The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1933, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 19338 “Unite in Neighborhoods Against Evictions Despite S. Opposition”--Unemployed Council NEW YORK.—The Unemployed Council of Greater New York issued an open letter yesterday showing prevent developing up the manouvers of socialist leaders who a united front 2 ainst relief cuts and evictions. P. Leaders EVICT FAMILY WITH SICK CHILD NEW YORK. Vera, an unem- ployed worker, w sted and held on $500 bail Tuesday when workers lered at 1129 48rd Street to pre- vent the eviction of family where a child was ill with 103 fever. have made every obstacle to The letter is addressed oe : —*to Workers Committee on? ~ | Le Vera was speaking to the work- anc vi Bader ee ee ee ‘| ers when police swooped down. More SOCIALISTS CALL “sre Nctes"i"" PARADE TODAY Setstetesamhets employed League and the As- f the Unemploy r, after elaborating the { the unemployed in New JOBLESS MEET al IN r ent cuts in relief TO STOP UNITY Se “: " pyed Councils of - Greater have been con- Con ference Sent to ducting struggles to prevent eviction: lief for op relief cuts and win se who have been denied. nip, thousands of families have al- Individuals NEW YO ; Rae hae able to force the author- kj to provide them with i and conference is c ere ood Rand School o and r The present critical emergency esti however, calls for greater struggles Sia and greater m ation of: the mas- umably gainst t recent ¢g € 1 before Repeated Efforts for Unity The Unemployed Councils of Yew York have accordingly ed efforts to bring about on of all workers regard- ne Relief Bureau of rents of ancy of the crowd BACK FURNITURE; GET RENT NEW YORK.—A family evicted on Street received rent from the De- ‘atic Club in that section after the East Side Unemployed Council held a meetifig in front of the house exposed the Taminany eviction pro- gram and then rallied the neighbors who with the aid of the council put the furniture back. The Tammany officials fearing fur- Pur FOR GONSHAK Jailed for Two Years 2 by Aurelio NEW YORK-—Led by the Red Front Band, hundreds of workers will pa-| rade from Union Square this Satur- day evening through the streets of downtown with placards and banners in protest against police brutality| ther exposure came across with the during demonstrations at Home Re-| rent |lief Bureaus and for the immediate , release of Sam Gonshak, sentenced) HUNGER FIGHTER OFF PRESS to 2 vears by the notorious Judge Au- TODAY relio, NEW YORK.—The current issue The mobilization for the parade|of the Hunger Fighter, official organ will take place in the southeast cor- ner of the Square at 6.30 p. m. and then march to 10th St. and 2nd Ave., where a final mass rally will be held. of the Unemployed Councils, will be off the press today. This issue will monstrations at each Home Rélief carry the message of the May 31 de- | zations to htovement of Leader snea a conference Call, actually a mimeographed letter signed by J Luvin, secretary of the Socialist and Labor conference, was Sent to individuals to meet on Sat- urday The letter. which is addressed Wriend” and not to concludes thus: will find a card which you will please fill out and turn in the day of the conference.” They expect with these private invitations to keep out any militant organization that may hap- pen to come. This splitting action should be re- pudiated by members of the Socialist Party, Workers Committee on Un- employment and the Workers Unem- ployed League. WHAT'S ON. organizations. Saturday (Manhattan ) DEFENS? lent entertainment, town Branch FSU HOUSE PARTY, Concert WORKERS THEATRE WARD NIGHT Performance of three prize winners of last Spartakiad Oritcial evaluation of plays by| Joseph Freeman. Adm. 25c. 42 E. 12th St. CONCERT & DANCE, ench Workers Club, Spartacus Club, 269 W h St. ic by WIR, admissi PARTY FOR BE! BOYS, 118 W. 1 Seotsboro 2x 25 cents. il Refresh- DANCE, St. Music in ad- “A Bas- National between Is Students 16th and 17th (Bronx) DANCE & SONG RECITAL—Prominent dancers and metropol opera singer, Jack & Jill Kindergarten, 3150 Rashambeau Ave. (Near Mosholu Parkway). 8.30 p. m. Admission 35c. Auspices Fordham Br. PSU. FINAL CONCERT DANCE — Prospect Workers Center, 1157 &% ing till dawn. Good c we have a hike at 9 oclock. CABARET NIGHT, Dancing and entertain- ment, punch with a kick. Auspices Intwor Youth Club, 1013 FE. Tremont Ave. 8.30 p. m, Adr n nern Blyd. Danc- unday morning FRED NCERT For membe: Cen 801 P= endships coming’ MOVIE DANCE—‘'Potemkin Branch, 1304 Southern Blvd. freshments, FSU E. Bronx Dancing, re- (Brooklyn) ‘auber Col Auspices ENTERTAINMENT DANCE, _2067-76th St. Refreshments and dancing. Tickets 20 cents. Auspices Island Section ILD. GRAND _ BA NTERTAINMENT: Brighton Progr Kings Highway Ballroom, 1207 Kings Highway. Jazz band. ‘Admission 25¢. PARTY & ENTERTAINMENT—1440 East New York Ave. Admission 10¢ 8 p. m. Sunday LECTURE—1 Rivera Case, J. Burck, Da artist Progressive Workers Culture 5 Sumner Ave. 830 p. m HIKE TO TIBBETS PARK-—-Foot of Woodlawn Station (Jerome Ave. Line) Aus~ pices, Mount Eden Branch FSU MUSICAL CONCERT & DANCE~—Music- fans Concert League, Gorky Club, 42 East 32th St. Proceds for campaign against child misery, LECTURE—National Youth Day, Nell Car- roll, Brighton Progressive Club, 129 Brigh- ton Beach Ave. Big surprise in store. PROSPECT WORKERS CENTER—1157 Southern Blvd, has excursion Sunday, June llth. Tickets in advance are 65c, at pier 83c. Get your ticket! How about it? Good time ahead. MILLINERY WORKERS. OPFRATORS AND BLACKERS ‘TRIMMERS Hike to Tibbets Brook, Meet ot Woodlawn Station 4 19 a. m “SIDELIGHTS ON THE SOUTH"—Sub- ject of illustrated Tallapoosa and Herndon Garlin, member of staff of Dally Worker who just returned from the South. 8 o'clock. National Students’ League headquarters, 583 Sixth Ave. between 16th and 17th Sts. lecture on Scottsboro, cases by Sender AMERICAN THEATRE TOMORROW— Symposium—-New School for Social Re- search, Lewis Mumford, Joseph Freeman, Mordecai Gorelick, Leo Bulgakov, Peggy Wood, Hall Johnson, Auspices, The Theatre Union, 8.15 p. m, Admission 15c. DEBATE—‘'Revolution or Ballot’’ hush Workers Club, ‘Louis De Santas, Communist and Abraham Schwartz, Socialist. “THE UNITED FRONT'’—G. Gilbert, 261 Schenectady Aye. Eastern Parkway Center. LECTURE ON LABOR MOVEMENT.— ‘M. Milaw, J, Louis Engdahl, Workers Club, 3092 Hull Ave. Cor. 204th St. Bronx. CONCERT & ICE CREAM PARTY—Still- well Ave. Center, 1839 Stillwell Ave. Good fee eream and artist from John Reed Club, Also writer from Freiheit | WORKERS FILM PHOTO LEAGUE HIKE} to Hunters’s Island — Movie photos taken, | lunehes. Mect 10 2. m. Pelham Park sub-| way station. ‘change 125th St. Lexington). | GENERAL MEETING OF ALI DRAMA- Flat- Dear | P. S—Enclosed you | FIT OF SCOTTSBORO| of the) 1207 Kings Highway. | letter further points to the activity of the local of the Unem- Ployed around the demands “To resist evictions and force the city to pay rent for the jobless, for increased relief to mect the rising cost of living, for full relief to the single unemployed workers | Need United 7>ton “As a means of @arrying through | this necessary united action, we pro- | posed that joint committees shall be |set up in every neighborhood and on a city-wide scale to be composed of | representatives chosen by each of the | participating groups. No organiza- | tion was asked to sacrifice its in- | dependence. Each was urged to par- | ticipate in accordance with its nu- | merical strength in preparation of action on these vital issues. “In answer to our appeals to the local groups, the leaders ordered that no action shall be taken without per- ion of the central bodies. “When we appealed to the central bodies, we were told that these can- not take action without the approval |of the local groups “When it became difficult for them | to defend this game of hide-and- seek, the obstructionists resorted to | the excuse that their members were opposed to participating in action with workers of various political and trade union organizations. “The Socialist leaders not only re- jected our invitation to jointly call a conference of all workers’ organi- | zations, but instead hastily called a | conference from which they excluded the Unemployed Councils and all other militant organizations. The splitting purpose of this move was | clearly revealed when they rejected our offer to help mobilize all the workers’ organizations for their con- ference. Building United Front “In spite of these evasions, workers in the Unemployed Councils have already effected united fronts | with the Washington Heights Unem- | ployed League, Locals 2 and 3 of the | Workers’ Committee on Unemploy- | ment, and other branches through- j out the city. Support Conference The letter concludes with an ap- peal to send delegates to the United | Front conference against relief cuts jand evictions. This conference will take place on Saturday, June 3 at |10 in the morning at Irving Plaza, | East 15th Street and Irving Place. “Demand that the heads of your | organizations shall cease their sabot- | age of the United Front! Build a | local United Front in your neigh- borhood. “All together for the fight against | evictions and relief cuts; for rent and | increased relief; from the local Uni- ted Struggles, through the United Front, June 3 Conference, forward unitedly to the winning of unemploy- ment insurance: Head of “Children’s Aid” Trys to Take Child from Mother NEW YORK.—An outrageous at- | tack upon the workers of Boro Hall [is being made by the bosses through | the Children’s Aid Society. | Mrs. Jennie Perkins, Negro work- |ing woman, is an active leader of the women in Council 45 of the Councils of Workingclass Women. She has led many delegations to the Home Relief Buro and won relief with them. The Children’s Aid Society super- visor, Miss Ely, 105 Schermerhorn St., has charged Mrs. Perkins with | “immoral” conduct and is trying to | take her 13-year old daughter away | from her. | The City organization of the Wo- |men’s Council is rallying all of its locals to protest this slanderous at- , tack upon Mrs. Perkins who is also }a leader in the United Council of | Workingclass Women. | Officials of the Children’s Aid So- | ciety questioned Emily in school Thursday in a threatening manner, The United Council of Working- |class Women calls upon all workers organizations to flood Miss Ely with protests demanding that this vile ex- | dren's Aid Society funds be used for relief of starving children instead of | being used to terrorize militant work- | ers. TIC GROUPS IN GREATER NEW YORK— Monday 8.30 p. m. 42 E. 12th St. Pre- parations for all eastern conference and | next national spartakiad. | RESERVE SUNDAY, JULY 16th for N. ¥. | District I. L. D. Carnival Picnic at Pleasant | Bay Park. Admission 20. Block tickets of 100 at 10c. All I. L. D. branches and other mass organizations elect delegates to Car- nival Picnic Committee meeting, Thursday, June 1, 7.30 p. m. Room 339, 799 Broadway. SOVIET RUSSIA TODAY, Samuel Sklar- off, Admission free. Harlem Sunday Forum 227 Lenox Ave. FSU. | amination be stopped and that Chil- | im Brown, Negro worker, whose railreading to prison some time ago by the same Judge Aurelio roused workers to hold a powerful demon- | Stration in front of this judge’s home, will be one of the main speakers. The demonstration is called by the Gonshak Defense Action Committee, supported by the I. L. D., Unem ployed Councils and other workers’ organizations, GONSHAK IN COURT AT WRIT HEARING NEW YORK.—Hearing on an ha- heas corpus writ filed by Max Kraut- hammer, attorney of the N. Y. Dis- trict International Labor Defense, for the release of Sam Gonshak on bail from Welfare Island pending an ap- peal of his case, was held Friday morning before Judge Shientag in the N. Y. County Supreme Court. Gon- shak was present in court. A second hearing will be held next Friday in the same court. after which Judge Shientag is expected to take a day or two before delivering de- cision. In suing out a writ for the release of Gonshak, the I.L.D. legal staff de- clared that Judge Aurelio violated the law and suppressed the constitutional rights when he sentenced Gonshak to 2 years without first announcing that he would take into considera- tion previous convictions and hold- |ing a hearing on these convictions, Gonshak had been previously given Suspended sentences for his parti- |cipation in class-struggle activities. | 500 IN UNITED FRONT PARADE in “Heights” NEW YORK—Five hundred Negro | and white workers paraded in a broad united front demonstration in Wash- | ington Heights, Wednesday, demand- | ing the establishment of a Home Re- lief Bureau in that section. The parade was the culmination of a united front movement initiated by the Washington Heights Unem- ployed Council which resulted in the calling of a conference by the Work- ers Unemployed League. Members of the following organi- | zations participated in the parade: ; Unemployed Council, Workers Unem- Ployed League, Communist Party, Young Communist League, Young People’s Socialist League Circle, In- ternational Workers Order adult and youth branches. Women’s Council, Irish Workers Club and Broadway Temple, a church organization. The workers marched from 155th Street | to Dyckman Sireet. A more detailed account of the be- ginning of the united front appeared in the “Daily” May 24. O’Brien ‘Promises’ No Cop Terror at Union ‘Square to Delegation NEW YORK.—A delegation of eleven workers elected at a meeting sponsored by the Tom Mooney Branch of the LL.D. in Union Square yesterday extracted a promise from Chief Inspector O’Brien that police would not molest workers gathered in Union Square. The delegation was referred to O’Brien when they tried to see the Mayor and present a protest reso- lution on the police terror in Union Square. O'Brien's attitude throughout was that of “yessing” everything the work- ers said. When he asked for in- stances of police brutality “surprised” that any exist, workers on the de- legation told of their experiences. The chief inspector's promises will not mean anything unless enforced by the militancy of the workers themselves at the Square, |Demand Home Bureau | the | Bureau in New York and the United | Front Conference, June 3. | Unemployed councils and commit- | tees, union and other organizations, Jare asked to call for bundles at 10 East 17th Street. Workers are asked to call today at the same address for distribution of leaflets on the May 31 demonstra- | tion, UNEMPLOYED MEETING NEW YORK.—‘How to achieve or- ganization within our ranks” will be the topic at a meeting of the Unem- ployed Council of the Workmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund tomorrow, at 2 p.m. at the New York Labor Temple, 243 East 84th Street. This organization is on the United Front Provisional Committee Against Evic- tions and Relief Cuts. NEW YORK.—Food is being sup- plied every afternoon by the United Front Supporters to unemployed picketing the Home Relief Bureau at 78th Street and York. Picketing started two weeks ago demanding that the bureau pay rents to unem- ployed families and stop cutting re- Hef. The United Front Supporters, are composed of professional and white collar workers sympathetic to the working-class movement. Pee eas WORKERS RAISE BAIL FOR JAILED JOBLESS NEW YORK.—Thirty dollars was contributed by workers of the 15th Street Block Committee, Pen and | Hamer Club and at open air meetings in Union Square to raise a bail fund to release David Burnett and Joe Clark held under $500 bail each. They were charged with “felonious | assault” after being attacked by cops in an unemployed demonstration last week. They will be tried in Special Sessions Court June 15. | Sa Se Ta THEATRE SYMPOSIUM AT NEW | SCHOOL | “The American Theatre Tomorrow” is the title of a symposium to be held | Sunday, May 28, at the New School |for Social Research, under the aus- | pices of the Theatre Union. Speak- |ers who will discuss various aspects jof the theatres future are Anita | Block, Irma Kraft, Leo Bulgakov, | Mordecai Gorelik, Hall Johnson, Jo- |seph Freeman and Peggy Wood. | Bewis Mumford will act as chairman, |Forced Labor Camp Injured Are Sent to | the Army Hospital (By a Worker Correspondent) FT. WASHINGTON.—Harry A. Layne, Washington forestry recruit, received concussion of the brain when he fell from a tree recently, while being trained for work in the woods. In accordance with the goy- |ernment policy of handling the slave |laboir army as part of the regular U. S. Army, he was sent to Walter Reed Hospital, where wounded sol- diers are sent. He is expected to re- cover, As is done with members of the regular army, he will get free me- dical attention and his pay, but, so far, no workmen’s compensation has been arranged for those injured or killed in the forestry service. LANGUAGE ORGANIZATIONS HOLD PICNIC NEW YORK.—A grand picnic under the auspices of the Russian R. N. O. V., Ukranian and Polish workers’ or- ganizations and the Communist Party Downtown Section will be given to- morrow in Brooklyn. The picnic grounds can be reached by the B, M. T. subway line to 25th Ave., Brooklyn, four blocks south of the station. Activities will include _ baseball, basketball, swimming etc, Admission is 40 cents. Demonstrate against Roosevelt’s military and forced labor “Reforesta- tion Camps”! All out National Youth Day, May 30! | Another double feature program. “Ten Days That Shook the World” | and “Le Million” will be presented on Sunday and Monday at the Acme Theatre. Eisenstein’s famous master- piece, “Ten Days” is based on John Reed's gripping story of the first days of the Bolshevik Revolution in Pet- rograd and presents a thrilling pa- norama of the ten hectic days when the city was captured by the workers. “Le Million,” Rene Clair’s satire on present-day society is considered one of the best films turned out by this noted director, STAGE AND SCREEN | FREEMAN AT THEATRE NIGHT AWARD The winners of the recently held New York Workers Theatre Sparta-| kiad will be announced tonight by Joseph Freeman, editor of the New Masses and chairman of the commit- tee of judges, at a special Theatre Night arranged by the League of Workers Theatres. Freeman will dis- cuss the workers theatre, analyzing the work of the various groups that took part in the Spartakiad. The three winning workers theatre groups will give performances at the Theatre Night, which takes place at +42 B. 12th St. ONN.Y. RELIEF FIGHT FRONT \ 800 Coal Miners in | “Hell Below” for “Forgotten Men” Two men, part of the 17,000,000 jobless, stop to rest from the hopeless | search for work, and stop under appropriate signs, advertising New York plays | | { | | Two Penna. Strikes BROWNSVILLE, Pa., May 26.—Two important mine strikes under united front leadership occurred in the Western Pa. coal fields here this | week. Three hundred miners of the Allison Mine of Brownsville, across the | river from Fayette County, encouraged by the struggles of the miners of WORKERS OF RKO HIT BY FIRM’S “ECONOMY” PLAN (By a Worker Correspondent.) BROOKLYN, . ¥—The RKO Corporation, making a profit of $1,- 000,000 in the last three years out of the Brooklyn Theatres alone, is put- ting through economy measures, at the expense of the workers. Condi- tions were bad enough before for the service staff—which comprises the ushers and doormen. Part Time on 40-hours Per Week Up to recently part-time ushers worked approximately 40 hours for $8.10; full time ushers, 52 hours for| $10.80 and doormen about 60-65 hours for $14.00 or (15.40. Now to further economise, they cut down the service staff one or two per- sons in each house, decide to open the} ; doors two hours earlier in each theatre, and for the same amount of money, the help is forced to put in between 70 and 90 hours a week. At this slave-driving some courage- ous soul complained to the Labor Board. What action they took I do not know definitely, but very strange- ly, a week after they had made in- quiries, complete staffs were let out at ail Brooklyn Theatres, being re- Placed with out of town help who were willing, without complaints, to work from early morning till late at night. It is not farfetched to assume that:in order to punish the “anarch- ist” (as they put it) in their midst, all employees were fired. A particular case comes to my mind of a woman who had given 11 years of service to the RKO Corporation. She is the mother of four children around 45 years of age, earning $15 a week, as chief usher. Due to the terrific strain of the long hours since February she suffers a severe ner- vous breakdown the week all em- Ployees are let out of the theatres. She gets her notice while she is con- fined to her bed, no compensation, no extra weeks salary and is now completely destitute. This is indeed gratitude. Today the theatres are under- the Isabelle and Republic mines stru | off the picket line who are outsiders. ick for local demands including in- creases in pay. 500 miners are out at the Renton nine. The deputies in an effort to vreak the strike ordered all workers Among those who were forced off the line was,,Robinson, Negro mine or- ganizer. Only single line picketing is permitted. Fagan of the UMWA has come into the situation and will be chief aid to the operators in the breaking of the strike. The Newfield miners who struck last week are standing firm for their demands. CARPET MILLS CUT WAGES 20 PERCENT Co. Union Votes Cut,| Mass Dismissals WORCESTER, Mass., May 25. —| A wage cut of 20 per cent, the second in two years occurred at the Whittall Carpet Mills here. The cut was de- cided at a meeting of the “Works Council”, a company union estab- lished 12 years ago after an eight months’ strike against a 25 per cent cut. The company union also decided to make all seniority and other shop working rules in existence for 30 years inoperative. This will be fol- lowed by mass dismissals of older workers, it is expected, An efficiency man is reported as coming here. The workers are talk- ing of calling a strike. manned with the danger of risk to human lives. On Saturdays and Sun- days between 2 and 3 thousand child- ren attend the performances in the afternoons, and were an accident to occur, or a fire break out there wouldn’t be enough people on hand to even open the doors to let the people out. Employees are being driven like eattle, they get wages on which it is impossible to live like human be- ings, while large profits are being turned in each week, and thre is no one amongst them who dares com- plain because of the previous example they made of dissatisfied and com- plaining employees. Mother and Children Sleep in Subway; Fight Gets Them Rent DETROIT, Mich—The institution for homeless, jobless men at Eloise, is now working large numbers of its able-bodied inmates six hours per day and five days per week. These men receive no pay for this labor— not one cent. Recently the food supplies were so poor and inadequate that even these fellows refused to work unless given more sustenance. On seeing this, Mr. Fox, who is in charge of the labor distributing of- fice decided that it was really neces- sary to feed considerably better in order to avoid a riot. ‘These poor unfortunates are jam- med into wards; each ward is oc- cupied by 300 to 500 men who sleep on double-decker bunks. The beds are spaced 2 ft. apart. One can readily imagine the disturbance these occupants are subjected to — from countless coughs and sounds. This institution actually breeds and develops nuts and mentally deranged men. If a person comes here per- fectly normal, the incessant milling, lining up and waiting -in line for Jong periods just to get fed will finally “get” the toughest and best physically fit ,and transform them into social scarp. A strict discipline World’s Fair Opens in Scramble for Profit: CHICAGO, Ill—The Century of Progress, Chicago's world’s fair, which opens May 27, reveals anything but progress in the wages paid to workers the various concessions. The Pabst Brewing Co. is paying its bus- boys $40 a month—less than $10 a week—no tips, Girl cashiers are get- ting even less. i Another concessionaire bragged that he had paid an experienced landscape artist 10 cents an hour for 10 hours a day. Not content with skinning labor down to the bone, the Chicago busi- nessmen and bankers who are in con- trol of the outfit sold the toilet priv- ileges on the fair grounds to a con- cessionaire who installed pay toilets in all the convenient locations. The contract clause for 20 per cent free toilets was fulfilled by putting them at distant and inconvenient locations. is maintained at all times and per- sons found making any disturbance or misbehaving are promptly put in jail right on the premises. Now and then, there seems to be a lot of discussion and accusations directed against the Soviet Union, claiming it practices forced labor, but I am absolutely convinced the Russians would never work six hours per day just for their eats and if Slave labor exists it is right here in Detroit and its high time to put a stop to this human abuse. The writer was employed as a foreman of a ward, and did not re- ceive one cent of pay. Let’s demand unemployment insurance for single unemployed men. Eloise is not a fit place for any sane and normal person. STRUGGLE AGAINST PROVOCATION Workers’ Enemies Exposed SCHOLLES, last seen in January or February at Muskegon, Mich., where it was found out that he was a stool pigeon and that he had acted very suspiciously in Milwaukee last Fall. In Milwaukee he had shown a Communist Party membership book from Indianapolis, but the dues were two years behind, and he showed to be unacquainted with leading Indian- apolis comrades. There he also had tried to get the job of cleaning halls and doing janitor work at the Party headquarters (at that time saying nothing about having been a Party member, which he probably never was). In Muskegon he pretended to be working in some restaurant, but it was established that he was not work- ing at all, yet living quite comfort- ably. He managed to be present at the meeting of a shop group of work- ers;—next day all these workers were known to the employer;—a full list of them was found in Scholles’ room. Description: About 5 feet, 7 inches in height, heavy set, probably an ex- Pugilist or wrestler, chews snuff (a mixture of Copenhagen and Seal). A wave of strikes is breaking out in the South, chietly in textile mills. The chief grievances of the S are: (1) the installat‘on of new speed-up systems in connec- tion with the announcement of wage increases of a few cents, (2) wage increases so small that they do not begin to cover the rise in the price of necessities caused by inflation and (3) in two cases wage cuts of from 10 to 50 per cent. MOBILE TEXTILE WORKERS STRIKE FOR HIGHER PAY MOBILE, Ala.—A strike is in force jat the Prichard Cotton Mill Prod- ucts Company in Mobile, Alabama, against a wage-cut of 50 per cent and the attempt to make the workers tend 40 looms instead of 28 as at present. Thé mill employs 155 work- ers. The workers demand a 10 per cent increase to meéet, least, the rising cost of necessities, and the abolition of the néw speed- up system. The weekly pay of the workers in the Prichard Mill ranges from $7.50 in the cloth room to $3 in thé spool- ing room. 1,000 STRIKE IN ALABAMA The latest and largest of the strikes is in Greenville, S. C., where one thousand textile workers of the W. T. Poe Manufacturing Co. struck on May 23 against the speed-up system installed when the management an- nounced a five per cent increase in wages. DEMAND 20 PER CENT RAISE IN CHATTANOOGA CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—About ten days ago a small strike took place in the Soddy Mill in Chattanooga, a textile plant, for a 20 per cent in- crease in pay. The workers were forced to take a 20 per cent cut last fall, when the mills got an order from the Red Cross. The management told the workers that if they agreed to the 20 per cent cut they would be “help- ing poor women and children” thru the Red Cross. 1,000 STRIKE AGAINST SPEED UP ANNISTON, Ala.—The threat of a solid strike has forced the Anniston, Ala., Cordage Company to increase the wages of its workers. On the night of May 23, a committee from the workers visited plant officials, and announced that a strike would begin next morning if their demand was not met. On the morning of May 24, Resident Manager Leslie Sut- ton instituted an increase of more than 10 per cent. ene 200 GEORGIA WEAVERS STRIKE The workers of the Consolidated Textile Corporation Mills at Linwood, succeeded in closing the plant when 200 weavers and spinners walked out with a demand for a pay increase. in part at} Strike Wave Spreads in Southern States . LOUIS CO. TRIES TQ BREAK UNION , ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 26.—The Funsten Nut Co. attempted to break which the nut workers. haye built as a result of their recent strike and locked out one third of the workers when they returned to-their jobs. At a special meeting called by the Union the strikers, indignant at this action, voted unanimously to resume the strike and mass on the picket line tomorrow. | “MANY STRIKES IN REST OF U.S. 3 ANTI-SWEAT SHOP STRIKES IN PHILADELPHIA | PHILADELPHIA.—Despite Roose- | velt’s wage increase and peace talk clothing workers are .working for sweatshop wages on alteration of government uniforms. These factor- ies are now working fulltime, and altho under control of ;Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the salaries range from $4 to $7 a week instead of $25 to $35. A girl in the King Kard Ov- eral reported she made 23, cents for one day’s work. ‘ The workers of Segal::Bros. have already called a strike.to which the Amalgamated is indifferent. oe a PHILADELPHIA, Pai,’ May 26.—A victory over sweatshop conditions was won today when 75 Negro‘and white girls who struck against miserable pay at the Longwear Manufacturing Co. were granted an increase of $4 a week in their wages. The Company which is working on a government contract is supposed to pay ehe workers $3.25 a day but the workers actually re- ceived $6 a week. " Demand Pay Rise GREENSBERG, Pa., May 25.—One hundred ninety-two girls, went on strike today against the sweat shop conditions in the Greensberg Gar- ment Co, and demanded a 25 per cent increase in wages. » strike is being led by the youth committee of Unemployed Council, e * * - RUBBER WORKERS WIN RAISE FORT SMITH, Ark. May 26.—In- creased wages scales went into effect today for the 60 strikers, of the Tuck- er Duck atid Rubber Co. when the company { ited the demands for which the Workers struck... The work- ers won a°10 per cent increase for piece work ‘and a 20 per cent in- crease for’ ie work. Picketing was maintained at the No. 4.plant from the time the walk-out until the demands were granted. N.Y. TRADE UNION NEWS Demonstration Today Backs _Baker Fight NEW YORK.— A demonstration called by the Bakers Union 509 will be held today at noon. The; demon- stration will start from the Browns- ville Labor Lyceum at 219 Sackman St., Brooklyn. All workers regardless of political opinion are asked to par- ticipate in this demonstration and help the militant bakers win their strike. At Utica Ave an open air meeting will be held. The tria! of the woman beaten and arrested at the outdoor meeting sup- porting the bakery strikers has been postponed. The two other workers, Jack Reed and Isadore Yentis ar- rested will be tried at the Gates Ave~ nue Court, near Marcy Avenue, Mon- day morning at 9 a. m The Bakers Union 509 of Browns- ville has furnished a defense lawyer. Feod Union Endorses National Youth Day NEW YORK.—In a statement is- sued late yesterday by the Food Workers Industrial Union calling on the organized and unorganized food workers to fight against the present imperialist war manoeuvers and, for defense of the Soviet Union, tte im- portance of National Youth Day as a day of struggle against war stood out sharply. BUILDING WORKERS MEET TONIGHT ‘The general membership meeting of the Building Workers Industrial Union takes place today at 1 p.m. in the Building Workers Center, 37 E. 13th St. Action in the Long Island carpenters’ strike will be planned. | FILLING STATION EMPLOYEES NOTE! On May 5 the Daily Worker *pub- lished a letter from a filling station employee asking. for information about a union. The note published with the letter stated there was as yet no national union to cover these workers. However, the Garage Work- Protest Sabotagers of Scottsboro Fight NEW YORK.—Roused to increas- ing anger by the attempts of Negro reformists in Harlem to break up I. L. D. Scottsboro defense activities, Negro and white workers will demon- strate tonight at 8 p. m. at 137th St.,; and 7th Ave., as a warning that the masses in Harlem will not tolerate the sabotage of the defense of the nine innocent Scottsboro Boys. A special demonstration sponsored by the I. L, D. will be held in front of the home of Dr. La Morrell, a prominent member of the William Davis Amsterdam News clique which spent money collected for the Scotts- boro defense on taxicab rides in Washington, D. C FWIU LOCAL 302. UNITY URGED NEW YORK. — Yestéfday noon, when the bosses of the Nevarr Ca- feteria, located at 7th Avenue and 28th Street in the heart of, the Needle ‘Trades market refused:'to agree to better the conditions of their unskil- led workers, they all came out on strike. The counterman;;‘who is a member of AF.L. Local 302, was told by the organizer thatthe strike was not against him, bit was only to better the conditions of the un- refused to organize. The Food Workers Industriel Un- ion then sent the following letter to Local 302: i “To the Executive Board’ and Mem~- bership of Delicatessen atid Restau- rant Countermen and Cafeteria ployees Union Local 302,107 W. 116th St., New York City, “" “" “Dear Brothers and Sisters: “This is to inform you tha of 8 workers from the Neyarr Cafe- teria came to our Union, tions. The about their working workers in the main, are, bus-boys and kitchen help. workers joined our Union. .. , “On Tuesday, May 23,,one of the workers, a member of aur. Union, was fired. We sent up a committee to the Nevarr Cafeteria demanding the re- instatement of the worker.. The Ne- varr Cafeteria refused to reinstate him, Under these circumstances we were forced to declare,a..strike for the unskilled help in the,Nevarr Ca- feteria. We wish to inform you that the strike is by no means g strike against the Union counterman -belonging to your Union. We are also;calling upon you to help us get better conditions for the unskilled workers..: We know that the rank and file-:workers of your Union will surely*support this moye on the part of the-Food Work- ers Industrial Union. .We:ask you to elect a committee, in conjunction with a committee of our:Union, to see the boss and get better‘working con- ditions for the unskilled; > We hope you will comply with our request and reply to<cour’ letter as soon as possible, 7 Fraternally yours, Food Workers Industrial Union” Launch Scottsboro Marchers Club Mon, NEW YORK.—Scottsboro marchers and their friends are ‘urged to be present at the launching of -the Scottsboro Marchers Clup,-to be held Monday, 7.30 p. m, Randalt Memorial Presbyterian;.,.Qhurch, 61 West 137th’ Street. ... will stress the immediate importance of organizing defense groups to fight for the June 1 trial of the two young- est Scottsboro boys, Roy, Wright and Eugene Williams. The ‘workers will be urged to parade with the on May 30 against imperialist ‘. & the Food Workers Industrial Union | skilled whom A-F.L. Logal 302 always ~ e - rT ANDERS EE ESE MORAG TEND ATTICS LY SLT OOO BOLE FLY I RELA EELS SELES: ILE: