The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1933, Page 2

Page Two Due to important articles in were forced to omit the instalments of Barricades in Berlin. today’s and last Saturday's issue we HATHAWAY TELLS YCL AND YPSL MEMBERS UNITED FRONT NOW VITAL WITH APPROACH OF WAR NEW YORK. — Thir we and 400 members y-five members of the Young Peoples Socialist of the Young Communist League attended the meeting om Thursday night at Stuyvesant Casino, called by the ¥.C.L. and the United Front National Youth Day Committee te discuss the united front policy and the forming of a united front for National Youth Day. c of A the main cpeaker. Communist Party, was the 1. Herman, the Young Communist League, presided as chairman. Her- | out that e fact that members ‘e present due to the short the meeting was Ronk and File S.P. Demand Unity H ay spoke for an hour and He spoke of the effects isis on the youth, of the war and the urgent action. In speaking of the Socialist Party tu d front, he gave mpie showing how balked at every attempt ed front. He showed le cr mence of imi these leaders to reach a wi that the ik unity ‘The res’ Chicago, the city organization of the YP.S.L. is in revolt against the Na- tional Executive Committee,” Hatha- way said Points to Y.C.L. Mistakes He drew attention to the mistakes made by the Young Communist League in their approach to the Young Peoples Socialist League for united front “What are our methods?”, he said. “In the first place we have to state that both in the Party and in the ¥.C.L. there is still too much of a sectarian approach to the members of the Y.P.S.L. and to the members of the Socialist Party. We | have not yet learned to go to these workers, 99 per cent of whom are absolutely sincere and willing to struggle against capitalism, win their confidence and convince them of the correctness of owr policy. Comrades, you cannot make an approach to the Y.P.S.L. if you go to them and tell them that the purpose of the Y.C.L. is to smash their organization. During the course of the next couple of weeks, particularly in the preparations for National Youth Day and the de- velopment of youth struggles, it is necessary for every member of the Y.C.L. to adopt a policy of frater- nizing more persistently than at the present time with the comrades of the Young Peoples Socialist League, with the comrades of the Young Circle League.” Unity in Struggle We have to approach them not with the viewpoint of smoothing over the fundamental differences that exist between the Y¥.C.L. and the ¥.P.S.L. We don't go to them and try to conyinee them that there | is no difference between us and ther. We have to say to them that the differences between the two or- ganizations are fundamental dif- ferences and that around these dif- ferences there must be and will be a struggle to establish the correct- ness of one line or the other in the minds of the workingclass. The problem, however, that we are con- fronted with is the problem con- fronting the workers in the present siturtion. We ask them to enter into a struggle for our immediate needs against the capitalists and in the course of this struggle either you will convince us of the correct- ness of your policy, or we will con- vires you of the correctness of ours. There is only one basis upon which a united front struggle can he developed and that is on the Hathaway, District Organizer © District | and file demanded | It is that today in| basis of the frankness and honesty of the two groups.” In such a way | the effect will eventually be to win the young workers for the revolu- tionary class struggle policy of the V.CL. Chicago Workers Joined United Front March Hathaway called attention to the | success of the united front policy in | | Chicago. “Last year,” he said, “the Socialists had 5,000 to 6,000 in the line of march on May Day. We | | had 22,000: This year, only 830 | marched in the Socialist parade, whereas the United Front May Dey Committee rallied 35,000.” This statement was roundly applauded I. Herman, District Organizer of the Young Communist League, an- | nounced that there would be a de-/| monstration against the terror con- | |ducted against the bakery workers | jon Saturday, May 20, at 12 noon at | | 160th Street and Union Averiue, | | Bronx. A united front of right and | left wing workers has been establish- ed_in this sitike. The floor was then opened for dis- cussion. All the Y.P.8.L. members who took the fioor said they were for |a united front, but took issue with the Communists because they refused to sign a non-aggression agreement jand because the Communist press | was continually “slandering” the So- | cialist leaders. | Hathaway Answers YPSL Questions Hathaway made a skillful summary | | answering all the questions raised by | |the Y.P.8.L. members. In answer to| | one ¥.P.S.L. member who asked “why |do you want to unite with us if you | think we are so terrible?”, Hathaway | said, “We want to unite because we | | are convineed that the unity of the | workers is necessary in the fight | against capitalism and in the strug- | | gle against war, and because we are | convinced that through such strug- | gles you will be convinced of the| | correctness of our policies. | | To a statement made by another | | Y.P.S.L. member that the working | class in Gérmany has capitulated, | Hathaway said, “This is not true. | This is neither honest with the Com- | munists in Germany, nor is it honest | | to your own working-class comrades jin Germany. Only the Social-Demo- crat leaders have capitulated. The working class in Germany is fight- ing today, will continue to fight and | | will fight much harder in the weeks | to come.” | | This was greeted by prolonged ap- | plause. Must Fight War Danger | In concluding, Hathaway said, |“National Youth Day is approaching. But even more significant than the | day as such, war is approaching. The workers of the Y.C.L., the workers of | the Y.P.S.L., the workers in general are going to be conscripted into the armies and they have to determine | what their policy will be. We have | to determine whether it will be a |chauvinistic policy or a policy of |Tevolutionary struggle against war. | Steps must be taken to forge the unity of the workers. We appeal to the members of the Y.P.8.L. to adopt this policy of struggle. If you do, you will find yourself in the ranks | of the revolutionary fighters and you | will find the whole working class | movement stronger and more power- ful in its struggle against capital- ism.” CITY-WIDE CONFERENCE. OF WORKER ORGANIZATIONS PLEDGE SUPPORT TO BAKERS’ STRUGGLE Socialist Leaders Walkout Fails to Stop Meet) Which Continues Tuesday NEW YORK.—Three hundred and seventy two delegates representing | 188 workers organizations embracing affiliations gave their enthusiastic support to the bakers strike of the In- {ernational Bakers Union yesterday They pledge fullest cooperation the bakers for better conditions and hailed the conference and strike as a) “pioneering” in the unity of work- ers agains: the bosses Delegate after delegate arose and expressed their members desire for united struggle and stressed the need for such action in face of the on- slaught of the bosses on/ their con- ditions Reconyene Tuesday It, was decided to reconvene the conference Tuesday at 96 Ciinton St. and to draw in more organizations to join what will be a historic step in New York towards unity of all workers for struggle. But in this big step towards unity | the Socialist leaders came to the forefront, in the conference as those who are weakening the united ac- tion in support of the bakers strike. First Tuben, member of the labor committee of the Socialist Party and member of its city central com- mittee gave his parties conception cf a united front by stating that “We will not support any Tom, Dick and Harry workers organizations, when we voted to come to this con- ference we did not vote to support any other }akers union . we will support only those organizations who ro affiliated with the A. F. of L.” Rubin Speaks For Unity Rubin of the Food Workers In- custrial Union who was chairman spoke next. He pointed out that ihere are four bakers union’s in the rity, Uhat heretofore they had fought rach other, even going to the extent of taking out injunctions against ach other, but with this bakers trike “Por the first time in their Ce ee a a wide variety of trades and political at Manhattan Lyceum. of their members in the struggle of history, these unions hand in hand with each other.’ He said that the question was not “to what union you belonged” but) that a fight must be made that “all bread is union bread” with the work- ers of every union protected. Following this speech, which was | loudly applauded, a leader for the 8th Assembly district of the Sdcial- ist Party took the floor. “We did not come here about a united front” he said to the as- tonished delegates who had come for the express purpose of planning joint action. “We are not interested in the united front... we not come here to unite. The speaker in order to cover up his attack on the united front hurried to add that “we came here to support the bakers strike, but we will never agree to a con- ference and we refuse to be annoyed by any conference that tries to force a united front on us.” The hall was filled with boos. “I am expressing the official posi- tion of the Socialist Party” he as- sured the delegates. Majority Remain All the Socialists present did not agree with this splitting act of the | group that boited. The majority remained at the conference and said they would continue to participate Tuesday and also try to persuade other Socialist delegates to do the same. A committee of three, Sultsan, Pre- bush and Freedman of the bakers union were elected to see the deleg- ates who withdrew and persuade 'y DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1933 'Singler Sells Out Milk Strike, But Pickets Continue Fighting Daily Worker's Correspondent.) MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 21.—The} Wisconsin milk strike sold out at} a secret conference held at midnight last Friday at Madison veen Gov-| ernor Schmedeman and officials the milk pool. Singler, milk pool lead- er, Was not present at the meeting, but was represented by his right hand men, and a large part was played in the sell-out by Attorney William B./ Rubin, a notorious labor faker and} counsel for Singler. Picketing Continues Orders were sent out that the strike | was officially over. The strikers were| Special (From the instructed to stop all picketing. The) | farmers were not consulted in any} | way about the stopping of the striki The general feeling is one of bitter- ness against the leadership that has betrayed them, and while this is/ written (16 hours after the calling off) of the strike) picketing is still vig- orously going on. Singler Hides from Members Walter Singler, president of the! milk pool, and seller-out of the strike, was locatéd Friday while en route to} Rochester, N. Y. He had then been in| hiding for 48 hours, not from the| police, but in order to avoid the! farmers’ demand for a more ager rod fight against the military terror which state authorities and the police of| socialist Milwaukee were bringing to) bear on the strikers. Singler was} running out in spite of the fact that) he was scheduled to address a farm-) ers’ meeting at Madison. When he was| | told thaat his lawyer friends had been) | successful in hamstringing the milk| strike, and that a truce had been de-/| clared, Singler bravely turned back. [| Strike Betrayed at Climax | The sell-out comes at a moment when, and precisely because, the| provoked the fight by tossing a bomb! to the guardsmen. strike is reaching new and higher levels in the militancy and solidarity of the farmers, Marathon and Dodge unties have just declared for the| ke. Huge farmers’ mass mestings are being held everywhere in the ate: 6,000 in Mayville, 5,000 in Ma- rathon, 400 at Ladysmith, 4,000 Marshfield. The strikers are in com- plete possession cf Oconto, Marinette Price and Ashland counties. The Car- nation Milk Piant, the largest in Green Lake county, had to clese Thursday for lack of milk. This in spite of the fact that Green Lake) county head been declaréd open by! the Governor early in the week. | Twenty more farmers have been| arrested in Osatikee county. Atresis| in the state are coming so thick and) fast that it is praetically impossible to/ keep count of them. General Immicll) has sent instructions to the Sheriffs | of 18 counties to arrest all persons actively engaged in the dumping of| milk. Vigorous enforcement of the) civil and criminal law of the state) is demanded by the authorities. | Move te Recall Governor Inquiries are coming into Madison) from strong picket centérs oh how Governor Schmedeman can be te-}| called. Affidavits charging the “so-_ cialist’ police of Milwaukée with brutality have been filed by the farm-| ers, of whom three are women. The! charge is that a police squad car| drove into a group of pickets, that the | officers got out and began viciously | clubbing the farmers With iron ‘ap lies, and that after the farmers had been struck to the ground, the police | began to beat them up with brass | knuekles. | It is generally admitted here, even) by the capitalist papers, that in the! “battle of Appleton,” the deputies By JOHN L. SPIVAK Il Where Lincoln Avenue juts into the Harlem River the Department of Sanitation has one if its many dumps. Here garbage wagons bring| their refuse for the garbage scows which are towed out to the sea and dumped in the ocean. All city dumps, with the exception | of those in Brooklyn, are leased to) @ politician who in turn leases ther to individuals for a flat sum, usually | about $50 a week. These are the rag) bosses Who employ a horde of men at $1.50 or $2 a day to swarm over| the garbage scows seeking things which can be cleaned and sold to the| poor. Libe Maggots | At this dump half a dozen men scurry over the refuse like huge inag- gots. They wade knee deep in the foul smelling garbage. They are cov- ered with dirt and dust and slime. Huge green flies circle aboui their hands. Here they work from early morning | until late at night for there are rusty| and broken beds and mattresses, bits | of metal, bottles, chairs, rags to be picked. There are many things which some opulent home has discarded that the poor can use, and the De- partment of Sanitation building is! filled with these choice bits from the refuse scows. Wade into Garbage. Byery few minutes a white truck drives up the steep incline to throw its contents into the scow, The human Maggots wading in the garbage have long since ceased trying to avoid the cloud of dust that follows each un- loading. Sometimes they cannot es- cape the downpour of garbage and they are almost swamped by it. At the best they are covered by the dust and the ditt. Here, under the damp roof of the concrete dump, old and bent Negroes and Italians, smelling of the garbage in which they work, sift the refuse in aS unsanitary a condition as a De- partment of Sanitation could sanc- tion.. These me are usually over fifty, and grateful to the boss who rents the concession for giving old men | work. The Italians can scarcely speak English. The Negroes rummage about bent and sad-faced. They rarely speak for when they open their mouths the dust from the garbage settles in them. One old man with white hair anda DEPORTATION OF FERRARA STAYED NEW YORK.—Deportation of Con- cete Ferrara to fascist Italy, sched- uled for Saturday, May 20, was halted by an habéas corpus taken out by the Néw York District, International La-| bors Defense, thereby gaining two weeks additional time in which to col- lect funds to enable this militant worker to depart voluntarily to a country other than Italy. Of the $150 needed for his trans- portation only a small portion has been so far collected. The N. Y. Dis- trict L.L.D., the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union of which Ferrara was an active member, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and the District Communist Party appeal to all workers ann workers’ organiza- tions to rush funds to the office of the Daily Worker or to the Freiheit for Ferrara’s voluntary departure. 4 SEAMEN FREED; 12 STILL HELD NEW YORK.—Four of the 16 sea-| men ordered deported by the govern- ment for defending themselves against éviction from the only shel- ter, they had, the Jane St. “Y” mis- sion, two weeks ago, have been re- leased. The Waterfront Unemployed Coun- cil and the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union are carrying on a cam-~ paign with the I.L.D. to win the free- »them to return. Their efforts failed. " t¢ dom of the other 12 seamen. | be the main worry of the employers) into a truckleed of farme*s, who then reialiated by charging the deputies. Fifty-five were arrested. In the Durham Hill fight, reported in Saturday’s Daily Worker, the) whole village was gassed by 40 power-| ful bembe. The village was hostile to{ fhe deputies, and the townspeople and merchants refused to sell them any goods or food and refused to | them use the telephones. Farmer Killed by Guards A Saukville farmer was killed by! being thrown from a moving milk truck by guards who wete trying to| prevent the pickets from dumping milk, The farmers name was William Dickman. He was 51, and had six children. The killing has aroused the) Saukville farmers to a high and angry) pitch. Charles Dineen, secretary of the| Milwaukee Cooperative Milk Produc- ers opposing the strike, saitl: “We are more worried about the Communists among the pickets than about the) shortage of milk.” And this seems to and dairymen throughout the state.| Communist Party leaders are being besieged by the capitalist newspapers for information. State authorities deciared: “We do not want to kill anyone, but this is no milk strike now—it is 4 civil war.” Shots were exchanged in a ten mile running fight between pickets and guardsmen, at Ocanto, where two, farmers suffered fractured skulls. | The deputies are accusing the Na-| tional Guards of cowardice. They say: | “Every time I saw a guerdsman, he | was going the other way.” This may) not be cowardice as much as the de-| puties think, sitice the Communist} Party has issued thousands of leaflets | proud white mustache covered with dust has picked rags for so many years that he now walks with a per- manent stoop. Anothér who picks bot- les and sets them aide in a box is/ a boy. He coughs as he works. I do) not Know how long he has worked) there but it would not take many) months in this atmosphere to con- tract tuberculosis. Willie Is His Name From behind a pile of damp rags a black creature appears. He walks} with a stoop. The black beard on his) face seems to be touched with gray| but a closer inspection shows that it) is only a heavy coating of dust. When) he speaks his mouth is a vast cavern) with a lone yellow tooth in it. This is Willie. He has no other name. He is not quite sound in the head, they} say, but instead of being in a sani-) tarium he works for the Italian who; TAMMANY COURTS CONTINUE VICIOUS JOBLESS ATTACK | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Street Court Friday charged with “felonious assault”. AS in the other cases they were attacked by police when they demanded relief Friday at thé Manhattan Borough Home Relief Bureau office, on West 47th Street. Barron, of the Camberling Unem- ployed Council was held under $560 bail Friday for his participation in the Bronx unemployed demonstra- tion. He will be tried today at 161 St. Washington Ave. Court. When he comes up the judge will feel \> protest against any attempt to rail- road him as has bten done with 15 other jobless in the Bronx. Work- ers will jam the court room. A campaign in each local uném- ployed council, establishing defense committees and a fund to free every | worker in jail was urged at an en- larged meeting of the City Commit- tee of the Unemployed Councils Saturday. Mass Defense Vital The N. Y. District International Labor Defense which is carrying on the defense of all these workers calls on all ILD branches and all work- ers’ organizations to support the de- fense of these militant workers, Judge Vicious The ontire case was characterized by the extreme viciousness of the magistrate, Burke. | The court building was completely | surrounded by squads of foot and mounted police, placed in strategie | points so as to prevent protest. When the case was called the judge | tried to clear the court but failed. | The convicted workers entered look- ing haggard but determined. They had been imprisoned without bail for | five days. One worker, George Chery, said: “You are convicting me because Thad the courage to demand bread for my children and a roof over | our heads.” A protest meeting against the vi+ cious sentences will be held tonight, 8:30 p.m., at the Middle Bronx Un- employed Council, 1400 Boston Rd. ros Ce NEW YORK.—Picket lines at the 125th St. Relief Bureau, mass protest meetings and another demonstration at the Bureau this Thursday, will be the answer of the Negro and white workers of Harlem to the vicious po- lice attack on last Friday's demon- | stration. ~ A mass protest meeting will be | held tonight at 8 o'clock at the Abys- | sinian Baptist Church, 132 W. 138th St. Picket lines will be established | outside the bureau of twenty Negro |and white workers. At 10 a.m. the | same day workei's will march from the headquarters of the Unemployed | Council, 79 W. 131st St., to the houses jon 134th St. where 36 eviction no- tices have been served. From theré the march will proceed to 552 Lenox | Ave., to a demonstration outside the | offices of the landlord who served | the fake eviction notices. leases this dump, works from early} im the morning until late at night for $5 a Week and the privilege of Sleeping on the rags. “No Pictures!” The Department of Sanitation does not like observers at their dumps, and | especially photographers. There is too, much ditt and dust and filth always | in the air and the human maggots swarming over the refuse up to their knees are not pleasant sights. That is why the dump superintendent rushed at me when I opened my) camera. | “Hey! Nobody's allowed to take pictures here,” he shouted angrily.| “Not even reporters! Tf you want, to take pictures you've gol to get written permission from the Depart- ment of Sanitation.” When I bécame friendly with him | he told of the reporter who managed | to get a picture of a dump fire. | The stiperintendent over that dump was fined even though he had not) Seen the reporter take the picture. | The outer yard is littered with wet| rags picked from the garbage. They have been laid there to dry in the sun. | Against the concrete wall of the building aré a dozen rusty bed springs and half a dozen brass beds. Wooden beds, unlesss they are of unusually good wood, are rarely taken for it) them of bed bugs ys in them. An old Italian with a worried har- rasseci face approaches the brass beds and removes the knobs, piling them | in a separate section. Those are to be cleaned and polished and sold to se- cond hand dealers who would sell them to some poor family. Two young Negroes, obviously brothers, wait on the outskirts of the yard, eyeing the rusty springs yearningly. One of them hesitantly asks the Italian: “Kin we have one o’ dem springs to take horne?”” The Italian shrugs his shoulders and walks on. He did not understand him. The boys pick a spring and car- tying it between them leave before the dump boss sees them. Barge captains come hete and to the other dumps for furniture for their cabins for barge companies sup- ply them only with a rusty cooking stove and walls crawling with roaches and ants. All else they must buy out of their dollar a day. Inside the Cabins The barge captains are the aristo- crats of the city dumps. When their) boats are moored near one they Search the refuse for furniture. Be- cause of their title “captain” and be- | cause they can speak English they are permitted to take things that) would be forbidden to others. Dressers and chairs, beds and tab- les, the very glass that covers the windows of their cabins come from the dumps. When a captain is in luck he may find some rag of a dress or a pair of pants or a coat. These they take home to the barge, the dress @ present for the “old women” and a makeshift suit for themselves. These clothes are washed first before they are worn but there are captains and their women who have been lost in the equajor and filth of barges for so many years that washing clothes from the dump does not seem necessary to them, All they do is dry them. pope xia: Tomorrow: The coal barge dock at 95th St. and East River. |Farm Moratorium | of every right of the plaintiff under | erty tight of the big corporations. Human Maggots At the Garbage Dumps by the Harlem River | | torlum on mortgage foreclosures was) Unconstitutional Says N. Y. Judge NEW YORK.—Justice Wiiliam Har- man Black, of the New York State} Supreme Court, declared Saturday! that any judge granting a moratorium on 3 mortgage suit violates the federal and state constitutions, as well as his own oath of office. The judgment was handed down in a suit between two real estate companies, but it will be of great importance to thous- ands of farmers both in this state| and elsewhere. The defendant askéd dismissal of the complaint on the ground that the action “is contrary to the public policy of this state” ahd asked that the cast be held up “until such time as this court shall find that the ab- normal depression has ended and fair markets exist.” What fair markets have ever existed for the farmers? The judge delivered a clagsic reply. He said that the defense “demanded from the judicial department of the government of the state, in violation the conditions of the United States, a moratorium for an indefinite pe- riod.” Referring to Roosevelt and Lehman, he continuéd, “With the ex- amp of the restraint of the Chief Executive of our nation at Washinton and with the example of the Chief Executive of our state at Albany, how could any conscientiotis court for a mothent think of usurping the power of the Legislature to declare ...a moratorium on the grounds that an emergency exists, and how could, any justice of this court restrain a cor- poration from enforcing through the! courts its constitutional rights?” Here we see clearly how in the name of the “new deal” of Roosevelt and Lehman the courts of capitalism cofitinue to raise to the level of a divine principle the inviolable prop-| | If the farmers and workers allow} this decision to go unchallenged, and to be ratified by the Supreme Court! of the United States, the gains hardly won by militant struggle from the great insurance companies and banks will be lost. But just as the mora-| forced by_mass struggle from the in-| Surancé companies in the West by the fighting farmers, so can this) latest move of the courts in Roose- velt’s offensivé against the faimers and workers be broken by a deterin- ined counter-attack. Farmers and workers — organize against Judge Black’s attempt to steal | away the fruits of our victory. Increased Freight Ballyhoo Refuted by Railroad Worker! By a Railroad Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK CITY.—I work in aj) freight yard of the New York Cen- tral. The newspapers announced in- creased movement of freight on this line. There is an increase of freight cars from ten to fifteen cars one day, and no increase the néxt. As much as to say that there is no increase to taik about. | Road mén are bumping out the, yard men continually, which means) that in addition to doing their own ; Work, the road men have to do that oi the yardmen. The latter, of course, | | 80 flying out of their jobs. —Joe Beef. Patient Explanation Will Conquer Lies, Worker Points Out) By a Negro Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I went into the hos- | pital clinic to get my throat treated | and a few women were there who were talking on the Scottsboro case. One woman said, “If the dirty Com- munists didnt grt into that case, those boys would be free.” The other wom- en, who also had been misled by the lying Negro press, agreed with her. They asked me if I agreed with them. I said I think that the Communist Party played a very good role in this fight. If it hadn’t been for them the boys would have been dead. Then TI told them about the ILD and show- ed them the financial report and ex- plained to them why the Negro ptess was against us. The women had never heard of this and when I finished, four of them made up with me to go to our Scotts- boro meeting and were very glad to | know about the ILD and the Party. | So you see, comrades, even though workers speak hard about us, we must be patient and show them the way to fight and explain everything instead | of getting angry with them. { Negro Woman Worker. DOWNTOWN | | JADE MOUNTAI | American & Chinese Restenrant | 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12 & 13 Welcome to Our Comrades Phone Tomkign Sq. 4-554 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all endicain meet 302 E. 12th St. New York All Comrades NEW HEALTH CENTER ———— Fresh Food—Preletarian Prices 50 E. 13TH ST., WORKERS’ CENTER s Meet at the CAFETERIA SPRING SEASON RATES: $12.50 Every Morning at 10:30 A. M. FOR INFORMATION CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. SPORT ACTIVITIES to members of I. W. O. atid Co-operative with a letter from your organization Cars Leaye Co-op Restaurant, 2700 Bronx Park East REST and RECREATION per week, inc, tax $10.50 per week $2.15 ROUND TRIP : Estabrook 8—1400 call | May. —————_——————————————————— A DAY AROUND N. Y. HARBOR | By TED BARON—A Marine Worker Up and down on boti sides of both rivers and around the Statue of Lib- erty in the harbor of New York are countless numbers of tugs hurrying to one of thousands of jobs where their powerful presence is essential to safe water transport in the harbor. A giant ocean liner rests at anchor in querantine—though a frequent visitor to New York and though the path to her berth is familiar, she dare not proceed without the aid of the skilled creWs of the The treathery of the tides makes their guidance imperative. A flest of tugs approach and surround her; deckhands exchange lines; the slack is taken in; the tugs are now secure to her sides; the pilot gives the sig- nal, the towboat engines turn over, and the huge liner proceeds confid- ently to her berth. On one tug the cook and deckhand have a few minutes. They sit on a coil of rope on deck. Other tugs are} passing. They wave to their friends. The talk turns to wages—they got their third wage cut six months ago— they are now facing another—their union agreement expired the first of Though two weeks have al- ready passed the leaders of their union are still silent—speculation— suspicion—wages are so low already. Out of the firehold appears a bulky| figure covered with coal dust. The tireéman, wiping the sweat off his dirty brow with the back of his fist, is up for a breath of air. “While you guys are on that” he says, “what do you think of that letter that deep-sea union sent to our union saying that they will come in with us on five points?” He refers to the letter sent by the Marine Workers Industrial Union to the Associated Workers (independent union of the tow boat- men) offering united action on five specific points.) They Like It The cook answered the question: “Yeah, that's good stuff. Last fall Maher (Secretary of the Associated Marine Workers) said we got to fake & wage cut because the unemployed deep-sea men would scab ‘on us. Can’t say that now.” Leaning against the rail in Battery Park, watching the same liner, are two unemployed boatmen, their pock- ets bulging with the latest Towboat- man. Both have been unemployed for upwards of two years, and since they are unable to pay their dues the union offi¢ials refuse to recognize them as members any more. They have won relief through the activi- ties of the Waterfront Unemployed Council and through that organiza- tion have made contact with mem- bers of the Rank and File Opposition Group of their union. They are now active everyday in building a stronger towboats. | opposition by fighting for reinstate- ment of those members who were forced out because of unemploy- ment; demanding regular member- ship meetings and financial reports; publishing and distributing the Tow- boatman, an organ of the opposition which systematically exposes agree- ment violations, the treacherous sell- outs negotiated by the leaders and which givés the correct program for Fh aac and File leader- | ship. | It is a weekend day and there are | quite a lot of sailings; the tugs are pretty busy. The question is where to catch them idle for a few minutes and get the “Towboatman” aboard. Some will be busy till midnight. The unémployed men left the rail and made their way through the park past the aquarium to Pier 1. Here they found the Tug——She had just tied up and was getting ready to take on fresh water for the boilers. “Til make her” said one of the unemployed. “You can take a look around Piers 5 and 11 if you like. See what's there” As the other turned to go back to Piers 5 and 11 he récéived his final instructions, “don’t forget to tell them to demand from the del- egates what the hell is what about the wage cut.” Ready To Discuss Once aboard, the unémployed mem- ber of the Opposition Group learned that the “Towboatman” was already distributed aboard two days ago. The crew was familiar with its contents and ripe for discussion. A group gathered around the unemployed worker, Cigarettes were passed around. “Well” he began as he lit his cigarette. his cupped hands. expertly shielding the burning match from the early spring harbor breeze; “what do you fellows think? Here it is already the middie of May and not a man in | the harbor knows what is being done about the new agreement.” | “Why its another sell-out. You can do nothin’.” said the fireman de- spondently. “That Union guy is phoney. He got. plenty out of me. Do you know what. he made me do?” The cook’s voice began to rise: “He made me join the union three times——cost me about fifty bucks.” “Yes, most of us know, we don’t need no conyincin’” the unemployed boatman was growing impatient. “The question fs what are we going to do about it? Keep on letting him get away with it?” | Not everybody on this boat agreed | that the union officials were not |honest. The mate refused to read the harbor sheet, though he did no’ j speak in defence of the union rack- eteers, He stood alone on the dock }and viewed the small group with | scorn. (To Be Continued) AMUSE MENTS “Tie Mask THE THEATRE GUILD Presents, By LUIGI CHIARELLI and the Face” Adapted by W. Somerset Maugham GUILD THEATRE ond St., West of Broadway. Evenings 8:49 Matinees Thurs@ay and Saturday at 2:40 “BIOGRAPHY” A COMEDY BY 8. N BEHRMAN it INA CLAIRE. The combination seems to hare been arranged iy heaven.” —Gilbert Gabriel, Américan. AVON THEATRE 45th St. West of Broadway. 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