The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 3, 1934, Page 2

> page Two Waiters Meet to Plan Gen’l Strike Call AFL, AFW Mem- bers to Palm Garden Tonight NEW YORK.—Preparations for a general strike will be considered to-/ night at a monster mass meetin called by the Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union and the Cafeteria Workers’, Union, sec the Food Workers’ Ind Garden, 306 Ave. Rank and File A. F. of I we expected to attend the meeting 9 hear the exposure of their offi- Ww ‘als who called off the general trike for which the workers had Oted. Many me s of the Amal- amated Food Wo: 1 also be w®esent to hear a disct plans or the establish: y of the workers in the c: . Among the speak q be 8. Sramberg, J. Rubin nd Wm. Al- bertson of the Food Workers’ Indus- ial Union, and a from. the Park Central Ho where the work~- ts recently won. a tory under the leadership ofthe Hotel id Res- @urant Workers’ Union of the F. W members | | Women Needle W’kers |To Form Un. Auxiliary | branch of all women members of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union will be organized at a meet- ing Thursday right after work in the itorium of the union, 131 W. 28th | | NEW YORK —A special auxiliary | 1s Ben Gold be the main | speaker. The provisional committee for the organization has worked out a num- ber of plans, one of which calls for/ m of a special dele-| to demand ties refrain e right of 's to belong toa union - Calls 3 Borough Confabs on War |To Send Delegates to} | Congress Against U.S. War Funds | NEW YORK.—Three borough con- | 5 Shoe Workers in | Shooting | Frame-up Shoe Union To Fight) for Release of | FramedWorkers — | NEW YORK.—The five shoe work- ers arrested last Friday on tri up charges of a i with the shooting of William Strauss, shoe work: are still being held on demand of police. That | the head of the shoe manufacturers is behind the arrest was seen in the 10th Magistrate’s District Court yes- t y, when the detective who made ¢ characterized the militant as gangsters. as ordered reduced to 00 for each worker. The Shoe Workers’ Industrial Union yesterday declared the arrest to be a dastardly frame- up designed to intimidate all mili- tant workers from activity on the picket line. The Industrial Union will defend these workers and mobilize protests to win their release, William Strauss, the worker who was shot du/ag an altercation with ferences against appropriations by/a scab, is reported to be improving. &U. etc. ‘The officials of the Amal-|the United States for war and de- gamated Food Workers’ Union and/manding public works instead will be the. American Federation of Labor held this month by the American lave been invited to state their posi- League Against War and Fascism. dons on the question of unity and he. general strike before the assem- dled workers. Fred Biedenkapp, ge of the Shoe and Le: Midustrial Union, will be main speaker=, who will ‘he recent Amalgamation Conven- ‘ton held in Boston, where all the Shoe and Leather Unions, regardless of ‘their affiliation or independence, established one union in the indus- ‘ry throughout the United States. ‘al secretary Workers’ 120-Lb. Striker Framed | On Charge of Beating 195-Lhb. Pharmacy Scab NEW YORK.-David Kauiman, 5- “oot, 120-pound leader of striking sharmacisis, was found guilty of beat- ing up Abe Goldwag, 5-foot-eleven, 195-pound scab, by three judges in Special Sessions Court on the insist- | amce of the pharmacy 9. Lindemann, and s days in jail. Faufmen was one a committee vepresenting the Independent Phar- macists Union of Greater New York, who demended the reinstatement of ® Worker discharged because he be- longed to the union. boss, Adolph The strike is now in its eleventh! . Week, despite numerous attempts by the boss and police at intimidations | and arresis. Hearing on Strike of Sheet Metal Workers NEW YORK.—The Independent Sheet Mttal Workers Union has just been informed that a conference between the union and the Pech- man Store Equipment Co., where a strike is still in effect against a lockout of twelve metal workers, has been ordered by the Regional | ntenced to 30 The conference will establish per- | manent anti-war and fascism bodies. | | The League is also launching a/ | campaign to send delegates of organ-| \izations to place anti-war demands before the coming session of Con- | gress. |. The demands, as listed in a reso- lution prepared by the League, in- clude demands against war appropri- ations, cancellation of all war con- tracts financed by Public Works |Punds, the abolition of the R.O.T.C,, the C.M.T.C, and the C.C.C., and the immediate withdrawal of all armed |forces from foreign waters and lands. The Bronx borough conference will be held Wednesday evening, Jan. 10 at the Bronx Union Branch of the Y.M.C.A.,, 470 E. 16st St. In Man-| hattan, the conference will be held in the Little Red School House, 196 Bleeker St., Friday evening, while the following afternoon, Saturday, at 2 p. m., the Brooklyn conference will be held at the First Unitarian Church, 15 Monroe Pl, at Pierrepont St. ‘Trial of 28 Needle | | Un. Leaders Today, Fur Workers To Pro- test Frame-up | in Court NEW YORK.—Today at 10 a.m, 28 leaders and active members of the} Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union are to be arraigned court on framed up federal indictments. The arraignment will be made at the Federal District Court, Post Office | Building. All needle workers are urged to be present to protest against ToReport NRA Code. Hearing atfurMeets NEW YORK.—A detailed account of the fur code hearings held in Washington last week, at which a) delegation of more than 200 fur workers were present, will be given at a meeting called by the Industrial | Union at Cooper Union Thursday at | 1 p.m. | | Uncowed by threatening glances | and warnings of guards, the fur workers staged an enthusiastic dem- onstration at the hearings in sup- port of Ben Gold’s demands on the Tur bosses for changes in the N.R.A. code, Gold pointed out that a clause providing equal division of work must be inserted in the code as a guarantee | against wage cuts. He also argued for the 30 hour week and an unem- ployment insurance fund. In a bril- liant attack on the N.R.A., Gold| showed the sham of se 7a and } exposed the action of the fur bosses in compelling the fur workers to| leave the Union at their own choice. Other speakers for the Industrial | Union were J, Winogradsky, organier of the fur department, A. Cherkies, S. Feinglass of Chicago, M. Gross of | Philadelphia and S, Harches, The Industrial Union speakers de- manded a 30 hour week, an unem- ployment insurance fund paid by the bosses, a 20 per cent increase over the minimum wage scale, equal divi- sion of work and the right of the union to determine the amount of production of workers unable to carry the full amount, After the Industrial Union del- egates had spoken, not a single fur boss took the floor, indicating that! the bosses will perfect their plans against the workers behind closed doors in close cooperation with the N. R. A. Earl Dean Howard and Worth of DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1934 Continue To Hold |SUTTERS OF NEW YoRK —by del “President Roosevelt is the Moses of our time.”—N. Y. Daily News. Numerous Cities Preparing Celebrations for the “Daily” NEW YORK.—Numerous cities throughout the country are com- pleting arrangements for celebra- tions of the tenth anniversary of the Daily Worker. Five cities in New England will hold such celebrations on the eve- ning of Sat., Jan. 6th. Lowell, Mass., will celebrate with a con- cert and dance at 338 Central St. There will also be speakers. An entertainment will take place in Lawrence, Mass., at the Loom Fix- ers Hall, 35 Margin St. The cele- bration in Maynard, Mass., will be held at 20 Powdermill Road; Wor- cester, Mass., will celebrate with an affair at the Workers’ Center. In Providence, R. I., the celebration will take place in the Swedish Hall, 59 Chestnut St. Newark Celebration Robert Minor will be the main speaker at the Newark celebration 6n the evening of Jan, 6th at the Y.M.H.A. auditorium, High and WwW Kinney Sts. Rebecca Grecht, District Organizer for the Commu- nist Party, will also speak. Eugene Nigob, pianist, Julius Modlin, yvio- linist, the Jack London Group, rev- olutionary choruses will participate in the program. Muskegon Heights, Mich., will hold its celebration this Saturday evening at the Ukrainian Hall, | Hackley and 9th St., and Hibbing, Minn., will celebrate on the same evening. Rochester, N. Y., will hold its | celebration on Sunday evening, Jan. 7th at the Workers Center, 448 Ormond St., with songs by the Lith- Boys Trio. Dance music will be furnished by the Al de Grandis Orchestra. The celebration in Superior, Wis., will take place this Sunday eve- ning at the Workers Center, 1303 N. Fifth St., with dancing and other entertainment. A celebration will be held on Jan. 7th in Allentown, Pa. Omaha, Neb.,’ will celebrate on Jan. 9th; Aberdeen, Wash., on Jan. 10th at the Workers Hall, 713 E. First St. Workers’ Conference Endorses HAMTRAMK, Mich. Dec, 28—The | the frame-up. \ the N.R.A. and Pietro Lucchi of the The federal charges ‘against the Gabor Board, 45 Broadway, on Jan. | needle union leaders and active mem- . | bers represent the high point of an The union is sponsoring the call| organized attack against the Indus- #£ the Joint Provisional Committee | trial Union by the fur bosses and| xf Independent Building Trades] the A. F. of L. officials of the In- Unions for a conference on Jan.| dustrial Fun Union. A complete ex- 20, at 2 p.m., at Irving Plaza, to| posure of racketeering and crime unite all unorganized building! practiced in the fur industry by the trades workers in New York. | bosses and the A. F. of L. officials 3 | was sent to the federal government | LOZOWICK LECTURES TONIGHT) by the union last summer with the | AT JOHN REED CLUB demand for action. After a long NEW YORK.—Louis Lozowick, well ‘mown artist and lecturer o> art, will ive an illustrated lecture on “A ‘Marxian History of Art,” at the John silence the Department of Justice} handed down indictments against the | fur bosses and the A, F. of L. lead- ers. To protect the real racketeers Reed Club School of Art, 430 Sixth| @nd aid them in their effort to de- ‘Ave. eight ina pee This is| Stroy the Industrial Union, the De- ‘One of @ series of lectures on the sub-| Partment of Justice framed up Ject, and will deal with the period|Charges indicting Industrial Union Germany BERLIN, Jan. 2.—All cessations of At Gol dsheer Shop treason, and incur corresponding | sie PPengoeys a. Militant Dressmakers ' of “Eighteenth Century French Art.” | members also. ant | DE INEST eee wae aS “High Treason To Strike In| YY : * | ne | | ‘Win Strike Victory | | ‘work, whether by strikes or passive | resistance, will be regarded as high | the State Ministry of Justice, incom-/ Led by Needle Union on this new bill, urges that = | NEW YORK.—The militant strike | & only the carrying on of a strike, | sut also @ny appeal to strike should ‘e punished as high treason. City Events | OPEN FORUM OF NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS W noodle trades workers are called to 3 ¥@ an open forum todsy, Wednesday, m2 Pm. in the unoin auditorium, Bt. on the ist floor. Comrade Max Bedacht will speak on Unemployment Jngurance. “CARPENTER IN IMPORTANT MEETING : TONIGHT C.W.A. jobs through ye started at the Indepen- Union special meeting to- , 8 pan., at 870 Broadway. will also’'be made for the of unemployed carpenters. will be given of the independent unions to form fn the building trades, SYMPOSIUM ON WAR AND FASCISM -A symposium on the “Me- ‘end Fascism,” sponsored by Anti-War Provisional Com- ition of 137 organizations, d for Jan. 12, at 8 pm, face, 16 Manhattan Ave., include: William Patterson, ik Labor Defense; Roger Civil Liberties Union; Le Halist; Jessie Hugan, paci- Cohen, of the National REGISTER IN WORKERS’ ‘SCHOOL ‘The Workers’ School, 35 need yesterday that the ig the last in which work- the Winter Term which ed that despite the classes and fifty-one in- ‘coming term, increased ‘the filling of all classes classes are already of 70 workers of the Goldsheer dress | | Shop, 253 W. 35th St., ended in a vie- tory to-day when the company nego- tiated a settlement with the Dress department of the Needle Workers’ Industrial Union. According to the terms of settle- ment, the firm obligates itself to re- nounce its claim to reorganization, thereby rescinding the threatened cut jin wages against which the strike} was waged. The firm will also re- employ all strikers without discrimi- | nation and send away all scabs pro- vided by the International Ladies | ; Garment Workers’ Union to break| the strike. | News of the settlement aroused | |Breat enthusiasm among ail the dressmakers still on strike led by the Industrial Union and inspired them} with confidence to continue their own | Struggles. The strike victory is of special im- portance in that unlimited support to defeat the strikers was given by the National Dress Manufacturers Association and by the LL.G.W.U., Which sent scabs to the firm and sup- plied workers fo- the firm’s Long Is- 'land shop, where wages are 40 to 50 | Per cent below the scale of the New| | York workers, A celebration of the | Strike victory will be held by the| ; union and all funds are to go towards , aiding the shops still on strike. A mass picketing demonstration is scheduled for today at the Maiman and Sanger dress shop, Two pickets Were arrested yesterday on the picket line after the strikers refused to be terrorized by the police, The charges against the pickets were dismissed in court. Help The Fight For the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill.—See “Peace on Earth,” Jan. U1, Thurs- day evening. Tickets at Unemployed |Labor Council of Cleveland to the Council, 29 E. 20th st. International Fur Workers have been invited to state their stand on the fur workers’ demands at the Cooper Union meeting Thursday, Veteran Labor Leader Endorses FS.U. Convention Max S. Hayes Urges All Unions To Send Delegates NEW YORK.—Max §, Hayes, yet- eran labor leader, telegraphed his en- dorsement of the first national con- vention of the Friends of the Soviet Union to the offices of the Friends of the Soviet Union in New York, Max Hayes is well known in Amer- ican labor circles for the past 50 years. He was one of the founders of the “Cleveland Citizen,” organ of the Central Labor Union, in 1890, and was for many years its acting editor. In endorsing the convention of the F.S.U., which will take place in New York Jan. 26, 27 and 28, Max Hayes calls upon all trade unionists to sup- port the convention and to send del- egates, Hayes has been an active member} of the International Typographical Union since 1884, and has held al- most all offices in the local union| and in the Central Labor Union of} Cleveland. He has been for 30 years a delegate from his union and from the Central American Federation of Labor con- ventions. i In 1900 he was the vice-presidential | candidate on the Socialist Party ticket, and was for many years a member of the Socialist Party, until his resignation when the Socialist Party joined up with the Social Dem- ocratic Parties. Negro Question Meet | Jan. 5 in Cleveland | | CLEVELAND, Jan. 2.-—“The Com-| munist Position on the Negro Ques- | tion” will be discussed at a joint membership mecting of Section 2 of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League, Friday evening, 7.30 o'clock at the Ordina Hall, 6021 St. Clair. The meeting is called as a result of an attack by gangsters, calling them- selves “The 22” on young Negro workers at the recent “Red Youth Frolic at Ordina Hall. These gang- sters attempted to stop Negro workers from dancing with white girls, and attacked sever al Negro youths, but were promptly jumped on by white workers who rushed to the defense of their Negro fellow-workers, The at- tack is one of a long series of such attempts against the growing solid- Communist Party slate nomi- nated for the municipal primary elec- tions here Wednesday, March 1, 1934, and endorsed by a workers’ | united front conference, is an excel- lent one. | Kristalsky for Mayor; Richard Ruf- |fini, Cass Bailey, Michael Laslo, | Jennie Romaniuk and Frank Dziubik |for Councilmen; Emil Sobol for | Treasurer and Michael Zackler for} Cle: | The bosses? politicians are claim- ing their candidates are “non-parti- san,” but the local section of the Communist Party points out that! these candidates are supported by the capitalist political machines in | the interest of the bankers and real estate sharks. “The Communist platform is not one of promises,” reads a statement by the Communist section, “but one of struggle in the interest of the workers. “& Communist administration,” the big capitalists and corporations and not tax the workers out of their homes. A Communist city admin- | istration will make Chrysler-Dodge and other large corporations pay for relief of the unemployed and not for the homeless and not evict the workers. A Communist Adminisira- | tion will organize the workers and lead them into struggle against the program of Chrysler-Dodge and all other automobile bosses, against the | N. R. A. code, and will organize and lead the workers into struggle for a workers’ code such as proposed by the Auto Workers’ Union, which calls for: “1, A minimum of 75 cents per hour for all factory workers; a 30 per cent increase for all now earning 58 cents or more per hour. A six~ hour day, five-day week. A guaran- tee of 40 full weeks’ work a year; a $22.50 a week minimum, “2. Immediate cash relief for all unemployed without any discrimina- tion against Negroes or foreign-born at the rate of $10 per week for each single person, $15 per week for each family of three, and an additional $2 for each dependent, pending the en- actment of federal unemployment in- surance. “3. Social insurance, paid by in- dustry and government, covering sickness, occupational disease, acci- dent, maternity, old age pension. Opening of the City Clinic, to give sufficient medical attention to the unemployed and part-time workers, and their families. “4. No discrimination against Ne- gro workers and immediate hiring of Negroes on jobs in all shops. “5. The right of workers to be- long to the union of their choice, to elect shop and department commit- tees without fear of victimization, to, strike to enforce their demands. “6, The abolition of the inhuman speed-up system on the belt, etc. That the city pass an ordinance making it unlawful to discharge or refuse employment to any worker who has reached the age of 40 or more years. arity of Negro and white workers. “i, Free hot lunches in the public | __ The workers’ candidates are George | Hamtramck C. P. City Slate {| schools, clothing, shoes, books and school supplies. “8. Public works and an extensive program to be started immediately, such as paving all unpaved streets in Hamtramck, grade separations at Conant and Grand Trunk Railroad, jand Caniff and Grand Trunk Rail- road, building of sufficient play- grounds and recreational centers in the workers’ neighborhoods, elimin- | ating slums, especially in the Negro | Sections, “9, Full union wages on relief jobs uanian Workers Club, by the Negro/| LaGuardia Spurns Jobless Delegation’s (Continued from Page 1) | aR a Sea the City Hall for hours. The demands presented by the delegation headed by the Unemployed Council included the demands for the endorsement by the municipal government and by LaGuardia of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill and the pas- sage by the municipal government and endorsement by LaGuardia of the Workers Relief Ordinance. The delegation of working women earlier went to the Board of Estimate meeting at which Mayor LaGuardia vas presiding. Juliet Poyntz inter- rupted proceedings to expose the “economy” program of LaGuardia as being in the interests of Wall Street and not of the unemployed workers. She demanded to know what the Act proposed by LaGuardia to concen- trate almost dictatorial power into ‘| fhe. hands of the Mayor “to effect economies” means for the jobless men | and women of New York, LaGuardia admitted after a sharp clash with Poyntz and other members of the delegation that there was nothing in the bill that gives added relief to the unemployed women workers. Poyntz pointed out to the Board of Estimate that the children are starving in the schools and demanded to know whether the city government will provide food for these children. He did not answer except to make the cynical answer that they could go out and shovel snow. In an interview with the Workers | Committee on Unemployment, led by David Lasser, a Socialist leader, which also visited the Mayor today, LaGuardia gave this committee more time and took an entirely different tone. Lasser gave LaGuardia little | trouble because he immediately sub- sided under the claim of LaGuardia |that he had no power to act. How- ever, in this interview with the com- mittee, led by Lesser, LaGuardia re- vealed his attitude on Unemployment: Insurance by stating, “Yes, I am all for it,” but speaking in a vague and general way and claiming that the city or state cannot do anything with regard to Unemployment Insuranc j but it must be worked on a national ale. At the same time he refused | yesterday to see the delegation led |by the Unemployed Council which |wanted to present the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill and thus LaGuardia evaded taking a stand on this bill. For two and a half hours follow- ing the :nterview, the Women's Com- mittee on Unemployment, led by Poyntz, held a mass meéting on the steps of City Hall exposing LaGuar- dia’s “Economy” program. Approx- imately 4,000 workers listened to the speeches. LaGuardia told Lasser that he would recommend cash relief for the unemployed to the State Legislature. He said he would build barracks for the jobless single workers. He praised the O.W.A. He refused to commit himself however, to direct statements that the jobless would get any of the | money which is saved by his program , of “consolidating the departments.” The delegation led by the unem- ployed council finally was interviewed | by LaGuerdia’s secretary, who refused to permit the delegation in to see the ; Mayor, saying that it was “humanly impossible.” He said he would “de- liver the message of the delegation.” Richard Sullivan, representing the Unemployed Council of Greater New York, spoke first, and Sam Nessin of the Trade Union Unity Council, out- lining the demands included in the ‘Demands for Relief. and all public works, such as C.W.A.| Workers’ Relief Ordinance. Martha In no case less than 75 cents per, Tiechman of the A. F. of L. Neck- hour, nor more than six hours a day,| Weer local, with a membership of five days a week. No discrimination | 4,000 and a Negro worker representing against Negro, foreign-born, women, the West Side Unemployed Council, | continues the statement, “will tax} press more out of the poor to make: the rich still richer; will build homes ! and young workers. Equal pay for equal work. “10. Absolute prevention of any evictions of unemployed or part- time workers, such evictions to be made criminal offenses. All relief | allowances to apply without distinc- tion as to race, nationality, religion or political beliefs or affiliations, citizenship or length of residence. | Gas, electric, water, fuel and rent to be paid by the welfare depart- |ment to all unemployed and part- time workers. “A Communist Administration will organize and lead the workers in the and Ben Lapidus of the N. Y. Council, | also spoke, EAR Lou: the sport news may be a bit la Cliff Montgomery, Red Matal, a matter of Keen Strategy, of Those bozoes knocking out }Sport news can get hot and bothered about the nifty~re- verse that had the whole Stanford team watching C. Montgomery while Barabas scampered over the line with the ball, but you and I know that the whole idea took seed in the fertile mind of one Lou Little. Or don’t we? peer es) F course, there are those insidious characters who bring up statistics, Statistics, pouf! Suppose Stanford did gain 296 yards from scrimmage as compared to Columbia’s 124. What about Grayson’s gains of 160 yards, more than the whole Columbia back- | 4? Columbia won the ball game, and that’s what matters, isn’t it, Lou? It’s what matters te the alumni and | they matter a lot, eh Lou? And, | besides, they don’t pay off bets on yardage The only numbers | that count with the Iads who keep books are these on the scoreboard | and they read the right way. * ease HCHOLAS MIRACULOUS is going to feel good about it, even if he | doesn’t get the Republican nomina- | tion for vice-president in 1926, And Tm sure that Don Henderson—you remember Don, the fellow that Nick fired for being a Red—is going to be tickled, too, Somehow it solves a lot of prob- lems, that game does, Lou. I can lift my chin and be proud of being a New Yorker, a Fellow Citizen of Lou Little. I’m sure the boys in the Bowery feel the same way I do. The next time I’m there I'll ask ’em about it. I'm going to ask that girl in Klein's department store, too, She walked into work at a quarter to eight this morning, a tabloid under one arm, the headline COLUMBIA 7; STANFORD 0, peeping out. I'm going to ask her at about 6:15 tonight when she gets out of work. $i * Of course, you must have had a grandstand at half-time, Lou. They Hunger Disease In Newfoundland ST. JOHN'S, N, F., Jan. 2—New- foundland ports are in the grip of heri-beri, a hunger disease arising out of deficiencies in dict. The disease is especially rife among the fisherfolk who are forced to exist on “relief” rations equalling $1.80 a month, MILWAUKEE CONFERENCE FOR LENIN MEMORIAL MILWAUKEE. — A conference for the preparation of the Lenin Memorial Meeting here will be held Friday, Jan. 5 at the John Reed Club, ‘312 ‘West State St at 8| pm. Organizations are urged to! send delegates. . The Memorial will be held Jan. 21 in Bahnfrei Hall. | NEEDLE UNION MEET IN BOSTON BOSTON, Mass.—In preparation for struggle to enforce the present minimum | scale of wages when the agreements in the | dress industry expire, the Needle Trades | Workrs’ Industrial Union is calling an open meeting of dressmakers today at 5 p.m, at 995 Washington St, where a plan for ac- tion will be proposed, As Low A PARIS, France. — How Chinese workers are exploited at starvation , ges in the foreign-owned and native factories in China is told by Paul Chinese Factory Wages struggle against discrimination and vYaillant-Courier, a member of the deportation ot foreign-born work- editorial staff of L’Humanite, French will have its task to educate, organ- ize and lead the working class against imperialist war preparations and for the defense of the Soviet Union. A Communist Administration has as its aim to defend the daily interests of all workers and the toiling masses, | Seflerally, to educate them, to or- ganize them and to lead them into final struggle for the abolition of | the capitalist system and the estab- | lshment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ | Government.” | ‘Maryland “Rane” Frame Collapses | BELAIR, Maryland.—A “rape” frame-up against two Negro workers |collapsed today, after 16-year old Marie Ball admitited that her feird | story of being kidnapped by Ross ‘James and George Hayman was con- cocted in order to explain her stay- ing out late one night a few weeks ago. Marie’s story was seized on by the local bess press for incitement for the lynching of the two workers and |for an intensification of the terror against the whole Negro population, Although Marie had told the author- ities she had not been harmed by the Negro workers, but driven around in an automobile for several hours, ithe press carried implications of |“rape” in all its stories on the case. Lynch gangs several times threatened the lives of the two framed workers. Only the growing mass indignation of white and Negro workers against the lynching terror forced the au- ‘thorities to protect. the men. 1 as a member of the European del- egation to the Asiatic Anti-War , Congress. | A summary of Comrade Vaillant- Conturier’s findings follows: A Chinese worker eats one quarter of the amount of food necessary for ‘a European worker. To be Chinese ;does not imply to have less needs \than @ European. To comprehend , this one only has to observe the life of pleasure of the rich in Shanghai, and contrast it with the life of the | Workers who are seen at nightfall in front of the shops grabbing scraps of jleft-overs, A Chinese worker eats a jfistful of rice and a few cabbage Jeaves a day and on special occasions, a bit of dried fish. A This insufficient daily nourishment costs 11 cents (American money). The minimum wage is from 1 cent (in the tobacco fields) to 3 cents (in a leath- er factory) a day, The maximum wage is from 30 cents (in a glass jfactory) to $1.20 (in a tobacco fac- tory) a day. Only three or four very skilled workers in each factory re- ceive the latter wage, The average wage is 15 cents a day for men, 10 cents for women and Sc for children. The average earning of the average family is $5.40 a month. The aver- age amount spent is $6.60 a month. The result is that almost all of the people have accumulated large debts. A Chinese factory is a sombre fort- Tess surrounded by gun trucks. There are prison doors on the otuside and the door of each worker is of massive iron. There is usually no ventilation, no water to wash, and no protection against machinery, There is a system of fines most convienient to the exploiters. In the Shun Hsin |e factory -150 men and women } ers. A Communist Administration Communist paper, who visited China | work in a gellar with one door open- ing into a dark hall, and iron bars sic. A Day in front of the windows. The wage is 3 cents a day and food. There is a/ fine of 6c for sittin down, 15¢ for; jceasing work, even if only for a few, seconds. g In the Shanghai cotton factory there are fines for talking, land for going to the toilet too often. | jIn the month of July $48 weer thus collected, The number of hours of jabor a day ranges from 10 to 25 hours a day. In the Ewo factory , women often work 16 hours in order , to complete a certain number of pieces of cloth. The average work- ing day is 12 hours. There are many men unemployed, but still as many children as possible are employed; boys 10 years of age and older, girls 8 and older. Their wage is a fifth of the men’s wage. Only one out of ten of the workers’ children has a chance to obtain an education. Seventy-five per cent of the children working in the factories die from accidents, tuberculosis and other diseases ‘They hayen’t a moment to think, @ moment to enjoy life. They are born as new machines. They are re- fueled as little as possible, wear out, dic and there is always a new one for these machines procreate, and it does not matter, Get the greatest value GP SI GERSON An Open Letter To Lou Little Congratulations, of course. tough time with those boys under the | FW The boys who pound o» vish with praise of Al Barabas, Owen McDowell and those fel- lows, but we know better, don’t we Lou? We know that it’s Generalship, of the Coach Who Inspires Men to Superhuman Efforts. were tired as hell and you had to whip them up to the necessary point of animal hysteria to hold back tha’ savage Stanford backfield. .But yor did it, Lou. And that’s Coaching the Inspiration Stuff. If it wasn’t for that im | tongue-lashing Lou, they'd never out and kill themselves for dear Morningside Heights. Or maybe they | would, too, and maybe I'm mis- | Judging te boys terribly. Probably ; they're all Boys At Heart, Good, Clean Fun-Loving Youths, With the True Spirit of “Amateur Sports Burning Like A Blue Flame In Their Bosoms. Maybe they all went out field? Who the hell cares about first }and fought like drunken devils be- with a great, big kiss for winning the game. Or maybe they were in a ; hurry to get back and sit on a piano and strum a ukelele, That’s what col- | lege football heroes do, isn’t it, Lou? Or are the movies misleading me again? | Good-bye, Lou. Don’t let 'em chisel | you on the new contract, As ever, ss Parallels, High Jump Feature LSU GymM- New York worker gymna be seen in action on Sunday noon, January 7th, at the invitation gymnastic tournament to be held by the Yorkville Workers A. C. at their club gym, 847 East 72nd St, The meet will feature high bar; parallel bar and high jump compe tition. Entries can still be gotten, ‘it is announced, at the Yorkville club or the Labor Sports Union district office, 818 Broadway, En< trants must carry Labor Sports Union cards. | Jewish Workers Hold Ping PongTournament A closed table tennis tou ment for members of the Je Workers Clubs of New York w held at the Workers Zukunft rersus, 31 Second Avenue, tor Large entry lists of ping- enthusiasts from the Pros Workers, Hinsdale, r fs expected. The tournament ha. been sanctioned by the Eastern District of the Labor Sports Unior DR. 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