The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 3, 1934, Page 3

WHAT'S ON Saturday COURSE in History of English Literature rom Histories! Materialist Viewpoint by M. Veteh, begins today at 3 p.m., Workers School, 35 E. 12th Bt. DANCE and Entertainment, Clarte, 304 W. 8th. St. at 8:30 p.m. Contribution. 25c. DANCE and Entertainment, OMce Workers Union, 114 W. 14th St. at 8:30 p.m. Subserip- tion 25¢. BALLOON Dance, Tremont Prog. Club, 866 W Tremont Aye. at 8:45 p.m. Good jazz band. ‘Dancing till dawn. PARTY given by ¥.C.L. Unit 7 Sec. 5 at 004 Home St, Entertainment, refreshments. Adm. 10¢. MOVIBS andDance given by Greek Br. LL.D. “N. Spandyda! ¢ Spartacus Club, 208 W. 25th St. at € p.m. Soviet film “Road te Life’ will be shown, Adm. 2c. MONSTER Concert and Banquet, 25th is- Bue Wall Magazine at Harlem Prog. Youth Club, 1538 Madison Ave. Morris Taft, hon- orary chairman, 4-course dinner; Freiheit Mandolin Group, Dram Group, singers, reci- tation, chalk talk, etc. Adm. 35¢; 8:30 p.m. SIXTH ANNUAL Banquet and Concert of ‘Women's Council 16 at 1163 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. GRAND CONCERT given by Shoe Workers of Coney Island and Brighton at Coney Is- land Workers Club, 2874 W. 27th St., near Mermaid Ave. Subscription 25c. BASKETBALL Game and Dance. National Student League vs I. W.O. Metropolitan Champs. Ted Fegin's hot dance orchestra. Refreshments, Entertainment. Church of All, Nations, 9 Second Ave, near Houston St, 8 pm. Adm. 25¢. BNTERTAINMENT and Musical, German Workers Club, 79 E. 10th St., 8 p.m. Dona- tion 15¢. DANCE arid Entertainment, Red Sparks A. ©. Hall, 64 Second Ave. (near 4th St.) 8:30 p.m. P- DANCE and Eutertainment, Lower West Side Workers Club, 108 Bleecker St., near rene St., 8:30 p.m. Subscription 10c. PARTY and Dance, benefit Maiman and Sanger strikers, 12 E. 17th St., 1st floor. Novel entertainment, eats and drinks. Unit 2 Sec, 8 ¥.C.L. Admission 10c; 8:30 p.m. CONCERT and Dance, Prospect Workers Center, 1157 So. Boulevard, Bronx, Excel- Jenit_program. OPENING Dance of Washington Heights ‘Workers Center, 4046 Broadway, corner 170th St. Theatre group, dancing group. Admis- ston 26. DANCE and Entertainment. Fordham Prog. Club, 305 E. Fordham Rd. 8:30 p.m. Ad- mission 15¢. A DANCE of All Nations, International Bar, at 642 So, Boulevard, Bronx, Benefit of Custom Tailoring Workers Union. Adm. 25c. UNUSUAL Concert and Dance, Bath Beach Workers Club, 87 Bay 25th St., Brooklyn, at 8:30 p.m, Celebrating the installation of the Dram and Chorus Section. Dancing till dawn. HOUSE PARTY, Engdahl Br. LL.D. 754 Gates Ave., Brooklyn, c/o Brown. BAZAAR given by East Side Workers Club, 165 E. Broadway, for the benefit of Morning Freiheit. Tonight—Concert and Dance; Sat- urday, Cabaret night. Refreshments, en- tertainment, bargains galore ‘THREE DAY BAZAAR, Saturday and Sun- day, arranged by Shule 16 I.W.O. Br. 190 LW.O, and Womens Council. 30 at Westches- ter Workers Center, 1548 Westchester Ave. Interesting program every day. Dancing and refreshments. Combination ticket 15c. ICOR BAZAAR, Saturday and Sunday at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. En- tertainment ‘and dancing. Restaurant and Buttet, DANCE and Midnight variety show at the Unity Theatre, 26 E. 23rd St. at 8:30 p.m. Featuring New Dancers, Tony Kraber and Bobbie Lewis of the Group Theatre; Fred Herricks of “They Shall Not dic.” DANCE at Mutualista’ Obrera Mexicana, 86° E, 116th St. Good Rhumba Orchestra: Admission 25c. PARTY, Chow MEIN, Dance and Enter- tainment given by Unit 1¢ Sec. 1 at 169 E. Becond St. A. 8, Pascual will. speak on “Racketeering in the A. F. of L. Unions.” Sunday HIKE, Followers of Nature, to Tibets Brook Park. Meet at -Moshulu Parkway, Jerome Ave, Line, at 10 a.m. MASS MEETING Against the Terror of Pilipino Workers in P. I. at Irving Plaza ‘Hall, Irving Pl. and 15th St. at 2:30 p.m. Spekaers: Patterson, I.L.D.; Civil Liberties Union Prominent Japanese. and Filipino speakers. Auspices, Filipino Ant!-Imperial- ist League and ILD. CLARENCE HATHAWAY, editor of the Daily Worker, lectures on “The Dictator- ship of the Proletariat” at the Workers Gehool Forum, 35 E, 12th St, 8 p.m. “WHERE Will the Youth Be In The Next War?” lecture by Mrs, Littinsky at 77 Fifth ve. at 3 p.m. Needle Trade Dance Group: ‘Questions, discussion. = IN“Goncert League, meeting at W. ER. office, 870 Broadway. All members Jhould be present. PROF. OAKLEY JOHNSON, speaks on “Form and Content in the Dance” at New. Dance Group Studio, 22 W. 17th St., 8:30 p.m. Auspices, Workers Dance League, first of a series of forums. REED CLUB Symposium on “Is Revolutionary Literature Progressing in America?” with Leon Dennen, Wallace Phelps ‘and Philip Rahv, 430 Sixth ‘Ave. 8:30 p.n. FORUM sponsored by “Blast” at 33 E. 20th St., 8:30 p.m. Alexander Gregroy, lite- rary editor of “Debate,” will talk on “De- featism and the Prolefarian Short Story,” Mirgll Geddes" on the ‘Relation Between Proletarian Fiction and the Revolutionary ‘This is the first of a series of Baisy night affairs given by “Blast.” Ad- mission 15c. “REFORM or Revolution in Literature” ts mublect of lecture by Sander Garlin of the | Daily Worker Steff, before the Village Forum, 224 W. 4th ‘St. (opposite Sheridan Square) Sunday afternoon at 2:30. SENDER GARLIN speaks righlights fm American Labor Struggles” at Washing- ton Helghts Workers’ Center, 4046 Broad- eee SAM GONSH: st released from Wel- bod Island ji ures at the Midtown ILD., 130 W. 23rd St. at 2:30 p.m. SCRED CHINA” “Toctare by ¥. Yang, of the Friends of the Chinese People, at ‘Tom Br. LLD., 323 E, 13th St. at 3 p.m. MAm. free, discussion. MARIE "ADT, lectures situation in Germany” at Tremont Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave., 8:45 p.m. OPEN FORUM, “Effect of Depression on Office Workers and Professionals—Fordham Soke we A. Pieciay: 2A, 8:30 p.m. “WAR,” lecture by Raymond Rosbins at Berkman Br. LL.D, 1400 Boston Rd., pm. GFORGE, SISKIND, lecture on “Zeninism and ‘Against_ Opportunism,” Bronx Workers Club, “o10 Boston Bs 30 5a re JOHNSON lectures on st War” at Social “The Struggle Youth Culture Club, 275 Broadway, at 3:30 pm, DR. 8. GINSBERG lecture on “The Child's Seats of Health Under the resent Grate” ‘Womens Council a 2918 W. 30th St., Soacy Island, 8: M. AMMAN, of the Dally Worker sta‘t, speaks on “The Role of the Press in the Glass Struggle,” Open Forum Sec. 7, 132 ‘Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn, 8 p.m. SYMPOSIUM “How we” Can Fight War and Fascism,” New Culture Club, 2345 Coney beer ‘Ave., between Ave. U and T). Speak~ : Harold ee Alexander Kaufman, SPAGHETT! Party and \pasn.as Italian ‘Workers Club, 233 Lee VR ee In- ero, sds Daily of ‘Ceremonies. 5c. a ee rasan ent ent given by Bath Beach Unemployed Council at ers Center, 87 Bay 25th St. ‘Adin. 200, 8 pam Rese yee Workers ws ve. » Brooklyn, 8: m, Good band. a DANCE at Prospect Workers Dae, 1187 Bronx. Good jazz band. 39 Dollar and What it Means to the Work- | ing Class.” Adm. free. League meets at new headquarters, 12 E. | 17th St. at 2:30 p.m, ILD. Chorus meets at Brighton Workers Club, Brighton Beach and Coney Island Ave. 1 p.m. All welcome. “THE PRESENT World Situation” lecture by Murray Blynn at I.W.O. Center, 323 E. 13th St, 8:30 pm. “Unity” Br. LW.O Philadelphia, Pa. PARTY, herring and potatoes, Saturday, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m. Given by the Workers| Club of Strawberry Mansion, 2014 N. 32nd St. SOCCER Game between the Dynamo Soc- | cer Team of Workers Club of Strawberry Manion and the Nature Friends Team, Sun- day, 2 p.m, at 30th Lehigh Ave. OUR REGULAR Open Forum, Sunday, at 4 p.m. Auspices Workers Cultural and Sports | Club, 2014 N. 32nd St. DANCE Sunday night st Workers Club, 2014 N. 32nd St. Good music and novelty | program. THE SECOND ANNUAL Bazaar of the| | United Workers Org. and C.P.-of West Phil- | adelphia on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 24} and 25 at 1137 N. 4Ist St. Good program arranged. Many valuable things for sale. Pittsburgh, Pa. HILL BRANCH L.S.N.R. Open Forum on| Sunday, Feb. 4, at 2:30 p.m. Jack Hardy lecture on “When the Negro People Ruled the South.” The History of the Reconstruc- tion Period. Monumental Baptist Church, 2240 Wylie Ave. Newark MASQUERADE BALL and Dance given by Freiheit Gesings Farein on Saturd: Feb. 3 at Y.M.H. Club, 514 Clinton Ave. ‘Adm, 35e. Boston, Mass. MARINE DANCE and Entertainment at Paradise Gardens, 2 Central Sq., Cambridge, on Saturday, Feb. 3 at 8 pm. Auspices, Marine Workers Ind. Union. Irving Plaza, Feb. 9 NEW YORK.—The first convention of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union will take place at 812 Broad- way, New York City, on February 9, 10, 11 and 1£, 1934, The Convention ‘will open with a mass meeting, to be held at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place, New York City, at of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- which Ben Gold, National Secretary trial Union, is scheduled to speak. From the small scattered organiza- tion of furniture organizations, the National Committee can report of over nine thousand members na- tionally, having established locals in the most important furniture centers. A linoleum workers local with a membership of 1,200 at Lancaster, Pa., recently decided to affiliate with the Furniture Workers Industrial have expressed their desire to par- ticipate in the convention. Furniture workers throughout the country are called upon to get in ‘| touch with the organiatzion. Furni- ture groups are asked to send fra- ternal delegates to participate in the convention, All maid for information Shall be sent to the National Com- mittee of the Furniture Workers In- dustrial Union, 812 Broadway, New York City. Ohio Miner Arrested at Lenin Memorial to Be Tried Wednesday YORKVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 1.—Victor Broucke, a militant coal miner, who was arrested while presiding at the Lenin Memorial meeting here on Jan. 21, has been held over for trial on Feb. 6. Two deputy sheriffs and the town marshal broke into the Lenin Mem- crial meeting and arrested Broucke, and John Marshall, well known farm Jeader in this state who was the principal speaker. The police later relaesed Marshall, but held Broucke on $500 bail. Steps are being taken to mobilize the miners and steel workers in this territory to jam the courtroom at the trial and demand the release of Broucke and the right to hold meet- ings without interference. Yonkers City Employes Unpaid for Fifth Month YONKERS, N. ¥- Y.—Teachers, city clerical workers, policemen and fire- men here, who have not been ‘paid in five months, again went unpaid when the city officials refused to meet the $300,000 payroll. The un- paid employes were given a 15 per cent wage cut on the first of the years. Police and firemen have re- fused to accept the cut. Ask your immediate friends, your ella workers tn’ the ahge, tele: members in your organization to oe ee EDUCATIONAL Committee Film and Photo | Furniture Workers: to Hold Convention: Mass Meet Will Open at| Alliance of 7,000 | Workers, Farmers | Hit Tiala Arrest: | Working Women’s Clubs Demand Release of Farm Leader | CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 2—The Work- Jers and Farmers Cooperative Unity | | Alliance, an organization of 7,000| |farmers, with headquarter at Supe- | rior, Wis. has just issued a strong | protest to Sheriff Harley Person of | Kosciusko County against the arrest {and imprisonment of Alfred Tiala, National Secretary of the United| Farmers League, Mrs, Tiala and Jesse Hann, ‘These three militant farm | leaders were arrested on Jan. 20 for jleading thousands of farmers in| |struggle against the forced sale of the farm of Clarence Gearhart of | | Leesville, Ind. “The arrest of these three, militant farmers is an attack upon the Amer- ican agricultural population,” states the protest signed by Walter Harju, | executive secretary of the Alliance. |“We demand the immediate release of Alfred Tiala, his wife. - Tiala {and Jesse Hann, and the dismissal |of any charges against them. We further demand that all evictions of |farmers in your county be imme- | diately stoppe d. | “we aré appealing to the whole| eee movement to organize a st against your arbi on.” rhe National Office of the United Farmers League at 1817 South Lo: Street, Chicago, reports that pro jagainst the arrest of the militant farmers are pouring in very fast from all over the country, from C. W. A workers and from Working Women’s |Clubs in various parts of the coun- try. Held on Bail Tiala, his wife, and Hann are be- Michigan | City to prevent their being |the enraged farmers who gath in thousands to demand their relea Warsaw, Ind., and copies sent to the | United es League. | | 400 Shoe Workers Strike in Centralia ' | Vote Walkout Despite | Threat of Penalty by A.F.L. Heads CHICAGO, Tl.—Four hundred and fifty shoe workers of Barnes Shoe Company in Centralia, Illinois, went out on strike Tuesday. All are mem- bers of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union of the A. F> of L. local 542. The strike was brought about by the failure of the company to dis- miss Walter K. Karlin, foreman in the Cutting Department on the 3rd floor, whom the workers term as a “beast and a slave-driver.” The chief of police, state troopers, the sheriff and the superintendent, L. H.” Vor- werk, together with the officials of the Boot and Shoe, Harry H. Phil- lips, business manager of the Boot and Shoe Union, declared the strike is a “wild cat strike.” Notwithstanding the threat of penalizing the membership by the Boot and Shoe officials, the workers unanimously voted to strike. The charter of the local union has al- ready been revoked by the officials. The assistant business agent, Sloan, from St. Louis, has been dis- patched to help Harry H. Phillips and the company officials to smash the hundred per cent strike. Mass picketing is carried on 24 hours of the day. On the second day of the strike, a detachment of ten State highway police from Effingham district were summoned to help the local police in their efforts to break the strike. Union officials with the local police and the superintendent endeavored to smuggle in a half dozen strike breakers, with no result. The work- ers, through mass picketing beat back the scabs. Only company offi= cials and a few foremen remained in the plant. Several arrests have taken place. The local branch of the International Labor Defense has offered its serv- jices in aiding the arrested workers and are actively participating = the strike. The usual threat of moving out of town has been made by Harry B. Johansen, a stockholder and director of the company. The Workers, know- ing such practices in strikes, scoff at this threat, Representatives of the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union have been sent to Centralia to offer assistance in the winning of the strike. Protest telegrams to the Sheriff of | r The Soviet stratostat than man had ever dola became detached and their death. “Osoviakhim,” which went 13 44 miles into been before, and then crashed when sent the three hercic engineers to Soviet Balloon Ros 1% Miles, Salvaged Instruments Revealed (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, USSR., Feb. 2.— All Moscow was decorated with flags of Leepnine, today as the bodies of the hree Soviet scientists who died when their stratosphere balloon crashed to earth arrived here. A Soviet Government commission, under the chairmanship of Kisselew, secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, was formed to assume charge of the funeral of the perished heroes of the stratosphere, The urns containing the ashes of the three scientists will be placed in the building of the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R., which will be opened to the public. The funeral procession will take place on the Red Square, Equipment Salvaged The results of the work of the Com- mission dispatched immediately after the tragedy fo the scene of the dis- aster were published today. The re- port ascertained that although part of the piloting and scientific instru- ments of the balloon had been shat- tered, the other part was only partly damaged. The notes of the three participants in the flight, as well as the barograph, which registered the records, were found fully intact. The commission has established the fact that the stratostat reached an altitude of 72,178 feet (13.67 miles) in- stead of the 67,585 feet previously re- ported. This height was reached at 12 o'clock, and maintained until 12:45, after which the balloon started to descend. Notes Kept Regularly ‘The notes were kept regularly in the journal. The last notes entered were at 16:10 (4:10 am., our time). This time the Commission considers the beginning of the disaster. The baro- graph ceased. working at. 16:21, and the hands of Vasenko’s watch stopped from shock at 16:23. Upon inquiry, all eye-witnesses stated that the time when the gondola fell was a number of minutes past 16 o’clock. The commission report went on to state that “the cause of the disaster was the excessive progressive ac- celeration of the descent of the stra- tostat, evidently provoking a rupture of the parts, and a breach in the equilibrium of the whole system, as @ result of which the gondola, tear- ing itself away from the envelope, was dashed against the earth. It is es- tablished that the participants of the flight perished as a result of this shock. No Signs of Freezing “No signs whatever were found of any freezing of the envelope and gon- dola. Thus the radfogram received by @ radio amateur near Homel, re- porting the freezing of the stratostat, was unfounded. “All notes remaining intact show Moscow in Mourning As Scientists, Workers Honor Memory of Three Martyrs to Science that at all times during the flight, until 16:10 o'clock, the crew were in bright spirits, fully assured of a suc- cessful descent. The notes and the remains of instruments found at the spot of the disaster afforded the pos- sibility of ascertaining the great scientific work carried on by the. three participants of the flight. The Com- mission is continuing its study of the material found ni the wreckage.” of the Commission, Commander*-of the Stratostat “U.S.S.R.”, Prokofieff, and by leading professors, engineers and aeronavigation experts. Praise Dead Heroes In an obituary noti¢e to the memory of the fearless stratosphere explorers who perished in their record-break- ing flight, members of the Praesidium of “Osoaviakhim” ‘(Association for Development of Aviation) Kamenev, Eideman, Unshlikht, Budenny; the famous physicist, Academician Joffre, Professor Molchanov, and the par- ticipants of the first stratosphere flight, Prokofieff, Godunoy and Birn- baum—write: “Our feelings of great pride in the new achievements of Soviet Science and technique are intermingled with feelings of deep sorrow for the pre- mature deaths of ow: comrades who gave their full strength and energies in their great and last flight. “Comrades Fedosseenko, Vasenko and Ussyskin were the best represen- tatives of Soviet technical scientific intelligentsia, people supremely giving all their efforts of will and great energy to the cause of constructing ‘|socialism and strengthening the de- fense of the Soviet Union. Young Communist Scientist “Ussyskin was a member of the Young Communist League, one of our most talented proletarians,. a youth not yet 24-years old. He was armed with the science gained in‘ Soviet schools. He was only seven years old when the Russian proletariat annihi- lated the rule of the bourgeoisie. He could not take part in the civil war, and the battle through which he passed was for the mastery of the natural sciences without which’ we cannot catch up with or surpass the capitalist countries. in the field of technique. He was a good fighter. He went up into the stratosphere armed with all Soviet scientific weapons. Fedosseenko Red Army Man “Fedosseenko was a worker who fought in the ranks of Red Army during intervention, as a 20-year-old youth. The aero-navigation detach- ment which he soon commanded. re- warded him with the honor of the Red Banner for his heroic deeds at Perekop in the struggle against the white guardist, Baron Wrangel. But Fedosseenko. understood that, for the victory of socialism, courage alone is insufficient, that it was necessary to This report was signed by the head | AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1934 Page Three Fire Striking New ‘York Park Workers ; Summon Police to Order Workers Out of Parks NEW YORK —Ci government officials yesterday in strikebreaking ties of the C.W.A. officials ¥ sale firing of C.W.A. have struck on the job. pretext of increasing the of the C.W.A. work, those r on- park projects, variously 57,000 to 60,000 by the C.W.A. offi. cials, are being speeded up, and th threat of immediate dismissal held over them. Park Commissioner Robert’ Moses, a LaGuardia appointee With 2 sal- ary of $10,840 a year, firs charac ter- ized the laid-off work | | | ing at Coopers Park of 185 work who laid down their tools when th administration placed a sl v. supervisor over ‘them, virtu: mitted that the men were fir no-other reason than their |gone on strike. When the workers | refused to leave the job, and starte to picket the) park, scores of police were summoned to eject the workers| | forcibly from the park, | On Wednesday, “investigators,” the C.W.A. dubs,.them, a special detail }of spies and stool-pigeons, swept | down on Vanderveer Park, and, act-| |ing under ‘the orders of Moses and C.W.A. Administrator De Lamater, | fired 66 workers. In this papenee,| also, Moses levelled the charge of “Joafers” against the workers to jus- tify the firing. At Marine Park, spies were placed on the cupola’ of the old Whitney} mansion 10 spy on the workers, who during the extremely cold weather, have been forced to leave the work for a few moments in order to get warm. No provision is made for the men during the extremely cold weather. When recently the temperature ho- yered near the zero mark, the men | were forced to burn shovel handles | | inorder to keep warm. This was one} of the reasons given for firing the workers. as master science. And he, & hero of the civil war, sat over his books and | drawings, and became an engineer and constructor of dirigibles. For many years he was occupied with the problems of flights into the strato- sphere, “Vasenko was an engineer's son. In 1918, as an 18-year-old youth, he joined the Red Army as a volunteer, | and returning from the civil war gave | himself entirely to scientific work in aviation. All Active in Osoaviakhim “All three comrades were active) members of Osoaviakhim. With great) intensity, the support and active par- ticipation of wide circles of workers and the scientific-technical public of Leningrad, they worked at making and mastering the sfratostat. With great elaborateness, continually per- fecting the equipment of the strato- stat, these comrades prepared for a new conquest of the stratosphere. In the course of this, they altentively studied the experience of the flight of the stratostat “U.SS.R.” from! every angle. | “Their cheerful and confident mood did not leave these comrades for a moment. This gave firm assurance that the heroic crew would honorably | fulfill their task, regardless of she} difficulties — the complexity arising} fromthe winter conditions, etc. First Winter Conquest “In this regard, the flight was the first in history to conquer the stra- tosphere in winter. No one expected that disaster would tear these heroic stratospherists from our ranks. “The Soviet Union and the 17th Party Congress received the sad news with much pain, and decided to bury the remains of these courageous con- querors of the upper atmosphere in the Kremlin Wall, in which are placed for their last rest the best fighters for socialism. To Rest In Kremlin Wall “Their place is*rightly in the Krem- lin Wall; they were flesh of the flesh of the October generation of builders of socialism. These comrades wrote a new and brilliant page into the his- tory of the struggle of humanity with | nature. Their names will remain alongside the names of the greatest | heroes of science and technique, who gave, their lives in the struggie to master science and technique. “The best monument to our perished comrades can only be further per-| | sistent and self-sacrificing work on the part of fighters for Sovict science and technique to master the strato- sphere. AFL Signed Micicatens Not to Organize Workers By A. S. PASCUAL . NEW YORK. — Bribery is one of the means by which huge industries control and manipulate American Federa- tion of Labor officials to the end of beheading the American ma. | we class movement. For years the New York Edison Gangsters, lawyers, politicians and A.F.L. Collaborates With the Edison Co. to Form Company Union crooked officials of the union helped themselves to the organizing fund. None of it went to organize the workers. On April 4, 1932, the rank and file of the Edison Employees Brotherhood was able to force through a bitter resolution charging the officials with betraying the labor movement. The resolution was sent to the Ex- ecutive Council of the A. F. of L. It 3 and the International with the view of expelling them from the A. F. of L. for their refusal to organize the workers of the Edison Co. Mr. Green was “astounded.” “TI can not and do not believe,” he said, “that the Electrical Workers officials would enter into such an “stealthily” crept into the He had a year to examine the en- closure sent him by the Edison work- ers. He still not only refuses to be- lieve the facts, but what is more, he refuses to do anything about racket- eering going on in the organization which he heads. Only the clenched fists of concerted mass action by the workers will do this and establish rank and file con-' trol of the organization. Sixty per cent of the electricians in Local 3 are unemployed all year round. At best the electrician. works only six months of the year. And then only on the basis of official or unofficial wage cuts. These circumstances, added to the enormously high dues $27 every three months up to March, 1933), $50 spe- cial assessments and taxes, for “ad- ministration” purposes, stirred the workers’ indignation. ‘The business manager has the power and used it to appoint 30 business agents at $100 per week plus ses and a car. All of the of- ficials had luxurious automobiles “presented” to them by simply dip- ping their hand into the treasury. They allowed themselves $30 to $50 @ month for the upkeep of these cars: International President Broach, through this dictatorial control of the local, saw to it they were not molested. But open resistance broke out. Communists and militant members in Local 3 giving leadership to the militant rank and file fanned the indignation of the workers until it flared out in open defiance of Broach and his gangster officials. Broach and his henchmen became hysterical. The honest’men demand- ing an accounting of funds and a halt to the tremendous graft’ were called “union destroyers,” “lunatics.” But this was not strong enough Broach consulted with one of his most trusted lieutenants, a man named Jennings, who was an ad- mitted partner in a St. Louis stool Pigeon agency. Je was in- terested in “labor” papers, “labor” in- surance, estimat bureaus for the bosses, and horse races. They found the word that would nail the oppo- sition group and that word was “la- bor spies.” And in the June, 1932, issue of the Journal of Electrical Workers, Broach splashed his ridiculously concocted “proof” that these fighting workers were sent in to destroy the union. He reprinted a letter from a fic- titious spy company to its supposed nettles ikon tye be brscrad i saic x | lOrneddncs Use Special Funds for Own Expenses “You operators and contact men must use secret signs in writing to headquarters. When you see each | other in the street make believe that you Go’t»know each other. Secret. instructions XYZ will be sent to you tomorrow. Contact men 4, 5, 6 and 7 and to, work closely under the in- structions of our special operator No. 13. “You are instructed to make so much trouble so that the officers will use chairs, blackjacks and knives against you. Support every man who runs against them in the election, for they are all on our payroll, just like you. We are sending a big shipment of money as we did the last time. “Signed: G, EDGAR APPLEGATE This stupid forgery convinced the administration but none of the work- ers. It served. to redouble, the ef- forts of the opposition group until ‘Anti-Nazi Meeting in 1933, militant mass pressure forced Broach to hand in his resignation. Soviet Balloon Which Crashed a | CWA, City Officials O | 'g cg oa oO n Wo r k e rs Fis Secure Bi for “Frol ‘Harlem [| Advance Sale Indicates S SO ger Hall ” to Aid rator 4 iha Luive of Hirge nce NEW erator” u in Stomp All w ed to support the affair held to raise funds for the rator,” 0: ficial orga, nof the for Negro Rights. 2,000 at San Jose Meeting Pledge to Fight Lynch Terror SAN JOSE, Cal, Feb, 2—More than 2,000 persons gathe James , scene of lynching, to grec conference held here last we audience enthusiastically the decision of the wage the broadest AgUE of Struggle endorsed conference to| fight against lynching and other forms of terror spreading throughout the country. A| resolution was adopted condemning Gov. Rolfe for his aid to the lynch} gangs and defense of lynching. The meeting was addressed by Langston Hughes, noted Negro poet and national president of the League! of Struggle for Negro Rights; Matt | Crawford, chairman of the confer- ence; Boskaljohn, victim of the re- | cent kidnapings in Yakima, and| Skully, delegate of the National Miners Union from Utah and Colo- | rado. The conference itself was attended | by 136 delegates, representing organ- | izations in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada. There was an excellent representation of Filipino, Chinese and Jajanese w | | in Philadelphia Sat. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2—An anti- | fascist demonstration, organized by German anti-Nazi- organizations in| thts city, will be held at the Ken-j sington Labor Lyceum, Second and Cambria Sts., fonight. The meeting| will also commemorate the death of Liebknecht, Luxemburg and Lenin. All anti-fascists are urged to at- tend the demonstration and support | the world-wide mass fight for the re- \lease of the four “acquitted” Reich- stag defendants and the tens of thou- sands of revolutionary workers in the | concentration camps in Nazi Ger- | many. The demonstration will pro-| test the police attack last Monday | on workers holding a counter-dem- | onstration against a celebration by| the New Friends of Germany of the | first anniversary of the Hitler mur-| der regime. | Among the speakers will be a mem- ber of the District Executive Com-| mittee of the Communist Party,| which is vigorously supporting the | demonstration, Fun! Folly! Frolic! @ Where? CLARTE 304 West 58th Street @ When? SAT., FEB. 3 at 8:30 p. m. GOOD BAND AND ENTERTAINMENT Contribution 25 cents -| prisoners remaining in jafl, ——= oht Ly nch Verdiei | Elects Delegatiaa t Take Demands to the Governor of Oregon PORTLAND, Fe intensiv. conference pledged te Supreme Court, Fel petition will the ern Pacific Railway Company , through the courts which they control, were attempting to put over @ legal lynching of Theodore Jordan. She concretely exposed the frame-up of Jordan for the murder of s rail- detective, his farcical trial; the forced confession extorted by police third degree methods, and Jordan’s betrayal by the leadership of the Nae tional Association for the Advance= ment of Colored People. Revels Cayton, District of the I. L, D., stressed the peal lynching terror’ raging throughout the country, the increasing attacks on the working-class under the “New Deal,” directed with special sharpness against the Negro masses. He de~ scribed the Jordan case, the of the workers in the Northwest, the use of organized terror against them in the Anacortes, Prandsen, Yakims, | cases. He called for mas support for Becker, last of the Centralia, Delegates of Reed College students | 6 | pledged themselves to bring the Jor- dan case before the student body. Rew Akerman urged the conference to re- quest that all churches, hat act aside Sunday, Feb. 11, as Race tions Day, make the Jordan frame-up their main issue, A mass rally, held in the same hall in the evening, was attended by over 500 white and Negro workers. Help strengthen the revolution- ary movement by spreading the Daily Worker. Get your fellow- workers to subscribe to the “Dafly.” ‘Russian Art Shop, Inc. 107 EAST 14th ST., N. ¥. 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