The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1933, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY TO THE MASSES! ANSWER CALL OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE FOR . MAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1933 20,000 NEW READERS BARRI ILLUSTRATED = BY WALTER THE STORY THUS FAR—The workers of the proletarian district, | summer. Wedding, in Berlin, are preparing to the ban issued by the Socialist Polite Chief, Zoergiebel. Anna, wife of the | IN BERLIN BY KLAUS NEWKRANTZ QUIRT CADES Printed by Special Pormir sion of INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 38) Fourth Avenue, Mew Yerk Gity. ere are urged te book and spread i among their friends. demonstrate May Day, 1929, despite worker, Kurt Zimmerman, an active member of the Communist Party, discovered that the owner of an ice-cream store on their street is a police spy. Meanwhile, preparations are being made at the police-station crush the coming demonstration. to The workers’ demonstration is attacked by the police. . . . About three o'clock the loud sing- fell into the hands of those blue | ing of a demonstration coming from | the Wiesenstrasse into the Koesliner- e was heard; it was led by a} Communist. Everybody ran | down the alley to meet the demon- | stration. Again the windows flew) open, again they shouted “Red) Front!” and waved downwards with their flags. In military formation with closed ranks the marchers pas- | sed through the alley gathering more! and more men and women as they, went along. Anna ran by the side of the dem- onstrators. She was thinking how curiously the demonstration changed at once the expression on the faces of the people in the alley. The nerv- ous tension had vanished. All at once they felt themselves filled with @ sense of a new conscious, confident power, through the steady rhythm of marching shoulder to shoulder. For the first time in her life Anna felt, as she marched through the al- ley with these thousands, a strong wave of elation rising from here heart to her burning eyes. It was a deep inner feeling of happiness that al- most dazzled her. This, she thought, is the cause of the sudden light in the ashen faces. And she was hap- py that she was now going through the same experience . . . She had not noticed that the dem- onstration had reached the Reinick- endorfer Strasse and was now re- turning to the Wiesenstrasse. Only when the singing suddenly stopped and the people around her started to boo, to whistle and to shout: “Down with the murderers of work- ers!” did she see the police helmets glittering closely in front. She was seized by fear, but not for herself—for the others, for all, for the comrades who were now picking up stones. Someone shouted: “Stand where you are, comrades!” She was pushed to the front with the others. The calm light had van- ished from the ashen faces. A pierc- ing woman's voice shrieked from a window: “Bloodhounds?” FAR, AWAY. A THIN, CUTTING VOICE Like a torn gust of wind the shrill voice echoed above the heads of the masses. Out of the Reinickendorfer Strasse, behind them, the long-drawn signal of a police van was heard. Somewhere, far away, she heard a thin, cutting voice: “Fire!” The young man in front of her turned round. The red spot in his buttonhole danced before her eyes. It | disappear from the grey wall. devils below. But over the entrance to number 3 a small red flag was still shining from the first floor. “Down with the rag!’ “Take the flag down! . Four, five of them, shouted one after another. The window-pane crashed on the pavement in front of the house. But the red spot did not A soft wind raised the small four-cornered cloth and made it swell as if it were of lead. And suddenly something unex- pected happened. Something that was more terrifying and dangerous for the police than anything else. A woman laughed! Somewhere as if in the thin air, 2 woman laughed. A short resounding burst of laughter, the expression of a provocative feel- ing of strength that was certain of vietory Like a bird the bright sound hung over the heads of the fright- ened policemen, then it died away and was gone. All in the street had heard it, its echo resounded from the house fronts, climbed up the walls in the back yards, rang in the rooms and cellars, and all at once the colorless faces of the proletarians became alive and strong again. . . . Go on shooting . . . shoot, shoot, murder, kill. . . Whom do you think you are killing? Can you shoot our slums . . . our hunger . . our disease .. . . our unemployment? You murderers of workers! Long Live, Long live what you can never kill with revolvers or cannon: Long Live | The Victory of The World Revoution! And now the faces of the young | policemen paled. The unknown, in- | visible woman who had laugher | aroused a cowardly, paralyzing fear. They started shooting again, madly, furiously, against the walls, into the dark windows, through bolted doors. In number 3 where the flag was still waving above the door a flat- nosed lead bullet went through the house door and hit the leather belt of the worker, Albert Heider, tearing a hole as a big as a fist in his stomach. There he lay behind the large dark door, his legs pulled up and from the [body entrails were hanging like pinkish coolred jelly. (To Be Continued.) Earl Browder became larger and larger. A red circle in mad rotation ... ba . peng... peng... The! quick firing of police pistols cracked straight into the masses. ‘O—o—oo!” the worker before her ed his stomach and collapsed a painful groan. A few yards e- along, the pale hysterical face <a policeman appeared. A stone tore the smooth, beardless skin, bis helmet flew off. Funny— how light his hair was above his bleeding face. After that Anna could remember nothing. The police stormed over her, on- ward. Bullets and clubs cleared the streets. Behind them dark forms of bodies in cramped positions, faces on the ground, were lying in the road- way. From under the stomach of the shot young men a thin streak of blood trickled into the gray dust. A few paces further on an unshaven face the color of ashes stared with wide eyes into the blue sky. Foaming red bubbles burst from the open mouth, The flat-nosed bullet getting him in the back had torn his lungs. One man tried to crawl to the side of the street with a shot knee. A child ran aimlessly and screaming across the street with a drooping hand, ap- parently broken. Someone was call- ing for the ambulance. Four or five young workers carried the wounded carefully into a house. ‘The colorless head of the man with the gurgling mouth hung backward. Three dark puddles remained on the empty street. In the alley the police were run- ning past the quickly locked-up door- ways. Shots cracked between the high walls like the furious barking of mad dogs. The enemy was invisible, the street empty. Behind the dark windowpanes lay the dangerous, hated enemy. Under the helmets the faces were terror-stricken. Before them—behind them—above them— crouched the enemy. The reds were waiting — hundreds, thousands — the whole alley is full of them—the town,... Peng... peng . . . Trembling fingers automatically pulled triggers. The explosion makes a man feel strong and secure. As long as the shooting continues the gray faces of of the enemy remain invisible. Only tive flags remain—the accursed, hated red rags! “Down with those !" an officer shouted. Volleys rang: out on the flags. A split flagpole snapped. Like a shot man it hung against the wall. “Away with the flags from the windows. Glass jingled, mortar epurted through the air. Suddeniy— @ howl of rage from a hundred voices. A huge flag had fallen on the street from the fourth foor. The young policemen who picked it up and began to tear it, grasped the back of his head with a scream. Me had been hit by a sharp-cornered stone. ‘The inhabitants drew the tattered with ©. | | | Is Planning Possible Under Capital- ism? by Earl Browder. Workers’ Library Publishers—te. Esper aie By CONRAD KOMAROWSKI This is the speech made by Com- rade Browder in debate with George Soule on January 13, 1933. In a clear, concise way he shows the relations of the class forces, the real meaning of “planning under capitalism,” the nature of capitalism, why planning is impossible under capitalism, why it is possible only for the working class to establish a real planned economic or- der. The speech is so fundamental a statement of the case that it can be used as a text. Capitalism today is not building or contributing toward a planned so- ciety, but is organizing all of its con- tradictions on a higher plane. The utter bankruptcy of German capital- ism should mean that capitalism, if it can plan, should certainly be plan- ning now. But civil war—the civil war of the ruling class against the workers—in Germany shows unmis- takably that capitalism cannot save itself by planning, that it must seek its way out in war, in catastrophe. Capitalism, of course, is not seeking tastrophe, but everything it does | brings it closer to its end. Comrade Browder relates in a | simple, colorful way the various kinds |of plans, their contradictions, and | their inability to solve the real prob- |lem which he posits as: “Is it pos- ;Sible under capitalism to establish a Planned economy, that is, a stable economy not subject to constantly re- curring, constantly deepening crises?” Capitalist Contradictions, The answer is NO. Comrade Brow- der points out the real nature of the capitalist system, shearing from it all the sophistry and demagogy which hides its true nature, as a system of private ownership, the very fabric of which is a competitive struggle, of war, and whose basic factor is pri- vate ownership of the means of pro- duction on which basis arises the class division of capitalists and work- SETAE, SOME RRR DOWNTOWN Workers Welcome at Ratner’s Cafeteria 116 Second Avenue Feed Workers Indestrial Union. SANDWICH SOL'S LUNCH 101 University Place (Just Around the ‘Sorner) ‘ed flags into the windows, lest they ‘Telephone Tomphine Sqrare ¢-0790-9781 rc mocking at the powerless fountains | on Capitalist Economy | News Br | Roosevelt Plans Vacation WASHINGTON, May 3.—With ai! | | the machinery of government being | speeded up to carry forward the Wail | Street drive against the workers and | farmers and other impoverished sec- | tions of the population, Roosevelt | plans his vacation. He is to go up | to Chicago to help start the world’s | fair racket. Then he goes to the, | Northern y.cods in Maine. Later he | will go to his palatial Hyde Park | home to round out his loafing for the Calis Child “Franklin Depression” | | HARRISON, N. Y., May 3.—A fam- | ily here named a child born a week | | ago after Roosevelt, calling it Frank- |lin Depression Ianterelli. The father | | refused to comment further when the |name was registered with the town clerk. | Insull Resigns as Cornell Trustee ITHICA, May 3.—Martin J. Insull, | | formed utilities magnate and brother of Samuel Insull, now living in| | Greece, after pillaging people who | placed money in his hands, has re- | signed as trustee of Cornell Uni- | versity. There are many more like Insull on the board—the only dif- | ference between them and Insull is \that they haven't been exposed. It |is such bandits that dictate the pol- | icies and the faculties of all colleges | and universities in the United States. ea ae Delerious Prophesies of Taylor NEW YORK, May 3.—Myron C./ Taylor, chairman of the board of the | United States Steel corporation, is | again seeing things. Before a Sal- vation Army gathering he said: “We see an indication of the dawn. The sun is beginning to dispel the gloom. Soon we will emerge; when, no man knows, but soon.” Taylor has been saying similar things since 1929. Oe e Another Rise in Tire Prices NEW YORK, May 3.—A five per cent rise in the price of tires the | first of the week is to be followed by |another 15 per cent rise. This in| spite of the fact that Firestone real- ized more profits last year than ever before in its history. . 8 O’Brien Urges College Cuts | NEW YORK, May 3—Mayor} O’Brien, replying to requests of city college heads for funds to maintain sessions at Brooklyn, Hunter and City colleges, says they do not cooperate in the economy program. He sees no need of trying to know anything. Without even knowing how to talk |or write, hisoner became Tammany | mayor; so why have institutions of so-called higher learning. Anything | he can’t find out from Tammany is | Supplied by the priests—for O'Brien | | this combination answers all ques- | tions. Abolish Common Law Marriage ALBANY, May 3.—Common law | marriages in. New York State are no longer legal. The license clerks, jus- tices of the peace and the clergy were for the bill signed by Lehman because they wanted to get their rake-off on the marriage game. It | will not affect those common law marriages in effect before May Ist. | Pamphlet : ers. Such is the nature of capital- ism that its very own nature divides society, renders impossible mass par- | ticlpation in a planned economy, gen- erates the forces of civil disturbance, ete. Out of this welter of contradic- | tions, out of these competing inter- ests, there will arise a planned econ- omy, but only out of the ashes of the old and meant for a new, a planned society, the socialist society. Private Property Must Be Abolished. | The precondition for the rise of a Planned economy is the abolition of private economy, that is, of the very essence of the capitalist system. Com- rade Browder here points out that it is on this point that the liberals and | the Marxist-Leninists part—‘there is| no road ‘toward Socialism except the | road of building up of the revolution- ary forces within capitalistic society, which will overthrow the system.” The final proof that capitalism cannot plan is that now, in its time of greatest need, it is not planning. All of its so-called “plans” are really perros attacks against the working class, A national plan requires a strong motive force behind it to put it into| effect. Only the working class can| Provide this force. It is the histor-| jeal role of the working class as the | class necessary to carry society for- ward to its next stage that offers the| sole promise of a planned economic | order, Through all the talk of| Planned economy the Soviet’ Union | stands like a landmark. There, there | is % planned economy that does work | —and the requisites for its success are clear, In this debate Comrade Browder took some time to shoot to piecss the typical bourgeois philosophy of the day—pragmatism, or instrumental- ism, showing its absolute bankruptcy. The criterion of the bourgeoisie is, “Does it work?” Today that criterion gives the wrong answer to the bour- geoisie. Their capitalism does not work; and our planned economy does work. It is important to expose this ideological bankruptcy because “the only effects,” as Comrade Browder states, “of the influence of this ideo- logical system upon the working class is a very poisonous one, to create hesitation, indecision, _ hesitation again, more indecision, wait and see, wait and see.” The workers cannot wait—their lessons are before them, the lessons of the victorious road the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union took, the lesson of the historic Hunger March—they must go ahead in a planned way toward a planned society, This important pamphlet sells at a low price—one penny—and can be obtained by every worker, and can be spread widely. It must he, for it contains simple, concise statement that is of utmost importance, iefs [RUBY BATES, CARTER, CHAMLEE AT SCOTTSBORO SEND-OFF TOMORROW Girl Will Tell Own Story; I. L. D. Attorney Will Reveal Unknown Facts About Scottsboro Case at St. Nicholas Arena Ruby Bates Now Sees Life With Worker’s Eyes NEW YORK.— The forces that have made of the Scottsboro case a symbol of the national oppression of 12,000,000 Negro people has also opened the eyes of Ruby Bates to the conditions which involved her.in the case | and made her for a time the unwilling pawn of the Southern Jandlords in their attempt to murder nine innocent Negro boys. An interview with her today revealed a far different Ruby Bates from the one who was pulled off a freight ¢ train two years ago bumming her way. she saw the things that happened to her with the eyes of a worker consci- ous of class forces around her. “Before the first trial,” she said, “I used to think of having to go into the mills so young (she was fifteen when she began to work on the night shift) and about all the people having to work so hard and aa practically nothing for it.” She used.to wonder, she said before the trial, “what could be done, I did not know there was anything.” “I had to work under the boss and his place was so much higher than I was,” “I was considered poor white trash.” “But now,” said Ruby her eyes shining, “now I understand that if all people would all work together instead of against each other it would help everybody.” And to make sure that the reporter did not misunder- stand whom she meant by “every- body” she said “I guess it wouldn’t help the bosses but it would help all the workers.” people working together” in her mind must have been the dawning lesson of the force of Negro and white unity that held back the lynchers hand when the Scottsboro boys faced death. Ruby Bates has grown out of bitter soil, She had only a mother and @ younger sister and a brother too young to work. When she was still in the fifth grade in school she was already slaving in a cotton mill for $2.75. Sometime, “we didn’t know how much we was gettin’ because | the mill store took it all up.” Her mother also worked and got $5 a week, ‘When she aspired to a better job and life she found the greedy hand of capitalism followed her and drove her to prostitution, “Down where I live shorthand at college. it. you learn The bank runs You can go to school for twa | years and they guarantee you a job afterward, but they work you and take all your money except $3 a week,” she continued. She regrets with all her being the part she played in the Scottsboro case. “I feel like its something I've | got to live down.” “T ‘didn’t know the colored boys would be hung.” And with the same courageous | spirit with which she defied the Ala- bama lynch gangs to testify in Deca- tur that neither she nor Victoria | Price has ever been attacked by the | Scottsboro boys said, “I feel like I MASS SEND-OFF MEET IN B’KLYN FOR MARCHERS NEW YORK. — A mass send-off meeting for the Washington, Scotts- boro marchers will be held tonight at 8 p. m. in Brooklyn at the Antiock Baptist Church, 165 Duffield Street between Myrtle and Willoughby Aves. William Patterson, National Secre- tary of the International Labor De- fense Henry Shephard, organizer of the Trade Union Unity Council, and Joe Cohen of the National Students League, will speak, |DAILY WORKER ADVIS. ORY COMM. MEETS SAT- URDAY AT 3 P. M. NEW YORK. — The second meeting of the Daily Worker Ad- visory Committee wil take place this Saturday in the offices of the editorial department, the 8th floor of the Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St., at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Today as she spoke of her life | When Ruby said “all | Ruby Bates, who denied that either che or Victoriz Price were at- tacked by the Scottsboro boys, when she appeared as a star witness in the trial of Haywood Patterson, will be one of the principal speakers at a send-off mass meeting for the Scottsboro Marchers to be held to- Arena, 66th St. and Columbus Ay (Photo courtesy, N. Y. Worid- Telegram.) | made up some by telling the truth in the second trial but I’m still will- | in’ to make up some more.” Tomorrow evening marks her first active part in rallying support to the boys she so inadvertently harmed, She will speak at a mass .send-off meeting to Scotisboro marchers at and Columbus Ave. Ruby Bates has herself become a symbol. morrow night at the St. Nicholas | NEW YORK.—George W. Cham- lee, general Scottsboro defense coun- sel, today was en-route from the South to address the mass meeting at St. Nichglas Arena, 66th Street and Columblis Avenue tomorrow at 8 p.m. at which Ruby Bates will tell | the full details of the frame-up which put nine Negro youths in the shadow of the electric chair. Chamlee is expected to disclose many of the hitherto unpublished facts in the Scottsboro case, which he entered through the International Labor Defense. Besides Serving as a get-away rally | given for the “Scottsboro Marchers | to Washington” who will leave Sat- | urday morning from Union Square ;| for the capitaj, there will be several other important speakers at the meeting held under the auspices of | the National Scottsboro Action Com- mittee. Lester Carter to Speak Among, these will be Lester Car- ter, whose testimony at the second trial of the Scottsboro boys served to help clinch the indubitable nature of the frame-up the Southern lynchers sought to perpetrate against the nine Negroes. Carter, held in jail prior to the first trial but not called because the pro- secution knew he would reveal the truth, the two girls were not at- tacked on the train, was put on by the defense at ine retrial. “Just because these boys were Ne- groes that wasn’t no reason why they should burn,” he said yesterday. 500 Negro Workers Demand ; Amsterdam News HeadReturn Scottsboro Funds to I. L. D. NEW ‘YORK.—Demanding that he turn over to the I L.D. all Scotts- boro ftinds collected by the Am- sterdam News, 500 Negro workers shook their fists in the face of | William N. (“Kid”) Davis, owner of the Amsterdam News, Tuesday night at the corner of 134th Street and Seventh Avenue. | of Struggle for Negro Rights had Herman McEwain of the League | BOLAN REVIVES VICE GRAFTING AS * POLICE PROTECT TAMMANY DIVES Spies Busy Every Night Trapping Girls Driven Into Streets NEW YORK, May 3,—The notorious “vice squad,” a group of stool | pigeons so depraved they. devote their time to arresting and framing girls on the streets of New York, has been revived by the new police commissioner, James S. Bolan. Dozens of girls are arrested every night, taken to the infamous Jef~ ferson Market court, around which @ big scandal broke a few years ago, and given sentences. Help Tammany Hotel Vice It is known that the economic crisis has driven thousands of girls to prostitution—girls who are totally unemployed or whose wages are so small they cannot get a living other- wise. This has cut in on the or- ganized vice conducted by the big hotels of the city. Hence the Tam- many gang goes into action against the girls of the street in order to help the hotel business. Male Street-Walkers Some 250 alleged men, representing @ payroll of half a million dollars @ year, are engaged in the specially dirty work of trapping the unfortun- ate girls. They dress themselves up to look like human beings and then stroll leisurely down the streets known to be frequented by girls, en- ter into conversations with them and then arrest them. One of the chief features of the Scandals exposed some time back was the practice of these stool-pigeons framing up innocent girls with jobs |and then trying to blackmail them out of money or to force them to become prostitutes in some of the dives that flourish all over town un- der Tammany protection. Involved in that sort of graft were magistrates, police lieutenants, serg- eants and other Tammany hangers- on who have to collect graft in or- der to buy bigger jobs and hence get opportunities for more graft in the .Tammany police and court racket. ADMIT SERIOUS ILLNESS AMONG WORKING-CLASS NEW YORK.—No longer able to just concluded an exposure of Da- vi sabotage of the Scottsboro de- fense when Davis approached the speaker and indulged in the brazen | gesture of shaking his hand. Work- | ers in the crowd recognized him and | an angry roar arose from the | crowd, which at once milled around Davis, shaking their fists in his face, demanding he hand over the funds he has been collecting in the name | of the Scottsboro boys and jeering | him for his opposition to the pro- the St. Nicholas Arena, 66th Street | test march on Washington. He was | | finally rescued by several Negro dicks. NEW YORK.—Representing the oners, A. J. Muste, of the Conference Williams, of the Harlem “Liberator,” tional Labor Defense, called upon M: day. The commitiee waited an hour past the time arranged for the interview before being admitted. They present- ed their demands for O’Brien to do something concrete as an expression of the “sympathy” he claimed to feel for the Scottsboro boys at a mass meeting a few weeks ago. O'Brien was asked to endorse the Civil Rights Bill for the enforcement of the 13th, 14th and 15th amend- ments to the Constitution which will be presented by the Scottsboro March in Washington on May 8. He re- fused, but stated, “I will bring this bill to the attention of the senators and congressmen from New York and am sure they will act favorably.” He “disapproved” of the march. The committee called the mayor's attention to the fact that workers are at present under arrest for speak- ing at street meetings for the Scotts- YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE CALLS YOUTH DAY CONFERENCE SUNDAY The District Committee of the Young Communist League calls on all young and adult workers and students to unite in the common fight against the proposed $46,000,000 Naval Construction Program. The Roosevelt gov- ernment is attempting to put this measure over under the guise of a “public works program”, This measure is a part of the entire War Program of the Roosevelt government. While de- nying the unemployed youth any re- lief, the government is ready to con- struct new war ships. ‘This $46,000,000 naval construction | St. program which calls for the building of 30 new war ships must be vigor- ously opposed and fought against. This measure is in line with the re- cent move of Roosevelt to herd 250,- 000 youth into military forced labor camps, thus preparing a quarter of a million men for war purposes. Every organization of young workers and students, as well as the adult organi- zations, should have protest tele- grams and resolutions adopted, to be sent to the congress of the U. The Young Communist League calls on all organizations of youth to rally behind the preparations for a mighty anti-war demonstration on National Youth Day—May 30th. Youth Organisations should partic- | ularly se thet’ their orgasiestion elects 2 delegates to the National. \ Youth Day Preparatery Conference being held on Sunday, May 7th, at 1 p. m. at the Stuyvesant Casino, 9th and 2nd Ave. ..If the organization does not meet by that time, have your executive act on the matter or come yourself as an observer and re- port back to the organization. KNITGOOD: MAYOR O'BRIEN RECEIVES DEMANDS ON SCOTTSBORO | Weeds Trucks for Hauling Dirt, He Says As He Feigns Sympathy for Scottsboro Boys National Scottsboro Action Commit- tee, Ed Fraley, of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Pris- for Progressive Labor Action, Harold and Fred Biedenkapp, of the Interna- ayor O’Brien at the City Hall yester- & boro boys. He was asked to release the prisoners as an example of his “sympathy.” Not being in front of several thousand Negro workers as he was in Arcadia Hall, the mayor reduced his “sympathy” to asking where the arrested workers were, and was told that they were in jail, The committee informed the mayor that they were desirous of being in- formed as to whether or not more workers would be arrested for ac- tivities in defense of the Scottsboro boys. Bearing in mind, apparently, the 150,000 Negro and white work- ers in the New York May Day de- monstration, O’Brien pa‘ted his belly and said: “I guarantee there will be no interference with such street meetings.” ‘The committee xept on trying to get the mayor's “sympathy” down to a material level whereby the Scotts- boro boys would benefit. They asked for trucks to convey marchers to Washington. O’Brien stated “I am using every truck available for trans- portation dirt for the sanitation de- partment to Central Park. I.cannot cee my way clear to issuing a permit for the collection of funds for the defense of these boys but I will take the matter under advisement,” O’Brien stated in answer to the re- quest for a permit for tag days for the Scottsboro defense. Asked point blank by Fred Bieden- kapp of the ILD. if he could be quoted as having no objection to col- lections on New York streets for the Scottsboro boys, O’Brien said: “I see no reason why in order to raise the sinews of war for these boys there should be any objection. Sympa- thetic people will be glad to contri- bute.” ‘The committee then left the may- or's office. It is clear that Mayor O'Brien and Tammany Hall are not interested in the defense of the for | Scottsboro boys but are in every way trying to hinder the march. The po- lice have tried to interfere with the collection of funds by the I.L.D. and the courts in Harlem have’ prohi- bited the use of loudspeakers on the streets to rally support for the march on Washington this week. ‘The growing response to the march forced O'Brien to go through the gestures of receiving the committee and making some ambiguous state- mente io answer, to the demande of “ hide the facts, the State Department jof Health and Dr. H. Jackson Davis, director of medical care for the) | Emergency Relief Administration, ad- | mitted in a Feport yesterday, that re- sults of starvation and privation is showing itself among the working class, particularly among the unem- ployed by a serious increase in illness. The same low physical resistance which makes them easy prey for many diseases combined with their inabil- ity to buy proper medical attention makes it increasingly difficult to ward off diseases. Many workers suffer month after month and even years with lingering afflictions. Illness Prolonged. Whereas the average person under normal conditions suffers only about 8 days when he becomes ill, a survey of 1600 unemployed by Dr. Davis showed that nearly one half had been sick for a year or more, and the aver- age length of illness, according to Davis’ figures, is 25 days. The State Health Department in- tends to “take care” of this serious situation, not by giving adequate re- lief so that the workers can build up strong bodies, but by hiring unem- ployed nurses at $17.50 a week to take “care of the unemployed pa- tients”, ' 2 ON TRIAL FOR RELIEF FIGHT Arrested “in Brooklyn Battle Friday NEW YORK.—Trial of two workers, L. A. De Santed and Oliver Korpinen begins today, 9 a. m., at the Snyder Avenue Court, Snyder Ave. and Flat- bush Ave. in Brooklyn. ‘They were arrested last Friday when 400 workers, demanding relief and the removal of Mellon, a Home Relief Bureau Supervisor at Graves- end Ave. and Albemarle Road, battled police and plain clothes men who at- tacked the demonstration. Anna Hall, an office worker, ar- rested at the court house, will be tried | this Friday at the same court on charges of “second degree assault”. Both cases will be defended by Jos. Tauber, International Labor Defense attorney. | Job Sharks Quake Before “Fighting / 6th’; Return Fees NEW YORK.—Committees from the 6th Avenue Job Grievance Commit- tee forced “job sharks” in two em- ployment agencies to return fees paid to them by workers for jobs that only lasted from two to nine days, When the committee came with the worker, the employment agency was full and the shark fearing an exposure before his prospects returned the fees, but despite this the committee publicized the victory before the workers present. In the second case, the Eden Em- ployment Agency, 1171 6th Ave. re- fused to return the fee to a worker who held a job only two days until the committee held an open air meet- ing in front of the place, whereupon the’ shark came running down the stairs to settle. $6.55 was collected. ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The entire force of the International Oil Heating here locked out when 12 workers out in protest against the fir- ing of several workers. ‘The workers are following the lead- McKEE QUITS TO SEAL TAMMANY- BANKER DEAL NEW YORK, May 3.—Joseph V. McKee, president of the board of Al- dermen to which job he was elected cn the Tammany ticket with Jimmy Walker, and who was acting mayor for a time after Walker resigned when the Seabury investigations made him the goat for Tammany graft, an- nounces that he is out of politics. He is resigning from what he calls Political life to become head of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, Maneuver of Tammany Leaders. Tammany realized it was in a tight fix when the Seabury committee, car- rying out Wall Street demands for cheaper city government, caused Walker to get out. McKee became jacting mayor and engaged in some shadow boxing with Tammany, while the machine dug up Surrogate John P. O'Brien for the job of mayor. McKee, posing as an anti-Tam- manyite, became the rallying center for those forces looking for a fusion candidate that would enable some of the bankers to get more “efficient” city administration so their local strike-breaking and wage-cutting ma- chjnery would not cost them so much. icKee’s announcement that he is out of politics helps Tammany against the fusionists. It indicates also that Tammany and the Seabury bankers have come to terms and that O’Brien is carrying out sufficient economy” measures through cutting wages and preparing for, increased fares to satis- fy them. NO LAW AGAINST GIVING LEAFLETS I. L. D. PROVES NEW YORK.—Charles Siegal, ar+ rested in Harlem Saturday for dis- tributing leaflets calling the workers to a mass meeting, was released in night court the same day. Dismissal of the charges against Siegal was forced by the New York District International Labor Defense through one of its attorneys, Samuel Goldberg, although Judge Brodsky, presiding, wanted to railroad him. Like other workers held for leafiet distribution, Siegal was charged with violating Section 15, Chapter 25 of the city ordinance. The I. L. D. attorney Proved that this ordinance applied only to leaflets of a commercial char- acter, knacking the props from under the boss judge. There is no city ordinance prohib- iting the distribution of leaflets of ® political nature, the New York Dis- trict I. L. D. attorneys disclosed when Judge Brodsky vainly tried to find one. WORKERS’ CALENDAR Thursday— ee ee and Education in thi OPEN AIR MEETING—Tom Mooney Br. LL.D. on Union Square, Speaker: Paul Miller and others. OPEN FORUM—Scottsboro Case, Ferband Auditorium, 808 Adee Ave. Bronx, Dr. Stamler, speaker. Admission free. Friday LECTURE—Jews in Germany. Lecturer F. G. Biedenkapp of National Committee of LL.D. at Tremont Workers Club, 2075 Clin- ton Ave., Bronx. SYMPOSIUM—"‘Scottsboro”, participants: LL.D. Richard B. Moore; NAACP, Alexand F. Miller; Presbyterian Church, Rev. Cra~ pullo; Amsterdam News (Negro weekly); ‘The Urban League. Auspices: The American Youth Club, at Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman St., Brooklyn, at 8 p. m, Staten Island BONUS MARCH DANCE at Svea Hall, 769 Post Ave., West Brighton, this Sunday night, May 7, 8 p. m. Avepices: Rank and Pile Veterans Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, Post 174. 249 Clove Road, West Brighton, Post meets every Friday night, 8 p. m. BROOKLYN For Brownsville Proletarians SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE [“SurteR” Vegeterian and Dairy Restaurant 589 GUTTER AVE. (Cor. George) B’klyn WILLIAMSBURG WORKERS EAT AT KALE CAFETERIA 286 BROADWAY, BROOKLYN GARMENT DISTRICT Garment Section Workers Patrovize Navarr Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE Corner 28th “St. PATRONIZE SEVERN’S CAFETERIA 7th Avenue at’ 30th St. ership of the National Committee of the am ‘Workers’ Union of N Y- Best Food at Workers Prices