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Page Two LY WORKER, NEW YORK, TH N.T.W. Calls Dye S$ 4 \ DYE STRIKERS STAGE BIG PICKET DEMONSTRATION AT SECRET MED McMahon of UTW Accepts NRA Decision to Call Off Strike; NTW and’ Allentown Delegates Denounce Action PATERSON, N. J., Sept. ‘The of sympathetic workers in the vicinity of Hotel Alexander Hamilton, where tute of Dyers and Printers and U. 8. Labor Concili- employers of the Ins ator John A. Moffat were secretly United Textile Workers Union to “mediate” the dye workers strike as the picketing: ng to staged a here t the s sirikers demonstr shouting slogans and singing strike | songs swung out of the headquarte: ional Textile Wor! Union at 222 Paterson St, after a short meeting this morning and in forma- tion marched to the Hamilton Hotel at Church St. A detail of 150 police had surrounded the hotel and blocked off its entrance, On all sides by- standers viewing the demonstration expressed sympathy with the strik- ers. Enroute to the hotel, the parade passed the headquarters of the As- sociated Silk Workers where the silk strikers applauded the marchers and some joined the march. Moe Brown, leader of the textile strike, at the head of the demonstra- | tion, approached the hotel entrance several times with a delegated com- mittee demanding the right to sit in} on the strike sessions, but barred the entrance. Police forced the strikers’ parade off Church St. to Colt St. where they paraded around Colt to Ellison Sts. Shouts of “down with the secret con- ference” and no sell-outs” of the strikers inspired those who viewed the parade, with their Police did not dare break up the picket line, but forced the workers to keep moving. ‘The secret conference on the strike was continued during the afternoon, but no report has thus far been is- sued from the session. Moffit is said to have barred everyone except the police DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin and Sutter Ayes., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-301% Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M. Intern’) Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE ISTH FLOOR AN Work Done Under Personal Care of ir. C. Weissman WILLIAM BELL Optometrist Koos 106 EAST M4TH STREET Near Fourth Ave, Tompkins Square N. ¥. ©. 8287, Phone: | UTW Officials and the bosses. *| NRA. At the hearings determined op- militancy. | LATION MEET streets were crowded with thousands conferring with the officials of the While secret conferences are go- ing on in Paterson the hearings on the silk code held in Washington yes- terday were declared discontinued by deputy Arthur D. Whiteside of the position was expressed by the dele- gates of the National Textile Work- ers Union headed by Moe Brown to the imposition of the minimum scales of $13 and $12 a week of the cotton textile code on the silk workers. Whiteside adjourned the meeting after ordering the United Textile Workers’ Union and the National ‘Textile Workers’ Union to call off AY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933 trikers to Defeat NRA and A.F. of L. Move to Break Strike 10 PAGE ELECTION EDITION OF “DAILY” IN GREATER NEW YORK SATURDAY | The New York City election| platform of the Communist Party, | an article by James Casey on the Fusion candidate La Guardia, and “Election Information for Work- \ers” will be included in the ten- |page election issue of the Daily | Worker distributed in Greater New | York Saturday. The regular edi- tion for national distribution will also contain special mining and | marine material. | Bayonets Gleam in NRA Parade | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONR) marched. ‘Thousands of workers were herded | together by their employers, who had | promised Whalen “co-operation.” Hour after hour they marched past the reviewing stand where the gen- erals and Johnson looked them over. As the radio group pame up it brought with it the unmistakable stench of the slave market. It Jim- Crowed the Negro workers who were dragooned into the parade. The Ne- gro marchers were piaced in a sep- arate line. Under the bright Amer- ican flag the hideous Jim Crow op- pression appeared. Hoot the Bankers the strikes, send the workers back to| work and then confer on the wage | scales to go into the codes. | At conferences this afternoon in Washington called by the National Advisory Board to mediate the silk} strike, only U.T.W. officials were ad- mitted. Delegates from the National Textile Union were barred. McMahon | of the U.T.W. agreed to call off the silk strike on condition that hear- ings be reopened on a code for the rayon industry, which is now func- tioning under the cotton code. Frank Schweitzer also agreed to call off the strike, but declared that some concessions in the way of wage in-| | creases would have, to be given to the strikers in order to put this over.| The silk bosses are demanding a) code similar to the cotton and cayon| code on the ground that they wiil not be able to compete with the rayon | industry unless they are allowed to exploit the workers on the same basis. | Delegates from the Allentown Silk) Workers Union, an independent union joined with the National Textile Un-| ion in denouncing this action and At first the best looking sections came down Fifth Avenue—the banks, the theatre groups, the movie in- dustry. These would look better, Whalen thought, than the laundry workers, the leather and shoe work- ers, the “lower” groups. When the bankers hove into view, the crowds hanging out of the big office building windows, yelled their derision and hatred. “Here comes the| gang of forty thieves,” they cried | The bankers didn’t like it. Not once was there any expression of enthusiasm for the NRA. No one shouted his joy. No one felt impelled to mention those syllables. It was a show. Not once was there any expression of enthusiasm for the NRA. No one shouted for joy. No one felt impelled to shout these magic syllables—NRA —by which the Roosevelt government hopes to hynotize the suffering) masses into forgetfulness while he| and the exploiters, the employers, grind the workers deeper into poverty. There was little real emotion. They could not express what they did not feel. But it was very significant that By del Minor to Speak Before Socialist Jobless Groups Brooklyn, Manhattan Communist Election Rallies Saturday NEW YORK.—Two borough elec- tion campaign conferences, one in Brooklyn and the other in Manhattan, to ratify the Communist candidates and platform, will be held this Sat- urday afternoon, | In Manhattan the rally will be held | at the Esthonian Hall, 27 West 115th St. at 1pm. In Brooklyn at Central Hall, 196 State Street, corner of Court Street at 3 pm. Robert Minor, Mayorality candidate on the Commu- nist ticket, ‘will speak at both meet- ings, ‘The Workers Unemployed Commit- tee, locals 2 and 3, Socialist, have in- vited all four candidates for Mayor to speak at a symposium Saturday night, 8 p.m., at 466 Grand St. Robert Minor has accepted for the Commu- nist Party. Many Socialist workers are expected to be present. Behind the Smoke Screen Picket Big Shops |Whitegoods Work- _in Tobacco Strike ers Spread Strike Dance to Aid Strikers) Warn Against N.R.A. Thursday Night Conférence NEW YORK.—With the picket line of striking tobacco workers strength- | ened around some of the largest | tobacco shops such as the Regens-| burg, the Lincoln, the Bachia, t! Alliance and the Martinez, wo. | in these big shops are expected to} walk out momentarily, and join the | big strike of the tobacco workers. | Nearly 1,000 strikers have returned to work under the union conditions and with wage increases ranging be-| -| Trades Union at Irving Plaza and| NEW YORK.—Thousands of work- ers in the whitegoods trade are out trike as a result of the general e call. Close to 2,000 workers crowded the strike hall of the Needle | enthusia: mand p Union for mu ally endorsed the de- posed by the Industrial a 35 hour week, and mini- vages of $50 for cutters, $26 for $25 for pressers, $20 for fin- ers and $16 for learners, Strikers volutarily formed com- is City Events | ——n Furriers’ Shop Chairmen Meetings. At @ mass meeting of the furriers chairmen will be held tonight at the union headquarters at 131 West 26th Street. ee Se Furriers Cooper Union Meeting. A mass meeting of the furriers is called for Thursday night at Cooper Union, a report will be given of the negotiations with the Fur Trimmers’ Association. a te Pen and Hammer Forum. The history research group of the Pen and Hammer will give a sym- posium report on “Foreign Imperial- ism in China” tonight at their head- Want to Run in a Track Meet? By EDWARD NEWHOUSE The cinder path and modest grandstand of McCoomb Dam Park lie in the shadow of the Yankee Stadium. Whil Herb Pennock examines an eight-dollar glove and tosses i carelessly into the dugout, a fifteen-year old amateur half miler leans over to patch up the ragged laces on his spikes Clean bodied youngsters circle around and lanky high jump ers worry about the take-off. oa WeaeniCA SE Dall The field is municipally} Broad Jump, High Jump, Basketba owned and operated. Its ex- Throw, Club Relay (4x100 yds.) rs Fi Boys (Under 18). istence and use is a hint of| Junior Women (Under Sixteen possibilities open to development of| 75 yd. Dash, Broad Jump, Basketba! mass athletics under community di-| Throw, Club Relay (4x100 yds.) rection, Of course, public and high} Entry fee:—Ten cents for men an school athletes come to practice. women; five cents for boys and girl There are also a few of the larger) A trophy will be awarded the clu amateur clubs but these encourage! scoring the highest number of point only stars as a general rule. | during the meet. Events will begi | promptly at 10 a.m. All entries mus For the worker seeking fresh Sif! be in to the Vesa A.C, 15 W. 126t! recreation and physical development, ot 44 later than Sept. 15, no provision is made. The paar problem of the boy just out of school | Standing of the Clobe accustomed to various facilities and abruptly deprived of them, is alto-| AMERICAN LEAGUE gether disregarded. He can still play! ctub W.L.P.C.{ Club W.L. Po a bit of stick or handball in the gut-| Washing, 91 47 650 | Dorota 18 it ter and against the walls of his block | pyiadel. 71 68 ‘518 | Boston 58 #3 47 73 69 514! Bt. Louls 52 88 2, but track and field or regulation base-| cleveland 4, postponed t! ball are no longer within his reach. | scene x Washington, For actual contact with his favorite! “Detroit at New York, played on form branches of sport he’s gegen A date. bleachers and galleries. That's e's | got the energy to spare, If not, let/ him go to some dimly lighted neigh- | borhood poolroom for his fun. See) oi uren if anybody gives a good god damn. chicago 78 61 “$61 | Philadel 92 80 39: These are the people for whom the) ern zo. we) hata “a . bed a Labor Sports Union has organized.| o, account of rain--Not including secon Office boys from skyscrapers, factory | game Boston at ie anon New Bud i hands from downtown sweatshops, | Chicago (2 games); ‘ooklyn at St. yu ge ee the get ar ead Pal at Newark in playoff seri student aruni Wi! ne “dl? mercial star system, anybody and everybody looking for a chance to NATIONAL LEAGUE W. 1. P.C.) Club 8351 .619 | Boston 79 61 .584 | Brooklyn 56 79 .41 Ww. LPC 72 65 .511 Club New York Inning-By-Inning Soores American League repudiating the decision to call off| the real outbursts of emotion was of bi oD ee 30 a Bind ets the | mittees and are out to win other straight $3 increase was obtained for | pat Meena tu top eamheattones es te agate Mardy aane ot | bring workers into the strike. cigars, In all shops the ‘Tobacco| ,,-amuel Shore, manager of Local 62 Workers’ Industrial Union has been| (ie enc ot 1s already nego- rane das ‘well. as elected shop | tiating with Whalen for a conference | pat | to discuss a settlement. By raising hes lef 16 ‘ | the “red scare” officials of local 62 e relief committee just organized | hope to prevent the Industrial Union and working closely with the Work- at least partially liberate himself and his body from the bondage to which it is inevitably subjected. The L.S.U. has already one of the largest soccer leagues in the coun- try and many smaller ones scattered throughout the Atlantic States and/| the West. There are over a dozen basket ball leagues whose season is quarters, 114 W, 2lst St. The talk will be followed by an open forum. o # + War Symposium. The Mt. Eden Branch of the Friends of the Soviet Union will hold @ symposium on the “Coming War” tonight at Paradise Manor, 11 West Mt. Eden Ave. A. J. Muste of the Chicago . Philadelphia . berg, Coombs and Cochrane, Chicago .... Philadelphia . (First Game) R. HE -000 000 120-3 8 -000 000 020—2 8 Jones and Grube, Peterson, Wal (Second Game) -000 103 00x—4 6 the strike. | Mass meetings of strikers in Lodi and Paterson continue daily. A tele- gram condemni# U, 8S. Conciliator | | John Moffit’s action in refusing to | hear the demands of the union which | |represents the majority of the dye} | workers on strike was adopted at the | general strike committee meeting of the dye strikers Tuesday. The wire which was sent to President Roose- velt, Frances Perkins and members | of the National Labor Advisory Board | | declared that the UTW officials who |are now meeting with Moffit do not| | xepresent the strikers and demand| | the right of the N.T.W.U. to be heard |in the present hearings. | On Thursday night at 8 pm. the Communist Party of Paterson is call- ing a meeting in support of the strike at Carpenters Hall, 56 Van Houten | St. Silk and Dye strikers are urged to turn out to the meeting at which | Moe Brown, strike leader and Com-/| | munist candidate for Mayor in Pater- | | son, Rebecca Grecht, district organizer | "and others will speak. | COMMUNIST PARTY MONTH CAMP WINGDALE, N. Y. dipend Indian Summer, the Most Beautiful Scason of the Year Amid the Berkshire Hills 1 Day - - $2.45 Cars leave for Camp ¢ To Unity UNITY | a character to make the blood rush to the faces of the Generals and} bankers. Boo O’Brien. At one point a most remarkable thing happened. As the clerks and employes of the downtown Wall St. offices swung before the reviewing stand, like a bombshell, a tremen- dous noise of catcalls and booes smote the assembled Generals and politicians in the stand. “Three cheers for O’Brien,” some one cries. BOO! BOOH! was the derisive answer. But that was not all. One of the! workers broke ranks, and rushing up | before Mayor O’Brien, shouted: “Mayor O’Brien, you're lousy. You are taking my job away!” It was astonishing. The Generals stiffened. O’Brien lowered his huge marble head, like am enraged bull. Whalen forgot to smile, and his eyes suddenly went hard and cold. The columns moved swiftly on, carrying the young worker away. It was the moment when the voice of the exploited workers, who feel the claws of the Blue Eagle in their flesh, broke through all the carefully elaborated pomp. It was but a brief moment. But a shiver went through the Generals and government officials. Only the A Real Workers Atmosphere, Swimming, ii Rowing, Handball, Hiking—Warm and Cold Showers || VACATION RATE: $13.00 Per Week (incl. Tax) WEEK-END RATES: 2 Days - - $4.65 (incl. Tax) CHICAGO, ILL. First Concert and Dance of the Season! Given Chorus Singing Artes Battet SAT., Sept. AT PEOPLES Blue Blouses ADMISS: Real Danee Orchestra Daily Worker and i Workers’ Voice 2457 West Chicago Avenue by the Speaker: JOHN WILLIAMSON 16, 7:30 P.M. AUDITORIUM Organization Secretary Communist Party District 8 ION 25¢ | presence |and the remembrance of the bayo- |nets reassured them. Whalen gave them banners, music, marching chorus girls, the four Marx Brothers, and Al Jolson. | It was a conscious, deliberate at- tempt to hypnotize these hundreds of | thousands of workers into temporary forgetfulness of what the NRA has alrcady brought them—rising food prices that slowly tighten the bony grip of hunger as they rise steadily upward, the hated speed-up, the crafty spreading of work with lower wages, and the brutal, military strike- breaking. It was an attempt to make them forget that the NRA has not brought Yn. of the millions of promised new jo! of the mounted police, | ers’ International Relief has greatly | strengthened the strike. On Thurs. day, September 14, a dance and movie | show is taking place for the benefit | of the strike at Hungarian Workers’ | Center, 358 East 81st St., at 8 p.m. Four Metal Shops Grant Demands of Metal Strikers NEW YORK. — Metal workers| who joined the strike four weeks ago | at the call of the Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union are now reaping the results of this struggle as more shops are conceding the demands of the strikers. Workers won increases in wages averaging 30 per cent this week when four shops, the Continental, Lehman Brothers, Century and the Empire Plating Co. settled with the workers. Recognition of the shop committee was won in every shop. The Empire | Plating Co. recognized the union. A number of other metal shops have granted the workers’ demands. in the past weeks, worker and his three young chil- dren appeared. He wore no coat, only a blue working shirt. He was |leading the children by the hand. He looked with real faith at {Whalen and Johnson. His eyes said, “You have promised to end |my sufferings. You have prom- \ised to give me work. I believe | your promises.” In the eyes of that worker was |an emotion that*spells the doom of | those crafty agents of the capital- ist class. For when this worker |very soon discovers that Whalen and Johnson have tricked him with rotten lies, when he discovers that Ja united strike with the workers of | to they care nothing for him and his children, all the bayonets and po- lice clubs will be like grass before Behind one of the sections a the whirlwind of his anger. NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—‘Sometimes I could hardly hold my pencil in my fingers, my hands were so cold, and By HELEN KAY % > | from exposing their atiempt to sell out the strike. Strikers are calling for the ILL.G.W. and are warning the workers against maneuvers of the A. F. of L. officials which will defeat their strugg Cleaners and Dyers Rally to Strike Call NEW YORK.—Union members} of the A. F. of L. and unorgan- ized workers in the sweatshops of the cleaning and dyeing trade ral- lied to the strike call of the Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Union Mon- day. Two A. F. of L. shops came out on strike yesterday although the A. F, of L. officials are trying | event a walk out and are working to spread the strike and bring out the remaining shops un- der A. F. of L. control. Rank and file ers of Local } 185 declared their support of the | strike at a special meeting called | for the purpose of determining what action they shall take. Al- though the majority of the union is for joining the walkout, A. F. of L. officials have maneouvred to stave off the actual strike call. The members are planning to call another meeting to take up the question again. Custom Tailors Cripple Trade in | General Shutdown | tailors who went on strike last Wed- nesday have completely paralyzed the trade with the recent shut down of the Bell Shop at 320 E. 45th St. Led by the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union, the strike now in- cludes the largest shops in the trade such as the Simon and Ackerman, Andrea, Levy and Bernstein, Shends and Immermen shops. The bosses are applying for settlements which are now being considered by the union. |Garlin, of the Daily Worker, and | Louise Thompson, secretary of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action and Dr. 8. Le Roy will be the main speakers. Admission is ten cents. whe * Cuban Mass Meeting. ‘The Harlem section of the Young Communist League will hold an open discussion and mass meeting on “The Present Situation In Ouba” tonight, at the Spanish Workers’ Center, 1413 Fifth Ave. Robert Minor, from the Communist Party; Ramon, from the Y¥.C, L, and others will speak. Marine Correspondents. NEW YORK. — All seamen and harbor workers that wish to receive help in preparing articles for the press can call at the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union, 140 Broad St., daily from 4 to 5:30 p.m. “€ N.T.W.I.U. Meeting. A big mass meeting of fur work- ers is called immediately after | work at Cooper Union, today by | the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- | trial Union to hear a report on| the 35-hour week campaign and mobilize for the establishment of a 35-hour week in the industry. * * * Symposium On the South. Rabbi Benjamin B. Goldstein, formerly of Montgomery, Ala., Sender Scottsboro National Action Committee will speak on “Persecution in the South” at Ambassador Hall, Third and Claremont Aves., Bronx, this Friday evening. Garlin will illustrate his talk with scenes on Scottsboro, Tal- Japoosa and Herndon cases. Auspices, Bronx section, 1.L.D. ar Architects’ and Engineers’ Mass Meeting. A big mass meeting of architects engineers,‘draftsmen and chemists, 1s called by their Federation for Mon- day, September 18, at 8 p.m., at Wash- ington Irving High School, 16th St. just getting under way. Any neigh-| Faber, Wyatt and Berry; Cain an borhood, scholastic or factory com-' Cochrane, bination is invited to join. All that’s|St. Louis -000 001 000—1 6 necessary is to apply in time for a/ Boston . 000 003 00x—3 7 | junior or senior application blank at} Knott, Wells and Hemsley; Brow! headquarters (813 Broadway). You'll) and Ferrell. arrange for a schedule, courts, and other details. * National League. . * Sunday at McCoombs Dam. The track and field season of the LSU. is being wound up this Sun- day at the McCoombs Dam Park un- der the Yankee Stadium, Nobody International League. will crack 50 for the quartermile and) R. H.E there will be no 14 ft, pole vaults, Rochester 002 200 000-4 8 Grace. But you will see and, if you like, par- | Newark +200 000 100-3 6 ticipate’ ina meet with no more spe-| Kaufmann and Hinkle; Brennar cifications beyond that you be a man,| Duke and Hargraves. woman or child with a need or desire | Buffalo .........200 O11 200-6 10 Baltimore ......001 030 0015 9 for recreation. Representations of workers’ clubs from Worcester, Fitchburg and Gard- ner, Mass., are already booked. Me, I'm going if only to meet the two! blonde comrades of the Vesa A.C.) who came to the Daily office Tues-j day and roasted the skin off me for running the firm and maybe over- critical review of the “New Sport and | Play.” They said that was not the way; to support the current drive for 750 Cleveland at New York. new subscriptions, they have a hard; St, Louis at Philadelphia (tw enough time to keep the magazine games), alive as it is; there wes no point in| Detroit at Washington dragging it dos in public. | é Hy { tried to tell them the ciiticisri, Help improve the “Daily Worker was g ven solely with a view \oward | send in your suggestions and criticier improving the magazine, whica is Let us know what the workers { really prerequisite for a ciicu.ition| your shop think about the “Daily.” drive. I tried co say the review suy-)| gested a number of ways in whic this improvement might be effected. I couldn’t squeeze in encugn words to fit on the edge of a wornout dime. They were sort of athletic girls and spoke very well. I hope they com- pete Sunday and lose. I'd like to console them. They were very lovely | girls, Lucas, Elliott and Crouse; Smyth¢ H. Thompson and Linton. Games Today: National League. New York at Chicago. Philadelphia at Cincinnati games), Brooklyn at St. Louis. Boston at Pittsburgh. American League, (tw NEw YORK: FIPPOPROMt— CHICAGO OPERA Co. LA TRAVIATA RETEL 25e B5e 55e 83e $1.10 ——-—— Garment Section Workers Patronixe Navarr Cafeteria ne sata Program of Events Men.—100 yd. dash, 440 yd. run, and Irving Place. The Washington hearing on the NRA Code at will be reported by the delegation, Three Hundred Boys and Girls Jeer ‘Truant Officer, While Parents Back Children; P. S. 7, 24,80 Are Unsanitary, Congested, and Unemployed with Unemployed Council Card, 15c T had to wait until they got warmed | up. I had to walk to school because Have “Floating Classes” Bronx School Children “Strike oa Until P.S. 95 Won” and 79, Queen! 1 mile run, Pole Vault, High Jump, ) “road Jump. Shot Put (12 Ib.), Club Relay (4x100 yds.) 333 7th AVENUE | Corner 22th St. SOL’s § 101 University Place ‘Just Around the Jornery ANDWIC and the Staten Island for the opening of Public School 95. “If the city can’t provide a decent | Vocational School. In addition, the | new Broolilyn Technical High Sctroo! pbuilding is only partly occupied be- | cause of insuMiz’ent furniture and_ MEET YOUR COMRADES AT THE | All Comrades Sho The HEALTH CE SUNDAY, SE APEX CAFETERIA 827 Broadway, Between 12th and 13th Streets FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION SHOP ——LEAT and HELP the DAILY WORKER———. 50 EAST 18th STREET 1s Donating All Proceeds To The Daily Worker Drive OPEN FROM 12 NOON TO 12 P. M uld Patronize This NTER CAFETERIA | |it was one of those mornings when the bus broke down,” explained a 12- year-old who lives in the Amalga- mated Houses, where 350 children from these particular houses are striking to have Public School 95 opened. Over an area of several blocks in the. West Bronx, nearly 2,000 children are on strike, from private homes, from the Amalgamated and Sholem Aleichem apartments, and from the Ripe and Reservoir apart- ments. Mrs. M. Davis, mother of three children, two of whom are attending school in the 4-A and 2-A grades, explained that she must pay $1.25 for the bus rides to school per month for sach child, and since she has two, PTEMBER 17 he must spend $2.50 a month, “How an one afford this when one has hree or even four children? It would mount to $5 a month. Many of us we unemployed, and we can barely |feed our children, leastwise spend | Money on a bus.” | Public Schoo! 95 has been promised |the workers of this area ever since 1929. The school was finally com- pleted last February, and all of last | year, as several years before, the chil- | dren were sent to distant schools in buses. The bus must make three trips every morning to take thé 350 chil- dren from the Amalgamated to the school, as it has a capacity of 60 per trip. However, during the half hour lunch’ period the children must rush to such an extent that they very often barely gobble their meals, and; have not a second or extra time. On rainy days, the children must wait out of doors in the wet until’ the bus arrives, This exposes them to; the danger of colds and grippe. They | are so cramped in both the school | and the bis that many of them catch | colds from each other. i One mother reported that her child had the mumps, and before she was. W: aware of this twenty children who had ridden in the cramped bus in the morning also were laid low by the discase. Public School 95 has not been opened because the city will not spend money on the necessary furni- | ture and equipment, Therefore, the children are sent to three other schoo!s, Public School 7, 24 and 80, Where conditions are terribly con- gested. a Principal Robert 8. Stantial, of Public Schoo! 80, in a letter to one of the parents, stated that his school had “twice the attendance as there was seating facilities.” Public School 24 is unsanitary and is a fire trap, state the mothers of the striking children. Toilets are in the yard, and the stairs are made of ‘wood. ’ Besides this, all three schools have floating classes, which simply means that the children have no place to their outdoor wraps, and must for one class to vacate before lack of equivment. . On Tuesday moraing when the truent officers tried to force the chil- dren beck to school, a group of fifty | o'ldren jeered them in front of P. 8. 95. they can enter with their overcoats, rubbers, books, ete. Even the teachers must carry their hats and coats around, | So far there has been no action by Cooperative Dining Clut ALLERTON AVENUE Cor, Bronx Park East Pure Foods Proletarian Price ;the Board of Education other than sending out the usual truant officers. The parents of the 2,000 children demand an answer from the Board of Education, and plan to bring their |children downtown to demonstrate school for our children, we'll keep them home,” is the note of the Parent's fight. The workers are tired of the prom~- ises of the Board of Estimate and the Board of Education, and even of the letters of Mayor O’Brien, when they result in no action, They intend keeping their children out until the A meeting of the Parents Neighbor- hood Associations was held last night in front of P, S. 95, where future plans were discussed, The parents told the Board of Education that they would not send their children back to school in spite of truant officers, until P. S. 95 was opened. The Board of Education, in an ef- fort to scare the worker parents, is- sued a statement to the effect that the usual truancy procedure would be followed in dealing with the strike, Near Hopkinson Ave. (Brooklyn) FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE WORKERS—EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE Brooklyn, N. Y- 4) | school is furnished and opened. P. S, 96 is one of ten completed buildings that lack furniture. The others are P, S, 85 and Samuel Gom- pers Industrial High School, the Bronx; P, 8. 236 and 248, Brooklyn; P. S. 163 and additions to P. 8. 16 After two warnings have been mailed | to paents summons2s ere served on them. The first offense is punishabie by a fine of $5 or five days in jail. For the second and repeated offenses | the penalty mev be a fis> of $59, or thirty days in Jail, or both, Wilionsbrrgh Comrades Welcome ry De Luxe Cafeteria 94 Grztam Ave. — Cor. Siegel St. EVERY BITE A DELIGHT

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