The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 13, 1933, Page 3

a DAILY WORKER, W YORK, $ TURDAY, MAY 13, 1933 Page Three Communist Party Urges a Fight on Evictions | Calls on Party Members To Take Lead in Sup- porting Unemployed Council Activity Tens of thousands of New York workers are baing evicted | from their homes as a result of a new campaign to reduce re- | lief for the unemployed. Hundreds of thousands more face | eviction and hunger because of the refusal of the Tamman controHed Home Relief Buros to pay rent and admit destitute workers to the relief rolls. © viacslee (ha desmibalate PGaeah ot The Tammany Hall politi-| rent for all unemployed workers! | cians acting on the plans of| Demand immediate relief for all) single workers! the bankers are taking this means | "he Works Show the O’Brien-Tammany-Wall| of balancing the budget, while they! street landlords and bosses that the continue to rob the city of millions Of| Workers of New York will fight for | dollars of public money. | thetr rights! | Appar of this conpissy seein | DISTRICT SECRETARIAT, the workers of New York, the capi- 5 uy talist newspapers by common agree- COMMUNIST PARTY, Interest Payments | to Capitalist Class | Highest on Record | | | WASHINGTON, May 12.—The | | capitalist class collected more interest payments during the first four months of this year than in the same period last | year, when payments were the | highest on record, according to | figures issued by the United | States Department of Commerce. | The amount paid out as interest so far this year was $1,125,707,000. | During the month of March this year, interest payments | amounted to $290,351,000, an in~ | crease of more than $10,000,000 | over the same period last year. | These enormous payments to | the capitalist class were made | possible by wage cuts, speed-up | and by drawing on accumulated | surpluses piled up from the enormous profits of the last de- cade, ment.remain silent about the drastic reductions in relief and the wholesale | eviction of workingclass families. | 'The*Gommunist Party calls upon) the “wotkers of New York to break) through this conspiracy. We must/ expdSe the desperate plight of the} millions’ of men, women and children | who are deprived of bread and shelter. | It is necessary that the most bitter and determined struggle shall be launched to smash the new hunger offengiye of the New York bankers and_politicians. | The Unemployed Councils of Great- er New York are calling for mass) mobilization and mass struggle to/ force the city administration to pro-| ide_rents and to grant relief for all| ie ers. The Communist Party | this the most important} the entire working class | at this moment. It calls| s to unite in this upon .2i wor t No tier what orgamiza- | cn®ton belong to—whether to the A. F, of li Trade Union Unity League, or independent union—the various un-/ emptoyed organizations, clubs and fratetial orgenizations—all worke: both Negro and white, must unite or thigisiue. This is a direct attack on) the witole work’ng class of New York. This attack must be answered by the! un't@ trots of the working class. | Ye e2!] first cf all uvon every mem~- ber cf the Communist Party to sup-| oe Unomplored Councils in this A mother and her child heading The other worker with a Hundreds of workers yesterday. with eviction. ORGANIZE PROTEST seal Mi URELIO wit comp here mntil our rent is pai VERDICT ere: CONSHAK nee handed down to Sam Gonshak, leader cn charge oi dis uct the workers of this g a campaign of| 901,406 VACANT eos't by sud mnemplo: 2 woxkers see in the verdict a) NEW YORK.—There are 201,406 t to their struggles against ‘on a survey made by the Tencment appealing the case”. the) cl Labor Defense said to-) $200 must be raised to! During the last two years 1,054 “Bu telegrams of protest should pour into| lords. Information was refused _by Mazor O'Brien and Governor Lehman | 1,648 owners making the report in- Picketing Against Evictions | lief Bureau at Spring and Elizabeth streets that won a partial victory THROW THOUSANDS ON STREETS hun- York, admitted a report released Thursday by Commiscioner Kerrigan based per cent of the total number of apartments in the city are vacant. on the campaign. Letters and apartments were closed by the land-¢ and large meetings should be held.” | complete. The I. L. D. appeal for Gonshak will include a fight against the Crim- imal Code used by the bosses to pass such ‘sentences. Collection lMsis for Gonshak’s de- fense can be obtained at 11 Clinton Stree: whe: NEW YORK.—A Provisional Ta-| back Defense Committee has been or- te prevent the railroading to jail of-Leon Taback a militant worker | At 17th Street and Second Avenue | the Lying Hospital, a building taking | | up a full block along Second Avenue | |and 12 stories high is closed and de- | is enother closed public building. the | St. Marks Hospital, equipped with Around the corner is a modern nurses home, recently erected, which no one occupies. Throughout the | caying. | At 11th Street and Second Avenue | who was knocked unconscious and ar- rested three weeks ago when a group of workérs from the Allerton Avenue Unemployed Neighborhood Committee | city thousands of public and private buildings are going to ruin. Yet thousands of workers and their went to the Westchester Square Home| families are being evicted, told to, Reliéf Bureau recently to demand re- | shift for themselves, to crowd in with | lief, He is charged with assault and| relatives already overburdened them- will ‘be tried June 19. | selves, A Conference has been called by) Thousands of young workers and the Pyovisional Committee for Thurs-| single workers are forced to seck day, May 18 at the Workers Colony shelter in subways, hallways, park Cooperative. 2700 Bronx Park East at benches, public toilets, while thous- 8 Pp. mM ands more sleep in filthy flop houses. SEAMEN EVICTION SCORED BY I. L. D. NEW -YORK.—E. M. Page, director of the Seamen’s Mission at Jane and WestStreets, today received a sharp vebuke from the New York District International Labor Defense for his action in ousting unemployed marine workers, some of whom are now held for deportation because they defended themselyes from being ousted. The following wire was sent him: “The International Labor Defense vigorously akeeson) fend action in unemployed seamen as a Se cree the Roosevelt government. We de- nounce the arrest of 57 workers de- These are the contrasts in the rich- | est city in the world. Thousands of spartments and buildings unoccupied ere going to ruin closed by the land- | iords and bankers, who feel they can- | ‘not make enough profit on them now | | hundreds of thousands of men, wo- | |men and children without shelter. Workers! .Demand that all apart- | | ment houses be opened for families in need of homes. Not one worker's family should want for shelter with | | thousands of apartments vacant, Single workers demand the opening | of the public buildings. | financed by the government, hiring unemployed at union wages, to tear down the slum apartments and build | liveable modern houses for workers. the picket line outside the Home Re- sige has a family and is threatened massed all around the bureau. “We d,” is the rallying ery of the unem- PARTMENTS, BUT | apartments vacant in the city of New House Department. This means 14.4 | buildings containing more than Liane | Jobless! Here’s How to Fight the | Defeat Gangsterism Against the Militant Unions ‘The demonstration in Union Square today called by the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union and the Trade Union Unity Council is an im- portant step in the struggle which confronts the workers against the increased use of underworld gangsters of the Tammany Hall corrupt machine and the police department, tolerated by the Socialist leaders, particularly the Forward clique, in the interests of the A. F. of-L. bu- reaucracy. Gangsterism not only against the militant trade unions of the T.U. U.L. but also against the increasingly resentful rank and file members of the A. F, of L. membership has grown to staggering proportions. In the Electrical Workers’ Union and other bu iding trades unions of the A. F. of L., gangsters and racketeers have forced the workers to submit to wage cuts. The recent vicious attacks on the strikers of the Equitable Paper Bag Co., on the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union, on practically every picket line which the workers set up in their strug- gles, indicates that this is only the beginning of an organized systematic plan by the bosses and the A. F. of L, to smash the militant workers and their organizations and stop the new wave of struggle. The identity of the assailants and murderers of Morris Langer, and four other fur workers, and of the gangster murder and smash up of the headquarters of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union are well known to the police department. Their intentions to murder the leaders of the Industrial Union have been well estabiished, but not a finger has been lifted to punish the guilty ones. These corrupt tools of the police and the bosses, the A. F. of L., these organized bands of cutthroats and underworld characters, are necessary for the ugly task of carrying on wholesale pogroms against militant workers for which they are richly rewarded. The workers in New York must demand an answer as to why these murderers are at large. Instead of tracking them down the District At- torney is busy assisting the A. F. of L. officials to perpetrate another frame-up on the leaders of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. The Federal Income Tax Commission has the gall to summon the leaders of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union to investigate the complaint that they are receiving $100 a week in wages. And the com- plaint comes from none other than Mr. Samuel Markowitz, the attorney for the International Fur Workers Union! Here we see how Tammany Hall and the Roosevelt administration are rushing to the aid of the fur manufacturers. The workers, while demanding that the murder of Langer and the intended murder of the leaders of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union shall not be whitewashed, can best accomplish the elimination of gangsterism within the various organizations through mass power and solidarity. The demonstration in Union Square should be a powerful answer to the attempted whitewash by District Attorney Crain and the further at- tack of the Tammany machine on the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union should bring out tens of thousands of workers in the preparation of a real mass defense against any further repetition of these vicious attacks, "EMERGENCY JOBLESS CONFERENCE | | | All delegates to the Unemployed Council of Greater | New York, all organizers and secretaries of local councils | and of trade unions, clubs, women’s councils, I.W.O. and all! fraternal organizations’ secretaries, youth and sport organi- zations are called to an emergency meeting to consider im- mediate action and struggle to resist the new attacks on the unemployed. Come promptly today, Saturday, at 1 p.m. to Irving Plaza ae Irving Place and 15th Street. | Unemployed Councils of Greater New York. Why an Advisory Committee? On April 21 a meeting with representatives of organizations was called by the Daily Worker. At this meeting we discussed the organization of a “Workers Advisory Committee”. A weakness of this conference was the lack of attendance by trade | unions and Unemployed Councils. During the early part of June a broader ' N.Y. TRADE UNION NEWS RETAIL SALESMEN UNION JOINS TUUC Was Affiliated With | -U.H.T. Since 1905 | NEW YORK.—At a well attended meeting of the Retail Dry Goods Salesmen’s Union on Thursday night, | after a thorough discussion, the mem- | bership unanimously decided to af- fillate to the Trade Union Unity | Council. |, The union, which has been in ex- |istence since 1905, decided also to extend its activities and mapped a program for a drive to organize vari- ous retail stores in New York City. | Support for this drive will be sought from working class organizations since the large majority of those buy- | ing goods in dry goods establishments are working class customers Two delegates were elected by the Union to the Trade Union Unity Council which together with the Of- | fice Workers’ Union will help in the | work of reorganizing the Union on a | functioning basis, | The organization, which for years | was affiliated to the United Hebrew | Trades never received any guidance |from them. The workers are now | convinced that only through a mili- | tant policy will they be able to ex- |tend their influence over the work- |ers within their trade. ATL BLUM AT ORDER OF THE LAUNDRY BOSS METAL SHOP STRIKE AGAINST LAY-OFFS _ NEW YORK.—Protesting against lay-offs which took place last week, workers of the Karp Metal Corpora- | tion, located at 129 30t went on strike yeste: leadership of the Steel and Metal | Workers’ Industrial Union. The shop, which manufactures sheet metal pro- ducts, is completely cl d | The strikers are demanding the re- |instatement of five workers laid off recently, no further lay-offs, division of work, return of a wage cut im- posed two weeks ago, a 40 ho day week, and recognition of a shop com- |mittee. Other demands include time and half for overtime, but over- time unless absolutely nec no | firing and no victimization of | Mass picketing started yester UNITED ACTION IS AIM OF SHOE _ CONFERENCE SAT. NEW YORK.—A large delegation of shoe workers from the shops and shoe workers’ organizations will be present at the United Front Confer ence called by the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union on Satur- day to consider joint action for |improvement of working conditions | The conference will be held at Irving | Plaza, Saturday, May 13 at 2 p. m, |15th St. and Irving Place. Delegates from the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Protective and the Federation of Shoe Workers will officially represent their respective organizations. Shoe |workers in every shop, organized and | unorganized have been called upon | NEW YORK—Leon Blum, General |to elect delegates. Unemployed shoe | Secretary of the Laundry Workers’ | Workers are also expected to send re- | Industrial Union, was railroaded to | Presentatives. a year's term in the penitentiary yes-| The United Front Conference will terday after a hearing before the |COncern itself with the important State Parole Commission, on the pre- | question of protecting the interest of | text that it would keep him out of | *he workers in the trade and or- | “trouble.” Tt is well known that the |f@nizing a united {ront for a common | State Parole Commission 1 fj |struggle for shorter hours, pay in- ssion is acting at | creases, . unemployment relief and | the behest of the laundry bosses and | the racketeers who are tied up close- | ly with politics, to prevent Blum | from organizing and leading the | struggles of the laundry workers for | Vil Fe FF other issues. decent living conditions. Blum’ frame-up comes as @ result of re- peated attempts by laundry racket- eers and bosses to smash the union through terror and intimidation. Blum was sent to prison several | Weeks ago by order of the State Parole Commission which revoked his parole in another case, on the basis | of false affidavits submitted by a |scab. Blum had been previously warned by the Parole Board that he | would be sent back to prison if he | did not give up his activities in the | Laundry Workers’ Union. Both the City and State Parole Boards de- clared that while “they could not | hold him legally, they could hold him | morally” and pronounced the vicious sentence of one year in state prison. | The Laundry Workers Industrial | Union issues an appeal to all work~ “No Rent” Order | To organize resistance against | Tammany’s “no rent-no relief” or- | der, the Unemployed Councils call on workers and their families to | take the following steps: 1. Organize anti-eviction and block cemmittees in every block. | 2. Picket the Relief Bureaus | every day. Demand rent payments | and more relief. 3. Demonstrate at Bureaus | | May 12, Friday, at 11 a.m. Refuse | to leave bureaus till relief is given. | 4, Help build united front ac- tion of all organizations. Brownsville Workers | Will Hear Scottsboro March Report Tom’w NEW YORK.—A mass meeting to| greet the twenty-five delegates from | the Brownsville section to the Free, the Scottsboro Boys march to Wash- ington, will be held Sunday at the; American Youth Club, 407 Rockaway | Ave. The meeting is called by the! International Labor Defense, Browns- | ville section. Among the speakers will be Rich- ard B. Moore, of the National Of- fice of the International Labor De- Demand a public works program fense, Mrs. Mamie Thompson, Browns- ville Delegate to the Tom Mooney Congress in Chicago, and a number | of the delegates to the Washington March. } ‘I Have Seven Children’; ‘Evict Them,’ Orders Tammany; ‘Fight!’ Says Council | | NEW YORK.—Tammany judge Andrews ground out evictions at Madi- | national of Sea and Harbor Workers, has played a foremost part. The son Street Court like a machine today with cnly one answer to the dozens of unemployed workers who came to appeal against dispossess notices, “Pay ‘Haywood _ Patterson branch of the International or move.” “I have seven children at home, two are sick in bed,” said one mother from 371 E. 10th St. “Pay or move in 5 days,” was the indifferent answer. Seven other families’in the same house all in court today were given the same order. One worker militantly passed words with the red faced judge, insisting on telling him his conditions and the refusal of the Home Relief Bureau to pay any more rents. “ait have nothing to do with that,” . uted Andrews, “Move out!” joined boys.” She|in another judge next to him. of| ‘There was a member of the un- employed council among the families. “Our answer to this,” he said, “is fight; we will organize the entire house and block—we will not be thrown on the street.” ‘The families left the court room Ruby Bates Attends LL.D. Branch Opening NEW YORK.—The new Labor Defense of Flushing, Long Is- land’ was determined to fight for their homes. | Their first step was to join the picket line at the Home Relief Bureau join- ing with the other workers shouting, “We demand rent!” After the picket line they went to their houses to or- ganize themselves against the threat- ening evictions, ¥.P.A, APPEALS FOR CHILD CAMP LEADERS NEW YORK.—The district office of the Young Pioneers, 35 East 12th St., room 509, has issued an appeal yes- terday for mass organizations to as- sign applicants as child leaders for this summers’ camp at Wingdale, N. Y. Applications must be in by May 20. | do we mean to do? We mean to se- conference of workers’ orgahizations@— = to discuss this vital question will be outset that these proposals are not | frame up by sending wires to Gov- held. hard and fast rules that are brought|ernor Lehman demaniing that he We print herewith excerpts of the | here for acceptance and that no addi- |give Blum a hearing and grant him opening remarks at the conference by| tional proposals or changes will be|an immediate, untonditional release. \ers’ organizations to protest this P. Bart. We will print the discussions | accepted. On the contrary, we desire| Laundry workers are called to pro- | of those who participates in subse-| any additional proposals which will! test this frame-up by participating quent issues of the “Daily. | help to strengthen both the commit-| in the monster Union Square demon- * = xe tee and the work generally. | stration on Saturday at 1 p. m. “We propose to have on the Ad- visory Committee representatives of | the following trade unions and organ- “To get down concretely to the Workers Advisory Committee, what ism. against racketeering and gangster- | | lect a committee which will partici- | pate in the everyday work of the} Daily. That, of course, should not| scare anyone. We do not mean} Daily at regular intervals. We va discuss not only a particular article, but also take up the editorial ques- | tions of the Daily. Are the editorials, | | special problem of t” izations: 1. The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union; 2. The Marine Work- | that the committee which will be| ers Industrial Union; 3. The Unem- | selected has to come every day to the| ployed Councils; 4. A veteran who | Daily office and write some articles.| should represent the veterans’ move- | They will keep in touch with the| ment. “5. We believe it would be advisable to have a member on the Committee selected from Harlem, because of the ogro worker: BAKERY WIVES | FORM COUNCIL NEW YORK.—Organization of the wives of bakery workers into a | Bakers’ Women’s Council was effect- | ed several weeks ago at a meeting |at Bakers’ Union headquarters, 66 | Allen Street, in preparation for the for instance, printed in language sim- | Fahy Bhi rn nat ; ple enough for the workers to read? | ANd this is the most important Negro| Bakers’ strike which was called on Do the editorials take up the central| Center. Someone who will write on| May Day. ‘The organization which points that workers are thinking| ‘Me struggles in Harlem for the city| has participated in the strike both about? There are hundreds of ques- | edition, The struggle against jim-|on the picket line and at open air tions that face us in connection with | TOWiem, against discrimination, | meetings is growing rapidly. It is | against Scottsboros which take place| becoming more actively involved in this problem. ' ‘ “We propose to organize this com? | 8ht in the city of New York, the strike of the bakery workers. At s | its last meeting on Sunday, May 7, mittee, representative of the main) “These, comrades, are proposals! , mass movements in the city, who that we make here for the formation ae Sei tated pesca iat Pe should work together with the staff|of such a committee. There should | Foye Aa dociiek io padioipetes aa of the Daily. I want to say at the be additional proposals made here.” the May the persecution of Jews in Germany Marine Union-- Front Line in Auti-War Fight By HARRY JACKSON (New York Port Organizer of the Marine Workers Industrial Union) NEW YORK.—In the fight against shipment of munitions, the Inter- legates were elected to attend a con- ference of all Women’s Councils on May 14 at Manhattan Lyceum WOMEN’S COUNCIL CONFERENCE SU NEW YORK.—The United Council of Workingclass Women will hold its annual conference this Sunday at Amsterdam Trade Union International has been pressed by its membership steer eet’ SEAMEN SEND OUT | jointly with other Councils. Five de- | to passing a paper resolution against shipment cf munitions but have not}! publicized throughout the souther Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th Street, at 10 a. m. The conference will close | | SHOPS SETTLE NEW YORK. he fur shop of Rosenblum and Jasper, which was | declared on strike on Tuesday, May 9, involving close to 40 workers, was settled victoriously yesterday. The workers gained the following | demands: A $4 increase in wages for |every worker. A reduction in work- | ing hours, from 50 to 44. 3 per cent unemployment insurance fund. Time and a half for overtime. Recogni- | tion of the union and all other de- | mands. Other shops still on strike in the fur dressers and dyers department are: Hollanders, Phil Singer, Schrap- ell, Pallissiere, Jonas & Rivet, Acme | Pur Dying. Moe Harris, well known racketeer |and organizer for the joint scab council is now acting as scab agent for the Acme Fur Dying. He has tried to induce a group of workers | to scab, but the strikers have so far | smashed all these attempts. eae a Yesterday brought three new set- | tlements of Associated shops. The | bosses granted all demands and the | unemployment insurance fund The fur department calls all ac- | tive members to the union this morn- ing to visit shops and see that the | decision of no overtime on Satur- day be enforced. At its last meeting the trade board decided that will not | tolerate violation of this decision. i ae NEW YORK —The movement among the furriers to refuse to work |on skins dyed by J. Hollander, the fur firm, is gaining ground, particu- ijarly now, when work is beginning to pickup. The workers of B. Levenbaum, 210 | W. 30th St. Abramson, Honigman | and Wasserman, 210 W. 30th St., and Sadovnick Bros., 249 W. 29th St. went the trade board decided they will not | work on Hollander skins which are dyed in the blood of the workers. UNITY CALL NEW YORK.—The Marine Work- ers’ Industrial Union has sent an open letter offering a united front in | the struggles. of the towboatmen to | the officials of the Associated Marine | Workers, independent union of tow- | boatmen, Stating that there are many points in which the Associated Marine Workers and the Industrial Union dif- fer, but that they believe united struggle can and must be achieved among the water transport workers, WORKERS INVITED TO N.T.W. PLENUM The discussions of Plenum of the General Executive Board of the Needle T ers Industrial jon be at 9 am. at On are a number of important ques- 1g Plaza its order of busi- the solution of ‘which 1 effect the struggles of the trades workers The forthcoming struggles of the cloakmak smakers and fur- riers, problems of its out of town sections, unemployment, Negro work. e’”., and particularly the question of concrete application of the united front policy will be the central points of discussio: ‘The General Executive Board in contrast to the sessions of the GEB. the International which are kept and isolated from the broad vites not only its own mem- t also active right wing union- mbers of executive boards and © come to the sessions of the and hear the discussion on united front BAKERS UNITY CONFERENCE SUN. NEW YORK.—The strike of the Bronx bakers, which is showing a high pitch of militancy, will be fur- ther reinforced by the coming united front conference called for Sunday, May 14, at 11 a.m. at Royal Mansion, 1315 Boston Road, Bronx. The bakers are striking against a 30 per cent wage cut Every workers’ organization is ask- ed to send delegates to the United Front Conference on Sunday to sun- port the struggle of the bakers to defeat the wage cut and defend their union. In a statement today, the Com- munist Party Section 5 and 15 pledges its full support to the strike of the bakers conducted by A. F. of L. Local 507 The bakery workers of Local 509 on strike in Brownsville will parade and demonstrate before the shops on strike today at 10 am. The par- ade starts from the Labor Lyceum. The march has been endorsed by the Communist Party, the Young Com- | munist League and the left wing or- | ganizations in this section. | JOBLESS COUNCIL PLEDGES SUPPO?T TO BAKERS STRIKE | NEW YOPRK.—Recognizing th ne- | cessity of joint struggles and the im- | portance of united action between | employed and unemployed the Middle Bronx Unemployed Council sent a | letter to the bakers of Local 507, A. F. of L., greeting their strike and pledg- | ing in behalf of the members of the | Unemployed Council their fullest sup- port and co-operation. In their letter they stated “that | the struggles of the unemployed are | closely bound up with the battles of the employed; that while the em- ployed must fight side by side with | the unemployed for relief, against | evictions and for unemployment | insurance at the same time the un- employed must join hands with the employed in their fight against wage | cuts, long hours discrimination, for | the right to live.” | The council called on all workers in | the Bronx to support the bakers in | their fight for better conditions and urged “unemployed and unorganized bakers not to take jobs where workers are on strike.” ANOTHER METAL | JOINT STRIKE | NEW YORK.—Workers of the Cen- tury Silver Co., 11 Street and Avenue jc struck yesterday under the joint | leadership of the Metal Spinners and the Steel and Metal Workers’ Indus- | trial Union againsi a contracting system established by the bosses which has deprived the workers of full time employment. Polishers, casters, solderers and spinners were all solidly out today when the bosses refused to accede to their demand to discontinue sending out work, PAINTERS STRIKE AGAINST PAY CUT NEW YORK.—Alteration painters employed by Pincus Cohen went out on strike against a reduction in wages this week. This boss painter, who is also a landlord, persecutes the work- ers from both ends, through eviction notices when his tenants cannot pay rent on account of unemp]joyment and through cutting the wages of those he employs. carried it into action, even when| continent. the union offers the following five! called upon by their own membership | in England and Poland, particularly since the invasion of China by Japan. There have been heroic fights in| Europe by harbor workers who re- sisted the loading of munitions, and in South America seamen and navy men have struck against carrying mu- nitions into the war zones, The actual anti-war actions in the marine industry have been led by the I. 8. H,, and in the United States the Marine Workers Industrial Union, its affiliate, leads in the mobilization of harbor and sea workers in this im- portant struggle, ‘The partial disruption of the send- ing of an armed cruiser to South America, recently, by the union, spurred the anti-war fight of the South American masses, being widely The Marine Workers Union carries on the traditions of the heroic Seattle longshoremen who in 1919 prevented the shipment of muni- tions to the White Guard armies for use against the Bolsheviks. Today, with wars raging in both hemispheres and the imperialisis getting ready to solve the crisis by plunging the workers of all countries into this bloodbath, the work of the Marine Workers Industrial Union assumes vital importance to every worker, Today and tomorrow, have been set aside by the revolutionary trade unions as tag days to raise an “Anti- War Fighting Fund” to carry on this important work. Every worker should get out into the streets and help to make this drive a success, Industrial | | with a banquet at 8 p. m. Officers for the coming year will be elected. A report will be made jon the past year’s activities. The Council has recruited six hundred new members in the last three months. F.S.U. DANCE AT WEBSTER HALL NEW YORK. — Charles Walker, playwright, John L. Spivak, Author of “Georgia Nigger” Joseph Freeman and Michael Gold editor of the New Masses and Margaret Larkin, author sponsors of the “Soviet Russia Today” and the Friends of the Soviet Union of a marionette play, the Ball of the Man- nequins by Bruno Jasienski, followed by dancing, being given at Webster Hall, tonight at 8:30, 1, No wage-cuts. 2. Eight-hour day on all boats. 3. No reduction in crews. 4. Strict enforcement of overtime pay for overtime work. 5. Relief for all unemployed tow- boatmen—married or single. | point program for joint action: | 180 WORKERS IN | FURNITURE STRIKE ma | NEW YORK—A strike of reed and | willow workers involving 180 wo |in 15 shops was called by the Fur ni- of “Singing Cowboy” are among the! ture Workers’ Industrial Union. Their | ®7° presentation by| demands include recognition of the| 0! te shop cor union and a shop committee, an in | crease in wages, and shorter hour: | Two shops have already been set- | tled with all demands granted. Snv- {eral other shops are negotiating set- tlements, APARTMENTS EMPTY WHILE UNEMPLOYED ARE EVIC Cohen has tried to split the ranks of the workers by getiing them to | subcontract and in this way to draw |them away from the union. The workers are determined to win | this strike which is being led by the | Alteration Painters Union. Painters {are asked by the union to come to the headquarters of the Bronx local. | L. I. FURNITURE STRIKE NEW YORK.—The Bristol Furni- and Jackson been on strike 5 per cent increase, 1 for recognition e. The shop is or the leadership committee. cvs Industrial to give any as- 3 that they may \f | ut 109 c U ~~ a x te li- as Peeaoe7i BES