The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1934, Page 3

COMMUNI Hear Revolutionary Earl Browder, general Party, U.S. A., will present the Communist program for the achievement of a planned economy for the United States, at a regional Conference on Social Economic Planning to be held Nov. 23 to 27 in New York. The conference will be under the auspices of the Inter- national Industrial Relations Insti- tue, of The Hague, Molland, and will “examine the necessity for such forms of social economic planning as may end unemployment and raise standards of living,” accord- ing to the call issued by M. L. Fled- derus, the international director, and Mary van Kleeck, the associate director of the LR.I. The conference is an outgrowth gf the World Social Economic Con- gress held in Amsterdam, Holland, under the auspices of the IRI. in 1931. Among the participants will be Isidor Lubin, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who will discuss trends in employment, earnings and the cost of living. The economic policies and programs of the New Deal will be discussed by M. L. Wilson, assistant secretary of Agri- culture, D. C. Doyle of the Public Works Administration, and H. 8. Person of the Taylor Society. The IR.I.’s commission of tech- nicians and economists will make a report on the “objectives and methods of social economic planning for the United States. Seamen Gain In Relief Fight For Single Men Force the Granting of Carfare and Central Clothes Depot A mass delegation of unemployed seamen marched on the office of Transient Relief Director Homes S. Borst at 79 Madison Avenue on Fri- day and wrung important conces- sions from the relief administration. Practically all of the seamen’s re- Nef demands, calling for issuance Transient Relief Director Homer S. relief, carfare and a separate relief project were promised by Borst. The delegation, however, pointed out that similar promises were given to their delegation last March, and the results have not yet been forth- coming. Disgusted with the endless de- lays, dodging, and empty promises given them by the relief adminis- tration, unemployed seamen on the entire Atlantic seaboard will meet tomorrow to plan militant action at a conference of the Waterfront Unemployment Councils at 140 Broad Street. Unless the demands are granted, a mass hunger march to Washington will be undertaken by the conference. On the question of a central cloth- ing depot for the seamen, Borst promised that within a week a clothing store would be opened by the FERA at Leonard Street and Broadway. Necessary clothing, Borst said, would be issued; but would not promise that this would be adequate. To their demands for doubling the food check allotments, from ten cents to twenty cents a meal, Borst again gave rosy promises that this would soon be granted with the opening of special restaurants on the waterfront. Carfare will be given the men daily, Borst said, in order that they may look for jobs. Pointing out that they had walked three miles from the water- front and were forced to forego their noonday meals in order to present their demands, the mass delegation refused to leave until carfare and meals were granted them. Borst was forced to tele- phone all lodging houses of the seamen and order meals for the mass delegation of seventy-five. The seamen were represented by @ committee of six spokesmen, in- cluding William Bailey, E. Wagner, J, Chambers and E. Morris. Relief Office Demanding Hearing on Dismissals ‘Protesting the arbitrary dismissal of active members of the Associated Office and Professional Emergency Employes for organizational activity and the refusal of the relief ad- ministration to grant hearings for their reinstatement, relief workers set up a mass picket line before the Department of Public Weifare Saturday. Led by Willis Morgan, president of the Association, a delegation of relief workers presented a petition to Edmund Butler, secretary and treasurer of the relief bureau, calling for a hearing on the cases presented. Workers Dance groups: An evening’s program, a symposium on the dance can be arranged for the benefit of the Daily Worker $60,000 = drive. The “Daily,” through its feature page, is the only English paper which pub- lishes news on the cultural front TO BE PRESENTED AT PARLEY IN CITY New York Session of International Institute to Talks of New Deal Advocates ST AIMS Program Along With secretary of the Communist ‘Hatters Spurn Novelty Work ‘Rate Slashes Local 8 Members Vote Fight for Regular Price Scales Close to 600 hatters of Local 8 of the United Hat, Cap and Mil- Mnery Workers’ International Union, A. F. of L., voted Thursday to re- fuse to work on so-called “novelty” hats, unless the full price, as paid for regular hats, is paid by the manufacturers. The meeting was held at the Beethoven Hall, 210 East Fifth Street. The “novelty” hats have become increasingly popular in the last few months. The work on these hats is somewhat easier than on regular hats. The manufacturers used this as an argument, when orders for this grade of hats began to come in, to request a special price below | the regular “bill of prices” from the | union for finishing. They claimed that the men will be able to earn more on these hats than on the others, even at the lower price. Coupled with this | argument a threat was made that | this work will be lost for the New | York shops and will go to out-of- town shops if their request was not granted. This happened shortly after a strike of six weeks in the trade and at a time when there was little work in the shops, although the fall season was supposed to be in full swing, As a result the bosses succeeded in convincing the crew of the big- gest shop in the city, the Manson Hat Company, 708 Broadway, to grant the request for a special price, namely, 50 cents per dozen for fin- ishing. Upon the insistence of the shop's crew, and in view of the whole situation in the trade at that time, all the members of the Execu- tive Board of the unions, including those connected with the rank and file group, agreed to this request. But it did not take long until the men in the shops found out that they had struck no bargain. The work was no longer as easy as the bosses claimed at the beginning it would be, when they were bargain- ing for a lower price, and, what's more—the bosses were trying to get other work done for this low price by labeling it “Novelty” work. The whole thing was brought to a head at the regular October meet- ing of the local. That meeting went on record to back up the men in the Manson shop, who had a few days before the meeting decided at a shop call (meeting) not to work on the “novelty” hats unless the regular price were paid. After this decision was made a struggle took place in the Manson shop. The men knocked off from work one day, after which the own- ers of that concern agreed to pay the full price. However, this victory was won} only after the manufacturers were promised by the officals, Mr. Rich- ard M. Humphrey, president, and Louis J. Africk, secretary of the local, to call a special membership meeting to reconsider the entire question. This action was taken by the of- ficials of the local without the knowledge of the membership or of the executive board. The commit- tee that was elected by the Man- son shop to negotiate the question with the owners has shown weak- ness in agreeing with the officials to call a special meeting to recon- Sider the question. This was certainly not in line with the big speech “delivered” by Mr. Max Finger, spokesman of the Manson committee, at the October meeting of the local, or his speech at the special meeting last Thurs- day. No fiery speeches can cover up his agreement with the policy of dilly-dallying with the bosses pursued by the officials. As a result of this weakness in the enforcement of the ruling of the local the manufacturers gained courage in their fight against it. Encouraged by this, Mr. Max Schnell of the Perfect Hat Co., 297 Mercer Street, went even as far as to attempt to cut the price on an- other grade of hats. The price of fered by him was even lower than what he paid before the October local meeting. The Thursday meeting gave the proper answer to the moves of the manufacturers and the dilly-dally- ing policy of the officials, by voting unanimously to stand by the former action of the local. The task of the men in the shops is to see to it that the stewards and the union officials check up on the fulfillment of the decisions twice adopted by the local. A stop should be put to all this dilly-dallying. The | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1934 @ Wall Street’s Workers Hit By Big Layoffs Office Workers Union) | Winning Support of the| White Collar Employees By ROBERT LANE fi. BR. A) Workers of the white collar class in Wall Street are beginning to listen sympathetically to the or- ganizers of the Office Workers Union. They are beginning to listen because their conditions have be- come worse with every year of the economic crisis. Here are some of the main facts: Employment: Loss of jobs and layoffs have hit the Wall Street worker no less than factory work- ers, Estimates vary as to the ex- tent of unemployment in the Street @& compared with the peak of 1929. Some say 50 per cent, some put it even higher. Hornblower and Weeks, one of the largest stock brokerage firms in the Street, in the boom days at times did about 10 per cent of the entire business contracted on the floor of the Exchange. In the boom days it employed 800 to 900 employes. Now it has only from 290 to 240 on its Payroll. Stone, Webster and Blod- get (investment subsidiary of Stone & Webster) employed about 200 in 1929; today they have about 50. Gude, Winmill & Co, a smalier firm, has dropped about 30 work- ers in the same period. Fahnestock & Co,. has cut its force 65 per cent. Seligsberg and Co., another small firm which had 75 workers on its books in 1929, now employs 28, De- two weeks; about half of its 1,000 employes since the beginning of the year. Consolidations have invariably meant a drop in the number of em- Ployed by the merging firms. Wage-Cuts: Those who are still lucky enough to have jobs have been hit by a double-edged wage cutting system. Direct slashes have been given by all the offices in the Street. The minimum cut seems to have been about 20 per cent, the average from 35 per cent to 40 per cent. Margin clerks formerly re- ceiving $60 a week now receive only $25, and $45-a-week purchase and sales department clerks have been cut to $20. Secretaries who previ- ously got $40 are down to $20. Book- keepers with $60 a week salaries have been cut to $25. Cashiers who got $125 weekly in 1929 are down to $50. Stenographers who received $30 to $35 are down to $18 to $22. ; Runners are getting $15. Even the minimum wages pro- vided for financial offices have been flouted by the firms. The New | York Stock Exchange and the Curb Exchange are supposed to pay a weekly minimum of $16 under the N.R.A. code, but they have cut this to $15. Appeals and protests lodged over this violation have not yet been answered by N.R.A. authori- ties. If workers protest against the cuts they are ; ‘Scotch Weeks”: This is another word for the stagger (share-the- work) system and wage cutting. The usual practice is for the firm to require each worker to take off a week each month without pay, or possibly two weeks off in five as for example, at Jaquelin & De Cop- pet. Or it may take the form ‘of two days off each week. This amounts to a cut in monthly earn- ings of at least 25 per cent in ad- dition to the straight cuts men- tioned above. Speed-up: With the lay-off and the stagger system in force, work- ers are often forced to do not only their own work but that of one or two additional workers who have been fired or who are taking their time off. Whenever the offices are very busy the employers don’t take on additional help. The result is a considerable increased load of work for the existing staff. There is also no commensurate compensation for overtime work. Sickness Is Prevalent Among Jobless Families Receiving Relief Aid A study of the 20,000 families under the care of private welfare agencies in the city disclosed that in 51 per cent of the families there was illness of some sort, a survey released Saturday by the Citizens’ ‘Welfare Committee stated. Illness traceable to unemployment is the most serious: problem both of the families under the aid of the private welfare agencies and the agencies themselves, James G. Blaine, chair- man of the committee, reported. The analysis, undertaken to de- termine the types of distress met with in the work of the private welfare agencies, showed that in ad- dition to illness caused by unem- ployment, many families showed numerous other problems arising out of the same cause. Classified ROOMS FOR RENT NICELY furnished room to let. Reasonable. Male comrade preferred. 540 So. Blvd., Bronx, Apt. 60D or write Box 154, care of Daily Worker. ROOM, steam heat. Inquire all day, Monday. 1835 Madison Ave., near 120th St., Apt. 8, N. Y. C. BRIGHT nice room for single or couple. Modern improvements. 2820 Brighton ‘7th, Brookiyn. Miller. WANTED BOARD—for boy 4 years old. OComradely atmosphere, near city. Write Box 6H, care of Daily Worker. BABY GRAND PIANO decisions of the union have to be of the revolutionary movement. Support it! enforced. It is up to the member- ship to see that it is done. Wanted by reliable comrade. Will provi transportation and safe stor: in ex- ‘change for use. Box —-, Daily Worker. Coppet & Doremus laid off 175 in|” Many Districts Behind Garvey Won't Quota in Daily Worker | Campaign for $60,000: New York Falls Behind vious Weeks—Banquet on Thanksgiving Eve | Will Be Climax of Its Part in Drive A setback was re ed by the $00,000 drive during the past week! Only $3,569 came in—$i,500 less than was received the week before! Though Boston completed its quota, such big districts as New York, Chicago and Cleveland fell under their mark of each of the two previous weeks. Only four dis- tricts sent more than $100. Fifteen sent even under $50. Chicago, De- troit, California and Seattle stiil re- main below 50 per cent of their quotas. New York registered the biggest drop, It fell $900. The largest and strongest district in the country, it has barely completed 60 per cent of its quota. Surpassing by far any other district with resources for raising its quota, it is still only in sixth place. Not only are many sec- tions doing only half as much as} they can but the trade unions and mass organizations are still not alive to the danger facing the Daily Worker. Only $85 came in from the trade unions last week. The I.W.O., with the largest quota among the Go to Africa, Aide Reveals Mark Made in Two Pre-| ened When He Asks About Funds St. William Grant, the Tiger Division of the U: | mass orga! tions—$3,500—has sent |N egro I ment Associ | in only 60 per cent. | has It is clear that every section, every trade union, every mass or- ganization must make all haste, | if New York’s quota of $30,000 is to be filled by Dec. 1. The situa- of al tion declared in (Garvey Moveme: the whole movement a a letter to the New York Age. Grant was one of 18 deleg: an “International Convention” | tion facing the ‘Daily’ requires |called by Marcus Garvey last Au- | immediate contributions. gust in Kingston, Jamaica, B. W. I. It is not difficult to intensify the | te reported have been jailed drive, Certainly the objective aim-| 4° Teported to have been Jaile¢ culties are no greater in New York|!" Jamaica for making a speech | than they are in Philadelphia and against British imperialism. | Boston, which have already raised a oy ee aa apese eee their quotas, and of the other dis-|(uat "nen curing te ee Tne » jhe a a a about th he ee ais ares oe mete oe monies sent him by those groups the New work District as) sti affiliated with the movement | adopted the slogan o! Soon “a he was called an ignorant man, and Daily Worker banquet on Thanks-|wamed he would be expelled from giving Eve, at the St. Nicholastne convention the next time he Palace, 66th Street and Columbus/ raised the question. He received peer goes of its vig Mer the same answer, he declares, when | the drive. Every Communist Y|/he asked what had become of the pee every ne biadoorgecee every |“program” for African liberation ‘@ union urged to reserve} Grant, who for a long time was tables and come with contributions|one of the most rabid lieutenants to put New York over the top. {of Garvey, and has acted as a police The district table follows: |stool-pigion on several occasions racket, s to Distriet Quote Received Received Pereent | against revolutionary Negro work- fgg oe of quota Jers, states in his letter: 1 Boston $ 2,000 00.4 | ae es 2 New York City 30,000 2233.26 7801.74 59.33 ‘At the present time, Mr. Garvey 3 Philadelphia 3,500 54.90 3627.14 103.6 |does not ‘ want to hear anything 4 Buffalo 750 33.96 368.70 Sa about African redemption. When I & Sikwpuren 1,200 sete pebtied told him of certain Africans who 6 Ol 4 3,000 87.05 1607.22 53.59 | 0) ; ; 7 pacha 2'500 62.64 1078.80 43.15 | said they wanted him in Africa, he 8 Chicago 6,500 324.14 3031.27 46.63 | said they were ignorant like me and 9 Minneapolis 800 o bn en re 7 on |he is not going to Africa. | Omaha 250 3 30.6 2.24) wpe a aden 11 North Dakote 250 3.25 34.35 i374|_“Had I known that our lead 12 Seattle 1,000 30.60 328.31 32.33 | was the faker he has turned out to 13 California 2,000 85.36 357.35 18.36| be, I would have never wasted my 14 Newark 780 se nt me sfét| time with him and gone to the 15 New Haven 750 8 6 ai t se 16 Charlotte 150 200 10.75 47.16 | trouble of raising $6,200 for the or 17 Birmingham 150 3.35 2.2 | ganization. 18 Milwaukee 1,000 28 406.08 40.00] WS Sy ah sh 19 Denver 400 4 344 : 20 Houston 300 3.75 13.25 44 | i sielg “i 7 Sey, 21 St. Louis 500 24.15 125.16 25.03 | Noted Musicians To Give 22 West V' 200 12.00 16.65 38.32 | * : a rare 200 2.00 Concert Tonight To Aid 24 Louisiana 200 4.35 2.17| ‘ 25 Florida 200 450 67.50 35|Autonomy Committee 26 South Dakota 200 10.00 12.00 6 / Miscellaneous 1,000 2.55 143.72 14.37 : me a A symphonic concert with Eu- 26 Districts $60,000 $3569,29 $33601.55 56. Jobless Single Man Overcome by Hunger In Home Relief Office Leon Berg, an unemployed single worker living at 73 Ludlow Street, collapsed from hunger af the Sey- enth Precinct Home Relief Bureau Friday. Berg, who was on the relief lists until recently, was cut off when special investigators found two boxes of candy in his home. The candy had been given to him by a grocer in order that he might earn a few pennies to supplement the | gene Plotnikoff conducting and a | ni tists and soloists $2.40 weekly food allowance of the | ey eee Oe aie program has been an- home relief. pasate Berg’s case had been taken to the | nounced by the Membership Com- ; ie ar Givaes |mittee for Local Autonomy of local eel Bees a we ERS | 802 of the American Federation of if Hareb ti or ee Musicians for 9 o'clock tonight at jetipioyaneny, jalehy Gemafiied “that | vorkvilie’ Casino, 210 Mast Seth his case be immediately re-opened. | street, After Berg had collapsed in the} The Membership Committee for relief station, three-quarters of an|Local Autonomy, representin: thousands of union musicians, s! efore al , ph ae Ni et WaS| according to the announcement, summoned. The relief heads ex-/| staging the affair in order to raise plained the delay as due to a rul-|the funds necessary for the bring-| ing under which they must first in- |img to a successful conclusion the A tremendous membership movement | oie ake aoe eer meri erOTe) 7 self-government in the Ameri-| a doctor or ambulance can be sum-| can Federation of Musicians. moned. | Dancing to the music of three Berg, in a state of complete col- | orchestras will follow the concert, lapse, was taken to Governor Hos- | until 4 a. m., according to the an- Pital. nouncement, Through these sources we have been informing the workers of our Restaurant v CHINA CAFETERIA NE “a place where comrades meet” 848 BROADWAY, near 4th STREET St. William Grant Threat- | || Dr. S. A. Chernoff BROWDER TO SPEAK ON PLANNING AT ECONOMIC CONFERENCE Hunger March Delegate o Report Tomorrow At Bronx Workers Club The Crotona Park the Unemployment Cou: ranged a mass meeting at |delegate to the Alban: |March will report. The r | will be held tomorrow n 8 Jo’clock at the Bronx W 1610 Boston Road All wor! e nei have been urged to attend th ing, where details of the po bush and ac as they entered sions of the ment conference in that city discussed Page 3 Jobless Journali Will Conduct Meeting On Press Wednesday Broun, Presic Newspaper G t of the and Dr. editor-in- in dailies, a discussion on “The Today,” on Wednesday 14, in Union Audito- msored of the Guild of New Yerk the dis- by the students 1 ] Hege students in i professionals aper attend Wishes to announce the o EYES EXAMINED BROOKLYN OFFICE: Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building PHILIP POLLACK. O. D. Workers’ Optical Service Unemployed Workers Are Welcome for Advice and Consultation pening of two offices for a GLASSES FITTED NEW YORK OFFICE: Associated with DR. LUTTINGER 5 Washington Square North Tel. 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Lady PURE FOOD — MODERATE PRICES WALTON CAFETERIA 116 University Place (Corner 13th Street) Comrades Patronize JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE (Bet. 12th and 13th St.) Miles Reproducer Co., Inc.—Tel.: Chelsea 2-9838 SOUND SYSTEMS SOLD AND RENTED 114 West 14th St., N.Y.C. Management Welcomes Workers to UNIVERSITY CAFETERIA 122 UNIVERSITY PLACE (Between 13th and 14th Sreets) Popular Prices: Colfee and Cream 5c. BEST QUALITY WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has reduced the rent, several good apartments available. | Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. Direction: ‘exington Ave., White Plains Trains. Stop at Allerton Ave. station Office open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 pam. Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 Priday and Saturday 9 am. to 5 p.m