The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 15, 1933, Page 4

Cy aM sere 5 interested Page For NEEDLE UNION STATEMENT ON BOSS NEGOTIATIONS NEW YORK.—In answer to reports appearing in Women’s Wear that ‘the Fur Bosses’ Association has been following to say ‘The representatives of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union did not have any conferences with Mr. Scheidlinger, nor with anyone au- thorized by Mr. Scheidlinger. We did, however, have conferences on Satur- day, Monday and Tuesday with in- fluential fur manufacturers who are Hi in getting the workers back into the shops and settling the strike. These manufacturers fully Tecognized the complexity of the Problem of securing a collective set- tlement. Association Leaders Block Settlement The representatives of the Indus- trial Union do not believe that these conferences will lead to a set- tlement. It has become clearer than ever before that the leaders of the Association are so deeply interested in their ambitions that they will place every obstacle in the way of bringing about a collective settle- ment. In view of this, situation, those Manufacturers who are interested in | @etting the workers again to pro- duce fur garments will have to ad- just matters individually with the Industrial Union, the only union rec- ognized by the fur workers. In do- ing so, these manufacturers will only follow the example of a number of other leading members of the Asso- ciated, who have already concluded individual settlements. Information has reached us that @ue to the pressure of the strikes, the manufacturers were getting ready to conclude a collective settlement. However, Edward McGrady of the A. F. of L., when notified of these @rrangements, pleaded with the fur Manufacturers to prolong the situa- tion for a week. The methods through which Ed- ‘ward McGrady expects to save the situation for the manufacturers and himself were revealed today when a band of gangsters invaded two of the fur shops that settled with the Industrial Union and attempted to force and terrorize the workers into joining the so-called A. F. of L. union. These are the last desperate meth- Association | ods resorted to by the and their A. F. of L. agents in an effort to deprive the workers of the Tight to belong to a union of their own choice, and to rob them of the union conditions they gained as a re- sult of many struggles. A. AND P. FIRES $10 EMPLOYEE (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. ¥.—That Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. has been enslaving and firing many of their employees because business is bad. Employees who have been with the company for many years have had their wages reduced 30, 40 and 50| per cent. @ week. Their only excuse is that business is bad. Well, what if business is bad, why should they reduce their employees sa s! Did they give them any raice when business was good? No, of course not. But what could the poor employees do? Noth- ing, as long as they are unorganized. Their hours of work are from 7 a.m. till about 8 p.m., except Satur- days, when they work thru the night to 3, 4, and 5 Sunday morning. Imagine—a total of 86 hours a week. And the A. & P. big shots have the nerve to reduce these meager sal- aries. Eventually they will try to get their employees to work for noth- ing. Last Saturday night a friend who time, was fired. What was the reason? Simply this: This man was receiv- ing only $10 a week. He was fired because his salary was too big. The A. & P. got somebody for $6 a week. Imagine working 86 hours for $6. No had been with the A. & P. for some €ensible human being slaves for that. —A. Two Garment Thugs Jailed When Booty Is Not Split With Pals NEW YORK. — Two gangsters, Douis Buckhaus and Michale Cop- pola, were taken from their pent- house apartment yesterday where they were living in luxury and ar- Tested on the charge of “associating with known criminals” Buckhaus was identified as Lapke, one of the gangsters who has supplied strong @tm men to the garment manufac- Others work 3 or 4 days *-tlifers in the past and were of as- sistance to the fur bosses in the murderous ctiack on the Needle Trades Union Headquarters in April. These gangsters have been accus- tomed to receiving police protection in order to assist the bosses. likely that they did not split up enough of their swag from the As- lation and were jailed by their les on the force. oakmakers Meet in Cooper Union Today NEW YORK. — Today at 2 pm. there will be a mass meeting in Cooper Union of cloakmakers. The meeting is called by the Committee pf Action, elected at the conference for week work and one class strug- fle union in the cloak trade. All International cloakmakers both firopped members and those in good itanding are urged to attend the neeting. WHITE GOODS WORKERS TO HEAR SISKIND “Effect of Roosevelt's Recovery Sil and Inflation on White Goods Workers” will .be the subject of Seorge Siskind at a open forum to- tight, 6:30, at Irving Plaza Hall, Irv- ng Place and 15th St. It 1s| negotiating with the Industrial Union | for a settlement, the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union has the | be re: ‘DELEGATES PLAN | WEINSTEIN FIGHT Building Workers’ Conference Saturday | NEW YORK.—The reviving of the Sam Weinstein case along lines of broad mass defense including a°cam- | paign to force the state of New York | to bear the cost of appealing the case to higher courts was unanimously | decided upon by 83 delegates from |70 locals and branches of workers’ organizations at a Sam Weinstein | Defense Conference Monday night, | June 12, at the headquarters of the | | Furniture Workers Industrial Union, | 818 Broadway. | The conference elected an execu- | tive committee which will start an |immediate campaign of mass meet- ings and demonstrations to bring the | Weinstein Case to the broad masses | of workers. A new pamphlet on the | | Weinstein Case will be published. | | Opened by J. William Dronsick, a | | war veteran, the conference was ad- | dressed by Sam Stein, who gave an joutline of the Weinstein case, by Carl Hacker, of the International |Labor Defense, who explained the ILD. policy of mass defense, by Peyser and Sam Harris, of the Fur- niture Workers Indistrial Union, who gave the details ef how Sam Weinstein was fram. because he led a strike of furniture workers. Despite proof of his innocence, Weinstein was railroaded to Sing Sing for a term up to 4% years on a charge of assault, with a more se- |rious charge of manslaughter still | hanging over his head. D A - WORKER, NEW YORK, WURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1933 Diptheria, Pneumonia, Auto Deaths Increase | NEW YORK.—Despite the bally- hoo by the Department of Health| about “immunization campaigns” | | against diptheria, 36 new cases were | reported during the week ending last Saturday, June 10, the Department of | | Health, itself, admitted. Effects of the crisis continue to flected in increased disease and | death generally. Twenty new pneu-| monia cases as compared to the pre-| vious week were reported. Altogeth- | er, 236 are down in bed with pneu- | monia and 117 too weak from priva- | tions to battle the disease died last week. Because of the inadequate recrea- tional facilities, children in working class districts are being killed by au- tomobiles as they play in the streets. | The Health Department reveals that | “fatal automobile accidents showed a | gain of almost 50 per cent over Woe week before, 21 being killed. Although | no details are given it is well known | that children are thé chief sufferers during the summer. Arrange door-to-door neighborhood | distribution of the Daily Worker; at) the same time canvass for new sub- scriptions, EXAMINING WORKERS CHILDREN on E. 13th St., New York. Dr. Herman Tannenbaum, physician of the Workers International Relief, found a general condition of underweight and undernourishment. Most of the children had diseased tonsils and adenoids and bad teeth which remain unattended because their parents cannot afford medical attention. LL.D. Says Mass Fight in Other Cases Placed Negro on Jury in Tenn. NEW YORK.—It was the mass de- mand raised by the International La- bor Defense in the Scottsboro case that Negroes be given the right to serve on juries which forced the vic- tory in Chattanooga, Tenn., where carrier now on a pension, served on @ jury, William L. Patterson, na- tional secretary of the International Labor Defense, said today. “The prosecutor let Hawkins sit on the jury while the case of a Negro accused of receiving stolen goods was tried,” Patterson said. “But when non-support, was tried, the prosecu- |tor ‘excused’ him and substituted a white juror. “The I. L. D. will continue the struggle, as in the Scottsboro case, for the full right of all Negroes everywhere to sit on juries, now ar- bitrarily denied by the ruling class. “We will also fight against permit- | ting only a certain kind of Negro on | juries whom the ruling class thinks |it can control. All restrictive meas- ures preventing all Negroes to sit on juries must be removed. By MAX SALZM The FORD HUNGER MARCH on June 5th did more to awaken the workers to the need for organized struggle than any event which has taken place in a long time. When we left the starting point at Fort St. and Oakwood Blvd., there were 3,200 in line. We turned left on Miller Road—the scene of the Ford Hunger March last March 7th, 1932, where five of our comrades were brutally murdered, Both sides of the road were jammed with people. Thousands of Dearborn and Detroit workers were on the rail- road bank cheering the marchers as they went by. As we were marching, a committee | had been sent to the City Hall of Dearborn again to demand a permit. ‘Building Workers — | Call Conference NEW YORK.—An important con- | ference is being called on Saturday | | at 3 p.m. at the headquarters of Lo- | cal 52, of the Ornamental | Workers Union, 222 E, 31st St. The |the Independent Iron Workers, the Independent House Wreckers, to Lo- cal 52 of the Ornamental Iron Work- | ers, to the Hoisting Engineers and all | opposition groups in the A. F. of L. | building trades unions. | Vital questions affecting the in- | terest of all rank and file members | of the A. F. of L. building unions will |be considered at the conference and the ground will be laid for a bigger conference at a later date. “ARREST FOUR IN EVICTION FIGHT NEW YORK.—Four workers were | | beaten, then arrested yesterday as scores of others fought police and a marshal to prevent the eviction of the Molin family at 2855 W. 28th St. in Coney Island, The workers | were putting up a stiff fight when} police re-inforcements arrived. | After the Coney Island Council} | forced the Home Relief Bureau to | give the family in which there are| four children, a rent voucher, the| landlord, Landy, refused to accept | it and insisted that they move. The Council elected a committee and immediately began rallying the neighborhood when the eviction} began. Those arrested are Bessie Horn, her daughter Pauline Horn, Mrs. Raizin a mother of three children, | and Baxer who was evicted Monday. | Coney Island workers are expected | to crowd the courtroom and demand | the release of these workers. Striking Bakers to Ask Drivers’ Support NEW YORK.—Efforts to enlist the | support of drivers of the Pechters | Bakery in the Bronx for the strike jof bakers now in progress will be | made by a committee elected by lo- cal 507 of the Bakers Union and the Hebrew Trade Unions. UPHOLSTERERS MEETING TO- NIGHT A meeting of the Upholsterers Sec- tion of the Furniture Workers In- dustrial Union will be held tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Union headquarters at 818 Broadway, N.Y.C. There will be a financial and organizational re- port given and elections of new of- ficers and executive committee. CLOAK AND DRESS CUTTERS MEET TOMORROW A meeting of cloak and dress cut- ters of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union will be held im- | mediately after work tomorrow at 131 W. 28th St., 4th floor. 4 More Mine Leaders In Pittsburgh Area Facing Deportation PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Four leaders of the National Miners Union face deportation by the immigration au- thorities. They are James Evans and Charles Vuich, arrested in Un- jontown when the National Hunger March was on its way to Washing- ton, and Joe Shafer and J. Ranol- ovich, who were arrested when the raid took place on the National Miners Union headquarters in Bob- town, Pa., last January. The International Labor Defense, Pittsburgh District, appeals to all organizations to send protest tele- grams to Miss Frances Perkins, sec- retary of the Department of Labor, | Asks Right to March. Iron | Brooks, weak-kneed and pliable tool | conference call has been issued to} ‘We stopped 50 feet from the Dear- born city line. Military airplanes droned over our heads, transferring radio messages to the Ford Co, and to the police that they had mobilized | to attack the workers. Comrade Reno, Secretary of the Unemployed Councils, agein asked the chief of police of Dearborn,| of the Ford Motor Co., “Will you} allow us to march?” Brooks blustered and threatened, all the while keeping his hand on his gun, “You can’t march. We won't let you go through.” “Alright,” Reno said, “then we stay here all summer if necessary until you let the maschers go through.” Brooks grabbed Reno's arm and yelled: “You are threatening me! This is Dearborn.” | Reno, gently but firmly, pushed) | Brooks away and stated: “Never | mind that, do we get the right to march or not?” “No,” Brooks shouted, again be- | ginning to bluster. “We will hold you personally re- | sponsible for anything that might | happen to any of the marchers,” Reng told Brooks as he marched back with the delegation to the marchers, to inform them of the decision of the committee. The marchers greeted the decision with enthusiasm. The decision of the Committee caught the Ford Motor Co. unawares, They did no know how to meet this strategy. Activity Among Employed. Here were the unemployed Ford workers—thousands of them—block- ing the roads—determined to stay until a permit was granted. Mean- while the workers in the shop were reading the leaflets which they found in the rolls of toilet paper and which had been distributed to them in the| morning on the street cars, and in the automobiles. Soon a police inspector came down. He wanted to see the committee. He was bewildered and said: “I will be back a little later.” with Detroit Superintendent of Police Smith and a swarm of high police officials. He said “You know, you fellows can’t block the road.” “We Want to March.” We want to open the roads,” he was informed. “We want to march through. We have a right to march. It is the action: of the Dearborn of- ficials and the Ford Motor Co. who are spending thousands of dollars to- day to hire gunmen rather than to give relief to the unemployed who are buses responsible for the road being blocked. But they won't let us through.” He suggested that we allow traffic to go through.- The committee dis- cussed the question and recognized that this is only a polite way of find- ing an excuse for an attack on the marchers. We; decided to move off the street and thousands of workers He returned | moved about 20 feet into a field on the side of the road, facing the plant. The whole sentiment in the city of | Dearborn, Detroit, and all surround- ing towns, come to the support of the marchers. This is evidenced by the number of blankets that is | brought for the marchers to stay. A | hut is built in the field along the banks of the River Rouge, where the big Ford boats go by. Above the | hut’ is a sign “Fordville.” The committee decided to call a mass meeting. Thousands of workers gather, and listen to the leaders of the march speak. They shout in sup- port of the ‘slogans. They hope- to continue the march—to stay as long as it is necessary to get a permit. After the meeting, more rest. At 9 o'clock another mass meeting is called. Here again the problems are discussed. They cheered the an- nouncement of the committee of vic- tories won by the workers in the shop and improved conditions in relief won jas a result of the Ford Hunger | March preparations. The line has | been slowed down in the Ford plant. The foremen also promised the work- ers an increase of $1 a day by June 15. In Lincoln Park, a Ford-con- | trolled town, relief work has been Ohio Relief March on Way to State Capital CLEVELAND, O., June 14—Column one of the Ohio People’s Relief | March from Conneaut arrived in Cleveland last night. The whole distance is being covered on foot. The marches from Conneaut passed through Ash- tabula, Geneva and Painsville. Among the demands which the delegates to the State Hunger March will present to the state legislature @- are: Federal unemployment insur- ance at the expense of the bosses and the government, not a cent for forced labor camps and armaments —all funds for relief and doubling of present relief allowance. - One hundred and fifty workers from the East Side of Cleveland will join column one:today. The march- ers are on their way to Bedford where the city has provided lodging. The west side marchers in Cleve- Jand will join column two on Satur- day. The Youngstown delegation is on the way to Columbus. They will be in Akron, Need Aid. All seven columns from the vari- ous corners of the state are moving on to Columbus. The East Ohio, Hocking Valley and Youngstown steel districts colums are seriously handi- capped with lack of food and finances. The State Action Committee urges all workers’ organizations through- out the state who are sympathetic with the demands of the relief march to rush funds to the State Action Committee, 1237 Payne Ave., Cleve- land, Ohio, or to the Columbus ad- dress at 156 North Sixth St., Colum- joined by the Cleveland contingent bus, Ohio. Unemployed F ord Workers on the March established on the basis of 60 cents an hour in cash, while relief condi- tions in Dearborn have improved. Police Prepare Attack, Soon reports begin to come to the Committee that the Detroit police have reached an agreement with the Dearborn police to make a murder- ous attack on the marchers in the early hours 6f the morning while the marchers slept and the visitors had gon to Every available force ir ag mobilized. the workers unawares and ruthlessly. beat them {so as to weaken the fighting power of the workers and to intimidate them through terror. A new mass meeiing is called. The question is put before the marchers and visitors, “What was the aim of our march? To present our de- mands to the Ford Motor Co. What is the answer of Ford? A threat to make wholesale murder. Have we succeeded in exposing Ford in the eyes of the workers of Detroit and Dearborn?” “YES,” the workers shout. “Have we succeeded in hay- ing our demands brought before all the workers?” Again they answer YES. “Did we succeed in laying the basis for new naborhood struggles for a broader movement to win relief from the Ford Motor 00.2” “To stop foreclosures of workers’ homes and to end evictions?” The answer is YES, it is clear that we have. We must take one step backward in order that we might take a dozen steps forward—the workers are in- formed by the spokesman for the committee. Make Decision. The question is a shock to the workers assembled—they think it over—they weigh the question in their minds—have we accomplished what we came here for—slowly the minds begin to be made tip. “Are you ready to vote?” The vote is taken. Thousands of hands go up to support the recommendation of the committee. Only six are opposed. Slowly the marchers start back to the starting point of the march. The police are dumbfounded. How did the marchers discover what we have Planned to do? They are caught un- awares for the third time. The police provoke a new bloody attack. The confidence of the workers in the Auto Workers’ Union and the Unemployed Council is tremendous shouting. “We want jobs or cash relief.” (Statement of the Ciicago District Committee.) | The District Buro of District No. 8 | (Chicago), Communist Party, unani- mously decided to expel from the | ranks of the Communist Party of the United States, Albert Goldman (Veblin), a lawyer. Goldman, (Verblin) was re-admit- ted into the Party about three years ago. He was previously expelled from the Party for his opposition to the policy of the Communist Party in the trade unions. After being out of the Party for years, he applied for re- admission to membership, declaring agreement with the policies of the Party and pledging to carry out its decisions. After rejoining the Party, he syste- matically resisted participating in any mass activity initiated by the Party, and abstained from work in mass organizations, confining his ac- tivity to legal work for the I. L. D., appearing in a number of cases in the courts and occasionally as a speaker. Against Party Position. During the whole period of his membership, Goldman was always confused as to the role of the Com- munist Party, and when, in October, 1932, the Party in Chicago initiated a united front campaign to defeat the 50 percent cut in relief, Goldman (Verblin) at the United Front Con- ference made a speech against the position of the Party when the Party representatives made a critical speech against the leaders of the Socialist Party and Mr. Borders. Goldman de- fended the leaders of the Socialist Party against the Communist Party position. Defends 2nd International. After this, he systematically car- ried on a campaign against the Com- munist Party of the United States, against the Communist Party of Germany and against the Communist. International. On all occasions he defended the position of the Second International. He subscribed to the attacks of the counter-revolutionary renegade, Trotsky, on the position of the Communist International and Communist Party of Germany. He slandered the Communist Party of Germany, both in ‘the Party and in his classes at the Chicago Workers’ School, and excused the treacherous role of the social-democratic Party of Germany. Against United Front Policy. On the question of the united front, Goldman developed a theory in his written articles and speeches that there can be no united front of the unorganized workers, thereby laying down a right wing theoretical justifi- cation for the abandonment of all ac- tivities in the shops where the mas- ses of workers are unorganized. He developed a theory that only a united front with leaders is possible. When the Communist Party, in ac- cordance with the Manifesto of the Communist International, initiated a policy whereby it attempted to reach the masses even through the reform- ist organizations; but rejecting Gold- man’s line, of relying on leaders, Goldman branded not himself, but the Communist Party as wrong. He persistently resisted the independent role of the Party in the United Front, objecting to every political criticism made of the A. F. of L. or Socialist Party leaders. The letter of the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Interna- tional he interpreted as agreeing with his positicn. He disregarded the line in the letter, which definitely states that the united front is to be estab- lished with the masses in the shops and trade unions as a united front of struggle against capitalism and fascism. To him the united front is a tactic of social peace with the re- formist leaders. He also developed a “leftist” theory against the united front campaign of the Communist’ Party in election campaigns, declaring that in the elec- tions there can be no. united front of the workers since the workers al- ready support different political par- ties, such as the Socialist Party and Communist Party. He sharply op- posed the policy of the workers’ ticket, charging that this is a reform- ist policy and amounts only to an ap- peal to the members of the A. F. of L. and Socialist Party to join with the Communist Party in the election struggles. He sees the election cam- paign only as a parliamentary strug- gle and not as a basis for mobiliza- tion of the workers in struggle, Y.C.L. Demonstration Mon. in Support ot Fur Workers NEW YORK.—The Young Communist League of New York District has issued a call for a mass youth demonstration in the fur market Mon- day, June 19, 7:30 a.m, at 28th St. And Seventh Ave. “to defend the right of workers to belong to whatever union they see fit and to protest the terror against the furriers,” This action of the Young Commu- nist League stands in sharp contrast to the scabbing role performed hy the leadership of the Young People’s Socialist League in “picketing” for the A.F.L. and the bosses in their effort to smash the militant Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. So strong is the resentment against -_—_ this action among the rank and file of the YPSL that the leaders them- selves, among them ‘Tootsy” Wein- berg and M. Eisenberg of the City Committee had to do the dirty work themselves at $15 a day. Police pro- tected them as they scabbed. The Young Communist League ap- pealed to all young workers and adult workers, particularly members of the YPSL to participate in the demonstration Monday. Opportunism on the United Front and Violation of Discipline Cause Expulsion of Albert Goldman (Verblin) around concrete issues, using the elec- tions as one of these means. And finally, at the Free Tom Moo- ney Congress to which he was a del- egate from the Chicago Judicial So- ciety, he made a specch in which he held the Communist Party and the Mooney Molders’ Defense Committee responsible for the absence of dele- gates from the Socialist Party. He had no word to say about the treach- erous role of Mr. Senior, who con- demned Tom Mooney as a “dyna- miter”, At the Mooney Congress he voted with the renegades and as- sumed the role of leader of the rene- gade groups against the Party. He made special consultations with the Lovestonites and Trotskyites, caucus- ing against the Party. The whole outlook of Mr. Goldman is one of petty-bourgeois ideology and individualistic practice. Such points of view do not and cannot coincide with the principles of Communism, with the principles of the American section of the Communist Interna- tional. From this wrong political line flowed his breach of the most elementary Party discipline, by his action at the Octuber United Front Conference, then at the Workers’ School, and finally, by voting at the Congress with the renegades Trotsky and Lovestone against the majority report at the Congress, The District Buro and Committee exhausted every means to convince and correct Goldman. Despite every effort to correct and convince, thru giving him every opportunity within the statutes of the Party to correct himself, he persists in his non-Com- munist line with resulting breaches of discipline. In view of all this, the District Buro declares Albert Goldman (Verb- lin) a lawyer, member at large, is not fit to be a member of the Commu- nist Party and declares him expelled from the ranks of the Communist Party as a petty-bourgeois individu- alist and decides to make this ex- pulsion public by publishing the de- cision in the Party press. DISTRICT BURO, DISTRICT NO. 8, * Communist Party of U. S. A. R. C. Hawkins, retired Negro mail| Fred B. Spriggs, white, accused of | were defeated in their attempt to| “We will be back,” the workers are| | 1,000 Strike on R.F.C. _ Forced Labor, Memphis Negro and White Workers Hold Ranks United ; Police Threats Fail to Intimidate Strikers MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 14.—More than a thousand workers on forced labor jobs for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Mem) went on strike against a wage cut from $1.25 to $1 a day: The cut was to go into effect Monday but the Memphis Unemployed Council issued leaflets on the jobs Monday morning calling for a strike CALL STRIKES IN TWO JAMESTOWN SHOPS FOR RISE Workers ‘Win Wage Raise in Herrich Plant JAMESTOWN, N. Y., June 14—As a@ result of the developing strike movement here two more furniture shops struck last Saturday. One hundreds and fifty workers in the National and Union Furniture Com- panies walked out demanding a 25 per cent increase in wages. In ad- dition the strike committee formu- jJated demands for the abolition of piece work in ‘the machine depart- ments, for day rates of wages to be guaranteed for piece work in all other departments, for recognition of the shop committee and against any discrimination of workers on strike. Bo‘s Offers 10 Per Cent Raise Nord, president of the Company called a meeting of all workers in the always been “fair” and that he had planned to give a ten per cent in- crease in wages, but had evidently been too slow. The workers did not hesitate to expose the 5 wage cuts which he had previously given with- out any hesitation. Nord then called upon those work- ers who accept the ten per cent raise to return to the shop on Monday and to step out of the meeting. Only 5 out of 80 present stepped out. All the other workers walked to strike headquarters and elected their com- mittee preparing to continue the strike. Workers Reject Offer A second offer of a ten per cent increase was again rejected on Mon- day and the workers are: determined to win .all points demanded. Strike Victory Strikers at the Herrick plant which walked out on May 31 settled with the workers gaining a ten per cent increase in wages, and no discrimi- nation against any worker. The shop committee although not offici- ally recognized is functioning in the shop and will defend the workers’ rights. A short strike at the Maddox Table Co, forced the reinstatement of four workers who had been fired for ac- tivity in organizing the workers of the shop. CROWDED COURT: AIDS 4 WORKERS NEW YORK. — Workers packing the Magistrates Court, Pennsylvania and Liberty Ave., Brooklyn, Wednes- day morning were instrumental in forcing the release of Irving Dolb, Secretary - Brownsville Unemployed Council, arrested at an open air meeting May 24th, during an evic- tion in Brooklyn. The presiding magistrate threw the case out of court. Three other workers arrested with Dolb were given suspended sentences, the presence of a large number of sympathetic workers in court pre- venting jail sentences. The presiding judge preferred to throw the case against Dolb out of court rather than allow him to speak in his own self defense and thereby exposing the capitalist frame-up system before the large audience. R. J. Silberstein, attorney for the N. Y. District ILD argued the cases in court. INSULT NEGROES © IN‘LABOR’ CAMPS NEW YORK.—Recent reports from the “reforestation” camps charactef- ize the Roosevelt “new deal” to the Negro. A letter written by a Negro youth reveals the real conditions that exist in the forced labor camps at Battle Creek, Mich. A detailed des- cription relating a series of discrimi- natory practises against Negro youths are disclosed by the writer, who states that “we are all Negro boys in Com- pany 670, segregated from the white boys by camp officials and discrimi- nated against by the officers and their subordinates, the sergeants. “We are treated like dogs, not human beings; given the worst jobs to do, such as cleaning the camp by picking all the rubbish lying around, taking away the mess hall slop and driving the mules. We are jim-crow- ed and deprive of even the meagre rights that. the other boys enjoy.” The Negroes are not allowed to mingle with the white boys, nor are they permitted to keep lights burn- ing as long as the white boys. When the Negroes protested that they were being fed even worse food than the whites, a Sergeant.Hughes threaten- ed to “crack them over the skulls” and called them foul names such as “you black b——” and “god damn sons of b—~.” , Sickness does not matter here, the writer states, “The routing drill has to be gone through just the same. One white fellow had an appendix attack. The only attention he got was an icebag applied to the affected side. He was discharged from the hospital the same day and told that he was alright to march. Another youth suffering from a swollen mouth was given salts to gargle with and told to report to his company for duty.” e 3 “sand march on ,the office of County Commissioner E. Wy Hale, in charge of R. F. C. funds in the courthouse, Hale was forced to see a committee of three white and three Negro work- ers, elected right/ofi the jobs in the morning, and claimed that he was sending some one to Washington to get more funds. Three workers have been arrested as a result of the strike. One white and two Negro workers are charged with “threatening to disturb the peace.” The strikers put forward the de- mands proposed by the Unemployed Council. They are: A $2-a-day wage, smash the wage-cut, an 8-hour day (they now work 10 hours), free trans~ portation to and from jobs, some of which are miles beyond carlines while carfare is 7 cents; pay for rainy days, workers get only 2 to 4 days’ worl a week while if it rains and the| cannot work that pay is lost; no evi tions or foreclosures for unemploy: or part-time workers. No firing, lay: offs or discrimination against mili- tant workers. The commissioner has agreed to this demand. Plans are being completed for neighborhood meetings and the set~ ting of a date for a city-wide con- ference to continue the struggle. TRY FOUR TODAY; DEMAND RELIEF NEW YORK.—Arrested on May 19 for demanding relief..at the Manhat- tan Borough headquarters of the Home Relief Bureau, Joseph Clark and David Barnett, will be tried to- day in Special Sessions Court, Part 1, Center and Franklin St, on a trumped-up gharge of “assaulting an. officer.” The cases of Schnap and Kell also come up today in the Snyder| and Flatbush Ave, Magistrates| Court, Brooklyn.- These two workers are charged with disorderly conduct for picketing at a Home Relief Bur- eau. wa ‘ ‘The arrests of thése four workers is a result of the drive by the city government to suppress resistance of jobless agaipst sharp cuts in Home Relief. a 4 The N. ¥. District International Labor Defense in defending these workers poi out; that the struggle to free them is a fight for the right of jobless workers to demonstrate for adequate unemployed relief, and calls on all workers to give the ar- rested workers mass support by crowding the courts, today. Ces meee GONSHAK APPEAL JUNE 20 NEW YORK. — Hearing on the appeal filed by the N. Y. District | International Labor Defense on the |'Sam Gonshak Case will be held Tuesday, June 20th, noon, at the Criminal Court, Smith and Scher- merhorn St., Brooklyn, before Chief Justice Kernochan, of the Appellate Part of the Court sions. Telegrams, letters and resolutions should be immediately sent by work~ ers and their organizations address~ ed to Chief Justice Kernochan, Ap- pellate Part of the Court of Speciat Sesstorts, Brooklyn, New York, de« manding that Gonshak be freed. Many workers are expected to ats tend the hearing which will be open to the public at large. TRY TO FRAME 13- YEAR-OLD NEGRO NORFOLK, Va., June 8.—The In- ternational Labor Defense is calling on workers throughout the country to fight against the attempt to frame up a 13-year-old Negro boy, Russell Gordon. 54 They have charged Russell with an attack in the dead of night on a white woman who resides on the Coleman farm on. which the boys’ father and mother both have worked for pitifully inadequate wages for 14 years. Because the International Labor Defense has revealed the accusations | as a hideous attempt to railroad a young Negro boy, its lawyer, Ernest Merrill tomorrow will demand the immediate freeing of the youth. A call has been issued by the I. L. D. for mass protests to Governor Pol- lard, of Virginia, and to Judge Cole- man of the County /court. The woman, mother of three children, asserted one night she was awakened by a noise in her room which was pitch dark, She stretched out a hand, she said, and as she- touched some one, a voice uttered threats to kill her, and then she asserted sonie one choked and raped her. In jail, bewildered and tearful, but protesting his innocence, Russell was browbeaten by police into signing a “confession” they prepared for him, Funds are needed to meet the ex- penses of defending Russell’s case in the court and through mass pro- test, the I. L. D, has asked contri- butions to carry on the struggle for release of Russell be sent to national headquarters, 80 E. lth St, New York City. * SENDER GARLIN TO LECTURE ON SOUTH AT TOM M ILD BRANCH THIS FRIDAY NEW YORK.—An illustrated lec- ture on the Scottsboro, Tallapoosa and Herndon Cases, as reflecting conditions in the’ South, will be de- livered this Friday, June 16, 8:45 pm, at the Tom. Moohey ILD Branch, 818 Broadway, by Sender Garlin, Daily Worker correspondent, who recent! returned from the South, The Downtown ILD. Dra- matic Group will stage the “Scotts- boro Mass Recitation.” Admission of Special Ses-""\