The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1933, Page 2

j R i 8 z x 4 its usual Sunday open forum to- . at 1931 Broadway, Room 215. PAGE TWO WEINSTEIN URGES | | Four Months of ALL T0 ATTEND HIS TRIAL TODAY | Jury Will ¢ Get Case;} Prisoner Calls for Support to I. L. D. NEW YORK.—Sam_ Weir framed on an assault charge wh will lead to another frame-up on a murder charge,, is in jail in Bronx} County, with his case going to the jury this morning. From his cell he has issued the following statement, asking all workers to help sm through the perjured case brou against him by the emplo; their Tammany prosecutors and po- lice. They are trying to get Wein- Stein because he was a militant strike leader. Weinstein says “From behind the bars, I thank mty fellow workers for their sup- port given me against the vicious frame-up of the bosses, who are trying to bury me in the peniten- tiary because I fought for the working class. The presence of fel- low workers in the court during my trial has heartened me, and I know that they will come in large num- bers to my trial Monday morning, in response to the call by the New York District, International Labor Defense, for a large mobili- | last convention, unprecedented economic cri: can be done. strikes in this period, shows the say about the conduct of number Victory for the Needle Workers NEW YORK.—The N Workers Indus’ for the aayel 1 eral E achievement for ie period nce the which piled up gains conditions for thousands of nee re- sulted in 2,453 new members for the N.T.W.1.U. And this in a period of when the right wingers claim that nothing in w The N.T.W.LU. 572 reports with vic in 408 of them. The sirikes won were | the next steps in the fight against uth, the West Indies, Virgin | successful fight are unlimite as follows: 160 dress; 60 cloak; 161| discrimination in Hanan th etc.) and a corresponding Wed Piles (Ada Hestaneaala fur; 18 fur dressers and dyers; 5| hospitals, to supr he exodus of white workers. White and Along with high rents the high knitgoods and 4 custom tailors announcing it in their respec Negro landlords got together and) | Hous wan just Hogs ane 4155. worl were | ganizatio’ | demanded higher rents of white te- | CS! © BE) Goer aoe Ate i thres ‘ unfai- weight and measures are ad- nants, threatening to put in Negroes diti 1 it igshies.” AI sl the During this period 1,322 shop meet- if the incfeases were not’ pald, ‘They | Cum Hye issues.” Al along the ings were held, and the k thi and file rank activitie ot members j since Oct 807 dre: ani dyers; and 107 custom The the All these figu: e for the ine ion jtself DAILY WUKKEK, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1 33 HARLEM HOSPITAL Rents, Housing, Hunger, | MEETING CALLED Burning Issues in Haslem. By SOL HARPER NEW YORK.—In this short article it is impossible to describe or discuss ill the important issues in Harlem. But the facts which are brought out | should serve as guides to the com- } who are working in this dis- t, so that they can become even | te with the Harlem work- | way, working side by comrades will find other s and so rally more | orkers to fight under Communist dership. Hight Rents And Housing Conditions Particularly since the war there been & constant inflow of Negro ‘s into Harlem (coming from Broes, after the white tenants had moved out of them; and forced the Negro tenants to pay from 50 to 75 per cent more than the former nants. The struggle is now. tween white and Negro w against the landlords. Instead moving out because of high rentals, | the white and Negro wor! are | staying where they are, even moving in, and unitedly fighting the land- | lords. The fight for reductions and against evictions is led by the Un- | employed Councils and the Com- munist Party. As early as 1929 there | was @ Harlem-wide rent strike; and with the increasing militancy of the workers, the possibilities now for a | oes | s, labor unions, and nurse as-| send rem called fo: Feb. to hear avenues, workers are discussing these problems along with hard times in general. Many of them are home- ‘ess, and they can be found on every torner, in subway stations, and in pool rooms; they have no place else DEMONSTRATE AT | the old Y.M.C.A. building to thes Official Refuses to | homeless boys and workers, in Face Workers also kept some houses just sors Ne- jal inves’ nination ow York } by th sciation Colored the h is for in | way providing some protection them. The comrades working zation on that day. e Agai imi- Harlem may answer, “We know all | “The International Labor De- lem Hos; a NEW YORK—“Freedom for the | 2bout these issues and Were: work- | fense is truly the shield of the and in institution e Peoples Dutch and Indonesian sailors,” was | #98 0n them.” My reply is: We must working class. Every time the front tivities in the ee demand no such thing. the ery of the three hundred work-| WOT harder, we must continually) bosses jail a worker for his mili- against the will of their demand that the hospital be es who demonstrated Saturday at|‘#K¢ UP more live issues and link tant activity, the I. L. D, defends herous 0} victories which | controlled by the people of Harlem) noon in front of the Dutch Consulate | these with our other demand him in the bosses’ courts, and | have led to left wing capture of | and inasmuch as the Harlem people freedom of the Scottsboro boys, Un- | helps mobilize the workers to de- mand his release. whole locals of the LL.G.W.U., ample. for ex- jot those in coi General against the cruel slaughter | of sailors who would not take a 17/ cent wage cut from the Dutch | N employment Insurance, and the fight | against imperialist war. In other are mostly majority ising in pe ital be Negro, nse of workers cannot be —-_-—_ | the hos; Peoples | millionaires who forced the seaman | Words, we must come to the work: be carried on without funds. I | Commi 1 t it 8 to work for next to nothing. The and not expect them to come to us. therefore call on all my fellow W n 20 Dress Shop or the united struggle Of the protest meeting was organized by the! Where Are The Hunger Marchers? workers to attend the Giant De- q > peaple n the white workers ti-Imperialist League, the Workers! yoy time to time bonus hers. | fense Bazaar, which opens this at discrimination and segregation rvicemen's League and the | y, ‘om time to time bonus marchers, Wednesday, and which will raise | Strikes Last Week canbe wiped Out in all the. city Marine Workers Industrial Union. | (jUer marchers, and delegates to funds for ting for the release hospi A preliminary meeting was held on | rected i eat ea Paras: pes a si | not only of imyself but of Tom pases ts eee aa South and Whitehall St. by the Mar-| SiGe hea tthe Me tle Piphsel| Bett Scottsboro Boys, Au | (CONTINUED FROM PAGR ONE)| Apreat Yipwel, Y. ©, Li. |? Workers tdurteial Unie tend |qecou) Neen ot tees deers: They) gelo Herndon, and all class war —_—_— sibee : aa trom there a group of 60 marched to| we 2 sie prisoners. has offered a small increase i Members in Strike the Consulate at 17 Battery Place. mabeleky th tebepth od a a The last mobilization for the Ba-| prices, which was defeated | They carried placards demanding the | Farle “ EN Sherine) dita, vast will t a meeting of the! whelmingly by the strikers >| NEW YORK—Just immiediate release of the Dutch aud) enon: papi gt a aati Raa j this Monday. 1 meeting decided | young ers of the J native sailors dying in the prisons | 42? legroes' are unemployed | . at Manhattan Jements unless | fac ie ae of the imperialists of Holland. At| (About 75 per cent of the popula | mmittee members are is given to them and| Ave, Br SEO Battery Place more workers waited|'#OM), and 100,000 white workers, in nion is recognized against a wage cut, th for them. Many police stood around, | the district between 7th and 150th | ar will start! ‘The dressmakers unity committer at the Delext 6! but the crowd stayed. | Streets are also out of work. The | February ttan Lyceum, | anticipates k in the trade | arrested three picket ; When a committee of workers ask- | t#SK of the Party, the Unemployed and. will y day to and) the comir k, and has made | Soc | one a Communist and the ed to see the Consul General they! Councils, and the Exservicemen’s including | preparations to extend the drive on| other a ‘Democ: were informed by his representative | League, as well as other organiza- IN BROWNSVILLE 600 Besiege Relief Buro and Get Action NEW YORK.—The Brownsville | Unemployed Council ied 20 out on a Strike against eviction at 219 Herzel | Street, Thursday. The landlord re- | fused to take the money offered him | by the Home Relief Bureau in pay- ment due for the tenants. The ten- ants are striking against this and for | Tecogniticn o* their house committee. 17 Win At 146 Chester Seventeen tenants at 146 Chester St. also in Brownsville, organized, and placed demands Wednesday for} reduction in rent by $3 to $4 per) apartment, for recognition of the hotise committee, no evictions and all necessary repairs. The landlord sur- rendered and granted all demands. The tenants then raised $4 for the Daily Worker. At 115 Hetzel Street 15 tenants are striking for a 25 per cent reduction in rent, for recognition of the house committee, and a t evictions. | At 581 Saratoga Avenue, 24 workers | have organized to fight for a reduc- tion in rent, against evictions, and | for recognition of the House Commit- | tee. The committee went to see the | landlord last night and a strike will! be declared if their demands are not | granted. Last Wednesday two hundred) ‘workers went to support 25 unem- ployed workers in a demand for relief at the Home Relief Bureau in the} Brownsville section. The bureau at} first refused to sce the committee representing the workers. By this time 600 workers were | drawn to the support of the 25 need- ing Telief and the bureau was be- .Sieged inside and out. Finally the; bureau was forced to admit the com- | mittee. The bureau also called 40/ police and arrested the committee | inside the Bureau. They held them | for 20 minutes. They were then) foteed by those outside to release the committee. They also promised to give relief to the 25 applying. The latest reports are that the 25} re receiving relief from the bureau, Youth Mass Meeting There will be a mass meeting at the Brownsville Youth Center located | at 105 Thatford Street on February | 24. All regular supporters of the Brownsville Unemployed Council and | ail workers in the territory are in-| eg The meeting will take up the Mext steps in the struggle for un- employment relief in the territory. — Workers Score ‘Skeffineton Arrest | NEW YORK.—The Lincoln's Birth- mass meeting of Irish workers eas, York voted to send telegrams to Lord Craigavon of Ulster and " Besiaent De Valera of the Irish “Pree” State, to “protest detention of Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington and de- Monee censorship and obscurantist edv'eztion”. The Irish work-rs’ tele- ums ask “the workers of the world stand for economic emancipation.” wires were signed by John Col- 5 secretary of the Irish Workers ¢ , in New York, at the instruc- tions of the mass meeting. _ The Irish Workers’ Club will hold ion free. NEW YORK. — The symposium, “Misery Among Working Class Chil- dren,” arranged under the auspices of } Bronx Medical Aid Unit of the . for yesterday afternoon was |. The new date will be an- in a few days, |on three points | experience has | “economies.” In addition to the main Man- er scale. conducted in the section, the Dre: Unity Committee is condu a number of in the outlying tions, such as Brook! Harlem, Long Island, etc. Among the s ments made this week, hops were in Brooklyn. The Dressmakers called upon not to wait with their ints and to bring them into mittee HeNanuntters: 140 West 36th | Street. | The dressmakers Unity Committee is also calling a meeting of the dress- makers working for the Arthur Cohen for Tuesday after work, at 140 West 36th S According to the press announcement. the International has made an agree- jobber right ;ment with this jobber whereby the workers Will be forced to join the | International and pay $10 and $15 each. This will mean to throw the workers into a fight against each | other, controls some shops as well as the International. The Dressmakers Unity Committee calls upon the workers to unite their ranks and to fight jointly agains: the splitting tac- tics of the International and for im- proved conditions, | Dressmakers are called upon to picket the following important strik- | ing shops: Maimen and Sanger, 27 West 24th Street; Milly Dress, 268 West 36th Street; Bernice Dress, 23 West 25th Stz« Kenmore Dress, 118 West 28nd Street; Gee Bee Dress, 252 West 37th Street; Neway Dress, | 236 West 26th Street; Bina Frock, 37 | West 28th Street; Fashionette Dress, | 48 West 27th Street; May Dress, 118 |‘ | O'Neill, de West 22nd Street; Loretta Dress, 154 West 22nd Street; Needleman Dress. 49 West 27th Street; Doris, 118 West | 29th Stgeet; Beilrose, 114-20 West | 26th Stfeet; Mendelson Dress, 213 | West 35th Street. Youth on Strike | In the list of very important | strikes, not dress strikes, comes first | that in the Best Coat and Apron Co., 305 East 43rd Street. This strike like that of the big Maiman and Sanger shop above, involves large numbers of young workers, fighting absolutely miserable conditions and | wage cuts. At the shop delegates conference Gold reported that the negotiations with the large Manufacturers Association were broken off last week of vital importance. to the fur workers: equal division of work to be extended for six months. unemployment insurance paid for by the employers and administered by | the workers (many fur dye shop con- tracts have been obtained already | with this point won) and the ques- | tion of an impartial chairman, which | the fur workers don’t want because proved that such | arbitration machinery is alwa against the interests of the worke: and the chairman never “impartial,” | but always for the employers. LABOR UNION MEETINGS i CLOAKMAKERS | Committee of 100, United Action Com- | mittes, and all members of left wing groups of cloakmakers and active clonk- | makers of both unions meet tonight at | Irving Plaza Hall to plan extension of the | drive. DRESSMAKERS All dressmakers working for the jobber Arthur Cohen called by Dressmakers Unity Committee to mect Tuesday right after | work at 140 West 36 St PARIS, France, Feb, 19.—Around | 800,000 state employees, including teachers, postal, telegraph and other workers, had decided to join in aj one-hour strike Monday against because the Industrial Union | —— | and Harold DeBecker. The locale is | grin,” Friday night w j afternoon with Bori and Richard (or he was afraid to appear) that) tions, is to wark among these unem- the consul had nothing to say to this| Ployed; to develop and lead the | delegation and told them that Dutch Struggle for bread. We are beliind, affairs were not their business, | however, in this work. Not since the As a reply to this lackey of the) Spring of 1930, when a demonstration ‘Dutch capitalists, the workers in-| Was held in front of the State may 25 The workers, r of them Ypsels and Yo nist League members, ha a united front from yer defending them from the LL.D. Memb , formed him that the affairs of all| ployment Office and at the headquar- employed Counc ee en acca the toilers of the world were one, | ters of the Saivation Army, has ther: uiket ine Fhe comm’ to fight against all the bosses all over | been another mass meeting. At pre- the world. A collection was made| sent we are fighting for equal rights for the purpose of sending a cable-| in the nee gram of protest to the Dutch govern- | ig the assembled te pees on build up a huge mass movement. We | Sethcnere and to fight against Im-| "USt fight the white political :agents | | perialist Wars which are necessary | of the capitalists and expose the Ne- | for the capitalists to retain their | Re See abe aaa a eae fell power. } {Communist Party is fighting the | | workers’ battles, and rally the work- | s¥s around Communist leadership calls for mass support from thi employed and symnath s are urged to help with mass picket lines to enable the to win the strike. un- Cable Protest NEW YORK.—A cable of protest against the death sentence meted out | to Eudicio Rabinez, and against the} plans to murder the political prison- ers of Peru, was sent today by the i : DOAKIN FARMERS’ | the Metal Union’s Position on Navy Yard Work y J. LUSTIG | anizer of the M.W.I.U.) NEW YORK.—In the February sue of “The Metal W the offi- cial organ of the Ne District of the Me ion, title of | P Cuts,” In this article an erroneous view is express principle of the Metal Workers In- dustrial Union. The writer of this article attacks Roosevelt for not carrying through m of building a big navy, | ead preparing to cut the! riation to 100 million dol- r ame point of view, le attacks the officials of the International Association of Machin- ists for not fighting against this cut. In other words, the author of this ar- ticle is working for a big navy so that Navy Yard workers may keep their jobs. Not Union Polic: It must be ouite openly and defi- njtely stated that this point of view nothing to do with the position the Metal Wor Industria! The Metal Workers Industrial mobilizes and organized the including the Navy of | Union. Union metal workers, Yard workers not only against wage- cuts and speed up and for better; working conditions, but also against | a imperialist war and for the defense | of the Soviet Union. This being the ease the Metal Workers Industrial Union cannot fight for a big navy | that helps the capitalists of this | country to prepare for this bloody | | war. Our position is that the Navy Yard | workers shall be fully employed on the basis of a 7 hour day and a 5.| day week. Our position is that they | shall manufacture instead of battle | ships, other useful products such as stabilizers, dynamos, tools, merchant | ships, etc., etc. The exccutive board of the Metal | Workers Industrial Union repudiates | the above-mentioned article as an} opportunist stand point that does not help but hurts the working class, The | executive board of the metal Workers Industrial Union further states that it will carry on a correct class strug- | gle policy in connection with organ- izing the Navy Yard workers against wage-cuts, layoffs, for unempk ent relief and insurance; against impe- rialist war and for defense of the Soviet Union. Put Furniture Back | at 2423 Belmont Ave. NEW YORK.—While Italian bees ers in the neighborhood were me ing at the call of the Sambraling Ave., unemployed Council Friday | night, on the struggle for relief, word | was received that Salvatori Guido was just evicted from 2423 Belmont, Ave. A committee went. down and put his furniture back in, with a throng of workers standing across the street | cheering. Today a mass meeting will be held | in pimbois of the house. | national office of the Seger Labor Defense to Sanchez Cerro ai Lima, Per' At the same time, wire of protest was sent to the Berusl STRIKE IN MINN. MARKHAM, Minn., Feb. 19.~The AMUSEMENT federal government has entered {nto the case of the ten arrested farmers Who were on strike demanding re- cognition of their grievance commit- tee on relief wor One of the strik- | ers has been questioned by immigra- tion officers, in an effort to start de- | portation proceedings against him. | The farmers are all out on bail. The | International Labor Defense has an| attorney from Duluth to defend them | in_ court, The U. 8. postal service also en-! tered the fleld as strike breakers | When 1 inspectors took the snow- | DS irck belonging to the county, | i i which the farmers had seized and The new Theatre Guild production, | jocked up in a garage, and opened ‘American Dream,” by George} the mail route. The farm strikers | bed as “a cycle of three delayed them quite a bit, however, | one-act plays all related to a com-| by having a lengthy discussion with mon idea” will open on Tuesday | the truck drivers. night at the Guild Theatre. Douglass) A protest demonstration was called| | Montgomery, Helen Westley, Claude | inst Thursday in Virinia at County | Rains, Leona Hogarth and Gale Son- | Commissioner Koski’s office at the dergaard head the cast. | County Courthouse. AVON THEATRE. “Hangman’s Whip,” a melodrama | Fe 7 JUDITH AND ONQUEST by Norman Reilly Raine and Frank | PLYMOUTH The By ARTHUR HOPK" Butler is announced for Friday night | [Ev 8:0. Mats Washington’ WHAT’S ON-- vian Embassy at Washington. | Stage and Screen HOWARD'S “ALIEN COR ‘OPENS TONIGH “AMERICA DREAM” PREMIERE TUE: DAY AT GUILD “Alien Corn,” Sydney Howard’e new play will open thi: ning at the Be- lasco Theatre under the guidance of Katherine Cornell. The company is headed by Miss Cornell, James Ren- | nie, Siegfried Rumann, Luther Adler, Charles Wadron and Lily Cahill. By GEORG “+. and in it INA CLA in hen Siibert 2RSON in, at the St. James Theatre. The chief ——_——_ ——____ ss 2 | FRANCIS LEDERER & DOROTHY GiSH in players include: Montague Love, Iian AUTUMN CROCUS Keith, Helen Flint, Barton MacLane ‘The New York and London success | MOROSCO THEATRE, 45th St. W. of Biv | tives. #40, Mats, Wea. Thurs. & sat IMPORTANT NOTE: In. MARY BOLAND in view of the critical financial | “vine Berlin's Revue Success of an African trading post. “Biography,” the S. N. Behrman | comedy which has been playing at the Guild since Dec. 12, will move this evening to the Avon ‘Theatre. ACE THE MUSI syed eet Hever ase and be situation in the Daily Worker, F 40CH ST. 1 USI c Sdward Bromberg are the latest ad- ned i oS ditions 0 “Hoth: Your Houses,” the Organizations are urgently, — Matinect Wetnesday and sat Maxwell Anderson play which will be | pefe, ; eee = cd by the ‘Theatre Guild on “ed Lo enclose money, at the ELMER RICE’S n 6. rate of one cent a word per in- WE, THE PEOPLE “DIE VORKAUFTE BRAT To- Serlion, with announcements, | UNA SEW Play ay tv Mok NIGHT AT METROPOLITAN proves cs f Wed. & Sat, Lvs, 8:20 Sharp. MONDAY MEETING of J. Louis Bngdahi Wor OPERA EOUSE “Die Vorkaufte Brar (The Bar- | Club tonite at 8 p.m. at 3032 Bain! OFFICIAL, WORLD WAR Fiat | tered Bride) will be mbes tite) Aves ata ‘ ” red 4 smal ax Bedacht tonite at) % E BIG DRIV j GYening at the Metropolitan Opera | nreng Cooperative Ausitorlum, 2100; Seon | ‘TH y louse with Rethberg and Laubet Ea Subject: “Present Situation in| caming 66 9 6 Plt of Revoln- hal. Other operas bf the week: | Germany :30 pm. Admission 5c. | SHAME” nee annhauser,” Wednesday afternoon | VAST MESTING of ILD Bazaar Commit- tee tonite at 8 p.m. ee THEATRE GUILD Pr TUESDAY GUILD THEATRE THE THEATRE GUILD Presents =—=—— “BIOGRAPHY” A COMEDY BY 8S. N BEHRMAN | E. The comi Matinees (this week) Wed. and Sat., 2: | awa iy pend, AT 8:15 HARP “American Dream’ E O'NEILL J St. West of Broadway. Evenings 8:30 tinees Thursday and Saturday at 2:30 nation Beet Gavriel, h St, § to have been arranged Atnerto~ West of Broadwa: Evenings 8:30 {=== ine DAILY WORKER Says; “BE SURE AND ATTEND WHEREVER IT 18 SHOWN” UPTON SINCLAIR'S FAMOUS REVOLUTIONARY STORY “JEM MEE HIGGINS” ENGLISH TITLES Based on the Novel of the Satne Name Produced in the U.S.8.R. by Ukrainiiim works Aeme Theatre WT St. UNION SQUARE Con, from nite Show Gut. 15 cents 9 AM tot B, Mon. to Fri. PR EVSON 1 ve a NOW! IL VER DOL LAR" MEN" A crime against the working class to permit the Daily Worker to stts- Rush funds today. with Rethberg and Melchior; “Ro-| 6 5. 4th st. meo et Juliette,” Wednesday evening | must come. with Norena and Johnson; “La Son- | WEDNESDAY nambuila,” Thursday evening with | LECTURE Wed. nie 3 pm. Your Comrades Jailed by John L. and Melchior"; “Mano: Come to the New Y¥ Labor Defense LECTURE by 21st, 8:15 p.m. n and Park the Wi | Auspices Br. N | Onio | er “AIDA” TO OPEN OPE § OF NEW GROUP A new organization, the Associated Artists, will open a season of grand opera on Saturday night at the | Broadway Theatre under the direc- tion of Cola Santos. The nucleus of the company is the Magda Dahl Grand Opera Company and the Cola Santos Symphonie Grand Opera Or- | chestra. The group will open their | ,, Pittsburgh SERIES of four lectures on Mars! eninis beginni Pridi Feb. 241 =} Itt 4 season with Verdl’s “Ajda” and fol-| pan, at Workers Bohool” 4840" Centra ay PRISONERS f the masters | Register at 2203 Centre Ave. during di 5 : . Re Mie Inaklug a. change ‘weekly. Popuiae {are at 1040 Centre Ave. AC hight saad ||] Music Dancing Movies Drama _ Bargains making a change weekly prices will prevail. Lily Pons and Lauri-Volpi; “Lohen- | $Pivak author of “Georgia Nigger.” Sib- ” Saturday j Saturday night with Rethberg and Bide rye tere mgs Aves. Subject: ‘The Crisis Cleveland | 4309 ‘Social Insurean: 0 Popular | at Manhattan Lyceum, | RKO CAMEO ‘THEA. 42nd St. & Bron Important, All delegates oberg | Jeet: “The Chain Gang.” — Brownsville | fh Ljungberg | youtn center, 105 ‘Thatford Ave. Brooklyn. | | | NEW JERSEY | Crooks (debut) and “La Boheme,” | Plainfield t Evers - Lauri-Volpi at Eversteen School, Ever- \ Out.” Admission 25 cents. 84 LW.0, | | LECTURE by Herbert Benjamin, ‘Thure- | | day, Feb, 23rd, at Hungarian Workers Hall, | Loi 8 pm. Admission 16| eonts Herbert Benjami fec of 25 cents for all four lectures which can be paid ia installments You to Fight for Their Release! WILL YOU ANSWER Ti GIANT DEFENSE RAZA. STARTS THIS WIDAESD AY at Mankation Lyceum, (5 Continues on February 28, 24, 25 er 26 FUNDS WILL GO TO DE by the Bosses Cail On rR CAL Dahae ork Disiriet, International E. 4th St. FENSE OF CLASS WAR | however, denied to me, Unemployed Council. “For the past three weeks, not came | | Home Tau Invest igator Is Grafter, Stool Pigeon NEW YORK.—Mrs. Tarmou, unemployed widow of Brooklyn, telis this Relief Bureau. “I am Home Re Ave. ceeded in monthly and every two weeks y quate for two children and myself even this pittance would be concluded by tl 1 Albemar is through the m Unemployed Gi getting relief fr u at C st Rd., Boro Par ant action of th ouncil, that I my a food che: ‘This is ing if it were not for the I have been in a position to be active in the Boro Park Council. The H.R.B. . I presume that I ain no longer connected with them, From this point follows my story, Send the Grafter “They switched my investigator and sent mea stool pigeon and grafter by the name “Gerelich’s w | reply. up with | Monday, and bro: other investigator, Just like himself, s that “You have beon getting r lief for a long time without it ever being stopped, make such a practice unle: your friends make this possible.’ of ‘Gerelich’ my food check first statement to m the HR.B. nd,’ eidman’—a type does not some of was the “I told Gerelich if he expected to get graft from me as he doz others whom he forces, y mistaken. Whereupon he changed his | line, and although the H.R.B. made a thorough investigation into my case, | and knows that my husband died in 1928, he made the following accusa- | tions, he Tries Slander “He wanted to know where I got in the day and said, | from the nickle with which I phoned the H.R.B. earlier “You must be having MEN KEEPING | YOU.’ I became indignant, him to put my food check down and get out. His bodyguard then ordered | me to keep my mouth shut, and with | dom and who are being underpaid on finishing remarks about framing me | their jobs are invited to come with as a prostitute, they left. ordered | bribed him w of petty stool pigeon, attempted graft and discrimination by the Home tle boy, Jay, aged 4, h a nickle, and began cing him questions. ‘Who is your dy? How many daddies have you?’ They told him things also, instead of only asking him; they told him stories which so confused him that he came running into the house in hysterics. “When I realized what had hap- pened I became furious and phoned the H.R.B. I could not get the slight- est satisfaction, When I made a spes cial trip te the main office on Scher merhorn St., they tried to hush the matter up, it was only when I threat- ened to report this to newspape eee the officials became a little pa icky Activity Saves “I think thet such stories should be printed in our papers, workers who are not wise to them, and who have not iene lr yet seen them in action should that these officials will stoop to anything. Unemployed work- may sometimes find themselves ed like this, and then find the trick used against them and effec- ely enough to prevent them from g the meagre little relief that § between themselves and feath by starvation, e —~ “I can assure you, that if jn the past three weeks, I had been active in Boro Park Council, such audacity | would never have occurred.” BUILDING TRADES WORKERS Center NEW YORK. — Building Trades Workers of New York, members of the A. F, of L. Buildings Trades Unions have opened up a center lo- cated at 79 E. 10th St., near Fourth Ave., on the first floor. All building- trades workers who have grievances against their official- their problems to the Building Trades on Spiaete did not end here. | Workers Industrial League. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY]| 107 Bristol Street (es, vHON! Office Hovrs: Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) B'klyp DIOKENS 2-012 8-10 AM., 1-2, 6-8 PAM. Organizations Participa- ting in Raising Funds for the Daily Worker: LECTURE by MAX BEDACHT “The Present Situation in TONIGHT AT 8:30 P. ¥ COOP Germany” AUDITORIUM 2700 Bronx Park East J.LOUIS ENGDABL WORKERS’ CLUB 8092 Hull Avenue, Bronx Opening of New Headauarters TONIGHT AT 8 P. M. GOOD SPEAKER: “Workers Clubs and Revolutionary Press” THEA. ARRANGEMENT by Unit 5, Sec. 2 “JIMMI FRGGINS” at the ACME HEATRE Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday Comrad are urged to buy from the Un't as the proceeds from these tickets omy will Worker. go to the Daily TICKETS 3c CONEY Workers ISLAND Center 2709 Mermaid Ave. B’klyn lis Role W ¢ rkers { TUES, FEB, 21, = Pel Movie ‘The § Struggle for Bread’ ‘ED ROYCE “The Revolutionary Press, TUES., FEB. 21, 8 P. M. Good Speaker HINEDALE Clab “Shor ine will spvek on and Significance” farm in health camp, Parmer-carpenter, ‘Alal WaNtep operate on si-nere m cotton—start N. 1., care Daily Worker, | | | —— fetern'l Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUB 15th FLOOR AU Work Done Under Persona! Care of DR. JOSEPRSON Hospital and Oculist Prescriptions Filled At One-Half Price White Gold Filled Frames $1.50 “YL Shell Frames -__.___, . $1.00 Lonses not included COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St. First Door Off Delancey St. Telephone: ORvhard 4-4520 Au comrades Meet a BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont Parkeay, Brens —_—=—[—>[[—[—¥X—X——_== WORKERS—EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE | Near Bopkinson A Brooklyn. N.Y. a JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12 & 13 Welcome to Our Comrades Phone Tomkins Sq. 6-9554 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ('TALIAN ki orvde A place with atmonsp! where all eadienls "meet . 302 6. 12th st. New York Garment District food Served Right Farragut Cafeteria 526 Seventh Av. at 28th St. Garment Section Workers Patronize Naverr Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE Corner 28th St. PATRONIZE SEVERN’S CAFETERIA 7th Avenue at 30th St. | Best Food at Workers Prices THE DMLY WORKER DENIS SALE AND RUTAYL FLORIST FLORAL DESIGNS A SPECIALTY 101 W. 28th St., New York PHONE, LACKAWANNA 4-2470