The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1934, Page 2

Page Two ) AFL Renews Workers Today in Move in General Strike of To Smash Needle Union Atthracite Miners ILGW Heads Vote Funds Food Workers’ for Gangsters in Plan for Bloody Attack NEW YORK—The Joint Council of the International Fur Workers’ Union (A. F. of L.) will renew its war on the fur workers and the In- dustrial Union in the fur market to- day, it was learned from reliable sources. A gang of sluggers has been hired in anticipation of converting the fur market into a bloody battlefield again at noon today as part of an or- ganized terror drive to force the fur workers to join the A. F. of L. The definct Joint Council is expected to distribute a “manifesto” to the fur Workers similar to its attempt last summer. Knowing that the fur workers will resist the false prope- ganda against their union and will fight any effort to force the yoke of the racketeering A. F. of L. fur union on their necks, a gang of thugs will be let loose to incite rioting and beat and club the workers. By this “organization campaign” the paper A. F. of L union will attempt a “show of strength” to the fur bosses. ‘The attack on the fur workers has been hatched in the offices of the N. R. A. under the direction and guidance of no less an expert than Edward McGrady, assistant Secretary of Labor, who has a notorious re ord of using gangsters and terror against the militant fur workers. For some weeks negotiations have been under way between the fur bosses and the defunct Joint Coun- cil for an agreement. While the bosses know that the A. F. of L. is the agency by means of which they will be able to lower the conditions established by the Industrial Union, | they are also aware that the A. F. of L., having no membership, will not be able to furnish the labor out of which they exact their huge profits. They also know the fighting quali- ties of the fur workers and expect the fur industry to be thrown into a turmoil of strikes which it was forced to face last summer when it tried to starve the workers into join- ing the A. F. of L. After bribing some of the ring- leaders of the bosses’ asdociations with promises of jobs on the fur code authority and threatening others, Mc- Grady has finally obtained their con- sent to an agreement with the A. ¥. of L., which is the signal for another bloody terror campaign against the fur workers to smash the Industrial Union and force them into the A. P. of L. It is to convince the bosses that it has some “strength” that the A. F. of L. is now planning to carry on an “organization campaign” of terror and bloodshed against the fur workers. LL.G.W.U. Heads Aid Terror Leaders of the International Ladies | Garment Workers Union met a few ‘weeks ago and yoted the funds neces- sary for hiring the gangsters to the Joint Council, thus being directly involved in the attack on the fur ‘workers. Charlies Zimmerman, manager of Local 22, who was one of those pres-}| ent at the meeting, voted for appro-| priating the union’s money to carry on the bloody, murderous attack on the fur workers. He is reported to) have said in the course of his speech at the meeting: “If they (the Joint Council) want money to fight the Communists I am opposed to it, for I am a Communist too, but if they ‘want money to improve the condi- tions of the fur workers, I am ready | to yote for it.” Zimmerman’s weasel words will not cover up his shameful betrayal of Communism and of the fur workers. He will not deceive the workers, who Know that the A. F. of L. drive to “improve the conditions of fur work- ers” will be nothing more than a drive to destroy every vestige of gains they made in the shops through struggles led by the Industrial Union. Zimmerman’s vote was a vote for funds to blackjack, murder and frame up the fur workers, for a repetition of the murder attack on the Industrial Union headquarters and the murder of Morris Langer. ‘Yesterday the fur workers mobél- ized in the fur market prepared to Tesist any violence. A few enraged workers vented their indignation on Baritz, a Lovestonite who left the In- dustrial Union and is now actively working with the Joint Council to work with the gangsters. ‘The fur workers are being mobil- ized again today to resist any ter- rorism or intimidation and to fight for the right to join a union of their own choice. Women’s Auxiliary of Needle Union Plans Struggle for Rights NEW YORK.—Wives of needle trades workers, and women members of the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union, are joining forces to form an auxiliary organization to right to strike, picket and organize and for the workers’ right to join a union of their own choosing. For this purpose, a Women’s Action ittee of the Needle Trades ; Industrial Union has been 3 and is proceeding to or. ganize women’s auxiliarie: on a neigh basis. 5 first meetings, held last Thurs- in the Bronx, Harlem and » Were enthusiastically at- by both men and women Action Committee is planning mass meeting at Irving Plaza on 1 LaGuardia will be asked his position regarding the right fur workers to belong to a of their own choice. The del- will be accompanied by a on of wives of fur work- _ and women members of the L The demonstration is planned , Jan. 20, at 11 a.m. omen members of the union,! es of needle workers, are in- Support the union in its fight for the/| DATLY WORKER. WaronFur Grant Injunction | CUTTERS OF NEW Y (Continued from Page 1) Nanticoke police, stating: “This con-| | dition is a direct violation of Gover- | Nor Pinchot’s orders that all men de-| | siring to work be protected.” He de- | eg Lg sri cone Police would en- to strike if their demands for union| '* the Nanticoke field unless mass recognition were not met, the owner | Picketing there is stopped by the lo- lof the Academy Lunch Co, agreed to| CA! forces. > The strike is undoubiedly weaker recognize the Food Workers’ Indus-| , eee | trial Union. Wage increases of $2] in Lackawanna County in view of a | 4 heavy concentration of forces against | baie lbp hele eh at | the miners, including the press, the) % a | , the police, the U.M.W.A. offi-| 7142 E. 14th St., employs 130 workers, | Courts : ; Pits cials and the strike-breaking Labor Board, as well as the Maloney-Cap- pelini failure to give real leadership, which is a crime against the miners Maloney's statements continue to take the same position as that of the company forces. He declares that the strike is a fight between unions. He! repeatedly states that the leaders’) only interest is to drive the Lewis. Boylan machine out and secure rec- ognition. 35,000 Unrepresented Thirty-five thousand unemployed miners in Luzerne County alone feel | themselves unrepresented by the de-| AMONG THOSE PRESENT . mands of this strike. They want a shorter day for the miners with no “Union Signs Academy Lunch NEW YORK—Following a threat Local Nine ILGWU Members Meet, ‘Plan Protest Action NEW YORK.—Members of Cloak | Finishers local 9 of the I.L.G.W.U. will meet at Bryant Hall today right after work at the call of their left wing leaders, who were recentl: | ousted by the high handed action of | the Dubinsky Hochman clique. Senti- | ment for a struggle to prevent the | reduction in pay. modore Hotel.”—News item. ORK By DEL “Servants of the rich held a Butlers’ Ball at the Com- ousting of their elected officials is| When asked why there were prac- growing among the members of local | tically no pickets this morning, Ma- 9, and the meeting will plan further |!oney answered: “Picketing begins Organize Committee to action. this afternoon.” Undoubtedly strong picketing would| Build Fund for Marine A committee of rank and file mem-| ),,1, i pigs | bers elected to see the LL.G.W.U. of-| cunas. Union Anti-War Work NEW YORK.—To provide a sus |ficials to protest their decision made |“ tyniess there is drift back to work| after the recent farcical trial of the | tomorrow, the strike will be strong | | lett wing administration, was rebuffed and effective with District No, 1|taining fund to enable the Marine |by Dubinsky. After finally gaining | closed down. The miners are deeply | Workers’ Industrial Union to carry | saoueene to the dictator, the work- | concerned over their burning griev-|0n its militant struggle against war, jers were told that they are a “can-| ances ang feel confused because Ma-|@ provisional committee was recently |cer on the union and must be cut|joney says nothing of economic de-| organized at a banquet at which lead- | out by a surgical operation.” This | mands, {ing speakers outlined the Union's |reply infuriated the membership. | Comments of the miners questioned |anti-war program. The members are circulating a} today reflect the weak organization! The banquet which brought to- petition demanding the restoration | of the rank and file. At the same|gether prominent writers, profession- {of their officials to the local. They | time they show a militant spirit. |ats and intellectuals interested in par- {are calling on other locals for joint | There we have it, a fight between two | ticipating in the struggle against war |action and protest. The movement | unions. “What shall we do?” one ; was held at the Cadillac Hotel. Roy | will be extended to locals throughout | miner asked. The strikers, remem-|B, Hudson, national secretary of the | the country in an effort to coordinate | bering the recent sell-out by Ma-/Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, | the protest. | loney and Cappelini of the last strike,)and Clarence Hathaway, were among The I. L. G. W. U. officials have at- | feel a lack of militant policy. At the| those who spoke on the role of the j tached all funds of Local 9, but as | Same time the strike sentiment is very) union in the struggle against war. yet have not issued any statement ‘trong. The Collieries are going to try/ Many pledges of support were re- on their next moves in the fight. rhe pees bnpeahee tastings ; ceived by those present. ‘ e Ss y at the disposal s icy as of the UM.W.A. Boylan machine,| AmOBE those who have agreed to especially in Scranton, for appeals to | are: Roger said sreak the strike and return to work |W o145 Frank, Geor: tomorrow, The Wilkes-Barre papers) oig tondercon, : uae jal lenderson. save no editorials on the strike as yet. | The Scranton Times carries a leading | editorial , entitled “Stay at Work,”! which boosts the U.M.W.A., declares | Roosevelt Gold Law is Drive To Direct (Inflation amd War invites stire an igs as|sntairal (onion) Set |torial also warns the miners that the | 0 attend the dinner. Tickets may be police will deal with them harshly and |obtained at the union hall or from concludes with a plea that the| the offices of the committee. “miners remain true to the contract between the miners and the UMWA.” | Sklar and Don: The headquarters are at 505 Fifth Ave. On Jan. 25 a supporters’ dinner (Continued from Page 1) |and shunted toward Committees who | will bring them up for action as soon {| HAVERHILL, Mass.— The Russian and as possible. It is indicated this may Bist igh ee ereierciny Of | rithuantan branches of the International occur without public hearings. | | Labor Defense here have issued a call for Roosevelt's message also discussed | Three out of four Lehigh Valley|a united front Scottsboro defense mass r os by ae 4 \ collieries voted “to remain away from | meeth to be held at Eagle Hall, on the possibility of “greatly increased |°° a | Wed Jan, 17 at 7:30 p. use” of Hive as a basis of money (Work today to watch developmente.”| “are"\' ist wear chaccine have ree- ‘another inflationary process—but he | 1 the large and important Henry | por he calls the delegates from advised deliberation before further |824 Prospect collieries, of the U. M.| lacing wal amet oe 4 exiending ths. |W. A. the locals claim that 2200/ ak mass meeting will attempt to es- The silver bloc in the Senate, | Members voted “to declare a holiday’ however, immediately called 2 meet- | for at least several days. ing to discuss unlimited coinage of | The Exeter local of the U.M.W.A.,| the job requires three months. silver. . ; |claiming 700 members, voted against} ever, Maloney continued, the Labor Roosevelt introduced his proposals | working today. One minor prospect|Board, influenced by Green and by saying that in conformity with the | colliery said, “We are not on strike, Lewis, have turned everything back “progress” now being made in restor-|but we have declared a holiday.”|to the Conciliation Board consisting ing a “fairer” price level, he was | Another said to him, “What the Hell’s | of U.M.W.A. officials and operators. |Seeking legislation “to improve our|the difference between strike and} South Main St. in Wilkes-Barre, |tinancial and monetary system.” | holiday?” The answer was: “Holi-| beginning at Public Square, was | Wages Held Down By N.R.A. oe & good aoe sor strike. ; | dotted with police. There is heavy The “fairer” price leyel Roosevelt course, all local unions of an-/ police concentration at every colliery |seeks, as has Phd said often by EM bonnie have already voted to strike) in the biggest mobilization of the jficials, is that of 1926. Wages too,| {owing Saturday's District Sea asa Cie he Sara pole avaere ie, |the government spokesmen say,| be the history of the anthracite. | should rise. But pci proecut Rhett Maloney Regrets Strike Sheriff Williams of Lackawanna |omists of the status quo there is ‘aol Maloney, in a radio address yes- | County emphasized in a public state- | dissent from the statement that wages | terday late in the afternoon, repeated | ment that the orders against mass will rise very slowly. In fact, with| is regret for having to call the strike | picketing and that only miners em- HAVERHILL SCOTTSBORO MERT local permanent Scottsboro De- Committee. | wages already stabilized under the|2d said he desired arbitration. | ployed in a colliery are permitted to |N.R.A. codes—at levels ranging from| Maloney said “that the Executive | Picket “is an order of Governor Pin- } Board of the new union was not op-|chot and not my own.” Williams add- jall-depression lows to inconsequen-| tial individual increases—there is| Posed to creation of another Boardjed: “No man need be afraid of work, | scant prospect of any substantial rise. to make a thorough investigation of |Enough deputy State Police cover | Paper for Gold affairs in District No. 1, Even though every colliery.” | In return for its $3,566,000,000 in | | gold, Roosevelt would give the Federal Wander beed Revolus |Reserve Board gold certificates. By | cutting down the value of the dollars represented in the certificates, the |sovernment would take the “profit’ jand from this the $2,000,000,000 fund jfor gold-buying would be set up. Roosevelt suggested that this fund D attend the Irving Plaza meet- | also should be used for “purchases| Berkeley, Mich. | Michael Milton | Savage !Sam Glass jof government securities . . . as the |C.P. Berkley Unit |B. K. Demelieon B. Clatt regulation of the currency, the main- | A. Wickerts S. Dickian J. Brenen M. Oerent tenance of the credit of the govern-| 4° Comrade 8. Donchik | Brettas | Norman Cohen ment and the general welfare of the| Detroi i | H. Sridok Kallitechnakis David Shoichet , ” etroit, Mich. | | United States may require.’ ly. B. Gregor Carras | R. Grey Thus, also the government would| % 3 | Karamitias | Ruth Namiak be empowered to buy its own. bonds, ‘A. Parfinuk | Twe Section 2 Unit 11) I. Tolchin to keep the prices up, whenever new E | Section 8 Unit 6/ H. Fischoff issues imperiled their market posi-| Sy, : {John Rogach Budkor tion, ‘This is precisely the same kind] yg Nenela | |B. Szymka Sam Weismen of operation as Morgan and Company |"y,arSuae 4, | Samuel Doshin | Zak Dotty Persia | indulged in—and for which they were) x i" Gataria— | L0H, Novak John Son beac dae | criticized severely. | Dearborn, Mich. Peas | Section 4 Unit 7| Harry Newman Dollar Goes Down H. V— ag thas A. Mitsef \E. Schachter | The value of the dollar has been| Dearborn, Mich. | John Mikula Antonas Savor || A: Adelman b anela tore deposi eons John a ntonas Savoff i Lassen reduce id 63 cents in for-| K. N. Michael Maziarz | John Spaki Ch. jeign exchanges as a result of the|C. Zeikin Coun.3| pan Pierowich K. Debreff Harry Corry [Roosevelt gold-buying program, in| I.W.O. Br. No. 80| Sackar Gus Christopher | Joe Goldin which the government arbitrarily in-| Sec. 5, Unit 6 C.P.! Rathowski Workers-Ecorse | Nathan Madnen jereased the price of gold, this de-| Ala Nichelson | Majka V. Vaioff —_—| Marvin Revich {creasing the value of the dollar in| Detroit, Mich. | Zinow James Latin | M. Elbinger terms of gold. Now Roosevelt pro-|Appetizing and | Worker | R. George | Sam Rosen Poses to definitely proclaim the de-| Dairy Store \F. Antonuk lp Vidosk Fannie Schwartz valuation of the dollar, thus adding| Jack Weisman | W. Retruniak | Louis Tomice E. Zaget @ further big psychological push to| Stone Geo. Dupofft |M. P. Tolevitz | Angelo Lewis the legal basis for price boosting in| Section 5, Unit 4 | Stanley Jarmor- | J. A. Kraskl ; B. Luss the United States. | Wm, Palk zewitz | John Zorman G.L. Dealing in gold in foreign exchange | K. Wasama K. Kovaluk |M. Canjar {Sam Kessler |by the Secretary of the Treasury will|=. Flarken J. Baron Philip Kauffer | Louis Sarven enable the government to maneuver | Maki | Marcus | Carol Windroup | Max Baker |in the world currency market to meet | Nowenski Pavlow |M. Zimmerman | Albert Kaplan currency moves of other imperialist | Novok |N. N. | A, Waisanen Dora Kaplan nations. Observers swiftly saw this|Tivonen 3. | Sam Sweet A. Kranoff as a counter to the British “equal- | Tom Rock | & Worker | Jack Daller M. Friedman |ization fund,” which has been used | Mett Pirula and | Sam Metelskt N. Kaplan Sam Kaufer |as a level to obtain markets. The| Family | Wm. Van Hulle | Hermelin P. Kaufer jsharper this conflict becomes—and eee oe W. M. Cohen M, Golman Roosevelt's move ceriai dy ns i this Giahada the tore oe ee Leo Mack Family | N. Bishop Hea Baagart es Noe je ape! approach actual warfare. In PY atte — Sue ae Section 1 Fe “Miller fact, many observers here wondered ‘ Unit 2 J. Kaminsky se fe diated the Roosevelt program pated ochre of poten Dudau | R. Miller — ‘oul ing retaliatory measures. | winiam Wolf Lawrence Hodin- | Unit 3 J. Chin A Harry Zabinan ski | Unit 4 P. Chang Have you sent your contribution | Gust Thoma Nadezda Kodinski | Unit 5 Y. Lee bsisetdbl ves ind “Sora the :slenrryzen |Farm Crest Nick Adamchuk | H, Carpiloit B. G. Tom ¢ 4 gainst Unemp! yment J. Shuster Sacco Vanzetti br.| M. Tomssh G. Young to the National. Committee, Un- |B. Shundas ILD J. Pasternack mit 6 New ork Cli?” 80 East 11th St., iV. George | Moler A. Wabruck | G. Cosmites Section 7 Unit 3/| Roy | A. Zelman + R. Paris icolm Cowley, | ©, commitiee’s | will be given at the Marine Workers | Negro Worker Is | Murdered in Kilby Prison, Alabama | j MONTGOMERY, Ala—Louis Cun- |ningham, one of the nine Negroes | who had been sentenced to burn in the electric chair on Feb. 9, died in Kilby Prison on Tuesday. Cunning- | ham’'s death came within a few days of the announcement that Governor Miller, snowed under by protests lagainst this legal massacre, had promised a clemency hearing to eight of the condemned. Cunningham was such a hearing. The Montgomery papers are ex- tremely vague about the cause of |Cunningham’s death. They announce | that he “died of an iliness he had had for a long time.” ; The intervention of white and Ne- gro workers to halt the wholesale Slaughter scheduled for next month has infuriated the lynch-rulers of the | State. The Selma police have visited ,; and grilled Adie Foster, sister of Ben | Foster, one of the nine. Miss Foster |recently went to Birmingham to |make contact with the International Labor Defense. There she told the story of her brother's frame-up—a | story of police brutality that roused the indignation of people every- where and brought a storm of pro- test down around the eats of the ; Alabama officials. The police of | Selma insisted on knowing every de- | tail of Miss Foster's visit to Birming- |ham, and threatened her with pun- jishment for what she had done. Corset Contract Made | By ILGWU Heads Signs i Away Right to Strike | ‘of the Associated Corset and Bras-} siere Manufacturers’ Association with! |David Dubinsky, head of the Inter-/ national Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, was revealed this week, in | which Dubinsky signs away the work- sre’ right to strike. The agreement, which was signed on December 7 was not read to the workers and they do not know that clauses included in the agreement provides for “no strike or shop strike” and for arbitration machinery. “Should there be a strike,” a clause reads: “the union obligates itself to| jreturn the striking workers within je hours after the receipt by the junion of a written notice.” | If they are not returned the firms have the consent of the strikebreak- ing 1.L.G.W.U. officials to hire scabs mary Greetings to the Daily Worker on Its Tenth Anniversary | M, Duer +A Benemensky | B, Izen |D. N. | ‘ |i, A. | N. Abramowitz | 7" ¢ |_C. Helmer |R. Sirteman Unit 8 ‘Linden R. Betkey | Striehmenn H. Manas | Kreinman M. Granich ) L., Linden P. Meszaros | A. Machlis W. J. Copeland |New York City H. Held J. Schwartz, Unit | H. Shaw 1, Sec. 7 B. Bones | Eli Shtenchman W. Becker | Paul Skedarick J. O. Bardensky |Sam Lustica | M. J. Flannery | 5 | P. Lodeche | Cli-Grand Youth | Portchester. | Ciub: |W. E. Paulsen | Albert Moss | Sandberg | Tessie Rabinowite Harvey Ehmhous | William Perlman |O. Benson ; Dave Friend | J. M. Gniewek— Ben Sher | “Hempstead, Li, Williameb'g. Dis |Porchester Unit | 1.08 hs | Sch if | Harry Chan | School No. 3 ine | School No. 3 ‘rer School No. 5 = rae ee Paper Workers Hansen BG fren ig Russian National | C19P ieee Mutual aaid | .onlv. Students Society Br. 108 | Morn |Ida_ Hendrickson | dearon i , | Jacob Kasser ed York City iamate sora Reseed August S: tg aa Hermine Saks =e Morris Eagle ; Sam _ Goldman Mattu J. Green 1G. M. Sapphire |N. Nichols $ | M. Nichols Popkin Bi Moss D. Dz | Br. 68 LW.O., HR. | Staten Island R58 | Frank Alina Straus i Prank Makovsky one of those who was to have had} ion 2 Unit 3|Boston Dressmakers EW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1934 Jobs for Negroes | Will Be Demand of | Delegation to CWA Negro, White Workers In Fight on Georgia Lynch Terror NEW YORK.—C.W.A. jobs for Ne- 'gro workers and a struggle on dis- |crimination against Negroes on public projects were voted the major issues of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights at the initial meeting of the Greater New York Council of the League held last Thursday. A delegation to visit the C.W.A. authorities is planned for Thursday, Jan. 18th, at 10 a. m. The delega- tion will leave from the LSNR. headquarters, 119 West 135th Street. A mass meeting to hear the report lof the delegation and further action are planned for later next week. | Protest Georgia Terror | A protest against the recent lynch- ling of five Negroes in Georgia will be |made at the meeting where the del- |egation to the C.W.A. will report. | Petitions demanding employment for Negro motormen and conductors jon the busses of the Fifth Avenue |Coach Company are being circulated by the LS.N.R. | White Workers Active ; White workers are taking an active part in the work of the L.S.N.R., the |Finnish Workers Club, the Finnish {Women’s Club and the Sunnyside |branch of the International Labor Defense being represented at the Council. Council meetings will be held the }2nd and 4th Thursday of every |month at the League's headquarters, | 119 West 135th Street. Negro Is Framed ‘by White | Landlord | Attacked in Sick Bed for Absence from Job | NEW YORK.—Oscar Day, a Negro | worker working for Max Markowitz |as a janitor at 259 Rivington St., has | been framed-up by his employer on a charge of robbery. | Oh Dec, 22, Day did not show up for | work. Markowitz then went to the home of Day and said, “Why didn’t | | you come to work?” “I'm sick, can’t ‘ou see,” Day replied. Thereupon, | witz grabbed him by the throat, | tried to choke him. Day defended | imself. | | Markowitz then went to police| headquarters and placed a charge of | {assault and battery” against Day. | | Day was arrested 18 hours later and | | token to Tombs prison. | | The trial comes up Tuesday at] |10:30 in General Sessions, Part I, | Criminal Court Building. | Cons Sug Protest | of Evicted Negro | ‘ tt ‘Seven in Brownsville) i Protest Arrested | NEW YORK.—Seven Negro and white workers were arrested, and) many other workers were slugged, when police attacked a demonstra- tion Saturday, at 131 Herzl St., which was held to demand the removal of Magistrate Hirshficld and Captain Ward, head of the 73rd Precinct Po- lice Station. The demonstration, held under the auspices of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the Interna- tional Labor Defense of Brownsville, } was being conducted in an orderly; manner, when withouf any warning, | a squad of policemen charged into) the meeting with their clubs swinging) | wildly. Many of the workers at the meeting were hit by the blackjacks jand night sticks, among them a preg-| nant woman worker. ‘The workers demanded the removal of Captain Ward, who ordered the illegal eviction of William Bryan, mil- itant Negro worker and his family jon December 12, 1933. The demon- jstrators also demanded the removal lof Magistrate Hirshfield because he irefused to issue a warrant for the arrest of Bryan’s landjord. | The seven workers who were ar- \rested, F. D. Griffin, organizer of the |LL.D., May Lewis, R. Handy, of the \League of Struggle for Negro Rights, |J. O'Kane, an ex-serviceman, Kres nitz, and the two other workers were | arraigned yesterday at the Pennsyl vania Ave. court in Brooklyn, @ |various charges, ranging from disot- |derly conduct, to resisting arrest. The | trials of these seven workers will come jup on Jan. 23, at the Pennsylvania jand Liberty Ave. Magistrates court. All workers must pack. the court-room in protesi against police terror and ee eviction laws. |Ask Unity With ILGWU ‘To Win Improvements BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 15—In a plea | for united action to demand improved | conditions n the next agreemsnt is signed, the dress department of the | Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union addressed an open letter to locals 46 and 80 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union to elect a committee to work jointly with it in working out these demands. The present agreement expires next month, The letter proposes that the joint committee be authorized to call a shop conference of all organized and open dress shops to mobilize the dressmakers for the demands of week work in the industry, 35 hours and no overtime, unemployment insurance to be paid by the bosses, no work on Saturdays and Sundays, 5 legal holi- days with psy. A proposal to organize all unorganized shops and leave the choice of urton to the workers was siso made. The letter concludes with a strong appeal to the dressmakers for unity as the only means by which union | Union, | dered into Madison that their original judgment on the matter had been confirmed. | | Lanky Ellsworth got $7,123 “heart | | balm” for losing the match, a rate |at which the Daily Worker business manager would cheerfully agree to have his heart wounded daily. Bill got only $3,561 for winning, but he split with his promoter. Then the boys went on to Philly and thence to Washington, which only goes to show you what Roosevelt can do once you give him half a chance. Congratulations are, of course, on the order of the day. With an intel- ligence unusual to ranking tennis players, the boys have gone and found a good thing for themselves. Tilden won a couple, and now it’s Vines’ chance. Youth Will Be Served on Saturdays while Age Stands Off Impetuous Youth on alternate Wed- | nesdays. Swell, but don’t let Jack Curley in on it. . . | A LITTLE birdie that perches on) Sport writers’ shoulders and whis- bers tidings, glad or otherwise, in | their ears, has informed us that Babe Ruth was accepting his contract for| |® measly $35,000 next year only on |condition that he becomes manager in 1935, Usually the fans are treated to the great pre-season drammer: “Ruth vs. Col. Jake Ruppert” or “Will | the Wolf Have Pups on Babe's Door?” | This year we were spared all that, the Babe accepting the $17,000 wage cut Just as if he didn’t know a damn thing about militant trade union tac- tics which, as a matter of solemn fact, he doesn’t, Piano legs and all, | the Bambino will be installed next year as Yankee manager, displacing} Joe McCarthy. For the New York comrades who are secking to estab- lish an advance alibi for the Yanks this year, let it be understood that Ruppert's Riflemen, to use an orig- inal expression, will be no Sunday school class, where sweetness and| light will shine. McCarthy is no- body's dope and realizes very wet that Ruth is the big man of the team and that he, Joe, is there only by sufferance, only because he has a two-year contract which Ruppert can’t break. This is the emery pow- SI GERSON Paragraghs, Just Paragraghs Lice gossip in the sheets that retail news of Sportlan has it that quite a few of the cigar-eating fraternity war Square Garden last Wesdnesday night, at tracted no doubt by the word “racquets,” which tney tolerantly understood to be just a ritzy way of spelling a noun with which | they were rather familiar. The boys, rubbing the smoke out of their eyes, gazed at the 16,000 fans at the Ellsworth Vines | Bill Tilden affair and decided ®, der, mes enfants, that’s 4 going to work havoc with the heretofore smooth. working Bronx machine. ae Se 5 are being an age of toppling mon) archies, little wonder is to be foun’ Square Garden Royal Family hag finally decided to let Jack Dempsey “promote” the Carnera-Baer fight. The fisticuffs will probably come off jat the Garden Bowl in Long Island in the month of June. Leon Sea will not lead the bride to the altax, it seems. Preem has gone and got himself another manager, a native of Italy, whose health may suffer pree cipitately if he comes to these shoreg this Spring, Annie doesn’t live here any more, igh ae Tees of the Yale Bowl, nearby which are to be found a number of buildings occasionally used for educational purposes, over which they are also the financial guardians when they have the time and inclination, are said to be in a quandary about the question of a new football coach for what is sometimes referred to as Old Eli. The whole business, the trustees say, “smacks of commercial- ism.”. The annual Athletic Associa< tion statement is, of course, only a book of verses and the football man~ ager’s report outright lyricism. Com~ mercialism! Deah, deah! How could you? Weel sake JEWS that really is refreshing comes from the Labor Sports Union office. Ero Erickson, hustling business manager, phones us that the |New Sports and Play, official organ of the Labor Sports Union, is coming out in a special seventh anniversary number that people that is people are going to like, Ero didn’t neglect to inform us that the magazine was five cents a copy, four cents in bundle orders of 25 or more, and that checks or money orders should be made out, to him at the new address of the magazine, 114 West 14th St, New York City. Always looking for publicity, that guy. Hanged if I'm going to print @ line about him, WAIT, HOLD THE PRESS! Hearing on Framed Negro Worker Tonight | in West 54th St. Court —_—— | NEW YORK—Hearing has been set for Tuesday night 9 o'clock in the Night Court, West 54th Street, in the case of Henry Artone, Negro worker arrested on a charge of ac- costing a white girl. | City Events | ROCKAWAY TO ORGANIZE LEAGUE AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM The Provisional Rockaway Committee of | the American League Against War and DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin amd Sutter Aves., Brosktyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-012 Office Hours: 3-10 AM, 1, 6-3 P.M. Tobacco Workers Industrial Union Shop EL TROPICO Manufacturers of 100% HAVANA CIGARS 320 7th Ave., Cor. 28th St. BOX TRADE A SPECIALTY Tompkins Square 6-913 Fascism will hold an organizing conference with the purpose of forming a permanent Committee, aMllated with the American | League Against War and Fascism, to be/| held tonight at the Workmen's Circle Hall, 188 Beach ath St., 8:30 p.m. caer cee SLIPPER WORKERS TO MEET A general membership meeting of oll silp- per workers of the slipper department of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Un- fon, N. Y. District, will be held tonight, 6 p.m., at Manhatten Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. . 38 ’ NEEDLE TRADES OFUN FORUM. An open forum at the Needle ‘Trades; an 131 W. 28th St., Wednesday, Jan. | 17, at 2 p.m., where H. Wicks will’ speak | on “Lenin and the American Working Class.” | caper | | ATTENTION SLIPPER WORKERS An important membership meeting of slip- | per workers is called for Tuesday, Jan. 16, | at Manhatten Lyceum, 66 F. 4th St. at 8:: n. by the United Shoe and Leather | kers’ Union. A re.ort on the present situation in the trade and on amalgame- tion will be given. All slipper workers are | urged to attend. WILLIAM BELL ovrrctas Optometrist OF THE LW. 0. | | 106 EAST ITH STREET | Near Fourth Ave, N. ¥. ©. Phoue: Tompkins Square 6-8237, | I. J. MORRIS, Inc. } GENERAL FUNERAL } DIRECTORS 29° SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Phone: Dickens 2-!273-—-4—5 i Night Phone: Dickens 6-5352 t For International Workers Order | Bway Coffee Shoppe |, |] 866 Broadway. Quality Foods | Caucasian Restaurant “KAVKAZ"” Russien and Oriental Kitchen BANQUETS AND PARTIES a8% Kast 14th Street New York City Trade Unico Directory ++: BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKERS UNION 199 Broadway, New York City Gramerey 5-0857 FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 4 West 18th Street, New York City 5 FURNITURE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION ‘DUSTRIAL UNION 35 East 19th Street, New York City Gramercy 7-7842 NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION New York City 010 (Brooklyn ) Williamsburgh Comrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria 94 Graham Ave. Cor. Siegel St. EVERY BITE A DELIGHT WORKERS--EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AWENUE Nar Hopkinson ooklyn, N. ¥. | SOKAL CAFETERIA FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS 1639 PITKIN AVENUE CULTURAL SEVERAL GOOD APARTMENTS Workers Cooperative Colony 2700-2500 BRONX PARK EAST (OPPOSITE BRONX PARK) has now REDUCED THE RENT ON THE APARTMENTS AND SINGLE ROOMS Kindergarden; Claeses for Adults and Children; Librar?; Gymnasium; Clubs and Other Privileges Take Advantage of the Opportunity. NO INVESTMENTS REQUIRED ACTIVITIES & SINGLE ROOMS AVATLABLE Lexington Avenue train to White Piains Read. Siop xt Allerton Avenue Station, Tel. Estabrook 8-1400~1401 conditions may be assured. 9 a.m. to 8 pu am, to 5 to? | Office open Friday & Sn Sunday riday loose at the fact that the Madisoi)