The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1934, Page 2

so | Bi AALS _ vope’s. een taken earlier in the day by the » fascist troops. Once again, machine Page Two v 8,000 Marchers Fight for Fire 250. 000 C.W. A. Men In R oosevelt’s *‘Demobilization’ Plan Perkins Discusses Fake Unemployment Bill as CWA Is Cut Down By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau WASHINGTOD ul workers on f it Works A the ¢ back tossed nemployed toda of those on Lower morrow 10 pe non-federal projects in fornia and & ida will be the same Alabama—a total of about 45.300. Suarter. of a million workers in a affected at once by the firing nt is pleased to ¢ tion” of the C. W. A. It intended to abolish ev job by May to demonstrations but these It was said tod throughout the co’ being ignored her of protest have come in, ‘there doesn’t to be sentmen! Former announce: the demobilization wert but it was learned that under consideration is to workers who are under wi seales first, and then those who wer both unemployed and not on relief rolls when taken on C. W. jobs. | The preparations went for Secretary of Labor Fi held forth in the ¢ legisiat to the pa The only em: the purpose of the confer- ift mass move- | loyment in- genuine | Canitalisis Begin Massacre of Best Captive Workers Gallows Rise; Soldiers | Slaughter Worker Prisoners -The systematic | of the work- A, Feb. 15 of the flower ing class of Austria has begun. The | thwarted and infuriated capitalist dic- | tatorship is carrying out savage re- | prisels on its worker captive: “Fire Captain Weissl, who led his |? company against the government himself manned a machine gun, v summarily hanged last night. On the scaffold, he proudly defied | his murderers. “The only reason you have caught me is because we did not have time to arm ourselves sufi-} ciently,” he declared. “I am a revolu- | | tionary Socialist. I will fight Doll~- fuss to the end.” Forty are held for the At Wolfsegg, in the Traunial coal | mining region, fascist soldiers turned | | on a band of captured workers, and massacred them to the last man. Gallows have been erected in many paris of Austria. Dollfuss has an. mounced that every captured leader | hangman at | of the fighting workers will be turned | over to the hangman Robert Kalab, ag © Viennese | bookbinder, is now ing execu tion. jit | as he read on. 1 | police on | 4. | ers, members of inden | and hundreds of other Delegation Forces Mayor to Pledge ‘No Police Interference’ his protest and his demands, Minor emphasized that “yesterday's attack on New York workers demonstrating in solidarity vith the embattled working class of Austrig, places {he present Fusion administration definitely on the of the Austrian fascists, whe ave killed thousands of workers and their wives and children within the past week.” When Julius Rodriguez, of the LL dD. esented hi ty Titten si te ment to LaGuardia, the mayor read} through, growing red with anger | Finished with i nd exclaimed he| tore it to pieces ne statement he deme » immediately. Minor der it If he inter- 1 con: well }leave with him.’ D. tement addressed to sitned by William e, Di strict Secretary, for the mbership of 7,000, after | brutal treatment ac police to demonstrators aim was “to express thei hh the nic struggle: Austrian workers,” declared | brutal attack of your police| °s the demagogy of| ion, which claims to| The action of the | not y better than if there were a Nee ,dministration in City Hall. We do} - not expect a different action a | we are not disillusioned. We w to call it sharply to your attention, | st methods} y on the s, will not succeed tolerated by the be with the militant workers’ delégation, d that: e would be permitted Coliseum where a to face persistent ardia 1) No f£ to the Bronx and LaGu i huge mass solidarity meeting with the Austrian workers, against war| and fascism, was scheduled for 7 P. la night. There would be “no police vio- ” at the demonstration of New| kers to be held today when e Austrian fascist trade delegation arrives in New York harbor. 3) There would be no police bru- tality during his administration. Minor, in obtaining these promises, inded LaGuardia that the real| oe 4 re es be made at the Bronx Coliseum, the demonstration Friday morn- and at all future workingclass | demonstrations. We demand proof in deeds, not in words. We will have our own workingelass discipline at these mestings and demonstrations, and we demand that there be no police inte ‘eference: ” | ing, Coliseum mass ‘inor ‘told reporters that t would be attended by huge groups of members of the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, A. F. of L. work- | ident unions, maller work- ing class organizations, “In this crisis, when our Austrian comrades are being shot down in Austria and other lands of black fascist reaction,” he told them, “the labor movement must stand solid | representatives of the nine o: aITY | scores of banners, marched up Broad y | lief Workers Le: atements “will have | ATLY New York CWA Men March for Jobs As 5,000 Demonstrate Traffic To Thousands Snarl Parade CWA Office “Daniels C. office at 79 Madison Ave. waiting for the report of their committee of nine. There was complete soli- darity expressed by the Socialist led and Communist led ©, W. A. work- ers in the line of march. The marchers were militantly refusing to be diverted back to Union Square by police and were insisting on waiting for their committee. Complete solidarity of all marching workers, regardless of organization, was manifested by the workers in line. As the march passed the Prince George Hotel, striking food | kers and C. W. A. marchers ex- | ed greetings, the C. W. A. shouting, “Down With Seabs.” NEW YORK.—More than 5,000) workers from nine unemployed or- ions demonstrated in Union afternoon in a united front st the layoffs of CWA work hich under Roos velt’s direction, went into effect terday. Following the speeche: Squ yeste the demonstrators, vay to Madison Square where they were met by 800 workers from white collar organizations, and then '| marched along 28th St. to CWA ad- | ministrator Daniel's office. A com- mittee of nine, one from each organ- ization was to see Daniels and pre- sent the demands of the CWA workers. a Traflic Blocked The parade snarled thousands lined the sidewalks to cheer the singing marchers. Many of se in line displayed pink slips| they were fired from CWA! traffic as | jobs tolay. By far the part of the ego stration under the hu em; red banner loyment Coun: the Re- ge contin- of marchers were from the) dle Trades Unemployment Coun- | cil and the Shoe Workers Unemploy- ment Council. Michael Davidoff, Relief Workers League, was cheered | when he stated: far as my ganization is concerned, we unquali- edly support the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill now before Congress, and demand the immediate passage of this bill.” Davidoff further said. “This demon- stration shows that the workers are ready to unite and fight for the de-| mands of the Negro and white un- employed regardless of what organi~ | zation they belong to.” “The Relicf Workers League,” Davidoff said. “will see to it that we get unity of the C.W.A. workers and} that we have one united organization | of C.W.A, workers regardless of any) | artificial barriers or of anyone trying to block unity.” Davidoff spoke of teh far-reaching effects of the dem-| onstration of the C.W.A, workers vir unemployed at City Hall on Feb, | which was organized at the call of| | the Relief Workers League, the Un-| employed Council and other organ- | izations. | In the speech of David Lesser of | the Civil Works Employes, Lesser said that the demands were not presented at city hall because it is “not a city question but a national question.” Richard Sullivan, who spoke for the Unemployed Councils exposed the | role of the La Guardia administration and showed that the Feb, 5 demon-| stration initiated by the Unemployed} Councils and other unemployed or- king for the| | x | ganizations, had gone to city hall to} force La Guardia to take some re- | sponsibility for the unemployed de- mands.” La Guardia must be told in no uncertain terms to go to the| Wall Street bankers and tell them! that the funds of New York City must go for cash relief to the jobless| and not to these bankers, Sullivan} said. La Guardia and not only Dan- as one man against fascism!” iels, are responsible. AUSTRIAN WORKERS VALIANTLY HOLD OUT AT MANY POINTS; ALL CZECH WORKERS STRIKE (Continued from Page 1) sistance to overwhelming forces. Their ammunition was rapidly be- foming exhausted, without any means of replenishment fhe whole proletarian Vienna was a battleficid. At nightfall, the workers had re- captured the Karl Marx Hof, Hu-) greatest tenement, which had belt of : blazed from the windows and Crates of the battered block, a sat section of it in ruins. Fight Under Wail of Shells "The great factory and vroletarian Se igeige garden city of Floridsdorf | was a shell-battered ruin, but the ae continued under a hail of ‘Just behind Floridsdori firing blazed from the Kaisermuehle, a| great mill, which the workers held | against 2 barrage of shells which be- gan ot 7 p.m. In Simmering, Ottakring, Hernals, | sectors of the outer ring of Vienna, fierce resistance continued all night. The roar of canton and sound of shots made the night . In moments of lull, one thear the cries of the wounded. Build Trenches At Jedelshof, the workers tablished an especially strong de- ibe position, and ti and the ‘troops confronted each other | built trenches, | - had | en of, workers’ | rear court, surroanded by high build- apartment house in Meidling, resisted the assault of the state forces through the night. The staff of the state insane asylum, the Steinhof, joined the} workers and fired on soldiers and police from the windows, wounding Blackened Ruins While street fighting continued in a hundred working-class regions of the city, a force of workers, outnum- bered, retreated to a high hill near the town, and began to throw up breastworks and preparing machine gun emplacements. is morning, great sections of the city were masses of blackened ruins. When, this morning, it became im- possible to hold the Gotthehof tene- ment, and other working-class homes nearby, the workers retreated to the nearby Kargan district, and contin- ued their resistance. Martial Law in Tyrol The Tyrol region with few in- dustrial wor a stronghold of fas-} cism, Austrian and Nazi, was placed under martial law last night, ee cating that the workers there, too, were taking part in the nation-wide anti-fascist resistance. At Linz, where a fascist attack on the workers’ center brought forth the ince which marked the opening nent, of the it war on the ample evidence of | ; he heroism of the workers, Lone Machine Gunner The workers’ center stands in a ings, accessible only through # pass- ageway. At the street level is the largest movie house in the town, The workers concenjrated here, and fought for many hours against the powerfully armed state forces. | They defended themselves with rifles and revolvers. A single machine gun, which only one worker knew how to operate, held the attackers at bay until a fascist sharpshooter, firing from a nearby church steeple, killed him. 20 Await Gallows Sentence Today, 20 of the workers’ leaders ere awaiting sentence to the gallows at the hands of a drum-head court- martial. Five hundred other workers are under arrest, awaiting an un- known fate. Still others undefeated, continue to fire in heroic last stands in various parts of Linz, fighting from houses and barricades in the proletarian sec- tions of the town, A fascist commissar has assumed authority over the town, Workers’ Hospital Shelied. ‘When government artillery began shelling a workers’ hospital in Linz, one nurse was killed, and many doc- tors, assistants and patients injured before they could be taken to the cel- lar of the hospital. ‘The doctors and nurses joined the soctalist ‘workers in fighting the troops. They were finally forced to et to the woods outside the town, jw hen their leas der, Herman Schrangen was killed. Sixty were killed and hundreds wounded im this one on- gagement, arried by the Un-| ¢ GUTTERS OF NEW YC ¢ A group of ment on Ro symposium Sunday afternoon famous artis Wilics In Many Cities Meet for Austrian Workers (Continued from Page 1) Fifth Avenue um, 1809 Forbe |19, at 8 p. m NEGRO AN! held here Fr jat the RB | Jackson a This mecting will be the first meet- | ing call by "thd Communist Party of tk city. All workers of Rich-| mond, unemployed and employed, } | Negro and wh: are called upon to come to this meeting and demon~- strate ag: t the bosses’ war prep-| the growing of Fascism intry akers at this meeting will | be A. Holt, section orgenizer of the} Communist Party; W. H. Friend and | |'T. H. Stone from the Unemployment | | Council of this elty . PROTE! Steel an N STEEL UNIO: id Metal NEW YORK— ‘Th their Gusaught against the working class. The naien, carried through ops against Ger- s to join in the m murdering r 1 our mem- in the metal shops ves and march in at Madison JERSEY WORKERS TO MEET NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 15- will be a mass against the F; Austria on Sund 8 pm. at Krue; Belmont Ave. Rebecca Grecht of the Communist Party and Harry Gannes of the Daily Worker will Lae the main speakers. terrorism ght, Feb. 18, at 's Auditerium, 25 various working: will go to N Austrian Consulate ag fuss Fascist dictator: In all these ections, the locals of the Socialist Party are being invited to participate in united front soli- darity against Fascism. eS nst the Doll- NEW YORK.--A resolution of pro- test against n fascism, and greeting the heroic struggles of the Austrian working class, was passed last night by the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, New York District, 77 Fifth Ave. in the name of its 10,000 members, A mass meeting at Arcadia Hall, Halsey St. Brooklyn, tonight will also be-held, The union also gave its full endorsement to the Communist Party meeting at the Coliseum, in the Bronx. A motion protesting the tecent police brutality against the anti-fascist demonstrators before the Austrian Consulate was also adopted and sent to en ba La Guardia, CLEVELAND, Feb. 14.—The work- ing class of Cleveland will rally in four mass united front demonstra- tions Saturday in solidarity with the Austrian workers’ struggle against fascism. |The demonstrations have been called by the District Commit- tee of the Communist Party. Demonstration Saturday im Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14.—Phila- delphia wo! will demonstrate this Saturday afternoon, 1 o'clock, at Heyburn Plaza, in solidarity with the; heroic struggles of the Austrian work. os against y bloody {aselst Doll- kefeller’s taste in art at the John Reed Club | ‘There | ing to protest | in} * | fuss regime, which has turned heavy | WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 16, 1934 WA Jobs in New York Demonstration IRK By DEL 4 3] | ts and critics will pass judg- | at Irving Plaza. Working ones of Vienna Are (& : Heroic Fighters Feb. 15—When, after smashing bombardment the fascist state forces invaded the great Goethehof workers’ tenement, ets discovered that its worker almost, en-| 1 en, of the men had fallen. | had gone on to di doth position: ‘The women, who nad foucht like lions beside them, refused to give up their homes, and con-| tinued the fight. When the George Washington and the Indian tenement b’o: were |finally surrendered, it was largely | women, grim-faced and many carry- | ing bandages after many, hours of | | terrific fighting, who marched out. | Some carried children, Women Man Machine Guns | At the Bebelhof tenement. workers’ wives and dauvhters manne? the ma- | chine guns, which poured a withering fire on the state’s uniformed killers, firing from the railway yards. No one knows how many women fell fighting beside their husbands | and fathers in every part of prole- | baked Vienna, Wherever men de-| fended their home districts, it was the women who carried the ammunition, | reloading the rifles and revolvers, fed |the fighters and took care of the | wounded. Often the women stood shoulder |to shoulder with their men in the front lines, firing. Women Marched to Prison In the fall of several working-class tenements, which the workers had turned into forts in self-defense, hun- dreds of women and children marched out, to be surrounded by troops with bayonets, and taken off to prison, Even as they marched out of. their wrecked and shattered homes, proud still in defeat, motorized machine gun companies were rushing past to |atteck their husbands and fathers, ; Who still defended other working- ass strongholds nearby. The George Washington and In- dian tenements are in the so-called “American Quarter” of Vienna, where workers two years ago made a gigan- tic demonstration in defense of the Scottsboro boys, when the American Ambassador attended the opening of the George Washington tenement. artillery on the working class districts | of Vienna and other cities, The | demonstration is called by the Phila- delphia district of the Communist Party, with the support of many other working class organizations, ee Selidarity Meets in Minneapolis Sunday | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 14.— The Communist Party is organizing two solidarity meetings in support of the Austrian workers’ revolt against fascism. The mass meeting will be held Sunday afternoon, 2:30 o'clock, at the Humboldt Hall, 1317 Glenwood Ave. N,, and at the same hour at | repudiate this betrayal. | ave still solid!” says the statement | the leaders. | opened. All these things were aimed the Metal Workers Hall, 329 Cedar Ave. S. Invitations have been sent to So- cialist Party and Farmer-Labor Party locals to join with the Communist Party in a united front, and to send speakers to the meeting. Protest Actions in Baltimore, Phila. PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 14.—Demon- strations in solidarity with the Aus- trien workers are being arranged in this city and Baltimore, In addition to Saturday’s demon- stration at Reyburn Plaza, at 1 o'clock, @ mass meeting will be held Priday Ry Hag at one of the The Socialist Party in Baltimore and Philadelphia has hegaghe cine with an invitation for a united front struggle against! fascism. Leaflets have: also been issued addressed to the members. lato” Field In Final Move To Betray N.Y. Hotel Strike | Local 119 Calls On!'——— Strikers to Stand Solid and Fight B. J. Field, secre- ‘amated Hotel and ‘ant Workers Union, made hi maneuver Wednesday to sel} out the great New York hotel strike. | NEW YORK. of the Amal ficials of the Regional N. R. A. Labor ing of strikers that he “didn’t bring home the bacon.” “The only thing to do,” he said, “ts to go ba and get your jobs.” Finally Field, Kostas, Cladis, Can- non, Gitlow and Company haye re- vealed clearly and unmistakably their true colors, After maneuvering | with the NRA Regional Labor Board and the hotel bosses, they have agreed to stampede the workers back to work under the same slave condi- | | tions as before, with no_ security| whatsoever and facing the most | vicious blacklist In order to legalize the betrayal | the so-called leaders of the strike | called a meeting of the strike com- mittee and packed it with their henchmen, who were not strikers or | hotel or restaurant workers, in order | to carry the ‘ “majority” vote for the | sellout. At Mercy of Bosses What does this betrayal mean to | the strikers? The answer is giyen in | a statement issued by the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, Local 119 of the Food Workers Industrial | Union, which says: “It means that we will be at the mercy of the bosses, begging for our this what we struck for? Js this what | Board, Field announced to a meet-| | | jobs. And the bosses will do us the| | ‘great favor’ to hire some of us. Is we have battled for for three weeks? | course not.” Urged to Continue Strike Local 119 calls on the workers to} “Our ranks of Local 119, “The strikers are still militant! In spite of all the opposition on the part of the strike “leadership, the workers carried through militant picket lines, mass actions, etc. We | had a chance to get a much better setilement during the first few days | of strike than is given us now after three weeks of struggle. Even now, most of the hotels are crippled, the service is not up to standard. The bosses need us and our work, The newspaper advertisements and ap- peals of the bosses prove this, Any weaknesses in our ranks are due only to the actions of the officials | who right from the start pursued @ policy of not depending on the militancy and strength of the work- ers, but instead crawled on their bellies before the NRA and the bosses begging for mercy, All attempis to raise relief and broaden the field for getting relief was sabotaged by No strike kitchens were right from the beginning to demoral- ize the ranks of the workers and to cripple the strike, “We can still save the situation, provided we change the policy in the strike. We can still prevent the bosses from discriminating against and blacklisting many strikers, pro- vided that we organize immediate shop meetings and elect committees of representatives from each depart- ment, These committees must work out definite plans of action around their respective hotels, Convince every striker to stick together with his fellow-striker and prevent the bosses from discriminating and black- listing. Our slogan must be: “Every- body goes back to werk or nobody goes back! Concrete demands for wage increases, shorter hours, etc., should be worked out in each and every shop around which the work- ers will be willing to fight.” Armed Vigilantes Attack Tent Camp in Calif. Strike 10,000 Pea Pickers Out Demanding More Pay, Union Recognition (Special to the Daily Worker.) EL CENTRO, Calif, Feb, 15. — Armed vigilantes, organized by the vich ranch ewners, attacked Mexican | Br pea pickers who are on strike. Rush- ing into a camp of 1,000 strikers, the vigilantes tore down tents, brutally beat pregnant women, maltreatet children, and threatened to burn the |<) camp if the niclers do not return to work immediately. ‘The ranks of the 10,000 strikers are solid. They are striking for an in- crease in the rate from one to two cents a pound, better living conditions and for union recognition. The strike is led by the Agricultural and Connery Workers Industrial Union. ‘Two hundred and fifty cars, and 2,500 workers were on the picket Local newspapers admit the fields are paralyzed, The sirikers are in urgent need of funds for gas to get to the picket lines, for tents and for relief for ANNA SCHULZ ON “THE GERMAN SITUATION” SUPERIOR, Wis,—-Anna Schulz, former secretary of Ernst Torgler, will speak here on Sunday, Feb, 18, ‘This mass meeting is poe be held under the auspices of the Com- the Daily Worker ad Fo corals Baar tesuetny omaien f5 Metis Of Gorman New England Gets Set | HE labor sports movement in New York and throughout the country has in the past fi | growth. ew years enjoyed some little The Labor Sports Union has broadened out a little | adding new organizations and including more ac | Following a secret meeting with of-| program of workers’ athletics. activities on its But the New England section seems to be in a slump. The L. 8. U, there has even fal years ago. why this is so, and a promise that the faults will be rectified, comes to us from Joe Mattson and O, Carlson of the New England Dis- trict Board of the Labor Sports | Union. ee ‘E members of the New England District Board of the L.S.U. have | seen articles in the Daily Worker | from comrades wondering whether a district board exists here. For the benefit of those readers I'll say that a board does exist. The membership of the board has shrunk to less than half the size it was a year ago, Many of the comrades who were on the board haye dropped out because the L. S. U. in this district has declined in- stead of growing. But five loyal members still remain in the board who are exerting all their energy to make the L.S.U. into a mass workers’ sports organization in this district. “At the last meeting of the dis- trict board the question of building | the L.S.U, was discnssed. We all were of the opinion that everybody in the board had tried his hardest, but the LS.U. in New England was declining in size. We thought of all kinds of conceivable reasons for this state. After much discussion and thought we discovered that we had been placing our energy on the wrong side of the wheel. “The L.8.U. has been too sectarian | by placing all its concentration on the existing clubs and no attempts were being made to broaden cut, especially into the large industrial centers like Greater Boston, Spring- field, Lowell, Lawrence, Fall River, Providence, and other cities of equal importance where exploitation of la- bor and discrimination of worker sportsmen exist on a larger scale, cogs “RVERYWHERE we sce worker sportsmen discriminated against and deprived of the use of the gym- nasium and playgrounds. In order World Workingclass Masses To Support Austrian Toilers (Continued from Pags 1) Union Council, and the Labor Party. It proposes united mass demonstra- tlons, election of protest delegations in shops and workers’ organizations, protests in Parliament by representa- ives of the political parties, the or- ganization of a British workers’ dele- gation to go to Austria, and prepara- tion for a general strike in case of intervention by any of the imperialist powers, Cae AMSTERDAM, Feb, 15.—More than 2,000 took part in a mass demonstra- tion of solidarity with the Austrian workers here yesterday. 2 etic ZURICH, Feb. 15.—Demonstrations in each of which more than 1,000 took part, in solidarity with the Austrian workers, took place in this city, and in Bern, Schaffhausen, and Basel yesterday and Tuesday. Metal Workers Strike In Newark Factory NEWARK, N. J. — Twenty-one workers are striking at the Federal Metal Products Co. here under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Wepre Industrial Union. @ strikers are demanding the re- instatement of discharged workers and a 20 to 30 ner cent increase in wages, HAYES JONES WILL SPEAK ¥.S.U, Marine Worker just re- turned from the Soviet » Will speak on “An American Marine homey bak tage Pr hidnend ee Soviet Russia,” at p.m, at the Prospect Park anch, ¥.8.U., 1071 Bergen St, (n, Nostrand ao. Brooklyn, ‘ . RUBEN BERGER OF N.T.W.LU. ROBERT MINOR TO SPEAK ‘The subject ts “The Growth of Fascism in the United States,” at the Social ture Youth Club, 275 Broadway, Brooklyn, eee, Ave.) at 8:30 p.m, tonight, CLASSIFIED one“ unfurnished room wanted; man; rea- sonable; near 28rd St. Write B. T. ¢/o Daily Worker. i An explanation of * llen behind its status of several to lead worker sportsmen to secure these gyms and athletic facilities it is necessary to have the LS.U. lead them in the struggle evolving around sports, “In order to broaden out as | pointed out above, the New England beard of the L.S.U., in cooperation with the national board, has planned a tour that will cover every nook and corner of the district and attempt to establish 1.S.U. chibs over the entire district. The details of this tour will be announced Jater in this column.” Anyone, individuals or teams, who wants information about the forma- tion of clubs in this district, or are interested in joining up wth the L. 8. U., should communicate immedi- ately with Emil Tyrainen, 234 Pine St, Gardner, Mass., who is acting secretary of the New England board. Go to it, New England! You've got our full support! |Philadelphia Pushes Plans to Reorganize Labor Sports Union PHILADELPHIA.—Plans to reor- ganize the Labor Sports Union hee are being pushed rapidly ahead fol- lowing the meeting Saturday of six- teen representatives of Philadelphia workers organizations, from the Strawberry Mansion and Downtown Workers Clubs, the International Labor Sports Club, Nature Friends, Soccer League (comprised of cight teams) and the International Work~ ers Order Youth Branches, In addition to the Soccer League which is the only sport organized on @ competitive basis, some of the clubs are participating in basketball, wrestling, boxing, gymnastics, ping: pong and adagio dancing. Baseball, tennis, and track and field sports will also be organized. “We have definitely in back of our mind in Workers’ Spartakiade to be held in Moscow this summer,” reports A. Goldstein, assistant Or- ganizer. “We ask all individuals and organizations interested in any branch of sports to attend our Or- ganizational Committee meeting on Saturday, Feb. 17, 4 pm., at 1225 Germantown Ave. We especially in- vite all Negro workers and organi- zations to affiliate themselves with the only non-discriminating, work- ing-class sports group in Philadel- phia.” —BOSTON— StH Jupinxe Concert of the : NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION SUNDAY, FEB. 18th At 1:30 P.M, OTISFIELD HALL Cor. Blue Hill & Otisfield ‘Streets, Roxbury PROGRAM Frethelt Gesangs Farein John Reed Club Herman Corman, Tenor LOUIS HYMAN, H. KORETZ, speakers Auspices: Boston Dist. N.T.W.LU. Admission 25¢, @ Come Away from the Noise and Rush of the City for Rest, Quiet — and a little fun at Camp Nitgedaiget Beacon, N. ¥.—Ph.; Beacon 731 All the Summer Fun with Winter Comfort i Cars leave daily at 10:30 a.m. trom ‘Bronx Cooperative Restaurant—2700 Park East (Estabrook 8-1400) COHENS’S Mt ORCHARD 8T! 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