The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1934, Page 3

) DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MO. DAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1934 Page Three 42 A.F. of L. Locals Press Campaign for Workers’ Bill _. Parties by Workers’ Groups Swell F -FEDERATION CHIEFS Lynch Terror N.Y, Shoe Workers HIT FOR ENDORSING WAGNER-LEWIS BILL Philadelphia Parley Calls on 2,400 AFL Locals Who Endorsed Workers’ Bill to Visit Homes in Drive for Individual Petitions PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 9.—Forty-one delegates representing twenty-two A. F. of L. locals with approxi- mately 17,000 members met ployment insurance conference here yesterday at the unem- called by the A. F. of L. Com- mittee on Unemployment Insurance and Relief. The principal resolutions called s— for a wide campaign for the enaet- | ment of the Workers’ Unemploy- | ment Insurance Bill. At the ma-| tion introduced by the oil and re-| finery workers’ union, the delegates | condemned the endorsement of the Wagner-Lewis “Unemployment Re- serves” Bill by the national execu- tive of the A. F. of L., and called | on the 2,400 A. F. of L. locals which have so far endorsed the Workers’ Bill to set up committees of workers | to canvass workers in their homes | and organizations and in the shops to secure individual signatures for the Workers’ Bill. The petitions thus signed will be forwarded to Congressmen from the districts de- manding unqualified support to the} Workers’ Bill. | Eviction Fight Pianned Resolutions were adopted and | plans made for the formation of | relief committees in the A. F. of! L. locals for resisting evictions and | for winning relief for unemployed | members of the local unions was enthusiastically endorsed by the! conference, | William Green's statement out- lawing sympathy strikes was con- demned by the delegates, who, in a resolution, termed the sympathy Strike “one of the most powerful weapons in the hands of labor | against their exploiters.” Demand Mooney’s Release The conference demanded the un- conditional release of Tom Mooney. Gangsterism in the local unions was condemned in a resolution call- ing on the workers to use every possible means to eradicate it. Green's approval of the attempts by | the Department of Labor to deport | militant workers was denounced by the delegates. An executive committee of fifteen, including delegates from the textile and hosiery workers’ union, was elected and the textile strike was unanimously supported. The execu- tive committee was instructed by the delegates to map out a plan in support of the strike. An amend- | ment called upon the conference | to demand that every trade union in the city endorse and support the | strike. Louis Weinstock, national secre- | tary of the rank and file committee, in his report to the conference, thoroughly exposed the role of the top leadership of the A. F. of L, in sabotaging the workers’ efforts to obtain genuine unemployment in- surance, and called for the dele- gates to intensify their efforts to obtain enactment of the Workers’ Bill. He was roundly applauded when he called upon the delegates to drive out the reactionaries from the top leadership and institute real rank and file organization, Hotel Men’s Walkout Against Code Looms CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 9. — Pressure of hotel food workers for a strike has increased to such an extent recently that Robert B. Hesket, Secretary-Treasurer of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Alliance, has been compelled to wire Sol Rosenbalatt, N.R.A. Code Ad- ministrator in Washington, that he may call a strike of 176,000 hotel workers agaigt the code condi- tions. The Hotel and Restaurant Employees Alliance is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The N. R. A. code forces hotel restaurant workers to take two and a half days off, without pay, and incrzases the daily working hours. N.Y. Bakers To Hold Open Forum Todaay NEW YORK.—All progressive bakery workers of New York are called to an open forum meeting for today at 1 pm. at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St. The agenda for discussion will be: the negotiations of the Amal- gamated Food Workers’ Union with the International Bakers’ Union for amalgamation. Other vital prob- Jems will be discussed. The meeting has been arranged by the City Committee of Progres- sive Bakery Workers of New York. Report Unemployment tise in Pennsylvania HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 9. — Reporting another increase in un- employment, the Devartment of La- por and Industry stated yesterdsy that 935,649 workers were without jobs in Pennsylvania in July. This figure represents 25.1 per cent of all wage-earners in the state, the! report said. The July estimate, the Labor De- partment survey stated, showed an ‘mcrease of 57,170 unemployed over the June figure. Talkies Ready Of Browder And Hathaway NEW YORK—Talking motion pictures of Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, and Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, are now ayvail- able for showing before organiza- tions in any section of the city or country, the Circulation Depart- ment of the Daily Worker an- nounced yesterday. In the motion pictures Browder and Hathaway are seen and heard speaking on the $60,000 drive for a Daily Worker sustaining fund. ‘The pictures will be presented be- fore meetings and affairs arranged by mass organizations and trade unions. No charge will be made for the showing. New York State organizations should apply to Jean Karlin, City Circulation Department of the Daily Worker, 35 E. 12th St. Or- ganizations outside New York, should write to the Daily Worker Circulation Department, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. At least one week’s notice must be given. The motion pictures were made after the Daily Worker had re- ceived many requests from hun- dreds of organizations throughout the country for Browder and Hathaway to speak in the circula- tion drive. Since their activities as leading members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party make a physical appearance impossible at all but a few of the meetings, the management of the Daily Worker hhad arranged for the talking pic- tures as the best substitute. Pharmacists Win Strike In Brooklyn After five weeks of militant pick- eting, the Pharmacists Union of Greater New York emerged vic- torious in its strike against the Lindner Pharmacy, at India Street and Manhattan Avenue, Green- point. The effectiveness of a picket line, open air meetings, leaflets, and a militant leadership was demonstrated when business at the Lindner Pharmacy was cut in half, compelling the boss to come to terms with the union. ‘ The strike was called when a union man was fired because he refused to work additional hours without remuneration. At first the boss refused to even recognize the union. Despite all efforts of the Pharmaceutical Conference (an employers’ organ- ization) to support him, Mr. Lind- ner, as a result of the response of the neighborhood to the union activities, was forced to capitulate. The strike was an overwhelming victory for the Pharmacists Union which won the following condi- tions: Recognition of the union, increased salary and impoved working conditions for the clerk. Now the Pharmacists Union is conducting a fight to obtain a minimum wage scale and a reduc- tion of the long hours which are forced upon unorganized clerks. A letter has been sent to the proprietor associations as well as to individual drug store owners in the Bronx, demanding a minimum wage scale of $35 and a 54-hour | Week, besides other demands. This fight is an answer to the attempt of the Pharmaceutical |,Conference to establish a $20 wage for a 60-hour week. It is a known fact that the minimum scale usu- ally becomes the maximum and this effort of the Pharmaceutical ‘Conference would be a signal for @ general reduction in wages. If no answer is received to the Pharmacists Union’s demands in the near future, a general strike wiil be called in the: Bronx. The Pharmacists Union has grown to include 1,600 enrolled members. All clerks are urged to join if they haven't done so already, at 55 West 42nd Street. SECTION 16 MEETS TONIGHT NEW YORK.—An open member- ship meeting of Section 16 of the Communist Party will be held to- night at 8 o'clock at 1660 Fulton St., Brooklyn. All Party members musi attend. Members of mass or- ganizations and trade unions are invited. | Is Laid Bare |Herndon and Ann Bur-| lak Lead in Indicting Georgia Courts By CYRIL BRIGGS BROOKLYN —The terror con- fronting Negro and white toilers in the South, emphasized in the past week in the murder of strikers in the Southern textile strike area, was vividly exposed last Friday night at a workers’ mass trial, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, of the Georgia lynch rulers who sen- tenced Angelo Herndon to eighteen to twenty years on the chain gang |for organizing white and Negro workers. A large crowd broke into stormy applause on recognizing Angelo Herndon, hero of the Atlanta “in- surrection” trial, and Ann Burlak, textile strike leader, Mrs. Ida Norris, Scottsboro mother, her face tense with suf- fering; Ruby Bates, Southern white girl, who dared death to shatter the “rape” frame-up of the nine} Scottsboro lads, and Rabbi Benja- min Goldstein of Montgomery, Ala.,| joined Herndon, Burlak and others | in the dramatic indictment of the! Southern ruling class. Carl Brodsky, enacting the role of | the lynch judge, appealed for con- | tributions to the $15,000 fund needed | to carry the Scottsboro and Hern- don appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court. Ann Burlak made a ringing ap- peal for working-class solidarity and support to the general textile strike. | She urged all workers to support | the mass protest demonstration in Union Square to take place this Wednesday afternoon. Jobless Will. Hold Rally | In Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 9.—The demonstration for cash relief and cash payments of rents will be held here Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock at the City Hall instead of Mon- day as originally scheduled. This action was decided upon when word was received by the Un- employment Councils that the regular City Council mecting, usu- ally held on Monday, was post- poned to Sept. 11, “because of the Jewish holidays.” This maneuver was made by the city politicians in order to confuse the jobless workers who were mo- bilizing for a mass demonstration The city politicians, afraid to face the spokesmen of the unemployed workers, after they had voted the jobless workers’ demands on June 18 and refused to appropriate funds, are using this subterfnge in order to prevent a mass mobilization. The Cleveland Unemployment Councils yesterday called upon all workers to mass at the City Hall on Tuesday evening. United Front Policie: Brings NEW YORK—Conservative na- tional officials of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union re- fused to give their report and walked out on a membership meet- ing of the New York local Thurs- day evening after their demand that I. Zimmerman, Lovestonite renegade, be given the floor fo speak on their report, was over- whelmingly voted down by the membership. That the demand that Zimmer- man speak was only a maneuver to attempt to disrupt the meeting | of the New York local is shown by the fact that, shortly after the meeting opened, George Wilson, general secretary-treasurer, had Stated that the national represen- tatives would be “forced” to leave the meeting because the meeting was discussing local questions first. This attempt to disrupt the meet- ing failed when the membership voted to delay discussion on the report of I. Rosenberg, secretary- treasurer of the New York local. The national officials then raised their demands that Zimmerman speak as a condition for their giv- ing their reports on the general situation in the union. When the membership refused, and again urged the national officers to give their report, the officers Wilson and Michael Salvaggio, member of the general executive board, and Zimmerman left the hall. At Mass Trial Balk Lovestoneite | and Effo rts At Control 12.00 Signatures Still s of Industrial Union | Victory | jing Plaza Hall, Sept. 6, 1934, vigor- | ously protest the action of Brother | George Wilson, general secretary- |treasurer, and M. Salvaggio, mem- ber of the G.E.B., in their refusal to report to us the general situa- | tion in the union as called for in |Our official request to the Resident Board. ‘Our request for such a report has been motivated by one desire | | only, namely, to discuss the policies of our union officials and through this discussion bring about closer and better understanding among the membership of the entire or-| |ganization. The refusal of these jbrothers to report, despite the | unanimous request of the member- |ship, unless I, Zimmerman who is |not a member of the General Ex- jecutive Board and is not an elect- | |ed official of the union, be given jthe floor, we declare is an imposi- | tion, upon our membership, is a |challenge as to our rights to de- cide to whom to extend the privi- |lege to address our meetings. | “We protest to the General Resi- |dent Board for sending I. Zimmer- |man to report to us, who is not an elected official and who is not |wanted by the New York member- |ship. We truly believe that this jaction of the G.EB. was provo- jcative in character and was de- | Signed, not to enlighten our mem- | bership as to the general situation |prevailing in the union but was ‘Makes Spurt In Ballot Drive to Be Collected in | Remaining 3 Days | CHICAGO, Sept. 9. — W ‘ings by district officials of the Commu- nist Party have aroused the mem- bership to the need for increased efforts in the nominating signature drive which reached its deadline on Wednesday but 12,000 names are still needed, it was reported today. In the past few days 3,000 sig- natures have been collected, but | | William K. Gebert, district ganizer, pointed out 3,000 must be collected each day uni the deadline if the Communist can- didates in this state are to be as- sured of their places on the ballot In a new appeal for volunteers to help put the drive over the top. Gebert said: “Our election campaign is in a very serious situation. We still have to collect about 12,000 sig- natures and we have only days to do it. It is important, therefore, that the local have special appeals to the work- ers in the mass organizations and to the sympathetic workers.” Saturday and _yeste special Red Days in which, it hoped, a substantial part of needed signatures would be lected. ‘Auto Workers Plan Parley Cleveland the in The meeting ended with the|an attempt to stir up dissension | adoption, with only one vote in opposition, of the following resolu-|and thus harm the best interests | $ n tion, which will be sent to the|/of our membership. We demand|tion of an international union of | Resident Board as well as to every|that the Resident Board rectify | u th | local of the union. The resolution|their actiom and we once again /¢rs in the American Federation of | |extend our invitation to send duly Labor will be undertaken at a na-| The lelected members to the General | tional conference on Sunday, Sept.) Union calls on all follows: “We, the membership of Local 23 of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, assembled at Irv- \in the ranks of the shoe workers, | Executive Board to report to us the situation in the union.” Reading Communists Urge Hosiery Workers Philadelphia Jobless Win Action on Workers’ CLEVELAND, Sept. 9.—Construc- all automobile and auto parts work- | 16, here, a call signed by 23 rep- | resentatives of local auto unions | states. The forthcoming conference was | initiatea by a previous preliminary |eonference held in Cleveland on Aug. 18, a meeting organized by |Fisher Body Local 18614 of the A. to Join General Strike Social Insurance Bill /F. of L. The previous conference, READING, Pa., Sept. 9.—The Reading Section of the Communist Pariy has issued a leaflet to the hosiery workers of this city urging | them to demand a strike in the in- dustry now. The hosiery workers are operating under no contract and conditions have been consider- ably lowered in recent months. Union officials of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Ho- siery Workers have refused to call the men and women out on strike, although the agreements expired on May 30. Workers were led to be- lieve that a strike would be called to enforce the signing of a new agreement. The slogan “Now Is the Time to Strike,” stressed in the leaflet of the Communist Party, met with en- thusiastic response | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 9. — | Led by the Unemployment Coun- | cils of North Philadelphia, one | hundred unemployed massed before the relief station at Seventeenth St. and Allegheny Ave., Thursday | and forced the district supervisor to | endorse the Workers Unemployment | Insurance Bill and forward it with her approval to the state relief offi- cials. 7 LYNW, Mass., Sept. 9. — The She was forced to accede to the |as possible, the date to be decided mRA Workers Protective Union of | Workers’ demands for immediate |by the body at the preliminary con-| this city has gone on record en-| consideration of all cases presented |ference. “No company official % by the Councils, to open another waiting room for the relief clients, , to install toilets. | The work of the Councils is bat- jtering down the discrimination \citing the decline in membership of jauto unions, pointed out that the lauto union convention held in De- troit in June, a gathering dom- inated by high A.-F. of L. officials |Who fought every rank and file |proposal to build a fighting indus- |trial union of all auto workers, did not solve the problems of the auto workers. | The Sept. 16 conference will elect ja National Board to call a national jconstitutional convention as early | (superintendent, foreman, etc.), nor shall any official of the A. F. of L. at present on full pay be elected to |this board,” states the call. | The conference, to which five three | .|Mot run for put jeither withdraw from office or lose | und in ‘Daily’ Drive Chicago CP. VETER ANS’ POSTS AND C.P. UNITS ADD TO WEEK’S TOTAL City Committee of Jewish Children’s Schools Sets Itself a $500 Campaign Quoia as District Swings into Activity Fifty dollars has been received for the Daily Worker $60,000 drive fund, as a result of the Eva Klein-Hyman Baron | cottage party at Woodstock, N. Y. | Lynn Sobibes ‘Rally Behind ‘CP Candidates 9. — In an more militant LYNN, Mass., Sept effort to isolate the papers | and active members of the Lynn| |ERA Workers Protective Union, | formed to protest and demand the jreturn of the cut in wages from |$12 to $8, the Staté Adminis’ officers of the ERA issued o1 jthat employees of the ERA could ic office, and must | their jobs. This order was put into effect here a few days ago and Joseph Leeds, organizer of the union and Commu- nist candidate for Congress, was notified that his employment on the | ERA has ceased. Leeds refused to accept this and has since reported |for work daily. The ERA union ts and is forming commitiees to | visit organizations with resolutions |condemning the action of the ERA administrators in denying the workers their rights of franchise. ERA Workers organizations |throughout the country to pass resolutions protesting the action and demanding the rescinding of this and similar local orders and |the restoring of the fired workers |to their jobs. Copies of the reso- | lution should be sent to President | Roosevelt, Federal Administrator | Harry Hopkins and Massachusetts ERA Administrator Joseph Carne: at Boston. A huge protest by work- |ers’ organizations will force the | authorities to revoke the order and | give these workers their constitu- tional rights. Lyan Jobless Endorse | Social Insurance Bill dorsing the Workers Unemployment | Insurance Bill and will send a com- {mittee to Representative Connery jand other candidates for Congress |from this district, demanding that |they also endorse this bill and if against the Negro Jobless, and has|delegates from each union have | elected work for its enactment. | forced the relief heads to meet reg- | ularly with a committee of workers jbeen invited, will be held at 14075 St. Clair Ave., this city. L.R.A. Estimates Show Steady Unemployment Rise Since April By GRACE HUTCHINS Secretary Frances Perkins of the} U. S. Department of Labor usually; gets into trouble when she tries to quote figures on the “progress of recovery,” as she calls it. Some one at her press conferences is sure to call attention to other facts and figures that do not fit into her gay- colored picture-puzzle of “New Deal” success. But in her Labor Day speech, broadcast over the Columbia net- work, Miss Perkins cites few figures and confines herself mainly to smooth generalities on one major theme. “Progress has been made under the recovery program.” “We” must now decide the question as to what degree of social insurance shall be granted to the workers. Back of her argument is the fact that workers themselves are press- ing for real social insurance, as evidenced by the steady increase of support for the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). Forced by this growing mass movement to consider serious- ly the matter of Federal unemploy- ment insurance, President Roosevelt has appointed a committee on eco- nomic security, of which, says Miss Perkins, “I have the honor to be chairman.” She recognizes that the ruling class must undertake to pro- for the family of the wage- er “a small income which will keep them from real poverty during brief periods” of unemployment. Prefits Must Show Steadily Not so much that it will inter- fere with profits, of course. For Miss Perkins finds progress to be practically synonymous with profits. |“Many corporations are again show- \ing some profits instead of large losses,” she explains, and the main- tenance of profits is of primary importance to the capitalists and apparently to Miss Perkins, Work- ers must have some degree of buy- ing power, so runs her argument, because: . “Thus we can build up that in- ternal expansion of our markets which is so essential for the utiliza- tion of our idle capital and the| employment of unemployed labor, and the steady flow of profits to those who have the ingenuity and the courage to step forward into manufacturing or distribution in a new field.” (Our emphasis—G. H.) There speaks the politician, the faithful servant of Wall Street and its government. Her mild reform- ism is forgotten in the defense of the profit system against radical at- tack. She continues: “The savings of many people [read capitalists —G. H.] are in-| vested in industry, and they are entitled to expect the maintenance of profits .. . Profits will be main- tained by keeping this market for goods open. The close relation be- tween good wages and steady profits is very clear in our American eco- nomy.” Wages averaging $19.25 a week for those who have work, and profits in the millions of dollars— this connection is quite clear to the workers. Jobs, Real Wages, Drop For the few figures quoted in this Labor Day speech, the Labor Secre- tary relies upon a comparison with March, 1933, the lowest point of the depression, while saying nothing whatever about the recession of the past five months. Even the New York Times pointed out in a recent editorial (August 28, 1934): “Com- parisons with March, 1933, are with what was undoubtedly in many respects the worst month of our economic history; a substantial im- | provement from these figures may Still leave a highly unsatisfactory condition.” Since April of this year all indexes show a decline. The U. S. Department cf Labor itself reports a drop of over 10 per cent in manufacturing payrolls be- tween April and July, 1934, from 67.3 down to 60.4, with 1923-25 as 100 or “normal.” (See Labor Re- Sept. 1934), And as compared with y ee 1926 average, payrolls in July of this year were only 549%, or a little more than half the average of eight years ago. Miss Perkins reports a gain of 34% in employment as compared | with the lowest point in March, |1933. Yet even the conservative | American Federation of Labor es- | timates 10,772,000 workers still un- | employed (July, 1934) and declares that re-employment has been prac- tically at a standstill since October, |1933. The Labor Research Associa- tion estimated that 15,835,000 were jobless in November, 1933, and re- | ports that approximately that num- | ber must be still unemployed at the | present time. While claiming that “wage income has been increased,” Miss Perkins omits all mention of the rising cost |of living. Her statement on this point is even more misleading than the assertion on employment gains. The average individual factory worker’s buying power—his real wages—decreased by 1 per cent be- tween June, 1933, and June, 1934. This fact is clear when we compare the rise of 8.5% in per capita weekly earnings (manufacturing industries) with the rise of 9.6% in the cost of living during the same period. But this general rise of nearly 10% in the cost of living does not tell half the story. The cost of eating, in other words, the price of food, main item in a worker's budget, has gone up by 23.5% since April, 1933, according to the Labor Department’s own release of Au- gust 28, 1934. The workers’ food dollar now buys only what 81 cents bought before the “New Deal” be- gan. Indeed, in some cities, the prices of certain foods have ad- | vanced far more—from 50 to 100¢; | On the matter of child labor, Mis | Perkins’ declaration is still further |from the truth. She announces glibly, “Child labor has been prac: | tically abolished under the N.R.A \codes.” She must, however, be quite well aware of the facts: Of the nearly 700,000 children under i6 out of every 7 were on jobs that have not been affected at all by |gainfully employed in 1930, about 6| search Association, Economic Notes, | Job Decline Increases Need for Workers’ Bill * Official Figures Give Lie to Ballyhoo of Labor Secretary N.R.A. codes. No code applies to the half million children in agricul- ture, by far the largest group of child workers in the United States. | “Social Inserance’—What Kind? Devoting most of her speech to a vague and general appeal for some form of “social insurance,” Secre- | tary Perkins reassures the employers on the question of setting up such “peserves” as she calls them, In- dustry itself must make “some pro- vision” for unemployment, but the expense need not fall too heavily upon the employers, she explains, | since the employees also may be) required to contribute. | The plan most likely to be adopted by Miss Perkins’ presidential com- | mittee on economic security is the | one put forward by the nation’s | leading capitalists, representing such | giant corporations as General Elec- | tric, General Motors, Standard Oil, and U. 8. Stecl. This plan, pro- | posed by a committee of the In-| dustrial Advisory Board, would re- | quire workers to contribute to the | insurance fund and would limit to 26 weeks or less the period during which the small payment would be made to the few jobless workers eligible for insurance under this scheme. For further information | on this plan of the big industrialists, | see Labor Research Association's | N.R.A. Notes (August, 1934). | In contrast to the industrialists’ | Plan, the Workers’ Unemployment | and Social Insurance Bill, now! widely endorsed by American Fed- | eration of Labor locals and other | ganizations, proposes that the | Federal Government shall compen- | sate all workers who are unem-|! | ployed through no fault of their wn, for all time lost by paying hem benefits equal to average full | wages but in no case less than $10! |per week, plus $3 for each depen- | |dent. It proposes that this social} insurance shall be paid out of a fund to be created by taxing all in- comes over $5,000 a year, |_ The Communist candidate for Congress, Joseph Leeds, has stated |that his position on the bill is for | | its immediate passage and calls on | |executive board has issued petition Protective | A total of $24.10 has been received as the result ofa 2ss Junction, N. Y. and $63:50 ®has been ed from the Daily Work dvisory Board! At meeting of camp | drivers o: Camp Transportation Group a collection of $26 was made for the Daily Worker financial drive! | | These contributions form part of the picture of t week's drive ace tivities in New York. Mass organ- | izations, workers’ clubs, groups, and junits in the Par sections are stirring. | The I. W. O. sent in $21.90! The Red Builders, $11.30! Camp Unity, $76.15! From the sult of a bonfire party at South Fallsburgh came | $15.00! And from Post 191 of the Work- ers’ Ex-Serviceme! This picture is further supple- |mented by the City Committee. of |the Jewish Children’s Schools which has set itself a quota of $500—and the Russian Workers’ Club, jovy Mir,” which has pledged it- | self to contribute $50. By this kind of activity the work- class of New York is raising its istrict’s quota of $30—and helping to insure the new Daily Worker! | The Daily Worker urges all work- ers’ organizations which have not yet sent in any money, to speed its act: New York’s quota is as much as that of the rest of the country put together—and only by | taking its hand off the throttle can the New York District come out the victor in its Socialist competition | with the host of its brother districts, PAINTERS STRIKE AT HOTEL NEW YORK.—All fourteen paint- ers of the Fifth Avenue Hotel have walked out on strike under the ‘leadership of the Alteration Paint- jers, Decorators and Paperhangers | Union of Greater New York, de- {manding higher wages, shorter hours and recognition of the union, The Fifth Avenue Hotel, Fifth Aves nue and Ninth Street, has been pay- }ing workers $75 a month for forty- eight hours work a week. s League—$6.75! remember October 19, 20, 21 DAILY WORKER MORNING FREIHEIT YOUNG WORKER BAZ A Ae }all workers to join in the struggle — , gress to act on it. | LAUNDRY MEN ON STRIKE | NEW YORK.—After a three-day | strike, the laundry truck drivers at | |the Holland Laundry, 93rd Street }and First Avenue, won reinstate- jment of a fired driver, full pay for | all while on strike, and recognition |of the shop committee. The threc- | | day strike, which involved all but one driver, was begun last Wednes- day under the leadership of Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union. |to force the representatives in Con- ihe | EUROPA THEATRE Market Street, above 16th PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Every Worker Should See “Hell on Earth” THE MOST POWERFUL PROPA- GANDA FILM AGAINST WAR AND FOR WORKERS SOLIDARITY. CAMP WINGDALE, UNITY NEW YORK Big Four Day Program ANTI-RELIGIOUS CAMPFIRE WITH SKITS, Etc. Friday Night —— Pageant and Concert to Celebrate 15th Anniversary of Trio—Camp Unity Communist Party—Hans Eisler Chorus—Vodvil—Historical Series. of Workers’ Songs —— Saturday Night REVOLUTIONARY DANCE NIGHT See Various Groups —— Sunday Night 15th ANNIVERSARY BANQUET —— Monday Night Daily Sports Events! Camp Unity Will Remain Interesting Lectures! Open Through September $14 a week. Cars leave from 2700 Bronx Park East daily at 10:30 AM. Pridays and Saturdays at 10 AM., 3 and 7 P.M. 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