The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1933, Page 2

Page Two TEMPORARY INJUNCTIONS GRANTED 14 SHOE BOSSES BY TAMMANY JUDGE Bosses Force Scabs to Join A. F. of L, Union; Strike Still Strong—Diana Shop Out NEW YORK.—Yemporary injunctions banning all picketing in the | fhhoe strike on the ground that the Shoc and Leather Workers’ Industrial | ‘Union, leading the strike, is a Communist Union, were issued Monday to | 35 shoe manufacturers by Justice Dunne of the Supreme Court in Kings’ County. oe ~ tyes saree pee eset 1.000 Workers in | California Join | Defense of Nine ing the shoe strike and the Inde- pendent Shoe Workers’ Union in Scottsboro Tour Ex- 1929. Hearings oy the temporary injunctions are to be held on Thurs- tends Throughout West day at the Supreme Court. Simultaneously with the issuance of the injunction, which follows the attack on the shoe pickets organized by Grover Whalen, head of the New York NRA committee, the bosses in| the shops on strike rounded up whatever strikebreakers were work- —————— {ence must be present at this confer- ing in the plants and had them sign} membership cards in the A. F. of L. Boot and Shoe union. | At the same time the strike of the | shoe, slipper and stitchdown work- SAN FRANCISCO, Calif—One thousand workers gathered here to protest the frame-up of the nine in- | nocent Scottsboro boys and to hear rs. Patterson, mother of Haywood DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1938 2nd Red Press Bazaar Conference Tomorrow NEW YORK.—The second confer- ence for the Daily Worker, Morning Freiheit and Young Worker called by the National Press Bazaar Committee will be held tomorrow evening, 7:30, at the Workers Center, 50 E, 13th St., Room 205. All workers’ organizations are urged to send representatives to this conference. All delegates who were present to the first bazaar confer- ence. Delegates will report as to the ac- tivities of their respective organiza~ tions for the bazaar, City Events | Minor To Speak. Robert Minor will speak at an anti-picketing injunction meeting to be held by the Williamsburg sec- tion of the International Labor De- fense this Thursday night at Grand St. Extension and Bridge Plaza, Brooklyn. Furniture workers on strike will also speak. Affair To Help Metal Strikers. A concert and dance for the benefit of the striking metal workers will be held on Saturday, September 16, at the Zukunft Club, 31 Second Ave. Workers who want to aid in the strike with picketing, leaflet distribu- tion and what work is needed, the above- Gutters of New York Samuel Untermeyer: “Unde: By del | | r the present State Bill there MINOR ON FRIDAY Robert Minor, Communist can- didate for Mayor of New York, | who was arrested for picketing “in | TRIAL up on trial Friday at 9 a.m. in the Magistrates Court at Pennsyl- vania and Liberty Aves,, Brooklyn. The New York District of the International Labor Defense urges all workers to pack the court-room Friday and demand the release of Minor. Cancel Permit for Send-Off for Paris: Anti-War Delegates Tiger Official Will Not See Protest Delegation NEW YORK.—A fiat refusal to see a delegation from the American Committee for the Paris Congress Against War and Fascism was made yesterday by Eugene E. Gibney, ‘Tammany life-holder of the position of Director of Extension Work in the Schools, The committee called to protest against the rescinding of a permit to use the Washington Irving High School tonight for a send-off violation of the N.R.A.,” will =| i i The Nelson Avenue Tigers By EDWARD NEWHOUSE The Nelson Avenue Tigers play basketball, baseball ow | football in season, Their equipment is fragmentary. The line up varies from week to week because sometimes the boys get odd jobs as helpers in vegetable stores or as Western Union mes- sengers. They play teams from Astoria and Flushing for fun or for a five-dollar bill. Recently there has been no money involved because none of the boys are working. ee cre ern Union dropped Tony flat ; *e r said. and Charley’ Gartags Wat hile Licte moet masa job at the A. a ve ae ad Bsa on, clear this place,” the of my snr ere, kind of broken Up f0C| "it wes Somebody Tt went on like that, a while because their families de-| began talking very suthoritatively pended on their salaries to a great and said he’d carry it to court and extent so Tony and Charley dropped that had the flatfoot puzzled. The out of the team. They didn’t have principal wasn’t around and rubber- a thing to do though and they got! shoes seemed reluctant to act on his sick of hanging around Horowits's own responsibility. candy store, They're back in their lineup now and playing pretty regularly. Up to a few weeks ago the Nelson Avenue Tigers used the concrete Tm the meantime the teams started playing and the controversy’ shifted to the sidelines. and everybody's family was talking. The cop left in disgust and the janitor retired threatening. Everybody yard of the nearby public school for field. The place has good baskets and a well marked diamond for in- door baseball. You couldn’t play regulation baseball because of the fences and the concrete. The Tigers have become accustomed to the in- door ball. They worked up a pretty snappy combination and they usually have an easy time of it. Tony's good. meeting for the delegates to the Paris Congress, After granting a permit Friday, Gibney phoned the American com- mittee, refusing the use of the school, stating: “We do not consider it desirable for the school system at the present time to foster such a meeting.” | The delegation, consisting of Jo- first of the nine to be retried. Lester |@re asked to report at Carter, defense witness and Richard | mentioned place. | B. Moore of the national committee of the International Labor Defense, who are accompanying Mrs. Patter-| Union and non-union workers are son on her tour, also spoke. | called to a Carpeni rs’ Mass Meeting Resolutions were sent to Gov. mu-| t? be held at 219 Second Ave... Brook~ ler of Alabama, demanding the safe|/¥™ this Sunday, September 17, release of the Scottsboro boys, the Maybe he'll try to carry his threats out. But last Saturday the Nelson Avenue Tigers played the Flushing Celtics and Sunday come they're scheduled with the Bragaw Bron- coes, no less, pe Ae > Standing of the Clubs "” AMERICAN LEAGUE ers continues strong with another shop joining the strike yesterday. The latest shop to strike is the Diana Shoe Co. n Brooklyn which was closed down completely with every| worker including the sweeper out.| ‘The slipper workers of the Fit-| Right shop defied strikebreakers and Police on the picket line courageo can be no stock sales ‘tax that can be enforced.” Carpenters Mass Meeting. Nygard, Communist Mayor, Coming Here October 18th | CARPENTERS MEET TONIGHT. | * Tuscaloosa witnessses and demand- | ; on Monday, Six workers were ar-| ing des Re hilt | he Independent Carpenters’ seph Auslander of the American Civil | 3;,) I material. His 0 | ing death for those guilty of the Tus-| The pendent arpenter Sh sie | He’s minor league Clb W.LPC; Cb WL, PC. rested. A big ovation greeted the| caioosa lynchings, Resolutions were| Union is calling a special mass PRR SS i eae rege Union, Mrs. Annie Gray of| ramiy and several other tamilies! wasningt'n of 47 .650/ Detroit 6972 488 Pit Right crew at the strike meeting | aiso passed demanding the release of| meeting for tonight at 2:00 o'clock . A | Block, ‘ssersener pt th oi oe ese] nave made a habit of coming to see| New York #1 St 400] Chicsgo @1 7? 42 st Manhattan Lyceum, |Tom' Mooney and demanding that| at union headquarters, 82) Broad-| Cosby, Minn., City Head to Greet N. Y. Com-| Bock, secretary of the city Commit- |i." sartes which were by WAY Of) Clvsiand 13 o@ ie! st tauis 82 OT 14 igen yas | the Amerjcan government recall allj wa The ional Recovery Act j 7 ie | eS becoming neighbor! affairs. Pat fi an 6 was The ional Recovery Aci munist Candida’ 7) Bani | dorf, secretary of the National Com- 4 Many Shops Settle in| werships ordered to Cuba. he 1 be ciscussed. t te for Mayor at quet | mittee, called at the office of Mr.| About a month ago the inevitable] | = NATIONAL LEAGUE | | Shoe Repair Strike Mrs. Patterson, Lester Carter and] ren NEW YORK—Emil Nygard, Com-) of a round trip ticket by bus, but | Gibney at 500 Park Ave, yesterday| happened. A window was Broke) q'tork ai Si ela | Boston 72 64.529 | Richard B. Moore are on an extend-| Unorganized Book Binders To | munist Mayor of Crosby, Minnesota,| you can make a close estimate, con- | afternoon. |The team swore it _ bs aot ade eee ee al ee aoe NaN me ed tour of Western cities in the cam- | Meet will arrive here October 18th to| sidering that Crosby is about 150| Gibney had left for home at 3] ing play and the janitor didi MOM | cistarit® Te op 850! Cincinmatt 82 86 377 NEW YORK.—As the strike of Paign for the release of the Scotts-| 5 greet the Communist candidate for| miles northwest of Minneapolis, And | ©Clock, and when phoned refused to/ that it was. All he sald was MACY) “"s. “ious at [stormy the shoe repair workers 1 the boys and the smashing of the) Tne Organization Committee of| Mayor of New York City, Robert| forget about hotel expenses. We'll| Se the committee or give any ex-| couldn't play there any more, GfVS®) weather end of its first week, o 1600| 75 eee throughout the | 1,, anized Bockbinders, at 80|Minor at a mass “Vote Communist” | have to sleep on harder things than | eae nm of why the permit was) hours, Saturday or Sunday. ee rs pron , workers in 500 stores, including | °° East 11th St., room 240, calls all| banquet arranged for 1,500 people at/ bus cushions before we've made the| "ne meeting will be held in front| tt ad the fellows knocked o: Inning-By-Inning the hat cleaners and boot bla ae ea ak | bookbinders to attend a meeting to- |New Star Casino. | revolution.” | of Washington Irving High School at} ‘487: A Pee es 2 400 work Novelty Mirror night, Sent. 13, at Irving Plaza, Irving] In a letter accepting the invita- ard, who is the first Commu-! 15th st. and Irving Pl, at 8 o'clock | They didn’t knock off altogether, | acs af : Fok Work “fe Pl. and 15th St. The American Fed-|tion of the Communist lection | nist Mayor in the United States, will tonight. The American Committee |of course. Sunday came around, | Detroit +000 020 WN shiga ‘wetch eave moles orkers on Strike eration of Labor and the proposed | Campaign Committee to the ban-| also bring greetings of solidarity! calls on all organizations to support | there was nothing to do. First three withthe union on the ba of Mie for Higher Pa , code will be discussed. quet, Nygard writes: |from the workers of Crosby to the/ this meeting and to send their pro-| climbed over the fence, then two SiGieGs sreck and w i "9 y SREP TT “Your letter of invitation re-| workers of New York. tests to Gibney. more, then another four or any W YORK —Worke: :, 5 tet, ceived. Am most delighted to hear! Last May 1st was declared a legal} Included in the American delega-| enough for a basketball game, €' Misciagh rae Pa ieee ef a viction Fighter to | that the New York State Committee | holiday in Crosby by Nygard. All) tion is Thomas Joyce, a young marine | had worked up a good sweat by the : ee once tron a, Be On Trial Thursday | win make it possible for me to ren-| stores were ordered closed while the| worker from New York, who was] time the janitor showed up. He did/ I q ‘or Workers’ Union to canes der what assistance I can in securing| workers demonstrated. | elected by the youth anti-war com-|come around though, and did open | Gy veiang 000 200-3 5 2 | o2 The strike is) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Arrested at |for Comrade Minor the largest Com-| Earl Browder, Secretary of the| mittees of Brownsville, Williamsburg | up. | Washington .....000010 000—1 4 3 | i wages our, 5-day week, an eviction on Neptune Ave. in| ™Unist vote in the history of your/Communist Party and Ben Gold,| and Queens. ‘There were all kinds of blue hell! "pearson and Pytlak; Crowder and ‘ recognition of the union and shop Coney Island, Anna Geller, will go | city. Should the campaign com-| Communist candidate for President} Clemens Straus, a member of the/ but the fellows wouldn't get Of. | Sewell, committees and a 25 percent in- | ai ‘ual iss pe Reet Sept 14, ti the | mittee decide that I remain in New/of the Board of Aldermen, will speak| Lithuanian Youth Federation from! The way they tell it, they were on betes ek crease in wages. The Trade Union | 0? cppreriei tats, cape | York for a few additional meetings.| at the banquet besides Nygard and| Waterbury, Conn., who has been ac-| their way off when the janitor NATIONAL LEAGUE e Unity Council is guiding the strike, |Special Sessions Court at 120)y7 win arrange to stay either two or| Minor, tive in local unemployed work; Toiva'| started hustling one of them. Then (Pirt Game Union $ kactaes hava tka ect | Schermerhorn St., on the charge three days. I would like especially to} The Crosby Mayor will tell of the seta chong of the Youth Club in| they got sore and began jawing and a and tablished at 66 East 4th St. jof having “assaulted an officer. speak to the Negro workers of| successful struggles of the workers in| f ted reenter Sn organization affil-| giant get off until the cop was Leath ion! Although police have arrested! The International Labor Defense | Harlem. his town under a Communist Mayor | jad “an ine Minish Youth Feders- | cated. appeals to all worle-s to heln the ts at one of the shops in|C@lls on all workers to pack the| “I believe it would accomplish a| against the forced labor form of| yoni, ‘uip., Rosengarten, of the)” atter that, they climbed the fence struggle dt ove, 14th St. ’, the I. L. D. has been |¢9U"t room to help in the fight for | great deal to cement the bond of}relicf of Minnesota and against the| workers Order, and Lonny Willems, |G2Y mand day out. It’s really the near Be EHS Fee Coat ait ‘this fighter against evictions. unity between Negro and white not | NRA, said the New York Communist | young Negro Ford ieee from | Only field around. There are send- Shoe I the picks gps “thon | This trial is one of many used| only in New York but throughout) Election Campaign Committee, | Detroit, ‘are also included in the del- Jots but they're full of garbage and St... wh 3 3 ae against militant workers of this | the ae. a through its manager, Carl Brodsky | egation. boulders. The antes, sik Bee ployed. sae ve ity wi “I have no knowledge of the cost' who invited Nygard to New York. * Marx, got tougher and tougher. eee ae Bronx School Strike [eee who have a long record of Speakers for the mass send-off for ga ent all villians are| Padden. 20 | fights against evictions and stop- Haase ae sa enn vais the Selegties ee ees jane Oia Hp ps meaner than they | Philadelphia ....000 000 000-0 6 1 i i : ages of relief. away, editor of the Daily Worker; hic vesveee 020 000 00x—2 5 6 . 00 Whitegoods Still On; Parents to | rages of relief Fur Meet at C ‘Amal tedOfficials 220 © Gray, director of the Wo-| actually are but this janitor needs gee sabes ge SLT Workers Answer Pian Demonstration [SUE Sees a OU nee MalsaMavedUILIClals | man's Peace Society; Abe Kaufman, |no retouching. He was only carry-| YN, poured ; - Seal 2 Ss tional E Unio to Mobilize Send M be Jpg | of the War Resisters’ League, and) ing out orders, to be sure, but he Union Strike Call sie! DORE, Aon ik ” embers 9 | Lou Cooper, of the Trade Union| certainly did a clean job of it. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE ( Cure pie Gis rte, Sege 1 ie Proof of Nazi Plots for 35-Hour Week in Struck Tailor Shops | vatty, [Gaunt Sone, Cone. tenth. Ouse, bel monkia, (Gskvey aud. oh R. H. E. a rane 3! Assoc! vi Ls “ ” | sentative of e National ‘udent | other ie threw a hester . 000 030 000-3 6 2 NEW YORK —with neat which is leading the strike of 2006/ | in Saturday “Daily auw: PORE ee ee |League at the Amsterdam Congress /John Milgrim and it hit him in the ee “0.010 2x26 10 0 3 bas | workers, out on »| Children in the upper Bronx to open | scat a See pniprans NEW YORK.—Proof that the| Against War, will be the chairman.|jeg, Mrs, Milgrim complained to the} Blake, Smith and Hinkle; Weaver, fantay ar chine Was organized yes-| Public School 95, reported that all|| Saturday's issue of the Daily| | thrown, from the roof tops in the fur| Amalgamated Clothing Workers} Each of the delegates will speak principal but he backed the Janitor| murphy and Hargreaves, Hersch- terday at the strike headquarters at | children were still out on strike. | Worker will carry an extensive re-| | Market yesterday by scab agents of | union officials are co-operating close- | briefly, all the way. heer . Sevag Flac. Coda at 10 a ma. shop| | No word has yet been heard from | view by Robert Hamilton of the| | the A. F. of L, fur union in their Nines ere tia cee eat - Saturday before last, they had a} Other play-off games played at ' Weedle. Trades Unio ¢ sae y ys the Board of Education. Truant offi- ‘Brown Book ‘on the Reichstag) | third atternpt to distribute their slan- by the Needle Trades Workers In- game scheduled with the Whitestone | night. won and a mass) cers visited the children’s homes, and | Fire and Hitler Terror,” which has | | i | ‘ial Uni 3 | Amalgamated was declared to be| Whips and a couple of families came Meeting of all strikers is scheduled tried t # anshiie i derous charges against the fur work-/| dustrial Union was provided yester- ips . for 1 pm. at Irving Plaza. | bs 1 ss pee ee children back to| | caused an international sensation. ors’ section of the Needle Trades| day when a member of the Amalga- | merely a stoppage by the officials at| to see them play. Tony's big GAMES TODAY 4 | picketed oe raed meses, Were! | ‘The “Brown Book” contains doc-| | Workers Industrial Union. Previous| mated came to strike headquarters | %, ike meeting yesterday, when the | prother was there, he had played NATIONAL LEAGUE “| aie Pane ya Pi con iia apa and) | umentary proof that the Nazis set | | attempts to get the, workers to read | and produced a card assigning him to | *” AA pl A ier) ae the fail-| water polo for Rutgers, he's a HUSKY! New york at Chicago. | CLASSIFIED | that ao tS Association office reports! | the Reichstag on fire, together| | their leaflets have failed miserably. |a job at Simon and Ackerman, aly "c,0, ‘ne,unon officials to organize | guy and tough. He said he saw 00! Brooklyn at St. Louis. cirkteiat a oaeeials ‘at_no one has returned to school.| | with unchallengeable evidence on striking shop. The card was signed |* Tank and file strike committee and | reason why the Tigers shouldn't be| Boston at Pittsburgh. FISHER PIANO, xood condition, reasonabie,, At @ meeting of the parents on | | ene Bur Department of the Needle | io 5 Linstet mass picketing, and refusing to raise | aiiowed to play in the schoolyard. Fo be seen any time, or call’ Sheepshead Tuesday night plans were tak the Fascist terror raging through-| | -rrades Union is calling a mass meet-| PY, J. Lipstein, an Amalgamated of-| wage demands. Only 300 workers | #/0w may 7h | Philadelphia at Cincinnati. 2-012, 6. Dubow, 2158 F. 17th 8... Brook-| for a demonstration before the Board | | Mt, Germany today. | |ing at Cooper Union to report the | Aclal. [have been called out by the Amalga-| They Worked themselves up into a AMERICAN LEAGUE Hy Entire proceeds of the sale for the of “raveation in dowatewd aa | ,.The American edition of the | results of the union's conference with| At an enthusiastic meeting at 1r-! mated. So Ne eee uaiee. |, Chicago. at Puiladeiphia. occa York, to force them to open the| | “Brown Book” will be brought out| |the ‘Trimming Manufacturers Asso-|Ving Plaza yesterday, the strikers) tied inlet showed up. Mrs. Milgrim was there.| Cieveland at Washington. EXCELLENT ROOM, all improvements, three school, Pen the| | shortly, Be sure to get next Sat- ciation on the 35-hour week and to| condemned the strike-breaking ac-| Write to the Daily Worker about| After the first half the janitor) sy Touis at Boston. mi Sally, Dubew, 2158 8. 1ith St., Brook- i i: urday's Daily Worker for the an-| | fix a final date when the 35-hour| tivities of the Amalgamated and ex- every event of interest to workers popped arqund. The cop was with ———— To keep up a six-page “Daily Work. 2/YSis of the “Brown Book.” Watch | week is to go into effect. All furriers pressed determination to continue the | which occurs in your factory, trade| "im. Help improve the “Daily Worker.” WANTED, UNFURNISHED ROOM. Separate er,” the circulation pict te aeakioa. for the coming issue of the book | are called to this mass meeting at/| fight to wipe out sweatshops in the| union, workers’ organization or lo-| “These boys got a right to play | send in your suggestions and eriticism! Serr DIRE 310 te ib bet |S one atince by. goltitig gee cone | itself! | | Cooper Union, immediately after | trade. cality. BECOME A WORKER COR-| here,” Mrs. Milgrim said. Let us know what the workers in ey intial apace MsLevic: mcrae: ner |'- 6 work on Thursday, September 14. The strike of tailors called by the | RESPONDENT! “I got orders to throw them out,” | your shop think about the “Daily.” ' COMMUNIST PARTY MONTH ~ N.Y.C. Fusion Ticket Has Cl Ties With Inside Wall Street Crowd i ~IeU. on Licke S ose Les it nsiae a reet Uro | CAMP UNITY | a ee 3 WINGDALE, N. Y. |LaGuardia’s Manager Tied Up With Morgan- i ne gas ng eae a Fusion Campaign Treasurer Is A Loyal Agent ‘ | x * of ensued, the Lead: racters tg * + pe . Sgnd Indian Summer, the Most A Real Workers Atmosphere || Rockefeller Interests; Once Organized Citizens’ Comfitice of One Thou-|, The row of the Fusion movement} of Rockefeller Banks; Dissatisfied With 4 son of the Year Swimming, Rowing, : 4 co ‘5 sanc. made f it ecomes unmistakably clear when a . . ” : 3 ‘Amid the Berkshire Hille Han Wont Relief for Russian White Guards Teaficie, was fonined. “Pile comamstie. | study 1a thade ot ths leading charace Distribution of Tammany Plunder : ot i . i eames secured the services of 150 lawyers to| ters behind it. ~ VACATION RATE: $13.00 Per Week (inel. Tax) By JAMES CASEY. Tammany was let pretty much alone| handle cases of merchant pt doe Take, to begin with, Chadbourne, the| ing to their own leaders is to oust; the Fusion movement. : WEEK-END RATES: E money-lords of Wall Street are| i" ‘ts greedy raids upon the city| of the racketeers. Most merchants, | Fusion campaign manager. the tyrants from City Hall and give Big Financial Interests mol 1 Day - - $2.45 65 (incl. Ts | 1 preparing, if necessary, to disguise | ‘e@Sury and its ruthless robbing of| of course, refused to reveal the| He has been eulogized in capitalist back the government to New York's} Chadbourne, the Progressive, is: -65 (incl. Tax) + of the workers. During the Walker ad-| amounts they paid to gangsters. newspapers as a “Progressive,” with| 7,218,000 tax payers. However, Chad-| purported to be pained by the spec- é t Cars leave for Camp trom 2700 and Saturday 10 A.M., 3 P.M., 7 P.M. Express. Stop at Allerton Avenui Round Trip: To Nitgedaiget - ston Avenue ‘Tel.: Fordham 7-4011 BRONX WORKERS! PATRONIZE | playing safe by hastily slapping to- their rule over New York City under @ new political label. The Tammany machine, faithful servant of the financial long 4 had borne since its founding. So the big bankers and industrialists are gether a Fusion ticket. They are offering to the millions of voters a | choice between an administration of exposed grafters and a gang of Wall Street tools whose varied anti-work- | ing class activities have not yet been Columbus Steam Laundry Service, Inc. 2157 PROSPECT AVENUE BRONX, N. Y. A Laundry Workers Industrial Union Shop DOWNTOWN FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION SHOP NEW All Comrades Meet at the HEALTH CENTE Food—Proletarian Prices 59 i. CAFETERIA 18TH 8T., WORKERS’ CENTER———! publicly revealed. William M. Chadbourne, Fusion campaign manager, is connected with both the Morgan and Mellon interests, William J, Schieffelin, organizer of the Fusion movement, is asso- ciated with several of the most lican, a former Socialist, a former Progressive, and a former well-paid leghl advisor of a Tammany ad- ministration, Capitalist Displeasure Aroused This local “new deal” expertly shuffled to lure workers’ votes has ministration, things took a turn. CUE Laie: Toa distribution of graft became so open and so disorderly as to arouse acts of thevery, bribery and other crimes in public offiee must be ex- ecuted “behind the scenes so that the masses of the people might never know of their existence. Then, too, Tammany hed become embroiled in activities which interfere with the profits of members of the Merchants’ Associations, Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, and real estate bodies. These activities centered around Tammany’s intimate connestions with notorious gamblers and racketeers, As the racketeers grew in political | influence and_commercial boldness, they came into sharp conflict with closes that the Tammany clubhouses Were infested with racketeers, who Were assured protection aaginst pros- ecution by district leaders. In this connection, Corporation Counsel Hilly has records in his office which re= veal that more than a dozen Tem- come as a result of aciion by strong business groups, many *lubs had obtained court or-| U Racketeers Collect Millions In 1930, the year before the tight, on Tammany was formally organized amounted to $4,402,376,069, tribute wes only a bare 1 per cent, the total distributed to gangsters was well over $44,000,000 in thet one year. This figure would not inciude sums paid out by manufacturers. In the office of Tammany District Attorney Thomas C. T. Crain, there is data to prove that manufacturers paid out millions of dollars to racketeers for “protetion,” This protection money went for the smashing of strikes, at- tacking workers on the picket line and other activities aaginst militant trade unions. TATURALLY, every ponny of these . * must the workers—a fight for poli- tical spoils in public office, But,’ further than thot, Fusion promises for Wall Street a move open financial dictatorship in New York City through consolidation and elim- ination of various bureaus and de- If the| a desire “to drive crooked politicians out of office.” What are the tacts? On May 16, 1920, Chadbourne gave | fluence behind Warren G. Harding | for president. Warding was one of | the most reactionary presidents that ver sat in the White House. And Harding’s cabinet was made up of the most croci:2d polticians that evcr heli public cffice. Cha:lboune is now supposed to be | prom: ig a movement “of revurn | for the common gocd.” But he has gone on record as an enemy of “civic change.” + 8 oe URING the year 1921 a movement was under way by “liberal” groups for a Federal constitutional conven- tion. Chadbourne, as a member of lic affairs he approved a resolution warning against such a plan. Chad- bourne’s committee advised that such a convention “would greatly disturb the peace and prosperity of the coun- try and that radical inges in the government might result.” partments and a rarrowing down in For many years | ders to bay raids upon their build- | the distribution of graft as a result Backs Russian White Guards The aim of the Fusionists, accord- ‘ bourne is a supporter of tyrants who had robbed and brutally oppressed more than 150,000,000 people. The selves in France. On Oct. 12, 1930, Chadbourne was anneunced as the President of the United Ruce‘an Re! Inc. The purport? of this orzanization is to raise, frnds for exiled Russians (monerehists and ofver counter- revolu‘onists) in Pavis. Associated with Chadbeurne in this work is ‘Mtg. Vincent As‘or, known as the hon head of the organization. Mrs, A: 's husband is a close per- sonal friend of President Roosevelt. * 8 * '‘APITALIST newspapers boast that Chadbourne was a “Teddy Roose- aid industries. The real object of this body was to break down all anti- trust legislation. Chaibcumme was a charter member of this group, which went under the name of the Trade and Commercial Tar Association. Joining with Chadbourne in this work for finance ¢° ital wes Charlss tatle of Tammany robbing the people of New York This same Chad- bourne is connected with interests - = $2.00 e . a dinner to a group of prominent| Fusion campaign manager ‘is one of | fleecing millions of people in the To Urity | ae B25 eH AG Ttatinn vere entice than angie the displeasure of capitalist civic| DY the Fustonists, the gross volume | Su Moose Progressives. He asked| the lending backers of Russian Mon- | South American sem{-colonies of Wall | leaders. These leaders insist that| Of Tetail sales in Now York City thoss Progresives to swine their in-| archists who hove established them- | Street imperialism. He is a member of the board of the American Maracaibo Company. This concern controls the capital stock of the Unisca Petroleum Core poration and numerous other cone cessions in Venezuela, where worker® are employed at starvation wages, And this Maragaibo outfit also owag a share of the Barco concession in Colombia, Chadbourne's corporation, thereby is associated in ownership of the Barco concession with the Carib Syndicate (a Morgan institu- tion) and the Gulf Oil Company (a Mellon concern). Chadbourne has other big financial interests. He is a member of the This wealthy corporation lawyer now makes alarmist appeals to the wor':ing masses of the city to support the Fusion movement. Between these apepals he keeps himself busy work- ing out plans for the continued ex- ploitation of the workers in the in- ter*sts of himself and of finance cape H, Tuttle, anothe, ieading figure in ital. ¥ > | oy prominent financiers in America. | certain business concerns over the| 4" huge sums paid to the racketeers| the Union League Clul hold | velt ve who fought the! board of Abercrombie and Fitch Com- be A PE X CA F ET E RI A | Henry Rogers Wnthrop, chair- | payments of “protection” money. went out of the profits fleeced from} of old guard ea lah Ie ider- | trusts.” It is a fact that Chadbourne| pany; a director of the McArthur Bu | ™an of the Fusion Finance Com- | The eSabury investigation, prompt¢| the workers, In the largest degree,|ed at the very thought of such a|is a friend and a leading defender! Concrete Pile Corporation; president ra 827 Broadway, Between 12th and 13th Streeta | mittee, is a representative of the | ed by these business combinations,| therefore, the fight between Tam-| moye. To him, a constitutional con-| of the trusts: and director of the 811 Fifth Avenue i" } | beter d ees eee aii that magistrates were them- eat detabren s a Sty ape vention thy @ revolutionary step on| In February, 1932, a number of em-/| Corporation; a director of Williams ~ i : * | . uardia, Fusion’s | selves connected with crooks and| division of plunder—a fight on the| the part of the people. As a mem-| inent corporation lawyers formed an| and Saylor, and of the Investmen h All Comrades Should Patronize This standard bearer, is a fotmer Repub- | grafters. ‘This inquiry further dis-| question of sole privilege to further| her of the club's commitiee on pub- tion ostensibly designed to| Foundation, Ltd. '