The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1934, Page 2

Page Two Refused to Hotel Stri Off the C. Win Hotel Strike in Pittsburgh; Victory Hailed in New York Call for Fight for c=" NEW YORK.—While Amalgamated | efficials were preparing ey a ae pear before the Regional Board hearing on the hotel seine, | Strikers continued to carry on mili- tant picket duty, determined to force the owners to pay hig It was revealed Prederic J. Daniell, head of tt ©. W. A., had taken waiters off the | ©. W. A. list because they had re- fused to take jobs in the hotels now | on. strike. Strikers were yester when they learned through a letter of s successful strike of hotel work- érs conducted in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh by the Food Workers’ Industrial Union. Greet New York Strikers The William Penn workers seni gteetings to the New York sirikers, “The strike of the workers in the William Penn Hotel has been suc- cessful,” says the letter received by the Food Workers’ Industrial Union here yesterday. “Under the leadership of a rank and file strike committee we forced the bosses to give us wage increases, which in some cases are as high as 50 per cent. “We were fighting for recognition of the shop committee, the six-day week and a shorter work day. We demanded no reduction from our ges for food and clothing and that 75 per cent of the workers hired chould be members of the union.” elated The Pittsburgh strikers have won| their chief demands and are still in negotiation with concerning other demands. Strikers here today hailed this vic- tory of the Pittsburgh workers, which accredited to the correct policy of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union. This strike will serve as a great) impetus for carrying out our New) York strike to victory, said Albertson, leader of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union, Local 119. Reports Gov't Will Probe Calif. Terror Workers Must Moers Real, Investigation NEW YORK —As a result of na- tion-wide protests against the kid- naping and brutal beating of four} attorneys of strikinz California let-| tuce pickers, the Federal government | is invest ieating the kidnappings, ac- | cording to a report from the Amer- iean Civil Liberties Union. | ‘Th four attorneys were kidnapped | from a Brawle: same night th: were to address a} meeting of the strikers. A motorcycle} officer cleared the way for the kid- nappers car, while Chief of Police J.| Lon Cromer denied a permit for the strike meeting. The four lawyers were badly beaten up, threatened with death, and finally separated towns and ordered to leave Tmperial Valley. A federal commission also has been appointed by the National Labor Board to investigate denial of rights of the striking lettuce pickers. This means that the N. R. A. Administra- tion is “investigating” its own terror- istic incitation against the strikers. The nation-wide mass protests against the California terror which forced this “investigation” manouver, must sharpened to force @ real investi- gation and arrest and punishment of police offi Legionnaires at others involved in the terror. Lodgings Needed for New England Delegates | NEW YORK- —Quarters are needed to house the returning New England delegates to the National Convention Against Unemployment in New York tor one night. The delegates will re- turn to New York on Monday nizht at about midnight, and in order that they may be prepared to start their trip back to New Eng!and on Tues- day morning New York sympathizers are asked tc inform the Unemployed Council, 29 E. 20th St., telephone} Algonquin 4-7846, if they can sive lodging for one or more of the dele- gates for one mek 1,700 Accidents on Massachuetts C. W. A. BOSTON, Mass., Fed, 3.—More than 1,700 accidents and several deaths heve Ghusetts'C. W. A. jobs, and abou 1,000 of these do not come the federal comvensation « 1916, according to a recent state- ment of John Morris, head of the legal depertment of the state c. WwW. ATTENTION! FOOD WORKERS’ | FRACTION | All members of the Communist Party and Young Communist ‘League in the New York District, who are either on strike or are workers in the hotel and restau- || rant industry are called to a Special mesting in connection with the general strike for today (Mon- day), Feb. 5, 1934, at 8 p.m. sharn at the Workers’ Center, 50 FE. 13th St., in Room 206. Nobody will be J aagooetl without his Party or Y, C.L, book. KRAUS & SONS, Inc.: Manufacturers of ‘Badges - Banners - Buttons Yor Workers Clubs and Organirati | more the hotel owners; released at widely) eccurred on Massa- | Scab on ike; Fired W.A. Lists ——— ‘Sound United Front! Jobless I Insurance m Page 1) {Continued into separ: 1 unions, on women, on youth, workers and on the farmers. The trade union conference, attended by delegates, e bain made broadening and for the wnem- than two hundred Relief Fight for Benjamin exvlained why and how we can win the enactment of the} Workers Insurance Bill. “We must | organize the day to day struggle’ for relief,” he said. “and. connect | these struggles with the 1} campaign for the workers’ bill. | Must speak with one voice for one | pit.” Benjamin analyzed the provisions of the workers’ bill, which Congress- man Lundeen, under mass pressure, only bill really benefitting the un- sub report, Phillip Fran! ld, leader of the Pittsburgh unemployed work- ers’ movement, the str | country, told of the 4’ ployed councils organized in the | city of Pittsburgh. Socialist Leagues Fail | Pittsburgh, unemployment com~- |mittees in 31 towns of Alleghany County with 20,000 members, the ‘relief won for 14,000 families in | this coal and steel center. Fift per cent of the unemployed coun- jcil members of the area are Ne- groes, Frankfeld reported. The Soci led unemployed leagues have ten to pieces with ption of th these s¢ t leaders sabo' demand of the rank and file for unity. One league has a here, Frankfelq said. To See U. S. Tomorrow the convention will or- | ganize the delegations and in the} afterncon these delerates will make | their demands on the officials of |the Roosevelt government. At 3 o'clock the session will reconvene to lhear the reports of the delegates The National Council and officers | ill be elected. Today the Constitution Commit | tee was discussing the draft consti- j tution which has been presented | The Program and Resolutions Com- ittee is also taking up a number ; of important resolutions. A program | of action will be presented to the Officials Hotel Jan. 23, the| convention tomorrow for adoption. | Speakers today included Hayes | Jones of the Marine Workers In- | dustrial Union; William Friend, a Negro worker of the Richmond, Va., ; Councils; John Robinson, a Negro miner from the Pittsburgh area; Juliet Stuart Poyntz, one of the leading women fighters at the Con- | Vention, representing the Trade | Union Unity Council of New York: |Emil Nygard, former Communist | Mayor of Crosby, Minn. Trade Union Jobless | The reports, delivered by Pete | Chappa, acting Secretary of the steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, | Toney Minerich of the National Min- ers Union, and Louis Weinstock, Chairman of the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance, emphasized that the trade unions cannot afford to ignore the effects of unemployment on the whole working class, including the employed. They brought out that the| A. F. of L. officials’ policy divides the workers, splits the employed and un- | employed, fights against relief and | insurance and drives | trom the unions who cannot pay dues, | he T. U. U. L. Unions and rank | and file opposition in the A. F. of L., | have the correct provram of uniting | all workers, but have been too weak in jarring out this program. The conference decided that the tasks are now to create in each union an apparatus to ccnduct the ficht against unemvloyment as part of the work of trade unions. | For Unity of All Workers Hed Left Trade Unions and the ms must fight for relief for |d the C. W. A. workers, for real public and aga evictions, and for the shorter working day with full pay as the needs of the employed asj | well as the unemploved, or else |the employers will cut wages and | drive down the standards cf living of those working by using the unem- | ployed ag it them. The central task is to mobilize the masses the Workers Insurance Bill, a fight which the unemployed cannot win alone, and to take the | decisive step of winning the millions of A. F. of L. workers away from tfleir misleaders, the conference de- |cided the united front of the em- | ploved and unemployed must be built. Thirteen workers spoke, six from A. F. of L, locals, including a U. M. W. A. local, an Amaly>mated Local, an Airplane Workers Local of Buf- falo. The T. U. U. L. Unions were represented in the sneeches includ- ing textile, fur, marine, a Negro C. W. A. worker from Richmond a Progressive Miners I-ca! Jack Stachel, acting the T. U. U. L., empha: the fight to win sre The convention is weak in Nezro representation especially Negroes from the unions, he said. Stachel con- trasted the T. U. U. L. and A. F. of L. program on discrimination against Negroes. We must strengthen the fight, he said against discrimination and Jim Crow. Negroes are kept cut of industry, given lower pay and less jobs and forced out of the A. F. of for 1ST DELANC"Y STRERT, N.Y.C. Telephone: Drydock 4-8275-8276 L, unions, This must be-overcome by @ fight fer admission and equality in A F. of L, unions and by bringing Wwe | has introduced in Congress, as the} employed masses. , he} | said, bars the 16,000900 totally un- | employed from any benefits. In his est in the | je ¥| First Five Year Plan two or three| delegate | the unemployed | “°:| Government to give nothing for in- 2d Five Year Plan Ends Class Society, Molotov Declares Tells Caratasiiat Party | Congress of Immense Economic Victories (Special te the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb, 4 (By nan Kalinin today 1 to Molotov, w ereeted with a prolo | Comrade Molotov commenced with an | extensive and very interesting revor plan for national econ: nd Five Year Plan. The y analyzed the Soviet Union, the fighting program of action organ- | | ically erising out of the results of the| | First Five Year Plan, and the his-| torical directives outlined by Stalin in the first section of his report. | Build Classless Society Molotoy outlined the following three tasks as the ba for the Second Five Year Plan: (1) To completely liquid- j ate the capitalist elements, and lasses generally in the U. S, S. R.,| .s | emoving all causes for creating class | * | distinction (2) For a further rise in | the well. g of the workers an? Kolkhozniks (collective farmers), and | for a further increase in consump- | tion from two and a half to three | | times; and (3) The completion of the | techricel reconstruction of all na- | tonal economy,—industry, transport and agricul . Molotov gave an expanded charac- ation of these tasks, pointing ou the fulfillment of these tasks j will make the Soviet Union an un- | divided country of one social eco-| nomic formation, a country of a class- | that Immense Construction The program of construction of new} works is still greater in the Second} | Five than for the First Five Year| Plan. Molotov socke about the cavi- tal investments for the Sccond Five) Year Plan, as exereding that of the | times, and also the increased source |from which capital investments | be gotten. He told how the produc- tion power of socialist industry has erown immeasurably, how in the re- |mote districts of the Great Sovist | Union, a new flourishing industria? | basis will be created. | Workers’ Well-Being | The next section of his report was | dovoted to the improvement of the | material conditions of the tollers, and | culture construction. | In concluding this section of his |report, Molotov emphasized the tasks | | and the struggle against the remnants | | of the exploiting classes. He stated that the great victories of the First (Five Year Plan were won because the - |Party held high the banner of class le, the banner of Marxism-| |Leninism, under which it also goes| to victory in the carrying through of | |the Second Five Year Plan, This | banner was carried by the leader, the} | pride of the working class—Stalin. Molotov’s last words were drowned | in stormy, vrolonzed appla Molo- tov ended his deep report, rich inj theoretical generalizations and con- crete data, with the cry: “Lorg Live | |Five Year Plan!” Applause again | | thundered, reflecting the fighting} preparedness of the Party to give its | creative energy to the construction | | of @ classless society with the realiza- tion of the historic tasks of the| | Second Five Year Plan. | The chairman of the evening ses-| | sion, Petrovsky, gave the floor to | Kuibishey, who, in an extensive te-| ‘ port, translated into language, de- tailed figures of concrete conditions | and the gigantic perspectives of the} Second Five Year Plan, in unfolding Molotov’s report. Vuibishev gave a detailed characterization of the development of national economy in| the separate regions, republics and districts. He said: | “The Soviet Union ts becoming a country completely independent of the capitalist world in technical | | and economic respects, a country | not only the biggest, but the mos‘ | advanced in agriculture. The Second Five Year Plan is building an edifice of Socialism.” He gave a detailed characterizaffor of the development in each separate | branch of national economy, paying special attention to the key tasks of the Second Five Year Plan,—the com- plete overcoming of backwardness in transport, equelization of ee of heavy industry, the mech- ization of the nz>2-~~- eho, reconstruction of light and food industries, the devel> nt of! cattle-breeding and increasing of | harvest, | | | | | more Negroes into T. U. U. L. unions. This afternoon Herbert Benjamin, | in his special report on the fight for! |the workers unemployment insurance bill, ployment Insurance” measures pro- posed by the A. F. of L, and Socialist | Party leaders, the Social Security Bill the Wisconsin pian and particu- larly the Wagner-Perkins plan for “reserves” as a result of the mass demand for the workers bill. Wagner is introducing tomorrow; his bill in both Houses of Congress, on the very day when the National Con- vention is sending delegations to Roosevelt, to Hopkins Fechner of the C. C. C. and others to present de- mands for the workers bill, for relief and jobs and the other demands of the convention. Wagner hopes in this way to stem the tide of mass de for the passege of the wor Wagner's bill calls. for the Fedral surance, Andy Onda of Cleveland, member of the Presiding Committee Charles Alexander, of New York, Joe Paskvan of the Farmer Labor Club of Eveleh, Minn, Lesslie Johnes, Baltimore Marine Worker, Steel workers, Pack- ing House workers and many others. ers organizations pledging suppor The capitalist press here remains entirely silent on the proceedings of the great convention. the Comptete Victory of the Second! | delegates | Masonic Auditori | the big hall. | memployed groups attending. exposed the fraudulent “Unem- | az | Telegrams were received from work- | “ GUTTERS ~ NEW YORK TANS AS AQT sue FOR HE NRA SUAVE «fea ‘Communists Have Earned Right To Lead, Minor Tells Jobless | Only Party Which Supp of Al Si ors “and Organizes Fight arving Toilers in Fight for Bread and Unemployment Insurance By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Wash! m Buresa) WASHINGTON, Feb, 4—The Com- munist Party’s ige to the ur ployed: “We will fight through with you—now, and further on,” was brought to the National Convention against unemployment, last night, by Robert Minor of the Central Com- mittee, to every revolutionary greeting the nine hundred de legates responded with a roar of applause. Flinging off his coat and vest. Minor vigorously lained the rovo- lutionary Comm immediate demands heft employed, and with emphatic declara- tion that, “Our task is to build a great mass movement, a united front not of one particulor school of thought, but of the erican work~- ing men and women.” chts for Relief that the Communist x battles on the streets and despite jail and tear gas and bullets, | fought for and won the right to fight for Unemployment Insurance. He said fhat: _Throu eh this fight, the Commu- of dollars worth of unemployment relief.” “The Communist Party is keenly aware that there are hundreds of here who are members of followers of the : and Social- Parties,” Minor said, “and I am here to assure you of a very hearty virit cf ccoperation with those ad- herents of other parties—we wel- come all those ing to fitht for the great common cause. The Com- munist Party is of the opinion that the only way in wMiIch the Amer- ican mas can be rescued from decades of misery is through the united action of you and others.” Minor's the close of a mass meeting in the ium, attended by visitors who, with the delegates, filled It followed bricf and fiery sneeches by rank and file lead- ers of the trade untons, fraternal groups, farmers clubs. and relief and These speeches too were marked by mil: tant declorations, particule~’y ated pledzes of solidarity between | White and Nevro labor. Preceding Minor, Ann Burlak, the light leator of the Nationel Textile Workers’ Union, had called forth a thundercus ap- the strike of tional Textile id: 's N: trike, in whi h she “We got gas, tear gas and bullets too, but we y 2 our fict at Wash- ington and said, ‘We'll starve on the picket lines, but well be damn: od if we'll starve in the She told too how an N. R. A. of- ficial remarked tc when sh? vation to protest . . codes, “You know, Ann, we don’t mind your coming down here—but why do you have to always bring a mob with you?” That, She said, is the difference between militant and A. F. of L. Unicns—and militant, employed workers stand to- ther with unemployed workers. “Unemployed workers didn’t seab on us,” she added. “No must go back fo cur trade uniéns—I don’t care which Un‘on you belong t-— and conyluce the others that the fight for Unempley-rent Iner-nee for oll workers is a fight of the whole workin elacs.” A Negro woman di ate from j Hovston, T tol i of the ? . plight in D: declared not afraid of the! police terror. L, Union shoute d, “We “beon yes-men all these years; now let's be no-men, The classes of cavita-n h-ve had ee chance, So now let's see the pledge that despite the 0 minute spsecn came at} reiter- | A eal on ‘a miner Taaruelt are lined up figut for . he ; upper iclasses from Civil War days have sought to divide ex-soldiers from other workers, and American Logion | leadership “have carried out that program.” Charles Alexander of the League | i for Struggle for Negro Rights, ham- mered the need for unity of whites and Negzocs, and the thought that the fight for Unemployment Insur- ance is a fight against lynch terror and™ all forms of discrimination against Negroes. Robert Minor, also, dwelt upon necessity to fight the lynch-wave “in which we hear the false cry of | ‘rape’” which he said, “I notice al- ways rises when the price of cotton | goes down.” Berating all who would divide Negro and white or any classt*ica- tions of the working classes, Minor pointed to the Socialist Party's Ex- ecutive Committee's recent notice to; their foll rs, in the new leader, “not th us in this fight.” Sociatist Workers, once set in mo- tion, will not stop where the So- cialist Party leaders want them to stop . . . now, what is this ter- | rible ‘further on?’ what is this ter- rible Communist Party goa’?” And he pointed to the road toward a Workers and Farmers Government, a goal, he exp’zined, which can be | attained only through the day to | day batile for each day's needs, Then, with a reference to the | treacheries of German Social-Demo- | cracy which led to Fascism, he told | of the American N.R.A’s “major ob- | jective, to defeat the unemp!oyment insurance movement” because “to in- stitute social insurance would enable the working class to stand like a rock against wage cuits.” “Planned | economy under capitalism means | burning bread destroying crops, mak- | ing the nation poorer,” he explained, “but the wealth is here to provide in full for the needs of all.” “I see the American masses movin,” he said, pointiry to the | bread lines represented in the con- | vention, but even so, he concluded, | ‘we've only scratched the surface + + « we of the Communist Party say, Forward to the fight’” ‘Bar Negro Strdents From School Office NEW YORK.—‘eg~o students may not ‘old office in the student or- stions at the 102nd St. Annex of Wedleivh Hizh School. This jim- crow docision wes handed down Jast Friday by Mis; O. Doty, dean of the annex, in re‘: to accent the nomination of Mi- Doris Challenge for president of the General Or- ganization. “No colored girl can be president of the G. A. at Watleith High School,” Miss Doty stated, when Miss Challenve was nominated by a ground of white students. The students booed the decision and took un the challenze by nominating Miss Chal- lenge for the office of athletic ac- countant. The dean then demanded a ovetition sirneed by 50 students, although this had not been reouired for nomination of white students, Fifty-five sivnatures were imme- diately forthcominy. There are only Six Nevo students at the school, The Wadleith chanier of the Na- tional Student League is making plans for a mass campaign against nersecuttoin an d_ discrimination against Negro students at the school. City Events Boston ALL JOUN KEED CLUB MEMBERS All John Reed Club members meet at Rutgers Square, 11:30 a, m., teday. OPEN FORUM IN GREAT NECK, L. 1. Alecture on “Citizenship Rights of Forelgn Born,” will be held tonight at 8 p. m., et Arrandale Schocl, corner Argandale Ave., Great Neck, L. I. Auspices: Workers Ex- men’s League and Committee for of Foreign-Born. DALY WORKER DANCE GROUP A Daily Worker Dance -Group has been formed by the Daily Worker Volunteers. tlonary dence theory will The group will perform for vw: ganiz*tions. Rehearsals every Monday night a 8 p. m, Sth floor, #5 E. 12th st. | through | York DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1934 © . {30,000 Hackmen Out; LaGuardia in Big Betrayal Move (Continued from Page 1) were putting up one of the most spirited and determ‘ned fi¢hts in the entire h‘story of the New York transport industry, Mavor La Guardia, who is hai'ed in the cani- ta'ist press as the champion of the drivers, was carrying on maneuvers at City Hall to pet the str'xers bvck to werk witout miviny them the 5-cent tax which the strikers de- mand. i LaGuardia for New Start In a conference at City Hall on |Saturday afternoon, where the | Mayor met leaders of four taxi- men’s organizations, it was pointed out by Joseph Gilbert, organizer of the Taxi Workers Union, that La Guardia went back on his word by trying to get the drivers to accept, instead of the full 100 per cent of | the tax, only 40 or 50 per cent of the sum, “This maneuver was made an appointment by the Mayor of Morris L, Ernst, a New| ‘liberal’ lawyer, as the me-| diator,” declared Gilbert. Ernst, speaking for LaGuardia, told the committee to “take what jyou can get.” Harry Cantor, also representing the Taxi Workers Union, lashed into Ernst’s proposal by declaring that “the men came on strike for 109 per cent of th> tax and they will get in in view of the militant stro~gle the hackmen are putting up.” Cantor pointed out that the taxi- men are also fighting for the recog- nition of a union of all taxi drivers | to be set up on the basis of garage committees which will gusrantee , rank and file control and honest | distribution of the million and a half tax money which is due the men, Calls Mayor's Hand C. demanded that LaGuar- dia kee, his promise to the hack- men by withdrawing the appeal of the Supreme Court decision, which declares the tax illegal, and give the money to the drivers. LaGaurdia, however, proposed through his spokesman, Ernst, that instead of recognition of a union of taximen- the so-called impartial chairman (Ernst himself) take care of all matters of the demands of the strikers, and that the union keep out of the matter. “You have four unions,” said Ernst, “How are we going to recog- nize anybody?” Demand Recognition Gilbert replied, “We propose an in-| dependent union representing all the} hackmen in New York and that this, organization be recognized.” Ernst is attemvting to get the men back to work by Monday morning without settling the question of the tax, while giving false promises to the drivers that the question will be set- | tled later. While Ernst was this strikebreaking proposal, Gilbert | asked the following questions: “If on Monday morning these men retusn to work does that mean that tey will haye to continue to pay the nickels to the fleet owners? Does it mean that the men will get the money alrcady paid in?” “It does not mean any such thing,” Ernst replied. “The men | will have to continue to pay the tax until after we agree with the fleet owners as to what percentage of the money will go to the men. This money will be impounded with the impartial c’airman and kept until the final decision is reached on the tax.” Meanwhile, City Chamberlain Berle | is in Albany bargaining with Tam- many State Senator Dunnigan, who has offered to speed the passage of a ‘aw declaring the tax law legal, thus devziving the drivers of their money. Working with La Guardia, in an at- tempt to hoodwink the drivers brck to work without winning their de- mands, is Wm. Gandall, one of the committee of 18 which helped elect La Guardia and a’so an organizer for the United Taxicab Drivers Union of the A. F. of L. During the City Hall proceedings Gandall supported every proposal made by Ernst and fought vigorous'y against all proposa's for mi'tant ac- tion and unity put forward by Gil- bert and Cantor of the Taxi Work- ers Union. --Side by side with Gandall in the sellout maneouvers is one Sam Smith, a well known strikebresker, leader of | the Bronx Empire City Taxi Associa-_ tion, In 1930 Smith with the Brooklyn Tammany district leader Wolkoff broke the “Black Beauty” strike which was led by a rank and file) committee, In Octcber, when the Taxi Workers Union organized a mass meeting of 1,000 drivers at the Christ Church to discuss the question of the 5 cent tax, Smith provoked a fivht with a red baiting argument, which } led to the breaking up of the meeting. | Smith's most recent activity in the field of strikebreaking took place a week ago when the Rosenblatt Gar- age, 149 Girard Ave., Bronx, went on strike for the 5 cent tax under the Jeadership of the Taxi Workers Un’on, Smith ceme to the garage an? herded the men back to work with the promise that La Guardia wou'd see to it that the men world get the nickels, Gives Bribe putting forward heard to tell Gandell that for $50 he would get all bis Bronx men to tain the Gandall’s United Taxicab Union, ..T. W. U. Demands At a mess meo''ag of strikers held on Saturday at Manhattan Iuyceun the Taxi Workers Union put forward the following demands for the stvike which were unanimeusly adopted by 2) the toximen present: 1. 100 per cent of the nickels col- lected by the fleet to be returncd to the drivers. . % The extra nickel on the clock to go to the drivers. 3. Garage comm’ttees of hack- men to be set un to distvibute the money and Jead the strucgi:. 4. Recognition of the Garage Committees. 5. The fermati; of & united general strike comim'ttee. 6. Recognition of @ unified in- dependent union of all the drivers, Saturday night Smith was over-! j Oy | gerata e ERO Vance of the Labor Sports Union.” I felt my hand grasped in a strong grip. My palm was in contact with a hard, rough surface, Here was a healthy farmer or a steel worker. It turned out that I wasn’t fe: s from wrong. Dick Heikkinen, who was elected to his new post a month ago at the nation- al convention of the L. S. U., was born in Phelps, Wisconsin, where ne lived for twenty years on a SAR 5p He was broug! chard Heikkiver up with the soll, by ni .. in the true tradition of his Finnish ancestors, “A COUPLE of years ago I left the farm _to work in the American Beass, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, That's where I became a proletarian.” His face lit u> with a smile revealing a set of white, even teeth. He had just come to New York from his home in Phelps where his family, father, mother, five brothers and three sisters—reside. He brought the Middle West w:th him—down to the black and red mackinaw coat with its high slanted pockets. Oh yes, he had knocked around quite a bit, he told me, He had been a farmer, brass worker, taxi- driver in Kenosha, a manual laborer on a golf ccurse in Phe’s, an elec- trical renair man in the mudiy roads of Wisconsin, How did he find enouzh time to be- come interested in the labor sports moverient? eae ere Y 4& the Young Workers League. (now the Young Communist League), In "29 he belonged to a workers sports club of about 45 members where he porti- cipated in his favorite sports of ski. ing, basketball and track and field athletics. The club affiiliated with the Labor Sports Union, because it was a natural thing. And I've been in it ever since because its the thing I like best and believe it's of real value to the working class movement.” Now that he was national secretary of the L. 8. U, what are his ideas re- garding that organization? “A change is going to take place, I begin to feel that already. We've got | to become more orientated into the working class movement—into the DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin ané Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Offtes Hours: 8-10 AM, 1-2, 6-8 P.M. COHENS’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Ne. Delancey Street, New York City Ex! AMINED Wholesale Optictans By or: Kivelusiota Tel. ORchard 4-4520 ‘Optometrist Factory on Premises 1 omraaes feet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 158 Cleremort Parkway Brom (Classified) Boom in apariment with French comrade. $B a week; kitchen; steam. 217 West 68th Street, Apt. 3%. Apply from 8 to 2 p. m PERSONAL Kara Kan, No, 417 see Blondell immediately. VOU see, nine years ago Dick joined ; By JERRY ARNOLD (Batting for Si Gerson) Richard the Lion-Hearted E door opened and Richard walked in. Six feet tall, sturdily built, blond hair, blze eyes, typical nordic. He seemed some- how to be out of place in the rush and bustle of the Daily office. His eyes wandered about bewilderedly as he stood awkwardly in the middle of the busiest aisle in the place. “Meet Comrade Richard Heikkinen, new national secretary factories, trade un‘ons. We'll build sports units that will be rooted in the basic economic units of the workers, “We're encountering a lot of diffi- culties,” he added. “Especially in the international field. In the Central European countries like Germany, Poland, etc., the labor sports zations are being smashed by the fascist regimes. That m‘ght interfere with our Spartakied in Moscow this ugust, but we're fighting our darndest to make a real success of it.” ee mers Richard—farmer, proletarian of the Middle West—came to this city for the first time several weeks ago he took his first subway ride and got lost somewhere in the wilds of the Bronx. He rode around for hours, on trains and street cars, until he reached his destination. I started to laugh, He looked at me and smiled, but I could see a look of determination in his eyes. “T'll get used to it,” he said. “Al I need’s a little practice.” If you should happen to see a tall, blond youth weighing about 185 peunds, wearing a black and red Meckinaw, riding the subways, gazing furtively out of the windows and reading every sign on the stations, you'll know it's Richard (the Lion- hearted) Hoikkinen, new national secretary of the L, S. U., a swell guy. Bronx YCL Leads LSU Basketball League NEW YORK.—The Bronx Young Communist League No. 2 jumped into the lead of the Labor Sports Union metropolitan basketball tournament, winning three consecutive games. The Lyceum Boys and the Calverts fol- low closely with two games apiece to their credit. Tre LW.O, Branch 409 nosed out the National Student League Satur-~ day night, 1-14, in a hard-fought, non-eague game. Have you bought your ticket to the “Srpport the German Work-rs’ Revo'vtion concert and affair on Feb, 11 at the Bronx Ct/iseum? Readers Attention: | All special orders for small bundles from comrades who do not have a regular account with our ecffice must be ac- companied by cach, as other- wise the expense for collecting for these pavers is more than what the orders amount to. ARRANGE YOUR DANCES, LECTURES, UNION MEETIN at the NEW ESTONIAN WORKERS’ HOME 27-29 West 115th Street New York City RESTAURANT and BEER GARDEN Allerton Avenue Comrades! The Modern Bakery was first to settle Bread Strike and first to sign with the FOOD WORKERS’ INDUSTRIAL UNION 96t ALLERTON AVE. CARL BRODSKY All Kinds Of INSURANCE 799 Broadway NY STuyvesant 9-5557 PATRONIZE SEVERN’S CAFETERIA 7th Avenue at 30th St, Best Food atWorkers Prices All Comrades Meet at the NEW HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA | Fresh Food—Prolctarian Prices—50 E. 13th St—WORKERS’ CENTER Musical Program Tickets: Support the Workers’ Revolution in Germany! COME TO THE CONCERT AND MASS MEETING SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11th, 1934, at 8 P. M. Bronx Coliseum, 177th Street, and West Farms EARL BROWDER GENERAL SECRETARY, Communist Party, U.3.A. WILL LECTURE ON THE “Present Situation in Germany” WEIR SEREG CORBY eae Rud tane Entertainment Arranged by: Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A. Entire Proceeds: Communist Party of Germany Reserved Section, $1.00 -- Other Seats 40 cents in Advance reese