The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1934, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1934 Mass Expul Left Wing To Mobiliee sions to Stoj Fight on Betrayals Seen In Action of Officials... ) for Struggle To Defeat 4j Deeision; Will Fight Attempts of Officials To Saddle Fakers on Union NEW YORK—The prelude to a, Union committees to the membership about new wave of explusions of rank and} Internationa] | unit file members of the Ladies Garment Workers’ been written. Twen of the left wing administration of meetings in the interests of achievi and one policy of class struggle, alling of a membership meeting f k stoppage to de- ike in the interests of t the time mand a real Lotal 9 have been ousted from office|Sains for the members, and fighting | and deprived of their rights to hold| against high initation fees to new by office for two years IL.G.W.U. officials. At the same time, th are proceeding with arrangement nominations and elections of 2 new|of power, administration of the local without| “vicious propaganda” and “disloyalty | members. | Their “Crimes” | These “crimes' the International fficials characterized as “usurpation | ” “ssabotage of the stoppage, | regard to the wishes of the member-| and “disloyalty.” ship. In 1926 in the reign of Szar Sigman, thousands of left wing members of the International were driven out of they had built strugele. union which their courazeous the through igman wanted to clear the way for a continuation of the volicies against ich the left wingers fought: policies m which the officialdom of the entire A. F. of L. cannot be sevarated. ‘These were policies of class collabora- tion, of re! ng to orsanize tmorganized, of dictatorial through the use of strong arm of deriving the membership of conditions in the shops. Sigman’s exvlusions did not stifle It did the voice of the rank and file. tion mover the period since s and the form Trades Workers Ind of these militant fi m new and tion movemer Ma‘ority FE Tm Cloak r devotion to the One year atic Foal hes engineered the ese members from of- method of ficleaf of a Bacar offi- he charges y were tried. S' vere charged against the “The charges against the aximints- vation o? Local 9 tend to , 1933, have ns by the and the Needle Trades dustrial Union, a dual reads the decision of the Interna- tional officials hearing evidence at the “trial The specific “charges” may be sum- Marized as follows: the organization of an Action Committee of rank and file members of locals in the Inter- national to fight against piece work and for the maintenance of week work, the admission of Industrial the power en, its rights in the mnion and of its union al| the exposure of deals with the N. R./ y| desired’ s-|to impose a new crowd of racketeers y | march ‘The charge of dictation by the Com-j munist Party is the typical “red scare” | propaganda used by the bosses to dis- rupt the workers’ ranks. The ques-} tion may well be asked of the offi-| cials, what about their acceptance of the dictation of the Roosevelt govern- | ment, and of the bosses. At the trial, the left wing officials denied charges of “disloyalty” to the union but did not deny that they fought for week work and for unity with the Industrial Union. They ex- posed the previous corrupt leadership of the local, the Schwartz and Sorkin | officialdom, as agents of the bosses and petty racketeers, and declared it their responsibility to fight in the interests of the workers of the union regardless of the constitution of the | LL.G.W.0. Out To Smash Left Wing Why do the LL.G.W.U. officials fear | the left wing administration and what compels them to repeat the Sigman policie Prompted by the growing revolt of} the membership against the violation of union conditions in the shops and A. the officials hasten to smash the| left wing opposition movement in} order to be free to continue their class collaboration policies. It was at the initative of Local 9 that the movement for piece work by the International offi- cials was exposed and defeated. A lreferendum among the members suc- |c ceeded in swinging of a vote of 2 to 1 for week work, despite a last minute appeal of Mr. Nagler of the Interna-| tional for piece work. Local 9 has been in the forefront in the fight to main- ceeded in swinging of a vote of 2 to 1 tain union conditions in the shops to lower initiation dues and to achieve unity with the Industrial Union in order to build one class struggle union. The Dubinsky officialdom has cov- ered its highhanded acts against the |members of Local 9 by the sham of a “legal” trial. But they are proceeding ;and bosses agents on the workers by -arm methods. The officials steadily in the direction of Sigman and mass explusions. Local 9 members will repudiate the decision of the International and struggle to retain their own elected leaders. This dictatorial action of the officials must be defeated by the sup- port of all left wing members in the jocals of the LL.G.W.U. The opposi- tion movement in the LL.G..U. faces a life and death struggle for their rights and against the usurpation of power of the L.L.G.W.U. officialdom. LaGuardia - Lehman Agreement on City Bank Loans Seen (Continued from Page 1) posals for cutting City wages of Civil Service employees, raising the fare, tte, to meet the Wall St. loan pay- ments can be seen from Lehman's etter to LaGuardia in w 'ers to permit all these operations, but through the Board of Estimate. }t the Tammany-controlled Board of Aldermen. | It is probabla that LaGuardia will ave to accept this method of guar- inteeing the bankers their loans, in- \iga powers over the ine men in the City adminéstra- on. Meanwhile the danger to the pres- hit 5-cent fare loomed closer as La- \wardia frankly expressed his opin- n that the demands of the Wall freet stock and bondholders the {ity will require “a flexible fare. | Plan Wage Cuts LaGuardia has until February 1 come before the Federal Govern- emt with a “balanced budget,” ie., th the nayments to the bankers ly met and protected, in order to |4@ $23,000,000 loan to complete the | ty’s subways. Lehman has express- | MO opposition to this operation, lid dt is becoming clear LaGuardia | ing to use this Federal loan | \& p bludgeon over the heads of the teachers, firemen, engineers, 2, Who are in danger of being feed to take four week “vacations” thout pay, in order to “balance the le definite hint that the argument | “reduced pay or no pay” will soon | Yaunched against the Civil Ser- \'@ employees by LaGuardia was \wde teday by LaGuardia’s adviser, | of. Berle, Jr., who said: “If the city budget is not met ad balanced, the banks have a ght to decline to make advances it of the revolving fund. At that ent the city employees would fven the capitalist press is com- on the vagueness of La- regarding the meaning of le fare” hints, with many Predicting the quick approach ch he of- | ‘Powers Case Again ‘Postponed as Police Line Up Witnesses | NEW YORK.—The case of George E. | Powers, district organizer of the Steel jand Metal Workers Industrial Union, who was arrested and beaten for lead- ing a demonstration on the city hall on April 31, 1932, was again post- poned, as the New York police pre- pare to railroad him to jail. His case has now been called for Thursday, Jan. 18, at 10 a. m. at Part 8, General Sessions Tombs Court, Franklin and Center Si An old penal law, section 209 of the State Penal Law, which has been dead for many years, has been dug up in the attempt to send Powers to jail. charged with rioting and assault. erday, when Powers’ case came up before Judge Freschi of the Gen- eral Sessions Court, the state pleaded for adjournment because one of their witnesses, Police Captain Mal- unable to appear because of sickness. At the same time there were ten police present to testify against Powers. All se".crs who took part in the 0 on April 31, 1932, ve previously ap- peared as witnesses or not, are urged to come to the office of Joseph Tau- ber. defense attorney, at 401 Broad- way, Room 403. Workers are urged to pack the courtroom on Jan. 18 to prevent the railroading of George Powers. ILL. D. To Discuss New Groun System NEW YORK.—A thorough discus- | sion of the group system will feature the special membership meeting of the New York District of the Inter- national Labor Defense next Sunday at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. The group system has proved es- pecially effective in Germany in the activities of the German I. L. D. against the murderous Hitler regime. Norman Thibodeaux, Negro worker hanged by white lynchers and sa is a necessity for the school 'pecially useful. |Harlem Workers’ School Ready to Teaching Staff} To That Of . Y. School Equal Main N By A. MARKOFF NEW YORK. The Harlem Branch of the Workers School is to begin its second term. Registration is open the office of the school, 185 t., Room 212B. Members of the Communist Party and the League in Section 4, shouid take | advantage of the school and send | as many members and workers | as possible to take courses there. The new term begins Jan. 15 Out of about 150 students in the fall term, 50 per cent were Negroes. This shows that tte t \is difficult for many of the work- ers in Harlem to travel down town to the Workers School. Also workers from the Bronx will iind it much more convenient to at- tend the Harlem Branch by get- ting off at the 135th St. station. Latin-American workers _ will ‘tind the course in English es~ There is also a class scheduled in the Principles of the Class Struggle in the| Spanish language. Several comrades expressed an opinion that the Harlem School is not as good as the down-town school; that the teaching person- nel is not of the same quality, ete. This is wrong. The School Committee supervises the Work~ ers School and all its branches. Comrades teaching at the Harlem Branch or the Brownsville Branch of the Workers School possess the same qualifications as those teach- ing at the Central School. Sev- eral of them teach in both places. Roosevelt Budget Is a Weapon for | Hunger and War (Continued from Page 1} processing taxes and higher prices. And so on, down the line. This is the 1933 ordinary budget. It gives us an idea of what to look | for in our examination of the latest Roosevelt $10,000,000,000 “emergency | budget.” - E lion’s share of the govern- ment’s expenditures, we see, g0/ directly to the Wall Street capitalists or their agents, into interest, tax re- funds, subsidies, military expenses. ‘The rest finds its way to the upper class or its agents through high sal- aries, government awards, etc. But where did the money come from? A quick survey gives the an- swer. It came from the poorest sec- tions of the population, from the toiling masses, the workers and small, impoverished farmers. ‘The actual receipts for 1933 were $2,079,000,000. Of this $600,090,000 was collected in excige taxes on ra- dios cigarettes amusements, medi- cines, etc., etc. These come mainly from the small consumer, the vast millions of wage workers living on starvation wages. Then $746,000,000,~ 000 in income taxes, But it was not the millionaires who bore the brunt of this tax, as the recent Senate in- vestigations revealed. The Morgans, Rockefellers, Mellons, Fords, etc., etc., paid no income taxes at all. It is a startling fact that whereas income tax receipts totalled 50 per cent of the total receipts in 1929, they now total only 36 per cent, due to easy tax evasions by the rich, In the last year, only $241,283,000 was collected in income and sur- taxes from the rich, although the estimated total due from them ac- cording to the fignres of income should have been at least $2,000,- 000,000 more. The “ordinary” government budget, when examined, turns out to be nothing but a piece of financial trick- ery whereby the Wall Stret clique! of finance capitalists are intensifying | their robbery of the toiling masses. Pete aa 9 ‘TRIPPED of high-sounding verbi- age about “welfare” and “recov- ery,” etc., with which Roosevelt with his usual cunning has surrounded it, the new $10,000,000,000 “emergency” budget has three main objectives: 1. To pat the whole of capitalist industry into a pesition where it can become immediately available in case of war. 2. To absorb a huge portion of the total national income for the running of the capitalist State, with its police, military, etc., as re~ pressive machinery to be used to crush the resistance of the masses to hunger and misery. 3. To guarantee the inner group of Wall Street monopoly capital- Begin 2nd Term Strikebreaking Heads of I.L.G.W.U, Oust Militant Leadership of Local 9 from Office blah—economy .. .” Banks: “Louder, Fiorello, Mayor LaGuardia: “Transit unification—blah blah— dictatorship—blah blah—save homes not politicians—blah By DEL while I choke it out of him!” NEW YORK.—Mass pressure saved |Michael and Jane Williams, evicted unemployed workers from going to jail when they faced Judge Green- span at the Washington Heights Court on Jan, 5. After a long lecture on respect for the law, during which he instructed the defendants to refrain from such future actions as they took part in when they resisted their eviction, Judge Greenspan went on record as being in favor of peaceful revolutions only. He then pronounced a sus- pended sentence. During the trial, representatives of various working class organizations took the floor and demanded the im- mediate and unconditional release of Jane and Michael Williams. Judge Greenspan threatened to send the entire police force to arrest those Workers Pack Court, Take Floor, Challenge Judge, Free Williams who dared to “intimidate him.” A representative of the Steve Ka- tovis Branch of the International Labor Defense took the floor and demanded that the defendants be freed. Soon after, a representative of the Maxim Gorki Literary Club challenged Judge Greenspan to a debate, where he would have a chance to explain to the members of the club his stand against the use of mass pressure in forcing working class jus- tice from a capitalist court. The Williams Defense Committee has issued a call to a mass meeting in which a full report of the Wil- liams case and trial will be given. The meeting will be held at the Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. and Ninth St. Thursday evening, Jan. 11, at 8 pm. Prominent speakers will adddress the meeting. HAVERHILL, Mass. Jan. 4—A unanimous vote defeating a new wage-cutting scheme proposed by the officials of the Shoe Workers’ Pro- tective Union and the halting of an attempt to block amalgamation were the features of a stormy meeting of more than 1,000 shoe workers at Lib- erty Hall here Sunday, ‘The meeting was called at the initiative of the rank and file of Wood Heelers’ Local 13, but was at- tended by workers of many other locals, After the meeting had been thrown into a turmoil, when the officials tried to bar members of the co- ordinating committee of the Amal- gamation Convention from getting the floor, the committee was finally admitted, Sam Ziebel of New York, one of the speakers, received the most enthusiastic demonstration of applause and cheers. Ziebel said: “I speak to you as a member of the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union.” Applause greeted this re- mark. “We in New York are already functioning and carrying through the decisions of the Amalgamation Convention held in Boston, from top to bottom, from officials to rank and file. If is only here in New England, where the Nolans, Mahans and Kele- hers are in the leadership, that it | Will be necessary to carry on a fight against the forces opposing amalga- mation. Our unity will express itself in the shop in the fight for our con- ditions.” the meeting to the members, District Agent Pennis Kelleher proposed that the workers accept a plan of the manufacturers for regrading of shoes, on the plea that otherwise the shops would move out of town. Alfred Poro, militant worker from Lasters’ Local 8, exposed the plan as a new means of cutting wages. “We shoe workers are through with wage cuts, whether they come directly from the bosses or through our own officials or through the state and local arbi- tration boards,’ said Poro. “We are uniting ourselves for wage increases and against speed-up plans.” Kelleher was booed and hissed by the members as he was compelled to ists, big capitalist landlords, against losses from the crisis, these losses to be shouldered by the masses through the agency of the govern- ment budget. The Roosevelt budget, therefore, is expression of the needs of the Wall Street capitalists and big landlords at the present time. It is the at- tempt of the Roosevelt government to place a new $10,000,000,000 load on the masses for the benefit of the capitalist war plans, the guaranteeing of monopoly prices, the guaranteeing of bonds, mortgages, dividends, capi- tal from the blows of the crisis. And, the culminating purpose of this Roosevelt budget attempt to pro- tect the industrial capital investments of Wall Street is to keep the entire economy “healthy” enough to wage the imperialist war for foreign mark- ets, which is the main thread of the whole Roosevelt program y into this “national bud- by white workers. will addr ne} meeting, All workers are invited to "attend hat it contains, s affect the daily leave the platform. The vote taken on “regrading” was a unanimous no. When, immediately _ thereafter, Louis Critchett of the Coordinating Committee requested the floor to speak on the Amalgamation Conven- tion and the progress being made towards amalgamation, the clique supporting Kelleher moved to ad- journ. Through pressure of the workers Kelleher was forced to turn the meeting over to the coordinating committee, To the dismay of the membership the coordinating committee had been ordered away by the police on Kelle- her’s orders. Hundreds of workers ran to the door as the meeting went into an uproar. They rushed out to life of every worker and his family. Who will get the money? Who will pay for it? What effect will it have on the trend to inflation? How does it affect the course of the crisis? (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) In his speech at the opening of | N.E. Rank, File Shoe Workers Defeat Wage Cutting Scheme find the members of the coordinating committee. The workers who re- mained in their seats shouted their demands to hear the committee. The committee was found and was allowed to speak, despite Kelleher’s trick. Joe Costello of Local 13 made a motion to bring charges against Kelleher for disrupting the meeting, working against amalgamation and hindering the workers’ plans of car- Tying it through, The motion was unanimously adopted. Gratton, Ziebel, Mazuman and Zimmerman spoke for the coordinat- ing committee. Unions, CW.A. Men GiveEndorsementto | Nat'l Jobless Meet NEW YORK—The Shoe and has decided to take 10,000 of the five-cent convention stamps which have been issued for the support of the National Convention Against Un- employment, and is going to send out 100 tag day boxes. Other unions are urged to do likewise, ‘The New York City Special Con- vention Fund Committee, 29 E. 20th St., is prepared to supply fiims of the 1931 Hunger March and Bonus March, These films, over an hour to show, are furnished free to all organizations arranging affairs for the benefit of the con- vention. Needie Trades Mass Mecting The Needle Trades Unemployed Council 1s calling a mass meeting of all unemployed and part-time needle trades workers today at 1:30 p.m. at the union auditorium, 131 W. 28th St. to all unemployed needle workers, and that wages at least equal to C. W. A. union scales be paid to all part-time workers. Young Workers to Demand C. W. A. Jobs At a meeting of unemployed young workers at the American Youth Club, 407 Rockaway Ave., it was unani~ mously decided to send a mass dele- gation to the Brooklyn C. W. A. of- fices at 214 Duffield St., on Jan 10, to demand that C. W. A. jobs be given to young workers. All young workers are urged to mass at the American Youth Club, 407 Rockaway Ave., Brooklyn, at 10 a. m., Wednesday, Jan, 10. Bronx C.W.A. Workers Win Demands At the conference of the Relief Workers’ League at Irving Plaza on Jan. 7, @ delegation was formed to present a complete list of demands on working conditions on all C. W. A. jobs in New York City to State Administrator T. H. Whitney. The Bronx delegation which re- cently saw Whitney reported at the conference Sunday that they had won their demand for regular Gays, and that they had succeeded \ in reinstating a worker who had been Leather Workers’ Industrial Union | | Anniversary Greetings Will Appear Each Day NEW YORK—A large number of greetings from mass organiza- tions, Communist Party units and individuals had to be left out of the Tenth Anniversary Edition. ‘These greetings will appear in Wed- nesday’s issue and on successive days until all have been published. The Daily Worker regrets that it was not possible to print all the greetings in the Anniversary Edi- tion. Printers’ Head Uses NRA Threat Over Membership Minority Proposal of 30-Hour Week Is De- feated by Trick NEW YORK.—By a vote of 234 to 358 Big Six last Sunday at Stuyvesant High School turned down the minor- ity report of F. E. Brown, a member of the Union’s Scale Committee, which embraced the demand for the 4-day, 30-hour week at the present wages and 5 per cent from the newspaper publishers for unemployment relief. The majority report which calls for the 39-hour week had for its barker Leon H. Rouse, president of Big Six, who pointed to the Newspaper Pub- lishers Code (40-48 hours at 40 cents) and said: “See that—if you don’t vote for the 39-hour proposition, you'll be sorry!” A month ago at a union meeting Rouse remarked that he had full faith in Roosevelt, the N.R.A. and Major Berry, arch-betrayer of the Pressmen’s Union, at that time on the N.R.A. Labor Board, now General Johnson’s first assistant. The speakers urging the acceptance of the minority report pointed out that the thirty-nine hour work week would not help the more than 3,000 unemployed members of Typograph- ical Union No. 6 (Big Six). The shorter work week of 30 hours, it has been shown, would create more than 1,800 jobs for the unemployed. Under the minority report's proposals the weekly wages would be the same as is now paid for 37 1-2 hours: day shift, $48.75; night shift, 51.25, and “lobster” (third) shift, $53.75. Previous to the action of last Sun- day the Union had twice rejected the publishers’ proposal for a 35-hour. week at $1.36 per hour, and would not yield on the Union's original de- mands for the 30-hour week and 5 per cent assessment on the publishers’ composing room payrolls for the relief of the unemployed and their families. Vice-President C. M. Baker, of the International Typographical Union, who was called in when negotiations were deadlocked, told the members that he suggested to the majority's of the Union’s scale committee that they consider the thirty-nine hour pro- position, of which he is the author, as a@ counter proposal of the newspaper publishers! Upon that. basis, he said, the Executive Council of the Interna- tional “might” grant strike sanction “if the publishers continued to balk.” This maneuvering, would seem ab- surd, were it not for the fact that it has all the earmarks of a sell-out. The Executive Council, which in- cludes Baker, has refused to grant strike sanction to Big Six at any time. Before the voting took place the sentiment in favor of the minority report was very strong, and those urging its acceptance were loudly cheered and applauded. Baker in his remarks later said that “this small meeting doesn’t represent the desires of the great majority of No. 6’s mem- bership.” Yet last year the vote of a smaller meeting—355 to 155—was ac- j cepted by the Executive Council as “representative” on the question of | arbitration. Subsequently, the news- i paper printers were the victims of a 10 per cent wage cut and the stagger system—put over by an “impartial arbitrator,” recommended by Charles ;P. Howard, president of the Interna- tional Typo3raphical Union. There will be an adjourned meeting of the Union at Stuyvesant High School next Sunday, at which time the question of reopening negotia- tions on the book and job (com- mercial) wage scale may come up. Try 6 Shoe Workers ‘In Frame-Up Today which take | Shoe Workers To Crowd Courtroom in Protest NEW YORK —The trial of six shoe workers framed in connection with the shooting of William Strauss, an- ‘other shoe worker, wiil be held today ‘at Magistrates’ District Court, Penn- to demand that C. W. A. jobs| or immediate cash relief be granted” sylvania and Liberty Avenues, Brook- lyn. The six workers, all members of the Industrial Union were dragged from their homes, the morning after Strauss had been shot during an argument with a scab. They are charged with assault. The workers, who knew nothing of the shooting, have been active in the recent general strike and are being picked out for special discrimination. All shoe workers are urged to pack the courtroom today and protect the frame-up of the workers. On strike for nearly 25 wceks, the heroic workers of the Meyer Bros., Bressler Co. and Chatham Shoe Co. are standing solid. They picket the shops daily and their ranks remain unbroken. The Industrial Union calls for the support of the shoe workers to aid the strikers in bringing the strike to a successful conclusion. fired for his organizational activities on the job. The C. W. A. workers unanimously endorsed the National Convention Against Unemployment to be held in Washington Feb. 3, 4 and 5, and elected a ways and means commit- pay|tee to finance a delegation, and have pledged to support the full pro- gram of the National Convention. Globe Trotting | ap glamoaigteal of the Soviet Union may be all right for Roosevelt but it is evidently not correct for the Interna- tional Olympie Committee, judging by the invitations for the 1936 Berlin Games issued by that august body. the German representatives of Fifty-three countries have been invited, a streaming headline in Sunday’s New York Times informs us. sub-head. selves for the pleasant sur- prise. Now that the Roose- velt administration was compelled to recognize the legal existence of one- sixth of the world’s surface, surely the International Olympic Committee would follow suit. ee ee LACK and alas, poor Yainkel! No Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in the list. Well, perhaps I didn’t read it correctly. Afghanistan, Argentine, Bolivia, Peru. . .. . Whereinell is the U. S. S. R.? Maybe under S, Soviet Union? Nope. Maybe under R, Russia er Rooshia? Nope. Just not recognized. In Russia they don’t run and they don’t put the shot. Hell, they walk on their beards and chuck bombs. ee AMONG the many bubbles that this column feels its duty to burst is this theory that there are no sports in the Soviet Union. We don’t refer to mass physical training in the sense of school-room calisthenics or rest homes. Even the most vicious reac- tionary admits that plenty of this type of physical culture exists in the USSR. We refer to the ordinary competi- tive type of sports, like track and field, basketball, soccer, swimming, Wrestling, boxing and the like. We intend to run regular notes on this type of athletics in the Soviet Union. | Besides Soviet material, we're going to print some information on the work- ers sports movement in other coun- tries, particularly on the activities of the sections of the Red Sports Inter- national, the brother groups of the Labor Sports Union in this country. If we discover any long-distance beard-walking records, we will be, of course. hieh' Aaliehted in bringing em to the light of day. Instances of Russian track men using nitro-gly- cerine compounds instead cf the usual leaden or cast iron ball for shot- putting will be instantly reported by your correspondent. The Other Side of the Story will get a break, fear not. Here goes for our first batch of international notes. As soon as we get some willing tovarish to translate some French and Czecho-Slovak for Conference Pledges Aid to Philadelnhia Striking Taxi Men Fakers Adjourn Meet When Communist Plans Meet Favor PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 8.— Pledges of support to the striking | taxi-drivers of the Philadelphia Rapid | Transit Co., were made at a united front conference held here yesterday. The conference was called after pressure was brought to bear by the rank and file taxi drivers. A few A. F. of L. locols were repre- sented, with the exception of locals under the leadership of progressive groups. Left Wing workers’ organiza- tions were present. The proposal of the district organ- izer of the Communist Party, A. W. Mills, for definite mobilization of the workers in support of the taxi drivers was enthusiastically received. Comrade Mills proposed a demon- stration in front of the P-R.T. offices, a march to Washington of P.R.T., Bud and Ford workers. President Hirshberg of the Central Labor Union spoke after Mills, evad- ing the proposals and making an at- tack on Communists. His speech was coldly received. Leaders of the A. F. of L. sabotaged the conference. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers was not officially represented, nor were there delegates from the building trades. The chairman of the taxi drivers union adjourned the conference after seeing the response to the proposals of the Communist Party. He refused to take a vote on them. Trade Union Directory +++ BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKERS NION CLEANERS, DYERS AND PRESSERS UNION 228 Second Avenue, New York City Algonquin 4-4267 FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 4 West 18th Street, New York City Chelsea 3-0505 FURNITURE bh tong INDUSTRIAL sit Brondway, N New York Oty Gramercy, 5-8956 METAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION ‘9% East 19th Street, New York City ee 7-134 ES WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 131 West 28th Street, New York City Lackawanna 4-4010 Tompkins Square 6-913% Caucasian Restaurant “KAVKAZ” Russian and Oriente! Kitchen BANQUETS AND PARTIES 382 Rast 14th Street New York City “No Discrimination Against Any Countries” We prepare our-® us, we're going to get some dope on the F.S.T. (Francais Sportive Trav- ailleur)—Labor Sports Union of France to you—and the Czecho-Movak labor sports movement. In the meantime we must be content with what we've got. reo sas SOVIET UNION MOSCOW.—Mironova, leading U, S. 8. R. woman skater, won the 500-meter event for women in the recent /State Trade and Coopera~ tive Union races here last month. Her time was 56.4. Igolkin, of the Kazan Railroad Skating Club, took the same race in the men’s division in 47.3. ‘Two children’s hockey teams have been organized and are in training at the State Trade and Cooperative Union rink. A figure-skating school has been opened with leading fancy-skaters acting in the capacity of teachers. DENMARK COPENHAGEN.—Hundreds ot spectators packed the huge “Sport- palast” here to see the boxing and wrestling matches between the Soviet and Danish workers’ teams last month, Shelagin, blonde Leningrad boy, knocked out Martensen in the first round. Mikhailov, Soviet light~ heavy, who has acquired quite a repu~ tation in Zurope, repeated Shelagin’se stunt by kayoing his opponent, Jen~ sen of Copenhagen, in the first, The Soviet wrestlers made a clean sweep. Lulyakov, Soviet featherweight wrestling champ, threw Brounskog of Copenhagen, while the Russian light~ weight crack, Ivanov, tossed Varburg in two minutes, Katulin, of the U, S. 5. R., downed Serensen, Danish welterweight, in three minutes, 8 GERMANY BERLIN.—Despite ali the talk about easing up on restrictions on Jews in sport organizations, Jewish athletes are being persecuted throughout Germany. AL Jews have been expelled from the skiing club in Mayence. The association of life guards has ousted all its Jewish members and has decreed that no Jew may henceforth be a life guard at a municipal beach. The Dentch- er Turnverein, largest gymnastic or- ganization in the Reich, ordered ali its affiliates to expel Jewish mem- Year CANADA TORONTO.—James Turner, See- retary of the Workers Sports Asso- ciation of Canada, who recently re- turned from the Sixth National Convention of the Labor Sports Union of America, announce that detailed plans for the re-organiza- tion of the W.S.A. along the lines of the American body, are under way. “The Canadian worker sports- men,” he states, “the particularly en- thusiastic about the L.S.U. conven- tion proposal for an international eee track and field meet at some frontier city, probably Buffalo.” OUR OWN PERSONAL Agonized: If a certain doctor who runs a column in the central organ of the Communist Party wants an answer to a question directed to the sports department of the aforemen- tioned central organ, will he please send a stamped, self-addressed en- velope? He will then receive the in- formation privately that the best thing to advise young people under 25 who are consumed by The Urge, is that they take vigorous exercise, to be followed immediately by cold showers. This, together with some detailed activity in one or another branch of the revolutionary move- ment, is guaranteed to cure them of all imagined ills. PATRONIZE SEVERN’S CAFETERIA 7th Avenue at 30th St. Best Food atW orkers Prices of my Sister CLARA GABIN Died Jan. 9, 1933 od Revolutionary Greetings to the Daily Worker (Brooklyn) WORKERS--EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeterla FOR BROWNSVILLE, PROLETARIANS 1689 PITKIN AVENUE Williamsburgh Comrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria 4 Graham Aye, Siegel RVERT BITE is Seca * reads the | scacue@eneoea es SEHRES a Vee Ree