The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1933, Page 2

Page Two 100,000 in Sport Parade Ready to Defend Soviets Healthy and Fit Proletarian Sportsmen March Past Soviet Leaders in Red Square By N. BUCHWALD (Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 12.—QOne hundred thousand men and women took part in a brilliant sport parade in Red are today. Swimmers, oarsmen, nen, tennis and soccer football ers marched by the reviewing d with faultless precision, while massed orchestra of five hundred liar old and new revolu- astically on the side- lines. Today’s parade was review by out- | Soviet leaders, including ‘olotov, Voroshilov, Kagano- Kalinin, Mikoyan and others. Antipov, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Physical Culture of the ‘ delivered a short ad- ng the need for fit and r n Socialist construc- e defense of the Soviet aders. to sport clubs in capi- the participants in e workers from the ics, where every fa- d for promotiing ath- rt of the system of workers’ health. r Labor and Defense” gn the facade of th nin mauso- ng athlete framed ymbolized the true ics in the Soviet ck The sturdy a and vicious et propa- nd tens of thousands | well-known | Fit for ed fit, every one of thousand heroes of the Soviet Union. As @ sheer spectacle the parade was superb. The marched in brigades, the respective city districts and the factories in that district. Heading each district was @ unit of color- bearers carrying the banners of fac- tories won in Socialist competition. The athletes were clad in a variety of sport garb, with many color com- binations, ranging from light blue and gray to flaming red and navy |biue, with lavenders, pinks, brow |and yellows completing the wide color range. Balloons Over Parade A large yellow balloon with the “GFO” emblem in red and white hung in the air near St. Basil's Ca- thedral, looking similar in form but strikingly differsnt in appearance sport from the cupolas of the Cathedral. | The balloon looked like part of the decorative scheme of Red Squi | Suddenly it shot up into the sl with a man in the gondola waving greetings. It soared for a few minutes over the square and disappeared in the gathering storm clouds. Toward the end of the parade which lasted two hours, dirigibles of | Soyiet make flew over the square, adding their dazzling silver to the brilliance of the scene. | Gymnastic exercises and the for- mation of a gigantic human pyramid | brought the sport festival to a close Festiyals All Over Soviet Union. Similar sport festivals were held recently in Leningrad, Kharkov and | dozens of other cities. Mass sporis | constitute an integral part of edu- cation and recreation for the Soviet vorkers. Athletic fields, gymnasiums and other facilities for physical cul- jture are part of the equipment of every factory and workers’ settle- } ment. City Phone: EStabrook 8-100 Proletarian Cultural and Sport Activities Every Day cial rates during the month of June for LW.Q. members $10 ($1 tax) Fox cooperative members and those who stay a whole summer in camp $10 ($1 tax) NO COLLECTIONS ‘SPECIAL WEEK-END EXC! During the Whole Month of June Camp Nitgedaiget ##4cos for the Benefit of the Communist Party, N. Y. Dist. ON RATES for Workers’ “Organi- zations (25-50 members): $1.65 (incl- tax); 50-100 $1.40 Camp Phone: Beacon 331 Camp Cars Leave Daily 19 a.m. from 2790 Bronx Park East (Take the Lexington and White Plains road express and get off at Allerton Ave. station) FRIDAY and SATURDAY 19 a.m.—$ p.m—i p.m. | Round Trip — $2.60 1 One Way — $1.25 (incl. tax) Rates ¢ 3.00 per week “Week-Ends—2 Days $4.65 1 Day $2.45 athletes | representing | | the loser, got three times as much| | as Baer, the winner, is something to} | | Workers Cooperative Colony | CULTURAL 3EVERAL GOOD APARTMENTS 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST (OPPOSITE BRONX PARK) has now REDUCED THE RENT ON THE APARTMENTS AND SINGLE ROOMS ACTIVITIES Kindergarden; (lasses for Adults and Ohildren; Library; Gymnasium. Clubs and Other Privileges NO INVESTMENTS REQUIRED & SINGLE ROOMS AVAILABLI Take Advantage of the Opportunity. Lexington Avenue train to White Plains Road. Stop at Allerton Avenue Station. Tel, Estabrook 8-1400—1401 Office open daily 8 a.m. to 8 p.m, | Friday & Saturéey 9 a.m, to 5 p.m, Sunday 19 a.m, to % p.m. | } RED PRESS DAILY WORKER = and help the press. tickets at once! Mass Org: STARLIGHT PARK and COLISEUM anizations! Here is your chance to help your own treasury JULY 157 +++ CARNIVAL 4 4 MORNING FREIHEIT | Come and buy your | TICKETS: $1.00 PER HUNDRED; $5.00 PER THOUSAND, AT OFFICES OF FREIHEIT AND DISTRICT OFFICE OF DAILY WORKER, 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY | | | | | | | | | Wednesday | Branch, | Yomanticized and misunders DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, J SPORT The Trai | TAMMANY AND RA BOOM “THE LIVERMORE LARRUPER”| First the Promoters Knick the Betting Publie| By Odds of 8 to 1 on the Loser; Wears the “Star of David” on His Pants By SI GERSON AX BAER, who “defeated” Schmeling in the 10th ro eduled 15-round hou Yankee Stadium last Thur is being boomed to the sk’ the “new fistic wonder,” more Larrupper,” “the young giant,” “the new fighting Apollo,” etc., etc. All of this ballyhoo comes from one source—the | head. the rackeieers who control bo: ing, aided by a corrupt sport pres: are building up Max Baer, who onl; @ year ago was relatively unknown, into a fighter of gigantic proportions. That their plans haye not been en- tirely unsuccessiyl is testified by the figures issued after the Baer-Schmel-} ing fight. Gross reccipts for the fight were $240,000 and the net $201,- 092. The (paid) attendance was 53,000. Schmeling got $78,000 while Baer got $26,000. (Why Schmeling, think about). Dem the pro- | moter, got about $25,000’ out of the | fight. How much the sracketeers, gamblers and politicians who work with them got out of the fight is, of course, unknown. However, there was quite a bit of “wise ney” on Max Baer at the juicy odds of 3-—1. Racket Goes On. y men did Dempsey and his publ STAGE AND SCREEN “Cossacks of the Don” at City Theatre Tomorrow “Cossacks of the Don” will be pre- sented for one day only at the City Theatre on 14th St. tomorrow. The Cossacks of Russia have been tood more than a other people. “Braye,” “Perribk “Independent,” “Ruthless,” are only a few of the adjectives that fietion has heaped on them. The newest Russian talking pic- ture reveals the Cossacks fully and deeply. “Cossacks of the Don” is a moving and poetic story of the years just before the war. A tempestuous Cossack woman, is the center of the story. The role of Aksinya is acted by Emma Cossarskaya. who will be remembered here “The Village of Sin. The hatred of the Cossa for the neighboring Ukrainian peasants is brought out in the picture in seyeral thrilling scenes. The Cossacks had special privileges under the czars. They were self-governing to some ex- tent, and had large grants of lands and fisheries in return for their mili- tary services to the czar. They were | eligible for such duty until 40 years lof age, and had to provide their own horses. Accordingly they occupied the position of a separate caste in the | population of old Czarist Ri They were comparatively rich. though there were poor people among them, and they were hated by peas- ants on this account as much as they were feared for their recklessness in carrying out the Czar’s commands. The Cossacks always have been magnificent horsemen. Their feats on herseback are an exciting part of “Cossacks ef the Don,” as they rush pell-mell across the steppes The picture is based on a novel by Mighail Scholokov, who is known as the most realistic interpreter of the | lives of the Cossacks. ‘;| the night of the fight he wore on his the heroine of | ned Baer | CKETEER MADDEN a pretty good job in building up the| fight. No publicity trick was over- looked. The Jewish population of New York was catered to by the | simple means of playing up Baer's alleged Jewish father. His father be- came so important to him that on | boxing trunks a large Jewish Star of Dayid! | Now Dempsey is working on an} exhibition tour with Baer. Demp- sey will undoubtedly promoie the fight between Baer and the winner | of the Sharkey-Carnera fight. The new promoter hag become very friendly with the Madison Square Garden raeketeers, among whom are the notorious James Johnsion and Owney Madden, These gentlemen, in turn, have many ‘Tammany con- | nections and still age on speaking | terms with the erstwhile New York | State Boxing Commission, Pestmas- ter-General Farley. | Workers should read professional ing news with the deepest skep- ticism. Professional bexing is tied | up hand and foot by the worst vacketeers and gunmen in the United States, the same elements whom the employers use to slug strikers, and A. F. of L, leaders use | to crush the fight of the militant | oppesition, Workers should not only | boycott professional fights. but should aetively build their own workers athletic organization, the | Labor Sports Union, A New Fascist Film By HARRY ALAN POTAMKIN. In the Maine woods a boy was pinned under a fallen tree. Fearing night and the wolyes, he slashed his throat with a pocket knife. The re- write man of a New York paper head- ed the despatch: “Boy Cuts Throat to Save His Life.” That's the pre- dicament of the exhibitor of German movies. Without organization, a boycott of | German films is taking place. Some houses are turning to other national products. One New York theatre, after changing from German to Po- lish preduction, is again offering a German jingo film, “Morgenrot” (“Dawn”) is a pre-Hitler film, a von | Papen picture, and played its part in stirring up nationalist enthusiasm. Produced by UFA, a Hungenberg Nea- | tionalist monopoly, its text is: “Death | is the only reality. Therefore be} happy to die for your fatherland, not | once, but twice, if you haven't the | good luck to die the first time.” | Tt plays up the Hitler fairy-tale of | the good fellowship that existed in the German army between officers | | and men, and presents such an ami- able picture of German bureaucracy, The classes are equalized. The grand dance laments the destruction of the enemy: a hypocritie pretense of paci- Her maid, the wife of the r: dio operator, smiles broadly at he: husband’s departures for the subma- vine: an “inspiration” for the work- ers. The placards before the theatre do not dare to mention either Ger- many or UFA. To avoid angering the public, 20 minutes of faseist patriot- ism were cut from the picture. It is now being pandulantly presented as an anti-war, an international film. New York reviewers praise ‘it as a pacifist picture, When it was shown j in England it was attacked. Yet En- - 8 officers helped to make it, is an insidious film glorify: German sacrifices of Fuku ed similar sacrifices today. gi WHAT'S ON MEMBERSHIP MEETING Ls DB, Bronx, 8 p.m. W. 1. R. YOUTH ACTIVE MEBTING, 870 , two flights up, 6:30 p.m. QPEN-AIR MEETING, United Front Com: E. isth Bt., Kingshighway, ACCOt OF AN NEER'S EXPERIENCES 1 A. Almiop. Yorkville Br. and discussion. Bt., 8: Sac ‘Tren C mittes, lyn, 8:30 p.m, SOVIET UNION, F.8.U, Questions Labpr Temple, 248 B. 84th :30 p.m. Adm, free. B 4 Th MERICAN _ENGI- | . Samuel 6 Manhatten 4 Axspices, Walter Rol ursday LECTURE. returned from the Sov A. Almon, 569 Wot 106 nity Church, Broadway). Adm, Unemployed free. Don't mw Ausplees West Side Br. ¥.8.U, | seater NE 14, 1988 News Briefs TEST NEW BOMBER NEW YORK, June 13.—Flight tesis are being completed on a new single “Corsair” fighting plane. It has a speed of 180 miles an hour and a cruising range of more than 1,000} miles. It is described as having max- imum fighting power, being equipped with four fixed machine guns and two bombing racks. The power plant is 700 horsepower. The guns are elec- trically operated, and it is possible for | the pilgt to cause any or all guns to operate by merely pressing a buiton.| fhe plane was built by the Change Vought Corporaijon at Conn. It is specially designed for} service in tropical and sub-tropieal countries—that is for colonies. Paes abe MEYER BUYS WASHINGTON POST | WASHINGTON, June 13.—It now! wenspires that the lawyer who bid| $825,000 for the Washington Post at) Hartford, | Be June 17, at the will sing. and participants is provided. The entertainment program will be preceeded by speeches from comrades Browder, Bedacht, Stachel, Qlgin, | Saltzman and others. Move to People’s Auditorium. The business sessions of the con- vention will begin Sunday morning | in People’s Auditorium, Chicago Aye., | near Western Ave. an auction sale, outbidding some of the biggest publishers in the country was acting for Eugene Meyer, who! until a month ago was governor of the Federal Reserve Board. He is a/ wealthy banker, was a member of the war industries board, later head| of the war finance corporaticn, upon which the Reconstruction Finance! Corporation is based. The Post will continue as a republican paper. wee ae BAY STATE VOTING REPEAL BOSTON, June 18.—Massachusetts | is today voting on the repeal of the| prohibition amendment. There is no| doubt that it will go wet by an over- whelming majority, making the 11th gonseeutive state to go on record for the immediate repeal of the prohibi-| tion law. In 1938 the yoeters of this, state demanded that congress repeal! the Eighteenth amendment by a vote) 707,352. to 472,655. Mit See 3 INYZST-CATING PLANE CRASH CHICAGO, June 13.—Federal, state | and county officials are today irying| to explain away the crash of the) world’s fair sight-seeing plane whica fell in flames Sunday causing the death of nine people. Two of the victims of the Chicago worid’s fair racket remain unidentified, so there} has been issued an order that hence-| forth all passengers for plane rides must register so when they get killed | the coroner will know who they were.) That is the only result there will be of the investigation. REE JERSEY HAS PISTOL LAW TRENTON, June 13.—The assembly | last night pessed a hill requiring photographing and finger printing of all applicants for pistol permits in the state. Tais will enable the Hague machine thai runs the state to help its own gangsters and other crooks monopolize their rackets by making it| more difficult for their rivals to ob- tain permits to earry guns in Jersey. eon | DAVIS TRIAL JULY 10 NEW YORK, June 13.—United| Siates Senator James J. Davis of| Pennsylvania pleaded not guilty here today in federal ceurt to a new in- dictment growing out of the lottery) swindles in eonnection with the Moose | Lodge. Por the fifth time a date has been set for his trial to start. More than a year ago he was first indicted but every time the date of trial ap- proached the case was postponed. a i | PROTEST BULGARIAN TERROR PARIS.—All windows in the Bul- | garian embassy were broken as work- | ers demonstrated against the murder of the workers’ deputy, Petke Nape- toff, by the Bulgarian government. | 'Phey also protested against the reign | ef terror that reigns in that country. On the Defense Front | Ruby Bates Tells the Story of Her Life in June ‘Labor Defender’ NEW YORK.—‘My mother has often vepesied to me how her mother had often said to her: ‘I have been @ slave ail my life ever since I ean remember.’ And my mother has often teld me that she had been nothing but a slave all her life.” Thus Ruby Bates, white Southern girl wha courageously attacked the fense witness for the nine Scotts- bore boys begins her own life story in the Labor Defender of June. Filled wth many stirring pictures and stories of the workers’ struggle against tyranny and oppression against yace prejudice and capitalist exploitation, this issue also contains | Lester Carter, white Southern hoy who helped smash down the bosses’ conspiraey to railroad the Scottsboro boys to death. | Tiluminating articles and on the fascist terror reigning in Ger-| many, on the Con- | gress pt t March to Washington and tralia—Afier 14 years” de ever-growing solidarity of white and Negro workers against the sharpen- ing capitalist terror. Besides an interpretation of the Wisconsin Permers Strike and its meaning to the workers and farmers. Q Scott | this, Rect lecturs of yeer! ieee a there is‘much news from districts of MEMBERS! Opening 39 rautep in mn. ¥.CC.Lers' wanted for tha. city office Daily Worker, CAMP UNITY Wingdale, N. Y. To All Organizations That Took ini Tickets For the Daily Worker Picnic © The Daily Worker in order to buy the ticket for the trip to the Soviet Union, and te make arrangements for the six weeks in camps and the various other prizes which will be given away at the picnic, asks that all organizations turn in what- ever money has been collected se far on the ad sale of the pienic tick Those organizations that have run short of tickets should call for some more, and those that have not as yet taken them, please call at the City Office of the Daily Worker, 35 East 12th St. is getting ready to open for the Summer Season fer Information @all:— ¥. Of ESTABROOK WATCH OUR PRESS FOR MORE DETAIL 1400 Camp Phone WINGDALE 51 ——_ alt Comrades Meet at the the International Labor Defenss,| which publishes the magazine month- ly, and a page of organizational | sued here. Southern ruling clacs frame-up in the} Scottsboro case by becoming a de-/ the first installment of the story of) pictures | This convention of the Interna- nal Workers Order will consider a reduction of dues for its members. Tt will make plans for a broad mass | campaign for sociel insurance among | the members of the fraternal move- | ment in America. It will work out | @ plan to build the Order in the in- dustrial centers of the country. It | will endeaver to mobilize the mem- bers of the Order for the struggles of employed and unempjoyed work- | ers to meet the problems of growing | unemployment, of wage cuts, and of | general worsening of the working | conditions. Expect 600 Delegaies. There will be about 600 elected dele- gates from branches of the Order all over the country. The delegation from the Eastern states will go to Chicago by special train. The Inter- national Workers Order special con- yention train will leave Pennsylyania Station, New York, Friday evening, 6:30 standard time. It will pick up delegates in Newark, New Brunswick, Trenton, Nerth-Philadeiphia, Harris- burg, Pittsburgh, Salem and Canton. The conyention is scheduled to last five deys. EX-SERVICEMEN’S POST MEETS A yery important membership meeting of Post No, 1 of the Work- ers’ Ex-servicemen’s League will be held Thursday night at 8 p.m. at 40 W. 18th St. Arrange deor-te-door neighborhood distribution of the Datly Worker; at the same time canyass for new sub- scriptions. ‘THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER [READY TO HOLD SECOND CONVENTION | Official Opening of Five Days’ Session Will CHICAGO, Ul.—On Saturday, June 17th, at 8 p. m., the second National | Convention of the International Workers Order will open in the Chicage Coliseum, Wabash Avenuc and 15th Street. president of the Order, Comrade Wm. Weiner, an elaborate program will | be presented ct this opening mags mecting. Choruses of various Ianguages | A pageant with one thou- *-— i | these cases and that of Prank Barich, | Coliseum, Chicago | Under the chairmanship of the 4 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Face Deportation’ LL.D. Urges Fight on Perkins’ Drive PITTSBURGH, June 12. — Four| workers held in Allegheny County jail by immigration authorities were or- dered to be deported immediately when Judge Schoonmaker, whe also presided at the GC. B. Thomas hear- ings, refused to issue writs of habeas corpus for them, Those included in the order, which is part of the inereasing attempt by the federal authorities to deport by wholesale the militant workers every- where struggling against exploitation by the ruling class, are Joseph Shaf- fer, Gharles Vuich, James Evans, and Joseph Renalov Evans hes 9 wife and a baby under ene year old, who are in direst desti- tution. He was arrested in a hell at Uniontown, Pa., last December while making arrangements to feed the National Hunger Marchers expected to pass through that town the next day. He is one of the leaders of the National Miners Unien. The International Labor Defense has galled for immediate mass pra- test to prevent these deportations. It alse proposes instant new legal steps to haye these workers released. Funds are urgently needed beth for National Miners’ Union leader; June Croll, American-born, active jeader of the National Textile Workers Union, and others who are being made yic- tims in this sharpening deportation drive under the new Seeretary of La- bor, Frances Perkins. Money should be sent at once to the LL.D. headquarters, 80 Best 11th St., New York City. A New-Local The second issue of “The Queensh Street, Long Island City. “The Queensboro Veice” fulfills t Ee eye ee a CONFERENCE OF NEGRO YOUTH IN. CHICAGO JUNE 20 Ford, Richard B. Moore Among Speakers CHICAGO.—A call for delegates to attend the International Negro Youth Conference at the Good Shepherd Congregational Chureh, 5700 Prairie Ave., from June 20 to 23, has been is- The conference plans toe unify the Negro youth in the strug- gle for Negro rights, James W. Ford, Communist ean-| didate for vice-president in 1932, will] speak at the convention. Richard B. B. Mooye, of the International Labor Defense may Iso speak before the youth. A symposium of the Negro in business and the Negro worker will be given. Endorsemenis for the conference have been received from Doneid Hen | derson, expelled Columbia University | prefessor, and the Chicago branch of the Natienal Association for the Ad- yancement of Colored People. All mass you:n organizations in cluding the League of Struggle for | Negro Rights, youth branches of the International Labor Defense, the In~ ternational Workers Order, and the | Yeung Communist League are asked | to send delegates to the canferenee. Plan Workers School ‘for Harlem Section NEW YORK.—The great need and desire for a workers’ school in Har- ‘cm has prompted Friends of the Werkers Sehsct to cail a conference to be held tonight, June 14, 8 p.m. at 57 W. 118th St., Estenien Workers’ Home, fer the purpose of organizing a school in Harlem. The conference will work out plans to raise funds and create scholar- ships far support of such school. Or- ganizations are asked to send two delegates each. Have you approached your fel- low worker in your shop with a guidance tor the militant workers de- fense activities. pone of the Daily?’ If not, de so TODAY! Pansing - Sports - Ga W HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA) Fresh Food—Proletarian Prices 50 19TH 8T., WORKERS’ CENTER——~—- Ghespes Way te Gri te Parks 1 BF ior r station to Park, fer Te Re Brae ask satay te buses to the park, Workers Internetional Relief Concert Oreherira Tickets: In advance DIRECTIONS: PED PICNIC Auspices: COMMUNIST PARTY, N. Y¥. District At PLEASANT BAY PARK Unipnpert, N. Ys os - Mass Singing and Recitation 20¢, at gate 25¢ ‘Subway, Pelham Gay line, to Zerega Avenue. 177 St; Unionport trailey to end of tines Its Appearance By EDWIN ROLFE two weeks ago in Long Island City, confirms the high hopes of its editors and of those workers and residents of Queens who have, for @ long time, felt the need of a lecal organ of expression. Paper Makes oro Voice,” 2 popular paper launched It is published at 42-06 27th his need. It is, moreover, 2 central unifying bond for all the people in ns Borough who have found their livelihoods and their homes threatened and lest during the eco- nemie erisis of the past four years. Im its four pages every week appear news items and articles dealing with all phases of the life and struggles of the community. Here can be found information concerning the fight of the workers against evictions, for adequate relief and jobless insurance; cf the Negroes in their struggle for equel rights; of home owners against fareclosures; of se¢hoal teachers against salary cuts. There are calls for aid to the children of Queens, who, crowded in classrooms through- out the winter, are left in the sum- mertime to the mercy of the eity heat and treffic-crowded streets, where their very lives are endangered. Workers employed in local indus- tries have suffered ‘innumerable wage cuts. When they have gone on stvike in the past, they have had te earry on their struggle for decent conditions without a voice, without any effective means of making known to the people of Queens the facts of their situation. ‘The Queensboro Voice,” as its name indicates, now takes its place as the mouthpiece of these warkers, Many youth and workers’ groups, clubs and branches of fraternal or- ganizations in the borough, will now have an opportunity to broadcast the news ef their activities, to enlist new members and new supporters, In addition to this, “The Queens- kero Voice” will continue to publish special features: first-rate earteons and photographs, a lively column of news comment, and exposures of local conditions. The secem# issue, we notice, annoynees the publication of a serios ef articles an conditions of the chijdven of Queens, written by Helen Kay, editor of the New Pie- reer. This series, to begin in the next (third) issue of the paper, chould be of special interest and im- portanee to the parents of Queens. Although fi is iar toa early to ex- pect a nerfact paper, it can be truih- fully stated that the second issue reveals a distinct improvement over the first: in make-up, in the quan- tity and calibre of the news, and in the correspondence of local workers and residents. The editors plan to further improve the paper with each issue, and to make of it in the near future a lively and accurate index of every importan; happening in the borough. They have made a good "tne Dal Worker greets the fledge: vr = gh. el A of wine Queensboro Voice,” and wishes the paper long life in its effcri to weld together the varied elements whose actual voice tt has set out to be. Propose Cross-Country ght on Scottsboro NEW YORK--The “Harlem Lib- erator,” 2149 Seventh Ave., Js inviting Nogro and white workers to comment on the proposed cyoss-continent rero- plane flight to bring the Scottsboro case and “Liberator” to the attention of the country. Every important city between New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seat- i te Scot! Ac-| and send ts anes a Sag : The Dividing Line - This picture, taken in Brighton Beach at the other end of Coney Inland in New York, shows @ small corner of the hundreds of thou- sands of workers jammed together on the publie beach while just be- hind the wire fence shown in the picture—a vast area of private beach stretches. A high admission charge keeps the wide spaces of this private beach beyond the Teach of the workers. BLAND, CENTRALIA PRISONER, FREED Defended I.W,W. Hall; Served 14 Years Bert Bland, one of the last three industrial unionists serving 25 to 40 years on a murder charge for de- fending the Centralia (Wash.) I. W. W. hall against an Armistice Day mob in 1919, hes just been released, according to a telegram received by the American Civil, Liberties Upion from Seattle today. Bland was freed from prison pend- ing issuance of formal parole papers. He was so poyous at the prospect of seeing the outside world that he would not wait three hours fer the suit of clothes with whieh the peni- tentiary of Walle Willa supplies each outgoing inmate. Fail te Break Spirit Fourteen years in prison evidently had not broken him. He appeared in geod health, and his spirits were high, Britt Smith will be paraled in two weeks, it is announeed. Smith was seeretary of the Centralia braneh of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of the ILW.W. at tke timo of the tragedy, in whien four ef tho paraders were killed by the defenders of the hall, and one of the I. W. W. members, Wesley Everest, was lynched. Ray Becker, last of the prisoners did not come| before the parole. board at its meeting last week, He has consistently refused to aceepi pa- role, hoiding out for commutatien of sentence. Becker considers that .ac- cepianee of parole, with the necessity of reporting at stated intervals to the authorities, would be an admis- sion that he is guilty of conspiracy to murder, the charge on which he was convicted. Helped Defend Hall He has always contended that he was Lareie | eee of she eharge, and ne such conspiracy ever existed, declaving that he and his comredes simply defended their hall against a raid, the plans for which were known to many persons in Cen- James McInerney, another of prisoners, died in the penitentiary in 1930 of tuberculosis contracted there. Loren Roberts, found insane by the trial jury but for some inexplicable Feason sent ta the prison, was freed as sane by a second jury shortly after MoInerney died, Eugene Bar- neti, accused of firing the shot which killed Lieut. Warren Grimm near the I. W. W. hall, was paroled late in 1931 to be with his wife, whe was pie of which were e “NG Lamb and ©. O. Biand, der brother of Bert, were also parole Gala Event Planned at Red Picnic Sun. The firat mass pienic of the sea- son Will be held on Sunday, June 18, at Pleasant Bay Park, Valor, New York, under the auspices of the Mow York District of the Communist ariy. From the reports of the advance sales of tickets the Red Picnie prom- ises ta be the greatest ever held in Pleasant Bay Park. Seores of mass evgeniaations responding to the ap- peal for funds of the Communist Pariy and realizing thet this picnic gan be made a finaneially successful event, have seoursd blocks of tickets fer sale among their members. The Labor fears Union is arrang- ing a series of baseball and soceer hall games among some of its affili- ated organisations, and the baseball and soccer hall fans will witness real competitive games. The L.8.U. is also arranging for a boxing exhibition, A concert is being prevared by the Workers International Relief Band which will also furnish the musie for. dapging whieh will lest from 2 p.m, til midnight. There will be dozens of other at- ivaetions. Ameng them a sideshow, How to Get There Admission at the picnic will be 25 cents. Tickets in advance are being sold by organizations at 20 nents, Phe best way ta reach the park 4 Hast Side subway. (Pelham Bay line) to Zarega Ave. Buses will run from the subway station to the park. The Park can also be reached by Lexing- ten Ave, c> Seventh Ave, subways to E. 177th St., Unionport ear to the end of the line and buses to the perk. ASK JOHN REED CLUB MEMBERS TO HELP BUILD LIBRARY A library and reading room in memory of Morris Lana. a _mur- dered leader of the Needle Trades Wovkers Tadystirial Union, is to be opened according te an announce- ment of the Goneral Executive Board of the Needle Trades Workers In- dusirial Union. An appeal has been sent to all members of the John Club to co-operate in building the library by donating books, works them to the ead - quarters, 181 W. 26th 8