The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1933, Page 3

A DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1933 “i Page Three International | Some Typical Soviet Workers Woman Member of Harvar Notes WORKER CORRESPONDENCE By ROBERT HAMILTON JEWISH TALKIE MADE IN THE SOVIET UNION For the first time in the world a dramatic motion picture has been made in the Jewish language—not a corrupt dialect, but the literary | tongue. The talkie is entitled ‘The | Medical Faculty Scores Ely Anti-Labor Drive Dr. Alice Hamilton Fights Attempt to Legalize Night Work for Women Increased Response to UnitedFrontConference January 29, in Boston BOSTON, Jan. 10.—Governor Ely’s proposal to suspend all social and Jabor legislation to enable Massachusetts manufacturers "to meet Southern competition” is arousing opposition in labor and sympathetic circles and the call for a united front conference Sunday, Jan. 29, 2 P. M., at 10 Beach St., to lay plans to defeat this vicious proposal, issued by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union is meet-@ . ing with increased response. | This makes for an aristocratic sys- Dr. Alice Hamilton, the only woman | te™. Besides, there is no leadership on the faculty of Harvard Medical | #24 no inspiration left in the or- School, in an exclusive interview | Sanization. Look at Lewis in the JOBLESS COUNCILS REACHING MORE TOWNS. Revolt at Rotten Meat Given by Erie as Relief; Councils in Protest City Hires High-Priced Dietician to Work Out Rock-Bottom Meny of Starvation Jobless Fighting This New Move and to Halt Return of Nathan Backer’ and is now ready for release by Soyuzkino in Moscow and by Amkino in Amer- ica. The film tells the story of a Jew who emigrated from Russia in Tsar- ist days and returns to find his | mother country completely altered. | His old father, formerly a small mer-| chant has changed his viewpoint, | and in the end the younger man de- cides to remain as a member of the new, young society. . ¢ These workers were picked for a part’in the new movie “Kom- somol” (Young Communist) as being typical of Soviet workers, Note the various nationalities represented, (F, P. Pictures.) 100 feet under- ground, this worker is helping to | Digging away, me FARTHEST NORTH MOVIES Three hundred Soviet workers in the Soviet coal mine in Spitzbergen in the Arctic Ocean are now being} regularly supplied with Chronika,| construct the first subway of the Soviet Union in Moscow. It is to be finished next year to help with the growing city’s ‘transportation Wholesale Evictions By L. LEWIS. ERIE, Pa.—The Erie Press of Jan. 3 Dispatch brought the news that | over four thousand families are facing eviction in the city of Erie. The BOSS ATTACK ON|| «mr. Flore, How with a representative of the New England Labor Research Association on Jan. 5, expressed amazement and indignation that the “liberal” Goy- ernor Ely should reiterate, in his in- United Mine Workers of Illinois get- | ting the outrageous salary of $12,000 a year in these times! Here they vote themselves into a huge salary | and hang on to it, bleeding the work- BALTIMORE DANCE| Many Members Negro-White in Selt- |DoYouBoastOf? ers to pay it.” 5 ALA. CROPPERS the Soviet sound news reel. This s| problem, Poor Board has announced that even the miserable relief which is now the farthest north point in the world | siven out, amounting to 60c per week, per head, will be cut down and no having a regular film eervice—and| rent money will be paid. The landlords have given notice that there are over 4,000 families on the list to be@ augural address, proposals that he first made Noy. 17 before the New England Conference. again the Soviet Union is the first | owe These would suspend the 48-hour rg ageless iCHES | ER JOBI ESS see. This affects about 16,000 MISSOURI Defense; 2 Stabbed (in a previous issue, the | Jaw for women workers and the laws | e Daily Worker published the first | 482inst night work for women and SOVIET FILM DIRECTOR TO MAKE TURKISH MOVIE| Yutkevich, one of the directors of the current Soviet film success, “Vstrechny” (Counter-Plan), is leav- ing for Istanbul, where he will dir- ect the film portraying Turkey's struggle for national independence, to be ready in 1933 on the tenth anniversary of Turkey’s freedom. Exteriors will be filmed in Turkey, while the studio scenes will be made in the Soviet Union, probably in the Patilikha studios of Soyuzkino in Moscow. ates PUTILOV PLANT TO MAKE PASSENGER CARS Ten experimental cars by May Ist! ‘The first plant in the Soviet Union to make tractors, the famous Red Put- ilov Plant in Leningrad, is now going to try its hand at making high- powered passenger Cars. machine, designed by Russian en- gineers, has been named the L-1. It) >is a seven-passenger, eight-cylinder | car with 100 H.P., and a top speed | jot 10 miles per hour, modern automobile design, having automatic clutch, brakes, synchronized transmission with silent second, and torsional vi- bration damper on the crankshaft. The springs will be equipped with driver-controlled shock absorbers. The extent of the task is appre- ciated when we recall that a tractor has 700 parts, while the passenger car will have 5,500 different parts. The Putilov Plant will have to turn out new types of spring and silchrome steel and will have to do accurate) cold-drawing of bar stock down to 1-100 inch in diameter in order to) handle this new job. Pistons, chassis, gas tanks and radiators are now under way. The annual cap- acity of the plant is estimated at 20,000 passenger cars. This represents a new advance for Soviet technique in one of the most ) highly-skilled branches of metal / manufacturing. Congratulations! | 5-YEAR PLAN BIG SUCCESS — STALIN Created Basis for the Classless Society (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Plan consisted in finding and grasp- ing the basic link in the chain of tasks, namely, the development of Bey industry. The Communist ‘avty was well aware of the tremen- dous difficulties involved in this task. Industry has been built up without the aid of loans or the proceeds of the robbery of other countries. The bold and difficult plan involved ser- ious sacrifices, but the Party’s faith in the workers has been justified by th fulfilment of the Five-Year Plan in four years. The results of the plan in industry were a greater vic- tory than that had been expected even by the Party's greatest en- », thusiasts. } Stalin reviewed the striking suc- cesses in the’ creation of iron and J steel bases, in machine construc- tion, aviation, generation of electri- city, ete., and pointed out that the result was the final, irrevocable ousting of the capitalist elements and the creation of socialist industry as#the sole form of industry in the Soviet Union. Summarizing the industrial results, Stalin said that the Five-Year Plan has been fulfilled in four years and three months by 93.7. per cent, with the volume of production tripled in comparison .with pre-' more than doubled in com} with 1928. In heavy industry the Plan has been fulfilled 108 percent. The failure to. realize the full 100 per cent of the industrial plan was due to the faét that the “refusal of the neighboring to sign non- m pacts and the complica- tions in the Far East made it neces- sary for us to switch a number of plants to the production of modern weapons of defense for the purpose of strengthening our defense.” This switching resulted in the interrup- tion of industrial production and af- fected the plan for months, ex- plaining the fact that the general industrial plan has been fulfilled only 93.7 per cent. On the other hand, Stalin pointed out: “This operation resulted in fully making good the defects in the de- fensive capacity of the country. From a country that was weak and unprepared for defense, the Soviet Union has become a powerful coun- try in defensive capacity, a country prepared for all emergencies, a country capable of producing on a mass scale all modern weapons of defense and to equip with them our army in case of an attack from the outside.” (Stalin’s speech will be continued im tomorrow's issue.) | the thosuands of The new! It will embody the last word in| compensated | differentials and other) parts have already been made, while | WIN VICTORY Food Relief for Those Against Forced Labor CHESTER, Pa., Jan. 10.—Mass ac- tion won a:signal victory here today. At 2 pm. the Chester Unemployed Council held a mass demonstration against forced labor. About 400 of starving unem- ployed, half-clad workers attended. Comrade Woods of Philadelphia was the speaker. in progress a committee of six called upon the mayor and, after half an hour's debate, finally convinced the mayor of Chester that he should allow the men food relief when they refused to work for food orders. When the Committee returned with the news, the crowd showed their appreciation of this great victory by wildly applauding. They were con- vinced that the only way they could help themselves from the wolves of politics and capitalism was by united action, When we returned to the hall at 120 West Third Street,» Comrade Woods again spoke to the crowd of about fifty who came back with the Unemployed Council and nine new members joined the ranks of organ- ized workers. BIG BATTLE IN JEHOL in Chinese _ Troops Resistance (CONTINUED FROM \PAGE ONE) tells of widespread and growing misery among the ruined peasantry and unemployed workers, of in- creased inflation of the currency and growing deficits in the budget, of adverse trade balances and in- dications of a further drop in the valine of the yen, which already has fallen from par value of 49.85 cents to 20.5 cents. Masses Demand Action The Japanese traitorous non-resistance policy of the Nanking Government has evoked a tremendous outburst of mass in- dignation throughout China. Work- ers and students have demonstrated in Shanghai, Peiping and _ other cities under the slogans of “Defend China!”, “Down with Japanese Im- perialism!”, “Down with the Nan- king traitors!” The position of the Nanking Government is reported becoming increasingly shaky under the rising blows of the tremendous mass upsurge. Workers and students in many sections of China are in- creasingly. sympathetic to the call of the Chinese Communist Party for an armed peoples war against the invaders and the Nanking betrayers of China. Thousands of workers and students demonstrated in Peiping on the occa- sion of the arrival of the body of Colonel An Te-ching, commander of Shanhaikwan’s Battalion of Death, which was wiped out by the Japan- ese attack and the failure of the Nanking militarists to send them re- inforcements. Students on Strike Eight hundred students of Yen- ching University and 1,000 of Tsing- hua University—the former con- trolled by U. S. imperialists—are on strike in protest against the Nanking Government and its support of the proceeding partition of China by Japanese and other imperialists. The strike is reported spreading to other universities and schools. The stu- dents have refused to take examina~ tions and are picketing the two uni- versities. Issue Paper Orders In an attempt to placate and de- ceive the angry masses, the Nanking Government has issued paper orders to its North China commander, Mar- shall Chang Hsiao-ling, to “defend China.” These orders are so patent- ly a hypoertical maneuver that even the ee press comments on the fact that the Nanking Govern- ment has not sent “a cent or a single cartridge” for the defense. Meanwhile, Chiang Kai-shek, Nan- king dictator, is holding a secret con- ference with Marshal Chang at a secret place between Hankow and Peiping, to which both went by air- planes. The Nanking Government has already made overtures to the Japanese invaders for a truce at Shanhaikwan, in line with the in- structions to Nanking by U. S. and British imperialists who wish to di- vert the Japanese invasion to Jehol Province and the borders of the So- viet Union and Mongolian People’s While the meeting was/| | So curiously and viciously. i | invasion and the , The “relief” which the unemployed get is distributed by the commissary. Many families are being discrimi- nated against and insulted before they get their bundle. No cash whatever is given, and when one asks for a spool of cotton to fix the ragged clothes of the children, he is refused, Stinking Meat. One worker said: “In my grocery order I receive some meat and when I brought this home there was such a stench that I couldn’t unwrap it. I took this meat back and threw it on the table in the commissary’s of- fice and I told him, you wouldn't feed your dog this meat, why in the hell did you give it for my children? j How is it that you bunch of para- sites try:to tell us what we shall eat | and how we shall eat. “This enraged the politicians there and one lady, Mrs. McDonald took out her monocle and looked at me I gave her a good look alright. These fat bellies couldn’t stand it. The Com- missary threatened me that I shouldn’t speak that way, but the next day a mass committee of 50 of the Unemployed Council invaded the commissar’s office. He was com- pelled to let us in and we had a meeting inside to protest against the rotten food distributed there.” There are many workers in Erie who are actually starving. Only six weeks ago a baby of six weeks died of starvation. The family had noth- ing to eat for days. Doctor Smith of the health department admitted that this baby died of starvation, $400 Monthly for Dietician. The city officials have now hinged a special dieticlan to pay him $400 a month. His work will consist of working out a menu on how to keep | the unemployed workers on a starv- ing level and still keep soul and body together. Of course this starvation diet is meant not only for the unemployed workers of Erie but for the employed workers as well. It aims to cut the wages to the bone and to show that they can get along on this starvation diet. The Unemployed Council is calling a mass protest demonstration on Jan. 12 to protest this wholesale evic- tion and to demand relief. “Relief” Breaks Up The Home in N. J. PATTERSON, N. J.—I wént to see a Negro family a week before Xmas that have been refused relief. There was a mother, a 5 year old boy and a sick little birl. When I asked them why they had no relief, the mother said the investigator said they were living “too good.” He asked them what they ate. ‘They told him oatmeal. He asked how it was that they still had elec- tricity. She told him she works a day a week at housecleaning and gets $2.00. He said “if that is the case you are not entitled to relief.” After 3 weeks shé went back and told them her family was freezing. They told her she would have to move into a smaller place before they would give relief. She looked at the rooms they told her to take. There was no gas or electricity and the toilet was in the yard and a sink in the hall, Either she would have to move here or not get relief. We mobilized a committee of neighbors and went down to demand relief. In spite of this did not get any. We will have to organize more and more until we force relief for workers in this plight. —Worker. “RAISE MORE REDS” CHICAGO, Ill—The relief agents here raise hell with people who get babies in such hard times. I know it from my own experience, for about two years ago, Mrs. Michel from the United Charities sent my wife to the birth control. She told me they can’t take care of people who don't have sense enough to keep from hav- ing babies. But she herself had one nine months. later. Just as a chal- lenge, I will have one in May, and they are going to need it too. I ad- vise all married people who get re- lef to do like I, and have more Reds. —Worker. HOTEL DE HOOVER NEW HAVEN, Conn—Some capi- talist concern, having a large square boiler on their hands, and wanting to discard it, carted it to the public dump in Hamden. As the movers dumped it off the truck, it rolled down into the meadow. The opening was exposed to the north, Unintentially they created a Hotel de Hoover. While the north wind howled down the valley, the unemployed have made it their home. Their bedding consists of newspapers and burlap bags, with some crush over the opening. Father Gillis says in the Catholic Transcript, that this is the best Republic and away from U. S. and| country in the world. If that is the British loot and investments in| case, why is it that they allow such terribl North and Central China, le conditions to prevail —W.L. ste i GETS READY Workers Uncover Evi- dence in Building Council NOVINGER, Mo.—A group of un- employed workers met at Kirksmills, Mo., on New Year's Day and formed) an Unemployed Council. Relief is| being given here through the forced} labor system. The jobless workers are “given” two days work here on the streets or woodpile every two weeks and the bosses have announced that they are going to cut it to one day every two weeks. The wages are $2.26 per day paid in groceries. They have been holding back part of the groceries, telling them they would get them when they needed them more, One case the workers took up was that of a man and wife and three small children, who had been evicted in a small town just across the coun- ty line and had managed to get a small house in Kirksmills, but had nothing to eat. The associated charities refused them aid on the grounds that they were not citizens of the county. We were forced to take a collection for their immediate relief. The collec- tion, of course, had to come from employed workers and small business men. A great deal of indignation was expressed by the contributors. Such statements as “What the hell are we paying that damn charity for, anyway?’ were common, Another case was that of a man and wife who had lived here all their lives, but were refused aid because they had no children. Cases like these are coming to the attention of the council, Taxes are eating up the farmers hereabouts and also city home own- ers. The county physician is draw- ing $500 @ month for charity cases, and he charges as high as $25 for country calls. The county court has announced that they can give no relief to new cases. ‘The clerk of the county told me that there is about $1,000,000 on de- posit in the four banks here, and only about $50,000 of it is taxed. ‘The workers are organizing with enthusiasm and determination. They intend to expose these conditions and fight them with mass action. The council is checking up on other cases of destitution and making plans for action, B. N. “Y” Is Tool for Polish Butcher Dictator Too In their official organ “The Red Triangle”, the Germantown branch of the Y.M.C.A. carries an editorial of highest praise for the charity tacketeers for the wonderful way they h ad “prevented starvation among the unemployed in the last year.” Then after this whitewash of the Politicians and their henchmen for starving the 500,000 unemployed in Philadelphia, for the last year and shedding tears over the troubles their capitalist masters are having balancing their budgets, they print an artcle headed news from Poland. In this they boast that they are putting the Communist relief organizations out of business by feeding several hundred clerical workers with funds furnished by the government, and to show his appre- ciation, Pilsudski had furnished them with more funds and instructed them to broaden their activities. Workers should understand why the butcher Pilsudski would call his flunkeys to feed religious dope with his soup to try to keep the starving workers from organizing for the overthrow of fascist dictatorship. J. SOVIET PHYSIOLOGISTS AHEAD OF EUROPEANS Dr. T. Hayashi, Associate Profes- sor of Physiology at Keio University Tokyo, said that Soviet physiologists equal and in some types of research surpass the Europeans, in an inter- view with a representative of the Moscow Daily News. “Before I came here I though that your country was so busy building industrial structures that there would be no time to devote to medi- cal research. But after seeing the great activity in the field of phys- iology my former view has been quite changed,” said Prof. Hayashi. He by the re- search work at the Institute of the Brain and the preparation of in- ternal secretion medicines at the Institute of Endocrinology. Se mt mre BALTIMORE, Jan. 10.—Two per-| Sons were stabbed and many others | hurt in a boss-instigated attack by | white gangsters and a number of} misguided white workers on Negro} and white workers attending a dance} given by the Workers International Relief Sunday night on South B’way.| The attack occurred as the workers were leaving the dance hall. The} workers militantly defended them-| selves, white and Negro fighting side | by side against the hoodlums and the | police who soon joined the attack. | The two wounded persons were| members of the attacking force. The gangsters and the boss press are| howling for the blcod of Roosevelt | Coleman, a Negro worker whom the | Police are trying to frame-up on tHe | charge of stabbing the two gangsters. | All Dances Inter-Racial. | All dances held here by revolu-| tionary organizations are inter-racial affairs. The police usually turn out in large numbers at such affairs in| an attempt to intimidate worke: from attending. Sunday night, hov ever, they were conspicuously absent. | The gangsters began gathering in| front of the hall early in the even-| ing. Everyone knew that an attack | was planned, and all the boss papers | had reporters on hand waiting “| | | | the attack. When the police arrived, they joined with the gangsters against the white and Negro work- | ers defending themselves. The only arrests made were of radical work- ers, four white and one Negro, as| follows: Gustav Granlund, John Pa- | tak, George Hall, Leslie McKenney, | all unemployed marine workers, and} Roosevelt Coleman. The five work-| ers are held in $100 bail. The police| failed in an attempt to have Edward | Kleczkowski, one of the wounded | men, identify Coleman as the one} who stabbed him. The arrested} workers are being defended by Ber- nard Ades, International Labor De-/| fense attorney. They are demanding | a jury trial, with Negroes on the jury. Police and gangsters terrorized the | Negro neighborhood for hours after the attack in a street hunt for Ne- gro workers. Hungry Workers in Neighborhood. The residential section surround- ing the dance hall is thickly popu- lated with steel workers and long- shoremen who are starving. The bosses are especially infuriated be- cause Negro and white workers are fraternizing together. They know full well that the growing unity of Negro and white workers is a men- ace to their class rule, their wage cuts, eviction and hunger and war program, Thus their increasing at- tacks on the revolutionary workers and their hideous attempt to legally | lynch Willie Brown and other Negro workers on framed-up charges. Working class organizations thru-| out the country are urged to rush| protests to Mayor H. W. Jackson of Baltimore, demanding the release of the five arrested workers, the right of Negfo and white workers to fra- ternize and organize against starva- tion, and the unconditional release of Willie Brown. REFUSE FREEDOM FOR TOM MANN Spurns Government Bid to Stop Fight LONDON, Jan. 10.—Mass protests by the workers of Great Britain com- | pelled George Lansbury, Labor Party | leader, to make a “personal” appeal to Prime Minister MacDonald for the felease of Tom Mann, 16-year-old militant working-class leader, who, together with Embrys Llewellyn, is serving a two months’ jail sentence for leadership of unemployed work- ers. Tom Mann was offered his free- dom on condition that he would sign a pledge not to participate in unem- ployed or other working-class strug- gles. This offer was indignantly and unhesitatingly rejected by Tom Mann, whereupon he was immediately placed in jail by agents of the MacDonald government. The “appeal” made by George Lansbury has not succeeded in hiding the treacherous role of the Labor Party leadership, who have consist- ently collaborated with the former leader of the Labor Party, MacDon- ald, in betraying every struggle of the employed and unemployed work- ers, EXPOSE “RELIEF” GRAFTER PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10. — Wil- liam H. Cameron, poor relief collector in the Germantown section of this city, is another grafting “relief” of- ficial who has been indicted by a grand jury as a result of mass in- dignation following the exposure of his brazen thefts of relief money. The Unemployed Council is pressing demands for distribution of relief by committees chosen by the workers. article by Harris Cleron on graft and corruption by the bureau- crats of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Beverage Dis- pensers amternauona, Auance. The following article gives fur- ther detils of conditions in the union). By HARRIS CLERON CCORDING to the press of No- vember 25, Mr. Flore, General President of the union, said“ . . and the union has 65,000 members | the U. 8S.” General Secretary | in Hasketh in the September issue of the Catering Industry Employee (Convention Proceedings, page 35) stated, “our membership April 30, 1929, was 39,394, showing a décrease during the period of three years of 11,339.” In the same issue, page 10, we read, “on information received from the office of the secretary- treasurer of the International Union, June, 1932, that our mem- bership at that time was 25,863 | and the membership of the Inter- national Union was represented by accredited delegates at this con- vention is 15,042....” It shows a continuous decrease of the mem- bership. Why then, does Mr. Flore exaggerate? It is in line with the recent con- vention of the International at Boston that “we must be optimis- tic.” The fact is, he is lying to cover up the explusion policies of the Cincinnati and local ganas, against those who present a mili- tant program against wage cuts, and against those who cannot pay the dues, despite the fact that many of them carry a membership book for 18-20 years. In the hotel and restaurant in- dustry, where there are over a million workers, only 15,042 were represented. Has Mr, Flore any excuse for that? Yes, apparently. In the same issue of the “Catering Industry Employee” (“President's Page”), he said, “To strive for a higher standard of living with mil- lions of unemployed surrounding us would be almost a hopeless task.” | Mrs. Madge Argo, the Wlinois In- ternational organizer, informed us in the October issue of the same journal (page 7) “I have found men working for $1 a day, seven days a week, sixteen hours a day at cooking, washing dishes and porter work.” Mr. Flore blames the unemployed for not having the in- | dustry organized. Mr. Flore, you are a liar! The unemployed, in spite of your sabotage, are organizing and are fighting. You are trying to convince the membership to take more wage cuts and not to ask for better conditions. But it seems, Mr. Flore has a program for the unemployed, the bosses’ program. In the same issue he said, “we are advocating the shorter workday and week in order that there may be employment for all.” Mrs. Madge Argo, in the Oc- tober issue, page seven wrote: “I found cases where they (the work- ers) just work for their meals.” Moreover, the Illinois cook is to work eight hours a day, seven days a Week and his wages will be 50 cents a day. The New York cham- bermaid who work for $30 a month, to be paid $15 a month. Is it not the same program proposed by Mr. Teagle and is put in practice in the Manger Hotel (now Taft) where Mr. Flore stays when he comes to ‘New York? But why does he speak about organization now? In the same issue of “Catering Industry Employee, he wrote, “workers and dependents cannot, and will not, stand idly by and starve while food and other necessities are in abun- dance around them, There is limit to their endurance. ” Mr. Flore is worrying that the workers in the hotel and restaurant industry will organize, and if they organize with- out the Cincinnati gang—McDevitts Lehmans, etc.—they will ask for a higher standard of living to come out of the bosses’ profit, and not as he proposes that the workers must Shoulder the responsibility of un- employment. Hotel and restaurant workers must answer these misleaders and gangsters through a strong Rank and File organization, Members of the International: it is clear that these bureaucrats will not resist the attacks of the bosses; on the contrary, they will assist them as they are doing now against the workers. Organize inside every local rank and file opposition against them. Unite with the unorganized worker, and fight the wage-cut Program of the bosses. COMMUNISTS WIN ESSEN UNION ELECTION In the recent meeting of the Plumbers Local of the German Metal Workers Union in Essen, the revolu- tionary opposition swept the entire reformist executive out of office, only opposition candidates being elected. Likewise, the delegates elected to the national convention of the G.M.W.U. | minors now limited to 6 o'clock c ing in the textile mills and 10 o’clo in other industries. Not Thinking of General Good. “I should call all these proposals short-sighted measures and poorly thought out,” she said. “They would do more harm than good, if the Governor, Kendall and the other em- ployers backing him are thinking of the general good, which they prob- ably aren't. Too Great A Burden on Women. “A woman doing factory work, and home work both, has far too great a burden and shouldn't be allowed to carry it. That women should not be permitted to work at night is the concensus of opinion of experts in all the greatest countries and has been accepted by governments of those countries as a fact. Payments to Murder Judge. Dr. Alice Hamilton is the first of Boston's social workers to denounce publicly the inaugural address of Governor Joseph B. Ely today, in which he asked the Legislature to invest him with arbitrary power to suspend the operation of Massachu- setts labor laws. He also recommended the suspen- sion of the old age assistance law enacted in 1930 and declared that in his second term he would veto all special legislation requiring payments to individuals, except in the case of Judge Webster Thayer, murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti, who is to be re- imbursed by the state for the loss of his home in an explosion last Oc- tober, when attempt was made to frame the Communists with respon- sibility for the incident. Drag Workers Backward. “I consider Governor Ely’s proposal a great mistake and disagree abso- lutely with his plan of permitting backward southern states who have not come up to more civilized stan- dards to drag us back to theirs.” The Supreme Court. “Tt is obvious that industry can’t clean itself up. “Before we can have that we shall have to have a few deaths in the Supreme Court. There are four in the Supreme Court who will have to die off. These are Sutherland, Van Deventer, McReynolds and Pierce Butler. Raps A. F. of L. “Meanwhile labor finds it hard to do anything, under the leadership of the American Federation of La- bor. increasingly weak since the war. There is much more feudalism in this country thany anywhere in Europe. Here the trade unions have far less to say about wages and con- ditions than in Europe. This is due to the mistaken policy of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor in orga- nizing on a craft basis. Leave Out Unskilled Workers. “The unskilled workers are left out altogether and such new indus- tries as the automobile industry, in which there are no crafts, are abso- lutely unorganized by the A. F. of L. ‘The trade unions have grown | | TRIAL THIS WEEK (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the police by the reform Tuske Institute. Solicitor Seeks Postponement. Sam W. Oliver, solicitor of Talla- poosa County, who is prosecuting the croppers, is trying to obtain post- ponement of the trials on the pre- text of seeking to avoid “further trouble. The postponement move is in reality aimed to rm the vigi- lance of white and Negro workers. Workers and share croppers are plan- ning to pack the courtroom tomor- row. Among the ‘seven prisoners is Judson Simpson, who is seriously \wounded and was first reported killed in the Battle of Reeltown. Workers’ organizations and all persons opposed to lynchings and organized massacres of Negroes should wire protests to Judge Oliver, Dadeville, Ala., demand~ ing immediate unconditional re- lease for the share croppers. es , lice heads of eo Demand Burk, Taylor Release. | BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Jan. 10.— Mass pressure of the workers is be- | ing mobilized here to support the ap- peals of Alice Burk and Wirt Taylor organizers of the local Unemployed Council. The two working-class or- ganizers were sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and $100 fines for addressing a demonstration of |5,000 Negro and white unemployed | workers before the Old Court House | Nov. 7. The appeals come up before | Judge John McElroy in Circuit Court Jan. 13. Protests should be sent to Judge McElroy and the City Com- | mission. Terrorize Negro Women. | Investigation by an I. L. D. com- | mittee re¥eals the brutal murder here | on New Year's Eve of Edna Davis, a Negro woman, by three policemen, Allen, Moser and Norrel. Testimony by Negro workers shows that the of- ficers broke into the woman’s home ordered five Negroes to kneel, facing the wall, with hands raised. Miss Davis, who was putting on her stock- ings, was slow to respond to the or- der. Two of the officers hit her over the head with a blackjack and gun and flung her into a corner Because ‘she dared to protest against this brutal attack, she was shot dead by Moser and Norrel. Other Negto workers in the room were not per- mitted to render her assistance, but were kept kneeling with guns pointed at them. ‘This outrageous attack and murder has aroused such fierce indignation among the Negro masses here thas the Birmingham Post has been forced to ask why three policemen could not arrest a woman without killing her. The Negro reformist press is also forced to reflect the indignation of the Negro masses. 2 You can send merchandise orders enabling your relatives and friends residing in the U. S, S. R. to purchase goods in TORGSIN stores. Merchandise orders can be sent by anyone, in any amount. To do thy it will be sufficient for you to visit any of the companies listed below and to send a merchandise order to the U. S. S. R., addressed to TORG- SIN, giving the name and address of the person whom TORGSIN shall supply with merchandise. Immediately after receiving your order, TORGSIN requests the reci-- ient to call and select such merchan- dise as he chooses, to the limit of the amount remitted to the TORGSIN stores. Goods are of the very highest Amalgamated Bank of New York Am-Derutra Transport Corp. American Express Company 261 FIFTH AVENUE, Public National Bank and Trust Company 50 TORGSIN STORES IN THE SOVIET UNION THROUGH WHICH GIFTS MAY BE SENT TO RELATIVES AND FRIENDS export quality and reasonably priced. TORGSIN stores always contain a wide choice of the most varied goods: various food products, wearing ap- parel, shoes, cloth of all kinds, house- hold articles, novelties, perfumes and soaps, bicycles, cameras, musical in- struments, radios and supplies and accessories; departments for objects dart, antiques, handicraft goods and furs. Imported goods in large assort- ments are also on sale. TORGSIN is constantly expanding its chain of stores in Moscow and other cities and now has branches in over 250 cities and towns throughout the U. S. S. R. TORGSIN sends goods by parcel post to recipients in places that have no TORGSIN stores. 11,000 branches of the companies listed below will accept money and/or issued merchandise orders for transmission through TORGSIN to any person residing in the U.S.S.R. Manufacturers’ Trust Company Postal Telegraph-Cable Company R. C. A. Communications, Inc. a GENERAL REPRESENTATIVES OF TORGSIN IN THE U.S.A. NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.