The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1932, Page 2

Page Two Bosses, Professional Scabs Bread Strike i: DAILY WORKER, Appear in Court to Help _ Brighton Served Kaufman Get Injunction NEW YORK, March 14.—Supporting Kaufman, A. F. of L. leader of the scab furriers union, at the hearing yesterday | Mass Kaufman is attempting to get} an injunction to restrain the rank and file Furriers Joint | Board from leading struggles against wage-cuts and for union | in the Supreme Court where 7 CLEANERS AND DYERS CALLED ON TO ORGANIZE NEW YORK.—The victory in the Berger Service Shops a week ago sets an example of what the workers in the cleaning and dyeing trade are able to do once organized and given correct and honest leadership. After a strike lasting not more than 48 hours the workers of this shop forced the boss to concede to alttheir demands. The rest of the workers in the trade must prepare to follow suit. An organization com- mittee is tctively engaged in lining up the workers from various shops. At a meeting held last week a few hundred workers enthusiastically ac- cepted the proposals as outlined by the organizational committee. An executive committee of 11 was elected which at once set to work out plans for future activities, he eu organizational committee points out that sporadic strikes are breaking out daily in the shops of workers rebelling against the condi- tions imposed by the bosses and sup- ported by labor misleaders. The soli- darity and unity of the workers in these strikes are so strong that they rise above the attempts to break the strikes. hese individual actions are d by a strong supporting , the bosses use many tricks and the committee set up dur- n disintegrate. y our ranks in the st organizational com- | mitiee nite in strong organiza- tions of our. own, which, with the support of the rank and file of other organizations in other industries, we defend the victories won and| inst the bosses’ atac worker in the trade must ht into the ranks of this or- Let us all a powerful or- resist the at- ecmmittees, call upon the organiza- tion committee for advice, speak’ to your in the For fur- ther information call 5 E. igsth at F, &. U. General lMeeting Called for Wednesday NEW YORK, — The tasks of the F. S. U. in the Anti-War Campaign and also the sending of 50 workers to the Soviet Union on May First (which is part of the Anti-War Cam- paign), will be taken up at a general membership meeting, to be held for the F. S. U. Manhattan Branches, the Downtown Branch, East Harlem, Harlem International and Morning- side Branches, on Wednesday eve- ning, March 16th at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place at 8 p.m At the Anti-War Conference, held on Sunday, all the organizations showed their willingness to co-operate with tie F. S.U. in carrying on work for the Defense of the Soviet Union. ANY $1.50 OR $1 INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS BOOK WITH ONE 12-M\)NTH SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DAILY WORKER Whai’s On— TUESD4’~ % Comrade Zack Taylor will speak at the open forum of the Alteration Paint ronx’ Section, at 1325 Southern Blvd. near Freeman St.| station, Bronx, at 10 a.m, Pair of woman's gloves f ay night at the New Harlem Cai Owner may have them by calling at the District Office of the Dally Worker, 35 EB. 12th Bt. fifth floor. ‘The Dramatic Group of the LwW.0. Youth Section will hold a rehearsal at the Work- ers’ Center, 50 W. 13th St, at 8 p.m, All workers and students are invited, The Dance Group of the 1.1V.0. Youth will reliearse at 63 E. Uth St, under the Girection of Lily Mehiman, | All young workers are in\ ted. The Washington Heights Branch of the Youth Section of the (W.O. will meet 41 W. 177th St. A discussion on current topics has been ardruged Comrade Leitner will speak at the Night Workers’ Open Forum on “The Situation In Germany” at 108 8. With Bt. at Admission is free and’ everybody is wel: come. WEDNESDAY The Alfred Levy Branch of the [.L.D. will hold its regular meeting at 403 Penr sylvania Ave, Brooklyn, at & p.m All hospital workers are urged to attend h a special meeting at 8 p.m. at 108 F. 14t 3 The Hurry Sinimy Branch of the LL.D, will have an open forum wt 5420 ith Ave Brooklyn, 30 pan. The subjec' mune. An open forum and discussion on, the | | tub | | politieal activity of the club and the bulletin will be held at the Prospect Work- 1187 Southern Bivd, at 8 p.m. are invited, ers’ Club, All wor! There will be an open forum at ‘Tremont Workers’ Club, 2075 Clinton Ave Bronx, at 8 p.m. All workers are invited. Admission free. Council of Working Class Women, Coun. ells 4, 6, 13 and 14, will have a lecture a! 4 G Brooklyn, at 8:30 pu Comrade Levin will “The Rol War." Ave., Emanuel of the Press 2 p.m will be the Gist anniversary of the Paris Com- the | speak on in the Coming conditions were three bosses and two professional scabs. The first witness to take the stand was the manager fo the J. Fox Fur Co. He testified that his company was satisfied with the company union because the union cooperated with company in the recent fur strike by helping them get out an injunction against picketing and bringing about “law and order” in the fur trade. In the cross examination of Sil- verman, one of the scabs on the payroll of the J. Fox Co. it was brought ont that he was hired three | days after the fur strike was de- clared and that throughout the strike he stayed on the street, pro- | voking fights. Silverman admit- | ted that he was sent to break the | | strike by the Kaufman unino, | | Kessler, a fur shop owner, next | | took the stand and complained that | the Needle Trades Industrial Union | had declared a strike and stopped his shop. He said that he had an agree- ment with Kaufman and that he} | was satisfied with the company un-} ion, He said he never had any| trouble with the company union. — | | When asked about conditions by J. | Buitenkant, the attorney for the rank | | and file joint board, Kessler refused | to answer. The Judge was then} | forced to withdraw Kessler from the} jstand when he refused to answer | questions concerning shop conditions. | Buitenkant in the meantime pointed } out that there were no union condi- | tions in the shop. | I. Calken, another fur boss support- | ing Kaufman, admitted on cross ex- | amination that there were no union! conditions in his shop. He said that | the workers did not get paid for over- | time and that he made the furriers| | work over 40 hours. Chalken com- | | plained bitterly against the Needle| Trades Workers Industrial Union. He | | said the Industrial Union had called the workers on strike and had tied | up his shop. | one Grossman, there were no union conditions in his shop despite the |agreement with | Kaufman. He said he was satisfied | many open-air | Twenty workers were The last boss to take the stand was | who admitted that | with Injunction Meeting Wed. ght Called by fled: | NEW YORK.—A sweeping injunc- tion has been issued by Judge Faw- | cet. in Supreme Court against the | Brighton Beach bread strike, in face | of wide protest and the petition of | 3,000 consumers of -Brighton pre- |sented in court. The high court | faithfully carried out the desires of S law giver, the bosses. he International Labor Defense has called a mass meeting for Wed- | nesday, March 16, at 8 pm., at the | Ocean Parkway Hall, 3034 Ocean | Parkway, to take upva fight against | the injunction. Fill the hall on Wed- | nesday and show the bosses that the injunction holds no fear for the working-class, Injunctions have been | issued« before by desperate bosses and | have been smashed. At 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon the injunction was served on the picket- | ers’ line and at the same time cops | broke up the line. Mamie Shick, a | housewife, rallied the line again and was arrested. Mrs. Rice and E. Luf- tig were arrested in front of the Sea Lan Bakery. In the patrol wagon, Luftig was slugged. On Saturday a huge parade and meetings had been hel dagainst the injunction, arous- ing th esection to fight against the new move of the bosses. tried in Coney Island Court yesterday on numerous framed-up charges. Gus- sie Ganick, a housewife, was sen- tenced to two days. The court was jammed and the judge feared to hand out more sentences, and, in a maneu- ver to avoid the mass pressure, post- poned sentencing Berthal Marcus, Anna Kaplan and Esther Baxer until Saturday. Ethel Baxer was framed by Jennete Josephs, the wife of a Democratic politician. The balance of the cases were postponed until March 28. Jam the court again on Saturday. Stop the railroading of these militant workers, A. F. of L. Officials | Pull Guns onWorl-ers a hand| with the Kaufman union and was| | bitterly opposed to the Industrial | Union. | day in the Supreme Court building. se ee Furriers To Demonstrate Today Today at noon the fur workers will cemonstrate against the injunction in the fur market. The meeting will be held at 29th St. and 7th Avenue. Ben Gold will speak on the injunc- tion and the furriers organizational drive. The 10 furriers who were jailed on the picket line yesterday were re- leased on suspended sentences. Fhe | trial of Ben Gold which was called | for yesterday was postponed until March 24. Dressmakers Call Shop Conference The Dressmakers United Front | Strike Committee is preparing for a shop conference to be held March | 26. All block and building commit- tees from 36th and 37th Streets will meet tonight after work in the hall of the Industrial Union. Tomorrow the block and building committees of 26th Street will meet at the same time. Unemployed dressmakers will meet. |in the United Strike Hall today at | ten o'clock a.m. All active workers {on the United Front organization committee will meet tomorrow in the office of the union. This meeting will take place after work in the evening. | 9 Jailed For Two Days | The Rabbit Fur workers, under the leadership of the Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union have open- ed an extensive campaign against wage-cuts throughout the fur market. The bosses in order to terrorize the workers have jailed nine of the most | militant strikers in Brooklyn. The court has given each of these work- ers two days in jail. The furriers pledged to answer this jailing by bringing greater masses of /furriers into the struggle. Denouncing. the company union, Kaufman and all the A. F, of L. lead- | ers as agents of the bosses, the work- ers in two shops in Jersey City which were controlled by the Kaufman gang joined the Needle Trades Industrial | Union. Ir Boston Dress Strikers \Settle 10 Shops in United Front Strike | BOSTON, Mass., March 15. — | |The United Front Strike of cloak | ana aressmakers torges steadily ahead with the strike gaining new |support and winning substantial | victories. | | Picketing was strong throughout | |the day yesterday and to date 10, |shops have settled with the Uni-| |ted Front Strike Committee. All | | the settlements guarantee better wages and improved working con- | | ditions. | The International Ladies Gar- | |ment Workers officials, who ,re- | \cently sold out a section of the | |dress and cloak makers, through |a fake strike and settlement here, | “are busy trying to incite fights in the ranks of the workers in an | effort to destroy the dressmakers unity. | | | at White Plains Meet WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. — Officials | Union, Local No. 9, pulled guns on | the rank and file at a membership | meeting last Friday when the workers |demanded that the $3,000 in the | treasury be distributed among the \members of the union, The rank and file of the union, the majority of which is unemployed, have been carrying on an intensive agitation demanding that the funds | of the union be at once turned over to the workers. The officials through strong arm tactics had felled a reso- lution which accused the officials of graft and improper bookkeeping at a | Previous meeting, but at the meeting | Friday the workers, determined to get their money, rushed the secretary and treasurer of the union from the plat- form. At this point the officials pulled guns and a riot call was sent out. The police arrived and drove the workers from the hall. ‘Anniversary Issue ef the ‘Liberator’ Now Off the Press | The Liberator is now off the | | press. All sections of the Party, L. S. N. R. groups, mass organizations are urged to call immediately for’ their Liberators at the office of the District L. S. N. R., Room 506, 50 E. 13th Street. This issue of the Liberator is a very interesting one consisting of | 12 pages and it is important to see | that the issue reaches the masses | of Negro and white workers to ac- quaint them with the struggles we | | | are engaged in. ‘COURT FRAMES — NEGRO FOR AID OF SCOTTSBORO BOYS LL.D. Filing Appeal for New Trial for McDowell CHATTANOOGA, March 3.— The boss court here yesterday carried through its frame up of Oscar Mc- Dowell, a militant Negro worker ac- tive in the mass defense of the 9 innocent Scottsboro boys, The court convicted McDowell on the framed- up charge of attempting to shoot | Baugh, a backward Negro worker and |a tool of the Interdenominational Ministers Association and the N. A. A. C. P. who incited him to beat up his wife because of her support of |the mass defense of the Scottsboro | boys. McDowell was fined fifty dollars and costs, in addition to the convic- tion which carries a jail sentence of one to five years. E, M. Buchanan, attorney for Baugh, acted as pro- secutor, injecting the Scottsboro is- sue, charging that the International Labor Defense was stirring up the Negro masses and sought the death of the Scottsboro boys. McDowell and his mother had | taken in Baugh’s wife after her ter- |rible beating at the hands of Baugh. | Baugh several times invaded the Mc- Dowell home threatening the Mc- | Dowells, and tearing up copies of the | Liberator, official organ of the League | of Struggle for Negro Rights. When |his wife pressed charges against him, the local court told Baugh to get a shot gun and shoot up the Reds. |Baugh fired two shots at McDowell. | He then accused McDowell of shoot- Establish shop| ‘The hearing will be continued to- lof the Building and Common Laborers | ing at him with a pistol. ‘The prosecution could produce no |eye witness to support Baugh’s claim. |Four witnesses testified for the de- fense that they heard only two shots, g@nd no pistol shot. McDowell's | mother and brother, and the latter's wife, testified that McDowell's pistol was in his trunk after McDowell had been taken to the hospital for shot gun wounds inflicted by Baugh. After McDowell came out of the hospital, he was picked up on a gun- carrying charge while taking his pis- tol to the pawnshop to obtain money for moving expenses, This charge was also pushed against him by the bosses court in its anxiety to punish him for his support of the mass fight to free the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. George W. Chamlee, International Labor Defense attorney, is filing a |motion for a new trial on both charges. NEW YORK.—A great rise in the mass support to the Communist Party of Bulgaria is admitted heere in a special Associated Press dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria. Not only are the Communist forces growing na- tionally, but the A. P. cable declares: “As a matter of fact, there are al- lready more than sixty villages with similar ‘red’ administrations. “Notwithstanding the laws aimed at them, the Communists prsue an ac- tive campaign of propaganda. At | least fifty days in the year are des- ignated as ‘manifestation’ days. On such occasions there is always a clash with the police, frequently with a list | of dead or wounded. “The economic crisis is blamed as the chief cause of increasing Com~ munistic strength, but the proximity of Russia also is mentioned.” A detailed report of the Bulgarian elections is sent out by the Interna- tional Press Correspondence from So- fia, as follows: ‘The results of the municipal elec- tions which took place recently in |67 Bulgarian towns represent a fine | success for the Workers Party even if the official figures are accepted. These figures are as follows: People’s Block (the government coalition of four parties) 78,540, Workers Party 38,003, Democratic Block (opposition- al parties) 17,030, and the National Fascist Block 1,005 votes, The workers newspapers however |declare that the results have been faked by the authorities and that in reality the Workers Party received 46,732 votes whi’ ‘ the People’s Block | received only 75,545 votes. The Work~ ers Party is in any case the strongest party in the c-unt-y, despite the ter- rific wave of police terror which | swept over the country prior to the elections. In three towns the Workers Party has gained the absolute ma~- jority of the votes, in the textile centre Sliven, in Troyan and fn the tobacco centre Svilengrad, In Russ jVarna, Burgas, Plovdiv, Weskovo, Communist Party of Bulgaria Gains Greater Mass Subport ‘Yambul, Stara-Zagora, Shumen, Gab- rovo, Teteven and a series of smaller towns the Workers Party headed the polls. The government coalition was the chief loser. The Minister of the Interior Gir- ginov reports that the elections passed off peoceably. He made no reference to a series of shamless terrorist acts committed at the last moment by the police. In Russe for instance, all the candidates of the Workers Party were arrested early in the morning and held in custody during the elections. In Plovdiv an election day raid took place on the headquarters of the Workers Party and everyone on the premises was arrested. The house was closed down for the day and the election organization disorganized. Apart from this over 200 workers were arrested throughout the day. The same action was taken by the police in Burgas and Sliven, Accord- ing to-a statement issued by the Central Committee of the Workers Party after the poll, the police con- fiscated every leaflet of the party they could lay hands on, And despite the terror, the Workers Party em- erges triumphantly from the polls! The Ministry of the Interior has now published the total figures of all the miunicipal elections which have taken place in Bugaria in the towns (with the exception of Sofia) between the Ist November 1931 and the 14th February 1932. The list is as follows: People's Block (Government Coali- tion) 105,085 ars 740 seats Workers Party 50,087 and 294 Seats Democrats (Bourgeois Opposition) 25,389 and 136 seats Social Democrats 7,778 end 15 seats Even according to these figures |whieh the Workers Party declares to | be faked and despite the terrific wave |of terror, the Workers Party is the \strongest parly in the country for the so-called People’s Block conmists of fou differemt parlica, 'W YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1932 MASS MEET HITS CENTRAL AMERICA TERROR 3,000 Workers and Peasants Murdered in El Salvador NEW YORK.—The Anti-Imperial- ist League of the U. S. has just sent a resolution of protest against the in- hreasing terror in Central America, directed at the Workers’ and Peas- ants’ organizations, to the following consulates in New York City: Gua- temala, Salvador, Hondhras, Nicara- gha, Costa Rico, and Panama. The resolution was adopted at a mass meeting held Thursday, March 10th at the Spanish Workers Center, 4 E, 116th St... New York City. After citing as instances of this increased terror, the murder of 3000 workers and peasants in El Salvador and the execution of the working class lead- er, Juan P. Wainright, the resilution ends with a declaration of the Anti- Imperialist League of the U.S. against the terror and in support of the struggles in these countries, for com- plete and immediate independence |from, and freedom of control by Yankee or British imperialism. The Anti-Imperialist League calls on all workers and other anti-imper- ijalist organizations to protest simi- larly to the consulates involved. A model form of resolution can be se- cured at the office of the League, 799 Broadway, Room 536, New York City. 'Trotzkyite Eastman ‘in Same Group With Soviet Foe, E. Grady | While Leon Trotsky sends vicious attacks from Turkey against the Soviet Union, his American rep- | resentative, translator and mem- ber of the American Trotskyite faction, Max Eastman, has joined in a writers’ committee which in- cludes the infamous Eve Garrette Grady and George Sylvester Vie- reck, Mrs. Grady, after leaving the Soviet Union last year, launched the most extended anti-Soviet campaign ever seen in the United States. This included magazine articles, a book, debates and radio broadcasts. It was she who spread a great deal of the dumping and forced labor propaganda in this couniry. Viereck was the propa- gandist of the bloody German Kaiser in the United States dur- ing the last war. In joining hands: with these enemies of the international work- ing class in a so-called organiza- | tion to encourage young artists, contemporary arts (most likely of the Grady type), Eastman further exposes the real face of Interna- tional Trotskyism as an agent of the counter-revolution. PREACHER FAILS IN ATTEMPT TO HIRE STRIKEBREAKERS (By a Worker Correspondent.) BROOKLYN, N, ¥.—Pastor Nordborg of the Norwegian Church, 33 First Place, Brook- lyn, came into the reading room of the church house on March 9 and stated that he wanted six men to go to work as watchmen to help break the dressmakers’ strike. No one would take the job. The preacher then said that he did not blame the men for not wanting to do seab work. The hypocritical preacher was eager enough to try to carry out the dirty work of strike-breaking, but when he found out that the'| workers refused he tried to white- wash himself by saying that he did not blame the men. If the jobs had been taken he would have kept his mouth shut, Release 20 Irish Political Prisoners DUBLIN, March 11—Twenty Re- publican prisoners were released yes- terday evening. Parades of Repub- lican Army platoons march through the streets in welcome to the released prisoners. Eighteen of those released were imprisoned by acts of the special Military courts under the Coercion act. Leddy who shot a Cosgrove can- didate and a detective by the name of Leitrim prior to the elections was found guilty of murder but instead was sentenced to a year imprisonment. For man slaughter Brothers Gilmore were among those released having been sentenced to five and seven years respectively on the charge of possessing arms and knowing the whereabouts of arms dumps. Floor Scrapers Ask for Picketers; To Hold Affair Today The floor scraping strikers of the Self{-Mechanics Flooring Co., 1838 Park Ave. are in front of the shop every morning, picketing, militantly, determined to win. “All building trades workers to come Wednesday morning, March 16, at 7:30 a. m. to 126th street and Park ave., to help with picketing”, appeal the strikers. The strikers are arranging an affair for the needy in their ranks on Tues- day, March 15, at 8 p. m., at 16 W. 126th street. Every class conscious worker is invited to come with their friends to this affair and help the striking floor scrapers. Admission is 25 cents. Defend the Soviet Union against the attack of the bosses! Every shop, mine and factory a fertile field for Daily Worker sub- scriptions, NEW YORK.—The Chase National Bank, Morgan-Rockefeller controlled, the biggest bank in the world, lost $614,661,000 deposits during 1931. Deposits which in the beginning of the year were over two billion, shrank 30 per cent, according to the official statement of the bank. The report says nothing of the hundreds of millions withdrawn by depositors and replaced by the Rockefeller fortune to hide the situation. It is significant in this connection to remember the secret White House conference preceding the rushing of the Glass Steagall Bank Aid Bill. The conference reported that a bank, whose name they refused to disclose, was facing a critical situation so dan- gerous and of such size that the two billion dollar Reconstruction Finance Corporation could not meet it. One Congressman who insisted on know- ing’the name of the bank was stifled. The Rockefeller controlled corpo- rations have been notorious for a half a century for their vicious and bloody Printing Workers Pledge Support to China Masses NEW YORK.—The Printing Work- ers Industrial League of New York City has adopted a resolution deal- ing with war on the Chinese masses, the plot to attack the Soviet Union and with the colonial struggles. “The success of Socialist construc- tion in the Soviet Union contrasting sharply with the desperate struggle of the working masses in the United States...is accounting| for the in- crease in war preparations,” read the resolution. The resolution records thé attempts of the imperialist to crush the move ment of the colonial masses for lib ation, “Be it here resolved that the Print- ing Workers Indust ial League goes on record for the -id of the Chinese masses, for thy withdrawal of all troops and we ships from China, for the prevention of shipment ot am- munition to the Far Kast,” states the resolution, “Be it further resolved that the Printing Workers Industrial League pledges continued propaganda. and organization against the Japanese in- vasie@ of China, against imperialist alta@® on the Soviet Union, against Yan&@e imperialism in Far East and | coioetina possession,” WORLD'S BIGGEST BANK LOSES 614 MILLION DOLLARS IN DEPOSITS attacks on the workers. Mr. John D. Jr., has carried on the bloody record of his father, his record from the Ludlow massacre in the coal fields of Colorado in 1914, to the use of Le Vito, Brooklyn thug against the Standard Oil truck drivers two years ago, is a continuous account of the most violent terror against the working class. John D. Jr., has at- tempted to cover up his ruthless at- tacks on the workers by widely ad- vertised philanthropy, church activ- ity publicized by an unscrupulous press agent. NEW SOVIET FILM OPENS AT CAMEO THEATRE FRIDAY “Cossacks of the Don,” a Russian synchronized motion picture, direc- tde by the only women producer in the U. S. 8. R., Olga Preobrazhens- kaya, will have its American pre- miere showing at the Cameo Theatre this Friday. Preobrazhenskaya is the noted film director of “The Village of Sin,” which was highly praised by critics, including Theodore Drei- ser, who said, “Among the best achieved so far by the motion pic- ture adventures anywhere.” “Counsellor-at-Law,” Elmer Rice's melodramatic comedy, featuring Paul Muni, plays its 150th performance at the Plymouth Theatre this evening. “Counsellor-at-Law” represents Rice’s second attempt at producing, his first being “The Left Bank” at the Little Theatre, Ann Ayres has acquired the rights to a comedy by Gilbert Emery, author of “The Hero” and “Tarnish.” The new play, which is as yet untitled, will be directed by Pauline Frederick. That capitalism is driving toward war as a “solution” of the world crisis of dying capitalism is openly admitted by Lawrence Dennis, former U. S. diplomat and banker, in a book “Is Capitalism Doomed?” just pub- lished. In. its financial page, the New York World-Telegram says of the book: “Unless a sane solution of Amer- ica’s unemployment situation is found soon, war will be the certain and in- evitable alternative. This is the startling conclusion of an amazing book released by Harper & Bros. to- day under the title, ‘Is Capitalism Doomed?’ It is the work of Law- rence Dennis, formerly of the U. S. diplomatic service and later with J. & W. Seligman & Co. New York Banker Admits Bosses Look to War As Way Out of Crisis bankers. “While the ex-diplomat and ex- banker makes it clear that his sym- pathies are with capitalism, equally frank he warns that it has signally failed to provide bread and meat for the masses.” “The American people,” the author declares (meaning the American ruling class), “have now admitted that they are going to do nothing about unemployment. War, there- fore, is the inevitable solution,” In his book, Dennis admits that the government's policy has been to save the rich from taxation, at the expense of the misery of the toiling masses. He expresses the fear that the masses will turn to Communism —that is, to the revolutionary way out of the crisis of dying capitalism, That the United States will soon be at war was broadly hinted in a speech delivered by Col, J. E. Yates, chief of chaplains of the U. S. Army, before the Iterseminary Movement,| conference at Howard University on March 11, ‘The text of Col. Yates’ speech, which alludes to the Soviet Union as | “the dominion of atheistic Commun- ism,” was issued to the press in ad- vance by the U. S. War Department, It was thus endorsed by the Wall St. Hunger Government. In his speech, Col. Yates calls upon the churches to rally the masses to “the road of loyalty and sacrifice” for the defense of the holy profits of the very capitalists who have con- demned over 12,000,000 unemployed workers and their families to starva- tion and who meet with machine gun bullets, as in Detroit on March 7, the demands of the unemployed for work or unemployment relief. Col. Yates declared: “The church should not lose sight of the fact that war is not a disease at all, but one of the painful symptoms of a disease far more appalling than war itself.” A faithful defender of this very diseases, Col. Yates ommitted to state that this disease which is “far more appalling than war itself” is capitalism. This, however, is being recognized by increasing numbers of starving unemployed workers, of ru- ined farmers and small business men, of employed workers forced to, exist on starvation wages. Most of Audience, Members of Op- pressed Negro Group. Col. Yates closed his speech with a strong appeal for loyalty to the gov- ernment, as a religious duty. “And if that loyalty leads to sac- rifice,” he said, “even to the sacrifice of life itself, for the weak and op- Pressed, for the principles of honor, freedom, righteousness, and justice between man and man, then the path of duty for the church lies on the road of sacrifice, the road which the master did not refuse to tread.” Col. Yates was speaking in a col- lege dedicated by the government he represents to the maintenance of Jim Crowism against the Negro national minority. His audience was mostly made up of members of this group which is so brutally and savagely op- U.S. TO GO TO WAR SOON, HINTS ARMY CHAPLAIN pressed by American imperialism. It took, therefore, more than the usual colossal hypocrisy of capitalism and capitalist-fostered religion to peddle before that audience such hypocrit- ical phrases as “justice between man and man,” sacrifice “for the ‘weak and oppressed” and the rest of the disgusting bunk of decaying capital- ism. Campaign for War Against Soviet Union, Moreover, Col. Yates’ speech was directed beyond his audience and his appeal to the churches through the capitalist press—to the broad masses of Negro and white workers. In its preparations for war, the U. S. War Department has refused permission for publication of offi- cial photographs depicting the gruesome aspects of war. George Palmer Putnam, New York pub- lisher, revealed yesterday that he was told by Major General Irving J. Carr, chief of the Signal Corps, that only pictures showing the “pleasant” side of war would be available for publication. Major General Carr declared that the War Department was op- Posed to spoiling the memories of “the lovely cemeteries” seen by the Gold Cross mothers in their trip to the battlefields, Col. Yates’ speech is part of the in- creasing systematic campaign by which the imperialists are frantically trying to deceive the masses and turn them in favor of the struggle against the Soviet Union, in favor of the only | solution capitalism knows for the crisis in which it is gripped, the ‘sol- ution’ of war. War against the work- ing class. War against the Soviet Union. War against the Chinese mas- ses and the revolutionary struggles in the colonial countries. Demonstrate Tear Gas Bombs in Terre Haute TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—A tear gas salesman was in Terre Haute last week and gave a demonstration for the benefit of the police and fire de- partment. It is unknown how many were sold yet but if any sales were made the workers know that they were in order to use the tear gas against them if they came out and demanded relief. AMUSEMENTS THE THEATRE GUILD Presents HE MOON IN THE YELLOW RIVER By DENIS JOHNSTON GUILD THEA., 524 St., W. of Eve. 8:40, Mats. Thurs., Sat. THE THEATRE GUILD presents EUGENE O'NEILL’S Trilogy LAST WEEKS Mourning Becomes Electra Composed of 8 plays presented on 1/day HOMECOMING, "HE HUNTED THE HAUNTED Commencing at 5:30 sharp. Dinner In- termission of one hour at 7. No Mats. ALVIN THEA., 52nd St., W. of B'way The Theatre Guild Presents REUNION IN VIENNA A Comedy .By ROBERT E. SHERWOOD. Martin Beck ff as Ave, Eve. 8:40 Mats. Thurs.Sat.2:40 IPPODROME'::.':;; « St. BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK RKO NANCY CARROLL “WAYWARD” with RICHARD ARLEN Workers’ Clubs Should Advertise in the “Daily” Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12th and 1Sth Ste. Strictly Vegetarian food RESPIGHT TO CONDUCT PHILHARMONIC WEDNESDAY Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor, will conduct the Philharmonic - Symphony Orchestra for one week and direct the world premiere of his “Maria Egiziaca,” at the benefit concert of the orchestra pension fund on Wednesday night, at Carnegie Hall, He will also conduct the reguler Carnegie Hall concerts on Thursday night. and Friday after- noon, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Sunday aftrenoon, March 20. At the Pension Fund Concert he will precede the premiere of “Ma~ ria Egiziaca” with two \other com- positions of his: “The Birds,” suite for small orchestra; and the “Trit~ tico Botticelliano” (‘‘Botticellian Triptych”). This program will be re- peated on Thursday and Friday. MELROSE DAIRY VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT Comrades Will Always Find It Pleasant to Dine at Our Place. 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD. Bronx (near 174th St Station) TELEPHONE INTERVALE v—9149 LOST—Pocketbook, 2 keys and money in or near Central Opera House on Friday. Return to D. W., 8th floor, small reward. Mass organizations, get into revolutionary competition to | save Daily Worker,: Intern] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR AU Work Done Under Personal Care at DR. JOSEPHSON EN’S CUT RATE OPTICIANS Eyes Examined by Registered Optician: White gold rims Partin ‘Orchard. St. Shell rims $1.00 Near Delancey SOLLINS’ RESTAURANT | 216 KAS'L 147H STREET 6-Course Lunch 55 Cents Regular Dinner 65 Cents