The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 3, 1933, Page 2

Benge Two Build Mass Defense for Framed Marine Worker {. L. D. Asks All Workers’ Organizations to Send Representatives to Conference Demonstration Tomorrow in Front of Judge’s Home Will Demand Schouten’s Release By DAN DAVIS. @ preparing for the demonstration in front of the home of Judge Cornelius Collins at 201 East 35th Street, tomorrow at 6 p.m. for the re- | Jease of Govert Schouten, framed marine worker, the International Labor Defense has issued a call to a3l workers’ organizations to send representa- tives to a defense meeting today at 799 Broadway, room 338, at 1 p.m. MASS PICKET IN HOBOKEN TODAY Furniture Strikers Fight Exploitation J HOBOKEN, v. Jan. 2.—The se@ike of 300 fw re workers in Ferguson Bros., Novelty Furniture Co. factory here is solid, and there will be mass picketing tomorrow (Tuesday) morning. The workers all walked out Dec. 29 against a 10 per cent wage-cut, which is the fourth for all of them except those for whom it is the fifth cut. Wages last year were 75 cents and 80 cents an hour. By repeated wage- cuts these wages were reduced to 10 cents for unskilled workers and 35 cents for skilled, with a large num- ber getting 10 cents and only a few getting as high as 35 cents. Among the 35 cent workers are the Sprayers, who have to use a deadly chemical in their work. Some of the workers toil in what they call “The Monkey House,” a Yoom without windows or air, where|Ped up charge of third degree as-| Pay the furniture is sprayed. At the mass meeting, Friday, at- tended by nearly all the strikers, | A committee will be elected at this | meeting to see Judge Collins and de- |mand the freeing of Schouten and} the stopping of the terror against | marine workers, of which this case is | a glaring example. } The frame-up of Govert Schouten | is a direct attempt to stamp out the militant marine workers unemployed council and the Marine Workers In- | dustrial Union. | workers on the holds the few belongings of seame: owing as little as 20 cents back board. It was for the right of workers to | get a change of clothing from their | confiscated baggage that unemployed | workers demonstrated and resisted | the atack of special police. Schouten | who was not at the demonstration, | |Was arrested nine days later and | | charged with beating up a policeman | twice his size. | | The following letter from Govert | | Schouten to the International Labor | Defense lawyer, Fannie Horowitz, | who defended him, is a good index |to the militant spirit of the unem- | |Ployed seamen. The letter was writ- | ten after his conviction on the trum- sault. Dear Madam Fanny Horowitz: I take the privilege and take the | Framed for Militancy Call Meeting Today to | Musteites were present, and the edi- tor of the Italian Socialist paper. This editor spoke in both Italian and | English, said not one word on how to win the strike, hardly mentioned the strike, and instead told the strik- ers funny stories about New Years. At that meeting was also present the organizer of the Furniture Work- ers’ Industrial Union, who offered the full co-operation and support of the union. He advised the strikers to elect a strike committee repre- Senting each of the eighteen depart- ments in the factory, and with sub- committees on organization, picket- ing, relief, defense and negotiations. He recommended mass picketing. In general, the union proposed to the strikers a solid, united front of all strikers, whatever their political opinion, their nationality or their membership in any union may be. UNION DEMANDS HEALTH PROGRAM Pharmacists Call for State Insurance NEW YORK. — The Pharmacists’ Union of Greater N. ¥., 51 Chambers Street, the only organized body of registered and junior pharmicists in this state, had a committee appoint- ed to make a study of the Wilbut Committee report. on the Costs of Medical Care. The committee made its report at the regular meeting of the Union held on Dec. 29. Following on the general discussion by the member- ship the following recommendations of the committee were adopted. 1. Establishment of a National Board of Medicine, Pharmacy and allied professions which would work towards a more even distribution of the members of the health profes- sions among the various trades. 2. A system of compulsory health insurance, to be paid for by the State and the employer, which would not only make possible some degree of medical care for unemployed and under-paid workers now unable to pay for the most elementary medical needs, but would at the same time put the medical, pharmaceutical and | allied professions on a more organ- ized basis that would tend to reduce the unemployment and misery which exists among members of these pro- fessions today. Oppose “Economy” Cuts. “we @ opposed,” declares this point of the recommendation, “to the | present practice of reducing city and state budgets for public medical care.” 8. Calling of a state conference of social, labor, and health organiza- tions, as a preliminary step toward @ national conference for the pur- pose of formulating a detailed plan for compulsory health insurance and _@ practical program of action. “We do not believe,” declared the committee, “that this system can be achieved without the cyganized ef- forts of the health professions and the public. Intellectuals Back Conference Against Pogroms in Poland EW YORK.—A group of 30 Jew- h professors, writers, artists and her intellectuals has issued a state- nt urging support of the confer- called by the United Committee for Struggle Against Pogroms in " Poland, to be held Sunday, Jan. 8, in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth ‘The statement charges that the t on Jewish students are sup- a by the Polish fascist govern- “ment as part of its oppression of all om 1 minorities in Poland. vam Al the signets of the state- »! seent are Waldo Frank, Michael Gold, ‘inal gis Lozowick, Edwin Seaver, Moe Avemgitens* Melvin P. Levy, Felix Mor- anita Brenner, Edward Dahl- Clifton P. Fadiman, Elliot E. A 2 & . honor to write you. I am your de- fendant Govert Schouten, I thank yeu madam for what you have done | | for me. Also I thank your two friend lawyers which stood by me | until the bitter end. | Dear Madam, a mother couldn’t do more for her son as what you | did for me during the trial. Yes | I must congratulate your fine work | as lawyer and friend. | As a lady you have showed me your kindness. As a lawyer I must | respect you for your smartness | where for you are capable to handle | the job. Yes dear lady this judge he don’t | | know how to believe himself to a | lady in a criminal court but I call | this absolute disgrace to American | nation. I understand that because of poor English I was easy bait and you | saved me many a times, but he | couldn’t get away from you. It is a pleasure for me and many | years to come that I didn’t stand alone in those dark hours and fully aware that you was as much in danger as I was. : | _ I will also send a letter to the | I. L. D. and thank them too for | my wonderful defense which I had | during my trial. | Therefore I said good bye to you | | and your friends and I will always | | remember Fanny Horowitz. AUF WEDERSCHEN | COVERT SCHOUTEN. i The day following the demonstra- |tion in front of Judge Collins’ home | Schouten will be sentenced in Special | Sessions Court, Part 1 at Franklin | and Center Streets at 9 a.m. The workers of New York will demon- Strate against the whole frame-up! system both days, in front of Judge | | Collins’ home and on Thursday in his | | court. | On January 7th at a dance in the International Seamen’s Club, 140 Broad St., the crews of several ves- | sels will hear the report of the com- | mittees which will visit Judge Col- |lins. Regardless of the outcome a protest message will be sent to the | judge demanding the cessation of | terror against seamen. \ Youth Protesting } Bezich Murder Jailed By Same JerseyJudge HOBOKEN, N. J., Jan. 2--Harry Rabinowitz, member of Y.C.L., who was arrested for distributing leaf- lets at the Bezich memorial meeting and funeral cn December 28th, was | | | | | | 1 jlater given a 10 day sentence by | |the same judge who sentenced | Bezich | Bezich died as a direct result of | | undue exposure suffered because of the jail sentence of 90 days for dis- | tributing National Hunger March | | leaflets. His wife died three days | before him, following a breakdown | due to his imprisonment. Robinowitz is confined in the same |damp cells in the Secaucus Peniten- tiary which killed Bezich. WHAT'S ON-- TUESDAY Notice: Beginning Monday Jan 9th, there | will be a small charge of one cent a word |on all announcements in the whats on | column, | Management Committee, Daily Worker, VETCHERINKA at Ukrainian Hall, 160 Mercer St., Jersey City, 8 p. m. Proceeds for Communist Party. SPECIAL committee meeting of ‘Tom Mooney Branch I. L. D., 818 Broadway, 1.30 p. m. MASS meeting of Bronx Parents andj Teachers Committee at P. 8. 4, Fulton Ave., | near East 173rd St., Bronx, Educators and parents etc., will speak on effect of over-| crowding in’ schools, All invited, | REGISTRATION for Winter’ Term of | Workers School is now going on at the school office, 35 Bast 12th St. 3rd floor, | Cohen, Lester Cohen, Babette Deutsch, Samuel Ornitz, Herbert Solow, Isidor Schneider, Dr. Bern- hard J. Stern, Louis Berg, Lionel Trilling, Dr. Avrahm Yarmolinsky and William Zorach. os | Minister, Se Sam Weinstein, militant furniture worker, goes on trial Thursday day on a cooked-up manslaughter charge. This charge was made against Weinstein by the Muskin Mfg. Co. bosses who had previously Ocndilicas’ toe threatened to “get” him for the | water front are daily growing worse,| leading role he played in the strike Despite a federal law (Seaman's Act eet eee against intolerable Jof 1916) against it, the Seamen’s| CMditions. Church Institute at 25 South St., ‘PAY TRIBUTE TO | SLAIN NEGROES | Mass Funeral Friday in Birmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 2. —Over a thousand white and Negro workers visited the Welsh Brothers Funeral Home during the past three days to tribute to the murdered |Negro cropper leaders, Cliff | James and Milo Bentley, and to pledge support to the militant struggles of the Negro sharecroppers and exploited farmers of allapoosa County. Silently and grimly the workers filed past the bodies in an almost constant stream while a rotating Guard of Honor composed of Negro and white workers stood at attention. The bodies will continue to lie in state until Friday, when the mass funeral will take place. The increas- ing interest in the struggles of the croppers, the rising mass resentment against the murderous landlords-po- | lice terror presage a tremendous mass outpouring for the funeral. Thousands. of leaflets have been | issued by the Communst Party and the International Labor Defense ex- posing the landord-poice terror and calling on the workers for vigorous | Protests against the murder of James and Bentley and other croppers and or mass. defense for the arrested croppers still held in jail. The leaf- lets place responsibility for the mur- | der of James and Bentley directly at the doors of the Southern landlords and their reformist lackeys at the | head of Tuskegge Institute, At least seven croppers are still | held incommunicado in jail, denied their civil rights to confer privately with their attorneys. Hearing on the petition by the International La- bor Defense for a writ of habeas cor- pus in these cases has been set for Jan. 5, before Judge Leon McCord. | JAPAN WAR HEAD ANNOUNCES DRIVE “a Strike Aside Those in Our Way” BULLETIN Japanese troops yesterday seized the important strategic border city, Shunhaikwan in their drive on Jehol | Province and North China, following sharp street fighting and a murder- ous areial bombardment. Gen. Sadao Araki, Japanese War yesterday threatened an immediate extension of Japan's rob- ber war against China and armed in- tervention against the Soviet Union. | He announced the intention of Jap- anese imperialism to attain its “as- pirations” (imperialist robber aims) “by striking aside those who stand in our way.” This frank re-statement of the blood and iron policy of Jap- anese imperialism was made as a Japanese force pushes forward to the Soviet border and troop mobilizations are being completed within striking distance of Jehol Province and North China y While not directly mentioning the resumption of diplomatic relations. between China and the Soviet Union, Araki's statement reflected all the venomous rage of Japanese imperial- ism against this resumption of nor- mal relations, broken off by the Nan- king Government several years ago. In his attempts to whip up the ,| Vilest national chauvinism in support of the imperialist war-mongers, Araki peddled all the stunfd astrological and religious superstitions of the de- caying bourgeois svstem. He declared that the year 1933 would “be lucky” for the aims of Javanese imnerlalism, basing this superstitious statement on the Japanese zodiac. He said: “The Year of the Cock means that everything can be accomplish- ed. It is fraueht with great sic- nificance for Japan. The celestial Hight is guiding Janan toward ex- pansion. The first year of the rein of Emperor Jimmu, founder of the nation, was also the Year of the Cock. Tt Is no wonder, there- fore, that the coming year radiates hope and gives promise of the de- velopment of the Japanese empire.” The general did not mention that the “year of the cock” finds the capi- talist \world in an acute crisis, which is esppcially sharp in Japan. On the firm peace policy of the Soviet Union, backed by the growing svmpathies of the toiling masses in the imperialist countries and colonies, has delayed the attack on the Soviet Union, ARY 3, 1933 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JAD ————— RACKETEER FAY PREYED ON TAXI, LAUNDRY MEN |Organized Two Fake | Unions ; Killed for ‘ Tae aati “Staggering” | | NEW YORK. The adventurous | Career of Larry Fay, notorious rac- ‘eteer, who once foisted fake unions on the taxi drivers and laundry work- | ers of this city, came to an end Mon- | day night when he was shot dead |in his restaurant and night club, | Casa Blanca, 33 W. 56th St. Edward Maloney, a doorman em- | Ployed by Fay, was believed to have killed him. Tror‘sally enough, Fay, who had at various times professed | to be a “friend” of labor, was killed in connection with the introduction of the stagger system in his own business. Maloney had had two- | fifths of his pay cut and been com- | pelled to share his job with another | man. The salaries of other employes jin the night club had been cut 20 percent. Preyed On Workers. Fay was a_ slick crook whe work- |ed hand in glove with the police in | preying on workers, both as busi- |nessman and as “union” leader, and became one of the pet darlings of the parasites of upper Broadway. Though arrested 49 times in 21 years, he al- ways managed to get off easy. | In 1923 he first began to make “big | money” when he became the owner of a fleet of taxicabs and hired pro- | fessional gunmen to beat competi- | tion. In 1929 Fay, then head of the |New York Milk Chain Association, |and a number of fhis henchmen | were indicted on charges of eonspir- ing to obtain a monopoly of the | city’s milk trade. Fay'’s gangster | squads had forced small dealers to come across with $800,000 a year to their boss, but the police themselves were too much involved in this rac- ket and Tammany refused to con- viet. Organized Fake Unions. | Fay made two inroads on the labor | movement. About two years ago he tried to organize a fake taxi union, | with gangsters as the chief organi- | zers. He promised to establish in- surance and an expensive clubroom | for the taxi men. Fay himself would | have made $72,000 a year out of the scheme, byt the thing collapsed. About a year and a half ago he decided that the laundry industry offered easy pickings and with the | aid of his well-paid thugs, he or- | ganized the Greater New York | Laundry Workers Union. About 600 workers were terrorized into joining | the union and Fay proceeded to sell | them out to the bosses for $17,000. But after existing for six months, the widespread dissatisfaction of the members and the activity of a mill-| tant rank and file group broke up the union, and on its ruins was es- tablished the Laundry Workers In- dustrial Union which has carried on | Teal strikes and fought consistently |for the interests of the workers. FILIPINO JOBLESS ~ COUNCIL FORMED Immediate Fight for Relief Planned NEW YORK. — The demand for | immediate relief for jobless Filipinos in New York City was sounded on Sunday night by about 100 Filipino and American workers at 67 Sands Street, Brooklyn. The workers, mostly Filipinos, formed an unemployed council. They made preparations to begin an im- Relief -Bureau from discriminating mediate struggle to stop the Home against Filipinos by denying them any kind of relief, Filipino workers are being thrown in wholesale numbers out of their icbs on American ships, speakers pointed out at the meeting. In their attempts to divide Filipino and Am- eriean workers against each other, | the shipping bosses are firing Fili- pinos and replacing them with Am- ericans; but at the same time are continuing to cut the wages and liv- ing conditions of both. ‘Adopt Program. The 100 at the meeting adopted the aim of uniting all unemployed Fili- pinos in the broad mass struggle for O’Brien Boos (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the Electric Light and Gas companies, and all the time the utilities made | steady headway in mulcting the | masses. It is this same role that| O'Brien is enacting today, with his gesture of a Charter Revision Plan. Tammany Hall {s opposéd to revision of any substantial kind and O’Brien knows it. The new mayor is em- Phatically opposed te any change in government. This arch hypocrite has expressed himself openly and publicly on the subject in 1928, at whieh time he little thought that his words would be thrust back into his teeth te expose him as a liar and a| reactionary. On the occasion of greeting the arrival of the Bremen transatlantic fliers, O'Brien at City Mall asserted that he was opposed to change in government, and he had the temerity to add that the citizens of New York City were with him in this stand. At that time he spoke on behalf of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, an organization packed with Tammany politicians, With the Underworld ™ assuming his role as Mayor to- day, O'Brien will have for his exeeu- tive associates, district leaders who have provided protection to murder- ers, gunmen, highway robbers, pro- fessional gamblers and other types of eriminals, all social products of the capitalist system. The relation be-| tween the political tyrants and the | criminals is one of reciprocity, The Professional gambler, fer instance, who runs his game in a political club is a souree of revenue to the Tam- many leader. The Tammany leader, on his part, assumes the onus, first, of previding a place where the gambl- ers may, owing to the politicians’ power, operate with comparative safety and second, of using his in- fluence for the protection of the gamblers and their patrons in the évent of an arrest. O'Brien's Acomplices One of the clubs where criminals have been found to gather is the Tammany Central Association con- trolled by City Clerk Michael J. Cruise. This Tammany leader re- Ceives $12,000 a year from the city, and this, aside from the graft in- cident to the activities at his club. Another O'Brien associate whose club harbors criminals is Harry C. Pery, Chief Clerk of the City Court, also at a salary of $12,000 a year. Jerry is the head of the Second As- sembly District Democratic Club of Manhattan. Still another associate of O’Brien, who shelters criminals, is Peter J. McGinniss, Assistant Commissioner ef Public Works in Kings County. McGinniss, who is known as the Ozar of Greenpoint, is head of the People’s Regular Democrati¢ Club of Kings County. Investigation has revealed that pro- tection is provided criminals in the club controlled by none other than the Sheriff of Kings County! James A. McQuade reeeives $15,000 a year from the élty for his loyalty to Tam- many. What he receives from other channels, he tells the worekrs, is nobody's business. He is the leader of the Fifteenth Assembly Distriet Democratic Club of Kings County. ‘That the Republicans work hand in hand with Tammany in harboring criminals is disclosed with the ex- posure of the activities of Jacob Rosenberg. and John R. Crews, Rosenberg, as an Assistant Deputy Sheriff, has sheltered criminals at the Lincoln League Republican Club, Crews, a Commissioner of Taxes and Assessments, at a salary of $12,000 a year, has also assured protection to eriminals at the Sixth Assembly Dis- trict Republican Club. The aforementioned cronies of | OBrien, together with more than) three score other Tammany leaders, | draw more than $715,000 a Sear from the city without ha taken civil service examinations for their posi- tions. These politicians hold offices solely for patronage purposes. The Muntelpal Civil Service Commission, immediate relief and for unemploy- ment insurance, paid by She employ- evs and government, When some outsider got up ané said that the unemployed were “a bunch of parasites,” the unanimous indignation of the assembled work- ers forced him to get out fn a hurry. This is said to be the first orgati- zation in which Filipino workers in New York have united to struggle in their own interests for reilef and against discrimination, hand-in-hand with all workers, colored and white, in the Unemployed Councils. Next Meeting Thursday. The next meeting of the group will be next Thursday, 8 p.m., at 67 Sands Street, Brooklyn. Officers elected by the new unem- ployed council were as follows: M. M Obulence, president, R. Amando, vice-president, Sadie August, sec- retary; Mrs. D. Calabio, treasurer, Spain to Use Iron Fist in Morocco MADRID, Jan. 2—The Spanish “democratic” government is prepay- ing to crush the revolt reported to be in the process of preparation by oppressed Moorish population. Com- missioner of the Spanish protectorate in Morocco has been instructed to follow a “firm” policy. In the meantime, friction {s said to be growing sharper between Italy on the one hand and France and Spain on the other. The controversy {s especally acute over the territories of Tangier atid Spanish Moroeeo. Send in your bundle orders for the special Ninth Anniversary- Lenin Memorial edition of the Daily Worker Jan, 14, \ @ reactionary body, has admitted that | the abolition of “exempt” jobs to of Tammany Heads; Denied Claims of Sick Teachers 'Got $350,000 Reward for Long and Faithful) Service to Crookedest Political Gang |Stands for Wage Cuts and Relief Cuts, and Takes Office As Mayor of New York Today ted Salaries $557,000,000 budget, the bankers will take the first slice of about $210,000,- 000 for themselves. This is to be put down as interest to the National City Bank, the Chase National Bank, and other Morgan institutions on the city’s indebtedness. To raise the budget, O’Brien will lay off more laborers in various city departments in accordance with the demands of the bankers. This will result in more suffering and starvation among the workers in 1933. . The Republicans, as ever, are ready to cooperate with Tammany in mulct- ing the workers on the assurance that they will receive a little patronage for their own bund. The Socialist Rele And the Socialists are already op- erating on all their three crippled cylinders trying to becloud the true situation of unemploymenj, evic- tions, wage-cuts and deaths of work- ers from hunger. They are bellowing about a new city party, about “fusion,” about a removal of an of- ficial or two and other hokum to betray the workers in their organi- zation for class struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party. The new Mayor has made it clear that he will lead the forces of reac- tion in new efforts to thwart the Communist Party in its work of or- ganizing the Unemployed Councils for immediate relief, in its fight against evictions and wage-cuts and for unemploymer% insurance. HALT ATTACK ON N. Y. CAB DRIVERS Put Off ‘Enforcement of Vicious Code NEW YORK.—The fight being eonducted by the cab drivers of the city against fhe vicious new taxicab code has forced the Tammany Board of Taxicab Control to temporarily Postpone putting it into effect. Hot- chner, the chairman of the board, is trtrying the maneuver of applying the code first to a small section of the independent owners who are operat- ing cabs at a slightly higher rate, so as to divide the independents and then ¢entinue the attack on the rest of the hackmen. The new code ts designed to strengthen the monopoly of the big tions, to drive large numbers of the small cabmen out of business and to place all taxi drivers more completely under police control, thus Breatly widening the avenues of po- | liee graft. The fight against the eode has been conducted by a rank and file movement in which the mili- tant Taxi Workers Union has played @ leading role. Over the New Year weekend many small cab operators’ fleets have been seized by the cab manufacturers for non-payment of notes. The cab drivers are also being hit hard by low bookings due to the crisis, and thousands of them are in danger of losing their jobs and being black- Usted. The terminal drivers especially are having a tough time of it on the single shift, which means they have | to work from 12 to 18 hours a day to bring in the minimum of $9 in bookings. Tonight the Tax! Workers Union will hold a meeting at 8:30 at its headquarters, 80 Hast 11th St., Room 222. Members and other cab drivers are urged to attend and join in the fight against the new code, the black- list, the long hours and miserable Pay, DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bet, Pitkin 4 Sotter Aves.) B’kiyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-8012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M. ANNOUNCEMENT ward heelers and other Tammany underlings would save $25,000,000 a/| year. Enormous Loot Under the “new deal,” the Tam- meny leaders will be in a position to lay their hands on hundreds of mil- | lions of dollars this year. Of the Dr. Louis L. Schwartz SURGEON DENTIST Announces The removal of his office to larger quarters at 1 Union Square (8th Floor) Bulte 808 ‘Tel. ALgongain 4-0805 SAVE THE Hi of NEW YORK W PROGRAM — Yosel PROLET-BUEHNE REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES Elect Delegates to the THIRD ANNUAL BANQUET SUNDAY, JANUARY 8th, 1933 at 7 P.M. At the WORKERS CENTER—35 E. 12th St., 2nd Floor SPEAKERS—Farl Browder, J. W. Ford Both members of the John Reed Club ADMISSION 40 CENTS OME OF ALL | ORKERS CENTER CHAIRMAN—Joe Brodsky Kotler, Bill Gropper OPEN ALL sc every City Phone—EStabrook 8-1460 Automiobiles leave daily CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. The Only Workers Camp ‘ALTHFUL FOOD, REST, RECREATION RT AND CULTURE All Winter Comferts—Steam Heat—Hot and cold running water in $12.50 PER WEEK: RESTAURANT, 2700 BRONX PARK EAST Party Units Called to! |Rally to Aid of Center| 1 | The District Secretariat urges | all units to elect one delegate to | |the New York Workers Center | Banquet which will take place on Sunday, Jan. 8, 1933 at 7:00 p. sharp in the Workers Center, East 12th St., second floor. | The Workers Center is ins very | | mn. 35 bad financial state and it is the duty of every unit to see to it that they send, with the dele- | gate, a contribution im order to | help maintain the Workers Cen- ter. DISTRICT SECRETARIAT COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S.A. Talk Organization; Boss Gets Scared NEW YORK CITY—Since the sta of the crisis Gertner's Restaurant at 48th St. and Seventh Ave. has cut wages three and four times. The boss increased the hours from 10 to 12a day. The workers, beginning to learn that there was no end to wage- cuts and speed-up, began to talk about a union as the only solution to stop any further wage-cuts. In the meantime a _ stool-pigeon informed the boss that there was talk about an organization. The next day all of the bosses were in the place. I can’t forget the fear they got when they heard about the organiza- tion talk. Together with the bosses were two managers and they were looking around and asking some of the help to find out who is the leader. The place was kept in terror that whole day. The bosses realize how powerful the workefs will be when they are united. If only the workers realized as much what a powerful strength they have, it would be only a short time until we improved our’ condi- tion 100 per cent. I hope every worker realizes this or it will only be a short time until we have to work for nothing. GERTNER WORKER. SAILORS’ DANCE. NEW YORK.—A benefit dance for the Marine Workers’ Union will be given Saturday, Jan. 7, at the In- ternational Seamen’s Club, 140 Broad street. The dance will start at 8 p.m. 4 RENT STRIKES _ IN BRONX; MASS __ PICKETING NOW \Fight Evictions at | 1488 Charlotte This | Morning NEW YORK.—Four rent strikes jare now going on in the Bronx. All | workers’ are urged to take part in the | mass picketing this morning at 1463 | Charlotte St., the Bronx, in order to | prevent the eviction of eight tenants | scheduled to take place today. Yesterday the tenants and neigh- bors, supported by the block commit- tee of the Unemployed Council, held a large mass meeting and made plans to prevent the evictions. | All 16 tenants in the building are | solid in the strike to force a 10 per cent reduction in the rent, for the re-instatement of an evicted tenant, |and for much-needed repairs on the jhouse,-as well as for recognition of the house committee. Picketing will start at 9 a.m. and go on all day. Mass picketing also will be con- tinued today in front of 1392 Frank- |lin Ave and 1377 Franklin Ave., the | Bronx., where the tenants are on | strike under the leadership of the | Unemployed Councils. These tenants | meeting yesterday to prepare for any |attempts by the landlords to evict them. ‘The tenants at 1649 Bryant Ave., the Bronx, have just declared a | strike for a 10 per cent cut in their rent. They acted when the landlord, | Mr. Kreppel, issued a dispossess no- | tice to three of their number. The j tenants declared théir solidarity at an open-air meeting before the house and called for a large turn-out on’ a mass picket line at 9 a. m. today. Day after day the workers have kept up their mes picket line in front of 1433 Charlotte Street to force the landlady to grant the de- mands of the strikers there. Last Tuesday the landlady and two heneh- men were chased for blocks, and one of the henchmen were beaten, when they were caught spying at a meeting of the strikers and the neighbors. unanimously to continue the strike until their demands are AMUSEMENTS THE HUMAN DRAMA OF HOW THE 5-YEAR PLAN WAS COMPLETED! MEN * JOBS Amkino’s Latest Talking Film (with Added English Dia- logue—All Titles in English) SAGA OF AN AMERICAN ENGINEER IN RUSSIA Special Soviet Newsreel Shewing GORKI, LENIN’S WIDOW, etc. I send st. and Bway RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 50th St. ond 6th Ave. RKO ROXY THEATRE 49th St. and 6th Ave. AWN HARDING LESLIE HO! Din “ANIMAL KINGDOM” & Roxy stage show Continuous ns Populor Prices Persenal Direction of “Roxy” FIRST TIME AT }2 SMASHING WORKERS’ PRICES! ND WEEK |Ask Any of the Thousands\j, Who Saw ‘Kameradschaf! (All English Titles) See What A Mine Disaster Means! WORKERS Acme Thea’ 14th Street and Union re t. from 9 4.mt.—Last show THEATRE GUILD Presents BrioGRAPHY HEATER, 524 Sts, Wert of B'way ILD THEATRE, 524 St., Gren 8:50. Mats, Thess, & Bat. at 2:90 (TIC REPERTORY be ee Mc, $1, $1.50 Evs. 8:30 Mats. Wed, & Sat. 2:30 EVA LE GALUIENNE, Director : Fonte nt Thice “IN WONDERLAND” Wed. Mat, # Wed. Eve, ————________“CAMILLE' THE GROUP THEATRE Presents UCCESS STORY ween WEEK By John Howard Lawson Maxine Elliotts Thea., 39th, E. of B'way Evenings, 8:40; Mats. Mon and Sat., 2:40 FRANCIS LEDEXER & DOROTHY GISH in AUTUMN CROCUS ‘The New York and London Success MOROSCO THEATRE, 45th St. W. of Bway Eves. 8:40. Mats. Mon., Wed. & Sat., 2:40 rko MAYFAIR %u’st\Now “THE HALF NAKED TRUTH with LUPE VELEZ and LEE TRACY ¥X0 JEFFERSON "#2 St. # NOW SPENCER TRACY end JOAN BENNETT in “ME AND MY GAL” @ Added “THREE ON A MATCR” Feature with WARREN WILLIAM PATRON ADVER IZE OUR TIZERS Attention Comrades! OPEN SUNDAYS Health Center Cafeteria Workers Center — 50 E. 13ib St. Quality Food Reasonable Prices SPLENDID LARGE Hall and Meeting Rooms TO HIRE Perfect for BALLS, DANCES, LECTURES, MEETINGS, Ete. IN THE New ESTONIAN WORKERS HOME 27-29 W.115th St., N.Y.C. Phone UNiversity 4-0165 HOSPITAL AND OCULIST TIONS FILLED AT 50% OFF SFR WI Gold Filled Frames wes Zyl Shell Frame IM Frames Lenses Not tneladed Camp Phone-Beacon 731 from COOPERATIVE Manhattan Jptical Co. wes: Garment _ District WORKERS PATRONIZE CENTURY CAFETERIA 154 West 28th Street Pure Food Proletarian Prices ___ Brooklyn SOKAL CAFETERIA (1689 PITKIN AVENUE ‘Williamsburgh Workers Welcome Canton Cafeteria 46 GRAHAM AVE. Brooklyn, N. Y. and their neighbors also held a mass | At this meeting the tenants voted , i] granted, 4