The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1933 Page Three 300 in Chicago Box Factory StrikeWhen Union Sec’y is Fired Company ‘Aims to Stop | TUUL Unions from Organizing Shop CHICAGO, TIL, Dec. 21—Because Bdgar Haumann, secretary of the Paper and Wood Box Workers In- dustrial Union and chairman of the Corrugated Dept., was discharged, 300 workers in four departments of a shop of the Containers Corporation of \America at 900 Ogden, refused to go to work. The action of the company came after an intensive 4-day organization drive on the part of the union which resulted in 97 per cent of the shop being organized. When Haumann went to the locker room to change his clothes, he was surrounded by workers, wanting to know whether to strike or what. Hardly had he started to answer these many questions when an office boy entered behind two policemen and pointed Haumann out, The policemen said they were told to get Haumann off the company premises in the shortest possible time. When word was passed around that Haumann had been laid off, workers from the Rolls Storage shipping room and Fiber Department left their benches and gathered in the Cor- rugated Dept. where two department chairmen made speeches protesting the company’s action and demanding reinstatement. The foreman stood around in helpless amazement, but refused to grant the workers’ demand. ‘Whereupon a mass meeting that same night was voted by the workers to discuss further action. Five months ago the workers of Containers Corporation of America went out on strike under the leader- ship of the T.U.U.L. The strike lasted for eight days, the workers going back to work with wage increases from 100 to 150 per cent, recognition of the shop committee, etc. The work- ers organized the Paper and Wood Box Workers Industrial Union Local No. 1. About 210 workers signed up and paid their initiation fee. The workers are determined not to give in. The next days will bring some swift action. '|153,156 Apply for Jobs; 1,704 Taken US. Agency Reports Daily Worker Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—The United States Employment Service for Ohio reports that in November it placed 6,704 job seckers out of @ total of 153,156 applicants. inter- viewed. Out of this total, 81,024 were “renewals,” that is, old ap- plicants. The official chart also shows that 7,269 was the total No-~ vember “help wanted,” most of which, it is understood, was for Public Works projects. No rec- ommendation was made for un- employment insurance. National havenkion Of Jobless Needs Immediate Support Hely rally support in the fight for Unemployment Insurance. Make the National Unemploy- ed Convention in Washington, D. C., Jan, 13, an effective dem- onstration of the growing fight of the wunempioyed. Get your union or clab te con- tribute from one to five dollars. Five Hundred Dollars is need~- empl Councils, Room 437, 80 East 1ith Street, New York. First Convention of Lumber Union Held in Seattle, Wash. SEATTLE, ‘Wash.—The First Con- vention of the National Lumber Workers Union was held in Seattle, Dec, 10, with 39 delegates represent- ing 2,400 lumber workers from the mills and camps and as many more of the unemployed lumber workers. Representatives from mass organ~ izations extended greetings, the Dis- trict Organizer of the Communist Party, Comrade Raport, was enthu- siastically received. Many delegates were not able to get through the flooded area South of Seattle. Four delegates traveled all the way from Eureka, Calif., to Centralia, Wash., where they had to turn back, due to the large flooded area in that country. A fraternal delegate from the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada was turned back at the border of immi- gration officials. The demands for the employed lumber workers was for the 1929 Scale; for a six-hour day, time and a half for overtime with a two-hour overtime limit; for full crews and against speed-up; against the viicous blacklist system and employment sharks, The convention adopted a draft constitution presented by the Na- tional Committee and wound up after eight hours of lively business with pledging an extensive drive for mem- bership and the consolidating of the branches and locals of the union among the lumberjacks of the north- west. The first national convention of the National Lumber Workers Union adopted resolutions demand- ing the unconditional release of the innocent Scottsboro boys; the with- drawal of American troops and warships from Cuba; freedom for the four Communists framed up by Hitler fascists and the stoppage of persecution and murder of the workers in Germany. Resolutions were also passed calling for federal Unemployment Insurance and im- mediate cash relief for the unem- ployed. CHICAGO Chicago Workers! —-RED PRESS — MASQUERADE BALL CHRISTMAS EVE., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24 COLISEUM BALLROOM—15th ST. € WABASH AVE. Original, Colorful, Different SONIA RADIA— Will sing and impersonate GRAND MARCH— Of Masques at 12:01 A. M. THREE PRIZES— For three best Masques DOORS OPEN 7:30 — PROGRAM STARTS 8:30 Admission 30 Cents—With This Ad—25 Cents Daily Worker—Freiheit—Young Worker The Event of the Year! Philadelphia TWELFTH ANNUAL MORNING FREIHEIT | MASQUE BALL—si,, Dec. 2ana Broad Street Mansion Ball Room @ §. W. Corner Broad and Girard Avenues Refreshments, Good Orch. . @ Admission 40c 10° ANNIVERSARY DAILY WORKER Greetings CwA ‘\. Asks Interven-| tion by Govt. to Smash Union MILWAUKEE, Wis. Dec. 21— Dragging a red herring across the path, the Civil Works Administra- tion in this city is trying to prevent C. W. A. workers from organizing for better conditions. Activity of organ- izers of the Relief and Civil Work~- ers’ Protective Union is being inves- tigated with the idea of having the U. S. government intervene against them, Newsvaners have attacked the union as a racketeering organization, carrying screaming headlines about “racketeers” and “gangsters” trying to “cut in” on the civil works projects. “This is an old story,” declares a leaflet issued by the union in refuta- tion of the slander. “Whenever workers try to organize, the bosses and their puppet press try to label it as @ racket. The story of the capi- talist newspapers about the union taking money for so-called “protec- tion” is a brazen lle. “All C. W. A. workers know that the union charges no money for in- itiation and that dues are but a few other organizational activities. There are no paid organizers in the union —the workers on the jobs are the! “The Relief and Civil Workers’ Protective Union knows that these jobs are only temporary. Unless we organize now, they will tell us to starve and refuse us relief when the jobs are finished. The union asks all men to organize on the job. That is the only way to safeguard the rights of C. W. A. workers and to win better conditions.” Conference Against Injunctions to Be Held in Jersey City Organizations Urged to Elect Delegates at Once JERSEY CITY, Dec. 2i1.— Under the leadership of industrial unions, the International Labor Defense, and the Communist Party, a wide mass campaign has been organized against injunctions and for the defense of workers’ righis. Four injunctions have been served in Hudson County against striking workers in the dry docks, against the striking workers of the Maidenform Brassiere Co., and against silk mill and restaurant workers. It is planned to hold a county conference in Jersey City on Jan. 28, to speed the struggle against in- junctions and to involve all organiza- tions and militant workers in the campaign. Many organizations have already elected delegates. The Provisional Committee for the conference, elected at preliminary conferences embracing 20 organiza- tions, also plans to institute ® cam- paign against the “Disorderly Per- sons Act” of Jersey City. Under this act, any person can be arrested om the street merely “on suspicion.” If found to have been in the company of any other person who had been arrested twice, whether convicted or not, the person arrested “on suspicion” is sentenced to serve 90 days in jail. By this act the police can arrest any strike leader or any striker by arresting him in the company of trade union leaders who have been previously moe for leading work- ers in_ strugg] At the present time four members of the Executive Board of the Na- tional Miners Union are serving 90- day sentences merely for passing through Jersey City on their way to Pittsburgh. All orgenizations in Hudson County are urged to elect delegates and to send their delegates’ names and ade dresses to the Conference Headquar- ve 12 Journal Square, Jersey City, |Brodsky at Decatur Meet Tonight i in BkIn. Miata 6 YORK: A le large attendance is expected at tonight’s Scottsboro protest meeting at Boro Park Manor, 4116 13th Ave., at which Joseph Brod- sky, Scottsboro attorney, just returned from the Decatur lynch trials, will be the main speaker, Labor Defense, The meeting is under the joint auspices of the League of oF OUT OF TOWN Organizations, Individuals Greet the Daily Worker on its 10th Anniversary «veces City -Amount ....... All Greetings must be in not later than December 28th AFFAIRS Entertainment a: ies unlt 20 at Workers Wade Park, Adm., free, Center, ar Quincy, Mass. Dee, 22nd: Entertainment and Dance given by Quincy unit at 4 Brooks Avenue, So. Quinoy. 2 pennies a month for leaflets and’ | Figures Compiled by Pen and ‘Hammer Show /| Case Simliar to That; | Co. Unions Grew Faster Than AFL Last Year'| | NEW YORK.—Tremendous growth |of company unions under the N.R.A. is shown in a survey just completed by the Shock Workers Committee of the Pen and Hammer of New York City. Although the last official sur- vey of company unions by the em- ployers research agency, National In- dustrial Conference Board, showed | only 313 different “employee repre- try in 1932, the Pen and Hammer survey finds at least twice that num- ber—625. Nor is this list by any Means complete. According to the survey, nearly 5,- 000,000 workers are covered by these plans as against a total of 1,263,000 found last year by the N.LC.B. in its study called “Collective Bargain- ing Through Employee Representa- tion.” The N.R.A. and related events have thus apparently increased cov- erage of company union schemes by -| almost 300 per cent. The growth of the company union | System has perhaps been most wide- spread in the steel mills where, ac- cording to the Iron Age (trade paper) some 85 per cent of the industry is | covered by this employers’ conception of “collective bargaining.” At least 50 per cent of the auto industry in Detroit is estimated by Wall Street Journal as company unionized. As indicated in the N.I.C.B, report, the sentation” plans in force in this coun- | eewen tnegar companies are particularly | prone to resort to this method. of de-| feating independent action by the workers. Some 63 per cent of the membership in the company unions | was found in 1932 to be in companies | employing over 15,000 workers. | If we use the estimates of the N. I.| |C. B. for company unions for earlier years, the Pen and Hammer figure for 1933, and the A. F. of L. estimates of its membership in the same years, we may note in tabular form the relative claims of the trade unions and company unions in these years, Number of Employees in Companies With Employee Representa~ A.F.L. Mem- | tion Plants (1) bership (3) Year 1919 404,000 3,269,000 1922 690,000 3,196,000 | 1924 1,241,000 2,866,000 | 1926 1,369,000 2,804,000 1928 1,548,000 2,896,000 1932 1,263,000 2,532,000 1933 5,000,000(2) 4,000,000(4) | 1) Estimate by National Industrial Conference Board. 2) Pen and Hammer estimate. | 3) Proceedings of A. F. of L. Con-; vention, 1933. 4 A. F. of L. Oct., 1933. (See editorial on “NRA. Company | Unions.”) ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 21—Bills embodying part of the relief program of the Unemployed Council were in- troduced Monday into the state legis- lature by representatives Bennett and Youngdahl, “left” demagogues in the Farmer Labor Party who felt the un- employed workers’ pressure following the visit of the Unemployed Council delegation to the legislature on Dec, il, These bills are to prohibit evictions or foreclosures of unemployed work- ers and farmers, prohibiting cutting off of water and light for non-pay- ment of bills, abolition of forced labor and prohibiting the establishment of concentration camps, and authorizing cities or counties to give out relief in the form of cash instead of grocery orders. A resolution demanding the release of Tom Mooney was also in- troduced. The state unemployed delegation of the Unemployed Council headed by Pete Sjodin, recently Farmer-Labor aldermanic candidate, which appeared in the state legislature Dec. 11, ap- peared again Monday night before a joint session of the Senate and House Emergency Relief Committees, at a hearing on the bills introduced. Rep- resentative Bennett promised at this hearing that he would introduce the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill into the: state legislature on Tues- Jobless Force Relief Bills Into Legislature |day, providing for siate unemploy-| ment insurance pending similar en- actment of legislation by the federal government. Whether this gesture of | introducing the relief bills of the un-| employed council was an idle one, or whether it will be followed by a real} fight for its adoption by the Farmer- | Labor demagogues, remains to be seen and will depend on how much mass pressure can be exerted on them by | the masses for Teal action, } Demand Accepted by Welfare Board MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 21.— One of the demands in the program | of the Minneapolis Unemployed Coun- cil was finally adopted when the Wel- fare Board voted Tuesday morning to establish three neighborhood relief stations. Up to the present time un- employed workers have to travel long distances downtown, and stand for hours in line at the City Hail for their relief orders. The Unemployed Council, which in- tends to continue the struggle for a further increase in relief, is pre- paring for an unemployment demor- stration on Jan. 15th, National Fight< ing Day Against Unemployment. The Trotskyite renegades _ have united with all the misleaders and fakers in the A. F. of L. and the Farmer-Labor Party in an effort to split the unemployed movement. 250 Miners Protest Stopping of USSR Anniversary Meet Jam Staunton, Il, Labor Temple; 2 Are Arrested STAUNTON, Ill—Two hundred and fifty miners and miners’ wives jammed the Labor Temple Hall here Saturday night in a stormy protest against the Macoupin County ban on @ meeting to celebrate the 16th anni- versary of the US. 8. R. The meeting was sponsored by the International Labor Defense and the American Civil Liberties Union. Sheriff Frank Fries, woman slugger, and his deputies finally broke up the meeting, but not until all the sched- uled speakers had finished. Two speakers, George Smerkin, former national secretary of the Young Peoples Sociaiist League, now organizer for the Young Communist League, and Tom McKenna, secre- tary of the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, were arrested with three others when they called on the work- ers to organize an even stronger pro- test against police terror. ‘They were taken to the Carlinville jail and held incommunicado for 36 hours until the of the miners gained their rel abies charge. When Frank Korbelik, 26-year-old cripple from Mount Olive, refused to leave the hall Chief Deputy Alin Henry slugged him and knocked out one of his teeth. Irving Spencer, I. L, D, attorney from St. Louis, who spoke at the meeting, was kidnaped and then released on @ lonely road miles from town by slugs acting for the reactionary leadership of the P, M. A., which is resorting to open terror in its attempts to suppress the Gi ota of the miners the sell-out tactics of the Panel beater ike machine, Chief Deputy Henry admitted openly to Smerkin that he is working 100 per cent with the P, M, A. leadership in his terror drive against the left, wing movement, Phila, Court Sets Bail at $3,000 on Charge of Resisting Eviction PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec, 21—Bail has been set at $3,000 for Anthony Bozutto, Italian worker charged with shooting a constable who came to evict-him and his family,"The Inter- national Labor Defense is conducting the defense, and an Anthony Bozutto Defense Committee has been estab- lished in the neighborhood. 78 Delegates Plan Fight Against NRA. and State Taxes Grand Rapids Meet Endorses Jobless Insurance GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Seventy- eight delegates, of 18 organizations, meeting here Saturday, Dec. 16, at the Kent County Conference for Re- Hef and Unemployment Insurance, de- cided to launch a determined struggle against the program of the N.R.A., against the state sales and head taxes and for immediate relief and unem- ployment insurance, Two delegates were elected to the National Convention Against”, Unem- ployment, to be held in Washington, Jan, 13. The delegates elected were Debyle of the Auto Workers Union {and Suilivan of the Workingmen’s Assosiation, and unemployed organ- ization in Grand Rapids. Both were | leaders in the Hayes Body strike and | in the struggles of the unemployed. Delegates were present from Grand Rapids, Greenville, Galesburg, Burton | Heights and other Kent County towns, as well as two delegates from the Michigan Farmers League, No delegates .were present from A. F, of L. locals because of the order issued by the Central Labor Council forbidding them to send any. Sharp struggles took place in a number of A. F. of L. locals on this question. The two chief reports at the con- ference were made by Earl Reno, sec- retary of the Detroit Unemployed Councils, and H. Johnson, secretary of the Kent County Unemployed Council. Walter Moore, president of the Hayes Body local of the Auto Workers Union, acted as chairman. At the conference the Working- men’s Association affiliated officially with the Unemployed Councils. The conference decided to orgenize a dem~ onstration for relief and unemploy- ment insurance on Jan, 15, the day set aside nationally for the purpose. National Events es LW.O. NIGHT AT ROXBURY BAZAAR ROXBURY.—Patrons of the Annual Ba- zeat of the Communist Party, New England district, on Friday, will be entertained by the children of the LW.O. schools and the members of the Jewish Workers Clubs, There will be many articles for sale at low, pre-N.R.A, prices, so 8 ERNST mORniae 8 SECRETARY TO he tere he rhe ler 4 Ernst About Germal ab Sargeras i Morrimack 84. a eter eee pm, | | charges here, | against the frame-up of Askew, | ganized by the International Labor hrewnted on murder charges official estimate in| state, by the National Association for | | ing a merciless beating by their land- { Ind. Answers Attacks’ 'Strikebreaking of of AFL Chiefs’ Release of Negro of Crawford Betrayal A.A.C.P. PORTSMOUTH, Va., Dec Mass pressure yesterday forced ihe unconditional release of John Askew, Negro worker framed on following his fourth trial. Proof that Askew was not even in| the state at the time that Joseph F.| Drake, white special failroad officer | with whose murder he was charged, | was killed, was established at all four | The first two resulted in hung | nd at the third he was found and sentenced to thirty years imprisonment. The mass pressure and protest | or- Defense, forced a new trial after his conviction, and finally won his un- conditional freedom. The contrast between the militant defense of Askew put up by the LL. D., which also raised sharply the question of the illegal exclusion of ; Negroes from juries in Virginia in this case, and the betrayal of George Crawford, another Negro worker) in this | the Advancement of Colored People, has roused wide support for the I.L.D. program of defense struggle. 16 Alabama Negro’ Croppers Beaten by Landlord, Jailed Accused “of Stealin Supplies Mislaid By Land-Owner OPELIKA, Ala., Dee. 21.—BSixteen | Negro share-croppers of this region are in jail on a framed charge of| stealing cotton and seed, after suffer- g) lord. The landlord accused 20 Negroes of stealing his supplies, which were later found just where he had put them. He approached each of the 20 Ne- groes separately, handcuffed them, chained their feet, and took them into the woods. There he beat them unmercifully with a length of hose, so that their clothes stuck to bloody wounds. One Negro who did not stop screaming under the blows, after he had been ordered to keep silence, was shot through the arm. Four of the victims were then re- leased, and 16 have been held under bonds of $1,000 each. The trials are set for May. *| Workers of Middle West in Anti-Lynch Protest Meetings CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—A vigorous protest against the Decatur lynch verdicts sentencing Haywood Patter- son and Clarence Norris, two of the Scottsboro boys, to burn in the elec- tric chair on Feb. 2 was adopted at & Mass meeting of Finnish speaking workers last Sunday. The resolution denounces the lynch atmosphere under which the trials were conducted, with Judge Callahan acting as the chief lyncher, and de- ands the immediate, unconditional d cafe release of the nine innocent py of the res sent to Gov, Miller of Alabama, * * FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 21.-~A telegram demanding the release of the Scottsboro boys was dispatched under the auspices of th tional Labor Defense. cluded Rey. G. Jordan, 1 ¥ ° church, and Dave Mates of Gary, . . GARY, Ind., Dec. 21—At a protest | meeting last Tuesday in First Bap- tist Church, at 21st and Washington, over 200 white and Negro workers pledged to continue the struggle for the freedom of the Scotsboro boys and against lynching. Dr. Puryear, acting as chairman, proposed resolu- tions to be sent to Gov. Miller of Alabama, and Judge Callahan, which were unanimously adopted. The speakers were William Clark, of the Steel & Metal Workers Industriel Union; Lydia Oken, and David Pointdexter of the Chicago Int thonal Labor Defense. Over 20 joined the LL.D, $18 was contributed for the defense, Cripple Breaks Crutch Selling Laces; Tries Charities for Another SCRANTON, Pa.—An old crippled worker, compelled to sell shoe laces and needles because he is refused relief, broke one of his rupees re cently, He went to the Community Chest Headquarters, asking for ald, and he was told they could do nothing for him. He went to the Red Cross, and when he told them he was not an ex-serviceman, they refused him any assistance. He went to the County Welfare Board and told them he must have another crutch because he can’t get out into the street to sell his shoelaces without one. They were sorry, but nothing could be done for him. He saw a crutch in the window of Milwaukee Union © 5, 000,000 Workers Forced Into} Mass Pressure on First Steel Union of CWA Employes ‘Company Unions Thru NRA Virsi sinia Court Wins Convention is Held [Children Off Relief Just as Starved as *.|| Those Getting Aid FALL RIVE R, Mas Ss. gations made by the Cc Ith. — Investi- undernouri: the same, whe relief or doe; Th that 13 per cent of tho: relief for the tween 10 and hed and those who never got aiid the s percentage of | | nou | | showed under- ies are given ‘ate of Tc per relief here person per d Steel Union Calls Buffalo Conference. ‘to Plan Struggles, All Steel Workers Are| Invited to Send | Delegates trict conference of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union will | be held here at Carpenters Hall, 475 | Pranklin St., on Jan, 6th at 10 a.m, Through this conference the union | will prepare for the National Con- | vention. There are eight function- | ing locals of the union in the Buf- |falo and Jamestown District, depart- | ment groups in the Republic Steel | and in Bethlehem, as well as organ- ization in the American Radiator and other smaller shops. Besides preparing for the conven- tion, the conference will deal with plans for consolidating the union and recruiting new members, as well as preparing for new struggles. One of the main features of the conference will be the unity of unemployed and employed, and a fight against the N.R, A. The Steel and Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union started its spring campaign in the Buffalo District in |@ very weak condition, The first struggles took place in the North Buffalo Hardware Foundry and in the Jamestown plants of the Metal | Disc and Art Metal Co. Following these came the strikes in the Acme Steel, Atlas, the Wickwire- | and finally in the Donier works of | the Republic Steel Corp. In spite of | the onslaught on the steel trust, with jits army of rats, stool-pigeons and | armed thugs, the union was able to retain its position in Buffalo as the A. F. of L, did not metal industry. The Amalgamated Association strike to better the conditions of the | steel and metal workers. Delegates from independent unions and groups in the A. F. of L. are urged to come to the conference, All delegates should get in touch with the union headquarters at Room 14-16%4 West Huron St., Buffalo, New York, ‘La. Court Retreats ‘in Segregation Case GRETNA, La., Di 21.—The case of Mrs, Gaston Bardenabe, a Negro harged with “creating a dis- turbance” as a result of attempts to force her and her husband to move of a house they own on 8 street nd Negro the at- workers protestii tempt to se! town, The judge was reading a copy of the leaflet issued by the local branch of the International Labor Defense when the court opened. When he saw the crowded courtroom, he adjourned the case and dismissed the court. Mrs. Bardenabe occupied a house next to the one owned by Mayor Strahle. Mrs, Strahle, who had pre- viously tried to frame her Negro neighbor on charges of creating a disturbance on a bus, was the chief complaining witness. ing against | BUFFALO, N. ¥., Dec. 21—A dis-| | Spencer Steel, Pratt_é& Letchworth, | only fighting union in the steel and} make a single step towards leading a} S spe te H gregate Negroes in this} In Cleveland Dist. Adopt Intensive Plan for Organization in Metal Plants CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The first Dis- | trict Convention of the Steel and |Metal Workers Industrial Union ad- | fourned late Sunday evening at the | Lithuanian Hall, 920 East 79th St. er electing a District Board of nine members and two alternates, The | Board is composed of five city ftes- jidents of Cleveland with the other four members elected from Massillon. Canton, Erie and Lorain. Frank |Rogers, Cleveland union organizer, |was unanimously elected as District | secretary-treasurer of the union. | The convention adopted a plan for an intensive organizational drive to | weionize the steel and metal plante | in the Great Lakes territory. Thirty Deities circulars will soon be re- | and Erie, with Cleveland las the District headquarters, at 1237 Payne Ave, The industrial union has made great progress in the Jast year. replacing the ill-fitted craft union or- |ganization of the Amalgamated As- | sociation and the Metal Trades Coun- cil in the steel and metal industry. Patrick Cush, National President of |the union, from Pittsburgh, Pa., rep- {resented the National Board, and ex- |tended greetings to the convention. |He announced that the tentative date of the National Convention of the Union has been set for the latter part of February. A referendum as to where to hold |the convention shows a strong de- demand that Ambridge, Pa., scene of the most serious steel strike riot in recent years and where the union has been outlawed, as the place to hold the convention to challenge the au- thorities and steel trust on the right to meet, organize, and strike without interference. ‘The following resolutions were also unanimously adopted: Condemning the Hitler government and demanding freedom for the Reichstag trial de- fendants, Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff; condemning lynchings and demanding death penalty for lynchers. Resolution also demands re- lease of Tom Mooney, Honorary Chairman of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, and the freedom of the Scottsboro boys; con- demning the five arrests at the Ar- row Manufacturing Company strike at 1515 Fairfield and immediate re- lease of the defendants whose trial comes up on Jan. 3. News Briefs Police Identify Slain Thug NEW YORK, Dec. 21—A young man found slain in Brooklyn today was identified by police as Dominick Gamaniello, Cleveland When his body was found he was clutching a knife in his hand. Sir Henry Dickens, Author's Son, Dies LONDON, Dec. 21—Sir Henry Dick- ens, 85, son of the famous author; | died here today from injuries sus~ tained a few days ago when he was struck by a motorcycle. radears Slays Mortgagee, Commits Suicide SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.—Mich~ ael Osetinski, a White Russian and owner of a ranch near here, shot and killed John Ogonikoff when the lat- ter demanded immediate payment of a $2,750 note on threat of foreclosure, Then Osetinski ended his own life. oe Two Killed at Train Crossing WOODBRIDGE, Dec. 21—A man and woman were killed when their car was struck by a Pennsylvania train at Woodbridge. The gates, which were out of order at the cross- -} ing, caused the accident, Racketeers Killed by Machine Gun PAUL, Dec. 21—Conrad Al- ST. chine gun here yesterday. Polite associated the killing with the same napping of Charles Urschel, homa City mofllionaire. | HACKENSACK, N. J.—Dec, 21— Dr. Roy V. Kelly, an interne attached to the local hospital here was killed when his car overturned at Warren Point. He was a native of the Bronx || || 0" | dustrial Uni Mecca 55th St. betwee Songs a tax, in the Offi the Salvation Army. He went in to ask for it. But the crutch was for a He was given instead, a piece & broomstick. THE Needle Trade Workers In- Tickets 85c, 55c, and 83c, ~ Anniversary on will be celebrated on New Year's Eve., Dec. 31, 8 P.M, at Temple n 6th and 7th Aves, A Splendid Program of Music, nd Dancing including ce of the Union, 181 West 28th Street, New York City. then, racketeer, was killed by a ma- ; gang who are suspected of the kid~ Okln-— Interne Killed in Auto Crash s meee