The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1933, Page 3

Soa ie { — | ST. LOUIS NUT WORKERS SMASH BLACKLIST SCHEME OF BOSSES; CONSOLIDATE STRIKE VICTORY | ST. LOUIS, Mo., May —After attempting unsuccessfully to lock out almost one-third of the strikers following a victory of the strikers of the Funsten Nut Co., the firm at a midnight conference with the strike com- workers only mittee yesterday finally surrendered and agreed to complete recognition of the Food Workers Industrial Union. Under the terms of tlie agreement the iy a oa ®company is to hire through the union. UNITED FRONT | A significant feature of the vic- | tory for the strikers is the winning | 9 | of a uniform wage scale for Negro | gests! | in the wages actually amounts to | almost 100 per cent. | BACKS BAKERS Out of the 1,800 strikers involved \in the Funsten company and the six Macao smaller companies, 1,400 have joined NEW YORK. — About 800 workers|the Food Workers Industrial Union, | demonstrated in Brownsville on Sat-| which has led the struggle. | turday in support of the baket's’ . ‘esepeiinanlGoitesaatte able | strike. The workers marched to the} | music of the bakers’ union band = BLUM FRAME UP | the Red Front Band. | a4 a 8 The demonstration consisted of two | parts, the first made up of the Bakers SCORED BY Ah) Union Local 509, Socialist Party, Y.| P. S. L., Socialist Consumers League, a Workmen's Circle Schools and the| dc Se mene [Red Falcons, the Socialist children| ,, NEW YORK. Gathering to protes he jailing of Leon Blum, secretary organizations, and the Workers Un-|rundry Workers Industrial Union, employed League. The second part] ¢~ ; ' aes J Jed by the Red Front consisted of the Communist Party, Young Communist | League Women Councils, Interna- tional Labor Defense, Young Pioneers, International Workers Order, and the Unemployed Council. Despite the hundred police there for “protection” the march was conducted with real proletarian discipline. OFFICIALS ELECTED | OF DYERS UNION The yearly election for all officers and Executive Board of the Cleaners, Dyers ahd Pressers Union, 223 Sec- ond Avenue, N. Y., was held on Mon- day, May 22, 1933. The following members were elected: President, Simon Kalos; Vice-President, Victor Frost; Business Agents, Louis David- | son. Martin Hellerstein; Secretary, Nathan Rosenberg. Executive Board y>Max Finkelstein, Isidore Frantz, \Isaac Friedman, Morris Goldman, |Shirley Jones. Irving Kell, Meyer Mandel, Abe Naparstek, Irving Sil- vernian and Max Waxelbaum. Installation meeting will be held tonight. Monday, May 29 at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place at 6 p.m. Prominent labor leaders were invited to address the membership. Barbers’ League Meets Tonight | | Important meeting Barbers and Hairdressers League tonight 9 p. m. at 50 East 13 Stréet, Workers Center, Room 202. Workers _— SAVE MONEY Tents, Cots, Blankets, Shorts, Riding Breeches, Hiking Shoes, Work Clothes, Hammocks | AND ALL CAMP EQUIPMENT HUDSON Army and Navy Store 97 THIRD AVENUE Between 12th and 13th Street HEADQUARTERS FOR COOKS and WAITERS’ SUPPLIES for 3 years in Sing Sing, about 450 workers at a mass meeting at Ambas- sador Hall, Bronx, Thutsday night, | adopted a resolution demanding his| immediate release and urging all| workers in New York City not to de- pend on legal tactics alone but to develop powerful mass pressure for his release. Elect Delegation The adoption of the resolution was preceded by the election of a delega- tion, headed by Jaques Buitenkant, | labor attorney, which will go to Al- bany to lay before Governor Lehman deinand for Blum’s immediate free- dom. Speakers at the meeting in- cluded John J. Ballam, District Sec- retary International Labor Defense, Henry Shephard, Trade Union Unity Council, Jaques Buitenkant. Blum Framed “Leon Blum was sent to Sing Sing by the Parole Board on perjured tes- timony of scabs provided by the Pret- ty Laundry, Inc.” said the resolution, “This case is but one more example of the use of capitalistic legal machinery as an instrument for the suppression and persecution of the working class in its struggle against exploitation.” The resolution calls upon all work- ers of New York City and their or- ganizations to hold protest meetings against Blum’s frame-up and to adopt and send resolutions of protest to the N. Y. Parole Commission and to the Governor of New York State. Send Children, Negro | and White, from City | to Worker’s Camp NEW YORK—Fifty-four organiza- tions represented by 74 delegates an- swered the call for building of a Workers’ children’s camp. The con- ference was held Saturday, May 20 at the Irving Plaza. A working class camp for the chil- dren of the unemployed is most ur- gent in this, the fourth year of the crisis. The conference voted to take chil- JAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY Fish, De Priest, As “Defenders” of the Negro People Pittsburgh ‘Courier’ Assailing Fighters By SENDER GARLIN ’ Prints Ham Fish Speech | for Negro Rights | | | S WAS to be expected, certain of the Negro bourgeois newspapers like the “Pittsburgh Courier” are making much of the speech delivered in the from Chicago. ever been more than the people of my race”? (When De Priest speaks of “my race” he does not speak of the exploited 12,000,- 000 Negroes, but rather of his own breed of hand- kerchief - headed servants of “The Big House” — and what he means by America” is the Big House of J. P. Morgan.) De Priest’s speech was timed to cripple the Scottsboro March to Washington which put squarely before the Roose- velt government the demand for Ne- gro rights and for the release of the | Scottsboro boys—an integral part of the struggle for Negro rights. “Square Deal” “Recently,” De Priest said in open- ing his speech, “there has been some discussion on the floor of this Con- gress about Negroes getting a square deal over this country.” He timor- |ously told his colleagues about the Scottsboro case, about Judge Lowell’s decision which halted the extra- \dition of Georgia Crawford, a young Negro, to Virginia to face trial on a frame-up murder charge... . eee oe DE PRIEST E PRIEST, it is evident, is not seeking a “square deal” for the Negro. Of this there can he no doubt. This is not his role in the Wall Street Congress. The best evi- | dence of it is his shemeless knee- ; bending subserviency to Hamilton | Fish, notorious enemy of both black and white workers and sponsor of anti-labor laws. The jim-crower, Fish, was incidentally a captain in the 15th New York Negro Regiment during the war, and at Herpoint, France, aided in a plan which finally | ousted Negro officers from that re- | giment. Seeks Fish’s Aid De Priest had expressly asked Fish to take the floor to supplement his own speech, and Fish emerged with his regulation bombast against the “Reds,” and repeated his proposals for gagging, jailing and deporting militant leaders of the workers—and for destroying working-class organi- zations, The “Pittsburgh Courier” pub- lishes Ham Fish’s speech in_ full under an 8-column streamer, “REP- RESENTATIVE FISH WARNS AGAINST RED PERIL.” This is fol- Jowed by “COMMUNISTS USING dren for periods of two weeks. 50% | SCOTTSBORO AS WEAPON TO of the children to be sent free and} a@ minimum of 25% of all the chil-| dren to be recruited in Negro sections. | The United Children’s Camp Com- mittee with headquarters at 870 Broadway, appeals to all friends and sympathizers to send contributions for the camp. All organizations are to begin the registration of children and the col-| lection of funds at once. Hospital and Oculist Prescriptions Filled At One-Half Price Lenses not included COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St. First Door Off Delancey St. Telephone; ORchard 4-4520 DOWNTOWN JADE MOUNTAIN | American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12 & 13 Welcome to Our Comrades WORKERS—EAT AT THE | Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE Near Hopkinson Ave. Brooklyn. N. ¥ GARMENT DISTRICT Phone Tomkins Sq. 46-9554 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet 302 E. 12th St. New York PATRONIZE SEVERN’S CAPETERIA 7th Avenue at 30th St. Best Food at Workers Prices MENTION THE DAILY WORKER DENIS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL FLORIST FLORAL DESIGNS A SPECIALTY 101 W. 28th St., New York PHONE: LACKAWANNA 4-2470 (DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bes. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) B’kiyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M. fntern'l Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15th FLOOR AU Work Done Under Versons! Care of Dr. C. WEISSMAN RED PICNIC Auspices: Communist Party, District No. 2 Sunday, 10 A. M. TO MIDNIGHT Pleasant UNIONPORT, N. Y. ADMISSION ON GATE 26 CENTS. Organizations Can Secure Tickets at Following Rates: eee 37.50 ++++10,00 On Sale at 50 E. 13th St, lots of 50 tickets for _ lots of 100 tickets for June 18th Bay Park IN ADVANCE 20 CENTS lots of 1000 tickets for 75,00 Sth fl. INCITE NEGROES TO A REVO- LUTIONARY SPIRIT, HOUSE TOLD.” The canny editors of the “Cou- rier” are conscious of their Judas- role and seek to coyer up their treachery to the Scottsboro boys with the following lying editorial note: “In keeping with its policy of giving our readers all the news, the Pittsburgh Courier is reprint- ing an address made by Congress- man Fish of New York before the House of Representatives recently.” o eloe HAT was the purpose of Oscat De Priest's speech? He sees the tremendous movement of the Negro masses, aroused to struggle by the Communist Party and the International Labor Defense, He therefore introduces a resolution which would permit federal courts to order changes of venue in cases where a “fair” trial would otherwise be impossible. This gesture is his contribution to j the fight for Negro rights? | House of Representatives recently by Oscar De Priest, Negro Congréssman What provoked the elderly realtor and evictor of South Side tenants to take the floor to announce obsequiously that “no race in this country has loyal to America® is is a gesture to clear himself of any charge that he is idle in the face of the increasingly vicious at- tack’ against the Negro people. His Real Attitude De Priest’s real attitude toward the struggle for Negro rights has been \|revealed time and again—but most *| strikingly—when he was called upon }|by a delegation of the Scottsboro Marchets headed by William L. Pat- terson of the I. L. D. Did De Priest welcome either the} delegation or the Civil Rights Bill? Not at all! Sullen and evasive, the Negro congressman had the gall to say that the bill would serve to “segregate” the Negroes even mor than at present. | he echoed the alibis of the Roosevelt administration officials who sought to placate the delegates with oily talk about “adjudication in the courts.” In his recent speech—after recit- ing a list of lynchings during the past year or so, De Priest apologizes to his fellow-representatives of cap- italism by declaring: “I am not stating these things because I want to stir up any racial * animosity, but the American peo- ple ought to know that 12,000,000 people should not be tempted to join some organization (!) that is not for the best interests of Am- erica. I do not think communism means any good to this country, either to me or anybody else in it.” ERE we see the real purpose of De Priest’s speech—not, forsooth, to aid in the fight for Negro rights, but to attack the Communist Party and the I. L. D. which are the only effective forces in the struggle for Negro rights. And that is why he begged the services of Hamilton Fish to assist him in this attack! As for “stirring up racial animo- sity,” what the Chicago real estate operator means is the fight of the Negro, supported by the white work- ers, against national oppression, lynching, peonage . . . Complete surrender to the bosses—abject ser- vility—this is De Priest’s formula for what he calls “avoiding racial animo- sity.” De Priest, who has piled up a for- tune out of the rents of his miser- able hovels on the South Side of Chi- ; cago in which Negro families are herded together, says “Communism doesn’t mean any good to this coun- try, either to me or anybody else in it.” No doubt, since the Communists demand no payment of rents by the unemployed, and have led militant fights against eviction of Negro workers in De Priest's own district. Is De Priest's a “friend” of the Negro people? During the Hoover regime he con- sistently supported the most reac- tionary administration projects, He voted against the payment of the bonus and opposed federal relief— and supported the “rugged indivi-| dualism” plan of Hoover which called | upon local communities providing re- lief for the unemployed, principally by throwing the burden on the backs of the workers still employed. More recently De Priest emerged as a “defender” of the Negro workers by insisting on their right to work in Roosevelt's forced labor (“refor- estration” camps). He demanded that Negroes shall not be discrim- inated against in being enrolled in the slave, jim-crow camps. But he said not one word about jim-crowism, nor did he protest against the prison- wage paid both Negro and white workers. De Priest, far from being a “friend” of the Negro people, is one of its most dangerous enemies. He is Wall Street’s undercover man in Congress. ROXBURY, Mass., May 28.—Ga' ered in Ruggles Hall on Saturday night, 1,000 Negro and white workers who heard Ruby Batts, chief Scott- boro witness, Richard B, Moore, Mrs, Janie Patterson and Prof. Dana pledged to continue the fight for the fréedom of the innocent Scottsboro boys, The workers at the same time demanded from Gov, Ely that he pre- vent the extradition of Georgé Craw- ford to Virginia to face trial on a framed-up murder charge, Other speakers included Monroe Trottér, Negro, and editor of the Bos- ton Guardian; Bernard Creegan, Un- employed Council leader facing de- portation, and J, Wilgus, Boston sec- retary of the International.Labor De- fénse, who acted as chairman. Previously 150 workers greeted Ruby Bates and the mother of Haywood Patterson on their arrival at the South Station, Boston, oe Big Hartford Meet HARTFORD, Conn., May 28.—Néar- ly 1,500 attended # united front Scott- sboro protest meeting held here in the M, E. Zion Church, Speakers included séveral local ministers, Richard B. Moore, Janie Patterson and Ruby Bates. ee For Crawford Mass Defense NEW YORK.—All district organiza- tions of the International Labor De- fense are called upon to intensify the 1,000 at Scottsboro Mass Meet in Boston Back Fight for Crawford; LL.D. Calls Upon Districts to Demand Negro’s Release | mass campaign to prevent the extra- dition to Virginia of Georgé Craw- ford, Negro worker, in directives just sent out by the national office of the ILD. The ILD. calls for the immediate rélease of this worker and brands the murder charge against him as a frame-up. i In its directives to the district or- gauizations, the I.L.D. says: “Federal Judgé Lowell of Mas- sachussets District has issued a decision ovetruling the extradi- tion to Virginia of George Craw- ford, a Negro worker, on the ground that Négtoes are barred there from serving on juries. This decision was forced upon this judge by the tremendous move- ment for full equal rights for Ne- groes, set into motion by the I. L, D, thru Scottsboro and other campaigns, “The Crawford case is being handled by the N.A.A.C.P. leaders purély along legal lines in accord- ance with their treacherous policy against mass defense, | “The LL.D. is now undertaking mass protests to prevent Craw- ford’s extradition and légal lynch- ing. All Districts and branches should therefore send resolutions to Governor Joseph RB, Ely, State Massachusetts, House, Boston, Protesting against Crawford's éx- tradition and his re- lease.” 1 Crony of D HAM FISH Scottsboro Marchers | . A Club Meets Tonight | NEW YORK. — Speakers at the| Scottsboro Marchers Club meeting to| be held today at the Randall Mem-| orial Presbyterian Church at 61 West 137th Street, will be Steve Kingston who was marshall of the match, a member of the National Scottsboro Action Committee, and Leonard Pat-| terson head march captain. | Marchers throughout the city will | become members of the club at this| meeting. One of the major points to be considered will be the mobilization of workers in support of the imme- ~ | Brotherhood Chiefs i In spite of glowing headlines hail-, ¢ | ing the proposed amendments to the | chiefs rail coordinator bill as victories which will safeguard railroad labor an examination of these amend- ments proves them to bé no more than an extension of present policies of the roads,| which can and will be carried ou with or without the rail coordinator. Labor, official weekly of the railroad | unions, considers the amendment which allows the roads to lay off 5 per cent of the working forces every | year, perfectly satisfactory. Let examine this provision a little more| carefully. | According to railroad experts, the main “economies” looked for under the rail bill would be reductions in Payrolls. It is true that the bill gives| the coordinator no power to cut| wages, but the roads are quite free to © Priest Roosevelt and Railroad | n the railroad labor The next “concession” hailed by the labor chiefs is that the coordina- or is authorized to establish regional boards, to settle controversies which may develop between the roads and he men. “This,” says Labor, “is an| important gain. . . as the railroads, despite the provisions of the Railway | Labor Act, have been denying regi-| onal adjustment boards to the big/ majority of the railroad labor organi- | zations.” Does railroad labor expect | te get more consideration under} Eastman as railroad czar, than it did| | under Eastman as Interstate Com- merce Commissioner? Does railroad labor expect to get equal considera- tion with railroad owners from poli- tical appointees admittedly bribed by J. P. Morgan with inside prices on railroad stocks? do this through the arbitration ma-| Whitney “Hasn't Heard of Wage chinery of the Railway Labor Act Cuts” But the Workers Have | and have cut wages directly through] ne executives of the railroads| so-called collective bargaining, and indirectly by as much as 50 per cent} | through short time, reclassification, | abolishing jobs and every other po At the same = COLD REPEAL ACT diate et ie free Bal Wright and | sible device. Reduction in payrol Bugene Williams whose case comes! however can be made most sharply pune | by cutting the payroll altogether, that is reducing forces. | The roads have also done thi without the coordinator, to the point where on February 15, there were J | hardly more than 900,000 men on) ‘BEFORE CONGRESS the payrolls. The exact number of} | |men the roads hope to get rid of through the good offices of the rail Currency | czar, can of course only be estimated. Makes All have announced that they will meet/| in Chicago June Ist to decide on their wage cutting proposals for the June 15th “negotiations.” “We will tie up this entire country before we will accept one penny cut in wages” | was what Whitney of the Trainmen | said in reply. He added that he had-| n’t heard of the proposed cut. At the same time a spokesman for the car- riers said that the roads would “in- | sist to the last ditch” on a cut in| union pay. He added that non-union} employes had taken cuts far in ex-| cess of the 10 per cent accepted by the unions. | Page UR WORKERS | CONTINUE DRIVE IN CHICAGO Beating United Front of Local 45an d the Forward ikree f CHICAGO, Ill. May 28.—Thé Fur Department of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, after its first victorious strike, conducted against the Kramer's Fur Co., has now intensified the drive for im- provement of conditions and the es- tablishment of one class-struggie Union that will fight and defend the interests of the fur workers in Chi- cago. On Monday morning, May 15th the defunct Local 45, the Chicago Federation of Labor, the United Heb- rew Trades, and the Jewish Daily Forward, who formerly expelled Jack Mouchine as a thief of union funds, united with him, showing their true colors as protectors of the bosses, When these fakers, Jack Mouchine and Abe Rosen, the leaders of the workers in the Evans Fur Co. had joined the Fur Dept of the Industrial Union and that plans were also made to improve the conditions of these workers, they offered the boss protec- tion, and to see to it that no one organizes the workers in his shop if he would sign up with Local 45 and force the workers to join. The workers on the other hand issued a statement to the effect that any agreements between the Evans Fur Co. and Local 45 will not be recognized by them, and regardless Some say 100,000 men. Some say Part of | 300,000.. How many years it will take | to reduce forces to this extent is not | mentioned. The amendment, accept- able to the Railroad Labor Chiefs, | gives the roads the right to reduce forces by 5 per cent every year, below the bed rock employment figure for May 1933, which is to be taken as a basis for future calculations, The roads therefore can continue to re- duce their forces by 45,000 men a year and in five years they will have another quarter of a million more men off the payrolls. This will give them a millon less mén than in 1929, Stagger Plan Will Become the Rule But will the roads be satisfied with | this? They will not! Consolidations | and similar moves are going to abol- | ish more than 5 per cent of railroad} jobs in a year. Claude R. Porter, I.} ©. C. Commissioner for the Western | Roads proposes and outlines a plan| |for abandoning 30 per cent of the | present railroad mileage. There is no | question whatever-that these “econ- | omies” mean less jobs, what will be| the counter-proposal to lay-offs. It mill be as it already has been in many Places, the wide spread adoption of the stagger system. The workers most | affected will be the train crews as| most of the shop forces and the} maintenance men are already stag-! gered to the bone. In other words| Paper Money; Fight Against Britain WASHINGTON, May 28. — The Fletcher-Stéagall Bill which proposes that the United States Congress re- move all United States bonds and currency from any connections with gold payménts will go to Congress tomorrow. This bill, especially requested by Roosevelt, abolishes the “gold clause” in all publ’s and private debt agrée- ments. The government will not be required to pay off its debts in gold, even in thosé cases where it prom- ised that it would do so, United States money will no longer have any relation to gold, and its value will fluctuate with the im- provément or worsening of govern- ment credit. United States money will’ be wholly and completely paper money, This act of Roosevelt’s is part of Roosévelt’s inflation program, ahd part of America’s fight against Brit- ain for advantages in the struggle for world markets. U. S. BANK DEPOSITORS MEET NEW YORK.—To mobilize for the demonstration on June 5 near the Supreme Court, a meeting of U. S. Bank depositors will be held tonight at 1813 Pitkin Avenue in Brooklyn at 8 p. m. the safeguards won for railroad ema | ployment will be won at the expense | ; May 1933. And reduction in hours of | labor, at reduced pay, is not a wage | Railroad workers can better afford] of any agreement, they will struggle to believe the spokesman for the| for conditions under the leadership roads than their own officials. For|of the Fur Dept of the Industrial Mother and Children Sleep in by agreeing to the 10 per cent exten- sion until next November Ist, rail-| ror workers are taking at this minute additional cuts, to the extent/| that inflation is boosting the cost of | living. Unless the basic rate of pay is restored in the June negotiations, the roads will be putting over a cut far in excess of the 10 per cent agreed | to. Unless the unions prepare for a fight to restore this basic rate of pay; to insist on the six hour day without reduction in weekly or monthly earn- ings, the railroad workers will find that Whitney has tied them up in- stead of tying up the entire country which he only does with words, 1 Union. The fur workers of the city of Chicago have witnessed the contrast bétween the Industrial Union and Local No. 45 and have decided that the. Industrial Union represents their interests and under its leadership are ready to go forward in struggle for conditions, Union Headquarters are located at 119 S. Wells St, 3rd Floor. Down with Hitler fascism! De- mand the release of Thaelmann and Torgler! Demonstrate National Youth Day, May 30! REVOLUTIONARY A (TIVITY OF POLISH ‘MARINE WORKERS DESPITE FASCISM |Dock Workers Refuse to Unload Freighter |Manned by Fascists; Police Back Up Fascists (By a Marine Worker Correspondent) GDYNIA, Poland—Here is‘a brief outline of the situation here. is Poland’s only port and is mainly The Interntional of Sea and Hai Promised “Time Off” for Overtime, Seamen Get Permanent Layoff This @ naval and military supply base for | the Franco-Polish drive against Germany or the U. S. S. R. bor Workers is illegal here. You no of those still on the payrolls as of | doubt remember that we nevertheless led a strike here last fall and stopped —_—-® Activity of Polish Double demingo a threatened wage-cut. After the strike, the fascists intensified their attempts at terrorization. Now an- other sweeping cut of 20 per cent has |been announced and the Social- story follows:) NEW YORK—A mother and two children who had been sleeping in the subway after being evicted were pro- mised rent and another family were promised vouchers for gas and electri- city following the militant action of the Unemployed at the Washington Heights Home Relief Bureau, 140 W. 102 Street last week. The action was led by the Washington Heights Unemployed Council who after a spe- cial membership meeting, marched to the bureau, with placards displaying their demands and through their mil- itancy forced the bureau guards to let them enter the bureau with their placards, More Join % Other workers applying for relief when they arrived joined in demand- ing immediate payment of rents, food, gas and electric vouchers, no discrim- ination against Negro or foreign-born workers and single workers. A resolution with these demands were presented to Mr. Cortney, super- visor who was forced to listen to the spokesmen of a committee of six workers. More than 30 grievances was presented and when the supervisor said he wanted to see how many really were in need, twenty worker waved dispossess notices. Live in Cellar One case was that of a world war EXCURSION TO WOCOLONA Excursion to Camp Wocolona leav- ing 50 E, 13th Street, Tuesday, 8:30 a, m. Return same evening. Round Trip $1. Anyone inetrested in join- ing Tent Colony in Wocolona invited. Plans will be discussed at the Camp. In case of rain, next Sunday. For further information call NEvins 8-8331 or COrtland 17-7239, CITY WIDE PICNIC COMMITTEE WILL MEET Wednesday, May 31 7:30 P. M. At the City Office of the DAILY WORKER 85 East 12th Street New York City | Democrat leaders of the union have . Subway; Fight Gets Them Rent (An error in our composing room Friday placed the wrong story under the above head in Saturday’s edition, page four. The correct veteran who was living with his wife and two children in a dark, damp cellar. He was denied relief on the excuse that he had the royal income of $10 a month, Questions were shot at the super- visor. “Where is the ten million dol- lars the city just got from the bank- ers.” Workers pulled out clippings and showed it to Cortney who denied any money was received by the bu- reau, “Then,” said the workers, “the bureaus are operating underfalse pre- tenses. Another victory scored was the supervisor's agreement to accept a committee of two workers from the council, CONVICT THOMAS IN PITTSBURGH Citizenship CaseAimed at Organization PITTSBURGH, May 28.—With po- lice and detectives present in great force, in an atmosphere more like that of an armed camp than of a court room, B. ©. (Jack) Thomas, un- | employed worker, was found guilty on | three counts by a federal jury. Thomas, who was originally arrest- ed after he had moved his furniture into a vacant apartment, was held for “falsification” when his activi- ties in the working class movement wer Jiscovered by the police. — .nas now faces a fifteen-year jail sentence, revocation of his citi- zenship papers, and deportation to Great Britain. A motion for a new trial made by Irving Schwab and Jacob Seligsohn, International Labor Defense attor- neys in charge of Thomas's defense, was postponed by Judge Gibson, who oe not set any date for a new hear- ing. Because of the mass pressure this | case has aroused here, Thomas is out now on bail reduced to $2,500. The verdict is based on the charge that Thomas, because of his former membership in the Young Workers League (now the Young Communist League), is “not attached to the prin-! ciples of the U. S. Constitution,” and therefore swore falsely when he took out his citizenship papers. Chief wit- ness for the government is Emory J. Lennon, former Department of Jus- tice investigator. The conviction of Thomas.and the) attempt to illegalize the Y.C.L, is part| of a campaign to smash organization in the Pittsburgh district, center of heavy industry NEW YORK CITY.—I just got | fired from the Standard Oil tanker, | W. H. Libby. I wish to describe the | miserable conditions which the Stan- | dard Oil imposes upon the seamen jr worked for this company for ten | years. ‘When we arrived in Aruba, Dutch West Indies, the First Assistant En- gineer told us that we had to work on the engine that night. But when we told him that we had already | worked that day he promised he | would give us time off when we get | back to the States. | Well, they had us working that | night but we were not the only ones | to work. They also had the firemen turned out, although they were not | supposed to work in the engine room | according to the Steamboat Inspec- tion Service, but in the fireroom. | The Steward aboard this ship is a | regular efficiency slave for the com- | pany by starving the crew. When we |got back to New York, we got time! off for the rest of our lives. Since) ; the Standard Oil will hire only Am- erican citizens from now on, I will probably never get a job with them | again, By a Standard Oil Seaman. By Labor Research Assn. The realm of Rockefeiier oil in- of labor on the 60 tankers, 179 barges, 26 tugs, and launches and lighters operated through the Standard- Vacuum Transportation Co. and the Standard Transportation Co., Ltd., of Hong Kong. Other Standard Oil subsidiaries, including the Magnolia Petroleum Co, and General Petrole- um Corp., run 111 lighters and barg- es, 61 tugs and launches, 127 junks, |and other seagoing vessels. The transport end of this huge oil |domain is dominated by the So- | cony-Vacuum Corp. which turned its 1931 deficit into a profit of over five million dollars in 1932, And dividends paid to stockholders in those two crisis years amounted to 67 million ; dollars! The constituent companies of this large labor sweating firm, Standard Oil Co, of New York and Vacuum Oil Co., showed combined net profits for the six years, 1925-30, amounting to 375 million dollars and together paid out in dividends about 250 million dollars in the same period. Postpone Dram Group Meet Membership meeting of all Dram Groups tonight—called off. Date for this meeting set for Monday, June 19, at 42 East 12th Street, terests extends to the exploitation | cs ara SE SERRA on Ee y eltein, S Acs Obs accepted it. By the time you re- ceive this information, we will in all probability be on strike again, Ship crews are notified of a 50 per cent cut in pay. In addition to the direct cut, overtime pay has been stopped, even though we work as high as 16 hours a day. Relief has been stopped. Unem- ployed were getting 10 zloty a week ($1.30). Now they get three zloty a day but must break rocks under army officers. This is a conscious drive to militarize the marine work- ers. Despite denials, we have seen secret military maneuvres taking place in the Polish corridor. The Communist Party called for united front activities against fas- cism but the Socialist leaders re- fused. Nevertheless we are carrying large numbers. Red flags are at- tached to lines with hooks and thrown over the power transmission lines. It takes a long time for the police to tear them down! A German freighter, completely manned by fascists, came into port recently. At the call of the I. S. &. the dock .workers refused to unload her. A fight took place and the Police arrested fascists and workers, After stopping the fight, they ree leased the fascists and then pros ceeded to beat up the arrested workers. Our greetings to the Marine Workers Industrial Union in the fight of world sea and harbor toilers against fascism and imperialist war! Gdynia I. S. H. Group. LONG HOURS IN BANK NOTE CO, (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY.—The working conditions in the American Bank Note Co, in the Bronx are very bad, On Saturdays everyone works from a.m, to5 p. m. without any rest, not even the half hour lunch they get on other days. = NOTE: Letters from transportation works ers—railroad, marine, street railways, Subways, cab-drivers, etc—are pube blished every Monday. Get the lete | ters to us by the preceding Thufse ; day. For May 30! Une t Insurance! te . mployment National Youth Day, on strong activities. We have had demonstrations in which Social- Democrat workers participated in .