The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1933, Page 1

This is the third contribution from this vet. An example to follow! Unit 15, Section 15 (Communist Party) New York, has raised $40 for the Daily Worker through a concert it held last week, It challenges ev unit in New York to compete with it in saving the Daily Worker. What’s your answer? Dail Central Orngo Vol. X, No. 40 Entered as sevond-elars matier at the Post Office as “EER Kew York, N.Y., uméer the Act of March S$, 157% Socialist Leaders Chief Social CALL SPREAD (Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1933 Veterans’ Hospital dollar which I am se Tom Moon Worker drive CITY EDITION appea! Long live the ‘Daily’! From a disabled veteran at the U. S. at Oteen, N. Car.: “Dear Comrades: Have raked up another nding in response to 1 for the D: Pe 2 oO Cents Price ‘FORGOTTEN MAN’ JOINS IN ‘Daily’ Exposes Bank Support of German Capitalism! events are proceeding in Germany. RS The sharpening crisis, undermining the base of the German capitalist system, the deepening revolutionization of the working class as the “grave digger of capitalism”, and strengthening of the Communist Party as its inevitable leader, the growing unity of the worker: ainst fa: m under the leader- ship of the Communist Party—have driven the man capitalists and- landlord rulers to very rapid strategic moves for the purpose of establish- ing an open fascist dictatorship. Through the Bruening government, through the Kaiser's Field Marshall, yon Hindenburg, through the fascist government of the monarchist servant of Wilhelm II, von Papen, through the government of the fascist cutthroat, von Schleicher, to the open fs regime of the butcher Hitler—the ruling class has maneuvered ste: with one single purpose; to break the back of the resistance of the work class and peasantry and to consolidate its open dictatorship in place of dictatorship covered by the “Democratic” n And each one of these steps, the Germar been able to accomplish only through the as Democrat Party! its junkers and capitalists have stance of the German Social- First, the Social Democrat Party leaders advised the working class to vote for Hindenburg in the last presidential election. Second, the Social Democrat Party leaders openly called upon the whole working class to support the Bruening Government, on the ground that {6 was better to have Bruening than to have “something worse’—the theory of the “lesser evil”. Third, the Social Democrat Party leaders gave only the emptiest mock resistance to the developing fascist regime of von Papen; against the bayonets of the German junkers they appealed to the Supreme Court of the German junkers! Fourth, the Social Democrat Party leaders, in reality, alw support- ing General President von Hindenburg and all of Hindenbui masters and Hindenburg’s servants, even carried the theory of the “lesser evil” to the point of putting up no real opposition to von Schleicher, the fas: cist premier, whose business it was to open the door for Hitler, the present fascist premier—and the Social Democrat leaders gave as their excuse the plea that it was to prevent the incoming of Hitler! ND with the coming of Hitler, the openly acknowledged butcher of the German workers and peasants, the openly acknowledged inciter to ‘mass murders of Jews, the open gunman of the bourgeois dictatorship at whose heels are always found trailing the sons of Kaiser Wilhelm—the German Social Democrat Party leaders are giving assistance to the but- cher by using all of their strength today to prevent a united general strike of the German working class against the fascist dictatorship. ‘HEN, is the Social Democrat Party more dangerous or less dangerous ‘ # or not dangerous at all to the interests of the working class of Ger- many? We say that the German Social Democrat Party is now more fiver the main social support of the German capitalist and junker than class Others say otherwise. ‘The unspeakable degradation of the renegade Leon Trotsky is no- ‘here shown to be so shameless as in his present role of trying to con- fince the German working class that, in this situation of an openly fas- government in Germany, the Social Democrat Party leaders are formed from their enemies into their more or less trustworthy %riends, In the business of treason to the German working class, and thus treason to the workifig Class of thé world, the leaders of the Social- ist Party of the Second International, and the little jackal gangs of re- megades from the Communist movement, headed internationally by Trots- ky, are more and more openly operating. And they are beginning more- over to recognize their kinship in treason, Says Mr. Dreyfus of the So- cialist Party (New Leader): “Leon Trotsky, even if he is on the outs with Stalin, is none the less a g0od thinker. He issued a pamphlet in Germany in which he ad- vised support of the Bruening government as long as it fights the fas- cists.” Mr. Trotsky’s treason is thoroughly backed by his American sup- | porters, as witness the organ of the American Trotskyites, which tries to convince the American workers that the Communist Party of Germany is their enemy which hold them back from struggle against Fascism. whilst on the contrary, the Social Democrat Parity leaders are now “a hindrance” to Fascism; in other words, that the workers cannot trust the Communist Party but CAN trust the Social Democrat Party leaders wlio have now become the main reliance of the working class against Fas- cism. The American Trotskyites say: “Hitler is trying every single day to prove to the Stalinist block- heads that while the social democrats are the principal prop of the democratic) form of bourgeois rule, it becomes not merely superfiuous ‘but a direct hindrance to the bourgeoisie when it seeks to abolish all democratic forms and institutions and to rule by naked force, by the gword and the torch, in a word, by Fascist dictatorship. eet ek TS Socialist workers of Germany are drawing lessons from the actions | of the Social Democrat leaders who are the right arm of the German bourgeoisie in the placing of Hitler into power. The ghastly fraud of the Social Democratic theory of the “lesser evil” by which, step by step, each stage a new and more openly bloody fascist hangman has been placed at the head of the German state is becoming clearer to the masses. Experiencing the growing fascist. terror in Germany the fruits of bour- | giois “democracy” and the capitalist junker republic, the workers are buginning to look into the meaning of the historic days of 1918 when the Kaijser's armies raised the red flag and the German workers and soldiers began building soviets. And when the serpents voice of Ebert and Schei- deman began to hiss at the “danger of bolshevism” and the glories of capitalist democracy, the German masses are beginning to draw the his- toric lesson that they should have seized power at that time, and should not have followed the treacherous leadership of the German Social- Democrat agents of the German Junkers and capitalists. It is over the dead body of social-fascism, main social support of the bourgeoisie, that the German working class, under the leadership | of the Communist Party, will come to grips with the fascist dictatorship and establish its rule, the proletarian dictatorship. AID SCOTTSBORO DRIVE IN FRISCO Youth Groups Back Up Nat'l Tag Days SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15.— the mass and legal defense ac- { s of the International Labor | Defense in the fight it is leading to free the nine innocent Scottsboro | boys. The State of Alabama has set March 6 for the new trials ordered by the decision wrested by the world- wide mass fight from the U. S, Supreme Court, Contributions should be rushed immediately to the Scottshoro New Trial Emergency Fund, 80 E. 11th St., Room 430, New York City. a for Na Eure Feb. 26 Forty delegates, representing 11 or- nizations and eight branches of e International Labor Defense, met Feb. 10 in California Hall to map out the next steps in the fight for the Scottsboro boys, and to elect. delegates to the coming State Con- ference in Oaklang on March 4 at 7 p.m. in Odd Fellows Hall at 11th and Franklin Sts. © An executive committee of 25 was elected including representa- tives from Negro organizations. Resolutions were sent to Gover- nor'B. M. Miller of Montgomery, Ala., protesting the continued im- onment of the nine Scottsboro and demanding the charges against the Tallapoosa share-crop- be dropped. Another resolu- Rea was sent to the Governor of against the railroading of Angelo gee to a vent oe the hain gang for organizing the un- pines he workers of Atlanta, Ga. . 8 8 Support Scottsboro Tag Days NEW YORK.—-The Young Com- munist League and a number of other youth seeeea tons are ener- su} e_ prepara- eg 1. Scottsboro and 26, te reise funds The new trials come up in less than three weeks! There is not a moment to be lost! JAIL 10 FARM STRIKERS IN MINN. MARKHAM, Minn., Feb. 15.—Ten farm strikers were arrested in clash with sheriffs and deputies here, In- cluded among the arrested farmers is the chairman of the Farmers Strike Committee. The farmers here are striking under the leadership of the United Farmers League for recognition of their committee in distributing of county relief work. Pickets had seized the county truck to prevent work until the com- mittee was recognized. A protest demonstration will be held Thursday before the county commissioner Koski’'s office in Vir- ginia, Minn, The strikers have already elected delegates to the State Relief free ec tn ls enn FOR ALBANY CONFERENCE endin g Delegates from All Parts of State TAG DAYS FEB. 24-25-26 Urge Socialist Ranks to Elect Delegates NEW YORK. — Spreading like a prarie fire, sweeping | aside political, religious or any ‘other differences, the call of the New York State Pro- visional Committee of the Workers’ Conference for Labor Legislation, to be held in Albany March 5 to 7, is | massing workers all over the state | for a united battle against the mur- | derous starvation front of the bosses. | The conference will broaden the | movement for immediate unemplo; | ment relief and many other workers’ | demands. AFL. carpenters’ Local 2717 of New York, the Nimuno Lithuanian | Benefit Society of Schenectady, the | Abruzzese Society, whose leading hody is the Italian Federation of Benefit Associations, are typical of | those backing the conference, voting to send delegates, and joining the fight. Three tag days, Friday, Saturday land Sunday, Fep, 24, 25 and 26,have been announced yesterday by the Pro- |visional Committee. Funds must be |collected. The news of the conference must be spread. Every mass organ- ization and every individual worker is asked to call for collecuion poxes | at the office of the Committee, ened | | 224 at 799 Broadway. Thousands of leat'cts are being dis- tributed all over vue state to Social- ist Party Bivaches, at AF.L, halls, etc., urging the workers to immedi- ately elect delegates to the Albany Conference. Despite the treachery of the Socialist leaders, Workérs ‘In their organizations are flocking to the united struggle. Arrangements are now being made to bring the cost of the trip to the state capital down to a minimum. Or- ganizations and workers in them should take the initiative in urging the immediate election of delegates. Send for credentials to the Provi- sional Committee of the Workers’| Conference for Labor Legislation, 799 Broadway, Room 224, New York City. Volunteers to assist in the work of | the Committee are also needed. Any) worker who has any time to spare,! come to the above address. { FOLTIS-FISCHER STRIKE SPREAD ‘Fight Mass Layoffs, and Long Hours NEW YORK.—The cafeteria work- fers in the Foltis-Fisher stores at 42nd | St. and Third Ave., 43rd St. and 6th | Ave., 29th St. and 4th Ave., and 128 E. 86th St. have walked out on strike against the mass lay-offs and the lengthening of hours. The strike is being led by the Fol- tis-Fisher Strike Committee and the Food Workers Industrial Union. The first shop was struck on Monday, Feb. 13. The Strike Committee is making intensive preparations for the spreading of the strike to all the oth- er 17 cafeterias in the Foltis-Fisher chain, The strike at the 43rd St. store was | called on Monday as a result of the | policy pursued by the company and the receivers of wholesale firing of their workers and trying to bring in |new crews at lower wages and long- jer hours. Shop strike Committees are being elected in the shops, and these committees will comprise the General Strike Committee. The workers in the shops are already formulating the demands for the | general Foltis-Fisher Strike. Two workers picketing the 42nd St. store were arrested on Tuesday on charges of disorderly conduct. These arrests did not intimidate or demoralize the picket line, but in- stead gave more spirit to the strikers. The workers were bailed out. Protest Meeting for Tom Scott of South River Strike NEW YORK.—As a_ protest against the brutal Ue epi of the recent strike in South River and against the arrest of Tom Scott, one of the organizers of the strike, the South River Defense Commit- tee and the I.L.D., will hold a mass meeting at Irving Plaza, 15 Irving Pl, on Friday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m. Scott. because he led the workers in a fight for better conditions, was charged with “obstructing justice and causing the people to perjure themselves.” He is now being held in jail on $5,000. George Powers, facing a trial for leading a demonstration of unem- ployed workers to the New York City Hall, will act as chairman and Clarence Hathaway, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist i} | } | | i | i} e ‘ { Closings; Paper Must Not Close--Rush Aid! LL banks closed in Michigan. The bank- ers, the federal and state government and the capitalist press are trying to hide the reason why. Yesterday’s told you. The Michigan ban verge of collapse and “the ei ratorium,’ said yesterday’s for the purpose of enabling the stock- holders and bankers to get and leave the small depositors holding the bag.” Only the Daily Worker Only the Daily Worker exposed the fierce struggle for control of the auto industry between Ford and General Motors that is behind the closing of the banks. Only the Daily Worker told you that moravorium shows that the capitalist crisis is hitting new depths. IHE DAILY WORKER has no stock- holders of banks among its readers Some of them are small and supporters, depositors, all of them are some way from the capitalist crisis, from unemployment, from wage-cuts, part-time work, ete, But despite this, all of them are determined that there sh: ing down of the Daily Worker eyen for a The “Daily” needs, not mil- single day. lions, but $35,000 to keep goi AND WILL BE RAISED. If every reader did what oniy a com- paratively few readers have been doing: sending in their own contributions, col- lecting among friends and tions, arranging parties and affairs, the be raised in a short $35,000 fund would time. In an old people’s home in New York state $18.25 was collected for the “Daily”. Anthony Cortina and Anna Loesch, of New London, Conn., knew what to do with their collection list and so they raised $5 for the “Daily”. In South Norwalk, Conn., the workers org.nized a small bazaar and raised $11 for the “Daily”, vyhile more money, still outstanding, will be sent in later. The Jugoslay Workers Club Pravda, of Sacramento, Cal., had a small affair and divided the proceeds between the ‘“Radnik”, “Western Worker” and the “Daily”. “Just got a job”, writes R. E. of Philadelphia, “and the first dolle goes to the ‘Daily’. Your editor are great. More power to the ‘Daily’. In Syracuse, N. Y., a United Front Entertainment Committee or- ganized an affair; result: $26 for the “Daily”. Daily Worker ks are on the ight-day ‘mo- “Daily”, “is all they can told you this. this so-called suffering in MUHESE are just a few examples of how money can be raised. Multiply them | several hundred times—and the Daily | Worker will be saved. But we must act all be no clos- UNITED FRONT FOR AID FROM ROOSEVELT GOV'T Conference Held in Ind., Mass., Pa., and lowa Plan Action. ; SS - Prepare Mass Jobless Aid Demonstrations for New York March 4 NEW YORK.—T eee ments einer called yed Councils of y as follows: tion start Union Square Saturday morr ade from Union Square through workingclass ¢ son Squa (23rd St.) Parade rc Office of Administration which contr Relief be elected in Union Square to drop out o Relief office and present demands to the relief adm tion. Besides Unemployment Insurance and relief, the local demands will include: Increased relief to $10 a week for couples and $3 additional for each dependent. Inclusion of single workers in relief distribution. Relief to be given in cash instead of scrip. Stopping of police terror against jobless in relief bureaus, rent strikes, etc. i This demonstration will give House and Block committe the Workers’ Conference on March 5, It will endorse the proposals out by the jobless for this conferenc INDIANAPOLIS, a send-off to the , breadlins flophouses, Feb. 15.—The insolent refusal of Gov- | ernor McNutt, American Legion thug and banker- appointed dictator” of the state of Indiana to refuse to act on the de- mands of the unemployed are spurring on workers and farm- ers all over the state to make March 4th, Rooseyelt’s inaugu- ing. IT MUST ism. Every in organiza- OF YOUR Received yes Totel to daté ........0. quickly or it will be too late. Banks crash, but our Daily Worker must live and grow, to lead us in new struggles, harder and harder blows against capital- “Daily”, every reader a fighter for the RUSH CONTRIBUTIONS BY WiRE OR AIR MAIL TO THE DAILY WORKER, 30 ES 13TH ST., to strike reader a collector for the PAPER IS IN DANGER! NEW YORK CITY, terday . +. $259.22 eee $7,181.34 PROVE FRAME UP OF WEINSTEIN : ‘Testimony’? Against Him Slashed BULLETIN Sam Weinstein said late yester- day “Regardless of what verdict is brought in by the capitalist jury, I leave the question of whether I am guilty or innocent to the work- ers.” Me ESS hw NEW YORK.—The outright frame- up of Sam Weinstein, charged with assault and manslaughter because of his ectivities in a strike at the Mus- kin Manufacturing Co. last summer, became apparent yesterday during the second day of his trial in the Bronx County Court, when under sharp cross-examination by Joseph R. Brod- sky, chief counsel for the Interna- tional Labor Defense, witnesses for the prosecution crudely contradicted themselves and practically admitted that the “identification” of Sam Weinstein as the assailant was @ forced and tricky one, Detective Violated Procedure Detective Solomon who arrested Weinstein was forced to admit that Weinstein was brought into a room alone to be identified by a Mr. Mich- aels, who owns a candy store near the scene of the alleged attack. The usual procedure is to have a. number of men in the line up from which an accuser must choose. In the direct examination, the pro- secuting attorney, Morton Frank, tried to have Solomon state that on being arrested Weinstein had con- fessed to him that he had assaulted Harry Weissglass. Under cross ex- amination by Brodsky, the detective was forced to deny that Weinstein had made such a “confession.” Witness Draws Ridicule Another witness for the prosecu- tion, Morris Paris, testified that the union headquarters of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union which con- ducted the strike at the Muskin Company, was filled with Communist literature and Communist placards. “Can you read English?” Brodsky asked him in cross-examination. “No,” Paris answered. “Would you recognize a Commu- nist placard if you saw one?” Brod- sky then asked, “No,” Paris sald, drawing laughter from the workers present in court, and smiles from a number of the jury men. Paris, who had been kept under custody for seven months with pay of $3 daily as a material witness for the prosecution, stated under direct examination by the prosecuting at- torney that he did not know why the workers at the Muskin company had gone out on strike. In cross-examination Brodsky forc- ed him to admit that he knew the workers had gone out on_ strike against wage-cuts and for equal dis- tribution of work among the employ- es. Paris was also forced to admit Ea will jhe one of the main | Sc yin Rides For a Fall Emperor Hirohito of Japan wear- ing a plume and riding a white horse. The Czar of Russa looked like this before his grand fall. Hirohito will meet the same fate. 4,000 R. R. TOILERS TAKE OVER SHOPS Demand “Release of Communist Leaders BUCHAREST, Rumania, Feb, 15. Demanding the release of 11 Commu- nist leaders, 4,000 railway workers this morning barricaded themselves in the Government railway shops here. They announced that work would be suspended until the working-class leaders were released. Troops and Police have trained machine guns and rifles on the shops. Officials of Klausenberg have asked the government to rush additional troops to that section and declare martial law. Martial law already has been declared over most of Roumania in an attempt to crush the tremend- ous strike struggles of .oil field end other workers against wage cuts. Yes- terday, 2,000 strikers, supported by 700 unemployed workers stormed the railway work shops at Cluj and forc- ed the reinstatement of four workers discharged as Communists. 200,000 to Demand That Jailed Leaders Be Freed in Canada TORONTO, Oni., Feb. 15.—A dele- gation of Canadian workers will pre-| | ent a demand with 200,000 signa-_ tures attacked, for the release of the eight working class leaders serv-| ing five year terms in Kingston Pen- itentiary, to the government at Ot- eds} on February 21, it was an- (COPS RAID ROOKS INREICHSTAG al German Fascist Hea Ordered the Search BULLETIN A mass meeting will be held this Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. (not | 7 pm. as stated yesterday) to pro- | test against faccism in Germany. The meeting will be held on 67th St. near Third Ave. Comrade Ben Gold will be the chairman and Clarence Hathaway, d'strict orgap- | izer of the Communist Party, will | be the speaker. | (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 15.—Police raided | rooms of the Communist fraction of | the Reichstag last night, confiscating | | Quantities of material. The search| , Was conducted with the express per-| jmission of the fascist president of| the Reichstag, Goering, who thus! openly violates the constitutional im- | munity of the Communist Deputies. | Raids and searches were also con- ducted yesterday in the office of the International Red Aid and the Friends of the Soviet Union. Further Suppression of Papers | ‘There were also further numerous} | suppressions of newspapers and per- iodicals, including the “Satirical Weekly,” and “Ente” which were sup- pressed for six weeks. The organ of} | the Trade Union Wor Public Un- dertakings “Gewerkschaft” was like-| wise suppressed for six weeks. | | The! {Communist dailies “Volkswacht” of | Stettin, “Volkszeitung” of Bradenburg, | were suppressed for 14 days, and the} Communist daily “Volkzeitung” of! Heidelburg for three days. The So-| cialist “Volkszeitung” of Mecklet “Volksstimme” of Magdenburg to Feb. | 19, the Communist “Rote Bombe,” ihe | Catholic “Neiss Zeitung” days each, Hamburg police raided the Commu- nist bookshop, confiscating 1,400 ele: tion pamphlets, Communist Worker Dies The Communist worker, Schneid died in the hospital at Eisenben a result of injuries sustained in Sun- day's fascist terror. Cialist meeting at Lueckenwald last night. Ten persons were injured in the resultant fight. defeated the efforts of 200 uniformed fascists to smash a Socialist meet- ing at Mahlsdorf last night. Many persons were injured. During collisions between fascists and socialist workers last night at | Siegburg, a fascist was shot dead. Sixteen Socialist workers were arrest- ed by the police. At Weissenfels, fascists and police collided following a fascist attempt to smash a Socialist meeting. Nine police and eight fascists were injured, Fascist As Police Governor Goering, acting Commissar of Prus- sis, was appointed a special police burg, for one week, the Socialist daily | and the|* Edingen Neiss” respectively for three, Communist and Socialist workers ration day, one long to be re- membered by the capitalists and their hunger government. McNutt’s refusal to consider the plight of the hungry men, women the workers! DON’T DELAY! THE LIFE j senting ihe Indiana State Unem- ployment Conference here yesterd: There were sixty-six delegates repre: senting thirty-four organizations from the fourtgen principal cities of the state. Demands were adopted for immediate relief and unemploy- ment insurance to be made upon the legislature. A committee of fifteen s elected to appear before lature. Governor McNutt, been hailed as America’s “first dictator” decided for the legislature that they should not listen to the representatives of the ui but that he would “receive” mittee of three. Demagogic Replies Don't Work. When the demands before McNutt, this former the committee placed head of the American Legion, let loose a flood of words about his sym: pathy for the unemployed and sought t |to cover up his anti-working class | policy with such talk. He was pres-| sed for a definite answer, which re- sulted in a flat refusal to present the demands to the legislature and |a further lecture to the delegation | about “waiting for the regular pro-j cesses of law” not making big “dis- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 1650 FUR DYERS HAIL NEW GAINS 19 Shops Organized, | ; Wages Increased NEW YORK. - Six hundred and fifty workers, members of the fur dyers’ section of the Needle Trade Workers’ Industrial Union, gathered | last night at 790 Broadway to hear the report of their ac hments and plan a wider orga cam- paign than ever. at d, loyes totaling 1,100, and that in these the workers have won wage in- so far with Morris Langer reported 19 shops have been org: creases of $5 to $6, in some cases eliminating wage cuts put in effect) since the crisis began. Other condi- tions won include an unemployment insurance fund of 3 per cent of the rkers’ pay, to be contributed by the bosses and controlled by the work- ers, and a reduction in hours from } to 44 hours a week. The meeting hailed these victories with enthusiasm, and passed a reso- ‘lution not to stop the campaign until |the entire fur dyeing industry was organized, including the A. Hollander shop in the world, | governor of West Germany, with wide | powers controlling the whole police force and responsible exclusively to Goering. The action is believed to be in connection with the coming wage struggles, following notice by the em- |ployers of an end to the existing | Wage agreemenis. | The official committee of inquiry |into the Dresden blood-bath when police killed nnie workers at an anti- fascist meeting admits that the orig- | inal police statement that a shot was fired from the gallery is incorrect. | A bullet hole found in the floor points to the police as firing the first shot, & police weapon. Meanwhile, the po- lice statement that a shot was fired from the gallery cannot be main. tained, the | who | op, which is the biggest fur arene | the calibre of the bullet indicating | 21 BATH BEACH | TENANTS STRIKE iFight Effort to Raise Rent 25 P.C, « <1), BULLETIN ““NEW ¥ORK—Around 800 rent strikers marched from Vyse Ave. and 174th St. to Wilkins and Jen- nings where they were met by 700 additional . marchers. Carrying placards, banners and torches and | Jed by the Red Front Band, the | paraGsrs proceeded to Public School . at Freeman and _ Intervale. where Carl Winters, Secretary of the Unemployed Council was sched. uled to speak. ca NEW | Strike f YORK.—A as been going jthree weeks at 170 B | Brooklyn, with the 21 house fighting a j tempt to increase cent. All the tenants bins of the hou: just before | strike began and prevented the coal company from taking back ten tons of coal which the latter claim will not be paid for because the house has |gone into the hands of a rece | Police attempted to force the work: the own rents urrounded the ers to give up the coal but met with resistance in the form of one cop beaten up. Th tenants were art+ rested, held on $2,000 be but were | released the next mornir Attorney Schriftman of the International La- bor Defense defended them. Mr. Brill, the receiver, has now is- | sued 21 dispossess notices to the ten- He is using a stool-pigeon, idman, who has a dry goods store |in the same building, to lie to the | court that the tenants paid high rents to the former landlord. | Workers in the neighborhood have | boycotted this storekeeper, the en- | trance to whose store is at 2217 Bath | Ave. Picketing continues under the lead- ership of the House Committee and the Bath Beach Unemployed Coun- cal. | ants. | Fel ‘Anti-Hitler Protest Meets Rally the Toilers in Cleyeland CLEVELAND, Feb. 15.—Twwo anti- Hitler protest meetings were held on the West Side last Sunday, with 125 persons at the first meeting and 100 at the second. Resolutions of soli- darity fith the German proletariat 1m its struggle against the murderous fascist dictatorship were unanimously adopted, also a resolution to the Wall Street Government -protesting against its support of the Hitler murder re- gime. Additional protest meetings are being arranged throughout the ‘Bury 62 Victims of Gas Tank Explosion NEUKIRCHEN, r Basin, Feb, 15.—Sixty-two victims of the gas tank explosion which occured here last Friday, were buried yesterday. Seven are still missing. Thousands of workers marched past the 62 coffins lined up at the lower market. Large detachments of troops were at hand, to stifle possi- | ble expression of indignation felt by | the workers. LL.D. BAZAAR WEDNESDAY NEW_ YORK.—The International Labor Defense will hold a giant ba zaar starting this Wednesday, Feb. 22 in the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. and Continuing through Sum day, Feb, 26, i feat