The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1933, Page 2

PAGE TWO DAILY WORK R, EW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY Le 193 “SOCIALIST AND CAPITALIST PRESS UNITE T0 LIE ABOUT WORKERS WHO “Phe “Forward” Plays House With or ay Sonal in| Bronx Co-operative and 11th St. and Ave. By MOE BRAGIN OUSTED DEMOCRAT BOSS TAILOR: NEW YORK.—Two news reports in the socialist Jewish Daily For- ward Saturday, show how the socialists are fighting rent strikes. The first | bosses of the Starlight laundry weed- _ in big headlines is a lying account of how the Cooperative Colony in the | ed out all the old workers and hired | Bronx evicted a poor tenant. The second, much shorter, and just as lop- | sided with lies, describes the evictions of six tenants from “Paradise Alley” | Jews, although the bosses are them- on 11th St. and Avenue A. A Weird Tale The ally of Tammany sheds onion tears in an article of several thou- sand words on how Sam Silverberg and his two sick children and wife ~ywere “thrown out of the Cooperative Colony managed by Communists.” According to the “Forward,” Sam Sil- verberg is a poor worker, a member | of Icor, active in left wing organi- | zations. One of his children had had pneumonia three times in one | year. Unable to pay rent for three | toons, he and his wife had gone down time and again to the office of the Communist management to plead | with the hard hearts. All their reas- oning and tears were wasted. They Had asked for two-rooms, then for one, as they were at the end of their Tope and could not afford to pay the rent for their old flat. The Wanagement, hard as hammers, re- fused to listen The Forward goes on to say: “The Communist management of the house | wanted to slaughter their sacrifice quietly, finish thelr villainous piece of work in secret so that not even a rooster would be aroused to crow.” The piece of villainy which the Communist management was set on doing was to get the furniture of “the evicted tenant down to the cel- lar so as to keep hidden from the workers in the neighborhood the fact that even Communists evict poor workers ovt on the cold streets! ‘Sam Silverberg, the evicted te- nant, was too clever for those ras- cals,” the Forward hastens to add. He compelled the marshall to put his furniture out into the street so that all the world could see in full day- light what hypocrites and tricksters LABOR UNION MEETINGS 5 METAL WORKERS ‘Metal Workers general membership meet- ing Feb. 3 at 8 p. m. in Manhattan Ly- coum, 66 East 4th St. District Organtser Lustig of the Metal Workers Industrjal Union to make detailed report. NEEDLE TRADES TL. G. W. U. opposition group ealis all io workers to hear report on proposals to joint boards of the two unions. nh Bryant Hall, right after work, FUR WORKERS | Open forum for unemployed fur workers today 2 p. m. at 130 West 28th Bt. for ‘ypport of Wednesday demonstration against racketeering. ILLINERY WORKERS Millinery workers mass meeting today at moon at 37th St. and Sixth Ave. for sup- port of dressmakers. ‘S CLOTHING WORKERS of men’s clothing workers at 128 University Pisce. Unem- ed urged to come. Alteration Painters’ cal No, 1 every Tuesday m. at 4215 Third Ave. cor. jso musical program. All Admission free. at Concourse Work- 9 Jermoe Ave. All invited, 2 Ballroom and Dancing tonite at At ‘Tremont Workers Club, 2075 Wed. night at 8.30 Stage and Screen “BAD MANNERS” OPENS AT THE PLAYHOUSE “Bad Manners,” a comedy by Dana Burnet and William B. Jutte, had its premier last night at the Playhouse. The players include Bert Lytell, Mar- garet Sullavan, Leona Maricle and Harold Vermilyea. Ferdinand Bruckner’s play, “Sick~| ness of Youth,” recentiy tried out at the Cherry Lane, will have its Broad- way premiere this evening at the Bijou Theatre. “Alice In Wonderland,” Eva Le} Gallienne’s production, which has been playing on 14th St., moved up- town last night to the New Amster-/ dam Theatre. Josephine Hutchinson, } Eva Le Gallienne and Joseph Schild- kraut and other Civic Repertory players continue in their Baad roles. “Evensong,” a dramatization by| Beverly Nichols and Edward Knob- Jock of the Nichols rovel, will open ft the Selwyn Theatre this evening. | ‘The British player, Edith Evans. heads the large company. Chamberlain Brown's subscription season will have its delayed opening this evening with “The Hope of a Tree,” a new play by Leopold Atlas, With Helene Millard, Rex Thomas, cng Griggs and Iris Whitney in the ‘George M. Cohan’s production of “Pigeons and People,” with the au- Whey in the leading role, was trans-! ferred last night from the Sam H. p: to the Lyceum Theatre. “Face the Music,” the musical com- edy last seen at the New Amsterdam, | epens a return engagement tonight at the 47th St. Theatre. Mary Boland wwijl again be seen in the leading part. - 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRA- | | TION IN MOSCOW NOW BEING | SHOWN AT ACME THEATRE | » The Acme Theatre, in addition to the showing of “Women’s World,” a} Si Soviet film, is now presenting | De latest moving pictures received Tiom Moscow of the 15th Anniversary { the Bolshevik revolution. The film «in sound and presents the mass arch of the million workers, the id Army, the principal leaders, etc, The same program includes moving ated ee funeral and mass tration, —— these Communist are! e “Forward” Lied The writer of this article went up to the Cooperative Colony to find out the actual facts. He spoke to the workers at the Cooverative Colony. He found out: Sam Silverberg is not | @ poor worker as the lying Forward | Tepresents him to be. He owns a | tailoring shop where he employs two men. Just a few weeks ago he bought a new truck for his business. Nevertheless, he refused to pay the | Cooperative a cent of the more than $300 rent he owes. Several years ago he rented a concession from the Col- ony and was compelled to move out because he is @ difficult person to deal with. Even then he showed himself to be a sabotager by breaking | the walls of the store. | Starlight Laundry is | On Strike; Demand Reinstatement of 2 NEW YORK.—Starlight Laundry, (2075 Washington Ave.) workers are on strike against wages of $5 and $8 a week less than the average in the | Industry and against firing of two for belonging to the Laufdry Wo Industrial Union, 260 East 138th Bronx. All are asked to show solid- arity wit these strikers. A year ago when a drive was made to organize the laundry workers, the new ones. They refused to hire any selves Jews, on the theory that Jews are prone to organize. They also re- fused to hire anyone who had any experience or acquaintance in the | laundry industry. However the miserable conditions | | and the abuse these workers suffered | taught them the same lesson that | Rent Strikers In Mass Picket Lines In Sharp Struggle (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | Supporting the strike. Foyr more At a mass meeting of more than | houses on the same block nos. 3010, six hundred of the tenants Thursday, Silverberg was given 2/ chance to speak. He spoke for three- quarters of an hour. His speech had} evidently been coached by the For-| ward gang. He showed himself to be a disrupter. The meeting of work- ers unanimously decided in favor of his ousting. Not all the tenants in the Cooperative are Communists or Communist sympathizers. Some of them at the last glections had voted Socialist and Democrat. Yn spite of this, all the tenants to a man cried that this man be thfewn ont. Had Money For A Track ‘The Forward weeps crocodile tears for the children of Silverberg, the boss who employs two men and has a truck. In one place it says that both of Silverberg’s children are seri- | the morning when there was only a ously sick. In another place, only one ehild is sick. And the chijd who has been sick has had pneumonia three times the same year! To add to this, out that at the eviction a tin sign with the words Poor Workers” was all ready. The Forward photographers were planted in favorable spots to take pictures. Everything had been staged, before- hand. But the beans were spilled. Stein- berg, Democratie captain in the neichborhood, eame with a truck, ac- | eerding to the New York Times of Jan. 28. “Mr. Steinberg went te get another truck to move Sam and also to arrange for another apartment for | them. Asked why he was interested, he explained that as captain of the Democratic Party in the section, he tried to help members of the Olin- ville Democratic Club who were in difficulties. But wasn't Silverberg a Communist? It seemed not. A few months ago he joined the Democratic Club in the district.” Where is the other apartment to which the Democratic captain was moving Silverberg’s furniture? In the apartment house of Ossinow, Se- eialist landlord, who has stated that he will give Silverberg free rent so long as Silverberg “can not afford to pay.” Ossinow owns twelve apart- ment houses. Rent strikes which the Cooperative has helped organize have cost him more than $10,000. He has repeatedly attacked the Cooperative for its left wing activities. A Real Rent Strike When the Fe <*rd is confronted with a real rent strike, conducted by unemployed workers against a grab- bind landlord, what is its atiitude? Hidden underneath the flaring head- lines about Silverberg is the report about the evictions on 1th St. and Avenue A. The Forward here ped- dies the same lies that all the cap- italist papers picked up from the gutter. The Forward attacks the strikers by stating that one of them had started a fire in her rooms, that another one had threatened to shoot the police. As a matter of fact, neither of the evicted tenants were present during the evictions. The Forward does not breathe one word about why these unemployed workers were fighting the police and the marshal. The Forward’s Line The Forward pokes fun at the strikers. It atiacks the Cooperative Coleny where rents have been re- duced three times in a year, where the rooms do not rent for more than eleven dollars on the average, where the rooms are clean, spacious, full of sunlight, and the buildings are surrounded by beautiful grounds. But the Forward has not a word to say about ihe miserable shacks on 11th St. The Forward hides the fact that here there are public toil- | ets, that freeze in cold weather, that have but one shower for forty-seven tenants. The Forward hides the fact that the matchboxes ef rooms rent for fourteen dollars. This again |! shows the Forward working hand in hand with Tammany and the land- lords. This proves that the Forwart is for evictions of workers, against rent strikes, and against the work- ing class. Dressmakers Unity Committee Increases Strength of Drive NEW YORK.—While the number of strikes is increasing, many of these shops are settling daily. Among the important shops that settled yester- day, is the Clide Dress Co, employ- ing about 70 workers. The workers received an increase ranging from 10 per cent to 15 per cent and a re- duction of four hours. The Dressmakers Unity Committee calls on all active dressmakers to support the strikers on the picketline and help bring their strikes to vic- tory. The following shops must be supported on the picketline in the morning: Cornelias Dress, 370 W. 35th St., Topaz Dress, 225 W. 37th St. Mercantile, 250 W. 39th St.; Sonny Dress, 122 W. 27th St.; Schnei-~ der & Sleicker, 122 W. 25th St., Per- fect Negligee whitegoods shop, 16 W. 24th St the writer found | “Communists Evict | — last | 3014, 3031 and 302} are preparing to} strike if their demands for lower | rents are not met by the landlord. The block committee has arranged a lecture for Wednesday, Feb. 1st at the National Workers Alliance, 808 Adde Ave., by Carl Winter, leader of the Hunger March on Washington, who wil] speak on workers’ problems. Battle on East Side More than 400 workers defied police blugeons and mounted police yester- day afternoon in a battie against the eviction of striking tenants from 418, 418 1-2, 420 East 6th 5St., and suce- ceeded in taking the furniture which the marshall carried into the street baek into the apartments. The evictions took place early in handful of workers present. Mounted police and 75 cops on foot were strategically placed around the build- ing te form a protective cordon } around the Tammany marshal and his helpers. | Wate in the morning the crowd was swelled to several hundred by neigh- bors and members of the Unemployed Council. The police drew a deadline half a block from the building and pushed the crowd as well as the large Mass picketline beyond this line. Giving in momentarily, the workers held a meeting beyond the deadline, but as their number swelled in the afternoon, they formed a solid front and marched towards the furniture @n the curb, where a speaker's stand | was quickly erected. Workers Fight Instantly the police swung their clubs on the speakers _and on the massed audience. The workers fought back. Some Of leading members of the Unemployed Council were pointed) out over two blocks away and slugged | by the police, | While the police beat down speakers on the street, workers climbed on fire escapes and spoke to the crowd) below. When police tried to get at the speakers on the fire escapes through the building, residents in that house jeered at the cops and re- fused to let them pass. Additional evictions are seheduled | | to take place Tuesday morn ng. ALL | WORKERS OUT IN FRONT OF 418) E. 6th St. this morning 8. 30 a. m. McAuliffe in Charge The brutal exhibition was under the personal direction of Inspector McAuliffe who has been transferred to scene of the rent strike because of his efficiency in quelling the legiti- mate demands of the oppressed worker by the most modern and most outrageous methods, Frank Barth, who was clubbed, and beaten Jast Friday, at 11th Street and Ave A, during the evictions, leaves Bellevue Hospital today, and will stand trial on a charge of disorderly conduct this morning at the Magis- traves Court. Thursday 8 p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum there will be a mass protest meeting against police terror. The meeting is called by the Downtown goku a Councils. 47 Face Eviction Seventeen were evicted yesterday at 2420 Bronx Park East and 47 more have dispossess notices. Abotit 100 police came down at 8 A. M. and surrounded the block and the marshail came a few minutes later with three car loads of gang- sters and broke into the apartments. Furniture was chucked bodily into a muddy lot across the way. M. Rubin; correspondent of the Daily Worker and Freiheit was beaten up, and Klebert, a tenant, coming to his reseue was also beat up. A huge crowd assembled, and in spite of the police held an open air meeting at 3 p, m. The rest of the tenants took in the families evicted. Fight in Hallways Police were forced to battle tenants in the halls before they were able to evict two families at 226 Berret St. in Brooklyn yesterday, 50 police and |Tiot squads swarmed the block. Workers were beaten up in their homes when they objected to being evicted. Despite this terror picketing will continue, the tenants determined to prevent the evictions scheduled for today, The families evicted were those of Gravitz and Wexler. The president of the Brownsville Landlords Asso- ciation, Epstein, a socialist, has threatened further terror agaainst the workers. UNEMPLOYED FUR RABBIT WORKER FRAMED NEW YORK.—Yaeger, a fur rabbit manufacturer succeeded in framing Ta COUNCILS Bakers CALL WORKERS 10 FIGHT IRT BOSSES, $111,300 “Relief” Is Wage-Cut, Lives of Riders in Danger NEW YORK.—The following is a copy of the latest splurge of the I. R.T. bosses in their “Subway Sun,” displayed in all cars on the com- pany’s subway division: “The receivers and the manage- ment of the Interborough Line are proud to announce that the of- ficers and employees have eontri- buted voluntarily to the Emergency Unemployed Relief Committee, for 1933, a total of $111,300.” The Unemployed Councils of New York have issued the following state- ment calling upon workers to organ- ize and protest against the “relief donations” LR.T. workers are forced to contribute, the speed up and lay- offs which endanger the lives of the People, and against the attempt to raise the fares. “The LR.T. has donated $111,300 for the Gibson Relief Committee. This “generosity” is the greatest de- | gee to keep up the murderous lay off policy of the Interborough. The $111,300 was blackjacked out of | the men from their low wages under the threat of losing their jobs. The} splash in all the trains and in the | press {s 4 publicity stunt to hide the | direct role of Mr. Hedley and his col- leagues. Already mass lay offs are taking place. In spite of the fact that subway trains, elevated and street cats are undermanned, the speed up system has consistently increased, resulting in lay offs. Now more lay offs are on the program, even for the main- tenance men. Mere Risk To Life “The vicioysness of these dividend coupon clippers and directors of the Interborough Rapid Transit 1s not dimmed even by the fect that the lives of millions of passengers are endangered. These layoffs will jn- crease the danger of travelling, The people of New York have not for, gotten some of the tragic accidents | resulting in the loss’ of many lives (100 dead on the Culver Line, a mat- ter of 10 years ago, besides .dozens of others). Mr. Hedley and the of- ficials of the Interborough receiving ag high as $100,000 in salaries a year care nothing either for the over worked Interborough men with their low wages or those laid off and doomed to starvation, or the en- dangering of the livés of the passen- gers. Now, when every nickel counts to the workers, both employed, part- time and unemployed, the company heads are manipulating with crooked politicians to increase the fare in spite of the millions of profits they have made. Plot To Cut Off Relief Four of the LR.T. directors are also directors of the Gibson Relief Committee which raised over 15 million dollars “for it’s “relief” work and in spite of the fact that only close to four million of this money has been used, registration is closed. The Unemployed Coyneil of Greater New York is well acquainted with these “generous acts” of Hedley and his like. The only thing that cat foree the Hédley’s and Interborough Rapid Transit to stop its layoffs, the endangering of lives of the publie, in- creasing the fares, is a tremendous protest movement of the workers of New York, employed and unemploy+ ed, and a militant resistance on the jvart of the Interborough workers ‘shemselves against the layoffs. “The Unemployed Councils of Greater New York pledges to mobil- ize in support of any movement In- terborough workers groups will de- cide upon against the lay offs. We also call upon the workers to organ- ize protest meetings. Send in copies of the resolutions to the Inter- borough, City Government, stimulat- ing the greatest wave of protest.” Students Endorse Demonstration (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) one of the principal speakers, as will be William Simons, secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League. Citing the content of the manifesto | of the World Congress Against War, adopted at Amsterdam last August, the AC.FS.A.W. notes, with great stress, the hourly-increasing war moves of the imperialist powers, in repeating the warning made in the manifesto: “The Congress observes the in- vasion of China by Japan, a faet which implies that the Great Pow- ers ate the latter's accomplices. ‘This dastardly act of brigandage on a vast scale will inevitably followed by a division of the spoils no fess bloody than the conquest itself.” The A.C.F.S.A.W. here adds further warning. It marks the wars raging in} Latin America today, along with the Japanese invasion of China and Manchuria as imminently bordering on another world conflagration great- er than the last. It warns also of the impending attack upon the Soviet Union by all the iinperialist powers. The American Committee urges all workers, regardless of political or re- ligious faiths, workers of both hand and brain, and all such organizations; to come with their organization ban- ners to Saturday’s demonstration. The committee urges large turnouts, The Office Workers Union calls its members to attend the demonstration on Feb, 4. 200 Knitgoods Workers Strike Against Wage Cut; Call N.T.W..U.) NEW YORK.—Saturday the besses of the Atlanta Kultting Mills, 2897 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn shop in- formed the gitls that their wages an ynemployed worker, John Inget, The Tammany court disregarded facts proving the innocence of the worker find sentenced him to an in- definite term in the Elmira Re- formatory, would be cut. Inspired by the oiher struggles conducted under the leaderr ship of the industrial whton these workets struck and immediately got in touch with the Industrial Union. ‘The shop is paralyzed, Workers Union Trubia Strike; mina Victory i in Week NEW YORK.—A —A third victory | | marked the organizational drive oi | | the Bakery Workers Industrial Union | | this week. The boss of the Trubia Bakery, 489 | | Ninth Ave. Manhattan, was forced | | to grant every demand presented by | | the militant committee of workers | and union representatives. work day. The wage scale has been inereased to $38, $40 and $42 in- stead of the former scale of $25, $30 and $35. The shop committee and union is now fully recognized. Unorganized bakery workers are | advised to communicate at once with | the Bakery Workers Industrial Union, 232 W. 22d St., Manhattan. PAINTERS REFUTE | COUNCIL CHARGES: Demand Rank and File, Trial Committee NEW YORK.—The eight suspended | members, including Louis Weinstock, | of painters District Council 9, put forward a signed statement demand- ing that the charges being made} against them by the Council officials be dropped, and stating that, if the trial takes place they would demand} an impartial trial committee to be selected from local unions. The charges and the suspensions | {put through by tha District Council |followed close upon the testimony | made by Louis Weinstock before the Senate Committee hearings where he | exposed the Black Bill, supported by Green and other A. F. of 1. officiais as an attempt to legalize the wage- cutting share-the-work scheme. “We maintain,” declares the state- ment, “that the charges directed} against us by District Council No. 9 are @ part of the scheme to railroad} us out of the Brotherhood, and are | inspired, fiystly, by recent inflamatory attacks made against us by William Green for the splendid fight we | waged for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, and secondly, by the G.E. | B, for our vigorous exposure of their maneuvers in helping bosses to put through wage cuts.” Tries to Hire Bottle Throwers! Landlord Rebuffed by Ex-Serviceman NEW YORK.—Further revelations | of what is coming to be known as “landlord technique” were made yes-| terday by an ex-serviceman who is| picketing in the Franklin Ave. rent | strike. Kaplan, one of the most ruth- less of the landlords in this vicinity, | approached this ex-serviceman, offe: ing to pay him $25 if-he would re- move the sign he was carrying which said that the strike was supported by the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Lea- gue. Kaplan said that this sign was) doing the landlords more home than} all the other signs put together. Kap-| lan is evidently afraid of the League which is known for its militancy. “I'll see you in hell before I do that,” was the veteran's reply. Some time leter this picket was again approached by Kaplan. He was told he could make some extra money by finding children who, for five do!- | lars would be willing to go on the! roofs of the houses on that block and throw milk bottles at the picketers. The reply he received made him leave furiously and return with a baseball bot. He was met with a spirit which | soon turned from defensive to offen- sive. Kaplan regretted his rashness. Since that time he has not appeared on the rent strike scene without a/ bodyguard of armed thugs. Railroad Rutcopsky | for Strike Activity NEW YORK.—Feliz Rutcopsky, a militant member of the Broom Mak- ers Section of the Furniture Work- ers Industrial Union was convicted of malicios mischief and unlawful entry charges yesterday in Special Sessions eourt. ‘he judges who rail- roaded him are McInerney, Soloman and Herbert. They immediately showed their prejudice against the worker when they found that the | case arose out of activities by Rut- copsky in a broom makers’ strike led | by_his union last month. The fact that Rutcopsky ‘has a family which will starve while he is in jail did not stop the judges from ordering him up for sentence Feb. 10, The union calls for workers’ organi- zations to protest the jailing of Rut- baoadt It also holds a banquet Feb. at 818 Broadway to raise money tot his family and the family of ah- other striker in jail. | FORMING NEW FRENCH CABINET PARIS, Jan. 30.—On the request of President Lebrun, attempts at the formation of a new French cabinet have been begun by Edouard Dala- dier, Minister of War in the former cabinet. In his efforts at solving the mounting difficulties of French capi- talism, Daladier indicated that his An 8-hour day has been instituted | in the place of the former 10-hour | | ternational 33 DAILY WORKER CALLS: 3 CITY CONFERENCES NEW YORK.—Because of the necessity not only to fulfill its $12,000 quota of the $35,000 Daily Worker drive, but also to reorganize the distribution of the Daily Werker, and place it on a sound organizational footing. the New York District, in action to all the working-class organizations in New York City, to par- ticipate in three conferences, one and one in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, Feb, 19, Sunday, 10:30 Manhattan. ‘Manhattan, Feb. 20, Monday, 7 4th St. Bronx, Feb. St. City Committee which was elected Organizations are requested not to wait for the official call to come through the mails, but to use the call that was printed in yesterday's | Daily Worker. The three conferences will take place as follows: :30 p.m., Manhattan Lyceum. 66 E. 21, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., 801 Prospect Ave, Besides the further organization of the distribution of the Daily Worker, a report will be given of the past few months’ activity of the which has accomplished very good work from that time on. yesterday’s paper, issued a call to in the Bronx, one in Manhattan a.m. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th | | in last November's conference, and |Lehman Proposes to ‘Slash Public Works) land School Finances NEW YORK- —aov ernor Lehman's | | Message yesterday accompanying his| | proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1933, makes recom- mendation for a reduction of $60,- 000,000. This is a 21.7 per cent cut. Of this, the two main items are a} reduction of $28,500,000 or 26.9 per cent in state aid to schools, and over) $18,000,000 in public works. The reduction in public works ap-| | propriations means more unemploy- | ment. In the reduction in the school money, a characteristic liberal device was used, the same that the British Labor Party used while in power in | England. To avoid giving the jm- pression of a terrific slash $26,000,000 | of the cut is merely postponed to the | 1934 budget. The actual working of the scheme will be that many smal} towns will have delays in getting their school money, will pay with serip, or will go to the banks for fiy nancing, and fall even further into control of the banker oligarchy. PROTEST HAITI TERROR, FRIDAY Mass Meeting in St. Luke’s Hall NEW YORK.—Cultural opganjza- ; tions, including the John Reed Club, ' the National Student League, and numerous labor bodies, the Trade Union Unity Council, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the In- Labor Defense and the Anti-Imperialist League have en- dorsed the mass meeting to be feid in St. Luke’s Hall, 125 West 130th St., Friday, Dec. 3, 8 p. m, in protest against the persecution of revolti-| tionary writers and workers by the Haitian government. At least four open air meetings will precede the} hall meeting. Strong protests, cabled by the John Reed Club ang the National Student League to President Stenio Vincent of Haiti against the jailing of Max Hudicourt and Jackques Roumaine, Haitian writers, demanded the imme- diate and unconditional release of these writers and of the Negro work~ ers arrested on 8 charge of “plotting | j against the public safety” becausce they favored the organising of work- ers of the Haijtian-American Sugary Company, a business financed by) Wall Street. | Speakers at the St. Luke's Hall| meeting Friday, 8 p. m., will include! James W. Ford, Communist vice- presidential candidate in the r4snt election, John Balam N. Y. District, I. L. D. and Robert Dunn, EB, Glassford of the Trade Union Unity Ccauncil, will be the chairman. LABOR DEFENDER CONFERENCE SOON Elect Delegates from Mass Organizations NEW YORK—The New York Dis- | trict, International Labor Defense, will hold a “Labor Defender Confer- ence” Sunday, Feb. §, at 10 a.m. at the Manhattan Lyeeum, 66 E. 4th | St. The purpose of this conference 1s to devise means for increasing the circulation of the Labor Defender and to aid the International Defense to continue the publication of this powerful worker-pyblication whose existence is threatened by lack of funds. Speakers at this conference will include Robert Minor and William Patterson, national secretary of the International Labor Defense. All workers’ mass and fraternal or- ganizations are urged to elect dele- gates immediately to this important conference, This conference has already been endorsed by the Ini tional Work- ers Order, Jewish . ‘kers Clubs, United Council of Working Women, Pen and Hammer, an organization of technicians and p rofessional work- ers, and by other ‘yorkers’ organiza- first a ryitce: for assistance will be made to the Socialists, tions, including the Trade Union Unity Council. CAMP NIT $12.50 Ine | with a Jetter from your OPEN ALL YEAR—HEALTHFU All Winter Comforts—Steam Hea’ every 1400 Cam) Goanshs cagimiertions 9 WHITE FOR SPECIAL TERCURSIONS Do You Know of the Reduction in Rates at GEDAIGET BEACON, N, ¥. ludes Tax to members of I. W. O. and Co-operative $10.50 per week Branch or Co-op. Office L FOOD, REST, RECREATION SPORT AND CULTURE t-—-Hot and cold running water in toom Phoné— 931 | appear Feb. 1, 10 am., secretary of the | ©" POWERS CASE ON ‘TRIAL TOMORROW Try to Railroad for} Leading J Jobless NEW YORK.—George E. Powers, Communist candidate for Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals in the recent election, was notified by C. T. Crain, Tammany district attorney, to in the Court | of General Sessions, Center and Franklin Sts., for trial on the charge of ‘inciting to riot.” The charge against Powers grew out of his participation in a demon- stration of 20,000 workers last April before the City Hall, when he, as member of the workers’ delegation, demanded of the Tammany officials immediate relief for the unemployed | workers in New York City. Following} @ savage attack on the workers by the police, Powers was arrested. He has been out on bail of $3,500. | Workers are urged to attend the| trial of Powers Wednesday morning. | He will be defended by the N. ¥.) District, International Labor Defense. Weinstein Trial to Be Started Tomorrow NEW YORK.—The Weinstein case was called in Bronx County court yesterday and was postponed again to tomorrow, to allow for subpoena- ing of witnesses. It seems very fike- ly to actually come to trial Wednes- day. Weinstein is charged with assault STEINMAN STRIKE WON; WAGE RAISE Many Important Gains in Contract NEW YORK.—Thirty-one workers of the Steinman Co. at 20 W. 33d St., under the leadership of the Metal Workers Industrial Union, won their strike after two and a half days’ bat- tle. ‘The agreement made has 12 points. The union was recognized. No firing or hiring can be done without con- sulting the union. No wage-cut can take place for the duration of the agreement. All young and unskilled workers get $1 per week increase. Piece work was abolished in the girl's department. Time and one-half for overtime and other important gains were made. This victory was achieved not only against the bosses, but also against the officials of the Pocketbook Work- ers Union. The business agent, Weiss and manager, Stein of the Pocketbook Workers Union instructed their mem- bers to continue work while the strike was going on. The members ot | the A. F. of L. who are working in the same shop in another department were sympathetic to the strike and made preparation to walk out in sympathy with the strikers against the wish of their reactionary leaders, , A detailed report of the strike will be given by Organizer Lustig of the union Feb. 3, at 8 p.m. at Manhatten Lycoum, 66 E. 4th St., at the General Membership Mecting of the Metal Workers Industrial Union. The victory will be celebrated at the concert and dance of the Union on Sunday, Feb. 12, in-Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St, No Communist, Broun, |Just Another Faker NEW YORK—in | his column Sat- urday, Heywood Broun stated that at ‘Thursday's mass meeting conducted by the L.S.N.R. in Harlem, which he attended, a “Communist Speaker” who szemingly appeared to be flab- bergasted at his approach, did not— hesitate to shake his hand. For the beneflt of workers {t must be stated that the person to whom Brown refers, is not a Communist He is the misleader, Jenkins, whose shaking hands with Mr. Broun un- hesitatingly is not surprising, but to be expected. Birds of a feather flock together. and manslaughter. The case is a frame up. Weinstein was active in strike organization. AMUSEMENTS Last 4 Days! AMKINO présénts “Victory March of the Soviets’ s SEE AND HEAR 1,000,000 Soviet soldier: and workers celebrate the 1 Anniversary of Bolshevik rule in Lenin Square. 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