The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1934, Page 2

Page Two “A. F. of L. Fur Union Green Boosts Admits Furriers Will o¢ ie umwa Support N.T. W.1. U. Potash Denounces A.F.L. Partnership With | Bosses | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30.— Representatives of the A. F. of L. Fur Joint Council at hearings before the | National Labor Board today on the) situation in the fur industry, admit-| ted that they oppose the proposal made that a refe1 be taken of the® fur ine ¥ union the; The hearings were held before Rob- Att Wagner, Leo Wolman and Wm. Filene, of the National Labor Board. None of the A. F. of L. members of} be Board were present. Succhi, Gold- | in and Bejoon represented the int Council. Representatives of the ir associations failed to put in an) pearance. Hearings are to be con-| tiiued until tomorrow, when they are} expected to speak. | Noll, attorney for the Fur Joint) * Council in recent injunction proceed-| ings ogainst the Industria! Union, | Spoke for the A. F. of L. His main ‘gument was that the bosses do not int the Industrial Union, because it} is a “Communist union.” He admit-| tet that should the referendum be earried out it would probably favor| the Industrial Union. | Tn a brilliant speech, Louis Boudin, | attorney for the Industrial Union,| charged the Council and the A. F. of | {.. leadership with laying the basis for | & Nazi labor front union. Comparing} the situation with the Amalgamated Glovhing Union in 1914, he said the| FP. of L. cannot impose its union | on the workers if the workers do not waits it. Potash vigorously denounced A. F. of L, partnership with the bosses and | showed that the agreement just con-}| ded between the Joint Council and he fur boss is for the purpose | of imposing rac! ering officials who | would gouge the workers of dues and “help siilash union standards. He ssuowed that the unemployed fund sgenceded in the agreement would not | ed, but for the! as in the rabbit dressing industry. Potesh reiterated his demands of | ethe previous day as follows: That) ail locked out workers be reinstated! with pay for loss of time, that the) agreement with the fur bosses be deélared invalid, that all notices for] Yegistration with p A. F. of L. be} #emoved and that a referendum with | safeguards against Nazi pro- “Se@ure be carrisd out. «op The Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- ‘tial Union called all workers to a! % fur domonsixation, to be held + the far market on Wednesday at epatoon in protest against the acts of the A. F. of L. and the fur bosses in| depriving the fur workers of the right| to errani ‘Roosevelt: Seeks To ~ Avert We'rton Steel Strike by Trickery {Continued fro Page 1) r turned this prom- erly farcical,| auproval of a company union | Slate, officials here declared it “a clear violation of the N.R.A.,” and/ oat uid prosectte. | BHM about the injunction the “eovernmeni was going to get to com- * pel: another election”? Long was! “ asked today as he emerged from the| ermierence with Roosevelt. “Tt looks like they think this [the| “honest poll”) will solve the problem NOTICE All ¥. C. L. members are re- quested to report to the District Office on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at y. Very im- all be present. portant Passaic Furniture Strike in 7th Week Oppose Plan at Hearing Before National Labor Board PASSAIC, N. J., Jan. 30.—The strike at the United Bedding Co., at 38 Wall St. led by the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, is in its seventh week. The strike started when one worker was fired in an at~ tempt of the boss to break up the union. The workers are still out fighting for the re-instatement of this worker. | The boss is using gangster methods | to break the strike. The Furniture Workers Industrial Union, 36 Wall St., appeals to all workers’ organizations any sympa- thizers to give financial and other ‘d to help the strikers. More Hotels Join Strike; Strikers (Continued from Page 1) mass picket lines, united mass dem- onstrations, efc., must be organimd around the hotels which have been struck, Only through th: meth- ods can we force the bo: . to come across.’ ders of the Amalgamated Union, however, have adopted a Policy of attempting to quiet down and hold back the militant spirit of the strikers, SABOTAGE THE WALDORF DEMONSTRATION Although the Amalgamated leaders wired a cringing, belly- crawling “protest” to President Roosevelt, advising against the holding of his birthday party in | the struck hotel, the Waldorf- Astoria, they issued exolicit or- Gers to the strikers not to stage a demonstration before the hotel “in order not to disturb the nroceed- ings in honor of the President.” Mock Demonstration The Amalgamated officials thought it more convenient to call a mock demonsiration the day before Roosevelt arrived in New York. Monday night the Amalgamated officials rallieq a group of 100 strike pickets, telling them the deliberate lie that Roosevelt was dining in the Hotel New Yorker. The pickets rehed_enthus: cally down 34th to the hotel, which is striking under the leadership of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, and dispersed, dismayed upon learning St. that Roosevelt was notin New York. This was an obvious atempt on the part of the Amalgamated offi- cials to discredit and smash the militant strike of the Waldorf As- toria workers. ———oCoooCSS—_—__:__ A group of Bronx school teach- | ers who had arranged to hold a banquet at the Hotel Roosevelt, upon learning that the hotel was on strike, informed the manage- Hail Unity Move DA RA at Confab 3 Slugged for Selling “Daily” at U.M.W. Convention Jan. 30- the “ca f the "RA fall in the esterdey heafd Wi'linm Coal fie'ds, | Green, president of the A. F. of L., praise the NRA. at the UM.W.A. | convention a$ a boon to the coal diggers. Green, > approved the “open shop” cl for the auto code, was brought in by Lewis, to tell the dele- gates how the N.R.A. is helping to organize the workers in unions of their own choice, Just before Green began his slob- bering approval of the slave codes, | the Lewis regime had succeeded in emasculating resolutions calling for the freeing of Mooney, Billings and the Scottsboro boys. Three Workers Slugged Three local workers were slugged by Lewis thugs outside of the con- vention hall today. The workers were | distributing copies of the “Daily! Worker” to the delegates, exposing the Lewis steam-rolling machine. { “We are stepping into the new,” said Green, at the beginning of his| | address, which lasted one and one- | half hours. “There is increasing pros- GUTTERS OF NEW YORK “Strike leaders announced to everything in their power’ to prevent any untoward incident marring the President's birthday celebration.”—News Item. ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1934 _By PEL ‘Lewis Riled When | Anti-Communist Provision Is Hit (Continued trom Page 1) when the Westville delegate took th floor to demand the ritht of Com to join the union. said Sloan. 1 ‘¢ you attending unit meetings?” Lewis. S'oon answered in the nega- But Lewis launched into an who do not read the of the union, stating that Sloan wes at one time known jas a member of the Communist laimed that in a raid on the ist Party headqu i County, Illinois, | Were seized showing correspondence with an “Oscar Slump,” whom he} claimed to be John Sloan. | The section of the constitution un- |der fire, paragraph 3, section 2, of| | the article 14, reads: “Any member accepting membership in the Indus-| trial Workers of the World. the Work-! ing Class Union, the One Big Union, | or any other dual organization not} affiliated with the American Federa- | tion of Labor, or. membership in the } National Chamber of Commerce, or | the Ku Klux Klan, or the Commu- | nist Party, shall be expelled from | the United Mine Workers of America. “The Communist Party,” said | Sloan, as Lewis irritably took his/| | watch and said, “Proceed, proceed,” | “is against capitalism and 100 per) cent for the freedom of the work~- ers.” ‘Sako day that they would ‘do | perity in the homes of the toiling masses. We have got the new spirit, | the freedom.” | John L. Lewis, the acknowledyed | | contender against Green for the job| | the latter now holds as A, F. of L. | head, out-did himself in introducing | | Green to the convention: “A son of| | the U.M.W.A. has come home,” said Lewi. “He is a defender of human rights, @ great leader, and a great | ieidaiatne American.” | |} Green followed his announcement | ba dearedttealtad dic | | Of the “increasing prosperity” of the| NEW YORK —As the Welfare | toiling masses with the information Istand penitentiary investigation con- | | that company unions have increased! tinued on two spluttcring cylinders 1180 per cent since the N.R.A. He yesterday, new facts were uncovered | promised Congressional action against | by the Daily Worker which, though the company unions and said the | known to the Fusion administration, | Federation would recommend the six! have been rigidly suppressed. | hour day, 30 hour week to Congress| ‘The fanfare of publicity which at- | to bolster the N.R.A. | tended the initial “raid” has ‘been | Green launched into @ eulogy on| subtly cut at its source, so that re- Roosevelt as the divine saviour of| porters are no longer adinitted to the nation. “With every part of his|the significant hearings but only to body,” he said, referring to the Presi-|the innocuous questionings by Com- dent, “and every heartbeat of that | missioner of Correction Austin H, j Noble heart he was in sympathy with| MacCormick—questionings of unim- | the masses. It was the hand of pro-| portant inmates on relatively minor | vidence, Everyone of us, regardless of | phases of the probe. | | our political convictions, can thank! The Daily Worker has it on unim~ our divine providence for our great | peachable authority that the raid on President Roosevelt.” Welfare Island early Wednesday | Of unemployment, he said: “It 1s] morning did not even begin to touch | | finally necessary to make some ar-/|the vast network of corruption and | | Trangements for private industries to| graft and dope-peddling which exists | | absorb more than four million men| at the prison. Only a surprise raid | mow employed on G.W.A. projects | cculd have accomplished this. ; throughout the country.” | But the raid by MacCoerm'ck was Many resolutions were again dis-| ot a surprise to Warden McCann carded “because they were unsigned| and Deputy Warden Shechan, nor by the local officials.” One such res-| could it have taken the two conz- { olution, referring to the foreign-born,| ster chiefs, Joseph Rao and Ed- | was submitted by Local 6517 of | ward Cleary, unawares. Brackenridge, Pa, and read: “Be it} It was not MacCormick himself resolved that this convention gozs on| who caused the leakage in plans record condemning the U.S. Labor| which informed th: pr'son chiefs of Department for persecution against} the impending raid, but a muni- | foreign-born workers on account of] cipal emnloye, who divulzed the | Political affiliation or economic and| news of the raid to She-han by | social theories and beliefs.” | telepkons. This occurred before A resolution calling for meetings| the investizating group left the | between local unions mine commit-| Municipal Build’ng. tees of one district, proposed by Local! As a result of this advance tnfor- 6081 of Hannastown, Pa., was speedily| mation, it is safe to assume that | crushed, in the excitement of Green's | great quantities of dope, as well as entrance, ;much evidence of other corrupt con- | | ditions within the penitentiary, were | either destroyed or removed from any Powers Faces Jury | possible discovery by the MacCormick As Trial Reach S ria eac es | the statement of David Marcus, Mac- . ° | Cormick's first deputy, that it would Dramatie Climax | take a week before any new facts | | Party. are ascertained regarding the names Workers Must Pack | Despite the silence of the Com- | missioner of Correction, and despite ;of the higher-ups guiding and pro- tecting those responsible for the vile conditions uncevered at the prison, : . ‘i used consistently throuvhout the con- | Welfe are Tq s I an ad Officials We re j yeni with iecine es that type Forewarned About Prison Raid Removed Much Evidence Before ‘Raiders’ Arrived; | Tammany Leader Is Power Behind Dope-Ring | (The term 100 ner cent had been | | of Americanism.) | “The Communist Party is 100 per} cent,” continued Sloan, “a: ist. the | | capitalist system that has caused | starvation and misery and that is/ based on profit.” | Van A. Bittner, Lewis’ right hand} mar from West Virginia, thon took | the sse- and announced that he had) never mv a man in his life who was| a Communist and knew what he was} talking about. By this time the convention was | in heated discussion, with oxpocition | delegates unable to get the floor. | Leo Sitki, a Socialist delezate, took the floor and was asked Lewis if he was a member of Communist Party. | “No,” said Sitko, “I am a member) of the Socialist Party.” | “Do vou brl'eve in the Communist | Party?” asked Lewis. i “Some of the thin; Sitko replied, | asked whet be would do if} are made to feel that positions of re-! sponsibility and socal usefulness await | them when they come back into the | world of socialist construction. While the eyes of the people of New York City are focused on Wel- fare Island, some of the more glaring phases of corruption and graft and} mistreatment of poor inmates will be “investigated” by the Fusion admin- istration. But as soon as the pub+ licity-eye is shifted to other quar- ters, the same conditions will reap- pear in intensified form—only then! the higher-ups will be Fusion ap- pointses and henchmen instead of Tammany men. This is fundamental h to capitalist penology. by | the | jeved in ‘the Communist Party’, sald he would leave the U.M.W.A.” | Lewis concluded with an attack on} the Trede Union Unity Leatue, the; National Miners W-‘on and “all or-} ginizations affiliate to the Commu-/} nist Party.” | Roosevelt Would BarrenFarmlands = of the or71izations to be con- demned under the head of Dual (Continued from Page 1) | | Unionism. \ Ora Gasaway, a member of the U. M.W.A. International Ex:cutive Board! |and an organizer, was arrosted here early today on charges of drawing a revolver against the proprietor of a | local restaurant. Gasaway hes & not- i mit to carry the weapon, as have most U.M.W.A. 0} P swiftly mounting demands for genu- ine unemn'oyment insurance as pro- posed in the workers’ unenp!oyment and social insurance bill. Here's how the new scheme is to werk: The Pub'lc Works A‘m‘nistration has turned over to the Federal Sur-| Gvs y, 48, plus Relief Corporat’on, a'so headed| and he refuscd to stop play by Hovkins, $25,000,090 for the buy-| when so requested by the pr ing of sub-marginal lands in In-| Articles and sections of the consti diana, Kentucky, the Caro'inas and tution were again pushed through to- in the ‘West and Far West. This is, of day without the reading of any. Only course, pg to rie aks | one major change was made staal nine a ae | to uproot wha remnant of deth- Now on this government-purchiased pacha might be left in the Union.| ‘and, the families of = peg ha uture conventions exch delegate | coe age ; age | stead of as heretofore 100, This was tay pies boy ay ao SAORI WEES announced as an eccnomy measure 7% th ve le e ‘Asked how many would be affected a ae Aer ae vbr ip pana by the new program, Hovkins replied fg tlhe shiating of unto heeds at Asked from what cities, specifically, | saa rte ior pat cane anal acd Teoh et 0 Cant He SUs-| tal odst of the gathering, $125,000, gested Di . i Fee ONO More O.W.A. Jobs | A roll call vote was azk> |for achieving the district's quota in with real Bolshovik enerzy, setting |challene to every other district. The ‘order. \ere Buffalo, Cleveland, San Fran- ran he $e i EA They Can ’t Lick Us By JERRY ARNOLD (Batting for “"MNHEY done us wrong, they Si Gerson) did!" The plaintive ery came from one of the National Student League boys. Little Joe Schmidt, it was. He stood in the office leaning heavily on the desk, his breath coming in quick, short gasps. His clothes were soiled and disarranged, his hat was crushed down on his head all out of shape, and his usually dismay and terror. myself for the worst. “Those rats! Those. --.™ he sputtered. Suddenly he took a firm grip on himself and Poured out his troubles. It seems that the N.S.L. had hired the New York University gym for a basketball game and dance this Sat- urday night. It was their first ven- ture into athletics, not counting demonstrations, fights with R.O.T.C. men and university tes, They were to play the LW.O, 409, he branch that won last year’s L.S.U. New York City championships. They had hired an expensive band, printed posters and tickets. They vere all set, ; those * @ And then good old N.¥.U. turns sround and says thoy can’t have the cymn on Feb. 3. Did they deserve it? Sure. Paying for it? Yeah, clenty. Well, what... .? Oh, registration. You see, Mon- day and Tuesday the colleze boys ond girls come down and spend three or four hours each waiting on Enes and writing their names several dozen times on pink, white ond bine cards, They've got to put chairs in the gym and tables to write on. No, there'll be no regis- Menace of Fascism Spurs “Daily” Drive (Continued from Page 1) the sub campa‘gn, Chicago is takine up the campaign en example that is a reyolutionary Daily Worker is now being sold at the stoct-yard gates in Chicago. Tn St. Louis, Mo., the Trade Union Unity League has doubled its bundle Nut-picking plants are be- ing penetrated with the “Daily.” Denver, Col., pledges to raise its ereulotion to a minimum of 150 daily by April 5th. Districts not heard from so far cisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, North and South Dakota, These districts are urged to follow the splendid ex- amples set by the others and to re- port at once what action they are taking to win the workers to the ~evolutiona~y movement by activiz- ng every Unit, mass organization, trade union in their sections to par- pate in the drive to gain 30,000 new readers of our only American orking class daily newspaper, the Daily Wor CORRECTION Due to a typorraphical error yes- terday’s New York hotel strike story reported that “150 new shops ore on the vorge of walking out.” This should have read 150 new workers, Give direct practical aid to the struggle of the German workin class against Fascism! Have you spoken in your organ‘zation about the Feb- ruary 11 offair at the Bronx Coli- seum., all proceeds of which go to the German Communist Party? | mild, pleasant face was disfigured by a look of hopeless agony, I prepared @———. tration Saturday night, but the setting development. It's happened before, it'll hevpen again—until the revolu- tion, Usually the gold that glitters in the fist of the worker {s just as acceptable to capitalist organizations as the money in the bags of the money makers, But not always. Last year the Labor Sports Union hired Loyola University athletic field in Chicago for a meet and deposited a heavy sum for it. Almost at the last mo~ ment Loyola, @ Catholic college, turned the L.8.U. down, returned the deposit, and said: “Bra-a-ack!” And there have been other com- olaints. Sometimes the excuse for the abrogation of the contract sounds senuine, sometimes phoney, some~ times no excuse at ali. Sometimes you'll even get a gym for nothing in ® public school, if you put in your application early enough. Most of the time, however, they'll take your money if it’s in good old U. 8. bank notes and, as is the case these days, oven if it’s not, | i hee really should be 2 work- ers’ athletic center in New York, where workers’ sports claba are mofe or less concentrated. A. ‘arge gym or hall, with a high ceil- ing and balcony and a full line of rym equipment. A center, where clubs ean practice and which they can hire out for games, dances, etc., with no fear of their contract be- inw rescinded, Upkeen? Well thot MAY be herd, but I think it could be manaved by a regriar subscrip- tion of clubs nine the gym and ranning games and dances e so often. Too late to start working on it this season, brt not too Inte to eee thinking about it for the ne; Do I hear an “Aye?” 10 ANNIVERSARY Daily Worker banquet elsewhere unless the own- ers of the establishment settled with the union. | This line of the Amalgamated leaders of directing the militancy of the strikers into harmless chan- nels fits neatly into their policy of soft-pedaling all attempts of the vrorke united mass picketing of strategic shops and spreading the strike, members of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Industrial Union point out. Without an injunction,” he said More Than 8,000 in Union The workers now are called upon, furthermore, to prove once more what they have ali iy proved. Weir | Sas been contending that his ap-| proximately 12,000 workers are con- tent with the company union. The locals of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron, Tin Steel Workers | (A. F of L.) have laid down before} the Nationa] Labor Board move than| .. 8,000 membership cards Long, Pres-| ident of the Weir Cove Lodge of the! “Amalgamated, brought a petition of| isd est against the denial of an in-| mdent election, signed by 5,000) “Weirton men. the Amalgamateq leaders, the Ho- tel New Yorker strikers and the strike committee of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union has is- “The President promised that sued a ringing call for unity of all will take an honest poll immi y| the strikers to carry on the strike --gt all the Weirton workers, at Steu- | for one common cause. eebgnville, Weirton and Clarksburg,” | order to carry out these strike said. “If we prove our point,| a ties,” said the call, “the forces «; that 80 per cent of the men want|of the strikers must be united and gael own union, we will have anj solid. Before the strike and during ~ @lection to select our representatives. | the strike—up to the present mo- Considers It Victory |ment—we have demanded that the We consider tais a victory. The|4™algamated officials together with ah ™ be taken right 2 | US organize one general strike com- & a Mike i oie ad na | mittee and declare one general ay e én e, head of the/ strike. This has been refused time =, Amalgamated, given you any assist-| onq again. here”? he was asked. “Only financial,” he said. “But! ’s all we need from him. We! ht. our own battles.” | he fact that the whole thing was) Bearranged by Roosevelt and John-| probably with the consent of! Came out also. For Long said af Johnson asked whether it were) Tight to announce the plan “at) time.” Roosevelt has had fre-! conferences with Weir recently, d it is understood that Weir con-| “But the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, Local No. 119 of the Food Workers Industrial Union, realizes that the primary task now is that of winning the strike. For that reason, we have decided to establish this necessary unity in spite of the opposition on the part of the officials of the Amalgamated. We have decided to join our strikers with all the i strikers under the leadership of rst election “may” a A Gr cectinn, Hoe neve! che Hotel atid Hestament Work on Eeetien to prove it. Jers Union reports that all affiliated ite this and the myriad thee ee throughout the United States af jonments, the rank and file| re rallying their forces in prepa- £ experienced under N.R.A. dem-|Tation for strike strugeles in their however, Long again placed] Tespective cities, as well as in sup- $a in NRA. He said Re had} Port of the strike in New York. ‘told Roosevelt he had wanted legisla-| “tien to “put teeth into the collective gaa section of the NR. “if Weir interferes with either of Convention Against Unemployment ‘ahiase two promised elections, will the! and all other funds for the convention eon strike"? Long was asked must be turned in immediately to 29 = enswered “Apparently they! E. 20th St. The office will be open 4 bey: TO ALL PARTY UNITS ‘The tag day boxes for the National until 2 a.m, tonight | | ment that they would hold the | | | Opposing the defeatist policy of | Leader Is To Go Free | NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—The trial of | | George Powers, charged with “incit-| jing to riot” when he led an unem-| | Ployed demonstration in City Hall in| |April, 1932, came to a dramatic| Beer today when Joseph ‘Tauber, | I. L, D. attorney for Powers, and As-| sistant District Attorney Panger! made their summations before the | jury in General Sessions Court. | Tauber reviewed the many contra-| dictions made by witnesses of the! | Prosecution during the course of the | | trial and brought out the fact that | this case is one of a political nature jand not criminal. He vividly de- | d the police brutality and provo- cative methods employed by the po- jlice at the time of the demonstra-| |tion. Tauber's summation was cor- | Toborated by the testimony of many witnesses who were at the scene of 22. ¢ ration. He vovtemoently at- tacked all police claims that Powers | ; Was outside of his rights when he| | desired to present a petition to the | | | | Courtroom If Jobless | Mayor. Tauber, here, quoted from | the constitution on the right to as-/ |Semble and petition. The Tammany administration was castigated by/ Boe on not replying to telegrams | and letters sent by the Unemployed | Council, asking for the right to pre- | sent these petitions. | | District Attorney Panger, In his jaddress to the jury, centered his at- | tack on Powers around the fact that jhe is a Communist. He called all | Communists “intolerable,” and lik- |ened Powers to 2 match set to gun- | Powder which when ignited can ex- | plode the masses into an “uncon- | rolab-e fury.” Panger also asserted |‘het Powers is a “pro“ession-] ari- | tator,” and that he makes his living |by “fooling the unsuspecting work- ers.” | Powers is the Organizer of the In- |dependent Sheet Metal Workers’ |Union and was a candidate for | President of the Borough of Queens | On the Communist Party ticket. In | 1932, he was the candidate on the | (Communist Party ticket for Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of |New York State. He is a charter | member of the Communist Party. Judge Freschi charges the jury to- | day. It is obvious that he will inter pret the law so that Powers will be tat General Sessions one name has already leaked out. One of the powers behind the officials and sangste-s at the peni- tentiary is James J. Hines, out- standing Tammany man and I:ader of the well-to-"0 Eleventh Assem- bly District of New York—Morn- ingside Heights. No other names | have as yct been disclosed. Cruelty of New Commissioner The new Commissioner’s aporoach to his job does not differ in any} respect from that of his predecassors. | He is an outstanding example of the | hard-boiled, treat-‘em-rough tyne of | nenolovist, despite his occasional | “scientific” phraseology. Readers will recall his instructions to the Welfare Island raiding party last Wednesday: | If any prisonsr offers resistence, he stated, crack htm over the head bard enouch for the others to hear. And when a dozen prisoners refused to return to their cells after an ex- ercise period on Saturday, MacCor- mick threatened them with: “You; walk to your cells or you'll be carried there!” How Soviets Treat Malefactors | Contrast this, which is typical of | nenal administration throughout the} United States and the entire capi- | talist world, with the penal prac-) tices in the Soviet. Union, where the! purpose of the Soviet state is not to, punish and stunt and destroy male- | factors and criminals, “but to re-/ habilitate them, to restore them to| useful and creative positions in so- | ciety, i In an article published in the Soviet press about six months 2g0 | and subsequently translated and pub- | lished in the Daily Worker, Maxim Gorki. world-famous writer, descr‘bed the freedom and comradeshi* that exists among inmates and guards in the Soviet institutions he hod vis- ited. Not only are the men treated with the utmost sympathy and un- derstanding, Gorki renorte?, but they | receive reel payment for their work, are provided with everv avaiiable, cultural and educational facility, and | railroaded to prison. The Interna- tional Labor Defense is cartying on & determined struggle to free Powers. All unemployed workers must be at court today at 10 a.m. to protest the! tetroristic tactics employed by the/ prosecution. The trial is being held Court, Franklin | and Center Sts, Part 6, : Hopkins reiterated before the As-| last named resolution, but Lewis said sociated Contractors of America, yes-| terday, “that the 4.009,000 workers on | C.W.A. rolls will be demobilized | around the first of May,” | “What will happen when the C.W.A. | comes to an end? Won't there be as great a need for employment after May 1 as there is now?” a contractor asked. “You're asking a question nobody can answer,” Hopk'ns replied. “All we can do is to hope that Public! Works Administration construci‘on and seasonal employment and what we believe to be a gradual pick-un in business generally will bring relief by that time—when the C.W.A. comes to an end, $500,000,090 will have been spent for wages and $209,009,000 for | materials.” | DISTRICT FUNCTIONARIES MEETING TONIGHT Ail wit buros, section committee mem~ fers, members of section sub-committecs, fraction secretaries, functionaries in’ trade unions and mass orgenizations, aze called to w general functionaries meeting which will take place tonight, 7 p.m., at Man- hatien Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. Comrade Bart! Browder will report on the 13th Pisnum of the B.C.0.1. Admission will be by member- | ship Bock and eredential of the unit or) leading fraction in the mass organizations, ee ow WATCHMAKEES MASS MEETING H A mass meeting of tre Wotehmaters Local No. 21) will be held Jon. 31, at 6:30 p.m.) at Rand School, Room 508,°7 E. 16th St. | rominent speakers will addrese the mect- ing. Wee NEEDLE TRADES OPEN FORUM Overgaard will speal ut the Nesdle Trades | Industrial Union open forwn, Wednesday, Jan. 31,2 pam. at 131 W. 28th Bt. BATES AND THIBODEAUX TO SPEAK he A mootiat 1mtar D. will be held Oricntsl Palace, 8315 New Utrecht Ave, near 85th St. Ruby Bates, Norman Thi- beceaux and Chas. Alexander will spealt. auspices of the LL. | esday, Jan. 31, at et that a 39 per cent vote was the pre- | reattisite to a vote by roll call. There has been no roll call vote since the convention opened its ses- sion last, Tuesday. Such a vote would lay many delegates open to the criti- cism of their locals who sent them jto the convention with instructions to fight the machine. Many resolutions against exorbitant taxes, which must be maid to the offi- o'aldom. ji liction of union district | officiats, were ridden over rouvh shod} by the machine. The Committee on Resolutions introduce bill this morning on bonus, the which was prssed. It read that | the U.M.W.A. stands for the payment Soldiers’ of the adjusted compensation certi- ficates. Contratulations were sent to Roosc- volt on his birthaay. Mrs. Perkins is to speek before the convention this afterncon. | Trade Union Directory +++ BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKERS NION , New York City rey 50837 FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION | 4 West 181% Street, New York City Chelsea 8-0505 FURNITURE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL - UNION i 298 Broad: Grai 812 Broadway, Now York City Gramerey, 5-1 METAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 35 Bast 19th Street, New York City Gramercy 73-7842 NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION 181 West 28th Street, New York City Lackawanna 4-4010 Lecture CLARENCE A. “Roosevelt's Financial Policies” WED., JANUARY 3ist | At 7:30 P.M. ADMISSION ibe Auspices, Young Communtst League Benefit, ¥.0.L. HATHAWAY WORKERS CENTER 35 East 12th St, 2nd Fioor District ® ‘Training School CELEBRATIONS Philadelphia: on Hog Girard Manor Hall, . ‘d Ave. Good program arranged, e Pittsburgh, Pa. On Feb. 3 at Russian Hall, 1508 Sora St. S.8. Interesting program. Beston, Mass. DR. JULWS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin and Butter Aves, Brooklyn PRONE: DICKENS t-3028 Offtee Hours: 6 AM, 1-9, 62 PM. | 9 9Goldinin On Feb, 10 at Dudley st. Opera { Optometrist and Optictan Gactie Watans, Cie r (exe) Worker, main speaker. Varied | 1378 STAICHOLAS AVE* 1690 LEKINGTOK AVE. Program, including Russian Work- ati79" ST.Y at 106th STNY. ers Chorus. Presenting of Daily oa Worker Banner to Boston District, Adm. 5c. STATIONERY and “HMEOGRAPH SUPPLIES At Special Prices for Organizattons COHENS’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City Wholesale Opticians EYES EXAMINED By Dr. A.Weinstein Tel. ORehard 4-420 Factory on Premises ‘Optometrist Terman Bros,, Ine. Phone ALgonquin 4-3356 — seag 29 East Mth st, NYC. Allerton Avenue Comrades! The Modern Bakery was first to settle Bread Strike and first to sign with the DOWNTOWN FOOD WORKERS’ ara Pah METAL RI INDUSTRIAL unton || JADE MOUNTAIN, 961 ALLERTON AVE’ 197 SECOND AVENUR Welcome to Our Comrades ‘All Comrades meet at the Vegetarian Workers’ Club —DINING ROOM— ‘Natural Food for Your Health 220 E. 14th Street Bet. Seeeond ond Third Avenues CARL BRODSKY All Kinds Of INSURANCE 799 Broadway N.Y. C. All Comrades Mert at the * | ema