The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1933, Page 3

ATTEND THUGS SHOOT UP NEEDLE UNION i DAILY WORKER, NEW Y ATTENTION! Tom Mooney Delegates ORK, TUESDA ; APRIL 25, 1933 Page Three Jobless Worker Dies After VETERANS MA MOONEY-SCOTTSBORO MEET, COLISEUM, THURSDAY, 8 P.M. SS IN FRONT ~ HE A A TERS: ONE DE AD | _NEW YORK.—Delegates to the . . 4 y | Tom Mooney Congress are urged ¢ . 5 ead x om | to the Pree ‘Mooney Confoemes, noculation’ in Labor Cam (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) |the Needle Trade Workers Industrial) [0, the Free Mooney nse the thugs were beaten by the workers | Union wae Leen fe ne | icier : 2a ae and dragged downstairs and layed} under the direction of the sociated | : a J out on the sideweik. The police were | Fur Coat and Trimming Manufsc-| ind trip bus fare’ secure #7 for | LYNN, Mass. Meet Prepares for Massachusetts Hunger March; Will forced to arrest them when they ar- _ine., , " | Gr) y te . : 2 | uived. ‘The balance of the gangsiers|port in) the Women’s Wear Dally.) Dita tne, platform ar the Bone Reach Boston May Ist in Fight for Unemployment Insurance dppthimmetts j escaped. organ arment wi > | My “ ting, ‘Thured | : - e PRN ee | Meee en ere ee | night, # p.m. Bring your organi ere Oregon Contingent of National March on On the stairs a dark, stocky built) “A, F. of L. To Enter Labor Situa-| zation's banner, if possible. Busses | : se a aE i a 3. | 4 rs man in a brown suit with patent) tion,” read the full page headline in| wilt ieave eat [seu nd Be Only a few weeks have passed since the establishment of the forced labor camps. = leather shoes was found dead. As yet he has not been identified. This attack was expected for the past two weeks. The furriers’ section ot the Industrial Union had sent a bulletin to its membership warning them of the organization of the Law Preservation Committee, to wage a campaign of terror which is headed by Beckerman, ousted An:slgamated the Women’s Wear Daily. The head- | line states further “Right Wing Group | attempts realignment of fur workers. Drive to start this morning.” And the drive started this morning by send- ing gangsters into the headquarters | of the Needle Trades Union to shoot | the leaders and workers present, Where are the manufacturers in| this seeming “fight of right and left Union Square for Chicago at 9 | a. m. Friday, April 28, Don’t miss | the bus! | The Congress convenes at 1 | Pp. m., April 30, at the Masonic Auditorium, 32 W. Randolph St., Chicago. Wage Cut May 1 for these men are forced to undergo. Below are two letters from Camp Custer, Mich, Detroit who are in these camps. “Camp Custer, Mich. | a S ‘AND ‘OR ‘Dear Mack :— | “I'm just writing a few lines Bh 0” T F Reports from the unemployed who were driven by hunger to join the camps show what | They are from young workers of Washington Ready to Start in Few Days PHILADELPHIA, April 24.—Hundreds of World War veterans met in front of Independence Hall yesterday to pro- ; test reductions in compensation to disabled veterans. They asked that June 11 be made “veterans’ protest day” with the veterans marching through the streets without music and “Camp Custer, Mich. “Dear N—— Clothing Workers Usion head and| their “I'm writing you a few lines to tell} with muffled drums “in a grim and silent protest.” Behe ah tne par Wing workers?” Here rare thelr ‘own |cause I haven't any more paper and| you how they lie in the Detroit news- * . * Teeraber. of the Goaalic: eee words, Coast Guard;Low Food tm broke. I can pee you bassin do- | HOURS IN COLD Papers shout the camps, | eeecoer etnias) cre’ A eciiciay ety eke exe eee eee ee national Fur Workers Caion is also| “Just how to enforce this agree | jing in the camp, They got very ‘They say we had chicken gravy \ y on this bosses’ organization. They are | responsible for the death of M. Langer | and N. Ballero in New Jersey re-/ cently. The fur bosses are planning a lock- ov, in the industry and hoped that | ais campaign of terror would smash | the resistance of the workers. Over thirty workers, including} union officials were jailed and as we 80 to press the ILL.D. lawyers are at the jail. Within three hours after the at- tack hundreds of workers poured into the union hall and protest meetings were held. Thousands of copies of the Morning Freiheit, which issued an extra edition, were sold. Thousands of needle trade workers swarmed into the streets breaking the police cordons time after time in | their support of the betraying lead- | ment, of course, becomes a prob- | lem for the International, but ob- | servers assert the manufacturers | are apt to regard this as a problem | that merely needs the application of what is termed with a wink, strenuous persuasion.” The nature of this “strenuous per- suasion” was demonstrated in the murderous attack at the headquar-! ters of the Union. | The bosses show their open hand| behind this murderous attack and ership that was smashed by the workers last July as follows: i “And since that time the Asso- | ciated has been tryimg to get the A. F. of L. to step back into the Brings Many Disease | NEW YORK.—Workers in the uni-| form of the United States Coast | Guard, whose food rations have been | cut so low that many complain of ul- cer and stomach diseases, will on the day workers throughout the world demonstrate — May 1 — receive a 15) per cent wage cut. Originally coast guard men were sent to sea for 5 days and spent ten ashore. Now, with conditions be- coming intolerable, and with the im- pending wage cut, the men are kept at sea for 14 days at a stretch. Water runs low aboard ship. The sailors are forced to work with parched throats. Clothing allowances have been strict discipline. The Negroes got their own tents and their own mess halls and we can’t go in their district and they can’t come in our district. We aren't allowed to even talk to LYNN, Mass., April 24.—Standing in the face of a bitterly cold east- wind for over two hours, a crowd of nearly twelve hundred workers, here them, that’s how it is. “Nineteen guys ran away Wednes- |day. Two ran away Saturday. ONE GUY DIED THURSDAY from in- noculation. Well, as soon as I get some more paper I'll tell more. “Don’t tell my mother that it’s bad here because I don’t want her to worry, and please try to send me some stationery because I’m broke and I don’t get any money till the 30th. Then I can get some more let- ters. Well, as soon as I can get some stamps and paper I'll tell more.” today, acclaimed the remarks of Ann Burlak, the militant organizer of the Textile Workers Industrial Union. The meeting was in preparation| real cold weather and we nearly froze. for the Massachusetts State Hunger | But that’s good, compared with the} March, which is to take place on May the first in Boston. Jobless Auto Worker Commits Suicide; to | Foreclose His Home | ceorgia chain Gan DETROIT, Mich, April 24— | | and trimmings. Well, we got trim-| Mail)—Within the next three days | leston are already on the outskirts of mings and gravy. But no chicken in-| the first Oregon contingent of vet- ; side. We got veal and that was no|erans will start on the long march| Mike Thomas and Foulkrod were good and the trimmings gave me a}to Washington, D. C. to answer | seen snooping around | Washington, lousy physic. Roosevelt's “new deal” economy pro- | Beware of these misleaders, ve Washington waiting for May 12. “They say we had warm weather| gram, to demand cash payment of here. Well, éhey are god damn lars.|the rest of the bonus as well as im- Since we are here we had rain and| mediate relief for the impoverished farmers and the unemployed The Oregon march is organized by bad baka ail When they came! ine Oregon Veterans Liaison Com- k pest foal Mise and wey Souldn’t | mittee, @ state-wide, united front say we got uniforme Well mayor ny | committee of 20 members, headed by . ay jou ask | Richard Lovelace, Regional Organizer me, we got overalls. They are the of the WEL. ‘The Oregon contin- WE ee AOE Cece, will: eave ivinc@nerane god ayne. | : z “We look like prisoners from the qenneePelte: pa aR meetings If I had a v camera I would send you a picture) Workers in every community should |They betrayed the last march with their venomous demagogy. | Ex-Serviceman Spots Stool. A vet sends a letter about a cer- tain John Alferi, who says he served overseas with Co. K, 137th Ohio Na- | tional Guard, as sergeant. This ob- | vious fraud is now in Cincinnati, | Ohio, trying to discourage the organ- ization of a group to march on Wagh- ington. The comrade who sent me the letter says he (Alferi) led a group {on the last march from Philadelphia and betrayed them. All vets are warned to beware of this man. Any |leader who doesn’t work to the of me in the overalls and so far as |Support this gigantic struggle of the drastically cut. Pay off money, (that CITY OFFICIALS IN SCAB Brought to despair because his home | (eer CE LO TET EE front of the union. In the headquar- ters of the right-wing Soctalisi led fur union, the workers openly ex- pressed their anger at such tactics and greeted the heroic defense made by their fellow-workers. Within an hour the capitalist press was on the streets spreading a false story that “right wing and left wing” union members were at the bottom of the attack. This is the official police version in an attempt to whitewash the fur bosses. Sam Greene, gangster, is in Bel- leyue Hospital, with two bullets in his back. Greene drew a gun on a cop and was taken into a floral shop where they beat him and shot him. ees stated that he had good chances of picture.’ MORE FACILIT:ES FOR JOBLESS FIGHT, NEW YORK—In addition to larger | headquarters at 95 Avenue B, the |Downtown Unemployed Council has organized a Neighborhood Center at the East Side Workers Club, 165 East | Broadway. Increased activities in building | block committees and fighting for re- lief has necessitated larger quarters. A committee from the Council will be at the new center between 12 and gotten on leave) has been dropped. With the cut in personell the menj| are forced to do the work of those re- leased. Workers in the Marine Hospital and the U. 8. Custom Guards are asking “Why Mr. Roosevelt doesn’t cut the living conditions of the offi- cers, why only the men”, Agency and Boss Force Waiters to Work for Nothing (By a Food Worker Correspondent) ployment Agencies, MOVE. CINCINNATI, O. — In the recent | milk drivers’ strike the city played a strikebreaking role. The city politi- cians told the workers who were striking against starvation that if they refused to go back to work at the terms made by the A. F. L. mis- leaders and the bosses, the relief | was being foreclosed, John Kurzycki, | 42 committed suicide. He had al- | ready paid $3,500 on a home which | was sold to him for $6,000. It took four telephone calls to get some aid, and by the time it arrived the worker was already dead. The police how- ever were anxious to seize the fore- closure notice, so that the widow the uniforms are concerned, we didn’t get them yet. But I heard they are swell uniforms. They say visitors are forbidden. Well, that also is a lie. We can go to town any day after sup- per and visitors are welcome ‘Sun- days.” __ So, as you know, they lie like hell in the papers. There are 1,200 Ne- groes in the camp at the present! veterans and show their unity by waging constant battle against the impending new war, which will re- | Peat on a more colossal scale the hor- |rors which the ex-servicemen en- | dured in the last war “to end war.” By H. E. BRIGGS The Vets are marching again May 12, and this time in a solid United | | United Front policy of the U.N.L.C. in Washington should be thrown out of the march and a new rank and file committee elected. | Alferi Is Headed for Pittsburgh Soon—Beware, | Despite the Alferi tactics, 1,000 men are ready to leave Cincinnati | How's that? New York City workers would be called out to scab] should have no evidence for the cause | on them. of the suicide. ‘THE UNITED FRONT OF THE SOCIALIST LEADERSHIP time. We can’t see them and they! jCan’t see us. They do all the dirty | Work. Well, any time we want to |go into their territories, the officers |say don’t go there because if you do! | they might kill you. So the whites | don't go there. If we burn the tents we have to pay $54 for them, and, if els yet. But they say when we get contingent for the Front, as the following will show: | A conference is called for the 28th Pittsburgh, Pa. |to rally vets for the march. Street Yes, the vets are up on their toes| meetings are being held daily and in this city and mobilizing a large|Many vets are showing a desire to march. Expect} 0 on the march. All legion, V.F.W., thousands. The sentiment is strong|etc., men are urged to communicate for a march in Western, Pa., also. | With the National Office, 799 Broad- way. i Butte, Montana, | ‘ 5 p. m. each day to assist workers in) NEW YORK. — Waiters are the we want to wash, we have to bu: , ae ee Abe Gottfried, union member was!t,e° section below Houston ‘Street in|most miserable paid men nowadays, |S0ap and towels. ‘ ah Pcie lly ie acre cane ner IK ill Worker, Rushin shot in, She sbdomen By. thug and iis sight for rellet, If they happen to get one day each | | ("They don't give the soap and tow-| wear eeaare Sending # contingent to! | Kill Worker, Rushing ge * : i i ia | | is in St. Vincent’s Hospit: was ployed and unemployed workers week, this is usually through the Em-| | | recovery. It is reported that all other injured workers were treated and able to leave the hospital. In the headquarters of the union, the blood had been mopped off the floors and cardboard put in to re- place the windows. gearate”s NEW YORK.—That the atiack on Pay; Close Banks | Demonstrate for — in need are urged to register at the two addresses. Friday, April 28, at 10 a. m., groups will be formed at the Council Head- quarters and Neighborhood Center for immediate relief. All Unemployed Committees of workers organizations, all workers in need of relief are urged | to come. Thousands Swarm Loop Demanding Back Pay; | Militant Marchers Silence Dawes CHICAGO, April 24.—Thousands of Chicago school teachers, whe haye i been unpaid for nearly « year, marched into the financial district today pro- | testing against the corruption in Chicago city government and demanding | that their back salaries be paid immediately. They forced three big banks to shut their doors and Eompelled General Dawes and Melyin Traylor, heads of the two biggest banks to hear their —~ demands. The embattled teachers, awakening to the need for mass action after months of polite “requests” for their back pay of $29,000,000, concentrated on the City National, Continental- Illinois, the Harris Trust and the First National Banks, The first three banks closed their doors, but the First Na- tional remained open, after Melvin ‘Traylor, its president, agreed to meet a teachers’ delegation. Heckle Dawes At first officials of the City Na- tional lied, denying that Dawes was in Chicago, The teachers redoubled their insistent demand and Dawes appeared outside the bank, greeted by boos and hisses. Some of the charges made by the teachers were: “There's the man who borrowed $90,000,000 (from the Reconstruction Finance Corp.) for his own bank but won't lend any to the teachers.” “He went along with Samuel In- sull in cheating us.” A teacher in the crowd shouted that his electricity had been turned off while he was in Washington seeking action on the payment of their sala- rics. Dawes had the nerve to answer: — ee “You'd be a damn sight better off if you had your electricity turned off!” Dawes made some empty remarks about “getting behind our Mayor Kelly,” to which the crowd shouted: “Kelly isn’t our Mayor. We didn't elect him.” Dawes then roared; “To hell with the trouble makers!” Teachers who have patiently taught for months in the Chicago schools, often fainting with hunger in the classrooms, are “trouble makers” when they finally demand action on their long overdue back pey! ‘The teachers’ march began from the South end of the Loop before noon according to plan. Groups set off for the different banks, teachers just out of college and gray-haired veterans among the marchers. Placards borne in the parade read: “A Century of Progress—the biggest joke yet.” | “We want food.” Leaders of the teachers threatened | to “come back every day next week until somebody does something for us.” This impressive mass demonstration of the Chicago teachers, is a grave symptom of the ferment stirring the masses of the United States. FEDERATION LEADERS DRAFT BILL TO FIRE CIVIL SERVICE WORKERS Help Roosevelt Administration Cut Down Jobs ‘in the Postal Service WASHINGTON, April 24.—Some sixty representatives of the American Federation of Labor organizations, whose members are employed by the government, met in the headquarters of the A. F. of L, here last week to discuss how to help the Roosevelt hunger government get rid of govern- ment employees. In the carrying out of the “eco- nomy” program of the administration there are to be drastic reductions among postal clerks, letter carriers, yailway mail clerks and other work- ers. How to Get Rid of Them President Green appointed a com- mittee to draft a bill that would en- able the government to fire these workers and pay them the least pos- sible amount as they are kicked into ‘be army of seventeen million unem- ployed. The tentative proposals pro- vide for a monthly wage to each dis- missed worker amounting to two- thirds of his or her regular salary for ed many months as his years of ser- vice. Thus if one has worked ten years he will get two-thirds of his salary for ten months and the government will then have no further obligations to him. Thousands of workers will be hit by this vicious proposal if it is carried through. The principal groups of civil service employees affiliated to the A. F. of L. are, the National Federation of Postal Clerks with 40,- 000 members; the National Associa- tion of Letter Carriers with 65,000 members, and the Railway Mail Bate Association with 20,000 mem- H which have a skin game with certain managers and/| head waiters. For instance, the agency offers the waiters a job for $1. This means he goes on the entire job, and is obliged to stay as long as the boss wanis him, usually 14 and more hours, and sometimes two or three parties. Pre- viously he used to be paid for each party served. The money which the waiters are | supposed to get as tips they neyer| Chicago Teachers | receive, Usually the manager keeps it in his pocket and tells the wait- rs: “The party didn’t pay yet. As |soon as they pay we will send it to/ the employment office.” They never do this, so the waiters are cheated cut of their earnings by the Employ- | ment Office and the bosses. Waiters who are sent out of town by the agency must pay the fare and | the agency, which sometimes amounts to the whole wages, —A Waiter, Editor's Note: Waiters and other! food workers should get in touch with | the Food Workers Industrial Union, | 4 W. 18th &. 1 Mass Movement for Moon Spreads; | E SOCIALIST ' Leavea i to the sticks then we will get every- thing free. But until then we have to buy everything. Well, I'll close be-| cause it’s late. Tell S. to come here| Sunday, I want to see him. I'd write | him a letter, but I have no more ™money. I borrowed 3 cents to send) you this letter. When I get some| more money for stamps I'll write to you YOUR PAL.” Hitch-hike, drive, walk to the Chi | cago Mooney Congress, April 30 to, May 2. | 2nd INJUNCTION j about April 22 | you who refused to take orders from| Louis A. Johnson about trusting Roosevelt to deal fairly with veter- | ans. Portland, Ore. A large group is ready to leave here We are behind the| U. M. L. Committee. So long, see in Washington. California. The city officials and veterans’ misleaders are doing their damndest to stop the rank and file from march- | ing, but we got them licked with a United Front. About 2,000 will leave in a day or two with more to follow. o ito Send Material to Japan for Use inWar | (By @ Worker Correspondent.) | SEATTLE, Wash.—Just an hour before writing this letter, I was |down at the foot of Senecast | watching the Japanese steamer Korou Maru, loading steel rails for | Japan to be used in the war. The usual speed-up in loading resulted in a load slipping, and crashing | | into the hold, killing 2 Japanese | worker instantly. —T. K. N. Y. TRADE UNION NEWS d INJUNCTION Not a Wheel Shall Turn May Day! FOOD UNION | NEW YORK—The bosses of the Says Needle Tr ades Workers Union | Foltis-Fischer Company of chain ca~| NEW YORK—The murderous raid Release | Only two weeks ago, the mass pres-|er section in determined action, feterias has again filed briefs for an|on the offices of the Needle Trades injunction against the Food Workers | Workers Industrial Union yesterday Industrial Union and the strikers, | has enflamed the whole needle work- sure exerted by the New York work-| drop their tools on May Day and ell this a demonstration of the united struggle of the workers for better conditions and against the boss ter- ror. May Day was born in the struggle |for an 8 hour day. Today when the Many Meetings Held ingclass stopped Judge Philip J. Mc- | join the mass demonstration, Cook from issuing the order against picketing. | | A. F. L. burocrats and the bosses have once more introduced long hours, low The significance of May Day ts | wages and sweat shop conditions in being discussed in all shops, at shop NEW YORK, April 24—A tentative, delegates from this city were elected program for the Free Tom Mooney) to attend the Free Tom Mooney Con-! portion of the organized workers.” | retain under their control the largest | | the trade, the workers must utilize This move exposes the attempt of | Meetings and all other meetings of | May Day as a day of mobilization the judge and the company to wait | the Industrial Union. A call has been until the pressure would die down | issued by the Union for all the work- Congress opening April 30 in Chicago} outlined by the eastern section of the national management committee, calls for the broad fight for the re- lease of all class war prisoners, in- cluding not only Mooney, but the Scottsboro boys, Angelo Herndon, and the Tallapoosa share-cropper vic- tims. | The Congress is to be called to or-| der promptly at 1 p. m., on Sunday,/ April 30, the committee decided. Aj preliminary credentials commitice will spend Sunday morning in re- ceiving those credentials which have not already been sent to the head- quarters, 190 West Adams St., Room 302, Chicago, in advance. Delega- tions are being asked to mail cre- dentials in advance because of the! fact that 2,000 delegates are expected! and the task of handling the details will be enormous. | It was decided that with so great| an assemblage of worker delegates | with unlimited, varied problems that it was necessary to limit the pro- gram for discussion to three matters: 1—How to win freedom for Moo- ney and Billings. 2.—How to free other working class pen, including the Scottsboro ys, —How to protect the rights of workers to meet, to carry on their own press, organize, etc. One session of the Congress will be given to each subject, the Congress will adjourn for the Chicago May Day celebration Monday afternoon and there will be a great mass rati- fication meeting May Day night in the Chicago Stadium, which seats 25,900 and has arrangements for over- flow crowds, . * . 600 Meet in Boston, BOSTON, April 24—Kight speak- ers, representing a wide defense uni. ted front, addressed a meeting of six hundred here in the Old South Meet- ing House, Frank Spector, assistant national secretary, of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, who served a sentence of more than one year in San Quentin with Tom M« for his working class activities in the Im- perial Valley, gave an intimate pic- ture of Mooney’s life in prison. he Tea | 12 Elected in Kenosha. gress in Chicago, at a local Tom| Mooney Conference attended by 33) delegates from 22 organizations, rep-| resenting a membership of 816. paride hese 3 The LRA. statement reads in part: “The raising of the struggle on be- half of Mooney and Billings to new | and then issue the injunction. Yes- | terday in court, no defense argu- | ments were allowed. The judge just | | took the briefs of the company |for united struggle for decent living ers to strike on May Ist and make | conditions. CLOAK MASS MEETING TODAY | * USS of open air meetings in | the fur, dress, cloak, millinery and IN BRYANT HALL | whitegoods markets will be carried | heights through this Congress has a Mass Send Off in Kensington. | great significance at this particular PHILADELPHIA, April time. Loosening the hold of the so- 24, — All| | delegates going to the Free Tom) “il fascists on the organized workers Mooney Congress in Chicago will be| in the U.S.A. means a tremendous present at a mass send-off meeting| ‘teP forward in the struggle against day evening, it was announced today. the U.S.A., like their prototypes in The delegates will leave by car im- other lands, being part of the ap- mediately after the meeting. | paratus by which the capitalist class BM es | holds the masses back from resistance 47 Delegates in Bellevite Meet _ to their war plans. BELLEVILLE, I 1 1.—Forty-seyen| The Mooney-Billings eases are the delegates representing 21 organiza-| best means for exposing concretely tions, with a total membership of| to the American working class the 29,765, participated in the local Free | treachery of these social-fascist lead- Tom ‘Mooney conference. A plan was| ers just as they are the best basis for worked out for involving an even| penetrating into the working class larger number of organizations in| unions and other groups which are in Kensington Labor Lyceum, Thurs-| the war danger, the social-fascists in | der advisement, and he will cide” whether or not to issue the injunction. Today at 1 p. m. all cloakmakers are called to a mass meeting in Bry- ant Hall, 42nd Street and 6th Ave., through Wednesday. Workers are col- lecting funds for four bands of music frou Joseph Boruchowitch and La oe PB euatend aan ee Louis Hyman will speak on the gear : |united front policy of the Industrial | 'Tades workers and the general la- |Union and the proposals with which | °F movement, |the committee of the Industrial) |The | Executive Meee Pres on | Union came to the General Execu- are a heaping | tive Boat of the International. Ali| ce cee iret Semoustradian ane cloakmakers are urged to come to e last meeting of e Executive |this mass meeting without fail. pete it wee see ro ete a i: } | ie members of the I. L. G. W. U., |[ABOR UNION MEETINGS > ana Millinery workers and hat- NEEDLE TRADES ters, and Amalgamated clothing work- Fur Department ers not to split their ranks on May Meanwhile, over 600 workers de- monstrated~ yesterday against the pending Foltis Fischer injunction at the corner of 40th Street and 6th Avenue. This demonstration was held under the joint auspices of the Food Workers Industrial Union, the Foltis- Fischer strike committee, and the 6th Avenue Grievance Committee. Be- sides denouncing the use of injunc- tions in labor disputes, the assembled workers passed resolutions for re- Southwestern Illinois in the Chicago Free Tom Mooney Congress, Among the organizations represent- ed at the conference were three local six locals of the Progressive Miners of America, five fraternal organiza- tions, and one women’s auxiliary. OV rey S. Rally Cleveland Workers CLEVELAND, O. — Young workers in the east side of this city are ac- tively taking up the struggle for Tom Mooney. At a meeting of the Harry Simms Youth Branch of the Inter- national Workers Order, April 21, Joseph Schiffer, district secretary of the I.W.O., spoke on the Mooney case. A Free Tom Mooney dance will be held by the youth group on April 29, at the Metropolitan Hall, 10609 Superior Ave. The Tom Mooney Branch of the International Labor Defense anroun- ces a Mooney banquet, April 29, at Kinsman Workers Center, 14101 Kinsman Road. . NEW YORK.—The International Red Aid, parent organization of the International Labor Defense, has is- sued an appeal to workers in all coun- tries to support the struggle for the freedom of Mooney and Billings as an important factor in the fight KENOSHA, Wis., April 24.—Tweive against “‘war-danger and against the social fascists who in the U.S.A, still unions and three central bodies of | |the American Federation of Labor, | under the social-fascist control.” After all attempts on the part of the bosses to break the strike in the Pretty laundry against wage cuts and firing had failed, the bosses of the Pretty laundry at 585 Eagle Avenue were granted an injunction by Just- ice Callahan restraining the Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union from ail activities in conducting the strike. The strikers are stopped from picketing, circularizing strike leaflets, street meetings and all other strike activ- ities, This injunction comes at the end of eight weeks of the most vicious terror, The General Secretary, Leon Blum, was framed, and with the help of the New York Parole Board, rail- roaded to jail for 4 years. The Presi- dent of the Union, Sam Berland, was framed on felonious assault and is | now out on five thousand dollars bail, Joseph Stillman, another organizer, is still in jail, being held without. bail. Many other active workers are also out on bail. The L. W. I. U. is determined to fight this vicious injunction with all its means. All workers are asked by | the strikers not to give thelr leundey to strike breakers, LAUNDRY TOILERS FIGHT INJUNCTION | ; Cafeterias which was used in the come up again in court today. Workers and workers organizations | are urged to send telegrams of pro- test to Judge Philip J. McCook, Su- preme Court, New York County, New York demanding the right to organize, strike, and picket, and for the non- issuance of an injunction in the present Foltis-Fischer strike, BOSSES ATTACK PAPER STRIKER | NEW YORK:—Aroused by the at- | tack on one of their members in the | Equitable Paper Bag strike by three s the workers are organizing strong resistance to stop further at- tacks on pickets. One hundred seventy workers are out in the strike, and despite all the boss has tried in breaking the strike, Picket line is strong every day. Sunday in the New York American. seabbing in face of the determination of the strikers. NOTICE Letters from steel, metal and auto workers are published every Tuesday, general cafeteria strike of 1929 will! the workers’ spirit is good and the} vertisement inserted by the owner} None were hired however, the bosses | becoming doubtful of the success of | Elections We Bronx, 608 Cley t 3882 Srd Avenue, Brooklyn, | Open Forum Bryant Hall tonight, Independent Carpenters Union | Final Mobilization for My Day by the In- | dependent Carpenters Union ‘The Union is arranging a lecture on the history and significance of May Day, am |Nessin, Secretary of the B.C. W.'T. b. | will deliver this lecture. The lecture will | take place on Wednesday, April 26, at 8:30 |P. m., at 818 Broadway near 1ith Street. |, After the lecture final preparations for the May Day demonstration will bo made. | All members of the Union must be present. | RALLY POCKET BOOK WORKERS | FOR MAY 1 NEW YORK.—To rally the pocket book workers for May 1, the Rank and File Committee of the Pocket | Book Workers Union has called an | affair for Saturday night April 29 at their new headquarters, 35 East 19th Street. There will be in addition jentertainment and refreshments. Suet a Building Maintenance Workers Union Important Membership Meeting of the | Butlding Maintenance Workers Union, to be held this Wednesday, April 26, 8 p. m. at About 70 workers answered an ad-| the Finnish Workers’ Hall, 18 W. 196th St., | |near Pifth Avenue, N. ¥. C. 3A. F. L, Carpenters Locals to Demonsirate On May Day The three carpenters locals of United Brotherhood Carpenters and Joiners of America Local 1164, 2000, 2717 will hold a May Day celebration mass meeting on | Sunday afternoon April 30 at 1p. m., at [Irving Place and 18th St,, New York City. |A_ fine musical program has been asrenged land a prominent speaker will address the meeting on the stmificance of May Day, ' Shep Chairman's meeting today after, First but to go to their local meet- cognition of the Soviet Union and | work ar ‘union headquarters 2 t for the freedom of Tom Mooney and | Elections, Wedneseay and Thursday in| 28S and to demand that all locals |the nine Soottabero’ Bove Union office. {join in the united front May Day ‘The injunction of the Wil-Low Di artment demonstration so as to show the unity of the needle trades workers in | their common struggle against the | bosses. All needle trades workers are called upon to see that not a single wheel turns in any of the needle trades shops on Monday, May First. MANY SHOPS STRUCK IN NEEDLE TRADES NEW YORK. — During the last week, a number of shop strikes have been declared in the dress and fur trades, The active workers are called upon to assist the strikers on the picket Une in front of the following | shops: avis Dress, 104 West 27th St.; L Staing Dress, 571 Eighth Avenue; Classic Dress, 483 Seventh Avenue; Triangle Fur, 231 W. 29th St.; Coop- ermen & Lister; Konig & Greenberg. 150 W. 30th St.; Oldman Bros., 386 Seventh Ave.; B. Axel, 330 Seventh Avenue. Plans are being made for inten- | Sifying this campaign during the | coming week. | | | CALL PRINTERS TO SPECIAL MEET FOR MAY 1 NEW YORK.—A special May Day membership meeting has been called by the Printing Workers Industria! Union for Thursday, April. 27, 6.3¢ p.m, at 80 East 11th Stree ’