The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1933, Page 2

4 «ge Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, rmunsDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1933 3osses Alarmed at Communist Gains — in Harlem Section Herald Tribune Admits Growing Resistance of | Negro Masses to Unparalleled Poverty, Mass Misery and Unemployment Harlem Described as the “Hungriest, Unhealth- iest, Most Depression-Ridden Section in Greater New York” By CYRIL BRIGGS. With its Negro population segregated and victimized by rent-gouging | shite and black landlords, discriminated against in public construction work and other jobs and in relief, Harlem is admitted by the Herald-Tribune (Sunday, Oct. 8) to be “the hungriest, unhealthiest, most depression-ridden section in Greater New York.” In Harlem “there is more misery and despair | than may be found in any othere-——-——-—— —_— the Negro masses, the growing in-} fluence of the Communist Party in| Harlem and the increasing radicali- | zation of the Negro ma: ‘only 12,000...are at present employ- same evils that po’ brings to/ 0 t f N S missions by the capitalist which } ee spond-| NEW YORK—In a mig, protest ing to the correct leader: With unemployment has come white people, but in greater degree.” | habitually hide the x op-/Denounce Democratic and pro- | 2ction, Negro and white workers of gram of the Commur t = neighborhood of the city Of its Fl th h W k e attending evil: What are the reasons for these ad- | The Alderman; Cheer Party of | 2ast Flatbush, Brooklyn, yesterday total Negro population of over 300,000} ey Drivi Communists demonstrated their indignation subbess Struggle against all forms of | against the attempts of local land- fearfully adouts the Breath of Gen {lords and city officials to drive Ne- | gro families out of a section they have occupied for 20 years. The dem- |onstration, held at Tilden and Lott considerable degree of success. | Sts, East Flatbush, was addressed Educated and uneducated Negroes |by Williana Burroughs, Communist alike are becoming more vocal in |candidate for Comptroller of the their demands for professional, and City of New York, and director of in many cases, social equality.” the Harlem Workers au eri 6 oy iin” NE . vera, Communist candidate for al- Re ee nae Pree’ srald-|derman in the 21st Assembly. Dis- sie aia cite mnatera: and: theb trict, Brooklyn. The meeting adopted fear. They see the, ® resolution condemning Democratic ney See /°| Aderman Sahner, who is running for re-election in the 21st, for his re- ~' fusal to join the protest against the munist influence in Harlem: the Communists have met a earidini Savage persecution of Negro ten- of the Comfnuni ants of the three-story brick tene- huge crowds the Com- ment at 2330 Tilden Ave, munist election cheering James W. Ford, Communist leader in Harlem and candidate for alderma in the 2lst districi; Robert Minor veteran Communi: ighter for the rights of the People and can- didate for mayor; William Patterson, national leader in the Scottsboro fizht and candidate for alderman in the 19th distric William Fitzgerald, Herman McKewain and other Negro and white Communist banner-bear- ers. They see the masses of Harlem, condemned by the capitalist system to unempl ent, poverty, jim-crow The p rocess of driving Negro ten- ants out of the section has been go- ng on for the past two years, with the active -alliance of Board of Health and Tenement House Depart- | ment officials with the landlords, who are seeking to erect modern | apartment buildings in the section to accommodate business men who | within the past few years have moved |their businesses near the section. Houses have been condemned and ;torn down under the pretext of mak- ing ground for the building of a public school. Where Negro tenants mage |have resisted, the Water Supply bi rallyin around the Commu- Company cut off their water and the nist demands for the right of Negroes \Board of Health conveniently to any job in any trade, industry and profession, for equal pay, for unem- ployment relief and sccial insurance to be paid by the bosses and their! government, without discrimination, for an end to the volice terror and Neliee-inspired lynch incitement in Although this building is in as good the Herald-Tribune and other cav- ‘condition as most of the houses in italist gutter sheets, for an open trial| the neighborhood, it was condemned and punishment of the Tammany)on Oct. 3 by the Tenement House officials guilty of the murder of Department which ordered the ten- James Matthews and the suspicious! ants to vacate by Oct. 16, The pre- deaths of other Negro prisoners on texts offered for this order are “an Welfare Island. And the sight of the | accumulation of old stoves, carriages, increasing militancy of the Negro; mattresses, old furniture and paper” masses fills them with undisguised|in the cellar; “broken plaster in the dread: “There is little doubt...that Har- | stepped in to condemn the buildings as unsanitary. Tenants of 2330 Tilden Ave., sup- ported by white and Negro workers in the neighborhood, are putting up a stern fight to retain their homes. ports on rear fire-escapes,” IN PATERSON | F. of L., Associated and unorgan.ze | tempted to hold simultaneous meet- cellar,” “defective angle of iron sup-/on the grou! “Jeak- | lem is beginning to look upon it- self and becoming ready to fight for the things that are withheld from it.” ‘Tries To Cover Up Misery +», While admitting the heavy toll of thé crisis on the population of Har- lem, in increased unemployment poverty, disease and the death rate, the Herald-Tribune deliberately dis- torts figures in an attempt to hide @8 much as possible the terrific misery imposed by capitalism upon the Ne- gro people. While the Health De- partment figures reveal a death rate of 185 per 1,000 in Harlem, as against the general death rate for greater New York of 11 per 1,000, the Herald- ‘Tribune substitutes the unit of 100,000 for 1,000, putting the Harlem death rate at 18.5 per 100,000. Similarly it puts the Negro population of Harlem at 250,000 in order to juggle the per- centage figures on unemployment, ing water supply pipes.” The tenants point out that the city has the power to force the landlord to make repairs. Their water has been cut off for |non-payment by the landlord of the water rate, although the usual pro- {cedure is for the water company to |secure an attachment uguimst the | house. | Last week a delegation of five Ne- groes and three whites visited Dem- ocratic Alderman Sahner to protest these persecutions. Sahner, who js running for re-election, refused to aid the tenants. He insultingly told |the delegation he had done his best |to help “the niggers of Flatbush,” | that when “the nigger church want- |ed a tent he used his influence to get | it.” | The workers brandesl Sahner as |part of the machine set up by the landlords and business men to drive | Negroes out of their homes. They | told him that since he was powerless giving the totally unemployed at 80 | to secure civil rights for them, they per cent of the population. Even| would have to elect a candidate who bourgeois agencies admit that 90 per \is not afraid to lead their delegation cent of the heads of families are un-|and protest against the oppression employed, while of single workers 85 -Per cent are out of work. Of those employed, at least 15 per cent are on part time—a fact not mentioned by} the Herald-Tribune, which also ig- Niores the starvation wages paid to those employed, especially to the domestic workers. "Phe ravages of disease on the im- ied, undernourished Harlem | population is similarly concealed, al- though the Herald-Tribune is forced to record the over-crowded conditions of the Harlem Hospital, the “single municipal institution which serves the whole district. And there, in a building equipped to accomodate 325 inmates, 405 beds, filled at all times, aré placed in aisles and corridors, Similarly, in the out-patient depart- ment, where 40,000 visits a year would be about normal, 140,000 patients came for free treatment last year.” tj-not a mention of the brutal atment, of the experiments on Ne- gro patients by inexperienced white internes, of the suspicious deaths of scores of Negroes, or of the militant struggles of Harlem workers, lead by the Communist Party, agains: these horrible conditions. The Herald- Tribune likewise ignores the wave of protests by Harlemites against the suppression by the N.A.A.C.P. leaders, in defcrence to Tammany, of the re- port on the Harlem Hospital. The fears expressed by the Herald- ibune of the rising militancy of the Negro masses are not unground- | The toiling masses of Harlem will show their determination to fight against discrimination and oppres- sion” by registering under the Ham- mer and Sickle this week, and by voting Communist, for their de mands, in the coming elections. they are undergoing. The delegation ‘was led by Lavera, Communist can- didate in Sahner’s district. Harlem Workers to Place Demands on La Guardia Delegation to Visit the Fusion Candidate This Morning lem workers will call at the office of Major LaGuardia, Fusion candi- date for Mayor, this morning at 11 o'clock to demand that he state his position on the police-inspired lynch incitement against Negroes in the | capitalist press, the murder of James Matthews on Welfare Island, and the |fight for the release of the nine in- nocent Scottsboro.boys in Alabama, The delegation was elected yester- day at a meeting called by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights of delegates of various organizations, at the office of the Harlem Lihera- tor. All members of the original delega- tion which visited Mayor O’Brien last week with similar demands are urged, in a statement issued yester- day by Herman McKawain, chairman of the Harlem James Matthews branch of the L.S.N.R., to join the delegation. The deiegation will meet at the Liberator office at 9 o'clock this morning, Z NEW YORK.—A delegation of Har- | jAve,, at 8:45 p.m, ratte 1,200 SPURN SILK TRUCE Parade Under NTWU! Leadership Is the | Answer to NIRA By MARTIN RUSSEK. PATERSON, N. J., Occ. 11—Twelve thousand strikers, members of the National Textile rs’ Uni A. workers gathered at Sandy Hill Park | here this morning in militant demon- } stration called by the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union. An unusually large number of Associated and A. F. of L. members attended, deserting the Associated Strike Halls which at- ings, Ann Burlak, the main speaker, was greeted with a great ovation. She reported on the conferences held in Washington and New York exposing tho N.R.R., manufacturers and U.T.W. officials. Making a stirring appeal for ever stronger unity, spreading the strike and holding ranks in a de- termined sirugg!s for victory, her | statement of the N.T.W.U. policies was hailed with enthusiastic applause. Other speakers included rank and file strikers, Moe Brown, organizer of the N.T.W.U. in Paterson; Rebecca Grecht, district organizer ¢* {>> New| Jersey Communist Party. The meeting was followed by a surging parade of thousands under the N.T.W.U. banners through the Paterson streets with hundreds of Associated members participating. At the same time of the demonstration and parade, the A. F. L. committee was again in a secret conference here with Moffit, for a new attempt to break the dye strike. This morning Robert Gaffney, or- ganizer of the U.T.W. Upholstery Union of Philadelphia ordered three hundred Paterson Jacquard Uphol- | Stery Weavers back to work on a fake settlement. Bitterly enraged, hun- dreds of Associated workers in a mass Picket line, prevented any return to work to these shops, with the strik- | ers winning a pitched battle at Dob- | lin Hill. Reports have been received here that the State U.T.W. Shop Delegates body in Rhode Isiand voted to strike, effective this afternoon, with de- mands for $30, 30-hour week and three loom system. This would add over 8,000 thousand to strike in the only important silk center not yet | struck due to traitorous U.T.W. Now in its seventh week, the great silk strike stands absolutely solid in all New Jersey and Pennsylvania silk centers and has defeated every at- tempt to open any mill and every | move of the manufacturers, N.R.A. and U.T.W. officials. at disrupting and breaking the strike. | City Events | meee Attention, Y. C. L.’ers | All ¥.C.L. members in the New | York District are to report at their section headquarters today, from 7 to 9 p.m. This special mobilization is of utmost importance, as oka Attention! Party Members Sec. 5, Bronx The Bronx Section headquarters are now located at 699 Prospect Ave. ind floor. All Party speak- | ers must report every night between | 7-8 o'clock or they will be called to responsibility, Section No. 5, Communist Party, | Bronx, N. ¥./ . Laundry Workers Meet William L, Patterson, national sec- retary of the LL.D. will be the prin- | cipal speaker at a meeting of the| Laundry Workers Industrial Union | tonight. The meeting is to protest the | bosses’ N.R.A. code and the framing | of Leon Blum, first organizer of the L.W.1.U., who was jailed in the Pret- ty Laundry strike. * . Meeting of Textile Dyeing Workers A mass meeting of all workers in the textile dyeing industry will be held tonight at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. city. The meeting will take up the question of organization and demands for better conditions. et ee Paper Workers’ Meeting | All workers of the paper industry are urgently requested to attend a meeting night at 8 o'clock at 37 E. 13th St. . B.W.LU. Membership Meeting All members of the Bathrobe Work- ers Industrial Union are urged to attend a membership meeting tonight right after work at 131 West 28th Street, in the auditorium, Caan icin Minor, Gold and Olgin in Bronx Robert Minor, Ben Gold and M. Olgin will speak tonight at the Pel- ham Park Palace, White Plains and Lydig Ave. Bronx Minor at Open Air Meet Robert Minor will speak at an open air meeting arranged by the Y.C.L., tonight at 116th St. and Prospect Knitgoods’ Strike Meet Important mass meeting of knit- goods’ strikers at Webster Hall, E. 11th St., tonight, at which Ben Gold, Irv- ing Potash, M. Rappaport will speak. CORRECTION In the story abeyt the Independ- ent Cleaners and Vyers Union that appeared in the Daily Worker on Oct. 10, it’ was stated that the ICDU is affiliated with the TUUL. This is ‘an error. The ICDU is an independent union and is not af- filiated With any other union or organization. Write to the Daily Worker about every event of interest to workers in your factory, neighborhood or city. BECOME A WORKER COR- RESPONDENT, |cording to GUTTERS OF NEW YORK “goo Moo! t's So SAO WHEN GRETA GARBAGE KISSES HER [OTH LOVER — uch! A geconr ! How oiscusTiNne/ Westport Workers Smash Jim Crow Rules to Hold Scottsboro Meet Demonstration of 500 Tonight Workers Force Town Authorities to Permit Gathering in Town Hall; Ruby Bates to Be Main Speaker WESTPORT, Conn., Oct, 11—Jim-crow regulations which have been illegally enforced in this city will be smashed Thursday night, when Negro and white workers meet at Town Hall for a Scottsboro meeting to be ad- dressed by Ruby Bates, Scottsboro defense witne: speakers, Alice Burke, and local City authorities at first refused to grant a permit for the meeting, because Negroes and whites would not be segregated. A demonstration before the courthouse by 500 Negro and white workers, protesting against | discrimination by a restaurant keeper against a Negro woman and the re- fusal of the prosecutor to enforce the Connecticut Civil Rights Bill, forced them to change their tactics, ‘Ford Picket Line Maintained Despite A. F. of L. Officials Rank and File Taking Over Leadership of Strike EDGEWATER, N, J., Oct. 11—Be- tween eight and nine hundred work- ers participated in the picket line at the Ford plant today. The strikers maintain that they wiil pull out ev- ery scab in the plant and completely tie up production. Some 650 are back in the plant ac- reports. Among them about 80 have been misguided and would undoubtedly join the strike if the program of a united struggle is explained to them. The return of these men is due to the A, F, of L. offic'aldom’s policy of no mass pick~- eting. Hugh Reilly, A. F. of L. organizer, attempted to stop meetings of strik- ers. However, the rank and file ac- tion committee with the direct guid- ance of the Auto Workers Union re- jected this plan. Members of the ac- tion committee called the meeting and spoke to the strikers. Petrow, who is well known as a stool pigeon and under the A, F. of L. misleaders, was made a strikers’ “representative” and tried to interfere with the speak- er, but wag howled down by the men, who shouted “Let him speak!” The program of the rank and file committee was greeted with approval by the strikers. This program calls for mass picketing and pulling out of the workers in the plant as @ pre- requisite for winning the strike. The men are also warned against secret negotiations by the officials. The committee urges the spread- ing of the strike to the main Ford plant in Detroit with the co-opera- tion of the strikers in that city, The rank and file is calling for the or- ganization of department committees and the men formulating their own demands, The A. F. of L, officials kept the strikers in the dark as to their demands. Workers understood that the demand originally was for $5 a day, yet a number of them re- ceived this wage before the walk-out. The Daily Worker was distributed at the A. F, of L. meeting and was gladly taken up by the men, Dismiss Case of Potash, 2 Fur Workers, Press Frame-Up of 3 Others NEW YORK.—Charges of felonious assault against Irving Potash, secre- tary of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, William Greenberg and Julius Schwartz, active fur work- ers were dismissed after hearings in court on Tuesday. They were arrested on July 5 at the instigation of offi- cials of the International Fur Work- ers’ Union, Two active workers, Oscar Milaef and Benjamin Young, were detained for a further hearing. This arrest took place in the midst of the strug- gle this summer, when the Interna- tional offici in collusion with the Association fur manufacturers, at- tempted to force the fur workers into the International. An attempt will be made to press the frame-up against Milaef and Young. Realizing that to press the charge against all of those arrested would easily expose the frame-up na- ture of the charges, the instigators have selected two of the five against whom to press the so-called com- plaints. The Industrial Union is making all preparations to provide ample de- fense to these workers and expose the frame-up Join Nazi Unions Here, Is Order Daily Worker Prints Letter in Full (Continued from Page 1.) (Clerical Employees Union) in Ger- many, all the union rights of the same have been transferred to the | German Nationalist Shop Assistants’ | Union by the new trade group of | the Labor Front. It is therefore indispensable that all GERMAN CITIZENS who are members of our union join a trade union group recognized by the Labor Front, if they want to keep their na- tive and union rights. Members of our union, if American citizens, can also ensure their trade union rights by joining the authofized union group. The authorized trade union group jin New York for commercial em- ployees is the German Nationalist Shop Assistants’ Union. We are informed that GERMAN CITIZENS who are members of our | union, who do not hand us their transfer to the G.N.S.A.U. by Sept. 30, 1933, lose the above rights. In order to learn the attitude of the majority of our membership, it is of the greatest importance to every single member and in the interest of the union that the questions on the enclosed card be filled out and the same sent back to us at once, The executive will make its decision and | take steps on the basis of the execu- tive. | Unpaid dues for the current half year are to be paid to our un‘on now as in the past. Dues paid to us by members who may transfer will cover the current higher dues in the G. N, S. A. U, until Sept. 31, 1933. Members who wish further explan- ation are requested to meet in the Hotel George Washington, Lexing- ton Ave, and 23d’St., New York, N. Y., on Friday, Sept. 27, 1933, at 8 p.m. Asking that the filled out card be sent in at once we remain, With fraternal greetings, Commercial Union of 1858, The Executive Board. Tom Mann’s Farewell Meeting Sunday in St. Nicholas Arena NEW YORK.—The veteran Brit- ish working class fighter, Tom Mann, whose farewell mass meeting will be held this Sunday evening at St. Nicholas Arena, 66th St. and Colum- bus Ave., will participate in the re- port of tho --"*h delevation just returned from the World C22gecc: Against War and Fascism in Paris at the same meeting. This will be Mann’s finel address in this coun- try, as the Immigration Department limited his stay to only 15 days. Besides the two youth delegates, Thomas Joyce and Lonnie Williams, the other speakers, will be C, A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, Frank Olmsiead of New York University and Donald Hen- derson of the American League Against War and Fascism. |EDISON CO. SHOP, GIVES $3.50 FOR C. P. ELECTION NEW YORK.—<An Edison Co. shop collected $3.50 for the Com- munist election campaign fund. Many workers of the Edison plant are becoming convinced of the Communist Party’s sole leadership of the workers for every demand, said the representative of the workers who brought in the col- lection, Whalen Calls A.F.L. Break Shoe Strike Thousands to Come Out in Protest Friday NEW YORK.—The latest strike~ breaking move of Grover Whalen against the big shoe strike involving 12,000 shoe workers was revealed in the announcement yesterday that the N.R.A. administration “had called a hurried conference of representatives of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union and the Shoe Manufacturers’ Board of Trade at N.R.A. headquarters to avert a strike of 18,000 shoe workers. Coupled with this attempt to break the strike is the plan to foist the A. F, of L, Boot and Shoe Union on the workers not employed in the shops, with the usual tactics of in- timidation and terrorism. In a statement today on Whalen’s newest union smashing, strike break- ing program, Fred Biedenkapp de- clared that the union would mobilize immediately for a mass demonstra- tion at Hotel Pennsylvania on Fri- day noon in protest and calls the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and every working class organ- ization to rally tens of thousands of workers to the demonstration in sup- port of the right of the shoe workers to join a union of their own choice. Pointing out that the Boot and Shoe Workers Union made an open statement in the presence of Henry Wolf, N.R.A. mediator and 20 shoe worker delegates that they had noth- ing to do with the present strike and further that the Boot and Shoe Union is practically non-existent in the shoe shops, Biedenkapp’s statement de- clared in part: “Grover Whalen did not find the time or think it of im- portance to pay any attention to the eight-week strike of nearly 12,000 shoe, slipper and stitch down workers but openly connived with the manu- facturers to break it. Like that arch strike breaker, Charles G. Woods, who told the manufacturers in 1929 to Jock out every worker in their employ, Whalen has told the bosses to hold out until the workers are starved into submission. Failing in this das- tardly attempt to defeat the strikers, he plans now to help the bosses and the Boot and Shoe Workers Union organize the scabs and strikebreakers in the shops on strike, together with the fey workers being forced to join in the shops not on strike. This com- prises not more than 800 altogether. These are the 18,000 shoe workers Whalen refers to when he rushes to press with the news that he is to avert a big strike. “The Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union calls upon all shoe, slipper and stitchdown workers to beware of the trickery of the local N.R.A. which, in conspiracy with the bosses and the A. F. of L,, has cre- ated a fictitious membership in the Boot and Shoe Union, a fake strike situation, a fake settlement and then declaring all strikes ended, will make another attempt through injunctions and police terror to drive the workers back to the same slavery and starva- tion_as before, “On Friday, Oct. 12 at 12 o'clock, tens of thousands must turn out in a colossal demonsiration in front of N.R.A. headquarters at Hotel Penn- sylvania to express their determina- tion to maintain their own organiza- tion and to put a stop to the strike- breaking, starvation program of the bosses supported by Grover Whalen.” Club Striking Painters on Picket, Line as the Terror Drive Continues NEW YORK.—Police and gangster terror against the painters on strike under the Alteration Painters Union continued unabated. On Tuesday, John Swire a Negro picket, was at- tacked with two other pickets and so severely slugged by gangsters hired by Zausner, secretary of Painters’ District Council 9 of the Painters Brotherhood, that he had to be taken to the Columbus Hospital. The work- ers were picketing at a building at 614 W. 152nd St., owned by the Sun Leasing Corporation. Yesterday Henry Galig, picketing together with 50 other workers at 26th St. and Kings Highway, de- fended himself when an officer at- tempted to club him. He was arrested after scab agents inside the house had rushed out to aid in the attack, At the police station, 12 cops pounced on the worker and clubbed him mer- cilessly. He was held on $1,000 bail on charges of assault and his case is to go to the Grand Jury. Communist, Teacher Leader, Denounce Cuts in Education Budget NEW YORK, ‘Oct. 11.—Speaking before the Board of Estimate, Willi- ana Burroughs, Communist candidate for Comptroller, and expelled from the public school system by the Tam- many City government for protesiing against teachers’ wage cuts, today de- nounced the city government for its failure to provide adequate relief and educationay facilities for the Negro and white children of the city. In a blistering attack on Mayor O'Brien, who smiled mockingly dur- ing the protest speech of Mrs. Bur- Troughs, she declared: “This attitude of m indif- ference is responsible for the hun- ger and stunted educational facili-. ties of the Tammany city govern- ment. It is in this way the city meets the needs of the Negro peo- ple who apply for relief against starvation.” Isidore Begun, representative of the Unemployed Teachers Association, presented a program of seven de- mands, among which were “relief for 13,000 unemployed teachers who are being pauperized, and funds for starving children, restoration of last year's wage cut, and the restoration of all the various school services that the city has eliminated. Other organizations represented protesting against teachers’ wage cuts, demanding free food and clothing for the children of unemployed workers, and against any cuts in the appro- priations for education, were Corona Parents Association, Brighton Beach Parent-Teachers Association, Bronx P. T. A, Harlem P. T. A, and Queens P. §. 150, and United Council of Working Class Women~ GP | Oodward “Football’s KE many another business, the boom days. T $1,500,000. universities, including Michi- gan, Ohio State, Illinois, Penn- sylvania, Yale, Harvard, Northwest- ern, have stadiums which cost in the neighborhood of $1,000,000. In Stanford, where he coached up to last year, the $100,000 office build- ing contains a graduate manager, his corps of assistants, with stenogra- phers, the ticket sales management’s office, private telephone exchanges, grounds engineers, an accountant, a publicity man and a staff of assist- ing physical directors with another considerable secretarial staff. “That is just the beginning of what football has bought for Stan- ford University,” Warner continues. “A stadium costing about three quar- ters of a million has been built and football is paying for it. The gym- nasium has been enlarged. Three swimming pools have been installed on the campus. A dozen modern ten- nis courts costing $80,000 have been built. A women’s gymnasium costing a quarter of a million has just been completed. The finest baseball dia- mond owned by any university in the country has been completed, together with four practice diamonds and several practice football fields. An 18-hole golf course costing about $150,000 has been laid out and com- pleted.” Tsk, Tsk ND here follows Pop's plaintive cry from the depths—“All these fa- cilities were paid for or underwritten largely by football, the great provid- er. And on top of the investment in athletic facilities the board of ath- letic control found means, out of football earnings, to underwrite the building of a men’s dormitory cost- ing around half a million and to con- tribute in a large way to funds need- ed for salaries of professors.” Consider that tie-up. Virtually every branch of a university de- pendent on the drawing power of its footbali team. Imagine a pro- fessor whose chair had been newly established by the earninys of one of Pon’s high powered machines, flunkine the eveterback whese play may mean $200,000, to use the ex- Stanford coach’s expressive literary medium. Like Barnum’s horses and capital- ism’s crises, this thing moves in cir- cles. THe ambitious board of trustees or alumni association hires the Jones or Little kind of coach and a staff which may, according to Warner, cost $50,000, The staff in turn scouts, 94h ae hires and breaks in a score of high school captains, steel mill workers, rs) mee rv New Deal” * football was overinflated during “What we need is a new-deal code to restore normal, san@ conditions to college athletics and to football in particular.” Thus Pop Warner in the week’s Saturday Evening Post Pittsburgh University, he observes, has nearly $2,000,000 ine vested in a stadium. The University of California probably has A score or more® 2 ; |lumberjacks. Students from all over the country flock to the romantic little college which knocked off the great Dartvard in a curtain raiser, New chairs in thermodynamics, an« alysis-situs, epidemiology and noetics are established. The team keeps winning for a sea- son or two, then loses three games in @ row. Revolt on the campus. Scalps of the coaches. The student body now has a tradition to uphold and the athletic association a stadium to up- keep. More scouts to the steel mills, Pavlicovic from Gary. Yentchik from Bethlehem. Just so long as Yentchilk cuts through interference who cares if he cuts the noetics class? (Ed. Note—Not me. What’s noet- ics?) (I don’t know. This catalogue lists it—E. N.) The team wins again. More chairs, more students, more tuition fees, Warner: “The team was entitled to the best that money could buy, and therefore, every player on the squad had to have two or more pairs of $18-shoes, plus de-luxe jerseys, trou- sers, helmets and blankets, which ran into an investment per player up to anywhere from $100 to $200, I once had occasion to write to coaches of a number of teams to find out about equipment expenses of their squads and found that $5,000 was not an unusual sum to spend for equip- ment.” . “A Depression Happens...” ARGE squads are taken cross~ country to play exhibition games in special trains equipped with every luxury money can provide. And then, tsk, tsk, “a depression happens.” Pop goes to Temple, the epidemiology professor is bounded, Yentchik’s wages are cut,| But there remain the underwritten buildings, the 18-hole golf courses and impoverished stu- dent bodies. What’s Pop’s New Deal? He proposes to do away with m-~- derwriting and “financial induce- ments” to players. He proposes to foster good will between opposing teams. “Mens sana in corpore sano,’ as the New York Times reports Prie mo Carnera’s message to his home town in Italy. The hell with the epi- demiology prof! Retrench. The circles remain. Educational and athletic facilities within the colleve remain dependent on gate receipts, Madly exclusive concen- tration on football by 50 or 60 stu- — dents is retained as a principle. The perverted standards, the petty graft, the special privileges, stay recognized, Pop’s New Deal is as new as Roosevelt's and as feasible. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Lapeit, who was the first to enter the burning building, described his ob- servations in detail: “I immediately noticed a very large number of separate fires, and therefore realized that combustibles must have been strewn about every- where. I noticed a strange burn- ing smell unusual at fires, as well as flame spouting up yards high, confirming my opinion that large amounts of incendiary fuel had used. “The fire looked different where the seats and panelling were burn- ing, I found all the entrances to the building locked. The main ses- sion chamber was dai‘: in spite of several fires burning thers, particu- larly a fire behind the Speaker's chair, The curtains were burning at the entrance to the chamber. I found van der Lubbe’s overcoat in the lobby.” Coached Eyewitnesses Testify Yesterday the Nazi student Floe- ter, continuing his testimony, in- volved himself in contradictions. On Feb. 28 he said that he had seen a man entering the Reichstag carry- ing a torch. On April 7 he declared that he had seen only one man on the night of Feb. 27, but yesterday he testified that he saw the shadows of other persons. Dimitroff wented to question the witness, but Judge Buenger, an- noyed by the contradictions in which this valuable witness is en- tangled, forbade Dimitroff to speak. Dimitroff protested against the crippling of his defense. Court Maintains Fiction The court is obviously determined to maintain the version that van der Lubbe was the sole incendiary. The evidence of Nazi complicity would be too great if it were proved that van der Lubbe had any ideas, especially since the court's attempts to prove any connection between van der Lubbe and the Communists have broken down completely. Two Berlin policemen who were patrolling the streets near the Reich- stag on the night of the fire were the next witnesses. One cop con- firmed Floeter, reporting that he had heard a window break and seen a man carrying a lighted firebrand. Floeter expressly repeated: “I saw only one man. Others say there were two men, but they probably saw the shadow of the first fellow. The man climbed in through a window in the west side of the building.” ‘The next witness, Policeman Bu- wert, said that he told an unknown person, shortly after speaking to Floeter, that the police station at Brandburger Gate should be in- formed. He stated that he saw lights in rooms on the ground floor of the Reichstag building after he had spoken to Flocter. He recognized nothing distinctly. Buwert, too, was certain that only one person was moving about. He fired at the figure and it vanished, It is not impossible that this was Dimitrotf Expelled from Court the brief agreed-upon signal for the withdrawal of van der Lubbe’s con- federates through the subterranean passage. Buwert then alleged that the fire department arrived immediately aft- erwards. The next witness, a certain Thaler, stated “that he saw the outbreak of the fire as he was coming from the Brandenburger Gate. He heard the crashing of glass in the Reichstag, and had the impression that two persons were climbing in. He ad- mitted that he was some distance away at the time. He stated that the climber had nothing burning in his fand. He saw the fact of the second climber. He heard the win- dow-pane break at eight minutes past 9 p. m. He notified Buwert, who fired a shot, and the figure in- side the Reichstag vanished. Thaler and Floeter were then confronted with each other. Al- though these witnesses were ob- viously coached, disagreeable con- tradictions still exist—whether one or two persons—whether they were carrying lighted firebrands or not, and the time when they were seen, The prosecution is only successfu) in drilling witnesses to state that they saw van der Lubbe climb in from the outside, These contradic- tions made a deep impression on the foreign press representatives, Dimitroff endeavored to expose these contradictions still further, by questioning the witnesses, but clashed with Judge Buenger, who prohibited Dimitroff’s questions. Dimitroff protested, saying: “I am gait debtor but a creditor at this fal,” A ridiculous game followed—put~ ting a prepared question to van det Lubbe, who answered as “Yes” or “No.” He stated entered alone. When asked why he his confederates, van der Lubbe re- mained silent, Dimitroff repeated the question: “Did you act alone?” Van der Lubbe answered: “Yes.” Dimitroff: “This is impossible!” A great sensation was caused in the courtroom when van der Lubbe replied to the question of whether he set the fire with material ‘pre- pared by others by answering: “I cannot say.” Dimitroff- shouted: “Then you were not alone, but the tool of others.” Dr. Sack, Torgler’s Nazi attorney, declared that the insinuating smile on the prosecutor's face would cer- tainly lead him to take up the ques. tion of van der Lubbe being the too! of others, The proceedings ended with the testimony of Kuhl, Mrs. Kuhl and Freudenberg, typical German phili- stines, who recited their well-learned lesson, that i wrote | relatives that he would never be' nog Your Party on the Ballot. ister Communist October 9 to 14, he i | =J