The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1933, Page 3

| | & eee By ROBERT HAMILTON RED MINE UNION CONSOLI- DATES GAINS PRAGGE, Dec. 26 (by mail),—Elec- | tions at the Theodore mine in the Kladno coal district consolidated the majority of the revolutionary miners’ union in the mine committee, The red union polled 56.8 per cent of the total vote, compared with 18.9 per cent for the reformist trade union. In the last election the revolution- ary union had 49 per cent of the total vote, while the reformists polled 22.6 per cent, The Czech Socialists and the fascists got 10.1 and 14 per cent, respectively, TOKIO STRIKE VICTORY TOKIO, Dec. 28 (by mail).—The strike of 300 trolley motormen and conductors on the Tokio-Tamagawa suburban lines has been won. Most of the strikers’ demands have been | granted, The police did their utmost | to break the strike, but without suc- cess. Many arrests of active strikers took place, but the men ca; -ied on to victory, MOVE FOR DEATH» OF 22 ILL. MINERS. Fight New Wage-Cut in Pennsylvania TAYLORVILLE, Ill, Jan. 19.—/ twenty-two striking miners were yes- terday indicted by the grand jury on charges of murder, and all of tiem are held in jail without bail. The miners were arrested aftey they defended themselves against an| ‘armed attack by mine thugs, in Which a miner's wife and two of the deputized gunmen were killed. The immigration authorities are also running over the district, at- tempting to deport the foreign-born miners who participated in the strike in Christian county, starting with those indicted and threatening that if they are not executed, they will be deported. This kind of terroristic campaign is being carried on to aid the mine owners, the Lewis-Walker United Mine Workers outfit and the traitorous agents of the bossés at the head of the Progressive Miners organization. The P.M.A. officials have turned down the offer of the International Labor Defense to or- ganize a mass campaign to free the jailed miners and stop the terror. Raymond Tambozai, vice-president of Local Nine, Taylorville, has been arrested and turned over to the Franklin county sheriff on chi growing out of his activity in that county. BLUIS PATIENTS GET BRUTAL ‘AID? Seamen. at. Hospital OutrageouslyExploited NEW YORK. — Exploitation does not stop entirely when a seaman gets sick and goes to the “free” govern- ment hospitals. The nurses and doc- tors, orderlies and concessionaires take over the job of robbing the sea- man of the little wages he earned while producing wealth for the ship~ owners. Recently a seaman from. the Ellis Island hospital reported the “con, cessionaire” there as charging out- right comely high prices on almost everything that is sold in this gov- ernment hospital to sick and injured seamen. The latest reports from the hos- pital tell of a radio expert, a sea- man, who used to repair the several hundred radios in the hospital for no wages at all. There is a radio store on the is- land, where he sends old machines for repairs he cannot make. His reward for his labor is a winning smile from some of the doctors and nurses. Prison for “T.B.” Patients Patients in the tubercular ward report that the hospital is a veritable prison for them. They are confined to the one ward, and are not allowed to go anywhere else. If they are caught out of the ward they are “disciplined.” Tf it happens often, they are thrown out of the hospital. The nurses and interness do not jstand for any complaints from the patients. If a man growls from pain, the nurses make life unpleasant for him, Too much growling means that you are thrown out of the hospital. Rotten Diet The diet in the tubercular ward ts enough to kill off a healthy man. Regularly, in rotation, the evéning meal consists of fish hash, beef hash, hot dogs and hamburgers. The break- fast bacon is always thoroughly burned, evidently on the theory that tubercular people need carbon more than food. Most of the medical staff at Ellis Island is composed of young inter- nes, who recklessly practice on the government patients. Three Fighting Sixth arges | Share Croppers’ Union, in July, 1931, HOLD FIVE ALA. | NEGRO CROPPERS FOR GRAND JURY |Jailed After Reeltown Battle; Witnesses for State Lie BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 19.—In| the hearing yesterday at Dadeville, Ala., Judge Oliver ordered held for| the Grand Jury the five Negro crop-| pers still under arrest in connection | with the heroic defense of 150 crop-| pers and exploited farmers against the landlord-police lynch gangs, Dec. 19, in the Battle of Reeltown. The five croppers are Judson| Simpson, Ned Cobb, Alfred White, | Clinton Moss and Sam Moss. Bail) of $750 each has been set, Negroes Barred. The International Labor Defense; attorneys, Frank B. Irwin and Irving} Schwab, appeared in a Courtgog | crowded with 300 white farmers, i whom very few were hostile. Negro croppers and farmers had been| barred from the court by the au- thorities. The I. L. D. attorneys ar-)| rived too late to object to this ex-| clusion of the Negroes. The authorities finally revealed their charges against the eroppers, | charging Ned Cobb with shooting | Clifford Elder, one of the deputies! wounded in the Reeltown Battle, but | offering no proof to substantiate the | charge. The others were charged with being accessories, but again| no proof was offered except that) they were present at the cabin of! Cliff James when it was raided by| the landlord-police gangs. State Witnesses Lie. The I. L. D. attorneys charged that | the five croppers are being held ille-| gally for the Grand Jury. All wit-| nesses for the state lied throughout | the hearing. Afraid of the sympathy | of the masses of white and Negro farmers with the struggles c’ the Ne- gro croppers, the state witnessc3 con- cealed the fact that the true cause of the Reeltown Battle was the at- tempt by the sheriffs to attach the live stock of Cliff James. The I. L, D, attorneys proved that the attachment papers were based on | false grounds, claiming ownership of | James’ live stock by the white store- keeper, Parker. Prearanged Killing. | The state witnesses boasted on the stand of how the posse shot at the Negro croppers from ambush until the posse’s ammunition was ex- hausted. The state witnesses, Al-| ford, a deputy of Alexander City, who killed Ralph Gray, a leader of the at Camp Hill and who also partici- pated in the Reeltown attack, and Deputy Gantt were called by the de- fense attorneys when the state de- liberately failed to place them on the stand. Under the cross-examination oi the I. L. D. attorneys, these two te-“witniessés were forced to admit that-the sheriffs had-gone to James’ ‘cabin-“6n a “prearranged ‘plan for starting a slaughter against the members of the Share Croppers’ Union. Only the militant resistance of the croppers forced the posse to retreat. DRESS WORKERS EXTEND STRIKE Fifteen ‘Shops Join Drive; Fight Racket NEW YORK.—As the dressmakers were gathering for their mass meet- ing at Webster Hall last night, new shops were reported struck in the drive being led by the Unity Com- mittee of the International and the Industrial Union members and other workers. Fifteen additional shops, some of them involving important jobbers, have béen stopped during the last two days. Over 100 workers are also involved in the strike against the lege Topaz Frock, 225 West 37th The Unity Committee continues to warn the workers against the racke- teering “stoppage” by the Metropoli- tan Contractors, and urges all those who may be locked out through this maneuver, to come to the headquar- ters of the committee for a joint ef- fort of all dressmakers to wih better conditions on the job. In addition to the headquarters at 140 West 36th 8t., the following head- quarters have been opened by the Unity Committee in the outlying sec- tions: ** 181 West 28th St., New York. 3882 Third Ave., Bronx. 608 Cleveland Sé., Brownsville 103 Knickerbocker Ave., Wmsburg. 2242 Seeond Ave., near 116th St., Harlem. Huey Long Cashes In on $13,000,000 ‘Relief’ porhvies NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan, 19—The RFC, loan of $13,000,000 to New Or- learis for building a bridge at Nine- Mile-Pont is being distributed mostly Members Sentenced to Five - Days in Jail NEW YORK.—Three militant mem- bers of the Job Agency Grievance Committee, 58 West 38th Street, were ‘the victims of a brazen framé-up in the West 54th Street Court yester- |)day when they were sentenced to five days in jail for picketing the Em- ployment Efficiency Agency at 1151 Sixth Avenuc. This agency had re- fused to return any money to Joe Cassidy after Cassidy was fired for being sick on a $6 a week job at Woolworth’s, for which he paid $2.50 the agency a few days before, I Grievance Committee on ‘Ae job and picketéd the agency, The rested three. Over 100 ine cluding members of the Food Work- prs Industrial Union, packed the court, and the cops had to clear out the entire court ®efore the judge ‘| could proceed with his frame-up. cops attacked the marchers and ar- | TUU! workers, in juicy contracts to the henchmen of Huey Long’s political machine, it was brought out in an internal squabble between boss factions here. Workers on the bridge are to get 25 cents an hour out of the $13,000,000. LABOR UNION MEETINGS FURNITURE WORKERS Purnituré Workers Industrial Unien runs a clags on Trede Unionism free of charge ‘or all its members, overy monday night at ‘At M8 Broadway, Instructor: Paul- s, edycational director of the p.m. ine . . MILLINERY WORKERS Open Forum apspices of Millinery United Front, for all mUlinéty workers, capmekers and members of United Hatters, at 11 p.m. in guditerium of Co- Colony, 2700 Bronx Perk Bast. Topic: ger of United Hatters and International. | Jobless.” DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JA RY 20, 1933 ~rvEs “Some Poison, M BeJs & Be GOOD FELLOW nonicr Our attention bas been call considerable this year in inferior containers which my de the c. I am quoting below information 1 have received in this regard: | “Beosuse of economic condi t ailk bottle vere used. Por this reason, « lar, this manner vill probably spoil.” An economic expert states; President. Photo of notice enclosed with each basket of food given to jobless by Good Fellows Club of E. J. E. Railroad, SEND NEGRO T0 ‘CHAIN DEATH I. L. D. Calls for Mass ; Protest | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | is clearly shown in admissions even in the Atlanta boss press, which car- ries such headlines as “Death Pen- alty Asked for Red in Atlanta Sedi- tion Trial—Man Accused of Agitating It is vividly shown also) in the contention of the State Pros- ecutor, Assistant Solicitor John Hud- son that Herndon’s possession of Communist literature regularly sent through the U. S. mails was “sedi- tious” and an attempt to overthrow the government—the robber rule of the white capitalists and landlords. Hudson stressed the fact that this literature advocated unconditional equal rights for the oppressed 8 gro nationality and the right of selt- determination for the Black Belt, where Negroes constitute the major- ity of the population. “Stamp this thing out now with a conviction,” was the State's closing | plea to the all-white jury, which had, been carefully hand-picked in ad-! vance to permit the exclusion not | only of Negroes but of militant class; conscious white workers. : Stressed Rights of Oppressed. Joseph H. Greer and Benjamin | Davis, Jr., prominent Negro attor- neys engaged by the International Labor Defense, conducted a brilliant defense in the dramatic three-day battle. They boldly brought to the front the question of the Negro op- pression and the right of workers, white and black, to organize in the workers’ political party, the Commu- nist Party. They stressed the Com- munist position on the Negro ques- tion, full equality for the Negroes and the right of self-determination; » The defendant, Hérndon, broke through the class rulings of Judge Lee Wyatt and used the courtroom as a tribunal to impeach capitalism and its murderous exploitation of the toilers, white and colored, and to de- fend the Communist Party and its leadership in the struggles against starvation, Negro national oppression and imperialist war. Herndon de- clared, in part: “You may de what you will with Angelo Herndon. You may indiet him. You may put him in jail. But there will come other thous- ands of Angelo Herndons. If you want to really do anything about the case you must go out and in- dict the social system, But this | you will not do, for your role is to defend the system under which the toiling massés are robbed and oppressed.” Packed to suffocation with Negro and white workers, the court audi- ence hung on Herndon’s words as he described the pitiful conditions of the black and white working class mothers with their starving children, who had assembled at the ¢all of the Unemployed Council to demon- strate for relief. So marked was the sympathy of white and Negro work- ers for the Negro organizer that the court had several times warned against any demonstration, Chain Gang Judge. Through a tense day, Judge Wyatt over-ruled with machine-like regu- larity motion after motion made by the defense attorneys. Over the re- peated objections of the attorneys, he allowed the illegal placing in evi- dence of material seized from the person and room of Herndon, with- out a search warrant. This “eyi- dence” consisted of copies of the Daily Worker, The Communist, the Party Organizer, the pamphiet en- titled “The Communist Position on the Negro Question,” and the Liber- ator, organ of the League of Strug! for Negro Rights. No charge of any specific act by Herndon was entered in the case. There was merely a general blank- et statement that he was “inciting to riot.” Insult Negro People. Chauvinistic insults against the Negro people featured the State's ease throughout the trial. Watson, an Atlanta dick repeatedly referred to Herndon and other Negroes as “niggers” or “darkies.” This brought sharp protests from the defense at- torneys and the court was forced to rule against the use of such terms during the trial. Other chauvinistic acts included reference by the prose- cutor and state witnesses to Negroes by their first names, instead of as Mr. and Mrs. terms consistently used in addressing the State's white wit- nesses, Will Appeal Case. The defense attorneys have filled notice of a class verdict. The International La- bor’ Defense is urging all workers and sympathizers, north and south, to rush protests to Judge Wyatt and Gov. R. B. Russell at Atlanta, Atlanta, Negro libergls and intellectuals ward with promises of support and & pledge to raise any amount of bail necessary to get Herndon out of jail). pending the appeal sorte of iaferior Jars, and old lide and rubbers al against the vicious! income. y Good Fellow!” cue ed to the fact that due to amount of vegetables were canned se of spoilage. ona, products were chnned in ge percentage of food cane? in U.S. Steel Subsidiary Hands Out Poisoned Food to Unemployed | BULLETIN NEW YORK.—Thomas Murray, 82 years old, and his son, Edward, 5 years old, of 28 Fort Greene Pi., Brooklyn, were removed to the Cumberland Hospital early today, apparéntly (suffering from food poisoning. . ane | GARY, Ind, Jan.‘ 19—The starv- | ing unemployed workefg ofthe sub- | sidiary of the U. 8. Steel Corp., the | Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroads, have been receiving baskets given out by the “Good Fellow Club of the E. J. and E.” The above notice has been en-/ closed with each of the baskets given out, clearly admitting that the can- ned food enclosed in the baskets is very likely to be poisonous because of the way ste stuff was canned, and advises all persons to test their vege- tables by boiling it for 10 minutes. This is an open admission that pois- onous stuff is being given to the starving jobless wotkers to live on. The workers themselves are forced to contribute to the E. J. and E, Good Fellow Club in order to support those out of work from their com- pany, and this shows what kind of | stuff is being given out. This clearly shows under what conditions the jobless workers of the steel city (which old Judge Gary claimed was to be a heaven on earth!) are forcéd to exist under. —Worker. GREEN ATTACKS A.F.L. MEMBERS | Rank and File Can’t | Express Opinions (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the “share-the-work” scheme made by William F. Dunne of the Trade Union Unity League and Louis Wein- stock, national secretary of the Rank and File Committee of the A. F. of L. for Unemployment Insurance. hanges Previous Statement. Backing away from his previous optimistic statements describing the Black bill as @ measure that would eliminate ynemployment, Green stated that “even if we introduce the fiverday week and the six-hour day, there will still be some unem- ployed. If we don’t, we must recon- cile ourselves to living in a country with| a constant standing army of 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 unemployed workers.” No Right for Rank and File In his statement regarding the testimohy of Louis Weinstock, who introduced an amendment to the bill providing for no reduction in wages and a national minimum wage law, Green gave full expression to the bureaucrats’ theory end practice that no rank and file member has the right to express opinions contrary to those of the high-salaried officials on any question. Although more than a thousand A. F. of L. local ynions have endorsed the program of the Rank and File Committee, and Weinstock is a dues-paying member of the Brotherhood of Painters, Pa-| péerhangers ad Decorators, Green de- clared that the Rank and File Com-; mittee was in no way connected with the Federation. “To say that he is in any way connected with the Fede- ration is an untruth,” said Green. Green declared that he believed Boosts Supreme that the. United States Supreme Court “had changed its attitude” and that there “were reasonable grounds for hope it would be held congtitytional.” The A. F. of L. Executive Council, in its letter to all senators warning against the proposed reduction of wages of federal employees, admits complete bankruptcy in the matter of its wage pelicy. It will be recalled that Green was one of the first to endorse the Hoover program of “no wage reductions and no wage in- creases,” one of the first to endorse the stagger system and the “share- the-work” in, under which the wage rates and total incomes of workets have been reduced some 70 per cént. Picture of Mass . tive Council states that three years In its letter to senators the Execu- of wage cutting have brought the to the present point of hu- gradation and economic dis- man tress.” But even the picture of mass mis- ery reflected in this statement. has not. movéd Green to afiy more de- cisive action than to ask for the pre- servation of wage scales in the event of the passage of 30-hour week legislation, He has not suggested that no reduetion be made in total It is clear from Green's testimony yesterday that the Bxecutive Coun- | ourselves, | day. We were to cover our own ter * facing the Daily Worker? The “Daily” Flo Is Being Increased in Harlem NEW YORK.—Unit 418, Section 4 (Harlem) of the Communist Party, has helped to increase the sales ot) the Daily Worker in Harlem through} the united efforts of all members andj after the adoption of a definite course of action. Stanley Ebbins, organizer of the unit, writes to the “Daily” “We decided to create a quota for We pledged ourselves to Selling a minimum of five copies per tory only. An additional pledge made by the members, guaranteeing | the cost of the quota of five, so that none would be returned. “To stimulate news stand sales, we approach workers buying capitalist papers and point out the differences between boss papers and workers pa-| pers. We advise them to ask for the Daily Worker. “Our quota of five permits us to canvass the district and to stimulate news stand sales. Our pledge and guarantee from individual members prevents the use of unit funds. This is the basis of the success we haye had to date and from which we plan to further increase the sales in our district.” START ACTIVITY IN ‘DAILY’ DRIVE IN PHILADELPHIA Chicago District Fails to Send Any Funds; Need Action! District 3 (Philadelphia) is getting | to save the Daily Worker. The Phil-| adelphia workers are determined to @ time as possible. Quotas have been are under way for various activities | in connection with the drive. The quotas for the sections of the Communist Party are as follows: | Section 1, $225; Section 2, $250; Section 3, $300; Section 9, $250; Sec- | tion 13, $275; and Section 14, $75. | Donations will be sought from in- | dividuals and organizations. Collec- tion lists are being distributed, pre- parations are being made for tag days and for affairs. wide scale is being planned and a debate with the Philadelphia Record. Awards wili be made to individuals and sections making the best showing. What are other districts plan- ning? How is the drive progress- ing? These reports are printed not only for the cities involved, but for the entire country. It is important be informed of any new ideas, new methods of approach and new ways of collecting funds that units, eol- lectors and districts devise. Write to the Daily Worker! Where is Chicago in the drive? Not a single contribution has been record- ed to date from District 3, which has a quota of $4,000, the second largest ni the drive. What is the reason for the delay? Isn’t Chicago aware of the danger is needed for the organizing of the state-wide conference on unemploy- ment to be held at Springfield, Jan. lead Chicago and Illinois workers in “Every Factory Our Fortress” their every struggle against the hoss- es’ attacks. The “Daily” must not suspend. Get busy, Chicago workers! | (aes ta" fulfill their quota’ of $2,000 in as short | COPS FIRE assigned to sections, and arrangements | A special movie showing on a city- | that every section of the country | 24 and 25. The Daily is needed to| v Daily Worker Circulation By CHARLES SIEGEL NEW YORK.—As soon as the re- distribution of forces was accom- | plished in our section, Section 4 (Harlem) of the Communist Party, | we decided that if we are to carry on our work successfully, we must link up the popularization of the Daily Worker with our everyday ac- | tivities, Alongside of unemployment | work, there appeared on the agenda of every unit meeting the question of how to stabilize the circulation of the “Daily” in our territory, A group of houses in our concen- tration block were selected, to which committees were assigned to do un- employment work every day of the week, To avoid repeated collections in the units, which greatly impeded our work in the past, a revolving fund was raised by donations, large enough to provide -each committee with ten for each day of the week. committee must report the re- sults to the coming meeting and is held responsible for at least the cost. ‘The committees which go out can- vassing must sell the “Daily” in the territory assigned to us. The interest of the workers was | | | | aroused by pointing out to them that | the Daily Worker is the only news- paper in English in the country which fearlessly fights for the inter- ests of the workers and especially against discrimination against the Negro masses and the foreign-born, comparing this with the vicious ac- tivity of the capitalist press. We also stress the fact that the “Daily” devotes so much space to the fight for relief, for unemployment and | social insurance and the veterans’ bonus. ‘The results have exceeded our most optimistic expectations. After four weeks of persistent hard work, the units as a whole have doubled their on the job in the campaign for $35,000 | circulation, with some units ordering as many as 100 and more a week.’ yy CHICAGO J | Workers Deman id That Committees Be Heard | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | on the workers rescued the wounded workers and got them to places of safety out of the hands of the police | who undoubtedly would torture and | kill them if they got them into their | clutches, Seven workers were arrested in the course of the struggle. After the | attack and dispersal of the workers | armed thugs were stationed in front | of the relief station. South Side Attack. In another demonstration on the | south side, at 505 East 50th Place, many hundreds of workers were fer- ociously attacked by hordes of po- lice and thugs. This attack occurred | in a Negro neighborhood. There the police carried out one of the most | brutal attacks in recent months. Be- | tween 30 and 40 workers, including | Romania Ferguson, section organizer jot the Communist Party, were ar- | rested. | The demonstrations were against | the action of Joseph Moss, director of the Cook County Welfare Bureau who issued orders yesterday that no more committees of unemployed will be recognized in the local relief sta- tions. Instead he set up a so-called | complaint bureau, that is part of |the preparations for further attacks |on the relief stations in Chicago. Tribune Demands Starvation. The notorious gangster sheet,/ As a worker and member of the shall here describe some of the har | fronts workers and especially Negroes Being a carpenter, I joined a Local two months after coming to New York City, joining fees being $15, dues 75 cents per month. Wages in N. Y. toe City were $5 per day. I went Camp Upton, L. I, where I got my) first experience in the labor move-j ment. Thompson rett Construc- tion Co. were the builder The law calls for at least one payment in jeight days. When this was not co. Plied with, one of the militant fo! men called a conf e of the gar deciding to stop wor 1 we wer paid according to the laws of our organization. This was done we got | our pay the next di But this fore- }man was singled out, placed in an auto between two army officers, with a soldier at the wheel, and hustled off the job without any open pro-| test or demonstration by the offi- | cials of the A. F. of L, My next experience was in Decem- ber, 1917 Many carpenters includ- ing myself and another Negro car- penter, were sent to Dover, N. J. to work on the arsenal plant that was subsequently blown up with a loss of many workers’ lives. We were all fed together in the same mess hall soon after our arrival. We were then each one of us assigned to beds all in the same building with fairly good accommodations. Next morning we | ate breakfast altogether and were to be checked in for assignments to the different jobs. When the other Negro and I advanced to the window were told to stand aside. When all the others were at work say for about an hour, the two Negro work- ers were told thereewere no accom- modations on the job for us, there- fore they could not sign us up to work on that job. Yet there were | Negro teamsters, cooks, kitchen help, etc. This declaration by the author- ities on the job was a surprise to the white carpenters with whom we had travelled. We had to return to New York City, losing carfare to and from | | | | | | Communist Party | Tllegal in Tampa | eis |Hold H. Barton on An | Outrageous City Law | TAMPA, Fila. an, 19—The Com- | munist Party has been declared ille- | gal here by the municipal authorities, and the first step in a renewed effort, under a ¢ity ordinance, to crush the struggles of the workers has been {made in the conviction of Homer Barton, jobless leader, to five days jin jail on the charge of “being a | Comunist and found in Tampa.” The International Labor Defense, which defended Barton through its | Tampa attorney, E. L. Bryan, has | announced it will fight the case to | the highest courts to smash the city ordinance, which is unconstitutiona An appeal is being taken from the case, and a writ of habeas corpus filed to secure Barton's release pend- | ing the appeal. Barton was arrested Monday night | Birch. whose star reporter Jake Lengel was; by federal agents as he was about exposed following his killing in 2 | to enter a hall to address a meeting gang war as one of the chief rack- | of unemployed workers. He had been eteers of the city, the Chicago Trib- une, recently came out demanding | drastic cuts in relief for the hungry | men, women and children of Chicago. | ‘The Cook County Unemployed Council called upon workers to organ- |ize demonstrations in front of the relief stations demanding the recog- nition of unemployed committees. It was in response to this call that | the two demonstrations were held | and others are to be held. | ‘The Unemployed Councils, the In- ternational Labor Defense are mobil- izing masses to protest the murder- ous attacks of the police on the un- employed, and to continue the strug- gle for the right of the workers’ | committees to present demands in the local relief stations. NEGRO SHOT ON TOWN SQUARE. | OXFORD, Miss. — A Negro was standing up against 2 house on the | Total received Wednesday Total previously recorded a, Dut nod recorded Total from ali districts DISTRICT 2 A friend, N YC Max Mangel, NY C Tess Werner, N Y © Jack Fener, N ¥ © Frieda Grasern, N ¥ © NYC nian Workers Club, N ¥ © C. Miller, NY © TOTAL teen, N.C. DISTRICT 18 Affair, Racine, Wise. TOTAL FOR DAY 16.85 $42.60 “The struggle against militarism must not be postponed until the moment when war breaks out. Then it will be too late. The struggle against war must be car- ried on now, daily, hourly.” LENIN. | case of the federal employees, and the 30-hour week, to be active in behalf of employed and unemployed workers. All reference to federal unemploy- ment insurance is carefully elimi- nated from all official utterances of the A. F, of L, Exeentive Council. Emil Rieve, president, and John Edelman, research director of the cil is greatly concerned over the ex- posure of its sabotage of the ke a against cuts and for compuls- ory it meade before the] Senate on the Bigek bili, and is to maintain its position of doing for workers except hamper pial while appearing, as in the American Federation of Full Fa- )| flict with the law. «| square, like everyone else. He was| shet down by B. Jones, the poliee, | because he did not moye quite as fast | as Jones thought he should. Smith | was working for Mrs. Stenbeck here | in town and hes never been in con- | Home Owners Block Chicago Foreclosure CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 19—The Home Owners’ Committee of the Un- employed Councils of Cook County has so far succeeded in blocking the foreclosure of the house of John Si- bodsinn, who had slaved three years and had already paid $3,500 on the property. The case is coming up again in court next Tuesday. 150 Textile Workers in North Carolina Mill Out on Strike ROCKINGHAM, N. C., Jan. 19.— One bundred and fifty workers walk- ed out yesterday morning on strike against firing and discrimination in | the mill of the Entwistle Co. The mill owners are bringing in workers from Wilmington to take the jobs of those fired. Most of the workers are members of the United Textile Work- ers, but the leaders of the U.T.W, shioned Hosiery Workers, told the Senate committee on Thursday that they, like their bosses, the hosiery manufacturers, were in favor of the Black bil), and the American Federation of Labor are not backing them up. The workers are planning to march to the other mills in Rock- ingham and pull them ont also, shadowed for three days by known members of the Ku Klux Klan, Attorney Bryan was refused per- mission to speak to Barton all day |Tuesday, but during the day ob- | tained a writ of habeas corpus, de- | manding his release. When he pre- sented this to the city police, to whom Barton had been turned over the charge on which he has now been convicted was entered on the police docket, NEW YORK.—William L son, national secretary of th national Labor Defense, s fol- lowing wire to the Mayor of Tampa yesterday: “Hundred sixty thousand Ameri- tan workers, members, affiliates, | International Labor Defense, de- mand immediate release Barton, Hold you personally responsible for his safety. Demand repeal uncon- stitutional ordinance making Com- munist Party ‘legal. Demand im- mediate release all Tampa work- TTERSON, | ‘ational Secretary “Intervational Labor Defense.” ) Hearing on Remaining Mooney Charge Feb. 11 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Hearing has been set for Feb. 11 before Su- perior Court Judge Ward on Tom Mooney’s demand that he be tried in open court on the remaining in- dictment against him. A motion was also filed that Mooney be produced at the hearing. | cha J A. F. of L. Leaders’ Record of Discrimination Exposed Negro Carpenter Gives Proof of Attacks on U O. K.’d Chrysler Buildi Workers nity ng Lock-Out of Negro A. F. of L. for the past 16 years, I ‘dships and discrimination that con- in this American Labor Organization Dover, N. J., and two days. The A. F. of L. did not try te check or combat this evil and discrimine- tion, but in 1918 when there was a strike or lockout for eleven weeks here in New York City White, Black, Red and Green were assessed % This I paid although living in PI adelphia, Pa. at that time and work- ing at Hog Island. But I had re- tained membership in a N. ¥. loca A Negro carpenter of the same local who was also living at that time in Phila. had to pay his assessments twice, for during the struggle the secretary ran way. In 1919 at the very large U. S. Gov- ernment job, Snyder Ave., Phila., Pa., the government employment agent at the gate made a state ment and attempt to live up to it that he would not send a Negro nor a Jew through these gates as a me chanic. The militant unions had to fight this and finally Birch was chased away from the place. In 1931 when the overhead drive- way began from away downtown, hundreds of men were employed on this job. The Negro Mechanics and jJabors of the building trades tried hard but we couldn't land a single worker on this big city job and there were instances of discrimination too numerous to mention at this writing. There was not one Negro carpenter hired on the Chrysler Building al- though many promises were made. The excuse was that the owner did not want to see them on that build- ing. Only the combined efforts and struggles of both black and white workers will be able to remove these injustices. —I. A. M SCHOOLGRL BEATEN BY COP IN HARLEM NEW YORK, N. Y.—On Jan. 3rd, near 116 and 5th Ave., in the after- noon, 3 Negro school girls, 14 or 15 years old, were talking on the side- walk. One of the girls was walking backward and ran into a policeman. The officer raised his fist and hit that girl hard on the shoulder. The girl, quite surprised, held her sto- mach. and said, ‘What did you hit me for, officer?” The officer rushed to her and said: “You'd better shut up, you damned nigger, or else I will give you some more.” A Negro worker told the officer he was wrong. The officer told him to mind his own business or he'd lock him up. The Negro worker atested that the girl was hit. All five of them were taken to a police station and locked up. As they would not apologize to the officer at the request of the judge, one of them was finger- printed. He said: “If you gave me 1,000 years in jail I would not apol- ogize, and if he was not in uniferm, and I y him knocking a woman, irrespepective of color, I would knock the hell out of him.” And the Worker was sentenced to one day in the53rd Street jail. DISCRIMINATION IN THE AIR SERVICE IN SOUTH NEW YORK CITY — Miss Ada Peskel of 1864 Seventh Ave, New York City, a Negro worker, bought a passenger ticket from the Mitchel Field Air Service and paid $90 for it. She wanted to go to Atlanta, Ga., to her family. y tock her as far as Richmond, . Where they stopped “because a had to be made,” as they aid. But when she wanted to go card the airplane again, they told her there wasn’t room for her. But Vv | when she said her ticket was for the full journey, they said, “Really, lady, ° we don’t carry the money back.” She was left in the middle of a big d with her baggage. niggers. We'll give NEWARK LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING SUNDAY, JAN. 22 Sokol Hall, 358 Morris Ave, MAIN SPEAKER: Cc. A. 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