The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1933, Page 1

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NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents CALL STATE CONFERENCE IN ALBANY ON UNEMPLOYMENT JAPAN RULERS OPENLY DECLARE INTENTION TO ANNEX CHINA PROVINCE, Nanking Puppet Governnient | Government pe Start Parley | With Japanese Fo Forces in Shanhaikwan U. S, Backs Move; Aims to Provoke Japanese Clash With the Soviet Union A new revolt against the} Argentina government of Pres- ident Justo is reported from the Territory of Misiones in Northern Argentina where the rebels attacked the garrisons of sev- eral towns. The government has es- tablished a strict censorship on news from the affected regions. The Argentina Minister of ‘Interior makes a thinly veiled charge against the Brazilian Government of furn- ishing arms to the rebels. The Ar- gentina Government is preparing to give military aid to Paraguay (Brit- between Paraguay and Bolivia (U. S. influence.) While the position of the Brazilian Government is now uncer- tain, that government was previously Supporting the U. 8. bloc of puppet ‘states in the struggle between U. S. and British imperialists for control of markets and natural resources in South America. Thus the indications are that the present revolt is part of the struggle between the U. S. and Great Britain. Line Up May Shift An accord js reported to have been reached between the Peruvian and Ecuador governments, with the former making concessions to Ecu- ador on the boundary question in an attempt to neutralize Ecuador in the war between Peru and Colombia. Powerful British and American in- terests are constantly working behind the scenes and sudden shifts in the line-up of the opposing forces are not unexpected. STEEL TOILERS IN OHIO HIT PAY CUT Jobless Pledge ‘Aid to Employed in Fight BULLETIN The bosses in the steel branch of the construction business in the New York area have announced, through Robert B. Thomas, coun- sel for the Iron League of New York, Inc., that they would keep up the Iron League to fight any attempt to organize the workers in that industry. . YOUNGSTOWN, O., Jan. 9.—At a meeting of Republic Steel workers who had been “laid off,” called by the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union, a resolution was adopted vigorously protesting the threatened wage cut and pledging full support to the workers still employed “even to the extent of going with them on the picket line if strike action is taken against the cut.” Another resolution protested the action of the City Council in drafting a budget which wipes out poor re- lief, cuts down the sum allotted for hospital expenses—and adds to the | police force. | Demonstration at City Hall | The meeting.called for a mass dem- | onstration. before the City Hall at the time the budget is to be voted upon and mass support for the elect- ed workers committee which will de- mand increased poor relief, increased hospital allottment, free city water for unemployed workers’ homes, dras- tie cuts in the pelice force, abolition of the city detective force and big cuts in salaries of city officials. BULLE N. Fierce fighting occurred yester- day on the borders of Jehol Prov- ince between the Japanese invad- ers and Chinese yolunteers resist- ing the Japanese invasion. The Japanese used bombing planes against the irregulars. Under the direction of U. S.| the | and British imperialists, Nanking Chinese Government moved yesterday to open nego- tiations with the Japanese in- vaders for a cessation of hostilities around Shanhaikwan, North China city destroyed by Japanese gunfire and aerial bombardment. This imperialist-inspired move is intended to facilitate the seizure of Jehol Province by the Japanese imperialists, thereby broadening their military base on the frontiers of the Mongolian Peoples Republic and the Soviet Union. The nego- tiations are sponsored by Admiral Sir Howard Kelly of the British fleet and secretly supported by Wall Street’s representatives in China, in line with Washington's program of diverting the Japanese advance toward the Soviet borders and away from U. S. spheres of in- fluence and inyestments in China. Marshal Chang Hsiao-liang, Chi- nese military commander in North China, is to carry on the negoti- ations with the Japanese. Chang is notoriously a tool of Wall Street. Armed with the secret support of the other imperialist powers, ithe Japanese imperialists make no ef- fort to conceal their robber aims of annexing Jehol Province to their Manchukuo grab. The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman plainly states these aims, as follows: “We consider Jehol part of Man- chukuo, and anything Japan does there is within its rights and obli- gations.” Chinese Red Army forces and Manchurian and Jehol Province volunteers and irregulars are car- rying on a heroic resistance to the Japanese aggressors, The new Jap- anese adventure has evoked a tre- mendous upsurge of the anti-im- perialist struggles throughout Chi- na, Immigration Spies Try to Terrorize Metal Shop Workers NEW YORK. — Wednesday last week three immigration inspectors came into the Majestic Metal Co. shop at 200 Varick St. and quizzed many of the workers. Most of them are Spanish speaking, and many of these are women. This shop produced ammunition for the air service in the last war, and there is a rumor that it now has an order for more of the same, for the coming imperialist war. The employer had heard of agita- tion going on in the shop against the new proposed war, and had heard that union organizing was going on. The government got busy at once, to boost the boss’ profits and keep its source of airplane ammunition in- tact, by terrorizing the foreign born workers. You don’t want to be shot? Come to the Anti-Imeperialist War meeting, Thursday at 8:30 in Irving Plaza Hall. CITY EVENTS * MASS MEETING FRIDAY TO DEMAND RELEASE OF HUANG-PING A mass protest meeting against the arrest of Huang-Ping, head of the All-China Federation of Unions, and to demand his immediate release from the murderous grip of the Nationalist Government, will be held at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place, Friday, Jan. 13, at 8 p.m. under the auspices of the Trade Union Unity Council, the International Labor Defense and a number of other organizations. * * * SEE “THE LAND OF NAYIRI” FRIDAY . See “Land of Nayiri,” Soviet film of Armenia, run for benefit of Daily Worker and Panvor, all ane. Friday at Fifth Ave. Theatre, 28th St. and Broadway. . * * AMPAIGN FOR RECOGNITION OF U.S.S.R. Frien Soviet Union invites all to mass mecting tonight at.& p.m. in Irving § | Hall. Speakers: Prof. Kuntz, national chairman of icor, just back U.S.S.R. on “Latest Developments in Soviet Union”; Israel Amter, national secretary of the Unemployed Councils, on “Why We Should Recognize Soviet Russia,” and Winifred Chapel, member of the Mternational Anti-War Congress. . DEMAND RELEASE OF CHINESE UNION LEADER Bemonstrate Thursday at 5 p.m. before the Chinese Consulate at 13 Soxor Place, for the release of Huang Ping! Distribute Article Exposing Gibson Crowd Tomorroy! | The article by Casey exposing |the bankers fake relief scheme, | the Gibson Committee, has been | postponed one day at the request) | of the workers’ mass organizations interested in giving it wide circu- lation, to allow them to better prepare for distribution and ‘sale | of the paper. It was announced | for today, instead, it will appear | tomorrow. | | All Communist Party Units, | Needle Trades Unions, Food and | Shoe Worker organizations and | unemployed council branches, etc., are urged to turn in their or- ; | ders today. | In Thursday's edition of the | Daily Worker, read about what is termed in Harlem, “The Human Butcher Shop”, the Harlem Hos- pital, where Negro and white workers are subject to inexperi- enced and incapable white doc- tors. Negro doctors who object are thrown out or forced to resign. Also Party units and mass or- ganizations should place their or-} der not later than Friday for the} Lenin Anniversary edition of the Daily Worker. | 24 MINERS F ACE DEATH IN ILL. Charged With Murder for Defending Selves TAYLORVILLE, IIl., Jan. 9.—Twenty-four striking min- ers, members of the Progres- sive Miners of America, are now in jail, charged with mur- der for defending themselves last Tuesday when armed mine thugs opened fire onthe strikers,-killing Mrs. Albino Cumerlato, wife of a mined. In the shooting two thugs, Hickman and Rodems, were also Kill- ed. Will'yms, attorney for the Pea- body Coal Co., against whom the miners are striking has announced that the arrested miners will be ar- raigned Jan. 13. Among those being held are Albert Matozzo, chief of police of Kincaid. He and the mayor were also beaten up by the sheriff's deputies. Many of the thugs deputized by Sheriff Weinecke have notorious po- lice records. Jess Barnes and “Cutes” Greenan served terms for rape, while Art Lockhart, now acting as body- guard for W. C. Argust, district superintendent of the Peabody Co., is a convicted bank robber. eee N. M. U, Issues Appeal. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 9.—Imme- diate mass action by workers throughout the country is necessary it the frame-up against the 24 strik- ing miners in Illinois is to be smashed, declared the National Min- er$’ Union here today. No time is to be lost. Wire protests to the gov- ernor of Illinois at Springfield, de- manding the immediate, uncondi- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SCORE TERROR IN PHILIPPINES NEW YORK.—Five hundred work- ers attended a mass protest meeting at the Prospect Workers Center, 1157 Southern Blvd., and denounced the brutal persecution of Filipino work- ers and farmers by the Wall Street government and its Filipino lackeys. The meeting sent telegrams to Sec- retary of State Stimson, Secretary of War Hurley and the Resident Com- missioner to the Philippines, de- tional freedom to the Philippines. BARCELONA, Jan. 9. — Seven provinces witnessed revolutionary outbreaks yesterday, and through- out the night there was incessant street fighting between workers and police and groups of military that could be trusted. Socialists Cast Aside. The workers in the ranks of the General Federation of Labor of Spain, under the leadership of the Socialist Party, have for months been going over to united fights side by side with the Communist workers who, under the leadership of the Communist Party, have already united large sections of syndicalist workers in the fight against the com- mon capitalist enemy. Largo Ca- balero, general secretary of the so- cialist party, is minister of labor in the government. This social-fascist strike-breaker and his socialist com- rades haye failed to cripple the mass iJ | Must Intensify HEARING ON 5 Mass Protests BULLETIN. PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 9. — Five hundred members of the National Miners Union in somth-eastern Kentucky have adopted a protest resolution to Goy. B. M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala, against the outrageous landlord-police attacks on Negro croppers and exploited farmers in Tallapoosa County, Ala. BIRMINGHAM, \Ala., Jan. 9— Attorney Frank B. Irwin of Bir- tional Labor Defense, today refused to agree to the request of the Prose- cutor of Tallapoosa County to waive preliminary hearings in the cases of the five Negro croppers still held in jail. The LL.D. attorney an- nounced he, would insist on the hear- ing being held this Wednesday, as scheduled. The five croppers are Judson Simpson, Ned Cobb, Sam Moss, Clinton Moss, and Alfred White. Others Released. Other members of the Share Croppers Union who were arrested for defending themselves against the savage armed attack of the landlord-police lynch gangs on December 19 have been released as a result of the mass protests which have poured into the Ala- bama officials from all parts of the country, The exposure by the LL.D. of the murder o* Cliff James and Milo Bentley forced the release of three croppers who were held in the same jail with James and Bentley. Continue Protests. The southern district of the LL.D. urges workers and all others opposed to lynching and national oppression of the Negroes to continue their protests against the landlord-police terror and to demand the immediate unconditional release of the five croppers still held in jail, Call for Sharper Fight Against Mass Hunger NEW YORK. — Fifteen thousand applicants for relief, all of whom are so destitute that they have been “certified” by the Emergency Unem- ployed Relief Committee as needing relief at once, are not getting a single cent or any food or clothing out of the millions extorted from workers by the Gibson committee, it was ad- mitted yesterday by Peter S. Duryee, executive director of the relief com- mittee. Duryee’s figure is, of course, far below the real figure. And even 15,000 applicants left umprovided means starvation also for the fam- ilies of these applicants. ‘These facts show that a sharper struggle than ever must immediately be organized to put a stop to the mass hunger, about which the bosses haye shown they will do nothing un- less forced to action by the workers. The District Committee and the District Secretariat of the Commun- ist Party have therefore issued a statement to the workers of the New York District pointing out that only by increased militant organized ac- tion, under the leadership of the Unemployed Council, can a stop be manding that the terror cease and| put to the mass starvation and mass the granting of immediate, uncondi- | evictions being pushed at present by the bosses. mingham, engaged by the Interna-} Rent Strikes Sweeping Onward; Cuts in the Bronx; Picket Today! Telia Say They Will Evict F Panitiee 3 in One East Side, Four Bronx Strikes This Morning | CROPPERS WED. NEW YORK.—With the s New York working class districts, the ntiment for a mass rent strike growing in mass struggle has already forced down | rents in the Bronx. The fight goes on, particularly against evictions sched- | uled in five strikes today. In the Bronx, where some landlords are sla the strike movement, a mass turn- out today to fight evictions is urged | at the following addresse: 1433 Charlotte Street; 1049 Bryant and 1377 and 1392 Franklin Avenue. Mass picketing was kept up at the | above addresses all of yesterday, de- spite a dismal rain. Other thousands |of workers were prepared to turn| out against evictions at a moment's notice. On the East Side, the workers on strike at 11th St. and Avenue A are} calling for as many as possible to} be present this morning to stop five | | WaGes DROP; REN While the average wage in New York has been cut by more than) | one-half, rents are at approxi-| | mately the level of 1929. g rents to head off stood evictions. Squads of worker ready to turn out in case the constable came, as the landlord | had threatened The East Side stri following addr {same landlord: 501, 503 and llth St.; 176, 1 and 180 | and 418, 418%) 420 East 61 St The evictions are scheduled at Ave. A and llth St Landlords of h es near the strike at 1433 Charlotte Street have been forced to cut rents because of t strike, which was spreading rapidly. At 1394 Franklin Ave., next door to | the strike at 92, the landlord had | to cut rent by $5 a month on each | apartment. (CONTINUED ON PAGE ‘fWO) COMMITTEE OF 55 AL LOCALS ISSUES CALL; T0 PLAN LABOR LEGISLATION All Unions Invited to Indorse and Take Part; Proposed Date Is Feb. 26 to Feb. 28 Preliminary Conference Here.Jan. 17 to Make Arrangements; Propose Detailed Program NEW YORK.—The New York American Federation of Labor Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief a delegated bedy with 55 A.F.L. locals here affili | ated with it, at its regular meeting Jan. 7 in Irving Plaza, is: sued a call to all unions of whatever affiliation to endorse and Charlotte and Franklin Streets Like a War Zone (See Picture on Page 3) NEW YORK.—In the dimly lit par-| lor of one.of the few remaining ten- ants at 1433 Charlotte St., The Bronx, where the hottest battles of the rent strike have been fought—a mother clenched her hands and said with vi- brant determination— “I was. one of the first to be evicted, and I’ve prob- ably suffered. more..than--anyone..else/-movement: here, but if I moved anywhere else, I would go through the same thing without hesitation. This gives one courage to fight, Before this Map-| pened I thought I must have forgot- ten how.” And the rent strikers of the mid- Bronx are fighting. The hallways and empty apartments of Charlotte St. are vivid reminders of struggle. “Rent Strike” painted in black and red let- ters on every inch of available floor, wall and ceiling space, forms a con- tinuous design throughout the house.) ‘The walls are smeared with broken} eggs and rubbish where the evicters met with resistance. Skeet tin doors are smashed like cardboard, and the| flocrs are littered with broken plas-| tering, giess and stripped woodwork. These are the results of Thursday's battle, when it required a platoon of police to force their way into the|in the district, states, that impetus] house to enable the hired thug, City| Marshal Chase, with his drunken as- sistants to evict four tenants, One Quit The brutality of the evicters as they punched women, smashed furni- ture and striick down children, was such that the most sober of the mar- shal’s assistants, left, saying that he could stand it no longer, It is said that the joined the picket line for a while, but this could not be verified. Meanwhile continual open - air meetings are being held by the un- employed council members, who are leading the strikers. They revealed! Ane tot bitterly remarked “When wel telief for ten weeks or the tactics of landlady Shapiro and} the Gerstein Real Estate Company, which has attempted unsuccessfully to break the strike by offering con- cessions to individual tenants. They denounced the Kempner Realty Corp. which has cut down eviction notices | opposed to the entire movement, ap-/ from ten to three days—not that it} actually matters, because the rent} strikers are going to fight anyway. At 1040 and 1048 Franklin Ave.) the landlo! has already settled, the| strikers winning all demands, An Undercover Landlord Strikes continue at numbers 1377 and 1392 on the same block, The landlord, Kaplan, is working on a conspirative basis, his means of exit and entrance to 1392 Franklin being| house committees by themselves, and| , | a secret passage-way through a back * of the house. He y et meetings at his window facing the street, appsrent under the. belief that this is a good | way of impressing the tenants with | his benevolent intentions, Midnight raids he made on the placards placed | in the front windows and fire escapes j Tact with indignant objections from one worker, newly won over to the alley and tne holds week: -he---Jatter remarked. “During the election campaign I had a ‘Vote for Roosevelt’ sign on my fire | escape and you didn’t mind. Now I've | got a ‘rent strike’ sign and its going |to stay there whether you mind or not”, 5,000 Demonstrate Jennings St. has sent its thousands of militant food workers and cart peddlers to support every large demonstration called by the un thousand strong, frightened the po- | ice so much at the Thursday eviction | that the bluecoats kept up a fusillade | of shots in the air to maintain their | own courage, Children Picket, Too ber of children in the picket line. Bella Pervin, leader of the Pioneers has been given to the organization} by the strike. There are now 35 on the children’s block committee at Franklin Avenue. A concert and party to be given by the group next Sun- day at 2 p.m. is expected to increase the number. During the eviction children in| nearby schools were sent home through the fire-drill method which| tock them five blocks out of the} | neighborhood of the strikers, The ruse failed, however, the Pioneers leading} their fellow pupils to Charlotte St, to demonstrate. were in school they taught us that} the world is a beautiful place to live in and everybody is so happy. But when we got home we found our fur-| niture in the street.” A father who had formerly been jproached an unemployed council mefnber yesterday and said, with a | beaming countenance’ “Do you know} that my little one picketed?” | An organizational difficulty com- | plained of by a council leader was ;that people came to him, saying: |“Why don't you come and organize | us? Why do you only pick on those | houses?” The leader explained) | that these people should first form | then ask for council ‘eadership, Street Fighting On In Seven Provinces As the Communist, Socialist and Syndicalist Workers Unite Against Bosses movement and is now aiding in fas- cist. violence against workers who strike and demonstrate against hunger. Workers Seizing Autos and Arms. The chief outbreak of the hungry masses began in the center o! Barce- Jona at 9:15 p. m. and rapidly spread to other parts of the city. Police at- tacked the crowds with gun fire. But the men, women and youth fought back. In less than half an hour a number of stores containing guns and munitions were looted, the workers with arms seized automobiles and entered into combat with the motor Police and civil guards. Six other provinces were involved before morning. General Strike Call Issued. Many industries are closed down, with the workers fighting in the streets. A call has been issued for @ general strike today. News is being censored and it is only with the greatest difficulty that communica- tions get out of the country. The situation in Madrid is described by the Barcelona capitalist press as “serious”, and there is taking the massing of troops to protet$ the SOCIALIST LEADERS CAST ASIDE IN REVOLUTIONARY OUTBREAKS IN SPAIN ments—“all quiet”. As a matter of fact the streets are | filled with masses clamoring for | bread and fighting against the armed | forces. The industrial centers are paralyzed and the troops, afraid to invade these centers, are reported to be bringing up long-distance guns to cannonade working class areas in the industrial towns. But with in- creasing hostility on the part of the population the soldiers fear being torn to pieces by the masses. Communists Hold Town. The town of Sabadell, Catalonia, is in the hands of Communists who have arrested the former authorities and their civil guard and have taken down the Spanish nationalist flag ce | and raised the red flag over city hall. A fierce battle is raging as the government from the revolutionaries. ‘This morning the report reads like & war bulletin concealing troop move- government troops are fighting to dislodge the workers led by Com- munists. push- | ployed council. It was they who, five| A feature of the strike is the num-} send delegates to a state wide? Tn ka a en eS | conference to propose labor le-| JOBLESS FIGHTS gislation, including relief and | unemployment insurance wa, | IN FIVE STATES to the state legislature. 6 27 and 38 ana ine place. to we (Cal. and Ore. Marchers [eae tae Present StateDemands | In discussing the plans for the con-| SACRAMENTO, Jan. 9-—More jference. the Committee states that! than a thousand state hunger | they will invite all locals affliated to| marchers are today converging on the American Federation of Laber.| the state capitol here. Tomorrow | all Railroad Brotherhood lodees, and the demands for immediate relief all workers organizations irrespective and unemployment insurance will be of their political or relieious affilia- | ><, } + re | presented to the state legislature, {tons to this Albany Conference. | ‘The marchers encountered police The chief object of this three-day | hostility and brutality in many jconference in Albany is to ae places along the line. In Los | the immediate problems co! the workers in the state of New York, namely—unemplovment insur- | ance, and immediate relief. A preliminary conference for the | organization of a provisional com- | Angeles the hunger marchers started out after a fierce encounter with police attackers who tried in vain to smash their ranks so they could not join the other state marchers. Rolfe’s police thugs are on hand in large | mittee will be held on Jan. 17, 'Tues-| numbers. | day, g Plaza Hall, mage ae aS. 15th Where r& Oregon State March, | presentatives from the. New York A. |F. of L. Committee, delegates from | A. F. of L. local unions and other | labor organizations will work out a} SALEM, Ore., Jan. 9—The State Hunger Marchers arrived here today and are ready to present their state demands to the Oregon legislature detailed program for the Albany con-| now in session. All along the route ference. the lines of march were greeted with The enthusiasm by the impoverished who, in the face of the hor- tible conditions imposed upon them, | | New York AFL. Committee | |is confident that this conference will | include all workers in the state and | their action will be beneficial to} are increasingly determined to fight. both organized and unorganized la-| This usually dead town takes on new bor. life when the legislature is in ses The AF.L. Trade Union Commit-| sion. But this time there is s greater activity, not only because of the presence of the hunger march- tee at its meeting where these deci- sions were adopted considered the | desperate situation of the unemploy- | ers, but because of the flocks of po- Jed workers of New York State. By| lice recruited by the state govern- official, and underestimated figures, | mer these amount to 1,750,000, and the | | number is certainly more. Reject Lehman's Program | The committee considered that | Governor Lehman's message to the |legislature proposed nothing of any | importance for relief of the jobles First Parade in Bend, Oregon. BEND, Oregon (by mail).—The first working men’s parade held in Bend, Oregon, was held on Jan. 3, at 2:30 p. m. by the Bend Unem- pioyed Council. Four banners were carried with the slogans: “Bend U. and instead, by advising “rastic/ 9,” “Moratorium on All Debts and | “economy” at workers’ expense, cut-| Taxe “Cash Unemployment Re- | ting of school funds, ete. made the | iif," and “Free Tom Mooney.” These | condition of the unemployed worse. For Real Insurance The only unemployment insurance | | bills proposed by legislators so far are means of taxing workers for pro- | viding funds that may, or may not, | actually give some small measure ot | so, some time | in 1937. These are not acceptable | to the workers of New York, who} adopt the principle of employers’ paying for the funds, and insurance |to the workers for as long as un-| employment lasts. banners will be carried also in Salem at the State Hunger March dem- onstration. In _ preparing for the Hunger (CONTINUED on PAGE 3) ‘MARINE WORKERS FIGHT FOR RELIEF The Socialist Party, New York | To Protest Tomorrow State committee, as meanwhile rushed forward with a proposal of! at Finnish Consulate its own for a separate conference— aban which would mean splitting the| NEW YORK.—A mass demonstra- | tion of seamen and longshoremen cheduled to take place in front of the Finnish Consulate, 5 State St., tomorrow noon, Wednesday, Jan. 11, under the auspices of, the Marine Workers Industrial League, the Un< employed Councils and the Finnish Federation, will have a far-reaching effect on the fight of all seamen for relief. The fact that the demonstration | Will expose the maneuyers-of the var- | fous capitalist governments calculated | to pass the buck and thereby starve the workers of the Marine industry, will give to this demonstration inter- national significance, and will go a long ways towards compelling the government hers to take up the ques- tion of immediate relief. jranks of the workers at the very moment when the need is for uni- |ted front against starvation, and a united working out of real labor and | unemployment. insurance legislation with a campaign to put it through. The Communist Party, District 2 | (New York) some days ago called attention to this situation and pro- | posed that workers’ mass organiza- | tions take the initiative in calling such a united front conference. Tenants Declare Rent Strike When Landlord Rejects Their Terms NEW YORK.—A rent strike has | been declared at the apartment} | house at 1566 Washington Ave., the Bronx. The strike was called after several unsuccessful conferences between the tenants’ house committee and the When the Finnish Workers applied to the relief avencies here, they were , told to see the Finnish consul, on the grounds that nothing could be done for foreigners. When the same workers went to see. |the Finnish consul, he told them, “I can’t do anything for you. The Finnish government only recognizes Finnish seamen who have been ashore less than three months, Go to the}, relief agencies.” The demonstration tomorrow willl) be supported by all workers, native as well as foreign-born. It is caleu- lated to expose a condition under which marine workers of all nation- alities starve under one pretext or another. The demands that will be put forward at tomorrow's demon- stration will be in the interests of all the workers in the industry, landlord who refused to withdraw eviction notices to two tenants and tried to break the ranks of the te- nants by negotiating with them singly. The tenants are standing solid be- hind the house committee, and are | refusing to pay rent till the landlord comes to terms. A PROFITABLE SHIFT NEW YORK.—The Catholic Char- ities are shifting most of their needy cases to the Home Relief Buro; thus saving their money and making the city pay, Bg ei Ah a