The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1934, Page 2

ge Two D ATLY WORKER, Fight on New A.F.L. Boss Attacks at Fur Union Meet A. F. of L. Locals 2, 3 Join United Front NRA Protest NEW YORK- Pledge Fight o Jamming aisles and all available floor space, 5,000 Workers crowded into Cooper Un yesterday afternoon in a demonstration of solidarity and port of the demands made recent dele e N hearings in ime, so1 losed doo: aking place facturers an Council offi conspiracy for forcing the fur ork ets into the A. F. of L old ne, every fur worker up in a spontaneous outburst cheering in demonstration of their and support of the leader the union. bosses and the Joint Cc pel us to join the A. F On the platform, the fur workers Union sat ted di fur dressers and d the A. F. of L. F and 3, of Union, Max Ringel and Steve Lizardi The announcement of pres- ence by Irving Potash, ary the union, drew a storm of cheers, shouts and applause, demonstrating the desire for unity of the fur work- ers of the Industrial U with the workers of the A. F In a witty Potash traced the experiences of Industrial Union with the N. R. A He showed how the si power of the fur s finally compelled the N. R. ecognize that Industrial was the on workers. He Howard of the thority, who ¥ at the hearir to prevent floor at p! time the n the ex- nternational Adolph Cari ir resolution a5 unanimously udopted endorsing the demands of the jon, declaring the inion will not recognize any agree- ment effected between the manufac- Ts and the A. F. of L. Joint il, and pledging a struggle for to join a union of their ngs, their of own choice, as well as for their de- Rank and File Mine) Candidate Wins in = PMA Local Election (Continued from Page 1} Clothing former Musteite and supporter reeted Potash’s | , e Pi -Keck machine, was report 0! ant speech at elected, receiving 1,131 votes. The he hearin mrade Gold threw | third candidate, William Hendren, | a bombsh their midst. He! received 243 votes. old them we intend to fight for our! por Vice-President, Andrew Steed, demands and against any attempt to keep us he union of our own member of the Socialist Party who| was a rank and file candidate, re-| ceived 639 votes. The reactionary} te, Dan McGill received 1,628 Court To Resume Williams’ Case Up Before Greenspan at Bolst St. Today NEW YORK—Jane and Michael| follows: William Frame, receiving 946 | Williams, arrested unemployed work-| votes; Stanley Mayers | ers, whose case. came up Dec, 27,| Adam Chura, 924 vo! Joe Fessero, | where decisions were reserved, will be| 1,002 votes. Four out of the five) resumed today at the 12th Magis-| members elected are candidates of trates Court, 455 W. 15lst St., at 12|the rank and file slate. Joe Smokey, noon. | the fifth candidate of the rank and The rank and file candidate for) recording secretary, Howard Skeldon received 343 yotes. William Donald-| son, rank and file candidate for| financial secretary, received 552 votes. | Rank and file candidates for a very imprtant committee, known as the| trial committes, have been elected as| mined workers, Judge Greenspan, | ceived 900 votes. who presided, refused to hand down sentence for fear of the workers dem- onstrating. He adopted the subter- DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY | fuge of reserving decision and chang-| sf | ing the location of the court, so that 107 BRISTOL STREET | he may have an empty court when| be passes sentence The joint committee of 21 organiza- tions defending the Williamses have issued a call to all workers to pack | - the court room again and prevent the railroading of these innocent | workers to jail PRONE: DICKENS 23-3018 Office Hours: 8-10 AM., 1-8, 6-8 PM. COHENS’S 111 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City Wholes:le Opticians EYES ®XAMINED By Dr. A.Weinstein Tel. ORchard 4-4520 Optometrist Factory on Premises Allerton Avenue Comrades! The Modern Bakery Was first to settle Bread Strike and first to sign with the FOOD WORKERS’ INDUSTRIAL UNION 691 ALLERTON AVE. CARL BRODSKY RICKOFF’S PHARMACY 116 Second Ave., cor. 7th St. Prescriptions Filled by Registered Pharmacists All Kinds Of | DR YDOCK 4-7755 INSURANCE |= 799 Broadway N. Y.-C. 1. J, MORRIS, Inc. STuyvesant 9-5557 |] GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 39@ SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN : Dickens 3-1273—4—S 5380 1 Workers Order Tobseco Workers Industrial Union Shop EL TROPICO | Manufacturers of 100% HAVANA CIGARS 320 7th Ave., Cor. 28th St. Tompkins Sq. 6-0748. Radical Rendexvoust TOM’S BOK TRADE A SPECIALTY |] ITALIAN RESTAURANT ifii | 314 EAST 12th ST. oo __| Swbstantini Meals at Low Prices "reasonable; 347 E. 14th street, N.C. Fe ‘or Honest Insurance Advice CONSULT B. WARANTZ ROOM WANTED; single; male; downtown, Write 3. N. in care of Daily Worker. | PERSON who exchanged hat and! "Goat. New Year's at 38 Marcy Place. Call | General Insurance Broker ee 4h 1 A. 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EStabrook 8-1400 | trial orgar 1,055 votes; | 5' | Tn a court room filled with deter-|file slate who was not elected te-| | | Bet, Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Sroekiyn |) Draft Report For Reorganization Of Soviet Party Work from Page 1) crete leadership, from lutions to operative dec on the study and k technical detail with the lower and managemen the personal, individual responsibility of direc- tors and officials for the work en trusted to them and their personal, systematic and careful check-up on the carrying out of these new tasks. @ also mus of s pe still further de- as well ation of the Party member- orking masses and llective farm The report demands the replace- ment, in the work of the Party, of an apparatus based on functions by one closely c ected with and paral- leling industrial organization, one more elastic, more capable of strengthening the Party's influence on produ Party Departments The leading organs of the Party are to have the following typical de- partment First agriculture; second, industr third, transportation; fourth, planning and trade; political and administrative; sixtl leading Party organs; seventh, cul- ture and Leninist propaganda. The Party leadership is to be} brought nearer the concrete fields of Soviet and industrial work. This en-| sures a better division of forces, the quicker carrying out of Party direc-| an improvement in concrete} leadership, and an increase in per- sonal responsibi 5 Transferring En; eers to the Field The report mi a point of liquid- ing the functional system of the viet and industrial apparatus, sub- tituting production and_ territorial vrinciples. It provides for reductions in office staffs of at least 10 to 15 per cent, the liquidation of collegiums in all People’s Commissariats and indus- , the transfer of engineers and technival forces from offices di- ly into industrial plants, and drawing all the best engineers and technicians, without regard to Party membership, into the leading posi- tions in industry. M er, all offi- cials and directors in industry, etc., must prove their technical qualifica- tions for their posts without regard to Party membership. Party Members Personally Responsible Every Party member is to be re- sronsible for carrying out the Party, Soviet or industrial work entrusted to him. The role of the Party as the vanguard of the working class obli- gates every Party member to fully quali ‘mself to excel in his work, i as an example of one who and has first-class knowl-| edge of his work. The Party card is not a sign or privilege, but first of; all, one of duty. | Party Members as Models The revised Party by-laws state that as a member of the Party in power in the Soviet State “the Patty member is obliged to be an example of firm workers’ discipline, to master | his work, and to raise his degree of | skill continually,” | The by-laws outline a plan by| which the Party can be strengthened | |by the organization of a group of sympathizers drawn from the ranks {of the best and most active workers jand peasants. It is planned to in- |volve these sympathizers in Party work and to draw them closer to the |Party. The enrolled sympathizer, re- | garded as schooling himself for Par- | ty membership, must carry out the | Party’s directives. | Admission to the Party, suspended | during the period of Party cleansing, will be resumed in the middle of 1934 | throughout the Soviet Union, when) the Party cleansing ends, | New Soviet Control Committee To improve the check-up of work done and the inspection of all Soviet offices a Soviet Control Committee is | to be elected by the Party Congress, to | work under the direction of the Coun- | cil of People’s Commissars. This Con- | trol Committee is to take the place of the existing Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection, the abolition of which is | proposed. | The Pariy Congress is to replace | the Central Control Commission by} |the Party Control Committee, to be| j elected at the Congress and directed | |by one of the Party secretaries. Its| | duties will comprise the strengthen- | ing of inspection and control of the) | carrying out of Party decisions and} | the reinforcing of Party discipline, Merciless Mass Criticism The report pays special attention | to the work of the Soviets and the) trade unions for the improvement of the governmental and industrial ap-| paratus. It provides for the organiza- tion of mass control of the activities of the organs of management and the destruction of bureaucratic meth- ods by means of merciless mass criti- eism, Koganovitch’s report also provides for the wide extension of industrial} and villace delegate groups in the! | Soviet sections, that is, groups at- tacked to and doing the work of the Soviets, drawing the delegate groups of working and peasant women into the work of the district Soviet groups, especially in the larze cities. It pro- poses that the trade unions be given) ell the powers of the lower units of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspec- tion in industry, and the creating of similar control organs in the con- sumers’ co-operatives. It also pro-}| vides for further participation by the industrial workers in the affairs of | governme: tal institutions, | MINOR TO SPEAK AT ANTI-WAR SYM-| POSIUM An Anti-War Symposium wilt be held at| the Tremont Prog. Ciub tonight at 8:30) pm. Rohert Minor, A. J. Muste and Rev, 28-page tenth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, with its wide range fifth | Of news, stories and special features h,| Which cover the many sided aspects *| of the class struggle, affords an un- usual opportunity masses of workers with the message | of revolution, numerous organized la-| | bor groups have rushed orders for the anniversary issue for sale and distri- bution among union workers. | taking 5,000 copies. This union re- will reach workers in the anthracite bakery GUTTERS OF NEW YORK By del ree “Workers’ wages now buy 16 per cent less than in April.” —News Item. Transition is the word! From our pockets to theirs! Trade Unions to Use 28 Page| “Daily’ for Rousing Workers NEW YORK. — Realizing that the for rousing new! The National Miners Union alone is ports that every one of these copies and other mining areas. Orders and greetings for the anni- versary edition which comes off the press tomorrow have also been re- ceived from organized food workers, and confectionery workers, textile workers, butchers, needle trades workers, marine unions and others. Various sections of the Communist | Party, branches of mass organiza- tions, will canvass industrial plants with the Jan. 6 number, assuring that a considerable number of the 250,000 copies which will be printed will reach workers belonging to unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor as well as with militant trade unions. While all working class organiza- tions have worked intensively to mo- bilize forces for a broad mass sale of this historical issue, there is still a@ sharp need for additional volun- teers to canvass with this edition. All members of the Communist Party, Young Communist League, of trade unions, mass organizations, in- cluding the International Workers Order, the International Labor De- fense, of workers’ clubs and cultural groups are urged to volunteer at the nearest Communist Party headquar- ters or Daily Worker office in their vicinities for this important revolu- tionary work. Volunteers are also needed in the various sections to insert the 16-page supplement in the regular section of | the edition. Rally your friends and fellow work- ers to volunteer with you. Deliver a forceful blow in the struggle against capitalism by doing your revolution- ary part to spread the 28-page, his- tory-making edition of the “Daily” among your fellow workers, ROOSEVELT ASKS FOR TEN BILLION DOLLAR WALL STREET WAR BUDGET (Continued from Page 1) aircraft industry, Roosevelt recom- mends that Congress increase its sub- sidy from $13,750,000 to $14,250,000, an increase of $500,000. The N.R.A. code proposed by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America calls for a wage of $15 a week and 40 cents an hour, an open shop, six days work a week and staggered shifts. Unless the highly skilled workers of this industry are given this starvation wagy, the aviation corporation mag- nates told the government, “this country’s progress in peace” will be “slowed up” and every one of its citi- zens “endangered in war.” The President's War Department budget estimates for 1935 call for a total of $294,235,959, as compared with $279,613,242 for 1934, a net increase of $14,622,717 as compared with 1934 —all of which is exclusive of the near billion poured into war preparations by the P.W.A, ‘The Chemical Warfare Service, un-; der the President's estimates, gets) $838,043, an increase of $89,665, for more gas masks and chemical mor- | tars. The Ordnance Department gets $7,662,974, an increase of $1,122,- 810, principally for the procurement of new ammunition and the preser- vation and rehabilitation of old am- munition, The air corps, which received $7,- 500,000 from the P.W.A., gets $21,450,- 253, an increase of $9,850,580. The national guard, the chief military strikebreaking weapon of the admin- Department get $3,986,859, an increase of $356,685, ‘The organized reserves of the War Department get $3,986,959, an increase of $3,184,068. The reserve officers training corps gets $3,117,601, an in- crease of $487,701. To Crush trikes In the light of the mounting strike wave, it is especially significant that Roosevelt proposed to increase the paid drills of the National Guard from 24 to 36 armory drills “at full attendance.” He also wishes to pro- vide for “holding annual encamp- ments” of the guard. The Navy Department budget pro- vides for a grand total of $288,30,725, However, a person gorged with food has little capacity for more—imme- diately. Despite this nominal de- crease, nearly decrease, nearly every war-making division of the navy shows an increase. In addition, de- spite the $238,000,000 recently given to the Navy Department and the shipbuilding corporations under P. W. A., the 1935 presidential budget and also that such reserves be given additional aviation trairing. For 1934 the naval reserve is allotted funds for 24 drills, while the Marine Corps reserve so far has not been allowed drill pay. This allows an increase of approximately $600,000. The 1935 estimate for the veteran’s administration shows a decrease of $9,133,029—from $630,383,120 for 1934 to $521.250,091. The sum estimated for 1935 for administration, medical, hospital and domiciliary services is cut $914,707 while pensions is cut $3,476,799, Miserly Welfare Aid ‘The children’s bureau of the De- partment of Labor is granted an in- crease of $12,509, the women’s bureau an increase of $5,210. “Human happiness” is one of the things to which.‘ we can confidently look forward” if this budget is ap- proved, Roosevelt writes to Congress. Nazis Cooking Up Treason Tr'al for 4 Communist Leaders (Continued from Page 1) to the call for action from the In- ternational Committee in Paris. ‘This meeting will organize the anti- fascist forces in New York to in- tensify the campaign for the imme- diate release of Torgler, Dimitroff, ‘Taneff and Popoff. Among the speakers who have al- ready declared their desire to make this campaign of the broadest char- acter in this important movement to wrest the four defendants from the Nazi murderers are Annie E. Gray, Director of the Women’s Peace Society and Treasurer of the Amer- ican League Against War and Fas- cism; William L. Patterson, National Secretary of the International Labor Defense; A. J. Muste, chairman of the Conference for Progressive Labor | Action; Robert Minor of the Central Committee of the Communist Party; }a nominal decrease of $5,996,918, | Pauline Rogers of the New York| Committee; Alfred Wagenknecht of the National Committee and others. In order to meet the great demand for funds for special safety measures in connection with the release of the four defendants and in general for rellef and defense of German victims, the N. ¥Y. Committee announces mass collections and Tag Day for Jan, 27 calls for an additional $53,800,000 “to carry forward the program at a nor- mal rate of progress.” Under the subhead, “Economy Provisions,” Roosevelt slips in a joker amounting to over $23,500,000. He says: “The budget estimates are predicated on certain existing economy provisions being continued through the fiscal year 1935, failing which an additional amount of over $23,500,000 will be re- quired,” Increase Navy The enlisted force of the navy un- der these budget estimates, is to be increased from 79,700 to 82,500 men by the end of the fiscal year 1935. “This involves an additional sum of $2,000,000,” the president says. He continues: “It is proposed that the naval and marine corps reserves be R, Land will speak given pay for 36 drills during 1935. and 28. EW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1934 ‘Move for New Trials for 2 of (Continued from Page 1) Jawyers were in danger of losing their | lives in Decatur and that it was im- | possible to obtain any semblance of a | fair trial in Morgan County, but also | that this was proved in the course of | the trial and especially in the selec- | tion of trial jurors. | | Many on Jury Venire Admitted | Prejudice | In the Patterson case, it is pointed out, 25 prospective jurors out of one hundred were honest enough to ad- | | mit they had fixed opinions of his | guilt—set by the lynch-campaign of | the Alabama white ruling-class press, é by the lynch-incitement of ex- | Senator Heflin, Knight and others—| and in the Norris trial, 35 out of a | hundred. | In spite of this Jarge proportion of | | admitted fixed opinions, the I. L. D. | charged this would have been even | larger had the jurors not hidden their | Opinions for the purpose of getting | jon the jury in the first place, and had not Callahan made an illegal | definition of fixed opinion and | brought pressure on the prospective | | jurors not to admit such opinion. | Judge Maneuvered To Help | Prejudiced Jurors | So brazen was this maneuver of | Callahan's, it was stated, that one juror, Humphries, who actually ad- mitted fixed opinion in the Patterson trial, denied it and actually served | on the Norris jury after pressure had been brought upon him by the judge. Callahan's definition of fixed opinion put the burden of proof of innocnce upon the defendant, the motion- papers, supported by the record, show. This is in direct violation of the sup- posed principle of law that the bur- den of proof is upon the prosecution, and if the prosecution cannot prove its case, the defendant must be ac- quitted whether any defense or denial is entered or not. Verdict in Contradiction of ence The general prejudical attitude of Callahan, who acted as prosecutor in the lynch trial, is cited as a revers- ible point, and specific charges of prejudice are made against him be- sides. It is shown that beyond this Cal- Jahan deliberately excluded impor- tant testimony, both in cross-exam- inations of witnesses, and in several cases the entire testimony of other witmesses, Callahan Barred Medical Testimony Callahan refused to permit any testimony as to the physical condi- tion of Victoria Price, the part of the medical testimony which proved the Scottsboro boys could not have r-ved her, and yet in his charge to the | referred to, the one fact he did ullow to be presented as proof of rape. In general, the I-L.D. charges—and backs up the charge with specific proof from the record, Callahan made every effort to exclude all proof of innocence of the boys, acting in a manner almost unexamp'ed for high-handed crookedness and brazen prejudice, in the history of capital- ist frame-ups in America. In the Patterson case, the exclusion of the testimony of Ruby Bates and of Dr. E. E. Reisman of Chattanooga, a gynecologist, were in themselves re- vercible errors due to prejudice. Judge, Prosecutor, Appealed to Prejudice Other grounds on which reversal is demanded in the Patterson case are the raising of the color issue by Judge Callahan in his charge to the jury, to passion and prejudice made by and the direct and admitted appeal Attorney-General Thomas E. Knight in his summation. At the same time that the motions for new trials were filed, the Inter- national Labor Defense, through its national office in New York, and the nineteen district offices in every sec- tion of the country, issued a call for a flood of protests and protest actions throughout the United States, to de- mand reversal of the lynch-verdicts of Decatur. Protests should be ad- dressed to Judge W. W. Callahan. at Deéatur, Alabama, demanding im- mediate, unconditional freedom, for the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys. NOW READY at svecial prices Dec. 6th—Dec. 13th These offers COMING STRUGGLE FOR POWER (33.00) now $2.25 CHINESE DESTINIES (CHINA TODAY) ($3.00) now $2.25 COMPLETE TITTLE LENIN LIBRARY ($3.40) now $2.40 FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIANITY ($2.50) now $1.85 § OF LENIN-KRUPSKAYA 2 vol. ($1.50) now $1.10 CAVALRY TO FLUSHING—DARLBERG ($2.50) now 75¢ SUMMER I6 ENDED—J. HERMAN ($2.00) now 75 | get them now at all WORKERS BOOK SHOPS % E. 13th Street 499 Prospect Ave. Bronx 62 Herzl Street, Brooklyn (Coop. Barber Shop) Dea] Tonight AE AT NN TT I Sergei and Marie RADAMSKY WHO have recently returned from their sixth concert tour of the Soviet Union, will give a recital tonight at the New School of Social Re- search. Their repertoire includes the nursery songs and others of Moussorgsky, revolutionary songs by modern Soviet composers, and a variety of folk songs of the minor nationalities which they collected during their extensive travels, Scottsboro Boys GP OR SI GERSON A Code for Boxers AMMY KOVNAT is one of those warm-souled fellows whe never should have been a boxer. He hasn’t the killer instinct. | Without knowing his entire record offhand, we can still sum- | mon up the courage to say that Sam ¢an’t measure off a tot- tering opponent, draw back his right and clout the pulpy-faced bitterness that only self-re- proach can inspire. But Sammy goes farther; he analyzes the stem that brings this situation about and draws the correct social conclusions. From the Marquis of Queensberry to Marx and Lenin may be a prodigious leap, but then again Sammy seems to be an unusual boy. You read his letter and see if you don’t agree with me: ei eer “TEAR Comrade Gerson: “You wrote in your article of Dec. 29 that you would like to have some material from workers through- out the country, so here goes for many things you probably never heard about but are interesting to Philadelphia sport fans. “T have been lighting profes- - sionally for the jammy Kovnat past few years. . ‘icy Notwithstanding the fact that I beat the best amateur fighters in Phila- delphia, and some good professional fighters throughout the country, I have only had three professional fights in Philly, two of them 24- hour substitutions, when they were really hard up and in desperate meed of a boxer to fight immedi- ately. Of these three times I fought in Philadelphia, I’ve been suspended twice, both times due to the fact that I refused to allow myself to be fleeced by the chiseling promot- ers im this city. By going to the commirsion and raising plenty of hell I succeeded im getting myself reinstated both times, but there is * quict understanding among the promoters in and around Phiiadel- phia that Sammy Kovnat is not to be given any work. ee eh | only thing the smart boys around this town did was to keep on promising me fights. Meanwhile they had me training and working as @ sparring partner for the best fight- ers in the world for as little as they could get away with. Occasionally they would come around and take me aside. ‘Got a shot for you down at the shore, but they don’t want this boy beat. Just lose a decision, it's pretty good money.’ They knew from previous experience that they couldn’t get me to dive. When I refused they just went away and got someone else at a cheaper price. Plenty of fight- ers are hard up nowadays and do that sort of thing cheaply enough for them. And when I complained of lack of fights they informed me that I had just turned down a shot. “Well, to cut a long story short, I finally jumped this chiselers’ para- dise and went out of town, where things went fine until Wall Street's office boy, F. D. Roosevelt, came into office. Two days after he came in, if you remember, he closed every bank in the country and that put an end to boxing, at least where I was. “When I got back to Philly things were worse than ever be‘ore. Things had tightened up, and they had all the divers they wanted, so they didn’t bother much with offers to me. I only got about three or four the first week I was home. ke Se “ABOUT three months ago I got the idea of organizing the box- ers of Philadelphia into an ecuity, similar to that the actors have, Such an organization would serve to clean the racket of all the parasites and chiselers. I immediately drew up a code of fair competition for boxers (one that would insure the boxers getting something decent) and went around to all the profes- sional boxers to sign it. I got prac: tically all the fighters to sign it. had no trouble for, you must re- one’s chin. If he does—and every fighter has to make some of these knockouts some time—he must hate himself with that member, that it is not the fighter who is inherently crooked, it’s crooked managers and promoters and especialiy economic ciremm- | stamces that force him to he | crooked. | “Incidentally, previous to that, I had gone around to Frank Weiner, former | Boxing Commissioner of Pennsyl- vania, to get his help. This Frank Wiener is a shifty-eyed parasite who | Works im the stock exchange. He can’t look a dog straight in the eye. | If you ever read the Philly papers | you'll recollect that Wiener is the chiseler that helped promote the | Chocolaie-Klick scrap for the United | Campaign. Wiener right now is do- ing a lot of talking about how the boxing and wrestling game should be | cleaned up, but it’s a well-known fact | in the racket that boxing in Philly was even crookeder—if that was pos- | sible—in his regime than today. Wie- |mer was the commissioner when |Philly had the Godfrey - Carnera | fiasco, Wiener know how that fight was going to end 24 hours before it occurred. Also, the Oarnera-Ace Clark fight. We all knew how that was going to end even before the contracts were signed. And then Wiener, on the day of the fight, when they weighed in, had the guts to tell Ace to do his best and that if he won, he would make Clark world’s champ. “Well, Wiener informed me, if I could get the fighters together, and organize them, he would help me. I told him he was a joke. If I could get them together I wouldn't need him or anybody else to help me do the rest. er we “AFCER I had the names of the fighters I brought them around to Robert Nelson, colored chairman of the Athletic Commission. Nelson. is a favorite of Pinchot because he ers. ‘Splendid idea,’ he can you get the board together to vote on it?’ I asked. “‘Well, the board has no definite time when it meets, but I'll send you a card as soon as we have = meeting, then you come per~ n sonally and propose it to the You have my approval.’ “Eight weeks have gone by haven’t heard from the board: you think any of these sport ers who are contivucliy tal about cleaning up boxing write an article to speed board and force them to meet? you de, you're crazy. They di even want to talk to me. They away from me. ak 8 OFS ‘ve you think that the liberal ai~ torney, Benjamin Golder, who is continually screaming, ‘Down with Pinchot!’ will as much as budge a finger? He will like hell. Do you think that the former commissioner of the N. ¥. State Athletic Commissioner and now Postmaster General, his Honor James Farley, who in his time was another one of those who yelled "The boxing game must be cleaned up!’ is willing to help? Like hell he is. All these so-called big shots wash their hands of it. Got their hands tied, they say. And they really have, There isn’t one who hasn't some time or other done a dishonest thing. “At present, one copy of the code rests in the commissioner's office, probably in the waste paper basket, and one rests in my pocket, and the fighters in this town are still get- ting paid in the dark. “Comradely, “Sammy Kovnat.” i oe § iicelzdyt Register Now for Winter Term Harlem Workers School 206 WEST 135th STREET, Room 212-B CLASSES IN Principles of Class Struggle (Conducted im English and Spanish) Current Problems Youth Problems Organization Principles Blementary and ‘n- termediate English Russian Spanish CLASSES FILL UP QUICKLY GET NEW DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLET ‘Telephone: Audubon 3-5055 TONIGHT! . A. MARKOFF, Director, TONIGHT! General Assembly of Winter Term Students| ~ WORKERS SCHOOL 35 EAST 12TH STREET, 2ND FLOOR, 8 P. M. Will Be the Main Speaker ADMISSION FREE DANCING JANUARY 6th, | - Annual Concert and Dance for “Novy-Mir” & “Tribuna Rabotnica” PROGRAM: The well-known Soviet Film “PATRIOTS” and Soviet Newsreal “A DAY IN MOSCOW,” also gian-Ukrainian Balalaika Orchestra of Branch 47 SIMA GISENKINA—Violin Soloist (will give » ical program) RED DANCERS. MANHATTAN LYCEUM—66 E. FOURTH ST. N. Y. Admission 4¢< TILL DAWN 1934—-At 8 P. M.