The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1933, Page 5

} LABOR DEFENSE OPPOSES DECATUR AS ~ TOWN FOR SCOTTSBORO BOYS TRIAL... Ay ove Center Yor Gangs of Chr tails Who Make a Special Practice Ae Texrorizing Nope Schwab, I Freee ‘Scatisoro Trial, to tie urday _. Spigalc on Sat poll Cf Case. ‘At. Hrmune of Paris Fe Celebration wate YORK -irving’ Schwab, who| “with eorye W.-Chamlee: and Carol} King pied in the. Alabama court last tM for a change of the fist’ tial of the nine bo''s, -wited fhe Interna Pfenss ‘today that he latina’ anid will reach this city Lary Saray] venue for ned-<} peat or ‘ett “at which -the N ilf hold Saturday, . av St. Nicholas Sth St: and ‘Broadway te Beenie of the I'L. D.| Se} iwi Matt beer connected with thie | Seotesboae, cage I‘in ‘forcing ‘the y in which that ‘offitials had} ¢ to°falsely- claim: that she “abe! tacked by the Negro boy: Saturday. nieht meet! sone RiH--make starfiing Son tion aie fie- latest attempts by torn enéral “Knight and Judge | HawkiFatto haves the boys tried in) an kPhere“of tyncli-terror in or- der? Gilitafe’the bosses’ scheme} to “@# thent electroeuted: “He will} oO tel,.of the latest steps taken by the forcé-the ‘bosses fo release | the “fennfied “Negto boy o A “Bileakers “will “include ‘Walde*rank, Michacl’ Gold, Richard | 3 > Albert « rad Wiseled by New-York City toil-| ors TRAE ‘Scottsboro Labor jary; ‘Ella | Winttrs is Es Scott; persoval rer resents ‘of “Pom Mooney. se WAN Johnson Choir THE AM] Hall Johnson cust of the play,-*S8iin - Little Children,” will pro- videta?#fusical ‘program.at the Paris Comsause-Scotisboro mass meeting] in StsMicholas. Arena.’ Rose Me=| Lex ror actress; will present a “Souttien®-Sketch; and Edith Siegel, with sit $ouiherm dances. Admission is 238 funds-to -go. for the: 96 fense_ of class wasv.prisonérs; »- TROOPS IN CLASH > Maih-W; ar of Nanking’ § Against Toilers Shige fighting brok: “Gut yesterday _betweenssthe Japanes: 6 nvaders and -Chinesésxegulars hurled into battle by he Masking Government in a “face. avingSspretense of resisting the Jap- aneseaivive into-the Peiping-Tientsin reacsyimm.. Jehol provinee, occupied. mie WE as a.resttt of Nanking trea- f - agstisht-at- ise: Pass . 2 Thdelfehvme occarredat Kupei pass with-ghe Manking government. troops: i omovingsigbo onli as the-person- i }» .trodps of «Marshal -liang were withdrawn by @arist.. The Nanking troops, kbe cynical game of Chiang Kai-shek, pete subjected te a fierce iL L -pombardment by Sar besé ‘command cy aie: hit fleet’ Ef chis tr eed: ‘are fitch “fate pein the ‘eetutionany” ie ikejand Chinese 70 ‘Years Ahead + Government admits So alte funds for their shall control the the® tofliig population,’ in ernie * -austriats™ ind ei dollected “11 year’ in ein “thie “Midst misgov-. 4 the small’ peasants: have “edi pay land r Se ENIY VORTS. , dheiagde Sher-pioges; of the. Daily Worket,: Only: by: constant’ infor- | matigozvof the making vandship- rarwe build seninism is tc Seno ais sera ince - its“ ‘beginning | sh a let-| Glassford, Negro} "For. Fai ‘arm Dictator | | | Secretary of Paaaibues Wallace, who wants to- make Roosevelt a dictator to boost farm. prices for the benefit of the trusts, thus hit- tng the poor farmers on the land and the workers. in the citye TALK OF “STRIKE” | Roosevelt ‘Prepares for Farm Dictatorship BULLETIN DES MOINES, Ia., March 13.— Over 2,500 farmers,.clad in overalls, stormed the state: legislature here teday and shouted. warning. that “unless -it- passed farm: relief mea- sures, They had been attending the Farm Holiday confererss. | DES MOINES, Ia., March) 13.— Moved to some pretense of action by the growing militancy of the farm- ers, the National Farmers’. Holiday Association, in convention here .yes~ |terday, threatened another farm strike unless. their legislative de- mands are adopted by. Congress by May 3. Leaders of the organization last year sold out the militant farm } Strike. |. These demands included a. national moratorium on foreclosures, adop- tion of the.Frazier bill—which would aid the mortgagees and not the farm- ers—and federal operation of banks as public UBER * Roosevelt Bea ‘ctator. arch .13.—, Under the: @ilise..of adopting farm “relief,” in answer to- the .thunderous immediate. aid, the Wall Street gov- ernment was moving today to clothe President’ Roosevelt with dictatorial) | Powers which would still further in- trench the ‘trusts and bring about greater impoverishment of the, farm- ers. A Special message to Congréss, in "|. which Roosevelt would seek the same dictatorial powers which he is get: ting in the banking crisis, is antici- pated very shortly. As explained by Secretary of Ag- riculture Wallace, the program pro- posed would give him and Roosevelt “teh power to restore the pre-war parity between prices of agricultural and industrial commodities.” “This: clearly would involve the jockeying up_of prices for the benefit of the 4 trusts, with the increase being passed om to thé ronsumef.. Moreover, the program holfs © nothing: to aid the growing army of ‘ruined farmers, | @riven from the land by mortgage foreclosures and starving’ becausé of inability to market their products: eee FRAUD, TERROR IN PRUSSIAN POLL Give Selves a Majority Nazis fes-up. Bia is, uepeh 13—In municipal |’ and. fenupinal election throughout , the , Hifler .. cut- elestorate voted egrets to Hitler's figures. It is probable that’the per- centage that voted was much smaller, but. in. approved , Tammagy-. fashion the murder gangs-counted for them~ selyes hundreds ot - thousands who -;-were kept-away from the polls by the most extreme, terror, -the mildest. af which was the, beating ve sores | with bludgeons ag they: artic | run between lines of: Se AES Last Sunday, in. the F tions, the Commu fais e ied. penis! Soarttarmentary a In Prussia they. would have to incréase tortor ‘Still more and” steal more. votes, -- <The Berlin returns gave.the Gom- Jone, propesing: arecounts «sth: bandits, -efter. theysgave out-tho! figures,~ conmiseated all bailets-and have, Spray lestroyed them *by now, a FARM MISLEADERS they would “forcibly adjourn” it | demands of the ruined farmers for). DaibW Woes Wife and Babe of Jobless Negro Worker Die in Harlem Hospital INUED FROM PAGE PAGE ONE) |« | ed a doctor man W isn’t, nd told him the s unconscious no. eplied the doctor and to prove wo- it shook the dying woman by the | head. But there was no respon ; ‘The. doctor. walked away. Th BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 13— |IMnutes Jater she came vo Cum- Announcement’ that a fight. will be |pienmeem se one came: to. Cum- | 4 mings yas told to leave. An hour | made to obtain a new change of |iater she died Venue” from “Decatiir, © Morgan |, Cummings fainted when he was | County, Ala. to ‘Birmngham, and | told of the death and when he awoxe | charges of a conspiracy between | found himself strapped to a table. | Judge A. E. Hawkins and Attorne; and General Thomas E. Knight to fix the trial in the rural northern part | of Alabama, the better to insure legal or extra-legal lynching for the Scottsboro boys, were made by the: Intern al Labor Defense, Southern District? today: In a move to break down the de- fense, it was revealed, Attorn, General Knight and Judge Hawkins offered defense attorneys General Goerge W. Chamlee, Irving Schwab and Carol King, to permit change ti of the venue to Birmingham, on | condition they would betray the dgfense by dropping their fight to force the inclusion of Negroes on the jury It was this insistence by the defense which Knight feared most would frustrate his legal- lynch plans. Attorney-General Knight, it was pointed out, had announced through | the press that he would not oppose a change of venue, when the I. L. D. announced it would seek to have the trial removed to Birmingham. the same time, the I. L. D. said, in cenference with the defense attor- he told them he would fight -y move they made. In Scottsboro court, on March 6, he did not oppose the change in it- self, and this circumstance, com- bined with the ruling of Judge Haw- kins, clearly indicated a previous agreement between the prosecutor | and judge, the I. L. D. charges. As Bad As Scottsboro. Decatur, with a population of 20,- 000, I. L. D. officials pointed out, is | the center for gangs of criminals | who infest the railway lines of Ala- ev | \ terrorizing and beating Negroes. De- “big Saturday town,” it is another | Scottsboro on a larger scale, trial be moved to Birmingham, be- {cause there the large Negro and white working class population would make it more difficult for the white bosses and authorities to organize lynch gangs—which, it was pointed | out, would be the work of an hour| to get together in Decatur. NAZIS MUTILATE MEN AND WOMEN Eye Witnesses Tell of Fiendish. Torture. PRAGUE, March 19Detailed in- formation from eye-witnesses return- ing to Czecho-slovakia from Germany fully confirm reports of Nazi atro- cities. The Hitler storm troops are applying systematic terror to Com- munists, socialists and member of the Reichsbanner, The Nazi storm troops are given free reign and police have been or- dered not to molest them in their murder campaign. Goehring has granted them special status and they devote their time to kidnaping and torturing working men and women and youth. Men and Women Unsexed Innumerable*instances of the most atrocious fiendishness are on record. ‘In Friedrich street, Berlin, storm troops kidnapped working men and women who were suspected of at- tacks on them, Count von Helldorf, one of the monarchist-fascists per- sonally supervised their mutilation. This is admitted even by the capital- ist press, which claims that this prac- | tice of unsexing political enemies is taken from the Pilsudski regime in Poland and the white guardists in Roumania. In the torture chambers Hitler's cut-throats make sadistic at- tacks’ upon young boys. It is this Count von Helldorf, head of the fas- cist storm troops who is slated to become chief of police of Berlin. ‘War on Reds, Cry of Spanish Fascist Press MADRID, March 13.—Whipping up frenzy against the Communists who have been leading militant struggles ofthe Spanish workers, the reaction- spress is calling for a sweeping tanean campaign against “the hordes of Cémmunists who are upsetting the country.” Detroit Nat'l Guard in “Riot” Training At} bama, and make a special practice of | scribed by northern Alabamans as a| The defense has demanded that the| ‘ofthe U. .| | British nak for the control of South | He insisted upon being relea ‘MOVE TO SPREAD HOTEL STRIKE |Out for First Time, But All Stand. Fast NEW YORK.—Thirty-three stv’ ikers | in the laundry of the Hotel Com- modore have set themselves the task | of spreading their strike to all other | departments, They used to make $12 for six days’ work. They were cut to $10. Then they were put on a four day week at $1.25 a day, making $5 a week, and told to do as much work as formerly in six days. They struck Friday, drew up de- mands, joined the Food Workers In- dustrial Union, Hotel and Restaurant department, and elected a committee | to pee the management yesterday. 7:30 A. M. all were down to the hotel and the committee tried in vain to penetrate the barrier of house detectives and additional hired dicks to see the main manager. The laundry manager washed his hands of all responsibility. The committee finally reported “no conference” and picketing began at both the 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, entrances of the hotel, with Police hostile and threatening, and with secondary managers running out and trying to corrupt one or another of the individual strikers. Although few of the strikers have | ever been in such a struggle before, they are all showing splendid solida- rity. Police, Hired Gang, Fail to Stop Pickets At Leroy Shop Strike NEW YORK.—Vigorous picketing marks the fourth week of the Leroy Auto Radiator Works strike, at 451 Tenth Avenue. Yesterday the boss, Leroy, called the police and had James Lustig, organizer of the Metal Workers Industrial Union, and two other pickets, Feratti and Tashlik, arrested. They were immediately re- leased. Leroy has hired the Jim Kennedy | Sang of professional thugs to try and terrorize the pickets. The strike goes on, and other workers are called to help picket. Pretty Laundry Boss Lies About Wage in Plea for Injunction NEW YORK.—The hearing on the ‘application for an injunction by the Pretty laundry, which has been on strike for the past 2 weeks, will be in the Bronx County Supreme Court today. In the plea for an injunction the boss has the nerve to state that his minimum wage was $11 a week. In reality, hardly any of the strik- ers were getting that sum. In the af- fidavits submitted by the strikers the actual wage is given. Some were getting as low as $4.50 a week. The majority of the strikers were cut from $1.75 a day to $1.40 a day for 4 or 4 and a half days work a week. The 140 covers a 9 hour day, and quite often longer, without any ex- tra pay for overtime. Most of the workers are Negro women and girls. The strike in the Pretty laundry is strong. All are determined to keep on until they win the reinstatement of all workers and the return of the last wage cut. Thursday night, March 16, there is a membership meeting of laundry workers at 260 East 138 Street, Bronx, corner 3rd Avenue. | | ‘gro patients by Lat fihally left the hospital after a po- detain been called had eman to | MEE A the Blame The or in the blood poisoning had set > the blame Did chai Two oti famil Julia years roc which they pay $ out of the $40 a month | by the Home Relief Bu Goed Doctors deaths terrific Tamm Hall of discrimi nation 2a inst Negro doctors, and medical wo: in the Harlem Hospital, and experimenting on Ne- white doctors. The are le‘t of the 10 months old, and Cummings, an ed four | cellsy 0 a moni iven them or These a a |Harlem Hospital, known to the |people of Harlem as the “human | | butcher shop,” receives the sanction Association for the Colored Peoples’ | jof the National Advancement of officials. | Meeting Thursday Peoples’ Committee mination in Har meets Thursda’ ayette Hall, 165 West 13ist St., at | 8 p.m. has issued a protest against these deaths. Against - The Daily Worker will publish a series of articles, exposing the misery of Harlem children, showing how thousands of workers’ children in the heart ofsthe richest city in the world die of starvation and injuries due to overcrowding and poverty. ‘The series starts tomorrow! CARPENTERS MEET HITS WAGE CUTS, District Council Gets Demands Tonight NEW YORK.—A program of strug- gle for the improvement of the con- ditions of A. F. of L. carpenters was | overwhelmingly endorsed at a recent| mass meeting of 3,000 carpenters. The meeting was called by the Inter- local Committee of Brotherhood 1o-| als 2090, 2717 and 1164. A committee | of 30 elected at the mass meeting | will present the demands adopted by | the rank and file carpenters before the Carpenters’ District Council at its meeting tonight. Wide-spread unemployment exists in the trade at present. No effort is being made by officials of the District | Council to protect the wages of those | union wage scale of $11.20 a day is practically non-existent. Fines imposed on workers reporting c where the wage‘scale has been sl: ed, while at the same time the Dis. trict Council is introducing sev different scales of wages. for inside and outside ‘carpenters, attempting to divide the carpenters’ ranks. Union, Officials are fighting the activity of the rank and file for unemployment relief and insurance. Demands adopted by the rank and file carpenters include the inaugura- tion of independent strikes on jobs where the union scale is cut, the abolition of the 2 working card sys- tem and those by-laws and trade rules which stand in the way of es- tablishing real union conditions and interfere with the rights of the mem- bers. Other demands are for equal wages for upstate carpenters who are getting a lower scale, the lower- ing of dues and per capita tax to are of unemployed from dues with full rights of membership retained. En- dorsement of the federal unemploy- ment insurance bill as proposed by the A. F. of L. Committee for employment Insurance, demands for the enforcement of a city public works program and for city relief for all unemployed members will also be presented to the District Council by the Committee. All carpenters are urged to back up these demands by attending the meeting of the District Council tonight. In order to extend the fight of the carpenters to all sections of the build- ing trades, a meeting of all building trades opposition groups is planned for Sunday, April 2, LARGE SECTION OF are in revolt, The government threatened dras' against the illegal Communist Party which the government charged with inciting the revolt. The Communist \| Parties, in both Peru and Colombia, we leading the masses in anti-war monstrations, strikes, etc. In Lima, Peru, government troops carried out ha bloody massacre of anti-war work- ers and students about two months ;ago. Over 6,000 anti-war fighters are in the jails of the Peruvian bour- geoisie. Several mutinies haye also occurred in the Colombian forces dur- ing the ie Base He weeks. it. Instigated War. ie ae Street. imperialists are the main instigators of the war be- tween Peru and Colombia as of that ‘between Paraguay and Bolivia. The wars Regie the fierce struggle imperialists against their American. markets and resources. To the horrors of the two unde- Marxism in the Period of Imperialism. and Proletarian PERUVIAN ARMED FORCES IN ANTI-WAR ACTIVITY Wall St. Imperialism Supplies Its Puppets of Bolivia With Poison Gas The heroic anti-war fight of the Peruvian toiling masses has involved | large sections of the armed forces, according to reports from the Leticia region, battlefield of the undeclared war between Colombia and Peru. The Peruvian government admitted yesterday that the men of the llth Infantry tic measures against the soldiers and clared wars, the Bolivian puppets of Wall Street, have now added that of poison gas, imported from the U.S., which was used yesterday for the first time in the Gran Chaco region by the Bolivian command in its at-~ tack on Fort Alihuata, which they captured after a sharp battle. The Bolivian offensive is described as the largest military action since the war started ten months ago. Plot to Flocd Detroit With Counterfeit Scrip DETROIT, Mich, March 13.—The danger of “super-inflation” caused by the counterfeiting of scrip was re- vealed here today when a plot was @iscovered which would have flooded Detroit with millions of dollars in privately manufactured scrip, nurses | gi.” rlem Hospital, | night at Laf- | workers who still have jobs, and the| the General Office and the exemption | Un-} wah Ld, 19, Page Five COMPELLED TO EAT POISONED FOOD AT SCHOOL BY THREAT T0 STOP MEALS “Bread Was Mouldy and So Was the B: oer, But You're yas So ¥ou Says One of 11 Children Made Sick Have to Eat It,” NEW YORK—‘When my two beys come keme from school they couldn't stand up. “hey were roll- ing over the floor. n they start- d I was so scared I Th's I ambulance.’ Eidus. pkiyn, des actions of her sons after being poi- soned by the free lunch them in Public School 14 This is onl { food poisoning r ed vomiting had to call an Mrs Friday. ported at Public nd McKibben and Noll| r ildren were in Into eating all the food. Some of them couldn't stomach the tomato soup and they are told they either eat alt of it or they get nothing at | all. “I was forced to send them to eat | in the school,” continued Mr mother of a family of six, “be I didn't have anything for them to | ly one of the eleven cases} month apartment a food ticket from and De} Worker idated | and the | up about it.” } whose served. | school food. z | two children in an ei ne receives only| didnt know that it was the’ fault of I get $15 from the relief Other victims of the food poisoning wo weeks but how can @ fam-| were: Howazd, William and Charles ily of six of us live on that? I'm/§ : Ave., John Mont two months in* my r 1| abs Ave., Sam Brand behind last year I've be come gel St ck by the one with her nteen-dollar a| son sh was asked by reporter. “Rent three months behit landlord is plenty “Tm stes One of the boys, Charles Alberti who was met in the home of Herbie Kerr, a colored boy, living at 7 Siegel St., is another of the victims. He pointed out that “the bread was mouldy in a lot of spots and so was the egg salad but you're poor so you have to eat it.” foes don th mothers| calling an D9 Siegel. St. These are Only a few of thé. cases at were so-critical as e necessita ambulance to .tgeat the But ore woman interview “her son was sick before: but she children. ed, reported that to his stomach twice the food he got in the school.” With the deepening of the capital~ ist crisis more and more rotten junk d, | will be fed out to the schoal-children | more children will s ken, and moth~- ‘you can’t help it ers will still say if you're poor.’ But if these mothers joined the Unemployed Council in theic yicin- ity they lend their voices to.a.wave of mighty protest to compel the capitalist government to give to the starving workers some of the good food they now dump into rivers to keep up prices Picket Teday to Stop Eviction of Seamen; From 318 Pearl St. NEW YORK | called for toda, where the un men are threatened with |The marshall is due today | seamen are determined to resist | putting up a determined ena one of the many struggles of York marine workers preparing for the demonstration on March 29 for relief for such workers. ! and West Sts. are the points at which this mass demonstration will_mobil- ize as decided by the Marine Workers | Industrial Union, Waterfront Unem- | ployed Council and the different house committees in seamen’s insti tutions and block committees of res- ident dock and harbor workers. | main demands 1. Seamen's House, 20th and West | Sts. to reduce the price of beds and house at least 100 a night free. 2. The Haight Committee tinue relief and increase it at the Sullivan St. “Y,” Jane St. “Y” mis- sion, and the Seamens. Church Insti- tute. 3. The workers of niainly dock workers, the be given a which is owned by ‘the “Y” and is empty, to be opened for the season. Get 6 Cents Per Dress | NEW YORK.—Because of ‘thisetabie conditions: ..and . innume, lee wage. cuts in the Brownsyilt ps. hick have reduced the price making *@ dress to six and eight cents, the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial or at 608 Cleveland Stréet, the East New York Workers ‘Club. The place’ will be open from, ter ju the “arning ti six at night. “All. dréssmakers 6f Brownswille are urged to bring in their complaints regardfess of whe- ther one is a member of the Union or not. Thete is a possibility of plac- ing unemployed workers. In order to improve conditions in shops, it is nec- | essary to have a strong workers union, | UNION MIs ADER GROVELS BEFORE ROOSEVELT NEW YORK.—Licking the feet of his master, Andrew W. Armsrong, president of the New York Newspaper Printing Pressmen’s Union No. 2, sent a letter pledging his support to Rooseve't and tle latter's banker program of starvation and misery for the working class and small home owners. Armstrong is the agent of the notorious George L. Berry, presi- jdent of the International Printing Pressmen & Assistants’ Union of North America, who broke the strike of the New York newspaper press- men in 1922. Armstrong's groveiling Roosevelt reads in part: “On behalf of this organization, of which I have the honor to be presi- | | dent, we pledge to you, our President lot the United States, that we’ will assist in any way that you may direct us.” Mr. Armstrong, of course, didn’t bother to find out how the workers in “his” union felt about backing the scrip President. letter to ATTENTION UNIT 19, SECTION 1 NEW YORK.—Unit meeting will} not be held at agreed place. Go to section for new address 'LABOR UNION MEETINGS MILLINERY WORKERS Millinery Workérs Mass Meeting at 6:30 P. m., Mareh 14th at Bryant Hall, me. OFFICE WORKERS All Emergency Work Bureau workers are called to a mass mesting 7 p. m. March 14 at Labor Temple, 242 E. 14th St., room 32 by the Office Workers Union, Plans for protest against wholesale firing now going on. ° FUR WORKERS All fur operators megt March 14, right after work at Irving Plaza Hall, ee ee HOTEL AND RESTAURANT WORKERS Very important meeting Hotel and Res- taurant Workers, March 15, at 9 p. m, at 4 West 18th Street. Ps . LAUNDRY WORKERS Laundry Workers Industrial Union meet- ing evening of March 16 at 360 E, 138th St: ee UNDERWEAR WORKERS All underwear workers are called by the Needle Trades’ Workers Industrial Union to meet 7 p.m. March 16, sixth floor at Revolution -- Stalin His Name and His Work Will Endure ‘Through Whitehall and South Sts.18th St.) The} to con-| West Side | Union has placed a ‘fwl‘time organ- | |Home Relief Buro on the West Side,| © | meeting for several Brooklyn Dressmakers | “Daily News” Uses Jobless Worker For Sob-Sister Stery, Betrays Him NEW YORK.—Another case where the Dally News lled, to she detri- ment of a worker, is reported to the Daily Worker by Herbert 8. Thomas, | unemployed. Thomas gave a male sob-sister of the News an account, ineluding 2 More Rent Strikes; 8 Organized Houses NEW YORK.—Tenants of eight other organized houses on Charlotte} St., are calling workers to picket the two latest rent strikes. These strikes} are at 1519 and 1505 Charlotte. Ten-| ants demand reduction of rents, and] | recognition of house and block com- mittees. Leadership is by the house committees, the 1400 Boston Road} Unemployed Council branch, and by the Charlotte St block committee. Bronx Parents Fight For Food For School | Children, Thursday) NEW YORK.—A demonstration is organized by the Neighborhood Par- Relief of 840 Forrest Ave. Thurs- | y at 2 p. m. in front of Public below 14th St = 5 “ . ; |School 51 on Jackson Ave. and E 4, The building at 399 West St.,| 158th St., Bronx. Unemployed parents of Children attending P. S. 51, who have been weeks to plan ways and means of securing better conditions for their children, sent ay signatures of committee and 500 neighbors to present the following demands fo the principal, Smollen. “1. Free milk and hot luncheons for the children of unemployed and part time workers. 2. Warm clothing and shoes. 3. No forced ..collections from | ‘teachers ‘or children. «4. Funds. to be through thé Board of Education. from the city’ treasury. 5. A committee of parents to in- vestigate the food before giving it to the children. Although this committee went to Smollen twice, they achieved no di- rect results. However, due to the agitation carried on by the workers of the neighborhood, some children a eg } Emergency appropriated | | documentary evidence of how he has been prevented from establishing his al status under the Temporary Relief Law, though he has been fighting for this. ght for some months. : The sob-sister kidded him along. told him: “You have just what I | wanted, but first I will writé an ar- | ticle on your activities here.” Then the News published, Dec. 16, 1932, a long garbled account, disr garding Thomas’ evidence and mak- ing him out to be merely another poor homeless man hunting char- On top of that, by misrepresent- ing facts as to how long he had been at a certain relief flop house, the way was opened by The News for a bitter answer to Thomas, which The News published with surprisi: | quickness in its “Voice of the People.” making out Thomas to be some kind of liar, Since that time Thomas has tried in vain. to get any retraction of the mis-statements published . by The News. | Fought War To “Save The American Homes,” Now Lose Their Own NEW YORK—A delegation of six needy. single. and married unemployed veterans with a representétive of Post 191 Workers Ex-servide “Men's League, went up to Assistdnt- Di- rector Kelly of the Departfaént of Public Welfare yesterday ana‘ asked him if these men who weré*sent to fight in the last war “to Save’ the American homes” shouldn't #ef relief to keep their own homes t er. Kelley told them to go # the mu- nicipal flop house. Sn The vets will not take ti§ as an answer and Post 191 is calling 4 mass | meeting March 15 to aid in prepar- jing the city wide demonstration Mardh 24. The March 15 meeting wit be at 8 pm. at Manhattan 1 A mass meeting at 7 p.m. ip J Inion Square will precede it, and from the were provided with clothing and | open air meeting, workers wit march shoes. At the last meeting at the Wood- stock Library, Forrest Ave. and E. 160th St., the assembled parents un- animously decided on a demonstra- tion. Workers living in the vicinity can help these parents in their struggle for their children by par- ticipating. Good Program Fixed For ‘Daily’ Banquet) NEW YORK.—The banquet ar- ranged by the Daily Worker on Sun- | day, March 19th, promises to be one lof the most interesting and entertain- ing held for a long time. I. Amter, Richard Moore, C, A. Hathaway, Joe | Brodsky, Carl Brodsky and Alex- | ander Trachtenberg as well as many other prominent - speakers will be) there. An entertainment of singing, and chalk talks by-the John Reed Club will also be on the program. As a result of the Socfalist com- petition among the working class clubs in New York City, a -large, beantiful banner will be given to the} highest | club which hag raised the percentage of its quota. The meal will be seryed promptly at 7:30. _All Communist Party units are re- quested to elect delegates to the ban- quet, —District Daily Worker Office to the Lyceum. East New York U: ¢. Exposes Relief Head NEW YORK.—A committee of 15 workers from the East. News York Unemployed Council yesteféay- pre~ sented to the Home Relief’ Buro, at | Ashford St. and Belmont ‘Ave. re- | lef demands, but the stpervisor called the police to arrest the com- | mittee. The workers defied arrest and addressed the lines of workers waiting for attention, who backed them up. Another squad of police was called, but hesitated before mo- lesting the speakers ‘ when’ they realized that the sympathieseof the unemployed were with the Unem- ployed Gouneil speakers...“ LONG ISLAND WORKERS. JOIN FIGHT TO FREE CLASS WAR PRISONERS ~* GLEN COVE, L.. March 13.— | Morgan, of the New York district of the International Labor Defense roused an audience of workers to en- thusiasm for the struggle to release all class war prisoners while speaking at the newly opened headquarters of the Warren Billings Branch. At the close of the meeting a number in the audience joined the local branda’ of the I. L. D. CHICAGO SHOE STRIKE REMAINS CHICAGO, Tll.—The strike of 550 shoe workers in six shoe factories on the North Side is in its fourth week with the strikers solidly on the picket | lines. The bosses have been unable to get ‘unemployed to scab, - > The bosses have told workers they will move out of town and that they would give up business. These lies were exposed when. truck loads of} material were unloaded at the shops.) Organizations indicated they are ready t6, Under Militant Leader ‘The strikers are practi all ene rolled in the Shoe and Leathét Work- ers Industrial Union affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, The Workers International Relief has es- tablished a food kitehen and is feed- ing the pickets. Food and money are badly needed. and individuals are The strike for a 20 per cent in-| urged to respond at once either at orease of pay, after repeated cuts, appears. now. to. be. successful, The} office of the W.LR., 2457 W, bosses are weakening and some have! Ave. strike headquarters or at the district . . &