The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1933, Page 3

N. Y. TRADE BAKERS UNITED FRONT LEADS WAY TO VICTORY IN activity of the bakery workers supported by working class organizations, has been successful in forcing 70 to 80 per cent of the shops to concede the de- mands of the union. On May 1 at midnight, over? two thousand bakery workers in A. F. of L. local 507, 506, 505, left their shops and declared a strike against the attempt of the employers to slash 25 per cent off their wages. The enthusiastic res- ponse of the membership of the lo- cals affected by the strike was a blow to the bosses, as well as to in- Gividual leaders in the International who had attempted to put over a wage-cut on the rank and file, and who had tried to demoralize the yanks of the bakers in preparation for the cut. These individuals, swept away by the enthusiasm and spirit of the workers, are now falling in line, fearing loss of their jobs. Out of about 400 shops controlled by those % locals now on strike, over 250 have already settled, with more falling in line each day. Solidarity of Workers’ Organizations The most outstanding and char- acteristic feature of this strike is the fact that for the first time in the history of the bakery workérs, we find a spirit of unity and desire for united action on the part of every bakery worker regardless of union af- filiation or pastry. Daily, mass pick: eS lines, open-air meetings, demon- | strations, etc., are participated in by hundreds of bakery workers, belong- ing to various locals of the Amalga- mated and Industrial unions. Hun- dreds of women, members of the! Women’s Council, are the most ac- | tive participants in the strike. Un employed Coyncils, Communist P: | ty sections and units, ete., are lend- ing active assistance to successfully terminate this splehdid struggle. The bakery workers are opening their eyes in wonder at the support given them by different left-wing or- | ganizations | | | | | Now more than ever be- | tore they clearly grasp the full mean- | ing of United Front action and what | it means to them. They learn that the Communist and left wingers are | the best fighters for the working- class. Those officials of the Amal- gamated who up until recently sabat- | aged and fought every attempt at, united action, are today forced through the pressure of their mem- | bership to actively support the strike | wow conducted by the International | membership. | Rele of Bakers’ United Front Com- | mittee Before all, the Bakers City United Front Committee must be brought forward as that driving force, that weapon, that has succeeded in, bring- ing this unity into full realization, Afier- months of relentless struggle against enemies from within and without, forced to retreat because of the treachery of the International eficigldom in Chicago, the United Front Committee gained a tremen- dous amount of influence and pres- tige amongst the bakery workers, and is firmly rooted amongst them. It was the United Front which only re- cently gave courage to the member- ship of the Amalgamated to defeat a 25 per cent wage-cut. It was the United Front Committee which pre- pared the workers of the Interna- tional against the wage-cut, which they are now succeésfully combat- ting. Certain Shortcomings - But the United Front Committee must also see certain shortcomings in this strike. In spite of the fact that hundreds of workers haye gone back to work in settled shops, de- feating the cut, they have gone back to slave as before, 10, 12, and 14 hours a night, instead of the 8-hour day which was one of the main is- sues in the strike. This is imper- missible, and must be immediately remedied by the leadership. If we EW YORK.— After only a week of strike, the militant $—_——__——_— --- “ 8-hour day and closed union shop, are not successful in establishing the UNON NEWS STRIKE OF 2,000 on strike against a wage cut then the victory against the cut will not mean much. A vast amount of energy is being expended in these strikes, wasted be- cause the strike machinery is not functioning properly. Certain indi- viduals it seems do not believe in systematic organization, and that re- servoir of energy which even the present leadership did not conceive, is being criminally wasted because of this. Numerous times the United Front Committee pointed out the necessity for systematic organization. strike is to be t inated quick and successfully, then the leadershi will have to make it their busin to get down to carth and oil the| strike machinery so that it may func- | tion properly. sections commitiees must be set up| at once, as one of the guarantees that the victories gained in the strike | will be maintained. | In Local 507, in the Bronx, the strike committee has fallen for an} old trick of the bosses; they have taken the advice of their lawyer not to picket with stvike signs, but to picket with signs appealing on the basis of the Union Local to the con- | sumers,. which is wrong, and must be immediately corrected. If these shortcomings will be im- mediately corrected, then a success- | ful strike is assured. The Bakers City United Front Committee will continue its wWhole- | hearted support, and ealls ypon every | bakery worker regardless of what un- jon he belongs to, to throw himself | into the fight. We also call upon | Also the shop and| - |ganizations headed by Ann | secretary of One hundred state police came left) off her farm, near Red Hill, Pennsylvania, and managed to do it, at the 25th attempt. Picture shows commander to his face. elegation Meet Demands End to Depor WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10.—' answer from you who pride yourself on | tinue Doak’s policy of hounding and persecuting militant workers who fight | determines the consumption of wheat, | for better conditions?” This was the question put to Miss Perkins at a con- | ference yesterday when a delegation of workers representing the militant trade unions and working class or-¢—- | Burlak, the National Textile Workers’ Union appeared before the Labor Secretary. Miss Perkins re- every working class organization to |jied that she had no policy. | continue and increase to support to| successfully terminate this strike. | NEEDLE PLENUM OPENS MAY 12 NEW YORK.—On Friday, May 12,| the Plenum of the General Executive Board of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union will open) with a mass meeting and concert at} Webster Hall, 11th St. and 3rd. Ave.! Thé plehum -will deal with the ques-| tion of the attacks against the union} by the combined forces of the Fur} Manufacturers and their hired agents, the gorillas. It will also consider the) cloakmakers’ struggle for week work | and the preparations of the dress- | sthakérs for a strike against their in- tolerable conditions. | The opening session of the plenum | Hyman, Irving Potash, Jack Stachel, Clarence Hathaway. A special prog-| ram has been arranged with the Con- cord Symphony Orchestra (20 young players), the famous singer Chaim Katylansky, in new Soviet songs and Emilia ge of the Artef, in new recitations. The sessions will continue through Saturday and Sunday. NEW YORK.—The strike of 100} workers at the Alfred Bleyer & Co. paper bag shop, which started on May 5, has tied up the plant 100 per cent. Yesterday mass picketing of all workers, lasting one hour, took place in front of the shop, demonstrating to the boss the unity and militancy of the workers and their determina- tion to win out against a 10 per cent Wage-cut and against a 20 per cent reduction in the minimum wage. ‘The Plate and Bag Makers’ Union, Local 507, affiliated with the A. F. of L., is leading the strike. Wall Street Investment Bankers Untouched By Roosevelt Securities Bill No Statements of Bankers to Be “Guaranteed” As Roosevelt Promised; WASHINGTON, May 10—The Senate yesterday passed a bill for the regu- | lation of the issuance of securities. A week ago the House passed a similar | bill. Both bills have the support of R.F.C. to Aid Investors Roosevelt, who has made them the main factor in his “attack” against Wail Street. Neither of these bills re- quires any more information about securities than has been required from English banking firms since 1906. The present bills are radically dif- ferent from Roosevelt's original Promises about security regulation. Roosevelt's original proposals ¢on- tained provisions for making dir- ectors of corporations responsible | filed. for statements made by the corpo- rations. This clause has been re- moved. in both bills that have been passed, thus removing the clause that Wall Street found the most ob- Jectionable, although even in its se~ verest form, the securities bill never Tepresented the slightest threat to ‘Wall Street. No Guarantees, Despite Roosevelts publicity about this proposals “guaranteeing” the smell investors against loss, the se- curities bills passed in the House an in the Senate contain not one word about “guarant ” security in- vestments. passed by the House merely requires that all cor- porations submit information about their security offerings to the Fed- oral Trade Commission. There is nothing néw in this procedure, since all the companies listed on the Stock Exchange are required to submit a tailed information about their af- fairs. This has not prevented them crashing disastrously as a re- from. S sult of the economic crisis. “The most significant change in the ‘bill from the proposals with “ach tremendous publicity by Roo- ee sevelt, is that the Federal Trade Commission may require informa- tion from corporations, but is not legally concerned with the truth or falsity of the information which is With the changes made in the ori- ginal Roosevelt proposals, issuers and bankers cannot be held in any way responsible for losses sustained by small investors, if the bankers can show that they have acted “with Yeasonable care.” Another change is that bankers cannot be held liable for statements made about foreign governm’t bonds, as was originally proposed. It is in this fleld that corrupt practices of the big banks have been unusually d widespread, present defaults on for- eign bonds totalling billions of dol- jars. The National City Bank sold Peruvian bonds to its customers, af- ter its own financial experts had warned the bank that the Peruvian government would not be able to pay its debts. Under the present se- curities bill, there is no way in which this could happen again. The Se- curities Bill as passed by the Senate contains an amendment which pro- vides for a Federal Corporaton to collect some of the defaulted inter- est payments for the investors. This corporation, it is’ provided, will get loans of $75,000 annually for three years from the Reconstruction Fin- ance Corporation. ~ | man, |suffering continued PAPER BAG STRIKE. The delegation came to demand| the immediate release of Edith Berk- Frank Borich and other mili- tant workers slated for deportation by the U. S. Department of Labor. It was one year after & similar visit to} Mr. Doak who openly refused to take any steps to save Edith Berkman from} deportation, carrying out the dictates| of the Manufacturers’ Association and plied that she had no policy. | Reporters Barred | When the delegation was ushered | into the chambers of the Department | of Labor Perkins greeted them with a “professional” smile and.then ordered | all reporters from the se: | Attacks on Textile Workers Ann Burlak, spokesman for the de-| legation outlined the entire case of | Edith Berkman. In clear detail she described the militant struggles of the | textile workers of Lawrence in 1931 and showed how the Department of | Labor working closely with the Wool- | en Trust tried to smash the strike by | will be addressed by Ben Gold, Louis | "ids on the union headquarters and) the arrests of the militant leade:ship of the textile workers, Edith Berkman, Bill Murdoch and Pat Devine. She reported how furniture was broken up, headquarters padlocked and strike | material confiscated. Murdock and) Devine have been deported to Scoi-} land and Edith Berkman is still held) prisoner by the Department of Labor, | persecution at | the hands of immigration officials. Berkman finally contracted tuber. culosis and is in a sanatorium, still a} prisoner of the U. S. Labor Depart-; ment. CHILDREN MARCH IN BAKER STRIKE NEW YORK.—All the Bronx Pio- neers arfd the children of the strik- ing Bakers of A. F. of L. local 507 of | the Bakery and Cake International | will participate in a United Front Demonstration at 165th Street and Westchester Avenue at 2 p. m., Sa- turday, May 13. They will assemble at 1 p. m. at the Union Headquarters on Boston Road a block north of McKinley Square and will from there proceed to 165th St. and Westchester Ave. 1,200 ‘A. P.” MEN GIVEN PAY SLASH AEE, | Second Cut in Year As Speed-Up Increases | NEW YORK. — Traffic Department} employees of the Associated Press, | capitalist news service, have been no- tifled that a 5 per cent wage cut,) affecting between 1,200. and 1,500) workers, becomes effective immedi- ately. | These workers are engaged in the) transmission of the news by auto- matic teletype machines. The reduc- tion, which is the second of a like amount within a year, did not extend to the higher-paid news department. While only two general wage slashes have taken place in the A.P. bureaus since the crisis, wages have been gradually lowered in individual in- stances until the average is probably lower than pre-war scales. With the high-speed teletype print- ers displacing the Morse method of transmission, the most terrific speed- up conditions exist. It is planned to further step the speed on the printer circuits up from 60 to 75 words per minute. Many Morse operators, for- merly paid an average of $45 weekly, have been reduced to the status of printer attendants at $15 per week. In spite of the fact that the 5 per cent cut made effective would reduce individual assessments to member newspapers of the A. P., only a few! dollars weekly, the publishers de-) manded the cut in “justice” to their) own employees who, they pointed out, have “taken” several cuts. The Associated Press is an “open shop” concern, the American Federa- tion of Labor having taken absolutely | ,, no steps to organize the press workers. + : pa %S W YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1953 BULLETIN WASHINGTON, May 10. — The Senate by a vote of 48 to 33 today passed the administration Farm Bill, The “progressive” Republicans and Democrats made a show of op- position to the bill. By MOE BRAGIN. ‘The two horns between which the | American farmer has been struggling for so long are crushing debts and minimum produce returns. The chief indebtedness of the American farm- er is the mortgage which amounts to $10,000,000,000. The other debts amount to $5,000,000,000. In most states taxes and interest absorb about 75 per cent of the farmer's income. For the mortgaged farms in about 1925 the average value of farm land and buildings abouted to $9,564 and the average mortgage debt was $4,004. Since 1925 the mortgage debt has shot up like a rocket. At the same time farm prices have fallen 55.8 per cent below their average value in 1929. | Gross income has fallen from $17,- 911,000,000 in 1929 in 1932. As a result the bulk of |farmers have been living on incomes | ranging from $300 down. This forced to throw Mrs, John Lilko (extreme Mrs. Lilko denouncing the cossack ROOSEVELT to $5,240,000,000 | “HELP the purpose of the first part of the bill: “We must fit our farming « tivity to the country’s needs. We 1 produce for the market that exis' actually exists. We must accomod: our production to the amount which the market will take, the real market the one we can see, the one in which customers can actually pay for the goods.” his brazen statement | Means that the more than 17,000,000 unemployed can go to the dogs. Such are the men who are to help the American farmer. They will help him by taxing nine products. Farm- ers who raise other products like p tatoes, beef, etc. can go hang. B; jcutting his acreage or renting his | land to the government to lie fallow the farmer will receive a bounty which will raise his products to the 1909-1914 prices. He will t the bounty by the imposition of a tax jon the purchaser of the nine prod- |ucts. The purchaser whet he be miller or meatpacker or mi: will be allowed to pass the tax on to the consumer. The theory is that this will boost the farmer's income about 20 per cent and will only tax | the city worl about 214 per cent. But this bill actually means a $1,- 000,000,000 supersales tax flung ©: |long time and knows the details of | at Perkins’ rtations Miss Perkins, we demand a categoric | being a liberal, are you going to con- In summing up Burlak demanded | an end to the Doak policy, the right) to strike and to organize and the can- | cellation of the order to deport Edith Berkman. | Mrs. Jessica Henderson of the N. E.} Committee for the Defense of Poli-| tical Prisoners, another speaker, told| of police persecution even while Edith | Berkman lay at death’s door in the| hospital. She attacked especially the| action of Mrs. Tillinghast, N, E. Im- migration Commissioner who, in open alliance with the Woolen Trust in- stigated and carried out the attacks on the textile workers’ union and the leaders of the textile workers’ struggles. Nine Mine Leaders Held | Frank Borich, Secretary of the Na-/ tional Minérs’ Union described vividly the terror that is‘ taking place in the mining fields and the assistance given by the U. S. Department of Labor. Over nine leaders of the N. M. U, are facing deportation. Borich’s statement was endorsed by James W. Ford who spoke in behalf of the Trade Union Uniiy League. Ford told of the attempt to deport native-born Negroes to the West Indies and the transportation of Negroes from North to South. At this point Perkins stood up im- patiently and announced that she had another appointment and must conclude the conference. Perkins “Considers” the Cases When asked point blank what she intended to do about the cases of| Berkman and Borich, she said she| would consider them although she has had the facts before her for a these cases. Delegation Warns Perkins When Perkins refused to make any| definite statement, the delegation stated: “We cannot be satisfied with your answer Miss Perkins, you are only evading the question. We openly} warn you that we will watch your de-} partment and if you continue the Doak policy, we will organize and strike against such attacks on the mi- litant workers.” With this, the del-| egation walked out. The delegation) called upon all workers to immedi-| ately send protest resolutions de- manding release of Berkman, Borich and all militants scheduled for de- portation. , | of work, | other purposes. | union sewing machine repair men in| 1,233,000 farmers and farmhands out Tt cut land under cultiva-| Below Cost of Production tion down 200,000,000 acres. It has} A giance at the way this bill may made more than eighty per cent of | work (it is vague and full of jokers) the Negro farmers, tenant farmers| shows that it will not help most of| and about the same per cent of the/the farmers. The pre-war parity white farmers mortgaged and tenant) prices which the bill has for its goal farmers. The small mortgaged farm-| are: top of the working class. er is little better off than the tenant. | 1910-1914 Feb, 1933 Parity Roosevelt’s Attacks On Farmers Prices Prices Prices Roosevelt has jammed through| Wheat 88.4 32.3 Congress four measures intended to| Hogs ‘ 7.2 29 stop the farmer’s mouth. The most| Tobacco .., 10.4 89 important of these is a bill to jack} Cotton + 19.8 5.5 up farm prices. There are three| These prices are all below tt ways todo this. The first is through | Of production of the small farm the domestic allotment plan which | costs the average farmer from $1.25 to raise a bushel of wheat, 16 cents to raise a pound of cotton, and cotton, corn, hogs, dairy products, to- bacco, rice, and beet and cane sugar.| about 20 cents to raise a pound of The processor or first purchaser (mill-| tobacco. But the large farmer and er or meatpacker, etc.) will be taxed | the corporation farms can raise wheat so that only domestic reqiirements|for 50 cents and cotton for les: shall be sold in the domestic market |13 cents. The small farmer at the 1909-1914 prices. The second | cut his acreage any more to g part of the bill leases marginal lands | bounty but the large farmer can do and withdraws from production suf-|ten cents and tobacco for less than ficient acreage to cut production of | 80 profitably, and with machinery and | agricultural commodities to domestic | more fertilizer double and treble his needs. And the third part, holds) Yield. from market until 1934 3,500,000 bales; The whole bill is the most vicious) of cotton held by farm credit agencies {class legislation designed to force} as collateral for crop production and| small farmers out of the market. It| is a monstrous bill which carries on} Roosevelt’: “ ” the Hoover-Hyde program of acreage | =. rely a: enn “Renee 4 reduction and attempts to make the| This agricultural relief is put into| farmer starve and rot away between| the hands of Henry Wallace, secfe-| narrow fences. | tary of agriculture, who is made a} The Inflation Swindle } virtual farm dictator. Wallace 8 @/ 4 second scheme of Roosevelt wealthy farm magazine publisher of| yaice commodity prices and help the Iowa. He has championed the vicious| farmer is inflation. The Federal Farm Board, practically all/pin empowers Roosevelt to issue $3,- of whose members were bank direc- tors, and whose combined salamies amounted to $108,000 a year, He has advocated the “orderly retreat’ of by government bonds, to expand cre- dit up to the same amount through the Federal Reserve Banks, and to American farmers back to a hand~| geyaiue the dollar 50 per cent. The to-mouth peasant existence. He has| capitalist papers have raised the cry refused to add a “cost-of-production” | that farmer's income has gone up 17 amendment to thé farm bill. His 4s-/ per cent March because of inflation. sistant, Rex Tugwell, has explained NEEDLE UNION HELPS METAL NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades | cents, cotton to 8 cents and pork to; Bi fi th payment out Vage Lares PS” THE FARMER TO EVER GREATER DESTITUTION thorized ut ease in prices of but- to deduct a certain sum from r meat, etc. decreases the| payment for the f rs crop. This or sing power and nar- will be tu over to the mortgage armer’s market Wages holders or to the agents of the federal 1 the rise of bank. The farmer will be face to D not face with the full power of the gov- ernment because the government will be able to enforce the act by mak- mach ing empt to refuse payment e During in-| a federal crime * will not be able to| Roosevelt's “farm relief” from stock to gun muzzle is a most brutal at- | tack against the vast majority of | American farmers. The farmers have already started their counter attack. They are running up like flags these demands and plans. Immediate cash relief. Cancellation of all mortgages and taxes and rents for small farm- ers. No foreclosures. Better prices for farmers by cutting at middlemen’s profits and not at the consumer, Building special mass defense counteils. e} ght saginst forced sales compelled | he insurance companies to suspend . Roosevelt’s plan is to thaw frozen investments of the nee companies by 32,000,000,000. In- nd banks will be the able to exchange their holdings for| Organization of farm laborers. Unity these bonds which bear 4 per cent| with the working class. The Iowa interest backed by the government.) drumhead court-martials are proving But farmers will be forced to pay! to the farmer that they can not rely their mortgage interests which have|on justice in American capitali been reduced only from an average They must take matters i Naw York fanned Scorn the of 5.5 per cent to 4.5 per cent. The be au- their own hands and fight. strong, direct Advice of Milk Board Agent By an Up-State Farmer, jers spring to the fore again. “Sit “There is Mr. 5 's presi- | 9°82! B-0-0-0 There is Mr. Denisse. He's presi-| “wyoure speaking for the milk dent of our association. Why don’t ques | A : 5 trust’ We've had enough from he say something’. The speaker is| 0." sit-down.” a poor farmer. The place is the | °U ee John Branthover Hall in the village| Mr. Denisse withdraws of Minayille, a few miles out of Am-| The farmers take the floor. A sterdam, N. ¥ 300 cuss their problems and decide on w! been made by the organizer of the United Farmers’ League on the farm- lers plight and what must be done about it spoken. terms, get ou w ing, sell nothing, do nothing!” Mr. Denisse had been called upon to speak. an authoritative looking figure. is one of the few rich farmers in| the territory, owns most cows, land, houses, etc. to | judgment” Pp inflation | e's Association 000,000,000 in currency to be backed) cred with grease. tention. r hi | down and I had to fix it!” | him, He speaks again. He too speaks | for organization. | Even if this were true, the farmer's| °° — | income would still be 65 per cent low- | Complete er than the first quarter of 1929.| Speaker. ‘ ae Though wheat has gone up to 70 the farmers that something is wrong. | to strike, we will strike”. young farmer( 19 years old, whose problems are closely interwoven with those of his parents—a higher milk price,—takes the floor. He is strong- ly planted on the floor. He waves | his horny hands. “Mr. Denisse, your hand is in your pocket all the time. We can't wait no more. We got to fight.” Mr. Denisse takes the floor and’ in- terrupts the young farmer, “Young , if I were you, I'd careful of y. You have no authority Hold It is a meeting of farmers, called together to dis- hat action to take. A report had Two farmers had already They had talked in strong ‘We must unite together and price. We can do it, too, if} e all stick together. Let’s buy noth- Now | , young man your The young farmer waits patiently until the “man of judgment” is through. He tries hard to hold him- self back. How he would like to ex- press his affection for Mr. Denigse with a “kiss on the puss”. Again he speaks. “The only difference between you and me, Mr. Denisse, is that you speak for the Milk Trust and I for the poor farmer! A thunder of applause greets the representative of the toiling farm youth, The organizer of the United Farm- broke | ers League takes the floor. He ex- | presses the sentiments of the farm- and applaud | ers, their desires and needs. He calls Registration slips f the farmers’ situation. There ig | are passed out. Scores sign for Com- silence except for thé) mittees of Action. “To be prépated Gradually it dawns upon] when we get the word from the West ‘The Man of Judgment” Speaks. | Mr. Denisse steps forward. He is He | He is supposed to be a “Man of and therefore is the resident of the Amsterdam Produc- He holds up his hand. It is cov- He commands at- He speaks. “See, I am a working man myself, ke you are. My car just The farmers cheer “I think the Milk Control they | The farmers will organize. They 4 cents, all this has gone into the) is doing a fine work. I believe they | will fight for their right to live. to | pockets of the speculators. Some rich | should be given time. Let us wait!”| not be driven from the land. The | farmers have been crying for inflation Repudiate Milk Control Board. “Men of Judgment” will be swept | with the help of tinhorn politicians. | Like a bolt from the blue the farm- ' aside. Workers Industrial Union, in re-| Sponse to a request from the Metal} Workers Industrial Union and the} . F, of L. Machinists’ Local 605, | which are leading a joint strike of | sewing machine workers, issued in- structions to allow no repairs by non- | DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY | 107 Bristol Street (Bet. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) B’kiyp PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 shops the needle union controls. Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M.| | Strikers today were reported eager- ly reading the news of the strike in the Daily Worker, the only English daily newspaper supporting the} strike. intern’) Workers Order | DENTAL DEPARTMENT NOTICE | ‘ The Daily Worker requests the 80 FIFTH AVENUE worker who brought in the picture 15th FLOOR | AU Work Done Under Ve published in last Tuesday's ‘Daily’ of Dr. C, WEISSMAD » Care PLANTERS AND CATTLEMEN CALLED — TO JOIN NATIONAL FARMERS STRIKE. ‘Move on Foot for Rank Ensure Movement response to insistent demands of the Reno Stiil Praises Roosevelt Although compelled at the Des Moines conference of the Farmers’ Holiday Association last week to favor the strike, which he had earlier tried to head off by pleading that the Roosevelt administration was going to do something for the farmers, Milo Reno still praises Roosevelt, In a statement today Reno said Roosevelt was “doing his honest best for all industry.” Leaders of the local struggles in Towa feel that it is necessary at once to get rank and file leadership to guarantee against Reno again being in a position to betray the action as he did in the holiday movement last year, DES MOINES, May 10.—An appeal has gone out to every planter and cattleman to join the farmers’ strike that is to go into effect on Saturday. The appeal was sent out by the National Farmers’ Holiday Association in | grain arcas that the strike include all sections of the farm population. | ones of ex-Judge Panken at a Tam- Dr. WILLIAM BELL orial office, 8th floor, 50 East 13th OPTOMETRIST Street. 106 E. 14th St., near 4th Av. and File Leadership to | Against Betrayal | MEET YOUR COMRADES AT THE Cooperative Dining Club) | ALLERTON AVENUE Cor, Bronx Park East is Prolet: rank and file of the farmers in the | Prices GARMENT DISTRICT — Minneéota Convention Approves | MINNEAPOLIS, May 10, — The) Minnesota Farmers’ Holiday Associa- | tion, meeting at the town of Monte- video, near here, veted yesterday to join the nation-wide farm strike called for Saturday, ignoring the at- tempts of Governor Olseh, who is in Washington, to postpone it. Olsen is trying to make the farmers believe that Roosevelt would do something for them if he were not so busy and that machinery is in motion to aid them. They have heard such tall; before and say they refuse to be fooled again into abandoning the mass struggle. Garment Section Workers | Patronize | Navarr Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE Corn PATRONIZE SEVERN’S CAFETERIA 7th Avenue at 30th St.! | WHAT’S ON Thursday— VOLUNTEERS WANTED! Come to the National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism at 15 Fifth Avenus. Hitler victims need your help! Come at once! LECTURE, ‘American Education Re- trenches/? Isidore Begun at Pen and Ham- mer, 116 West 2ist St. Forum will follow. UNITED FRONT POLICIES on Scottsworo and Mooney, 4109 13th Ave., Bklyn. Auspices Ella May Branch, 1. L. D. ‘Admission free. + SYMPOSIUM ON MARRIAGE in Soviet Union, 1207 Kings Highway, Bkiyn. Auspices Harry’ Simms Branch, I. L. D, MOVIE, “Fragments of an Empire,” Para-| dise Manor, 11 W. Mt. Eden Ave.. Bronx, | 8 p. m, Admission 15 cents, Auspices Mt Eden Branch, F.8. U. | Friday— HOUSEWARMING PARTY. Opening new rters of Workers Film end Photo 220 F. idth Si. Photo exhibit, +Russel of League of Nations Association. Soviet film, May Day film, entertainment, refreshments, Admission 25 cents. MASS M} SCOTTSB 9 Pros~ pect Ave., Bronx. Prominent speakers. Au- spices Otto Korvin I. L, D. Branch, ‘ORMAL MUSICAL snd Party.» Club Best Food at Workers Prices DOWNTOWN AMUSEMENTS AMERICAN PREMIERE—TODAY AT 11:30 A. M. AMKINO’S PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENT: THE DRAMATIC TALE OF A MODERN WANDERING JEW! “Horizon’ starring BATALOV You'll Laugh and Cry With this Jew who dreamt, was terror of the Black- 4 S—by its reatissic en and finally triamphe: scenes of Worker's life in America! A worthy successor to “POTEMKIN” aid “ROAD TO LIFE”—Dialogue Titles in Emglish 184 WEST SSTH STREET. EAST OF SEVENTH AVENUE EUROPA CONTINUOUS FROM 11:30 A. M. (THE WANDERING JEW) (of “Koad to Life”) You'll Be Gripped PEGGY WOOD AND ERNEST TRUEX in Getting Ready for the New Revolution in the Reich!—STARTING TOMORROW (Friday) “Kuhle Wampe” "xs : OF POTSDAM Suppressed by German Dictatorship with HERTHE THIELE, Star of “Maedchen in Uniform” (English Titles) Added Attraction: SYMPOSIUM AGAINST HITLER By HATHAWAY, THOMAS, DAHLBERG and Others Last Day: “LIVING CORPSE” & “SOVIETS ON PARADE” xc. Sat., Sun. & Hol, Iith STREET & UNION SQUARE Midnight Show Saturday Show 10:30 pai. The Worker's Continuous {rem 9 a.m.— CITY THEATRE ITH ST. and IRVING PLACE Presents AMKINO'S “CHINA EXPRESS” TOMORROW, FRIDAY, MAY 12th For One Day Only ENGLISH TITLES THROUGHOUT Foremost Soviet Film of th 1} ial | | 8:30 to 10:30 A.M. ALL SEATS = 1 0¢ LAST 10M ALM. to 13:00 Midnight {|| s pays ALL SEATS Jie i. INN. ¥ Associate Feature: GEO. BANCROFT es in “LADY and GENT” |" The Theatre Guild Presents | The MASK AND THE FACE 7) By LUIGI EST SELLERS Adapted by Ws Somerset Mbusham A NEW COMEDY GUILD ™ » W. of Bway MOROSCO THEATRE, 45th, W, of B ‘Thur.,6at.2:30 E ves. 8:50; Matinees Wed. é& Sat, at 2:40 BIOGRAPHY Ato " od ~ by A Comedy by 8. N. BEHRMAN THEY ALL COME TO | AVON 7ay:,5ist.,¥ ol tras MOSCOW A Comedy—Large Cast W. 45th St. First Mat. Sat. | Bk0 JEFFERSON 1 St | Marjorie Rambeaw eandDerethy Jordan '% “STRICTLY PERSONAL” PLEASURE CRUISE” with IN and ROLAND YOUNG new subscribers for the special 6- page Saturday feature editio, | Added Feature: orchestra; Margéret. Larkin, contralto; Pavkave Wal wx Nathen Nevins, pisntst; Cemp Nitgedsiget Workers Welcome at | ieee | Ratner’s Cafeteria ter Club, 55 W. 19th Bt. Admission 35 cents; 115 Second Avenue with this notice, 25 cents, Food Workers Industrial Union. tT. W. O. Branch No, Hiteine ees ee ‘ignre SANDWICH SOL'S LUNCH &. 3rd Gt. Brighton Beach, Also tea party, 101 University Place discussion. MEETING OF EDITH BERKMAN BRANCH ‘Just Around the Sorner) Telephone Tompkins Sqrare 6-0780-978) I. LD. All invited. At Malkind, 1262 50th 8t., Bklyn. Announcement! DEBATE—Qn Friday, May 12. Resolved. Is the League of Naticns an Instrument of Peace and Freedom?’ Affirmative, Winter Negative, Willlam Simons of the Anti-Im- perialist League. At Tremont Workers’ Third Anniversary SPLENDID vikee ll A Celebration Hall and | ; ’ Meeting Rooms | Branch 116—I. W. 0. TO AIRE Sat. May 13, at 8 p.m, Perfect for BALLS, DANCES, || jay: sourneaN sOULEVARD, BROME LECTURES, MEETINGS, Ete. | pyssian aancers — ariel — Brel toon iN THF DANCING APTER TNE CONCERT New ESTONIAN | WORKERS HOME | 27-29 W.115th St., N.Y.C. Phone UNiversity 4-0165 For Brownsville Proletarians SOKAL CAFETERIA | 1] 1689 PITKIN AVENUE } Club, 207 Clinton Ave. eet € a oa ena cnet