The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1933, Page 2

Page Two Boss, AFL Gangster Tie-Up Is Revealed in Fur Union Case Ida Langer, Widow of Murdered Leader, Testifies NEW YORK—Yesterday's Sourt hearing of the ir against the Needle (industrial Union ended wijournment, at the re \. F. of L. plaintiff union’ 4 testimony being given or 1ess stand by Philip Brown, Supreme Work a hasty nember and business daintiff union, brough he charges made by Inion t the A. F. cted with the bosses f coercion and violenc ur workers to join the dummy c sany union. Judge Gavegan had just r admit as evidence into the affidavit supporting this sam vention, made by Louis A also a former member ar agent of the Joint Co however, faltered when on the and refused to confirm the attended the trial remember his ha mg made ovublicly, before a mass meeting of thousands of fur w m Coopsr Union last June. Br statements on the stand tallied wi what both of them said at the Coover Union meeting. Ida Langer. widow of Morris Lan- ger, leader of the Fur Dressing Dye~ ng Department of the N. T. W. I. U., who was murdeved by the bosses’ gangsters for his militant work in behalf of the Industrial Union, tes- tifted yesterday, She said she had identified Jaks Schulman, who is now a business agent of the “Joint Council,” as one of the three men} whom she saw running away from the garage where a bomb planted in his automobi'e killed her husband at one o'clock in the morning of murder. Null, attorney for the objected strenuously throu her testimony, which mads a sensa~- tion in court, but was unable to pre- vert her from giving it. Judze G: gan indicated, however, that the plainti hor to he thought her testimony to be “slight evidence.” and promised to consider it as such, Fur workers who appeared yester- day, either to refute contentions of viotence made against the N. T. W. I. U., or to tell of terrorism, beat- ings and murders committed by the gangsters of the A. F. of L. union, imeluded besides Mrs, Langer, Fannie Warschafsky, \29, an active member of the Industrial Union who works as a fur finisher; Max Schwartz, Clara Nellson, Sol Jacobson, Dien- sky, Paul Skolnik, Max Ostzover, Mary Fleischman and George Katz. As testimony concerning violence and gangsterism on the part of the tur bosses and their A. F. of L. agents assumed overwhelming proportions, the judge stopped it by declaring that he would hear no more evidenée about violence, Push Plans for AFL Rank and File Meet Nov. 25 Meet to Build Opposition Center NEW YORK.—Sentiment {ng for the establishmen: ing center of the American Fed tion of Labor rank and file in York. This is being shown in the response to preparations for a con- fernceé of A. F. of L. locals and min-| oritv groups in other is to be held Nov. 25 at 8 pm. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., New York, The conference is being called by| the New York Committee, affiliated with the National A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment ice and Relief, which recently called the Second Annual Rank and Pile Conference in Washington, at| the same time as the official con- Venticn of the A. F. of L. bureau- eracy. The Noy. 15 conference will discuss the many important problems con-| fronting the A. F. of L. rank and | tile, Unemployment insurance and| relief, the N. R. A,, injunctions, equal Tights for Negroes in the A. F. of L., exemption of dues for unemployed, racketeering and gangsterism the A. F. of L., and the results of the 58rd Annual Convention of the A. F. of L. and of the Second Annual/| Rank and File Conference are on the | agenda. | A main point will be the launch-| ing of a journal of the A. F. of L. Tank and file, which is to be called the “Rank and File Federationist,” as opposed to the “American Federation- ist,” organ of the A. F. of L, Execu- tive Council. A campaign for $500 is now under way to publish the F and File Federationist” by the middle of December. A. PF. of & locals and militant min- | ority groups are urged to send dele-| gates to the Nov. 25 Conference at| Irving Plaza. Many of these locals| amd groups are being visited by rep-| resentatives of the A. F. of L, Trade Union Committee. _ ‘The Daily Worker can live only Bai GO seer sctashcnton. yo . your organi jon, your friends to contribute. Send-Off Tonight _ for N. J. Delegates _ NEWARK, Nov. 15.—A_ mass send-off for New Jersey delegates to the Anti-Lynching Conference in Baltimore, Nov. 18 and 19, will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at the Academy on Beacon it, The meeting will be addressed by Louise Thompson of the Na- tional Council of the League of for Negro Rights, Sam district organizer of the Labor Defense, and | | | Tors | close DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1933 Needle Trade Protest in Arena NEW YORK.—Thousands of nee~- | die trades workers will pack Lincoin Arena, 69 W. 66th St, tonight in a huge protest meeting to voice their opposition against the latest at- | tempts of the bosses and A. F, of L. bureaucrats, Socialist leaders and state and federal governments to | smash their fighting Industrial Union. Irving Potash, secretary of the Yew Work District of the Needle ades Workers Industrial Union, will be chairman. Among the speak- ers are Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, Joseph Winogradsky, Mary Nigrelli, Lyndon Henry and Fred Bieden- kapp, leader of the Shoe Workers Industrial Union, Huge | Heads ofCommunist | Party Bid Farewell to Mann, Barbusse Send Greetings to European Workers at Banquet NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—"I have seen Uncle Sam’s show once more. I was} here 50 years ago, 20 years ago, and I! t to urn in perhaps 10 years.” | These were the words of Tom Mann, veteran labcr leader and Com- | munist at the farewell lunch ar- ranged for him on the atternoon of | his departure for England. In the Workers Center, on the sec- | ond floor, this last get-together was | an by the Central Committee of | the Communist Party to honor the| revolutionary visitors from abroad, | Tom Mann and Henri Barbusse, “When I return to England I shall convey both by toneue and pen the} greetings that have been extended to} me here in America. I take these rreetings not only for mysef but for the toilers in England,” Tom Mann, | James Ford, chairman, struck the | e of the gathering by warmly | SS e two com-| es for their excc'lent work in ra!-| ying the American workers azainst | nperialist war and against the sys-| tem that breeds war, “We have taken time off from our endless round of | a ity to b‘d ‘good-bye’ and express our solidarity with the workers of your countries,” declared Comrade Ford, Honri Barbusse greeted Tom Mann. In the easy flow of words typical of Babusse, he expressed admiration of s nd good a comrade as Tom for his splendid activity, He id that he was honored to be at ng not only because Tom | 1 was an old friend of his, and| an old comrade fighter, but because | he, an intellectual of bourgeois origin, | an, of proletarian origin, a for the past 69 years, have to- her toured the country in the in- st of the fight against. imperialist r and capitalism. The fraternal salutations of the orkers were extended in his | to this labor leader of| continued | oseph Freeman, editor of the New | es, and staff writer of the Daily er, who toured the country with | both Mann and Barbusse, conveyed | the greetings of the “Daily” and its thousands of readers to the workers | of France and England, | “Here is one,” he said, “a worker f than half a century, an or- with the mind an intellectual, a writer, a poet, with 1 the fighting spirit of a militant} working-class leader, This symbolized | ity of wor! and intellectuals | and their welding together into Com- | munist fighters.” Anna Shultz. exile from Nazi Ger- | many, spoke briefly and vividly of | the bravery of Dimitroff, Taneff, er and Popoff. Her words were d with the fighting slogan of the German working class, “Rote Front!” Other speakers were Charles Krumbein, district organizer of the | Communist Party; William Patterson | of the I.L.D., and Moissaye J. Olgin, | editor of “The Freih Photo Workers Hold Meet on NRA Code j NEW YORK.—Photographic work- | ers met last night in a mass meeting | of the entire trade at 5 E. 19th St.| to consider developments in the N.| R. A, code affecting retouchers and printers, who are raising demands, | through their Photographic Workers’ | Union, for $35 per week, as against $14 and $15 offered by the code, 40 hours instead of the 48 which are| proposed by the bosses, union recog- | nition and other demands. | At a hearing before the N. R. A.| Board Nov. 13, the Wheelan Studios, where a strike of the photographie workers has been in progress, were found guilty of violation of Section | j-a of the N. R. A. code, which re- | fers to collective bargaining, and] were warned by the administration that unless they recognize the union, | put the men back to work, and get| rid of the scabs, they would be liable | to a fine. Strike for More Pay | at Fruit Warehouse | NEW YORK.—Because they were unable to earn more than $2.50 to $4 @ week under a piece-work system es- tablished at the Prince Dried Fruit Co,, 83 Crosby St., nearly 100 workers of the crew of 125 here went out on strike Monday, The strikers are led by the Food Workers Industrial Union, Yesterday hired gangsters and po- lice protected scabs entering the plant and tried to break up strikers’ pick- et lines. Cops ordered the strikers to cross the street to prevent mass pick- eting and permitted only two strik- ers in front of the warehouse. The owner of this firm is a brother of Judge Prince, notorious anti-labor judge of Tammany affiliation, The strikers are appealing to all young workers to aid them on the picket line. Strike headquarters are at 15 BE, 3d St Investigators Back From Alabama; to’ Report in Baltimore Attempt by Knight to! Block Inquiry Scored NEW YORK.— “What struck us most forcefully about our trip to Ala- bama to investigate lynchings in Tus- caloosa, Ala., was the hostile recep- tion accorded to us by Attorney Gen- | eral Thomas E. Knight, Jr, when we | called on him at the State House in Montgomery, on Tyesday, November | 1,” Barbara Alexander, descendant of 2. Georgia family, told newspaper rep- resentatives yesterday afternoon at t office of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisonrs, 156 Fifth Avenue. Miss Alexander had just arrived in| New York City, with H, Hirsch, head | of the delegation which was organized | by the National Committee. Other | members of the delegation had drop- ped off in their respective states, Four of the delegates, three of them women, were from the South. Miss Alexander and Mr. Hirsch intend to leave this week for the Anti-Lynch- | ing Conference in Baltimore, Nov. 18 | and 19, where they will present aj detailed report of the findings of the | investigating body. Before leaving | this city they expect to be in pos- | session of the notes of other mem- | bers of the delegation, who were in charge of various aspects of the in- | vestigation. | The delegation, Miss Alexander said, defied the lynch threats of At-| torney General Knight, who made} the sinister statement that if they! went on to Tuscaloosa “no one can tell what will happen.” { Information received in Tuscaloosa indicated that Dan Pippen, Sr., father | of Dan Pippen, Jr., one of two youths | lynched on August 12, had “disap- | peared.” Several sources indicated | that he has been killed. This in-| formation was volunteered by both white and Negro residents, Attorney | General Knight refused to let the| delegation examine the secret Grand Jury records on the indictment of Dan Pippen, Jr., on a framed charge | of murdering a white girl, | Further information was obtained | on the case of Dennis Cross, a semi- | paralytic who was lynched on Sep- tember 24, Cross was one of three Negro witnessss to the murder of another Nero by a white grocer by the name of Hinton, The other two witnesses were sentcnced from 17 to; 20 years in prison on charzes of “having broken into and rifled Hin- ton’s store.” Cross remained as the only witness to the murder. He was| cherged with “grabbing” at a white} woman, but was released on $300 bail | furnished by Hinton. Two days later | he was taken out of his home and | lynched. The delegation was in-! formed that the automobile track leading to the scene of the murder displayed the treads of new Goodyear tires. Hinton’s car also had new Goodyear tires. 2,300 Hose Workers, Strike in Reading, ation | | | | | Walk Out After Boss] Fires Two Union Men) READING, Pa., Nov, 14—Protesting | the discharge of two workers for union activity and for collecting dues | in the plant, 2,300 hosiery workers of the Rosedale Knitting Mills went out | on strike Monday, after the employer had refused to reinstate the workers. The Rosedale workers did not con- sult the A, F, of L, union in taking this action, A. F, of L, officials here declared that unless the matter would | be adjusted, the strike forecasts a/| repetition of the general strike last | summer. The hosiery bosses are building a} company union in the plant and are | permitting collection of dues for their union on mil] premises, The strike of the Rosedale work- ers is the first major strike since the betrayal settlement made by the Na- tional Labor Board and accepted by the A, F, of L. officials, which ended the militant general strike last sum- mer and failed to force the bosses te sign up with the A. F. of L. the cause for which the strike was waged. Electrical Workers Call Strike When Boss Rejects Union NEW YORK.—Workers of Noma Electrical Co., 524 Broadway, walked out on strike last Thursday when | the company refused to recognize | their union. Last week as a result | of their demand for pay increases the company was forced to raise | their wages from 32 cenis to 40 cents an hour. The workers went to the boss the second time demanc- ing revognitior. but this was refused, whereupon the strike was calle. Hugh Fiayne. of the Stue A. F. of L, upon application by the strik- ers, organized them Into a federal union known as Electrical Factory Workers’ Local 18881. That is all) Frayne has done for the strike. “He never comes down to th picket line,” a striker told the Daily Work- er, “We have to go to him.” Although pickets are parading in| front of the place, scabs are enter- ing the shop and the A, F, of L. takes no step to protect the strik- ers’ jobs. Strikers have appealed | to the NRA, but no action has been taken, Mass picketing is being urged by some of the strikers and a closer relation with the Steel and | Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, | i “PAROLED” CONVICTS ROBBED OF THEIR LIBERTY | PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8.—Nearly | 100 convicts in the Pennsylvania East- ern Penitentiary, eligible for parole, are being kept indefinitely because | they have no jobs promised them. | Authorities fear that disorders may arise if the men despair of gaining their freedom through legitimate means | Court must h official counsel, | Dimitroff interr: declaring: | “That is compulsory counsel. I de- | testimony and the records, and I will | | the Reichstag elevator with Julius, | | on demand the certificate of Popoff's |Modern Revolutionary Heroes Some time ago the com rested and jailed for selling ¢ the subways. Somehow, his sojourn in failed to dampen his fighting and sketched him at the sam Dimitroff Demands Right to Defend | Himself in Trial (Continued from Page 1) people like Van der Lubbe in tts ranks, and maintained such connec- | tions. | “Lubbe Isn’t a Communist” | Kerff contradicted this statement, | G21, saying he could not compré anybedy could commit si as the Reichstag arson, but still more | is it incomprehensible how anybody | believes Van der Lubbe is a Commu- it. | | | The next witness was a landlady who stated she does not recognize} Popoff. She declared he never rented | her rooms, § ‘aid she believed her | neighbor, Mrs. Hartunz, perhaps had a love affair with Popoff. Popoff protested against this state- ent, Investigotion showed that this testimony was besed on reciprocal gossip among the neighbors. The witness declared she even accused him of arson. « The next witness was the author Rossner, who came from Prague, on | Dimitroft’s demand. He stated he was frequently in the Bayernhof with | Dimitroff. He was emphatic in his statements that Van der Lubbe never was at their table. He said he met Dim‘troff often but never saw Van der Lubbe, | held tonight at the Labor Temple, | recently escaped from Germany, will | speak. rade pictured above was ar- opies of the Daily Worker in the capitalistic calaboose has spirit, for last night we found old stand. , Communist Party Urges Thousands to Protest Monda (Continued from Page 1) the auspices of the International La~ bor Defense and the N. ¥, Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism. Speakers will be, David Levinson, LL.D. attorney recently returned from. ermany; er Orloff, Amoriean| student recently released from Nazi jails; Herbert Klein, Berlin prers cor- res ‘ent, and many others. Rabbi Gross will be chairman, ae Yorkville’ Meet A mass meet to protest the Reichstag trial and to save Dimitroff, ‘Torgler, Popoff and Taneff will be Louis D, 243 EB. St. Anna Schultz, who o s8 Three Chicago Meets CHIC".GO, Nov, 15, — Workers, farmers and students will relly in two meetings on Noy. 19 and one ‘uge dsmonstzation on the 22d to protest against the murder plans of the Ger» man fascists and to demand the re- lcase of the four Communists on trial in Eerlin. “The German organizations are taking definite stens. We are net for- getting the need for funds, A num- ber of committees have already pro- | | | Shows Contradictions The Nazi waiter, Hellmer, who pre- j viously testified concerning mestings in the Bayernhof, was recalled. He| said it was impossible to confuse | Rossner with Van der Lubbe. Dimi-| troff pointed out the contradiction in Hellmer’s previous testimony with the | testimony of the Nazi Major Schroe- | der, who declared Hellmer mentioned } suspicious foreigners before the fire | but did not mention Van der Lubbe. Dimitroff raised the fundamental question in his defense, saying: “I reject any tutelage and will defend myself, I make no reproach against Teichert.” The presiding every defendant judge stated that before the Supreme mand the stenographic report of the defend myself as I think best.” The appointed counsel for Dimi- trotf, Teichert, opened a heavy attack on Dimitroff, stating Popoff and Taneff did not agroe with Dimitroff’s agitational kind of defense, Before Taneff and Popoff wete giyen an opportunity to reply, fresh witnesses were called, Never Saw Dimitroff | The Communist Deputy Neubauer | was put on the stand and declared | he never saw Dimitroff. The Reich- | stag elevator man Kaufman main- tained his assertion that he saw Neu- | bauer with Dimitroff in the elevator. | Neubauer maintained that this was| impessible, but that he onee ascended | chief editor of the International Press | Correspondence, who resembles Dimi- troff. | The next witress was a Russian woman physician from Leningrad, the | manageress of the Crimea Sanato- | rium, who treated Popoff from the| 8rd of August until the 13th of Sep- | tember, 1932. The Sanatorium sent | sojourn, which is the official docu | ment, as there are no private sana- toria in the Soviet Union, Dimitroff submitted the certificate of his stay in the Soviet sanatorium in May, 1932. Looks Like Taneff The next witness, Bernstein, from the concentration camp in Sonnen-| burg, stated he brought a document about police occupation of the Karl Liebknecht house to Torgler in the Reichstag on the 24th of February, Bernstein is conspicuous in his resem~ blance to Taneff, Taneff’s wife was the next witness. She declared Taneff was in the Soviet Union in the summer of 1952, and tested to the German consul and more are eyer going there,” reported E. Thomas, secretary of the Chicago Committee to Aid Victims of Ger- man Fascism, . , CINCINNATT, Noy. 15.—The Cin-| ati Committee is mobilizing the 's of this city in a mass meet- ing Friday, Nov, 17, to demand the release of Dimitroff, Torzgler, Popoff and Taneff. The meeting will be held in Bigelows Hall, 211 Odd Fellows Temple, Elm and 7th Sts, ee ie * Six Cleveland Meets | CLEVULAND, O,, Nov. 15.—In prep- aration for the mags protest meeting scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 19, six meetings have been arranged during the week, Sunday's meeting will pro- test the Reichstag fire trial and de- mand the immediate release of Di- mitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff, and will be held at Moose Hall, 1,002 Walnut Ave,, at 7:30, Speakers will be W. C. Harrison, Ohio State Senator; W. Strasfurt, German Krenkenkasse; John Wil- | liamson and others, The secretary to the German con- sulate here admitted to a workers’ delegation that numerous protests had been received against the Reichs- tag frame-up. The delegation con- sisted of E. Wazenknecht, Cleveland Committee to Aid Victims of Ger- man Fascism; C. B, Cowan, Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League; Norman H. Tallentire, Friends of the Soviet | Union; Hermen Stosfurth, Arbeiter- | Kranken- und Sterbe-Kasse; P. Bart, Communist Party, Olio District; M. F. Eliott, Workers International Re- licf; J. Sehiffer, International Work- ers Order, District Committee; Sophie | | Slash, Celebrate Birthday of Comrade Bedacht with Banquet Nov. 25 NEW YORK. The fifteenth birthday of Max Bedacht, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and National Secretary of the International Workers Order, will be celebrated at a delegated testimonial Banquet, Saturday evening, November 25, at Irving Plaza Hall. The celebration will also mark the thirtieth year in which Bedacht has participated in the revolutionary movement. The speakers at the bancuet will | be: Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, James W. Ford of the T, U. U. L. Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker; William Weiner, president of the I W. O, Charles Krumbein, district organizer of the C:mmmunist Party will be the chairman. Besides the speakers an ex~- ceptional program has been ar- ranged. Andre Cibulski will sing popular Russian melodies. Eugene Nigob, famous pianist, and Miss Fresser, violinist, will play. Terzani Protest Meetings Tonight Tag Days Called for Friday and Saturday NEW YORK.—With Brooklyn workers preparing to hold a series of Terzani protest meetings this eve- ning to demand the release of Athos Terzani, young anti-Fascist, framed in connection with the murder of his comrade Anthony Fierro, the Terzani Defense Committee called for volunteers to help collect funds for the defense this Friday and Sat~ urday, as a further step in the fight to free Tenzani, Tonight's meetings will be held as follows: Workers’ Center, 5111 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn; Workers’ Center, 87 Bay 26th St. Brooklyn; Labor Ly~- ceum, 1377 42nd St., Brooklyn, and | Workcrs’ Center, 2874 W. 27th 8t., Coney Island. The following stations are listed for the Tag Day collections, where voluntsers can secure cans and cre~ | dentials: MANEATTAN—94 Fifth Ave, 7 E, lth St. 100 W. 72nd St., 1184 St, Nicholas Ave., 2005 Seventh Ave. EROOKLYN—Downtown, 157 Mon- tegue St.; Bensonhurst, 87 Bay 26th Boro Park, 1377 42rd St.; Brigh- ton, 1112 Brithton Beach Aye.; Brownsville, 219 Sackman Ave,; Coney Island, 2202 Mermaid Ave. and 333 Sheffield Ave.; Flatbush, 844 Utica Ave. and 223 Church Ave.; Will'amsburgh, 289 8. Third St. and 167 Tompkins Ave, BRONX—9 W. 170th St., 809 West- chester Ave., 2700 Bronx Park East, 192 Eact Tremont Ave, QUEENS—4206 27th St. (near Queens Plaza), Long Island City. RICHMOND—Addresses of Staten Isiand can-centers can be obtained by televhoning Algonquin 4-258¢4, Brooklyn will have a third tag day, Sunday, because of the assembling f certain large crowds there that ay. Free T H. Stone in Richmond, VaStrike Dockmen ‘Fight NRA; Free Organizer RICHMOND, Vs, — Packing Be di the | court room, lon7shoremen and other | workers foreed Judge Haddon to dis- miss the case against T. H. Stone, or- vanizer of the International Labor Dafense, who had helped 125 striking dock workers fight an N.R.A, wage Dering the two-hour trial, Stone assailed the alliance of big business with N.R.A. to reduce the workers’ standards of living. When the wages of the longshore- men were cut in co: nee with the NLR.A. to an average of 15 cents an hour, they formed the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union to help them win their demands of 65 cents an hour; 20 begs to the sling; and rec- ognition of the Workers Committee, ‘The Richmond Unemployed Coun- eil and the LL.D, were mobilized to help the longshoremen win their strike. With all but two of the 125 strikers out on the pick workers rejected boss Potts’ compro- mise offer of 35 cents an hour. After with intefering with the police. City Even Telk oa Cuba The present siiuc be the topic of a lecture by O, Brano, N. ¥. Secretary cf the Anti-Imperial- | ist League in the Coonerative Audi- Mazieka, International Labor Defense District, Ohio; Georg Seminuk, Rus- | sian Workers Orgenization; Frank | Rodger, Joint Councii of Industrial | Unions; A. R. Onda, Unemployed | Councils of Ohio. | ’ Boston Consa Hands Out Nazi Book | BOSTON, Mass., Noy. 14—When Seven delegates, representing trade vnions and other organizations, con- fronted Baron von Tippe’skirch, Nazi consul here, and demanded that the German Communists on trial in Bor- | lua bs freed, the consul handed out | copies “Sommunicm in Germany,” | tt inv’ey poison book recently din the Daily Worker. When the delegation first appeared before the consuls secretary, they were told thet the consul refused to see them. Not to be denied, the dele- gates, led by Albert Mallinger of the American League Against War and Fascism, brushed by the secretary, the } returned to Bulgaria in November, where he remained until the 2ist of Sevtember, 1932. Dimitrofl’s mother, 70 years attended the proceedings today The proceedings in the Reichstag building, Berlin, closed and the ses~ sions of the court will be continued in Leipzig Friday. old, confronted the beron in his private | office, and made their demands, After he had been forced to lsten | to the end, the consul handed out the | slanderous books. Shouting “Down | with Hitler!” and “Long Live Soviet | Germany!” the delegation left just torium, 2700 Bronx Park Fast, tonight | 9b 8 p,m. Anniversary Celebration of Women’s Council The United Courctis of Jinss Women will csisbrave their 10th Anniversary tomorrow night at Irving Plaga, 15th St, and Ipying Place, City. An excellent enievtainment program has been orranged, Inaugurate Rose Pastor Stokes Braneh, I. L, D. All professionals and intellectuals are urged to attend the evening of the Rose Pastor Stokes branch of the I. L, D. tomorrow night, 8:30, at 63 E. llth St, rear building. This branch is being organized by Adolf Wolff, sculptor, in memory of Rose Pastor Stokes. » 8 « I. W. 0. Meeting Branch 500 of the International Workers’ Order will hold a meeting tonight, 8:30, at 50 E. 13th St., room 204, Pee eae: Furniture Workers Meet The Upholsierer Section of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union | as the police, called by the fright- | ened officials, were arriving, will hoid a meeting tonight 17:30, at union headquarters, 812 Broadway. et line the | pin Cuba will | | | | Werking | Max Baer, HERE are so Your New Idol many more fruitful points of departure from which a review of Max Baer in “The Prizefighter and the Lady” could be written that it seems a pity to confine oneself to the sports angle. I confess I hastened to see the picture in expectation of a visual treat at least. beautiful fight photography. Hollywood has done Then the reviews were so unanimously enthusiastic. Baer was “two hundred pounds of* curly-haired dynamite” and a “personality,” a real back to fundamentals ideal of womankind, Now I have seen the boy in the ring and at dressing room range and al- though I have a notion about just how much press agents can do, such a complete and successful job was mildly puzzling, Baer had struek me as a third-rater who's too dumb to know he’s hit and the color angle I filed with the National Recovery Act, Caryeth Wells and Oarnera’s “terrific right uppercut,” The real ecstatic raves were pulled by the syndicated lady reviewers who seem to have a corner on the market | but Boehnel of the New York World- | Telegram and Haji of the Times were also more than appreciative. I still fail to explain that complete surren- der of even their own technical and what one, for immediate want of a more accurate term, may call horse- | sense standards. JALF the footage was deyoted to | Maxie’s strip act and that may have partially dulled the percep- tions of the syndicated misses. He has a fine body whose clumsiness is apparent only to the practiced ring eye and he was shown under all sorts of appealing circumstances. He chastised bullies and defended the weak and flung chorus girls across pianos with a deal of fresh- ness and verve, How his vacuous pug’s face, his pathetic tap-dance attempt and truly putrid ham act- ing went over is beyond my ex- perience or capacity for reflection, Even the gullible cash customers are staying away from the Capitol in droves. If you're at all interested in the contemporary brand of heavyweight boxing, in Carnera or Baez, this is the picture you want to see. The closeups here will give you a real line on their ability. Even white boxing under instructions to lose, the real fighter will retain a degree of shift- incss and a set of elementary rules. If you ever spent much time in gyms or behind the typewriter dur- ing obvious tank fights you realize that. Neither Carnera nor Baer are fighters. Iti sn’t that they can’t act, They can’t box, To an extent M.G.M. succeeded in covering up Maxie's bum acting by giving him the part of a guy who’s dumb even for a pug (“just a boy at heart”) but they couldn’t cever up his stature as a heavyweight. He’s as much of a slow-footed, slow think- ing, built-up shoek absorber as the Pisa Punk, his antagonist. ® © ORE interesting are the swiftly shifting Hollywood standards re- vealed in the picture, Despite censors’ ukases against the hero's resting his palm on a feminine posterior, the | myth of monogamy, formerly a Hol- lywood fundamental, is breathing its last. At the beginning of the movie Maxie is dating up a cashier, He's a “sailor from Australia, Singapore, and points wesi,” if you get what he means. He gets tangled up with Myr- na Loy, the trigger man’s moll, but that don't put no crimp in his style. A society gal who's all for brawn: “Say, I wouldn't mind having him on a pedestal in my front yard,” Real imported pagan stuff. Then a more mature society lady, bored and supe- rior, but captivated. 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She plays square with Otto Kruger, who plays the Larry Fay part. Returns his jew- els when she leaves him to marry Max because she wants to start from seratch. And she makes a splendid wife, forgiving as hell on the basis of the conviction that underneath the cashisr and the chorine and the de- | butantes, Max is just a boy. The new Baer ideal is an improvement over Jimmy Cagney and Lee Tracy and William Gargan. He's straight Wil- liam Wycherley in his morals, only dumb, And Loy is the current Holly- wood woman: with a past, to be sure, but noble in her absolute dedication to the career of the broker, footbal! player or fighter of her choice. 9 i ae I gts the commanding admiration, desire and nostalgia for easy money. Robin Hood and D’Artagnan never had the glamour and impres- siveness of the Hollywood gangster. He’s no longer the swaggering bully along Capone lines or the Public Enemy of Wallace Beery days. The trigger man of “The Prizefighter and, the Laéy” is attractive-polished- generous-danserous - sensitive Otto Kruger, He’s the vehicle for the conviction of the Hollywood writer that “the love stuff you read about in books is boloney.” He’s too hon- est for that. When his “adopted son” and bodyguard (aged 60, how original, how quaint) offers to spill Maxie’s guts inte some alley Otte shakes his head, puts up the fight~ er’s $25,000 guarantee for the Car- nera bout instead. He gives the boy chance after chance to prove his love for the Loy and when he’s sat- isfied, you get the sort of gracefal exit you haye learned to expect from Cyrano de Bergerac, not Legs Diamond. CaaS aes EZ are your Hollywood heroes, the American institutions which Frankin D. Roosevelt thinks are “still solid as the Rock of Gibraltar”; Max Baer, your next heavyweight champion, the swaggering moron pug. 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