The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1931, Page 2

Page Fwo _ URGE MILITANT RANK AND FILE ACTION IN ACKERMAN LOCKOUT Amalgamated Clothing Workers Leadership Sanctions Lockout of 700 Workers Rank and File Committee Calls Tailors’ to Unite and Picket Shop (By a Worker oasoondent) NEW YORK.—Seven hundred workers employed by the | Simon Ackerman Clothing Co., controlled by the Amalgamated | sthing Workers of America, lence, have been locked out at and hunger. This loc er to help the boss put t workers The firm told the workers to “take your tools -out has received the sanction of the Hillman machine | | a company union par excel-| the merey of starvation, cold rough a wage-cut. While the have been locked out the firm and the officials of the| mion were in conference behind locked doors, and their pacts | CARPENTERS HIT DECREE TO CURB EMERGENCY MOVE, District Officials in Dissolution of Local 2090 Committee ‘The Left Wing Opposition of Car- penters Union, 2090, issued a state- ment yesterday denouncing the at- tempt of the New York District Coun- cil to remove all democratic rights within the union. The statement is addressed to the members of the local and reads: “The New York District Council has once more trampled upon the dem ‘atic rights of the membership. Se local unions that have set up an ency committee with the dea, ring the conditions of em) of bet the carpenters are threatened by the Council, who ne Carpen- | Di despots of the conduct th ters’ Union as if it were their pr ate property, consider this a “crime.” They have “decreed” the dissolution of that committee and imposed fines pon those part in it, among aem the ch an of Local Union 2090." Local Union 2090 and other locals ood should now stand ne action of the because it is not emergency com- cd because of not oniy a mittee having a militant program and tac- tic. Jt is a principle case. It is the the } s and the mem- ich we now have to defend nterference of the Dis- and the Hutcheson Ma- inst the ~ Council ie same time we must call the | 1 of the members that the sns should stand up for their ve of weak-kneed in- ly, Who having | of the radical District Council. Those aer against “radicalism” o defeat radicals” can not are not sincere towards the They are mere job holders, popularity for themselves wath militant talk, only to collapse when faced with a fight. We must stand against the treacherous ac- tions of }forrelly in this case, while @ the sjme time standing for the democratic rights of the locals, W labors Will Report Dee. 18, Brownsville, for Hunger March NW YORK.—Car! Winters, secre- tary of the Unemployed Council, will report on the National Hunger March Dec. 18 at 1813 Pitkin Ave., Brownsville. Winter wiil also speak at the Old Town Hall-in Jamaica soon. Per- mission to use this building was forced out of the Superintendent of Public Buildings by delegations from the Unemployed Council. Other meetings at which reports of the National Hunger Marchers will be heard are: 1.—Hempstead, Saturday, 8 p. m., at the Ukranian Progressive Home on Uniondale Ave. and Front St 2.—Hicksville. Sundey, 3 p. m., at the Ukrainian Hall, 57 Broadway. 3.—-Babylon, Sunday, 7:30 p. m., at the Ukrainian Hall 4.—Elmont, Sunday, 8 p. m., at the Finnish Hall, 83 Meacham Ave, E)- mont, L. T. What's On— SUESDAY Mosholy Youth Brauch, Will have a malgamated Co-operatiy: nson Ave. at 8 p.m. Special repre- tntatives of the LL.D, will be pres- t. All invited, oie eur . Communist Party, Unit 2, Section 2, © Next unit meeting will be held to- wight in the Workers’ Center, 35 i. ech St. 2nd floor, Roam 202, ) pm., sharp. at IPSDAY trownsyille Workers’ Club Wi! lecture on the Hunger March ide Blime at’ 118 Bristol St. Workers invited, ._ + # ‘Tremont Workers! Club da mandolin elass with Sokaloff as instructor at linton Ave, (near 180th St.), tration open for all. aR IC 1.W.0, Branch, No, Sat Will hay: lecture and discussion ou the urfan Situation” at its reguler ing at § p.m, at 569 Pros- VICTORY MASS ‘Frame-Up of Four by | Taub carried on the fight in General haye been kept in strict secrecy as | those of the Hoover-aval, Hoover- Grandi pacts for war upon the work- ing class. There is one thing positive that the workers know and is clear to everyone, that behind the closed door Hillman agreed to help the firm starve the 700 workers until they will be forced to accept the wage-cut and reorganization plans of the boss. The work of Simon ‘and Ackerman is led shops and, to be specific, the work is being made at Hyman and Berg- men and at the shop located at 500} Driggs Ave., Brooklyn. When the | workers of Hyman and Bergman pro- | tested and refused to scab on their | brothers, Mr. Jackson and Catalan- otte told their “either do the work and keep quiet or you will be fired from your job.” The workers of the Simon and Ackerman together with the workers of all other shops must unite under the leadership of the Rank and File Commitee for a determined struggle against the boss and the Hillman ma~- chine who are responsible for the mis- ery of the tailors. The lockout must be turned into a strike, by placing pickets in front of the shops whether Hillman and Pack- son like it or not, and to stop the firm from manufacturing the work in other shops. Get in touch with the Rank and File Committee, 83 East 10th St., N.Y. C. Organize a Rank and Pile Shop Group. Picket the shop over the head of the Amalgamated leadership. Pre- pare the forces of the rank and file Amalgamated workers to participate in the United Front Conference which will be a real mobilization of the men’s clothing forces for the struggle against wage cuts, and reorganization. MEETING DEC. 16 Garveyites Smashed NEW YORK.—For three days the International Labor Defense with its attorneys J. Buitenkant and Allen Sessions Court to free the four Negro workers framed up by the Garvey misleaders and police last spring on robbery charges. During the course of the trial it developed very clearly that the basis for the accusations was the campaign of exposure carried on by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights against the Garvyites as misleaders of the Negro masses. It was brought out many times that Garvey reformists. with the help of the police, broke up many Scottsboro protest meetings in Harlem. In the summation of the trial Grant_was exposed as a liar, and a faker by Jacques Buitenkant. So brazen were the lies of Grant that after the jury brought in the verdict of not guilty, several jurymen recom- mended to Buitenkant that Grant be arrested on charges of perjury. Mass Meeting to Celebrate, On Wednesday night, December 16, @ mass meeting to celebrate the victory will be held in the Lafayette Hall in the Harlem section and at the same time begin mass activities for the defense of the Scottsboro boys whose appeal will come before the Alabama Supreme Court on January 18th. All organizations are urged to help make this meeting a success and a beginning of a new campaign for the defense of the Bcottsboro boys and for a general amnesty of all pol- itical prisoners. Jailed Taking Tinsel, Mcther of Four Tries toTake Her Own Life WORCESTER, Mass.—Because she took a few tinsel things for her four children for Christmas and was ar- rested for shoplifting, Mrs. Anna V. Alatkas, 42, was driven to despond- ency and tried to hang herself using her scarf. Mrs. Alatkas, mother of four small children, and whose husband has been unemployed for a long time, tried to take a few things as orna- ments for Christmas trees and socks to make the holidays for her children more than a bleak, hungry occasion, Detectives trailed Mrs. Alatkas and arrested her. Arraigned before court Mrs. Alatkas told of the fact that her husband is unemployed for months, and that she could not bear to think her children would not have some sort of toy on Christmas. Will have a very important mem- being made in other Hillman control- | | DAIL iy WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1931 [5,000 D. W. SUB! |WILL HELP SMASH WAGE CUT DRIVE! The need for getting the }of new masses of wo | time. | bosses and the A. F. | On the other hand, the magnificent success last Sunday of the National Miners’ Union district convention in Pine- Ky., and the rousing weleome given the returning Marchers show United States are stiffening their resistance to the bosses’ Not enough effort is being made to get the Daily Worker into the hands of these and thousands of other | workers facing mass wage cuts and hunger. ville, National Hunger attacks. | solidly behind the drive. Spe mobilizing sec | days have Eleven more workers of the Daily Worker Group. starting to come. strengthen the workers’ cut catnpaign. tions. starvation offensive, kers was never greater “than at this A new wage cut campaign is being planned by the of L. misléaders. has begun with the railroad workers. So far only Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland are getting tions and units and setting quotas. already been held and readers’ conferences have swelled the ranks of the Daily Worker subscription army. have just joined the Detroit Friends Workers, readers, Daily Worker agents, help unite and struggles against the new wage Join the drive for 5,000 12-month subscrip- Set a quota for yourself, for your Unit, for your Section, for your mass organization. Get into the fight, raise the percentage of your Dis- trict, and help smash the bosses’ new brutal wage cut and NEW Daily Worker into the hands This new wage cut that the workers of the jal bulletins have been issued Red Sun- Money and subscriptions are BRITISH TARIFFS SPUR TRADE WAR Struggle Develops with French Industry The closing of the first session of the new parliament for Christmas re- cess, finds Great Britain in a worse position than before. The election campaign was waged on the basis of a tariff that would keep obt foreign foods and so develop home industry. In five weeks 34 tariff orders were issued including 100 per cent tariffs on foods. What has resulted is an extreme sharpening of the struggle between the various imperialist pow- ers whose trade is affected by these tariffs and the dropping of the pound to $3.31. Soon after England went off the gold standard France put a 15 per eent tariff on all goods coming from countries whose money had dropped in value. This was a direct blow against England since Argentina, who had also gone off thee gold standard, was exempted. England protested that her coal trade would be hard hit, but France hasn't bothered to answer yet. England followed with the above mentioned 100 per cent duty on food- stuffs, which stopped French imports to the sum of $65,000,000. The New York Times admits that a “tariff war with France is on.” So do the English politicians who are taking the next step towards another kind of war. A member of the British parliament is quoted as saying that “We will put on a tariff of public opinion which requires no law and is in conflict with no commercial trea Tn other words, British capital is going to con- vince the English workers that the French are “huns and barbarians and responsible for all our ills.” LOCAL 9 CLIQUE RUNS SPEAKEASY NEW YORK —While the Local 9, I. L. G. W. election was going on ‘Thursday the left-wing members dis- covered some facts which prove that those workers who think that the fake “progressives” and their col- leagues, the Lovestoneites, have no spirit. are in great error. During the elections a speakeasy was discovered which proves, on the contrary, that they had plenty of spirits. Credit for this discovery is due to the left wingers. The left wingers of Local 9 found out on the day of the elections that at 82 EF. Seventh St. there is a speakeasy where people are being taught to vote, from where they are sent to the poiling place where the voting. is going on. The left wingers immedi- ately went to Seventh St. and found that at this number there is an empty store which the administra- tion of Local 9 had hired for one day. Plenty of booze of the real genuine kind was found there, and throughout the entire day herds of people were brought there in auto- mobiles, where they took # sip and received a valuable lesson in how to vote, From there they were imme- diately taken to Stuyvesant Casino. Baldwin O. K’s It. A number of the left wingers went to protest to Roger Baldwin, who was called in by the gang as a so-called “impartial supervisor.” The left wingers demanded that the election should be nullified. The Schlesinger gang of the local were very indignant over teh fact that the fake “progressives” had learned the speakeasy business from them, and they also joined in the protest. Bald- win agreed that this practice was worse than Tammany Hall, but. he stated that it was only a “moral of- fense” and therefore decided that the counting of the votes should con- tinue and that the election will be declared void only if the adminis- stration is elected by a small min- ority. Later in the afternoon the Schlesinger clikue completely with- drew from the election. Despite all this fraud and speak- bership meeting at 1384 Southern pect Ave, ALL workers invited. bs Blvd. at 8:30 p.m. ! easy business, the left wing slate, 96 GROUPS MEET ON IRISH TERROR Plan Protests Against Trish Free State On Sunday* representatives of 96 Irish organizations met at the Penn- sylvania Hotel to draft plans for a determined fight against the reign of terror instituted by the Irish Free State recently. Included in these or- ganizations were the Clan Na Gael, Irish Republican Army, the Irish Workers Republican Alliance and L. W. C. All the county organizations and some sport clubs had their dele- gates. Although some of the leaders of these organizations tried to confine the protests to an indoor meeting, the sentiment of the majority of the delegates was in favor of militant picketing demonstrations in front of the Trish and British consulates. A committee was appointed with dele- gates from all these organizations to meet next Sunday at the I. R. A. Hall, 66th St. and Columbus Aye., to decide what should be done. The conference last week unanimously voted to withdraw all advertisements from a catholic weekly in America which denounced the “Irish Radi- cals.” "The outlawing of all working class organizations in Ireland and the ban- ning of the revolutionary press should meet with tremendous militant pro- test on the part of Irish workers in America. The officers of all these organizations should be told that there is to be no soft pedeling, that mass demonstrations are to be planned. Women’s Council Aids Meat Strike ‘The Women’s Council of Boro Park is assisting the Butchers Section of the Food Workers Industrial Union in its fight against an injunction. The Council members succeeded in get- ting the workers out of the shops and to an open-air meeting after picket- ing was banned. Here ‘the lawyer of the bosses threatened to arrest the speaker for violating the injunc- tion. This having no effect, the gangsters were called in to smash the f'| workers‘ heads with blackjacks, De- spite these vicious attacks that have been taking place, the Council pledges its continued aid to the strikers and asks other workers’ organizations in the malubberbont to do the same. Hunger March Film to Be Shown Sunday; Gives Full History NEW YORK.—The official moving picture of the Hunger March, filmed and photographed by the Workers Film and Photo League of the Work- ers International Relief, will be shown at tSar Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., Sunday, December 20, at 1:30 p. m, Police attack and mass welcome from tens of thousands of cheering, roaring workers, demonstrations of unperalleled size and militancy, from San Francisco to Washington, every important detail will be shown. The historic seene at the eapitol where the Red Front Band played the In- ternationale and the workers shouted for unemployment insurance while cordons of police aimed machine guns and sawed-off shot-guns with trigger fingers tense, the barricaded White House, the sympathetic thousands who gathered in solidarity with the marchers—not a point has been missed. Workers’ clubs, mass organizations, unions and unorganized workers are urged to come, Get tickets for your- self and your friends at the Workers International Relief, 16 West 21st St., in advance, votes counted from the uptown dis- trict, the left wingers are heading especially in the executive board, is the sete Printers Defeat Move to Stop Pay Increase NEW YORK.—The rank and file of the Big Six Typographical Union at a meeting of the membership in Cooper Union, Dec. 13, voted against a moratorium on the $1 increase in wages for the job printers which was provided in the last contract signed by the union, thus defeating the plan of the union bureaucrats and the bosses to break the printers’ agreement. Good response was given to a let- ter from the Printers League which was read on the floor calling for a defeat of the moratorium. The chief advocate of the moratorium was Ed, Cassidy, the well known socialist. He proposed that the printers vote against the increase in pay because business is leaving the city. Several printers who took the floor scored socialist Cassidy, pointing out that this was the same argument the bosses were using to cut wages of workers in all industries. TAILORS TO HEAR OF DEC. 7th MARCH Charge Hillman Robs Unemployed Funds Three tailors, members of the Amalgamated Rank and File Com- mittee, and New York delegates to the National Hunger March, Decem~- ber 7, will report on the march and the struggle for unemployment insur- ance, especially as it effects the men’s clothing workers at a meeting Tues- day, December 15, 11 a. m., at the Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. The delegates will tell of the fur- ther struggle for unemployment in- surance and how to organize to make Hillman pay the jobless tailors re- lief from the funds he is now using for his own purposes. A leaflet issued to men’s clothing cutters by the Unemployed Cutters Committee charges that the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers officials rob the unemployed funds assigned for unemployed relief of members of the union. “The funds although assigned to relieve the suffering jobless are being used by the “white slate ad- ministration” with an attempt to corrupt individual cutters and take advantage of their misery and starvation, in order to get them to support the present clique which is not in any way better than the ousted Beckerman-Orlofsky gang. “Since Hillman, through his agents, took charge of the affairs of the Cutters’ Local 4, nothing has changed for the better, on the con- trary conditions are becoming more unbearable,” the leaflet says in part. The Unemployed Cutters Commit- tee then demands that all funds assigned for unemployed relief be turned over to a real rank and file cutters committee that would admin- ister the fund. Comrade Kniazick Dies of Sickness Funeral to Be ~ Held Today at Noon Solomon Kniazick, 40, 514 Hopkins Ave. Brooklyn, a charter member of the Communist Party and active in the revolutionary trade union and fraternal moyement, died Sun- day, December 13, 1931, 4 p. m., after an illness of a year’s dura- tion. Kniazick was a member of the Painters Union (A. F. of L.) Local 905 and 2 member of the Interna- tional Workers Order, Branch 25, as well as a member of the national executive committee of the order. Comrade Kniazick’s body is now lying In state at the headquarters of the Trade Union Unity League at5 5 East 19th St. The funeral will be held from this office today at noon. George Siskind and J. Zack will be the chief speakers at the funeral today. Comrade Kniazick is survived by a wife and two children, STALIN AND GORKY PICTURES IN RUSSIAN NEWS REEL AT CAMEO. “Struggle For Life,” the first’ mo- running very high, According to the! tion picture of animals and nature to come from the Moscow studios, is now being shown at the Cameo Thea- tre. Several interesting Russian short films, ineluding the famous tight- rope walker of Uzbec, and an exclu- sive camera interview with Maxim Gorki and Joseph Stalin, will be in- cluded on the program. New reduced prices are now in effect, with the showing of this Amkino film. CARMON SPEAKS TODAY, Walter Carmon, editor of the New Masses, will lead a discussion on the Hunger Merch to Washincton, today, 11 a. m. at 108 East 14th St., Room 204. Night Workers are specially invited. WHITE PLAINS Workers—Nature Lovers ATTENTION! First Meeting and Entertainment of the Nature Friends, Inc. in White Pt Tuesday, Dec. 15, 0 P.M. Moosehart Hall 85 Main Street BD \ adminnion charge—you're the guest | Kves,, “1 NEW YORK.—When the- delegation from the United Front Committee for Preparing a United Strike of All Dressmakers, under rank and file leadership and including members of the International Ladies Garment Workers, of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union, and the unor- ganized dressmakers, came to the Committee of 25 of Local 22, I. L. G. W. They proposed the following pro- gram. The Committee of 25 refused to consider it, and the program is now made public with an appeal to all dressmakers to support it. It reads: ae soll: “The United Front Conference of shop delegates held at Webster Hall November 28th, authorized our com- mittee to come to the members of Local 22 to propose a program on the basis of which to unite all the dress- makers in the shops in preparation for a real strike in the dress in- dustry under rank and file leadership. “The conditions in the dress in- dustry during the past few years, as a result of the artifical division created in the ranks of the workers by the officials of the International, have been reduced to an intolerable state where it has become absolutely impossible for any worker in the dress industry to earn a bare living. The low wages, long hours, and mis- erable sweat shop conditions are con- tinuotsly being worsened with result- ant mass unemployment, misery and starvation for the dressmakers. “It is becoming more evident that so Jong as the ranks of the dress- makers are divided into hostile camps, there can be no real struggle to im~ prove the conditions of the workers and to organize the thousands of Negro, Spanish, Italian and young workers who haye come into the trade in recent years, “The experiences of the dressmakers during the past few years have dem- onstrated that conditions cannot be improved through fake strikes en- gineered by the bosses together with the leaders of the International, and that the strike conducted by the In- dustrial Union to improve the con- ditions of the workers did not em- brace a broad enough mass of workers to bring about a change in the con- ditions of the vast majority of the dressmakers. “Both the agreements of the In- ternational and the Industrial Union expire at the beginning of the next season, and the bosses under the excuse of ‘hard times’ will attempt to even further reduce the conditions of the dressmakers. Must Get Unity “The shop delegate conference, after thoroughly discussing the sit- uation, has come to the conclusion that every effort must be exerted to bring about unity in the ranks of the workers as the first pre-requisite for a rea] struggle to improve the con- ditions of the dressmakers and do away with the long hours, low wages, misery and starvation in the dress trade. “The committee authorized by the shop conference came to the mem- bers of Local 22 with this program for unity. The mass response that the committee received shows that the members of Local 22, just as the thousands of dressmakers outside of the International, realize that only through unity and a strike under the rank and file leadership can we hope to. improve our conditions, “The administration of Local 22 whieh was forced by the pressure of the workers to admit our committee, has not permitted the workers pre~- sent to discuss the united front pro- gram and has shifted this most im- portant matter to a committee, thus proving that the admission of our committee was merely a manouever and not a sincere desire to bring about unity in the ranks of the dressmakers. “Judging by the previous actions of the administration, it is evident that they will seek through all sorts of Program of Dressmakers’ United Front Published schemes to evade the real issue. The United Front Committee, therefore, places before you and the members of Local 22 our concrete program for bringing about unity in the ranks of the dressmakers so that we can im- mediately proceed with the prepara- tions for the strike. “L.—We propose that a committee of 25 rank and file members of the International, a committee of 25 from the Industrial Union, and a eommit- tee of 25 of the United Front Com- mittee should immediately get to- gether in conference for the purpose of working out plans for calling = shop delegate conference represen- tatiive of the members of the Inter- national, the members of the Indus- trial Union and the unorganized workers. “2,That at this shop conference a broad rank and file committee be | elected whose purpose it shell be te immediately undertake a mass pre>- aganda and organizational campaign in preparation for the strike, = ‘This Committee proceeds to organize untied front strike commit- tees in all the shops elected by all workers, whose purpose it shall be to unite all the workers, irrespective of their political views or opinions, ir- respective of their union affiliations, in preparation for the strike and for immediate united front struggle against wage cuts, “4.—That the committee to prepare the strike shall propose demands which shall be widely discussed with the workers in the dress industry and to lead up to a huge mass conference where the strike machinery wiil- be organized on the basis of a real united front of all workers. “5.—That immediately after the strike is declared by the rank and file strike committee, this committee be broadened out into a mass strike com- mittee representative of all striking shops. This committee to have com- plete supervision of the conduct of the strike and the settlement. “It is only on the basis of these proposals that a real united front strike for better conditions can be or- ganized in the dress industry. This so-called rank and file committee cannot replace a real united front committee elected by all workers for preparation of the strike, This so- called rank and file committee is not elected by all workers, but nominated by the leaders and includes the leadership. This so-called rank and file committee has as its aim to cover the resistance of the leaders against the developing of ‘the strike and to awaken illusions among the workers that these leaders are ready to de~ yelop and lead the strike, and that this so-called rank and file commit- tee is brought to life for the purpose of carrying on a united front policy in the coming strike. Only a com- mittee which will be elected by all workers, without consideration for political and trade union affiliations, and also unorganized workers, on the basis of a real united front, will be able to correctly prepare and lead the strike to victory. The workers who are members of the so-called rank and file committee should understand the intention of the leaders and fight against leaders for a real united front policy and for building up a real united front committee of rank and filers. “In making these proposals, the United Front Committee has no po- litical aims in view. It was organized for one purpose, it has one aim and purpose; to wipe out the artifical di- vision in the ranks of the workers, to unite the dressmakers, to turn over the leadership of the strike into the hands of the rank and file so as to make possible a real strike for union conditions which will lead to the building of one powerful union to include all the dressmakers.” Soviet “Forced Labor”’—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! AMUSEMENTS THE THEATRE GUILD presents HUGENE O'NEILL'S Trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra Composed of 3 plays presented on 1|day HOMECOMING, THE HUNTED THE HAUNTED Commencing at 5:80 sharp. Dinner tn- termission of one hour at 7, No Mats. GUILD THEA., 524 St, W. of Brway The Theatre Guild Presents REUNION IN VIENNA A Comedy .By ROBERT E. SHERWOOD. Martin Beck 3o ee Eve, 8:40 Mats,Thurs,&Sat.2:40 The Group Thea, Presents 1931— By CLAIRE & PAUL SIF'TON Under Auspices of Thea, Guild MANSFIELD Wosipray” Eves 8:30 Mats.Thurs.& Sat.2:30 COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW Plymouth 2he*,.) rs. PHILIP MERIVALE IN CYNARA ITH Henry Phoebe STEPHENSON FOSTER ALLEN EVERYBODY'S WELCOME with The new musical comedy hit, FRANCES WILLIAMS, OSCAR SITAW, ANN PENNINGTON. HARRIETT LAKE saver ‘Thea, 44th St. ve, 5:30, Mats, Wed, & A SENSATIONAL INNOVATION! A new type of nature film from U.S.S,R ‘KILLING TO LIVE’ A drama of animals as they struggle for food and By With ELMER RICE PAUL MUNI 1» W. 45 St. er 8120 2:20 Adriane MOROSCO THEA,, 45th W. of B’way, 8145, Mats, Wed. & Sat, 2130 existence. —Russian News Reel— Close-up bedi 5 a Stalin and © CAM E "Gnd STREET & BROADWAY Bib went tPPODROME 05 | & 43rd St, BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK BKU RAYMOND FLAYS | MUSTE IN CIVIC | CLUB MEETING Warns Edison Workers Against Socialists and Independents NEW YORK.—“You are out of or- der”. This was the answer of A. J, Muste, chairman of a so-called Edison employees protest meeting at Civic Club Thursday night, when Harry Raymond, representative of the “Daily Worker”, who took the floor in support of the struggles of the Edi- son workers, launched into a scathing expose of the reactionary role of the’ socialists who are posing as friends and saviors of the working class in their struggle against wage-cuts and unemployment. Raymond took the floor in the dis- cussion which followed a report by Rey. Eliot White of the Civil Liberties Union on the brutal slugging and maltreatment which he received from the Edison Electric thugs December 2 while distributing leaflets to the Edison workers in Brooklyn. He pointed out that the attack in Brook- lyn was not merely a fracas, as Rev. White describes it, but an integral part of the class struggle, and that the attack was organized by Matthew S. Sloan, president of the company and member of Hoover's fake jobless relief comimttee, and was part of the Hoover hunger program against the workers, But when Raymond spoke of the role of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, exposing at the same time the betrayals of the socialists and so-called middle road groups, and called on the work- ers and intellectuals present to take their stand with the Communist Party and the revolutionary unions, Muste called him out of order and gave the floor to a representative of the Y. M. C. A. The Communist Party and the T. U. U. L,, in supporting the struggles of the Edison workers warns them against such smooth labor betrayers as A, J. Muste whose agents, Carl Holderman, John Edelman and Lou's Budenz, recently sold out the hosiery workers to a wage-cut of 35 to 50 per cent. The building of rank and file shop committees under the lead- ership of the revolutionary unions is absolutely necessary at this time to smash the terror of the bosses and defeat any betrayal attempted by Muste or his henchmen. | MASS PAGEANT For Daily Worker Affair Jan. 1) REHEARSAL: FRIDAY, DEC. 18, 8 P. M. WORKERS CENTER, 35 E. 12 ST. We need hundreds of Players! Come and help! Bring your whole organization along! Intern’] Workers Order. DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personsl Gare of DR, JOSEPHSON Phone: Dry Dock 4-4523 Harry Stolper, Ine. OPTICIANS — Eyes Examined 73-15 CHRYSTIE STREET Cor. mn CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue O1-2-7584 BRONX, N. ¥. SOLLIN'’S RESTAURANT 216 EAST 14TH STREET 6-Course Lunch 55 Cents Regular Dinner 65 Cents MELROSE DAIRY 5, BESTAURANT poe ae yt AE 1187 SOUTHERN mes Brenz (pear W74th St. TELEPHONE. INTERVALE. O-0140 Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Ret ith and 13th Sts. 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