The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1933, Page 2

Page Two Nat’l Silk Meet Decides to Form Industrial Union 72 Delegates Demand Militant Rank and File Union; to Organize Jobless Silk Workers By CARL REEVE. PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 19.—Seventy-two delegates representing silk | workers from United Textile Workers, National Textile Workers, independent | unions and unorganized workers of the silk industry nationally, met today im Paterson and called on all workers in the silk industry for formation of ome industrial union. “The silk and dye workers have the one immediate ask of building an industrial unione— - ‘or the entire silk industry of all dye, vorkers, broad silk workers, thro’ ters and ribbon workers,” the res “ution of the National Conference de- lares. The delegates attended from Eas- ton, Phillipsburg, Wilkes Barre, Lodi, Rhode Island, Paterson and other | New Jersey and Pennsylvania slik centers, This National Silk Conference, call- ing on the initiative of the United) Textile Strike Committee, decided to) ‘work tirelessly to establish the unit-| ed front of all silk workers to win the Paterson and Rhode Island strike,” and to “set up united front rank and} le committees to guarantee favor-| able settlement,” of those strikes) which are still going on. | The resolution passed by the con-| ‘erence states, “these mill commit-| ‘ees must be united by sending de! et yates to a shop delegates’ council to) decide on common action and lay the | yasis for an industrial union of the| vank and file,” The organization of the unem-/ ployed silk workers to fight jointly | with the employed for Unemp:oyment | Insurance at the expense of the em- ployed and government, was an im- portant part of the program of the conference. Mass delegations to de- mand relief are to be organized. A commitiee was elected empowered to call sectional and regional confer-| encés on the jobless immediately. In the report of John J. Ballam, Nat Kaplan, Ann Burlax, all N.T.W.! organizers, as well as delegates from U.T.W. locals, it ves clearly seen tha‘ | the new industrial union cannot be| based on the N.T.W. The National} silk strike has been broken into frag- ments by the U.T.W. leaders, it was reported. In Paterson, Eli Keller, Frank Schweitzer, etc., representing MacMahon, sent ck to work the dyers, jacquard workers and warp- | ey split the ranks and forced| kers in Stroudsberg, | Barre and Allen-| 1 and Rhode Island | fighting the} the reports at the conference showed, are now trying to get these strikers back to work as soon as pos- sib’é without any agreement. Among the dye workers in Pater- son, it wes revealed, lay-offs have al- ready been started by the bosses. | Promises made to the U.T.W, are not being fulfilled, with no equalization | of work, some working a split shift, and others working 12 hours a day. The pay is not kept up to $23. In the eastern shops, led by the N.T. workers secured recognition of tl union end *7.9% for 190.009 picks, con- tracted with $2 for the ie number } im Paterson, where the T A concerted eff ta vill be made tomorrow to} get the men back to work in Pater-| son and onen the shops. One de! te | member of the AF. of L. voiced the sentiment of all the delegates pres-| ent at the conference when he said} that the industrial union must have a militant program and must be run by the rank and file. On this basis the delegates stated. larce sections of | the A. F. of L. will join the industria! | | | | | | terror: | | street and hung him on a tree. Public Inquiry Gets Proof of Ritchie’s | Guilt In Lynching, (Continued from Page 1) Attorney Robins to make the arrest, and pointed out that Robins himself was named as one of the chief in- stigators of the lynching. Robins has declared that if arrested, the lynch- ers would be released by an Eastern Shore mob, Investigator Reports Eastern Shore Conditions Rose Bradley, a Baltimore white girl and an investigator for the League of Strugzle for Negro Rights and the “Daily Worker,” gave a re- port on the social and economic con~ tions on the Eastern Shore which have been exposed in the “Daily Worker” as the basis created by the capitalists for the lynch terror against the Negro masses. She quoted promi- nent citizens she had interviewed in her investigation. Mr. Keller, Somer- set County agent, had told her “we have mostly Negro labor around here. They work under supervisors, but even so they're not worth anything. Sometimes we get rid of one, ha-ha- ha—we just got rid of one recently.” His statement clearly referred to George Armwood, lynched on Oct. 18, and evoked a hearty laugh fromh a woman relief supervisor who was sent to the Eastern Shore from Baltimore. Eastern Shoremen Laugh In Telling Of Lynching Dr. Collins, public hea’th physician of Crisfield, Md., told her “I don’t notice that Negroes need much at- tention. We don’t hear much from them. They keep their places and| we keep in ours. Occasionally we | have to string one up, ha-ha-he.” | Mr. Hampden, editor of the East- | ern Shore “Republican,” whom she also interviewed, boasted that he had | ¢ Armwood lynching and gen- | y expressed approval of lynch | ‘s, I saw the Armwood lynch- ing,” he declared. “Covered it for the A. P. and U. P., and the Balti-| more ‘Sun.’ I was on the telephone / when I heard the crowd dragging him past my house.. I said, you'll have to excuse me but they're dragging a nigger past with a rope around his neck and I have to go to see about it. “Nothing To It” Says Boss Editor “There was nothing to it. They just got a nigger out of jail, stabbed DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MO’ AY, NOVEMBER 20, 1933 and LL.D. Attorneys: InLynch Peril Today (Continued from Page 1) ation of their stand “before it is too late.” | In last desperate efforts to prevail upon the state to provide the mili- | tary, George W. Chamlee, Southern | Counsel, associated with the defense, | telegraphed a personal message to Gov. Benjamin W. Miller, urging him | to order out the National Guard. } Gov. Miller refused. Boys Await Ordeal of Removal While last minute conferences were | being held at the Tutwiler Hotel in} Birmingham, by defense counsel, the Scottsboro boys waited fearfully for the ordeal of being transferred to Decatur from the Jefferson County | Jail. | Both Sheriff Hawkins and Sheriff | Davis of Morgan County, state that | they have made no alterations of their plans to provide a few deputies | as the only means of protection. | Leading Papers Score Refusal of | Protection | This morning’s Birmingham Age Herald's leading editorial, urging that | the military be called out to protect the Scottsboro boys and their de- fendants, gives an accurate picture of the seething tension which the local newspapers realize exists. ‘The editorial follows: “So far as this paper has been able to ascertain, the Scottsboro Ne- | groes are to be taken to Decatur for arraignment on Monday without mil- itary protection. It is, as we see it,| exceedingly unwise to fail to give| these prisoners the fullest protection | the state can command. The re- sponsibility which is thus being thrust upon Sheriff Hawkins and Sheriff Davis, impose on them a bur- den they should not have to carry. What is true with resvect to the arraignment is true of the trial of the week following. “If this is not a juncture when the | authorities should strain a point to make sure of the safeguarding of | defendants, there has never been an occasion in the history of Alabama for protecting prisoners against the possibility of an attack by would-be | jynchers, If anything is left undone to protect the Negroes accused in| this case, and the official optimism | proves unwarranted, then the state will be under an imputation it should | not have to wear. It is a risk too} great to be taken.” Common Belief that State is Pre- paring Massacre The “imputation” that the editorial refers to, is the common belief cur- rent throughout the state that Ala- bama has prepared what seems to be a set-up which is virtually an in- vitation to mob action. The Birmingham Post yesterday also spoke strongly on the question of protection. “Our recollection,” it says editor- ially, “of secret indignation meetings and of reports of incipient mobs at Decatur and Huntsville in the last trial of Haywood Patterson, leads us to believe, however, that Judge Cal- Jahan underestimates the seriousness of the situation. “A judge cannot wait until mob/ violence is upon him to provide pro- tection for defendants in his court. Mobs show a serpentine ability to rise him, dragged him up and down the He was dead before they hung him. He} didn’t try to stand or anything like that the way some papers said. I) don't know why the papers print such things. There wasn’t any of that singing or dancing around the tree. | | Me wasn’t up there more than a minute and a half, then they dragged | him back to the court house and | somebody poured gasoline over him | and set a match to him. It flared) suddenly from nowhere in particular. “Adequate protection must be af. forded the defendents and their at. torneys. Whether this protection be in the form of uniformed guardsmen | or special sheriff's devuties of proved courage, is unimportant.” | Chamlee Wires Demand to Governor Miller . General Chamlee’s personal tele. gram to Gov. Miller said, “The Bir. mingham News Age Herald and the | Scottsboro fa oe OF NEW YORK The aboye is a new and more appropriate design for the judicial robes of the hundreds of Federal judges who have yet to reduce their own salari Eighteen months ago they objected to a wage cut on the ground that it would have been “undignified.” ferred to reduce their own salaries “voluntarily,” with the above result. Comrade Editor: | Enclosed find 20 cents for the | Daily Worker drive, and credit same to Comrade Cartoonist Del for his swell cartoon in today’s pape:, entitled Re-elected. I was going to go to the movies with this money, but the picture made me mad and I know my | money is well spent rather than spend it on a lousy bourgeois movie. Keep up the fight against star- vation and canitalist terror and we workers will be with you. | $40,000 drive and the proletarian Yours for the success of the revolution of the workers for a | Is it @ bargain? | | Helping the Daily Worker | throuch Del: Sam Katz ......... 8 20 | Previonsly recorded + 19.85 | «+ $20.05 —by del es. They pre- cnment by workers for work- SAM KATZ, * Dear Comrade Katz: Your letter was swell except that you forgot to enclose the 20 cen‘s. However, I made good for you and credited your name below. Now, how about sending me the 20 certs, and I'll credit you again. Total to date.... nish troops to protect the prisoners, attorneys and officers of the court in Decatur on next Monday and throughout the trial of these cases. “The trial judge and the Attorney) General may think troops are un-) necessary, but mobs do not advise tl trial judge or the Attorney Gener of their intentions and in many i stances they are utterly unable to de- | tect them and capture them after a) lynching, irrespective of the disgrace | brought on the good name of the} | state. “As a friend of yours and a citizen | bordering your state with relatives| scattered throughout Alabama who cherish the good name of your com- monwealth, I want to appeal to you to provide trcons to escort these pris- oners to and from the courts from Birmingham to Decatur and return to the end that the trial may be or- derly, fair and consistent with real | true administration of justice.” | Governor Miller renlied this morn- ‘~, declining to send troops, “USSR Recognition Great Victory” Says Pravda” Editorial (Continued from Page 1) as well as other leaders of the anti- Soviet block, Fish and Woll, and their ilk, naturally do not reflect the opin- jon pf the American workers in/ the least degree, “An imvortant change has taken vlace in the U. 8. A. in favor of the Soviet Un‘on, through which the anti-Soviet elements at the present stave were defeated. “These elerrents resembled «& broken clock. They were stuck on the past stage of developments at heme end in the foreign situation Feeling avainst the boys and their | 0f the United States, a stage which defenders, a’teady tense, was further ended in the years of crisis and the inflamed today by printed attacks on|Sherp increare in the contradictions the “intrusion” of the I. L, D. in| in the camp of imperialism, aiding the boys. A 54-paye pamphlet| “The new foreign volitical suc- is beifiz oven'y citcu'>ted, calling for! cesses of the U. 5. S. R. Js an indi- he lynching of the boys and their) cation of the strencth of its posl- ttorneys, | tion in the struggle for peace. It is written by Woo “It is not a secret to anv~w that vretisely at this present time the vard Mabry, T.U.U.C. Greets Bedacht on His 50th Birthday NEW YORK.—‘To Max Bedacht, revolutionary leader who has fought for thirty years in the very forefront | of the working class aganist the in-| creasing waves of capitalist reaction, we extend our comradely greetings jon the celebration of his 50th birth- day,” read a statement issued by the Trade Union Unity Council through its secretary, Andrew Overgaard, yes- terday. “Comrade Bedacht, who is a mem~ ber of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. and National Secretary of the In- ternational Workers’ Order,” contin- ued the statement, “is a dynamic ex- ample of steadfast militant leader- ship. “Always a revolutionary fighter, Comrade Bedacht’s very life has been interwoven with the working class. He has fought at the head of the workers in shops and mills against the tremendous odds of capitalism, |always turning temporary retreats into organization for fiercer battle against the enemy. “His leadership in the Interna- tional Workers’ Order, mutual benefit workers’ organization, strikes at the thousands of fraternal organizational forms which capitalism uses a3 an aid in keeping the toiling masses from struggling for relief. At the same time that it offers workers the fraternal benefits, the organization of which Bedacht is the head, leads its membership in the demand for Social Insurance, “We salute the veteran leader of the working class, Comrade Be- dacht” In_ celebration of the 50th year of Max Bedacht, a banquet to which workers’ organizations are sending delegates will be held Sat~ urday evening, Noy. 25, at Irving Plaza Hall. Speakers include Earl Browder, Clarence Hathaway, James W. Ford, William Weiner and Charles Krumbein. Fifteen hundred people are expected to at- tend. Mistrial Ordered In Fur Union Case NEW YORK.—Judge Gavegan or- dered a mistrial in the injunction case against the Needle ‘Trades Workers Industrial Union, yesterday morning, counsel for both sides hay- ing asked for the declaration. The case will reopen on Monday before Judge Shientag, another noted injunction judge, in Supreme Court, Center Street. City Events Shoe Workers Hold Three Meetings Tonight The Shoe Repair Department of ‘he Shoe and Leather Workers’ In- dustrial Union will hold three meet- ings tonight of shoe repairers, hat cleaners and bootblacks, at 8:30. Bronx, Ambassador Hall take Third Ave Elevator to Claremont Parkway; Manhattan, Union Hall, 77 Fifth Ave.; Brooklyn, Workers’ Center, 132 Myrtle Ave. « Meeting of Stock “Room Workers A general meeting of shipping lerks and floor boys will be held to- day, 5:30, at the office of the Needle ‘Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, 131 be”) Se a Alteration Painters’ Meeting A meeting of the Bronx Local, Al- teration Painters’ Union, will be held tonight at 1472 Boston Rd. A rep- | This was in Manh 3 © was the greatest boy athlete | know oF. ‘B He went through junior high with me and some of his | Public School Athletic League records still stand, I think. n’s Yorkville, the melting pot of the melting pot and Billy was probably the only boy of American stock in that class. He always wore the same brown pants and lumberjack, and he spent all summer on the beach so his body was brown too and he had? straight brown hair, cut long like Johnny Weismuller’s. He but quit last winter. He already the sole support of his family, he said, | but then he had a corner stand which had a characteristically modest but confident way of flinging it back while competing. Teachers liked him because he was quiet and did his homework and he would start pretty slowly each term but end up in the first six or seven of the class. The most coveted posi- | tions fell to him, president of the G. O., captain of the basketball and track teams, leader of the Color Guard. In assemblies and parades and graduations Billy carried the Stars and Stripes which towered over the state and school flags. We were together for three years and I don’t remember his ever hav- ing a real fist fight. It wasn’t that fellows were afraid of him. There just was no occasion for it. Billy rarely disputed an umpire’s decision. It was generally in his favor. He could chin twenty-five times and did nine feet in the standing broad jump, first rate senior high school per- formances. * « ° | [JE lived near my block and used |#l the same drug store wall for handball and we traveled to track meets together and shared the same pair of spikes and were quite in love |for many months until I changed |from a passive into a rabid atheist. Billy went to Sunday school and lic and private debates never over- flowed the bounds of civility, we just laid off each other after a while. I kidded him about Jonah and the whale and Adam's rib and the Ascen- sion. Once or twice he became troubled but Monday he returned with a new and burning faith. He | was the one boy of my actuaintance who didn’t cheat on exams. Billy and I took the entrance ex- amination to Townsend Harris Hall Prep together and he passed, safely within the quota. He showed up at the classes for just about a week, then got a transfer to continuation School. I never did get a chance to ask why and lost tack of him until this last Election Day. | ea tte was three o'clock at night in Grand Central Station and Billy stepped into my subway car with a bundle of morning papers. We re- cognized each other simultaneously while he was giving me change. He said. “Wait a minute, I’ run through the train and come back.” ‘When ‘he returned he said, “One sale. Herald-Tribune.” He asked what I was doing and whether I ever visited the school and told me he had belonged to the Alumni Club |and the short hair cut. netted him about fifteen a week. Now a dollar and a quarter meant # big day. He hadn’t grown or changed much except for the maturity in his face He talked fast in that staccato but fluent lingo of the New York taxi driver and newsie, injecting “pal” and “buddy” |into his sentences. He said he had gene to an Alumni Club meeting one day and after the adjournment, he and a few guys went into the office of the Principal who was stil around. And the big shot starts slinging it so heavy you had to duckr “Now as you go on in life...” They went into the trophy room and there was all Billy’s plaques and medals and loving cups so he says how about me taking home some of these but the old man says that’s not the custom, he don’t think Billy ought to. So Billy insists and the old man stalls, finally tums him down flat. “You gae these to the school.” he says, “There was about seven cups there with William Matthews on them so I reached into the closet and took the two biggest and I says call # cop. them that same day and every time Don’t worry, pal, he didn’t. I sold the first of the month comes around I make up my mind to get the rest, sang in a choir. Our numerous pub-|Dly I don’t. I don’t know why I don’t, I’m just @ sucker. Not enough of a sucker for Sunday school any more, just enough not to go get the rest of them cups. Remember Heni- gan? He's something like a ward captain or a district leader for the Fusion crowd. He went to continua- tion school with me. What are you doing?” I told him. He was getting off to take the train back to Grand Central so I asked when I could meet him down here at the office or any- where else and would he mind if I used his name in a piece. “T'll call you up,” he said, holding back the automatic door. “You can use my name. Yeah. Maybe Heni- gan’ll see it and give me a job.” Helping 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: Unit, 2 Section 2 .. Previous total Total to date $148.76 Manhattan Lyceum Hall For Mass Meetings, Entertainments Balls, = Wetdings and Banquets 66-68 E. 4th St. New York WORKERS--EAT AT THE Parkwav Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE None Hopkinson Ave. Brooklyn, N. ¥ AIRY, LARGE Meeting Rooms and Hall To Hire Suitable for Meetings, Lectures CHAIRS & TABLES | TO HIRE Dayt, 9-5504 = Minnesota 9-7520 American Chair Renting Co. ‘union. local attorney, and fs entitled: resentative of the I. W. O. will speak and Dances in the ; up and then died down. There wasn't | cesta: Sam ANNO it RN rt REED Candy and Tobacco Workers to Strike In New York Today NEW YORK, N. Y.—Workers em- ployed as chauffeurs, stock clerks, helpers, etc., in the candy and to- bacco jobbing industry on the East} Bide of New York City will walk out} on general strike on Monday, Nov. 20, at 12 o'clock noon under the lead- } ership of the Confectionery and) jobacco Jobbers Workers’ Union, | tion of the Food Workers’ Indus- | the union. Appeels have ben sent to all the retailers (candy store owners, etc.) not to ev-~"t 077 "5 fren scab shons, to refuse to give orders to the sal men of such shops, and to refuse to eceept goods from any chauffeur) who does not present a membershin | ook of the Food Workers’ Industrial | Union, and on whose truck there is| no union sign. anything to it.” “Lynchings Are Bread and to Me” All the time Hampden was describ- ing with evident relish the hideous details of the lynching, he was rock- ing a baby on his knee, and another | 10-year-old daughter sat facing him| Mesi Birmingham Post, of Saturday snd) Sunday morning, say in substance | that the Scottsboro Negroes are to | ro question, lynch law, etc., being an be taken to Decatur for arraignmen nvitation to the International Labor on Monday morning without military | Defense and all other associations protection, and in substance that 1s| advocating political equality to get is exceedingly unwise to fail to give | out and to remain away from the these prisoners the fullest protection | State of Alabama.” the state can command. | “We regard your teachings as dan- “As the Southern attorney I have | gerous and a menace to our state,” “A reply to slanders in re the Ne- | the lynching of Matthew Williams, a | in it, was out on the street at five with wide, serious eyes. The investi- jeen in this case two and one half gator particularly commented on this! yoars and I am a citizen of this part | revolting picture of family life among | of the country and have affidavits and the “best people” of the Eastern | reports from many sources that there Shore, and then quoted Hampden | js aiready a movement on foot to further, as declaring: | lynch the Scottsboro Negroes and to “I don’t care if they have another | intimidate and embarrass the trial lynching tomorrow. Lynchings are | and attorneys involved in this case, the pamphlet states. It declares the residents of Decatur have a right to arise when “outside Negro and white people send lawyers into our state to defeat law and cheat justice.” The Jaw has be-n tro s'ow in sending the Scottsboro boys to tne electric chair, the author says, therefore the people world is menaced by the danger from some jmverialist vowers which re- solved to remedy the'r own internal effsirs at the exnense of the wealth and territory of others. | “The collavse of the disarmamefit | conference, the ominous signs in the | Hast. and West. the armament race in the cavita'st countries show what unnrecedented calamities menace toiling mankind. new) victory of our peace policy— establishment of normal diplomatic relations between the Union of So- viet Soctalist Penublics and the Tite’ States of America—acquires on “What Benefit Could a Trade Union Gain by Joining the I.W.0.” i ee Bootblack’s Meeting ‘The Bootblacks Workers’ Union, af- filiated with the Trade Union Unity Council, will hold a meeting tonight, | 7p. m., at 23 E, 13th St., to elect a commit! mand the stopping of police terror ot bootblecks, and adi - “Precisely in such conditions the ae. aah ot ete ce to go to City Hall and de- aa: . Notice, Bronx Y. C. L.! Bronx Section Five, Young Com- mnunist League membership meeting which was to be held tonight is year azo on the Eastern Shore, He told the investigator: “Matthew Williams was lynched on account of a statement made by State’s Attorney Bailey that Williams had confessed to him, saying he had shot his employer on the basis of a secret order from the LL.D. and that | four more were picked to be killed. “Our paper, with that statement Editor's Note:—Due to lack of | space, it was not possible to publish | in Saturday's edition the full text of the letters exchanged by Maxim Litvinoff and President Roosevelt | in connection with the opening of diplomatic relations between | the Soviet Union and the United Litvinoff- Roosevelt Letters on of any amount realized by the government of the United States. The government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics further agrees, preparatory to the settle- ment referred to above, not to make | any claim with respect to: (a) Judgments rendered or that Republics will not take any steps to enforce any decisions of courts or initiate any new litigations for the amounts admitted to be due or that may be found to be due it, as the successor or prior Governments of Russia, or otherwise from American nationals, including corporations, I am glad to have these under- takings by your government and I shall be pleased to notify your gov- ernment in each case of any amount realized by the government of the United States from the release and assignment to it of the amounts ad- mitted to be due, or that may be | Czechoslovak Workers House, Ine. 347 E.72nd St. New York Telephone: RHinclander 5097 omrnaea Meet a: BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 368 Cicr-mort Parkway Brom ta STillwell 4-7197, Trade Union Directory +++ CLEANERS, DYERS AND PRESSERS UNION 228 Second Avenue, New York City Algonquin 4-4267 FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 4 West 18th Street, New York City Chelsea 3-0505 FURNITURE WORKErS INDUSTRIAL UNION 816 Broadway, New York City Gramercy, 5-8956 METAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION trial Union. | bread ” “ ” » ¥ ‘The demands of the workers are: eres meeeanent ey re | unless the state of Alabama will fur- of Decatur must “save themselves.” special significance.’ postponed until further notice, 45 East 19th Street, New York City | Min'mum wages of $35 for chaut-|qruitt, editor of the “Salisbury | s ciusoriea) see oe, oe FRY Se inine si bpgacbeapecl = a Times”, openly boasted of the part | (Classifi ates INDUSTRIAL UNION ay Mogg dang pean se Peg y i i | FOR — t tment, kitchen fest 28th Street, New York Cit eight-hour day and recognition of| Paved By his paper in wiillens, 2 | Oe Reioone Private, entrance. Call Lackawanna 4-4010 . Brownsville Pharmacist Directory B, ESECOVER, 447 Stone Avenue. WM. GARDEN, Ph.G., 386 Hinsdale St. WOE? N.PECKER,Ph.G.,163 Belmont Ave. FRANK SUSSMAN, Ph.G., 501 Powell St. J. NOVICK, Ph.G., 408 CARL BRODSKY All Kinds Of INSURANCE 799 Broadway N. Y. C. STuyvesant 9-5557 | o'clock, and that same evening they | ‘ | ly, ” ~ | States. The last three letters | may be rendered by A ican rT erships, ~|found to be due, the government of § ae carn follow: colts, inate a they relate. & Bead (er ine claim pete: the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- lead a COE NTONS « DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bot. Pitkin and Suiter Aves. Brookiyn PRONE: DICKENS 2-901 SFR. COHENS’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr, Delancey Street, New York City Tel. ORchard 4-4520 Wholesale Opticians Factory on Premises EYES EXAMINED in ARRANGE YOUR DANCES, LECTURES, UNION MEETINGS at the NEW ESTONIAN]! WORKERS’ HOME | 27-29 West 115th Street New York City The investigator reported a wide- | . . . | | spread sentiment on the part of|,.. ., A Eastern Shore Negroes in favor of | Litvineff Letter on Claims Settle the International Labor Defense. She | | said this sentiment was not openly necting-up with the nation-wide lib- eration movement of which they have | heard, despite their isolation, AFL Laundry Drivers ment My Dear Mr. President: _ Following our conversations, I | Soviet Socialist Republics agree that, preparatory to @ financial | settlement of the claims and coun- ter-claims between the governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- | laundry bosses’ association and the| any new litigations for the amounts | local N. R. A, labor board), rank and| prior governments of Russia, or publics and the United States of America and the claims of their | Nationals, the government of the NEW YORK, N. Y—Rejecting a| Union of Soviet Socialist Republics strike-breaking truce entered into by | will not take any steps to enforce their reactionary leadership (the| any decision of courts or initiate Reject Leaders; Strike file members of the A. F, of L, Driv-| otherwise, from American Nation- ers Union, Local 801, have gone on| als, including corporations, compa- strike for higher wages in several| nies, partnerships, or associations, Brooklyn and Queens laundries, the| and also the claim against the Newton Laundry, 104-20 44th Ave.,| United States of the Russian volun- Corona, L. I., the Queens Palace | teer fleet now in litigation in the Laundry, 1071 Wyckoff Ave., Ridge- | United States Courts of Claims and wood, the Atlantic Laundry, 32 Scott | will not object to such amounts be- Ave., Brooklyn. | ing assigned and does hereby re- lease and assign all such amounts To keep up a six-page “Daily Work-| to the government of the United property, or rights, or interests therein, in which the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or its Nationals may have had, or may claim to have an interest, or, (b) Acts done or set- lic officials in the United States, or its Nationals relating to property,' credits or obligations of any govern- ment of Russia, or Nationals, thezeof. I am, my dear Mr, President, Very sincerely yours, —MAXIM LITVINOFF, Peoples Commicsar for Foreign Affairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. . * * Roosevelt Reply on Claims Settlement THE WHITE HOUSE, Wash., Nov. 16, 1933. My dear Mr. Litvinoff: IT am happy to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of Nov. 16, 1933, in which you state that: “The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics agrees that, preparatory to a final settlement of the claims and counter-claims be- tween the Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of the Russian Volun- teer Fleet, now in litigation in the! United States Court of Claims, and} will not object to such amounts be- Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to be duly noti- | fied in each case of any amount real- ized by the Government of the United States from such release and assign- ment, “The Government of the Union o¢ Soviet Socialist Republics further agrees, prenaratcry to the settlement referred to above, not to make any claim with respect to: (a) judgements rendered or that may be rendered by American courts in so for as they relate to property, or rights, or interests therein, in which the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or its nationals may have had or may claim to have an in- terest, or, b) Acts done or settlements made by or with the government of the United States, or public officials in the United States, or its nationals, llics, and of the amount that may be} |found to be due on the claim of the Russian Volunteer fleet. I am, my dear Mr. Litvinoff, Very sincerely yours, Litvinoy Letter on Siberia Expedition My Dear Mr. President: I have the honor to Inform you that following our conversations and following my examination of certain documents of the years 1918 to 1921 relating to the attitude of the Am- erican Government toward the exne- dition into Siberia, the operations thereof following military forces and the inviolability of the territory of the Tin‘on of Soviet Soctalist Renub- lics, the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics agrees that it will waive any and all claims of whatsoever character arising out of activities of military forces of the United States in Siberia, or assistance to military forces in Siberia subse- quent to Jan, 1, 1918, and that such claims shall be regarded as finally settled and disposed of by this acree- ment, { am, my dear Mr. President, Very Sincerely Yours, Patronize the FIRST Food Work- ers’ Industrial Union Bakery in Bronx County 691 Allerton Avenue JADE MOUNTAIN ~ American & Chinese Restaurant | se SSC i ssigned and does hereby rel | Office Howes: 9-16 AM. 1-2, 6-8 rm. || CAPFeSe paoiad pov ata nee have the honor to inform you that|tiements made by or with the gov- He pe ig Bach amounts Nisa —FRANKLIN D. 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