The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1933, Page 2

PAGE ! Ww i: BUSSES HIRED TO 1: AKE DEL JEGATES TO ALBANY; RUSH PREPARATION Will Draft Labor Leg ment Insurance Bills: at C New York Stite capital, the delegates Legislation to be held in Albany Mar the unity of all workers in the fight f ations for conference th Business Agent of | Local 3 Sh hoots Two : Outeome of” 7 Million raft in LU nion feantition, through h the arm-pit Another member of his hand shot place on the fifth quarters, where the off: Tocal conduct a sort of a s for unemployed members. Several hundred union Were suddenly sta vv warning, I agent of the | and shot at Sorens the other Members. Rosenberg Johnson were two of the henchmen who ac- companied Van Arsdale when he came up to pick an argument with Sorenson. It is not difficult to discover the cause which led to this attack upon honest members of the union. Only a few months ago the officialdom of the union was taken to court to an- Swer charges in conn on with a swindle of some $7,500,000 from the union treasury. Evidence in court disclosed that the officials were unable to furnish re- ceipts for this huge sum. Typical of the squander of funds from the union treasury was an item of $40,000 with @ rather general explanation, “For entertainment.” The membership has demanded an accounting of union affairs for last two years. A movement against the corrupt and terrorist officialdo: and for their cement with elect ed officials of ion, has been initiated by the most advanced and Courageous elements in the organi- zation. This movement had to come up against unriy and corruption ized the administration of the entire | union, with Harry Broach, Interna- tional.President, at the head. It is the sentiment of the member- ngsterism, terror ship; howey that no amount of terrorism will stop the struggle} against the corrupt officials and for the control of the organization by membership itself. the REPORT 7 EXPELLED FROM COMMUNIST PARTY Seven members of the Communist Party were permanently expelled from the Party on charges of rack- eteering in a Leningrad bakery plant, according to capitalist press dis- patches. WHAT’S ON-- IMPORTANT view of the critical financial) situation in the Daily Worker, | organizations are urgently, asked to enclose money, at the| NOTE: In| rate of one cent a word per in- sertion, with announcements, Tuesday LEAGUE OF PROF! ONAL GROUPS | Criticism at onight at 8:15 Schneider and arranges lect with Malcolm Louis: Grudin. MEETING will speak on | Mannatten Lyceum. Wednesday LECTURE by Comrade Biedenkapp t at 8:30 p. m. at Bronx Shoe Workers Ce: 1334 Southern bject “Bitua' 4 German 5 TECTURE by Scott night 4¢ 8 p.m. at Ambas: it 15, Section 1. M. Olgin tonight at 8 p. m. 68 B. Fourth st, tte aring Weinenees dor Hall, Thi Bro) ate ssion | DANCE-RUS! (Ang Plaza, 151 ) pam. Excellent jaz: im advance, 50 cents at FSU, 799 Broadw ) Workers Booksho ’ FSU and Soviet i REAL © Chorus Pricey West 19th Si. 38 erie of high qual- workers © building revolutionary chorus | ity are welcome All LABOR UNION MEETINGS FURNITURE WORKERS f cabinet makers, machine y the Furniture Work. ors mn for evening of Mar 1, at 818 Broadway. wil Union representat: eport. NEEDLE WORKERS Mass-at Municipal Building today at 10 Sg. mi-td greet release after ten months im- Bpemenment ct three he activities Mass mecting at 7 p. m., Irving Plaza I March 7, to welcome release of dress- ‘ — .* ik te > FUR WORKERS | Meeting of all fur shop chairmen tonight Dwight after work at 131 West 28th St. Bust- Pitas: mobiiization against the fur employ- % dressmakers framed ers’ association. Mass demonstration in fur market at noon oh March 1, simultaneou | yy with funeral of y ur worker Inurdered in} 4 ark strike, PuoToGRAPHrRs Photographic Workers League meeting of pee and employed, members and bers, March 1 ut 8 p, m. sharp at Gia yWest 190) St. Discussion of plans to ‘eae \ fobs or relich members | the | s character- | furniture and frame| 11 VW slation and Unemploy- Submit Suggestions Ince ‘to the Workers’ Conference for ch and 7, will spread the call for ‘or bri are it them immediat committee on Bills at the ak The ference end have the: tag days to s' Jay ort Wor boxes should mmittee’s of- ection into the as pt National City Bank Exposed in Loot: JED FROM PAGE C ONE) Rentchler re per- fied with this, even though “employees still owe more on the stock than it is worth on the market and can be relieved of the obligation only by resigning their positions.” Thi known as “industrial dem ocracy,’ a form of class collaboration | and reminds one of the simil schemes which took place on a simi scale in the Railroad therhoods inder the iabor banker Warren Stone Matthew Woll, now vice-president of the A. F, of L., is another admirer | of this class coliaboration idea, and| the National City Bank affair is aa| example of how well it works out for the ployer of labor, whether he} employ white collar labor or manual labor. We also see here just how he employee or worker fares in this| scheme and how he is intimidated and enslaved by the boss. | E. M. Barrett, a vice-president of |© the bank, borrowed a total of $296,-| 000 in three instalments and repaid | * $11,000. The r ning $285,000 ac- carding to Rentchler was transferred to the assets of the National City Co., subsidiary of the bank and writ- ten down to $65,000. The obligation is still standing though no action to enforce collection has ever been made. Lee Otwell, another vice president borrowed $345,272 from the bank and} has not made any repayments. He lis no longer with the bank and no | effort has been made to collect on his obligation. Perhaps a suit against | | Olwell, who knows the inside work- | | ings of the company would bring jepout an even greater exposure. Rentchler, to whom the fund was | also available, and who received a sal- ary of $50,000 a year also shared in, the management fund to the extent | | of $279,000 during 1927 and 1928. Manipulate Loans | It was brought out that the bank and National City Company entered | | into joint transactions together. In | this way the bank transferred a sugar |< jloan which was made to Cuban in-| | terests and which was not at the | time “liquid,” to the company. This |loan was for $30,000,000. This was | done because the bank examiners told the bank that they did not consider | it a safe loan for a bank to make. In order to raise the money the | bank boosted its stock in the open} market and then issued rights which | entitled the owners of the bank stock to subscribe for new stock at a price | considerably below the market. In this way the bank raised the money to “bail” itself out, to use the terms jot Peccora, attorney for the Senate | committee, in describing the opera- | tion. | It is quite customary for any bank | | to sell poor and bad loans with which | it is tied up to the petty bourgeoisie | |in the form of convertible notes, or! participating bonds, or preferred} | stock. In this case the National City| |Bank did not, and being unable to} |get out of its loan this way dodged the banking law by finally placing these loans in the company’s ac- | count. As Peccora brought out, it is well known that the Cuban sugar indus- | | try is in a state of collapse. For this| reason the bank had to get out of its} |loan and in this case both the stock | holders and the employees of the bank | |were made the suckers. Pools Unioad On Public Peccora then took up the Anaconda | Copper deal. Many widows and or. phans will not forget it. The sale: men of the National City Compan those bright young men,” as MN Mitchell would call them, strongly | 7ecommended this stock as a safe i vestment when it was selling well over | | $100 a share, Today it is selling be- |low $10. In one transaction the National | City Co, and the late John D, Ryan, chairman of the Anaconda Copper | Co. and “philanthropist,” went into a | deal to unload 151,045 shares on the} |petty bourgeoisie. The transaction| | was financed by the company which} | made as its share $335,042, Another transaction in Anaconda | | Copper stock was arranged among | Mitchell, Ryan and Daniel and Harry | Guggenheim, the latter two gentle- men being heads of the American Smelting Co., philanthropists, and particular friends of Charles Lindberg, | the “good will” aviator. On this op-| eration the National City Co. netted $1,200,000. The above brief record of the tes- timony shows some of the inner| workings of finance capital and shows | once more the truth regarding the role that these capitalists play as} brought out in Lenin's book on Im- | perialism. It should be remembered also that | the National City Bank has been and is today one of the strongholds of American imperialism. It has always | represented the best in the bour- | geoisle and stood supposedly for| | straight dealing in the eyes of many! misguided but honest people. This exposure should show both the work- ers and the petty bourgeoisie that any | of the | The banks will open DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, “Fight 3 stem; Communist Tels Students ers, starvation, speed- and ruin ‘ar Threatens U, that i 1) Street ir he P: fact that China British tes perialism for c by merely citing American investments are smaller than Japane China offers opy investments ruling cl trying further to blast its way to domination of that rich country well as to dominate the entire Pa- rf i t the impe- m lessening tk the Soviet Ur e countries m to solve their spe the tes ass dif- se of the Soviet Bolshevis plained the ng impe- * the au- um re-echoed to the prolonged and entt ic applause of the au- | dience. concluded by that of he imperis in the the United States, cause of its world-position, most viciou all world, be- was the and that it was the duty rs, farmers, students and to concentrate their fire aga e chief enemy—the Wall Street ruling class and their hunger and war government. Student Role in War All the patchwork the Dewevs and Matthews made on the cover of capi- talist was cast aside as much too| worn not on but by an- other speal i. Joseph Cohen iS a representative of the | National Student League which is an active : | minde the aud scene of war danger was not enough. pointed out the important pa . Cohen yy students in previous wars and their part in war that is close at hand. The students, he proposed should join organizations and fight| together with the workers, the only body able to abolish wars, the real cause of wars, the system where a few rule the world for their own profits. Dewevs’ and Matthews’ Advice John Dew @ prominent doctor or bourzeois illnesses, moaned and wailed that no matter what happen- ed “We good Americans” must not FORD TAKES BANK HITS DEPOSITORS Will Pay Out Only 30 Cents on the Dollar NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—The Na- tional City Bank, although it knew as long ago as 1921 of the precar- condition of American imper- investments in Peru, floated bonds in the market here to the extent of $90,000,000. That is one of the many ways in which the bank gypped those who had con- fidence in the imperialist depreda- tions of the Rockefellers, the Still- mans and Mitchells, whose plun- dering of all and sundry made Al Capone and his gangsters seem, by contrast, mere amateourish burg- lers, amelie ts DETROIT, Mich., Feb, 27—Hen- ty Ford and his son Edsel Ford have taken over complete control of the First National Bank of Detroit and the Guardian Detroit Union Group. Wednesday. They will pay out 30 cents on the dollar on deposits, Ford, in order to protect his own deposits of $7,500,000 has been forced into the banking business. Ford, in his own interest pushes out the smaller capitalists In these banks and consolidate them into his own hands. He proposes to charge depositors a all fee for holding their deposits “safe keeping.” Instead of loaning money Wall St..money market Ford will use what he can of it himself and just where the rest. can be solely and profitably invested Ford will have to discover. One thing Ford will surely try and that is by driving wages down still further he may succeed in investing these funds in industries which will compete against the Industries of | other capitalists. If this is done there will be a new concerted move against Wages and even more cut throat com- petition than now exists, Ford’s entrance into the banking business may work well for Ford but | not for the workers. It shows more than ever the consolidation of capital into fewer hands. ee in . Ohio Bank Restrictions. CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 27.—On the | heels of the Michigan and Maryland Bank stoppages, bank restrictions in- cluding the preventing of deposit | withdrawals over 5 per cent were in- stituted throughout the state. | hope for ald or guidance cannot be) looked for from the ruling class in- terests, Many of the valle bour- geoisie have since been liquidated just as truly as Karl Marx Predicted | they would be, It should also be remembered that | this National City Bank scandal is only one of the few cases which has come to light. How many more are there that none of us know about? in the} End Wars,” In a droning style he| | Law and h 1 quibbled about arm- ament He ended by se’ he rick g if U. S. went to war the “people” ht Bal ain something by it. 1 replaced on the floor ews who spoke of “War e of the rul- He conde’ on of the “Ruling Clas itself. He tried to side- 1 causes and cures of He and his pal John Dewey emed even afraid to listen, for they | jlett as soon as a definite plan was| | offered Scab Murecrs N. J. Fur Striker | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ed. These firms have resisted ization for many years neans of terrorizing the workers. International Also Guilty They have now been encouraged | in their campaign of murderous ter- inst the strikers by the offi- | of the defunct International Fur Workers Union, Pietra Lucchi | end Moe Harris, both of whom have | | been going and making secret deals with the owners behind the backs of the work- ers. The interference of these offi- is in these strikes has undoubted- encouraged the three notorious shop employers in their on the strikers ty for the murder of ‘0 lies directly with the ly open. ous attacks Responsil Natale Balle: | firm of A. Hollander & Sons, as weil as with Mr, | Harris. Lucchi and Mr. Moe | A special meeting of fur dyers and | | dressers will take place tonight at | Manhattan Lyceum, New York, and a special meeting of |tur manufacturing shop chairmen | will take place on Tuesday at 131 W. | 28th St. The union is also planning a mass funeral for Natale Ballero. | International Official Protests Morris Stern, an official of the In- | ternational Fur Workers, denounces | the murder of Ballero, and accuses the officialdom of his own organiza- | tion of complicity in the crime. His | statement is as follows: “As an Executive Board member of Local 3, Fur Floor Workers Union, and as a Third Vice-president of the International Fur Workers Union, affiliated to the American Federa- | tion of Labor, I want to voice my | protest against the murder of Natale Ballero, the 24 year old striker of A. | Hollander & Sons. “I still remember the murderous | policy of this firm which resulted in the killing of two strikers in the strike of 1914. The entire labor move- ment, regardless of whether it is right-wing or left-wing, must be {aroused against this murderous | strike-breaking policy of A, Hollan- der & Sons. “In my, capacity as an Executive | Board member of Local 3, and as a vice-president of the International, I shall do everything in my power to arouse the protest of the members of Locals 2 and 3 against the inexcus- able actions of Lucchi and Harris. ||| Stage and Screen “BOTH YOUR HOUSES,” OPENS AT ROYALE THEATRE, MAR. 6 The Theatre Guild's fourth pro- | duction of the season, “Both Your Houses” a new play by Maxwell An- derson, will have its New York pre- miere on Monday, March 6, at the Royale Theatre. The production will be seen next week at the Nixon Thea- tre in Pittsburg. The principals in- clude Walter C. Kelly, Jane Seymour, Mary Phillips, Maurice Carnovsky and J, Edward Bromberg. “We the People,” Elmer Rice’s play about modern America, will close on Saturday night at the Empire Thea. “Saturday Night,” Owen Davis's new play which William A. Brady is producing will open next Tuesday night at the Playhouse with Peggy Wood as the star, Arch Selwyn announces the pre- miere of “Forsaking All Other,” star- ring Tallulah Bankhead at the Times Square Theatre Monday, Feb. 27th, BRUNO WALTER’S FINAL WEEK WITH THE PHILHAR=NIC Two major choral works will be given by the Philharmonic under the direction of Bruno Walter on Thurs- day evening and Friday afternoon at Carnegie Hall; the Brahms Rhapsody for Alto Solo. Male Chorus, and or- chestra; and Mahler's Symphony No. | 2 in C minor. The orchestra will be assisted by the chorus of the Schola Cantorum of New York. In the Brahms Rhapsody Sigrid Onegin will be the soloist; in the Mahler Sym- phony Jeanette Vreeland and Sigrid Onegin, Walter’s final appearance this sea- son will be next Sunday at the Met- ropolitan Opera House where he con- cludes his ninth week with a con- cert of three works: Fugue in © minor, Bach-Wheaton; Piano Con- certo No, 2 in B flat, Brahms, with Ossip Gabrilowitsch as soloist; and Symphony No, 7, Schubert. Ernest Schelling will appear in the triple role of conductor, composer, and pianist, at the Concert for chil- dren and young people at the Phil- harmonic Saturday morning at Car- negie Hall. In a program illustrat- ing the concerto form, he will be heard as soloist in the Chopin Piano Concerto in F minor, and will direct, the following orchestral works: “Nat- chez on the Hill,” Powell; Lament and Scherzo from “Irish” Symphony, Harty; and his own Lulleby and War March from the tone poem “Moroc- co,” The mizhty demonstrations for unemployment relief and insurance that will be held all over the coun- try March 4th, the day of Roose- velt’s inauguration, are being or- ganized in great part through the Daily Worker. Keep the “Daily” alive! Help it to rally the masses for March 4th! TUESDAY, “FEBRU ARY hing of International | etting a chair | 1 capitalism by say- | use of education as | he workers and their right to be or- | “COUNCILS HIT AT around since the strike | vici- | 66 E. 4th St.,| 28, 1933 | | | These old women are sitting on | a park bench in the snow while one | darns the stocking she has taken | from her foot, in the world’s rich- | est city—New York. Another res- | son for the nation-wide March 4th | demonstrations, _ EMPTY PROMISES Demand No Man Go Cold or Hungry | NEW YORK, Feb. Hundreds of thousands more| workers are facing unemploy- | ment and its resultant miser poverty and suffering, as in-| dustry continues to slow up! and in some places cease alto- gether. The economic crisis is being further deepened by the acute financial crisis that has broken cut and is manifested in the cl ing of whole groups of banks, the wiping out of the savings of workers and throwing thousands of the for- mer middle class into the poverty- stricken ranks of unemployed. Wall Street is alarmed more than | before at this development and is using all its machine: especia Ss political Jackeys to try to stem the | growing fury of the masses through- | out the whole country. The big cap- | italists are particularly alarmed the increase of struggles for relief in localities and in the states, and at the mass response to the call for | nation-wide demonstrations demand- | ing immediate relief and unemploy ment and social insurance on March | 4th, when Wall Street puts Roosevelt | and his cabinet cn the job.as the new hunger administration. National Council Statement. According to the National Com- | mittee of Unemployed Councils the March 4th demonstrations will ex- ceed anything ever before seen in this country. In a statement on the | March 4th demonstrations the Na- tional Committee, under the signa~ ture of I. Amter, national secretary, said in part: “In order to get the support of the masses of this country for the elec- tions, Roosevelt coined the phrase, “forgotten man.” This is above all the: “17,000,000 unemployed workers in this country, “4,000,000 women workers. “2,000,000 homeless youth. “13,000,000 starving children “Millions of hungry Negro workers. “2,000,000 unemployed ex-service- men. “Millions of impoverished farmers. “These are the “forgotten” men— the men and women who supported Roosevelt and the Democratic Party in the elections, and now look to them to redeem the promises made four months ago. “On December 6, the National Hunger Marchers presented the de- 28. — mands of the “forgotten” man to the Democratic congress. The an- swer was police terror. Roosevelt said “no man shall go hungry or be ecld.” The reports of the municipal relief buros, of the hospitals, insane asylums, municipal lodging houses— the fearful reports of crime—49 per cent of all convictions are for burg- lary, larceny and robbery (indicating poverty) —suicides, deaths from hun- ger—demonstrate that Roosevelt slogan was empty. The “privat citizen” had no obligations—but on March 4th, as chief executive of the United States, he will be held to his pledges.” |young w | penetration | submitted for | of the A. 'Trade Union Unity Council Works Out Plans to Organize the Youth NEW YORK. ger of war makes it r unions! to. pa e attention | ever to the winning over of the | rkers in industry as a fac- | ter of tremendous importance for thi of large scale plant cessary for our and the building of fresh groups of | leaders in our unions, states the draft | resolution on trade union activitie: discussion by the Bu-| reau of the Trade Union Unity Coun- | cil. On the basis of the general line | in this resolution, meetings and con- ferences are to be arranged in each industr and trade e arately to work | taken in organizing the young work- ers in each industry. The resolution points out: “The most outstanding weakness in our activity amongst the youth is pre- cisely in industries of basic impor- tance. Because of the mechanized character of these industries young workers are employed. It is hardly possible to talk about serious union organization in these industries with- out thoroughly taking into considera- tion the youth problem and the special methods necessary to or- k ganize the young workers in these A. F. L. Local 338 Leaders Sell Daitch (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—A treacherous act was carried through against the 200 workers employed at the Daitch Dai- ry Co. by the racketeering officials of L, Local 338, Grocery and Dairy Clerks Union. These rack- eteers had declared a strike against the firm. To be sure, the interests of | the workers were of no concern to the labor fakers, for no demands were made on the company, nor did the 200 workers participate in the fake strike. The officials are most of them Socialists. The company gauged the situation clearly that it had to do with a bunch of grafters who were ready to make a sellout of the conditions of the workers for a good price. Sub- | sequent events proved it to be so. | For no sooner did the company enter into secret negotiations with the racketeers than the “socialist” pick- ets were taken away from the stores. Here are the details of the agree- ment concluded between the com-} pany and the officials of Local 338. 1) No “strike” is to be called for a period of one year. 2) Only two workers in each store are to take out union” books. (Daitch Dairy has bout 40 stores.) 3) The manager and assistant manager will get a so-called “union” protection. 4) The workers of those stores employing 3, 4, 5 and 6 clerks will be ignored by the “union” altogether. 5) The racketeers have no right to remove or send in a new worker in any of the stores, but the company is allowed to hire and fire at will even the union men. The clause of arbitration will be no safeguard for the fired worker. For the fired worker is immediately re- placed by another man pending the decision of the arbitrator. And should the decision of the arbitrator be fa- | vorable to the fired worker the com- | pany can’t be compelled to abide by the decision and reinstate the work- | er, since the labor fakers agreed not | to strike. The racketeer officials also con- sented not to send any of the unem- ployed for a day’s work in the 40 stores run by the company, The 200! workers employed by the company must not be sent to do picket duty in other stores. Only On Paper According to the “agreement,” the workers are supposed to work only 59 hours a week, but it is obvious that this will remain on paper only. The manager of the store can’t help working 7 full days. The assistant manager will also have to come in every day for fear of his job. Need- less to say, the other workers re- ceiving no protection whatsoever will surely have to stick it out every day in the week, And so the entire crew will continue working 96 hours a week. The agreement provides that the manager is to receive $35 a week. But he has been getting that much right along anyhow. The agreement also specifies $25 a week for the assist- ant managers. But the company pays them only $20, $18 and $15 and less. Whom is the company to be afraid of? The younger helpers get only $10 a week each. Besides, the com- pany has the privilege of hiring and firing the latter ones. It is a fact that in some stores the $30-a week assistant managers were all fired, the racketeers having agreed to $25 a week for them. The two “union” men in each store are to pay only $16.50 each for “union” books, instead of $59 as the racketeers originally demanded. The labor fakers also conceded the point that the taxes of Daitch workers must not exceed the sum of $12 a year, and dues will be $3 a month, But even the $16.50 the workers re- fused to pay. The racketeers resort to a terror policy using gangsters to DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY/ 107 Bristol Street | (Bet. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) B’klyn | PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M.|! COMRADES MEET AT ROYAL CAFETERIA 827 BROADWAY, NEAR 18TH Si. Best Food—Proletarian Prices. 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Cafeteria 1610 KINGS HIGHWAY Phone UNiversity 4-0185 OTEN DAY AND NIGHT DEWEY 9-9512 “RENDEZVOUS” Dairy Workers intimidate the workers into paying the high robbery price for a union book, With threats of violence the gang, accompanied by the general manager, Paul Daitch, of the Daitch Dairy Co.,. visits the stores to wrest | from the workers their hard-earned | money. In some stores the workers | give a stiff resistance to the gang) and won't pay. In such a case, the general manager pays $10 from his own pocket and $6.50 the worker is made to pay. It goes without saying that the manager takes it off from the wages. There is no specification for legal holidays. The five Jewish holidays, when the stores are closed, will con- stitute the holidays for the workers. As to pay for these five days—this is left to the discretion of the company. Up till now very few managers and assistant managers have taken out “union books. The others refuse to give a cent. They ask: What are the benefits that we get from the union? For want of an answer the racket- eers resort to beating. I talked to many of the Daitch workers and they all condemn the racketeers. in the sharpest terms. Recently the company called the 200 workers to a meeting and told them that they must become union men, Some workers protested strong- ly against being forced to pay with their bloody money to the grafters. But it was of no avail. Undoubtedly the labor fakers will not get away with this treachery so easily. It will serve as a rock on which they will break their necks. A fire is burning in the -heart of each of the 200 workers employed by the Daitch Dairy Co. A Dairy Clerk. Tenants Victorious at 115 Herzel Street: NEW YORK.—The 115 Herzel St. rent strike is won. The strikers ob- tained a reduction of rent of from $2 to $5 on each apartment. The tenants were not to pay rent for the time during which the strike was in progress. Agreements of no evictions, all necessary repairs by the landlord, no discrimination against the tenants for taking part in the strike, and recognition of the House Commit- tee were made. Thirteen tenants took part in the strike. After the settlement the tenants donated $4 to the Daily Worker and the Freiheit for the aid given them. They also donated $2 to the block committee. All joined the Unem- ployed Council and are going to give @ party for the Council, and block committee which led the strike. At 219 Herzel St. about 24 tenants with the aid of workers stopped an eviction Friday of the Mandelwitz family by taking their furniture back in their apartment after it had been put on the street. ‘The landlord tried to put them out yesterday but was stopped by work- ers and had to call a conference with the tenants. The conference as yet has not corne to a settlement, and the workers are watching the landlord to see that he does not take action when they are not there. The growing dan-)out more concretely the steps to be| industries.” “A pre-requisite for the correct ap- proach to the young workers is the realization of the fact that the young workers have not gone through the experience of the adult in organiza- tion and class struggle, and the illu- sions drummed into their heads in the school system are still fresh in their minds. Yet, at the same time the young workers can be aroused against mistreatment and for better conditions in many cases quicker than adult workers. They have had no disappointments in previous strug- gles and are like fresh troops when handled properly.” The probiems of the youth sections are: Conditions of the young workers in the shops (youth crafts, etc.), bringing in recommendations to the union to fight for such as pay in- work, sanitary conditions, safety de- vices, dressing rooms, against speed- up, etc. Sports teams, practice, com- petition with other teams, meets, etc. Social activities sponsored for young workers in the industry and in the union, dances, dramatics, song hours, | bulletins, parties, hikes, etc.” “It is essential that in the devel- lopment of our youth activities | amongst the unemployed we also de- velop the necessary approach and fight for the youth demands, as an jimportant part of the fight of the | unemployed.” Youth Committees, “Clubs cannot replace youth com- mittees of the union. The youth committees are instruments to or- ganize the youth of the union for a more effective approach to the young workers in the industry. However, the youth committees have remained too narrow in their methods, and were themselves influeficed by the attitude of the adult leadership, which made one problem out of the youth and adult question, The re~ | alization that. the youth is a specific ; problem must be also recognized or- ganizationally in our trade union ac- tivities. The young workers in the union should be formed into a youth section.” “We must fight against the pre- vailing tendency in our unions to relegate the responsibility for youth work entirely upon inexperienced young workers in the union. It is essential, of course, that we develop young cadres and that the organiza- tions built up amongst the youth | should be so organized as to push forward the young leaders into lead- ership not only in the youth organ- ization, but in the leading bodies of the union as well. It is essential at the same time that in all communi- | ties set up for the development of activities amongst the young workers there be included experienced adult comrades. Any tactic that leads to the division of the young workers from the adult workers is the gross- est kind of opportunism. It repre- sents the carrying over of the meth- ods of reformists into the class strug- gle unions.” Discriminated Groups. “Particular attention must be paid to the methods of approach to the young girls because of the much stronger’ influence of conservative parents at home. In many cases they have been known to have put up splendid fights for their condi- tions. Negro young workers are usually even more discriminated and mistreated than even white young workers. We will never be able to attract them to our organizations if we do not realize this fact. When Negro young workers go on strike they are energetic and militant.” “In the skilled trades there are large numbers of young workers which with rare exception have been completely neglected by our opposi- tion groups. These young workers are generally treated by the buro- eracy as bargaining material to ob- tain conditions for the skilled adults at their expense. The opposition groups must seriously take. up the youth problem, understand the meth- ods used in exploiting the young workers, their disfranchisement, the abuses prevalent in most of the ap- prentice schools, and include in their program the defense of their inter- ests as well as ways to organize them,” AMUSEMENT Not Too Aesthetic for Acme Audiences! =", 9, (Di of Doyzhenko’s crue" ee) FIRST Syvied SOUND FILM “EV AW” LISH SUvEKiMe USED TITLES “4VAN’ KANKS WiTd THE BEST RUSSIAN PICTURES,”—N.Y, TIMES worxers Acme Theatre 14TH ST. 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