The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1933, Page 2

rage xwe DAILY WORK, NNW YUN, FRIDAY, NOYENISER 3, 1955 Rents Raised; Food Reduced by N.Y. “Relief” Cuts As High As $6 Secretly Put Over By Tammany Buro Most Unemployed Get No Rent At All. | —— } NEW YORK.—The amount of money allotted by the Home Relief Bureau for rent to unemployed workers was] yesterday drastically reduced by as/ much as $6.30 per month a far At the same time food allo’ ments were increased only 10 per! cent, which means another drastic} reduction in the living standards of | the unemployed in view of the rise| in food costs in New York City, | which have gone up 23 per cent in| the past three months. Only unem-| ployed workers, faced with eviction, | get any rent at all from the relief | bureaus. The reduction in rent and| food allotments, issued in orders to| home relief workers yesterday, are to take effect immediately. Even the} tise of 10 per cent is probably tem-| poraty and due to the elections. | ‘These facts have so far been with- held from publication. Previously) $25 was the maximum allotted by the| rélief bureaus for rent to unem- ployed facing eviction. This sum in| the itself »afforded only the shabbiest living quarters for those lucky enough to get it. But the new | schedule, which says, “No rent shall exceed $35 monthly,” gives for a| family of four $12 if the rooms are unfurnished and unheated; an addi- tional sum of $1.40 if the landlord} supplies the heat, and an additional | $4 if the flat contains a bathroom. | Thus, a family of four can get a maximum of $17.40 instead of the $25} previously given. The only ones get- ting the $25 now are families of nine} oF more. Families of five and six, in the new schedule now in operation are to| get only $16 for an unheated flat, with an additional $4 if they have a bathroom and an additional $2.10 if the heat is supplied by the landlord. This totals $20.10 maximum for a family of five and six, a reduction of $4.90 in the rent allotment. A family of 7-8 gets a maximum of $22.80, or a reduction of $2.20 in the rent allowance. Families of two are given a maximum of 14.70, a reduc- } tion of $10.30 in their allowance. Robert Minor, Communist Party !) candidate for Mayor, stated: “On the eve of election Tammany brazenly * Yeduces the standard of living of the workers, cutting down on food and on rent allowance. The city govern- ment is determined, evidently, to forcs the unemployed into even more crowded and miserable slums and reduce their diet to salt pork. All Parties are agreed on this program of starving the unemployed and all 4 parties are against raising relidf ap- {. propriations, speaking of ‘economy.’ 1 This ‘economy’ program is a good Program for the bankers backing 4 these candidates, as it saves them } from digging down for unemployment + relief and throws the whole burden q of the crisis onto the suffering work- }, ers.” The food allotment was increased only from $1.50 to $1.65 for a man; from $1.40 to $1.55 for women and for children from 12 to 16 years old This is a reduction in the actual amount of food given each unem- ployed worker, because of the 23 per cent rise in prices of food in New Xork City in three months’ time. The Unemployed Council of New York demands $7 a week for each family head and an additional $5 for each dependent, and rent, light, gas and heat free for all unemployed Workers. 4 4 4 a fe US. Driving France Off Gold Basis (Continued from Page 1) SHAM OM nA elared today: “France may be led to make a decisive reply to American oatgpe in agreement with other standard nations, so as to f safeguard the gold reserves of ¢ their national banks.” 8 ince, preparing for war, is ex- tremely fearful of losing any of ther gold hoard. Hence, it seems sinevitable that she will declare a sold embargo in the near future. Speculators Profit Roosevelt’s increasing aggression inst America’s imperialist ri. vals is giving Wall Street specu- lators large profits. Tt is understood that insiders are selling cotton short in Lon- don and are covering in New York with American dollars. This oper- ation is very profitable because of the depreciation of the dollar. Jesse Jones, Roosevelt's per- sonally appointed Chairman of the R.F.C., is said to be heavily interested in these cotton trans- actions. Another Roosevelt friend and adviser, Bernard Baruch, is also said to be reaping a fortune because of the Roosevelt gold {morrow night will Three City Election Symposiums Tonight NEW YORK.—Ben Gold, Commu- nist candidate for President of the Board of Aldermen, and Robert Minor, candidate for Mayor on the Communist ticket, will speak at elec- tion symposiums tonight at which other major parties have been in- vited to speak also. Gold will speak at 8 p.m., 108 W. 24th St., and Minor will speak at 8:30, at Westchester Youth Club, 1548 Westchester Ave., Bro} The Harlem Progressive Youth Club will also hold a sympo- sium at 8:30, at 1538 Madison Ave, Tri-Boro Election Parades To Rally WorkersTomorrow Marches Will Start at 16 Points Throughout New York City NEW YORK.—The tri-borough torchlight election parades to wind through the working class sections of Brooklyn, Bronx and Manhattan to- rally workers throughout the city to vote Commu- nist The mobilization points in Browns- ville were issued yesterday as follows: Cleveland and Blake—East New York Workers Club, New Youth Club, Units 12 and 13 of the Communist Party—Unit - of the Young Commu- | nist League. Hinsdale and Sutter—All I.W.o. branches, Hinsdale Workers Club, N.S.L. chapter, Unit 11, C.P., Unit 2, Y.C.L. Stone and Belmont—All Women’s Council branches, all Pioneer Troops, W. I. R., Ex-Servicemen’s League, Units 10, 6, C. P., Unit 2, Y.C.L. Hopkinson and Pitkin—American Youth Club, Alteration Painters Union, Brownsville Culture Club, Units 5, 7, 8, 9, C. P., Units 4, 5, Y.C.L. Saratoga and Prospect Place—All other organizations meeting at 371 Saratoga Ave. and 261 Schenectady Ave., Units 1, 2, 3, 4, 18, 16, 0, P., Units 6, 7, ¥.C.L. Brooklyn. 6 p.m.—Cleveland and Blake Avr.,| Brooklyn. | At the Finnish Hall, 764 40th St., | Brooklyn, all mass organizations and Party members will mobilize at 5 p.m. The points from which the various lines of march in Manhattan and | Bronx will start as follows: 6 p.m.—Rutgers Square. 6:45 p.m.—Union Square. 8 p.m.—72nd St. and First Ave. 8:30 p.m,—86th St, and Lexington Ave. 9:30 pm—t139th St. and Cypress Ave., Bronx. 9:45 pam.—Prospect Ave. and 161st St., Bronx. 10 p.m.—Wilkins and Intervale Aves., Bronx, 10 p.m—Alerton Ave. and Bronx Watchers Urged To Protect Rights Of Workers At Polls Tauber, LL.D. Attor- ney, Calls For Close Vigilance NEW YORK. “Don't be too friendly to the watchers of the other parties. One will engage you in con- versation, while the other does the dirty work,” Joseph Tauber, Inter- national Labor Defense attorney, told a meeting of Communist election watchers at Irving Plaza Hall. Tauber, who together with fifty other I, L. D. attorneys will be spe- cial assistant attorney general on election day with the power to arrest, pointed out that in previous elec- tions, the majority of places where workers were beaten or intimidated were polls where there were no Communist watchers. Suggestions from workers on how to identify Communist watchérs, who will not be allowed to wear badges in some polling places, but will wear red ties and have a Daily Worker with the head of the front page sticking out of a coat pocket. | An assistant deputy or two will | be stationed in every section elec- | tion headquarters. Watchers who have difficulties and need the as- | | sistance of a deputy will telephone | these headquarters, not the main | headquarters of the Communist Party. They will telephone the main headquarters at 799 Broad- way, only to report the total count in their polling place after closing time, Tauber and Carl Brodsky, munist campaign manager, who spoke with him, stressed the im- portance of guarding the vote in Harlem, especially in the Spanish- American section, and of staunchly defending the right of Negroes to vote. | While the voting places open at 6 a@ m., watchers must report at the polling places no later than 5.30 a. m. in order to be there when the voting machines are opened and tested and then sealed. The watch- ers will report to the following elec- | tion headquarters at 5 a. m.: MANHATTAN 567 Lenox Avenue. 96 Avenue C. | 114 Lexington Avenue. 269 West 25th Street. BROOKLYN 132 Myrtle Avenue. 1813 Pitkin Avenue, 1109 45th Street. 46 Ten Eyck Street. BRONX 1157 Southern Boulevard 699 Prospect Avenue. 2075 Clinton Avenue. 615 East 140th Street. 558 Morris Avenue. JAMAICA 148-29 Liberty Avenue. STATEN ISLAND 3% Elizabeth Street, New Brighton. LONG ISLAND CITY 42-06 27th Street. YONKERS 21 Hudson Street. Workers who were not able to Com- Park East. ‘Children Will Carry | Relief Doles in March | To Election Debate | NEW YORK.—A parade of school children carrying salt pork doled out by the Home Relief Bureau, and empty milk bottles, will wind up in front of the home of the Democratic Assemblyman, Irving D. Neustein, at 405 E. 8th St., where Rubin Shulman, Communist candidate for Assembly, 6th District, will debate Neustein, Saturday at 1:30 p.m. The subject is to be the Workers Municipal Relief Ordinance, Besides Neustein, Saul Fassler, Democratic Alderman, will be at the meeting. ANTI-FASCIST MEETING | NEW YORK.—Allied professional , Committee To Aid Victims of Ger- man Fascism is calling a meeting to- , night, 8 p. m. of all professionals and intellectuals In the Hotel Pennsyl- vania, 7th Ave and 34th St. ELECTION RALLY, ENTERTAIN- | MENT IN WILLIAMSBURG | Fred Biedenkapp, Communist can- didate for Borough President of | Brooklyn, and other Communist can- | didates will speak tonight at Public School 19, South Third St. and Keap, Brooklyn, Workers Laboratory Thea- | tre will present an election play. | | | T. U. U. C. MEETS TONIGHT NEW YORK.—John Ballam, organ- | laer of the National Textile Workers’ | Union in the Paterson silk strike will report on the strike at a meeting of the Trade Union Unity Council to- night at 7.30 p. m. at 37 East 13th| Street. buying. For the workers and small farm- ers, it means a rising cost of living and reduced buying power. | BENNY CAR W. C. HAND BENEFIT SURPRISE Tickets on sale at: DANCE WITH THE STARS! at the COSTUME THEATRE BALL WEBSTER HALL : 119 EAST 11 STREET SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4th 1% Fifth Avenue—Algonquin 4-0580 Ticket in advance $1—at door $1.50. Reserved boxes Titre Union, Bookshop, 48 W. 52nd St.; TER’S ORCHESTRA Y—KING OF JAZZ THEATRE UNION AT MIDNIGHT | 104 Fifth Ave.; Workers Bookshop, 50 ¥. Drama isth st WATCHERS URGED TO ‘loading a sugar ship from Cuba that attend the meeting at Irving Plaza Hall Wednesday, and those who have not yet registered as watchers are urged to fulfill their working class duty and report to the above addresses, election morning, Tues- day, Nov. 7, to guard the vote of the Communist Party. eae A watchers’ meeting will be held in Coney Island at 2874 West 27th St., Monday night. Workers of Brighton Beach are to attend this meeting. Try To Railroad LL.D. Organizer RICHMOND, Va. . 2.—Because he helped 125 striking longshoremen whose wages had been cut under the NRBA., T. H. Stone, organizer of the International Labor Defense of this city, was arrested and dragged off to jail. Stone, charged with “inter- vening with the police in the dis- charge of their duty,” comes up for trial Friday before Judge Haddon. The longshoremen’s wages had been cut in compliance with the N.R.A. code. They had been put on a piece- work basis, making it impossible for the fastest workers to earn more than 22 cents an hour, and about 15 cents for the average. The men were supported by the I.L.D. and the Richmond Unemployed Council. The men were fighting for sixty- five cents an hour wage as it is in Norfolk, Baltimore, New York, and other cities; time and a half for overtime, no “goddamning” by the bossmen; 20 bags to the sling and recognition of the Workers’ Commit- tee. Part of the demands were won. The men are organizing into the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union. The longshoremen had been un- had been held up six weeks by a strike there. Potts, the bossman, told the workers they could make more by piecework and put them on that basis, which resulted in a cut of about fifty per cent. The workers protested, issued a leaflet to the others calling for a strike meeting. Then they elected a committee of fifteen and drew up their demands. Ten minutes after the demands were presented to Potts, who angrily rejected them, all the workers but two were out on the picket line. Potts offered a compromise of thirty-five cents an hour, which was refused by the workers, Four police cars and the arrest of Stone failed to break the militancy of the strike. As the LL.D. organizer was being dragged off to jail, he yelled to the workers to keep up the strike, Workers are urged to pack the REPORT TO V Total to date GUTTERS OF NEW YORK Trying to hide the skeleton in his closet HELPNG THE “DAILY” THROUGH DEL Unit No. 14, Section No. 1 ....$8.00) Pen & Hammer Party . +» 1.00 Pat Rogers 10 $4.10 Drum For Fusion (Continued from Page 1) Dorothy Bellanca, of the A. C. W. Thus, although the Amalgamated joint board has not officially en- dorsed the Republican Party as yet in the elections, its main leaders, in- cluding Hillman’s personal represen- tative, Blumberg, speaks for the Re- publican-Fusion candidate LaGuardia on the same platform with Samuel Seabury. L.L.G.W.U. leaders who support La- Guardia include Salvatore Ninfo, who supported Tammany last year, and Luigi Antonini, both vice-presidents of the LL.G.W.U. The meeting was officially endorsed by Locals 48 and 98 of the I.L.G.W.U. and Locals 63, 142 and 243 of the Amalgamated. The fact that these two A. F. of L. unions support the capitalist par- ties is not to be wondered at when their record of betrayal, carried out together with the boss party machine, is examined. Only one recent ex- ample, the settlement engineered for the cloakmakers by the IL.G.W.U,, shows clearly the fact that the of- ficialdom follow the interests of the employers in the election campaign and in the strike settlements. The cloak manufacturers’ association, as late as Oct, 28, sent a setter signed by Sam Klein, manager of the in- dustrial council of the cloak manu- facturers, to all cloak manufacturers, which boasts of the favorable strike settlement given them by the I. L, G. W. U. leaders, who had agreed with the Tammanyite Whalen and the manufacturers, to set up an ar- bitration board for the cloak indus- try. The bosses’ association says of this arbitration board, “The effectiveness of the labor bureau as a means for stabilizing piece rates was clearly illustrated by the manner in which the first case submitted to it was handled. The executive director of the industrial council (manufac- turers) officially brought to the bu- reau’s attention an instance in which the price previously settled by a member were unquestionably exces- sive. After consideration of the complaint by the representatives of the union with the council (firm), and the staff of the labor bureau, a reduction of $1.15 per garment was approved.” The I.L.G,W.U. has learned, this letter goes on to state, that the N.R.A, is not going to bring them prosperity to the extent of raises in wages, and that the manufacturers acceded to higher wages during strikes but now the labor bureau will cut these prices down. Last Wednesday the I.L.G.W.U. leaders called a meeting and Dubinsky and others berated the cloakmakers for daring to ask higher prices. The L.L.G.W.U, and A.C.W, lead- ers, now supporting with their right hand the Republican LaGuardia, their left hand Tammany (Lehman and Whalen) and throwing mean- while intermittent support to the So- cialist Party, sold out the July and August strikes of their members and made agreements through the N.R.A. which, as above, reduce wages, es- tablish piece work rates, and lower the living standard of their mem- bers. The members of the Amalgamated and the I.L.G.W.U. are learning that the Gomper 2 AT. of L. pol- icy of co-cperation with all capital- ist parties aids only the manufac- vs, and is a part of the b: yal, -breaking method of ‘ike settlement, the Communist ions, exposing the N.R.A. drive against the workers, and exposing the A. F. of L. leaders’ sup- | port of this drive, represents the interests of the needle trades work- ers. car Seebie warn e court when Stone’s case comes up to- , day, to show the bosses that the workers are behind him, The cartoon, which appeared in Monday's Daily Worker, will sold at an affair given by the Neighborhood Action Committee on Saturday evening, at 173 East 2nd Street at 8 p. m. The money raised for this cartoon will go to the Daily Worker. Leibowitz Exploits Scottsboro Record (Continued from Page 1) never once mentioned the I. L. D., which from the very first had mili- tantly raised the challenge to the vicious practices of the Southem lynch courts of depriving Negroes of their constitutional rights, of barring Negroes from juries, of using all- white juries to railroad innocent Ne- groes to the electric chair. He declared with a fine show of emotion that the Scottsboro boys had been in the shadow of the electric chair for almost three years. But where was Mr. Leibowitz during the first two years of this period of frightful torture and ordeal for the nine innocent lads, of heroic protest mass actions by Negro and white workers in Harlem and throughout the whole capitalist world, of mighty protests from the emancipated toil- ers of the Soviet Union? These ques- tions he carefull avoided. The meeting was held at the Junior High School, corner of 136th St. and St. Nicholas Ave., in an audi- torium gaily bedecked with American flags and flaunting in the faces of the hungry masses such slogans as “Vote Every Key—This Will End Your Misery”; “McKee, the Taxpay- ers’ Friend’—highly contradictory Slogans aimed at deceiving the masses while openly -promising further ex- emptions from taxes for McKee's landlord and banker supporters, Poster pictures of McKee flanked on either side a photograph of Roose- vent, President of the “New Deal” of wage cuts, inflation, rising costs of food and other necessities, wage dif- ferentials against Negroes and mass discharge of Negroes under the N. R. A. codes. A jazz band futilely tried to pep up enthusiasm for the “New Deal,” but the crowd remained apathetic until Mr, Leibowitz’s ap- pearance, Leibowitz was preceded and fol- lowed by a procession of white and Negro misleaders who demagogically Played upon the misery of the Har- Jem masses and wildly handed out the usual campaign promises of the boss parties—promises which the Ne- gro masses know from bitter experi- ence will be forgotten the day after election. U. 8, Poston, Negro re- formist, introduced as a “publicity man in Harlem” for the Recovery Party, and one who “had unselfishly sacrificed his own personal inter- ests” to aid the Recovery Party, struck the only note of realism, de- claring in what he termed a prac- tical approach to the election cam- paign, that La Guardia’s election would result in the dispensing of patronage to the Republicans, and that with Republican control of thn Patronzge of New York City, that party will be able to control the State Legislature, and within two years will be able to control tie elec- tion of Congressinen, The meeting wes properly climaxed with the presence of Rev. J. Clayton Powell, Sr., and Rey, Powell, Jx., who a few weoks ago set Taramany cops on meeting of Negro and white ‘kers protesting the lynch-murder of James Matthews by Tammany of- ficials and guards on Welfare Island, Rev. Powell, Jr, acted as chairman of the first halt of the meeting, and Was sueceeded by Colonel William Haywood, The crowd began to peter out shortly after McKee be to speak. Krumbein at Fraction Meeting of Shoe Workers Charles Krumbein, District Or- ganizer of the Communist Party, will epeak at a shoe workers’ fraction meeting tonight, 7.30 at 50 E, 13th St. Voluntcers’ Mesting Regular membership meeting of the Daily Worker Volunieers tor night, 8:15 at Workers Center, 35 East 12th Sirect, —by deli) AF. L. Locals Endorse Jobless Insurance Bill Duluth Longshoremen Demand Passage of Workers’ Bill NEW YORK.—Two more local unions of the American Federa- tion of Labor have indorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. These local unions are locel union number 1279 of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association of Duluth, and the Pavingcutters’ Union, Branch No. 59, at Concord, New Hampshire. ry A. A. Nylund, of the Duluth local union writes as fol- lows to Louis Weinstock, secretary of the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Re- lief: “Your communication of Sept. 8 has finally been acted on and I wish to «tate that the Package Freight Ig adlers Union, Local No. 1279 of the I. I, A. has indorsed the Unemployed Insurance Bill.” All members of other local un- ions of the A. F. of L. are urged to take up the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill and see that it is indorsed. The bill calls for the appropriation by the federal government of funds sufficient to give all unemployed the equal to the average wage in their respect- ive industry, but in no case lower than $10.00 a week for every adult beland $3.00 additional for each de. pendent. These funds are to come from the, war funds of the govern- ment, from tax on incomes over $5,000, and are to be administered by workers’ organizations, Roosevelt Muffles Open Talk of Fascist Drive Against Labor (Continued from Page 1) ployers and employees, are creating stave problems and that unified ac- tion by American industry is needed to support basicaliy sound policies of Tecovery.” Signed by 26 huge trade groups, including the dominant industrialists from the American Iron and Steel Institute and the National Coal As- sociation to the Edison Electrical In- stitute (all fancy propaganda titles for the most highly trustified lead- ing American industries), the resolu- tion boldly declared: “Sound em- ployment relationships must be es- tablished and maintained by mutual agreement between employer and employee in the light of local plant and community conditions.” Meanwhile five new members of Johnson’s Industriel Advisory Board took their places. Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the board of the murderously anti-labor U. §. Steel Corporation; Pierre 8. DuPont of the huge ammunition firm of E, I. DuPont de Nemours Company; Clay Williams of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Trust; Robert EF. Wood, president of Sears-Roebuck, and, more significantly, world-wartime Quartermaster-General. of the U. 8. Army; and Ralph £F. Flanders, president of the big Jones and Lam- son Machine Co. of Springfield, Ver- mont. : Moreover, the Department of Com- merce, from whose “Advisory Coun- cil” the unholy quintet were drawn for Johnson's board, said that the Swope Plan is now under considera- tion by a committee of the Council, before whom Swope, president of the General Electric Company, proposed it yesterday. It is acknowledged un- officially that — far from signifying dissention with the N. R. A. — the substitution of the five new members for five business barons who with- drew is merely the result of a “rota- tion plan” which will allow all of the 60 on the Commerce Depariment’s “advisory council” to take their turns in advising Johnson. There was vety little official dis- cussion of all these matters today, but liberals, including their press, Tushed to “re-interpret” the state- ments of Johnson yesterdsy and the categorical declaration in Swope's plan for the integration of labor with the present half-masked capitelist dictatorship. “The employer and the employee will work together to un- derstand the fundamentals of their joint problems,” which means, said Johnson, “no strikes.” Some bourgeois observers even pre- dicted todsy that Roosevelt may be forced to remove Johnson from the R. A. to preserve the fiction that the N. R. A. stands between capital and labor. This is a possibility in view of Johnson's careless assertion yesterday that the N.P.A. was “asked for” by big businecr, Eyen this, how- ever, could net becloyd the now fully exposed intenticns of the promoters and executors of the N.R.A, Against Tammany lynch terror on Norrees—Vote Cominiin’:'! COHENS’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City Tel. ORchard 4-45%0 EYES EXAMINED By Dr. A.Weinstein Wholesale Opticians ‘Optometrist Factory Premises DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET 4 Butter Aves. Brooklyn IOKENS %-3012 Bet. Pitkin PHONE: Office outs: 2-10 AM, 1-2, 6-8 P.M, ARIOUS SECTION HEADQUARTERS, 5 4 I saw this season was through pitcher, left guard and knight Tigers, my neighborhood team. on a foul or an opposing play fights it out. efficient left guard and a, decent sandlot pitcher. He’s a Dodger fan. Much solemn and flippant flap- doodle has been ladied out about the Dodger fan, based on just the sort of mystic, obscure, rowdy and passionate devotion that’s Johnny’s. He talks Brooklyn and dreams Brooklyn. For instance ever since he was out of public school, Johnny Madigan had clamored for Wil- bert Robinson's release. Horowitz's candy store and the cellar club- house of the Tigers rang with his jeremiads, When Robbie got the boot, Johnny Madigan spent al- most a week’s salary from the vegetable store on a celebration. It was the first time he had ever got drunk and he liked it. The new manager, Max Carey, has been a bitter disappointment but Johnny hasn’t lost faith, You know. The breaks. DIDN'T know he followed the foot- ball Dodgers as well. When he got the Annie Oakleys to the Giant- Dodger gatne from his father who drives a milkwagon and got it off the cop on the beat, he called me up the first thing. He was rewarding me for the use of my season pass to Ebbets Field. I know how much it meant for him to resist the tempta- tion of shining before his girl with the Oakleys but I made the mistake of saying so. He was going to tear up the other pass if I didn’t go. On the subway he unveiled a re- spectable fund of information about plays, formations, backgrounds of the more obscure Dodgers, “T didn’t know you followed foot- ball,” I said, “Why the Dodgers in particular?” “Sure, I follow football.” “But why the Dodgers?” He couldn't explain it. No, he had never lived in Brooklyn. No, he never had an enemy who was a Giant fan. No relative of his ever played on the team. So why? He didn’t know. ie ee | hk difficult to figure out. Of course it’s irrational to espouse any one team that devotedly, but irrational things have their ex- Planations. Johny Madigan who works unearthly, monotonous hours in a vegetable store has to have something to absorb his interest from day to day. No doubt the development of the war situation is a larger, more vital and dramatic thing. But there are baseball and football, so tangible, so simple and mechanical, so easily lending themselves to emotions of loyalty, suspense and fascination, so sweet a throwback to irrespon- sible childhood days. That’s what to a large extent explains such devotion to sports, this effort to recapture the past and the athletic associations which played so im- portant a part in it. You don’t generally sec men take their wives to ball games. I would hesitate to degrade either football or baseball by classifying them as a form of religious experi- ence. They are not the opium but the blinkers of the masses. As people are supposed to be at one time Bound to Fall in Love with the First Preity (or Hand- some) Face, Johnny Madigan was bound to afopt some team or other. It turned ovt to be Brooklyn. IS past season I tried to figure out why I was a Yankee fan. T'm not a good exerinle because I have no real convictiors on the sub- ject and switch my favorites bi- monthly, The time I really sat down to figure it out the Yanks were mak- ing home stand against Detroit. I wanted the Yenks to win so badly I had to kick myself and ask why. For one, Johnny Allen was pitchine his first game of the season and I like him because he has stuff and he’s tough and beefs pienty and starts fights. His arm had been lame and he was making a comeback. And the boys had New York leitered on their uniforms. That had an emo- tional value. And yet Gehrig was the one native New Yorker on the team. This led me to the crucial point, Detroit, too, hed a native New Yorker, Hank Greenberg, the recruit’ who burned y the league last season and clinched his first base job. This Greenberg is a Bronx boy who Played soccer for James Monroe High the time I played for Townsend Har- ris. Even then he was a tremendous huik of a guy, heavy and way over six feet. We averazed about 135 pounds. Monroe was not the class of the city as it is now, although Teachers Membership Mceting Bronx Parents and Teachers’ Asso- ciation will hold a membership meei- , ing tonight, 8.30, at 1497 Charlotte St. (Brooklyn) FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE for Brownsville Workers! Hoffman's RESTAURANT & CAFETERIA ‘Pitkin Corner Saratoga Aves. me and I have failed to insist on them. 'O passes for professional football games have been sent to The one game Johnny Madigan, alternately errant of the Nelson Avenue When there’s a raw decision er with active spikes, Johnny That’s the knight errant part. But he’s an Townsend Harris was already the dregs. This was 1927 and I was a high | School sophomore and played center forward and this King Kong whom they called Bruggy was fullback, He crippled three men in our line and that was the only way they held us to a draw. The only 160 pounder on our team offered to fight him after the game and I don’t remember how it was stopped. * 6 NYWAY, here was this guy six years later, playing for Detroit, doing beautifully, by the way. I was a Yankee fan through the series. T reminisce to illustrate my point. You can give me the benefit of the doubt. The experience preceded the Replies of Candidates To L.S.U. Letter To Be Read After Street Run NEW YORK.—Instead of the Minor for Mayor race scheduled for tomor- row, the N. Y. District Council of the Labor Sports Union decided to have a mass demonstration run, A number of girls will take part. Run- ners will jog slowly through the streets in formation, wearing election slogans, Anyone desiring to parti- cipate should/report at the Finnish Hall, 15 W. 126th St. ‘The Labor Sports Union has writ- ten all mayoralty candidates asking them to state their stand in regard to the recent closing down of many recreation centers. 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