The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1933, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1938 LaGuardia Would Raise N.Y.C. Transit Fare to Seven Cents “WHAT'S SACRED ABOUT 5 CENT FARE?” SPOKESMAN IN DEBATE Robert Minor Exposes Long Agreement With Bankers to Keep Out Fare as Issue ASKS FUSION @ Shameful Betrayal of Tailors’ Strike Agreement Excludes Women; No Pay Raises NEW YORK.—How the recent strike of the ladies’ tailors, dress- makers and alteration workers of the Fifth Ave. shops was betrayed by Local 38 ILCWu jn | GUTTERS OF NEW YORK | AN “ADEQUATE” SUPPER |. Box in the Election Campaign NEW YORK—Admission that F. H. La Guardia and the fusion ticket in the municipal elections stands for the raising of the subway and transit fare throughout Greater New York from five to at least seven cents was made by an official spokesman of La Guardia Friday night in a debate with Robert Minor, Communist candidate for Mayor of New York. Abner C. Surpless, the speaker assigned by Fusion campaign committee to| represent La Guardia at a sympo- sium at the Premier Palace, ed Sutter Ave. Brooklyn, made the admission after Minor had charged the Fusion Party of La Guardia as well as the other parties, el conspiring to prevent any menciun of the five cent fare as a campaign issue. After Minor had quoted the re- cord to show La Guardia as com- mitted to the raising of the fare, Mr. Surpless exclaimed ‘What's sacred about the five cent fare”? Surpless argued that the ut’ Magnates were “losing money mor, quoted William J. felin, the founder of the fusion| movement. ho is chief barxer uf} La Guardia aud a director of the Atlantic Mutual Insu Com- pany and connected with Na- tional City Bank, the Bank of New York, and other financial institu- tions, as saying as long ago as January 16, 1927 that the ten cent fare is “the only solution to the transit problem.” At the same time, Schieffelin indicated that he wanted the plan to raise the transit fares kept out of the election issues through a “gentleman’s agreement” among hef- | the capitalist parties, saying “the transit problem should not be al- lowed to become a political one “On May 17, 1931, when Sche: felin was seeking a fusion candi-| date,” said Minor “following the| public exposures of the Tammany | corruption, Scheffelin was sound-| ing out Thomas as a fusion candi- | date and called Thomas, ‘a man excellently capable and fitted for the office of mayor’.” 2 Headgear Unions | America and the Cloth Hat, Cap and of AFL. to Merge Milliners Meet to Plan’ Struggle NEW YORK.—Two conventions of A. F. of L. national unions are being | held here, preliminary to a merger between the United Hatters of North Millinery Workers’ International | Union. Later in the week the two unions, who are now meeting sepa- | rately, are expected to hold joint| sessions. The merger, the united | front committee of millinery and | capmakers points out, is not an Amalgamation of the two unions for the purpose of joint organizational | drives to organize the thousands of | headgear workers for union condi-| tions, but merely an agreement be- tween the union officials as to how to divide up their control of the in-| dustry. | A burning issue for the rank and file in this convention is the recent | settlement in Chicago negotiated by | the officials and the N. R. A., which | is actually an open shop agreement, giving the employers the right to hire non-ufion workers without even giving preference to union men. The Chicago settlement is the first open shop union contract in the his- | the administration of Local 38 of the LL.G.W.U. was revealed to the Daily Worker today. Thousands responded after Dubin-| sky called the strike for a 30-hour week, the 1929 wage scale ana un- employment insurance. At the out- set of the strike officials of the union declared that the demand for unem- ployment insurance was an error and later changed the demand for a 30- hour week to 35 hours. Negotiations for settlement were carried on in the deepest secrecy, without even consulting the general | strike committee, After two weeks | of strike a settlement was announced | by Greenberg, the local manager, | which contained the following: A 35- | hour week, 5 per cent re-organiza- | tion, which will result in firing work- ers, no pay increases and the legal- | ization of contractors in the trade. | Greenberg failed to report that the, women strikers had been excluded | from the terms of the agreement. This shameful settlement was put | over only after the officials of local | 38 threatened to break up and re-or- | ganize the local, In the Bendel shop | 35 women dressmakers, 10 pressers | & Raisins 45 | (7 The above constitutes an employed pers University Professor of (Mal) lb. GRAHAM CRACKERS according to Dr. Mary S. Rose, Columbia —by del ~] PINT MILK “adequate” supper for an un- Nutrition. and cutters of the department were | excluded from the agreement. When | | clared to the women: “You should/ with the knowledge and the aid of two hours, returned a verdict of | the workers protested they were told N e or 0 ¢ onvi ct i not have joined the strike. We did not intend to organize the women.” the officials of the union. manslaughter against William Her- | The left-wing group of Local 38 are diman, one of two Negro youths on by Greenberg to appeal to the N.R.A. Similarly, in the case of the women | workers at Nancy. Rea, chairman of | 9 r the general strike committee, de-| or e -~De ense snceo agen, vone,, Against Lynch Mob Milgrim Brothers and of Hattie Car- | npc negie was made up in the shops con-| _ MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 17.—| trolled by Local 22. This was done| Am all-white jury, deliberating only | calling upon the workers in the shop | trial for the slaying of a white man, to organize the fight for better con-|Shot when the defendants and two | ditions in the shops, irrespective of Other youths defended themselyes the treacherous settlement, The left- | #gainst a lynch mob seeking their | wing group calls on every shop in tory of the needle trades. the trade to elect delegates to the | The United Front Committee of| Cooper Union shop meet called by | the Millinery Workers has raised a|the Needle Trades Workers Indus- | series of demands and is urging the | trial Union for Saturday, Oct. 21, at lives. | When cornered by the mob, the/ four youths fought back. One of} them fired a shot which resulted in | the death of the leader of the mob. Later, said Minor, after General | O’Ryan’ was selected and then re- | jected because of the storm against im. for his openly reactionary re- a | cord, Scheffelin, through the com-| The following are some of the de- mittee of 1,000 and the Citizen’s|™Mands of the United Front Com- Union, pushed La Guardia and he | mittee of the Millinery Wotkers: a | Was selected. On Sept. 27, 1933, | 30-hour week to be established with | Minor continued, La Guardia| increases in wages to meet the ris-| Jaunched his campaign at a lun-| ing living costs, the abolition of com- | cheon before 150 financiers of the | pulsory arbitration and the. right ‘of | New York University Alumnae. In| the workers to strike, the withdrawal | this luncheon, the financiers asked | of union officials from N, R. A. him, “what is your attitude toward | boards, the establishment of full dem- the five cent fare.” |ocracy in the unions, the abolition | Minor then quoted La Guardia’s|of temporary books and the rein- reply from the New York Times of | statement of members of Local 24| Sept. 28, “La Guardia replied that | 2s full fledged members, and other | first he would restore the city’s | demands, credit, and that then unification of | Millinery workers and capmakers | the city’s transit facilities would | are urged to turn out to a special delegates at the convention to pro-| pose and fight for these in resolu- | tions at the convention. follow.” mass meeting called for tonight at} Minor stated that this reply,| trying Plaza to discuss these issues. | earefully staged to satisfy the fin- | | anciers, was La Guardia’s pledge earry out Schieffelin’s policy 4 that “only solution of the city’s financial problems is in raising the fare,” and the pledge to make no issue of the five cent fare in the 7,000 Dyers Sweep — ‘Aside UTW Leaders campaign. é Surpless, representing La Guar- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Although there is no evidence con- necting Hardiman with the firing of | the shot, and despite the fact that | the testimony showed that the lives | of the boys were in danger, the jury | convicted. When the jury returned the verdict | of guilty, a number of Negroes who | still had illusions in the “justice” and “impartiality” of the lynch courts of | the white ruling class, broke down | 10 am. to form a united front | against the attacks of the bosses, the N.R.A. and the A. F, of L. officials. Shoe Strikers in Big Demonstration at N. R. A. Offices (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) David J. Bentall, noted Chicago at- torney of the I, L, D., in his speech to the jury, asked: “Are you going to put the stamp of approval on the jevents that occurred here on the mass meting. |night of the June 22,” and the jury, Inside, Whalen received the dele- | py its verdict, answered that it does. gation in his usual suave manner, | “The I.L.D. has announced its in- which became more serious when| tention of demanding a new trial for Fred Biedenkapp spoke emphatically | Hardiman, and will take the fight to about the strike-breaking action of/the Supreme Court if necessary. the N.R.A. “We have come to state | Realizing the importance of the case, N-R.A. in declaring the strike settled | to defend himself against an armed and the signing of an agreement be- | jynch mob, the I.L.D. is appealing to tween the manufacturers’ Boot and | 4) organizations to support the mass Shoe Union as tantamount to a con-/anq legal fight for the release of spiracy to betray the workers and | Hardiman and his co-defendant, smash their organization, The Boot | James Johnson, who is to be tried and Shoe Union from the beginning | 9¢ an early date. Many Negro or- never did, and does not now, repre- | and wept. Only a few hours before, | cation of the vicious Teagle spread- that we look on the action of the | which involves the right of a Negro | fia, defended the fusionists adv of the raise in fare. He sai ‘0 express my own senti- | ments, I will say that it is ridicu- | fous to contend that the transit fare can only be five cents. The cost of transporting passengers through the tubes and all over New York is more than five eents. It costs seven cents to transport passengers on the sub- way and why should I, as a tax- payer, make up the other two cents, What's sacred about the five cent fare”? In his rebuttal, Minor, the Com- munist mayorality candidate, said, that the five cent fare is one of the 5 problems affecting workers, employed and unemployed, and | @ raise in fare would ta from | their pay many & S _ Communist Party is fighting against the increase in the transportation fares. | “The cost of transporting pas- seners was not the real cost of} mechanical operation,” Minor said,| “But also the amount paid to the! who hold the city trans- | tation system in their grasp.”)| jor said that there was no doubt} at the time Scheffelin was | dikering With Norman Thomas to| me a fusion candidate, the plan} fncluded an understanding that as| Fusion candidate, Thomas would not fight against the bankers’ move for a higher fare. Roberts, between 9 am, and 11 a.m. WORKERS PATRONIZE } CENTURY CAFETERIA 154 West 28th Street Food Proletarian Prices CAMP NITCEDAIGET BEACON, N.Y. PHONE BEACON 731 Now Open for Fall and Winter 60 Rooms—Steam Heat, Hot and Cold Running Water in each room WHOLESOME FOOD, REST, SPORTS, CULTURAL ACTIVITIES For information call Easterbrook 8-1406 | next, broke up the meeting with a “M% YOUNG WORKERS wanted by Daily Worker, interesting proposition; must | ‘be reliabi Call at 35 E. 12th St. See from appearing and speaking. Bur- | lak's presentation of the N. T. W. Uz} program, her ringing appeal for| united action and for repudiation of the A, F. of L. disrupters, was re- ceived with the greatest attention and enthusiastic bursts of applause and cheering. Rubinstein, attempting to speak provocative attack on the workers, in which he stated that “The work- | ers were cutting each other's throats.” | He was driven from the platform amidst a storm of anger. | A simultaneous meeting of the N. T. W. U. in the River Street strike hall, jammed by thousands of strikers, became a scene of the most} tumultuous enthusiasm of the entire} strike, as Burlak, Brown and hun-| dreds of A. F. of L. workers marched} in from Turn Hall. A. F, of L. mem-| bers also spoke, attacking the U. T.| W. officials and demanding unity. Other speakers were John J. Ballam, Rebecca Grecht, Martin Russak and | dyers organizer of the} Saller, Lodi N. T. W. U. The fight for organized unity with | the N. T. W. U. and for repudiation | of the Shop Delegates Body con-! tinues more strongly inside the A.| F. of L. Dyers Local. | Pouring rain forced the postpone- | ment of today’s unity demonstration | called by the N. T. W. U. for Sandy Hill Park. Schweitzer, speaking at the Asso- ciated Strike meeting this morning, reported on the Washington Con- ference with the N. R. A. He in- dicated that the U. T. W. has | abandoned the demands on hours and less looms and stated that a | new agreement had been worked out, | which provides no minimum, but is | to give a “base” of $27 weekly to | those who earn less to get less, and | those who earn more to get more, The Associated Officials pleaded for acceptance of this agreement and will conduct a vote at the closed membership meeting tomorrow and then continue the conference in Washington Friday. With the strike nearing its eighth week, relief now is of crucial im- portance, The Dye and Silk Strikers Relief Committee, 222 Paterson Ave., | launch a relief campaign under the | auspices of the W. I. R., and will work from the W. I. R. office at 870 Broadway, New York City. All New LEAVE Cooperative Restaurant (f 2700 Bronx Park East daily at 10:30 a.m. || | York workers’ organizations are | urged to cooperate and support the united front work with relief, | strikers,” sent the strikers,” Biedenkapp de-| clared. Whalen denied all knowledge of the Boot and Shoe Union's con- nection with the strike. | “Any contractual relations between | the Boot and Shoe Union and the| manufacturers is repudiated by the | Biedenkapp stated. The | N.R.A. being a party to open strike- | breaking opens the doors wide to} violent trouble between scabs and | workers determined to protect their | jobs. This agreement is an empty | shell. The strike is not settled.” Then the strikers spoke up. When | Whalen requested their names, Bied- enkapp refused to give them, declar- ing that it would help Whalen start his blacklist. The chairman of the I, Miller shop declared: “We, 900 strikers of the L. Miller shop, would rather be in an open shop than join the Boot and Shoe Union,” All the delegates voiced their opinion. Finally, Whalen decided to call the manufacturers to a conference Wednesday at 4 p.m. The Shoe Union is sending a dele- gation to Washington on Friday at | the request of the National Labor ganizations and churches in Minne- |apolis and St. Paul are supporting | the fight. The lynch verdict has con- vinced the Negro people and workers | more than ever before of the necessi- ty of a ruthless fight, in alliance with the white workers, ist the in-| creasing persecution of the Negro} people. City Even Carpenters’ Meeting. A regular membership meeting will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at the headquarters, 820 Broadway, New York City. A very important report | will be given and all carpenters must | attend. Pia ear 3 Election Symposium A political symposium on the com- ing elections will be held by the So- cial Youth Culture Club at the Y.M. | H.A., Rodney Strand and Broadway, | in Brooklyn, tonight at 8 p. m, Speak- ts | Advisory Board to discuss settlement of the strike. ers, representing all parties, to be present: Democrat: Aaron F, Gold- ein; Fusion, Socialist: Harry Fin- elstein, and Communi: Anthony 400 Paper Box Makers is leaving today for New York to} Strike; Demand Raise in Pay, 40 Hour Week | NEW YORK.—Four hundred work« ers of the Spear Paper Box Co., 28th St. and llth Ave., went on strike | Monday, demanding an $18 mini- |mum wage, 40-hour week, abolition | of piece work and union recognition. ‘They have been working 50 hours a week and were paid a minimum of $14. The strike started despite the op- F, of L. A strike committee was chosen by j the workers and mass picketing is carried on every day. Campaign, Holds Meet NEW YORK.—Among the unions active in the Communist Party elec- | tion campaign is the Office Workers’ Union, which is conducting an ener- getic campaign through leaflets, open-air meetings and through its official organ, the “Office Worker,” (to line up the white collar workers position of officials of the Paper Box | Makers’ Union, affiliated with the A. Office Workers Union) |Active in C.P. Election) | N.T.W.1.U. Calls Cultural Meet | Bimba, | ers in the cultural activities, the |Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union is calling a special conference of all those who are interested in | cultural work for tomorrow at 5:30 | Ps m. at the Workers’ Center, 50 E. 13th St., on the second floor. All departments are invited. At this conference al]l the necessary com- | mittees for the various forms of cul- | tural activities will be elected. * 8 Minor Speaks to Dockers NEW YORK.—Robert Minor, Com- | munist candidate fot yor, will ad~ dress the longshoremen of the /West side on Friday at 12th and West Sts., at 12:15 p, m, in support of the Communist candi- dates, | Some ten members of the union are running on the Communist ticket, including Laura Carmon, the union's organizer, who is running for County Clerk in Manhattan, Israel Amter, National Secretary of the Unem- ployed Councils, and Laura Carmon are scheduled to speak at an election mass meeting at Stuyvesant Cxsino, 140 Second Ave. tonight at 8 p.m, ie In order to involve all active work- | Labor Secretary Plans Starvation | to Break Strikes | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) spondent asked. “When two children are fighting,” Perkins admitted, “you don’t have to know which is right to stop them.” Spread-the-Misery Plan ” The conference began with the dis- tribution of handouts stating that 620,000 workers “returned to employ- ment” in September, and that about | $10,000,000 more was paid in weekiy | wages. in September, as compared | with “August. In discussing these | figures, however, Perkins admitted | they are non-informative on the vital question of real wages, the amount | workers receive in relation to what it costs them to exist. The figures “certainly show the picture of share- the-work in steel,” Perkins said, of- ficially corroborating the trend of the N, R. A. toward wholesale appli- | | the-misery plan. The question of the strikebreaking weapon of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration came up with reference to the publication by the Associated Press last week of news that Federal relief would be with- held from strikers considered “un- | justified.” The Relief Administra- | tion has been answering queries con- cerning this by referring to an offi- cial policy statement which virtually confirmed the story by saying: “Un- | less it be determined by the Depart- ment of Labor that the basis for the strike is unreasonable and unjusti- fied, Federal relief will be forthcom- ing. “This policy has been in exist- ence since it was announced publicly last July, Its re-publication at this time, in addition to N, R. A, Ad- ministrator Johnson's _ categorical | statement to the A, F. of L. bureau- crats last week, that “You cannot tolerate the strike,” lends credence to rumors afloat in Washington that the N, R. A. will shortly issue an absolute no-strike edict, In fact, Federal Emergency. Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins is now in Pittsburgh, the heart of the Pennsylvania strike area. Jacob Baker, assistant to Hopkins, was asked by your correspondent today in how many strikes Federal Relief is now being given. He replied: “We have no knowledge, because strikes are not reported to us. But I’m pretty sure strikers are getting it in Pennsylvania because we've had such @ great howl (of protest) from the coal operators.” . Perkins was asked today whether her reference to disputing capital and labor as “two children” implied that she would stop the fight without rec- tifying any existing wrong. Before the question was completed, she hedged: “It's not the conciliator's duty to state who is right and who is wrong. It is his duty to let the situation develop so that differences can be settled harmoniously.” As Perkins volunteered satisfaction over the fact that her figures show “This is the sixth consecutive month in which there have been increases | in employment and wages,” some one interrupted to say, “This doesn’t show anything about real wages.” “I know that,” Perkins confessed. “The question was asked in view of Senator Wagner's recent statement that due to the high cost of living there heye been some actual reduc- tions in real wages,” Perkins was | told, “I don’t know on what assump- | tions Senator Wagner based his| statements,” Perkins evaded, “You'll have to write Senator Wagner about that.” Asked whether she consid- ered there has been an increase in silk workers’ wages where whole- sale reductions occurred, Perkins smiled, “I’m not able to say.” General Hugh S. Johnson, N. R. A. Administrator, asked to comment to- day on published statements that Federal relief will be withheld from workers considered “unjustified” in striking, said: “That's been discussed around here, but there's been no de~ cision on it.” Queried on the general rise in prices, he replied: “We haven't found any yet that didn’t have a pretty good justification.” Auto Conference | Adopts Plan for General Strike Hold Shop ¢ Gatherings All Week; Huge Mass Meeting Friday DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 17—One hundred and twenty-five delegates, representing various unions and shops at a conference at Carpathis Hall, last night adopted plans for devel+) oping a general strike in the auto} industry, and eleéted an action com-/| mittee of 2 to carry its decisions into} effect. The conference followed an open- air mass meeting of 10,000 auto workers in Belle Isle Sunday. The delegates represented the Mechanics’ Educational Society, which is lead- ing the strike of 15,000 tool and die- makers in Detroit, Flint and Pontiac; Auto Workers’ Union, Unemployed Councils, United Council of Working Class Women, the Michigan Farm- ers’ League; shops represented were Ford, Chrysler, Briggs, Packard, Chevrolet, Dodge, Hudson, Budd and a number of smaller plants. I. W. W., and A. F. of L. members were among the delegates, though these | organizations were not officially! represented. The conference decided to strengthen picketing in the tool and diemakers’ strike, concentrating its attention this week on Ternstedt, which is a General Motors subsi- diary. The Mechanics’ Educational So- ciety agred to accept the aid of the unemployed in picketing, Meetings of shop and neighborhood groups to prepare for the general strike are being held daily, culmin- ating in a huge mass meeting on Friday. One hundred and fifty thousand leaflets are being issued, calling all auto workers to fight for the right to organize unions of thet: own choice, and raising demands of | 7% cents an hour minimum, and| higher wages for skilled workers; 30-hour week, a guarantee of 40 weeks’ work during the year; $10} @ week to be paid durifig layoff, and equal pay for equal work for Ne- groes, women, youth, foreign born and} Of Course Browning Won AS POSITIVELY, even cocksurely, stated in this space on October 11, 1933, Jim Browning, heavyweight wrestling champion of the world, pinned Rudy Dusek, at the 7Ist Regiment Armory in New York, October 16, 1933. When con- fronted with the copy of the Daily Worker ridiculing his wrest- ling trust and predicting with 100 per cent certitude the framed result, Jack Curley, the promoter of the show, shrugged his shoulder and refused to com-' pose together for the camera boys ment. and so one of the demons crawled under the ring between my legs and This writer and Lens, his photographer-colleague, arrived on the scene of action, securing row seats with some difficulty. Al- phonse Geicewitz and Stanley Soko- lis, two sophomores from the Curley Academy of Dramatics and: Music, climbed into the ring, white and} square and noble in its simplicity, quite unadorned by the “lace dress- ing” advertised in Mr. Chick Wer- geles’ publicity releases. This novel frill was to prevent grapplers from hurling themselves into lean laps and telegreph instruments of guileless re- porters with families and city editors | to support. It was a tame evening and we could. well dispense with the trim- mings. The preliminary practitioners entered and carried on within the ropes in somnolent fashion, sliding into holds, glaring and protesting to the referee. Occasionally a gong would sound to awaken the case- hardened minority and Mr. Joseph Humphreys who likes his name so spelt would bob in and gesticulate and mispronounce names. Mr. Humphreys who also likes to be called “stentorian” although he| eps forgetting that definition he looked up in Funk and Wagnalls’ Vest Pocket edition, announced the weights and the billings. The chal- lenger, Dusck, whose billing in the past year has alternated between Omaha Farmer, Omaha Whirlwind and Omaha Tiger, popped up with a brand new, untarnished and un- creased titke—-the Omaha Dynamo. The sentiment for the general strike is growing rapidly among the workers in this national center of the industry. Rutgers University, the wrestling birthplace of Eli-Eli Fischer who out- glared and out-burped Bruno Gor- rasini, the Naples Peanut Vendor, MINOR FOR MAYOR 400 in Stamford, Conn. | at Scottsboro Meeting | STAMFORD, Conn. — Over 400 workers, about 70 per cent Negroes, turned out in one of the biggest | Scottsboro protest meetings ever held here to hear Ruby Bates, star de- fense witness in the Scottsboro case. Alice Burke, white worker arrested in Birmingham, Ala., for fighting for equal rights for Negroes and the right of unemployed workers to live, was another speaker. The meeting also attacked the jim- crow policies of the local bosses against Negrces and demanded en- forcement of the Connecticut Bill of Civil Rights, passed last July and supposed to grant equal rights to Negroes without discrimination. Twenty-five workers joined the In- ternational Labor Defense and pledged their support in the fight against lynchings and for the smashing of all jim-crowism and segregation right here in Stamford. A great ovation was given to the Communist Party representative, Wofsy. A CORRECTION. The following is a correction of a statement by Rose Wértis appearing in Monday’s Daily Worker which was incorrectly reported. Comrade Wortis is reported as having said in refer- ence to General Johnson’s speech: “The cynical disregard of the N.R.A. by the bosses, by even those signing the code is evident, etc.” This should have read: “Even the starvation wages under the codes which the workers are supposed to get under the N.R.A, are disregarded by the bosses, even those bosses, who have signed the N.R.A. and many of these firms continue to pay starvation wages as low as $5 and $6 a week. ADDRESS CHANGED Steel and Metal Workers Union in Brooklyn, N. Y. has moved to new headquarters at 33 Myrtle Avenue, Intern’! Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15TH FLOOR AM Work Done Under Personal Care of Dr. C. Weissman ARRANGE YOUR DANCES, LECTURES, UNION MEETINGS at the NEW ESTONIA®™ WORKERS’ HOME 27-29 West 115th Street New York City RESTAURANT and BEERGARDEN STATIONERY and VIMEOGRAPH SUPPLIES At Special Prices for Organizations Lerman Bros., Inc. Phone ALgonquin 4-3356 — 8843 Fer Unemployarent n urance, Immcdizte Cash Relief — Vote Communist! 29 East 14th St. N. Y.C. was demoted by the brass-throated Mr, H, into Rutgers Institute, Ac- cording to advance figures of the 1933 Census there are three commas, three periods and four hyphenated words in that sentence. ca Mer ACK CURLEY himse!f wandered in before the main bout. He's a large person with a Tammany physique and a Hitler walk. A William Muldoon with mincing steps. He looks over the house, hands out cigars and beams. He's never without a retinue of char- acters whom directors would hesi- tate to cast in a play for fear of exaggeration, They bask in the beams and reflect them dutifully. Honest, some of them wear real Mae West-Bowery watch-chains and strut with thumbs in their vest armholes, Monday night Georges Carpen- tier accompanied his importer. Cur- ley, you recall, first brought the Gorgeous One into this country and the Orchid Man is not one to bite the hand that feeds him. On the contrary; he was continentally assiduous in his attentions to his companion, ex-Mistress Lita Grey Chaplin, who likes to sue eminent autobiographers. Humphreys, capital H-u-m-p-h-| r-e-y-s, said he wanted us to give a! gweat big hand to the sensational idol of Parrri:, the one and only Gorrrgeous Geo:rg2s and Carpentie: swung through the ropes, shook hands with the venerrrable a:mnouncer and with Browning and Dusck and re- turned to his front row seat next to) Mrs. Chaplin. The pair refused to} DR. 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A lot of people were smoking cigarettes, Some of them smoxed cigars while others smoked a pipe. Still others stamped and cheered because Dusek was twisting Browning’s arm and this made them feel contented. The bout was a leisurely enough affair but there was an Indian sum- mer mellowness in the air and the audience caught the spirit. When the wrestlers became involved and failed to disentangle themselves Dusek would massage Browning's vertebrae and this would make the champion squirm fitfully. A school | of gnats swarmed around the lights and a piece of adhesive tape stuck on the canvas in front of me. I thought of an old faded hammock in @ sunny village out Indiana way and leaned the back of my head against my chair, A languid, nostalgic smile stole over my features. Dusek struck Browning’s shoulder a heavy blow with his index finger and Gentleman Jim collapsed in neutral corner. Dusek lifted him overhead and cast him to the ground three times. The third time Brown- ; ing landed on his neck and lost con- sciousness. Dusek trampled on the inert body, twisted its legs and arms and dashed him against the ropes, Browning opened his eyes and walked across the ring and deposited Dusek on the canvass. Dusek lost con- sciousness and the bout. The gong rang and people booed. When the people stopped booing Humphreys raised Browning’s hand. acer ames E walked over to Mr. Curley and asked him how come the Daily Worker’s predictions turn out so accurate, The question hurt his feelings and he left us in a dud- geon. We shook off the effects of the dudgecn and intercepted M. Carpentier’s beeline for the club- rooms. “M. Carpentier, do they allow fake matches in France?” “They haven’t started yet,” the Orchid Man said, The Orchid Man is not at all handsome in a closeup. “What do you think of this type of wrestling?” ‘I don’t know about wrestling. I come here to amuse myself. I have much fun.” “But” butted Lens, the colleague, in the ex-fighter and now adagio dancer’s native tongue, “how did you happen to keep yawning throuShout the proceedings?” “Late hourg” said Georges, pointing to the overnight bags under his cyes,” but here I en- joyed myself very much. Mr, Cur- ley is a fine gentleman.” Correction and Apology Editorial Note: Unfortunately, portions of yester- days’s column, especially a letter by Mr. Guy Endore and the answer to it, became badly garbled in our printshop. We are sorry and are taking steps to prevent repetition of such occurrences, COHENS’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. 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