The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1933, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1933 Perkins Bars Native-Born Children PORtanions | | from U.S.; Passports Are Falsified’ George Stalker, Omaha Communist, Deported to Seotland By SENDER GARLIN Omaha—vity of packing houses and railroad shops. With a popu of 240,000, has nearly remployed. Twenty-ftv n the relief list getting or a family of five, z meal. it lation 60,000 th $ sand ed States Department of inder Frances Perkins has two American-born children their U. S. citizenship and British subjects, after deportation of their of Omaha to the George Stalker, the has organizer of Omaha, section Party in lived in the United States for 28 years, his wife, Sue, has been here for 20 years— their three chil- dren, Margaret, 16; Florence, 13, and George, Jr., 8, were all born in the United States Passport Deception In the passports handed to Sue Stalker on the eve before their departure on “Caledonia” Saturday morning, Margaret was listed as an American citizen, but the other two children were recorded as British subjects. This was revealed when M Stalker came to the Daily Worker office Friday night Stalker’s wife and children had been left in Omaha to drift for themselves following his arrest on a deportation warrant. When the final papers ordering his deportation were signed, no provision was made for his wife and three children. After George was ordered de- ported,” she told me, “no provision was made for me and the children. They weren’t interested in us at all George went up to apply for relief and said ne wanted the children taken care of before he wént. We had not been on the relief. He told the officials he tould raise hell if I was left alone with the children.” Mayor Raises Fund At all the demonstrations and pro- tests against Stalket’s deportation, his Wife said, “we had talked about the breaking up of the homie through deportations. The mayor of Omaha, Metcalf, couldn’t stahd this because we always brought his name in.” “Finally, M Staiker reported “the mayor decided to raise a $500 fund to pay the passage and ex- penses of myself and the children He went to the patriotic organiga- tions and the Chamber of Commerce and asked for contributions on the ground that he was getting rid of ‘them, Reds, the Stalkers.’ ” At Ellis Isiana The day before the departure of the family, I visited Ellis Island and talked with George Stalker. To get to the Island—under military | rule since Edward Corsi became Com- m: mer of Immigration—you take the ferry at Battery Park. A uni- formed guard was stationed at the| ferry. I succeeded in passing inspec- | tion. The ferry boat was filled with| relatives of deportees, for it was vis-| iting day It is a short trip from the Battery. As the boat docks many of the pas- sengers break out into a trot, for the) visit is limited to less than a half hour, and they want to be first in) line to get into the “reception room” on the second floor. | HE unwashed “reception room”) looks lke a Y. M. ©. A. swimming pool with the water drawn out. The) visitors sit on the hard, small benches | as they wait for their husbands, fathers, brothers. . Accompanied | by uniformed guards and plain-! clothes inspectors, the deportees be- gin to swarm into the room. The women weep as they embrace them | and then, clasping each other's hands, they sit down on the benches. The talk is swift and eager, for in a few mo- ments the guards will announce that they must leave. I had come to see George Stalker, | Communist. | A small, grey-haired man comes through the door and I recognize him | from the description once given me |, by Mother Bloor who regularly visited | the family on her frequent organiz- ing trips among the farmers of Ne- braska and Iowa. “They're wonderful comrades,” the 70-year-old veteran labor agitator had told me. Stalker is 46 years old and “has done practically everything.” He worked in the tire factories of Akron, Ohio, in the packing houses and coal yards of Sioux City, Iowa, for 10 years, and had a job in a steel mill in Pittsburgh. His first job way back in 1905 was in the Westinghouse Electric in that city. “From there I went to Ohio, and then to Sioux City. About| a year and a half ago I came to Omaha,” he said. A Prison Train ‘There were 250 workers on the de- portation train which brought him to Ellis Island from Omaha, Stalker told me. Hight of them were Communists, | im addition to himself. One was) being sent to Scotland, one to Jugo- | slavia and one to Germany. | The deportation train was rigged up like a jail, he reported. Bars covered the window, which in turn Avere covered with thick mesh. The “ men were held virtual prisoners, he | said, and they were forbidden to go | from one car to another. ‘There are at least 40 “politica! Ellis Island at the present time, Stal- ker said. Manuel Fernandez, one of the original Tampa prisoners, has been there awaiting deportation for | the past six months after serving ten | months in Florida jails. The excuse usually given by the officials for such detention is that) there are passport difMficulties. But, according to federal regulations which are conveniently ignored, no alien should be brought to Ellis Island un- til his passport and visas have been secured. Although the Florida Supreme Court has just reversed the Tampa frame- up verdict, the Dept. of Labor has shown no inclination to free Fernan- dez. The reversal of the higher court, incidentally, wes made after four of JO: Sad “GET OUT!"—This is what thi Roosevelt's Department of Labor. L born in Cleveland; Mrs. Sue Sta Cleveland; George Stalker, Jr., “UNDESIRABLE ALIEN the workers had served their terms. two had been driven insane and five| deported. A young Negro woman, with an infant in her arms, sat on a bench nearby, talking tearfully with her husband, John Williams | Williams, 30 years old, and em- Ployed until his arrest as a cook, is awaiting deportation to the West Indies. He has been in the U. 5S. since 1924. “How did you happen to be rested?” I asked him. “I was in a Scottsboro demonstra- | tion up in Harlem in April, and the cops picked me up.” Williams was confident that he wouldn't be deported after all be- cause his case was “being inve: gated by the officials.” But his wife, eyes filled with teal wasn’t $0; Ch ane ar- ei. THE World-Herald of Omaha had' x their New York cortespondent| come down to Ellis Island to see him, Stalker told me. “He wanted me to tell him how I felt about going, and tried to get me to denounce the people of the United | States, and to say that I intended to incite the people of Scotland against the people of this country. I told him that our fight is against the cap- italsts of the United States and -of the British Empite as well, and that I would try to build up the soli- uarity between the working people of Scotland and the working people of the United States. “And, I told the guy, put in working people, and not just people, because it makes a hell of a lot of dif- ference.” * some of the marine I recognize workers, 16 of whom were recently atrested and held for deportation following their refusal to be ejected from the Jane Street Y. M. C. A One of them, a German seaman, is Slated for deportation to Hamburg, in} Jatier born in the United States t ‘ ‘ ‘This is what these agricultural workers are described as by immigration officials. They have been rounded up for deportation from Southern California and Arizona. Note the diverse nationalities represented in the group: Japanese, Filipino, Negto, etc. The Negfo is being deported to the West Indies, | ently overhear PRISONS ON WHEELS.—This is what this deportation train with its barred windows and guards looks like as it unloads its cargo near Ellis Island, Notice the women and children, many of the “Daily” Reporter Gives Dramatic Picture of Ellis Island diea uz months ago of an appendici- tis operation. It Was really starva- e didn't have enough strength r We couldn't afford to put a stone over her but we just got a let- ter from the Omaha comrades Which made us all happy. They write that they have put red stohe markers with a hammer and sickle and red ger- anus On the grave. Jailed for Contempt “Three days- after they kidnapped the children, we got five carloads of ge and demanded the children. After this dethonstration the children were given ite-cream. Next morning were turned loose. The Omaha ors had carried headlines saying, ph Stalker was dragged into court on a “Vagrancy” charge. Addressing had told him is workers family was told by psing, but that he was too stupid | eft to right, Margaret Stalker, 16, Infuriated, the judge for- “ got about the vagrancy charge and Florence Stalker, born in entenced Stalker to 30 days in jail » Ta. on a charge of “contempt of court.” and Stalker served the full tert. “vagrancy” charge, but freed him ‘after he had served 20 days. | “The judge, who was running for re-election, used this as a campaign | issue,” Mrs. Stalker told me. “But he was defeated anyway. He would go to the Negroes of Omaha and say, ‘You see how good I am to the Ne- groes! TI let this fellow out of jail. But for Christ’s sake, stay away from Stalker.” ui SS Se OT content with refusing to put the Stalker fatnily on the relief list while they were statving with Stalker in jail, the Omaha “welfare” got in touch With the charity organi- zations of Kartimuir, Scotland, in an effort to intimidate Stalker's aged patents. “The authorities in Karrimuir,” Mrs. Stalker said, “sent up the chief of police of the town to intimidate George's patents into making a state- ment that his son being ® Commu- nist, he didn’t want him to return home. Incidentally George’s broth- er, James, is head of the Independent a Labor Party of Scotland, and George wrote him, saying, ‘You'd better have the I. L, P. inside the Communist Party before I come over.’ ” Stirring Farwell - Proudly, the Stalkers told of the | demonstration at the station when | they left Omaha. “Of course, I don’t like leaving this way, for we were active in the movement and were fascist Germany. making progress among the workers He is a blonde-haired giant, fiery in, 8" farmers of Nebraska. From & speech. “We had a strike here the| Personal viewpoint too, I hate to leave other day—did you fellows hear about} ™my mother, whom I haven't seén for it on the outside? They tried to hand|14 years, and whom T’ll_ probably us some hamburger that stunk and| Never again. She lives in Western we threw the damn stuff right back| Pennsyvania. I have four sisters and at them. We rapped on the tables| two brothers. with our tin cups and raised holy| ing in the steel mills and the other hell. 157 We sent a protest signed. by| has a job in the lubricator works in of us to Washington, too and| Detroit. The husband of one of my ertiay and today the eats have| Sisters is also a steel worker arid the little better.” | other sister’s husband is a railroad An Elis Island “Dick” worker,” Mrs. Stalker said. I begin to take notes, and a plain-| It was in Pittsburgh that Stalker clothes guard ambles over to where and his wife met about 18 years ago. we are. I nudge the German sailor| “We always had ideas in common,” and slip my notes into my pocket.) she said proudly. But the gumshoe artist has appar-| “What am I going to do when I get d part of the conver-| to Scotiand? I am going to get right We are Communists, sation, for he says, trying hard to| into activities. smile, “Ellis Island is a real vacation | and when we get over there, we will for these guys- and grub and| catty on. There is capitalism in Scot- | all, is, one of 'em kicked to-| land just the same as here!” day, said he was getting too fat.” I, ae EES urse said, “They're looking| J) leaving the main building of Ellis Island, I lost my way and strayed but that ain’t what they'll| into a hallway used only by the high- tell you,” he said belligerently, look-| er officials. Hanging down from the ing ‘at the German seaman from| molding of the wall, about 10 to 12 Hamburg. | feet from the floor was a small sign. un rtenl Pe | Although it was covered with the TALKER’S deportation grew out of| dust of 28 years, I managed to de- his arrest after he had organized| Cipher the text: an inter-racial dance in March of| “ORDER CONCERNING TREAT- last year. A few days after the af-| MENT OF IMMIGRANTS fair, he was picked up on a charge of vagrancy, and later was held for de-| “Immigrants shall be treated with civility and kindness by everyone in Ellis Island. Neither harsh fan- guage nor rough handling will be tolerated. The Commissioner de- ires that any instance of disobe- y rested him at the dance} and tried to ‘vag’ him first,” his wife, | Sue, had told me earlier. “George | went down to bail out a Negro com- rade who was arrested at the dance. When we got down there, Judge Nedic said, ‘You're the bird that I've been looking for for a month. Is your wife in the courtroom? He knew I was and he called me over. He said ‘I am going to ‘vag’ both of you.” After the hearing, he let us out on $50 bond and in the meantime, while George | and I were in the courtroom, they kidnapped my four children. “They are onty three now. his attention—May, f 1910.” One “Se comfades and went out to the of-| 08 COME TO BOMB ORPHAN: | Judge Nedle, a local judicial yegg, he} that “capitalism was) Nedle gave the Negro wotker ar-| rested with Stalker 30 days on the) One brother is work-/| dience of this order be brought to | G0 ON UNDER | THE “NEW DEAL” Perkins Continues Doak Policy The wave of deportations against militant workers has been directed particularly against two revolutionary unions, the National Textile Workers | Union and the National Miners | Union While some of the cases originated | under Doak, Secretaty of Labor under | Hoover, nevertheless the Beraant | | muchstouted “liberal” secretary, | | Frantes Perkins, has not oly See | | tinued the prosécution of these work- lers, but her départment has inten-| \sified the campaign against foreign- | born militants. | Thirteen workérs in Pittsburgh dis- j trict are facing deportation, and 11} | Of them aré members of the N. M. U.| These include Frank Borich, secre-| tary of the N. M. U., Vincent Kame- Revich, district organizer of the| Western Pefinsylvania district, whom the Départinent of Labor is exile to fascist Jugoslav members of the N. M. U. slated for deportation are Norman Da’ Joe | | Shafer, Joe Yakerlin, Steve Devanich and S. Vinich. Many Arrests | | With the chief fire in New Eng- | land being directed against the Na-| tional Textile Workers Union, at least three of its leaders are now| |facing deportation. These are Edith | Berkman, now at ® sanitorium suf-| fering from tuberculosis; Anna Bur= lak, and June Oroll, textile organizer | arrested at a recent meeting of the | National Board of the N. T. W. U. Anna Bloch is still held by the De- partment of Labor on heavy bail be- causé of her activities in connection with the National Hunger March. Bernard Creegan, another fighter for the unemployed, has just been of-/ dered deported. Those previously ar-| |rested are Saul Paul, Wasil Bilida,| Joseph Guberski, Benjamin Saul and| Goldie Waldman. | On May 8, Patil Martinove was ar rested at a Cleveland unemployed demonstration, beaten up and held for deportation. A series of protest meetings protesting against the ar- | rest Of Martinove and the whole cam- paign against the foreign born are} now being held by the I. L. D. and the National Committee for the De- fense of Politioal Prisoners. | ‘This, of course, {8 only a partial list | of workers arrested and held for de- portation. The attack on the foreign-born is not limited to thave districts, how- ever. Agents of the Department of Labor continue to jail workers in various parts of the country, and scores of workers are picked off jobs and breadlines about whom the I. L. | D. often does not learn. Many of these workers are charged with) “(egal entry,” and ate swiftly de- ported. The Thomas Case A sinister feature of the present eampaigh of the Department of Labor ig shown in the case of B. C. (Jack) Thomas in Pittsburgh. Thomas has just been convicted and facés 15 years | imprisonment, to be followed by de-| portation, on the ground that when |he applied for American citizenship the Young Workers | Communist) Leagui | Arguing that “inasmuch as the Young Communist League is not | attached to the principals of the U. &. constitution,” the prosecution demanded a conviction against Thomas on the ground that he the constitution of the U. S. when he applied for citizenship. | Thomas is a former miner and steel | worker, and his arrest and conviction jis stirring the workers in the Pitts- burgh district against this latest at- tack by the Department of Labor.” Deportees at Ellis Island Greet ‘Daily’ One day following the visit of a Daily Worker representative to Ellis Island, the “Daily” received the fol- lowing letter from a group of de- portées arrested by Frances Perkins’ Department of Labor: Ellis Island, York Dear Comrades: We, the revolutionary workers at Ellis Island facing deportation, greet the Daily Worker and the ILD. We find that mass deportations have begun again. There are about | 49 workers here being deported for their political activity to Germany, Italy, Greece, Jugo-Slavia and other countries. Roosevelt's fascist policy is clearly shown by the renewed attacks upon the foreign-born workers throush- out the United States. This ex plodes the fa'se theory that Miss Perkins would be more liberal than her predecessor, Doak. We call upon all workers to fight against th’s wave of deportations, as this is no doubt part of the pre- parations for the coming imperialist war. ‘We pledge curselves to continue our revolutionary activity in the countries to which we are being | deported. With revolutionary greetings, (Signed) Yaul Mueller Manuel Fernandez Govert Schouten James Marti Concetto Ferrara John Maviomhaltz George Stalker John Bell Francisoo Perez Bruno Catalani G. Pera. ARREST JOBLESS MEN SCHENECTADY, N. Y., June 4.— Police raided a “jungle” just off the railroad tracks behind the General Electric Works and arrested 10 home- less men and youths. This is the second such raid in # month,. New made with a restaurant. The res- |taurant arrangements that were made were rather poor. The dele- | | ¢y will encourage everyone, some years ago he was a member of | (now Young) swore falsely that he would support | Letters from Our Readers} Reader Criticizes | Mooney Congress Arrangements Paul, Minn. Editor of the Daily Worker. Dear Comrade As a delegate of the Friends of the Soviet. Union to the Mooney Con- ference in Chicago, I wish to make a few obsetvations. I drove 480 miles | to the Conference. Four women de- legates accompanied me in my car. When we réached Chicago, We spent over an hour looking for the proper address to report too. When we had Made contact, we found that very haphazard arrangements had been | made for the lodging of delegates. Delegates were scattered all ovér the | downtown section of Chicago. | There are plenty of empty hotels in Chicago that would have been glad to lodge all the delegates at reduced rates. This would have kept all the delegates together, prevented unne- cessary confusion and built up a finer spirit of colidarity, have been less expensive. The same Kind of arrangement could have been | gates felt that they were poorly rved and overcharged. The biggest mistake, I think, was made on Haymarket Square. Fifty thousand people were gathered on the square. At three-thirty the sky was heavily overcast, it was plain that rain was coming on. I walked over to the speakers’ stand, calling their attention to the coming rain, and suggesting that the march to the Stadium be started before the rain chased the crowd indoors. This Suggestion, which was also made by several other delégates, was ignored. Consequently, the march had bare- ly started when it began to rain hard. The crowd melted away, only about ix thousand reaching the stadium. | A few thousand others came later. I write this letter as a tactical suggestion so that future conferences will not repeat the same mistakes. To properly and effectively broaden our struggle among the masses it is | very necessary that we take human as well as political elements into con- sideration. A feeling of organizational efficien- create | confidence, build a finer feeling of solidarity. Comradely yours, —Oscar Roston. | WANT TO DEPORT MILITANT SEAMEN NEW YORK.—Erling Paulsen, who last year took & leading part in fore- ing the Norweigian Consulate in New | York to grant relief for unemployed | Norweigian seamen, was arrested last Friday afternoon while in the Nor- weigian Seamen’s Church, 33 First Place, Brooklyn and taken to Hillis Island for deportation. ‘The International Labor Defense has taken up the case. A delegation | of seamen headed by the Marine | | Workers Industrial Union will see | Paulsen Tuesday, Plan for a demon- | stration demanding his release is be- |ing discussed. Paulsen was active in the Marine} | Workers Industrial Union and also | did reporting work for the NY TID, Also, it would | 4 | Bill Thompson faction in the Repub- | in the South had been Democrats. | glove with Binga the banker, Abbott CHICAGO Ss SOUTE SIDE SEES “RED” By EDITH MARGO (From “Left Front,” organ of Chicago John Reed Club.) INSTALLMENT 2 SATURALLY the old black ghetto was not large enough for immense new population. Real es | dealers, both white and Negro, | reaped a harvest by turning white) neighborhoods into black. A house} or apartment building in a white block would be bought and rented to Negroes, Then the white bour-| gedisie would be frantic to sell their} propertiés at a fraction of their (see mer wotth. The real estate dealers would make a substantial commis- sion on the sale, and would earn a handsome profit by renting the property to Negroes at rents far in xcess of what the whites had paid.) Gradually the Negroes spread out| over most of the South Side, oceupy- | ing an area of about ten blocks to| the east of their former district and ftom 18th to 6lst Street. “WIN . THE NEGROES | The white politicians were quick| make use of this great Negro| Previously, Chicago had} voted Democrat. Now the} to lican Party saw a chance to build up a machine based on the Negroes, most of Whom had never voted before, and who believed that the Republican Party was the friend of the Negro because their white bosses therefore set out to court the Negroes. He appeared at their dances, their parades, their bazaars, and mass meetings. He ap- pointed Negroes to ptiblic jobs, of course in minor positions (except A. J. Carey, Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, who) was appointed Commissioner of Civil Service, indicted in 1929 for selling jobs, and conveniently died in 1930.) And he formed an alliance with the Negro misleader, Oscar De Priest, and others of the same stripe. From 1916 to 1980, this crew dominated the South Side, working hand in ‘Thompson the editor of the Chicago Defender, and the Baptist and Methodist min-| isters. As most of the Negroes were tremendously devout, they supported | scores of churches housed in old| synagogues and buildings discarded | by white protestant congregations. Some of their churches boasted the largest protestant congregations and Sunday Schools in the world. ey aoe | ‘HE Negro population of Chicago) has taken on an entirely dilforent) character, much more industrial) than New York, for example. | In the spritig of 1930, groups of) Negroes began to congregate on Sunday afternoons and weekday evenings in Washington Park to dis- cuss their problems. For many years a group of White “radicals,” petty Politicians, exponents of queer reli- gions and unclassified nuts had maintained an open air forum in Washington Park, known as the “Bug Club.” During the war the police, activated by the South Park Board, had endeavored to close this forum because of alleged unpatriotic utterances, but Judge Harry Fisher had granted a permanent injunction against the Park Board, restraining them from interfering with free speech at the Bug Club, By 1930, the Negro population had occupied the houses and apartment buildings on three sides of Washing- ton Park and had taken over the tennis courts, ball fields and recrea- tion houses in the park. Because many of the Negroes had already spent one winter of unemployment, they began to congregate in the park in the spring to listen to the varied solutions of their problems offered by the Negro and white speakers. THREE GROUPS Soon the Negroes had formed into three gtotips, separate from the white Bug Club. One of these was controlled by the Economic Federa- tion, a gfoup of petty bourgeois Negro intellectuals, lawyers and school teachers, who had a scheme for workets to invest a penny a day and become rich in ten years, The money was to be invested in stocks of corporations such as U. S, Steel, Americah Telephone and Telegraph, and Commonwealth Edison. Another group was Called the Good Fellows Club, and was com- posed of Negro workers and radicals, none of whom had a program. The third group was known as the Min- isters’ Forum, ahd was occupied in discussing the finer points of Gen- esis and Revelations. woo Me SMALL group of Negio Commu- nists began speaking at the Good Fellows Club in the early spring of 1930. At this time there was still some antagonism against Communists among the Negroes, and these few speakers found diffi- culty in showing the workers the correct line of action. But they per- | severed throughout the summer and graduallly began to take listeners away from the other forums and to attract the workers who were flock- ing to the park in ever greater num- bers. At that time evictions were taking place in the black belt at the rate of about three hundred and fifty every day. The Communists told the Negro workers that they should ofganize and put back evicted furniture, THE EVICTION BATTLES The first furniture replaced was at 4616 Calumet Avenue in the summer of 1930. About twenty people took part in the moving. The police, es- tablishing a custom which has been followed ever since, arrested Poin- dexter as the leader. In two weeks the family was evicted again and t= time the incident took on a mass character. The Communists went from house to house notifying neigh- bors of the eviction, and a crowd of three hundred and fifty people gath- ered. Charles Banks and Poindexter were arrested before the furniture was put back, but Gene Sullivan and Lambert, a white comrade, carried on, speaking to the workers. After the furniture had been replaced, both Sullivan and Lambert were arrested, Banks and Poindexter were fined one dollar and costs, while Sullivan was fined $75 and costs and Lambert $150 and costs. All of these comrades served their sentences in the Bridewell. In July, 1930, occurred the first murder in the class struggle. Lee Mason, formerly a Negro Commu- nist cafididate for Congress, was slugged by the police during a dem- onstration at 32nd Street and State Street. “His funeral, held from the Party headquarters at 3335 South State Street, was an impressive fu- neral. Three thousand workers par- ticipated in the parade to the 47th Street railroad station. posing the conditions in the Nor- weigian charity: institution especially in the Norweigian Seamen’s Home and Norweigian Seamen’s Church. | “The seamen’s Church has gained) aroused by the arrest, “We stand ready to defend our comrade and continue his splendid activity against the deportation terror in the church and against its dirty servic® in the | the Scandanavian Workers Paper ex-| nothing by this arrest” say seamen! interests of the shipowners.” OPEN ENEMIES AND VETERANS’ FAKE The “friends” and enemes of the veterans are now in battle around the veteran cuts. Some claim that the | service connected should not be cut quite so much, make it a little less. While the enemies of the veterans are raising the cry that veterans not injured during the war are trying to ob the treasury of the United| | States.” % Hoover, Wall Street, the Economy League, Roosevelt and the rest cried that the sérvice—eonnected should | not be made to suffer in the economy program, but the records of the Vet-| erans Bureau show that éven before | the passage of the economy bill over 174,000 cases of service-connected were removed entirely from the list. The so-called Veterans lobby, or bloc, remained silent when the Emer- | gency Bill was passed. The leaders of |} the American Legion veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled Am- erican Veterans, Father Coughlan the “friend of the Veterans’ all acted upon the rank and file to obey their “Commanding Officer,” President Roosevelt. Only the force of the mass pressure and revolt of the rank and file of the veterans has made possible this temporary halt in slashing, the only means of support of the hun- dreds of thousands of veterans, their widows and orphans and those suf- fering from mental disease and tuber- culosis, What Halted Action The mass pressure developed by the Veterans National Rank and File Convention held in Fort Hunt May 42-19 is the only force that has chal- Jenged the Roosevelt dictatorship. The vets demanded that the details ot the proposed cuts of over $450,000,- | 000 in veterans’ pensions, compen-| £ation and allowance be held up until) next Congress convenes. In the meantime it demanded that the Vet- erans Bureau give detailed informa- tion regarding the amounts, the num- ber of veterans, widows’, orphans, hospital cases involved. | The great mvjority of the veterans who come under the category of non- service disabilities, known as Dis- ability allowance cases, are veterans who were actually injured during the war, but due to faulty medical war records, many of them are unable to prove their disabilities as service- connected. Many of them neglected: FRIENDS KNIFE THEM IN CONGRESS to make applicati for compensa- tion within the t{me prescribed for such cases, Widows and orphans cannot possibly secure evidence to prove service connection of the dis- abilities of their husbands and fath- ers. Thousands of veterans who ate suffering from mental diseases, and tubercular cases which are held as cases arising from the war, are being removed from hospitals under this cut, and have been removed even prior to the cut. Disabled veterans who were afforded the use of hos- pitals are now being removed and thrown onto the streets: The Victims It is these maimed and helpless veterans who number one out of five of the adult male population of the average of forty that Roosevelt threatens to deprive of their only means of support. These veterans would be thrown on every community adding a million more and their de- pendents to the 17,000,000 who are now facing starvation. Mass protest meetings should be held and petitions sent to Congress to stop all cuts in veterans’ pen- sions and cuts. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin and Sutter Aves, Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M. Intern’ Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15TH FLOOR All Work Dons Under Personal Care of Dr. C. 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