The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1933, Page 1

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Send greetings for the special Ninth Memorial edition of Jan. 14, Get your friends and shepmates and organizations All greetings must be in to send 9. “Vol. X, No. 7 Entered as see: 28 miter at the Poot Offies at “G2 New York, N.Y., ander the Act of Marek S, 18TR 3,000 IN MASS FUNERAL FOR 2 NEGRO CROPPERS White Workers Join) Struggle Against Landlord Terror COPS RUSH PROCESSION Prevent Addresses at} the Cemetery BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 8. —Three thousand workers, in cluding 150 whites, attended | the mass funeral yesterday of Cliff James and Milo Bentley, | two of the leaders of the Sharecroppers Union murdered | by the Tallapoosa County land- | lords, their police and Negro reform- ist agents following the Battle of Reeltown, Dec. 19, when 150 Negro croppers and exploited farmers hero- ically defended themselves against the armed attacks of landlord-police lynch gangs. Prevent Jim-Crow. | An additional thousand workers | crowded the sidewalks along the route of the funeral procession, dem- onstrating their sympathy with the struggles of the croppers and ex- ploited farmers of Tallapoosa County, Ala., against landlord robbery and terror and national oppression. An attempt by the authorities to separate the white. and Negro marchers was successfully resisted. Large forces of police were on the | streets in an attempt to intimidate | Negro and white workers from marching in the funeral protession. ‘This attempt failing, the bodies of the murdered cropper leaders were rushed from the funeral home under police escort and hurriedly placed in the graves to prevent funeral ora- tions at the cemetery. Negro and white speakers were then forcibly ejected from the cemetery by the police. The I. L. D, is continuing the fight for the release of the croppers still held in jail. Mass pressure already has foreed the courts to release seven of the defendants. Working-class and sympathetic organizations are urged to rush resolutions and tele- grams to Gov. B. M. Miller, Mont- gomery, Ala., demanding the imme- diate, unconditional release of all ar- rested croppers and exploited farm- ers, and of the nine Scottsboro boys. 3 GOV'TS RUSH TROOPS TO FRONT 8Zolivia Training New Reserves BULLETIN NEW YORK —The National Committee of Unemployed Coun- ceils, in a statement yesterday, urged the toiling masses of the United States to support the South American Anti-War Congress called for Feb. 28 in Montevideo, It called for a decisive instigated in South America by U. S. im) starvation and terror ™ the U. S, and the attacks organtzed by U. S. im- on the struggles of the Haitian masses. eis The armed forces of Colombia, Peru and Brazil continue their con- verging movements on the Leticia region, despite the pretense in U. S. and Brazilian official circles that the ‘Brazilian government has initiated a move for ‘peace” in the undeclared war between Colombia and Peru. ‘The governments of the three semi- colonial countries are reported “rush- ing formidable armies'to the affected region.” Refuse to Comment. The Colombian puppets of U. S. imperialism have refused to com- ment on reports that the Colombian government had agreed to have Brazil act as “arbitrator.” The semi- government, organ, “El Tiempo,” de- clares that the Colombian govern- ment has not accepted either inter~ vention or conciliation, declaring such negotiations to be impossible. The Brazilian government several days ago barred the passage of Co- Jombjan warships and troop trans- ete up the Amazon River to the region. The action was taken after the Colombian war flotilla had been permitted to start up the Ama- | | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) {Watch Tomorrow’s “Daily Worker!” Shows Up Gibson! In tomorrow’s edition of The Daily Worker, James Casey will the bankers’ fake relief drive, the Gibson Committee cam- | paign. He shows how the bankers ‘}and the ruling Republican and Democratic party cliques plan to make the workers serve, starve A and dic for the capitalists during \¢his crisis. The facts have been , concealed by the capitalist press. Read them {n tomorrow's Daily! V place your bundle orders today! | NEWS: National || International} Condensed from articles in to- day's ional Edition of the Daily Worker which are omitted from the City Edition because of Jack of space. ee ee, ca “S. P.” TRIES “DISCOURAGING” Socialist Party leaders state that | they will take “several thousand” men and women in Pulmans to Washing- ton for “an orderly presentment of a program to aid the unemployed.” ‘They accompany the announcement with slanders against the National Hunger March, At the same time the leaders of the Richmond, Va., So- cialist Party have thrown out the rank and File Socialist Party mem- bers for joining the struggle there against evictions. FARM MARCH ON DES MOINES A thousand farmers in Lemars, Ia., blocked a sheriff's sale, Saturday. Last Wednesday they did the same. At Saturday’s meeting they voted to march on the Iowa state capitol next week and demand the legislature pass laws for relief and against forced sales. Oe A i ROOSEVELT SALES TAX It now appears that the Roosevelt conference proposal for higher income taxes was a “trial balloon.” Income taxes would at least hit the small businessmen and skilled workers hardest. The businessmen howled, and the present proposal for sales tax, which hits the lower paid workers hardest and the business men scarcely at all. JUDGE JAILS ACQUITTED NEGRO | The jury found J. Griffen, a Negro worker leader of the Philadelphia unemployed, not guilty. Judge Parry, neyertheless ordered him taken to jail. TRY TO FREE ROY WRIGHT Hearing on the I. L. D. writ of Habeas Corpus for the release of Roy Wright, youngest of the nine inno- cent Scottsboro ‘boys, will come up Jan. 16 in Jefferson County circuit court, Alabama. _ ROXAS BETRAYAL PLEA 4 Manuel Roxas, speaker of the Phi- lippine House of Representatives, broadcast over the radio Saturday night: the slander that the Filipinos are backing the present fake inde- pendence bill in Congress. Pressmen to Vote on 12 P. C. Wage Cut Pact NEW YORK+—Over 2,800 pressmen are threatened with wage cuts total- ing 12 per cent in the next two years, according to the agreement just signed by the A. F. L. officials of the New York Newspaper Pressmen’s Union, No. 2 and the Publishers’ Association of New York City. Pressmen are to vote on whether or not they will accept this wage cut that the A. F. L. officials are trying to help the bosses put over. TOO MANY JOB HUNTERS, BALTIMORE, Jan. 8. — James A. Farley, who was campaign manager for Roosevelt and will be postmaster- general in the cabinet after March 4th appealed here yesterday to dem- ocratic job hunters not to harass Roosevelt with demands for jobs, In every state there are developing fights over who will share the spoils system. “Rich thatGet the Gravy!” Old English Song . T coming wage cut being pre- pared for steel workers, and the new waye of inspired opposition in the capitalist press to increased taxes on big corporate and private in- comes, both using the excuse that incomes of the wealthy have prac- tically been reduced to nothing by the crisis, are first class examples of distortion of facts and actual lying by the Wall Street press in the drive against working-class living stand- ards. rpg According to a Pitsburg dispatch to the New York Times, the Union Trust Company, a bank controlled by the Mellon family, has just paid a divi- dend of 200 per cent on its capital stock for the year 1932. The First National Bank of New York has paid a dividend of 100 per cent for 1932. The 12 largest Pittsburgh banks paid an average of 22 per cent on their capital stock. The twenty-four largest New York banks have paid an average of 16 per cent for 1932. Six Pennsylvania steel and coal companies with headquarters in Pitts- burgh, including Allegheny Steel Koppers Gas and Coke and A, M Byers Company paid more tha: $5,000,000 in dividends on preferre, tock in 1932. Enormous wealth, for a few—th slack depths of destitution, hunge snd starvation for the masses. Th‘ s the United States—‘the riche country in the world.” The way ou. for workers? Organize and fight! STEEL TRUSTS PLAN THIRD GENERAL CUT | Only United Front and | Strikes Can Defeat Move CUT SLATED JANUARY 15 |Amalgamated and <A.) | FL. Are Silent | NEW YORK.—Wall Street activities today confirm the warning to steel workers issued | in November by the Steel and Metal Worker, official paper | of the Steel and Metal Workers | industrial Union, to the effect that “the steel bosses are pre- | | paring ‘public opinion’ and maneuy- | ering to put over another general | wage cut.” | Wall Street {s all set for news| termed as “more favorable develop- | ments” in the steel industry in the form of “lower produdtion costs”, that is a wage cut from seven and one-half to fifteen per cent slated for | about Jan. 15. “More than 500,000 workers, the overwhelming majority of them working part-time, will be affected, Cut A Certainty. The Wall Street Journal on Janu- ary 2 stated that the Street is talk- ing of an early cut in steel wages.” Redmond and Company, Wall St. brokers, in their “Morning Stock Let- ter” for Dec. 31 stated categorically that: “A further wage reduction, probably 714 per cent, will be ordered alvout the middle of next month.” There is no question that the com- ing wage cut to be put into effect by United States Steel will be fol- lowed at once by similar cuts in the plants of the “indepencents”. This is the usual procedure. It is clear that only determined strike struggles will stop the new wage cut for which Wall Street waits. Green Makes No Protest. The American Federation of Labor officialdom has not uttered a single word on this new evidence of the in- ereasingly vicious drive- the working “class although President William Green appeared last week before the Senate sub-committee on the Black bill which is considering | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) UARY 9, 1933 _ CITY EDITION Y. Molotov, Premier of the L. S. S. R., scheduled to make one of | the reports to the joint session of the Central Committee and Cen- tral Controt Commission of the Communist Party, U. 8. S. R., now | in session. S. R. opened here yesterday. The agenda includes a review of the results of the first Five Year Plan, which has just ended, and of the objectives of the new Five Year Plan. The reporters will be Stalin, Kuibyshey and Molotev, political sections of the machine tractor stations, and state farms reporter Kaganovitch and Party day questions reports Rudzu- lak. The evening session will be fea- tured by an address by Stalin. 2arents Meet Tonight to Plan Struggle for Relief to Children NEW YORK.—The Parents and Teachers’ Association has called a meeting for tonight( Monday) at 8 p. m. of all parents in the Bronx to make plans to demand that schools provide. free hot lunches and cloth- ing for needy children and children of the unemployed. The meeting will beheld at 171st St and Fulton Ave., in the Bronx. {All parents, both employed and unemployed, are urged to gttend this mass meeting. NEW SOVIET AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN. ‘TOKYO, Jan, 8.—Announcement is made that K. K. Yurénev, now Soviet ambassador to Austria is to fill the Tokyo post, in place of A. Troyanov- sky, present ambassador, Price 3 Cent \ On East Side, Bronx, Williamsburg | All Downtown Workers Mass Picket at 11th St. and Avenue A This Morning! Bronx Worker: |Picket at Charlotte, Franklin and Bryant; Williamsburg Workers Mobilize at 61 Graham Avenue! Evictions Threaten! |against high rents and evictons is spreading through the working class sections | | NEW YORK.—With demonstrations of 3,000 to 5,000, with tenants of one house after | another organizing, with block committees, un employed council branches, workers’ clubs and {many other forms of mass organizations uniting around the tenants’ grievances, a hot fight York. rent strikes, and five evictions are threatened. FIGHT EVICTIONS | IN BROWNSVILLE Landlord in Hospital; Buro Gives Relief NEW YORK. — Workers with the Brownsville Unemployed ~ Council forced the Home Relief Bureau to provide rent and weekly relief to a family evicted Friday one-half block} from. the Buro on Belmont Avenue, | Brooklyn. The landlord was sent to the hospital after he and a crowd of gangsters tried to repulse the work- ers.in the eviction fight. A demonstration at the relief buro then forced them to give relief. On Thursday 40 workers in 20 minutes ‘put back the furniture of | Espenard Edwards, a Negro tenant evicted from 241° Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn. Edwards’ furniture was put into the street while he was out look- ing for work. The Brownsville Coun- cil was notified of the eviction at Husband Unemployed, Mother of 4 Throws) Self Out of Window) UNION CITY, Jan. 9.—Sick and desperate because her husband had been unemployed for a long time, | a destitute mother of four children, Mrs| Cecilia Pirone, 44 years old, hurled herself out of the fourth-story | window of her flat at 506 Bergenline Avenue. Her condition is very seri- ous, as she has a broken spine and} ribs,and concussion of the brain.) 7 She is not expected to recover. The Pirone family have not re- ceived any relief from the city. The| few families of Union City who are given relief tickets get only $1.90 per week for even large families. Union City workers must put up a real fight for adequate relief to prevent more tragedies like that of Mrs. Pirone.| Get in touch with the Unemployed Council at the Workers Educational | Center, 44th Street and Bergenline | Avenue, Union City, BELGRADE, Jan, 8—According to} the statement of the Minister of| Social Welfare there ere half a mil- lion jobless in Yogoslavia, an increase} of 30 per cent over last year. 10:30 p.m., and acted immediately. | READER! When you finish with this copy of the Daily Worker, hand it to the nearest LR.T. motorman or other employe; he may be interested, NEW YORK.—Receivers of the In- terborough Rapid Transit Co, (I.R.T.) cut the wages of all its 18,000 subway and elevated railway men ten to | thirty per cent on Jan. 1, in order to give the bankers a $5,683,925 pay- ment of interest and the L.R.T. stock- holders some more profit. The workers got a slash of from $3 to $10 a week on wages earned by 60 hours per week of unhealthy labor. It is the first general wage cut this year, but not the first cut. Continu- ous departmental cuts have been go- ing on for months. On June 24 of this year, the Wall Street Journal stated: “In its last fiscal year the total wage costs of the entire (LR.T.) system were given as $34,067,603, but since then there have been certain economies effected through the ad- justment of working hours and eli- mination of time allowances... The amounts by which those wage costs have been reduced during the current fiscal year is not available, but of- ficers of the combined system say that substantial saving has been effected.” Of course the workers themselves know only too well that wage slash- | ing has been going on, and they know | in @ general way that the bankers and Tammany are responsible, along | with the company, A letter signed by an LR.T. worker has just heen received by the Com- munist party. (We conceal the writ- ers name for obvious reasons) and it It says: “Why don’t you give the workers courage and go down to 165 Broad- way? Ask to see Thomas E, Mur- ray, the receiver, who put this cut in, and is in league with Tammapy Hall. “He fs also the guy that owns the great part of the Brooklyn Edison Co, and Consolidated Gas Co. You could protest wage cuts on the one hand, and the fact that he doesn’t cut the gas and electric rates on the other. Also in Brook- lyn his company has laid off many men,” . And this worker {is right about the hook up with Tammany. That Tam~- Pmany ips when J. Pierpont Mor- ‘an and his syndicate of banks hand- ‘ing the city bonds pull the strings was proved openly and publicly when she legislature met to cut city work- ors! pay, That the I.R.T. wage-cut was for he benefit of the bankers, and was cut through by both Tammany and he Republicans for them was at 2ast a proper inference. But there is an even more obvious ook-up, It was brought out at a eeting of Brooklyn and Manhattan cransit co, ("B.M,T.") stockholders! ters, 431 New Jersey Ave., 10:30 @, m.,' 240: Riegel Bt. Q is typical of the general resentment. | strike LR.T. CUT RESULT OF COMPANY- BANKER PLOT Tammany Involved; Company Has Slash Fund; Men Demand Meeting, Vote! last October that Chairman Dahl of fares, the board of directors of the B.M.T., and of the LR.T., for the same group owns both lines, had been paid a total of $275,000 “bonus” during re- cent years, including $75,000 paid him about a year before. These payments were for additional compensation for services in better relations between the company and the public,” which sounds so much like appropriations for bribing some judges or city of- ficials, that Dahl formally denied that the extra compensation was for the use of his influence with the city ad- ministration, and maintained that the money covered also his relations with the Transit Commission and Samuel Untermyer, Untermyer it will be remembered is the fellow who “investigated” the subways and under guise of a cam- paign for their recapture by the city, brought out publicity for wage cuts and a fare raise, Haye Fought Fiercely. ‘The Interborough employes have fought many times in the past against this sort of thing, and have had.a bitter experience with treach- erous union bureaucrats. In 1905 they revolted against conditions not even as bad as they are now, and the of- ficers of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Street and Plectrical Railway Employes (A,F.L.) and the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers (to which motormen belonged) sent scabs and broke the strike of their own members. In 1916 there was a terrifically fought struggle, with the company and the city government breaking the dynamite frame-ups, etc., and with the union officials leaving everything to the mayor to decide. Naturally the company won. and then tn-tettod its “Brotherhood of Interborough Rapid Transit Co. Employes’ uo + company union using a yellow dog contract. 4 The LR,T, itself through the Bro- therhood, called a fake strike in 1919, thé Brotherhood fining those who did not strike, in order to get a raise in (In 1926 the rank and file of the| by force, much violence, | Brotherhood revolted, the outbreak | starting in the motormen’s and switchmen’s local, with demands for elimination of the Brotherhood and @ wage increase. The Amalgamated stepped in, took the leadership, and) led the workers right around in a circle to a defeat. The Amalgamated was then and has been later making bargains with big traction magnates} for “control” and what amounts to a check-off in some cities, like Phila- delphia, in return for an agreement | not to organize in other cities—and | New York is one of the places where | their arrangement calls for no labor struggles. The Amalgamated followed up its treacheries of 1926 with another in 1927, when the workers were ready to walk out, but the Amalgamated officials got Tammany Hall unoffi- cially and the mayor to mediate, and @ rumor was set afoot, vouched for by the Amalgamated officials, that the strike would be called off in re- turn for the “right to organize.” The Interborough prortptly denied the right to organize except in the com- pany union, the Brotherhood, but the strike movement was ended, Real Campany Union. ‘This Brotherhood is a fine example of a company union, If you work for the LR.T. and are not an office worker or executive, you must belong to the Brotherhood. That is, the company decides who is to be a mem- ber, Yellow Dog Contract. In addition you must sign this Hedge: “In conformity with the policy adopted by the Brotherhood and consented to by the company, and as a condition of employment, I expressly agree that I will remain a member of the Brotherhood dur- ing the time I am employed by the Company and am eligible to mem- bership therein; that I am not and will not become identified in any manner with the Amalgamated As- sociation of Street and Electric CITY EVENTS FRIENDS OF SOVIET UNION * MEETING Mass membership meeting of Friends of Soviet Union today at 9 p. m,, at Irving Plaza Hall, 8 p. m. to launch signature petition cam-~- paign for recognition of U. S. S. R. MARCH ON RELIEF BUREAU TODAY East New York Unemployed. Coun- today to march on Home Rellef Bu- reau. . Pe ON PA | RENT STRIKE PICKETING TODAY Help picket at 11th St and Ave. A,, this morning. Picket this morning in Bronx against attempt to evict two families at 1433 Charlotte St., four families at 1049 Bryant, and three families at 1392 Franklin Ave. Meet Railway Employes of America, or with any other association of strect railway or other employes, with the exception of the Brotherhood, and the Voluntary Relief Department of the Company while a member of the Brotherhood or in the em- ploy of the company, and that 2 violation of this agreement or the interference with any member of the Brotherhood in the discharge | of his duties or disturbing him in | any manner for the purpose of breaking up or interfering with the Brotherhood shall of ftself con- stitute cause for d'smissal from the employ of the Company.” Incidentally, in 1926, as further | and m 11th Street and Avenue A. Every tenant has suffered because of the economic condi- tions. The workers have en- jured wage-cut after wagecut, or have been thrown entirely out) of jobs. The market for artists is ruined. Writers face the same cir- | cumstances. The rents paid by these tenants have not been reduced in two years. The tenants have lord of their worsened conditions They have requested the 25 per cent t The landlord has refused. His are higher than lords in the on the premise ed io a fellow- question of rents, that: zetting away with the old graft.” ly re- on the e still The tenants have been placed by | ;| the landlord in such a position where they have no other y to obtain their right to cheaper rent than by refusing to pay rent until the land- lord gives in. Demands for no evictions of those who cannot pay rent, and for recog- nition of the house committee also are being put forth. Picket today! Bronx Workers Rovsed The Bronx rent strike and anti-| eviction struggle has been gaining force all last week. It reached a high point Friday when hundreds of pickets from the rent strike at 1433 Charlotte Street marched to the two Franklin Avenue st es (at 1377 and 2). then the u ed force marched together in a singing, shouting pro- cession to a mass meeting in tront of 1049 Bryant, where a demonstra- tion of about 3,000 took place. “We're Ul here in the same fight,” declared peakers from the house committees s organizations. Speakers complimented the Daily Worker and Morning Freiheit on | presenting the tenant's side of the] case, which ars only in these papers. The “Forward” and capi- talist papers have done everything they could to ridicule and discour- age the strikers, printing lies about their “demanding Frigidaires” and other nonsensical statements. Leading in mobilizing the neigh- borhood for these picket lines have advised the land- | of New Today is a high point in the struggle in the three main centers of conflict: the Bronx, the Avenue A section of Man- | hattan, and Williamsburg. The battle is on! Go this morning to the nearest picket line and put up a united front, mass struggle against the greedy | landlords of New York! The Communist Party, Section 1 (lower Manhattan), | tions call all to demonstrate today at East 11th Street and Avenue A, the Downtown Unemployed Council and workers’ mass organfza- where twelve houses, there and on Sixth Street, have This struggle started last week among a group of worke"s, artists and writers in several of the houses, all owned by the same landlord. It spread up and down in a few days, until now the following houses are on strike for 25 per cent redue- tion in rent: 418, 418% and 420 East Sixth Street; 501, 503 and 505 East 11th Street, and 176, 178, 180 and 1 — The picketing, however, is ate————_—- venue A. | Demands for Which ||New York Workers |Are Now Struggling | 1. The immediate listing of all unemployed for relief; the elim- ination of the bureaucratic red | tape at the relief stations and the beginning of relief payments with- | in three days after registration. 2. Increase of relief to $10 a| | week for all unemployed families | ef two, and $3 additional for de- | | pendents, with $1 a day for single workers, pending the adoption of Federal Unemployment Insurance. 3. No evictions ef unemployed or part-time workers and the sus- | pension of the eviction laws in its application to unemployed and | | part-time workers. | 4. Immediate reduction of all | rents by twenty-five per cent and} | the adoption of a legislative enact- | ment to this effe | 5. No discrimination in registra- | tion or in the payment of relief | against Negroes, single workers, | | youth and foreien-born. | | | | | . CORRECTION — As mands were previously published | they read: “Immediate reduction of all rents by five per cent.” This was a typographical error; the correct demand is “twenty-five | [Per cent.” BENJAMIN SHOWS “UP RELIEF’ BILLS ‘Demands $1,200,000,000 |Winter Aid in Capital these de- | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8— | The Senate Sub-Committee of the Manufacturers’ Committee, which is | holding hearings on the fake reliet | bill sponsored by LaFollette and Cos- | tigan, heard this and other dema- | gogic measures denounced by Her- | bert Benjamin, representing the Un- proof of the relations of Tammany} heen the Bronx Workers Club and | employed Councils of the U. S. judges to the case, an injunction was | granted the I. R. T. denying the) Brotherhood to organize the I. R. T.| employes. The Amalgamated officials agreed not to try to call a strike unless the injunction was withdrawn. The Brotherhood itself is made up of 33 locals, which are more or ‘less based on crafts. Each has a presi- dent, and these 33 presidents form a general committee. These officials | draw their wages from the company, | and have constitutional power to| make and enforce contracts up to} five years without consulting the men. They have power to disfran- chise any local or number of locals, and under the constitution are pro- hibited from considering any com- plaint against the company by any member of the union. The presi~ denjs of the locals hold office for two years, and are called “delegates” while attending the general commit- tee. Only the general committee can change the constitution of the Broth- erhood, and not even then if the company objects, for the constitu- tion itself is made part of a contract with the company. By its form of constitution the Brotherhood is not in any sense of the word a labor union, but is a com- pany union. Officials Are Company Spies Im actual fact, the officials of the brotherhood are all company spies, reporting regularly to the company any infractions of its orders that may take place in their locals. Fear the Workers It is an interesting fact that the company is always a little afraid of the employes actually coming togeth- er in large numbers even in the meet- ings of this company union. Every effort & made to discourage them from attending. Robert W. Dunn, in his book “Company Unions,” cites a case where one local meeting was attended very well because a crap Prospect Workers Club, the Women's Council, the units of Sections 5 and Bank Depositors organization, the Charlotte Street Block Committee, the Unemployed Council branch at 1,400 Boston Road, and other workers’ organizations. Fight Evictions Four dispossess notices will be served on tenants in 1049 Bryant today, and mass. picketiny by all in the neighborhodd is calied for this morning. fi Thousands have picketed during the week at 1433 Charlotte Street. Saturday the place was guarded by police, and a private detective near the entrance stopped and quizzed all who approached. But mass demon- stration and picketing continued. An attempt will be made to evict two families today. There is sickness in one of these families. All are called to picket. The two strikes on Franklin Ave- nue are near the Charlotte Street strike, and there has been an inter- change of speakers and pickets at the picketing demonstrations, The 170th Street Block Committee issues a special call for mass picketing at these addresses, 1392 Franklin and 1371 Franklin today, to stop three threatened evictions at 1392 Franklin. The Young Communist League sends a special invitation to Bronx rent strikers and pickets to attend its Anti-War meeting in Ambassador Hall, Wednesday, at 8 p.m. “All war funds to the unemployed” is a slogan of the Y. Cc. L. Williamsburg Struggle Public School 43 keeps up a sham struggle with the landlords, a wave of evictions threat- ens in that section The Relief Bureau refuses to pay over one month's rent and often misses the payment altogether, so the landlords refuse to accept a month’s rent check for three or game was run there. The company at 6? Graham Ave., Williamsburg at cil calls aJl workers at its headquar-| 8 a.m. today to stop four evictions at « ! made the officials stop the game, CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) months’ rent and new eviction no- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Opening with a sharp protest |right of any other union than the| 15 of the Communist Party, the U. S.| ®8@inst the failure of Congress to act | on the demands presented by the National Hunger March during the 30 days that have elapsed, Benja- | min spoke for two hours on the hun- | ger conditions that prevailed in all parts of the United States. He at- | tacked the abuse, deceit and terror | to which millions of jobless and | part-time workers had been sub- | jected. Although he arrived at 2 |p.m., when he was scheduled to speak, the representative of the un- employed was not given the floor until two hours later. This was done in an effort to tire out those who attended. A large number of work- ers, especially veterans who are in | Washington in connection with dis- ability claims, came to the hearing, however, when they learned that (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) Force Home Relief to Put Evicted Negro Familv in New Apt. NEW YORK.—Mr. Bell, an unem- ployed Negro worker, was sick and lying in ber when the marshal came and evicted him and his family of six, the youngest child is three months old and the oldest eleven years. The East Bronx Unemployed Coun- cil of 616 Tinton Ave., together with some members of Women’s Council house, into a new freshly painted apartment. So great was the anger and the militancy of the crowd that the two cops decided suddenly to take a walk around the corner. A committee Negro and white workers living in. up to to force fis i |