The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1933, Page 2

Page Two AFFIDAVIT NAMES 31 Find 7 Gangsters | IN DECATUR WHO TRIED 10 LYNCH NEGRO WORKE posure of Alabama Lynch Terror to Be Pre- sented at Baltimore Conference— State Officials Refuse to Act The Daily Worker today continues its seri i to preparations of th Boro boys, and of Is coun Today the “Daily” reveals the job,’ That ‘we will get that nigger | ¢ Of them a fur worker. names of Dee a, men ‘own when he'll be brought up for | The jury rendered its verdict of Named in affidavits cbt ed by |a preliminary hearing here in De-| guilty, after forty minutes delibera-| the International Labor Defense é tion, Request for a postponement ot as the men who attempted to . S the trial until yesterday were denie lynch Thomas Brown. rained Ne- “Lynch Leibowitz, Bates’ | by Judge Collins of General Sessions gto worker, in Decatur last Au- Your deponent heard many ‘af | court, in order to forestall attempts | gust. the last above-named say in sub-/ to terrorize the jurors. In his charge | The background of the recent |st and effect: ‘If that New York | to the jury the judge scored the mur- lynching of George Armwood, Ne- la Leibowitz, ever puts his foot | derous nature of the unprovoked at-| gro worker, in Princess A on lace again, there will be a@| tack made by the gangsters, at the| the Eastern Shore of Maryland, as Speaking of the Tusca-| behest of the fur bosses and the A.| given in a rt by a Daily Work- loosa lynchings . they said:|F of L. fur union officials, and er investigator, king in co-op- |‘That’s the way the Scottsboro nig-| gescribed the crime as “a blot on eration with the League of Strug- |gers should have been handled” | our civilization.” gle for Negro Rights, into the “They said also: ‘Ruby Bates; yy attempt was made during the social and economic conditions of |ought to be swung up herself, just | entire trial to bring out the real| Ww and Negro workers there, |like those niggers. She was hought| "ot. 4o. the atteck, which was wi be published in the Daily over with Jew money.’” | inspired by the fur bosses in an at- Worker tomorrow. The catur i names t Internationa 1e League of Strug- lie Labor Defense, th , Who went hortly after the evidence of nst the Scotts- Cherry one who b ch who was being held d of an al- inst a white to lynch who dled—take them o DR. JULIWS LITTIN 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., PRONE Office Hours: Brooklyn DICKENS 8-19 AM, WILLIAM BELL orricta, Optometrist AS 2012 6-8 P.M. Near Fourth Ave., Phone: Tompkins Square 6- Surgeon Dentist Formerly with the 1. W 207 East 14th Street New York City (near Third Avenue) °. Now Open for Fail and Winter €0 Rooms-—Steam Heat, Hot and es of exclusive exposures of nch the nine innocent Scotts- of Negroes throughout the | af The intensive lynch-incitement by | the white landlord press of Als | bama, whose directors are fearful | of losing their prey through the tre- | mass movement for ee freedom of the Scotts- | boro boys, is directly responsible for spirit of murder abroad in Ala- | a and throughout the country. | press are Attorney- | lives and bami Behind this y |General Thomas B. Knight of Ala- Judge W. W. Callahan, Ku| Klaner appointed by Chief | Anderson of the Alabama Supreme Court to “try” the boro cases, beginning Nov. 27, | to hear the arraignments of the | innocent defendants Nov. 20,/ lynch-ridden town of De- State Scot and nine in the Au- | catur. | s Negro| Other affidavits now in the pos- |'Police testified that he had had noth- session of the Daily Worker quote | ing to do with the attack. signed by|more than 500 persons in Decatur Attorneys for the defendants, d Morgan County as in favor of | hing the Scottsboro _ boys. ugh other sources information | nas been received of definite plans | to stage the lynching, including the | importation of lynchers from other | states. | All this material the Daily Worker will publish from day to day, and | it will be presented to the Baltimore | Anti-Lynch Conference Commission of Inquiry Into Lynchings, Saturday. | rr i The confereme is called by the LS. | N ind the IL.D., and will be held More than 400 delegates Atlantic seaboard are ex- participate in its work. Zimmerman Supports Dress Strike Scabbing, Aids Jobber to Cut Pay NEW YORK.—Charles Zimmer- an, Lovestoneite manager of Local of the International Ladies’ Gar- nt Workers’ Union, refused to any steps to call out workers in e International-controlled shops in support of a strike against wage cuts, The strike was called in two contracting shops of a jobber, owner of the Romance Frock, 463 Seventh by the Needle Trades Indus- al Union, when the jobber ordered t prices be cut. merman, when interviewed by ittee of strikers, tried to in- them to join the International nd failing in this, evaded a prom- by stating he would “investi- the International - controlled hop, the Almora Dress jand N. | enberg, were unable to offer any evi- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY. GUTTERS OF NEW YORK —by del | Guilty of Raid On Needle Union Hall Judge to Sentence’ | Thugs This Week for | 1st Degree Assault | Sentences will be passed this week on the seven gangsters who were | found guilty on Saturday of felonious | assault, first degree, for a raid which they made April 24 on the headquar- ters of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, in which they wounded more than 15 fur workers with bullets or clubs and killed two, NAME: Rawr You Stal NATURE of CRIMES: 34 OOTY aiokaliona sf antics, N14, 826. 7-19 , lake Gaur: tempt to terrorize and crush the militant fur workers section of the N. T. W. I, U., and to add Ben Gold, general secretary of the union, to the | THE ARCH CRIMINAL list of murder victims of the bosses’ | Peasoes ar i oe es gangsters Two otfiers Meriscabesr |... Article 114, Section 117. 119 of the State Law speci Ballero, a striking needle} fically prohibits the pauperization of ex-soldiers. trades worker, had been put “on the Every one of the 35,000 ex-service men in flop houses throughout the state therefore constitutes a violation of spot” and killed by hired gunmen. The seven gangsters who are be- . wr ae its own law by the state. ing held in the Tombs awaiting sen- tence are Louis Katz, 20; Anthony Benedetto, 31; Max Goldstein, 26; Sam Cohen, 26; Harry Katz, 30; Ben- jamin Levine, 23; and Barney Shaw, 28. Sol Horowitz, the only one of the men arrested at the time of the raid who claimed to be a fur worker, was released during the trial when | peared recently, are available for exhibition and sale at parties held for | the Daily Worker. Kindly send your invitations two or three days in | advance so that the material may be properly collected and presented. Comrade Del will be glad to be present in person at such affairs. | Send your invitations at once to Business Office, Daily Worker, 50 East | [13th St. Telephone: Al. 4-7955, | | Cartoon by Del appearing in the Daily Worker or those which ap- | Miners In Gallup (8,000 Walk Out as Fight Sell-Out of 40,000 Are Sent to N.R. A. Major Work In Anthracite (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) George F. Mara and Henry A, Low- dence to offset the dozens of eyewit- nesses who testified for the prose- cutor, Asst. District Attorney Irving Mendelson. None of the gangsters took the stand in their own defense. The trial was attended by many fur workers, whose militant union had been the object of the attack of the | gangster agents of the fur bosses, shot is fired, so that the next day|mo demand was granted against dis- | must be spent in repair work instead | crimnation. of loading coal. Maloney and Cappalinni’s complete The Gallup miners realize this and | betrayal of miners, was shown at the remain solid. The operators are des-| convention called for the purpose of perate. Through the agency of the | hearing the report of the Executive State, they have appealed for “medi- | Committee of the U.A.M.P. yesterday. ation.” Once more than Blue Eagle| The reporters to the convention, casts a shadow over true victory for| consisted of Monsignor Curan, Col. the Gallup miners. ee editor of eae Leader; x ludge McLean, of the N.R.A.; and Madrid Miners Win Demands | Comerford, of the N.R.A, Patriotic Similarly in Madrid, where a strike | speeches rang through the auditorium is threatened in the mines and where | for more than two hours, the miners are organized 85 per cent| Early in the convention a delegate in the N.M.U., Major John D. Moore | made a motion that the report of the will make a stop to “prevent the| Executive Committee be accepted, strike.” By a mere threat to strike, which was that the miners return to Madrid miners have gained 11 out of | work on the promise that there would | 15 demands presented to the Albu-| be no discrimination, but the dele- querque and Cerillos Coal Co. gates booed the mover of the motion Miners of Gallup and Madrid must | ‘tom the floor. This was before the learn from previous experiences the | big guns had been fired. role of these “impartial” emissaries| Father Curran was the cheer leader of capitalism. In Gallup we are suf- | for the acceptance of the program of fering under the whip of the “im-|the N.R.A, with @ plea for peace partial” fascist tyrant, General Os-|@md harmony throughout the Wyo- borne C. Wood. Our comrades in| Ming Valley. But when asked by @ jail are tasting “impartial” capitalist | delegate whether the telegram that justice, jhad been received guaranteed that rife orkid Nae attempts to ee ieee braetiaee nian he had to weaken our struggle. The only way|tnat every one would be returned te to win better mine conditions for the | bE | work. miners is the path we have followed | Geiser, Anti-Fascist, ‘InBkin. Court Today | Workers Urged to Turn | | Out in Defense NEW YORK —For the fourth time |in several weeks, an attempt will be} made to railroad Martin Geiser, anti- fascist fighter, to jail when his case comes up again this morning in Kings County Court, Part 4, 120 Schermer- | | horn St., Brooklyn, | At the last hearing, the judge re- fused to proceed with the case when | workers packed the court in miltant | protests against the campaign to rail- road Geiser. Only the workers can} again defeat this dastardly attempt. | Every worker is urged to be in court |this morning. All workers’ organiza- | | tions are urged to deluge the court | with protest telegrams. Socialist Mayor all NOVEMBER 14, 1933 900 N. Y. Families Fight Foreclosure ‘by Mtge Company Bronx Co-Operatives Organize for Fight Against Receiver NEW YORK.—A mass meeting of tenants of the Cooperative houses at 2700-2800 Bronx Park East, which houses over 700 families, comprising around 4,000 people, filled the audi- torium of the Cooperative Saturday, and unanimously adopted a resolu- tion to fight against efforts of the State Insurance Co. to wrest their homes away from them. On Friday, the insurance company sent a receiver to the office of the Cooperative colony on the grounds of alleged non-payment of interest on the mortgage. The tenants voted full confidence in the Cooperative management and determined to fight against the ac- tions of the mortgage holder. A committee of fifteen were elected 2 go on'with the plans of struggle to maintain the buildings. The Cooperative, due to the crisis and the fact that some of the unem- ployed tenants were unable to pay rent, were behind in their payments to the company. They demanded that the company | reduce the interest to three per cent, instead of six per cent and to make it possible to reduce the rents of the tenants so they can pay the rent. The mortgage company did not co- operate, but instead accuses the col- ony management of not exerting enough pressure in collecting rents, ete, At the meeting Saturday night, A. Lotker, manager of the Cooperative, reported the situation to the tenants, who determinedly decided to fight against their being taken away. The houses were built about seven years ago. New York Workers to Honor Bedacht on 50th Birthday NEW YORK.—The New York Dis- | trict Committee of the Communist | Party and the City Central Com- | mittee of the International Workers Order yesterday issued a call to all working class organizations in New York City to send delegates to a testimonial banquet to be given in honor of Max Bedacht on the occa~ sion of his 50th birthday. This ban- quet will also be a celebration of Bedacht’s 30 years activity in the revolutionary movement in the United States and Switzerland, and will be held Saturday, Nov. 20, at 8 p. m., at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and ment in New York will greet Bedacht Irving Place. Leaders of the revolutionary move- in the name of their respective or- ganizations. Among them are Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, James Ford, can- didate for Vice-President in the 1932 elections and Section Organizer of Harlem, Charles Krumbein, Organizer of New York District of the Com- munist Party, William Weiner, Presi- dent of the International Workers Order, and Joseph Brodsky, chief counsel for the Scottsboro Boys. Comrade Olgin, editor of the Morning Freheit, will be toastmaster. Tickets can be obtained at $1.00 each at the Gentral office of the In- Dear Comrade Newhouse: all you picked the wrong type while yet in college. He was interested mainly in winning because he had his reputation to pro- tect and the only “fun” he had in running was in winning. For once you lose your club is not interested in paying your expenses, etc. | You should have brought out the fact under what terrific handicaps the average athlete who works for a living and who has not the advan- tage of college coaching and training facilities has to undergo. Let us take my case as an example: At the age of 17, which was four years ago, I became interested in athletics. I had great promise, but found the strain of travelling up to} McCombs Park, Bronx, after a hard day’s work, too much on my strength and energy. There are no warm shower baths and not enough lockers for your clothes. And, mind you, this is not the best of the public training parks. all of Manhattan and Brooklyn there are no decent) training grounds, but all must travel to McCombs. Many of the intelligent athletes re- alize that they are being treated shamefully by the “racketeer” Ama- teur Athletic Union and they talk of how good runners and other track and field athletes are treated in England, But they don’t realize that the real “Athlete’s Paradise” is So- viet Russia. Now, I personally know many athletes who are very discon- tented but who compete because of “love of sports.” The majority run for “fun,” the health benefits that one derives and the write-ups, and, which is only natural, the prizes they receive for winning. . UT even the winners are discon- tented, as they receive very in- ferior prizes, while the A. A. U. reaps the dough. It is only exceptional “World Beaters,” like Venzke, Cun- ningham, Toppino, ete., who receive (there is no definite proof but it’s understood by all) their price for drawing large crowds to the indoor meets. And even then the crooked A. A. U. gets the better of the ath- lete. What’s a measly $100 or $200 given for a record-breaking perform- ance when other athletes receive ten times that much for much easier sports. And the lousy grafters do notspend | the money received from the indoor | meets for building new tracks andj training facilities for the “working athletes,” but look out for their own end. Once a runner is on the down- grade, even though this man may have filled the A. A. U’s coffers with gold when in his prime, they lose all interest in him when he asks for a slight favor. A concrete ex- ample is the case of Joey Ray. This} | ternational Workers Order, 80 Fifth | Ave, New York City, until Nov, 20. | 'Steel Convention to | Aid Dock Strikers) 36th St., operators are | 40 cents per garment as com- | to the 70-cent price paid in » Industrial shops now on strike, rikers point out. Zimmerman the Joint Board officials, by failure to call strikes in the for two and one-half months to fight and force from the operators the right to live. We must smash all efforts to weaken our ranks. Let us an- * to Mr, Moore as we answered s. Let the miners, who must slave and suffer in the mines, decide on conditions for a settlement. Gets Bosses’ 0.K.. (Continued from Page 1) one of the officials of the Reming- shops of this jobber are | ton Arms Co., the leading war indus- i aiding the bosses to lower | try in Bridgeport? Whoever he is, he the wage scale to the level of that | proclaims that “big business” sup- now in existence in their own shops, | ports Jasper McLevy. Strikers are calling all Interna-| His statement is introduced as fol- | tional and Industrial Union workers | jows in the Bridgeport Herald: pport them in the strike| « i ’ statement | uinst wage outs by joining the| signe tes tre mmnrats and We- | ade. They necd doctors’ care.. The ket line at 463 Seventh Ave, | publicans have lost the support ot | strike leaders are again on strike a big business men who want to see | in the stockade against forced In- Expelled Local to Meet the city run on business principles, | bor, and have been on a dict of and not on the spoils system.” bread any Dace ass eee The Executive Board of the mem- ry wont el well-| WAS arrested at Allison for issuing of the expelled Local No. 199 of | y MiCLevy won't disappoint his Well" a statement in the name of the 7 wishers and influential supporters. rai “ ast hy Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union|” «me most outstanding figure that| National Miners Union. The N.M. ve called a mecting of all members | nelped engineer Jasper’s clection,| U- has recruited many new mem- he expelled local for ‘Thursday, | pera Committee of 100 business| Pers in the past few days. Strik- Nov. 18, at 6 P. M. at Brooklyn Labor men, ie Mr. Stoddard, lawyer of the| TS at Madrid were assaulted by Lyceum, Myrtle and Willoughby Aves., gerne ot Pre y.| gunmen. to present a worked-out plan of ae. | fim of Marsh, Stoddard and Day. co all a ' To Link Iniunetion Case to Frame-Up A committee of the National Miners Union has left for Santa Fe demanding the release of strike leaders held in the military stock- DOWNTOWN {He is director of the Bridgeport} | Chamber of Commerce, and holds of-| | ficial position in the following com-} aroma % panies: Investing & Manufacturing ENAIC BERMAE | Co.; Gillette-Nichols Co.; Stratford | a ees CAMP NITGEDAISET : : Turner and Seymour Manu-| PRR Eamon Ral ny Cafeteria and Bar ng Co.; University Club Co.; ORL TES, & Oe BEACON, N. y. mere Wheeler Co. and Atlantic Coast | = a ae ( | z P Be ete 3809 BROADWAY I ine’ ees | the A. F. Council, but | the latter union couldn't supply the | labor. Some employers denied having any agreement with the A. F. of L. union as is claimed in the present trial. Rotween 1th and Ith Streets Rank and File Protest | Not all of the Socialist Party mem- bers in, Bridgeport feel comfortable | with such bedfellows, and more than | one protest against the McLevy pro-| Tompkins Square 6-9132 Caucasian Restaurant Maloney was very careful that there | | Was nothing brought before the con- | | vention about the demands of the miners for the colliery rate sheet | rates, for consideration work, or any of the demands of the miners. He made it very piain that this a matter that the N.R.A. com- m would take up as soon as they came in. A delegate wanted to| | know when the commission would | come in to take up the grievance | This was answered by saying that | they would be in within the next | few days, Meloney called the work of the ex- | ecutive board a wonderful victory for | NEW YORK, N. Y.—“The District | Con) fon of the el and Metal Wor! Industrial Union, which took | piace on Sunday, November 12, list- | ened to reports on the progress of the shipyard strike and the work of the Union in helping the men to win the strik a sta ent of Wil- liam Armbrustes, president, and Chatles Anderson, vice-pr: | today. “Realizing the serious situa-| tion in which the strike finds itself | at the present time because of the! | failure of the leadership of the A.| F. of L. unions to take, from the beginning, the proper steps in order) repented he “wes with the Nazis.” Van der Lubbe’s garrulousness col- lapsed before the questions of the presiding judge, who ecked him why he took the long walk of ten kilo- meters. hety ningsdorf. Van der Lubbe answered again declaring he had recsived money and food f:om Graves. Lubbs “Expected To Sleep Well” Van der Lubbe continuing, said he Spandau and Hoen-| he didn’t know, but bezan speaking | (CARS (| 2706 Bronx Park Ea. Cold Running Weter in each room WHOLESOME FOOD, REST. SPORTS, CULTURAL ACTIVITIES For information call Easterbrook 8-100 LEAVE Cooperative Resteurant ly af 10:30 a.m. gram and campaign was sent to the National Office of the Socialist Party. But they thought it better to keep silent about complaints from “KAVKAZ"” Russian and Oriental Kitchen BANQUETS AND PARTIES S32 East 1ith Street New York City On the day of his inaugural, an Open Letter was addressed to Mayor McLevy by the Communist Party of Bridgeport, and was distributed to hundreds who attended the cere- |] FoR BRowNsvitLe proverarrans || monials, | “The Communist Party of Bridge- SOKAL CAFETERIA port,” declared the letter, “holds the Socialist administration responsible before the werkingcl>ss for immediate enactment of favorable measures for the relief of the unemployed.” Then a list of demands for the unemployed were put to McLevy, with | the statement that the Communist | Party would lead the struggle for re- ~| lief and unemployment insurance, to | mobilize the workers for a fight | against the Socialist collaboration with the capitalists, and for the| TRADE UNION DIRECTORY +» CLEANERS, DYERS AND PRESSERS UNION 283 Second Avenue, New York City Algonquin 424267 FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 4@ West 18th Street, New York City oh 0505 FURNITURE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL ‘ION u S18 Broadway, New York City Gramerey, 5-8 METAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 88 East 19th Strect, New York City Gramercy 17-7842 NBEDLE TRADES WORKERS (Brooklyn) — iret = — — | 1689 PITKIN AVENUE | WORKERS—EAT AT THE | Parkway Cafeteria | 1638 PITKIN AVENUE Near Hopkinson Ave, Brooklyn, N. ¥. Williamsburgh Comrades Weleome De Luxe Cafeteria INDUSTRIAL UNION apenas | building of the only revolutionary | 94 Graham Ave., . > | ‘head Popicanse uo™ OM EVERY BITE A ‘paauee St. | party of the working class, the Com- | | the rank and file. | |— }munist Party. Frances Blau, called to the stand by the Industrial Union, testified that she had been beaten in her shop last June by two unknown women when she refused to join the A. F. of L. union, She declared that although she had worked in the shop for 7 years, she was discharged after she had complied with the employers’ request and had registered with the | A. F. of L. union, but had also de- manded that her own union be rec: ognized. Officers of the A. F. of L. Joint Council will be subpoenaed to ap- pear in court today, against strenuous , protests from the plaintiff's lawyer. Those called will include officials who were in charge of the affairs of the union during May and April, when the bosses launched their drive to register the workers in the A. F, of L. union and when the murderous attack was made on the Industrial Union hall. The trial continues today at 10:30 a.m. at the Supreme Court, Part 4, Room 208, on Center Street. ‘the miners. to win the strike, the Convention | Judge McLean talked about the| Went on record to give further full | Would have to be thankful for t! ‘Thanksgiving. He told how the re- Waieeay Saline ah | turn of the miners to the mines would | a W With N Cae) as With Nazis, ‘The miners voted to return to work. 1 | Taey have not won eny of weir ae-| SAYS Van der Luybe) mands, The question is, What will So the miners to set up committees that | will raise the issue in all of the Iocal unions cf both unions, for the |ment of all dead work, no disc! jination, The gravest danger exists that |the commission will abrogate the | basis of the code that they have forced the miners of the bituminous | field to accept, which is a minimum jrate of $4.60 for the Northern field, ‘Bronx Women to Meet wonderful things that the miners| SUPport to the strikers in order to | i fit for this | Relp win the strike.” | fill up the stockings of the children | at Christmas time. the step be. “ontinne Drea i The Committee of Action calls upon | Noel chao RE ES A | tion of the collier: | for consideration work, for the pe | present agreement, and set up a code |for the anthracite miners, on the | wage of $14 and $15 per week which will really be the maximum, the day | * * . Against High Prices NEW YORK.—Hard pressed by the | constant rise in the cost of living, | coupled with the ever diminishing earnings, the women of the Bronx | will hol¢ a conference under the aus- pices of the United Councils of +c-ulieg Class Women, Nov. 18, at 1:30 p.m, at 3882 Third Ave., Bronx, | Plans will be laid at this confer- | ence to combat the unjust attack on the already meagre rations of the workers’ families. The United Council has inaugurated a house to house campaign, obtain- ing signatures and calling upon all | housewives to join the movement. Workers’ organizations are also urged to send their delegates to the con- ference was accidentally at the Nazi demon- stration at Spandau, where he spoke with a young man, but cannot say if he was a Nazi- Dimitroff asked him if many Nazis were at Hennings- dorf. Van der Lubbe shouted, “Yes, many Nazis there.” Dimitroff sarcastically declared, “Lubbe knows it,” whereupon the presiding judge again reprimanded Dimitroff. Dimitroff retorted that the bridge to the Reichstag fire was built at Hennigsdorf. He asked Van der Lubbe if he was accidentally in Henningsdorf on Feb. 26. Van der Lubbe smiled meaning- ly, and answered he had expected to sleep well there. Dimitroff asks sar- castically did Van der Lubbe par- ticipate in the Reichstag arson. Van der Lubbe replied that he alone set fire to the Reichstag. Torgler asked Van der Lubbe where he had obtained the liquid fuels with which experts testified the Reichstag was fired. He answered he had great athlete whén in his prime filled | the old Madison Souare Garden to| the rafters at every record-breaking | verformance. The A. A. U. grafters| reaped a harvest from Chesty Joe's | peunding feet. Yet when Joe in dire need of financial aid appealed for an assistant coaching job at the last Olympic:. he was ruthlessly turned | eway with “No can do. You're not| a college mn.” If they treat an athlete who fil'ed their pockets with | gold that way, whet ean the averag athlete who competes for recreation | ““nect? | As I said before. I pevscnally know | many, many athletes who are discon- | tented and who would turm in their] A. A. U, card if they knew tie could Jein some other organization that is! Your article on ‘Worlds’ Records and Fun” to write this ratha lengthy letter. comment on my part is because I used to compete until bad halth forced me to rest and I know whereof I speak. First of An A. A. U. Athlete Speaks The reason it calls for of an athlete to show in your analogy because the late George Saling was a fine athlete and sportsman and a record-breaker® really out to care for their interests. great that they continue to compete in spite of lousy prizes, lack of train- know many who have quit in dis- gust and retired due to the bad con- ditions, but they are in the minority. The rest, once they start (it’s like a disease, once you get the running bug you always come back for more), compete till they die. In this connection I speak of Marathon and other long distance runners who I know have competed from 10 to 20 years. They like the sport so much that in spite of all rotten conditions, they still compete. One friend of mine said to me: “Lis- ten, Al. I know the A. A, U. is a bunch of conniving, crooked politi- cians, and I'm disgusted with condi- tions, but every time I retire I get sick. I am 44 years old (doesn’t look over 30) and am competeing over 17 years and don’t expect to get any money or any decent prizes, but do it solely for health benefits, and it Keps me away from poolrooms and other bad places.” Now the reason for bringing all these facts out are that you are con- tinuously criticizing amateur sports, but what have you done construc- tively? Outside of Soccer, you and the Labor Sports Union have been woefully negligent. In my opinion the time is ripe to organize @ strong Labor Sports Union for all sports and especially for Track and Field ath- letics. I, for one, and many of my athletic friends would gladly turn in our A. A. U. cards and pay the neces- sery 25 cents for a Labor Sports Union card and compete for an or- ganization that is out for our wel- fare if we had the assurance that they would be interested and stage races for us. The prizes are of no special importance, only the Daily Worker should give us the necessary write-ups. You'd be surprised how many members we'd get in @ year or two. Let me know what you think of my idea and arrange so that I see you personally. The trip to Soviet Russia to compete in their Sparta~ kiade or Olympiad would also add an incentive to their training. Yours for sport, JOHN NELSON. ore ‘OMRADE NELSON didn’t know there are several Labor Sports Union clubs which already have en- gaged in organized track and field competition. On this the New York L. S. U. office has got in touch with him and they have ar- ranged for close co-operation. I chose George Saling as a type for my comparison of the situation of Soviet and American athletes in full knowledge and just because “he was a fine athlete and sportsman and record-breaker while yet in college.” There were no reflectionr on him in either regard. Helving the Daily Worker Through Ed Newhouse Contributions received to the credit of Edward Newhouse in the Socialist competition with Michael Gold, Dr. Luttinger, Helen Luke and Jacob Burck to raise $1,000 In the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive: T. James Tany M. Rain Matt .. on Previous total . Total to date . NRA Drese Code Goes Into Effec | NEW YORK.—The dress and cloak ecde sizmed by President Roosevelt on October 31st went into effect yes- terdoy. The code fails to settle the meot peint of lUmitaticn of con- tractors which has been the main de- mand of the 7s to abolish sweat- shov conditions. The failure of the LL.G.W.U. of- ficials to inecrporate this demand in the strike avresment has resulted in a widesnroad slashing of wages be- low the scales esteblished in the agreement, following the strike. The LL.G.W. officials are presenting no opposition to the violation of the agreement and will undoubtedly pro- tect the bosses in their violation of the NLR.A. code. Forum for Knitgoods Workers An open forum of all unemployed knitgoods workers will be held to- morrow at 1 p. m. at 131 W. 28th St. Patronize A TH HAS SETTLED bought. lighters, them, but not liquids, only el CARNIVAL LUNCH 140 EAST 14th STREET Food Workers Industrial Union | BANQUET TICKETS SHOULD HAVE REEN PAID AT DOOR NEW YORK.—Owing to a misun- derstanding many workers paid for their tickets to the Daily Worker Banquet here in advance instead of at the door. Only tickets paid for at the door could be honored. The Management of the Daily Worker regrets that those who sold tickets did not understand the provision made for payment only at the door and apologizes for not having stated so on the banquet tickets, It promises to avoid such misunderstanding in the future. J, J. MORRIS, Ine. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS & SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Phone: Dickens 9-1273—4--8 Night Phone: Dickens 6-53 ternational Workers Union Shop! E WITH THE prompts me | | But their love for athletics is so % ing facilities, etc. Of course, I also ‘ ‘= og “1