The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1934, Page 2

Page Two Needle Workers Protest Jailing of Ben Gold At Cooper Union Tonigh t TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERS, DISTRICT 2 Geld Arrested During | 1932 Hunger March, A The tag days to raise funds for Leading Jobless the National Convention of the Unemployment Convention has NEW YORK.—Aroused against Ed- been extended to Mond: Ji ward McGrady, A. F. of L. agent in the U. S. Department of Labor, who engineered the jailing of Ben Gold in order to weaken the Industrial Union and strengthen the hand of the A.| F. of L. among the fur workers, needle workers all over the country are organizing protest meetings to de- mand the immediate release of their leader. In New York a protest meeting will be held today at Cooper Union im- mediately after work. In Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia. protest meetings are being arranged by needle workers in joint action w the industrial unions in the: Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Gold started a prison sentenc || Boxes can be gotten at stations 40 days last Friday in a Wilmington,|| listed in yesterday's Daily Worker Delaware, jail, after a letter was in-|| as well as at the local Unemploy- troduceq from Edward McGrady || ment Council headquarters and the charging Gold with being a “menace || city headquarters of the Council, to American society and institutions” ||} 99 ©, 20th St. All monies collected and virtually ordering Gold’s jail|| should be turned in by Monday, sentence. |] Jan. 29. McGrady is best remembered by his | District Secretariat, District 2 strikebreaking speech to the coal CongressCommittee urgently needed to en- sure the proper arrangements of the convention. It is of the great- est importance that these tag days Convention, significance at is of resent time. urge each Party member to become active in collecting funds during the entire week and to in- volve as many sympathetic work- ers as he may have around him in such a collection. Special efforts must be made to make mass collections this coming We miners last fall when as personal emissary from Roosevelt he deceived the miners by lies and demagogy,| wheedling many of them into return- | ing to work and thus breaking the backbone of the coal strike. SAILY WORKER, N W YORK, ‘Jury Selected in (eo. Powers’ Case NEW YORK.—The trial of George Powers, organizer of the Independent Sheet Metal Workers’ Union, charged with inciting to riot and assaulting | police officers when he led an unem- | | ployed demonstration at City Hall on | | April 21, 1932, proceeded yesterday | with the completion of the selection | of the jury at General Sessions Court. Many workers in courtroom |were admonished by Judge Freschi | |for their appar: npathetic atti- tude toward Power: | Examination of witnesses for both |the prosecution and the defense | takes place in Part 8 of the General | ions Court, Centre and Franklin | t 10 a.m. today. All worker: are urged by the International Labor Defense to pack the courtroom to | prevent Powers from being railroaded to a long prison term Gold Measure OK'd bySenateCommittee (Continued from Page 1) likely to be approved by Congress. As | originally drafted by the administra- | tion, secrecy was provided. The House |had amended the bill to require a report to Congress every three years. | Want More Inflation | Silver Bloc Senators organized to- |day to launch a drive on the floor | tomorrow to include a silver coinage proposal in the gold bill. Senator | waeeler. Montana Democrat, told | GUTTERS OF NEW The Crusader | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1934 | Wm. Leader of A.F.L. Hosiery Union Speaks at F.S.U. Meet Friday NEW YORK.—William M. Leader first Vice-President of the Phila- delphia Branch of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, will speak at the mass meeting of the Friends of the Soviet Union, at the New Star Ca- sino, 107th and Park Avenue, at the opening of its first National Convention, Friday, Jan. 2. | Herbert ik, acting na- tional secretary of the F.S.U., O. G. Crawford, of the Socialist Party of Erie, Pa., Mother Bloor, national farm organizer, C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, Carliss Lamont and others will address the meeting. (Additional News on Page 6) Zausner Withdraws | (Continued from Page 1) ‘Veterans March on City Hall for Relief | Demand Endorsement of | Jobless Insurance ‘Jobless Unemployed | Unity Will Win Jobs | pa Aan haa | \of the employed and unemployed | can we secure the means to live for |the unemployed, and stop the wage (Continued NEW YORK.— Four hundred vet-|cuts and speed-up of the workers in | assembled at Union Square the industries. It was the mass strug- | erans The fur workers know the treachery | this correspondent he would submit Approves Roosevelt and marched on the city the ee =| DI Navy” Bill ee ne ent | Biggest Navy’ Bi baiter and was responsible for the] most vicious expulsion campaign | (Continued from Page 1) against the fur workers in behalf of | RAEN a NaN the bosses. santa e |from the committee dais by the for- “Me Grady must go” is the slogan) mer chairman and ranking Repub- heard everywhere in the fur market.|jican member, Fred A. Britten of Il- The fur workers who are taking the | jinois. Representative Britten, who leadership of the union in Gold’s| absence are determined not to permit|years ago by using his influence to MeGrady’s action to interfere with |move the United States Atlantic fleet the struggle they are conducting for|to Montauk Point, Long Island, to the right to join a union of their/enhance his real estate holdings own choice. there, repeatedly accused the Navy The Cooper Union meeting tonight | Department of succumbing to British | will be the basis for a movement to/influence in the form of punch served free Ben Gold from the Delaware|at the British Emibassy. Charging prison, where he was sent for his|that “this British influence” resulted courageous leadership of the National|in preventing American imperialists Hunger March during a brutal police {from building flying deck cruisers, attack on the marchers in Wilming- | Britten yelled: “If we can get ahead ton. Thousands of needle workers are|of the British or the Japs or -the <pect u t to the meeting. |French with flying deck cruisers oo oe = that’s the thing to do. If you, gentle- tire rh ad ae ay ea don’t get into ‘building 6-inch iv $ n, 8. ieee ROmBpEH: te GOs Poyntz of Trade Union Unity | fying Mibok, Orisa) Bon ano aie ing to make it hot for you.” “We're Not Spending Enough” Asked by Representative Darden of Virginia whether he thought it would be “advisable” to give Japan a 5-5-5 treaty strength instead of the strength she was given at the Council and Pat Toohey, leader the coal mine strike in "tah and | New ico, will be among the Speakers at thc meeting a \distinguished his chairmanship two} his silver plan—another big inflation scheme —as an amendment to the | gold bill. It would provide that the | Monday | government buy up to one billion dol- | hall demanding that the LaGuardia | \lars worth of silver and issue silver | administration increase city relief to | certificates on it on an 11 to one ratio. | all ex-servicemen, abolish the present | Wheeler said he had consulted the| vermin-infested flop-houses to which | | White House, and although the Presi-| the veterans are sent, and endorse | dent had not agreed, “it looks hope-|the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- | ful.” | ance Bill. As the veterans converged | “Something will be done for silver}on the city hall, hundreds of police | at this session,” Wheeler added. were mobilized by the LaGuardia ad- Probably the silver program will not | ministration, be approved by Congress at this time.) The yeterans forced the mayor to| but this move wili serve to rally the| order the closing of vermin-infested silver blocs forces for a successful rion houses to which homeless vet- | jaar lever ee, erans were assigned. The veterans | nded that five elected mem- | The Amendments alse dem: | | Other amendments to the gold bill| bers of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s | |approved today would accomplish t e | League be appointed to the Welfare | | following: |Board to administer relief to vet-| A three year limit would be estab-| erans, LaGuardia was also forced to) lished for the operation of ithe stabili-| permit the sending of homeless vet- zation fund, the President being| erans to other clean hotels, | authorized to terminate it as much as! simultaneously with the march of ait Grae eaten Eetiscran on the | the veterans, nine elected delegates | [President's authority to change the| Or, "me Nev omhe torus were ta |level of valuation within the range y to fight the Citizens Budget | of 50 to 60 per cent. of normal value; n, organized to destroy ex- ae teseptivhates afulans pel aetn 2 | isting veteran welfare legislation now lof its being handled solely by the| the state statute books. The re Secretary of Treasury erans also presented a petition to/ bea "ti |Gov. Lehman, demanding that the| With the cxception of the limita- ; } ‘i stabi tarda | State Senate immediately petition the tion on the stabilization funds opera. Mayor of Ne ‘ork for the passage tion, these amendments are not vital. | average wages to all unemployed to gles of the employed, the growing strikes, and the mass demonstrations and struggles of the unemployed th: forced the Roosevelt government to inavturate the C.W.A, jobs. “It will be again the united strug- gles of the employed and unemployed that can force the government to re- cind the present vicious orders and compel them to grant more jobs and relief to the unemployed. But the recent action of Roosevelt has again emphasized the fact that unless the workers can force unemployment in- surance they are always at the me! of the capitalists and their govern: ment.” The T.U.U.L. statement then calls for the widest fight for the enact- ment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, which calis for full y be paid from funds obtained from the capitalists and the government. The statement denounces the “fraudulent bills proposed by various politicians, liberals and A. F. of L. leaders that in reality are insurance inst a genuine unemployment tn- surance bill. Especially the proposals of the Executive Council of the A. F. of L., which meets in Washington on Jan. 24, offers no way out for the unemployed. “Green and Co., who have recently issued a lying and pro- yocative slanderous statement against Bedacht Hails LW.0. 1922 Washington Naval Conference Jof the Wo! Relief Ordinance; |the T,U.U.L. and other workers’ or- n relation to Great Britain and the} | United States, Admiral Standley re- On 4th Anniversary Order 40,000 Strong. Whereupon Darden dutifully with. drew “that question.” Representative McFarlane of Texas The creation of the Board is simply a |sop to banker opposition to the bill, | ganizations, especially the Communist that they also demand continued C. | | Party, here once more,show that they ; plied: “I'd rather not answer that| question.” Chairman Vinson inter- posed: “It’s not a fair question.’ which preseriy would trensfer cer-| W-A. jobs for all registered veterans; | tains Pederat pple wers to the| that all state war funds be used for ecretary of Treasury. Tuc proposed |Yelief of the unemployed; and that card would include the Secretary of | the state Senate petition Congress for |Treasury, the Governor of the Fed-|the immediate payment of the bal- \eral reserve Board, the Comptroller of | ance due to veterans on their com- the Currency, and two members ap-| pensation, repeal the Roosevelt Eco- are the agents of the bosses,” the statement says. “They are opposed to federal un- employment insurance on the ground that it is ‘unconstitutional.’ For them nything in the interests of the work- Growth Is a Challenge jvoiced the sentiment of the entire | pores apes |pointed by the President. Obviously | ‘s is unconstitutional. Instead, they nomy Act, which is directed against ‘Broadway, will be in Part 1, Room |} Committee when, complaining that sufficient hundreds of millions have not been given the jingoes and the mperialists, he orated: “We're the Ss richest nation in the world and yet NEW YORK.—Max Bedacht, meni-| vere spending little compared with ber of the Central Committee of the|cther nations’ budgets.” Communist Party, hailed the 4th an-| “ Stating that though “we need” 100,- niversary of the International Work- |000 men to man a treaty navy, Ad- ers Order and its growth from 5,000 /miral Standley revealed that the pres- to the present membership of 40,000|ent compietement of men “permits as a “strong challenge to the capi-|the navy to man the guns and be talist leadership of the reformist fra-| effective immediately on the outbreak ternal organizations.” of war.” *Up to the formation of the Recommend Further Increases LW.O.,” he said, “the millions of) after hearing the recommendation workers in the reformist fraternal or- jof Admiral Standley for more air- ganizations were neglected by the|pianes, the Committee left the room yevolutionary movement. The in- 2 —a chamber bristling with engrossed greasing economic insecurity of a|cannon, martial paintings of fully ac- Worker under capitalism turned his|countered dough boys and battle- eyes towards benefit organizations for ips stripped for action, gold crested protection. The neglect of the revo-/jeagies, and purple drapings to pro- lutionary movement to supply such organizations helped practice to drive him into the bourgeois and re- formist orders.” sharpening contest for markets. How strong the revolutionary pro-| The House Appropriations Com. gram of the I.W.O. has been, is shown | mittee has already recommended $33,- by its last recruiting drive, in which |619,334 for “increase in the navy,” To Reformist Leaders |perialist slaughter of workers in the 12,000 new members were enrolled. |an addition of $1,200,000 over budget | estimates. This recommendation, i ive,’ said Bedacht, “not only “ ae a ag which no one expects will meet with showed the recruiting power of the 0 p . » aliza- opposition, is exclusive of the Be ortine cles radicaliza~ | cver 700 million dollars necessary for Baits coith + /popran {the Vinson and Roosevelt building dissatisfaction with the Policies of the ero arh bA$oRRLO00 000: OF Aha Mate lead ieee a k and death |#lready being spent for the construc- cee Sek oe <7 |tion of 32 additional “recovery” war- benefit to its members, the LW.0. | snips. carries on an unremitting struggle |~~*” for Social and Unemployment Insur- | Naval Wace Cals, Stand ance at the expense of the bosses and; | _\*¥* ns a a government, and supports all strug-|_ WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23.— ies of the working class. ~"|'The naval appropriations bill, provid- Be cx * as Ball pa Concert, cele- |ing gigantic sums to build warships j sia ‘Anniversary, will be held |°24 naval planes, and to increase the Broting the Anniversary wie ihe ent (avy and marine personnel by 3,800 this Saturday, January 27, at the 60th | es at the same time provides for Regiment Armory, Lexington Avenue continued wage-cuts for naval em- and 25th Street. An elaborate pro-| iO oe. * gram has been prepared | The 15 per cent wage cut decreed |Jast summer by Roosevelt will be con- j tinued until July, when five per cent of it “may” be restored. The automatic pay increases for long service which were discontinued |al the same time are not restores Alabama Orders Another Legal Murder JASPER, Ala., Jan.—Death in the electric chair on March 16 was order-| ed by a jury here for William Win- ton, 27, Negro worker, charged with aurder of three white men. Testi-/ ‘ynony at the izial showed one of the| End Bronx Bread Strike “men attacked Winton, that he had “insulted his sister.” i | ster | With Workers’ Victory NEW YORK.—Three bread strikes of Bronx workers have ended in vic- tories for the workers, The strike led by the Neighborhood Committee Against the High Cost of Living, has ended with lower bread prices in STRIKE AT BLECHMAN YORK—The striking em- of S. Blechman & Sons, 502 300 of the Supreme Court, Franklin ‘ahd Center Sis., today at 10 am. to e sky's bakery 765 E. 182nd t., and at the bakeries at 738 E. 180th St., and 762 E. 180th St. As a result of the strike the prices of bread in these bakeries has been re- duced from eight cents to seven cents, and rolls reduced from 20 cents to 18 cents. conducting Ynes were On on? o is charged by the strik- workers with violating the N.R.A. by forcing them to work over- without pay, and discharging workers for participating in activities, thus showing actual ation against organized la: the an strike mass International r Defense yating the injunction, and urge ic s to come to the trial and low the bosses that they cannot in- te the strikers or break their ket line A mass meeting to cclebrate the victory and to spread the strike to other bakeries will be held tonight at 8 p. m., at 813 B 189th St. the Secretary of the Treasury would | control the actions of the Presiden- | tially appoiniees on tne board, so that | Roosevelt would retain ntrol, rea istically, though not sormally. | Chairman Fletcher of the Banking | Committee said after the meeting that he didn’t think the latter| amendments had a chance of sticking. It is generally conceded that their | only chance would be to be accepted by Roosevelt—and that is not Ww jlikely. In the House, every am |ment was cried down and summa: | squelched. | Secret Discussions | approval immediately after the} jamendmenis were adopied. Even! | Senator Glass of Virginia and McAdoo |vide the proper atmosphere for mak-|f California, the Democratic con-| |ing the preparations for the next im- | S€rvatives, voted approval. The divi-| |sion of the Committee was 15 to 2 for jthe bill, with only Goidbosorugh of | Maryland and Townsend of Delaware, Republicans, voting no, | In just three hours of secret delib- |erations, the committee completed {action. It had outstanding monetary | authorities declare the inflationary character of the bill. It had heard visor declare, late yesterday, “I have ext data on wages,’ although he and several others had announced that the brunt of inflation would fall upon salary and wage earners, who will have to pay more for everything j Under the Roosevelt program, and j} who will be placed in far greater | danger of being sent to war. | Debate on the Senate floor proba- | bly will be bitter—but with only oppo- {sition likely coming from the die- hards, and with final approval cer- |tain throughout. In fect, |the Senators opposing the bill are | included on the Banking Committee, | Which approved it today. Senator Fess complained that his | constituents were “propagandizing”’ | him to vote to devaluate the gold dollar or to issue greenbac’ would be, he said, “a great blunder, economic, governmental and in every other way.” He asserted that for the government “This procedure of decreasing the value of the dollar in order to pay a debt and enhancing the price of the commodity might benefit some classes,” he said, “but it is going to jority of our people, | great majority of |gaged in gainful cc jdo not sell commoditi | Services." Illustrating by because the iS are en- the jModities but who sell services for W and salaries” this represents vastly more then 50 per cent of Americans, something like 78 per cent in the interest of increasing prices of | commodities but who sell services— Pepa like 49,000,000 of our peo- ple.” f ~— | employ The Senators who had been op-j posing the gold bill in the Committee's | \hearings, nevertheless, switched to} the President's chief monetary ad-| most of | This | be a terrific injury to the vast ma-| effect the) Roosevelt bill will have in depart- ment stores, he pointed out that in a Washington store, owned by fifteen men who employ 200 people, “fif- teen men benefit; but at the cost of the 200 people who do not sell com- veterans, and pass the Workers Un- nnd Social Insurance Act. War in Europe and. Hast Seen in Paris (Continued from Page 1) | as Czechoslovakia and Jugosiavia, vassals of French imperialism, would | undoubtedly oppose any attempt of | their Italian imperialist rivals to es- | tablish control over Austria, which } occupies a highly strategic position in | Central Europe and is at present the! storm center of imperialist antagon- isms end intrigues. Chancellor Dolifuss, ‘fascist lead whose regime is threatened by a riv: faction in the fascist Heimwehr, is} reported to have sent another sharp note to Hitler, threatening to appeal to the League for protection against | Nazi interference, Dollfuss was recent- ly assured of Italian support against Germany by Fulvio Suvich, Italian Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, who made a special trip to Austria to confer with Dollfuss, Japan Threatens U.S.S.R. NEW YORK.—A report breathing } threats of war to the Soviet Union and China, and bidding for the sup- port of America, Japan’s chief rival for commerce and naval strength, was made by Koki Hirota, Japanese For- eign Minister, to the Japanese Diet | Monday, and reprinted here yester- day. diplomatic attempts to | Goyern=ent’s recent | publication of Japanese” documents | l-planned program of | revealing a w war provocations sound like an ag- gressive act on the part of the Soviet | Union, | It echoes the statement of William | R. Castle, former American assistant + SCC] y of state. in last Sunday’s| |New York Herald-Tribune, who calls | | the Soviet Government's revc!ation of | | Japan's systematic attacks a “war| provocation.” Explosion at Eagle Pencil Kills Worker | NEW YORK. — Mo: 1 Kraiowsh ally Injured, OF: d in Bellevue Hos uffered | in an explosion and fire in the oil storage house of the Eagle Pencil Co., 712 East 14th St, With all indications tending to show negligence and gross disregard for safety measures on the part of the company, the officials are going | {to great pains to conceal the details lof Daily Worker the family | y had been questioned by the officials whether fellow-employees of Krajewski had disclosed any details concerning the explosion. . | ‘Will demonstrate tomorrow at 4:45 p. demend shorter hours. But they do not demand increased pay with the shorter hours and their proposal boils down to the old stagger system of Hoover. The T.U.U.L. statement urges all workers, all workers’ organizations, especially the trade unions, to elect delegates to the National Convention Against Unemployment in Washing- ton_on Feb, 3, 4, and 5. “The convention can be made the starting point for the mobilization of the forces of the working class an answer the attack, to begin the big- gest mass fight for relief, for jobs, for Unemployment Insurance,” the statement concludes. Bear Mt. Workers | Fight CWA Pay Cut (Continued from Page 1) rode the subway, others made the long walk to 28th St. on foot. As the workers converged on the C.W.A. of- fices, dozens of police and four radio squad cars were summoned by the C.W.A. authorities. The 6,000 workers employed at Bear Mountain are forced to arise at dawn in order to catch the train that leaves for Bear Mountain at 6 am, from New Jersey, and never get home be-| fore T pm. One of their grievances is that they should receive pay for the five to six hours that each worker spends in travelling to and from work. Fire Bear Mt, Worker H. Highley, corpenter employed at Bear Mountain, was fired last week on a charge one of the special police that he hed boarded the train from the wrong side. Highley was/| fired on the first day that he was to| receive increased pay, after he had worked as a carpenter for laborer’s wages. Barker, a Negro carpenter, was fired for protesting that his} wages were 50 per cent lower than} other carpenters. Furey, an ex-ser- vicemun, employed as a carpenter, Was fired when the foreman, Gard- ner, charged that he had spoiled a piece of lumber. ee C.W.A. Workers to Demonstrate Thousands of C.W.A. and Home Relief Bureau white-collar workers | m. before the siate offices of the C.W. A, at 124 E, 28th St., demanding that wage cuts on all C.W.A. jobs be stopped; against dismissals; for the continuance and enlargement of the C.W.A. program; and that all C.W.A. workers be retained at 30 hours a week with no reduction of pay. Bronx Workers Demand Jobs A delegation of 36 workers called on Bronx Borough President Ly io ig jo t; stopping of all evictions pending passage of an anti- eviction law; and that Lyons endorse Zausner and was intended as an ex- cuse for putting over, in the way he did, the daily 50 cents work tox. Not that it was wrong to use all available means to popularize the strike. But when this publicity was not true to fact, and nothing or next to nothing was being done to prepare and mobilize the rank and file for & militant struggle with the employ- ers for a real agreement, embodying improved conditions, this “publicity” becomes nothing else but tricks of a quack advertising agent. Later on, when Locals 499 and 848 took up the fight against the work tax, and were supported in this fight by hundreds of rank and file mem- bers of the other local unions, again ® flood of lies and villifications was released by Mr, Zausner in the kept press trying to picture this fight as} one of “disruption” and as “an un-} holy alliance of reds and_blacks,”| hoping thereby to justify the reign | of terror he let loose in the various locals and the intimidation and dis- crimination. Members saw in Zaus- ner’s exaction of the tax not a means of organizing the trade, to which they were not opposed, and for which, on; the contrary, they were clamoring for years, but rather as a means to; organize and repay handsomely his} henchmen. | Jobless See Tax Swindle | Under pressure of the rank andj file, Zausner was forced to Giscon- tinue the registration of the unem- ployed members, who refused to be fooled any longer by the contention | that “the registration was necessary for the success of the organizing plan.” The unemployed members be- came disgusted with this huge bluff, when they saw that none of the thou- | sands of dollars collected from the membership (almost $150,000) was used in any way to help the unem- ployed, but was being handed out daily to individuals, whose main ser- vices during the entire organizing campaign consisted mainly of slug- ging and terrorizing the rank and file, in order to make them submit to the plundering of the members’ pay envelopes by Zausner and his henchmen. Force Referendum Zausner was forced, under pressure from the *. and file, led by the progressive and mili- tant Local 499, to finally send out the question of the tax for a refer- endum of the members. The mem- bers of the union, in spite of the ter- rorism and the intimidation by the officals and strong-arm methods, partcularly in Locals 261, 442 and 1011, in true working-class spirit of solidarity voted overwhelmingly to discontinue the tax, since it was not used for organizing purposes at all. They learned that the D. C. was Spending thousands of dollars weekly with hardly a shop organized or any new members taken into the organ- ization, Particularly did this become manifest in the last five or six weeks. Of little use was Zausner’s secret session with the chairmen and finan- cial secretaries of Local Unions 261, 442 and 1011 on Wednseday night, Later still, Jan. 10, which lasted till four o'clock | in the morning for the purpose of | fixing the referendum. It was at} that secret session that the votes of those locals, which in no case were | more than 100, according to sworn} affidavits of members of those locals, were fixed to read nearly the full ledger membership of the locals, so as to enable Zausner to show a slim | majority for the 25 cents work tax. | Mr. Zausner, sensing that fixing) the referendum vote to show a slight | majority would not make it easier for him to collect the tax, any more than it was since the abolition of the registration, very demagogically re- fuses to acecpt this vote, since he interprets it as a lack of confidence, and rightly so, and temporarily dis- altogether, he is scheming for some wey thet will enable him to come back with it under some high-sounding pretext. Hence the statements in the press about the code and the possibil of another general strike of painters! Did he not himself, when he made his settlement with Whalen, giving up all the demands of the last gen- eral strike, assure the painters that all they have to do is to wait for the code and everything would be all- right? Did he not, as.a matter of record, make the N. R. A. and the code as his principal campaign issues? ‘What has he done and what is he doing now to prepare the member- ship for a proper struggle against the proposed slave code for the painters, Was not feeding the membership on false hopes, and creating illusions in their minds about the code, a means to break the last strike, by On the Manly Art be LL it what you will, the science, art or debauchery known as pugilism exercises a strange fascination over the minds A of men. And, judging from the cigarette smoke at the Garden jon fight nights, on women too. So much s0, in fact, that box- ing is a subject for fervid discussion not only in these United States but also in the Soviet Union. late Soviet educator, was drawn and vices of the more or less¢—- manly art. | Lunacharsky minced no} words. He condemned boxing as brutal and degenerating, and con- signed it to limbo as far as he was concerned. Furthermore, it I remem- ber correctly, he raised the question of its virtual &S an unsocial exercise, unfit for a country building} Socialism. OT taken aback in the least, the Soviet Food Workers Union, which was then holding an all-Union box- ing tournament, invited Lunacharsky, sending him the Soviet equivalent of two Annie Oskleys for the ring-side, Lunacharsky came, observed and went home a wiser man. Upon his return he penned a letter to the union in which he publicly stated that he had revised his notions of boxing and that he understood its usefulness in developing qualities of stamina, courage, and coordination of mind and muscle. The letter is really an interesting document and we in- tend to publish it in these columns at some later date. eae Vg the above was a rather extended introduction of the whole question of boxing in some of its scientific phases. We have dealt in some detail in this column on racketeering in boxing and wrestling and we will re- turn to this phase of the question again. Now we intend to introduce Mike S., a man who has been a box- jing instructor at a large state uni- versity for some time and has been a N. Y. state champ himself. Mike is an ardent scientist in the fistic la- boratory and lectures on boxing with as much gusto and thoroughness as @ bearded pedant on a juicy irregular Latin verb. And.if you don’t believe him, he'll shove a couple of chairs aside, make a ring out of the office and proceed then and there to il- lustrate. In fact, my jaw still aches from his last lecture, { THE PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH tO BOXING - dy Mike 8. i ad often do you read of boxers radiating “class” before a medi- cere opponent and bogging down hopelessly with a faster boy? Or have you not heard of the “gym” fighters whose dash fades in the actual ring? Again, are there not men who absorb & fearful mental beating in the dress- ing room, who pass sleepless nights before a bout, etc.? Let us slip behind the scenes. Let us see what are the habits of the individual, and to what he owes them. Striking rock-bottom, we find that each boxer either approached the field with a definite attitude, or cultivated one in his course of pro- cedure, which attitude, together with his neuro-muscular skills, formed b) < COHENS’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Deleneey Strest, New York City EYES EXAMINED Wholesale Opticians By Dr. A.Weinstein Tel. ORehard 4-4520 Optometrist Factory on Premises STATIONERY and “UMEOGRAPH SUPPLIES At Special Prices for Organizations Lerman Bros., Ine. Phone ALgonquin 4-3356 — 8843 29 East 14th St. N. ¥.¢C, CLASSIFIED COMRADE who took the wrong coat by mis- take at Lenin Memorial (66th St.) please get in touch with Bercy, 1950—77th st., Brooklyn, INTELLIGENT young lady will family going to Florida as personal Write P, D. c/o Daily Worker. 10 ANNIVERSARY Daily Worker CELEBRATIONS. adel phia: On Feb. 2 at Girard Manor Hall, 911 W. Girard Aye. Good program arranged, Pittsburgh, Pa. On Feb. 3 at Russian Hall, 1508 Sera St. S.S, Interesting program. Boston, Mass. ompany aide. 1 undermining the fighting spirit of the painters during the last strike? No amount of demagogy will again move any of the rank and file “to give him another chance.” He had his chance and he failed miserably. A wolf can never become a sheep no matter how many sheepskins he will put on. A bosses’ man and an enemy of the painters, impersonated in Mr, Zausner. can never become a friend of the painter. Out with him! Until he and his friends have been the Workers’ Relief Ordinance and ‘e the Workers’ 0j 4 ance Bul ‘ae pean at driven oe oe union no suas tages nag Male ware ede On Feb, 10 at Dudley St. Opera House, 113 Dudley St., Roxbury. Clarence Hathaway, Editor Daily Worker, main speaker. Varied ers Chorus. Presenting of Daily Worker Banner to Boston District. Adm, 25c. Even Lunacharsky, the into a hot debate on the virtues habits, just as real as his own pecu- liar way of evading a blow or throwing a punch. I shall not tey to present an analysis in terms of conscious and sub-conscious in usual sense, For they neither me as sound, nor would such analysis of habit lead the search for a remedy terms of definite activity. However, ag behaviorism does offer way out in definite activity, I shall make use of it, Boe ae curious paradox is man’s desire to be led. Boxers are not excepted. One has but to visit some gymnasium and watch earnest young pugilists taking big lumps of stupid advice from men who know nothing of the why and wherefore of fistic science, not to mention the meagre mechanics of boxing. Of course, as intelligence broadens, man is less willing to plunge into an abyss of which he can see nothing. So let us be good to these men, oblige them in their wish to be led, and place before them a set of facts. With these facts, concerning all the hazards and angles of box- ing, as a base, a boy shall make a choice automatically ingraining the desirable attitude toward the game which will be the foundation of his future experiences. Or he shall choose to spurn the game; either selection must be made in full and without reservation or compromise. To help him make this choice, we unfurl the entire panorama for him, breaking each phase into the scientific “how, when, and why,” boxing, having him accept or refuse to accept the non-emotional view of it all, and dismiss altogether any panicky sensations he may have. ee © Bee is @ sport calling for not merely the highest degree of learn- ed neuro-muscular coordination, but involving the entire gamut of emo- tions, Left unbridled, these may ruin ;® man, mar his ability, and blast his heaith, It is only reasonable, then, that harnessing the emotions is as important as neuro-muscular educa- tion. An emotional deluge may at any given moment burst over a man —the cumulative welling over of one fearsome association after another that he has built into himself since his fistic beginning. The sudden bursting of the emotional dykes is effected thru years of building fear- ful associations upon a wrong atti- tude, thru placing a structure on fear, thru a wrong way of looking at 7 the sport which permits an emotion to dominate. It is that objectionable attitude that must be checked at first—tor it allows only certain stimuli into the mind, thus poisoning the mind and compelling an unfavorable and derimental : (To Be Continued) DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pithin an€ Sutter Aves, Brooktn FROME: DICKENS S008 Office Moura: 3-19 AM, 1-8, 68 PM. Allerton Avenue Comrades! 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