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

| j { | anemone Page Two “WITHDRAW OFFICIALSFROM Police Rai Office NRA,” AFL CON ) (Continued from LDA 1) | me unions and the A. F. of L. itself shall become part of the machinery of the | government.” Assails “Merit” Clauses r unions become decrees of a government whi 1 en- @ government of wealth and treriched in private and corporate privilege,” Suny continued. He as- Sailed the “merit” clauses in the N.R. | | codes, and shouted through the plat- | form microphone: “Withdraw — all | union officials from N.R.A. posts. The Resolution The following is the text of Suny’s Speech: “Resolution No, 100 has for its pur- pose the defense of the fundamenta! principle of the trade union move ment, that is, the maintenance by tt working class and its union organ tions of complete independence from the employers and their organizations | and independence from the g ment which, under one other, represents the interest employers . “There are already score stances in the last four mo the U.S.A. occurring in practically every strike of workers, for the right | to organize, the right to picket better wages and working condi which prove that the so-called right | to organize, under Section 7A of the NRA. is purely a formal right. It is as it has always been, a right that has to be won by a united ac tion’ of workers. Without the right | to the strike weapon, which is being} forbidden under the N.R.A., labor is helpless. Organization under such conditions is a meaningless term. Yet we haye had appearing at this con- vention presuming to advise, as friends of labor, government officials | like Senator Wagner, General John- g0n, Secretary of Labor Perkins, and even the President himself, asking us to surrender the strike weapon. “This advice has even appeared ir the form of a demand. It aid gome of these advi: acting in their capacity as government officials, that Strikes are ‘economic sabotage.’ But it would be very e to prove here that the only consideration which labor has received from the NRA has been through strikes or the fea: of strikes. “The hint is also made, it also ap- pears from time to time as a de- mand, coming from the spokesmen of the government, and voiced here as well by the officials of the A. F. of Ii—that our unions and the A. F. of L, itself shall become part of the Machinery of the government. “This is the way straight to suicide for independent trade unionism. It means nothing less than the use of the unions to compel the acceptance of: whatever compromise is worked out between the employers and the government on the question of wages, hours and working conditions. It means that our unions become CITY AFFAIRS BEING HELD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE October 13th: Movies and Lecture “Land of Lenin,” & Soviet film and lecture on “The Daily Worker in the Struggle Against the N.R.A.” by John Adams. Given by Unit 1, Section 7 at 100 Glymer Street, Brookly or an- of the} Reception Party for Comrades Gins- berg on their return to the U.S.A at 3120 Coney Island Ave., Peckarsky. Auspices of Workers Club. “Who Fired the Reichstag?” lecture by Phil Bart, of the Daily Worker, at the Wm. Hushka Br. LLD., 129 Brighton Beach Brooklyn. ‘Tes Party given 8 LW.O. at 35 E. St., 2nd | American Youth Federation will hold @ lecture on “Did Hitler Burn the Reichstag?” by Robert Hamilton, October 14th: Chow Mein tertainment, 12, Kest Side &t., top floor, at 8 p.m. Dancing, refreshments. Admission free. Concert given by at 573 Stone Ave. 10, Sect. 8, Brooklyn, 8 p.m Film Showing of a New Soviet Feature Film at the Gorki Club, 66 E. 4th St., New York City, 2nd floor, at 815 pm. Given by Unit 2, Sec. 1 Movie Showing and Unit 5 and 6, Sec. Place, N.Y.C 8 pm, | Studio Pi rt and Dance at || 77 Sth Ave., Top floor, | Dance and E: Unit 8, Sec. ment given by at 95 Avenue B, Roof Garden Party at 810 E. 6th St., hear Avenue D. Given by Unit 11 |. and 12, Sec, 1. Entertainment and Social, given by the Maiman and Sanger Shop at 114 W. ist St. Lots of fun! John Reed 4 lub, Professional dancing. at 56 W. 133th St. from 8.30 p.m. until dawn. Blind Negro Jazz | can be said with complete truth that | }in VENTION TOLD merely Woudcopeascts for broadcasting f which is still wealth and en-| ate and corporate | is been known, and} by the organized labor of | rkers get only what nay to wrest from the employers by their organized str th. The final test is always in the withdrawal of labor power—the | strike struggle. To take any other | view is to pave the way for complete | surrender of the most elementary and | vital rights of labor and its organ- | | izations “The presence of A. F. of L. of- ficials, and officials of national and international unions in government posts on N.R.A. boards either in ex- ecutive or advisory capacities, is a challenge to the integrity of the) unions as independent organizations. “The evil effects of this practice | are to be seen already in the “merit” cla’ in auto code and the anti- and compulsory arbitration | clauses of the supplementary agree-/| ment to the bituminous coal code, it} < e the evil effects are to be seen right | is convention. “With hundreds of thousands ot | coal miners, steel workers, textile workers, auto workers, agricultural workers and others engaged in heroic struggle for the right to live like human beings, met as they are by martial law, tear gas attacks, whole- le arrests, outright murder and armed terror of all kinds, many of them killed while this convention is ing, in brutality which in many instances exceeds the brutality of | | Hitlerized Germany. The only reso- lution calling for support of these advance guards of the working class) interests, was objected to and ruled | off the floor. Not a single union of- jficial nor a single member of the | | Executive Council of the A. F. of L. in| | this convention has called for sup- A eae of these great masses of work- ers or hailed them as fighting for the interest of the entire American labor |movement. The only mention made | | of these struggles has been in con- nection with an official demand that | the union officers act still more de- | | cisively and to end them, at any | cost, in the name of the will of the | wisp, ‘National Recovery.’ “These facts are beyond dispute. They show the grave danger that the labor movement faces of having its integrity lost by official incorporation into the machinery of preduction for profit, because I would like to re- mind you fellow delegates that in spite of all the fine phrases of the N.B.A., it is still a system of pro- duction for profit. “The first and most necessary im- mediate step to avoid the danger of losing the independence of the Amer- ican Labor Movement is the with- drawal of all union officials from the government N.R.A. posts. Our union oMicials being now part of the ma- chinery for the enforcement of N.R.A., which so far as the workers are concerned, legalizes the starva- tion wages and living conditions forced upon them by the four years of crisis; the continual attacks of the employers, their organizations and government agencies; attacks which have been met by the official policy that these terrible conditions are merely temporary, shove into back- Sround the basic demand for com- | pulsory Federal Unemployment In- | surance for all workers, It also puts | officials in posts in the N.R.A—as a victory for labor. Organize Working Class “To represent the interest of the toilers ot America, the labor move- ment has to organize and lead the working class inaependently of em- ployers and their government. The N.K.A, demands tne subjection o: union organizations unger the guise ot giving labor a place in the sun. As always, the proposal is to cure the crisis at the expense of the work- ers and their organizations. Just as in 1929, the cooperation agreement petween rresidenu rioover and the @. 4, L., of no strike no wage cut, in practice turned out to be a one- sided allair, so today all the sugar coated phrases about N.K.A, will turn i practice a one-sidea atiair—more prouts to employers, nigher prices to une Consumers, same starvation wages ior the workers—without even an increase to meet the mounting cost Ol living, aha Jef’ witnout this ele- mentary rgni—tne rignt w strike. “sne answer to the proviem is the resvoration ol inaepeliaence to the sabor movement. ine A. F. of L. oulicials ana tnose ox 10s affliated unions have eitner to witndraw trom AHA. POSts or Lo admit that they fave abanuunea tae wraditional policy ot the American jabor movement. ihe surrenaer ot the independent role oc union organization already has been more than ninted in tae con- c.usion Of the sxecutive Council re- port which speaks ol the New Deal as 1ouOWS: "As unions we have no choice but to obey the iaw and to serve aS agencies ior puiting it into eirecu. Ouy immediate probiem is to suncion aS best tO auvance justice aud economic progress tor ali con- cerned in carrying on inaustry and au those serveu by industry’ “ane qguty ol wie American labor movement, as is wue otf al Jabor snoyements and tne exploited popuia- uon as a Whole, is not and never has Orchestra, Admission 15c, } Concert and Entertainment, given by + Unit 37, Sec. 15, at Engdahl Workers Glub, 3092 Hull Avenue at 204th St Adm. 15c. Good time assured. Concert and Lecture, given by the Alteration Painters Local 1, at 1472 Boston Road, Bronx. Program, “The { Daily Worker in the Struggle Against the N.R.A.”, lecture by Sadie Van Veen. Songs of Struggle by Negro Liberator Chorus. Recitations. Bar. A Friendly Social at the home of Dr. J. Levinson, 1187 Grant Ave. corner 167th St., Bronx, at 8 p.m. Concert and Dramatical Recitations given by Dzerdzinsky Br. 34, I.W.O., } at 813 E. 180th St., near So, Boule- \ vard. Adm. 15¢. ‘ October 15th: Party and Entertainment given by Unit 9 Sec. 1, at 96 Avenue ©, at | 8 p.m. Good time, Plenty of food. Adm. 10c. Movie Showing of “Land of Lenin’ given by at 4109 13th Ave., and “Struggle for Bread’ Unit 13, Sec. Brooklyn. M, geen corcernea with justice and econ- omue progress ior al: employers, their ageNts alia ocher penencaries as well as workers, Workers are the great suajority, it 18 upon tnem thac ali society cests, Lneir inverests are para- moun. ior any nonest trade union movement, “It vnis view has been changed to one in which Labor becomes a mere appendage to the prost-making ma- caine to a governiaent primarily in- erested in maintaining profits, then ine labor movement is no more inde- pendent, no longer represents the volling population and has‘ no right to call for its loyalty and its support, “In such @ case a new labor move- ment actually representing the separate interest of tne working class is bound to arise to challenge a con- ception that surrenders the inde- pendent right of the movement and to challenge a system and its govern- ment, which demands such surrender as the price of the right for the labor movement to exist.- “Withdraw all union officials from N.R.A, postey” DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRID. » OCTOBER 13, 1933 ‘of Striking Painters’ Local, Arrest 15. Negro, White Strikers Framed on Charges of “Felonious Assault” NEW Wednes YORK. — Police _ last raided the Harlem head- quarters of the Alteration Painters Union and arrested 15 members, mostly Negroes, and seized all docu- of the union, in an | attempt to break the militant. sti ke | ments and file of the Negro painters of Har for the $9 and 7-hour day. The 15 | Workers were held incommunicad }and their whereabouts ki from the union. Repres the local, who finally discovered | heir whereabouts, were informed they were being held on charges of | felonious assault. The police attacks on the strike are being aided by the A. F. of L. Brotherhood, whose hired gangsters, under Zausner, have several times) attacked pickets in the attempt to} break the strike of the Negro paint- ers. The Zausner gang is also send- ing scabs to fill the jobs where the | Negro workers are on strike. The | splendid fight of the strikers has, } however, won the sympathy of many rank and file Brotherhood members, who have refused outright to cab on the Neg:o painters. Pointing out that the strike has now reached a high point, as shown in the increasing alarm of the po- lice and the Brotherhood, the Alte: ation Painters Union yesterday | called upon every worker, Negro | and white, to support the str A demonstration protesting the po- lice raigs and attacks will be held today at 163d St. and Southern Blvd. to mobilize the workers against gangsterism and racketee: ing in the trade. Communist Party Expels Braverman for Cowardly Desertion NEW YORK.—While the heroic struggle of the Alteration Painters | Union is being tried out with un- diminished determination against the bosses and their American Feder: tion of Labor strike-breaking agents the union has been compelled to act | quickly and decisively also against | a criminal desertion of his post by| the general secretary of the union, Louis J. Braverman, who cowardly capitulated before the increasing dif- ficulties of the struggle, and left the| _ office without even giving a previous notice. The action of Braverman was espe- | cially reprehensible, because he was known as an older member of the} Communist Party and because, as such, he had enjoyed the full con- fidence of the workers, Such an act of desertion of the} struggle, such an unpardonable crime | against the workers, of course, is not, and cannot be tolerated by the Com- munist Party. The disciplined revo- lutionary leader of the entire working class, the Communist Party unhes- itatingly rejects and exposes such elements and has taken quick action to expel Braverman from its ranks. The union will not permit the strike struggle to be weakened by the desertion of its former secretary. The workers on the picket lines, the unbroken ranks of the strikers, the support of ,the revolutionary labor movement, these are the deciding fac- tors in the fight. La Guardia Refuses to See Committee WithNegroDemands NEW YORK.—Major La Guardia, fusion candidate for mayor, refused yesterday to see a delegation of Har- lem workers which visited him to demand he state his position on the growing attacks on Negroes in this city, the police-inspired lynch incite- ment in the capitalist newspapers, and the lynch-murder of James Mat- thews, Negro inmate of Welfare Is- jand penitentiary, The delegation, which consisted of four Negro workers, one a woman, all representatives of Harlem organi- zations, and a white ex-serviceman, then visited the offices of the New York Times, where they filed a pro- test with the City Editor against a Story in that paper alleging attacks on white women in the city parks by a fabulous “gorilla-like” Negro, and the description of this mythical char- acter as having “arms reaching be- Jow his knees.” The N. Y. Times City Editor pretended that his paper was not responsible for the charac- terization, that it merely quoted the words of “a witness.” With an in- gratiating smile, he declared he him- self “did not believe a man could have arms reaching below his knees.” He refused to make any promise that the N, Y. Times would publish the statement of the delegation, although admitting that it had published the Slander against Negro workers. The League of Struggle for Negro Rights, which is leading the protest campaign, announced yesterday it will wage a relentless fight against the lynch-incitement in the capital- ist press, and the Tammany, Fusion- Republican, and Socialist candidates who by their silence endorse the vicious attacks on the Negro People. Premier Bathrobe Workers Win Strike,| Gain Pay Increases, NEW YORK.—Strikers of the Pre- mier Bathrobe Shop on 32nd Street went back to work yesterday after a short strike in which they won a 20 per cent increase in wages, shorter hours and recognition of the Bath- robe Workers Industrial Union. The strike victory has also greatly encouraged the strikers of the B, Browne shop who have been out on strike for three weeks and are facing police terror and battles with scabs recruited by the boss daily, The Browne workers are striking for | campaign, a 60 per cent increase in wages. |GUTTERS OF NEW YORK et —by del The O’Brien (Curry-McCooey) McKee (Flynn) cat-and- dog fight is merely the clash of grafters for tax booty. Register and vote Communist, thus using your vote to drive away the public plunderers! 3,000 at New York Meeting Vow Fight on Fascist Terror’ (Continued from Page 1.) on Wednesday morning and of the p fight against the Nazis which his union was conducting. He told of actions which resulted in Nazis being, ousted from ships. Hails Mutiny Hailing the mutiny on the British arship “Hood,” Lorenz said that this action was but an omei of the fight- ing mood of the men on the seas. Attorney Levinson described his ex- periences with the Nazi lawyer, Teichert, assigned by the Hitlerites to, defend Dimitroff, Popoff and Teneff, and showed the crude manner in which the Nazis were seeking to frame up and hang the Communists now on trial in Leip: Hathaway Gets Ovation Hathaway, who received an ovation} when he arose to speak, told “of the significance of the Nazi documents and the storm of indignation which their publication has aroused thruout the United States. He told of the pressure of big Wall Street interests which is determining the capitalist press “playing down” of Nazi activities, and said that in spite of this fact, some of the press has been compelled to take notice of the Daily Worker expose. Referring to the activities of Nazi agents in the U. S, Hathaway charged that the “capitalist class here, headed by Franklin D, Roose- velt, is protecting them, and thus giving their tacit approval to this which includes a wide- spread anti-semitic drive.” The whole policy of the Roosevelt administration, with the N.R.A. as its weapon, is taking*on more and more of a fascist character, Hathaway said. “The Roosevelt government has used the same kind of demagogy as Hitler, and if its policy is not yet fascism, it is rapidly paving the way for it.” “The N.R.A, program is a wat program,” the speaker declared, “It is directed against the workers here and is arming U. S. capitalism to the teeth for a war of aggression.” Hathaway cited five recent speeches of administration leaders as evidence of this: Roosevelt's speech before the American Legion; Roosevelt's speech at the unveiling of the monument to Samuel Gompers; Frances Perkins’ speech at the A. F. of L. convention, and the speeches of Gen. Hugh John- son, and Edward F. McGrady, assist- ant secretary of Labor before the same gathering. Hathaway concluded his speech by a call for continued and intensified solidarity actions with the German Communists on trial in Leipzig as well as for a sharpened fight on the N.R.A.-precursor of naked fascist dic- tatorship in the United States. Calls for Unity J. B. Matthews declared that the fight against fascism in the U. S. calls for an energetic fight against the anti-strike N.R.A. “The only force which will stop fascism here will be the class-conscious organiza- tion of the workers,” he said. Matthews significantly declared that a situation must not be per- mitted to develop similar to the one which made possible the accession of Hitler to power, He warned that the Socialist Party of the U. S. must be careful not to play the same role in relation to the N.R.A. that the So- cial-Democratic Party of Germany played in relation to the coming to power of Hitler. “We must not have a misled, div- ided working class,” he said. Matthews rejected the reliance of the Socialist Party on bourgeois democracy, and emphasized that the goal must be proletarian revolution and proletar’an democracy. On this basic point, in fact, he put forward the position held by the Communist Party. Ww Minor Cheered Arriving in the hall from an elec- tion meeting in another part of the city, Robert Minor, Communist can- didate for Mayor, received a tumult- ous ovation when he entered the hall, In his speech Minor said that “Tam- many Hall is the ideal swamp in which the foul weeds of fascism are being cultivated.” The courts of New York, Minor charged, “sell justice to the highest bidder; the judges themselves are » Capital Is Told of Ambridge Murders (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) White House attaches ‘who said the Executive was busy. Here are some of the charges hurled by the militant delegation in their exposure of the terrorized state of the entire steel strike area of the Pennsylvania Panhandle and the Al- legheny Valley: That Miss Emiline Pitt, a “con- ciliator” of the Federal Labor De- partment, demanded of local author- ities that they “clear the streets” of Ambridge, Pennsylvania, on the day before the massacre toox place, thus | giving free sway to the deputized thugs who descended upon the work- ers of the Spang Chalfant plant and mowed them down; The town of Ambridge and its en- virons is still virtually in a state of seige, with unlimited terror, brutality and open threats of murder still hanging over the heads of workers; and that 350 union members have been “black listed” by the Walworth Foundry Company at Greensburgh, Pennsylvania, where the strike was broken, Eight of the delegation, including three women, came from Greens- burgh, the rest from Ambridge. The steel delegation told reporters that they are prepared to bring charges of murder—in addition to larceny of union funds, assault and battery, and gave the names of those o~eeting the terror. Meldon said, “There’s no longer any pretense of legality—it’s open fascism. The rule is simply ‘Shoot hell out of the strike.’” When the strikers went to the White House this morning, Meldon | told attaches that they would return in the afternoon. They were not given an appointment, however, and when they telephoned again in the afterncon they learned that the Pres- ident was “motoring” into Virginia to pay a social call, Marine Union to Hold Meet on NRA Defying RyanGangstersThreats NEW YORK.—The Marine Workers Industrial Union will hold a mass meeting of longshoremen in the Red Hook section, Brooklyn, tonight, to discuss the N.R.A, and the Longshore agreement. The meeting was orig- inally scheduled to take place a week ago in a school auditorium, but the gangster officials of the International Longshoremen’s Association threaten- ed the Tammany school authorities that “there’d be a riot” if the M. W. I. U. was allowed to use the school. School authorities called the M. W. I. U. and cancelled the permit to use the auditorium, on the grounds of the I.L.A. threat, on the morning. In spite of the threats, a meeting was held outside the school building at the time scheduled, and over two hundred longshoremen attended. They were told of the action of Ryan's gangsters, and Ryan’s close hookup with Tammany Hall was cited as the reason he could control the school board and make such threats. When asked how many of them were in favor of holding a meeting of the nature planned, every longshoreman present voted YES with a shout and lifted hands, The meeting tonight will be held in the Metal Workers Hall, on Colum- bia Street, at 8 o'clock. underworld leaders.” Fourteen injunctions were issued in New York in one day—last Friday— Minor pointed out, and four the fol- lowing day. “This process is similar to the pro- cess of enslavement by Hitler,” Minor declared. The Nazi campaign against the Jews, the Communist candidate for mayor charged, finds its counterpart | St. Nicholas Ave, Needle Shop Meet to Rally Dressmakers to Keep Strike Gains Wage-Cutting Drive Looms in Dress Trade NEW YORK.—A serious threat to the conditions won in the recent dress strike was contained in the report | that the dress jobbers do not intend to yield to the demand for a limita- tion of the number of contractors to whom they will give their work, The contractors are threatening a stop- page. Failure of the jobbers to meet this demand will be the excuse for a sharp aitack on the wage standards won in the recent strike, the cut- ting of wages and lengthening of hours, and the growth of more sweat shops. As preparations for the big rank and file shop conference called by the Needle ‘Trades Workers Industrial Union go forward, the Union points out that the conference will be an important step in mobilizing the needle workers to fight to maintain their gains and against any effort to start a new wage cutting campaign. LL.G.W. officials are relying entirely on the N.R.A. and the contractors, instead of preparing for a struggle against the impending attack on the workers’ wage standards, the indus- trial union declares. The rank and file shop conference which is to be held on @gtober 21 at Cooper Union will also take up the fight for the unemployed needle workers and plan the struggle for relief.to meet the coming winter of unemployment. City Events | Communist, Socialist to Give Views on NRA Carl Winter, secretary of the Unemployed Councils of Greater New York will represent the Com-| munist Party in a symposium on} the NRA tonight in which August | Claessens will speak for the So- cialist Party at the International Ladies Garment Workers Union headquarters, 8 West 16th Street at 8 p. m. The meeting is undey the aus- pices of the Upton Sinclair branch of the Young Workers’ Circle (So- cialist. Election Symposium The Advanced Guard Cultural Club will sponsor a symposium on the coming election in the Hollywood Gardens, 698 Prospect Ave., Bronx, tonight at 8:30 p.m. All major po- litical parties will be represented. Sam Nesin will speak for the Com- munist Party. . Election Symposium Sponsored by the Advanced Guard Workers Center on Friday, Oct. 18th at 8:30 p. m. at Holly- wood Gardens, 698 Prospect Ave. Sam Nessin will represent the Communist Party. All other ma- jor political parties will be rep- resented, . Burrovghs in Brooklyn Williana Burroughs, Communist candidate for Controller, will candidate for Comptroller, will Park Manor, 4116 Thirteenth Ave. , itals aaaer Four Parties in L. I. Forum Representatives of the Commu- nist, Fusion, Socialist, Republican, and Democratic Parties will take part in an election campaign for- um tonight at Park Cabin, 49th Street and 29th Avenue, Queens. C. Fluery will speak for the Com- munist Party at the meeting which was arranged by the local Inter- national Labor Defense. > * * Ben Gold to Speak in Brooklyn Ben Gold, Communist Candidate for President of Board of Aldermen, will speak in Boro Park tonight in the Boro Park Manor, 4116 13th Ave. All proceeds go to the election cam- paign, * 8 6 Symposium on Negro Problems Mayoralty candidates of all politi- ial parties have been invited to ex- press their positions on the growth of unemployment and mass misery facing the Negro masses of Harlem. The symposium will be held tonight at St. Marks Church, 138th St, and * Anti-Fascistische Liga Meeting The Manhattan Anti - Fascistiche Liga will hold a mass-meeting tonight at the Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., at 8 P.M. Sadie Van Veen and Otto Sattler will speak and a German ‘Theater Group will perform a short skit. . Left Wing Loce! 22 The Left Wing Grou) of *c2al 22 calls all workers of the 1.2..G.W.U, to come to the joint board, 151 W. 337d St., at 7:30 A.M. No Left Wing work- er shou!d fail to show up. ata? OE Welcome Youth Anti-War Delegates The Bronx Anti-War Committee 1s arranging a welcome for the dele- gates from the World Youth Congress Against War and Fascism, tonight at 1472 Boston Rd., Bronx, Cay Siar Lecture on Anti-War Congress A lecture on the Anti-War Congress will be delivered at the Irish Workers Club, 40 West oe St. tonight at 8 PM, in the Tammany Hall lynch-incite- ment drive against the Negroes of New York City, “When Hitler is hanged,” Minor concluded, amidst stormy cheers, “it will be by the workers of Germany, under the leadership of the fighting Communist Party of Germany.” Send Cable to Nazi Court A protest cable was sent by the meeting to Dr. William Buenger, pre- siding judge at the Leipzig trial, and a telesram to Frances Perkins, Sec- retary of Labor, Symposium on Election Platforms The Sunnyside Branch of the In- ternational Labor Defense will hold @ symposium on the Election Plat- forms of the major parties, tonight at Park Cabin, 49th St. and 39th Ave., LLC. The Socialist party has ac- pti the invitation of the LL.D, to participate, The chairmen will be Kyle Creighton, co-editor of Scrib- ner’s magazine. Admission 25c, “Last Stand of Romance” ~~» OMANCE, we are given to understand by the Madison Square Garden Corporation, is making its last stand at its Eighth Avenue Establishment, which is neither on Madison Square nor a Garden. As the intimation respectable and tax free passes, correspondent may by now have was accompanied by six very and as the morbid bent of your become apparent, an expedition was organizd to witness these dying gasps and record them for Really, no such veiled apol-* ogies are needed. The annual ethnographical purposes. “World Series” Rodeo proved an agreeable surprise. As a matter of course, most of its enjoyable ele- ments were wrapped into thick but translucent coatings of pfooy; still, the kernel prevents the proper func- tioning of my indignation valves. We came in while the incongru- ous city slick gallery was being en- tertained by a quartet of yipping yodelers who may have been from Jamaica or Yonkers or Philadelphia and they may have learned their stuff from phonograph records, for all I care. They Were hot;. they played “Git Along, Little Dogies,” while we were being ushered into our seats, and mounted ponies to ride around behind the Stars and Stripes and the purple banner which represented the Last Stand of Ro- mance, * Oh, Fiddlesticks ... dhe zealously agitated gentle- | man behind the mike intro- duced the judges of the Rodeo, “which is not a series of exhibi- tions but of contests.” The quo- tation we’re inclined to disbelieve but the judges were impressive. They sat on brown ponies and had Titles. They were either Captain or Major, and their rodeo ante- cedents were given as reaching way back to the Chisholm Trail or somewhere so that 1t was hard to see how they could keep from neglecting their military duties. A portly and yenerable horseman in a bright orange shirt was intro- duced as Colonel Johnson of Ole | Kaintuck or ole Texas and his func-} tion was to serve as a sort of patri-| arch of the proceedings. Also, he| took a bow when a Texas longhorn steer which he is supposed to have bred Was introduced. Later on he} stationed himself in my aisle and) polished his fingernails on the} orange shirt. | Everybody wore ten gallon hats. A) little girl in my row asked why and I didn’t know, but I was sure there | was some sort of sociological ex- | planation. I told her this was the Last Stand and the hats were Ro- mantic and the cowboys had to have something to pick up after they were thrown by the brencoes. It would have looked awful silly to just stand up and dust your pants and walk) back to the sidelines. Most of the bronco rides were thrilling. In confidentially hushed tones the announcer let you know that one of the attractions would be a colt tagged Mountain King or Dynamite Dan or Smedley Butler, something ferocious, and he was aj snarling, kicking, untamed mustang from some Arizona range, never been successfully ridden before, pay close | attention, ladies and gentlemen. Fae aes He Forgot to Buck Smedley was busy being saddled in the chutes and he didn’t hear a wrord of oll this, He ivsuzd with his rider, bucked and twisted per- functorily but with a great deal less vigor and efficiency than his predecessors. For a mustang he mustered a painfully anemic dis- play of energy and adroitness. He was corralled with dispatch. But the so---"ed+wild cows were really wild and they had reason to be. Some resourc2ful individual (it | sounds like Jimmy Johnston to me) evolved this allegedly brand new game: Cowboys banded into working units of three. Two would stand at | s of the arena while one of these’, belligerent bossies was let loose, and) lassoed by the mounted member of | the trio. They all would converge | on the incenced female and hold her | long enough to squeeze a modicum | of milk into a bottle. The mounted! cowboy would then seize the recep- tacle and rush with it to the ap-| pointed spot. The trio performing this operation in the shortest time | Police Club Picket in Brutal Drive Against Jacob Shoe Strikers NEW YORK.—David Karshinsky, one of 300 shoe pickets who massed at the Jacobs and Son plant Tussday, was taken out of the picket line by cops and heeten to unconsciousness, after which he was dragged to the Police station and charged with as- sault. Several workers who protested were clubbed by the cons, and Kar- shinsky’s wife who tried to come to his aid was clutched by the throat and threatened with a similar beat- ing. Harry Wilson, another picket ac- tive in the strike, was also picked out, arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Wilson had denounced the terrorism at the plant at the big Ar- cadia Hall meeting Monday night. Police and gangsters have been particularly vicious against the strikers of the Jacob and Son and have cleared the plant for three blocks to prevent the pickets from getting to the structure. Gangsters have visited the homes of workers who are still employed in the plant, threatening their families with death, Following the police attack, the pickets marched on the police sta- tion to bring charges against the cop who had beaten Karshinsky, but were driven from the police station with the charge that they were “a bunch of liars,” At the Magistrate's Court in Bridge Plaza Wednesday, Wilson was re- leased and Karshinsky's case was receives a kind of title, I forget the details. One of the wild cows refused to leave the arena. Another tore off her assailant’s pants, But the one truly funny aspect was the race of the cowboys to the finish line with the milk. Besides their constitu- tional ineptitude as pedestrians they were all stiff from the eve- ning’s work and waddled Iudic- rously, The little girl next to me asked which part of the cow they get the milk from and was it in the rules to walk like that with their legs apart? I said they get the milk from the udders, and no, it was not in the rules, Several celebrities were announced and asked to take a bow. Carl Hub- bell and Freddy Fitzsimmons were there. They are pitchers, Ruby Keeler, tapdancer and wife. Fanny Brice, comedienne. Graham McNa- mee, pain in the kneecap, Al Jol- son, pain in the kneecap, C ahe fae | ba trickriding was spectacular. The rope tricks, bulldogging and special stunts were absorbing. The announcing was atrocious. 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