The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1933, Page 2

Page Tao Pressman’ s Union in Revolt Against Geo. Berry Machine Rank and File Moves Against Racketeering Officialdom; for Trade Union Democracy NEW YORK.—An official steamrotler put through a vote of “confidence” im the George L. Berry machine at one of the infrequent meetings of the New York Newspaper Printing Pressmen’s Union inst Sunday im which 1500 members participated. Fear of the growing revolt of the membership prompted the officials to cali the meeting to enable them to continue their eontrol until the next national not Yention which may or may balled. On orders of George L. Be: fmg pressmen’s czar, Wi §trikebreaker and member of the Na- Sional Labor Board, 33 w men ave been fired from thei @aring to protest aga torial methods of the offic menibers are demanding elect their own officers an full accounting of the fina: union. During the last few we: ‘were fired from the Her! four men from the New Yo. AS nt- can, four from Worl three from the New York Times, one from the Mirror and one from the Brooklyn Eagle. A system of espio: ye been established men are age and terror in the shops at this action and rid themselves Armstrong ty At the Sunda ned to Berry- the y in the 1 of raembers ing. No dt no one was permit question of Alth opinion anged ® the rar the prin’ union is now un zinters’ Council Is Forced to Withdraw Jobless Registration clique of Council to call order f ed on Saturday. Although is haye yielded on registra- , they hope to continue to put ee the 50 cent daily tax ‘by this escicn. The drive to compel the withdrawal cl the tax will proceed with greater tempo, it was announced by the rank end file committee, and efforts will be made to bring every local,union nto the movement to defeat the racketeering officials’ latest attempt to rob the membership. Trade Union Directory ++: CLEANERS, DYERS AMD PRESSERS UNION 293 Second Avenue, New York City Algonquin 4-4267 FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 4 West 18th Street, New York City Chelsea 3-0505 FURNITURE WORKE! UNION 816 Broadway, New York City rey, 5-806 KERS INDUSTRIAL UNION ih Street, New York City Gramercy 7-7842 NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 151, West 28th Street, New York City Lackawannn 4-4018 INDUSTRIAL METAL WOR: 33 East 1 con-© egistration of all | Allerton Avenue Comrades! The Medern Bakery ‘was first to settle Bread Strike and first to sign with the FOOD WORKERS’ INDUSTRIAL UNION 691 ALLERTON AVE. “STATIONERY and MIMEOGRAPH SUPPLIES At Special Prices for Organivations Lerman Bros., Inc. Phone ALgonquin 4-3356 — 8843 38 East 14th St. N. ¥. C. 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Getier Aves., Brookiyn PHONE: DICKENS 93-8018 | orice Mours: 8-10 A.M. 1-8, 68 P.M. WORKERS PATRONIZE CENTURY CAFETERIA 154 West 28th Street | Pure Food proletarian Prices | CHAIRS & TABLES | TO HIRE { Dayt. 9-5504 Minnesota 9-7520 , American Chair Renting Co. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY Kresel Sentenced To 18-30 Months In US. Bank Trial Thousands of Small Depositors Still Unpaid Noy J. counsel YORK 28.—Isidor and director er isonment for “aiding and in the mis-application of ositor’s funds. Kresel gained national fame as a secutor for the recent Sea- y investigation. His prosecution was said to be part of the Jong feud between him and Max = Steuer, Tammany lawyer. teuer's wife, it is said, withdrew ‘ges sums from the Bank of the nited States just before it collapsed. the bank to pose as a friend of the depositors. To this day, itors have been unable to get ates of Steuer who are in charge of the State Banking Depatment. Free ILGW Gangsters - Who Club Girl Pickets| NEW Y OR K.—Gangsters cfunct Bank of the United | as sentenced to 18 to 30| Steuer has used the bankruptey aa | the Fe action from the political | New “Daily” Number ATTENTION: The _ telephone number of the Daily Worker of- fice has been changed to ALgon- qin 4-7956. U.S. Reports to Be Strictly Censored See’ yPerkinsAdmits (Daily Worker Washington Bure®u) By MARGUERITE YOUNG GTON, Nov. 28.— Closer | c jon of all in- conditions cie: of Labor Frances r she is engage ducing “sunshine statistics,” replied today, “There is no poli She ex- plained, however, that Winifield W. Riefler, chairman of the Central Sta- tistical Board. is seeing statistics in ni “commenting” on fit of those who ™m At Ri ve it was said that eventually economic data may pass through the Central Statistical | Bureau. This bureau, set up last Au- Perkins, in pro- agencies. Until re- ctioned only to prevent of work and to plan the n of statistics. Official state- | nflict as to whether the en- | j tire rd will be activized as the} sup 1g agency or Riefler will con- | tinue to scrutinize them alone. Whichever happens, it is clear there | will be a distinct tightening up, “Scientific” Censorship | To meet printed reports of censor- ship, Perkins issued a statement last | week emphasizing the “non-political” | and “scientific” character of the per- | | Sonne! of the Central Statistics Board. | | Today she pointed out that a dozen | scientists “would not agree to cheat.” | She added that early last summer the administration ran into difficulties with statistics because even in Cabi- net meetings various officials dif- | fered as to the answers to questions | of President Roosevelt. | “Those differences were statistically | explicable, however,” she continued, | explaining that one might say prices | had risen, meaning in comparison | with those of the preceding month, | and another, prices had fallen, mean- | | GUTTERS OF U, —by dei A LYNCH-GOVERNOR’S DREAM “t hereby appoint you ward prisoners to your ‘patriotic’ ca ker through Helping the Daily Wor H. Hirschorn N. L. Bloom . Previous Total LL.D. ATTORNEYS RIDDLE STORIES OF STATE WITNESSES AT DECATUR TRIAL en of this jail, and leave these re.” Del (Continued from Page 1) ago. His testimony followed the iden- tical story told by Victoria Price and in many instances he used the same words, although he contradicted her) in her tale of being struck on the head with a gun. He was, undoub- who | ing in comparison with those of the | tedly, the state's strongest witness. clubbed six girl pickets at the Mil-| preceding year, both being correct. It| Night Sessions To Speed Lynch Trial berg shop, 599 Broadway, during the| whitegoods strike last October were allowed to go scott free last Friday following a trial at the Special Sec- sions Court. The gangsters, insti- gated by the International Ladies’) Garment Workers’ Union, Local 62,) tacked the pickets in an effort to| te e them and force them to leave the Needle Trades Workers’ | Industrial Union, of which they were | members. S. Markewitch, attorney for the I. | L. G. W. U., defended the gangsters. | Following the dismissal of the case | the gangsters cynically taunted the | workers: “We got paid to do it and | we'll break your heads again.” \Red Builders Unite | To Canvass Unions NEW YORK.—In order to combine their efforts for a systematic attempt to increase the circulation of the Daily Worker and to put it within reach of every worker, a large group of Red Builders met two weeks ago, and formed a permanent organization. | They decided to concentrate on sel- | ling the Datly in all trade unions, in front of factories and docks, in | workers’ centers and on street | corners. An executive committee was elected of which Wm. J. Clay, marine worker, is organizer; Jane Williams, secretary, and Jack Mets |and Morris Greenstein, members. |_ The next meeting of the Red | Builders will be held on Wednesday | at 6:30 p. m. at the district office, at |35 Bast 12th St., on the first floor. | All Red Builders and workers inter- | ested in increasing the circulation of | their newspaper, are urged to at- tend. » | Banquet for Prisoners | BOSTON, Mass.—The I. L. D. will | tender a banquet for the benefit of iclass war prisoners tonight at in- | ternational Hall at Roxbury. Volunteers’ Thanksgiving | Dance A program of Revolutionary dances and songs will be given at the first Thanksgiving entertainment and dance of the Daily Worker Volun- teers, tonight at the head- | quarters of the Volunteers, 35 E. 12th | St., 5th floor. Good dance band and | refreshments. | ae | | NS.L. Changes Address | The National Student League an- | nounces a change of address. Its new Le eta are located at 114 W. 14th St, * | Meeting of Dressmakers All dressmakers who are members of Workers’ Clubs are urged to at- tend a meeting called by the City Clubs’ Council tonight at 6 p. m., | at Workers’ Center, 50 E. 13th St. eR |Icor to Celebrate Recognition Icor will celebrate recognition of Soviet Russia Union at the Central | Opera House, 67th St. and Third |Ave., tonight. Prof. Chas. Kuntz, | who is leaving for Biro Bidjan, will address the audience, Tickets at Teor, 799 Broadway. Needle Trades Workers’ Forum An open forum of needle trades \workers in the auditorium today at 2 p.m, in the auditorium of the N. T. |W. I. U,, 131 W. 28th st. Jacques Buitenkant, union lawyer, will speak on “My Five Years’ Experience With | Labor Cases.” | Knitgoods Workers’ Meeting | A meeting of all unemployed knit- |Boods workers will be held today, at 1 p.m., at 131 W, 28th St., 4th floor, , City Events | as then she was asked about the | { “sunshine statistics.” Plenty of Child Labor A bit of gloom popped up today in connection with questions asked the Labor Secretary about a statement she handed out. She said that about 2,400 offices covering every state had been opened in a federal-state em- Ployment system, but questions de- veloped the fact that about 2,400 of these are “emergency” offices set to function only for putting labor on the civil works administration projects | scheduled to shut down in February. Perkins’ statement also said that a Children’s Bureau survey recently “in- | dicated that as a result of the N.R.A. | codes very few children of 14 and 15 | Years are still holding full time jobs in industry and trade,” but question- ing brought out that the survey didn’t cover child-workers in agriculture and domestic service, where the majority of child labor always has been found. In fact, Perkins explained finally there were only about 120,000 chil- dren in industry and retail trade—the only occupations covered by the sur- very. Mass Picket Line Clubbed at CCNY. NEW YORK.— Over 250 pickets, |members of the Window Cieaners Protective Union, were attacked by | police and many of the workers were beaten when they attempted to es- | tablish a mass picket line at City Col- | lege at 23rd St. and Lexington Ave. | The strikers had assembled to | picket the city college, which employs Scabs on municipal jobs, ‘The strike of the New York window cleaners has not been settled despite | the lies to the contrary printed by Grover Whalen, local N.R.A. admin- istrator, and Mrs, Haddock of the | Labor Administration Board in the New York American, Edison Co. Puts Over ‘Company Union Plan NEW YORK.—After a campaign of ballyhoo for a company union scheme falsely called a “collective bargain- ing” plan and the most open coercion and intim{dation, the N.R.A. referen- dum taken of Edison employes to de- termine which union they choose to Join last Wednesday Tesulted in a vote | of 2,394 against the company plan and 11,597 for it. | Before the election, which was aimed at preventing the Brotherhood | of Edison Employes, an independent | union, from gaining a foothold among | the Edison workers, the workers were | Permitted to lsten to the company’s proposition only. To give a sem- blance of freedom of choice, the work- ers were told they could vote for whomever they pleased, but no speak- ers weer allowed to state the case for any other union. Workers were warned that ballots would not be counted unless they bore the voters’ names. Names were to be checked with the company pay roll, they were told. “Edison employes needed their Jobs to eat” said one employe of the election which he characterized as a farce, | While nearly 2,400 employes had the courage to vote against the plan, more than 2,600 were also opposed to any further elections of company men to put the plan into effect as Proposed by the company. The Brotherhood of Edison Em- | ployes, although having previous ex- amples of the aid the courts have | given the Edison Co, are again ap- | plying for a restraining order to pre- | vent the company from interfering The prosecution rested when Gilley finished testifying late this afternoon. | Judge Callahan announced that he would hold night sessions to hear the | defense and then bring the case io ® conclusion by tomorrow night. ‘The State refused to put on Doc- tors Bridges and Lynch, as well as Orre, Dobbins, whose testimony at the last trial this spring was destroy- | ed by the defense. Victoria Price Admits Talk Yes- terday With Knight | Victoria Price, resuming the stand, | admits under shrewd cross-examina- | tion, that she and Orville Gilley had a long conference with Knight yes- terday before she took the stand,| Leibowitz obviously trying to show) that Knight rehearsed stories of both | of the state's chief witnesses. | As last night, Callahan again stops Leibowitz from pursuing questions | whenever he gets Victoria in @ tight place. The audience laughs approv-| ingly at the judge’s jibes at Leibo- witz. | Leibowitz, just before finishing ex-| amining Victoria, asks why she, law- fully married twice, did not bear the| name of either husband. “Speed” Callahan refused to allow the question. The state's second witness, W. H.| Hill, station agent at Paintrock, tes-| tified that he saw Victoria and Ruby | Bates get off the train. Victoria ap-| peared about to faint, with Ruby | supporting her. On cross-examination, Leibowitz | produces series of pictures of the Paintrock station and tracks of the area where Hill said he saw the girls alight. Hill says the freight train engine stopped at the coal chute,| about 400 feet from the station door. When the train stopped Hill ran out | about 200 feet, taking up a position | opposite the fourth or fifth car on the freight, “The girls got off the last gondola, that’s the fifteenth car from the en- gine. That car was hidden by the station. Tell us how, from where you Were, you could see the girls get off,” Leibowitz demanded. No answer. After a long silence, “Speed” Callahan orders Leibowitz to continue other questions. Hill Contradicts Victoria’s Testimony Leibowitz also brought out that Hill did not see the Scottsboro boys jump off the freight, though the train was going slow, and did not testify, though he was available at the first Scottsboro trial. The im- pression produced is that the boys had nothing to fear as the train drew in, and Hill was dug up by thie prosecution to bolster its case, Tom Rosseau of Paintrock, a mem- ber of the posse which rounded up the Scottsboro boys after receiving a telephone call that Negroes had fought with white boys, was the next witness. He told a different story today than at the first Scottsboro trial. Today Rosseau said he first saw the girls sitting in front of the railroad station, Defense Shatters Testimony Leibowitz read the first Scottsboro trial record, showing that Rosseau then said he first saw the girls in the back end of the car. Obvious lying at one time or other, makes audience laugh, though it is a point for the defense, With States next witness judge, at- torneys and audience became almost hysterical laughing at his absurd an- Swers. Luther Morris, farmer living near Stevenson railroad tracks, who is hard of seeing and hearing, testi- fied he was laying floor on barn, As freight. passed window claims he got glance of white boys being chased off by Negroes and girls being pulled back by Negroes. Morris objected when cross ex- amined to pictures of views from barn shown by Leibowitz. “You could a-got a better view of with the workers “right to organize under the N.R.A” my land by taking the picture from ol tify picture for record, he said an- grily, “Don’t understand pictures. Know only what I saw from barn window: “Look at the pictures,” Leibowitz insisted. Norris took out his spectacles to see | pictures. re you near sighted or far sight- ibowitz flung at him. 0 Glasses At Time of Alleged Attack “IT have very good hearing,” witness returned. Upon Hed further questioning Morris admitted he began wearing glasses| after alleged attack occurred. “Did you wear glasses becaui couldn’t see well?” “I was running a saw mill,” Mor- ris replied. The witness finally said he saw Ne- groes in second or third car from engine. Other state witnesses said Negroes were in fifteenth car. Lei- bowitz finally brought out that the top of the gondola car passing barn window through which Morris claimed he was looking when he saw freight was higher than the window. Heard Screams Over Noise of Moving Train “You heard women scream?” Lei- bowitz pressed. “Absolutely.” “Over noise of running train?” “Absolutely.” “Got good hearing?” “Absolutely.” Leibowitz dropped his voice slightly. “Can you hear me as I talk now?” The witness leaned forward, cup- ping hand behind ear. “How's that?” he asked straining to hear. It was obvious that the witness was crumbling. Callahan interrupted, tell- ing defense counsel, “That's enough ft that.” se you “It isn’t enough,” turned. “I said it was enough,” Callahan Leibowite re- \cried banging the bench with his open palm. Leibowitz became silent. “Go on,” he court ordered. “TIl go on as soon as your honor does something—” “Go on now or something will be done,” Callahan cried furiously. “Atta boy,” a loud voice called from the spectators’ seats, The court did not order silence. Negro Farmer Called by State Aids Defense T. L. Dobbins and other farmers were paraded by the state to testify. They saw “tusseling” on a freight train between Negro and white goys. Several of the “corroborative” wit- nesses are new. Why the state could not find them for preceding trials is @ mystery. Sam Mitchell, Negro farmer called by the state to tell about the “tus- seling” actually testified for the de- fense, saying that Negroes were all along the freight, some in open box cars, swinging feet. This is the first time the state has called a Negro wit- ness in this case. Under cross examination by Leib- owitz, Gilley said he never had a job in his life; he was “an enter- tainer.” He explained “entertaining” of walking into hotel lobbies, reciing poetry and talking up a col- lection. ‘When pressed to name one hotel in Alabama where he recited poetry, he could not. “Name one in the South,” Leib- owitz demanded. Gilley could not, Leibowitz began battering at Gil- ley’s connection with Knight and Victoria. He pursued hop and leap tactics of questioning. He would ask about the “Jungle” and without warning return to the freight and then hop to Victoria’s sexual affairs. It was apparent that Leibowitz was trying to break the well rehearsed story by following guerrilla attacks. After Attorney General Knight came to see him in Huntsville, he (Gilley) called upon Vicoria and saw her several times since, When Lelbowitz pressed Gilley for an answer why he did not testi- fy at the original trials in Scotts- boro, Wade Wright excitedly ob- another angle.” When pressed to iden- | jecti crea and Callahan sustained ob- ion, wy ico V adidarasar 29, 1 | police kept an elarm in readiness day | vee ) SHARECROPPERS NEED CAR. The Sharecroppers’ Union needs | an automobile for use in its orga- nizational work. Anyone who can donate a car for this purpose will | communicate with John Moore in. | care of the Daily Worker, 35 East | 12th St., New York. | Dimitroff | ‘ThaelmannBeCalled | ‘to Testify | at Trial (Continued from Page 1) secutor that 37 witnesses were cited in the attempt to railroad him and| and of alumni interference in particular. his three co-defendants “politically,” | including ten detectives and 25 po-| | litical prisoners brought for the pur. | pose from concentration camps. A | real understanding of the political | Situation before the fire, he insisted, | requires more witnesses. | | “If this is a political trial,” Dimi- | troff stated, “then it must be a po- | litical trial to the real end! If you + snare seen Pigskins on Prisons By JACK “ HARDY (Batting for EDWARD NEWHOUSE) ‘OUR or five years ago Knute Rockne let out a squawk about the precariousness of the football coach’s tenure in general, that he craved the opportunity of athletic activities. Spoken in jest, there was whom this destined to become anything but a joke. This was John wise-crack was® He facetiously added to coach at some such place as Sing Sing where the alumni are permitted no voice in the control one person within earshot to Island,” Blair Niles describes the natural reaction of such a “bottom dog” about to “pay his debt to so- have once begun it, do it properly! A| Law, center and captain of Rockne’s| ciety.” Standing at the rail of the | la guerre comme a la guerre! (If this is war, then fight it out like war!)” Judge Warns Dimitroff The judge warned Dimitroff at this point, but Dimitroff immediately launched a critical examination of | Heller's compilations, asking whether | they contained a document describing | the authorities’ measures against | ermed insurrection. “All documents | | quoted by Heller,” he insisted, “sup-| port my thesis that no armed insur- | rection was threatened in January and February, and that the fire had no- thing at all to do with the Commu- | nist Party!” | Heller answered evasively that the and night on account of the “Com-)| jmunist Party terror.” Special troops, | he claimed, were held in readiness for | a@ Communist Party insurrection. Reveais Nazi Threais Dimitroff pointed out the actual po- | litical situation in February, 1933. He | asked whether it was not true that | at the end of 1932 and the beginning of 1933 the German governments, fi- nelly the Schleicher government, were | | threatened by armed Nazi insurrec- tion, and if such a threat was told to | Hindenburg accompanied by a de-| mand to give power to Hitler. The | presiding judge ruled not to permit | these questions, but the public pro-| | secutor said that it should be al-| |lowed, definitely stating that other-| wise the imvression would be given | that Dimitroff’s assertions were true. Dimitroff asked: “Did the danger | exist in the beginning of 1933 of an | armed Nazi insurrection, or the dan- ger of an armed conflict between the | adherents of Schleicher and Hitler?” | The senate withdrew to discuss the | admissability of Dimitroff’s question, | obviously fearing that the investica- | tion would confirm the truth of what | Dimitroff said. It decided, therefore, | not to allow the question. Demands Thaelmann’s Presence Dimitroff demanded not only rank and file Communist Party members be called to testify, but also Ernst ‘Thaelmann, to exnlain the Party’s po- litical activities. He demanded court testimony of witnesses “who are most familiar with the political situation | before the fire, an? who know who needed the fire most.” When the judge sharply reprimand- jed Dimitroff, he immediately coun- tered with: “Call on Schleicher, Hugenberg, von Papen and Bruening! They certainly | would be able to state if an armed \insurrection threatened, and from | Whom!” Detective Will from Hamburg was | forced to admit that he had no knowl- | edge of “actual insurrection prepara- tions in Hamburg.” Dimitroff asked if the conflicts described by Will were not the self-defense measures of | Communists against Nazi attacks on | the Communists. The presiding judge stated that he ruled such questions were provoca- tive. Detective Hohmann Koenigsberg described similar conditions in East Prussia, admitting that he had heard nothing of a Redfrontists’ special alarm before the fire. Nazis “Lose Memory” Torgler asked whether Hohmann had been informed of the open mur- der of two well-known Communist | leaders on the street in November, 1932, and if he knew that a total of 70 Communists were murdered in East | Prussia at that time by political op- ponents, causing von Papen, then Chancellor, to commission the pres- ent head of the Berlin police, Diehl, to begin a special inquiry, Hohmann stated that he. did not remember. Torgler answered by emphatically stating that he should remember! Dimitroff followed Torgler by ask- ing whether Hohmann remembered the Nazi bomb outrages in East Prus- sia, receiving a warning from the pre- siding judge for the question. Hoh- mann, however, insisted that he “knew nothing” of the Nazi bombing. Dimitroff remarked about the Nazi witnesses’ remarkably bad memories in cases where Nazis were guilty, Af- ter this observation the judge warned him again. Further witnesses for the Nazis, leading detectives from different parts of Germany, reported increas- ing Communist disruptive efforts in the Reichswehr before the fire. The witnesses attempted to represent the numerous Nazi raids as having been provoked by the Communists. The provocatory Storm Troopers’ march through the workers’ quarters of Al- tona was misrepresented by them as a Communist provocation. Dimitroff reminded them that four Altona Communists had been execut- ed, while thé Nazis who shot more Communists in the conflict than the number of Nazis killed were permitted to go free. Taxi Workers Union Expose Bosses’ Slur Against Organizer NEW YORK —In a crude attempt to stem the growing influence of the Taxi Workers Union, the bosses with famous 1929 team of undefeated na- pleted his brilliant athletic career at} Notre Dame he became head coach at | Manhattan College. His team, though, | laid an egg. Victories were few and) far between and these only against | the jerkwater colleges on the schedule. | They simply couldn’t win a major vic- | \ tory, and Johnny soon had borne upen|in at a place like Sing Sing. him the full significance of what his) former coach had referred to as “alumni interference,” After two) seasons on the job he got the gate. That's only half the story. The season after he “left” Manhattan, Mr. | Law was up at Ossining, N. Y., coach- | ing the inmates of Sing Sing — the | only professional coach of a prison} team in the country. The press made quite a joke of it at first—particularly in view of his name. This is his third season on the job, however, and from the football point of view the thing’s no joke. Anybody who saw the Sing Sing game at the end of last season against the Port Jervis police depart- ment will readily attest to the fact that the team up there compares more favorably with the best among the collegiates. bd i IN THE current issue of “Liberty,” Law tells the world about the calibre of men with whom he has been deal- ing. We don’t have to take his word for it, either, for there are countless other reports which bear out every- thing he says. With some exceptions, of course, they’re really a swell bunch of guys. He describes them as being excellent sportsmen, clean-cut, sturdy, self-reliant, dependable, naive forth- right, Anything in the world save the common conception of the criminal— the bad man, desperado type and all that. “I simply could not look upon these men who were serving time as criminals, not eyen if I tried to,” writes Coach Law. “I soon learned that every conventional idea about them is wrong. They are entirely human and amazingly normal in their mental processes, their opinions and their judgments.” The case of “Alabama” Pitts, cap- tain and star back of the team, is typical, He's a natural athlete, could easily make good in professional base- ball, if given half a chance, and a peach of a fellow. Honorably dis- charged after a term of enlistment in the Navy, he found himself alone and friendless in New York — cold, hungry, discouraged. After a long, yain search for work, he did the natu- ral thing for any virile human under the circumstances. He went out to take what he couldn’t come by “legiti- mately.” Caught in the act of holding up a chain store, he was convicted of robbery, and some righteous judge handed him the rap to the tune of eight to sixteen years. Society, after all, must be protected from his ilk. So it goes with virtually all of them. Few really vicious individuals in the} entire aggregation. Cast adrift in a/| society in which they must work in order to live and then denied the opportunity to work—where does the guilt lie? jE men, isolated from the world and carted off to the calaboose for any of a series of “crimes,” are in a classic position to see clear through the monumental insanity of it all. And to understand why it is, for ex- ample, that they find themselves play- ing halfback or guard—or just rooting from the stands—for Sing Sing in- stead of for Princeton or for Yale. And why the cheering sections are lad in mufti instead of in raccoon. In her book, “Condemned to Devil’s Kaleva Restaurant 808-41st Street, Brooklyn ANNOUNCES THE RE-OPENING OF ITS NEW AND UP-TO-DATE Restaurant and Bar Thanksgiving Day, Noy. 30 Good Old-Fashion Home Cooking Beer on Draught Special Rates for Banquet and Social Clab Parties Prop. Anna Holopainen Phone Windsor 8-8550 CARL BRODSKY All Kinds Of INSURANCE 799 Broadway N.Y. C. ship which is taking him to the pena! \tlonal champions. When Johnny com-| colony, he shakes his fist at the yan- ishing shores of France and hatefuiy cries out, “Death to society!” An ele- mentary, vague, unclear, muddled anarchistic reaction, to be sure—but loaded with social dynamite none the less. That's where the football comes It's only one link in a much larger scheme of things—but a very im- portent link, d. These boys are going back into the world in anywhere from two to twenty years and then they're supposed to be- come Y. M. ©. A. cheer leaders Society only provides for them « food budget of twenty-one cents a day and their prison fare therefore lacks many clementary dietary ne- cessities. Nevertheless they're sup- posed to come out overcome with love for that same order of society which drove them into their mouldy hells, Warden Lewis E. Lawes was in the army years ago and played foot- ball there. As Coach Law puts it, “He knows what football can do for men.” According to Johnny it's doing the job. “The inmates of Sing Sing have virtually all be- come football fans. Everywhere within the gray walls there is = new spirit,” he Writes. “When @ game is in progress they forget about being couvivis . . absorbed in the struggle, five hundred inmates do not give much thought to their plight. Their minds are temporarily released . . Their emotions are stirred up. They are keyed to a high pitch.” Through: out the entire season it is quite common to hear heated arguments during the men's leisure moments “over whether or not the quarter- back should have called for a kick on the third down.” Deprived of every human need, these men are driven to regard football as their life’s chief interest. Simultaneously, society wants pre- served in the minds of these men all of the |insidious anti-working class prejudis of the bourgeoisie White chau’ is only one ex. ample. Preceding the kick-off there is always a parade, led by the pri- son band and a drill corps. But in- stead of one large body, the drill corps consists of two companies one composed of Negroes and the other of white men. Even in prison such racial divisions must be main- tained and fostered. Yes, Warden Lawes is a wise man and knows as well as anyone what football can do for men. Only when “Alabama” Pitts is released a few years hence he'll again have to look for 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: Jane Moore and William indee: Mollenhauer ........... 2.00 Yorkville Athletic Club 9.00 Previous total ...-.. $517.70 Total to date ......,,....$528.70 § ‘ COHENS’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City Wholesale Opticians EYES EXAMINED By Dr. A.Weinstein Tel. ORchard 4-4520 Factory on Premises ‘Optometrist DOWNTOWN All Comrades meet at the Vegetarian Workers’ Club —DINING ROOM— Natural Food for Your Health 220 E. 14th Street ‘Bet, Srecond and Third Avenues SSS JADE MOUNTAIN, 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12 & 18 STuyvesant 9-3557 AN Comrades letarien Prices 09 BEACON, N. Y. the aid of their stool pigeons issued ® leaflet slurring the union organ- izer, brother Eddy, who has given his time and energy to build the organi- zation. The stool pigeons sign themselves “Taxi Workers Sub Committee.” ‘There is no such Sub Oor +s» in the organisation t Rates: $14 - $13 for I. W. 0. and MEET YOUR OLD CAMP FRIENDS| (from Unity, Kinderland and Nitgedaiget) AT A GAY WEEK-END PARTY THIS THANKSGIVING AT NITGEDAIGET HOTEL ALL THE SUMMER FUN WITH WINTER COMFORTS 60 Steam Heated Rooms—Bxoellent Food; Dance; Sing; Concert; Lectures per week (incl. press tax); $2.45 for 1 day; $4.65 for 2 days (Private cars leave daily at 10:30 a. m. from Co-operative Restaurant, 2700 Bronx Park East (Estabrook 8-5141), Come for the Week-End—You Will Want to Stay the Week Welcome to Our Comrades Mest ot the WTB ST, WORKERS NEW HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA Phone: Beacon 731 Co.operative Members