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hd ‘Two - DAILY W ORKEE YOKINEN ADMITTED ERROR AT MASS te TRIAL FOR WHITE CHAUVINISM In Statement to the: Jury, aw orker Expelled from Communist Party, Pledged Himself to Struggle for NEW YORK.—In a statement read 4o the workers’ at the mass trial on Sunday, at which he was expelled from the Communist Party for harboring white chauvinistic ten- dencies, August Yokinen fu admit- ted his error and pledged himself to on a relentless struggle for the rights of the Negro masses as @ pre- uisite (aid down req his re-admission to | some e when he should have proved hims¢ to be ready to lip service to the Yokinen’s | n the Commu- nst_ me by the in- inistic ideol- n connection ich utterances as, statement that I are to go into the Fin- with a Negro. Also the exclusion anish_ Work- of fear of institution hous¢ r the the obable decrease of in- eon the white workers if Ne- wed, showed plainly le was chauvinistic. that this attitude of ni a decidedly white chauvin- istic at de and the Communist » calling me to trial I see now th is not’ only y is correct ore the worker white chauvinism | BEN BOLOFF IS. GIVEN IO YEAR PRISON SENTENCE - Lumber Barons Charged Him With Syndicalism PORTLAND, Ore., March 3.—Ben Boloff, one of thirteen militant wot ers persecuted by the lumber inte: of the Northwest for their militant | activities was sentenced by Judge Bonham today to 10 years to the| Oregon Penitenciary under the “cri- | minal syndicaligt” act. This sentence is the maximum permitted undef that | law. Fred Walker, district organizer | of the Young Communist League, goes: on trial March 5th and will be de- fended by Irvin Goodman, attorney for the International Labor Defense. | The conviction and sentence of 10} years of Ben Boloff is the outgrowth | of a drive on all militant workers | participating in the working class/ struggle on the Pacific Coast. The} evidence against Boloff produced by | the state was the Communist Mani- | festo, The State and Revolution by | Lenin and copies of the Daily Worker. | The Witnesses against him were two | police stool pigeons and the immigra- tion inspector of the Oregon district. The International Labor Defense is{ mobilizing all workers on the Pacific) coast to mass protests against the | terror carried on by the ruling class and is holding huge outdoor meet- ings on the square close to the court | room while the trial of the thirteen workers is going on and the court} room is packed to the doors by work- ers listening to the “justice” handed out by the capitalist judges. On— What’s 61 Graham “Interna- | Alfred Levy Br. LL.D, ut $30 p,m. at Butiding Mntitennnes Workers’ Vales t& p.m, at 16 West 21st ard will submit plan of tion, Presence imperative, reorsan THURSDAY a 'St.,” Brooklyn, rganizational Problems Admission free. Harttie Carieble Br. 1.L.D. Meets at 6 p,m. at 108 14th St. Needle Trades speaker on the Strike. Report on Bazaar, , Plumbers and Helpers of Greater New York ay sant Casino, ut Sp. m, at Stuyve Ave. and ¢th A Lnglish Branch” No. 500 of the ” 1. W. 0, meets at 8:80 p.m.’ at Jewish Work- evk University, Room 202, 108 B.M4th St, Lecture on the “Aims and Ideals of the TUUL.” “Women in the Soviet Union” | Will-be the topic of a lecture to be delivered at 2700 Br, Park- East, Auditorium, at 8:30 p.m, Admission et Rihspeey ds Printing Workers Meet S p.m at 16 W. 2ist St, doxec, smmittee meets at 6:30 p.m, Came ‘ades must attend and should bring down a fellow worker, FRIDAY— Furniture Workers of New York le protest meeting to protest the expulsion of three. mil- itant members of local 76 WUpbole serers Union by the misleadérs of the local, Meet at 6 p,m. at 16 W. Bint, Bt. eee each | eh Park Workers Center 43rd St. meets at § p.m. Eng- li speak on the “Role of the Communist Press in Workers Strug- Frank Spector Br. ou meets ats’ p.m. at 6 Graham Aye, Eilyn Sympathizers welcome, _ |groes and for the solidarity of the 524 Vermont | rooklyn, if BS | Negro Rights an outrage against the Negro work- ers, ut is ig class as a whole. also a crime against the Especial; sors are sharpening their attacix inst the workers and are in every possible trying to divert the way working class from struggling against | the vicious attack upon their class organizations and their living stand- ard, it is becoming ever more im- portant for the workers to solidify the class solidarity of the Negro and white workers, | ‘The narrow clannishness that has been thrust upon the foreign-born workers of this country by the Amer- n imperialism, which utilizes the -bourgeoisie and its influence the minds of many of the upon workers, has, to a certain extent, led to an isolation of the Finnish as well as other foreign-born workers from the class struggle of the American workers, American imperialism uses this artificial separation éf the work- ers into groups to further split them from each other by spreading its Vicious doctrines of race and national | prejudices and by playing the Negro and foreign-born and American white workers all against each other At the fime of my white chauvin- istic statements, I was under the in- | fluence of these anti-Communit and | anti-proletarian ideas that are foisted upon us by the ruling bourgeoisie. het I do noi wish to bring out these | acts as an excuse for my conduct fe a, member of the Communist | y, I should have been a staunch st pporter of the line of the Party, h at all times and everywhere “abts resolutely against all forms of noungeois and national preju- jong the wovkers and against jen. I recogniz2. a that ttitude only served to give aid and comfort to all the agencies of the ruling class, such as the Fish etc. who are now eh- launching a vicious attack | ly against the foreign-born | g class and generally — he working class as a whole. I recognize that the vicious oppres- sion of the Negroes on the part of | the American imperialists, and the | fostering of the doctrines of race | hatred against Negroes among the white workers by the agents of the oppression, strengthens the whole} capitalist system of oppression and} enslavement. Therefore, the strug- gle of the Negroes for freedom is not | the struggle of the Negroes alone, | but of the entire working class, The white workers must be in the fore- front in the struggle of the workers | against all oppression in America. | I realize that my statements, di- | rected against Negroes, were anti- working class in their content. I re- | fute and condemn my previous atti- | tude, but at the same time I realize | that it is not enough to merely state | my complete break from my former attitude, but I want to prove in ac- tion that I no more have the slight- est white chauvinistic tendencies. I |ask this workers’ court not to de- prive me of the opportunity to fur- ther carry on my activity for the | Communist Party and for the work- ing class. I pledge myself to fight unflinchingly against all tendencies of white chauvinism among the workers, to fight for the social, polit- ical and economic equality of the Ne- working class as a whole. Fight lynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for protection of foreign born. (“Blossom Time” ~2vived atAmbasSador This week will see five productions on Broadway—four new plays and a revival of “Blossom Time.” They : “The Greater Love,” by Bruce Spaulding, at the Liberty Theatre, with Mary Hay Ueda the leading jance of the mass trial on Sunday imperialists in order to support that | 7 THE ADVENTURES Or BILL WORKER Ly Campane Youineh, You Have Been Found E =) GUILTY. BY A COMMUNIST Panty Juryor ({ waite CHAUVIN 5M, YOU AIRE EXPELLED From HE PARTY, Bras Re Re-aDmir7Een & | You aie TRoy WHITE CHAUWINISTIC ‘ ¥ Pe it m (Gon The FInnisit Be ) YORKER SS P CLUB To Water You NE Ww Y ORK, Ww EDN ESD: A MARCH 4 1931 Sov Shaw. STRUGGH For, THs, ADMITTANCE OF NEG KERS th Your CLuB. THE GRANTED FULL SHALL JOIN THe LeAcue -E™ OFS { = SL BE IVE CES. You STRUGGKE \_ NEGRO Ricncy (R YOU SHALL Seu) ‘o_OFEY THe LIBERATOR ihedbaaladetec hs —A Communist Trial — {You SHALL LEAD A DEMONSTRATION ASAINST A CERTAIN HARLEM RESTAURANT THAT BARS NEGROES You SHALL 7 TAKE A LEADING Paar (WALL. tom SCTIVITIES AIMED AT DoING (AWAY IWirit DISCRIMINATION /; Be AUy SoRT AGAINST Witt Do “You Demand. T Dip WRONG A Se By RYAN WALKER —— UMIOR, TWisH ALL | AEGROES WoULD REALIZE THAT ONLY! REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLEJOF NEGRO AND WHITE WORKERS. TOGETHER CAN DO AWAY WITH LYNCHIN AND OTHER FoRrAs ag : ERESS ‘Sauls Lass Sixteen Unemployment OPEN AIR MEETS Demonstrators Go On IN HARLEM TOD AY, Trial Today, Newark' NEWARK, N. J., March 3.—Sixteen | | sew of the Unemployed Council | of Newark, are coming up for trial | iTo Protest Arrest of Yokinen | ar NEW YORK.—To bring home to the workers of Harlem the signific- | ment demonstrations of January 7 | and January 28. MCKAY MILK DRIV-, ERS ONSTRIKE at which August Yokinen was ex- pelled from the Communist Party for holding chauvinist ideas, together with the attempt of the U. S. bosses to deport him following his admission | of guilt and his pledge to carry on the struggle for the unity of Negro and white workers, Section Four of the Communist Party is holding a eries of open air meetings in Har- lem today. Noon day meetings will be held at Right to Organize i NEW YORK.—Following a threat of wholesale firing, emphasized with 132nd Street and Lenox Ave., 130th| and Lenox, 126 and Lenox. These aan ee ee of hike of their | meetings will be held between 12 and | "Umber, the drivers of the McKay) 1 o'clock. Milk Company, at 1535 60th Street, I srookivn,. watt” on “etike yesterday In the evening there will be an- | other series of meetings at the fa. lowing corners, 125th and 5th Avenue, | joy | jobs. 114th and 5th Avenue. toe ae cineeee Gp 5 The meetings will serve also to rally | cate in! DRIER Cub CONE EE the masses for the defense of Yokinen | ae oak oe Ae eee who is now being persecuted by the again: heir own interests as work- | S. government because he has|°'S. 824 those of the strikers and| jected the poisonous race hatreq | their wives and little children. The pfopaganda of the bo: Wee blame the policy of firing all the old hands on a new manager, whose aim is clearly to terrorize the |Warns of a Renegade mn as a means to speed-up and | Fake Agency; wage-cuts, While the strikers were unorgan- Warns of A Renegade | 4 at the time of the walk-out, and NEW YORK—Speakers |might have been organized into a mil- | of the; ‘itant union for a real fight for their Down Town Council of the Unem- | demands, Local 584 of the Milk Wagin | ployed addressed about 600 outside! | Drivers Union of the A. F. of L. has of the Tammany fake employment jentered the situation and there is now | agency at Leonard and Church) Stave danger of a betrayal of the | Sts. Monday, held another meeting bale a Ae with the ee po- | yesterday, and some followed the|licies of the A. F. o of stifling speakers to the indoor meeting held jall protests and strikes of the work- later in 27 E. Fourth St. and joined | ingclass. the council. ‘The McKay Milk Company furnish- The Down Town Council warns|eS milk in the following sections: other unemployed councils andj Borough Park, Bensenhurst, Brighton | workers organizations against one “J. capes Bayridge, Coney Island and| Renault,” weight about 250, height 6| Flatbush. The men appeal to all feet two inches, and claiming to come | housewives and workers and to organ- | from Montana. This man, a former ized workers in particular in these member of the International arotter’ | sections to support the strike. stemotned coun and om me 21193] CALENDAR FREE! unemployed council, and. on Feb. 23 | took sorhe money from collection boxes used to raise funds for the |] Quotations from Marx, Lenin, ete., Albany march, and has disappeared, || i the first annual Daily Worker Yesterday the Down Town Coun- || Calendar for 1931. Free with six cil of the ufemploy ed led a demon- || ™onths subscription or renewal. stration at 56 Sheriff Street, and put back the furniture of Mrs. Wollack, who had been evicted. At last ac- coe the furniture was still in the lat. The usual meeting at 59 Leonard| Street and Church Street, the Tam- many fake employment agency, will be held today at 10:30 a. m. | demanding recognition of the union, | better conditions and security of their NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES SIDE—BRONX 1 hice EAST KO Smith Ballew The Down Town Council has alf “""gmes™ class each Wednesday, 8 to 9.20 p. m. FRANKUN in public speaking. There is a class KUN Prospects i6i5t each Thursday, 8 to 9.20 p. m. in English. All members of unemployed | council invited to attend. Youngsters of Yesterday Others vestigation Navy Dept. Cuts Pay; Senate Prepares Mass Wage Slashes Wage-cutting is getting heavy sup- port from the government. As the | this morning at 10 a, m. for leading | news comes in that the B. F. Good- and participating in the unemploy- | Tich Company, rubber manufacturers, | cut wages of all their workers ten | per cent, the report comes in from | Washington that the Navy Depart- |ment is going to embark on a wage- | cutting policy, On top of it all there ts the “in- of the high price of bread, milk and sugar, a deliberate | preparation for a real wage cutting | drive to effect all workers—those who ~ht Firin g, Demand, ae already had their wages cut and} ie few who haye thus far escaped. The Navy Department wage-cut- | ting drive takes place under instruc- | tions of President Hoover. What has become of Hoover's no wage-cutting | | Promise? Here is the real outcome. wage-cutting drive, and the ax has already fallen on workers in the navy yard. The methods used by the navy | yard, with full approval of Hoover, | are just the same as those used by the bosses in industry. The higher paid workers are fired. Workers are | re-hired at lower wages. One of the stand-pat arguments | of the bosses for cutting wages is that prices are falling and wages must come down. There has just ended an “investigation” by a Senate sub-committee into the retail prices of food. What did they find? Though the farmer gets less than ever for wheat, cotton, sugar, milk, etc., the work must pay just as much panies, as well as the small fry, have been keeping prices up. The Senate committee tried to protect the big packers and the big baking bosses, The government is taking up the} as ever before. The big baking com- | but they are interested in something | bigger. “They want the price of food }to come down to a slightly lower |level—to use it as an excuse for the bigger wage cutting drive to come. YONKERS TRIAL OFF TO THURSDAY YONKERS, March 3.—Mayor Fog- |arty and Commissioner Deviin today |tried to escape being questioned by the defense attorney in the trial to |railroad Weich and Walters to jail |for taking part in a demonstration | for unemployment relief. When court opened in the Wills Avenue court both jof these fakers were absent. They were afraid their role in the clubbing of unemployed workers demonstrating |against starvation would be brought lout by the International Labor De- | fense through its attorney. Chief of police Quirk could not so easily escape the trial as his office | happens to be in the same building. | |He tried to @rce through the trial | in the absence of Fogarty and Devlin, | but was nippe din the effort by At- | torney Kline for the I.L.D., who de- manded a postponement until the leading city fakers were prepared to testify as demanded by the LL.D. and | the workers of Yonkers. In the argument, Quirk objected to| the presence of workers in the court. He yelled out in court “They have too many rights as it is!” Judge Booth tried to stop him from too thoroughly exposing the capitalist system with the remark “Chief, it’s too bad there's AMUSEMENTS | | SEE AND HEAR First Full Account of the Trial ¥IRST SOVIET SOUND ) FIRST SOVIET SOUND FILM Party i in. Moscow EXPLANATORY Ti Testimonies of defendants, court procedure, speech eS the Prosecutor, demon- strations in the streets of Moscow and before the TH STREET PLAYHOUSE 58 WEST 8TH ST., Between Firth and Sixth Av of Industrial | ‘ourt building Spring 5095 HT Green Grow the Lilacs GUILD W. 62nd. Eves, 8:60 Mts. Th. & Sat. 2:40 LAST WEEK Elizabeth the Queen | Lynn Fontanne Alfred Lunt Terror Striking Dra- matic, Real! The German "Side of the -.+, By the “COMRADI be held on tomorrow, right after work, ~ "| Jay Fassett, Lilly Cahill and Geof- role. “Privilege Car,” a pees play by, | Edward J. Foran and Willard Keefe, which opens at the 48th St. Theatre. Lee Patrick, Harry Tyler and Claire Devine head the cast. The revival of “Blossom Time” will take place on Wednesday at the Ambassador Theatre. The operetta is based on the life of Franz Schu- bert and a book by Dorothy Don- (nelly and a score by Sigmund Rom- berg. The cast includes Gladys Bax- ter and Clifford Newdahl. “Success,” the new A. A, Milne play, opens on Wednesday at the Charles Hopkins Theatre. Sylvia Fields is the chief player. On Thursday evening the new Rachel .Crothers comedy, “As Hus- | bands Go,” will have its first show- ROMANY PLAYBOY Presents GYPSY BALL IN GREENWICH VILLAGE WEBSTER HALL |FRIDAY EVENING 119 EAST 11th STREE1| TICKETS IN ADVANCE $2.00-—AT DOOR $3.00 FROM PLAYBOY--32_UNION SQUARE ROMANY MARIE’S—42 WEST 8TH STREET Telephone STuyvesant 9-9687, Spring 7-7336 DANCING AT 10 COSTUMES OBLIGATORY—COME IN GYPSY COSTUME MARIE’S MARCH 6th ing at the John Golden Theatre. MELROSE DAIRY VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT Comrades Will Always Find It Pleasant to Dine at Our Place. 1787 SOUTHERN ig alt Bronx (near 174th St. Station’ TELEPHONE INTERVALE. 9—9149 fery Wardwell are in the cast. ROMANY MARIE’S GYPSY BALL | Romany Marie, whose Tavern in the Village is a rendezvous for ar- tists and writers, has announced her- self as sponsor for a costume ball to be given at Webster Hall on Friday Comrades are welcome to BORDEN’S 240 EAST 14TH STREET (Next to Labor Temple) Dairy-Vegetarian Lunch Room Home cooked food at reduced prices | ~ Alu Comraaea Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 5538 Cluremont Parkway, Bronx night. Marie is planning to bring the old crowd together for an evening reminiscent of the affairs of yester- year. Villagers will mingle with tribes of authentic Gypsies and a! Gypsy orchestra, alternating with a string orchestra, will furnish the music, vhone: LEHIGH 6882 ‘storpetional Barber Shop M, W. 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CORT THEATRE, West of 48th Stree Evenings 8:50, Mate, Wed, and Kat, 2:30 ORGANIZE TO END|| gpacts |” os tut ernezs”” STARVATION; DEMAND|| @3xRo0| “DRACULA” RELIEF! With BELA LUGOSI & ROOMS WANTED— THOSE COMRADES AND SYMPATHIZERS WHO CAN ACCOMODATE STUDENTS FOR THE NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL FROM THE SECOND WEEK OF MARCH (OR EARLIER) TO THE LAST WEEK OF MAY, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH IMMEDIATELY OR COMMUNICATE WITH THE WORKERS SCHOOL, 50 EAST 13TH STREET, SECOND Fur Workers to Meet Today in Webster Hall The United Front Rank and | Committee of Fur Workers is arrang- ing an open forum today at 2 p.m. jat Irving Plaza Hall to discuss the present. situation in the trade and| to expose the fake schemes of Kauf- | man, Stetsky and Sorkin to further | enslave the fur workers. { Rank and file speakers will address | the forum. ate | A general membership meeting of all locals of the Joint Council of the | International Fur Workers Union will at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th Street. All registered furriers are urged to come to this meeting and expose the maneuvers of Kaufman, Sorkin, Stet- | sky and Company are trying to lower | the standard of living of furriers still | more. DR. J. MINDEL Surgeon Dentist 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone: Algonquin 8183 Not connected with any other office Office Hours: A. M.-8 P. Fri. and Sun. by Appointment Dr. J. JOSEPHSON SURGEON DENTIST 226 SECOND AVENUE Nenr 14th Street, New York City ALgonquin 4-3712 Cooperators’ Patronize SEROY CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 BRONX, N. ¥. } a constitution.” | The case comes up again on Thurs- | day. All workers are urged to turn out in masses to defeat tne boss at- tempt to railroad Weich and Walters to jail for their working class acti- vities. a Eyes! Scientific Examination of eye glasses—Carefully adjusted by expert optometrists—Reason- able prices.” "‘OPTOMETRIST§-OPTICIANS. nal soan W.8is ST. Cor.106 tm Street ew 29 EAST 4TH STREET NEW YORK Tel. Algonquin 3356-8843 We Carry a Full Line of STATIONERY AT SPECIAL PRICES for Organizations RESTAURANTS Where the best food and fresh vegetables are served all year round 4 WEST 28TH STREET 37 WEST 32ND STREET 225 WEST 36TH STREET Comrades from Brownsville and East New York are Eating in the East New York Cafeteria 521 Sutter Ave., cor. Hinsdale St. fresh, good meals and reasonable prices ‘ 4 NEIGHBORLY PLACE TO EAT Linel Cafeteria Pure Food—100 per cent Frigidaire Equipment—Luncheonette and Soda Fountain 830 BROADWAY Near 12th Street ~ Patronize the Concoops Food Stores AND Restaurant 2700 BRONX PARK EAST “Buy in the Co-operative ¥FLOOR—TELEPHONE ALg. 4-1199—PLEASE SPECIFY MEN OR WOMEN COMRADES TO BE LODGED Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” Sy6nan Nevebunua DR. A. BROWN Dentist 80 EAST 14TH STREET (Corner Second Avenue) Tel. Algonquin 7248 Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12th and 13th Sts, Strictly Vegetarian Food HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVENUE Phone University 5865 Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with verre mo] where all radicals 302 E. 12th St. ele York We Invite Workers to the BLUE BIRD CAFETERIA GOOD WHOLESOME FOOD Fair Prices A Comfortable Place to Eat 827 BROADWAY Between 12th and 13th Sts. FOX’S NUT SHOPPE 123 EAST BURNSIDE AVENUE Tel. Raymond9—9340 One block west of the Concourse We carry a full line of Russian Candies “Every Fine Nut That Grows” CANDY NUTS GIFT arate Advertise Your Union Meetings Here, For Information Write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Department 50 East 13th St. New York City BUTCHERS’ UNION Local 174. A, MC. & BR, W. of N, A. Office and Headquarters: Labor ‘Temple, 243 Enst sith Street Room 12 Regular meetings every first and third Sunday, 10 A, M. Employment Bureau open every day at 6 P.M. Use your Red Shock Troop every day un your job, The next to you will help save the w sea Ne geen!

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