The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1933, Page 3

Vv et “Misleader Cel. John T. Taylor, American Legion representative in the capital who helped the Roosevelt govern- ment put the ents in yet’s benefits across in violation of the wishes of the rank and file of the Legion. VET OFFICERS FIGHT JOBLESS Frame Ex-Serviceman for Demanding Food ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., March 16 War on every struggle of the stary- ing unemployed for food has been openly declared here by the courts! and the leaders of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Because he agitated in the state relief soup-line at the armory for decent food, Edwin Pharo wag sentenced to six months in jail. Bailed out in $1,000 through action of the International Labor Defense, Pending an appeal, he was re-arrest- ed and is held for the Grand Jury on framed charges of “unlawfully wearing a V. W. F. badge.” Officials War on Jobless This frame-up immediately follow- , dan open declaration “war on Com- munism and Communists, even to physieal violence,” by the local V. F, W. post officials, coupled with a commendation of City Recorder Jo- seph Altman for his vicious sentence. Threats of kidnapping against any worker who dares ask for food were made at the V. F,W. post meeting by Past Commander John J, Mullin, on the basis of Pharo’s demands for de- cent treatment for the unemployed, Labor Defense Starts Drive The I. L, D. is building a mags de- fense for Pharo, to fight against the yicious terrorism of the police and the V. F. W., here. Protests against the Frame-up of Pharo should be sent to City Recorder J, Altman, At- lantie City, New Jersey. New York Wor'rers to Protest. Bloody Hitler Terror; Meet Tonight NEW YORK.—German workers of New York will protest against the bloody terrer of the fascist Hitler government and the planned agsas- sination of Thaelman and Torgler. They will do so at the Karl Marx Me- morial mags meeting tonight at Ger- man Workers Club, 1536 Third Ave, The meeting is called by the German Bureau of the Communist Party, The proletbuhne will partiaipate. Greek Workers Protest The Greek United Front Unem- ployed Committee representing 19 or- ganizations yesterday sent a telegram to the German Embassy in Washing- ton demanding dismissal of death sentence against Ernst Thaelman and uneenasigest release of all class war prisor Similar el has been taken by the New York Scandinavian Work- ers Club, FURNITURE WORKERS STRIKE NEW YORK.—A strike of mattress makers and box spring makers is on at the Liberty Red Spring Co., 435 East 166th St., Bronx for the rein- statement of a worker fired for union activity, The strike is led by the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union. The union is also leading a strike at the Regent Furniture Shops on 510 Hast 13rd Street. Furniture workers ) ave asked to help win these strikes by pleketing the shops. NEW YORK.—The the attacks against the foreign-born. non-citizens from relief, makes it imperative for all mass organizations and liberal groups to be represented at this meeting by delegates. The 14,000,000 foreign-born in America, almost half of whom are not citizens and who, with their fam- ilies, comprise about one-third of the population, are being openly terror- ized and threatened with deportation when they apply for food at the relief stations. An order recently given out by Secretary Doak requires the finger~ printing of all aliens arriving in the United States. The Dies Bill, passed by the House of Representatives at the last session, would deport non- citizens for going on strike or for advocating any changes in our pres- ent system of government, with its wage cuts, unemployment and hun- ger. Another bill recently introduced in the House of Representatives would subject employers to a $1,000 fine and six months in prison for hiring non-citizens while citizens are out of work. These bills present a clear picture of the vicious drive being made by the capitalist government to crush the militaney of foreign workers by deportation and diserimination, It presents the very great need for a broad organization of foreign-born regardless of race, color, religion or political affiliation, to be united on this issue and fight this fascist terror. BOSTON SHOE STRIKE SOLD OUT Half of the Men Go Back to Work BOSTON, Mass., March 16.—Nearly one half of the 7,000 striking shoe workers remained out on strike today after a sell-out agreement reached between Boston Shoe Manufacturers’ Assogiation and the National Shoe Workers Association resulted in call- ing off the strike, The strike was in- correctly reported yesterday as hav~ ing been led by the Shoe Workers’ Protective Association, The National Shoe Workers Association which is leading the Boston strike, is a simi- lar company union outfit which has just sold out the strike of the Lynn shoe workers. The shoe workers re- turning to work are reported to have ; gone hack at the existing wage scale having been misled into permitting the State Board of Arbitratien te investigate and “adjust” their griev- ances. Delegation Conducts Impromptu Meeting in Heme Relief Office NEW YORK.—A delegation of 13 from the Association of Unemployed Office Workers conducted an im- prompiu demonstration in the very heart of the office at the Home Re- lief Buro located at 47th Street, when Mr. Brady, the supervisor ghose to completely ignore the demands of the workers. When Brady advised them to go to the police precincts in their respective districts for relief or jobs the spakes- men for the delegation told him point blank that they were sick and tired of the continual runaround. Al- though she and the rest of the del- egation were ordered from the office and threatened with arrest, one of the workers mounted a bench and ad- dressed the various other workers who had gathered at the Home Relief Buro to seek aid, exposing the whole rotten “relief fable.” She told them of the negligence of the officials in their investigations of needy cases, bringing out the sad fact that many starving workers actually died by the time they were given aid, She urged all workers to demand immediate re- lief without the usual investigation wait. Strikers Tell Einstein Conditions In Hotel in Which He Makes Speech NEW YORK.—American Friends of Hebrew University in Palestine, and other arrangers of the Einstein epee} Wednesday night at Hotel jommoedore shuffled the scientist avound and coneealed from him the fact that the Commodore Hotel is on sirike. The Layndry department, led the Food Workers Industrial Union, has been picketing the place, fighting against a $5 a week wage, e strikers sent Einstein a letter by Western Union messenger: ad- dressing him as one who has parti- cipated in various social activities, and informing him of the conditions in the hotel, not only the wage cuts in the laundry department, but in dining room, kitehen, for chamber- maids, etc, Hours range up to 18 a day. and no overtime is paid. Layoffs and speed-up go together. The Foltis-Fischey cafeteria strike Jed by the same union is sound and preparations continue to spread it to all the remaining seven cafeterias in the chain, Yesterday police arrested six pickets at the 269 West 25th St, place, but they were immediately released. iCommittee Opposes Bill” to Bar Aliens from Relief }Calls All Worker ¢ Organizations to Join in the Struggle; Campaign Being Arranged mmitiee for the Protection of Foreign-Born will hold a meeting at 80 East 11th Street this Saurduy, 4 p.m., Room 338, to take up the question of a broad united front of all organizations to defeat | The regent passing by the State Henate of the MeCall pill, which bars receiving works @ Foreign Workers Warned by LL.D, of Deportation Trap NEW YORK.—The New York District of the International Labor Defense, in view ef the attempt of the U. S. Government to deport non-citizen workers who struggle against capitalist oppression, is- sued today the following sugges- tions, to be carried out by workers in defeating attempts to deport them, 1, Non-citizen workers arrested during raids er demonstrations, meetings, strikes, etc., are entitled by law to refuse to answer all questions put them by police, im- migration officials, judges or any other court officials if thy are not represented by a lawyer, 2. Workers should refuse to an- swer questions, which are ysually asked for the purpose of getting information for deportation. 3. Ne papers should be signed. 4, As soon as the worker is brought to jail or to the immigra- tion office, he should demand a lawyer, 5. He should refuse a “prelim inary” hearing until his lawyer comes. 6. On being arrested for depor- tation, the werker should write immediately or have his friends notify the local office of the Inter- national Labor Defense (in New York City, Reom $38, 799 Broad- way), and a lawyer will be sent to his assistance. 7. Until the lawyer comes, refuse to answer questions, refuse to sign any papers, refuse any hearing. Labor Sports AMBITIOUS ATHLETIC PROGRAM SCHEDULED BY LABOR SPORTS UNION Worker-Sportsmen in New York will get plenty of athletic competi- tion during April, including basket- ball, boxing, wrestling, track-and- field. Junior and women athletes will also have plenty of opportunity to strut their stuff. Following is the program of events arranged by Labor Sports Union: APRIL 1, National Basketball Tourna- ment eliminations—Kaytee Hall, 764 40th Bt., Brooklyn. APRIL 9.—Indoor field meet—Kaytee Hall. APRIL 15—Masketbail game and dance, Jointly with IW@ Youth Section—Stuyves; ant High School, APRIL 15.—Junior Basketball elimination tournament—Naytee Hall. APRIL 16—Open boxing tournament—aus- pices, Spartacus A.C. APRIL 2% (tentative).—Brownsville Tom Mooney Street Run—asuspices Sports Section of Brownsville Youth Center. APRIL 2%.--Novice wrestling meet (for iw only)—Esthonian Hall, 27 W. ith Bt. United Front Con- jee—Irring Plasa Hall, MAY 6,—X-Country mest—Yan Cortlandt | Park. MAY 6.—Spartakiad gymnastic te tions and dance—auspices, Fichte, and Spare facus A. C. Entry blanks and further informa- tion can be obtained at the Labor Sports Union office, 813 Broadway, N.¥. 0. LS.U, BASEBALL TEAMS CALL PRACTICE Although you couldn't tell it from the weather, the ball parks, what+ ever there are of them, are beginning to swarm with ball players. Among the L.S.U. teams, American Youth, Prospect, and Spartacus have called practice for next week, and are lin- ing up their teams for the coming campaign. A call has been issued by the Dis- trict Office of the Labor Sperts Union for the formation of a workers’ en: ball league in New York City year. All LSU teams have been called to a meeting March 20, 7:30 p.m., to start the building of the League, Soft ball leagues for men and wom- en, and stickball leagues for junlors are also planned. METROPOLITAN WORKERS BAS- KETBALL LEAGUE ENTERS FINAL WEEK T, W. O. (409) has definitely clinch- ed the title of the Metropolitan Workers Basketbail League competi- tion this year. Runner-up position is a toss-up between IWO (404) and American Youth, as the League en- ters the final week. Entry blanks for the Eastern Dis+ iriet eliminations ef the open Na- tional LSU Basketball Tournament have been widely distributed, and from 30 to 40 teams are expected to compete. Advance rumors have it that Kaytee, favored champs of last year's tournament, will have @ tough time repeating this year, JOBLESS BRINGING STARVING FAMILIES ATTACKED Cover of ‘Minimum Wage Law’ CASES OF "TWorkeny Pay Attacked Under! ! AT 2 2 BROOKLYN | RELIEF BUROS. Experience in Many States Shows Bill Now at | Albany Means No Protection Ry GRACE HUTCHINS Laber Research Association Williamsburg Marchets Ashtead by 50 Cops Hidden in Cellar; Hold Meeting Anyway All Jobless Stand Their Ground and Fight; | | yesterday Home juream at 95 Boerum St. (ese ‘117 GROUPS JOIN DEMAND U, S. TO RECOGNIZE USSR (Collecting 200,000 Sig- natures in N.Y. NEW YORK—One hundred and forty-six delegates from 117 labor and fraternal organizations met Monday night at Manhattan Lyceum at the call of the Friends of the Sov- iet Union to form the Greater New York Conference for Recognition of the Soviet Government. The dele- gates unanimously adopted a pian Proposed by the organization com- mittee which was elected by the Con- ference, for a bread united front campaign to compel the Wall Street- Roosevelt Government to extend im- mediate and unconditional recogni- tion to the first Workers’ and Farm- ers' Government. The plan includes a series of larger meetings of the Conference, the next one to be held on March 27; a- city-wide demon- stration in St, Nicholas Arena on Sunday afternoon, April 16, and a number of other public mass meet- ings. The Conference set 200,000 sign- atures ag the quota of the New York area in the drive for signatures ta the recognition petition. An exec- utive committee of the Conference was elected, consisting of 14 mem- bers. Plans were made for getting delegates from many organizations not represented at this first confer- ence, to attend the second Confer- ence on March 27. Norman Tallentire, National Field Organizer, and Cyril Lambkin, Na- tional Seeretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union, spoke, appealing for the widest support of the Recognition campaign and of the work of the F, S.U. in exposing anti-Soviet propa- gandists and in building up organ- ized defense of the Soviet Union, Liston M. Oak was chairman of the Conference. Besides the Recognition resolution, @ resolution calling for a united front fight against fascist terrorism in Germany, for defense of the German workers, for opposition to imperial-~ ist war and to inyasion of the Soviet Union, fer support and defense of the Soviet workers and peasants who are building Socialism, was adopted. The Conference also passed a reso- lution endorsing the International Labor Defense in its fight to free the Scottshoro boys and all class-war prisoners, and the Free Tom Mooney Congress, DISCOVERS $500,000 LOOT MIAMI, Fla, March 16, —- Harry tyous winter home here. The cops yaided his house and discovered $500,000 worth of jewelry that did not belong to him. Sidmor is now in jail. CHICAGO, March 16. — Union workers on the Century of Progress buildings at the World's Fair here are threatening to go out on strike because scab labor is being employ- ed on two exhibits. Sidmor, of New York, leased a sump- | Hight Arrested, Some Held in Bail || NEW YORK,—Seyeral hundred unemployed workers, demanding relief | fo eases of absolutely starving families in Williamsburg and Brownsville were charged into, assaulted and several arrested. undred Williamsburg workers marching about noon toward the were deliberately ambushed by more *than their number of police, One policeman walked up to @ marcher and simply slugged him in the jaw. Fifty more cops dashed out of a basement where they had been hid- ing, and still ethers poured in from all sides. A desperate hattle resulted, ending with arrest of J, Boceeladi and Jehn Brusso, the latter over §0-years old, Both were badly beaten up, and were held without charges in Stagg St, | Station House. The judge is the notorious Sabbatini, who threatened personally to beat up young Com- munists brought before him, The marchers had a permit! Tm spite of the attack, they re- formed their ranks and held an open air mass meeting @ block from the Relief Bureau, Two committees, one from the 61 Graham Aye. Un- employed Council and one from the Bridge Plaza Workers Club presented 35 eases to the H.R.B. The fight at the Home Relief Bu- reau at Christopher and Belmont, Brownsville, was even bloodier, Some 300 workers assembled, while com-~- mittees of the American Youth Club and Unemployed Council started in with needy cases. Twenty-five police of the riot squad charged into the erowd, clubbing right and left, and meeting with stiff resistance. Police beat up a 65-year old woman. Six were arrested and rushed off to the 73 Precinct Police station, Rockaway and Liberty ayenues. A great crowd assembled at the Penn- sylyania Ave. court, and the judge was afraid to come in, The arrested workers were then rushed to the Marcy Ave. court, where they were held on $500 bail each. Bronx Parents to Hold **ass Meeting At PS. 61 Tonight NEW YORK. — A mass protest meeting under the direction of the Bronx Parents Teachers Association will be held tonight in the audito- rium of P. S. 61, Boston Road and Charlotte Street, Bronx, at 8 p.m., to secure the support of parents not only of the immediate neighborhood but of the entire Bronx against the retrenchment program now being carried out by the Board of Bduca- tion. The demands which will ell~ minate the erowded and inadequate conditions are: 1, Immediate abolition of the | Triple Session. 2. Immediate removal of the James Monroe High School Annex from P. 8. 61. 3. Free hot lunches of wholesome food and milk for all needy children, 4. Free and proper clothing for the children of unemployed and part time workers. |the Board of Education from the | City Treasury, and not from the salaries of the teachers, Every parent in the neighborhood and the entire Bronx is urged to at- tend the meeting, for such retrench- ment program is a direct threat to their own ehildren. Full and immediate payment of the war veterans’ adjusted compen- sation certificates; no cut in the disability allowances; no diserimi- nation in hospitalization. lawyer, at 401 Broadway. ing them that the funds of the Bu- reau are rapidly diminishing. Stern, when interviewed by a reporter from the Daily Worker, stated that he had about 500 ames of people who had been fired from the Emergency Work payroll and that his intention was to et as many of these as Posnibla, then present the cases to the Gibson Committee and the Mayor, When pressed by the reporter, Stern stated that no meetings would be held by this organization, that it would be more in the way of a case study organization. The organization as yet does not even possess a name, and still the capitalist newspapers hasten to open wide their pages to it in the hope that any promises it can hold out to the fired workers will help faery? their wrath. This is clearly another of these Beware Another Organization Formed To Hinder Fight of Those Fired by EWB NEW YORK.—'The 2,500 people who are going to be laid off by the this} Emergency Work Bureau next week will be a drain on the city, so we're going to form an organization to take care of them,” said Mr. 8. Stern, ‘The Emergency Work Bureau is firing 3,500 workers every week, inform- e-- - paper organizations created puffed into existence by the bourgeois press to keep the workers passive. However, they will not be silent; a meeting will be held today at 5:30 pm. in Irving Plaza by the Unem- ployed councils of Greater New York for the purpose of taking up not only the firing of the workers from the E, W. B. but also the situation of the oat depositers created by the bank crisis. Carl Winters will giye the report on the political situation, and Rich- ard Sullivan will give the erganiza- tional report. Unemployed councils, trade locals and affiliated organiza- tions are urged to come at the speci- fied time, so that a thorough disous- sion of this acute situation can take place. 5. Funds for this to be secured by | and | ing | has been in effect since 1912, A widespread campaign new under way in 4 dozen states to introduce minim wage legislation is announced in the capitalist press as for the | “protection” of women and child workers, workers in all states should understand what this so-called “minimum wage” really is and how it works in the states that already haye such legislation. New York is ene of the states in | which a bill loaking toward a mini- mum wage hag already been intro- duced and Gev, Lehman in a special | message to the Legislature has urged its adoption, The N, ¥, Times reports that it is almost certain to pass at the present session, Lehman is “supported by influential employers” in this move, and 4 num- | ber of manufacturers in the state are quoted as saying that “instead of being a hardship, the minimum wage | syatem would be a help to industry,” In other words, it would mean more profits in their pockets. How the Minimum Wage Laws Have Worked Massachusetts, California, Wiscon- sin, North Dakota and Oregon already have minimum wage laws supposedly in effect, but in Wisconsin and North Dakota the “minimum” has been re- cently cut down to still lower levels, while in Massachusetts and Qalifor- nia the “standard” has been largely ignored as a dead letter, Actual wages paid to workers in all these states are often far below the amount called for, Ty Wisconsin, following a reduction of 10 per cent in minimum wage rates for young workers 17 to 21 years old, “certain industrial interesis"—that is, the leading manufacturers of the state—have started a drive for fur- ther reductions. North Daketa put into effect new and lower rates in December, 1932, cutting the existing standards by 10 per cent. What are women and children ac- tually earning in Massachusetts, where a kind of minimum wage law which is supposed to enforce a yague and flexible “minimum”? For a full | week’s work in certain shoe factories of Lynn, Mass., workers are getting only $2, while wages as low as 5 cents an hour are officially reported in a survey of 13 Massachusetts clothing shops. Commissioner of Labor, Edwin 8. Smith, admits that 71 per cent of | | ety woman, appointed by Gov. Rolph | the workers earn less than $10 a week and 97 per cent less than $15 a week. |Bill to Slash Gov't Workers’ Wages More | NEW YORK.—Efforts te suspend all State laws governing the wages of teachers, firemen and other local gov- ernment workers for a period of two| years is being made through the pass- age of the Pratt Bill now pending before the N. ¥, Assembly. The bill would allow local governments to economize at the expense of the work- ers by imposing further wage cuts. Teachers and other civil employes were present at the assembly hearing today to protest against the adop- tion of the bill. Gov. | feat the Minimum Wa ge Commission does nothing about the situation ex- cept to threaten vaguely that it will publish the names of cor lating the minimum wage “standard.” This farcical Massachusetts law is one of the new minimum wage laws | that has never been declared uncon- | stitutional by the capitalist courts. In 1923, the U. 8. Supreme Court de- cided that the District of Columbia act was unconstitutional and in 1925 it declared the Arizona and Kansas laws unconstitutional. The Wall Street Journal describes It is of vital importance that | erns vio- | hy age Three Yet Roosevelt's “farm aid” plans | are designed to aid him and not the masses of poor farmers. His name is Peter B. Carrey and he’s head of (the the Chicago Board of Trade rain pit) TEAR GAS USED ON \FARMERS IN MICH. the Mas tts law as one “which | has so far stood the test of constitu- ee = tionality 0 mandatory pro- | Expose Cochran Frame visions, ore the capital- ists lke it as harmless. For the] Up in South Dakota working class, it positively re ful, sinoe it creates an illusion of a| WHITE CLOUD, Mich., March 16. living wage standard, while really Attacking a demonstration of 4060 fastening upon the workers the low-/| farmers who gathered to prevent est imaginable rates mortgage foreclosure sale, Sheriff The California minimum wage law | William ©. Biard and twenty depu- is the boast of reformists and social | ties hurled tear gas in an effort to workers all over the United Sta disperse them. Three farmers, John They point to it as “model legisla-| Ww, Rose, John Babeock and John tion." The National Women’s Trade | Casper, were arrested Union League hails it as their ideal! The ‘demonstration was held in of a law, because it seems to establish | front of the Newaygo County court- below which In @ rate of $16 a wee’ wages are not supposed to fall actual practice, however, experienced workers are hired as “apprentices,” (who are not covered by the law) | and kept for months, eyen years, on| pay much below this so-called stan- dard, The Industrial Welfare Commission in California now allows 65 per cent instead of 35 per cent of women in a house and succeeded in preventing « mortgage foreclosure sale ef the farm owned by William Loughton, Expese Frame-Up. ELK POINT, S. D., March 16.—A | hearing held here today in the case of Miles Cochran, farm picket, fur- ther proved his inneeence of the chi that he shot the rym and scab-milk runner, Markel, during the plant to work at rner’s” wages, | recent milk strike around Sioux City, and the canneries have been allowed | Ia., last February. a $12 minimum insead of $16, while} The doctor who operated on Mar- half of the cannery workers are on | kel testified that only a high-pow- piece work at starvation rates. Jered rifle could have inflicted the A determined drive against such of | wound. No witness could establisi the law as remains effect is now being carried on by the employers Mrs. Mabel Kinney, Los Angeles soci- | as chairman of the welfare commis- | sion, is more than ready to do the} employers’ bidding. | From these facts workers can see just when Markel was shot and all stated that there was a barrage go- ing on with gun fire on all sides. Even if Cochran had a rifle there is no reason for believing that his byl- let was the one which killed Marke it was pointed out, At the end o | the testimony it appeared that Coch- that minimum wage legislation, as|ran had a shot gun and not a rifle, urged by capitalists and their obe-| which completely clears him of th dient servants, tends to bind the | first charge of murder. workers to the lowest wage levels and make permanent the present out- rageously low rates of pay. The low | “standard” legalized for women and children thus pulls down the level of all workers’ wages. As Gov, Leh- man frankly admiis, the pay under the minimum wage law is to be based | “not on living standards but an the minimum value of the services ren- | dered,” and under the law the em- ployers would decide how low that Tate can be. Suspended Sentence For YWHA Case Girls NEW YORK. — The cases of the two girls arrested Monday for de- monstrating against the evictions of three girls from the ¥.W.HLA., 31 W. 10th St. came up in the District Court yesterday. The girls, Clarina Michaelson and Rose Korn charged with disorderly conduct, were de- clared guilty by Judge Greenspan (a patron of the ¥) of slapping the of- ficer, and were giyen a suspended sentence, Throughout the trial the judge, who is supposed to be a liberal, ex- cused the police brutality. He warn~ ed the girls against further activities concerning the ¥. But despite these solemn warnings from a hoss-paid judge, the Unemployed Office Work- ers Association and the Lower Har- lem Unemployed will redouble their efforts to get the girls back into the ¥. LABOR UNION MEETINGS MILLINERY WORKERS Conference of all millinery workers, cop makers and hatters March 18 and 19 at Irv~ ? il. Called by the Headwear United Front Renk apd Pie Committee, cAveriRIA WORKERS Cafeteria workers called to meat by Food Workers Industrial Unign at 8 p.m., March 17 at 4 West it St. Plans ‘er win Pojtis~ Plocher strike will be discussed, Labon UNITY AGENTS All organizetions are called to have their yanrraentatives reaent at the Labor Unity Agents meetl 8 March 20, at Room 298 in 199, Broseea cae PAINTER: Reguler weekly meetiny Alseration f Painters, 8 p.m., March at 4215 Third Ave. ne SS SLIPPER WORKERS Youngstown Tin Mill Installs Machines to Lay Off Worker INDIANA HARBOR, March 16.— | The Youngstown Sheet and Tube tin mill has just installed a new con- The trial in court is scheduled to come up March 21, The background of this case is the milk war wher farmers were picketing the highways around Sioux City last February The strike had been directed agains |the Roberts Dairy, which had beer | making 300 per cent profit while | milk remained high for city worker and farmers got almost nothing. Farmers are certain that the Roberts Dairy hired Markel to ru: | the picket lines with scab milk. H | was well qualified, since he is knew: as a rum runner. A week before the shooting, when he was killed, Marke ran the picket lines at another poin HATHAWAY DEBATES MUSTE NEW YORK.—District Organizer ©. A. Hathaway, of the Communis Party will debate A. J. Muste of th’ tinuous furnace mill which will do} Gonference for Progressive Labor twice as much work in the same} Aetion on the topie: “Policies an number of hours with fewer workers. | Methods of the American Working The new mill is not working satis-| Class,” 8 p. m. tonight at Tremon factorily yet but the company is ex- perimenting with it and lay-offs of many workers are expected shortly. At the same time the company is preparing to cut wages and is break- ing in men from the pipe mill which has been shut down for the past year, for work in the tin mills. Workers Club, 2075 Clinton Avenue, Bronx. TO ALL COMMUNISTS! NEW YORK.—Every Communis’ Party member must see his seatie: organizer within the next three days —District 2 Secretariat. BOSS PRESS KEPT SILENT ON BANK SITUATION BEFORE THE BIG CRASH They Knew of Impendi ng Shut Down; So Did the Rich Who Withdrew Funds WASHINGTON, D. C., march 14.— A frank admission of suppressing | news items is found in the “Financial | and Commercial Chronicle” of Feb-| ruary 18, 1983 (page 1964). In regard| to the ingreasing number of bank failures during February, which cul- minated in the national banking holiday on March 6, this capitalist | financial magazine stated Policy of Silence “There has latterly been a recrud- | escense of bank embarrassments at quite a number of financial centers in different and widely separated parts of the country—at St. Louis, in| California, with minor banking troubles at Kansas City, at Atlantic City, N, J., and some other local points, to which is now added the) Slipper Department of the Shoe snd| worst collapse of all in the closing | Leather Workers Industrial Union runs a Ge tae 18 at Astoria Mansion, 62 down of all banks in Michigan. There have also the present week been runs on banks at some other points, but which have not found their way inte the newspapers, sinca many of these papers follow the practice of not giving publicity to happenings of that kind, out of fear of further disturbing confidence and causing new withdrawals.” Wealthy Grab Shares Tt may be assumed, from the above sentence, that the wealthy bosses who get wind of a weakening bank, quick- ly withdraw the money which they got from the toil and sweat of the workers, The result is that the small depositors, who depend upon the cap- press for information, are | robbed of their small savings. | Workers, support the “Daily Work- er,” the only English daily newspaper which can be relied upon to print the news which concerns all workers. —s. | italist Disclose Outrageous Grafting by Gibson “Relief” Committee in N.Y.C, NEW YORK.—Outrageous grafting of the G'bsen Com- mittee Red Cross Cloth funds |” hy officials ‘of the committee, espectally one time keeper, have been discovered in a ser- ies of shops here, Coupled with this is a deliberate at- tempt to railroad workers who dis- coyeyed the graft to the insane asy~ jum in order to silence them. One has been sent up already, There is evidence implicating both the officials of the International La- dies Garment, Workers Union and the and whose places are taken by “dum- my cards” on which Gibson agents draw..wages—graft Extortion m “addition, in sua an atmosphere of corruption, the bosses have ue way, aad drive and extort labor f1 the workers on this form of relie! work that is not even on the sche- dule for them. One Negro wean Worker was ll er Ying id to do id house work for the boss. ese cases were reported to the Needle Trades Unemployed Council, Council. On of them, Morris Goldberg, in- formed the Council how Katz and there for Sibeon, and constantl; and were flung by its secretary, Hoff- man, into the fages of the Gibson of- ficial, Kidde, 70 Pine St. in charge of distribution of food and clothing, Wednesday. Lovesteneites in this mess, This avaft is at the expense of the rt cn fey Kidde at first refused ta consider the charges, but told poli te to and ag the regital went on, Kidde flew nie @ rage, interrupted, bu was unable to stop the recital of Hoffman’ told how three unem: le workers, put into the work pressure hy the Needle Trades Unemployed 4 for| a, by this ot} Officials of International Ladies Garment Workers and the Lovestonites in Mess Kate has two brothers, working, shop, 565} against even Gibson Committee rules, the owner] in the Seamore shop, under assumed names. workers are deprived of jobs Srickory,, Other workers in the shop have to work harder to make a showing for the “dummies.” The Lovestonite, Sasha Zimmerman is working in this shop, and is Katz's closest friend, co-operating with him conferring with him, eae ‘keeper for the Kata hast Gibson eering of Gibson officials to first | Gibon Nari then to ‘eoitlougn. Over in the Beamore shop, Mate bapa ie pater eta sare pay> Toll, a worker, Pearl Strong, was fired be because she refused the orders of the boss to go up to his apartment te wash floors, clean halls,| Red do housework, ete., without pay, to become & personal slave in return for being allowed to work on this charity Red Cross Cl job. Mem- bers of the executive of Local 22, International Ladies Garment Work- ers, work in this shop, and prevent shop action, Hoffman dictated to the steno- grapher how he e: this racket- Gibson's director of the Red Cross ted and McCullough's answer was hat everything was arranged seize Eine ae have him held in the _ psyehit ward at Bellevue Hospital for examination and iad commitment to an insane asylum, orker has already been # Hoffman and Secretary Potash the Needle Trades Workers Indust- rial Union, further protest formally to the Gibson Committee inst its permitting and _helpin, bingky, resigens of the International zane foe caleck 4 ian fo in the cage GF tubers, B38) from meager charity wages of a Red Cross shop recently opened at Essex St., Brooklyn, It is evident that the graft in thy Gibson Committee jobs is rampant, that these revelations just scratch the surface. A meeting of all workers in the S, and G, shop was being held last night. The Daily Worker will publish further revelations in follows ing issues, Needle Trades Unemployed Council Points to Struggle for Workers Control of Relief Administration NEW YORK. — The Needle Trades Unemployed Council yesterday pointed to the revelations of graft aj ‘nd discrimination in the Gibson-Red Cress jobs as typical of hundreds of cases known to exist. It declared this corruption the natural result of rei workers. It called for mass support surance bills, with workers’ adminis lief administred by others than the for the relief and unemployment in- tration, as adopted by the Workers Conference on Unemployment Insurance, March 5-7 in Albany. The N,T.U,C, starts now a campaign of shop meetings, special eon- ferences of industrial Unemployment committees, leading to mass “e in| monstrations and picketing, tote