The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1934, Page 2

} Sis Two J N.T.W.LU. Leaders Released on Bail in Federal Frame-Up Loyal Membership Provides Funds for Immediate Bail NEW YORK.—Bail agregating $54,- 000 was placed on the 28 leaders and members of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union when they were arraigned before Federal Judge <nox at the Federal District Court yesterday, on framed up charges. Although federal prosecutor Aiman pleaded for higher bail equal to that | alaced on the fur bosses and the A.| FP. of L. officials, Judge Knox v N. Y. Organizations To Call At Sections For Jan. 6th “Daily” NEW YORK.—To facilitate de- liveries of the tenth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, all bundle orders will be delivered in this city at the various section headquarters of the Communist Party, beginning Priday, . No deliveries will be made at the Daily Worker office. The headquarters are as follows: Downtown — 140 Broad St., 96 Ave, C; Midtown—56 W. 25th St., 410 W. 19th St.; Lower Bronx— 699 Prospect Ave.; Upper Bronx— 2075 Clinton Ave.; Harlem—29 W. 115th St. Brooklyn—132 Myrtle Ave.; 61 Graham Ave., 1109-45th St.; 1813 Pitkin Ave.; Long Island —148-29 Liberty Ave., Jamaica and at 4206-27th st ompelled to deny the he regular |) Mea after hearing the n n and for can- ouis Boudin attorney the In- || vassing with historical edi- tion on Red Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 6 and 7, are asked to report to the above headquarters. Clip his out for reference. dustrial Union. Boudin showed that & the Industrial Un! acketeering in the the indictments aga bosses and the A. F. were handed down and all members of the Ir facing these false ch 1 : Hotel Union Formed. ‘By Detroit | Workers op workers, not highly bosses or ASF. of L. offici: Judge Knox’s decision, while plac- DETROIT, Jan. 3.—Workers in four | of the leading hotels here have with | the aid of the Trade Union Unity) £ " cog. | League organized the Hotel Workers’| ae peeeepelied the in hat ieee Association, an independent, union, : : 2 ‘eq | It includes bell-boys, porters, chem-| ing the bail at a terrifically high | amount, nevertheless represents victory for the Industrial Union, in justri I ES he dict x, ee uane ra in- | berniaids, and all other employes not} dividuals eee | heretofore organized into unions. | The immediate impetus to the or-| ganization of the union was given by| | the hotel owners’ open violation of | |the provisions of the vicious hotel} owners’ code. | Bail of $3,000 was placed on Irv- ing Potash, Jack Schneider, Morris Lauber, Oscar Mileaf, Mandelbaum and Blanco. ll oth including Gold, Hyman, Winograd Were. placed on bail Because of the lo; the Union in rush vide necessary b: The first organization meeting of} the hotel workers was addressed by on, national organizer of the Auto Workers Union, who urged them | bonds, union | pee econ in Feleobing on . ae to organize on a strong industrial} leaders and active members at the/ 1... and pledged the full support same time. This was an additior of the Auto Workers Union and of the Trade Union Unity League. blow to the enemies of the Indus- trial Union, who sought to keep the most active workers in the Union be- a 4 za hind bars while plotting er at-| Shipping Docks in N.Y. | @ Union. The lal o} : the framed charges is scheduled for To Be Canvassed with| a |28-Page Daily Worker | NEW YORK.-—The challenge by| the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union of Philadelphia to spread the anniversary edition of the Daily| Worker of Jan. 6th, was accepted yes- | terday by the Waterfront Unit of the Communist Party here. 20 UWMA Locals in Pennsylvania Ma _ Convention Fight) "soa: sun tnt soo i | Party Units of Section 1, have vol- ape eee from Page 1) Junteered to help canvass the ship- all the locais in the territory—| Ping docks in lower New York on seit 20 locals—for a joint conference | Red Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 6th which will take place Sunday, Jan- | 924 7th, with the aniversary edition. wary 7. This. conference will discuss | ~ a 3 the miners of the val! in Indianapolis. At the same time . to the convention | preparations are under way to hold a program (present. id fight for. So fer. fi definite anti-Lewis | delegates ha¥e been elected in the | Valley, with a strong possibility of} Pa Te OO i ‘i winning several doubtful ones for the Palen nithd dees nae opposition program. At the same time | “lected. resoluti ‘ posssibili |resolutions appearin in the Daily ed ‘more Dette ane eS Worker are being considered by these " at, | committees—while many locals have Hoeals that didnot elect thelr del | already adopted some of the most foint meeting of all the opposition delegates in Pennsylvania to map out @ plan of struggle against Lewis and his policy. important resolutions. egates. Partial reports of the incomplete | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934 Five Boston CWA Orders for Jan. 6th “Daily” Workers Die After Assure Press Run of 250,000 Exposure to Cold Men Foreed To Work in Sub-Zero Weather BOSTON, Jan. 3.—Five workers from one gang of C, W. A. workers died from exposure during the cold NEW YORK. — Orders from all parts of the country for the tenth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, which comes off the press this Saturday, assure an output of } at least rter million copies, the largest previous “ Intensive preparations are reported from numerous cities for mobilizing lass conscious workers to canvass ke jan extent never before recorded in | m recorded by any /| the | jomes and industrial plants | tionary greetings that have come in| throughout the country that have sent in sizeable orders. In addition, orders have been sent in by trade unfons, mass organiza- tions and workers’ cultural groups to history of the Daily Worker. | Increased to 28 Pages ‘The tremendous mass enthusiasm for this historical edition is further reflected in the numbers of revolu- with this edition. Small Towns Respond An outst ling feature in the cam- paign to ad the January edi- | from throughout the country. Orig- jinally planned to contain 24 pages, | then increased to 28 pages, the man- |agement of the Daily Worker an- | spell here last Wednesdi This was reported in the local newspa) | an_obscure corner without hi On the next day, Thursday, ten | workers on city welfare jobs shovel-| | ling snow were taken sick and re- |moved to a hospital. As a r A | other workers ri to work, and tion among workers. is the response rom small American towns, hardly touched before by the Daily Worker. Proportionately many of these | Westboro Laundry compelled the re- all work was ended for the day towns, show a8 lange increases | e erature 4 degrees be- order y_ the Fae sect Fe ete ela for 100,000 by New York, by | a creed oe eq | Chicago with its order for 35,000 and | so cold that the workers’ faces looked | ~* Ant . as though the blood would burst |>¥ Detroit, which ordered 30,000 through.” a aardiere During the cold spell and the) 4 partial list of these small towns are: Stockton, Calif.; Astoria, Ore.; | Bellingham, Wash.; Tuscon, Ariz.; | Roosevelt, N. M.; Hamilton, Mont.; Strool, S. D.; Winthrop, Minn.; Rose- ville, Mich.; Caseyville, Tll.; Wabash, Ind.; Long City, Neb.; Lakewood, N. J.; Salem, Mass.; Middletown, N. Y.; New Castle, Pa.; Davenport, Iowa; | Dadeville, Ala., to mention only a few of the host of small cities and towns | snowstorm, the local papers hailed the “efficiency” of the relict agen- cies and the C. W. A. Several thou- sand workers were given work shov- elling snow, but no provision was made to see that they had sufficient clothing, and no clothing was dis- tributed. Call Strike At Local |ous greetings received. v nounced yesterday that the anni- versary edition will consist of 28 pages to make room for the numer- teers Needed In every section of the country | volunteers are needed to help spread | the anniversary edition among work- | ers, by canvassing workers’ homes, shops with this issue. Members of the Communist Party, Young Com- munist League, of mass organizations, such as the International Workers | Order, International Labor Defense, | of trade unions and other working- class organizations are called upon to volunteer for canvassing with the special edition by reporting to the nearest Communist Party headquar- ters in their neighborhood or to the Daily Worker office in their vicinity. Drygoods Store When! 6 Union Men Are Fired NEW YORK.—A strike was called at the S. Blechman and Sons whole-| sale dry goods house, 502 Broadway | last Tuesday, when six workers were | fired for joining an independent} union, The union was formed in Op-| pelieyed that we were in the past position to a company union which| generation raising the ethical stand- the bosses tried to organize. The} ards of busi * and that “they company employs close to 150 work-| called for stringent preventative or ers. " t U The Intter ob- (Continued from Page 1) { { ROOSEVELT ASKS FOR FIRMER STRIKEBREAKING MACHINE ;some prospect of actual tariff in-| | tremendous increases in the United | When the company refused to hear) yiously was a referense to stock demands of the workers’ committee,! market abuses for which some pal-/ @ picket line was established at the! jjative probably will be proposed. shop and efforts are being made to| ‘War Buddies force out the scabs hired to replace | 7 the strikers. The strikers demand| Roosevelt berated other nations for reinstatement of the discharged | ‘he army, bu’ carefully refrained from workers and recognition of their in-|eferring to his own tremendous war dependent union, the Associated Em-| Preparations to the tune of almost Joyes of S. Blechman and Sons, ;more than a billion dollars. He ex- . REE CAS NET | plained that he was not suggesting . , |detailed legislation today and it is Strike Threat Forces |tnderstood that he will follow his | usual practice of sending special di-| Brooklyn Laundry to |rection for each task he wants Con-/} Rehire Negro Worker | tes: to perform. — Reduce Production NEW YORK. — Workers of the| ‘rhe President made these asser- hiring of a Negro worker whom the | “ons poate aura en peeren boss had fired when they threatened | {> {De fc of well-known evidence to a@ walk out. The workers had or-| « ganized a united front in the shop. | ‘ cae oe ie: legacies of a When the boss had failed to turn|usttial plan, the waste of natura the union in the shop into a com-| resources, the exploitation of consum- | pany union, he tried to destroy it by ‘ers of monopolies, the accumulation laying off workers, speeding up the | of stagnant surpluses, child labor and bothers. He! fifed lewis) a leading | the ruthless exploitation of old labor, Negro worker of the shop, believing | he encouragement of speculation that he had weakened the union suf- | With other peoples money, these were |ficiently to crush resistance, The | Consumed in the fires that they them- | threat to strike forced him to yield, | Selves kindled. The workers were led by the! | Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union. | |Racketeers Posing As |Pickets Attempt to * * Smash Union in Shop NEW YORK—Racketeers calling In other words, the famous “Roose- elt revolution” is ail over—and suc~ cessfully. All over but the shouting, t ying and the fighting. With respect to unemvloyment, the President offered only this: “I shall continue to regard it as| my duty to use whatever means may be necessary to supplement States, local and private agencies for the re- elections show that the Ellsworth branch so far elected three opposition felegates, Coverdale One, etc. Scot Runn, W. Va., so far elected two op- position delegates with the expecta- JULIET S, POYNTZ TO SPEAK TO DRESS hemselves union men formed a/ lief of suffering caused by unemploy- MAKERS | sek Be baeat ay “scbtenioa inh picket line yesterday at the Centuray | ment. With respect to this question, See eT oe ca “eon Cafeteria, 154 W. 28th St. a union|I have recognized the dangers in- w Kk on "Condit f the | . eS § Resgee tudes Workers In Burope’ tonight, | Shop controlled by the Food Work-| herent in the direct giving of relief 5 pm, at Memorial Hall, $44 W. 36th St.) ers’ Industrial Union, and demanded | and have stopped the means to pro- SOVIET UNION DELEGATE TO SPEAK BALTIMORE.—Hays Jones, Marine worker and editor of the Marine Workers Voice, will speak on “What I Saw in the Soviet Union” Friday, Jan. 5, at the Interna~ tonal Book Shop, 509 Eutaw St., 8:30 p.m. ton that all eight locals will do the The delegates in various localities | are holding joint meetings to discuss the opposition work at the convention PRIVATE QUARTERS — CAN AGAIN BE HAD AT — HOTEL NIGEDAIGET BEACON, N. ¥ PHONE: BEACON 731 ‘The Christmas and New Year's rush is over. It is now pos- sible to get private rooms, with every convenience. Specjal diets filled without additional charge. that the owner pay $25 a month in dues as the price for removing the | “pickets.” “Pickets” paraded with! |signs of @ so-called “Food Handlers | Industrial Union,” stating that the! shop did not employ union labor. ‘When questioned, the “pickets” | claimed to be members of the I. W. |W., but Secretary Muller of the I. | W. W. district office denied any con- nection with this so-called union. Muller reported that the picketer: had been expelled from the I. W. W several years ago. At 100 W. 72nd} St., the address given as the “union” | headquarters, a room for receipt of | mail and phone calls was found, but | no office is maintained there. vide not mere relief, but the oppor- tunity for useful and remunerative | work. We shall, in the process of recovery, do what we can to move as rapidly as possible from direct relief to publicly supported work and from that to the rapid restoration of pri- vate employment.” To top all this off, Roosevelt, in the pace of American Industrial History, which the world knows to have an/ unparalleled tradition of violence, Roosevelt declared: “Disorder is not an American habit. | Self-help, and self-control are the es- sence of the American tradition.” More Inflation |flation program that might result in Winter Sports are at their best—Join the Fun When union members attempted| ™ respect to the monetary policy to remove the picket line, they were | °f inflationary gold and silver buying, Cars leave daily at 10:30 A. M., from Cooperative Restaurant 2100 BRONX PARK EAST. Tel. EStabrook 8-1400 SONGS BY MOUSSORGSKY and of SOVIET RUSSIA Sergei and Marie RADAMSKY » Jan. 5th New School, 66 W. 12 St. 75 CENTS TO $1.00 z FURRIERS! ON TO THE COOPER UNION MEETING ‘The hearing on the Furriers’ Code was held last Friday at | Washington, D. C. —|the Industrial Union members was 4|5. The six arrested workers, who are |members of the Resort Hotel Work-| attacked by a well organized gang equipped with knives. .Police pro- tected the fake pickets and one of arrested. Union members will ask the support of the workers in the fur and garment centers to oust these racketeers. 6 Lakewood Workers To Face Trial Friday LAKEWOOD, N. J., Jan.3 —Six workers arrested during.a demon- stration before the Clarendon Hotel on December 23 in protest against the discharge of workers for their union activity face trial on disor- derly conduct charges on Friday, Jan. ers Union Local 117, affiliated with |the Food Workers Industrial Union, will be defended by the LL.D, |_ The trial comes up before Recorder |Isaac Berkowitz, of the Township of Lakewood, N. J. he asserted, “We are definitely in the process of recovery.” He said, “We have demanded of many citizens that they surrender certain licenses to do as they please in their business rela- | tionship, but we have asked this in ex- | change for the protection which the | State can give against exploitation by | their fellow men or by combinations lof thetr fellow men,” without, how- | ever, indicating whether he referred to the withdrawal of labor’s right to | strike, or to the compulsory coopera- | tion of business, to the detriment of le ness. ‘aditional President’s mes- sage has always been sent in written | form and has been read by a clerk. | except on occasions of great impor- tance or gravity. Woodrow Wilson nt to a joint session of Congress to deliver his war messages; Calvin | Coclidge spoke to a joint session on | the bicentennial of George Washing- ton’s birthday. | Today’s session opens the first |Yegular session of the Senators and | Representatives elected at the late ‘alleged “silent revolution” at the na- tional election poils. Ignore Worker Demands . The Industrial Union Furri 200 elected delegates. ‘The employers were represented at the hearing by delegates their associations and by the leaders of their Joint Council. ers Department was represented by | City Events | | wena iN | WOMEN NEEDLE WORKERS MEET Tonire | 4°SPite many possibilities of furious All women members of the Needle Trades |‘ and minor moves toward re- Workers Industrial Union are called to | forming the results of the new deel meeting tonight immediately after work in| to benefit various sections of the the Union auditorium, 131 W. 28th St. A| upper classes. It will be a rubber-stamp session, | Comrades Ben Gold, Potash, Winogradsky, Cherkis, Hotches, |, Hapman, Feinglass of Chicago and Gross of Philadelphia Participated in the discussion. VHAT WERE THE DEMANDS OF THE UNION? special auxillary branch of women mez-- bers will be organized. Ben Gold will be the main speaker. PROTEST DISCRIMINATION AGAINST NEGRO VETS A meeting to protest discrimination of | Of Federal unemployment and so- cial insurance, a capital levy, of de- | portation of foreign born, farm fore- | closures and other immediate «e- mands of militant labor, there will AT WERE THE PROPOSALS OF THE BOSSES? Negro veterans will be held tonight at | be little serious discussion. Of this Dm. at the IW.O, Hall, 415 Lenox Ave. I was assured recently by Henry T. A Detailed Report Will Be Given ursday, Jan. 4th, 2 p.m.—Cooper Union The N.R.A. Administration of Washington has been invited to attend this meeting. Come on time! Bring your Union book with you, WORKERS’ DEP’T, N. T. W. I. U. National Secretary J. Winogradsky, Manager | | | | | l Harold Hickerson of the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemens’ League will speak. His speech will be followed by a movie of the Scotts- boro trial. PROTEST DEPORTATION TONIGHT A mass protest mecting against the de- portation of George Nowosivsky, food worker from Niagara Falis, and the attempt to deport Sam Paul and Newman will be held tonight at 8 p.m. at the Manhattan | Lyceum, 66 B. 4th St. George Nowosivsky, Sam Paul and D. ©. Morgan will be the main speakers. Thi meeting is held under the auspices of the Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born end Ukrainian Toilers. Rainey, Speaker of the House of Representatives. | Money for War | Rather, the legislators’ attention | Will be entered on what they | pleased to call “essential legislatior | currency questions, including stronsly | fortified demands for overt inflation; | tariff, with the possibilities of au-/ thorizing Roosevelt to make interna- tional agreements in furtherance of American imperialism’s . continual clamor for new markets, and with creases; liquor legislation to insure | that Uncle Sam gets his in the form of revenue from the traffic; and the annual appropriations, The eleven appropriations meas-| ures are calmly expected to provide States’ war chest. As Speaker Rainey | put it: “The whole world is prepar- | ing for war. Nobody wants it, but everybody is preparing for it and the world always gets what it prepares for.” The Navy alone will ask for @ $516,000,000 five-year building pro- | gram—just by way of supplementing the $271,658,939 it has already re-| ceived for war preparations under, the pretext of public works. Alto-| gether the Roosevelt government has | be" -d out some $364,726,498 for abso- | lute war preparations—yet the Army | too will ask for more, and all have} excellent chances of getting it. Bankers and Lawyer: The members of this.Congress are overwhelmingly bankers, corporation lawyers, factory owners, gentlemen farmers and others who personally occupy the economic heights whose interests they defend. Nearest to a radical is Representative Zionchech of Washington, who has cooperated with the International Labor Defense and has worked closely with the un-| employed organization of his town, Seattle—but who recently informed | me he would not introduce unemploy- | ment proposals of his own. | The proposal of Senator Wagner} of New York, most famous unem- ployed “champion” is merely to pro- vide a rebate in income taxes to em- ployers who comply with State Un- employment Insurance Laws. The object of this, Wagner explains, is to encourage States to adopt unem- ployment insurance laws, but the result obviously would be to fo. »stall a real fight for real federal unem- ployment and social insurance. Inflation Bloc One-third of the Senate’ are pledged to push provision for moneti- zation of silver—another inflationary measure. Speaker Rainey has said that Roosevelt’s present silver-buying program is a mere “small bite out of the cherry,” In addition, there 1s @ bloc of outright inflationists, headed by Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, who are determined to cut the value of the American dollar in two and embark in a currency and credit in- & currency-credit “expansion,” as he calls it, of more than 80 billion, Cloak War Budget Sops to ward off real benefits to the working class may include re- storation of the veterans’ allowances which Roosevelt took away under the economy act, and restoration of some of the pay-cut administered at the same time to government employes. Demands for increases in the pub- lic works and civil works appropria- tions are likely to be forthcoming also—but without any safeguards against the siphoning of these funds into war-preparing activities. This, also, will provide an excuse for new taxes—and the sales tax, although widely denounced by democrats and once hurled back into Herbert Hoo- ver’s face by Congress, is not yet out of the picture. Plenty of talk about the N. R. A. will be unleashed but fundamental changes are not on the horizon, Returning legislators have candidly explained to me that the vast major- ity are more afraid of the Roosevelt political machine in next fall's con- gressional election than they are of the local campaign—contributors back home. And they have no program of their own to propose as a substi- tute for Roosevelt’s. They realize, further, that the N.R.A. has bene- fitted certain sections of business. Several have admitted to me that this was at the expense of labor-— and have explained frankly that they hope to get away from Washington before anything happens to compel realistic action. This, party leaders hope, may bring adjournment in March. Section 1 Members in "mportant Meet Tonite NEW YORK.—A special important mobilization of all Party members ef Section 1 in connection with concentration on the waterfront will take place tonight at 7 p.m. at the section headquarters, 96 Ave- nue C. All Party and Y.C,.L. members of Section 1, and all workers of mass organizations ond local trade unions in Section 1 territory are to come Ask Reports on War Planes Sent to China NEW YORK—The Marine Workers Industrial Union requests all Brooklyn longshoremen to in- form the union at its headquar- ters, 140 Broad St. of any cargo of airplanes or airplane parts be- ing sent to China. Arrest 38 Pickets In Dress Strike, NEW YORK —Thirty-eight pickets were arested at a picketing demon- stration unparalleled for its enthusi- asm and militancy, held yesterday by the dress strikers of the Maiman and Sanger dress shop. The decision to intensify picketing around the shop was made follow- ing the refusal of the N. R. A. to act on the demands of a strikers’ committee. The committee demanded that the employer now producing goods under sub-standard conditions in violation of the code, be forced to reinstate all strikers to their jobs. The action of the N. R, A. officials was so brazen that there was no doubt left in the minds of the work- ers that the N. R. A, works hand in hand with the bosses and the A. F, of L. officials to put over wage cuts and throw militant workers out of their jobs. Thousands of dressmakers going to work stopped to express their solidar- ity with the strikers. Led by Mary Nigrelli, shop chair- lady, the arrested pickets faced the court in the same militant manner and defended themselves. The first batch of 20 pickets were dismissed by Judge Levy at the Special Ses- sions Court. As we go to press there is no report available regarding the disposition of the cases of the other 18 workers, Pittsburgh Plan Unemployed Fight (Continued fram Page 1} County called the Unemployed Leagues by McKinney and other fol- lowers of Muste. He branded this as an act of further splitting the ranks of the unemployed, and de- clared that his local would not go along on this proposition. Other rank: and file delegates from the Unemployed Citizens League from Swissvale, Woods Run, etc., de~ clared the same. A worker from Swissvale sharply condemned Mc- Kinney’s attitude and declared that the unemployed now in the Unem- ployed Citizens League of Swissvale had unanimously decided against a new organization and voted as a body to affiliate with the Unem- ployed Councils, This statement was cheered to an echo. It is of passing interest to note that although McKinney was offi- cially and personally notified about this conference, he failed to attend. He came in for a few moments, looked around and left. We are firmly of the opinion that the Muste- ites’ latest step in refusing to live up to their unity pledges made be- fore hundreds of delegates and thou- sands of unemployed in Allegheny County will not go unch:!lenged. These very sharply called to the attention of all the delegates present. The fact that the rank and file workers of the Unemployed Citizens League working with McKinney saw fit to condemn this open sabotage of the united front is the best indication that words and promises mean noth- ing if action and decds do not follow the pledges of these people. The formation of another organization of unemployed in Allegheny County un- der McKinney’s and Muste's leader- ship will not have such easy sailing. The question of the C. W. A. pro- gram was dealt with in detail, and &@ special resolution adopted on that. Organization of the C. W. A. workers has already been undertaken in sey- eral localities. Negro workers played @ leading role in the conference, and there was a good representation of youth delegates and women. Already meetings have taken place to popularize the Washington, D. C., Convention of Feb. 3, and in the course of the next few weeks dozens more meetings will be held to popu- lJarize and endorse the Washington, D. C., Convention. Quotas were set | for delegates to the National Con- vention. Roard of Estimate Provides No Relief For 700.000 Jobless (Continued from Page 1) play for publicity by pleading for the undernourished school children, but when a vote was called for on the entire bill as submitted, Fiorello La | Guardia voted for the stoppage of the lunches to school children by vot- ing for the entire bill. Speaking in Brocklyn on Oct. 18, before election, LaGuardia said, “I pledge myself that the unemployed in this city, both married and single, will get adequate relief according to sclentific and humane standards.” Yet when the matter of relief came up at yesterday's hearing before the Board of Estimate, LaGuardia re- mained silent about relief for single persons, Hedson was forced to admit that new applications for home relief were coming in at the rate of 1,000 a day. Instead of providing new hospitals for the sick, the board passed a mo- tion by Hedson that $35,000 be ap- propriated for “Medical Service.” Hodson admitted that “hospital facilities were inadequate to care for those on Home Relief who became sick.” In place of hospitals for these he proposed that the Board appro- priate $35,000 for the providing of nurses and doctors to visit the sick in their homes. City Comptroller said that the city had only $25,000,000 available for to the headquarters tonight at 7 p. m. or Friday morning at 7 a, m. at 410 West 19th Street. home and work relief and that this amount would have to last seven promises and pledges were | {" ih Ea EPOR : SI GERSON Red Cauliflower LLIGENCE of a higher order among professiohtz: pugilists, it is freely conceded, is as rare as the proverbial molar in the bill of the equally proverbial barnyard fowl. literary allusion brings down as much suspicion upon one as & belch in a Yom Kippur synagogue. A When one reads of Gene Tunney quoting Shakespeare and delivering lectures on com- parative literature at Yale, one can dismiss it immediately as partaking of the same char-9—————————————— acter as hooey, publicity stuff, | the ancient hognus bolognus. All the more pleasantly surprised, | therefore, was your humble corres- pondent when he read a letter from Sammy Koynat, a young Philadel- phia boxer. AMMY is a mitt-stinger who evi- dently uses his head for something else besides blocking left jabs. While he can take it, he is by no means punch-drunk. And Sammy doesn’t intend to be or2 of the Battered Boys Brigade who leap out of their chairs leading with a left every time they hear a gong. Sammy is a worker, a meat-cutter by trade, and a graduate of Northeast High School of Philadelphia. He boxed as an amateur for a long time, copping the Philly lichtweight title among the so-called simonpures. Later, work being scarce, Sam turned pro, hopine to make out enough to live on and bring back a few dollars to Ma. Kind of an old story, but there’s a new wrinkle in it, Sam began to look around. He felt himself shamelessly exploited as a prelim boy, fighting for a paltry few bucks, jumping in on last-minute substitutions in poor condition and being denied fights upon refusal to “go into the tank,” as the lads at the Garden so quaintly phrase it. Sam began to organize a boxer’s equity association, particularly to aid the preliminary fighters, the pork- and-beaners, the lads to whom a weekly fight means stew and coffee for the next seven days. So far did his exploration of the social implica- tions of the fight racket extend that Sammy wound up by becoming a Communist, yes sir, a bona fide, 100 per cent Red. e 'Y this we don’t mean to condemn the rest of the leather-pushing profession. There are many workers who have turned to the business as a last resort. A man must live, they say, and a ten-spot for a preliminary fight is better than nothing at all. In this connection, the case of Vin- cent Babin comes to mind, Vincent was a big, slow-moving Jugo-Slavian fellow, bushy-browed and possessed of a pair of behemoth arms. He worked as a sparring partner for Max Schmeling and got canned when he pasted Der Max in the kisser too hard when the cameramen were around. Vincent was quite active in the revolutionary movement and was finally deported from the country. He’s now in the Soviet Union and the last we heard of him he was the boxing instructor of the Amo plant in Moscow, There was Bobby Garcia, a leading CORRECTION ~The captions on the photographs in the Daily Worker of Jan. 3, front page, contain errors, Juliet S. Poyntz, who went to the city hall with a committee of unemployed women to demand relief, is representative of the Trade Union Unity Council, as is Sam Nesdn. DOWNTOWN BERMAE’S Cafeteria and Bar 809 BROADWAY ANDWICH SOLS “oxen 101 University Place featherweight about a decade back. Bebby fought his heart out, was. punched until he reached a menta’ state that could be considered only as border-line and then discarded hy« the lads that run the boxing racket. Bobby got a job in the Bethlehem steel mill at Sparrows Point, near Baltimore, and joined the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Whether he’s still there, we don’t know, but he did join up at the time, Others there are, too, but very few with the perception that Comrade shows. Sammy WERE solng to print all of Samy letter tomerrow, but we can’t re® frain from quoting some of the com- Plaints of the Philly pro: “Here’s something” — writes Come rade Kovnat—‘“that sounds like a joke, but it’s not one if you have to pay. The Athletic Commission of Pennsylvania is self-supporting, That ts, it must pay for itself. That's why, chort six months avo. they raised all boxing licenses as follows: “Boxer—from $5 to $10. “Second—from $5 to $10. “Manager—from $25 to $40. “Last month they started some- thing new. Every time a fighter fights he, of course, gets a doctor’s physical examination, Last month they started this! From now on, as part of the physical exam, the fighter must un~ ‘ergo a urine test. This costs the fighter $1 every time he fights, be. sides other expenses. Nice, huh?” N.Y. Basketeers Meet To Organize Tourney NEW YORK. — Organizing the schedule for the first few weeks of the tournament, the Labor Sports Union basketball league of this city fs now getting under way. A meeting of all managers of teams will take place tonight at new headquarters of the Labor Union, 114 W. 14th St. The will open at 8 P. M. The district office of the 1 Snorts Union hes invited all am: meeting teams to attend this is paying particular attention narticipation of trade union ba ball teams. Winners of the local tourna: will play in the National 7 Sports Union basketball” ir ship later in the season. DR. JULIUS LITTINSK 107 BRISTOL STREE: Bet. Pitkim and Sutter Aves., Brook PRONE: DICKENS 2-3018 Office Hours: 8-18 AM., 1-2, 6-8 P. — DR. HARRY STOLPEh Optician hey 73 Chrystie Street Cor. Hester St., N.Y.C. Phone: Dry Dock 4-4522 WILLIAM BELL. OFFICIAL Optometrist 7 \ 106 EAST 14TH STREET Near Fourth N.Y. C. t Phone: Tompkins Square 6-8237 cme (Brooklyn) (Just Around the Sorner) Telephone Tompkins Sqrare 6-9780-9781 WORKERS--EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE Near Hopkinson Ave. Brooklyn, N. ¥. _Whiismsburgh Comrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria — 94 Graham Ave. Cor, Siegel St, EVERY BITE A DELIGHT Tompk'ns Square 6-9132 Caucasian Restaurant “KAVKAZ” Rossian and Oriental Kitehen BANQUETS AND PARTIES 33% East 14th Street Now York City -: Annual Conecrt and Dance :-: for “Novy-Mir” & “Tribuna Rabotnica” PROGRAM: The well-known Soviet Film “PATRIOTS” and Soviet Newsreal “A DAY IN MOSCOW,” also Russian-Ukrainian Balalaike Orchestra of Branch 47 RNMAS SIMA GISENKINA—Violin Soloist (will give a classical program) RED DANCERS. DANCING TILL DAWN JANUARY 6th, 1934—At 8 P. M. MANHATTAN LYCEUM—66 E. FOURTH ST. Admission 40c N.Y Workers Cooperative Colon _ 2700-2500 BRONX PARK EAST has now REDUCED THE RENT — CULTURAL (OPPOSITE BRONX PARK) ON THE APARTMENTS AND SINGLE ROOMS ACTIVITIES Kindergarden; Mlasees for Adults and Children; Library; Gymnasium; Clubs and Other Privileges a Take Advantage of the Opportunity. ‘Office open daily Friday & Saturday Sunday e train to White at Allerton Avenue months.