The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1933, Page 2

mn oO PAGE TWO FOUR OF LR. T. DIRECTORS ARE JATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 195 DEBATED PARTY; Alteration Painters Should NOW DEFENDS if Affiliate to the T.U.U.L. rs \Sixth Ave. Council |Relief Bureau Head Sends Police Agains Forces Boss to Pay ‘TOLD 10 SPEND 2 | 16 Or ganizations ing Food | Worker DecentWage DOQLE ON GIRLS (Jobless Ask | Meet to Call N. Y. J ICN EW Shere eee oF ee J NEW YORK.—Ordering their ar-| +4 Ts y M, KLEIN ville the well-known racketeer, Jack ON BS | f «| Dorian Cafeteria on 42nd St. (be-| i y “ rest and dispersal after they nad| Expose Capitalism QS | stemn ae ane Commit-| Wolner, with the direct support of a c n erence . z F tween 8th and 9th Aves.) are terrible, continually exposed him, Supervisor | ea. Ts Ro aaihie erp ae ” Und District Council 9, has already made — reports George Gregory. | s Mallon, directed the police to attack) Reason for Jim-crow | tee Alteration Painters’ Union) PN gies ROS lc UR) bela i “pA OD Ree 4 * Fs a . ee spe “ Wa ~ 2 sonnel - | *W YORK.—The coming affilia-| 2% effort, to wipe out the eration | (CONTINUED FROM Hedley Is Director of} Men work between 12 and 16 hours} Relief Buro Idea Was |a ero p of workers demanding relief) x —Nccno workers wh i coming aftilia-| Painters” Union from ‘the territory | Dante °TT a. a day at 10 cents an hour. The speed Navor rjneeyr W ENG Home Feet cee ease ences | oan oo eae SN A cat i oe Ratan |In the Bronx, during the Semolin} ynion, Bldg. Trades Industrial Un- New Lay-Offs ur members of the IRT are on are They Ww 2 and Fred IRT they issue hed 10 off hun- declare everybody ill ¢ Ss must dig ‘do- nations” for Gibson. Hedley on Bank of U, 8. Mc ho in times past 9 rs and lost it in the il be interested to bor h Inc. hat Frank Hedley neral manager of the 0 a director of the Bank and his directors are now the public and with th to lay all the blame for the wage cuts on the re- ceivers of the company | But both men and public have a righ ow why the LR.T. not only enda ves by firing signal men rig. t, but has added to the dangers of life and limb by thin- ning out the platform work fer con- and by a scheme to go into soon of running more one man e conductor in the ce: and no rear end man} avoid collisions, as is required W Tra nen, painters, tile washers and car barn men are being laid off at a rapid rate, and many more are/ cut to three days a week. Protest Rises A sample case of the effect of the cuts is that of one motorman with) six children, who lost $4.03 a week by| the ten per cent cut, then by elimin- ation of his platform work, he lost| $8.65 more. Now probably he is hl Pected to donate to the Gibson Com- mittee. He has, like all LR.T. men, had to donate the first two week’s pay cut to the Gibson Committee; | the men were not asked about that. A storm of protest broke out in the last meeting of the motormen’s| local of the Brotherhood company | union, The formation of groups| among the men to plan resistance to the wage cut continues. Jail 2 at “Perfect” Strike: Picket Today NEW YORK.—The strike against Perfect Neglegie Co., which began 3 weeks « when they attempted to hrough a wage cut, is in full Yesterday morning, there was force. @ good demonstration of the work~ ers. Betty Klein, the organizer of the Industrial Union and Oscar Landy were arrested and held under a charge of felonious assault, are out on $500 bail. The Industrial Union calls on the workers in whitegoods trade and all other needle trades workers to sup- port this strike on the picket line. Workers are called to report at 16 BE, 34th St. every morning to assist the striker: WHAT’S ON-- } TUESDAY SWIN GROUP of Office Workers Union t at headquarters of Union, 799 Broadway, room 303, 6:30 p.m. or go direct to Pool at 232 W. 60th St ics at Concourse Work- ‘Ace,, tonight at 8 p.m. ers Club, 1349 Jer: STING of Bronx Parent Teach- ee against Retrenchment in Education tonight 8:30 p.m. at Bronx YMHA, 173rd and Fulton Ave. All parents and teachers interested in the welfare of their children and pupils should attend this meeting. THURSDAY EXHIBITIO! drawing expr in art— at John Reed Club, 450 Sixth Ave, beginning ‘Thursday, Jan, 26 until February 16th. Gal- lery open weekdays: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sun- days; 2 p.m, to 10 pm inting and ANNOUNCEMENT (OTURE by Robert Dy bor Research at 8:30 p.m Auditorium “United States Impertali Central Americs n, Director La- Feb. 26 Subject: in South and LABOR UNION MEETINGS | Hous : Independent Ho Union invites ‘all housewreckers to i ular meeting Jan. 26 at 8 p.m. at 122 Second Ave. CARPENTERS Independent Carpenters Union calls all store fixture carpenters and shop workers to a meeting on unemployment and relief, Jan, 5 at 8 pm. JEWELRY WORKERS Workers Industrial Union open Jewelry meeting for all employed or uncmployed in the industry, Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Lebo: Temple 14th St. and Second Ave, BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKERS Bullding Maintenance Workers Union g eral Membership meeting open to unor fwed workers also, Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. at 15 West 120th St. KNITGOODS WORKERS All unemployed knitgoods workers meet today at 96 Wilson Ave. to discuss organ- lastion for relief DRESSMAKERS Dress cutters meet Wednesday night right atior work at 140 West 36th St. for in- stellation of officers. Irving Potash, speak~ er. All dressmakers working for contractors Of Max Weissen meet today at 1 p. m. at 140 West 38th St. to diseuss answering the lockout with a strike. Dress department of Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union calls meetings of dress- makers locked out today at 1 p.m. at 2242 Second Aye., corner of 116th St., Harlem; 1373 48rd 8t., Boro Park; 99 Wilson Ave, 608 Cleveland 8t., Browns- Williamsburg; ville. | ’ | | mands are: Abolition of the red tape ‘employed Council], 201 Bond 8t., at | 9:30 Friday morning. The parade will baker's helper, refused to accept $9 for fired The worker brought his complaint to the Sixth Avenue Committee. The committee went to see the boss of the cafeteria, and “convinced” him | a week of such work and was | that he had better settle up matters quickly. He paid the worker $15 in- stead of the original $9 he had of- fered him. UNEMPLOYED TO. : MARCH FRIDAY Conference FormsFive Demands to Present to Relief Bureau | | i NEW YORK.—Five demands to be| pr care of hat he nee | St., Thursday morning at 9 o'clock. presented to the Home Relief Bu-| taken care of and that he need not |S ° . is gi reau at 29 Schermerhorn 8t., Jan.| worry about seeking a job; that in| Workers should show their solidarity » and a demonstration starting with | parade converging from two dif- | ferent points to back them up was | the decision of thirty-five delegates | representing 11 Unemployed Councils, | Block Committees and a Hooverville | of South Brooklyn, meeting last Fri- | day in the Red Hook Workers Center. As the Gibson Committee gives 65 cents a day per person to the Salva-| tion Army to feed the homeless single | unemployed, the conference demands that this money be given to the sin- gle workers with an additional sum of thirty-five cents, totaling $1. With this they can buy their own food and prepare it themselves in their homes instead of eating the sickening Salvation Army slop and freezing in| the open all night. The other de- system and immediate registration, removal of police from the Home Re- lief Bureau, opening of empty bufid- ings for the homeless unemployed, | and no discrimination against foreign born, Negro and Filipino. The marchers will form ranks at | the Red Hook Workers Center, 192 President St. and at the Bond St. Un- begin at 10:30. The organizations participating will rally their member- ship and advertise the demonstra- tion and its purpose with many street meetings and 5,000 leaflets, Stage and Screen _ ||| LICE IN WONDERLAND” TO NEW AMSTERDAM JAN. 30 Eva Le Gallienne will move her production of “Alice in Wonderlend” to the New Amsterdam Theatre on Monday Jan, 30. According to Miss Le Gallienne, the moving of the Civie Repertory group to Broadway is but a temporary measure. The Civic Repertory Theatre will again function at the Fourteenth street playhouse next week. Repertory for the final week at the Civic include “Alice in Wonderland” for every performance with the exception of this evening and ‘Thursday night, when “Liliom” will be presented. With the closing of “Big Night” on Saturday at the Maxine Elliott Theatre, the Group Theatre closes its season for this period. This is the second offering by the group players, the first offering being “Suc- cess Story.” “Design for Living,” a new play by Noel Coward, opens this evening at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, with Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt and the author in the chief roles. Other players include Campbell Gullen, Gladys Hanson, Phyllis Connard and Philip Tonge. “Marathon,” by Isabel Dawn and Boyce DeGaw, will be presented at the Mansfield Theatre on Friday evening with Miss Dawn, Robert Strange and Frank Rowan. —_————- LOTTE LEHMANN SOLOIST AT PHILHARMONIC CONCERT Lotte Lehmann will be soloist at the special concert of the Philhar- monie-Symphony Society Friday night at Carnegie Hall, For this oc- casion Bruno Walter has chosen a Beethoven-Wagner program, Mme. Lehmann will be heard with the or- chestra in the Aria of Leonore from “Fidelio” and in three sones of Waener with Walter at the piano— “Schmerzen,” “Im Treibhaus,” and “Traume.” The orchestral numbers of the evening are the “Egmont” Overture. the Beethoven First Sym- vhony, the “Leonore” Overture No, 3. the Prelude and Love Death from “Tristan and Isolde” and the Prel- ude to “Die Meistersinger.” Next Sundey afternoon, the Phil- harmonic will avvear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music under the direc- tion of Bruno Walter. with Lotte Tehmann as soloist. The program: “The Gambler”. Four Characters and Solution, Prokofieff; Aria from “Al- ceste,” Gluck: Aria from “Oberon,” Weber; Svmphony No. 4 in F minor, Tchaikovsky. NEW HEADOUARTERS FOR DAILY WORKER CHORUS By now two sections of the “Daily Worker Chorus,” N. Y., are in exist- ence. The down town section organ- ized a few months ago and the Jam- aica section started a week ago. The down town section has now acquired @ permanent headquarters at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 EB. 4th St.; it meets every Wednesday evening at 8:30. The Jamaica section meets every Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at 148- 29 Liberty Ave., Jamaica, L. 1. In the near future it is expected that more sections of the “Daily Worker Chorus” will be organized s0 that very soon the frame work of a large English workers chorus will be completed. 4 | girls and wh: ChargesHighPrices RAY GEORGE If he used his food and girls” a By NEW YORK ticket to buy “whiskey from a neighborhood grocer, gro worker in Harlem was tol a Relief Bureau agent, Mr. Nuisky, that he would get relief without the usual red tape Ne- | by Miss | investigator, who} by one of Commis- | nchmen, Mr. Philip | was supposedly to} tting the meager | On the morning of January 4, the workers home was visited the Armstrong, bring relief. Af 8, which is expected to feed a far ly of three for two weeks, the wor! | er was Called into the hall by Nuisky on the pretext of giving advice Outside of the apartment the latter proposed to introduce the worker to @ groceryman in the vicinity he ey could be had and | if he patronized this place, he would | be able to get relief without any trouble. This faker went so far as | to say that the worker would be well | event his relief check happened to be a day or two late, the store would administer to his wants, | This offer was bluntly refused by | the worker. After the agent left, | the worker, being curious, decided to visit the store and see for him- self how much of that was so. To his surprise everything proved to be correct; also that the merchandise | cost exactly 5e more than at any other piace. ‘The werker's refusal to accept this proposal caused his relief, which now comes at irregular periods, to be re- duced, However, this worker is a member of the East Harlem Unem- ployed Council and he is determined to put up a relentless fight under the leadership of the council to force adequate relief for his family and all | other starving workers. Rosette Knit Mill Strikers Win; Cut Hours, Raise Wages NEW YORK.—The Rosette Knit- ting Mill strikers have won. They were out since last week, and have just setiled with a reduction of hours from 49 to 44, and with 20 to 30 per cent increases in wages and recog- nition of the shop committee. The Knitgoods department of the! Needle Trades. Workers Industrial | Union is increasing its activities with the beginning of the season and urges all other workers in knitgoods shops to report their shops to it. land, Brighton Beach and Bath Beach| Party program for liberation of the | | Negro race, became convinced of the | The | Unemployed Councils. | When four workers went to the assistance of a woman being beaten by a cop, they were also turned upon and beaten, and have been charged with assault and disorderly conduct. }One woman, Mrs. Bloom, came with| | a dispossess notice, Somehow the cops and supervisor thought a blow or two on the head would fix that. After doing that they arrested her and held her in $100 bail. The supervisor, unsatisfied with | too few arrests directed the police to scour the neighborhood and bring in all suspected persons. Three blocks away they came across Mrs. Lena Rosenberg, Samuel Norton and Harry Gatton, who were identified by Mal-| lon as unemployed leaders and ar-| rested and held in $500 bail. Picked up by police two blocks away, two other workers, Alex Rabinowitz and Sarah Pornack, were identified and arrested and held in $100 bail. The cases of all these workers will come up in the Coney Island Court, 8th and come to the court to demand) their freedom. | Harry Gatton, an ex-serviceman,| whose pay is taxed by the Gibson Cominittee, came to the Home Relief Bureau, to see how it functions. And} he will surely remember what he felt | and saw, Though he was unconnect- ed with the committee, he was beat- en up too, Other workers arrested, but whose cases were dismissed are: Mildred Soloway, Sam Schwartz, Anna Weir- dorf, Ceaser Veiccio, and Tony Po- Jumbo, ANTI-WAR FIGHT ON IN MANY CITIES Havana, Wilkes-Barre | Cops Attack Meets HAVANA, Jan, 23,—Cuban work- ers broke through the fascist terror of Wall Street's puppet president, Machado, today in a militant Lenin Memorial and anti-war parade through the streets of Hayana. Sharp clashes occurred when the police launched an attack on the marchers, Many workers and po- licemen were injured. Fifteen workers were arrested, * * Attack Anti-War Meet. WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Jan. 23.— Police broke up the Lenin Memorial White Landlady Tries To Evict Negro Tenant For Inter-Racial Party NEW YOR.K—For allowing white | and Negro workers to mix at a party in her home given by the Navy St.)| Block Committee, the white landlady | is trying to evict Mrs. Perkins, a Ne- gro woman, Having failed to secure) @ dispossess on this charge she re-/| sorted to the old story of non-pay- ment of rent, which is only a month | behind, and the eviction is scheduled for Jan, 27th. The Navy Street Block Committee will rally the workers on the block to resist this jim-crowism through open air meetings. Parents and Teachers Protest Share Work NEW YORK.—At a meeting of the| Bronx Parents and Teachers Asso-| ciation against Retrenchment in Ed- | ucation, at the YMHA, 17lst St. and Fourth Ave., the following resolution was adopted: Be it resolved that we are unalter- ably opposed to the Share-the-Work | Plan proposed by the Board of Edu-| cation, in as much as it will under-/| mine the mental and educational well being of our children and lower the morale of the teachers by putting them on a low subsistence level. We} demand that the Board of Education | drop its retrenchment policy, reduce | the size of classes, build more schools and appoint more teachers to the schools. Ail Bronx parents are urgently re- quested to attend a mass meeting at the YMHA, 171st St. and Fulton Ave., Tuesday, Jan, 24th at 8:15 p.m, The purpose of this meeting will be to voice protest against the grave in- justices done to children. Doak’s Agents Try to Deport Citizen PHOENIX, Arizona, Jan. 17.—One of the most brazen attempts to de- port a working class smypathizer, who is at the same time a citizen of the U. S., will take place on February 28 when Paul P. Ortner will come up for trial before Judge F. C. Jacobs in the U, 8. District Court. The attempt will then be made to cancel Ortner’s naturalization certi- ficate on the ground that at the time of his naturalization on October 1, 1915 was “attached to the principles of Communism as adopted and ad- hered to by the Communist Inter- national.” Ortner 1s being defended by the International Labor Defense, who will develope a mass fight around this case as an outstanding example of the role of the U. S. Immigration Department as a weapon of the cap- italists directed against the workers. ATTENTION! WORKERS’ CHILDREN NEW YORK.—George Kossoff, of 1773 Longfellow Ave., Bronx, N. Y., a pupil of Eddy Brown and the Dam- rosch Institute of Music, is willing to teach working class children and adults gratis, how to play the violin, provided they have a violin. Those interested should write to Comrade Kosoff at the above address, | und anti-war meeting here last night, | invading the hall and ordering a | crowd of 500 workers to disperse. |The workers stood their ground, passed a resolution against the police | terror and listened to a short talk by | Ben Barnett, They then sang revolu- tionary songs and stayed in the hall until the police prepared to throw tear gas bombs into the closely crowded hall. Police attacks are increasing as the coal bosses, with the aid of John Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America, prepare to carry through @ new wage-cut against the miners. The wage-cut is ordered for Febru- ary, Emergency Bu. Keeps Aged Woman Tied in Red Tape; Is Starving NEW YORK.—An elderly woman worker reports to the Daily Worker that she registered several months ago at the Emergency Work Bureau. After answering a hundred and one questions, and proving her right to a job, she was told that she would be notified when she could make an application. After much waiting, she received notice that she might file an application, More silly questions were asked, and she was promised that an investigator would call on her within a few days, No one came. Three times she telephoned, three times she was promised that her case would be Investigated immedi- ately, and still no one has come, She went down again herself, listened to the lying excuses offered her, and went home to wait for an investigator to come, And still her case is pending, for no one has come to see her. Such gross neglect of duty, such indifference to what is happening to those in need {s only another in- stance of the manner in which the E. W. B. is operating. They force contributions from the poorly paid workers, and then when the time for helping others comes they fall down on the job, TOWARD A NEW THEATRE The Theatre Collective, a new- sponsoring a unique program of Re- volutionary Theatre, Sunday even- ing, Jan. 29, at the New School For Social Research, 66 W. 12th St. ‘The Groups Represented will pro- vide an opportunity for a clearer conception of what {s actually hap- pening in the struggle “Toward a New Theatre” at this time. The fol- lowing phases of theatre will be por- trayed:—The Film & Photo League will show their film, “Hunger”; The Prolet-Buhne (German Agit - Prop Group) will offer their “Rhyme and Rhythm Revue"; A Puppet, satire by those internationally known Yidds, The Modicots; The Meyer Levin— Bunin Shadow Marionettes; The Agit-Prop, and the Theatre Collec- tive, sections of The Workers Labor- atory of the W.LR, will each do one act skits. Two Dance Groups:—The Red Dancers, and The Nature Friends (German Dancers) will add zest and variety to this Revolution- ary Theatre Night. The chief aim of this program is to present to the general public, and especially to those who are very much interested in the development of the Revolu- tionary Theatre, an opportunity to wee what ig actually being done, comer in the ‘Theatrical Field, 1s | 8° corrections of the Communist Part role of leading Negro and white | workers in a united struggle, and de- | Ployed or unemployed, indirectly de- \fended the Communist Party during | Pend on the existence of the Altera~ jan open discussion at the Tammany | tion Painters’ Union, | Controlled Emergency Club in Har- | lem Wednesday. Frank Carter, one of the workers declared his agreement with William Fitzgerald when the latter took the floor and exposed the Tammany Su- pervisor of the club. The Supe visor tried to convince the workers present that segregation and jim- crowing was necessary to “prevent disorders” and that capitalists were placed over them by a “social con- tract” with the workers. Fitzgerald then took the floor said: “We can see today by reading an- cient history and revolutionary struggles between oppressed and op- pressors, comparing that period with the present, we can see there was no peaceful agreement and social con- | tract made by the workers forfeiting their rights. We find in England for instance, during the period of Feud- alism and the introduction of Cap- italism, these workers and peasants refused to be expropriated from home, {farm and work in factories for the ruling class, and were forced by means of violence and terror to do so. This shows clearly that workers did not come to any peaceful social con- tract.’ In answer to the supervisor's reason for Negro discrimination Fitzgerald said Negroes are not jim-crowed and segregated in the southern states be- cause the two races cannot agree but precisely to keep them separated. Fitegerald continued: “The white landlords and planta- tion owners try to establish a dis- tinction and division between Negro and white workers by stating that Negroes are inferior—are sub-human beings, These divisions and distine- tions are swept away in the common struggles; significant examples of this | are the Negro and white sharecrop- pers in Alabama, and the Negro and white workers fighting for the release of the nine Scottsboro boys. Can we say Negro and white babies are born prejudiced? No, we cannot, but environments and teachings are the cause for such ideas. to remind the speaker that in the southern states the Negro women are the cooks who knead the bread with Negro hands for the white ruling class. They are the ones who nurse end rear these white children. Since the aim is to spread the illusion of racial contamination, why do they allow this?” After Comrade Fitzgerald was ruled from the flooy by the Super- yisor, Frank Carter pointed out the following: “I agree with the speaker and move for him to continue to speak. The Negroes are not segregated because the races cannot agree, for out of every 10 Negroes, 7 are mixed with white blood. Also the Negroes are segregated by political force because they are not organized.” Harlem Slaughter House Gets “0, K.” of the N.A.A.C.P. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) P, and Tammany Hall “hospital dis- cipline.” The falling in line of the NAA.C.P, with their white rulers lie of “white superiority” shouts in their statement “like Harlem” by which they really mean “in Negro com- munities,” Referring to Dr. Wright, the Ne- gro dictator for Tammany in the Harlem Hospital, the article con- tinues: “He began years ago....to repudiate any efforts to appoint Negroes to the staff simply because they were colored.” Socialist Influence The N.A.A.C.P. carries out the in- structions of its white bosses to shut the workers’ eyes to the oppression of the Negro people and puts for- ward the Socialists’ lie of “equality regardless of color” without a spe- cial struggle for Negro rights. The “secret investigation” of the N.A.A.C.P. is already bearing fruit for the latter and Tammany. The Rev. Adam C. Powell, whose father was put on the “investigating committee,” to silence his son, who had asked for an investigation, has now written, in answer to the N.A.A.C.P.'s secret letter, exposed in yesterday's “Daily,” that: “I have never made any charges against Harlem Hospital”! An overflow meeting is expected this Thursday, Jan, 26, when the Ne- and white workers come to St. Luke's Hall, 126 W, 130th St., in Har- lem, to protest the terror against Negro patients and discrimination against Negro doctors and nurses in the Harlem Hospital. Large crowds are attending open air meetings in preparation for this meeting called by-the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense, S| wages of over 20,000 painters, em-| and | I would like | |all painters of Greater New York, conditions and standard of| During the past half-year the | union has proven to these painters that only through militant struggles | on the job can the workers gain bet- | ter conditions, higher wages, shorter working hours and human treatment from the bosses on the jobs. It also roved to the rank and file mem- | bers of the A. F, of L, that the theory j}of the bureaucrats, that during the economic crises workers cannot con- | duct successful struggles or improve | conditions, are lies. It has set an mple to these rank and file pain- | ters, showing them that the only way to put an end to the continuous wage-cuts in the industry is for themselves, oyer the heads of the | betrayers, to conduct their own struggles for conditions. New Dangers. Nevertheless the struggles, which | were successfully conducted by our union, do not insure the future of the union, With the growing possi- bilities of carrying out our organiza- tional work among the unorganized painters, the opposers and the ene- mies of the union, the bosses (the Master Painters’ Association), hand in hand with the bureaucrats of the| Brotherhood of Painters, are organ-| izing to destroy the Alteration Pain- ters’ Union, The destroying campaign of the bosses and the Brotherhoog racke- teers has already started. In Brons- Mass Drive Defends Oscar Larson, Jobless Leader, Against Doak SALT LAKE CITY, Utah.—A mass defense campaign to fight against the attempt of the Department of Labor to deport Oscar W. Larson, jobless leader is being organized here by the International Labor De- |fense. Five thousand petitions are being circulated, demanding his im- mediate release, and denouncing the Doak deportation terror. Mass meet- ings are being held to demand his freedom, This mass defense will back up the legal steps taken by the LL.D., which | includes representation by the best | lawyers of Salt Lake City at the hearing next Monday, Larson was arrested Jan. 9, in an effort to smash the State Hunger | March, which presented its demands | to the state legislature next day, af- ter a preliminary demonstration at the city hall. He was held in $1,000 bond, which was raised in lodns and | contributions by the workers in three | days. 'Jailed in Cleveland ‘for Demanding Relief for Three Families (By A Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, O. — On Dec. 29th the Unemployed Council Branch No. 4 of Cleveland, O,, elected a commit- toe of 12 to demand relief for three families at the Miles Park Branch of the Associated Charities. The supervisor refused to see us and called the police, who arrested me, Refusing to sign a waiver saying I was guilty of disorderly. conduct I had to stay in jail all night. The following morning the LL.D. attor- ney bailed me out on a $100 personal bond. My case was set for Jan, 13th. The court refused to give me a trial by jury, so the case was dropped. As I was leaving the courtroom I was immediately seized by the same sergeant who arrested me at the As- sociated Charities and was rearrested on a different charge of noisy as- sembling. The case was set for the next morning. The case is now con- tinued for Jan. 26th. |Rockford Company in |Terror Drive Against Unemployed Workers ROCKFORD, Ul.-Ernest H. Carl- son, unemployed worker framed on a charge of “flashing a gun” at an agent of the electric company sent to disconnect lights at the Carlson home, is now facing trial, Carlson was released following his arrest on a $500 bond furnished by the International Labor Defense. When the agent came to his home, Carlson objected to the confiscation of wires which belonged to him, It is the practice of the company, not only to shut off the lights, but also to cut off the wires and take them away so as to make it more difficult for the workers to get the power re- connected, % The Unemployed Councils and the LL,D. have rallied in defense of this worker and are organizing, at the same time, a delegation to the electric company to demand withdrawal of charges against Carlson and to put a stop to the vicious practices of the company. Do You Know of the Reduction in Rates at CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. ¥. $12.50 Includes Tax to members of I, W, O. and Co-operative $10.50 per week with a letter from your OPEN ALL YEAR--HEALTHFUL FOOD, REST, RECREATION SPORT AND CULTURE All Winter Comforts—Steam Heat—Hot and cold running water in every room City Phone—EStabrook 8-1400 WORKERS ORGANIZATIONS WRITE FOR SPECIAL EXCURSIONS AND RATES Automobiles leave daily from COOPERATIVE [ RESTAURANT, 2700 | for the mass of employed workers it not only supplied the boss with Scabs, but also expressed with this the intentions to destroy the union. Solidarity. The independent Alteration Pain- ters’ Union, while up to now proved to be an organization which ig ca- pable to stay on its own feet, never- theless must affiliate with the T. U. U, L., which will link up our work with the other trade unions, It must affiliate to intensify the work for the future, to insure the moral, and, if necessary, economic support of other mass organizations, to take our work from the present scale to a collective mass scale. These points are placing us in a position where we should not approach the question of affiliation in a way that we “shall” affiliate, which leaves a space open for “yes” or “no,” was expressed in a previous article, but we have to consider that we must affiliate if we want our union to be a stable, strong organ- ization, which cannot fail, broken up from inside, or destroyed from out- side by any of our enemies. The many thousands of workers who are organized in New York will be behind our struggles after an af- filiation. These workers were care- fully and sympathetically watching the growth of the union, Through an affiliation we will get the support of these workers in our struggles, Method to Follow. We should be very careful to see} that this affiliation should not be a} mechanical one, therefore we must link this up with the organizational drives of the union, where the affilia- tion will be an affair in which the whole membership is actually and actively involved. Two very important organizational directions connected with the affilia- tion have to be followed. | 1—Organizational campaign among| the unemployed painters, building | unemployed groups, developing strug- | gles for Unemployment Insurance, 2-—United front preparations to de-| velop struggles against the miserable conditions in the trade with the rank} and file members of the Brotherhood | of Painters. ‘We must pay special atetntion to! this work, not only because it is in the program of the T, U. U. L., but because at present about 75 per cent of the unorganized painters are un- employed. To gain better conditions | is essential to gain the confidence and support of the unemployed pain-| ters, which is possible if the em-| ployed workers organizationally are participating for the needs of the) unemployed, to build a United Front| between the employed and unem- ployed, to fight for conditions in the trade, for unemployment insurance Alteration Painters Union Locals 1 and 2; Union of Technical Men, Rabbit Fur Workers Unions, Railroad Brotherhood Unity Movement, Inde- pendent Meat Cutters Union, Unemployed Organizations Printers Assn. of “Big” 6 for Bene~ fit of the Unemployed, Unemployed Councils of Greater New York, Un- employed Office Workers Association, Needle Trades Workers Ind. Union Unemployed Council, National Un- employed Councils, Food Workers In- dustrial Union Unemployed Council, Unemployed Teachers Association, United Front Action of Greek Un- employed Workers. Workmen’s Circle Branches Branches 354, 514, 386, 454, 325, 75, 74, 624. Other are: International Labor Defense, Bill organizations represented Hannigan Assn, Anti - Injunction Committee, Tom Mooney Defense Committee, Nat'l Students League, College Forum, International Work- | ers Order City Committee, Lexington Tenants Assn., LB.A.L.DS., L.D.L.D. Political Parties Communist Party of U.8.A., Social- ist Party (two locals represented). Workers Clubs Polish Workers Club, 1 del,; Spar- tacus Workers Club, 1 del.; Greek Workers Club, 1 del; Vanguard Workers Club, 1 del.; Unser Kamf Workers Club, 1 del.; Williamsburg Workers Club, 1 del.; Nat Turner Workers Club, 1 Gel. The Trotskyites, Lovestoneites and Weisbord were also present. Retixe State Employes Over 60, Abolish Their Jobs -- Is New Policy ALBANY, N. Y¥,—State employes over 60 years of age will be retired and their positions abolished, accord- ing to a new policy which has just come to light. The employes will be retired on pensions considerably tower than their salaries, it was of- ficially announced, With a deficit of $1,600,000 already in the pension fund, it will be no surprise if the governor should short- ly announce that even the miserable pensions will be slashed. This is seen as a necessity since the new policy will swell the deficit a great deal. TOURS FOR “DAILY” NEW YORK.—Comrade L. Lewis of the Daily Worker is touring the middle west to assist district, organi~ zations in the drive for $35,000 for the Daily.’ Speaking dates have been arranged for Detroit, Pontiac, Kala~ mazoo, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, and immediate reliet. Monroe and Chicago. AMUSEMENTS CIVIC REPERTORY VaLOee ay, Oy, $1, $1.50 Evs, 8130 Mats. Wed. & Sut. EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director = “Liliom” deriand” , “Alice In Won THE THEATRE GUILD Presents GRAPHY A comedy by 8, N. BEHRMAN GUILD TREATRE, 52d St., West of Biway Eve, 8130, Mats, Thurs. & Sat, at 2:30 ELMER RICE’S WE, THE PEOPLE A NEW PLAY. IN TWENTY SCENES ys, & 40 St, Tel, PE. i Mats, Wed & Sat,, 2:90 Bway 330 Sharp. FRANCIS LEDERER & DOROTHY GISH IN AUTUMN CROCUS The New York and London Success MOROSCO THEATRE, 45th St, W. of B’ Evi Mats, Wed., Thurs, & $i RKO JEFFERSON 1 8. ¢ NOW “AFRAID TO TALK” with ERIC LINDEN and SYDNEY FOX tore: “FAST LIFE” Peature: ADVER PATRONIZE OUR “EXCELLENT” ~ —says the N. Y. Times. American Premicre— Woman’s World RELEASED IN MOSCOW AS ‘WOMAN 2%, English Titles EXTRA ADDED FEATURE Complete Authentic Motion Lenin's Funeral and Mass Dei THE worxers Acme Theatre Aith Street and Union Sq: Cont. from 9 Midnite Show Sat, 15 cents 9 A. 0 1 P.M.—Mon, to Pri. ‘Now at Pop. Pric. 25¢ to IPM. ‘MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM’ RKO CAMEO THEA., 43nd St, & Broadway Bway at exo MAYFAIR fuse Now OFFICIAL AUTHENTIC WORLD WAR FILM “THE BIG DRIVE” SEORETS WITHBELD UNTIL NOW! TIZERS Attention Comrndes! OPEN SUNDAYS Health Center Cafeteria Workers Center — 50 €, 18th St, Quality Food Reasonable Prices DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bet. Pitkin & Sutter Ayes.) B’klyn PHONE; DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-3, 6-8 P.M. For Brownsville Proletariany SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE WORKERS PATRONIZE CENTURY CAFETERIA” 154 West 28th Street Pure Food —Proletarlan Prices SPLENDID LARGE Hall and Branch or Co-op, Office Camp Phone—Beacon 731 BRONX PARK EAST Meeting Rooms TO AIRE Perfect tor BALLS, DANCES, LECTURES, MEETINGS, Ute. IN THE New ESTONIAN WORKERS HOME 27-29 W.115th St., N.Y.C. Phone UNiversity 4-0165 ANNOUNCEMENT Dr, Louis L. Schwartz SURGEON DENTIST Announces ‘The removal of his office to larger quarters at 1 Union Square (8th Floor) Suite 803 ‘Tel. ALgonquin 4-9805 tntern’l Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15th FLOOR AU Work Done Under Versons! Care of DR JOSEPHSON » Mott Haven 9-8749 DR. JULIUS JAFFE Surgeon Dentist 401 EAST 140th STREET (Cor. Willis Ave.)