The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1933, Page 2

Page % DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY MAY 3, 1933 BARRI IN BERLIN BY KLAUS NEWKRANTX es DES ed by INTERNATIONAL 38) Fourth CA Special Pe OUIRT 22d this book and spread “aM it among their friends. ROGERS URGES > CENT TAX ON AL, CITY PARES Nevises New Scheme to Aid Rankers and Hit City Worke NEEDLE UNION PUSHES INQUIRY Demands Official Ac- tion on Murderous ELECT DELEGATES | OF NEEDLE UNION TO ‘END FURNITURE wor von eciew ow win) WEEK STRIKE WITH VICTORY on in the various departments of the NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union for delegates to the Scottsboro | March to Washington to demand the} strike of the STOP THE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF IOWA FARM COUNTIES! N. Y. TRADE UNION NEWS MANY ORGANIZATIONS IN SCOTTSBORO FIGHT THRU BiG NATIONAL COMMITTEE Activities for Scottsboro March on May 8th THUS FAR ' TORE | Moy 2 Attack unconditional release of the nine| BOrKers at the Furniture’ Reported From Various Cities of the U. 8. e preparing to demonstrate May Day, 1929, despite sof aGankin NEW ict Attorney | Scottsboro boys ar the! manila hea PO sara 5 aang Fise ot y the Socialist Police Chief, Zoerziebel. Anna, wife of the n its fieht to m he five-cent Crain ver to the | bill of rights for the Negra m won their demands fo: || NEW YORKo--F ublic tion of the Hap Pe members ofthe an active member of the Communist Party Insteed of a direct raise the| Ne Industrial | From 25 to 30 delegates are expe! sek pay in full, for the abolition of | Executive of the National Scottsboro Action Committee reweals { d that the owner of an ice-cream store on their street is a police — prof proposes a 2-cent tax on ali) Union its see for | to be sent by the Industrial U the aii i ae ert the broad composition of the committee which is engagdd in cane iie: . are being made at the police-station to will net the city some-| action against the instigators and a In connection with this campaign | 2stead o: jours, scabs to be fire abel 7 e, aeeteiiios i F the Sots 7 eae ok, ton dion r : thing like $40,000,000 per year and| sailants of the attack on the Union| «ne Industrial Union has arranged| 8d for recognition of thelr shop °° pensive un ted front activities on behalf of the Scottqboro is workete’ 6 on is attacked by the police. will help to pay the bankers that) headquarters. 3 two open forums, one for today, at| 98d for recognition of their s si Oys. \ ‘ % arias hold city subway bonds Attention: Messrs. Gold and Potash,}; "pm. at the Needle Trades Cencer,| committee. The workers have also! Tye executive mittee of theé-——-——— Bee 1 aN | 1 gogy About Bankers Sirs 140 West 36th Street, end one for| Won the righ “| body, as augmented, now includes: ;_W. C. Handly, famefi con, { one 3 demagogy,, Your letter of the 27th has been| tomorrow, Ceacehg = Paiers : reat Hamley Winlield, \dancd ‘ submitted to| referred to me for reply. I beg to aint’ Union, was led| Roger Baldwin, Amex 4 _ Metropolitan Opera) Com: ee of the City] advise that the members of this sta Strect. At both o/| 23 * Industrial) erties Union; J. B. vs, Fellow- | pany Brodie ton, of Dimperor ones"; fat ia that the oity who are preparing the cases en forums the subject of dis-| Uuicn. ship of Reconciliation; A, Clayton (°° Se Arges Alabama td ted to the whims of bankers,| tioned for prompt submission to the ion will be “The Struggle for the| —A fu!l report of the strike will be) Powell, Aybssinian Baptist Church; prea We Meee sts i a Mg ie b ne. He's quite right. made demands for fare increases| Grand Jury will be pleased to re-| Freedom of the Scottsboro Boys and| given tonight at a mecting of the) James W. Ford, Trade Union pit bee Asotin them n shouted 1 was ti The fat man had to rying ge’ Stand still! Who are you? do you come from?” fundamental proposition, to gouge| tion has communicated with the! pie Sk aS BA | | Forum; John Henry Hammond, Jr..|“tenry Shepherd, of the »d in vain to free him-| millions out of the sw and other| members of this staff in any effort to FUR UNITY MEET | National Committee for Defense of) gnion unity Council will talk ab & firm grip ransport will be put through responsibility, nor will the 2-000 BAKERS Political Prisoners; W. ©. Handy,| seottshoro meeting im the Getiiise- “Can't a| in another, that is to say a disguised. g of responsibility. be per-| a faa ERRORS, COMERS RS Toe ee tang, Baptist hur, 3711 ‘Thyrd Tm a worker) Further Increase Unemployment | Respectfully yours, B Ly AUN «0 ON STRI Maywoed Dery aisy pet vs ent Wilffam 1, Patterson will address y began to speak very tax, every increase in prices, ALBERT BLOGG UNGER, | erloa; Heywood bea or! etd |the students and faculty of How dialect like a prole-| cuts down further the demand for| Administrative Assistant — | AS SHOPS SETTLE. | gram: Greil Briege, Bs er of ane | University. Washingtan, D. Gy rT i - ry 5 iberator, - de * ay an . pone goods and forces the toiling popula- District Attorney. 0 | NEW YORK—A strike involving| aig nee ; bs : 1at—a worker?” Kurt shouted | tion to live on less, with the result| In spite of ‘these assurances given a for Progressive Labor Action (Nat'l); ) Other Scottsboro mectings are be) 5 and saw fat, ros? fingers with anicured nails. A worker who ceive any additional legal evidence in aid and wage cuts before they would re- finance the $140,000,000 due on May 1. His proposals are made only so the bankers can feel secure because their your possession which will in | such submission. No representative of any organiza- y to overcome their difficulties | trades are urged to send telegrams to, | Governor Lehman and to District At- | | torney Crain demanding a thorough | any wa} makes matters worse. the Struggles of the Needle Workers.” | Prominent speakers will address both | meetings. Broadway, | the trade to the meeting. \ union scale. of all sections of the fur industry in} | Large scale bakers have a contract} struggle against racketeers and for) frame makers and wood carvers, 818) League; : The Furniture Workers’| Philips Church; William L. Patter-| | Industrial Union calls all workers in| son, Shelton Hale Bishop, St. Labor Defense; | Harlem Interracial | International Edward Welsh, Labor Action; Samuel C. Patterson, | | 2,000 union bakers was called ©M| xjaud White, Trade Union Unity|ing held in Norfolk and Rick boro Action Commitee. On May 5 there will also Scottsboro meeting in the New \Era Club, at 274 East Broadway, t all could hear him, “just you! that less goods can be bought with] by the office of the District Attorney rs : Ma: an ; | sour} st” ” 8 | He May 1, against en attempted lowering oil; ish ise: i" imor i - Chi- pour bendals the same money. ‘This slows up pro-| the Needle Trades. Workers’ Industrial Lv, ©. U..and Unions t0 | cethe’wage coaie by the cmall ary | outa aur ab get Rpscopal | Va.; in Relimore, Philadelphia aoe eee Nee uied. Shere | Cuction still more, with consequent | Union calis upon the workers to-con-| Fionn Defense Corps | owners. The proposed wage out is| sec'y., National Committee for the |in the South End of Chicasq nt one.” Kurt tore the| {crease in unemployment, which still) tinue to mobilize for increased pe-| by | instigated by the large scale bakery | Defense of Political Prisoners; Sophie | nearly three hours last week. from behind the back of the| {Utther cuts down the market. Thus} test against this murderous attack. NEW YORK~—The conference held| OWNErS, who are organizing the| Epstein, Women’s Counc! John | ek ab ke Held) thent, tightly round, tha| CYer?. Sampt .gt the capitalists 10) SAR ot Oe eT amen Saturday to form a united front | Maller bakers to pare down the) Godber, Conference for Progressive | Philadelphia Tag Day Meet May 5. PHILADELPHIA. May 2.—The I. L. Caribbean Union and Grand United, D. here is arranging a tag day for a t wage standing near by celled out: 2 7 7 rove conditions has sady| with the union which runs for five| Order of Odd Fellows; William Fitz-| May 5, 6 and 7 to raise funds for the Manin sne| “With these you can only work on abate a7 te al | snvestleaticn ot the attack and pro- Baka! iia er sec Years. ‘They are determined to lower| Serald, International Labor Defense | Scottsboro March delegation to nber 3,| Your old woman in bed!” There WaS| WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2, —| SP any oulside interterence. shops settled on Saturday and Mon-| Wages from $12 4 night to $8 a night,| (Harlem Division); Mrs. Adelaide) Washington. Workers are urged to then hed @ burst of laughter. A referendum vote of the member-| weepte FRACTION MEET TONITE | day, among them several very impor-| and are using: the 400 small shops.to| Blackwell, Bureka Temple of Mika) epuet 0 the nearest Offibe of the “Damned provocateur!’ — roared |<inip of the International Brotherhood | bs bie tant firms. put over this cut. Large scale bekers,| Women); | Cys Fai, Aye Frere ane for boxes and euppliss, ‘coming here to incite the|cf ‘mlectrical Workers has decided| There will be a meeting of all eiuen taroe i according to the terms of their con-| Literary Association; Mary D. 4 a You swine!’ In the same! thet a convention of the union must | members of the Needle Trades Party| ,.2%,,0l! cases improved conditions| 1.0: with the union, may automat-| Supreme Cofinell of Moses; Grace; Meeting Yn Providence May & nent the fat one crashed agains’) be held this year. Rank and file| fraction tonight at 8 p. m, at Man- | fOr the workers Were Gblaing ically lower wages to the level of the| Campbell. Professional Workers! PROVIDENCE, R. I. May 2—On unemployment insurance secured. ! The campaign to spread out shop strikes is gaining impetus. At pres~- ent there are eight shops on strike, and new shops are scheduled to be taken down. League; Herman Osborne, National | the day that workers will be massed Students League; John J. Ballam,/in Washington to present the Bill of International Labor Defense; G. B.| Civil Rights to President Roosevelt Maddox, Williamsbridge Scottsboro|and Congress, a Scotisboro mass Action Committee; Mrs. C. J. West; | meeting will be held in Providence. Sidney Spencer, Young Communist |. The meeting, to be held on Monday, the blinds of the shop. his cap slip- shops, I ped comically on one side. smaller shops, In the. plan to impose this wage cut on the smaller shops, | the large scale bakers are bolstering up the small shops promising them police protection and no infringement pressure forced this decision. | hattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street. British Wreckers and British The new ss piumber ook out The swine wants to| The stool-pigeon had pu?! started. They realized that they had Editorial Note:—This is one of a series of articles on recent pam- bers for this Thursday, 8 p.m., at the | ers, John Reed Club; Louise Thomp- son, Secretary of former Scottsboro tened people e 2 ° . oe on their trade. | ‘Gengue: J. i Steele, Elks: . 4 She x: and into his hip pocket. With In line with the decision of Satur- = ats | League; J. Dalmus ecle, S$; | May 8, at 7:30 p.m,, will take place : Laie shy foe lof pain his right arm dropped. W orker s in the So V let Union day's conference, the Industrial Union| . SeVeray workers were injured yes-| Joseph Moore, Mechanies Association; |in Ebenezer Baptist’ Church, on “A” Saher s second blow had caught his is calling ‘a-foint mesting of all trade (SAY, Whar Clases. omtirred Per Herman |W HeneeeR te e ec eer a ete ea. wo, the dw shoulder. Now other wi 8 » _| tween strikers and scabs. Struggle for Negro Rights; Paul Pet-|liams, of the Olney St. Baptist shoulde Now the other workers A REVIEW BY MILTON HOWARD boards and executive council mem. Church; Eugene Gordon, noted jour- nalist of Boston; John Watkins, of nearly fallen into the trap of a pro- itori st | | voeateur. ae phiets to acquaint our readers with the life and achievements in the tea aeae See ae vee * mote |) AILORS’ UNION Unity Defense Committee; Frank | the National Association for the Ad- “Into the passage with him,” some- Soviet Union. The month of May has been set aside for a concerted izing all sections of the Union will be|! j Palmer, Federated Press; Wm. N. | Vancement of Colored People, and one shouted. drive to distribute a group of pamphlets vividly describing all phases of | worked out. | Jenes, Baltimore Afro-American; | Anna Bloch, active in Providence in x “| “Kill the swine.” Soviet life. These pamphlets can be secured from the International ; : : | TO OFFER UNITY Matthews Crawford, Jr., Scottsboro| the Scottsboro campaign. The meet- e groups of “He must not geton the street Ar the Work Lib ) Publish P.0 Today at 1:30 in the afternoon an Av Committee in San Francisco; Loren|ing is being called under the aus- ounded a Work-! opin.” - Ot Roblidhers, (56h mopptnAveries oF HAS ers Library Publishers, PO. | open forum of fur finishers will be | | Miller, Rditor of California Eagle, Los| pices of the Scottsboro branch of the er who wes telling how it happened.| "a few steps further on a house| 2™ *® Station. D., "New, York,’ -. “ held at 131 West 28th Street to dis- i r Angeles; Eugene Gordon, Boston | I. L. D. : 4 pubs it was no long-| door slammed. The people who had ; cuss the evil of contracting and plans, Will Call on I. W. W.|! Post: J. B. Blayton, Aidanta, Ga.| Another meeting, at which Mrs. t had been in the/ g, in fe h nae “Thomas Monger,” illustrated—10° cents, for eradicating it. | * * Negro Chamber of Commer en-| Janie Patterson, mother of Haywood gathered in front of the house were | f . Ji t A rt g) amber 01 mmerce, Ben: scarcely one man| at once dispersed by a young worker: “The Dzershinsky Tractor Plant”—10 cents. ‘At 6:30 p.m. tonight there will be a | or vom CtlON —_| jamin J. Dayis, Jr., Atlanta Commit-| Patterson, will speak, will be held noi seen for himself how “Comrades—go away! There's more “Magnitogorsok”—10 cents. conference of representatives of the| - | tee for Defense of Angelo Herndon; |0m Thursday, May 11, at the Olney on the Ist Of than one split in the street. The “From Stalingrad to Kuzbas,” by Anna Louise Strong—I5 cents. | city clubs, Labor Sports Union and| NEW YORK.—The Marine, Work-| Rev. J. W. Brown, Mother Zion | St. Baptist Chureh in Providence. © | police will soon be back again in any “Kuznetskstroi—Giant Steel Plant”—10 cents. | revolutionary trade unions affiliated | ers Industrial Union section of the) Church; Rev. R. M. Bolden, First with the Trade Union Unity League,| United Front May Day parade had Emanuel Church; William M. Kelly, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth | over 1,500 sailors and marine workers! Amsterdam News; Dr. Thomas s. Street, for the purpose of taking up| in its ranks. The spirit of the march| Harten, Holy Trinity Baptist Church, | case.” : Out of the passage came the sound} of muffled blows and the screams of College Persecutes Students for Dancing “German Workers in the Soviet Union’ As the prosecutor in the .Moscowe-— ~ trials tears away the veil of lies from{ professors and engineers set to work) ds through the streets s' the Nettelgeckplatz. For! the stool-pigeon. Sh AB st page robe Beds ak oe barawi r | 4 i j d the militancy of its sl rew| Brooklyn; Dr. L. H. King, St. Marks) yy7e. . sh say k ni : s' y of the British wreck-/ drawing up the plans for the building| the problem of forming a joint de-| and the militancy of its slogans drew . is, | fatal shot no! young worker in the “Red Night-|ers, we have a group of pamphlets| of electric power stations. tense corms to defend the unions from | over many of the I. W. W. rank and| Church; Channing H, Tobias, Y. um. With Negro Girls be seen in the jngale’ who had somehow aroused | that gives us the simple and pro-| The capitalists ridiculed the plans.| attacks of gangsters and racketcers| file from their small section of the} ©. A.: A Representative of Corona | = rats sO uspicion, barely managed to save | foundly stirring story of how a Brit-| Impossible. Ridiculous, Crazy. Trotsky | and to protect strikers on the picket- | building trades, general defense com- Scottsboro Committee; Richard War-| (By a Worker Correspondent) | DEOwS self in the last moment from ajish worker, aware that he is taking|said we must have something more | jine. | mittee, etc., who were all marching| 2¢r} Samuel Mitchell; H. I, Thomas;| PITTSBURG, Kan—We had “an nilar fate. One among the Red/|part in the building of a new work-| realistic. The Soviet Union went| SO i , | under the banner of the Marine | Seward L. Virgil. lexciting event on the campus of | Front men present happened to know ers’ world, achieves one of the high-|ahead despite all ridicule, Construc-| 4? important meeting of es 4 Transport Workers Industrial Union 8pm, ee Teachers College here recently, Three from THE RED FLAG ‘The window in the third floor was below and lo e abo slowly in t: g was flying one side ne pointed a finger towards it. In the red cloth could clearly be n four round holes against the Outside s shop at the thered. An un- Speaking to the “Bravo!” shouted, “He's quite right!” Kurt coming out of the “Red Night- ingale” with ter the police had retreated he had found her in the street—glanced at the crowd. He had been vain for Paul uss the situation. tion in the alley was getting more and more dangerous every moment. | At any moment the police would re-| turn and no one could possibly tell what would heppen. It was es tial that they should keep the leadership of the excited crowds firmly in their han “Someone is speaking over there,” Anna said to him. Those outside the butcher’s shop were laughing and ap- plauding. Then Kurt heard the loud sharp voice begin again. His atten- tion. was now aroused. “Who is that?” A STOOL PIGEON He crossed the street to the crowd and pushed his way to the front. On the steps of the shop, the blinds of which’ were drawn, was a man in a biack leather jacket. His unhealthy, bloated face was red with excitement. From time to time his oily voice broke into a falsetto screech. “Funny guy,’ thought Kurt. That won't be the only one,” the fellow in the leather coat was shout- ing. “And are we to fight with bare fists azainst revolvers and machine~ guns?” “Quite right,” a woman shouted. “Only revolvers are of any use against revolvers.” “Bravo!” For the first time this dangerous, provocative word had fallen and it found ready soil. An excited discus- sion followed. Everyone shouted at once. Yes—he is right. Shoot down these murderers of the workers! Just as they shoot us, It is only self-de- fence, Are we to wait till more of us-are lying dead on the ground? Kurt elbowed his way slowly forward. “Comrades .. .” the fat one shout- ed and pointed his finger over their heads, “over there in the Ufer Sta- tion there are plenty of arms and ammunition ,, , Come on—let’s get My hat the posi- | him since he worked in the same factory. Strange faces aroused sus- picion now. Too many plain-clothes men mixed with the workers in the neighborhood of the alley, and not all the stool-pigeons were as clumsy m3 the fat one outside the butcher's shop. (TO BE CONTINUED) WORKERS—EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE son Ave. Brooklyn. N. ¥ Near Ho} WORKERS PATRONIZE CENTURY CAFETERIA ,154 West 28th Street Pure Food Proletarian Prices DOWNTOWN JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12 & 13 Welcome to Our Comrades | Phone Tomkins Sq. 6-9554 | John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A piace with atmos where all endicnis | 302 E. 12th st. New York 29 EASY 14TH STREET NEW YORK Tel. Algonquin 3356-8843 We Carry a Full Line of STATIONERY AT SPECIAL PRICES for Organizations CLASSIFIED lest honors of the Soviet Union, the|tion began in 1922. Lenin personally Order of the Red Flag. Together) watched the work, In 1927 the power | with this heroic story, there is a group, plant at the Dnieper River was begun. | of pamphlets in whose pages there|A famous American engineering firm | lrise before us the giant fortresses of | Was called in, Hugh L. Cooper & Co.| | Socialism, Magnitorsk, Dnieprostroy,| Colonel Cooper took personal charge Stalingrad, tof the work. 42 { . . ” i .! By the beginning:of the first Five | Together they make an epic of s0- yar Hed ETL at wae corninten | cialist construction and heroism that) \ ~~ surpasses in real thrills a hundred| Dnieprostroy is now the largest power | dam in the world. | capitalist “thrillers.” As one reads; German Workers Help them, the heart beats with excite-| ment and pleasure. A group of foundry workers in | Berlin, out of jobs for many months, Thomas Monger. decided to go to the Soviet Union, Thomas Monger, British machine| where the Workers’ Government has | assembler, arrived in Russia seven| forever done away with the capitalist years before the Revolution. He saw | curse of unemployment. \the brutal oppression of the workers) These German workers have written | under the Czar. He saw the work- of their experiences. They write, “The ers topple the czar from his throne.| working class runs its plants itself. |He saw them take over the factories|A manager appointed by the organs |for their own use. He saw the work-| of the working class is at the head of lers depart for the front to crush the | the plant. He directs the work of the chairmen and delegates shops working on muskrat will take |, place tomorrow, Thursday, right after work, at the union auditorium, 131 West 28th Street. While the Industrial Union is going ahead with preparations for the mon- ster demonstration in Union Square decided upon at last Saturday's con- ference, the joint scab council is |-@etting desperate at its inability to stop the growing struggles of the furriers. The latest information is that they have gotten back Willie Rosenfeld, one of their old hired | gangsters, who was away from the trade for the last five years while he engaged in bootlegging, and have assigned him the task of supplying scabs to all shops where the furriers are striking for better conditions. The Fur Department warns the fur- riers to beware of this strikebreaker, | stiffens their fingers. | White Guard armies of Kolchak and Denikin. He saw the factory where the works were rusting and crum- | bling for lack of care. | Monger invented improvements in |methods which saved the factory | thousands of roubles. Monger led the shock-brigades which placed the factory first in the production of |rolled metal. The workers decided to express to this unassuming hero of |labor their appreciation. Today, |Monger is working in the Soviet | Union, an honored fighter for Social- ism, who builds while the con- | temptible British wreckers try to de- | stroy. Building a Tractor Plant. Here is how the workers built a | tractor plant. A certain part of the |roof had to be completed at once. |It was 29 below zero. A snowstorm was raging. A woman's brigade vol- unteers to do the job while the men work the machines below. Bitter cold Their ears and hands are frost-bitten. Not one flinches. The roof is completed. Americans Plan Steel Plant. Near the Asiatic steppes rises Mag- nitogorsk, largest stell plant in all Europe, Its construction was planned and supervised by American engi- neers, Calder, the chief American engineer, has received the Order of Lenin, In a year and a half, the Russian workers created a city of 180,000 people. Special kitchens for workers are built. Every. group of houses has its nursery, its library, its kindergarten, its laundry. Wages are high. The workers come first everything. ‘They are the masters of this steel plant, which rivals the larg- est plants in Gary, Indiana, The Gary plants are asleep. The furnaces | at Magnitogorsk roar day and night, | building a better life for the workers. | LARGE, sepny. | gitt o> cone! operative Ho | =K-2) telephone: Olin airy, furnished , tor) kitehen privilege; im Co- 2800 Bronx Park East, 22548, ‘ . . The Giant Power Plant I the midst of Civil War in 1920, Lenin’outlined the plans! for the elec- trification of Russia, Two hundred paid.’ a Union provides free medical treat- ii plant, in close contact with ‘the trade unions and the Party organizations of the plant, the management, the workers’ committee, and the Commu- nist nucleus of the plant. The work is carried on under the direction of foremen and engineers, But they are not looked upon as higher-ups, but as comrades and fellow workers, as we are.” They write, “We have a five-day week, and we get a month’s holiday with full pay, and all the benefits which only a workers’ Socialist State is able to give.” American Engineers One of the most important experts in Stalingrad in the steel mill is E. C. Wood. In Anna Louise Strong’s magnificent pamphlet there are dozens of intimate sketches of Amer- ican workers in the Soviet Union. Engineer Wood knows that there is sabotage in the factories of the Soviet Union. Wood knows, because he has detected many instances him- self, His specialty is discovering the reasons for breakdowns in the ma- chinery. Wood contracted pneumonia. They gave him a day and a night nurse; and an extra interpreter-nurse. A doctor was with him all the time. ‘Wood says, “You couldn’t get better treatment anywhere in the world. I worried over the bill. I thought it would be at least a thousand rubles. I said to the managers that they would have to spread my payment for the bill over several months. They laughed and said, “That's already I discovered that the Soviet workers!” re Ra ‘These pamphlets are solid. In them is the living material of the build-, ing of socialism. In them is packed a mine of information vital to every worker and friend of the Soviet Union. They are worth many times their price,” ment for all Willie Rosenfeld. Cloakmakers Vote at Union Tomorrow NEW YORK.—Cloakmakers, mem- bers of the Industrial Union, will have their elections tomorrow, Thursday, from 7 o'clock in the morning till 9 o'clock at night at the office of the union, 131 West 28th Street, 6th floor, ‘They will elect their paid officers, trade broad members and members of the executive council, All cloakmakers, members of the union, are urged to participate in the voting. BUTTON WORKERS STRUCK MAY FIRST NEW YORK.—Sixty workers of the World Button Works, located at 119 Fourth Avenue went out on strike on May First because one of the uni men was fired from his job replaced by a young boy. At strike meeting the strikers mously voted to continue the until the bosses give in to mands of the workers, On the seoond morning the boss claimed that he about the strike because he was é 3% E : E ie changed his mind wanted talk to the Committee. As these are being written, the negotiat are going on between the committee and the boss. The Workers International Relief, a | 510, in the United Front, to the M. W. | 1. U. section, | The Marine Workers Industrial | Union and the Waterfront Unem- | ployed Council will make proposals . to the I. W. W, to continue the United | Front activities of May Day. for im- | mediate relief of jobless seamen and | harbor workers and for struggle on | the ships, under the general slogans | of “Against wage cuts, for three watches, for full crews and longshore | gangs.” NEW YORK.-—The Marine Workers Industrial Union and the Trade Union Unity Council are carrying out prep- arations for three tag days, May 12, 18 and 14, to help the fight against shipment of munitions and for build- ing of the union. Already the United Council of Workingclass women have taken sevéral hundged boxes to be used by their members in helping the | union’s activities. Other organiza- | tions are called upon to arrange to aid in making these tag days suc- cessful. Towboat Agreement Action Demanded by Rank and File NEW YORK.—The officials of the Marine Workers Association are stall- ing their membership and not in- forming them the negotiations taking place with the towboat owners for renewing the expired agreement, The agreement ran kee ag 1 and ‘ 5) propaganda in favor of accepting a wage-cut. A rank and file group is demanding a special meeting, with all | members to be notified and to adopt proposals to tt to the owners instead of iting on them to come in with their demands, JOB SHARKS GRAFT ON SEAMEN’S JOBS similarly | Chureh Groups Back Defense SCHENECTADY, N. Y., May 2—A resolution denouncing the attacks on the Scottsboro boys in the Jefferson County jail in Birmingham ‘and a de- mand that they be freed, was adopted by the Young People’s Union of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church there. A similar resolution was adopted by the First Community Baptist Church of Schenectady, which took up a col- lection to defray expenses of the three Schenectady delegates to the Scotts- boro March. The delegates will be given a farewell meeting to be held at Lithuanian Hall, 703 Windsor Ter- race, on Thursday. The resolution follows: “We, members of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Young Peopte’s Union of Schenectady, strongly protest the at- tack of the prison guards on the de- fenseless nine innocent Scottsboro boys. We condemn this as an at- tempt to seek excuse to lynch the boys behind prison walls. We hold the Governor of Alabama responsible for the safety of the boys. We de- mand unconditional release. of all the boys, and we will do what we can to help secure their freedom.” (Copy to Governor of Alabama, President Roosevelt, Warden of Jef- Seen County Prison, labor and local préss). A mass benefit performance for the Scottsboro boys will be staged in the Orange, N. J. May 5, with Mrs, Janie Pat , mother of » Scottsboro boy Children”; Buk and Bubbles, R.K.O. TAMMANY’MEN GET TWO YEARS IN JAIL NEW YORK.—Four Tammany elec- tion inspectors received sentences of two years in jail and one dollar fines for returning false ballot returns, in- timidating voters and permitting il- legal voting, The men are not on their way to the “dungeons” of Atlanta however. The stern judge continued their bail so that they may appeal and stay out of jail. If the men do go to jail, it is evident that they will be well com- pensated for “taking the rap”. Norman Thomas is undoubtedly pleased with this farce of “democratic cleansing” of dirty stables. With over ten million disenfranchised Ne- of foreign and na- disqualified we in cooperation with the strikers, has | upon to report any such acts to the| can “march forward to socialism in taken the necessary steps to give strike relief to the strikers, Union, at 140 Broad Street. supposedly illegal to sell sea jobs. It is| our time by use of the ballot”, Oh, yesy young men who were white danced with three Negro girls at a college party. And what happened? The three boys were threatened with physical violence by the members of the stu- dent body. They threatened to shave the boys’ heads, throw them in the pond, and several other. similar stunts. They ended up, through the suggestions of members of the fac- ulty, by forbidding the boys from at- tending any college social functions for the remainder of the year. President Brandenburg made a very insulting speech, in which he said that the boys were a disgrace to the institution, that they had broken all ideals and traditions of the school and society and that they could expect no recommendation from the institution upon gradua- tion. A resolution was passed by the Student Council to prohibit the col ored students from attending college parties in the future. i Now what do you think of that from one of the leading educational institutions in this free America of ours? DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bet, Pitkin & Sutter Ayes.) B’klyn PHONE: DICKENS %-2012 Intern’! Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15th FLOOR AU Work Done Under Persons! Care Dr. WEISSMAN * OPTOMETRIST 106 B. 14th St., near