The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1934, Page 2

* Pae Two = March 4th Conterence To Unite Many CWA And Jobless Workers 600 C. W. A. Men Fired Including All Negroes in Office 4,000 Fired in Toledo; Closing Up Jobs u wok an -—— z ; Before May 1 rge orkers on NP! a C.W.A. Jobs to Elect NRA Hearings Open Delegates With Ballyhoo tice or exols When the dis: 2 a statem from Page 1) sent nater, their job represented at the Emer- in delegations oe DeL« ; the gency United Front Conference to be Administrator, ler ra - He ld Su rred, bu plan o! n continuation and ¢: at union wages for workers u gi v with revision of the it pay cuts; working as typi were amo. immediate adequate n relief to all Alihough beagle : u 1 Negr n his departm v y v rs; and for unem- “sae pegeas mse of workers have be ployment insurance at the ex the government and employers. Urge Large Representation Michael Davidoff Relief Workers Uni in w C.W.A. workers to represented at} ni the conference, said, “The LaGuardia administration, in recent statements has attempted to place all responsi- bility on Washington. At a meeting of the Board of Estmate Monday, Borecugh President Lyons proposed that C.W.A. work be staggered. When mfronted with the problem of com- plete shut-down of C.W.A. on May 1, Mayor LaGuardia said, ‘What is go- ing to happen May, I don’t know.’ Every effort must be made to make this conference the beginning of new struggies of the C.W.A., trade union, and unemployed workers for jobs, cash relief and unemployment urance. 1.W.O. Indorses Conference The International Workers Order yesterday urged all its membership to support the Emergency Conference by} y, head of t 0,000 C. fired last week yhere r May that “the purpc to make helpful comment one of the thing: projects going any NRA Assailed at Shoe Union Meet ar asure in Johnsor NEW YORK—At the la meeting of the slipper the Boot a Pri of having every I.W.O. branch repre-| for settlin: r disputes in c Union took the floor and vented by at le: legates, The | tion with e admini: tion.” r of the statement s “The City! Johnson wa heartily by was trying to defend the e 1.W.O. look an audi the mo‘ of the NRA Central Com t L mergency United Front upon the part, of en 100d, N.| Speakin: 5 minutes, Max La- Conference as an effective step to-| R.A. subordir into ac. a wards the unity of all unemployed./ tion 1i point in 40 . We endorse any attempt on the | most 1d Shoe had only or- part of the unemployed to organize | indu: 10ps in New York and D: and for the continuation of t did this by taking over strik- |, jobs, for unemployment insur- ‘ance and for relief.’ At a mee of the United Fror Committee, which called the Feb. 15} i tien of C.W.A. workers, Da- asser, Ed Welsh and other So- ovestoneites definitely ex- shops from the old Independent > delivered | recent | from “their” conference the Answering Tasaro's praise of the Unemployment Councils, the Relief N.R.A., Lateiner pointed out how the} Workers League, the Trade Union Harriman, banker, ialist | Wages of the workers were reduced through the textile code. He also} pointed to the strike-breaking ma-| neuyers of Mrs. Herrick, of the Re-/| mal Labor Board, in the recent tax! | and N.R.A, functionary. representing the bor board on John L.} Unity Council, and all other militant workers’ organizations. | At the same e. at a “unification of the Socialist and Lovestoneite led groups of the unemployed, such re-| formist tactics as a “suit agai city” are put forward as plans ¢ h G t Reece the tocmpioyen. are Zech GOVErMMeNt tempting to divert the militant tions of the workers into safe chan-| hi nels ‘of legal action, and trust the} Welfare of the jobless to the tender Mercy of the capitalist courts. Every cere Socialist worker Should protest the exclusion of the} militant workers’ organizations for| the “Socialist” conference, and de- mand that the Unemployed Council, T.U.UL. and Relief Workers League be invited. Masses Troops on. Austrian Border Other New D | ward McGrad: ent Furriers of Labor, Mary millionaire head o' Board, Clarenc: yer and little busin and Robert Lund, o Manufacturers’ Association. Ballyhoo for President in piously conding Johnson, reit r’s remark that the N.R.A.-is an (Continued from Page 1) | rian and Ge frontiers, ¥ > Italian troops which were massed the Austrian border during the war on the Austrian workers are still | there, ready to pour over the frontier | 2t command. The governments of Czechoslovakia, | Rumania and Jugoslavia have de- clared they would consider the res: Jerome to Speak on Austria and United DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDA GUTTERS OF NEW YORK BOMBING PRACTICE | addition to those previously closed 2600 schools were shiit down | for purposes of ‘economy’ on Jan. ist slated to close by April—News Item. ‘Kelly, ls Peasant Approves ‘Of Daily Worker’s New Press Will Issue Red Press Certificate at Banquet to Be Held Sunday, March 4th ¥, FEBRUARY 26, 1934 EL ———————_—— By DI TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE FOR HATHAWAY-DENNIS DEBATE | NEW YORK.—The announcement which was made Monday night at the Central Opera House meeting | tween Clarence Hathaway and Law- | | rence Dennis on “Communism vs. | Fascism” were all sold out was not quite correct. Tickets are going fast, | but the 8c and $1.10 tickets can still be gotten at the places advertised. ‘Seamen Make Police Chief Promise To (Continued from Page 1) the police by raising the cry that the “reds” are the cause of all the | trouble. The seamen, however, know | where the trouble comes from—from | they know that the only political {in the Marine Workers Industrial | nist Party and the Young Gom- munist League. | All the “red scare” talk by cops, | of L, has been given the horse laugh | by the strikers, “We know Roy Hudson, the lead- | er of the union, is a Communist | and that’s all the greater reason why we trust him,” declared an old coal boat sailor, oe TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND are forefront of the struggles of the sea- men in this port is a unit of 19 members of the Young Communist League, which is concentrating its work on the steamship lines and is- | suing a regular | the young seamen. Eight of these young Communists are leaders of the work of the Port Ofganization Committee of the Mar- ine Workers Industrial Union. Old seamen have accepted wholeheart- edly the leadership that these young workers: are giving them in the struggle against the shipowners. NEW YORK.—'That’s what I call preity.” This was the admiring com-| ment yesterday of I, Kelinson—j| “Kelly” to the press-room, where the | ” is foreman, | t was the new printing press he| sp ng of, as through its huge | m a giant roll of paper was| ed under his direction, for arations for the starting of | the new press. Kelly made no bones about saying the new press was “100 per cent bet- | ter” than the old press, and that buy- me being ai fi | ing it was undoubtedly “a good thing.” | Kelly ought to know. He has been | around newspapers ever since he has | been working. And that has been| since 1908. He has worked with every | type of press. It was Kelly, who| a few months ago barely escaped se- | rious injury when a gear of the old press stripped and hurled pieces of | steel in his direction. | “There’s no danger of that Dow, explained Kelly,.and-he pointed | the safeguards that cover all gears on the new press. Kelly expanded on the improve-| ments of the new press. “Now this| metal band. We can change plates} impressions of the newspaper page) | King it on or off, in five minutes. | On the old machine we had to work | with three clips—it took from fifteen | minutes to three quarters of an OU | Then this fountain roller, With the| other press, if we changed from aj four page paper to an eight-page pa-| per, we always had to change the en-| Worker is printed, and where | pretty “One thing about this union,” said an old sailor, “is that they have young guys as delegates and not old fogies.” ‘The young seamen have expressed their willingness to fight, as was Seen recently aboard the S. 8, Mun- tropic where officers and profes- sional strikebreakers attacked them with lengths of piping. The officers got the worst of the fight. The sea- | men, most of them very young, went ashore with busted heads but tri- umphant and determined to carry on the fight to build up a mass reyolu- tionary Marine Workers Industrial | Union. | To educate the young seamen in the tactics and strategy of the class struggle the Y.C.L. unit is setting up @ school on the waterfront. way smoothly around and under the rollers, finishing up at the other end, neatly folded, evenly printed news- paper: “Now—that's what I call » Who spoke of the increased Kelly VOLUNTEERS WANTED || to act as waiters, waitresses and |] ushers at our PRESS BANQUET | SUNDAY, MARCH 4th, at New | Star Casino, Please apply all week || at Daily Worker Store, 35 E. 12th |] St, City. | __———$—$ $$ FORD TO SPEAK ON NEGRO QUESTION James Ford will speak on “Leninism and the Negro Question” tonight, 8 p.m., at Monroe Court Community Room, 47th’ st, | near Foster Ave., Queens. pide: tay OFFICE WORKERS OF CHICAGO PARTY CHICAGO, Il,—The Office Workers Union of Chicago has arranged a house party for Sunday, March 4, at 7 p.m, at 1938 8. Sist Ave, I. KELINSON i “Kelly” of the Daily Worker Press Room speed of the printing press, spoke with a workman's pride in a gcod job. But | CLASSIFIED | that all tickets for the debate be-| | Stop Brutality | the shipowners and the police—and | | Union are members of the Commu-|} | shipowners and leaders of the A. F.) | BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 27.—In the | Y.C.L, bulletin for| €PO | | a SAM ROSS HE “i Little Napoleon Passes On OHN J. MeGRAW, baseball's “little Napoleon,” died Monda),* : _and with him went the stoppage of haggling holdouts, the * | boisterous praises of his past, the excuses for his hotheaded- ness and the praise that usually or lavish sportsman, | count, guys whom Judge Landis | jcalled, “a rugged individualist, | | far removed from the com- and a general all-around good-time | Charley, he was dubbed Sportsman. | As © severe, harsh, driving manager! j of the New York Giants, he was j known as a slavedriver; but was ex- | cused because, after all, he was Little | | Napoleon. | Wee Seca HE inaugurated big money and effi-! ciency in baseball, Starting from | | butcher boy on a train to getting one | buck for pitching a curved ball to the! glories of batting .200 and being one | of the best third basemen in his day, | |he rose to the managership of the| much depressed New York Giants in} 1902. Then he began his game. | | He fired ruthlessty, spent huge | Sums of money for players. Cost | meant nothing to him. What was | another hundred grand for a player | | if he had the drawing attraction for _ | three times that amount? Cham- | | pionships meant big dough. So he built up a team of champions. He | inaugurated the exvensive idea of travelling on special trains, of stop- ping at the most expensive hotels. He brought the game out of the | Bowery into the glittering old Wal- | dorf-Astoria, Nobody bothered him, Attendance | rose. We sat in the bleachers. Politi- | clans, stock exchange members, sat in | the grandstand. Presidents threw the | ball out at opening games. Hoover | Sent him a telegram in 1928 telling him he is officially recognized as be- | ing of service to American ideals. He | continued to buy and sell baseball | players. The corporation let him have | full sway. Athletes were puppets to |bring in crowds. John J, M?Graw | became “Litile Napoleon.” | De et little round man with his twin- Kling Santa Claus eye was getting | around $60,000 a year besides the profits that fell into his hands at the! end of the season. In 1919, he became associated with the business end of | baseball, becoming part owner of the} j club, aside from manager. Then he | | became a big shot. Everybody had to| call him Mister. The Absolute Mon- arch of the diamond waged a 30- years’ war against the small fry, Baseball was big business and Jawn. was the prime speculator. Pennants were his goal. That gave him the chance to make millions, He inyested in Florida real estate and the stock market. He lost a fortune there when the crash came. But the booze was getting him, He became a strict disciplinarian. No- Tompkins Square 6-913? Caucasian Restaurant Everybody began to mourn for him. | men, financial wizards, judges, | booze fighter in New York, | and champions didn’t mix—finan- follows any big financial figure Politicians, sports- presidents — the boys who He was one of these ¢ r body could drink or break training rules in his domain—except Lor” Jawn. In fact, Hornsby ran int troubie with him on that account, # | party supporting and giving leader- | Momplace.” As a boozer, race track} @lso liked his champagne and three’ | thiote oe trike a We Communist | hound, lavish spender, business man| Star Hennessey. So Hornsby got the | Party. The best fighters and ee royal bounce. wees propaganda for the repeal of prohibition was at its high- est,. McGraw rolled his little belly around and became the biggest Booze cially. But the little round man didn’t fool anybody. He was known all over the Havana and Florida race tracks as a gambler and booze hound. But in 1932, after having a few poor seasons, the “boys” at the head of the New York Giants baseball club, saw attendance dropping at the stadiums The merry twinkle was beginning to fade. In fact, he was forced to resign. Then he dropped out of the picture completely until he got laid up in the hospital where, what the sports writ- ers are proud of *alling the Grim Um- pire, began to count him out. By the time the Ump waved his long finger, all the priests at his bedside and all the kinz’s horses couldn't pull him to. gether again. The uremia fadeaway got him, Cleveland L. 8. U. Calls Re-Organization Meeting bor Sports Union is calling a con~ ference of all organizations, clubs, leagues who are affiliated or inter- ested in the L. 8, U. for Sunday, March 11, 10 a. m., at the Hun- garian Workers Home, 11123 Buck~- eye Road. The purpose of the conference | will be to reorganize the L. 8, U., to set up an L. 8. U. council and to elect a District Board and a District Secretary. They will also map out a definflite program for building up baseball leagues for this summer. KRAUS & SONS, Ine.: Manufacturers of Badges - Banners - Buttons For Workers Clubs and Organizations (57 DELANCSY STREET, N.Y.C. ‘Telephone; Drydock 4-8275-8276 = STATIONERY and “WMEOGRAPH SUPPLIES At Special Prices for Organizations Lerman Bros., Inc. | ". KAVKAZ"” Fr at NTWIU all “attempt... to make d the | ; #5 & E .|tire roller which was a long, tough/to the revolutionary movement, the| GomFORTABLE room for man. All im- aha U Hall rights of labor,” er d the ahiniy | onan ot tae pea per et | Job. Now all we do is turn this little | press means even more—organization | provements. Cell all week after 1 p.m, ‘inka 0s Adu ka Phone ALgonquin 4-3356 — 8843 ee ciled demand for only “constructive| ‘ote a cause of war. | knob. “And Kelly showed’ the knob.”| in the distribution of the “Daily,” ped dncatesdt Aste dad ae | BANQUETS AND PARTIES |] 29 East 14th St. N.Y.C. ae criticism,” called on labor to “stand Feverish marches, counter-marches,| Kelly went on to show the appa- promptness in delivery, a cleaner and| pURNISHED 2 and 3 rooms. Also singles.|| s32 East Mth Street New York City if urgent calls from workers in the || behind the President the Ad- d negotiations are going on all |*#tus which can print a 16 page tab-| better printed paper—in short a tech-| ll improvements; 347 B. 14th St, needle trades for clarification of || ministrator of the N.R.A. in the fur- around Austria. Prince Ernst von | oid, and insert it in the regular eight-/ nical addition of the fitst necessity to the issues involved in the Austrian workers’ struggles, V. J. Jerome, | ther execution of this great economic | Page paper, which it also prints si-|our “Daily” and the revolutionary . |problém,” frankly announced that Starhemberg, leader of the Hei | . . ‘ ‘been offering its complete line of | sides to a question and sometimes | Oftive Hours: 2-19 AM. 1-8, @8 PM. [! 7 , ‘| 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST Combination Offer q i sults, iNezconts and topcoats at $18.15, | three or four.” Spesking as the phi- | | Section No. 9. HT Side eae eee ; the lowest prevailing price | iosophic oracle of the New Deal, Rich- | -| i 9299 nt, several | * 1 for clothing of this qualit, berg revealed that “an economic revo- | | Mah Senemeniat ae good apartments available, | CAPITAL IN PICTURES... .. ~ $3.00 i "According to Joseph Levy, presi- | lution is in progress but that is quite | W. Chicago Ave. | A Year's Sub to the “Daily”............ 6.00 : dent of Crawford Clothes, Inc., even | different from saying that a political | . , q Cultural Activities for Adults, pre: © © the new price of $21 1s’ below the | revolution is in progress.” | Section No. 3, oe AOE Ae Communist writer, well known for his brilliant and devastating criti- cam of Sidney Hook and other { i EW YORK —In response to | Patronize Daily Worker eet Crawford Announces Price Increase “there is no intention on the part of | labor (A. F. of L.) to abandon the protected.” His amen to Johnson's guiding speech wa of this will come a enewed deter mination that we're going through | 1 with our program and tt termined to win.” All this from Green despite his own | recent announcement that, for the at we're de- | fifth successive month, “industrial un-|in Vienna last night, Chancellor Doll- | employment increased again in Janu- | (921,000) ard that “workers are ly losing by price increases.” Richberg supplied the flowery dem- “I hope that out | wehr, has been in active negotiation with the German Nazis, while agents | of Mussolini have for some time been | At that time Habicht has} ed to launch his greatest drive | ive Austria for the Nazis. The | of his authority over the} Austrian Nazis is shown by the fact that they have kent the truce he promised from Munich. At a mass meeting of monarchists fuss, Prince von Starhemberg, and the imperial Hapsburg family were cheered. Dollfuss sent a message of | encouragement to the meeting. i multaneously, “Then for us fellows down here in| the press room, this press is easier to “What'll it mean to the paper? | Well, these rubber rollers will keep the sheet clean. The old corrugated rollers used to accumulate dirt. It will be a clean printing job, and a readable one. It should have been done long ago. “Now,” said Kelly, viewing the un- printed white paper as it wound its Philadelphia movement, ‘Will your organization be without a Red Press Certificate at the end of | day! Elect your delegates to the Red Press Banquet, which takes p!ace this Sunday night, March 4,7 p.m. at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. | Send your $1 for a reservation to the | banquet, to Press Committee, P. O. Box 136, Station D, New York City, at vnce. Send your donation with your delegate! Strong suvport for our rey- olutionary press! Make the Banquet a Vittory Banquet! The Management of the Daily Worker is glad to announce that by special arrangement it is able to offer as a PREMIUM and PRIZE in the Daily Worker Circulation Drive the ycar’s out- standing book... {policy we are now pursuing,” called ‘iscussions | Work on. We don’t have to climb on Tenegades and revisionists, will || for an “intensification of the spread- Hung: Me sah Aan eee | top of it if we run a larger paper. It | Rus One ate ae Speak at the auditorium of the |/the-work plan,” the amount of work ments, jis a cleaner machine with drip pans, | your organization has not yet donated | Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial |} 9 Sle must be divided | Meanwhile, the eight-day truce of-|etc., to catch the ink, and we can| tne $5 or more to the press fund that Union, 131 W. 28th St., today at || among all willing to work,” and in-|-ered the Dollfuss government by| Work right in hetween parts of the| will assure this press being kept for e 2pm. | toned that “the return on the invest-|'Theodor Habicht, Hitler's “inspector | Press and with these safezuards stand | the revolutionary movement, act to- }ment to the business man must be! “or Austria” expires at noon Wed-|no chance of being hurt. | 4q KARL MARX “CAPITAL” IN PICTURES ees agogy. “We cannot expect the ad-| Elght thousand Heimwehr troops|) M C VI wh ae All ‘G arments Now vocates of special or particular in-| oe ie hd if mere pobuas te _ pide 5 ets. s i al,” id, ridi-| Vienna last night. A large crowd | e, ; . oer) es 2 oe $18.75. Priced $21 | quonieswrtoerte ten eee Garis Out th wentehe Takats eee the World” and “Bread” Sixty pages of original text. Another sixty pages devoted to original, Oe BR eh is “impartial.” Even the conservative |0 cheers. The fascist troops with || March 4th, 7:30 P. M. COHENS’S creative LITHOGRAPHS drawn by the internationally known proletarian On March 10th reporters laughed at him. Warning|their bands marched through an im- | 1208 ‘TASKER STREET 117 ORCHARD STREET artist zt those who thought they were invited |Pressive, ominous silence from the | < as Nr. Delancey Street, New York City The special sale of men’s clothing | to criticize the specific codes, Rich- | Crowds on the streets ‘roceeds - “Daily Worker” Which Crawford Clothes, Inc., started | beg declared that “the hearings | Sarees } spices, Section 2 EYES EXAMINED Wholesale Opticians HUGO GELLERT fast December will be discontinued | are for the purpose of discussing | By Dr. A.Welnstein Tel. ORchard 4-4620 @nd the price of all garments will be imereased to $21 on March 10th. This Organization, one of the largest men’: clothing chains with stores in Man. hattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Philadel- phia, Jersey City and Boston, has | normal retail price for garments of this price. It is said that this or- With the advent of the new price of $21, Crawford Clothes, Inc., will offer A are said to e and build of customer. (Ady.) dean industry has shown in the past.” principles rather than the individual rovisions in the separate codes.” He also uttered the refrain of the| demagogue par excellence: “It would | be most helpful of witnesses to bear DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin snd Sutter Aves., Brocktyn in mind that there are usually two Denying the brutal attacks of the N.R.A. on the standard of living, the the industry,” was quick to acknowl- edge the brotherhood of the big in- dustrialists with the N.R.A., ‘“Indus- try has cooperated with General Johnson in a most remarkable w since the passage of the N.R.A. these decisions that Amer- | PRONE: DICKENS 2-301 | ALgonquin 4-4432 Cor. 1ith Bt, Belentifie Treatment of Foot Ailments Allerton Avenue Comrades! 691 ALLERTON AVE. 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