The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1934, Page 2

Page Two Ee eee Fascism; 5th Infantry Regim Women, Children Slaughtered By Howitzer Shells i) center of the country surpasses in | horror the most fearful scenes of} ee | where at least the combat- E | © eq | qually armed. of nse || For Struggle, | Pravda Says | Austrian Workers Sweep | Over Socialist | Leadership tS paged k es (Special to the Daily Worker) “2 workir ASS MOSCOW, Feb. 13 (E tories, and railway sta @ leading editorial on the present | heads, come through ernment censorship. the workers repulsed a troops and the heav Heimwehr Where they wee they went down fight Captured Workers Hanged The center of Vienna is deserted Civil war is raging in all its outskirts, where the working class The Dollfuss government has es-| tablished martial law, and decreed immediate execution for every man found with arms. One worker was| eaught court-martialed last The City Hall of Vienna, seized by the Heimwehr, Fascist troops supported by the Dollfuss government, The Dolifuss government was supported by the Socialist leaders. night, and immediately hang ms ny aie a ae ap ee OTe SUR ee vine apace sine sontensos| Gigantic French | French Workers when ‘ate and xeinmens ‘oom —St]ke Mobilizes Combat Fascism ..® sought to seize the workers’ head- quarters in Linz. The workers fought back. Disregard Yellow Leaders The struggle spread with lightning- like rapidity to other parts of the country. The Social Democratic lead- | ¢ ers, who had until Sunday reiterat their loyalty to the Dollfuss fascism, | (Continued from Page 1) Against Fascism: from Pag (Continued from Page 1) tion throughout the working clas: centers. declared a general strike at the last ed in an| become the slogan for the widest moment. » head-| masses of the proletariat of France. It was not possible for word of General| They have shown that they do no! Strike, even, to be broadcast. Wor! s of Vienna learned it when the electric rike V The complete Power was cut off. ughout the| 2s given the masses the only cor- 1 Disregarding their yellow leaders complete re.| reet slogan for the present struggle: | they took the path of armed resist- 11 “For a United Revolutionary Front | 1 day in which the might of ig class, ressing itself at of a rising f. h a militancy w 1 the bonds of “de- ance to the fascist ons ing the lead of the ille Party. v for m) a1 Commu relentless the fascism | Fight Against Fascism and the Ad The events in France show a ne diately understood the meaning of | termination of the masses to struggle. | these events. And they answered | with a wide wave of demonstra- | to Fascist reaction has matured, and The general strike which | started on the night of Feb, 12 has want a Hitlerian regime in France. | The Communist Party of France | of Struggle from Below for the vent of the Fascist Dictatorship.” events in Austria, Pravda, the lead- ing organ of the Communist Party | of the U.SS.R. declared today: of the wor! tus of the stead: , Including the appara- | Social-Democrats. The | contracting mass base of the government, as well as the| internal dissensions in the camp of! Austrian Fascism intensified the fear | of the mass workers’ organizations | which were absorbing wide masses | of toilers hostile to Fascism. Under the insistent pressure of the | masses an frauding the h the intent of de-| m again, the Social-| Democratic leaders finally consented | | to a general strike, only to choke} ‘it almost immediately after it was] proclaimed. | But this tactic will not deceive any- | The mass movement had al- ready swept over the heads of the Social-Democratic leaders, giving| once again evidence of the great de- | The mass revolutionary resistance S | is ripe. | munist and Socialist workers. | | But the strikers in Vienna and t | the other cities and towns can end victoriously only when the revolu- | tionary workers take the fight into their own hands under the guidance | of the Communist Party. : Death Asked | | | | Ww } 1 { ich the Socialist Party and | n leadership sought to im- | Seven Dead vorkers are known to hav hes with police in} g in the Malakoff ‘b of Paris, where at was seriously in-| the strike Workers demonstra- | 00 per In was li y example of the growing leadership | of the Communist Party, whose in-| fluence over the masses {s continu-| ously increasing. The general strike | | indicates that events of the greatest) importance are developing, and, it may be said, the guarantee of the e/ success of the movement Hes in the| correct application of the United| Front from below for the widening and deepening of the growing unity of the masses of proletariat and peas- antry under the guidance of the Communist Party of France. tor 3 Negro In 7m. Trial | Day in Mississippi “Daily” Standards for DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1934 Shoe Workers By JOHN L. SPIVAK BROCKTON, Mass. — The business man, the banker, the what happened to cause the de- pression and what steps to take office. Men who; are considered leaders of the in- dustry they are}: in, whose fingers touch every ar- tery of their man- ufacturing busi- ness, who know every inch of their own par- ticular factory, have only vague and general knowledge of what is occurring & in other factories even in their own 708" ™ Spivak line let alone the affairs of the city, county, state or nation, The impression indelibly left on me is that they know their own factor- ies, how to make a pair of shoes for as little as possible and sell it for as | much as possible, but once out of | reago-s The Austrian Social-Fascists strive | their own field their status as lead- | | to drive a wedge between the Com- | ers of the economic scheme of things | even in their own community is al- | most pathetic. | They look puzzled when you ask questions touching upon affairs other} than their own particular factory. adio).—In | manufacturer is as dazed about | They know that economics play an important part in the political | scheme of things, but politics to them |is merely a means of achieving cer- | tain privileges for their factory or The Fascists have at last decided |* Set out of it as the worker in his| industry or counteracting antagon- to rout all the mass organizations | factory or the clerk in a store or| istic moves against it. Politics means to them. On questions | welfare as a whole, they | utter loss, They have ideas of what caused the depression and how to get out of it—floundering ideas, uncertain, hesi- | tant. “The country’s in this mess because | | there’s not enough money in circula- | tion.”” | When you probe deeper into that they flounder about. They don’t know how money stopped circulating, | “It's because of watered stock. "| These brokers would sell ten cents | Worth of a stock for $50, Then all |the money concentrated into the hands of a few men. That's what started the depression.” | “It started because manufacturers | built more and more factories during | the boom days.” | These and innumerable other 5 are given as the isolated (continned on Page 5) Layoff of Million C.W.A. Men Going | Through Thursday es | Congressmen for Wage | Indicted, Tried and Then | Sentenced on the Same 5 efor ‘Despite Ered oe France Plans before ite the whole potice onstrators forced the release of| (Continued from Page 1) e three workers Tremendous Picket Lines heavy fighting between abs in Roubaix, where onstrated. Here the rs were burned by significant were the tre-} ket lines organized before | mendous pic! ' every factory. There was not a smali|the highly strategically situated shop open. in Paris all day. | Austrian territory. 7 | The events in Austria are also Workers organized a mass demon- | woul? be a prelude to a new World War, as it most certainly would be opposed by Italy, which, while like- wise opposed to Hitler control of Austria, would not trust its French vals in an armed occupation of HERNANDO, Miss, Feb. 13.— | Speedily indicted by a grand jury, | rushed to trial on the very same day | and sentenced insid2 of seven min- utes to hang—such was the swift lynch justice meted out under capi- talist “law and order” to three Negro | youths, framed-up on the usual lying | “rape” charges with which the South- ern slave drivers justify their mur- |derous crimes against the oppressed Negro masses. Even pronouncement | of sentence, usually delayed for sev-| eral days after the return of the ver- | dict, was made on the same day, Judge John M. Kuykendall of Char-| leston immediately sentencing the/ | three youths to die on March 16. | fuss of Austria, leader of reactionary forces now attempt- ing to drown workery revolt in sea of blood. stration in front of the Ministry of | | Posts in Rue de Grenelle. | According to the most authentic | estimates, the strike involyed 80 per| being utilized by the British impe- rialists to speed up their war prep- | arations, with the British Cabinet | considering the adoption of a more The was hideous legal lynch verdict returned while armed troops guarded the court house, ostensibly aggressive foreign policy, including | © Protect the constitutional rights of cent of the organized working class of France. armament” conferences. for which the Social Democrats had paved the way, and before which they had capitulated. The state at once mobilized its war forces, called in the drilled and armed | fascist Heihmwehr legions and de-| elared murderous warfare on the| working class. Women, Children Slaughtered | Shells from heavy artillery crashed into the homes of 20,000 workers in| the working class district of Vienna. | Men and women manned the doors | and windows of the gigantic co-oper-| ative tenements, the Karl Marx) apartment, with 2,000 families, the| Schlinger and the Sandleiten apart- ment complexes, each almost as large,| fighting against tremendous military forces. Every corridor of the famous buildings was like a war-time trench. Shells Smash Great Tenements Howitzer shells crashed into the upper stories of the Karl Marx build- ing, burying men, women and chil- dren in the debris. The middle arch collapsed. Shells ripped whole corners from "the Schlingerhof and Sandleiten apartments. The air resounded with the screams of wounded women and children. The cities where the working class of Austria is giving open battle to the Fascist troops of the Dolifuss government. They are all in- dustrial centers. |a frank scrapping of the futile “dis- | the defendants to a fair trial, but in reality to convince, with force if necessary, a gathering lynch crowd | that a legal mass lynching, carried | through by the state itself under the cloak of legality, would be preferable | to a mob lynching. Moreover, a bill | | recently introduced in the Senate of | Mississippi would give the unofficial | lynchers the right to witness all legal | lynchings, by making every hanging of a Negro a public and holiday event. Boys Denied Defense Attorneys In tts hurry to rush the three! youths to the gallows, the lynch court |dispensed with such formalities as! |respect for the constitutional rights | of the defendants to adequate legal |defense. Not one of the youths, Ernest McGhee, 23; Johnny Jones, 23, | and Tsar Howard. 25: was permitted a defense attorney. Arrested only | two go on a charge of attack- | ing a 17-year-old white girl, the three |lads were held incommunicado and | tortured into a third degree confes- sion. As at the first trial of the| | Scottsboro boys, the three lads were | mot permitted to communicate with | their families. All three are from | Memphis, Tenn. | They are charged with boarding an | automobile on the night of Dec. 27, Scores, at least, lie dead in the de-| — bris of these famous working-class| munitions factor homes. No estimate of dead can yet still be made. | barrage. In the wake of the artillery bar-| troops the workers were} held their ground in hour after hou thering artillery and Heimwehr state commanded personally by rage, troops swarmed to the attack.| Prince von Starhemberg, Heimwehr ‘The Karl Marx building was reported | leader. This town has been a town of world war, James Ford, Little, Will Speak on Cuba At Center Tonight to have been captured, after having been nearly demolished. The other two at latest word were still holding out. Troops with artillery moved fr m one to another of the 800 big working @lass apartment houses of Vienn: training their howitzers on the build- ings and calling on the residents to surrender. In :nany cases the wor!: ers replied with firearms, and fought, to protect their homes. Driven Out, Rally Again The workers were driven out of the| Arbeiterheim, the main workers’ cen- ti ter of Vienna, after a long resistance| trated in Vienna, Linz, Steyr, Po-| against artillery. The attack here|schaar, Grunden, Graz, Bruck, Flo-| Was under the personal command of| ridzdorf, Kapfen! Wineggenberg | Major Emil Fey, vice-chancellor and|and Judenberg. _ @ Heimwehr leader. | In each tof these industrial centers | te driven out of their shat-/the workers with inadequate arms,| red building, the workers rallied in| without any of the powerful fighting | Nearby electrical works, and con-| weapons the state has trained on| to fight back | them, without means of communicat- | At Linz the workers are still holding | ing with their brothers in other cen-| freight depot, against an attack | ters, directed by workers who have ay Machine guns and artillery. The| assumed spontaneous leadership, are | forces reported they had oceu-| carrying on a herote resistance. the passenger station. |. Despite their meager arms they Hold Munition Center | have stormed and taken position after , Where there are gigantic! position in many places, and have starvation since 1931. Official reports are that more than 100 are dead | there. ‘The der-M ai workers ur early it captured Bruck-an-| today and held it a murderous barri tillery fire. Fighting is going on in| all the streets. The workers ‘were | driven out once, assault, and rec: In Kapfenbe NEW YORK.—James Ford, mem- ber of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, who has just returned from Cuba, and John Lit- He, District Organizer of the Young Communist League, will speak on “The Youth and Cuba Today,” at the Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St., at 8 p.m., tonight. The proceeds go to the Young Communist League of Cuba. Ford has been very active in aid- ing the struggle of the Cuban masses against U. 3. imperialism, He will report in detail on the con- ditions of the young workers and peasants in Cuba. the workers had laid ce Station and were the fight. Troops to attack | h The sharpest MEETING AGAINST WAR League against War and Fascism will hol in the Social Center Homes, 126-42 Goerck * of withering fighting and desperate charges which equal in ferocity the |most desperate encounters of the NEW YORK.—The East Side Neighborhood & mass meeting in opposition to National Detense Week, Thursday, Feb. 15th, at 8:30, of the Lavenberg St, New York City. in which the alleged girl victim, her | uncle and an aunt were riding. The story is thet the uncle and aunt were robbed and the girl attacked. The irl is a relative of Senator Clay H. Collins, author of the bill to make hanging of Negroes a public event “in the discretion of the trial judge.” ‘The Senator in pressing for the pass- age of his measure pledged his fam- ily “to let the law take its course.” | Providing the Jezislature vasses his | bill. He declared the bill was in- |dorsed by Governor Collins of Mis- cissiopl. He exrressed the fear that the trial of the three vouths would cost the state $10,000 if his bill was not_nassed. Workers Should Protest This Vieious Verdict That the bill is directed against Nenroes. Js freely admitted by offi- cials and by the press, Senator Wilev Blair, for example, sneaking in the state senate, said: “This bill will make every Nevro hanging in Mis- sissippi a public holiday.” Yesterday during the seven min- utes the all-white boss jury was out, a lynch mob twice tried to break |through the cordon of Nattonal | Guards to get the prisoners. They | were finallv placated. however. by the | rapidity with which the lynch vy was returned and by an appeal by the girl's father to let “justice” take its course, The brazen denial of the right of legal defense to the defendants, the ng id Cuts; Workers to | Demonstrate | BULLETIN NEW YORK.—The Unemployed Councils have called on the C. W. A. workers to organize committees on the job to vrotest agains: the layoffs of 1,000,000 men on Feb. 15 by Roosevelt’s orders. They call on the C. W. A. workers to ho'd mass meetings and demonstrations throughout the conntry against liquidation of the C. W. A. and for adequate relief. Where C. W. A. workers are fired protests should be organized to the C. W. A. offices, and then to the relief offices to de- mand iebs or relief for all those scheduled for firing, the Unem- ployed Councils said. ee er oie | By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—A bour- bon tyrants’ false charge: “The average Negro in the South doesn’t want more than $2.40 cents a week— pay him $2.40 a day and he'll lay off six days a week.” was raised before a House Committee today as Harry L. Hopkins, director of the C.W.A..| declared once more that scrapping of the C. W. A. procram will begin on Thursday and will be completed by May 1. The attack upon Negro workers} was made by Representative Allard | H. Gasaue, South Carolina Democrat and a member of the House Expendi- tures Committee. Hopkins for Cheap Labor | ‘That committee was avizzine Hov- kins in a bitterly farcial procedure, led by Republican Representative Charles Gifford of Massachusetts. Gasaue laughed sneerinely nas he snoke. He was comvlaining that C. W. A. wages pre too hivh to suit the Tich farmers he represents, | Honkins said in effect that C.W.A. wage scales would not interfere with Southern planters’ getting all the chean labor thev need. because “the | planting season is fust becinning, and | we nian to begin demohilizing the | C. W. A. in rural areas.” Then. in} the face of the reactionary attack, | Hovkins made this telltale defense: “The cuestion is not that of setting | Ce the crop vlanted. but what's soing to jhannen to those neonle (taken off C. 'W. A. rol's) with the 40 ner cent reduction of the cotton crop.” Firing Hundreds of Thousands The Senate later todav discussed | final anproval of the $950.009.0090 re- | strieted-arnronristion for C. W. A. and relief, but failed to reach a final vote. The suestion before them is sonroval of House nrovisions. includ- ing one which wovld cut off all C. 'W. A. vrojects which are neither fed- eral nrojects nor on federal land. ‘The Fovse and the House and Sone ote eonferees mede no vrovision for acing workers thus thrown out of fobs on ether C. W. A. fobs. and it was stoted several times an the floqr that this would throw hundreds of ‘noveands of unemployed back into the streets, t At Honkins’ office, it was said In vesronse to cuestions that nlans for the “tanering off"—serannin7—of the ©. W. A. are soine forwerd. but no | Word as to nroreedvre will be given until anorenriation is nessed. Cynically Cut Wages Cynicism and peanut-politics per- vaded the House Committee’s in- flagrant violation of their constitu~ tional rights and the hideous lynch verdicts returned within seven min- utes by the lynch jury. must arouse | the indignant protest of every honest worker and intellectual. Protests should be sent immediately to Gov- ;Quiry, the whole attack of Gifford and the Southern Democrats being leveled at C. W. A. wage scales, Not one member of the large committee challenged Gasque—nor did Hopkins, Not one member of the group, who supposedly were also going to take up graft in the C. W. A., brought out anything about the C. W. A. money going to racketeers instead of to workers. Gifford developed one stitong reason Teason for the Roosevelt administra- tion's hasty scrapping of the C.W.A. when he said: “Southern employers are complaining that the C. W. A. wage scale is too high.” He added, unblushingly, “30 cents an hour is enough to pay any man.” CWA Jobless Work- Thursday, Feb. 15th NEW YORK.—Tomorrow at 3 p.m. | jobless and C.W.A. workers of New | York will join in a huge united front | demonstration at Union Square | against the Roosevelt abandonment of the C. W. A. On that day the Roosevelt administration will lay off 1,000.000 C. W. A. workers and bezin its “tapering off process,” unless the workers get behind this demonstra- tion here and elsewhere to fight against it. All employed workers and unem- ployed workers are urged to turn out and join this united front demon- stration to force the continuance and enlarzement of the C. W. A.; to stop lay-offs and wage cuts and discrim- ination against Negroes and foreign born, and to force the city adminis- tration to vrovide immediate cash relief for all unemnloyed workers. The Relief Workers’ League urges all C, W. A. workers to stop work on this day, and to take immediate steps to force the C. W. A. officials to pay all C.W.A. workers (Classified ) ONE black galoshe exchanged by mistake ‘at N.S.L. dance in Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 E. 19th St. last Sat, evening, Feb. 10th. Call at Morning Freiheit, 50 E. 13th St. comrade at switchboard. WANTED, buy cheap or donate music in- struments, pisno, mandoline, chess games, books. Seamens Club, 140 Broad St. Phone BO. 9-9:80, WANTED quiet room, downtown, girl, B. S., c-o Daily Worker, Write MEN ond WOMEN ra) Dont try to hide dandruff with a big hat XDAND DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Srooktyn | oPTowerests/)orricians | ae ST.NICHOLAS AVE * 1690 LEXINGTON AVE. at 179" ST.RY at 106th ST. Knitgoods Workers’ Unity Committee of 25 is calling a ‘Mass Meeting in Cooper Union, Eighth Street & Third Avenue Thurs., Feb. 15, 6:30 p. m. Purpose is {@ demand reopen- ing of the code hearing, to fight for 35-hour week and unity of all knitgoods workers. Speakers of all three unions in New York and Philadelphia United Textile Knitgoods Local ernor Collins, Jackson, Miss, and have been invited to address Judge John M. Kuykendall, Her- the meeting. sel nando, Misa, \ That is all| ‘ers to Demonstrate see EE ‘Organizations Call) Correspondent Tells of Lowered Living All Members Out On Streets Today (Continued from Page 1) of the Austrian workers. We appeal | to every branch, to every member of the I. L. D., to mobilize for this dem- onstration, to make it the mightiest | expfession of international solidarity | with the Austrian workers.” » affecting their industry in regard to| Max Bedacht, secretary of the In-| other industries and the national) ternational Workers’ Order, declared | are at an | that this organization would rally its | | membership | for Austrian workers. support of the “Our members | Should act as the organizers for this | | demonstration among their fellow- | workers. Our immediate support to | our Austrian class brothers can best | be shown by our mobilization for this | demonstration in their support.” nee ae | William Z. Foster, in the name of |the Trade Union Unity League, | stated: “The fascist swine mowing {down the Austrian working class | should feel the powerful voice of the | American workers. ‘Every trade | union local, every trade union mem= | ber should yally his fellow-workers in this demonstration of international Solidarity. Through our action we should mobilize the united front of | all workers in the fight against fas- |cism, in a show of solidarity with ne heroic Austrian proletariat.” ee ee | | “We will immediately go to all A. | F. of L. members and locals we can reach,” said Louis Weinstock, secre- | tary of the A. F. of L, Committee for Unemployment Insurance, “and mo- | bilize them in a united front demon- | stration on behalf of the brave Au- | strian fighters against fascism.” ree | “All unemployed workers, facing | hunger under the growing fascist at- | tacks in this country, should rally on | the streets today in the demonstra- tion in suvport of the Austrian work- | ers,” said Herbert Benjamin, national lorganizer of the Unemployment | Councils. Caer sae R | J. B. Matthews, chairman of the American League Against War and ment on behalf of the National Ex~ ecutive Committee of his organiza- tion: ‘ “Austrian workers and farmers are being brutally murdered in their brave resistance to the fascist regime. Working class women and children are being murdered in their homes. Trade union head- | quarters, workers’ homes built by | workers’ organizations, and their | newspapers are being destroyed. | The American League Against War and Fascism calls upon its support- ers, all American workers, and all | people opposed to this latest fascist outrage, to join in all demonstra- tions in protest against this fascist | terror and to forward immediately wired protest to the Austrian em- “bassy at Wi yn.” ‘The National Executive Committee jof the American League on whose behalf this statement is issued, in- cludes the following: Professor Robert Morss Lovett, Uni- versity of Chicago; Rabbi Israel Gold- stein; Mrs. Annie E. Wray, director, Women's Peace Society; Mary Fox, Executive Secretary, League for In- dustrial Democracy. Roger Baldwin, American Civil Lib- erties Union; Earl Browder, General Secretary, Communist Party; William Pickens, Field Secretary, National As- sociation for Advancement of Colored People; William Spofford, Church League for Industrial Democracy. Charles Zimmerman, Local 22, In- ternational. Ladies’ Garment Workers Union; Louis Weinstock, A, F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unem- ployment Insurance and Relief; A. J. Muste, Chairman, Conference for Pro- gressive Labor Action. Devere Alien, Editor, World Tomor- row; Tucker P, Smith, Brookwood College; Roy Hudson, National Sec- , Marine Workers Industrial Union; William Patterson, National Secretary, International Labor De- fense; Harold Hickerson, National Secretary, Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League; Alfred Wagenknecht, Na- tional Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism; Mra. Lincoln Steffens, Phons BEnsonharst 6-4490 DR. S. J. GREEN Surgeon Dentist 238 Kings Highway Corner West Ninth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. AARON SHAPIRO, Pod. G. CHIROPODIST 223 SECOND AVENUE ALgonquin 4-4432 Cor. 14th St, Scientific Treatment of Foot Ailments COHENS’S 117 ORCHARD STREET ‘Nr. Delancey Street, New York City 3 XAMINED Wholesale Oj By Dr. A Weinstein Tel, ORchard 4-4520 Optometric Cactory on Premises Fascism, issued the following state”! Austrian Workers Hold Fast in Heroic Armed Struggle Against |Crew Strikes Munson ent Joins Revolutionary Worker s Liner in New Orleans; (Masses Ready (Brockton Business Men Admit ~MWIU Leads Struggle “Something’s Wrong in U.S.” \Baltimore Seamen in Fight for Central Shipping Buro | | | ORLEANS, Feb. 13.—The | crew of the 8. S. Walter Munson, » Munson Line freighter, came out on strike Monday for the 1929 wage scale, overtime pay and an increase in the size of the crew. ‘The seamen are striking under the leadership of the Marine Worker:) | Industrial Union, This is the second ship's crew | come out on strike under the leader- | ship of the union since Feb. 7, when | Roy Hudson, national chairman of | the union, presented demands to the Munson Line owners in New York. It is expected that during the next week a number of other ship's crews on the Munson ships will join the company-wide strike movement. ee ee 500 Picket in Baltimore BALTIMORE, Feb. 13.—A mass picket line of over 500 seamen pick- eted the struck S.S. Munson here Saturday in face of over 100 police who were mobilized at the docks. After being held up for five days the ship owners managed to get the ship away shorthanded, with a few scabs. The local of the M.W.I.U. reports that steps have been taken to stop the Munsomo at the next port to call. On Sunday a mass meeting of 500 seamen voted to continue the struggle | to establish a central shipping buro, | which will operate under the contro) of a committee of seamen. e proposnls put forward ty Rey the proposals put forw: y Hudson for the establishment of a united front ittee to control the shipping, using rotary system. All seamen in the port are to be registered by the committee. 80 Per Cent Effective ‘The shipping Buro is already per cent effective. During the meet~ ing calis came to the union head- quarters, 702 South Broadway, for 17 men, The strongest opposition against the central shipping buro comes from the powerful Standard Oil Co., whose tankers come into this port. They have refused to recognize the buro. After the meeting it was reported that 28 men were by the Standard Oil from New York. The union has called a mass demonstra~ tion to be held Monday to protest against the activities of the Stand- ard Oil. Seamen im all porta are being mobilized to support the struggle of the Baltimore seamen for the ship~ ping buro, the National Buro of the union reported today. Important Shoe Union Meeting Thursday NEW YORK.—The United Shoe and Leather Workers Union an- nounced today that it will hold an important membership meeting Thursday at 6:30 P.M. at the Ar- ee Hall, 918 Halsey St., Brook- lyn. The meeting will discuss the question of the constitution which was adopted at the Boston Amal- gamation Convention and nomina- ficials. WICKS TO SPEAK ON “BUILDING & LENINIST PARTY” Harry M. Wicks, member of the Central Committee Communist Room, 47th St. near Foster Ave., Queens. STATIONERY and “MEOGRAPH SUPPLIES At Special Prices for Organizations Lerman Bros., Inc. Phone ALgonquin 4-3356 — 8848 29 East 14th St. N.Y. Tompkins Square 6-9182 Caucasian Restaurant “KAVKAZ” Russian and Oriental Kitchen BANQUETS AND PARTIES 33% East 14th Street New York Oty Allerton Avenue Comrades! 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