $500. A deportation investi- gation is being carried on by the police, although Halper is a citizen. This is the first instance of open terrorism against the Communist Party in Maine. Ford Lays Off Workers In Thousands; Union To Demand Cash Relief (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 6—Ford | workers, returning to work yester- \day after a shutdown of over a week, found that thousands of them were being laid off for an indefinite period. The extent of the layoff may be | judged from the fact that in one |department, out of one hundred | workers, about a dozen are now left. The manner in which this layoff is being carried through is an old | Ford trick. Instead of laying work- ers off and taking their badges away at the time of the shutdown, he has the workers return with the expectation of getting their jobs back. In this way he tries to demoralize the workers and make those who remain more fearful of their jobs. The Auto Workers’ Union is tak- ing steps to organize the fight for adequate cash relief for unemployed Ford workers. Portland Labor Hall Bars Marine Meeting PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 6.— A meeting called to protest the murder charge frame-ups of 30 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association was sabotaged by the board of directors of the Labor Temple here, who, after accepting a check from the \International Labor Defense for jone of the halls, curtly broke the | | contract. A committee from the LL.D., pro- testing the action, was told that the Labor Temple was not for rent to any organization not affiliated with the A. F. of L. They further de- clared opposition to the mass and legal defense organized by the ILD. for the thirty workers. BUTTE JOBESS ORGANIZE BUTTE, Mont., Sept. 6—Five hundred men and women signed membership cards at a mass mect- ing here at which the Mon‘ana Re- lief Protective Union was organized. Direct relief to single men was re- | |cently cut to $9.50 a month, and | | 35,000 persons in a district with a population of 51,000 are on the re- lief lists. The Anaconda Mining Company controls the entire F. E. R, A. relief set-up. He was brutally | beaten up and his room was raided. Woman New York C P. Urges Fight Jersey A.F.L. Can Clubbed_ for Adequate Relief at Once Locals Act on ipaign for Daily Workers’ Bil Lags While Sections Fail to Speed Funds | as | NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 6—The | Workers Unemployment Insurance |Bill was unanimously endorsed at @ conference of delegates and mem- bers of the A. F. of L. held h Sunday, Aug. 26. The 29 dele; from 19 local and one Ca District Council of Hudso represents 17,500 workers 0: in the A. F. of L. A delegation was elected to pre- sent the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill to the 56th Conven- tion of the New Jersey Federation of Labor for endorsement. A state committee was also formed to in- volve locals other than those rep- resented at the conference in the fight for the enactment of the Workers’ Bill. an NEW YORK.—T! ally moving towards quotas. The quota of the sections, in all, is $11,800. But ONLY 75.50 has been received—ONLY 4.8 PER CENT of the quote, It is shown, for ins n 13, with a quota nee, that $200, and me New CRAWFORD 20, with a of $500, 0 per cent of Worker appeals to its readers to take immediate steps to remedy this condition. There are numerous ways of raising money quickly—parties, collections, donations. 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