The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1933, Page 6

Page Six “Fighting Bob”, By D. D. Robert Minor, Communist York City, in the short two mo been under way, has already Boh-Minor.” The tall, husky, grey-haired fighter is leading the greatest | election campaign any Commu-°¢ nist candidate has waged in New York. Arrested for lead- ing a picket line against in- junct using the courts as lothed | Board of axed to tands ace } a which Commnist candi speak. In one month spoken at more than 100 mec to} t Party. | rested for hour leading a picket line junction at the Progressive 1 only ten workers had gathered to} picket. They stood outside a three- block anti-picketing zone established | by the injunction. Police kept driving | up in an automobile, harrassing the workers, telling them to keep moving, and that there would “be trouble if | they attempted to picket.” | About thirty more workers arrived but their still small numbers were no match for the wall of police before the factory. Minor took over the leadership. In the face of threats of violence by the police, walking at the head of the line, he marched the workers through the three block anti- injunction area and smack up before the factory. Though he and another worker ‘were arrested, Minor is using the case to arouse sentiment for mass violation | of injunctions. |@ nickle on their income taxes for the | last four years. candidate for mayor of New | nths the election campaign has earned the name of “Fighting | | mt meetings of the city have been startled into at- | Communist candidates pointed s\ ts against the recent | soak the poor but make it look like the rich” and tax plan of Tammany. So effective was Minor’s address on the tax that the bosses’ papers wer to carry his state- he New York Times of 26 quoted Minor at length | ris manner. | “Robert Mincr, Communist leader, attacked the entire city tax program is useless. | “These taxes are useless and worse | than useless because they will block | a program of real taxation,” he told | the Mayor. | ‘What do you mean by real tax-| n,” the Mayor inquired with an- | noyance in his tone. | “T am very glad you asked me that,” Mr. Minor replied. “By real taxation, I mean taxation that will reach the Morgans, the Rockefellers, the Mit- chells and the rest who haven't paid Comp | Under the law they | have a way out, but a resolute policy would get around that. This program will not infect Wall Street with the disease of taxation: it will merely vac- cinate Wall Street against the disease and behind all this inevitably comes an assault on the 5c fare, Mr, Mayor.” “Ah,” the Mayor remarked, “now we're getting to the point.” “Yes,” the speaker shot back, “now we are getting to the point.” Mr. Minor said that the unemployed, “driven by the hammer blows of hun- ger,” would change the policies of the | city under Communist leadership. But Robert Minor did not start his leadership of the New York workers | with the present election campaign. At the very beginning of the crisis, Minor, together with other Commu- | nist leaders, was arrested and sent to | Welfare Island for leading the March 6, 1930 demonstration for Un- employment Insurance. ‘ Nor will Minor cease being a thorn in the side of capitalism after the elections, The workers of New York have good reason to call the Communist candi- date for mayor ‘Fighting Bob Minor.’ : | Comrade Emil Nygard | First Communist Mayor in U.S.A. of Crosby, Minnesota Thursday, Oct. 19 7P. M. at HUNTS POINT PALACE 163rd St. and Southern Boulevard Tiekets in advance, 25¢; at door, 300; reserved 50c. Earl Browder, Gen. Sec’y. of the C. P. and Carl Brodsky, Candidate for 3rd Assembly Dis- trict, will be the main speakers. Auspices, CITY AFFAIRS BEING HELD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE Daily, Worker OCT. 7th: Concert and Party given by Unit 11 Sect. 2 at 126 E. 27th St., N.Y.C. Concert and Party given by Units 402 and 404 at 350 E. @ist St., N.Y.C. Movie Showing of the “Land of Le- nin” and “Struggle for Bread,” at the Workers Center of Washington Heights, 501 W. 161st St., N. ¥. C. John Adams, of the Daily Worker, will speak. Party and Entertainment given by Unit 9 Section 5 at 758 Kelley St., Bronx, Apt. 5B. Concert and Dance given by the Nat Turner Br. LL.D. at 459 E. 171st Bt., Bronx. OCT. 8th: Concert. by Freiheit Mandolin Or- éhestra, John Reed Club Artist, given by Richmond Hill Unit ©. P. at 1425 Lefferts Blvd. Bronx Section of the LL.D. will hold a lecture on “Will the NRA. Bring Prosperity?” at 1013 Tremont Ave., Bronx, at 8:30 p.m. Joseph Field, of the Workers School, will speak. Concert and Party given by the Wo- men’s Council at home of Draphin, 94 Grand Avenue, Sunnyside, 5. L Concert, John Reed Club, Negro Spirituals, Revolutionary Recitations, given by Unit 8 and 9, Sect. 8 at 608 Stone Avenue (near Dumont) Brooklyn. Communist Party, Sec. 5. Tea Party and Entertainment given by Unit 3, Sect. 8 at 1163 Lenox Ave. BANKERS EXPOSED MASK RIPPED OFF “What Is Fusion?” By James Casey Issued by | Election Campaign Committee | of the Communist Party PRICE 1 CENT | Read and Distribute in your | Shop, Office or Neighborhood “The Communist Election Platform” The platform of struggle for the Workers’ needs. Against Capitalism— for Socialism Available FREE of charge for organizations or individuals at Communist Election Campaign Committee 7199 BROADWAY Room 526 GRamercy 5-8780 TT MOISSAYE J. OLGIN ‘Will Speak On “What’s Happening In Russia?” at WORKERS SCHOOL 35 East 12th Street, 3rd floor Questions. Admission 200. Write to the Daily Worker about every event of interest to workers which occurs in your factory, trade union, workers’ organization or lo- cality. BECOME A WORKER COR- Bronx Workers Will Greet Rear of candy store, Brooklyn. RESPONDENT! QUESTIONS; DISCUSSION Workers School Forum ISADORE BEGUN EXPELLED FROM NEW YORK SCHOOL SYSTEM “The Decay of Capitalist Education and the School Teachers” SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, at 8 P. M. at WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM, 85 E. 12th St., 2d Floor ADMISSION 25¢ —TRADE UNION DIRECTORY— 4 Food Workers Industrial Union 4 West 18th Street, New York City. Chelsea 3-0505 : Furniture Workers Industrial Union 5 818 Broadway, New York City. Gramercy 5.8956 Metal Workers Industrial Union 35 East 19th Street, New York City. Gramercy 7.7842 Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union 1S1 West 28th Street, New York City. Lackawanna 4-4010 |96 Avenue C TRICKS: DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1933 Behind the Mask “Vote Comm Workers of New York City! Here are to be utilized throughout the cam list and take active part in the cam) Communist Party before the masses! Downtown © 165 East Broadway East Side Workers’ Club 31 Second Avenue Zukunft Workers’ Club Yorkville 350 East 81st Street Lower Harlem 27 West 115th Street. Esthonian Hall Washington Heights 501 West 161st Street Workers Center Broklyn 61 Graham Avenue 46 Ten Eyck Street Russian Mutual Society, Clay Street 285 Rodney St., Bridge Plaza Work- ers’ Club 341 Melrose St., Club 226 Throop Ave., I.W.O. Schule | 316 57th St. 136 15th St. 132 Myrtle Ave. | 159 Sumner Ave. 291 Wyckoff St. 240 Columbia St. Italian Workers’ Pick Your Station for unist Sunday” is the list of stations at which you can get organizational assistance, literature, the “Daily,” for the “Vote Communist Sunday” house-to-house canyassing Oct. 8. These headquarters ipaign. Pick your station out of the ipaign to bring the program of the 1109 45th St. 1373 43rd St. 2006 70th St. 27th St. and Mermaid Ave., Coney Island Workers’ Club 87 Bay 25th St., Beach Workers’ Club 40th St., between 7th and 8th Aves., Finnish Hall Midtown 419 West 53rd St. 56 West 25th St. 302 East 29th St., East Side Unem- ployed Council East Harlem 1538 Madison Ave., Harlem Progres- sive Youth Club Upper Harlem 109 W. 133rd St. Unemployed Council Bronx 4th Assembly, 3882 3rd Ave. 5th Assembly, 1400 Boston Road 6th Assembly, 2700 Bronx Park E. ‘ith Assembly, 2075 Clinton Ave. 8th Assembly, Sholam Alechem, Coop- er House, Giles Place } 615: East 140th St. 804 Forest Ave. 1157 Southern Boulevard 1400 Boston Road BY: State GLEN COVE Mayor Charles McLoughlin Commissioner of Finance Robert Collins Commissioner of Public Safety Gunner Bjornson Commissioner of Public Works Morris Feldman WESTCHESTER COUNTY Members of Assembly 1. Dominick Tuchillo| 4. Phyllis Robbins 2. George Hass, Jr. | 5. Max Shalkan 3. Adolph Edelman YONKERS Mayor William Raymond Gill} Comptroller Frank Johnson | President of Common Council Robert Robbins Justice of Peace May Downie Aldermen: 6. Norman Lisberg 7. Ervin Wagner 12, Roderick Downey Ward: 1, Samuel N. Green 3. Charles Sanders 5. ©. B. Gray MOUNT VERNON Comptroller Lulu Thompson Alderman-at-Large Louis Phellepa SCHENECTADY Mayor | Margaret Walker ERIE COUNTY County Clerk Albert Kramer County Treasurer Ella Doll Members of Assembly District: 5. George Doll 1. Frank Carozzi 7. Simon D, Arcen- 3. Frank McCoy gelo 4. Henry Fields BUFFALO Mayor Henry T. Kuhlman Councilmen-at-Large Frank E. Sparkins Joseph Green Salvatore Fasciana District Councilmen: warts 65-9 a tet ie ards 4, 6, Walden District td Wards 10, 14, 15 Joseph Vodicka Candidates University District Wards 16, 17, 18 Frank Berger North District Wards 19, 20, 21 Michael O'Bryn Justice of the Supreme Court Frank Harin Mrs, Aino Wallen Fanio Torrelli Justice of the City Court Robert Smith Karl Henry Falk Supervisors City Wards 14. John Reidel 15, Catherine Kramer 16, Axel Peterson 17. Arthur Santalino 19. Max Mandelbaum 21. John Sobteraj Ward: 4. Grace Gray 5. Manning Johnson 6. John Hoffman 8. Gearge Jacksgn 9. Mrs. Alice Zeb- rowska [is Boris Factoroft 10. Joseph Kershaw 27. Louts Motl MONROE COUNTY County Clerk Elsie May Nichols Commissioner of Public Welfare Canio Parrini Members of Assembly 3. Sol Horowits 1. John Pietrowski | 4. Frank Randist 2. Joseph Ancora 5. Carmelo Spataro ROCHESTER Councilmen-at-Large Vincenz O. Caternella Sam Essman Mary Leuscher Gertrude Welsh Vito Ventrella District Councilman—Northeast Dist. Rose Gullo Judges of City Court Arnold Hecker Sam Kurlansky Tedessa Tomassini Commissioners of Schools: Michael Costo Helena G, Loomis Caetano Pilato ‘Supervisors: Ward: 11. Grover Eaton 7 Michael .A. Losue | 15. Mauro Todisco 8 Lena Ree 16. Joseph Cupido 9. Michael Gallo 17. Anna Pultin 10. John Evans 18. Marcello D’Amica SULLIVAN COUNTY ‘Member of Assembly Abraham Molisoft District: WHAT’S ON THE BIGGEST Event of the Year will take place at the American Youth Club, 407 Rockaway Avenue, Brooklyn, Saturday evening, Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. The program will consist of Chamber mi Negro Songs of Struggle and Spirituals, Piano Recital, Girls’ Sextette of Dramatized Revolutionary Songs, Negro Sti ‘Trio and the Amer- ican Youth Club Art Presentation. Admis- sion 35c. With this ad 25c. . *% HARLEM Workers School. Classes begin this week, 200 W. 138th St., N.Y.C. ae See REGISTER now for Film School of Work- ers Film and Photo League, 220 E. 14th St. Starts November 1. Open evenings. coh ot CLASS in Colonial Problems given by the Anti-Imperialist League, 90 E. 10th St., on Fridays, 7 to 8.15 p.m. Begins October 13. Registration now open. E. P, Greene, in- structor, Saturday Harlem DANOING to Hot Jazz Band at Washing- ton Heights Workers Center, 601 W. 16ist St., corner Amsterdam Ave. Adm. 150, re ee HOUSE PARTY by Harlem International Br, F.6.U., 102 E. 108rd St. Apt. 30. En- tertainment, dancing, refreshments, Ad- mission 150. ee es (Downtown) AMERICAN YOUTH Federation celebrating the opening of their new headquarters, 20 St. Marks Place (8th St.) Snappy en- tertainment, A.¥.F. Dramatic Group, Har- Jem Liberator Chorus, Hot Jasz Band. Ad- mission 25¢. pie ar GRAND OPENING Dance and Entertain- ment, Cli-Grand Youth Club, 380 Grand Bt. ‘St 8.30 p.m. Performance by Workers Theas tre, New Dance Group. . PRIVATE showing of ‘Soviet Film and Lecture by Bonchi Freedman, N. ¥. Dis- trict Organizer of F. 8. U., at 35 E. 12th Street, at 8.30. * NATIONAL Students League Dance and Entertainment, for expelled students, 583 6th Ave. Adm. 20c. ° HOUSE PARTY, Prench Workers Club, 40 W. 65th Bt. eles ie (Bronx) CONCERT and Dance, Russian Night, 9092 Hull Avenue, corner 204th St., 10 Dm. Auspices, Moshulu Br. F.8.U, Adm. 200. * # WEST BRONX Dance and Entertainment given by Concourse Progressive Club, 288 E. 174th Bt. ae DAILY WORKER Volunteer Meeting of Section 5 at 569 Prospect Ave., at 2.30 p.m, All organizations are to send representatives. om (Brooklyn) PARTY given by Ella May Branch LL.D. at 4109 13th Ave. Dancing, entertainment, Tefreshments. Admission free, aay HOUSE PARTY by Scottsboro Br. LL.D. at 1640 Sterling Place. Apt. 60, RED BIRTHDAY Party for Oscar Buch- Registration starts this Monday, October 9, and continues through all week to Saturday. You must register to vote! © Register Communist and keep your Party on the ballot! Minor Hits Tiger Terror on Negroes NEW YORK.—Twenty-five Negro and white workers, representing churches, unions, clubs and fraternal organizations, who were told by Mayor O’Brien, after he kept a morn- ing appointment with them at four o'clock in the afternoon, that there was “no proof of lynch terror,” against Negroes in this city, heard a different story when they interviewed Robert Minor, Communist candidate for Mayor. They had waited five hours for Mayor O’Brien, but they found Minor waiting for them at the Workers School, 50 E. 13th St. There were no political flunkeys, detectives or po- lice squads to “usher” the workers in. The delegation told Minor of the protest they had against the lynch terror being whipped up by the Po- lice Department with its hunt for a ficticious “gorilla man.” “What stand does the Communist Party take on the lynch indict- ment?” they asked. “You have been to the Demo- cratic city government,” said Minor. “In coming to the Communist Party you have come home, This is your Party.” He held up a copy of the protest containing a list of inciting actions against Negroes, which the Mayor had tried to make little of, and said: “The Communist Party backs these charges with its signature, but it does not stop there. The Communist Party is a Party of deeds, not words.” “The Democratic Party of O’Brien is the same that rules the South and has the blood: of thousands of Negroes on its hands,” he con- tinued. He pointed to the murdering of the Negro worker Matthews on Wel- fare Island as an instance of the normal functioning of the Democratic Party. Referring to the Fusion candidate LaGuardia’s speech Monday night at Cooper Union, the fighting Commu- nist candidate asked: “Did you sees what he said about the Negroes? I'll show you all he said—on this piece of paper.” He held up a blank sheet. “Why is this lynch terror being brought up from the South? Starva- tion is rampant in New York. Bank- ers do not wish to relieve the situa- tion. Tammany is the representa- tive of the bankers and they do not wish to tax the bankers to pay for unemployment relief. “They know that the only way we | can obtain what rightfully“ belongs to us is through mass struggle. And the most ominous thing they see is that the color line is breaking down. That is bad for them and they know it,” said Minor. “They work up their lynch hysteria to keep the Negro and white workers divided.” Minor bared the anti-Negro posi- tion of the Fusion, Republican and Socialist Parties. Then, turning to what the Communist Party advises the workers to do, he said: “Organize for self defense, not only with Negroes, but with the militant white workers also, Don’t take the white man’s word for it, make him prove his sincerity in fighting for Negro rights with ac- tion.” He pointed to Isadore Dorf- man, a member of the delegation, who was arrested and beaten by Police at the Abyssinian Church after he came to the defense of a Negro woman, as an example of a sincere fighter aaginst Negro op- pression. “Stir up the masses, Negro and white, so that no cop will dare to frame or beat a Negro. Use your candidates, Burroughs, Patterson, Ford,” said Minor, “not just for meet- ings, but to lead you in exposing and smashing every Jim-Crow place in Harlem and outside. Demonstrate against the discrimination in relief. “Don’t you feel ashamed,” he asked a worker in the delegation, “that you haven't yet picketed these Jim Crow stores, theatres and buildings with a sign reading, ‘Jim Crow, Keep Out?” FAIL TO BREAK CUSTOM TAILORS STRIKE NEW YORK.—All attempts on the part of the Merchant Tailors Society and the officials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers to break the strike of the custom tailors now in its fifth week, have thus far failed. Members of the Amalgamated sent to scab on the strikers by the organizer of local 62 A. C. W. have refused to take the jobs when they found that the shop was on strike. With 62 shops already settled in- cluding the Merchant Tailor’s on 5th Avenue, Donald Hopkins, Blau and Bolnick and Greenhouse, the strikers ae the strike with increased igor. ty Unit 23. Music and entertainment. Ad- mission 20c, . Sunday PAUL MILLER will speak on the “War Danger” at Tom Mooney Br. LL.D., 818 Broadway, near 1th St., at 3 p.m. ae ‘UPPER HARLEM Unemployed Council will hold Forum and Dance, Richard B, Sul- livan will speak on ‘1 at Cooperative Mass singing led * OAKLEY JOHNSON will lecture on “The Anti-War Congress and the Next Step,” at the Bronx Workers Club, 1610 Boston Road at 8 p.m. ‘ . BATH BEACH UNEMPLOYED Council Spaghetti Party at Workers Center, 87 Bay 25th St., Brooklyn, at 7 p.m. Concert and Entertainment. “Adm. 15¢. a er) A REGULAR MEETING of all Party and mass organization speakers of Section 4 will be held at the Estonian Workers Hall, 27 W. 15th St. at 11 am. io eae a LECTURE on “Mayoralty Campaign” by by Bugene Nigob. * ‘ogress! 169 Sumner Ave, Auspices, Communist Par- Dr. I. Stamler, at the J. Louis Engdahl Workers Club, 3092 Hull Ave,, corner 204 Bt. at 6.30 pm. CARL BRODSKY ma Manager of the Communist Elec- tion Campaign Committee and can- didate for Assembly, 3rd District, Bronx. WILLIAM PATTERSON d National Secretary of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, and Commu- nist candidate for Alderman from the 19th District, Harlem. LEON BLUM Framed leader of the Laundry Workers Indu s- trial Union now in Comstock, N. Y. jail. Communist = candidate for Mu- nicipal Court Justice, 2nd Dis- . trict, Bronx. Red Birthday Party ‘The Progressive Workers club, 159 Sumner Ave. is arranging a red birthday party tonight to Oscar Bu- chanan, Negro worker and Commu- nist candidate for Assemblyman in the 6th Assembly District, Brooklyn. Buchanan, who has been active in “any strike struggles now faces at osent a framed-up charge of as- ault, for helping to organize the shoe workers of H. Jacobs & Sons. Knitgoods Strikers Look to NTWIU in Fight for Gains By LOUIS HYMAN A few years ago the United Textile Workers organized a local of knit- goods workers. They paid very little attention to this local and entirely abandoned the knitgoods workers to the mercy of the bosses. Then, to get rid of the knitgoods workers, Mc, Mahon, president of the U. T. W., discovered that the knitgoods trade | produces skirts, jackets and dresses and turned the knitgoods workers over to the I. L. G, W. U. The I. L. G. W. U, issued a charter but never made a real effort to organize the knitgoods workers, I. L. G. W. Abandons Workers I remember how at a meeting of the General Executive Board of the International in 1926 a committee of knitgoods workers came demanding that the International help them carry on a drive to organize the trade. The committee asked for financial assistance so that the local could have the means to begin the work. Do you think that this justified re- quest was granted? No! The Gen- eral Executive Board refused to sup- port the local with a single cent. The well known Jacob Halperin, then vice-president permanently on the payroll, who has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from the union treasury for himself, made a motion that the charter be taken away and the local be dissolved. “We will never get any profit out of the knitgoods workers, they are scabs. They will never pay dues,” Mr. Halperin stated. I was at that time the manager of the Joint Board and a member o! the Generai Executive ‘ Board, sprang to my feet and bitterly at- tacked Halperin’s motion. To pass such a motion, I stated, would’ be a crime and betrayal of the workers. “Do not revoke their charter. Maybe they will succeed in organizing their trade with their own forces and with- out your aid.” But my arguments, my pieas that the knitgoods workers’ local should continue to exist, fell on deaf ears. Halperin’s motion was carried. The local was dissolved. Since then the International did not concern itself with the knitgoods workers. Industrial Union Organizes When the Industrial Union was formed we established a knitgoods department and began organization work. We organized a number of knigoods mils. We led strikes in some of the largest shops in the trade. We won improvements in the conditions of the workers and began preparations for a general strike to organize the entire trade and to win conditions for the workers. When the bosses saw that we were gaining in membership and were or- ganizing new shops, that we had be- come a factor to be reckoned with in the trade and were on the eve of a general strike, they called in the He agents of the United Textile Workers without the knowledge of the work- ers and signed an agreement with them on the basis of the low wages of the cotton code. ‘This aroused the indignation of the International. Why should the United get away with it when the agents of the International can serve the bosses just as loyally as the legents of the United. Dubinsky’s heart suddenly began to ache for the knitgoods workers. He“ decided to come into the situation and, just like McMahon, sent his representative, Mr. Goldberg, not to the workers, but to the president of the association to see that a deal be made with the In- ternational instead of with the United. The president of the bosses’ association answered that as yet the association has no labor trouble, but when labor trouble develops he would call the International. When the strike of the knitgoods workers was called by the Industrial Union the bosses turned for help both to the United and to the In- ternational to help them break the strike. For a few days the bureau- crats of both the International and |the United Tertxile Workers were fighting among themselves as to who should have the privilege of fleecing the workers and breaking the strike. Last Friday they made peace and are jointly carrying on their strikebreak- ing activities. Dubinsky-McMahon-Strikebreakers ‘The knitgoods workers must answer this combined attempt to break their strike by solidifying their ranks on the picketline. The knitgoods work- ers must not permit themselves to be misled by the beautiful phrases of Mr. Dubinsky. What did the Inter- national and Mr. Dubinsky do for the knitgoods workers when they were under their jurisdiction? At that time, when there was no immediate prospect of getting money from the workers, both Dubinsky and McMa- hon refused to do anything to help organize the knitgoods workers. At that time Roosevelt’s Blue Eagle, which is being used to fill up the treasuries of the labor racketeers, was not yet in force. Then it would have been necessary to spend money to or- ganize the knitgoods workers, But now the bosses force the workers to pay dues and both Dubinsky and Mc- Mahon are anxious to get this pres- ent from the bosses, the right to ex- tort money for their rackets from 15,000 knitgoods workers. The knitgoods workers must re- pudiate the strikebreaking activities of the officials of the United Textile Workers and the International and build a united front of all workers in the trade. They must rally to the strike and carry on the strike until the bosses have given in to their de- mands and the right to belong to the Industrial Union, the union of their choice, Will You Miss This Night? October: 18, 1933 WEDNESDAY 8 P.M. EMIL NYGARD Communist Mayor of Crosby, Minnesota Will Greet ROBERT MINOR | Communist Candidate for Mayor of New York City ATA “Vote Communist ’ Banquet NEW STAR CASINO 101 East 107th Street — Other Speakers — EARL BROWDER WILLIANA BURROUGHS BEN GOLD New Dance Group—Music—Workers Lab.Thea. 1,500 Seats Going Fast! RESERVATIONS $1.00 (including seven course dinner) In Advance Only at Communist Election Campaign Committee 799 BROADWAY GRamercy 5-8780 Oe t) te