The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1934, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1934 Call CWA Emergency Members of Lowell | “, Shoe Union Demand Conterence March 4 Biedenkapp Speak Against CWA Lay-offs Violate Decision Made By Rank and File cal Leaders CCC Boys Get Rifle Drill at Nat'l Guard All Organizations Are Urged To Elect Delegates NEW YORK. — An Emer- gency United Front Confer- ence against the Roosevelt C. W. A. lay-offs has been called by the Unemployment-Councils and the Relief Workers League, to. be held March 4th, at 1 p. m. at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and he shoe hen the moti ion On Friday, Feb. 23, J he officers were asked by nt Py Tr Pk dao ty workers wete fired throughout the || some of the men what the C.C.C. “You cant invite that man here: country. The Roosevelt government |/ was doing there, the officers re- he’s a Communist,” ‘ci id plans to fire half a million weekly |] :ponded that they were 0.0.0. boys || °°’ ist. : until the re C.NW.A. program is|| who are to rei training. T This remark of Tyron was in itself liquidated. n ied to & re a violation of the constitution, which In the face of these mass lay-offs, roc are treated as no member of the discrimi: his or her race —A s m the 132nd. : A Guardsman from the 132m steed, religion, or political affiliation.” | ‘The motion was passed nevertheless jand Biedenkapp was scheduled to | . | Food Union Calls |speak in the Union Hall today. But | | ° jafter preparations were made it was | Strikers To Halt |discovered that the hall (the workers’ | jown hall) was rented to other aia the LaGuardia-Wall Street admin- | members of the outfit, istration has failed to appropriate more funds for relief in New York City. The Fusion government has publicized the $5,000,000 which has been appropriated for relief in the city. Distributed among the more than a million New York City job- less, this means less than five dol- I bless worker in the) . ties. city. ees Blacklist Move! The question was then taken to Mr, Every workers’ organization i if |Gratton of the co-ordinating co: urged to send delegates to the emer- {m gency conference on the basis of three delegates from each local or brench, and three delegates from the city or central bodies of the organizations. A plan of action will be formulated demanding the continuation and ex- | tension of C.W.A.; union wages for Skilled workers; adequate cash relief He overruled the decision of | The final verdict, however, rests | Mayor Moves To with the rank and file of the local They are demanding that Bieden- | Healthy Seabs In Struck Hotels |Kapp be permitted to speak to the — | membership, | NEW YORK—After weakening and) | attemptiag to betray the general hotel oe strike with maneuvers with the N.R.A tonal Board and LaGuardia, = Roosevelt Re workers’ hopes on them,| mated Hotel dime ia Orders 377.500 More. lent Roosevelt. on CWA Men Fired Fri.| unable to (Continued from Page 1) Pense of the government ployers. Leagu urges | call delegates communicate s’ League, 29 tinues ” but ba when it came to f nmen be clean! signing the bill, F . ance ‘Tf there is anything I detest,” he Ortspore ‘Motion ; Tam for pe as you ate, . but not for ds to pay euvers to smash unemploym Denied By Callahan; Mass Protest Urged stating that the Attempting to strike is illega “Our investig calling c stri! point Mrs. was needless, out that the Herrick said: that the Lay Off 1,708 In Buffalo BUFFALO, N. ¥.—More than 20 cent. of the C. W. A. workers if on Feb, 22 and There ff. y off was instructions The part whom n ac~ upon from the Roosey Washington. Thus Call it to his rec of open p When he 1 Union 2,200 Dropped In Los Angeles have LOS ANGELES. dred C. W. A. ed ‘om the ig not to rel; » hoss to jury. the Ts were laid of here on Feb. 16, as a result of or. and to re r iy ders from Washington. Many vet-| acts in the taxi strike. erans were laid off In this situation the Industrial _ Union has proposed the Organize C. W. A. Union GREED Two hun steps: exert pressure to force him demandes by | cedure. Callahan's tion cuts the t and filing of app: one week. This the legal de ously with ICH, Conn., Feb. 25, — dO. W. A. workers, meet- {, the Italian Community Center | week, organized the Relief | Protective rei m and cr inst the st for e funds i all eph Milton, Haven Worke: previously helped vietims cf « Patiersor Ca’ Protests iam L. Patter- of the I. L, D. for de Conn., Feb. organizatioy which | d in the Feb, 5th demon-| prevent an appeal. @anizations and m A Sent at once to P: here demanding the - Gov. B. M Mill of the C. W. A. and the en- and the Sta ‘kers Unen v- bama, for ir ; (CH. R. 7598) release cf Mayor Beach, deman innocent, 1 dicts, and remo’ Patterson offered document of Callahan’s agreement to postpone mpaign criticism h of i FoR ere ic S hearin; tion in the follow- * SNe pet q “Hon. W. W. Callahan “Circuit Court Judge. “Decatur, Ala. “Motion for new trial mailed tonight Aivive Friday at Decatur.) “ Respetiully request continran of two types —national min- free ropub- Pending filing and songs receipt of 1: ML opp repiy coileci. m of “JOSEPH R. BRODSKY.” “A similar wire was sent Jan. the Clarence Norris case. | On Dec. 29, the following wire was inday, March 4, at 7 p.m. New Star Casino, 107th St, and Park Aye 2 on} © ; cky: iog of the The Hall Johnson Choir will pre- eM Brodey: os soag, (and rigorous, qualify sent at the banquet the Hall John- ; sontinned to Jan. | nim for. x tac‘ieal son Quarict, well-known Negro sing- ee 7 PE contitmed to. Jen, evolutions in the ai ers, who will sing a cycle of the very at. “W. W. CALLAHAN.” The bitter con ersy had ils in-) poignant Negro spirituals and pow- C he cancella wing telegram | ception in the 2 re |} mail contracts by Pr: velt, through Postmaster General ll a erful work songs that picture the Ne~ gro as railroad builder, steel worker, | sometimes despairinglyly questioning, | | Farley, on the ground that the c sometimes hotly rebellious of condi- | tracts made were shot podeiek with | tions under which he must work, ft. The Roveevelt revtime favors) is Sige se & dizect war mibsily to the air iies,| Marie Radamsky will sing songs| and their closer control by the gov-|that come from the free national | ermminetit to make of the air pilets | Minorities who have their republics | bet*er military ‘flyers, jin the Soviet Union. She will sing| ar shell | twoieal songs from several republics, | msg tr bape ee ¢|Sohgs of before. and songs of after | ae pees ee Poctriaster|the Russian Revolution. eral und: Walter F.| Sergel Radamsky, tenor, who made | Brown, de the Black|such an. overwhelming hit with his | Committee | singiny of “Rote Soldaten,” will Sing | Far-| it again when he makes his last av- -|pearance in this country at the ban- |} lust/quet, before returning to the Soviet 11/Union, He will sing o‘her popular | use I have tO/and less often heard songs from the | Proved not only their innocence | get along | Soviet Union. lynch nature of the capitalist| Farley laughingly denied he made | and of the courts in the South | the statement. He shook hands with| On Jan. 4, the follo Was received by Brodsky: ~ “On your request Norris motion c tinued Jan. 26. ee “WwW. W. CALLAHAN” | ‘Subsequent corresvondence between | ttorney Osmond J. Fraenkel and fe Callahan postponed the hear- second time to Feb, 24. * on of a 4 London Club Sends Protest ARK, N J., Feb. 25.—The fo!- pro‘est telegram was sent to Callahan today by the Ja*k | n Club: ®, 100 young workers, students on Club of Newark, demand the | ley related to him in pri diate and unconditional release | sstion that Sen In addition to the very excellent | 5 musical program, Bobby Lewis, of the | ular, We hold that fair trials} Senator Black and all the members Group Theatre will give satirical imi- | Hither white or Negro toilers in| of the committee, posing with a fat-| tations. ‘courts are impossible, and we|isfied smirk on his face before a| e demand their safe return | battery of newsy ir friends and families. | “JACK LONDON CLUB, | David Wine, Chairman.” | | per photosraphers.| In order to be assured of a place | Meanwhile, the army continues tojat this banquet, at which organiza- fly the mails, with more government|tions and individuals who have money going into military aviation,| helped the Red Press Campaign, will administration in| W GL will mobilize a defense corps of Communist and Socialist workers to fight for a united front against fascism.” Sharp Gain Scored in “Daily” Sub Drive During Last Week NEW YORK.—A very promising, the fourth week of the drive is the improvement in activity in the Daily | result of intensified activity, A sims Worker circulation drive was re- led during the fourth week, end- ing Feb. 20, when a total of 491 new | | cord: subs 278 in th Despite however, the drive as a whole fs still | behind. By now we should have 1,403 | new subs Dist. New Daily Quota New Sat, Quota Yhicago Leads j Subs ‘Subs Ciieane ent «,_| 1. Boston ty 300 48 600 0 o still main-| 2, New York as Bee lead in the race for the} 3 Phila, 52 500 3 ie Torke! . | 4 Buffalo 94 150 aL 00 Worker banner by re | 8. Pittsburgh 42 300 @ 600 4 1 of 106 new daily and) 6 Gteveland 72 500 38 1000 276 new rday subs, | 7% Detroit 40 500 1s 1009 4 . Ol 1 150 oat 1500 During the fourth: week, however,| { Sists’,, 0S ae ate aes C jowed the best improve-| 19. omaha 39 100 6 300 x in 42 new daily | 11, Naw S.Dak. 18 100 w ij 0. Rar a | 12, Seattle 18 300 16 ago Sent in $1 new daly | 35 Cauporsis at 200 6 700 land now is cred-/ 14° Newark 38 300 8 600 and 28 | 15. Conn, 3 200 2 400 a sister industriel | 18 N. & 5. Car. 5 3 | a glee age! ha ay ee 17. Alabama | 12 1 | citv, Detroit. with a similar quota of | ig siiwaukee 17 300 6 400 | and 1,000 new Sa | 19 Denver 28 150 10 300 | Cc. & F. 42 | daily and 16 new Saturday sub- |...) eis 5,000 534 10,000 | scriptions. New York district has ob‘ained 86| «, 4 | new daily and 11 new Saturday subs, | Call To Picket Eagle h m th ide made in its daily ¢ rTERS OF NEW YORK | | “Let the Socialist leadership have its ‘Schutzbunds.’ We (From the speech by Clarence Hathaway.) ilar improvement recorded from now on will put the drive over the top. Study the table below, which shows how your district stands in the drive on Feb, 20, Help your district reach its quota by entering actively in the campaign for new subs for our “Daily,” and by stimulating your daily and 2,806 new Saturday | fellow members of your organization The chart as of Feb. 20, Brinted | ‘0 also get new subs, thereby helping . shows that we have only g16| to root our Daily Worker among the daily and 634 new Saturday | American masses. me in, as compared with only he third week, ending Feb. 13, | this sharp improvement, substantial gai rt of the campairn | Dress Shop Today a: ; iia | _NEW YORK.—The strike of the errs eee, Benen Hd | Eagle Dress, where close to 70 work- s i | ers are inyolved, is now entering its with 58 new daily subs, | fourth week, with the workers de- third among the distric’s out-| termined to defend their conditions of New York to Jord force the firm to renew the Phiadelphia fifth with 52,| agreement with the Needle Trades xth with 49 new daily | \orsers industrial Union. The International leadership has been maneuvering for a long period of time in order to force the workers of the Eagle Dress to register with | the International, and is now sup- plying the firm with scabs while the | workers are picketing the shop. Boston is | h a total of | is third with 33, h with 28 and Buffalo —The | the licut; pa & full M: poin ‘req j1| #2 explanation of the police brutality! that he do som thing.” RED PRESS CERTIFICATES W be awarded by the tee Central Commit-|be mailed at once to PRESS COM- of the Commu Porty, Red| MITTEE, P, O. Box 136, Station D, Press Certificates, re ions should |N. ¥. ©.’ Tickets are $1. All active dressmakers, members or Beach said: | of the Industrial Union, are urged to permit’ sive ram Nek a support the strikers of the Eagle : aaa ees Ride am. pnt Dress by coming down on the picket SSE a Si with’ the| me every day, and particularly but you had | Monday at 8 a. m. rights to syor Beach s if out to rg’ t Send to the Daily Worker, 50 E. ith St, New York City, names of ig: those you know who are not read- ‘demanding’! ers of the “Daily,” but who would be interested in reading it. bi t Injunction Today Delegation To City Hall To Demand Right To Strike NEW YORK.—Over 600 cafeteria workers, members of the Cafeteria | Workers Union, at a meeting held | Friday night at the Stuyvesant Ca- sino, dencunced the anti-strike in- junction issued against the union by Colby’s Cafeteria owners, A com~- mittee of 15 was elected to carry a resolution of protest to Mayor La- | Guardia Monday morning. The injunction which was granted | temporarily by Judge P. P. Smith in the Brooklyn Supreme Court last week not only bans picketing but also demands the outlawing of the union as @ “Communist union.” The temper of the food workers and their readiness to defend the union and their rights to strike is indicated by the fact that this was one of the largest attended regular membership meetings of the unjon in recent months. A_ thunderous “aye” greeted the part of the resolu- tion stating, “We affirm our confi- it.” 8S, Kramberg, secretary, made report on the injunction and also on the preparation for a general cafe- teria strike. The membership enthust- astically approved the general strike plan and elected a Ways and Means Committee to build a strike fund, Kramberg analvzed the revised N. R.A. code, signed by the President, and pointed out that the $12 and $15 minimum would become the maxi- mum unless the food workers or- ganized to defend themselves, Police Open Fire On Seamen; Three Strikers Missing (Continued from Page 1) its against any coal trimming or other longshore wwork far seamen, Calling on all workers to unite in solidarity action with the seamen, the Boston Mistrict Cemmitiee of the Communist Party issued the follow- ing statement from its headquarters, 919 Washinston St. “The firing upon the militant striking seamen by police and offi- cers of the 8. S. Glen White in Bos- ton yesterday is vart of the whole bloody program of Roosevelt’s strike- breaking N. R, A. “This brutel attack on the seamen, who are fighting an herofc battle against the shipowners, under the leadershin of the Merine Workers’ Industrial Union, is an attack against the entire working class. “It must be met by united militant protests of the workers throughout the Uni‘ed States, “Every working-class organization, every trade union, must at once unite in solidarity with the striking sea- men. “Hold joint demonstrations with the seamen in every port! Demand that the police be removed from the Boston docks! Send wires of protest to the Mayor of Boston against the outrageous brutality of his police! Join with the demonstrations of pro- tes* to be held in the ports March 11 ageinst the shipowners’ strikebreak- ing code and the National Shipping Labor Board.” Nis Peak 9 BALTIMORE. Md., Feb, 25.—Driv- ing the shin's officers into their quar- ters when they attempted to attack a delegate from ‘he Marine Workers’ "dustrial Union, the crew of the S.S. Muntropic, a Munson liner, struck here Saturday for the M. W. I. U. code. Police were successful in getting gangsters and professional strike- breakers aboard the ship late in the day, which sailed for Norfolk witl @ skeleton crew The National Buro of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union issued a call today to seamen in all ports to] in. be on the lookout for the Muntropic and strike her the minute she docks. amsky to Sing at Red Press Banquet ILL BE PRESEN TED TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS Among the groups who will receive their Certificates at the banquet is the Left Wing Group of Local 22, In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers, who are fighting the Zimmerman bureaucracy by support of the reyo- lutionary press. Has your organiza- tion donated? |Hat Blockers Score Zaritsky’s Attempt To Appoint Leader: NEW YORK. — The Provisional Committee of the Millinery Blockers Union, Local 32 of the United Hat- ters, which was elected Feb. 12 to control the affairs of the union over the head of Max Zaritzky, who at- hw Certifies char On Siptiht af the Red Press RED PRESS CERTIFICATE tempted to appoint his own leader- ship, issued a s.atement yesterday attempting to take away from the members the right of trade union democracy. their own affairs and conditions.” # PEL Cafeteria Workers’ ‘To Protest Against | | : (0 OUR READERS: from my vantage point I saw To Flay the N.R. A. At Open Hearings (Continued from Page 1) secrrieniacanentparoees passed out through its publicity ma- chine the fact that Robert Minor will present the Communist Party's criticism. They have divided the criticism-fest into five groups. They they “received no word” announced the | beyond the initial request for Minor to speak, but officials assured the Daily Worker that militant labor spokesmen would be given a chance to speak in each of the five group meetings, Each is to be limited, however, to fifteen minutes time. Official announcements of delega- tions registered convey at once the balance (?) there will be in the con- ferences between employers and em- ployes. For industry, the announce- ments say, 220 industries “had regis- tered 1,130 delegates” on Saturday morning. “The Code Authorities for the Cotton Textile Industry and the Lumber and Timber Products Indus- try, have sent word each will have 30 representatives on hand for the conference... The average delega- tion will consist of six persons.” No figures are given on the num- bers of trade unionists registered— only @ hodgepodge list of a hundred or so individuals have requested time. And even these include many spokesmen for businesses, particu- larly small businesses squeezed by the monopoly trends of the New Deal. Among them also are repre- sentatives of “consumers” who are, in the Roosevelt fiction, creatures unrelated to the great consuming majority, the laboring class. “Industry accuses labor, labor ac- cuses industry and the consumers accuse both,” General Johnson said in his radio address explaining the conferences, “That was what was foreseen and intended.” That, in fact, has been the tack of the Administration throughout the New Deal, And that is one fic- tion which will be exploded again in the hearings, Johnson announced that his “ulti- mate aim” in the conferences is “to have the industrial control organi- gation spread out like the keyboard of a piano whereon by concert of action economic harmony can at last be had.” Notice, “economic har- mony” under the present relation be- tween employers and employes. “We will give heed and apprehen- sion to the words of any man who can show that the effect of an N.R.A. code or any provision thereof has been harmful or that it might be improved or that it ought not to exist at all,” Johnson declared, “But I say, with equal earnestness that N.R.A. is a law for the com- mon good and that any man who seeks to undermine the common con- fidence in such a law—not by avgu- ment or statement of fact, but by unsupported abuse of men or arbi- trary and unproved assertions—any such man is an enemy of the com- mon good,” Doesn't Want Codes Disturbed. Lest that confuse you, listen to what the General revealingly added: |“ don't mean to say by any means that there is anything so much the matter with the codes as they stand that they all have to be reopened and turned inside out,” To attempt to prevent even the suggestion of such a thing, appa- rently, is where the Green gang come Green will represent “labor” on the platform in the public meeting of Group No. 1, on “employment and related subjects.” Col. R. W. Lea, Assistant Adminstrator of N.R.A. for industry and Edward F, McGrady, Asesistant Secretary of Labor, who recently brought about the jailing of Ben Gold, will be “co-shairmen.” Pierre duPont, munitions and chemi- cals king; Dr, Leo Wolman, chief liberal front reformist of the Labo Advisory Board; millionaire Mary Harrison Rumsey of the Consumei Advisory Board; and Clarence Dar- row, the lawyer recently named to @ review board supposed to look after the interests of small business—all of these and more will act as ad- 8, The line-up is similar for other groups, who will study, respectively, trade practices, control of produc- tion, code administration, and the effect of N.R.A. on small businesses and minorities. Physical arrangements indicate the Capitol will take on a kind of inauge uration bustle for the period of the conferences. One railroad reported it had 2,000 reservations for trans- portation to the “code conference,” the businessmen's meeting following the public meetings. The houging situavion is expected to become acuie; @ room-space committee has beeh set up, in one of Washington's acd mene Srobebity that the ere is every prol characterization of this series of conferences as “the first Fascist con- gress in the United States” may prove to be historically accurate. for | gether right to have a voice in shaping |stregnthen its dictatorship. Ah, but Obviously, with unemployment johnson to call industry to- to devise news ways to the public conferences beforehand, Regular elections of the union will| the effort to discover “exactly what take place tonight. At this meeting|the country thinks”? will voice thier right of trade union democracy. “Nothing shall stop the blockers i Statement of tes these aims,” said the provisional commit- SAM ROSS We Take A Bow mounting as it is and with another All Comrades Mert at the NEW HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA I haven’t had much of a chance to devote any time to this column since I had been assigned the duties of city editor. But that all was not going so well. Now 1 want to say that the sports column, which had no regular conductor for the past few weeks, will be firmly established again under the direction of Sam Ross. © Workers’ Delegates’ Comrade Ross came from Chicago, where he had worked on the sports’ column of the | Farmers Weekly and on the sports staff of two other papers, the Chi- |ecago Evening American and the Evanston News-Index. Aside from reporting and writing sports for these publications, he has been active in the competitive field | for the past eight years, where he had set quite a reputation for him- self as a swimmer, having establish- ed national interscholastic records while in high school, qualifying for the final Olympic trials in 1928. While at Northwestern University he was on the national intercollegiate championship team, placing in both the conference and national cham- pionships respectively. From now on, you will be hear- ing from Comrade Ross. All possi- ble help you can give him in the form of suggestions, in letters and in person will be appreciated. The Daily Worker wants this to be # column for the sports lovers, The co-operation of all sports clubs and particularly all Labor Sports Union organizations will be needed to make this column a success. Schedules of meets, notices of league games, standings, etc. will be Tun. Now, let's hear from youl Comradely, | SI GERSON, | ee eae i GERSON, working his head off at his new capacity of city edi- tor, had his say in this column be- fore letting it go completely. In reading over his little letter to the readers of this column, I can’t help from feelin gweak-kneed over the way he lauded me. Well, here I go off on my own. See you tomorrow! Brownsville Red Sparks Defeat Y.P.S.L. 29 to 16 NEW YORK.—The Red Spark A. C. basketball team defeated the Young Peovle’s Socialist League in @ nip and tuck game at Brownsville Labor Lyceum last Sunday, 29 to 16. After leading by two points at the half, the Y.P.S.L.'s overtook the lead and forged ahead before the third quarter ended, and during the final period, the Red Spark’s scored heavily to win the contest, Next week there is scheduled s game between the Brownsville DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pithin and Sutter Aves, Breokiyn PHONE: DICKENS 23-3018 Oltiee Hours; 8-18 AM. 1-9, @8 P.M. OPTOMETRISTSCOY (oP Tictans |i 1378 ST.NICHOLAS AVE® 1690 LEXINGTON AVE, ati79" ST.NY at 106th ST.MY, COHENS’S 17 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City Wholesale Opticians EYES EXAMINED By Dr. A.Weinstein Tel. ORchard 4-4520 ‘Optometrist factory om Premises GARMENT WORKERS WELCOME SHERIDAN VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT (Formerly Shildkrauts) 225 WEST 36th STREET Between 7th and 8th Avenues WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY 2790-2300 BRONX PARK EAST yhas reduced the rent, several good apartments available. Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. ‘Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1403 Direction: ‘exington Ave., White Plains Trains. Stop st Allerton Ave, station Office open daily from 9 am, to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to § pm, Sunday 10 a.m, to 2 p.m. PATRONIZE SEVERN’'S CAPETERIA 7th Avenue at 30th St. Best Food atWorkers Prices’ Young Communist League and the?” » ¥.P.S.L. at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum on Thursday, March 4, at 2 pm, ———~ omen