The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1934, Page 2

Page Two Industrial il To OpenFightTo Revise NRA KnitgoodsCode Calls for United Front Action To Change Slave Scale of Wages, Hours NEW YORK.—Arot knitgoods outerwe adopted by the N.R.A tive support of the cials, the Knitgoo | } Conference Pledges To Secure 4,000 New Readers for “Daily” NEW YORK.—Fifty-nine dele- representing Communist nits and 11 mass organ- at a Daily Worker con- erence held at the Finnish Workers Club, 15 W. 126th St., pledged themselves to 4,000 new readers for the Worker during the circu- drive from Jan, 2? to dustrial Union, affiliated to the Need Trades Union, has wired to General Johnson, N.R.A. admin: r Mand that the code be The knitgoods d that its succe: P ‘the cooperation which bosses would give the Officials. In its wire to demanded a re J in existence in workweek estab! ment is 35 how with 40 h lowed in busy periods. The union points out that employers are threat- ening to violate their contracts be- j charge of In General Strike (Continued from Pag ‘ed the Com- 1) t of the statement the formation of Committees of the rank and file of both unions in the mines, for a 100 per cent strike; the election of broad strike committees to take strike and to conduct it tant fashion to victory for Unity cause in some mines locals of both unions exist, The main slogan of the Maloney- pellini fakers is “peace, happiness, is especially important be- cause ot the longer hours allowed . and justice,” instead of} other manufacturers und de. us strike preparations among the The wage provision i peated union, will undermine the present st 8 Stet mat ‘ot w Meat aoe Miners for General Strike proposals for concrete strike mobilization came from the deter- mined rank and file delegates. At the United Anthracite Miners’ Union District Convention yesterday not a single vote was cast in favor of The knitgoods union orgar general strike last S ner, ceeded in establishing union stand- ards in many shor The union, whic 3,000 mem- bers, is mobilizing all s s to adopt} Malon: resolution for individual resolutions and to w General John-| settlements. son to request the ening of hear-| Delegate after delegate declared: nion urging ings on the code, The present a resolution, spreading of the will the we start, if “We are licked before . We just voted this resolution pass for a general strik | without exception, the speeches of he delegates on the strike, called for the strongest militancy, and for most detailed and serious strike | preparations, including mass picket- 10000 Present as eisai Fourth Congress of Laber Opens in Cuba | open where t) lay, Jan. 20, be represented. Capellini an dthe Executive Board were pressed to the wall, and called ke under the unprecedented re of the miners. is obvious that Maloney and aloney said: “I have been very e....I don’t want a (Cox and nobody on the Executive Board wants a strike.” and told of th a One delegate received resounding sailors on the japplause, aiter he clearly placed the refused to sta issue as not only Green and Lewis, will 2 of the wi {but the government, attacking the niners in its strikebreaking N.R,A. He Bae the col d: “I don't want to be a Com- enone Fo unist or revolutionist. But if it’s wes addre unistic and revolutionary to say tives from the Sugar Central “Naza- | bel,” where the ts began their Sharp revolutionary swing in 1932, by taking the Central and holding it for two days, as well as the Central Ja- rona, the largest in the world. First Soviet A stirring ovation was received by the represe of the from the sus “Mab the first Soviet in Cuba was estab- lished. The delegates cheered Calderio, sec- retary of the Communist Party of Cuba, who greeted the convention in the name of the Party. This the first open speech by a secretary of the Party since the rise of Machado in 1925. he government and the National bor Board attacked the miners, jthen I don’t care what you call me.” Rank and File for Unity The rank and file opposition, thru} |Joseph Dougher, District Secretary, ;Stated that the rank and file of both, rkers junions don’t want division caused by| the fight of the two groups of union leaders, but want unity in every col- l , for an effective militant strike, sing the fight on the demands of each colliery for wages and working conditions. The Boylan machine is an open strikebreaking outfit. Maloney and Capellini, who were forced by their nk and file to allow the strike, must now be forced to base the strike jon economic demands, mass picketing, |deflance of injunctions. Unity in jevery colliery through unity commit- tees of the rank and file of both unions, where both exist, broad strike committees, miners control of the strike, is the main question facing |the worke Dougher s ses that the miners can win the strike on these lines, not only for recognition, but for de- cisive gains in wages and working conditions, Maloney and Capellini have, from the beginning, supported the N.R.A. Struggle for Power ‘The speaker called upon the work- ers at the Congress to consider not only the fight for immediate demands, but also the intensification of the Aght for power for the working class of Cuba. He showed in detail that it was possible for the workers of the Island to take power, and said that the Communist Party was determined to lead the workers toward that goal. The Communis leader called upon the revolutionary unions to combat the reactionary coup d’etat plans of the A.B.C., even up to the point of ‘armed struggle and political strike, at the same time continuing and in-|@Nd Roosevelt's strikebreaking appa- ereasing the fight against the present | tus, ht eee ee regime. guard vidual setilements Loud speakers carried all the |®S Proposed by Cappellni’s resolution, which received unanimous defeat in Saturday's convention. The miners must watch Maloney and Capellini against any killing, or betrayal of the strike, and take effec- speeches to thousands of workers as- sembled outside of the arena. The Congress continues today at the Trop- ical Arena. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1934 ILGW Heads Plan To Call Dress Stoppage| To Put Over Cuts \To Abolish Minimum Wage Scales as Aid to Dress Bosses NEW YORK.—A plan fostered by the Joint Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, with the support of Charles Zimmer- man, manager of Local 32, to estab- lish flat prices for lower grade gar- ments and abolish the minimum wage scale in the code, was revealed as underway yesterday from authorita- tive sources. This accounts for the sham battle y the I. L. G. W. U. officials against the National Manufacturers, which ostensibly is for the purpose of demanding a strengthening of the dress pact. Complaints are pouring into the Dress Joint Board and the locals. There are over 1,500 complaints of violations of the minimum wage scale. A way is being devised to allay the discontent of the members without having the members see what is in store for them. The officials con- templated a stoppage with the con- sent of the various factors in the in- dustry. As @ result of the stoppage, the workers will be sent back to flat prices and the question of the mini- mum wage scale will be referred to the impartial chairman, thus remov- ing all responsibility from the shoul- ders of Zimmerman and Hochman. Hochman already forecasts a new scheme of settling prices in his Christmas message. The Dress Department of the In- dustrial Union is exposing this be- trayal of the Hochman-Zimmerman clique and is calling for a fight to maintain the minimum scales and for the 35-hour week. The dress strike continues in full swing with picketing at the shops daily. The case of two arrested pickets of the Dotty May, Mollie Baker and Louis Migler, who are out under $500 bail will be heard on| Wednesday. All active dressmakers are asked to picket today at the Dotty May Shop, 212 W. 25th St., at the Corinne Dress Shop, 370 W. 35th St., and at Maimen and Sanger, 462 Seventh Ave. 13th Arrest Is Siicol Teacher in 2nd Week of Bronx Bread Strike NEW YORK.—Two children and a school teacher were arrested yes- terday afternoon in the second week of a strike for lower prices on bread at the Shereshecsky Bakery at 182nd St. and Prospect Avenue in the Bronx. The children were later released but the teacher was taken into an automobile with five plainclothesmen. The strike is now in its second week. The Neighborhood Block Committee is leading workers and housewives in demanding the bread prices of eight cents a loaf for bread and twenty cents for a dozen of rolls be reduced. The arrest was the thirteenth since the beginning of the strike. Arrest 26 Pickets in Blechman Strike NEW YORK.—Twenty-six workers were arrested Friday when the po- lice broke up a mass picket line at 8. Blechman and Sons, Inc., 502 Broadway, where a strike has been in progress for the past two weeks, Under the leadership of the Asso- ciated Employees of S. Blechman and Son, the strike has been in progress for two weeks after the arbitrary fir- ing of seven employes, Picketing has been going on daily, and twice daily mass picket lines were formed. Friday’s mass picket line was being led by a young girl carrying a strike banner when the police broke the line and arrested 26 work- ers, and rushed them to the Fifth Precinct Police Station. Later, four Association of Dress} GUTTERS OF NEW YORK By DEL 2nd Annual Conference of N. Y. Workers’ Clubs Elects Executive Body NEW YORK.—The second annual vonference of the City Club Council, the central body of the English Workers Clubs of New York, took place Jan. 7. A new executive body of thirteen was elected for the coming year. The members are: Edith Zucker, Joseph Landy, Mike Rothman, Daniel Gro- den, Ralph Strauch, Morris Hoffer, Claire Dinetz, L. Wright, Morris Co- hen, A. Shorr, L. Brown, Sid Klein, and Lillian Jurmark. Landy, the general secretary, re- ported to 40 delegates that there were | , Py Cynical Cyril 'YNICAL CYRIL breezed in, OR‘ SI GERSON Asks About Soviet 1 Track swiped a cigarette from Ed Rolfe and planted himself in a chair, his feet on my desk. in New York City some 30 odd work- ers’ clubs affiliated. The new execu- tive body has set itself the task of contacting and guiding these clubs. Workers who wish any informa- tion on how to organize a workers’ club should write to the City Club Council at 31 E. 20th St., for the “Club Manual,” enclosing 10 cents in | stamps for postage. He wanted to know did I expect to kid him about sports in Russia. He didn’t believe a damned thing and he wanted to KNOW. And even when he knew, maybe he wouldn’t be- lieve me anyway, That’s what kind of a cynic he is. Our unbelieving pal got particularly jeery about track records in the Soviet Union. What the hell have they done? » Who they got over there? Which one of those whiskered: guys ever set a new record? b) “The appointment of the Secretary of the Treasury is a fortunate one. He has the proper background.” —N. Y. Times. | | NEW YORK.—The Laundry Work- \ers’ Industrial Union registered a vic- Sometimes this sneering at the Russian lads takes on a different, more urbane, more “comradely” form, “Now listen here, my dear fellow”— he patronizes, you know—‘let’s not xid ourselves, The Soviet Union is @ great place and all that, but where pit hell do they shine in with the tory on Saturday, when the bosses of |Test of the world in sports? Those the Giant (Samac) Laund7y, after a | moujiks can’t put one foot in front five day strike were forced to grant|°f the other without stumbling all Pay increases, shorter hours and rec- pte erage hte These news reels = nition of the union to its 150 Negro| 4 bunt guys making exercise God Whee aoe the Red Square—what’s thet? “show By the terms of settlement, in-|™e Tecords, times, split seconds on creases in pay from 15 to 30 per cent | the old stop watch. That's what Union Wins Strike _ At Samac Laundry 5,000 Students In Lunchroom Prices 1,000 in Distant Annex Strike in Sympathy, Make Own Demands NEW YORK.—More than 5,000 stu- dents of New Utrecht High School are supporting the boycott of the school lunchroom, demanding lower prices, 'reinstatements of all students sus- pended in the fight, free food for stu- dents whose parents are unemployed and academic freedom. As a result of the mass protest meetings held by the students and student and worker organizations, seven of the nine students suspended last week have been reinstated. The annex students declared a boy- cott that was unanimously supported by the students after one student who bought a piece of pie had it smashed into his face. At the main building the boycott gained force when the Executive Council of the General Organization of students, called to a special meet- ing by the Administration to condemn the boycott, voted instead to support. it. A delegation of prominent alumni, jincluding the former leaders of the Arista, editors of the school news- paper and the editor of the literary magazine, will visit the principal of the school, Dr. Harry A. Potter today and present to him the demands of the students. ‘The students will also hold two dem- onstrations today, at the annex and at the main building. were given suspended sentences, and the rest were released. The Trade Union Unity Council is cooperating with the strikers to ob- tain their demands for the immedi- ate reinstatement of the discharged employes and the recognition of the shop committee. City Events KNITTERS MASS MEETING A mass meeting of all hand knitters, or- ganized and unorganized, employed and un- employed, will take place tonight at 6. p. m., at Irving Plaza Hall, 15 St. and Irving Place, to take up important problems confronting the workers in the trade. ° LEFT WING OF LOCAL LL. G. w. vu. TO MEET A meeting of the Lett Wing Group of Local 22, I. L. G. W. U. will take place tonight at 5 p. m. in Memorial Hell (Main Hell), 344 W. 36th St. The purpose of the meetnig is to discuss important develop- ments in the union, Greetings to Daily Worker on Tenth Anniversary pts etn ies ‘ Regina Hyrkas Finnish Workers ;Sthel Stone Unit 417 N._¥. Pickets Arrested poe pare roncaressal ta es deogd deniotes Tp e Club: |3elle Berkowitz | Watt. Ronka NEW YORK.—Eicht members of |Sttike and economic gains. Wastila P. Beranger and Belle Schwartz | Nurkkala the Young Communist League and Nees Fan Siecgaar ta BE. Antilla | family ;{ Rose Cohen Aalonen three from the International Labor Philadelphia Workers : Henry, Helen, \. Spiwack | Drittila Defense were arrested last Saturday ss Aina Helander Mandi, Havas |&. Zipkin | Luwig Maki for picketing the Woolworth store at fo Demonstrate for —|rmi Coleman | Ktisma’s family | A. Silberberg Lahtinen Brighton Beach and Coney Island 7 b: a 15 | Mildred and John and Minnie | Oscar Bovian Lilja “‘Ave,, in support of the Cuban Wool- P.W.A. Jobs, Jan. 15] " veito vuoreata |” Raskman Mario D'Anzillo | Wertainen worth strikers. — Helen and Vic Section 4 ILD. Kalintonen "More than 1,000 workers gathered] PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14—Phila-|Jacob Riberg Geo. Johnson Frank Izzo Saini Purta to listen to the pickets explain that|delphia workers will hold a mass|Jane Laine {Katie Cargan Tilly D'Inzillo | £. and B. Linneli they were Supporting the struggles|demonstration on Monday, Jan. 15th}S. Samson Oscar Cargan Solomon Roth of the Cuban workers. at 11 am. at Reyburn Plaza to de-|H. Hanson F. Nirri Paul Lesse family Police arrested the first picket-}mand jobs or immediate cash relief.| Loevenstein Lydia Alto Sam McNample K. Eskada dine, and, as they were being taken|Following the demonstration, mass|Seamans Church | Leo Drockila A. Pomeraniz dennen Schwartz away, another one formed immedi-| picket lines will be set up at the city| Institute Bertha Kaleva Feinberg 3ection 1, Unit 1 ately. When the second one was ar-|hall. M. Raikay | Andy Michelson | Rosenson ?red Laisen rested a third line was formed. Gallo 1A, Pepikko Kressel Villia The young workers were held on as Medina. jJ. Johnson Kaflin : Pletaral $500 bail each. Rahlenbeck A, Horn Max Feller Gino Kinninen When the manager of the store Brooks, Communis Engel IP. Sirvio 3. Rothman Henrickson saw the militancy of the pickets he Wotke | A. Branen Max Dralnick Korpin said to a worker standing near him, “4 EB. Weiner Chas. & Aima Jacob Gebaide Tipilat | “I wish Hitler would come down nere/X AYTY M@MDEL, VIE) Misuer Brice Valdes Abe Spirling | Sundstrom a wipe out some of the goddam ? Juan Placencia | Sylvia Polso Unit, 411 ‘Edward & Faimi oy LOS ANGELES, Car. Jan. 10,—|Angel Rivas Jacinto Betan- Midtown Section, I.L.D. ee, Trees Cattery Prot Isadore Brooks, member of the Sec-|NoTbert Roryes | _ court Paul Wippich “ YORK.—The holiowness of! tion Committee of the Communist| 2 eer Becee | Unit 5, Section 10 is recent Roosevelt statement that| party in Los Angeles, ti duc. | Zeinanen Harry Weiss Eva Flamhaft | Brachtman forth the United States will not| \sjval ai BT the tasetietin eee Harry Andrews | D. Hellen | Anna Slobir Sa in the affairs of other na. | 2%10D8l director of the International) maxi Jerry Martin Astoria, L. I. | Issac. Gaffin tons is thoroughly exposed in the| Cabo" Defense, Negro director of the} white ‘Jack Otsrower Harry Geller | M. Seramess call of the new interventionist Am- | Communist Party of Los Angeles, and| Paas Diana Wind A. Katz Unit 5, Sec. 8 passador to Cuba, Jefferson Caffrey, bec prominent as a leader of the| Sheehan Mike Hudyma Bucher D. Bud | 8. K. Shop for the crushing of the current Con- | Youth revolutionary groups, died yes-| 4 Worker _ Dave Fuerir I. Steinberg Unit 13, Sec. 8 “att of the National Federation of terday. Helmi Marin S. Shapiro ; Anucera e Init 13, See. 11 , declares the Anti-Imperialist |, CO™rade Brooks has been a mem-|Kaskin Unit 3 -» George Kirk Morris Berland e in making known severai| bet of the Communist Party U.S.A.|A. Mitoff Ignacio Arcelay | J. Bjormes Phil Grau i it had sent yesterday. since its formation in 1919. Every | Apostoloft Manuel A. J. Brumorari Sam Ginsberg ere sent to the Cuban President | ™oment of his life was devoted to the|Dr. Reuben 8. "J, Wytle R. Lisante Anne Burke and President Roosevelt by the Anti-|"¢¥lutionary movement. In Albany] Young Bier Hilda Lehte Nathan Katz * League protested Jeffer- he was instrumental in arranging the|Dr. Arnold Mademlis Clarkson Louis Klein ‘son Caffery’s interventionist tactics | Si@antic Sacco-Vanzetti Protest meet-| _Oonawa Gertrue Myles | E. Macky | Simon Slawsky nd demanded complete freedom | img in 1927. M. Brown Jack Parker | H. Holpar \E. Lawrence ffi interference in the Congress of Dying as a result of injuries sus- | Alkin Nicholas Viacot- lA. Mendel} R. Sommonsky » militant labor Federation tained three years ago when he was|9. Haynal son |Helmi Mattson |H. Kluger os petite arrested three days in succession and |=lin and E. Teppe ' Unit 21 Martha Morson |S. Herviton PERSONAL NOTE severely beaten by Red Hynes’ Squad, |S. M. Wick |S: Evansky George Yago | |M. Jablow z fichael Lavera is asked to get in| the life of Comrade Brooks gives in- ie ered i ae Unit 9, Sec. 5 | Philip Rosen- With the Unempioyed Council | sPiration to those comrades who knew agp i a es satel Vert ag) See. 8 |, Sarten ter New York, 29 E, 20th | him as a class-conscious worker, psn : f + Yakemier : Deutch {da Elias | Louis M. Restreso |b. Gudes, | Oscer Roman Barny Elias @S soon as possible. ALE EEL Ef Fanny Sheftman Fanny Aili Rundin i the letters and telegrams from alumni, | [Japan Openly Talks | Utrecht Fight High Of Attack on USSR | | | A. Osterlunde & | Philadelphia: | | will accrue to the workers. wash kitchen where the hours were formerly 65-70 a week they are re- duced to 4912 a week. Time and half for overtime is granted. The strike was won by tancy and unity of the Negro work- (Continued from Page 1) challenge America’s position in the Pacific. The Washington government is re- ported to have joined Italy in ex- pressing concern to the Japanese gov- ernment over its plans for a new invasion of North China to “round out” the boundaries of its puppet state of Manchukuo. a a line who defied police attack, the “red scare” and other methods of in- timidation. Prior to the calling of the strike the shop had been unor- ganized. At the Oak Laundry, where the 130 workers of the shop are members of the Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union, the bosses were forced to give full recognition to the union on threat of a strike. . TOKYO, Jan, 14—Japanese offi- clals celebrated today the completion of the new military railway connect- with the Changchun-Tumen railway with Harbin. Onen admissions were made in the press that the line will ‘able Japan to throw troops speed- into the interior of Manchuria “In the event of a war with Russia.” The line was built at a cost of ap- proximately $1,330,000. Thousands of Manchurian and Korean workers | were impressed into service to rush the line through to completion. O58 ace LONDON, Jan. 14—The British | government is rushing the fortifica- tion of its great nayal base at Singa- pore in preparation, as the press openly announces, for impending war developments in the Pacific. The London Standard, discussing the | forthcoming imperial naval confer- ence at Singapore, declares: “Singapore is fast becoming un- recognizable. New barracks are springing up every month. Search- lights and gun emplacements cover the coast. The island of Puln Te- kong, which guards the mouth of the harbor, is now a fortress,” * ganization work is being carried on, ; Week, | represe: the demands are not met. unopened. Several When A. F. of L. officials learned that a committee of strikers from |the Samac were coming to the hall to speak to the workers, they called for a spezial squad of police to pre- vent the strikers from entering. Framed-up Workers NEW YORK.—Five of the six shoe |workers held on framed charges of felonious assault following the shoot- ing of William Strauss, a fellow shoe worker, last week were released on $1,000 bail Thursday. At thoir trial on Wednesday no one appeared to testify aganst them and the judge was compelled to release them. Three were rearrested and held for the Grand Jury on $1,000 bail on trumped up charges. Two were held on sus- | | | LONDON, Jan. 14—Invention of a crewless motorboat, constituting a | giant torpedo and controlled by wire- | less, was hailed today by the “Daily | Herald” as the newest engine of na- val warfare. | The organ of the British Labor | Party declared that the boat could be used for dropping depth bombs | around ships, The boat's reputed |pcion on $1,000 bail. One, Sol Gold- speed of 40 miles an hour is said to |bund was held on federal charges for make it a difficult target, | deportation. It was reported recently that Japan| All the workers involved were ac- had develoned a one-man boat of | tive on the picket line during the re- the same sort, to be manned by a {cent shoe strike and are being picked volunteer who would die when he |for special persecution, as part of a reached his target. Man-power és planned attack on the United Shoe cheaper in Japan. Union by the Shoe Board of Trade, The United Shoe and Leather wine aes is preparing to ‘A isbstat es 4 itaise funds for the defense of the 8 Bits at 1472 Boston Road. Reports and | bought tickets for the entire house for election of a new executive will be held. | Wednesday’s performance of Peace on fs SE ee 3 * = |Earth. The play is being performed CITY CLUBS NS J y ‘The ‘Cts Ciuh Cone, central sogp ore |ae the Clvic Repertory Theatre, 14th S ney quarters at 31 East 20th) Procee i = ba me les ne gs io inspect | fend not cay the: pA atin night from six to eight. pen ver | workers but also the four workers facing long jail stntences in Jersey City for their strike activities and |the workers still on strike. 10 Workers are urged to attend per- ANNIVERSARY formance on Wednesday and help smash the frame-ups directed against Dai aily Worker CELEBRATIONS BRONX ALTERATION PAINTERS TO. ELECT militant workers and strikers. au amrages Mees at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 358 Cleremant Parkway, Bron On Feb. 2 at Girard Manor Hail, | 911 W. Girard Ave. Good program arranged, | Collinwood, 0.: | On Jan. 15 at Slovenian Working- man Home, 15335 Waterloo Rd.,| at 8 p.m. Good speakers, very | interest ARRANGE YOUR DANCES, LECTURES, UNION MEETINGS at the NEW ESTONIAN WORKERS’ HOME 27-29 West 115th Street New York City RESTAURANT and BEERGARDEN PATRONIZE To Raise Fund for 6, SEVERN’S| CAFETERIA 7th Avenue at 30th St. Best Food atWorkers Prices 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 All Kinds Of INSURANCE 799 Broadway N.Y. C. STuyvesant 9-5557 DOWNTOWN DE MOUNTAIN ese Restaurant American & Chin 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12 & 13 Welcome to Our Comrades All Comrades Mert at the NEW HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA Fresh Food—Proletarian Prices—S® E. 13th St.—WORKERS’ CENTER In the| counts with me!” the mili-| Union. jers and white workers on the picket| listen to a man. At the Fordham laundry where or-|f * NeW era in physical culture. two active workers were fired last|in the history of the Russian people The shop committee, with a|did they begin to get enough to eat. ntative irom the union are|Along with the sufficiency in the presenting demands to the bosses | Vitamins, today and a strike will be called if|Measures for the building of gyms, A registered letter to Local 280 of | Workers whose experience in running the A. F. of L. appealing for one| Was limited to chasing a bunch of united strike, one strike committee | Czarist degenerates out of the coun- and one plan of action was returned|try were given: spiked shoes and shops are on| taught crouch starts. In a word, |strike under the A. F. of L. local.|they were developing athletics from 1 Oe 0 K feller, keep your pants on ‘e Bley and we'll tell you a thing or two about sports in the Soviet But first you gotta take your finger outa my eye, lean back and You have to remember that they had « revolution over there in 1917. Then their energies were occupied for about five years more with re- pelling Allied and White Guard armies. After they succeeded in hurdling intervention, blockade and famine, they set to the job of re- construction. With the building up of shattered industry came the dawn Cyril, my boy, for the first time there were introduced Swi pools, tracks and parks. the ground up, All this with the as yet meager funds the Soviet Union could put at their disposal. The strides forward have been remarkable. Physical educators like Dr. Jay R. Nash of New York Uni- versity will attest to that. About 12,000,000 Soviet citizens are today involved in organized athletics and 32,000,000 will be in the sport asso- ciations by the end of the Second Five Year Plan. Tie thet, buddy! eras * 8 UT I forgot. It’s records you're in- terested in. Well, I would forget. You sce, we're not so hot about good individual records, nor are they ex- cited about these things in the U. S S.R. They—and we—are a lot more concerned about getting millions of people to enjoy physical culture than to nurse a couple of prima donnas as record-breakers, But they do keep times, and these are a pretty good index of the development of at least one major sport, track. Here! Look over the 1933 records: 60 meters—6.8 secs, 100 meters—10.7 secs. 200 meters—22.0 secs. 400 meters—50.2 secs. 500 meters—1 min., 12.5 secs. 800 meters—1 min. 58.9 sees. 1,000 meters—2 mins., 34.8 secs. 1,500 meters—4 mins., 7.4 secs. 3,000 meters—8 mins., 57.2 secs. 5,000 meters—15 mins., 23.6 secs. 10,000 meters—32 mins., 34 secs. 20,900 meters—1 hr., 12 mins., 52.2 sees, 110 meters high hurdles—16.4 sees. 220 meters hurdles—28.5 secs, 400 metres hurdles—59.6 secs, Bae, sw Co these records with some American records. The Soviet record for the 100 meters is better than the 1933 int-:collegiate time. That race was won by Hardy of Cor- Brownsville Pharmacist Directory B. ESECOVER, WM. GARDEN, WOLF N.PECKER,Ph.G.,163 Belm: FRANK SUSSMAN, Ph.G., 501 Powell St. 447 Stone Avenue. Ph.G., 386 Hinsdale St. it Ave. J. NOVICK, Ph.G., 408 Howard WORKERS--EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE Naar Hopkinson Ave, Brooklyn, N. ¥. nell at Cambridge, Mass., in the time of 10.8, exactly one-tenth of a second slower than that of*the Soviet record, The Russian time of 10.7 was only one-fifth of a second under that turned in by Ralph Metcalfe at the A. A, U. National Championships at Chicago last summer. The time for the 5,000 meters is three and four- tenths better than that in which the national A, A. U. championship ai that distance was covered Of course, this is not to say, Cyril, that the Soviets have the world’s best runners Not by a long shot. They have yet to produce their Tolans, Metcalfs, Lovelocks, Ladomegues and Nurmis. This takes a whole process of years and years of development, a@ whole system of highly developed track work. But they're getting there, boy. ‘They're on their way. ° . 'YRIL, me hearty, you've got to re- member, finally, that these lads are workers, not college boys who go to school to get a liberal education in knee action. They actually work in shops. Athletics are really ama- teur there, and these boys run be- cause they love to run and because this love of running helps to keep them in condition to build a socialist society. Some of our American comrades got some of this first hand a few years ago. It seems that the Labor Sports Union sent a delegation to a Spartakiade that was to be held in Berlin in the summer of 1931. The Bruening-Mueller government broke up the meet and it was held in frag- ments in different cities in Germany. After these small meets were held, the American group went to the Soviet Union to compete in some meets there. One day they were invited to com- pete with the track team of some factory, the Wlectrozavod, a shop producing electrical supplies, I be- lieve. Our American team had been practicing every day on Moscow cinder paths and were in tip-top condition They, of course, accepted. The American runners arrived at the appointed field at about 4:30 in the afternoon and began to jog up and down the track. Soon the Elec- trozavod men came. The announcer called out the 100 meter dash, but something seemed to have gone wrong. The Russian entry wasn't around, Suddenly he appeared—in work clothes, “Wait a second,” he told the officials, “I'll just take a shower to freshen up and I'll be right with you.” He came out of the shower, hur- riedly donning his track shoes, hardly waiting to warm up. He was off with the gun and all the two American sprinters saw the rest of the way was the Russian comrede’s shoulder blades. He eased up in the last ten yards, turning to look backwards at the Americanski tovarishtchi just before hitting the tape. “Shtot akoy?” he asked (“what's the matter?”) Shtot akoy, Cyril? Don’t leave so soon, Cyril. 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