The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1933, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1933 RS OF NEW YORK —hby del! For the $40,000 Fund For $40,000 Fund—Pickup. Wed’s. receipts... $170.50 Previous total... 38,256.31 Page Two s Cannot Stop Wage | Delegation of 500 Furrier | Make Demands on NRA GUT™ Cutting Through | -- At Wash. Code Hearings To Protest Recogni- tion of A.F.L. Head as Labor S an NEW worker: Union, will ton to ati Body of Comrade Ira to Lie in State at Ukrainian Club NEW YORK.—The body of Com- ade Ira, who died early Monday eart failure, will lie in Labor Club, m Thursday al, Friday, 1 kesn YOR Industrial fur ind ¢ def Workers’ U of labor at he The mas the ized Ira, who was 51 years e time of his death, had m & member of the Commu- nist Party for several years, be ermined to atte € pite any st t . He was a teacher faced in way @ class courses for n children, and an excel- gave many per- : Dressmakersto Call ForActiontoUphold Strike Agreement demands their propose they are ready to st y| codé aimed at lo conditions. Tt is ant 1. union | demands to t R.A. in order to| pretend they are fighting in the in-| terests of the workers. The fur work- ers are prepared for this knowing well that the A. F. of L. officials may speak for such demands but will be- tray their interests to the bosses on h@érings from the N. 16 is also expected touches will be t on t nt | between the fur bosses and the A. F. of L, with the assistance of the N.R.A.| forecasting another bloody war| against the s who will fight | to safeg' on. : | 11 return in time | ‘The dele to attend anniversary cel- | ebration of the Needle Trades Work- | ers’ Industrial Union to be held at} New Years’ Eve. | rongest link | an impor- tant part in t ng attacks by the A. F. of L. officials and the bosses. Banquet ‘Here “Friday to Herman, New Head - of Cleveland Y. C. L.! NEW YORK.—Preparations have been completed for the farewell ban- Quet to I. Herman, New York District organizer of the Young Communist League who is to leave the city to head the League district in Cleveland, the national concentration point. The banquet, which will be held this Friday evening on the second floor of the Workers’ Center at 35 Bast 12th Street, will also be a wel- To Expose Zimmer- man Aid to Bosses at Meet Today NEW YORK. Exposed in his \treacheries in conjunction with the |bureaucracy of the International through the activities of the left wing opposition on the one hand and the si i to call a membership meeting for today, Thursday, right after work at Webster Hall. Here the officials will attempt to appease the dissatis- faction of the membership by pre- tending to be in opposition to the leaders of the Joint Board and the code authority. While the code authority, since its inception, has made several decisions endangering all the gains made in the dress strike, Zimmerman has never found it necessary to protest c* to mobilize the dressmakers of his al union to resist and disregard actions which violate the agreement. While |he did everything possible to slander the left wing oppositios and attack the Industrial Union, nothing was done against the majority of the em- ployers who have carried through wage cuts and violated the provisions of the agreement. Today’s meeting, called for the pur- pose of protesting against the deci- sions of the code authority granting overtime for sample makers in the next three weeks, js in reality an at- |tempt to divert the attention of the |dressmakers from the real struggle they are confronted with today, The left wing opposition calls upon all dressmakers to come to tonight's meeting and support its program of militant action which is the only |guarantee that union conditions will coming affair to John Little, new organizer for the N. ¥. district. Send your greetings to the M- pege Tenth Anniversary edition of the Daily Worker. Rush them to 30. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-012 Obtes Mourns: 8-10 AM, 1-2, G8 PM. DOWNTOWN BERMAE’S Cafeteria and Bar 809 BROADWAY SANDWICH SOL'S LUNCH 101 University Place (Just Around the Tompkins Square 6-9132 Caucasian Restaurant “KAVKAZ” Russian and Oriental Kitchen BANQUETS AND PARTIES 20S Bast 16th Street New York City (Brooklyn) WORKERS-EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE Hopkinson Ave. Brook iamsburgh Comrades Welc be maintained and struggle will be | conducted against the code authority. |. The program proposes the estab- |lishment of jobbers’ committees whose task it shall be to settle prices, to | eliminate competition and see that union conditions are observed; that | the subnormality clause be disre- garded and prices settled on the | basis of guaranteeing the minimum for every worker in the shop; that the 35 hour week by strictly observed and that overtime decisions be dis- regarded; that a demand be made on the International to disregard the 30 to 40 per cent differential established in the West and South. Court Again Delays The Williams Trial € Witams iY] NEW YORK.—Michael and Jane | Williams faced a prejudiced court again yesterday on charge of riot, inciting and unlawful assemblage following their eviction from their | home at 330 East 12th St. on Dec, 3. During the proceedings of the trial the judge turned prosecutor and re- peatedly hurled questions at the de- fendanis. Unable to place these charges on the Williams the judge injected the charge of moral tur- pitude, in questioning their legal Talriage. At the start of the trial, the police- man who arrested Williams, changed his charge to “holding a meeting without a flag.” The proceedings of the court were at this time interrupted when tele- grama from workers’ organizations demanding the unconditional release of Mr. and Mrs. Williams were re- ceived by the judge. Conflict between the judge and the prosecution resulted when the judge ruled that the charge must be “not displaying a flag at a street meeting.” The prosecution insisted that they be tried for “resisting arrest.” ‘The judge announced that he | R hiring, SaysNRA iDress Delegation at NRA Finds Dubinsky Supplies Scabs resentatives of two hu d locked out by Maiman and Dress Co. of 482 Seventh Ave z could be done to prev m hiring other | A Daily Worker reporter was thrown Jout of t A. offices after th hearing star Officials claime: N.R.A. discussions were kept secret t comply with the request of employ ers. The suspected cooperation between David Dubinsk: Garment Workers head, and Mr. San- ace the workers of the shop, n the Needle Trades Work- rial Union, with A. F. of L, was unintentionally admit- Golden of the N.R.A. board. said Maiman and Sanger, scab help, ted by Mr. ' Golden being members of the bosses’ associa- tion, were forced to deal with the I. L. G. W. U. The workers pointed out that the firm, nt being contractors, | had the right to deal with any union they chose and were simply attempt- International Ladies | | | | | | | | | Society Note (As it might be reported by Ham Fish, Jr.) Wearing his cap at a jaunty proletarian angle, tie militant banker, T. Amos Mugwump, was seen on Park Avenue wending his way to a ing to have the work done by scab| conference at City Hall with the Mayor-elect. help in outside shops. are not supposed to fire a whole fac- tory of workers and hire others, are you?” asked a worker during a heated discussion, “Well, I don’t know,” answered Mrs. Pearson, of the board; “a man can change his method of doing things. After all, our power is limited.” “But you had power enough to drive millions of workers into the strets for the N.R.A. parades,” countered a Negro worker, As the workers insisted that Mal- man and Sanger be compelled to take them back Mr. Golden asked them “not to get emotional.” ‘There's nothing emotional about it,” snapped Mary Nigarelli, leader of the delegation and chairman of the shop, “it’s our bread and butter; food for our children.” “Why don't you go to court,” asked Mrs. Pearson, to which a worker re- plied: have we the N.R.A. for?” © workers were told to file their grievances at the complaint board on the main floor but before they left they stated that they would picket the offices of the N.R.A. with their children in their arms if they were not rehired. Mr. Sanger, who was not present, claimed that the code rates were too high. Later in the afternoon the delega- tion was sent to the N.R.A, board at the Custom House, where they forced the arranging of a meeting for this afternoon at 3 p.m., at which Mr. Sanger is to be present. Hand Local Board Task of Breaking Truckers’ Strike (Continued from Page 1) over the Philadelphia situation and Dr. William Leiserson, Secretary of the National Labor Board, is still in Philadelphia bickering with union and company officials it would end the remaining strike struggle. “How about the Philadelphia gen- eral strike?” Wagner was asked. He replied, “That's out.” Pressing for a statement on the local unions still striking, he said that the taxi, milk and bread truckers strike, are before the Regional Board. Then he ex- plained that there was a “hope” that the Public Service Commission might induce the Philadelphia Rapid Tran- ‘sit to supply with a decision by the , National Labor Board. by threatening | to revoke the “Certificate of Public Convenience,” which the company must have to operate. Tt was as a result of the Labor Board decision, ordering the taxi strikers back to work, on a promise of an election, that the strikes in sym- pathy began. Asked whether see-saw- tng strike situations by the Washing- ton and Regional Boards didn't work always against the workers, ‘Wagner said that the taxi strike was the only one that had come before the Na- tional Labor Board. He admitied, however, that he personally was “in ar with the Philadelphia situa- on. He also said that the P.R.T. situa- tion is basically the same as that of the Weirton and the Budd Auto Company’s bald refusal to allow their workers to select collective bargaining representatives of their own choos- ing. It was then Wagner launched his discussion of the N.LR.A. “Any am- biguity in the law must be cleared up,” he said. “These elections will all have to be held or else that is a clear violation of the N.ILR.A.” Asked what about the injunction which he recently said he was seeking only to have the press informed later that the Justice Department was working on the Weirton case through Mr. Mugwump is a member of the board of Chase National Bank S. fare, at the expense of the worker: . . (T deplore the fact t bankers ee | “If you belong to the N.R.A. you! and no doubt was going to register his revolutionary request for a 7-cent . are daily more radical.” —Statement by Hamilton Fish, Jr.) “Daily” Celebration Saturday To be Gay and Colorful Event NEW YORK.—A spirit of festivity and colorfulness ch marks vic- tory celebrations by workers in the Soviet Union will characterize the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Daily Worker at the Bronx Coliseum this Saturday evening. For weeks, workers’ cultural groups, including the Daily Worker Chorus, the Theatre of Action, the Workers’ Dance League, have been preparing proguzms of new songs, dances and dramatic numbers for this event. Each’ program will be a surprise feature in & Socialist competition as to which of these organizations can present the most popular number. The celebration will mark the first American appearance of Sergei Ra- damsky, noted tenor, since his recent } return from the Soviet Union. He will present a new group of songs he collected on his last musical tour | through Azerbazan, Caucasian, Tar- tar and other federated republics of the U. S. S. R. The only speaker of the evening will be C. A. Hathaway, editor-in- chief of the Daily Worker. Moissaye Olgin will greet the Daily Worker in | behalf of the Morning Freiheit, Jew- ish Communist daily newspaper of which he is the editor-in-chief. Michael Gold will act as chairman. The Bronx Coliseum, with a. ca- pacity of over 10,000, will present to the eye a colorful panorama. Mem- berships of trade unions, Party and mass organizations are coming to the celebration in large bodies and will reach into the Coliseum, flying their organizational banners. A ten-piece Negro jazz band will furnish music for dancing which will begin early in the evening and will last until dawn. Reports by the arrangements com- mittee indicate that there will be a capacity audience to celebrate the tenth triumphant year of the Daily Worker, Central Organ of the Com- |munist Party, U, 5. A. As tickets for the event are being rapidly bought up, workers are urged to re- serve their ticket in advance to make sure of attending this outstanding revolutionary affair, Tickets in advance at 40 cents can still be obtained at all workers’ book shops and at the Daily Worker. Central Committee Urges Support of NEW YORK, Dec. 28—The Central Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A. today issued the following Statement in connection with the drive of the Morning Freiheit, Jewish Janguage daily organ of the Central Committee, for $40,000, to assure its financial stability. “The Morning Freiheit, Jewish lan- guage daily of the Communist Party, is carrying on an intensive campaign for funds to assure its financial stab- ility. At least $40,000 is needed, and all workers are urged to contribute. “The Morning Freiheit has during the twelve years of its existence fought continuously to elevate the standard of living of Jewish workers and to organize them for the effective waging of the class struggle. It is a militant foe of capitalism, and of all betrayers of the laboring masses, “Without the aid of the Morning Freiheit the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union could hardly have hoped to celebrate its fifth jubilee. Nor could an overwhelming majority of the New York furriers have achieved solidarity under the leader- ship of the Industrial Union. “To the Morning Freiheit, too, must go much of the credit for the freeing of large masses of Jewish workers from the influence of the Jewish so- cial fascists and the Jewish Forward. The Morning Freiheit has persevered in its attacks against Zionism and other agencies of nationalism and chauvinism. It is due in large measure to the leadership of the Morning Freiheit, organ of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, that the Jewish workers are beginning grasp the meaning of the Leninist ‘Freiheit’ Drive masses; when the lynch wave ts sweeping the country, and when the capitalist class is feverishly preparing for war, “The Central Committee calls upon all workers, and in the first place the Jewish workers, to help the Freiheit, since it is a powerful weapon in the class struggle of the workers against the capitalist class. “Long live the Freiheit! “Central Committee, O,P.U.S.A. “Earl Browder, General Secretary.” Locked Out . Alteration Painters Ask Aid of Tenants on Picket Line NEW YORK—Ossinof, Bronx land- lord and Socialist, known for his mass evictions of workers in the Al- solution of the national question as it is carried out in the Soviet Union. “The Morning Freiheit, like all other revolutionary periodicals, owes its existence to the loyalty of the workers, The financial stability of the Morning Freiheit must be secured today, when the Roosevelt. govern- CELEBRATION IN NEWARK Total to date....$38,426.81 Shoe Meet to Hear Convention Report Worke rs to Protest “Forward” Lies NEW YORK.—Thousands of shoe workers. will meet at Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn, tonight to hear the report of the delegates to the Boston amal- Gamation convention. The meeting will have the two-fold purpose of en- dorsing the action of its delegates to the convention and protesting against the campaign of lies and slander by the Socialist Forward against the union and its drive to bolster up the A. F, of L. Boot and Shoe Union. Organized and unorganized shoe workers are called to attend the meeting to protest the attempt of the Shoe Board of Trade and its ally the Socialist Forward to force upon the shoe workers the scab Boot and Shoe Union. The A, F. of L. union is so thoroughly despised by the shoe workers of New York that it has been unable to maintain even a skeleton of an organization. The only remaining local of bona fide shoe workers re- cently left the union in a body and joined the amalgamation movement. The attempt of the Forward to bol- ster up this company union by ter- ror, fraud and trickery will be de- feated by the shoe workers. A packed Arcadia Hall meeting will be an effective answer to the enemies of the shoe workers. Mass. AFL Waiters’ Emil, and Other Historical Notes E stuff. Workers Club and had 3,000 Red Guards. Springfield rifles javelins, and the boys went out to fignt, They were licked only when the revolution was drowned in blood by the butcher Mannerheim. Se a JOW he was sitting next to Leo, one of his old pals in the Hel- singfors Jyry, a former platoon cap- tain and champ gymaast. They were discussing old times, speaking English ont of respeet to me, an English sans “the’s” and “an’s.” (Finns, by the way, never join an organization. They always, always YOIN it.) “Yeah, things not the same now.” It was Emil, the old sage, talking. “We gotta build La- bor Sports Union this country be big one like Finland. My town we got good club. We geing make it bigger after convention”—actent on Protest NRA Code, A. F. L. Official Silent About Strike Action BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 27.—Face to face with the rising tide of protest from the rank and file, the A. F. of | L. officials in the Waiters’ Union here were compelled to call an open , meeting to condemn the pending res- } taurant code which is now before) President Roosevelt for signature. John J, Kearney, business agent of the local and national vice-president, was the only speaker at the meet- ing, Which was attended by about 400 workers. Kearney is a well- known reactionary labor misleader and red baiter here. After his speech Kearney shut off discussion by announcing that action would be taken at @ closed meeting of the members and declared the meeting to be merely one of enlight- enment. The code, which is arousing the re- sentment of the restaurant workers of the entire country, provides for a minimum scale of 23 cents an hour and permits the including of tips up to 50 per cent as wages. The wage scale on this basis is actually 14 cents an hour. The code also pro- vides for the deduction from wages for meals, lodging and uniforms, per- mits the hated split shift system and allows a 54-hour week. When Kearney pretended to attack the code for which he and the A. F. of L. machine were responsible by declaring “Is there any wonder the code will turn us into revolution- ists”? the workers showed their hatred of the N. R. A. by thunderous applause. Although strike action was pro- posed in New York, Kearney was silent about this step and the meet- ing closed after a resolution was adopted demanding the 1929 scale, a 40-hour week and a $0 wage for part-time workers, CHALLENGE BY SALEM UNIT SALEM, Mass.--The local unit of the Communist Party, placing an order for 200 copies of the Jan. 6, 3 & NEWARK, N. J.—The tenth anni- celebrated here on Saturday evening, Jan. 6th at te ¥. M. H, A. audi- anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, challenges other towons with & population of 10,000 to equal or best this order. City Events UPHOLSTEBERS AND MATTRESS MAKERS MEET TONIGHT il be jolsterers to- Rap neg A OFFICE WOBKERS All office workers are invited to ing of the Office Workers Union to be tonight at he juarters, 114 W. i4th second floor, at 7:30 i 4 and ment is more determined than ever to solve the crisis at the expense of last syllable in “convention.” “See, I be busy too much with Party work Finnish Federation. Now I give more time Labor Sports Unien.” He grinned with satisfaction and pounded his big, garageman’s fist on the table, delivering himself of of what I surmised to be the Finnish equivaien? of Mr. James Durante’s “Hot-cha:” . * . IL is another one of those loyal old-timers who has worked his head off to build a workers sports movement in this country. Despite his forty years he keeps himself in a physical condition that many a younger man might envy. Last sum- mer I saw him take the 3,000 meter Tun at & meet at College Point, fiash- ing past a field of panting youngsters with ease. His son, who plays basket- ball on the local high school basket- ball team, can’t get near his father when his paternal ancestor gets going on the cinder track. Whether son Bruno stands on the side-lines, puffs out his chest and says for all the world to hear, “That's my pop!” is not recorded, but we can very well imagine it to be true. . * . INNS as a rale are not a forward lot, but they're among the hard- est and best workers in the labor sports movement in this ¢ountry. The national tradition in sports is felt in every section of the Finnish movement here. The old Finns will get together and plan to build a hall in a certain community, for in- stance. Well, brother, money may be tight but, by thunder, some part of that money is going to go to . 166 EAST MTH STREET Near Vourth Ave, N.Y, ©. Phone: Tompkins Square 6-2287, savatsiionacs secratina Revolutionary Theatre English for Foreigners By SI GERSON (Batting for Edward Newhouse) MIL thought the Labor Sports Union convention was hot He recalled the days when he A. C. back in Finland, around the day 1919. Jyry was the sport section of the powerful Helsingfors the fierce civil war between the Reds and Whites in Finland, Jyry had supplied hundreds of #———_—___— were substituted for bamboo} Winter Term WORKERS SCHOOL| “Training for the Class Struggle” CLASSES IX Class Struggles in the 19th Cent. OLASSES VILL UP QUICKLY REGISTER NOW GST NEW DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLET 3 a member of the Jyry . 8 of the revolution, 1918- members. During the days of * | RELIEVE it or not, there is a tradi- tion of work sports throughout the world and there's quite a bit of it in this country, too. Of course, it flowed into the American movement from half a dozen different channels s «Finnish, German and whatnot. But> the very conditions of life of thes average American worker, the fact that he’s robbed not only of food, g and shelter but also of the ht to recreation, create a new lation and another tradition for the formation of a mass workers Sports movement in these United States. Athletics have played a part in some of the major struggles in the American scene, ignoble or otherwise. During the recent strike of Ambridge steel workers, local high school foot- * ball players were deputized to club 5 and shoot down strikers. But there y are dozens of examples of quite the © opposite. The German Turners in the ] United States have a gtorious his- tory, a heritage, incidentally, which { is rapidly being sold over the counter to Hitler and his agents here, But during the American Civil War whole regiments were formed of Turners } who fought on the Union side 1 against slavery. Many of them fol- ( lowed Marx and supported his post. tion on the question of fighting witt) the North against the slave-holding\ Confederacy. The most dramatic in-( cident in the history of the Ameri¢ar 7 Turners occurred in 1861, just after the fall of Fort Sumter and its cap- ture by the Confederate forees. I'l let Henry Metzner, official historian of the American Turnband, tell the rest of the story: “After the fall of Fort Sumter, = ‘buildings being razed to the ground. Many Turners were forced to flee the city in order to save their lives.” ("A Brief History of the American ‘Turnerbund,” P. 17.) Trade Union Directory +--+ BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKERS i UNION ‘700 Broadway, New York City Gramerey 53-0687 CLEANERS, DYERS AND PRESSERS UNION. ‘38 Second Avenue, New Yerk Clty Algonquin 4-4367 FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 4 West 18th Street, New York Oity Chelses 3-0505 YORNITURE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 818 Broadway, New York City Gramercy, 5-8056 eas ORKESS INDUSTRIAL URI F 19th Street, New York Gramerey 7-782 * NEEDLE TRADES WOBKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION if 181 West 28th Street, New York City Lackawanna 4-4010 METAL Wi 3 East 4 De Luxe Cafeteria $4 Graham Ave. Cor. Siegel St. would reserve judgment until Jan. 5 the Anti-Trust Division, Wagner said when Williams and his wife must the living condition of the masses; he thought the injunction was the will swank, Eugene, noted pianist, when Unemployment Insurance is de- Fe re emseme, noted plants, WORKERS’ SCHOOL, 35 E. 12th STREET, 3rd Floor | Manhattan Lyceum, 66 appear at Washington Heights Court| proper way to handle that, and he] nied the workers; when N.R.A. low- )aon d.amatic group, revolutionary |'@ demand the return of the five cent tex, \eessh ashen teastedaaiving tests «vest ellie in the 12th. District, still thinks so, : ers the standard of living of the choruses ‘will entertain, bn a ae et pm ay Come and Celebrate With Us at the TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAILY WORKER CLARENCE HATHAWAY, Ed4., Daily Worker, Speaker MIKE GOLD, Daily Worker Columnist, CHAIRMAN MOISSAYE J. OLGIN, Eéitor, Morning Freiheit DAILY WORKER CHORUS, A New Song Program SERGEI RADAMSKY, An evening of new interna- WORKERS DANCE LEAGUE, Unique Presentation THEATRE OF ACTION, “The Holy of Holies,” eto. tional songs in German, Armenian, Caucasien, Russian TEN-PIECE NEGRO JAZZ BAND, Dance till Dawn Sat., Dec. 30, 8 P.M. to2 A. M.- BRONX COLISEUM: East 177th Street Tio te races ro (PLUS 16c PRESS FUND) —