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Vol X, No. 9 WORKERS DEMAND | NANKING ACT, AS, JAPANESE INVADE: | New Battle Reported | in Northern China; Volunteers Defend STUDENTS SCORE CHANG Mexican Workers. in Demonstration BULLETIN NEW YORK.— The American Committee for Struggle Against War is sponsoring a mass protest meeting this Thursday night at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St. as part of its work of organizing effective anti-war actions against the imperialist wars now raging in South America and China and the growing danger of transition of these wars into a new} world war. All workers and anti- imperialist fighters, all persons op- posed to war, are urged to attend this meeting at which plans for fur- ther anti-war actions will be dis- cussed by prominent speakers of| North and South America. eee The Nanking Chinese Government has denied the capture by the Jap- anese of Chiumenkow Pass, accord- ing to latest news dispatches from Peiping. The dispatches quote state- ments by Chinese military command- ers that a fierce battle is now raging at the pass} with Chinese regular troops joining the volunteers in re- sisting the Japanese invasion of Jehol Province. The Japanese forces are supported by tanks and ‘bombing planes and are advancing on three fronts in a sweeping movement to envelop Jehol Province. President Hoover is reported ask- ing Congress to authorize an embargo on munition shipments. The em- bargo is apparently directed against the imperialist rivals of the U. S. and against China, the imperialists evidently fearing that their Nanking ‘puppets may be unable to stem the rising mass anger and resistance to the partition of China by the im~- perialist bandits. Hoover’s message calls for co-operation by the “prin- cipal arms manufacturing nations” to forbid shipments oe arms. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 10—Mexican workers held a militant anti-war demonstration here yesterday before the residence of the Japanese Minister Yoshiatsu Hori, carrying ypanners with slogans reading “Down with Japanese Imperialism!”, ! The desperate economic position of Japanese capitalism is admitted in the European press to be\back of the Japanese adventure. The Lon- don press publishes excerpts from 2 secret report by a “leading Euro- pean economist” depicting Japan on the brink of economic bank- ruptey and collapse. The report (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) PROTEST PINGS TORTURE THURS:! (Yall Demonstration at Chinese Consulate NEW YORKX—Scores of working class organizations in the city are preparing to mobilize tomorrow at 5 pm., at the Chinese Consulate, 13 Astor Place, for a Cs ea eee against the imprisonment and r ture of Huang Ping, Secretary of the Chinese Federation of Trade Unions. Because Huang Ping refused to betray his people and has been or- ganizing mass resistance against death and hungerjhe is being seared with red hot irons, beaten and tor- tured by Chinese agents of the im- ts. He was arrested on Jan- wary 4 in Peiping by Marshal Chang ‘Hsiao-liang, the right-hand man of the Standard Oil Company, and dic- tator of North China. ‘The demonstration will be followed by amass meeting at 8 p.m., Friday, at Irving Plaza Irving Place and 15th Street. At Friday's meeting, James W. Ford, former Vico-Presidential candi- date of the Communist Party, Louis Thompson and William Simons, sec- rétary of the Anti - Imperialist League, will report on the results of their visit in Washington on behalf Labor Defense, and the Anti-Impe- League. se 8 WASRINGTON, Jan, 10.—A dele- 5 ited the Chinese legation in Wash- today. delegation demanded the im- ite unconditional release of Ping and a ae ay life imprisonment several for their anti-imperialist in defense of the Chnese 4 Hee Hi delegation included William , of the Anti - Imperialist ; James W, Ford, Communist randidate for Vice-President in the national elections, Eddie Royce the Workers International Relief, of the International Workers - and Louis Thompson of the ternational Labor Detenaa a Entered as second-claes matter at the Pest Office at “EB”? New York, N.¥., under the Act of March 8, 187%, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents FIVE-YEAR PLAN BEAT FORECAST Base for Classless So- ciety Says Stalin MOSCOW, Jan. 10. (By Radio). — In his speech at the plenum (full session) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Sov- jet Union, J. Stalin, general secre- tary of the Party, said: “When the ‘Year Plan ap- peared, many considered it a private matter of the Soviet Union. History has, however, proved the interna- tional importance of the plan.” After recalling the derision with which the bourgeois press greeted the Five-Year Plan, Stalin pointed out that its stupendous achieve- ments had split bourgeois public opinion into two camps: one declar- ing that the plan is a failure, and the other, while agreeing that the Bolsheviks are: bad men, that the plan is succeeding. Rallies Workers Against Capitalism. Quoting the opinions of workers’ delegations which show the proletar- jan. attitude toward the Five-Year Plan, Stalin declared that the cap- italist countries are pregnant with Tevolution. That is why the bour- geoisie cites the “failure” of the plan as an argument against revolu- iton, while the proletariat draws from the achievements of the plan New argiiments for revolution. The success of the plan has mobilized all the revolutionary forces of the working class against capitalism. Turning to the fundamental prob- Jem of the Five-Year Plan, Stalin said that this consisted in switching a country with a backward and even @ medieval technique to the lines of Modern technique, converting the country from an impotent agrarian Jand to a powerful, independent in- dustrial country, Basis for Classless Society. _ It was necessary, Stalin continued, to eliminate the capitalist elements and extend the socialist forms of economy, thus creating the economic basis for the elemination of classes and the upbuilding of socialist so- ciety. By switching over smal scale agriculture to large collective farm- ing, the possibility of the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union has been eliminated. By providing all necessary requisites for the improve- ment of the defensive capacity of the country, it has been possible to de- feat all efforts at military interven- tion. \ The necessity for eliminating the technical backwardness created the conditions that are enabling the Soviet Union not only to overtake, but to leave behind the technically advanced capitalist countries. On the basis of a backward industry the Soviet power would be unable to survive for long. The socialization of agriculture was also essential’ be- cause until the small peasant farms were converted into large collectives, the danger of the restoration of cap- italism in the Soviet Union remained very real. The realization of the Five-Year SPALL {CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) STRIKES HELP TO SPREAD TOILERS’ REVOLT IN SPAIN Gov't Fears Rail, Mine and Metal Workers Will Join Move CONCEAL NUMBER DEAD} Hand to Hand Fight-| ing in Many Towns MADRID, Jan. 10.—The re- volt is still spreading through- out Spain. The police and the | civil guard (militia) are unable | to cope with the situation. In spite of heavy censorship on news from Barcelona it is known that the workers of the shops are all on the streets. In Ma- drid general paralysis is creeping over the industries and the govern- ment is concentrating all its ener- gies on desperate efforts to keep the strike from spreading to rail, mine and metal workers in all key indus- tries and transport systems. In Se- ville and Cadiz transport workers were this morning taking part in the revolutionary movement. Boss Butchers Talk Brayely. It is impossible to check up on the number actually slain. Inspired re- ports from the government, described as semi-official say that 27 have been killed and more than 100 wounded. That this is an underestimation is clear by the fact that the casualties in Barcelona yesterday exceeded this number. It is probable that the gov- ernment is listing only casualties that they know of in the workers’ ranks while concealing the losses suffered by the police and the civil guards. Government officials have prepared means of hasty exit from Madrid and from the country in case the movement gets too hot for their safety. The minister of the interior, Quiroga, who is in charge of the mil- itary and police is issuing bombast- ic statements trying to belittle the revolutionary upheaval. In a state- ment to a few international news- paper correspondents he said: “There is no danger; we kill a few and foolish movement ends”. ~~~ Raids Throughout Conntry. In all the towns not affected there are raids by police and armed hood- Iums from the upper bourgeois and professional elements against work- ers and peasants. In many sections the jails are full, but in others the jails have been opened by the in- furiated populace who released the prisoners after hand-to-hand fight- ing with the armed mercenaries of the government. This was especially so in Velencia and Cadiz where gen- eral strikes have been called. _ Premier Azana is trying to alienate support from the revolutionary move- ment by rabid statements about Moscow gold and then by saying that “money from Moscow does m= pay the regular expenses of the Commu- nist Party, which gets aid from mo- narchist elements.” The workers laugh at this as they know the Com- munist Party is their party, supported by them. Azana announced that there is sharp fighting in the village of Bugarra, Valencia province, be- tween Communists and civil guards and that he has ordered machine- gun units to the scene to aid the civil guards who are retreating. HarlemHosp.Horrors| in Tomorrow’s Daily Read in tomorrow's Daily Worker of the vile treatment meted out to Negro and white workers who are caught in the meshes of Tammany’s Harlem Hospital, where white inexperi- enced doctors ‘practice,” while capable Negro doctors are ousted or forced to resign. —~. CITY EVENTS PROTEST IMPERIALI: Alberto Rambao, Robert Minor, Dmitri Ivanovich, Robert Dunn, Nicholas Gutarra, Joseph Freeman, and William Simons are speakers at the mass protest meeting against the present bloody undeclared wars and the world war they lead Plaza Hall, PROTEST RACKETEERING AND DISCRIMINATION Mass demonstration today at 8: ‘ST WAR! THURSDAY! towards; Thursday, €:30 p.m., Irving . * Manufacturers Trust Com- pany, gives lip service for “re- lief” of New York’s hungry and job- less. At the same time he permits corporations with which he is fin- ancially affiliated to discharge work- ers by the thousands. Gibson’s fin- the length and breadth of the land, into Mexico and South America and then back to Newfoundland. By his hypocrisy, his callousness and his de- termination to safeguard every penny of the wealth he and his banker friends have taken from the workers, Gibson has helped to spread starva- tion and misery to all corners of the United States. “Mental Honesty” Gibson’s leading associate in the fake relief campaign is a notorious agent of the power trust and the merciless enemy of the working class. As head of the Brooklyn Division of the drive, John C. Parker delivers speeches to YMCA clubs on “mental honesty.” Three months ago, Parker fired thousands of workers from the Brooklyn Edison Company of which he is president. In concocting the scheme to dupe both the employed and unemployed workers, Finance Capital invoked the aid of its political wing in New York, the ruthless Tammany machine. And Tammany put forward for this task two of its tried and trusted hench- men, Frank C. Taylor and Edward C. Rybicki. ‘g ‘Taylor, the city's Commissioner of Public Welfare, is a trained hench- man of John H. McCooey, the Brook- lyn political tyrant. McCooey. is known, among other infamous things, for selling undesirable land to his “beloved city” at more than ten times its marketable value. Rybicki’s Pay Roll Rybicki is the man, who at the behest of high Tammany officials, placed on the Emergency Relief Com- mittee payroll Democrats who were not at all in need of work—men, who Possessed property and motor cars. The groundwork for the conspiracy to force the employed workers to pro- vide all the relief for the jobless and the destitute of New York City was laid in the offices of J. P. Morgan and Company on August 26, 1930. To get a clear understanding of this action, it is. necessary to review briefly several significant happenings prior to the mentioned date. Soon efter the Wall Street stock market Woset, thousands upon thousands of men and women were thrown out of work in New York City to swell the surplus army of unemployed—an ar- my inherent in the capitalist system. At once the capitalist crisis started to gain momentum. Den:and Relief There were strikes, lockouts, lay- offs, wete-cuts, evictions. The win- ter of 1930 found misery and star- vation overtaking large sections of the city’s population. Amid the chaos, the Communist Party brought for- ward its demands for immediate re- lef of the jobless and their depend- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) DEPORT YOKINEN AT MIDNIGHT Seized by U.S. for Aid to Negro Struggles NEW YORK. — Tonight at mid- night, from the dock at West. 46th St., the S.S. Hamburg will sail for Europe with August Yokinen on board. Yokinen, a militant Finnish worker of Harlem, was grabbed by 330 a.m. at 143 St. and Lenox Ave., against racketeering and race discrimination by AF.L. and city of- ficials against building trates ‘workers on Negro Armory. * Mass protest meeting against jailing of South River strikers, Jan. 18 at Stuyvesant Casino: Speakers: Richard B. Moore of IL.D.; Louis Hyman of N.T.W.1U.; Louis B. Scott, personal representative of Tom Mooney. 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 pm. under the auspices of the Trade Union Unity Council, the International Labor Defense and a number of other organizations. . * . DEMAND RELEASE OF CHINESE UNION LEADER Demonstrate Thursday at 5 p.m. before the Chinese Consulate at 13 Astor Place, for the release of * Huang Ping! * > COMMEMORATE JULIO MELLA, FRIDAY Anti-Imperialist League calls a mass meeting Jan. 13, 8 p.m, at Laurel Garden, 175 East 116 St., to commemorate the fourth anni- versary of the assassination of Julio Mella. Speakers: Richard B. Moore. Leonard Sanchez and William Simons Secretary Doak of the U. 8. Depart- ment of Labor and ordered deported because of his struggle for the de- fense of Negro rights. ‘Yokinen is well known as the de- fendant in the historic Yokinen trial at which the definite stand of the Communist Party on the fight for Negro equality and self-determina- tion in the Black Belt was clarified for millions of workers. When Yokinen confessed his error and Promised to win back his place as @ member of the Communist Party by taking on important tasks in the struggle for Negro rights, the bosses’ government seized him for ceporta- ioe to the fascist murderers of Fin- land, By this action the bosses’ govern- ment shows millions of workers what its own stand is on the Negro ques- tion. It is a clear stand of oppres- sion and discrimination, and of violence against any white worker who stretches out his hand in soli- | darity with his Negro brother. ancial holdings extend throughout | Morgan and president of the® Program of Starvation Scheme of Taxing Wages of Workers Plotted at Meeting in Morgan’s Banking Office Funds Looted to Pay Off TammanyHenchmen; | Workers’ Worst Enemies Hold the Cash | By JAMES CASEY. NEW YORK.—Intent upon making the workers bear all} the burdens of the capitalist crisis, the bankers of Wall Street | have as their supervisor of fake relief activities in New York City the craftiest representative of Finance Capital. | Harvey Dow Gibson, a business associate of J. Pierpont 70-HOUR WEEK, STAGGER SYSTEM ON Gi3SON JOBS, Needle Trades Jobless! in Hot Struggles Over Outrageous Swindle NEW YORK.—The Gibson Com- mittee, by a conspiracy with the garment bosses in which the corrupt officials of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers and International Ladies Garment Workers played a part, is putting through the stagger system, the 70-hour week and starvation pay, and discrimination against Negroes on its Red Cross cloth jobs. The Gibson outfit secured 5,000,- 000 yards of cloth to be worked on as part of its emefgency work pro- gram. It immediately began secret nego- tiations (which, however, were par- tially exposed) with President Du- binsky of the International, and Po- toffsky of the Amalgamated. A gar- ment boss named Katoff was ap- pointed to officially manage the cut- ting of the cloth. Dubinsxy. and Potoffsky proposed that they make the contract to pro- vide the cloth, and run everything. Jobless Pake-ax Hand There the Needle Trades Unem- ployed Council stepped in, defending the interests of vast numbers of un- employed needle workers that the clique was leaving out in the cold while Dubinsky and Poioffsky used Gibson cloth to build their union machines: By repeated delegations and dem- onstrations, by mass pressure, the unemployed council forced granting of jobs to about 250 workers. Then it discovered the discrimina- tion against Negro workers, and by another mass demonstration forced the next jobs to Negroes. However, it was reported yesterday by the un- employed council that there is evi- dence of only one Negro worker get- ting a job so far! Potoffsky Grabs His Meanwhile delegations of workers from Amalgamated controlled shops at 1316 East New York Avenue and other places working on jobs for the Gibson committee reported on slave conditions to the Needle Trades Un- employed Council. Workers in those shops are paid $7 to $9 a week for 48 to 70 hours’ work. In addition, Potoffsky takes out of their pay en- velopes each week $1 for an assess- ments and 40 ments more for dues. Staggering Furthermore, four weeks after these jobs started, the shops began to fire five workers a day, saying it was “to make room for others.” It is clear that the bosses (and the Amalgamated) are getting the cream of the Gibson funds. The bosses are getting thousands of dol- lars of “relief money” for the rent of the shops. And the exploitation of the workers is terrific. At one of the seventeen Gibson shops, 285 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, the work is done in a basement, If a worker coms in one minute late, she is docked half a day's pay. Workers are not allowed to talk to each other in the shop. Yesterday General Organizer Hoff- man of the Needle Trades Unem- ployed Council went, to the Gibson committee assistant manager, Apple- ton, at 209 Sullivan Street, and pro- tested the stagger system, the dis- crimination against Negroes, and the exploitation of the workers on this “emergency work.’ Hoffman was told the Gibson com- mittee knew all about the exploita- tion but “couldn’t do a thing.” As for the stagger system, Apple- ton bluntly stated that the Gibson committee was going to pnt it through on the workers. “Hoffman laid before the Gibson agent the demands of the unem- ployed council, for the workers now at work to stay on their jobs, and for the Gibson Committee to pro- vide relief for the ethers. ~om it “stagger.” Thursday, needle workers will demonstrate in masses against the Gibson stagger system, for cash relief to single workers, for jobs for Negro workers, and for jobs for family men—without red tape or discrimination. The demonstration starts with two mass meetings, at 2 p.m. .One meeting will be at 131 West 28th Street, and From the mass meetings the deni- onstrators will march to the offtec of the Gibson committee at 23rd Street and Fourth Avenue. Gibson, “Relief Head” BROADEN PLANS FOR PRELIMINARY Fires Thousands; Cruel MEETING TO PREPARE STATE-WIDE CONFERENCE FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE A. F. L. Locals Change Date to Jan. 22 for Preliminary Session Here; Bricklayers, Carpenters, Needle Trades Leaders Endors Workers! Take It Up In Your Organizations and Get Endorsements, Send Delegates, Now Is the Need for Widest Solidarity ! NEW YORK.—With endorsements coming in for its day old call for a state wide conference in Albany to frame and propose legislation for relief and unemployment insurance, for no evictions or labor injunctions | and other labor legislation, the New York State AFL. Committee for Unemployment Insurance extended its plans yesterday for the preli-| minary conference in New York City. The preliminary conference is to in- clude every type of workers’ mass or- ganization: local unions of wh ever affiliation and workers’ frat nal organizations sccial and benefit organizations. Branch of the} workmen's Circle and Si list Party are being invited. In view of this extra broad scone of the prelimin’ conference, which is to plan rallying of the workers of the whi state to the Albany conference, th date of the vreliminary confe e has been changed, indicated below. The invitation sent out yesterday officially from the New York State Trade Union Committee for Une ployment Insurance and Relief, with some 68 local unions affiliated to it, to all workers’ organizations in New York City, is as follows: FOR A PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE TO CONSIDER THE ADVISABILITY OF CALLING A STATE-WWDWE CONFERENCE ON LABOR LEGISLATION: } “Brothers: The State Legislature is now in session. Various bills sup- posedly in the interest of workers are being proposed, such as, unem- ployment insurance, relief, labor standards, and others. Most of these bills are proposed by Lehman, Marcy, “charity” organizations and profes- sional lobbyists. They fail completely to safeguard the interests of work- ers in the face of the concentrated attack of the bosses upon™the living standards of the workers. “The New York AFL Trade Union Committee For Unemployment In- surance and Relief, therefore, pro- poses a meeting of representatives of workers organizations to discuss the advisability of carrying, thru a state-wide workers’ conference to as fense of our interests. We propose that such a conference if agreed upon is to include the widest pos- sible representation of all workers’ organizations social, fraternal and benev and above labor unions, irrespective of political opin- ions or affiliation: The workers of this state have never before been confronted with the need for unity and united action as they are at the present time. Any attempt at divid- ing the forces of th kers at this time would be a betr interests. “The New York AFL Commiitee therefore, is takin he initiation in calling a pr New York sibilities f a state-wi ference and to take steps there for such a state-wide conference, to en- ergetically carry thru preparations ch a conference at the end of February. Your organization is urged to participate in this provisional con: se elect two delegates at once for your or- ganization in issuing the call for the State-wide confereng?. Have your delegates present their creden- tials at the door, if it is impossible to send them to us directly in ad- vence,” with authority to act Proved In Practice. The need for united action of all workers of all shades of opinion and of whatever organization is desperate. The good results of such action can be seen by the typical case of the smashing of a relief cut in Chicago recently by 100,000 workers built in- to a united front of every shade, Communist, A.F.L, regulars and Soci- alist. Carpenter Leader Calls to Action A. Wallenchek, of Local 2717 of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (AF.L.) stated yesterday: map out a legislative program in de- “Too long has organized labor per- mitted various charitable and social welfare organizations to champion In most so-called ‘labor legislatior their bil nothing more ts to legalize the other |schemes of tl | merce tions and file of the really formu to the state nizations presentation legislatu’ committee the efforts of th ing this move artily endorse it as a genuine a to unite all the workers on a co on program. | My local, I am certain ill endors the move d enthu in this work. ticipate 'Bricklayer’s Local President For ids Angelo Severino, pr 37 of the Bric! 2 and Plasterers International Union (AFL) stated yesterda “Our local is on record as favor- ing unemployment insurance at the expense of the employers and the government. Personally I am in favor of the state conference, and 1 urge all bric! rs’ locals in this | city and state to help make this conference a i Needle Trades Are Supporting Plan Irving Potash, secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union pledges the full support of this militant organization, saying: “The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union endorses and will give the fullest support to the strug- gle for state relief and unemploy- ment insurance and other labor legislation. We call upon all needle workers, regardless of union affilia- tion to rally to the united front con- ference in Albany and the prelimle nary conference in New York.” success Mass Picketing Blocked Evictions Yesterday; Must Do It Again Today! NEW YORK—More than fifty on; rent strike at 11th Street and Avenue} A are rolling up their sleeves this) morning to fight against five evic-| tions and are calling upon their neighbors and all workers to help. ‘As readiness to act for cheaper) rents continued to spread in all parts) of the city yesterday, the rents in the Bronx kept dropping. Bronx! workers started actual organization for a mass rent strike. Many land- EXPOSE BLACK BILL IN CAPITAL, Weinstock Speaks to Senate Committee WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. — Louis} Weinstock, in an hour's address be- | fore the senate sub-committee on} manufacturers, made a complete ex- | posure of William Green and the of-| ficialdom of the American Federation | of Labor and the Black Bill which | they support. This was, according to | newspapermen and others in the au- | dience, the most impressive state- ment yet heard by the committee The Black Bill under the pretense 0” | putting into effect the 30-hour week really provides for the legalization of the wage-cutting stagger system. Weinstock followed Lovell of the Brotherhood of Railway firemen, who predicted a strike if the Black Bill or a similar bill is not passed. Would Frame Weinstock. Senator Black, trying to shield the labor agents of Wall Street who are trying to put over his bill, closely! questioned Weinstock in regard to his trade union membership. It was ob- vious that Black was trying to lay the base for action by Green and the American Federation officials against | Weinstock to try to get him out of the union. Dunne Appears Wednesday. William F, Dunne, representing the National Committee of the Trade Union Unity League is to appear to- morrow (Wednesday) before the same commiittee and state the posi- tion of the T. U. U. L. for the sup- port of shorter working week legis- Jation which expressly forbids wage (\ a | picket was maintained all day. St. and Ave. A.,_at °‘'33 Charlotte and at 1377 and 1399 Franklin Avenues! lords, facing the growing storm, re- duced their prices. The constable appeared twice yes- terday to carry out the evictions at llth Street and Avenue A. He changed his mind, apparently, when he saw the spirit and number of workers picketing the place. A mass A large outdoor meeting also was held. Five more eviction notices were served to the strikers yesterday, bringing the total to ten. The constable’s game of hide-and-| seek, in which he has been trying to} catch the strikers and pickets not prepared, is expected to end today, when he will try to set out the furni- ture, in spite of the crowd. This is why the strikers are urging a very large turn-out this morning. “More than 1,500 assembled in front of 1433 Charlotte Street, the Bronx, yesterday in support of the tenants on strike there. They marched to 1377 and 1392 Frant:lin Avenue, where two other strikes are in progress. In the four strikes in the Bronx, as on Avenue A, trying to catch the workers unaware. None of the evictions threatened in these strikes were carried out yes- terday, but are exvected to be at- tempted surely today. All workers are called upon there- fore to come to any of the following places, where evictions are ex- ected: 1433 Charlotte, 1377 and 1399 Franklin Avenue, 1049 Bryant (all in the Bronx), end at lth Street and Avenue A on the East Side. Tammany courts and police are giving first-class service to George Rosenblum, of the D & R Holding Company, the landlord of the prop- erty at 11th Street and Avenue A. The police, yesterday, at the open-| air meeting on the corner threw a paper sack full of water at the workers, The cop was spied on the roof, and when some of the workers went up there, they found a large bucket half filled with water, Policeman No. 11048 also was caught peeping into the window of an apartment where a tenant and his wife were asleep. When the the constables are} ® tenant jumped out of bed and de- manded the. cop’s number, he was given it, along with a barrage of\the foulest sort of oaths. Detectives mingled constantly with the crowd around the house all day. POSTPONE TRIAL OF 7IN ALABAMA egro Woman Killed ; | Keep Up Protests ! | BULLETIN BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. 9.— The trial of seven Negro share- croppers in Dadeville court was postponed by the State today until Wednesday, Jan. 18, ote BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 10.— | held in Dadeville jail, Tallapoosa Trials of en Negro croppers still | Coui Ala., have been set. for to- morrow. They are charged with “as- sault to murder” in connection with the heroic defense of Negro cropp2rs against the murderous attacks by landiord-police lynch gangs which re- | sulted in the Battle of Reeltown, the wounding of four deputies and the | murder of at least three croppers. | Mass pressure has forced the release of seven other croppers, including | three who were held in the same Jail | with the two murdered cropper lead- Jers, Milo Bentley and Cliff James, | the latter betrayed into the hands of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | Perfect Negligee Co. | Tied Up by Strike | NEW YORK.—The workers of the Perfect Negligee Co., 16 E. 34 St., a | white goods shop, are on_ strike | against a general wage cut. All 50 workers are out, and’ the shop js |completely tied up. The strik | who are Syrians, Armenians, Ge: mans and Russians, are militant and | in good spirit. The strike is under the leadership of the White Goods Department of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, Against Wage Cut _