The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1934, Page 3

Form Unions and Job Committees in Fight For CWA Jobs, Relief | Detroit Workers Force Relief Head to Give More Relief | DETROIT, Mich.—Six hundred C. | W, A. workers here forced the relief | partment to give butter and meat, ter a five-hour wait in the cold veather. | The workers, after receiving their} C. W, A. pay checks at 1 a.m., were | told that the food was not ready ‘or distribu‘ion, and. to come back | at noon, At noon, they were again put off untif2 pm, At 3 pm. the | workers elected a committee of. four to meet with Superintendent Huber of the East Side Depar-mert of Pub- ic Works. They were told that the food would arrive at 6 p.m. Dissatis- fied with this, the workers demanded mmediate distribution of the food, and in five minutes their demands vere met. +. ee Office Workers Demand Jobs CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 21.—A delega- ion from the Office Workers’ Union, elected at the last regular meeting, met with Howard I. Hunter, C.W.A.| administrator, to demand immediate ©. W. A. jobs for office workers at} union wages, cash relief for those un~ | employed, and the enactment of the | Woes, Unemployment Insurance | ill, Hunter bluntly told the delegation that those who have not been given/ ©, W. A, jobs must continue on the| present inadequate relief, and al- though he “favored” unemployment tmsurance, refused to go on record endorsing the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. The Office Workers’ Union calls upon all white collar workers to join in the struggle for jobs or relief. The Office Workers’ Union, with of- fices at 1853 W. Madison St., will hold its next meeting on Friday, Feb. 33, at 8 p.m., at the Peoples Audi- torium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. eae aii” Form Richmond C.W.A. Union RICHMOND, Va.—On Feb. 16, C. W. A. workers from several projects here formed the Richmond C.W.A. Workers’ Association, and a meeting to which all C.W.A. workers are in- vited will be held on Friday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m., at Christian Church, Third and Duval Sts, C. W. A. workers here, as elsewhere, are faced with the loss of their jobs, and hundreds have already been laid off by Roosevelt’s orders, Negroes are segregated on the job, and are not permitted to warm themselves at fires. A proposed wage cut is about to be put into effect, reducing wages | from 45 cents to 30 cents an hour for a 24-hour week, cutting the pay to $7.20. C.W.A. workers are made tesponsible for inclement weather, and are not paid when it rains. Against these conditions and! grievances. the union plans to build job committees and locals on every project. At the next meeting, every present or former C. W. A. worker is invited. Stop All C.W.A. In Denver DENVER, Colo.—All C.W.A. work here was stopped on Feb. 14. Many of the workers still had pay coming to them, and no provision has been made to give them their back wages. eee 200 C.W.A. Men Strike SAUGERTIES, N. ¥.—Two hun- dred C.W.A. workers here struck last | week against favoritism and the un- warranted dismissal of one worker. The men demonstrated before the Town Hall, demanding to see the supervisor, and, when he failed to make his appearance, boarded trucks and busses and drove 12 miles to Kingston, the county seat, in order ‘0 protest at the C.W.A. office. Nearly 74 per, cent of the ocal | pee EE TE ERE SOS, male working population registered for C. W. A., and about one-fifth of those registered got jobs. eo ek Workers Stop Firing NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Fifty C.W.A. workers here, on the East Rock Park project, forced the foreman to rein- state a worker whom he fired with- out reason on Feb. 17, eet ae C.W.A. Union Forces Reinstatement HOLLAND, Ohio—Eigh*een C.W.A. werkers here, all members of the Re- lef Workers’ Union, were laid off on Feb, 16. After the men had met with Col. Shielter, C.W.A. head, they were reinstated. #240 eke Cut Wages, Start Wisconsin Layoff (By a Worker Correspondent) MANITOWOC, Wisc.—-The C.W.A. here recently, under the guise of “re- organization,” laid off hundreds of workers, and cut the wages of those remaining from $16.50 to $13.50 a week by reducing hours, Workers are continually being laid off, and a new “reorganization” 1s being planned. Los Angeles C.W.A. To Fire 18,000 Men Begin Mass-Layoffs at Roosevelts Orders LOS ANGELES, Calif. Feb. 31— The county C. W. A. quota of 68,000, which never more than scratched the surface of the unemployment situa- tion, is to be immediately cut to $50.000 by the exclusion of all single men from C. W. A. These single men are to be sent into the con- centration camps and flophouses. The County Relief recently fired several hundred, and proposes to fire four hundred more workers. Despite the C. W. A. lay-offs, hot lunches for school children have been cut off on the ground that the heads of families have ©. W. A. jobs. Pay for those on C. W. A. has been consis‘ently delayed. Two thousand Negroes, coming to the Jim-Crow station at 34th and Central Sts., were forced to wait from 10 a.m. through- out the night for their pay. The local ©. W. A. administration has responded to the Roosevelt or- ders to fire C. W. A. workers. A new foreman was appointed to project 523 (storm drain), who called the gangs together (white and Negro sepe- rately) and told the men to speed up on the work or face dismissal. Next morning two Negroes were fired. ‘The Construction Workers’ Indus- trial Union, with 12 locals already organized, is calling upon all C.W.A. workers to form grievance commit- tees on the job, and organize neigh- borhood mass meetings to fight C. W. A. lay-offs. National Officers of Unemployed Councils NEW YORK.—The National Committee of the Unemployment Councils has announced that the Feb, 5th: president, Andrew Onda, of Cleveland, Ohio; first vice pre- sident, E. C. Culpe, of Vestaburg, Pa.; second vice president, Mrs. Mathilda Lee, of Collinsville, M- linois; secretary-treasurer, I. Am- ter, of New York City; national Benjamin, of organizer, Herbert New York City. DAILY WORKER, y YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1934 C. WA: Workers Demon Unity of Workers (Continued from Page 1) us about the meeting and we went there tonight because we wanted to attend the meeting. Tt is a fact that all who are sincere, | who fight for unity, do all the work, organizing in the Unemployed League, | ete. I come there and I find out that} I was expelled. No reason was given. | Comrade Mishkin pointed out the reason why he was expelled. This is| a sign of what is going on. They see that the workers are beginning to| realize what the leadership is trying| to do and they realize that the only way to stem the tide of the revolu- tionary movement in the Y. P. S. L.! and the Socialist Party is to expel those workers who are working for unity. nd even if they do expel a few of us here and there, they will not be able to stem the tide of revolution- ary struggle against fascism. 1,000 Kansas City | Run Superintendent Off Job; Demand Pay By a C. W. A. Worker Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo—On Feb. 10, jat the city airport, 1,000 C. W. A. workers were told that they would be paid the following week. The checks had arrived in the morning, but Superintendent Smith had sent them back to keep from vaying the men on working time. The angry work- ers began’ looking for Smith, but he hid away in the bushes, from which the cops later smuggled him out. Then the workers milled about the office, shouting: “We want our money.” The men began to shout, “Pay by 5:30, or we'll remove the office.” The checks arrived at 4:45 p.m. Before the checks came, someone drove in with 100 copies of the Kan- sas City Star. The workers grabbed all of them, but instead of reading about their demonstra‘ion, they saw an article on the fighting in Paris and the workers began cheering the French workers. About 25 cops were present, but dared not interfere. To Celebrate Hyman’s 30 Years in Labor Movement, Feb. 25 NEW YORP.—Trace union work- ers will celebrate the 50th birthday of Louls Hyman, Chairman of the General Executive Board of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, in @ jubilee affair to be held peta Park Ave. Sunday, Feb, 25, at p.m. This date will mark Hyman’s 30th year of activity in the labor move- ment. Following addresses by leaders of the revolutionary trade union move- ment there will be a concert, where the Artef Players and the Freiheit Singing Society will entertain and A. Babad and Bill Gropper, revolution- ary artists, will draw cartoons. A NEW Gyr NEW YORK.—Fusionist Alderman Elias H. Jacobs proposed to the Board of Aldermen that lotteries, sweep- stakes and raffles be operated. by the city in order to get new revenue, seeing no reason why the city should not tap such funds instead of allow- ing it to drift into the hands of racketeers and gangsters. YOUNG BLOOD FOR ATTACKS NEW YORK.—As a result of Com- missioner O’Ryan’s decision to dis- card all police employes over 65, a total of 104 members of the city Police department face retirement to C.W.A. Men Win Pay, at the New Star Casino, 107th St. | (Continued from Page 1) capitalism. And to our defense force} we will invite particularly Socialist workers to fight on a common front| with us “They can cry as much as they wish in the Jewish Forward and New Leader. They can stir up all the hatred they wish, which will help the bosses But with develop- men‘s as they are in the United States, and throughout the world to- day, the Socialist leaders are doomed to failure. The united front of the workers will be established. The workers will learn to know that the Communist Party honestly, faithfully and without treachery and compro- mise, organizes and prepares, and carries on a struggle for the improve- ment of the workers’ conditions. It carries on a relentless struggle against capitalism. “Comrades, realities of the Class struggle, the day to day experience of the Socialist workers, will do more to establish the united front than all the poisonous provocation of the So- | cialist leaders will do to wreck it.”)| Every appeal for the united fron‘ | made by Comrade Hathaway received enthusiastic and prolonged applause. | The need for united action against fascism now, Comrade Hathaway pointed out, was made crystal clear. That united front received a most powerful impetus when Socialist and Communist workers united on the barricades in Austria and poured out their blood in a flaming, revolution- ary, @ glorious struggle against fas- cism. Referring to the Socialist leaflet distributed at the door, Comrade Hathaway read the headline: “Com- munist workers, don’t let them kid you any more!” “Let's see about that,” said Hatha- way in his main report and in his answer to questions and discussion. “Here we have a meeting. We gladly and earnestly invite Socialist work- ers to join us in thrashing out the vital questions confronting the whole working class, Would the Socialist Party leaders dare to call such an open meeting, though they pretend to be the “defenders” of democracy? Quite the contrary. Here we have two members of the Y.PS.L., old members, in good standing, who were denied admittance to a membership meeting of their organization tonight on the ground that one of them has written a letter to the Daily Worker.” “The leaders of the S. P. never permit a discussion of their actions. They dare not. Our Party has full and free discussion with all workers. But the difference of our Party and theirs lies not only there. Once a decision is reached we have the firm proletarian discipline that leads to , carrying out the common will of the |Party for a revolutionary struggle | against fascism.” “Nobody can dodge the question of the united front now,” said Hath- away. “The Socialist leaders are maneuvering for a ‘united front.’ But with whom? ‘They establish a united front with Matthew Woll, with L. oficials who directly participated in the development of fascism in this country.” He exposed the role of some of the leaders of the Socialist Mary Fox, who through the urge and pressure of Socialist workers are forced into united front actions with Communists, constantly look for a | fire escape. On the least pretext they desert, as Mary Fox did on the ridie- ulous excuse of ‘the Madison Square Garden incident,” but in reality on the fundamental issues of our ex- posures of the treachery of the Social Democratic leaders of Austria and the United States. Concluding his speech with a ring- ing apnea! for the united front, Com- | rade Hathaway declared: | “The Communist Party marches forward on the basis of @ more care- ful application of the united front tactic. We call on every one in our Mayor LaGuardia, with the A. F. of | Spoke. Party like | this | the platform of the mi¢éting; a fight Party: ‘Do not permit yourselves to be provoked by the Abe Cahans, or/| the Waldmans and Gerbers. Don't permit them to poison your minds | against Socialist workers. Learn al- ways to make sharp distinctions be- | tween the workers of the Socialist | Party who want socialism, and the} leaders of the Socialist Party who| betray the workers and betray so-/ cialism.’ | “Build the united front in the| shops, in the factories, in the trade unions, on the picket lines, wherever the workers work and meet. In that! way we will learn the lessons of the heroic struggle of our Austrian brothers and build a powerful force against fascism here against capitel- sm and for the victory of the pro- letarian revolution and socialism!” When discussion was opened, Com- rade Krumbein invited and gave pre- ference to Socialist and non-Party workers present in the audience. Two members of the Y. P. 8. L. were the first to speak. | “Another comrade and I have just | returned from the general member- ship meeting of the Y, P. S, L.,” said Bernard Mishkin, member of Man- hattan Branch No. 10, who received thunderous applause when he was introduced. “We who are members of the ¥. P. S. L, and members of the! Socialist Party were denied admission to this meeting at the Rand School. My crime was writing a letter to the Daily Worker. The other comrade ‘was given no reason.” (The full sten- ographic transcript of Comrade Mish- kin’s speech appears in today’s Daily Worker.) Comrade Mishkin gave an interest- ing insight into the origin of the Socialist Party leaflet distributed at! the door. “This very curious docu-| ment, which in itself is a huge le as/ well as huge joke, is signed by ‘rank and file socialist workers.’ The point | is this, not only was this document | manjufactured by Socialist leaders, | but it had to be passed out by Y. P. §.L.leaders.” Comrade Pete Mictinen, another ¥. P. 8. L. member, told how, with- out the slightest reason he was re- fused admittance to a meeting of; his organization held on the same night as the St. Nicholas Arena meeting. “The only way they can hope to stem the tide of the revolutionary movement,” he concluded, “is by try- ing to expel those people who are fighting for unity of the entire work- ing class. Even if they do succeed in expelling a few of us, they will not stem the tide of the revolutionary working class against fascism.” A former member of the Socialist Party, Comrade Schiefris, next stepped up to the microphone, He made an impassioned plea for a united front of ali workers. “I want to say, comrades, that the struggle carried on by the workers in Austria and the Socialist and Com- munist workers here have taught me @ lesson that I cannot stay outside while the Austrian brothers are fight- | ing. I hereby making application to the Communist Party,” A member of the United Shoe & Leather Workers, Mary Gilden, next) “I think that ‘none of us arc satis-| fied with the outcome of the Madison | Square Garden meeting,” she said.) That is shown by the fact of calling Meeting. Communists were fighting Socialists. Socialists were fighting Communists, We must criti- cize our mistakes and learn. Remem- ber we workers and others who belong to organizations in which we still have {faith must make organizational unity, an organizational united front on a tions against fascism.” In reply to Comrade Gilden, Hatha- way said: “The main fight at Madison Square Garden was the fight of the workers against their enemies who stood on against the united front of the Social- ist leaders with the fascist Woll and the strikebraking LaGuardia. “So far as a ‘united front of organi- . | Party, to every worker around the 'Speeches of Yipsels Over 7,000 Hear Hathaway on Coal Boat Strike Negroes at St. Nicholas on Austrian Events, United Front. SpreadsCops Meet Crew With Guns 6 Ships Are Tied Up in Boston for 1929 Wage Scale BOSTON, Mass. Feb. 21—The striking ship's crews, confronted with | machine guns and heavily armed} police detachments, are continuing to spread the strike aboard the coal boats here. The crew of the S.S. William Page has joined the strike, making 2 total of six shivs striking under the leader- ship of the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union. Rallving to the strike call, along with the crew of the William Paz was the crew of the S. S. Middle- sex, Sailors of this ship were forced back aboard at the point of guns. Ship Companies Weakening The Central Strike Committee, led by Jack Lambert, secretary of the} Boston Local of the M. W. I. U., ported today that the strike is gail ing strength and momentum hour! Despite the array of armed violence! on the part of the shipowners, the| shipping companies are obviously weakening due to the militancy and solidarity of the seamen. ‘The strike, which began with the cargo coal—that is, doing longshore work—is now solid for the M.W.I.U. code, which includes the 1929 waze scale: $62.50 for able seamen and $70 for coal burning firemen. The able Seamen on the coal boats are getting $46 & month. For Bigger Crews One of the strike demands is for an increase in the size of the crews. The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union in all ports along the Atlantic Coast is urging the coal trimmers, members of the International Long- shoremen’s Association, A. F. of L., to come out in joint strike action with the seamen. preted as meaning a united front with the Wolls and LaGuardias, We have Proposed united front actions on many occasions to the Socialist leaders. They saw fit to reject it. ments, But we will not sit on their Thomas. We will continue to forge the united front with the Sovialist workers in action against fascism and against the Roosevelt fascist measures in the United States.” Other speakers were Comrade Schulman, Comrade Donlan, e former Socialist Party member, Comrade Eitzer of the Millinery Union, Com- rade Yenif, who at the risk of his life jumped from the Madison Square balcony and received some of the blows directed at Comrade Hatha~- way by Socialist Party leaders. Over 30 applications for the Com- munist Party were signed and turned in at the meeting on the short appeal by Comrade Krumbein, adopted for the united front. In the collection many Socialist workers contributed. One worker of the I, L. G. W. U. donated $3 for the Communist Party of Austria. great mass of workers listened with the greatest interest. It was an impres- every phase of the discussion was fol- lowed. The meeting ended in a disciplined, quiet and orderly fashion, despite tne fact that, taking the Socialist leader, Louis Waldman’s, hint 50 cops were secreted in the basement “with their clubs.” There is little doubt that the me ins will have a tremendous cifect clarifying the : 3 of the united n rallying the 1,000 present for active work in forging a powerful united zations that should not be inter- front in the fight against fascism. FEET ‘Pridsy, Saturday, Sunday, Feb. 23-24-25 At 8:30 p.m. Admission 50c. Trial Offer—50c. Help win over your friends and fellow workers to our revolu- tionary movement. You can do this by reaching them with our Daily Worker. Present In the marine industry, which for our district is basic since New York| There the Open| to 70,000 workers, which resulted in Trial Subscription Blank Datly Worker, 50 E. 18th St., New York City In the same period, we were in the leadership of strikes involving 60,000 doubling the membership of the in- dustrial unions. In addition, we were a considerable factor in a number of strikes led by the reformist unions. were many serious weaknesses in our leadership in all of these strikes. (These were pointed out in a recent District Resolution). Neverthe~ less, the workers involved were brought considerably closer to our unions paying some attention to this work, but as yet not nearly as much as the situa- tion calls for. We can point to prog-} Tess in our work among the C. W. A. but since this is one of the issues of the day, we have to give much attention to these workers, helping to organization that they and making it representa~ of thousands in- i 5 sixtee: Struggle for Negro Rights, which are as yet firmly if/ Daily Worker has been increased gets behind this work this organiza- tion can be made a real broad mass organization. Since the Open Letter the Party has increased its membership in the dis- trict by about 25 per cent. which is not much of an achievement when we consider the real possibilities of build- ing the Party in the present period. It shows a real weakness in not prop- erly utilizing all of our work to revolutionize the workers who struggle with us for their day to day needs which is the real basis for building the Party. The circulation of the about 75 per cent in the period, which means very little when we consider the relatively small circulation that we started out with and the fact that there are at least 100,000 workers with tom we have contact. The sale of literature has been considerably im- proved, the sales in our book store and literature department amounting to $5,600 for the month of December. Weaknesses Hinder Greater Achievements Our main weakness is that of still Jagging in our mass work. Our dis- tint rs a who'e is still too much in- volved in the day to day events, with the result that our tasks do not proper atten- Resolution much more seriously carry on our The possibilities of this organization @ real mass is proved by the above, that if the Party really concentration work and really start seriously approaching the workers under social-fascist leadership. In the struggle against war and fascism elf-Criticism-Keynote in Convention we must not only see the importance! that such industries as marine, metal, and railroad play in war, but also that to the extent that we involve these workers in struggle, do we influence the workers in the lighter industries Who are so numerous in our district. We must give much more of our at- tention, resources and forces to our concentration work. We must con- tinuously and systematically carry on propaganda and agitation among the workers in the industries In which are on the job. In metal, and conditions of the workers are bad and all] Win the Workers from the Reformists to these attacks upon their living standards. This will mean thai their agents In the rans of the working class, (the A. F. of L. burocrats, the Socialist Party leaders, the Musteites | and renegades) will on the one hand come out with more “left” phrases and on the other increase their open betrayals. All of which means that the opportunities and tasks of our Party are greater than ever before. In the struggle against war and fascism the 13th Plenum Resolution points out that to be successful in this fight we must in the first in- stance fight against the social fas- cists. This means for our district a struggle against the A. F. of L. burocrats and the Socialist Party leaders. In New York the Socialist i seamen protesting against trimming | These proposals are still public docu- | doorstep and plead with Mr. Norman | A resolution was unanimously | [0 From 8 sharp when the meeting) started until nearly 12 o'clock, the| sive sight to see the serious intentness | with which every word, every question, | front and will have great effect in} derstand the above mentioned de-| Page Three ee strate Against Roosevelt Lay-Offs Segregated AtSenate H -aring on “An ti-Lynch ing” Bill Rapid Price Advance Revealed in Latest U.S. Official Reports textiles rose 26 poi shows, jabson's latest e s housewives Haverhill Shoe | Workers to Hit Wage Cut Scheme |Hold Mass Parade and | Demonstration Against | | Regrading Scheme | HAVERHILL, Mass, Feb. 21—A mass delegated shon confer | presenting 46 factories held he i |day decided to carry on a strugele against the wage cuts put over on | the shoe workers by the officials of | the old Pr Union through | | regrading. | The overwhelming majority of the | shoe workers are now functionin | with the United Shoe and Leathe! | Workers Union as a result of th | mass desertion from the Protective. | 1,000 Get Cut | Over: 1,000 -w ers in 12 shops re- ceived a ng from 15 to 30 per through the regrading | Process, ‘The district council of the ; United Shoe Union has arranged | Strike action, | Chick Holmes for the office of g eral secretary and treasurer of th | United. Demonstrate against Cuts Wednesday there was a mass unity | parade to demonstrate against the wage cuts. NRA. offi that t . The | Went on record agai th in Is the Saturday | work: Local 8 Lasters, Local 13 Wood Heelers, Local 7 Cutters, Local 10A Stitchers, and Local 4 Finishers, The District Council of the United j wee on record that the Haverhill | wor! 7s will no longer work on AKS IN DETROIT er, General secre- t Party, will speak at & mass meeting s, Woodward Avenue and Hendrie, Saturday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m Discussion. adherents are ready for struggle for their day-to-day needs. Large numbers of them have become dis- gusted in the Socialist Party leader- ship. They t a united struggle against war and fascism and will, with us, help build the League Against War and Fascism. They will join us in @ fight against the slave codes of the N.R.A., for unemploy~ ment relief and social insurance, as well as on other burning issues. With correct united front approaches, we can involve these workers in struggle. Winning these workers therefore be- comes one of our main immediate tasks. Systematic and consistent approach to these workers must be on the order of the day for every one of our organizations. Right now our best approach is for joint May Day action around \e above mentioned issues, The left social fascists (Musteites, etc.) as well as the renegades (Love- stoneites and Trotskyites) also un- velopments and are striving tooth and | nail to stop the leftward moving} masses of workers from coming to} us. We have the task of exposing | them, or they can become a serious | factor although they amount to little as yet. We must disclose the false- ness of their principle position and) expose the betrayal role that they are carrying on in the day-to-day struggles, as for Instance in the silk} and hotel workers’ strikes, in the field of unemployment work, etc, (To Be Continned) s ; Shop crew meetings to prepare for; Haverhill reeted = with of the New| for unity. | They» suppo the nomination of Ford Neckarcs Jim-Cro» Goy’t Must Be Exposed to Hit at Lynching rker Washington Bureau) TON, Feb. 21.— Ever sub-committee anc formist leaders were h the motion of a fight hing at the hearing or er “anti-lynching” s were being ejected from e restaurant yesterda Dail subjected to ion and violation utional rights was yrd, well-known social Byrd went to the two white women waitress, a white m they could They protested. Police then called to eject them from restaurant. To all questions. attendants in the restaurant told press; “We've had orders to had already suffered discriminatory policies of Deal,” when as @ “Negrc for the N.R.A. she was jim crowed and later fired following her efforts to point out the discrimina- ns against Negroes which the Deal“ fosters. Miss Byrd at- tended the hearing as @ press rep- resentative of the Baltimore “Afro: American.” Negroes Segregated at Hearing. | Seven Negro reporters, represent- Qr papers and the Associated o Press, found one press table filled with white reporters when they entered the hearing room They went to a second press table and sat down. A minor official of the Senate press gallery informed | them the tables were reserved ex- 5 1 “members of the press | gallery” and that they would have to leave. Several white reporters who do not belong to the press gal- lery were present, and many attend hearings generally. The Negro writers simply remained in their chairs through the morning session. ‘When the afternoon session be- gan, a very small third table had been placed in the room, and the whose orders this was and was told, | “the Superintendent of the Senate Office Building.”~ The white re- porter called this to the attention of Senator Van Nuys, presiding at the hearing. He said he didn’t want that sort of thing going on, but made no public statement con- cerning it. The Negroes were completely seg- regated until the Daily Worker cor- respondent went and sat with them James W. Ford, representing the | League of Struggle for Negro Rights denounced this segregation | policy of the government declaring “To hit at lynching we must hit |at {ts base—national oppression of | the Negro people, Jim-Crowism, etc. | To hit at lynching we must arouse | and condemn the government which | supports it. To hit at lynching. | we must build up mass action of both Negro and white workers |around a struggle for equal rights | for Negroes—for « bill of civil rights | for Negroes.” W.U. Continues Jim- Crow in Cafeteria NEW YORK.—C.W.A. workers op project 177 (railroad coordination). | who protested the jim-crow policy of the Western Union in excluding Ne- n the company cafeteria es told not to come:to cafeteria to eat. ‘Three days ago, workers on C.W.A. petitioned the Western Union de- | manding an end of their referred to matter to Roy B. White. | president of Western Union, | “could not be reached.” Hotel Association Gets Injunction Against Lakewood Pickets | FREEHOLD, N. J. Feb. 21.—Five | workers of the Siemund Eisner Clothing Company of Red Bank must serve sentences of from 30 to 60 days | for picketing. At a rehearing before Vice Chancellor Maja Leon Berry, the official said he had been “too lenient if anything” in sentencing the men and declined to modify his previous decision. ee ‘ At Perit: Hotel Association as Ol ed a restraining © =e strikers of the Resort ‘Hotel orkers’ Union banning picketing, | distribution of leaflets, and use of | placards relating to or inciting to § strike. Again Vice Chancellor Berry handed down the decision in favor of the bosses. The law office of Sta‘e Senator Perey Camp. repre- | sented the hotel owners. HARRY SIMMS MEMORIAL MEETING IN NEW BRITAIN NEW BRITAIN. —Harry Simms Someta Meeting Thursday, Feb. 22, at@ p. m., Church Ave. Auspices of Young Commi nist League. € 2 eae HARRIS SPEAKS IN LANCESTER LANCESTER.—Lem Harris, executive retary of the Farmers’ National Commiti for Action, will speak on Friday even Feb. 23, 8 p.m. at Red-Men's Hal, 219. King &.