The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WE DAY, MAY 10, 1933 Page Three } j Calls for | | | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ON) have been a great mistake. The Congress remained necessarily a “Pree Tom Mooney Congress”; but, it was a question of finding the means to accomplish this objective in the existing situation. Taking the given situation in the United States, with the most catastrophic economic crisis of. all capitalist history, with great masses of unemploycd in mo- tion, with the great No working and farming population /1 a state of _ desperate suffering and beginning | upheaval, with farmers actually | marching by the thousands against expropriation, with each session of Congress trembling before the mar- ches of ex-servicemen—in this situa- tion it becomes possible as never be- fore to apply the mass pressure that can free Mooney. “But it is known on all sides. that any nationwide uni- ted action of the working class on any issue whatever concerning the struggle with capital and the capital- ist state, cannot fail to raise the whole struggle between capital and labor to a higher stage by the mere fact of united action. The capitalist class understands this as well as we do. The Parole Offer It is known that the ruling class of California recently adopted as its main counter-move against Mooney’s unconditional liberation the offer to let Mooney out of prison on parole, to haye the status of a paroled mury derer, at liberty within one county under severe restrictions and report- | ing constantly to parole officers, re- | maining under day-to-day strict po- ' lice supervision and excluded from all participation in the labor movement. ‘Therefore it had become a center of the tactical struggle—that Mooney’s friends fight for his unconditional release in connnection with the whole struggle of the labor movement, with Mooney thus acknowledged to be in- nocent of crime and free to take his place in the labor movement as one of its leaders. The fight to release Mooney’ and Billings has never been and cannot be fought in a vacuum. Everyone knows this, or at least feels it in- stinetively; and all react to it ac- cording to their programs and aims. It is one of the inescapable facts ot the day that the effort of the struggle for Mooney’s liberation to bring about @ united front of action could hardly fail to start a landslide of unity of action which could not but include questions of wage-cuts, unemployment and social insurance, the soldiers’ bonus, prevention of ex- propriation of farmers, etc.—in short i a tumultuous fight slong the whole | front which would raise the struggles between labor and capital to con- stantly higher levels. Anyone with imagination cannot but see in this a perspective of still greater masses in unemployment demonstrations, cou- pled with the Mooney issue, and tak- ing advantage of the established un- ity for the spreading of tremendous economic strikes such as the récent Briggs and Hudson auto strikes, with victory temptingly within sight, 4 perspective of greater marches of vet- erans, of Negroes, of farmers—a per- spective of political mass strikes, etc. ‘The idea of a general strike for the liberation of Mooney already has a certain popularity. With such a perspective it was in- evitable that a great many elements in the labor movement would shrink frem the connecting of Tom Mooney’s case with the class struggle—would shrink from the fight for Mooney as ‘to use the words of Mooney’s Call for the Congress) “the symbol of la- bor struggling for its rights... . the ceater around which the workers will rally in their desperate le ageinet unemployment, wag e-cuts and starvation.” In the Mooney Con- | gress, therefore, there was consider- able tendency, both consciously and unconsciously, to reduce the struggle for Mooney, (1) to purely the ques- | Mooney Congress _| The Starting Mass Movement united mass movement for the libera- | tion of Mooney. The Trotzkyist oppo- sition led by Cannon and centering its | attack against the Communist Party | was the conscious representative of| this effort to leave the chasm between | white and Negro unbridged by the Mooney Congress on the ground that the workers are “not ready” for this | step of unity (a step which is already in process as one of the most colos- sal events of the present day). The effort to reduce the whole Mooney | issue to the dimensions of a support | by labor of the legal defense of a case in court was more characteristically expressed by the Lovestone group, al- though the Lovestone and Cannon groups constantly tended to flow to- gether in fighting against the Com- munist Party. Other groupings in the Congress, although wavering on several occasions were not consciously or at least not clearly so, opposed to the program of broadening the great mass demand through linking up the Mooney case, as Mooney proposed, with the great class struggles of the country. There was the question of Mooney Day, as Well, in which there was a tendency simply to fix an anniversary “Mooney Day,” on Mooney’s birthday or some other fixed date; a proposal) which would have amounted to mak- ing a day of “memorial” to » “buried” Mooney. But this idea was sot aside in favor of fixing a “Mooney Day” as a fighting day of mass struggle to free Mooney, the date left open to be fixed in accordance with the needs of the struggle, either at the time of Mooney’s trial or otherwise when it can be most effective. Other ques-| tions shall be discussed in further ar- ticles—such as the question of the disarming of the social fascist leaders through united front proposals, etc. How Much Accomplished? To what extent was the purpose of the Free Mooney Congress accom- plished? It has to be said plainly that the objective of the Mooney} Congress is so tremendous that the degree of the united front accom- plished there is comparatively unsat- istactory; and we say this despite the fact that the Mooney Congress can surély be counted as a success. The Mooney Congress was a success in the sense that it has broken through the iron wall of division of the ranks of the working class set up through long decades of trade union and So- Cialist Party reformism. The Moo- ney Congress succeeded in reaching a certain mass of workers over the heads of the burocrats. The act of the National Executive Commitiee of the Socialist Party in the situation it) faced in its own “Continental Con- gress,” in reversing its former posi-) tion and deciding to appoint a com-) mittee to confer with a like commit-| tee of the-Communist Party on the) question of a united front for speci-| fic actions such as the struggle to} liberate Mooney, was a manoeuver to defeat the growing movement within | the ranks of the 8. P. for a United) Front of struggle. This was partic- ularly significant because the so- called Continental Congress was called at Washington largely for the purpose of counter-acting and de- feating the call- issued by Tom Moo- ney for a united front for the Free Mooney Congress at Chicago. | But the success of the Free Tom} Mooney Congress was not and could! Not be Settled by any actions taken in the Convention at Chicago. This is @ question which is yet to be set- tled—by the action that will now be) taken in all the cities and towns of | America in carrying out the decisions) of the Tom Mooney Congress. | Therefore let those who sincerely | took part in the Free Tom Mooney Congress throw themselves with the greatest energy now into making good their otherwise empty words by through every barrier, by ing about united action of all working class organizations in spite| of hell, high, water and renegade | And while you're resting, | the ones who fight and die to pro- | Khaki Shirts and W. E. §. L. were Vet GOOD NEWS GOBS The Navy will be cut only $45,000,- 000. These economies will include the curtailment of civilian personnel of maintenance and repair work at na-/| vy yards, Cheer up, Gobs, you won't} lose your jobs, you are only going| to receive a pay cut. There will be pleny of work. You can do the re-| pair work after you scrub decks and paint the hull. This is what is term- ed by landlubbers, Gob, as “speéd up | and spread over.” And incidentally, | the money the government is saving | from your pay checks will be used to) build more battleships. So why worry, Gob. There will be plenty of work.| you can} build rank and file ship committees to | protest against your conditions. “The Military Men are Lucky” | So says Mrs. Walter Ferguson, and | she ought to know. Why? Because} she writes for the World-Telegram, | and this paper just won the Pulitzer | Prize for “wisely planned” articles rs Veterans’ Relief. Mrs. Ferguson says, “Truth is often hailed as treason.” | Right again, Mrs. Ferguson. Rank and File say they were shot ab in Wash- ington last summer for telling the truth about their need of the Bonus. | But Mrs. Ferguson goes further than the truth, she even says the) Fighting |Mother of Hayw ood Patterson Leading Big Scottsboro March ‘Worker Correspondents, Are Wages Going Up? Reports are filling the capitalist press that many concerns are rais- ing wages for the work The Daily Worker wants to expose this new move of fooling the workers on the basis of concrete facts. We there- fore ask our worker correspondents to let us know from their own ex- perience, and through information obtained from workers they come in contact with, to report instantly of further wage cuts, and also expose any trick scheme of the bosses to fool the workers into believing they will receive more money—such as fake bonus schemes, etc. This move on the part of the employers is to put over the present inflation policy, which is actually an indirect wage cut for the workers by raising prices and again lowering the standard of living of the Amer- ican masses. HEAR WASH.-SCOTTSBORO REPORT TONITE, ROCKLAND PALACE — Photo shows front rank of the Scottsboro March of ee 5 5,000 Negro and white workers, professionals and “nobleness of the military profession) students in Washington on Monday when demands were presented to the Roosevelt government for freedom is exaggerated.” Mrs. Ferguson! | She says, “We train, educate and| | support the professional soldier and | sailor.” And with all the frankness of | @ good tax payer she says, “In turn, he is supposed to guard our interests | on land and sea.” | And we thought it was for pat- riotism all the time. Rank and File | says they ain't guarding no property but their own hereafter. | “The milit man is necessary to} our welfare,” says Mrs. Ferguson, | “put we are also necessary to his.| Without the civilian to sweat and| Slave, the soldier would not long sur- | vive.” Think of that! But what Mrs. | Feruguson fails to point out—(part) of the World-Telegram’s “wisely | planned” campaign to fool workers) | —is that the soldier and sailor with or without uniforms are mostly work- ers. And that they are the civilians who sweat and slave. They are also tect Mrs, Ferguson and all the other tax payers. And consider this, from the foggy | Mrs. Ferguson. “The only class in the U. S. new enjoying economic security is the military class.” Think of that, vets. Well, once upon a time} we ex-servicemen enjoyed economic} security, too. That was when the tax- payers like Mrs. Ferguson were afraid of the “Huns.” Then, we were heroes. Then, “nothing was too good for the boys.” Because the Fergusons ex- pected us to protect their private pro- perty. But now that is all over. We are “Forgotten Men” now. It’s the youngsters in the army and navy to- day who are being groomed for an- other war. It is these men who are now economically secure. But for how long? They may soon be full of bul-7 lets, gas, etc., like the exservicemen of teday. And when they ask for their Bonus or Disability Allowance an- other Mrs. Ferguson will write in the World-Telegram that “the Military Men are Lucky.” New York Prepares for March | Last Saturday, a record crowd overflowed the hall of the Veterans’ } Expeditionary Force at 40 West 18th St., N. Y. More than 400 veterans were turned away for lack of space. These vets were not discouraged, | however. They promised to come} back and sign up for the march. Cacchione was clected chairman, with Bedford as vice-chairman. The speakers included Alman from New York and Portland. Salzman from) Brooklyn. { A committee of 26 rank and file} vets were elected to take care of the preparations for the march. Delegates from the American Legion, V. F. W., present. All agreed to be in Washing- ton by May 12 and support the Vete- rans National Liason Committee. Plans were also made for a series of street meetings through New York, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island and New Jersey. Watch for the sign of the V. E. F. on your street corner. Attend the meeting and learn why you should be in Washington to Demand the Re- peal of the Economy Bill! OE ae for the Scottsboro boys and for enfo1 WAS HINGTON NEGROES CHEER | reement of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment to the U. S. constitution. THE SCOTTSBORO MARCHERS By N. HONIG. Every time Paterson uses the word that he knows more than he cares to Any personal experiences in the also be reported. Especially those workers in ind) | press as having raised wages—Ford, Southern textile mills, all concerns poration, which covers auto and aei are closely connected with the prod these industries should be induced to experiences with the so-called wage ‘Hundreds Battle 7 Bronx Evictions NEW YORK.—Hundreds of work-| ers battled against evictions Monday at 182 Charlotte Street and Ollin- ville Avenue, the Bronx, marking a | definite upsurge on the part of the unemployed in the Bronx against | the policy of the Home Relief Bu- | reaus not to pay rent and to cut food | allowances, |. Hundreds of workers and their families growing more desperate ev- ery day are carrying out the policy| ASHINGTON, D. C.—“Ihe Scotts-) “demand,” that grimace seems to be-| admit when he begins quizzing Ruby! of the Unemployed Councils and are boro case is felt by hundreds of | thousands of Negro workers as some-/| thing which concerns them as much as the problem of where the next) meal is coming from.” These were} the words of a Scottsboro marcher| from Baltimore, speaking to the} Daily Worker correspondent, and the eagerness of thousands of Baltimore workers to join the March to back! up this worker's words. | Even though the trucks, busses, and) autos had assembled at the Baltimore Public Square on the last leg of the March to Washington in the dim hours of the morning, even though it rained cats and dogs, the thousands of Baltimore workers, seventy percent of them Negroes, came to join the March, Thousands had to be disap- pointed, for there were not trucks enough to take them. Everytime a) new truck came into the square, there | was & tush of hundreds for it, so keen Was the desire to go to Wash- ington and add their voices to those of the 5,000 massed in front of the Capitol and the White House, Tt Negro workers of Baltimore) even take over the City Hall steps and balcony in giving the Marchers| a mighty send-off, They don’t fear| the Negro-hating police, because they fell the power behind the fight for the nine Scottsboro boys—and this March exemplifies that power. | was reported that the Washington authorities didn’t like the idea of the March passing thru the Negro| sections of the Capital. However, thru the Negro sections the March- ers went. Just as you couldn’t see the beginning or the end of the long caravan as it made its way from Bal-| timore to Washington, you couldn't) see the beginning or the end of the; parade thru Washington, | The reason that the authorities) wanted to keep the parade out of) the Negro streets became clearer with | every foot covered by the marcher as they pataded towards the White House. We pass a jim-crow public) school. The young Negro boys and) girls, ranging from babies in the kin-| dergarten, up to older children in the higher grades, deafen us with their cheers and handclapping. The Negro teachers applaud too, and encourage the school children to do so too. We notice old Negro men and women, to many of whom slavery of the pre- civil war days is still a living mem- | ory. ‘They are weeping with joy as | to work, the bosses became desperate come more sickly than ever. | Bates, in order to confuse this young Patterson tells Howe just what) mill worker. Where have you been message he’s going to take back to|all the time before and since the the 5,000 outside. The delegation will| trial? What made you go back to report, and the 5,000 will in turn} change your evidence? And the like, report to millions throughout the| in a sharp tone. She isn't confused country, that Roosevelt, the self-| however, and gives plain, straight- Styled friend of the “forgotten man,”| forward answers, Ruby, by the way, has nothing but contempt for the | marched at the head of the parade most forgotten of men—the Negroes.| through Washington. delegation of five, headed by| IARNER, Ku Kluxer from Texas, James W. Ford, Negro trade un- receives a delegation also headed jon leader, sees Speaker Rainey, a! by Ford. He promises to submit the real, backwoods speallbinder in ap-| Bill of Civil Rights to “the proper pearance. Rainey accepts the Bill of] Senate committee”; when pressed as Rights, promises to give it to the! to whether he will see that the proper conimittee. He pretends not} Scottsboro case is taken up in the to be very much informed about the| Senate, he hedges, and all you can Scottsboro case by asking, “Its in| get out of him is that he will “sub- Alabama, isn’t it?” But he shows! mit the Bill to a committee.” ATTACK ON FURRIERS’ STRIKE NEW YORK.—Guerillas brandishing knives and lead pipes attacked the strikers of the Pellisier, Jonas and Kivet, Inc., fur house at 31-49 Stock- ton Street, Brooklyn, and stabbed Ignacio Durane, a striker, 22 years old, so severely, that he is in a dying condition at the Beth Moses hospital. The strike which has been in progress for four months against a ten per cent cut in wages involves about 70 work-@———————— ers. ual, arrived after everything was Unable to starve the workers back | over. None of the gangsters have | been arrested, but 3 workers were held and later released after ques- and decided to use gangsters. Early massing inside and outside the bu- reaus demanding payment of rent and food allowances. The struggle with the slogan “no worker without shelter or food” will be carried to a higher stage tomorrow | when hundreds of workers will mass} | around the Home Relief Bureaus at| | 149th Street, 182nd and Aqueduct Avenue and at Frisbee Avenue and| demonstrate for this slogan. i 1,000 STUDENTS PROTEST OUSTING -OF HENDERSON | | | | NEW YORK.—Over 1,000 students} demonstrated today at Columbia’ Uni- | | versity protesting the expulsidh' of) Donald Henderson, economics {h-/| structor and demanding his rein-| statement. | A torchlight parade tomorrow night | around the college was announced| | by the chairman, Nathaniel Wyle, and after the adjournment of the | meeting the students went to the | Philosophy Hall to plan the parade.) -| The sentiments of the students in| j the Henderson case was shown when | Donald Henderson himself unexpect- | edly appeared to address the students. | He was loudly cheered | Jongshoremen relief. | shops. in the morning the gangsters arrived | in 3 machines bringing along some | scabs. The women strikers imme- diately stepped to the front and did not permit the scabs to get into the A fight ensued, the men} strikers coming to the assistance of the women with the result that the gangsters were routed. | They fled with the scabs, taking along their wounded. Notified in advance about this con- templated attack, the police, as us- tioning. | Henderson said he approached his| case not only from the point of view/ In addition to this strike the Fur | of what is happening in the colleges Dressets Department is conducting | put also from the point of view of the strikes against the following firms: | revolutionary movement. He exposed Acme Fur Dying, 64 Broad St., Mas-/ the hypocricy of liberalism in Col- peth, L. I, Singer Rabbit Dressers| imbia by showing that the moment rise of prices of necessities, should Report what the price was, and what it now is, justries which are reported in the Norwalk Tire and Rubber Co., some connected with the Cord Cor- ronautical concerns, most of which uction of war supplies. Workers in write to the “Daily” of their persona! raise. RYAN OF LLL. A. STATE RELIEF BOARD MEMBER Plan to Send Union Men to Work for Dollar A Day NEW YORK.—Joseph P. Ryan president of the International Long- shoremen’s Association, president of the Central Labor and Trades Coun- cil of greater New York and vicinity and member of the Supreme War Board; has been appointed by Gov- ernor Lehman on the state emergency relief board, This is a promotion in recognition of his services in holding down the starving longshoremen of New York and the rest of the country from struggle. ,He mobilized the Home Relief Buro in Brooklyn to refuse Applicants for relief are asked if they are longshore- men and whether or not they belong to the I. L. A. They are asked their opinion of Ryan and if they say any- thing against him, out they go. Hopkins, state relief head and tm- mediate superior of Ryan, told & committee of unemployed longshore- men that in order to get relief they would have to go out to the reforesta- tion camps. He said he would lift the age limits and they would re- ceive the full payment themselves. | This“ offer of Hopkins is really a move by Ryan, head of the union, to put union men on dollar a day wages helping the wage-cutting campaign of the shipowners and stevedore bos- ses. Scale wages are supposed io be be cents an hour straight time and | $1.10 overtime. Ryan, as a member of the war” board, is thus trying to get longshore- | men into these camps to build a mii- itary trained force among them. Thus the relief and war plans go hand ir hand. Unemployed longshoremen should elect committees to demand relief directly from Ryan. This makes the fifth job he holds, drawing pay on all of them. WHAT'S ON Malvern Aye., Newark, Shrapell, 421 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, J. Hol- lander, Wilson Ave. and Paris Street, Newark, N. J. A. Hollander and Son, 143 East Kinney St., Newark, N. J. More Strikes Won Thru Militancy, Solidarity Baltimore Baker L.A. FUR WORKERS |and Dyers (The Baltic Seal), 168) 4 student or teacher attempted to| | put liberal ideas into action he was barred. Heywood Broun, | writer, Reed Harris, | student, Hirsh, of the International | | Labor Defense and students from | |other schools also addressed the! | meeting. 2,000 MARCH | IN FUNERAL OF MURDERED BAKER NEW YORK.—Two thousand work- Joshua Kunitz,| Ex-Columbia | REGISTER NOW! John Reed Club Gehoo of Art Summer Term begins May 15! Classe in <Poster Design, Lifts Drawing, Composi- tion, Children’s Art Glkss. For further in- formation address 883 Sixth Ave, thd flobr, or telephone Grammercy 17-9699. VOLUNTEERS WANTED! Come to the National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Pascism at 75 Pith Aye. Hitler victims need your help| Come at once! . Wednesday | _MOVING PICTURE, | PETERSBURG.” at | Olub, 40 W. eth Be “THE END OF 8T. the French Workers Coat room 2c na REPORT OF OUR DELEGATE, Comrade Simon, on thé Tom Moonéy Congress trom Chicago will be given. Come and hear the | report at Prospect Workers Center, 1187 |Southern Bive., Bronx, J. BURCK, DAILY WORKER ARTIST, ‘Set Tag Day Date tion of working class aid to a legal they watch this demonstration of ers participated Monday in the fune-_ will speak on Scottsboro Trial and National case in court, and (2) to purely the question of the prisoner Tom Mooney. Scottsboro Issue. One of the most significant achieve- ments was the defeat of an effort to leave open the great chasm of divi- sion of the working class between Negro and white—a thing which would have emasculated the mass thing else. This was expressed in the effert to eliminate the Scottsboro is- one of many cases and identical to all others with no pesuliat eharacter- isties in regard to special persecution of Negfoes. That this effort was un- successful, was one of the great tri- umphs of the effort to get a great WASHINGTON, D. C.—For the first three months of the year, the a railronds showed net profits of $33,909,000 according to the recent reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission. These figures do not reveal the full Of the so-called expenses are nothing ¢, $0-called expenses are nothing but payments of the roads to their own subsidiaries, or to équipment companies controlled by the insiders of the railrocds, In addition to ti profits, the \ fer etcantiante Hake: Color: movement perhaps more than any-) sue, or at any rate te reduce it to) | RAILROADS’ $33,909,000 PROFIT’ | FOR YEAR COMES FROM WAGE CUTS Business Declined, But Magnates Coined Money by Speéd-Up and Layoffs leaders, | The local conferences in all cities) and towns must now be made ten| times more representative than were | the local conferences which preceded | the Free Mooney Congress. The local | Tom Mooney Counciis of Action,| to Aid the Sailor’s Union in New York, NEW YORK.—A call to all workers | and workingclass organizations to/| strength in the fight against the slavery of the Negro which still ex-| ists, On almost every stoop in the Negro sections, all the people in the house throng to cheer and applaud the which will be selected by these local | Pa*icinate in the teg days. May 12,| sarohers. Some take their hats off,| conferences, must be truly the ex-| pression of the mass will of every working class community to meet and defeat the growing police and fascist) terror against the working class, for: “The united front of labor for the release of Tom Mooney, Warren | Billings and the other victims of capitalist class justice, and for the defense of workers’ and Negroes’ rights!” tion, most of which will never be re- . The Missouri Pacific, for ex- ample, borrowed $3,000,000 only a few days before it went into bank- tuptey, The profits of the railroads were not due to any increase in business, since car loadings declined through- out this period. Thousands of rail- road workers were laid off, while the workers remaining on the job were subjected to further speed up. Work- ing rules were violated in order to aoe costs. By such methods did the succeed in showing the 933,908,000 pro!” | list of stations (0 which organizations | be held on May 18 at the Irving 13 and 14 for the Anti-War fighting fund has been issued by the Trade Union Unity Council, American Com- mittee Against War and the Marine Workers Industrial Union. | Many organizations haye already| varranged to take an active part in| ity are not confined merely to cheer-| the tag days. Below are printed the | can send their members to aid in the work. | 1813 Pitkin Ave. Manhattan: 140 Sutter Ave. | 9% Avenue C. 261 Schenectady Ave. 123 Resond Are, 172 Bay 31 py East 14th St. 1109 48th Bt. West 25th St. | 1907 Kings Highway 56 West 28th Bt.+ | 1818 Bath Bench 18t West 28th St. 2709 Mermajd {Ave., 96 Fifth Ave. Coney Islan 450. 6th Ave. 267 Wost 18th St. 4 West 18th St. Coney Island 410 West ioth Bt. | woes 19 West 131st Bt. 27 West 116th st. 15 West 126th St. 351 Bast Sist St. 141°—Sth Ave. S01 West i6ist Bt., ‘Wash. Hts. 1984 Southern Bivd, 1898 Madison Ave. | 569 Prospect Ave. 2700 Bronx Park East Bvooklyn: 2075 Clinton Ave. 61 Graham Ave. Yonkers—27 Hudson 197 Humboldt St. 285 Rodney St. Jamalea—127-29 Lib- 926 ‘Troop Av., B’kn.| } erty Ave. 73 Myrtle Ave, ten Island — 249 608 Stone Ave, Clover Road DELEGATES TO AID FASCIST VICTIMS MEET A delegate meeting, N. Y. C. local, of the National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism, will Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place, Representatives of all sym- pathetic organizations should be pres~ | workers cheer too, ,| all the members of the delegation. in respect to the hardships which the Marghers have undergone to come to Washington. In many houses white But the demonstrations of solidar- ing. The parade left New York and) Florida Avenues with about 3,000 in} it. It reached the White House 5,000 strong. . Committee of 25 is ushered into! the office of Louis Howe, the gnome-like lieutenant of president Roosevelt. Howe has a poker-face He automatically shakes hands with When William L. Patterson of the International Labor Defense begins to tell him that there are 5,000 Ne- gro and white workers outside, rep- resenting millons more, a grimace be- comes fixed on Howe's face, the near- est thing to human expression it seems capable of displaying. As Pat- terson continues to speak, the grim- ace continues fixed on Howe's face. ,ABOR UNION MEETINGS IMPORTANT MEETINGS OF THE FURRIERS Tomorrow, Thursday, immediately afier work there will be an important meeting of shop chairmen and active members of the mugkrat workers’ section at the office of the Industrial Union at 131 W. 28th Bt. . ‘A meeting of the Bronx Section of the durriers will be held st & p.m. at 1248 | Southern Bird., the Pi IAN MAMSION, | ent, The meeting begins at 8 p. m, 4 near Fre a ‘tion, where the prob- iene coolronting ae union will be taken Strike Is Won Rank and File Praise) Communist Leaders | BALTIMORE, Md., May 9.—A tre- mendous victory for striking unten | bakery workers occurred here last | | Friday night when Parizer the big-| ceeded in abolishing the piece-work| | gest bakery owner in the city, bowed | system and established week work for| heart candition brought about by 17 to the union's demands and signed | up. The bakery workers of the A. F.| of L. struck on May ist when the | bosses were unwilling to renew thelr | agreement without a drastic cut in| wares. The victory which forced Parizer to settle and concede all the demands of the union practically breaks down the backbone of the bosses’ opposition. A mass meeting in celebration of the victory of the union was held at the Forward building here last night Despite a downpour of rain the mas- ses packed the hall, More than 700 workers, many forced to stand, enthusiastically applauded the vic- torious settlement of the strike. A rank and filer, C. H. Raffald, de- clared in his speech that the victory was due to militant struggle and able Communist leadership and the un- tiring work of Hyman Shore, local Freiheit manager. Another rank and filer, Frank Shurkin, e’ the thanks of the strikers for the solidar- ity and militant picketing of mem- bers of the Women’s Council. He condemned the action of Polin, the manager of the Forward here in re- fusing to speak at the victory mass meeting of the strikers. Paul Cline, speaking in behalf of the Communist Party, received en- thusiastic applause when he promised continued support of the Party and all militant organizations. Wald, another active strike leader, was given ® roaring greettog we the erowd. GAIN PAY RISE walt LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 9—The who died on the picket line after an first few days of an intensive drive | attack by the bosses’ thugs. Farber! by the fur department of the Needle| who was a member of the Interna-/| Trades Workers’ Industrial Union for | tional Bakers Union, the Communist improvements in the working condi-/ party and the Food Workers Indus- tions of the fur workers resulted in| trial Union, was severely beaten up wage increases of 35 to 40 per cent. by two thugs while picketing a bek-| In several shops the workers suc-|ers’ shop last week Despite the beating and a weak the finishers, In one of the shops,| hours of daily work in the oppressive after a stoppage of a few hours. weck heat of the bakeshop, Farber coura- work was established not only for the geously went back on the picket line, finishers but for the operators. | where he collapsed. The campaign of the fur workers} Local 505 which has a left wing) mainly in the coat and jarket|cxecutive, is fighting for the rigid enforcement of the eight-hour day) Two women and eight members of | the union arrested on the picket line, | will be tried in the Essex Market Court today at 9 o'clock. Workers are is shops, where the piece-work system | prevails and conditions are at a mis- erable level. the session ap- proaches the fur workers anticipate a more intensive campaign to abolish in Soviet Union, at Labor Tem~- 4th St. 8 p.m. Auspices—York- Minoriti ple, 34 iile Branch, F.S.U. ORGANIZATIONS GOING ON HIKES on Sundey can arrange for the Workers Lab- oratory Theatre to play for them at @ nominal fee. Inguire at 42 %. 12th Bt THE SINGING GROUP OF THE BROOK Ave. Workers Club, 489 EF. 160th St., meets tonight. All those interested are invited, Comrade Alterman instructor—No charge! Announcement! REMEMBER! DEBATE May 13. RESOLVED Nations an Instrument of Peace and Pree dom?” = affirmative Winter Russel of League of Nations Association. Negative Wm. Simons of the Anti-Imperialist League. At Tremont Workers’ Club, 2075 Clinton aye. On Seturder Is the League of ATTENTION W. 1. R. BAND Meet at Stuyvesant Casino to- iece-work, to establish week work all the shops, a guaranteed mini- mum wage scale, a 40-hour, 5-day week, an unemployment insurance fund and union control in the shops. A conference of all workers’ or- ganizations is being called 3,000 Strike in Salem Mills Against Speed- Up and Lay-Offs SALEM, Mass., May 9.—Nearly 2,000 textile workers struck against the Pequot Milis here, yesterday, clos- | ing the plant entirely. The plant is said to be controlled by the United Textile Workers. The Danvers Bleachery at Peabody is also on strike ‘The workers are striking against being forced to operate 24 looms each instead of the present 20 looms. This new stretch-out plan will result in fir- ing 150 workers. The company plans’ ‘to discharge women workers, it is re- ‘ported ‘ urged to jam the courtroom in sup- port of the bakers’ fight for decent working conditions. day at 2 p.m. SHARP to take part in Anti-Fascist parade. | {ORES ARAL A HA SARIN COSTE IMME ET NSN OPER RAE ALAR RE BAS RA Special Notice To All Working Class Organizations, Clubs, Unions, Etc. THE DAILY WORKER asks that you send one of your , representatives to the District Daily Worker Office, 35 Bast 12th Street, Ground Floor, within the coming week, to take up a matter of great importance and of financial interest, both to your organization and the Daily Worker. Your representative can call any time between 9:30 a, m, and 7:00 p. m. Organizers and secretaries of these organizations, # is necessary to wait for the election of x represen- tative, either come yourself or delegate one of your membership to call. City Committee, Daily Worker, a, “st