The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1933, Page 3

QNLY LIMITED WITHDRAWALS ARE ALLOWED AS NEW BANK CRASH LOOMS Not One Bank in United States:Is Open on Basis of Complete Operations WASHINGTON, March 29.—A new downward plunge of capitalist eco- nomy threatens to again send the banking structure tottering—piling ruin upon ruin, This is clear from the announcement yesterday of Secretary of the Treasury Woodin that only limited withdrawals of deposits would bei allowed provided the government conservators in charge of closed banks so recommended. The conservator can decide what percentage of deposits should be withdrawn and the banks will be permitted to partially reopen until such percentage is exhausted. Conservators Can Dictate Thus the conservators can decide, under the terms of the President’s yank holiday proclamation, who are sntitled to withdraw deposits and SECRETARY WOODIN who cannot withdraw them. This will enable conservators to establish @ po- licy of favoritism. The prohibition against withdrawals of gold and “currency for hoarding” will be maintained. Issues Lying Statements The treasury department continues to issue false statements regarding the number of banks opened. Ten days ago the statement was issued that 75 per cent of the banks had reopened. Yesterday the statement said that banks were “reopening at the rate of a hundred a day,” and that now the number reopened amounts to 75 per cent of the total. Either the treasury was lying ten days ago or it is lying today. It is tafe to say both statements were lies. Persistent statements are still be- ing made that the banks now re- opened are on a “normal basis,” when, as a matter of fact, not one of them is on a normal basis. The bar on gold withdrawals alone is proof that the treasury statement on this point is false and deliberately misleading to create the impression that the financial crisis is being overcome. It is on a par with state- ments that the United States is only “technically” off the gold standard, when as a matter of fact it is defini- tely off that standard. ——- TEST CASE TO TAKE “OUTLAW” RULE TO COURT Intensify “Fight on High Rent I. L. D. and Council Says BULLETIN. .. Five workers arrested for pick- eting in rent strikes in Bronx. Mass meeting tonight at Ambassador Hall, Claremont Parkway and 3rd Ave. to start broad campaign against Hilly ruling and police ter- ror. | : | NEW YORK, March 30—A legal battle to supplement the mass fight against Corporation Counsel Hilly’s; ruling declaring rent strike “illegal” was announced today by the New York District International Labor De- fense in gonjunction with the Unem- Ployed Council of Greater New York. ‘The ILD exposed at the outset that Hilly’s decision was a “distortion of | even capitalist law” and issued “to; intimidate tenants fighting against) high rents. | Cases of tenants arrested and given suspended sentences since the Hilly “decision” was made public will be appealed to the highest courts, the ILD said. The Bronx Tenants’ Emergency) Leaghe which announced through the capitalist press Friday that it will also test Hilly’s decision, has no member- ship or mass following of workers, but is composed of a few lawyers who act on their own initiative. “The struggle against high renis and against Hilly’s decision cannot be won merely through legal technical- ities,” John J. Ballam, District Sec- retary, ILD, stated. “While making test cases the TLD and the Unem- Ployed Councils at the same time call} on the impoverished tenants and all workers to intensify the rent strike against the landlords and their Tam- many allies, Hilly and Co. An appeal for a united front for increased struggles against high rents and the Hilly decision will be for- warded by the Unemployed Council and the N. Y. District ILD to social- a branches and to locals of the A. . of L. PERKINS CALLS MEET WITH AFL. EXCLUDES JOBLESS DELEGATES Will Draft Secret Plan With Green to Put Over ECONOMY LEAGUE Forced Labor WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 30.—In a letter received yesterday by the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils, Frances Perkins, U. 8. Labor Secretary refused the request of the National Committee to be rep- resented at the conference with labor leaders which she has called today in Washington to discuss unemploymest relief measures. Miss Perkins denies the Unemployed Councils the e—- right to appear at the conference but| By this instead proposes a separate session be held with their representatives. She hhas sent a similar reply to a request made by the A. F. of L. Committee tor Unemployment Relief and Insur- ance to be heard at this conference, At the same time sixty-five labor misleaders including William Green, president of the A. F. of L., his staff of vice-presidents, the railroad broth- erhood officials and Sidney Hillman, banker president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers will be welcomed by the Secretary of Labor to discuss an agenda which includes such important measures to the masses as unemploy- ment relief, home mortgage relief, public works, unemployment insurance = “reserves” as well as labor legis- lation, exclusion of the represen- tatives of the unemployed and of the rank and file of the A. F. of L. the Secretary of Labor admits that this conference will be a secret session in which the government and the labor misleaders acting in behalt of the boss+ ;e8 will deal a blow to the demands of the unemployed and lay the basis for mobilizing the support of the unions for successfully carrying out the gov- ernment’s forced labor program. ‘Tue National Committee of the Un- jemployed Councils and the A. F. of L. Commitiee for Unemployment Insur- ance and Relief insist on being heard ;and are calling for an open hearing in which the real representatives of the working masses may present pro- Posals for unemployment insurance and for labor legislation. Hunger IRVING COME TO THE DANCE TONIGHT 15th Street and Irving Place Fighter's PLAZA | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH al 4 1933 Sidelights on Trial of Scottsboro Defendants Seek to Hide System! pompous war hero, glanced re-|PENSON, the editor of the Scotts- of Negro Oppression in the South (By Our Special Correspondent.) DECATUR, Ala. (By Mail). —. ty seven o’clock Monday morning the crowd began to gather in front o! the Morgan County Courthouse. Half an hour later thirty national! guardsmen from Hartselle, thirteen! miles down the line—marched in! with guns on shoulder and pistol at! the belt. | Here on the courthouse lawn stood @ cross-section of the population of | Decatur County and, to a degree, of the whole South. Farmers from the surrounding country, where starva- tion knocks at many cabin doors,| where almost three-quarters of those who work farms are tenants and debt ound. Unemployed workers from he rialroad shop which had closed down, from the half-idle hosiery mills. Respectable, petty-bourgeois Deca~ tur, in the person of its small busi- ness people and political hangers-on, remained for the most part in the packed courthouse and on the porch of Sheriff Bud Davis’ house. Negroes In Crowd. Over 100 Negroes, among them women, stood silently in groups or reclined on the grass. Their pres- ence in itself was a challenge. It was mute tectimony to the tre- mendous confidence awakened in the Negro people of the South by the Scottsboro case. Captain John W. Burleson, in charge of the guardsmen, a neat and peatedly at the Negroes and tried to “They are all local are good ones, or we wouldn't have them around.” He had come “to uphold white su- premacy over teh law.” reassure himself: niggers and thi OM seven until two the crowd waited. Word came that the patrol from Birmingham had been sighted on the other side of the courthouse. As one, both the white and the Negro ran to meet it. The car swerved around the corner and drew up before the sheriff's house. The crowd came surging back across the courthouse lawn and stopped at the line drawn by the guardsmen. The Boys Enter. Roy Wright, the youngest, self- confident, dressed in a suit of civil clothes, led the way into the. street. The other boys, dressed in blue denim overalls, followed manacled by ‘the wrists in pairs, They were com- | posed and self-confident. In full sight of the whole crowd, defense attorney Liebowitz walked over to Roy Wright, shook his hands and spoke a few words of greeting. Everyone was aghast—the whites jtaken completely unaware by this | open declaration of equality. “Did you see that!” eclaimed a political hanger-on standing next to your correspondent. “He went and shook | hands with the Nigger!” The Ne- | groes, watching every move, saw this | action as a token of the whole case. | | With a score of soldiers in front and a score taking up the rear, the boys were marched through the , crowd into the courthouse, Mr. Benson Testifies IN NEW ATTACKS Wall St. Group Starts New Drive on Masses NEW YORK.—Since Roosevelt has just carried through its national pro- gram of slashing veterans’ benefits and wages of government employes to the tune of $900,000,000, the Na- tional Economy League is now plan- ning to launch new attacks on the working masses of the country thru the state and city governments. The New York State branch of the Economy League announced that it will now concentrate on reducing the state and local budgets. The national organization is planning to do like- wise, according to a statement by Archibald Roosevelt, national secre- tary. . Reduction of state and local bud- gets, as of the federal budget, is to be accomplished at the expense of the masses through sales taxes, wage cuts, and other devices in order that the bankers may be assured of their mil- lions of dollars in interest on bonds, Wall Street Orgenization The National Economy League is an organization of bankers, capital- ists and army and navy officers, formed by Wall Street to lead the fight for its program of safeguarding profits through government attacks on the living standards of the masses. It has the active support of leading “republican and democratic party” Politicians, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd is national chairman of the Economy League. The national secretary is Archibald B. Roosevelt, a director of the Roosevelt Steamship Co. and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Co., chairman of the finance committee is E. Roland Harriman, vice-president and director of the Wall Street brokerage firm of W. A. Har- riman and Co., director of the City Bank Farmers Trust Co., Morris Plan Co. and verious other banks and cor- porations. Grenville Clark, lawyer and banker, is chairman of the executive commit- tee. The rest of the executive com- mittee consists for the most part of leading bankers and industrialists, in- cluding Phelps Newberry, vice-pre- sident and director of the now de- funct Guardian Detroit Bank, one of the two national banks in Detroit whose collapse precipitated the bank- ing crisis and wiped out millions of dollars in deposits. Mass Pressure Forces Simons Release by Court NEW YORK. — William Simons, National Secretary of the Anti-Im- Pperlalist League, received a suspend- ed sentence in the Jefferson Market Court Paty national guardsmen with fixed bayonets. notice that Negroes are to go elsewhere. boro Progressive Age, is one of | the thirty-five witnesses called by the | defense Jexcluded from the jury in Jackson |County and throughout the South. | Like all the other witnesses sub-| poenaed in advance, he had been {coached by the crudely clever attor- ney gen Poor Benson was caught between two fires. On the one hand he knew—as he admitted under pressure from Attorney Liebo- witz's cross-examination—that he had never seen nor heard of a Negro serving as a juror in Jackson County, where the Scottsboro trial was originally held. But he had just come from the smok’ng room where Attorney General Knight had coached | Liebowitz he is for a moment truth- |ful, admitting what is known to everybody in the courthouse—Ne- groes just don’t sit on juries. Under |the bludgeoning of Knight, he now | qualifies his statement. Liebowitz pushes the point and wants to know groes in Jackson County who were fit to sit on a jury. The editor gives | classic expression to the typical atti- tude of the more cultured bourbon South: “I know some good niggers, as far as niggers go.” And then: “The nigger has not been trained. I don’t think their judgment could made a study of the law. gro doesn’t have character. steal.” This was the best that marshalled by Benson, the editor of @ paper, creator of “public opinion,” | leading citizen of Jackson County. The Ne- ‘They all could be to prove that Negroes are| H, STEWART of the sa member Correspondent Gives him and made it stick with a little | | drink, Under the suave influence of whether Benson knew of any Ne-| be depended upon. They have not| S the leading de-| | always attempted to hide | fort with a smirk. | | “Objection sustained complied! (The usual objection from Knight | Judge Horton. } and the usual sustention by Judge “Did you have any occasion to ex-| Horton.) clude Negroes from jury service be-| “You take taxes from a Negro, but cause they were not qualified?” coun-} YOU exclude him from juries and do tered the defense. ,hot permit him to vote!” “No, that was never even etia=| eet Sabie a a, s discom-| fen: “Yes.” cussed.” (ae ee | And Judge Horton this ad-| «qgR. SANFORD, has a Ni | | , , has a Negro ever |mission do too much d: ge, makes M be call ° y i the point for Att General si) Sct seal ela vad Jackson County?” lawyer Liebowitz asks | John Sanford is a Negro plasterer of Scottsboro, Alabama. The “Mr.”| is like a bombshell and like the per-| ent use of the word “Negro” by | defense end of “nigger” by the! judge and prosecution, reveals the tremendous gap that separates the two sides. The Bourbon South has er deemed it necessary to call a} gro “Mr.” or “Mrs.” | “No, a Negro has never been called | for jury service in Jackson County.” Knight and bourbon Alabama groes are not excluded beca’ their color but because they ar | qualified.” With these little legal ti , evi- dent to everybody, the sovereign state of Alabama, upon which has fallen the burden the “supremacy of th over the | law,” hopes to sti move! that with every minute of the Scotts | boro Case sinks its roots deeper and| deeper in the South n turns out on exi ation that |4 J. E. Moody, chairman of the Jury | {Commission Board of Jackson | County, does not know the qualifica- |tions for jury service. And yet Ne- | Broes sit on a jury. He knows of other Negroes who meet the qualifications, He says so outright, despite the scowl- ing smirk of Attorney General Knight and the knowledge that aceon Page Three | News Briefs | aes | POLICE SHANGHAI | MILITANT SEAMEI NEW YORK.—The two seamen ar- Tested by the police Wednesday in a jraid on the Seamen's Club Restau |rant, 8th and West Sts, cannot b |located by the Marine Workers In | dustrial Union in any precinct or gov ernment detention station. One © the men is a licensed American sez | officer, WORKERS’ PLAY GOES ON RADIO A play wriffen by Joe Dabalio, e mtmber of the Workers Laborator) Theatre will be acted over Radio Sta- tion WEAF Friday, 2 p.m. on th “Magic of Speech Program.” Th play tells how farmers united to ato; a sheriff sale. jury commission Jacksor : . | County Picture of Decatur | “Do you know you heard ‘ jared peken ae fackson County Sentinel that Negro |_ ‘I'm 48 years old and don’t re-} jurors would be “embalmed niggers.” member ai he answered ; secede Mensano aah “I object,” stuttered Knight, who} wel! # NEW YORK —If Tammany graf can’t help the family what is it good for? Police Commissioner Mulroone answered that question Wednesday, by giving his daughter, Helen P. Mul rooney an appointment to the job in the police department “crime preven- tion bureau” at a salary of $3,085 per year. WHAT’S ON NOTE: In view of the erit ical financial situation in the Daily Worker, organizations Mr. Sanford himself is qualified to|[7@ @8ked to enclose money. jat the rate of one cent a word per insertion, with annownee- mente. lz don County citizens will carry the news| Friday founty courts—in it home that “the Sanford nigger is no | by Mr. Benson’s competit Jonger a good. nigger.” = | (Manhattan) Scene in Morgan County courthouse in Decatur, Als, just before opening of Scottsboro trial, showing Notice sign over wash-basin on leit with word “white,” serving Jae cao pn tes seetemvenes | Madison me K | 1 DECATUR , $ qforgar! | Sle ! Map showing Decatur and towns made known by Scottsboro case. | | | Force Bosses to Chicago Shoe Workers in 2nd Strike Victory Concede All Demands; Injunc- tion Struggle Looms CHICAGO, Ill, March 30.—A second victory was won today by the NEGRO WITNESSES IN SCOTTSBORO _ TRIAL TELL OF JURY EXCLUSION (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | that Negroes were excluded froin jury service. At this point the judge once |more prevented defense counsel from |showing the tremendous difficulties DECATUR, Ala—Not one Negro was on the jury roll for Haywood Paterson, yenire among fifteen hundred names which Liebowitz, | gan County. attorney for the Scottsboro boys | Challenges Judges to Question involved in Negroes voting in Mor-j striking shoe workers here when the bosses of the Advance Shoe Co., after three days’ negotiations, conceded all the demands of the strikers. One hundred workers are involved. After a strike lasting five wecks the workers returned to their jobs on Wednesday morning having won wage increases up to 15 per cent, recognition of the #— ADMISSION 25 CENTS conduct for speaking at the demon- stration against the Japanese impe- Auspices: Unemployed Council of Greater New York, and Needle Trades Unemployed Councils. rialist agent Matsuoka. Simons, de- fended by Max Merbaum, attorney for the New York District Interna- tional Labor Defense. Many workers at the trial and many telegrams of protests against shop committee and a minimum wage of $7 for the lowest paid workers. Many low paid workers received a flat increase of $1 weekly and new inexperienced workers will start for $5 or more weekly and will receive in- creases every two weeks so that the minimum wage of $7 will prevail for the lowest paid. The agreement which runs for four months provides that there shall be no discrimination of active strikers and that no worker shall be discharged without consulta- tion of the shop committee. Nearly SPEED MOVE FOR HIGHER CAR FARE O’Brien Aids Traction Stockholders NEW YORK, March 30.—The Tam- many city government is completing its preparations to abolish the five- cent fare for subways, elevated and surface lines in New York. Yester- day Mayor John P. O'Brien, held a “transit unification conference” at City Hall, where he read a prepared statement proposing unification of the three principal subway systems— the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, the Interborough Rapid Transit and the |Manhattan (Eighth Avenue subway). Stockholders Aid Plot Leading stockholders, big bankers, and their representatives were pres- ent, It is understood that the state- ment read by O'Brien was prepared by lawyers for these stockholders. The statement assures stockholders that the first consideration of the Tammany city administration is to protect their investments and assure them an uninterrupted flow of divi- dents and interest at the expense of the traction workers and the public that has to use the system for trans- portation. Cutting Down Trains Now Cutting off of trains in the sub- ways and elevated is the order of the day, while surface cars run less and less frequentiy, This results in great- er unemployment among the workers on the lines, and means greater jam- ming of passengers. The service is particularly bad on the new Eighth Avenue system, For this increasingly rotten service the passengers are to be forced to pay from 744 to 10 cents fare. It is prob- able that it will at first be two rides for 15 cents and that tokens will be sold to be used in the turnstiles. O'Brien Fare-Boosting Mayor Tt was generally known at the time that Tammany took the clownish and the arrest of Simons sent to Mayor O'Brien and Mulrooney, made the Simons, preparatory to framing. his , prepara and to relesse the militant anti-im- Perialist i stupid O'Brien off the surrogate bench and sat him in the mayor's chair, that he was merely the puppet selected as & stop-gap ornament to hold down the job while the five-cent, fare is done away with, all the workers in the shop have join- ed the Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union which led the strike. ‘The union successfully led the strike of the workers of the Metropolitan Shoemaker Incorporated which was ,Settled ten days ago when the workers jreturned with all demands granted. An injunction against the strikers of the Irving Shoe Company was granted today in Judge McGoorty’s ‘court. The strikers are mobilizing to defeat this injunction and to force the remaining four manufacturers to settle. LEHMAN DEMANDS TIGER BEER GRAB Holds Up Measure in Fight for Spoils ALBANY, March 30—The Tam- Many governor, Herbert H. Lehman, adopted the methods of the Tammany president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to- day when he appeared before a joint session of the legislature today and insisted upon swift passage of his beer control bill. Tammany is getting nervous about the delay, because it wants to go ahead full blast using state power to get its greedy claws upon the beer |business before April 7th. Lehman jconfessed as much when he insisted jupon immediate approval of his bill “to prevent uncontrolled distribution of the beverage which will become le- galized after April 7th.” Wants Centralized Control Lehman hysterically shouted that he was opposed to “decentralized con- trol” and said the state should con- trol the whole works, There are strong groups throughout the state who are fighting for their lives against what they regard as the certain threat of extermination by the Tammany gang- sters who will be given a free hand in using the legalized beer racket to strengthen the Tammany machine, just as the boot'egginz, dope-peddling and vice racket are Tammany con- trolled. SANITARY DEPARTMENT PUTS THRU DIRTY DEAL NEW YORK —The City Sanitary Department is putting through an economy program by firing regularly employed workers and rehiting others at relief rates of pay. One thousand street cleaners were fired recently, many of whom were forced to apply to the Emergency Work Bureau, and rehired on a relief basis after having to go through the process of being investigated. The Sanitary Depart- ment expects to “save” $1,700,000 in this way. A crime against the working clas: fo permit the Daily Worker to sm- pend, Reh funds tode’. forced A. J. Tidwell, member of the jury board to read off. Tidwell tried to evade the direct question as to whether Negroes were ex- cluded from the jury roll. Lieb- | owitz then forced the court to pro- | | duce the roll. The jury commission | | claimed it did not know who was Negro and who white. The attorney forced Tidwell to call off names | from a list of at least 1500 he knew, | sli of which turned out to be white. | Liebowitz threatened to subpeona ail 1500 to prove that there are no In addition to Banks, Dr. N. FE. Cashin and L. R. Womach, both Ne- groes and the latter s, Decatur preacher, presented an additional list of Negroes qualified for jury service, but all declared that they never knew of a single Negro who has served. After defense attorney Liebowitz had revealed by questioning that Banks was fully eligible to serve on a jury and had never been called al- though a voier, he asked that Judge Horton himself examine the witness | to determine, if possible, why he was | excluded from jury service, The judge, ae | however, refused to do this. idea er Bar he | An indication of the great support #,(00, Jurons—No Neg for the Scottsboro boys among the Under sharp questioning Negroes of the section is seen in the fense atiorney, J. H. * | fact that many local Negroes are yol- of the circuit court, was | untarily presenting to the defense names of Negroes eligible for jury duty who would willingly appear in fone to testify. N Y. to Roar for | Mooney-Scottsboro Negroes among them. he had personally not seen one Ne- gro out of 2,500 jurors. a graduate of of Decatur, who was defense, said that he had “ nor heard of a single Negro juror in Morgan county. Despite interjeciions by Judge Hor- i ton and Prosecutor Knight, Liebow- | itz declared: Tag Days to Save Nine “I want to show that Negroes in Boys Continue mus an ridicule H. J. Banks, a Negro witness, aroused merriment from “better” white spectators courtroom, the defense ities to “legally” lynch the innocent boys in the electric chair, Negro and white workers in Greater New York especially in Harlem, will rally at a series of powerful demonstrations | today and Saturday to demand ab- This is no | solute protection of the nine boys, their immediate release as well as that of Tom Mooney and all class war prisoners, Employed and unempioyed work- ers are called to a special Scotts- boro open air meeting today at 77 W. 131st St. at 11 am. The follow- ing are meetings scheduled for to- FORCE WORKERS TO SIGN | {2¥ and tomorrow in your section: STATEMENTS FOR bicmee aterincae s paiee Assembles Saturday at 10 a.m. at DEPORTATION 131st Street and Lenox, march to NEW YORK.—Three workers. John} 7th Avenue, to 116th Street, east to Lae, Edward Trevor and Fritz Liedke, | 116th and 5th Avenue to end in mass are held at Ellis Is!and for deporta-| meet at 5th Ave. and 110th St. at tion, after they were forced to sig) Pp. m. Richard B. Moore main statements that they are not citizens | speaker. and had not entered this covmtry le-| Downtown Friday gally. They were picked up by police} Friday at 8 p.m., Hennington Hall, at meetines of wozkers’ organizavion: 14 E. 2nd St. Preceded by parade The N. Y. District International La- | starting at 7 p.m. at 10th Street and bor Defense which is fighting their) 2nd Avenue. deportation urges all workers in a Spector at Columbas Circle the | in attorney | shouted: “If snickering or laughing continues, I will demand that the Judge clear the court. Roman holiday.” Knight received the surprise of his} life when Banks, 55-year-old Negro; bill-poster replied at one point be 9 refuse to answer your question,” when the prosecutor tried to show that Banks could not show conclusively | statement issued today to absolutely} Frank Spector main speaker at refuse to sign any statements or an-| swer questions as to their past Nystad taken into custody for deportation, | but demand to see an ILD attorney tirst. IMMIGRATION MEN AT L’UNITA OPARAIA| NEW YORK, March 30.—Federal Immigration men entered the offices of L’Unita Oparaia, Italian working class newspaper today, and question- ed everyone there with the hope of arresting and deporting Italian work- ers connected with the paper, Columbus Circle, 59th Street and Broadway, Saturday at 2 p.m. Brooklyn Meeting William Patterron at Borough Hall meet, Saturday at 1 p.m. Brownsville Saturday Herzl Street, corner Blake Avenue Saturday at 2 p.m., also demand re- lease of rent strikers. Jamaica Union Hall Street and 160%hn Ave. Saturday at 1 p.m. Mount Vernon Saturday afternoon, Scottsbere Fag Day held with me-* " REGISTRATION for the Spring ‘Term or the Workers School is now going on a Room 301, 35 FE. 12th Bt. RALPH PEARSON, artist and critic, wil lecture on “The Influence of Subject Matter on Design” st the John Reed Club, 480 Sixth Ave, Friday at 8:30 p.m. Adm. 28¢. MOCK TRIAL of Hitler at Harlem Prog- ressive Youth Club. 1838 Madison Ave., tonight at 8 p.m. “THE EFFECTS OP THE CRISIS ON TRE AMERICAN MIND" by Dr. R. Posne: Psychiatrist, State Hospitals at the Amer. foan Youth Federation, 123 Second Ave., a 4:30 p.m. Admission i5e. PLAYWRIGHTING CLASS FOR BEGIN NERS starts Friday evening, March 31st « Workers Lab. Theatre of WIR, 42 E. 13 St. REGISTER NOW! A PROTEST MEETING against Germa: Fascism and pogroms will be held at Sevo Mansion, 20th Ave. and 63rd 8t., at 8 p.m. AN OPEN FORUM will’ be held tonight at 8 p.m. at 632 E. 13th St. Subject: The German Situation and the Task of the Am ertean Proletariat—United Front, Speaker Henry Winston. Auspices: YOU. NEW MASSES SPRING COSTUME BALI will be held tonight, March Sist at Webste Hall, 119 B. ith Bt. If you have no cos- tume, slap on @ mustard ‘plaster. Reduced prices $1 in advance, $1.60 at door. Kent Vineent Orchestre will furnish music. Re- {served tickets through New Masses, 31 E 31th Bt. Workers Book Shop, 50 BE. St. or Romany Marie, 43 W. 8th &t. ‘TRE YORKVILLE WORKERS CLUB meets at 1536 Third Ave., at 8 p.m. All welcome. REGULAR MEMBERSHIP MEETING PSU, Harlem Branch tonight at 227 Lenox Ave. B. Freedman, District Organizer will speak 8:30 p.m. sbarp. BY 18th | Bronx) LECTURE DR. COMASON on Afiect of Malnutrition on the Children, tonight et | 8:90 p.m. at 804 Forest Ave. Auspices Chil- dren's Relief Organisetion. Admission free RED LITERARY EVENING in the Tre mont Workers Club, 2075 Clinton Ave., with following members of the Rev. Writers Ped eration—Moe Bragin, Philip Rhar, Milton Howard, Alfred Hays, Wallace Phelps and many others. RICHARD B. MOORE will lecture tonighi at the Prospect Workers Center, 1187 fo Blvd. Subject: “Life and Work of Ker! Marx,” and Paris Commune. Don’t come late. (Brookiyn) DEBATE—Is Soviet System Appiteable to |U. 9.? Samuel Gklarofi—Yes. Aaron Lev- enstein, soclalist—No. Tonight at 8:30 p.m Auspices Brighton Beach Br. of PBU, 303+ | Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn. Admission 2c —with this clipping 15c. LECTURE—Protessor M. Schlanch. Sub- ject—The League of Nations as an instru~ ment of war. Tonight st Brownsrilie Wort- ers Club, 1440 %. Mew York Ave. SOVIET MOTION PICTURE “Potemiin,” at 8:30 p.m. at theBrownsville Youth Center 105 Thetford Ave., Brooklyn. Admission in | advance, 15c; at door 20c. HINSDALE WORKERS CLUB, 313 Hins- dale St, Lecture by Karl Brodsky on Ger- man Fascism and War Danger, March 31. J. L, BPIVACK on the Chain Gang Sys~ tem in the U.S.A. Priday night at the Bridge Plaza Workers Club, 285 Rodney St., Brooklyn. LECTURE by H. LICKENSTEIN on United Pront May Dey at Bath Beach Workers Club, 1818 Sth Bt., at 9 p.m. TONIGHT—Intersectional celebration of TLD organizing the new section in West end of Brookiyn will be heid in Finnish Nall, ‘764 40th Bt. West Bnd line, Ninth Ave. sta- tion. Fine Music, dancing and dramaties sketch. ‘Tom Mooney" and John J. Ballam ‘peaking. Auspices, South Brooklyn end West End Section, 2c. LECTURE BY MURRAY BLYNE on the German Situation at the New Youth Club, 325 AtRins Ave. Admission 160, 06 8:90 pum. . 8 j | Saturday | CONCERT and DANC® at Ne |—325 Atkins Ave., Brooklyn ai Admission 10¢ ENTERTAINMENT and Youth Glub 8:20 p.m. DANCE—Bection 4, C. P. at 680 Lenox Ave., April Ist. Red jury service. NEW YORK.—Roused by the lynch | pan chalk talk, revolutionary songs. “No Roman Holiday” |danger facing the nine framed| ENTERTAINMENT and APRIL r in the session when the at- > the inten- |DANCE, Negro band, refreshments—Romain mates ee ssegara A aa e eke aa oo bi a by the inten-|Rotand Youth Branch of the FOU. Audl- tempt by night to bulldoze ar | sified efforts of the Alabama author- | torinm, 2700 Bronx Park Kast. Adm. 36c. HOUSE PARTY rendered by YCL Wo. April 1, at 8 p.m. at 1664 Weeks Ave., Bronx Apt. 3G. Admission 10e, Refreshments free. ENTERTAINMENT and DANCE at J. & Engdahl Workers Club, Saturday night at & |p.m. at 3082 Hull Ave, corner 204th St, Bronx. Admission 2c. Refreshments free. APR& FOOL DANCE at the Harlem Prog. Youth Club, 1838 Madison Aye. DANCE and ENTERTAINMENT at Jobn Reed Club Saturday evening. Will present femous Modicut puppets. Refreshments. Admission %c. OPFICE WORKERS UNION PARTY, to- night at 2:30 p.m. at 263 EK. 14th St., third floor front. Entertainment, ents, | Bring your friends, Admission 10, ° ° Sunday SYMPOSIUM—'The ciass struggle ta Li erary Criticism” with Milton Moward, W. Phelps and P. Rahy, at the Revolul Writers Federation, 114 W. 2ist St. Adm, 18. JOHN WEXLEY, playwright, suthor of will lecture at the John Reed Club, 450 Sixth Ave. Sunday, 2:30 p.m. on “The Drama in Decline." Adm. 250, THE YORKVILLE WORKERS CLUB FOR- SYMPOSIUM “The Fight Against Rite Speakers, various organizations-— At Labor staff will describe a personal interview with ‘Tom Mooney in San Quentin in Lecture en “Prame-ups in U. 8. Labor History” at the Coop. Auditorium, 2700 Bronx Park Best, Sunday at 8:30 pm. RO! at the PI ARKLEY Williamsburgh Workers Olub, 43 Manhatten Ave. Subject: Analysis of Bourgeois Idt- crature. CONCERT and ENTERTAINMENT at 1904 Southern Blvd., Sunday, April 2 at_7 p.m. Good music, a éramatic sketeh in Bn; slso singing. Dancing sfter the concert, at Kew Prethelt Gesangs Hall. All proceeds 4 and M4, Section 15, oe JAMAICA Worker, Saturder. Apri or t TICKETS w-