The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1934, Page 2

~~ Page Two Roosevelt Government Putting e | Through Extension “4 Of Ba ®, Only Organized Fight By Rank and File Can Stop Them mong railway workers cuts and for increase in rising prices is the reaso dent Roosevelt has road managers in the railroad men ance of the dedu from their pay which has been § on since February 1932 Roosevelt also g he managers in obtain sion of the cut from Oc’ July 1934, A commitiee of Ts Association erved formal notice of a 15 per cent) permanent cut in basic wage rates as | t temporary | the ie Pay Cuts"*" Railroads Advertise for Scab Locomotive Engineers; Fear Strike CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 16—Def- inite strikebreaking preparations & being made by the railroads, he fact that President with the over an 10 per ecnt wage ing f the is seen in the fol- tisement which ap- y in one of the “Locomotive Engineers—Willing to accept positions under strike conditions and who can pass examinations on a class one rail- road; reply give details of exper- ience, age, address and telephone number.” y expires on Jt y It was well known the railroad bosses that the railroad workers woul fot stand for a further cut They | are, in fact, demanding immediat restoration of the 1931 wage scale) and an increase sufficient to cover the increased cost of living. It is to} block these demands that Roosevelt sroposed a continuation of the present sates for another six months: Against Rank and File The 1: ctension of the sent deduction was made without consent of the rank and file railroad orkers. The Grand Lodge Officers asked their membership for full authority to deal with the situation last June when the managers as part) of their strategy to obtain a con-| the deduction served 10 per ie tinuance : i notice of a 22 and a half per cent| cut. be The workers were told by their labor chiefs that they needed full ges. hi The workers under: | were voting authori strike if ne to prevent any fur- ther wage ci to stop any fur-| ther deductions from pay checks. In-| stead of using the power placed in their hands by the workers to stop} the wage cut, the Grand Lodge Offi- | cers joined hands with Roosevelt and | the railroad managers in extending | the 10 per cent deduction. Roosevelt's activities against rail- road work has not been confined to wage cutting. He appointed Prof, | Walter anti-labor and friend of the companies n named as thi e 80- | called neutral member of Arbitration | Boards, to fill a vacancy on the Inter- | state Commerce Commission. This} is done over the protest of organ-| ized railroad workers. 4 - Again acting upon the request 0: the President the Grand Lodge Of- gers withdrew all objections presented | to the Senate Committee. Even Coolidge “rejected” Prof. Splawn's nomination to the I. C. 0. Roosevelt had the Railroad emer-) gency Transportation Act passed by Congress and named Eastman as Co- ordinator and thousands of railroad} workers have been thrown out of their | jobs as a result of the savings and/ economies effected under this law. Following Eastman’s recommendations the stagger plan of work has been| applied to the railroads as to no other industry. | Government Steps In Government interference in the torm of emergency Boards appointed by Roosevelt prevented the organ- ized workers on the Mobile & Ohio, The Southern Pacific Co,, the D. & R. G. and other lines from using the strike to prevent further wage cuts and violations of working agreements by the companies and to enforce settlement of disputes arising out of rule violations. Many railroad workers are under the illusion that the present adminis- tration is favorable to labor. Events of the past two years have taught an expensive lesson. Railroad| workers are learning they must not) relax the economic struggle for wages | and working conditions. That their/ high salaried “Labor Executives” be- at every opportunity. That the Roosevelt Adminis- cut, ae [ and not of the workers, rapidly learning that) unity and action on the trump card. | be fooled twice in a row) trick. The rank and demanding immediate the 10 per cent and no of working agreements in interests of the companies. We organize the rank and file for action to defeat the wage cut. Nazis Smash Store Windows in Chicago Jewish-Owned Stores Chosen; Cops Aid CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 18—Windows of scores of Jewish-owned stores on ‘Northwest side here were smashed ‘fascists in the early hours of this without any police inter- fascist outbreak followed Tast of the Naz of New ” in the Square Masonic Temple, at a New York Nazi leader spoke. stones were hurled through| windows in a systematic routine not possibly have escaped the ae 58 a5 9528 ne Kansas City Rail Men for Strike Against Pay Cuts Officials Forced To De- clare Strike for March Ist KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 16.— Determined to strike on March 1, 350 trainmen of the Kansas City South- ern Railway are mobilizing against a wage cut and the piling up of grievances, which are rapidly ing the conditions of the rail- workers. Railroad Brotherhoods officials nd- mitted today that the workers are demanding strike action against the new wage schedule, which puts the men on an hourly instead of a milleage rate, in reality a steep cut in wo! This action of slashing wages is separate and additional to the 15 per cent pay cut announced for July 1, 1984, when che last year’s 10 per cent pay cut runs out. The announcement of strike action was made by A. B. Cranor, general irman of the Brotherhood of Rail- way Trainmen and chairman of %e notorious for his | Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. | Hanging Austrian Workers Will Kee (Qn, Says Dollfuss (Continued from Page 1) the government has seized the prop- erty of all workers’ organizations, in- cluding fraternal and cultural mass organizations, and would use this property to “defray the costs of the warfare.” To top this cynical outrage, Doll- fuss announced that his wife was heading a committee to organize re- lief for the “helpless victims” of the fighting. In an interview with foreign cor- respondents, he boasted of the cam- paign of revenge which he has been carrying on. Promises More Official Murders “The troops which fought so cour- ageously and suffered such heavy! losses would not understand it if we spared the lives of the leaders who provoked this tragic clash,” he said. Baron Karwinsky, chief secretary of the state police, showed the cor- respondents an assortment of objects which he declared were bombs ca- pable of destroying whole buildings, and which he said had been cap- tured by state troops. He had to admit, however, that no such weapons had been used by the workers who had heroically defended themselves with the small supply of imadequate arms left to them after the disarmament of the Schutzbund, | Socialist workers’ defense organiza- tion, which was arranged last year by its own leaders and Dellfuss. Censorship Conceals Resistance ‘The extent of the resistance which | still continues, with shots which can be heard in the working class belt of the city, is concealed by an abso- lute government censorship, which takes the attitude that all resistance is over, and refuses to make any report of the continued fighting. wEE SBE? Se Bauer Admits Treachery BRATISLAVA, Czechoslovakia, Feb. 18.—-The Socialist Party leaders of Austria had made an offer to allow Chancellor Dolifuss to establish fas- cism in Austria before the workers began their armed resistance to fas- cism, Otto Bauer, leader of the Aus- trian Social-Democracy, told a news- paper correspondent here yesterday. “Since the date of Hitler’s triumph in Germany, our party has madé the very greatest efforts to come to an agreement with the government,” he said. Ofiered to Support Fascism “We offered to make the greatest concessions that a democratic and socialistic party has ever made. We let Dolifuss know that f he would only pas a bill through Parliament we would accept a,measure authoriz~ ing the governemnt to govern by decree without parliament for two After in these words re’ complete sell-out to the fascist gov- ernment which the Socialist leader- ‘of the police. | Windows of candy, meat and grocery damaged ”“ ship had tried to make, he added: | “The dissatisfaction and agitation of the workers against the conser- vative committee of our party com- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1934 Hotel Strikers Picket Despite Betrayal Move | . 1. U. Leaders Warn Against Plan to Bring in Mayor | 1 NEW YORK.—Despite attempts of B. J. Field, secretarv of the Amal, mated Hotel and Restaurant V ers’ Union Mrs. He: |N. R to humbug the R. A. 2 | workers and trick them into return- ing to work without winning any of their demands, workers continued the strike over the week-end and picketed the hotels. The N. R. A. Board proposed that | the strikers return to work and nego- tiate individually, which meant a/ continuation of the blacklist and the | smashing uv of union organizations in the hotels. Field, who agreed with this pro- nosal, seeing the workers continuing | the fight, changed his tactics in or-| der to save his face, and stated that | the Labor Board had “broken faith ; With the union.” He sent a call to Mayor LaGuardia to step in and | settle the strike. The strikers were told by leaders jof the Food Workers’ Industrial Union to remember how LaGuardia, | through his “mediator” Morris Ernst and a group of leaders of the Social- | |ist Party, betrayed the recent taxi | drivers’ strike and were urged to con- tinue their fight and settle only| |through a broad committee elected | by the workers. | Nine committees sent out to visit |hotels reported back to the union | | headquarters that they had not been | | successful in their attempts to nego- | | late with the bosses. | The hotel owners told the strikers that they would only accept them | back as individuals, whereupon the | | workers marched away and con-/| tinued picketing. | Saturday the Food Workers’ In-/| | dustrial Union sent a letter to the | leaders of the Amalgamated, stating | that the Industrial Union has cer-| | tain vroposals on how to defeat the | | blacklist and what steps can be taken | | to get the strikers’ jobs back, | At the general strike committee meeting that night, which was packed with henchmen of the offi- cialdom, the letter was not men-} tioned until a member of the Amal-| gamated asked that it be read. Field, | secretary of the union, attempted to keep the letter from coming on the floor for discussion, but at last was forced to read it, He said: “Let's read the god damned letter and get | over with it.” The officials refused | ed discuss it, however, using as &| pretext that it “wasn’t on the/ | agenda.” | Workers Call for Unity | At s mass membership meeting of | the strikers earlier in the day, called supposedly to hear a report from Field, a rank nd flale member of the Amignmated, obtained the floor and | made @ spech for unity. | He asked for # vote for the united |front, and with cheers the entire meeting voted for it. Costes, one of | the officials, sald that the member- ship could not decide on it them- selves nd that he would take the question up at the general strike committee meeting. | ‘This he did not do, When a dele-/| gate asked that the vote of the| afternoon meeting be discussed he was told it “was not on the agenda.” ofithoR shrdlu etaoin emfwyp shrdm 20,000 Dye Shops to Close Today in Price War A. F. of L. Supports Price Increase, But Asks No Pay Rise NEW YORK.— Protesting against the non-enforcement of the cleaners and dyes sode, 20,000 retail shops are expected to close today. ‘The retail men are demanding that big concerns, which are cutting the prices below the 70 cent per garment price, as set by the code be forced to raise their prices to the code level. A. F. of L. cleaners and dyers unions have called thetr workers to stop work today in support of the retailers. The unon has not raised the question of higher wages for the| workers, but is supporting the move | to raise the price on al] cleaning and dying work. | In the last strike of cleaners and) dyers for higher wages the A. F. of | L, leaders refused to call out their drivers and even their own cleaners | | fight for higher prices refused in the past to support a movement of work~- ers for higher wages. mittees grew as the government pro- vocations increased,” Tried To Disarm Workers He then admitted that at the last moment, when this dissatisfacion was turning into heroic resistance despite his efforts in behalf of Dollfuss, he had been attempting to get them to submit to being disarmed. “Last Sunday night in Vienna a comrade coming from Linz warned me that the workers of Linz were highly indignant and alarmed over the Heimwebr action, and had de- cided that if any further action were taken to deprive them of their arms they would defend themselves. “I was alarmed to hear of this spirit, and after discussion with my informant we both decided that urgent messages must be sent to | the workers to keep cool. IT ar- ranged for them to be told that if we in Vienna could submit pa- tiently to an arms search in party headquarters, they must try to do the same.” ° (See odttoria! om Page 2 of tain inwns) | GUTTERS OF NEW YORK Socialist Leadership’s Militancy Communist Party Statement On Madison Square Meeting “From the Very Outset, the Socialist Leaders Tried to Break the Workers’ Unity,” New York District Declares NEW YORK —*‘The responsibility for the regrettable incidents at the Madison Square Garden meeting rests entirely upon the shoulders of the Socailist and trade union lead- ers who conducted the meeting,” a statement of the New York Disirict of the Communist Party declared to- day. Pointing out that the Commun- ist Party supported the meetng and called upon all Communist workers to forge ® real united front against fascism by joining their Socialist fel- low workers in one united meeting, the statement declares that the “or- ganizers of the meeting from the very outset endeavored to split the unity of the workers.” ‘The full statement follows: The responsibility for the most re- grettable incidents at the Madison Square Garden meeting rests entirely upon the shoulders pf the Socialist |and trade union ledders who con- ducted the meeting. The large turn- out of Socialists, Communists and trade union workers indicated the determined desire of these masses unitedly to demonstrate their pro- tests aganst Austrian fascism and their support for their heroic class brothers in Austria. Instead of giv- ing expression at the meeting to the unity evidenced in the protest strike, the organizers of the meeting flouted the desire of class solidarity of the members of the trade unions that re- sponded to the strike call, by reject- | ting the proposal for a united front meeting by putting forward only the| hated burocrats, the Dubinskys, and Solomons as the spokesmen at this workers’ meeting, and in place of such workers’ unity put forward as leading spokesmen in protest against fascism, LaGuardia, whose police beat the heads of protestin workers | before the Austrian Consulate, and the fascist, Woll, who only 8 few days ago called for the breaking off of relations with the Soviet Union, ‘The Communist Party and its or- gan, the Daily Worker, called upon all workers to participate jointly in the protest strike and at its meeting in the Bronx Coliseum urged all workers to attend the Madison Square Garden meeting as an ex- pression of unity action against the ragin Fascist terror. The organizers of the meeting at the very outset en- deavored to split the unity of the workers and to provoke the militant workers by attempting to separate them from other workers and to shunt them to the balconies, forcing them, with the aid of the police, to remove the banners of their organ- | ization, searching them for literature, and barring severa) thousand work- ers from the hail, although there were vacant seats to accommodate them. At the meeting itself, these Social- ist leaders continued with their in- sulting speeches to provoke the mili- tant workers. The enraged masses shouted their disapproval of the pro- vocative tactics of the Socialist lead- ers, The climax of the meetin came with the brutal attack upon Clarence Hathaway, led by Algernon Lee and Dubinsky, when Hathaway peacefully and alone came upon the platform to propose to the chairman of the meeting that he make a one-minute statement to appeal for order. All these policies and tactics of the Socialist bureaucrats are im line with their rejection of the united front: proposed by the Communists against the N. R. A. attacks cn the living standards and fundamental rights of the workers, instead of which they united with Roosevelt. They fought against the broad united front against imperialist war ex- pressed in the U. S, Congress Against War. They sabotaged the united ace ion in behalf of the freedom of Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys, They rejected the appeal for united struggle against Nazi fascist terror and anti-Semitism, Now the Social- ist leaders are again guilty of splitting the ranks of the workers, of violating the sentiments of their own member~ shiv for united action with the Com. munists in support of the Austrian working class. The militant demonstration last Wednesday at the Austrian Consulate established the desire and possibility for a united front between the Social- ist and Communist workers. The very effective united front demonstration Thursday afternoon against closing the O.W.A. projects, further, showed the sincere desire for unity on the part of the Communist and Socialist workers, This laid the basis for a broad and mighty united front in the protest strike called yesterday, and in the antifascist demonstration at Madison Square Garden. The Communist Party whole- heartedly supported the protest strike and demonstration at Madison Square Garden, in joint solidarity demonstra- tion with the Socialist and A. F. of L, workers, ‘The Communist Party will continue the struggle for firm unity of all workers against Fascism and War,| Julled We are convinced that the Socialist workers, in their vast majority are opposed to the provocative and dis- uniting actions of their leadership, and will act to prevent the further Splitting of the ranks of the workers, and will join with the Communists in real militant united actions against the curse of fascism and the imminent danger of war. New York District Communist Party, Muntropic Crew Strikes for Code Out in Wilmington for MWIU Demands PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 18.—The crew of the Muntropic, a Munson liner, have been striking for 4 deys in Wilmington. The strike began when the company refused to pay the sailor’s back wages. The men are now out for the full code of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. The strike js strong and effective despite attempts of the city officials to break it with terror. Ten mem- bers of the crew and the M. W. I, U. delegate Sackowich were arrested and cherged with disorderly conduct. They were released the next day. The S. 8. Everett, a coal boat was towed to the middle of the stream here after news had reached the crew of the strike in Boston. “We are ready to strike,” was the sent by the crew to the Marine Workers Industrial Union. MASS ANTI-WAR BROWN uth Club, 407 Rockawey LETINGS IN 1 called a mass anti-war ie for Wednesday, Feb. 21, 8 p.m. ainst “Preparedness Week.” The club calls upon its inembers and sympathizers to come to ® mobilization meeting Thursday, 6 p.m., at its headquarters, for the ville anti-war demonstration. { Blechman Strikers to Hold Mass Picketing NEW YORK.—Despite all attempts of the bosses to smash up the strike | at the S. Beechman Store through | mass arrests and terror the struggle continues stronger and stronger. Today at noon the strikers will hold a mass picket demonstration in front of the store at 02 Broadway. All workers are urged to come out and help the Bleachman strikers win, Artists to Hit Lenin Mural Destruction NEW YORK. — Artists of many organizations, including the John ;|Reed Club, the Unemployed Artists’ Association, the National Student League, the Workers Laboratory Theatre and others, will demon- strate against the vandalism of the Rockefellers in destroying the Lenin murals in Rockefeller Center on Columbus Circle at 5 p. m, tomorrow, The artists will express their pro- tests in speeches by members of the | various organizations participating, by |a chalk talk gi nsiration of all organizer tions and persons interested. signs and slogans. Protest capitalist cultural vandalism! Enforce the boycott of Rockefeller Ceriter by all art and cultural organizationet ‘Helps R. R. Bosses Against Resistance of Workers |Nationwide Actions \Protest Butchery ‘of Austrian Toilers Philadelphia Workers Plan One Hour Protest Strike NEW YORK-—Following the ex- } ample of workers here, who struck at 3 p.m., Fri in solid-~t with the heroic working class of Austriz jilar solidarity actions gained head- | way throughout the United States. | News of protests, rallies and demon- strations continued to pour tn. Na- | tlon-wide and world-wide actions of solidarity involve trade union mem- | bers, students, fraternal organizations. | workers clubs and groups. Some of | dustry in several cities for varying periods of time. Protest actions increased hourly. Much concerned with the fate of the thousands of working class prisoners held in Austria, the National Com- mittee for the Defense of Political Prisoners dispatched a cable on Fri- day to Chancellor Dolifuss, urging by lonmiosnnen le dirs ea ata al ers, | ‘The text of the cable follows: ‘Engelbert Dollfuss, Vienna, Austria: “National Committee Defense Po-| litical Prisoners, members including Sherwood Anderson, Lincoln Steffens, Malcolm Cowley, Waldo Frank, Eimer Rice, John Dos Passos, many others, urges immediate amnesty for political prisoners and protests summary ex- ecutions without trials and complete | denial civil rights. “(Signed) Corliss Lamont for the Cory sittee.” “ool Workers Strike The’ tool rnd dve workers of the | Presto Lock Corporation of Brooklyn, | all members of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, downed tools promptly at 3 p.m,, Friday and marched in a body to Madison Square Garden, Hundreds of other shops closed down. Many such actions par- ticipated in by individual shops, un- known several days ago, are now coming to light. Further protests are planned in all parts of the city. ‘Workers at the Altro Work Shops— 150 of them—sent a telegram of soli- darity to the workers gathered at Madison Square Garden, saying, “We demand a united front of all workers | to resist war and fascism all over the | world.” 4,000 DEMONSTRATE IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, Ill, Feb 18—Four thou- sand workers demonstrated against Austrian fascism Saturday afternoon at Congress Plaza here under the auspices of the American League Against War and Fascism while 500 workers attended a demonstration called two hours earlier the same day by the Socialist Party. The calling of a separate meeting against Austrian fascism on the seme afterncon was the answer of the So- clalist Party executive to the united front proposal of the American League. The Socialist leaders also refused to permit the reading of soli+ darity greetings brought to the meet- ing from the cei yer League by its secretary, Tom McKenna. A permit for the larger demon- stration was granted at the last min- ute when police saw that the workers were determined to their unity with the Austrian workers, The Socialist leaders accepted & permit. which granted them permission to hold their meeting at the park athletic field, near Lake Michigan, away from the city streets, i A delegation sent from the Amer- fean League Against War and Fas- cism meeting was refused admission to the Austrian Consulate and told “they could come during the week.’ The Consulate building was guarded by police and the red squad, Bill Gebert, district of the Communist Party, was greeted with great enthusiasm when he spoke, urging the unity of the entire working class, regardless of the ac- tions of the Socialist leaders. Resolutions were demand- ing the immediate release of all workers in Austria, SS of political affiliation, and pledging to carry on the le against fas- ety s ° e FITCHBURG WORKERS PROTEST FITCHBURG, Mass., Feb, 18—A mass solidarity meeting will be held here Tuesday night, Feb. 20, at 8 p.m. to protest the Dollfuss fascist butch- ery of Austrian workers, at Workers Hall, 9 Pritchard St. Albert Mallin- ger, New secretary of the League t+ War and ‘ will address the meeting. ‘The Fitchburg workers ordered 30 extra copies of the special Daily | Worker Austria edition. Pair FHILADRUPHDA Te Lughat =] eral ce one-hour gen we Incl govern ment’s mass murder austrian workers will take place here Wed- The striking . workers will Pola o perade and wind up with a large meeting, mn Saturday night, Feb. 24, = | ee mass miesting, on the hacis of a united front with hago feel orzani tr ee Sia, Mosk amd Chite- Sts., to organize Philadelphia Garters in sollgerity with the Aus- Burn Dollfuss Effigy PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 18—Stu- dents at Reed College burned effisies of Chancellor Dollfuss and Hitler, after dragzing them throuch the cole lege dormitories here Friday night. ‘The students—over 150 of them— through the streets in & while hundreds of the signed by eight te Oye ane 40. students, de- .| nounced “the barbaric atiack of the | Dollfuss regime” on the Austrian | | working class. ing of the effigies were held despite the attempts of the president of the Merman F. Coleman, to ate } the strikes reported tied up all in-| The torchlight parade and burn- | F Jerry Porty 2it L SCHWARTZ, member of manicuring parasitical toe n of the Labor Sports Union, th Spartakiade and finally asked him if he would give an exhi- bition at the L.S.U. swimming meets “Sure,” he said. “I'll give an exhibi- tion—-" which was quite unusua’ for him and surprising to me since J had warned him that he wouldn't get a cent for expenses, and he isually de- mands cab money and meal expenses whereby « few dollars can be pocketed Wages Cut to 30 c. Per Hour for CWA Men; Layoffs Starts (Continued from Page 1) a conference with relief director Hopkins, states of the wage cut: “This ruling is expected to relieve the pressure of criticism from private employers in some sections, that the government rates have been hisher than those prevailing in their com- munities.” Obeys Employers The Roosevelt administration obeys the “pressure” of the employers in its liquidation of ©. W. A. jobs, and wage outs of C. W A, workers, just as it obeyed the dictates of the employers in setting starvation wages in the N. R. A. codes, Now these starvation wages are to be further reduced by swelling the army of 16,000.000 un- employed through firing of the C. W. A. workers. ‘The New York Post, an ardent sup- porter of Roosevelt, admits what was revealed in the Daily Worker weeks ago, that the wage cuts on C. W. A. projects are made at the -request of the employers in order to create a cheap labor army and enable the em- ployers to reduce wages of all work- ers to still lower levels. The Post Saturday says, “The im- pression prevailed here (in Wash- ington) that the reduction of work- ing hours was the administration's reply to protests from private em- ployers that the C, W. A. was taking their workers away from them by paving higher wages than they could afford. THESE PROTESTS HAVE COME PARTICULARLY FROM OP- ERATORS OF SOUTHERN LUM~- BER CAMPS AND OTHERS IN SECTIONS WHERE CHEAP NEGRO LABOR IS EXPLOITED.” Jim-Crow Traditions ‘The Roosevelt overnment in its un- employment, wage-cutting drive, con- tinues the Jim-Crow traditions of the lynch Democratic Party by firing first and heaviest in the South, ald- ing the employers to secure cheap labor and hammer down wages, and bringing the burdens of the unem~- ployment, wae-cut drive down heay- jest on the Neroes. The National Unemployment Coun- ell calls on all workers to immedi- ately organize against the C. W. A. layoffs, to hold mass meet- ings, demonstrations and marches. They call for the organization pf job committees and C W. A. workers’ unions on all C. W. A. jobs, to de- mand no firing of any ©. W. A. worker, union wages and conditions on C. W. A. jobs, no discrimination against Negroes, and cash relief for all unemployed not receiving C. W. A. wages, They call for protests at the ©. W. A. and relief headquarters. Important Shoe Meet _ To Be Held Tonight NEW YORK.—The Shoe Trade Board which meets on Monday at 6:30 pm. at 77 5th Ave., is calling for special mobilization of all active shoe workers to attend this meeting. All shop chairmen are urged to mobilize every active worker in the shop to attend this meeting. This is the first. mobilization of forces to end racketeering in the shoe industry, No active shoe worker can afford to stay away from this meeting. All Comrades of a Star € By SAM ROSS the 1932 American Olympic ails I began talking to him in— “But tell me more about this Spartakiade. How can I go to Russia?” I explained in detail and he said he'd endorse the whole shooting match, Spartakiade and L, §, U. even if it got him in bad with the A. A. U. and the I. A. C.; but how th’hell, he said, can I get to Russia. ee *% i FOUND out later that this athlete's mind was working overtime along the usual lines typical of experts. He began telling me of the time after the 1928 Olympic games when Johny Weismuller and a host of Olympic champions were invited to Japan so that their athletes could Jearn the American technique of winning. Japan was becoming a strong power and she wanted to excel not only indus- trially, but also to master the part of Preducing swimming champions, Weismuller was offered a $25,000 | & year job at the university in | Tokyo as swimming coach. He re- | fused, After all, the movies was a more profitable way of cashing in on his amateur prestige. Schwartz was thinking that Russia was fol» lowing in ‘Japan's footsteps. He thought if he got in on the ground floor in Russia with a job as a swimming instructor—$25,000 was a nico sum for his brilliant services. He'd make champions, wouldn’t he. ae ieag they wanted—he'd soon. ise a big shot, a commissar of swimming education or sump’n. I began telling him that Russia doesn’t care a good goddam about star athletes, What they wanted was sports for the benefit and well being of the worker so that his mind and body could be healthily conditioned, given the freedom of participating in sports work only as a cultural part his life and not as a profiteering means to a dollar bill. I told him the American Spartakiade committee would rather send an ordinary worker re from a factory ‘han a spoiled Star. eee. aaa Ronee Te looked funny at me and said, “But they gotta have some one teach them the technique of winning, of becoming chaiips. They gotta have stars. What th’hell’s the good of sports if you don’t have sta-s.” He didn’t wait for an answer, We both swam around. Ta'l: about the Spartakiade and the L, S. U. was stopped. When I got ready to leave him, he said, “A bunch » idealists. But I'll give an exhibition any time You say. Just tell me when.” Metropolitan Workers Basketball League Standing to Feb. 10 Team Won Lost Galverts 3 ) Amer. LW.0. 40920 Youth 1 °2 Bx. YOL 3 i Young Lyceum Workers 1 2 Boys 2 1 Spartacus 2 2 ‘Tremont NSt Oke Progress 2 1 Red LW.0, 4541 0 Sparks 0 8 3 YCL Bronws~ Yorkville 0 4 vile 1 0 Schedule—Week of Feb. 19 19 Spartacus vs Y.W.A.C. 20 ¥.C.L Bronx vs Calverts 21 Yorkville vs Red Sparks 22.N.5.L, ys Coney Island 23 Tremont Progress. vs American Youth 25 Lyceum Boys vs Harlem Prolets Feb, Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. ALL COMRADES MEET AT BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont P’kway, Bronx ARRANGE YOUR DANCES, LECTURES, UNION MEETINGS at the NEW ESTONIAN WORKERS’ HOME 27-29 West 115th Street New York City RESTAURANT and BEER GARDEN (Classified) RUSSIAN for Americans. Groups 25¢ les- son; also individual. Gendler, 560 West End Aye. Phone Schuyler 4-0174, ‘Mont at the | NEW HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA ‘Fresh To Fight For Manhattan Lyceum, 66 February 21, Excellent Program Rargains in All Kii Food—Proletarian Prices—50 ©. 18th St.—WORKERS’ CENTER Yeur Co.nrades Jailed By The Bosses Call On You ‘Will You Answer Their Call? Giant LL. 1@ per cent of the proceeds on the opening night of the Bazaar will be contribuied to the struggle of the German workers, led by the Communist Party Large Dining Room with F. S. U. Balalaika Orchestra Their Release! ‘ D. Bazaar E, 4th St., Entire Bldg. 22, 23, 24, 25 Dancing nds of Merchandise team, America’s fastest swimmer and world’s record older, 5 | took me down the Illinois Athletic Club for a little swim and,} shower a couple of days before I left Chicago for New York.J Amid the backslaps of millionaire’s bodies ey rubbers’ hands, the amell of rubbing alcohol and the sight of attendants f