The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1934, Page 2

a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1934 Hear Hathaway on Austria at Irving Plaza Tomorrow Night “Will F ight It to End” Fie 1s Minor’s Answer to Gen. Johnson’s Offer from Page 1) gether” at points in a collog that lasted one hc a forty-five vainutes, “Make Some Connections” When Minor turned joviality, Johnson sugge: “Now, Mr. Minor, we try v points of view represented in the Ad- ministration of the N.R.A. You cer- tainly represent the extreme poittt of view. Now we don’t want anybody from having his say, and expressing his opinion of course, Thave-to have the last say, and I might be against your proposals. But Why can’t you have some connection with us here, so that you could put your proposals from the inside instead of standing outside and throwing brickbats?” “We cannot co-operate with the NR.A.,” Minor replied. fensive againstthe American work- ers and the masses of the povulation. Our duty is to fight it to the last ditch, as a devastating attack uvon the standards of living and welfare of the working class. We present our proposals publicly, as I am presenting our case here on behalf of the work- es. The masses are being deprived of their rights, starved and shot do ‘n! under the N.R.A. We take our place with the workers in an irreconcilable cenflict against this strike-breaking project’ which means only mis Starvation and war to the American masses, We present our claims and use every pressure to compel con- cessions. For instance, last night I presented the workers’ unemployment and social insurance bill, which repre- sents the most urgent needs of the | “direct relief as “It is an of-/ | | to keep j cent ‘plan will spread e Plan of Roosevelt Gives No Cash for Unemployed Relief (Continued fro to wages and needy. persons Explaining that million people who be on the C.W.A. only two million can Hef rolls and others were mere people who were out of work, Roos: velt informed the t his new be confined ba Forced Labor We want no dole, he said, adding | that it is desired to remove the home | or cash relief and substitute for it) work relief. The new Roosevelt program, an- nounced, in written form “with the plans for the tion of civil works thr scheme to deal with d fami- | lies in rural areas,” those compos: “stranded populations” of the “‘single- | industry communit: ny there to ci demo! is. no hope of employment,” and thirdly, “the unemployed in large y, | cities.” The Administration’s attitude to- ward the suffering unemployed is variation of Hoover's brutal individualism.” In out gram for the in the cities, Roosevelt ains that ner in the American workers insofar as they can | form of cash or relief in kind, is not be immiediately realized.” For Workers’-Farmers’ Government. Later Johnson asked Minor directly, “What are you trying to do?” terest of the working class and at the same*time we lead the working class @ workers’ government in America, which will b: about Socialism, the only possible form of planned econ- Ment, poverty and exploitation.” “Well, I'm sorry I have to go, Mr. Minor,”—Johnso: smile. versation.” /®arlier the doughty Johnson, pursu: ing his demagogy of “hearing all” against the N. thad said, “Now, Mr. Minor, you know ZT am for unemployment insurance.” “*¢-Well,” returned Minor, enjoyed the con- Tepresents ihe interests of masses.” Johnson attempted to switch off to the Waener-Lewis so-called unem- Ployment insurance bill and finally jasked, “Do you propose that we re- Peal the N.R.A.?” » “We are against the N.R.A. but _ Propesals to repeal are not our ap- “Well,” persisted Johnson. “Is it a good measure or a bad one?” “It is a good strike-breaking meas- | ‘the workers’ view-noint.” says Minor. ‘The Cat and the Fish “Well, why can't we get together?” Johnson repeated. “May I tell you a story, General?” “Yes, go ahead.” “Well, once there was a cat who had a conversation with a fish as to what would be the best Home. The cat said, ‘a nice pail of Tags in a warm place behind the Kitchen stove. The fish exclaimed, ‘that would be awful. The best kin: Of a home is in the bottom of a ni cool stream of water.’ which was right, the cat or t! “Well,” Johnson smiled, “each one ‘was right from his point of view.” “Well,” said Minor, “from of view as a represe! capitalist class en; _+to dismantle the famous American ice Standard of living and to conduct a! Savage offensive against the working wlass, the N. R. A. an: your pur- pose. irom the point of view mobilize the masses to fight back and defeat. this offe: Siliable confiict. Speaking on the control of produc- tion under the N R. A., Minor said that what the N. R. A. envisaged was “control by the biggest heads of mo-| nopoly capital. . aad . .. the crowding out of the - litite man and the use of monopol power of the biggest corporations for their own benefit against the Ameri- can masses.” Wages Shoved Down lowing how the N. R. A.’s “con- sy L of production” has decreased | Wages in proportion to production, _ Minor marshalled examples from » steel, cotton and several other in- 3 He quoted Johnson to him- on the N. R. As stimulation of € organization of industry for c¢ > lve action among the trade r: . .» but we have no such man- &S to labor Tustification of in- i of labor's organization under section 7A. ds concerned, General” — a mrno to appear in court which Or Was served for picketing with mg Brooklyn furniture worke: demanded the raising of all Wages “not only in’ proportion rising cost of living, but far that; a maxitnum seven-hour Fesults not in relief to the d industry, but for ec. > se! “We fight for every immediate in- | turn for BY x toward the overthrow of the capltal-| country or the unemp ist system and the establishment of | selyes @ system-of rel omy, and the abolition of unemploy- | gave up with a/ .. to the nth degree | “endorse | the workers’ bill, which is the only | ministered by Unemployment insurance bill that | tion of those r h Dp the | employment. relief ) Ure for the canitalist class against the | te _ Workers, but it is a bad measure from ti | | | kind of a} fa id) <ecurity they do n Now, General, | velt he fish?” | relief activi your point | homes; the provision of mative of the} stock for Gihes ; gaged in the effort pos of the working class, it is necessary to| ¢ e. It is an irrecon-| eventually to taking from 300,000 to | | -aecord with the Roosevelt pro- jm today, which experience has| program expresses 2 conviction oyed but in relief to local] ployed and in need of relief st PS and local big shots of pol- be giv in accord with | hood fi direct | rt | Program |are entitled to, and should receive, an adequate w needs of able-bodied wor! et: rvices in the foi abor in ire- mploym: benefits. The government has no intention nor desire to force either upon the ed them- whick repugnant to American ideals of in- | dividual self-reliance.” | To Eat Six Months a Year ies Roosevelt, individual monhts. not be | And therefore, conclud |“work will be given to | for a period not to | This is in order tha | considered, or utilized, |nent method of | during the | “the able-bodied w on their “Ameri | idual self-reliance, the Roosevelt plans This six months’ work “will be and under the di ble for the un- ctivities in in- that is, the are to live Is of’ i according to | dustrial communitie | industrialists. jemployers are handed | weapon to crush strik | Only in cases uch as the drought| | heavier responsibility than, the | contribution for , the Roosevelt spokesman replie in response to | questioning. | Uprooting 300,000 Despite the fact that poor and nant farmers throughout the coun- Ty are being ev from their | farms every day by the weight of | mortgages and the ploughing-under| of the Administration, | measure neither| nor gives them | he is paying sevelt’s cancels mortgag direct relief. Thou hundreds of ‘millio! farmers to destroy | iS rmers are to be helped to sustain, Place them “in a relation: the soil that will ip with | vide them a enjoy.” The farm declared 1, ¥ “completely. in rural are: ities,” includes “build- dequrte farm seed, and of m commercial pur- opportun: s to these ers to earn modest cash incomes through part time or seasonal em. ployment in small industrial enter- prises.” Roosevelt also told the correspond- nts, that the administration must dopt a means of relief that looks those in the inv or rebutl and 500,000 families, or about 2,000,000 people, “in stranded populations” off relief. Can Live On Hope their physical jority of “Subsistence the panacea planned for these workers. “These measures will be directed first at maintenance on small tracts of land and then at the development of supplemental in- dustrial opportunities to provide for a normal standard of living,” he de- clared, in the teeth of an increase in unemployment, for the fifth suc- | | cessive month, of nearly a million industrial workers during January and the continuing ploughing-un- der. program, “right around the corner,” not- ‘hstanding the ‘tremendous in- crease in unemployment. He stated: “The needy unemployed living in cities and towns and who, in the course of coming months, may reas- | onably look forward to regular jobs, | | insofar as possible, adequate assur- | ance of means to maintain them- Selves during the balance of the neriod of their enforced idleness.” However, this “adequate assurance”. shouldn’t exceed six months. The new plan ends with the for- la for “flexible” starvation. “This that Industrial workers who are unem- nm an opportunity for | the prosecution of a flexible 1 Of public works, Harry L. Hopkins, C.W.A. and Fed- Roose- | Roosevelt, obviously, sees prosper- | At the oy s and ment the leaders hand were promised ut back to work within two and that .a special commii e will handle the cases of dis- nation after the two weeks are not trusting understanding was the officials. Tomorrow the Daily Worker will Hotel Union, Workers that the made behind of the Unien, leade that y the gen-j > meeting where th thei acks, are being forced to submit to |the betrayal by terroristic tactics of | pubiish a special article by Wil- liam Albertson, secretary of the and Restaurant Lecal 119, Industrial will analyze the strike and ‘expose Workers Food which the role of Messrs. Field, Gitlow, Cannon, Coates and others, who are responsible for the betrayal. N. Y. Workers to Hail Liberation meet The enthusiasm at the plan erthu in, m utes °¥ | somewhat other towr i toda’ The headline at the top ofthe first gen of the Com-| page of “Pravda,” org e Soviet Union, nist Party Of Dimitroff any after later aS. ma fh bannets of th from Page 1 2 in Le The world event of the arriv: ff and his entral place in the entire Sov troff, Ponoff, Taneff From geons of Fascism. Ardent Bo! Greetings vist to Heroes ort sent strong dele- and music the landine o! ribable. nopulation The ‘Working Class Liberates Dimi- Dun- 'she- Who Transformed Leipzig Fascist Court Into Anti-Fascist | many liberation, nor were notified. When Dimitroff’s mother came to the prison today, bringing food for In, other words, the/her son, she was sent awe When finally with j they ; mediate! the ‘Tribune. | All Revolutionary Prisoners!” BERLIN, Feb. 28—Dimitroff, jand Popoff were sent out of with ther the Soviet had twice sent netes demar greatest Embassy, Dimitroff’s hewspapermen told | areas, will the Administration bear a/her the good news, she was ove>\-me| She and her daughter Moscow im-} Memos Nash a bare subsistence by attempting to | union men vember. “We members of the Auto Workers Union stand ready to fight with all vorces | Nash workers: for better conditions. from | Let us take this strike into our own hands. and elect a committee of the workers from the shop. mittee will handle all negotiations Tell the officials to step to one side, thet the Nash| workers ‘will run the strike.” Suggest Demands The following demands are si gested: 35 per cent increase in pa’ a minimum wage of 75 cents an hour; abolition of gang work; recognition of the department and shop com-)| no discrimination of any ities in the strike. | | | | wit | | mittees; the strike. the company. man for his activi The statement further say: | the strike is successfully completed then we can all vote which. union we | want to join, the majority shall rule.” The Trade Union Unity League peals to the Seaman body workers, Racine Nash workers to send del- ezations to Kenosha for solidarity in into the union.” torney Max against picketing. | | makers Ave. would noi work desti police Raskin ‘said: have no right to forcibly keep any person or vehicle from entering or leaving the grounds, sacrifice peace to a police record. If there are any infractions of the law, the police should make arrests.” and Raskin, interference Alteration Free- Ti dom for Thaelmann! Freedom for | out. | tion. Te. ding their mother | agor; simply another | being told to comeback in the after- Motor Men Vote - To Join Strike (Continued from Page 1) ‘Unite and strike together with the for the increase we were | nromised but did not get last No- This com- “Afte! “The rank and file must demand a broad strike committee,” they say, “and insist alk other crafts be taken ‘They ‘warn against, the dangers of the N.R.A, stepping in with its strikebreaking arbitrators and National Labor Board. A delegation of the Seaman body | strikers visited the Socialist City At- complaining with “The men and let's not LADIES TAILORS MEET TODAY NEW YORK.—To discuss the stand to be taken in the coming elections by the rank and file workers of Lo- cal 38 of the Ladies Tailors, Dress- Worker: Union, the Left Wing Group of the local have called a meeting to. be held at 5:30 pm. today,at the Im- perial Lyceum, 55th St and. Third eae | eral relief head, was correct when veli- | he said, last week, that the new plan | freely and. quickly, ‘Moscow united | e care of the .C.W.A.| Shanghai and Sophia. being demobilized. into to aid ug id Calls Off HOW RED CAPITAL GREETED The Hotel Strike NEW YORK.—Yesterda, eral strike of the hotel w called off by Mr. Fie! the Amalgamated called off at a si no vote was tak THE THREE (Continued from Page 1) youth began .o come through to us in prison by various channels,” says Dimitroff. “There was also a note from the underground Berlin Pion- eers, which seemed to us most suited to the moment, “The Len‘nist children wrote us: ‘Life is very difficuit for us, but there’s Moscow in the world’.” “Comrade Dimitroff, you are asked to make your last effort of today, In the reception room there are the correspondents of the world press. They ask you to say at least a few words.” ce Flowers from Lenin's Widow Flowers are brought in with notes from Krupskaya, widow of Lenin, and |from Maria Ulianov, Lenin's sister. In the reception room preparations are made for photographing. The reporters and the representatives of the telegraph agencies are ready with their notebooks. With an effort of will, Dimitroff| wipes the weariness from his face and again his voice rings out before the mouthpiece of the entire world, a Bolshevik'’s voice, a soldier of the Comintern, the voice of a citizen of the great Soviet Government, saved by the power of the international proletariat. Wave of Discontent port ners, wo is formed, carrying ban- Crowds Arrive The plane will arrive in 20 minutes, | perhaps “Wh | will Dimitroff, Popoff and from here?” y frowns.’ “They'll have somewhere to go to,” says. “But wait. Let them get hare first. Just let it be they who arrive. Until I see them | with my own eygs I/won't believe | We went outside to the snow- covered landing ground. ‘The silence, | | the unc tainty are felt by all. | hours earlier, hundreds of thousands | | of Moscow workers would have gath- jered here. Now it is already too late |to warn them. Too bad, what.a pity! | But* suddenly, from somewhere ‘to | the left, in the darkness, comes the sound of many voices in songs of | joy, mingled with an orchestral march tune. Oh, how we wanted music at |this moment! And it came. From where? These were workers from the | factories of the Krassnie Pressnie dis- trict, in the neighborhood of the air- | drome, miraculously finding out the jexciting news, literally in a few minutes they gathered by thousands | into columns, and marched here with | banners and bands. Plane Appears | Immense neon letters shine on the} cornice of the airport, radiating far into the black night: MOSCOW, writ- ten in three languages... They burn, ‘oning the aerial travellers, they te a réliable landing place on firm Soviet territory. From the haze the flashing, blind- ing gleams on the ends of the broad wi of the immense plane appear. | They disappear a moment as the ship circles to land, then again spread | low over the heads of the people, The roar of the motors’ gliding over the land. Q The e becomes’ unbear-| [fy N. A ¢ ‘od jable! What if this is a fascist joke | FAILS fi es after all? What if it isn’t they in . ee en (Continued from Page 1) template it, but I tell you it’s com- ing.” ‘ 7 Hewett's combination of ah admis- sion that the A. F. of L. is holding workers back from striking to win their needs and whining report that it is no Joriger working and cannot be expected to work was chazacteristic ef many other sneakers. Each one reflected bitter mass restlessness. But as the New York Herald Tribune re- ported today, Robert Minor, the Com- munist Party spokesman, and the Militant Trade Union representatives were the only ones who launched a “basic attack.” Nowhere in the six months of NRA proceedings here have I ever seen such a clear line-up—the Communist Party and the Left-wing’ ‘unions against, all others for NIRA, the pro- gram which McGrady, under fire, ad- mitted to be an instrument of in- justice to labor. Louis Waldman, speaking for the | Public Affairs Committee of the| Socialist Party, blandly declared to- day, “The NRA is advanced social leg- islation.” . His only plea, to the code- administration group mecting, was the A. F. of L. plea for more A. F. of L, members on code-enforcing. bodies. And, almost simultaneously, the futility of this “Labor representation” was being demonstrated in another | hearing by another A. F. of L, spokes- | man, J. W. Edelman, of the A. F. of L Hosiery Workers’ Union, was com- vlaining of the “utter impossibility” of “enforcing ‘collective barghining through a code authority which, he said, was “very deligent” in enforcing | injustices against employers, altho “We have two Jabor members on the code authority.” “Why can’t they do something?” k, into the cabin, even at the of falling under the propeller! ne eagerly strives to be the first to break through, to learn. who is in the flying ship. Dimitroff Steps Out Unschlight, chief. of Soviet. avia- tion, is first to open the door. Then to be the seeond—each one wants to | be the second tobe able to embrace, to press the lips to the cold cheeks} of a live person really saved from the Fascist hell. but smiling, Dimitroff steps “How are you?” Foolish ques- He is calm. He quietly. smiles answers with a simple gay cl the Moscow man- in noisy, joyful disorder, em- cries, a crush, the sound of the closing of ‘Automobile Then the lights of the city. | At last, the first conversation, in a Soviet room, surrounded by friends. What Happened in Berlin “We were awakened at dawn, com- nidrided to dress and gather our | things,” said Dimitroff. “But where |to—we did not know. We were put into an automobile, and rode to the airport. It was only there that we| McGrady asked inncesntly. Edelman were told we were going to Moscow. {Shrugged and explained, “they do “For ten months we didn’t see a|™ake scenes sometimes, They say they'll write a letter. written, but—it’s the of stalline skilful,” A Stream of Complaints And yet, in the five separate places where sevarate N. R. A. problems are under discussion, the vroeression: of | witnesses continues. White and Ne- ro. salesmen and homeowner, pretty, well-dressed professional = women workers, consumers, little business men—they were an ever-moving and still inerea-ing numher of bi‘ter com- plainers. Some of them propos-d, as remedies; ovtrivht further attacks unon Jabor standards. More of them were hone'essly confused, Prt ey-rv- one arreed oon the fact that the messes of Ameries, cannot and “will not continue in their present new desl state, They told about the intensifying of esnioneee arvainsi workers. They pitched the stimmation of cofmeany- mnfonicm mnder the N. R.A. They Jisted stritrehrooting ectivitiag af the emntovers and ihe government offi- Cials, THey ennke of enormans nrice innranges, Of the terrific effects of N. R.A. diffion: . Jowerine the stanserds of women and of Serthern and Neero workers first. and finally forcing down those of everv worker in the indvstry involved. Ther re- nor‘ed, with a dramatic simcity. thet pain and aeain evidentty stirred the audiences, a catalome of documentation of the Militant Work. t's chores that the N. R. A. “has Jowered our standards, has not in- creased nurehesine rower, has in- creesed tnemninym: Nelson HW. Nichols, tr. Negro attor- nav of Washinton. D. C.. describing himself as “one of the four-minute sneakers in fhe N. R. A. nronarenda comnaion, I made a lot of sneeches to Neern chrrches.” told of hetne promised a job in the Jeqal division of the N. R. A. and then of heing asked, to come for a personal inter- view. Onlv then. he said, the N. R. A. official learned that Nichols was # Newro. ‘The N. R. A. official told bim, “I didn't know you were a man of color. I can’t vive vou the job.” “I wrote to General Johnson, and here is his rep'y.” Nichols continued, whisking out a letter. Jobnson’s Jim Crow Letter “The General wrote me: ‘You know as well as I do that there are some things in which the races can be mixed, and some thines in which they can’t... . I realize there’s been an injustice here, but there's nothing I ean do...” “You're not fussy, are you? You'd The Jetter is general practice | | book or newspaper, excepting Fascist ones... They gave us the ‘Pravda’ |for a short while after our acquittal, ‘then they stopped it again. “Our health? I don’t know. It seems bad...» 7 Tall Blegoi Popoff and small, smil+ ing Vassil Taneff embrace their re- \latives. Dimitroff looks tenderly at his young comrades-in-arms ., . Three musketeers. “We know to whom we owe our freedom,” says Dimitroff. “If it were not for the Communist International, the international proletariat and cur | press, if it weren’t for the strength of the Soviet working class, we wouldn't |be alive here.” Praise Embarrasses Dimitroff Manuilsky interrupts him: “That's so, but don’t be modest, don’t diminish your own role. Your courageous ac- tion in court,-and that of your ccm- rades had an immense significance for the way the trial ended. You per- sonally showed the example of how a Bolshevik must behave before the fascist hangmen. This will be an example for many others. “Tt doit exaggerate if I say that from the prisoners’ dock at the Leip- zig trial your ringing out the Bol- |shevik truth brought many new mil- lion workers to the Communist In-} ternational.” Dimitroff is embarrassed. He who did not get confused by the threats jot the all-powerful ministers who could arbitrarily dispose of his head, was embarrassed by the praise of his comrades heer at home, in the quiet room in Moscow. Soviet Citizenship Changes Treatment He changes the conversation, tries to go over to other subjects. Taneff Says: “I have sat in savage prisons of backward Bulgaria. You can imagine the treatment there,, But honestly, | the ‘civilized’ German Fascists created @ Still more insolent and heartless at- mosphere. Mi “Only from the day we became So- viet citizens the treatment immedi- ately changed, and became quite po- lite.” Popoff relates: “Their doctors are | big swine, Dimitroff snd I became quite ill.. Som* sort of ‘doctor’ in uniform came and said ‘Show your jtongue. Gut, gut,’ and went away. |No results whatever. No medicine or |change of diet. Well, it’s all right now, we'll get better here.” Chinese Communist Greets Them Every minute someone else breaks into the room, having hurried here from some far corner of the city. .. Wan Min, of the Chinese Commu- r ‘s COMMUNIST HEROES ‘The audience burst into applause. 'Shinowner Admits Strike Forced BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 28.—Man- ager Goodwin of the Mystie Steamship Line admitted that the wage increase of $10 given by his company is a reSult of the ssike led by the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Goodwin, who met with the strike committee today, said, “The wage increaSes- and the present conditions on our ships are a re- sult of the strike and will stand.” He refused, however, to sign an | agreement with the union, stating that the men can return to work. The strike committee demands that the shipowners recognize the ship committees and sign an agreement with the union which will guarantee wage increases and no longshore work for seamen. Ships’ officers, mates and en- gineers, who so far haye not joined the strikers, are disgusted with the scab skeleton crews and are on the verge of sympathetic action with the men of lower ratings. The strike committee, headed by Jack Lambert, will submit the | attitude of the shinowners to the strikers at a meeting tonicht. To Discuss Settlement The Diamond Steamshiv Com- pany sent word to the strike com- mittee asking for a conference late today to take up the question of | a settlement agreement. The com- mittee will meet the company offi- cials today to discuss the agree- ment. It is now the 13th day of the strike. The morale of the strikers is higher than it has been at any time during the struggle. During the few days larve numbers of | seamen have joined the port local} of the Marine Workers Industrial | Union. } | Harlem Austrian Meet at Renaissance Tonight NEW YORK.—Robert Minor, for- mer can*idate for Mayor in the last munieipal elections, will be the main sveaker at a mass rally called by the Harlem Workers’. School on Thurs- Gay, March 1, “at 7:30 vm.. at the Renaissance Casino, 138'h St. and Seventh Ave. This relly marks’ the beginning @ campaign of the Harlem Work- School toward the establishment of a large reference library of revolution-| ary writings to be used by the work- | ers of Harlem and yicini creased enrollmen* in the schol has | made it necessary to build this, librery. Minor will’ speak"on “The Meaning of the Austrian sSituation and Sertts-| » In addition, Wiliana J. Bur. ‘NS. dir*etor of the Harlem Work- | ers’. School. will’ also ‘sveak and the Workers’ ‘aboretory Theatre will present. the play “Scottsboro.” teke a iob outsite of the lezal divi- sion,” McGrady in‘errunted, offering discriminotion to make un for ex- clusion of oppressed. minorities. “I've beén to school for 20. years and I don’t want to take a job sweep- ing.” Nichols returned, and walked from the platform. “If we get this kind of discrimina- tion at the forntain head of the ad- min‘s‘ration,” Nichols added, “what can Nevross exvect anywhere else?” of The disecntent of the rank and file of the A, F, of L. asainst its leader- shiv found an implied exnressfon, too. in the presence of Walter M. Cook. rerresentative of somewhere btween 100.990 and 290 400 workers in 106 Fed- | eral Unions of the A. F, of L. in 32) indurtries in 27 sta*es. Cook, who has been -condnetine a bitter fight | against the A. F. of L. bureaucracv’s | offensive against industrial mntonism even within itself, demanded hither minimum wages and shorter working hours. He asseried—a heresy in the light of other A. F. of L. spokesmen’s tes'irrony—that all. N. R. A. codes must be revise’ to provide an averace tuinimum of $30 a week. He de- clared, “The average minimum waves throuchout industry ‘under the N..R. A. is $15 a week now. Mr. Admin- istrator, that allows only the sup- port, on a starvation basis, of the food, clothes and shelter indus’ries. Until the workers get an average minimum of $30, you can not expect them to be able to buy and supvort industries beyond the barest sub- sistenee of food. clothes and shelter.” Women's Pay Differentials A grouv of reformis: “women’s or- ganizations” spokesmen berated the differentials against women workers which are typ‘cal in N. R. A. codes. In. 17 codes, they said, there is a mintmum for women lower than that set for men; the difference runs from 8 to 30 per cent, z Smell business men complained that the big boys domina*e code en- forcement and are pinching the little fellows on all sides. ‘The “employes” representative of the R.C.A. ‘Victor Comnany’at Camden, N. J., dedierad it is small business men who are the most ruthless in exvloitiny labor. “It was such con‘radictions, no doubt, that General Johnson. anti- cipated and hopes to use to cancel out the welter of charges against the ‘N. R. A. But one thing is certain, he will not be able to accomolish this, because the thread of N. R. A, op- pression of all excevt the top sec- tion 6f American capitalism runs, un- breakable, throuwh the testimony. Even strained through the interpre- ta’ion of “leaders” who blendlv as- sert that they are doing their utmost to bolster illusions end cower t>>'r rank and file following, the disillu- sionment—bitter. ~ desvairing. and often defiant—of the ponula’ion with the N. R. A. shows Anescapably clear. %. nist. Party enters. “Hello, Comrade Wan Min!” “Hello, dear,Comrade Dimitroff!” ‘The Bulgarian and the Chinese Bol- |, sheviks embrace. Both speak Russian Thursday, March 1 at 7:30 P.M. Workers Laboratory Theatre | Eugene Nigob 2nd + fetes from and German P om acqi workers ROBERT MINOR will speak on: “AUSTRIAN. SITUATION, AND SCOTTSBORO” ther éoliveal attractions Admiss fon 18c. Renaissance Casino 498th St, and 7th ‘Ave. will, present “Scottsboro” What Ho, Chicago! QR Midwest Bureau correspondent, Dan Davis, no sooner crashes into the Windy City, when he bangs off a little letter about the lack of labor sports out there. Here’s the ache. Dear Sports Editor: ; I might make a long story of it, but even though you'll give me the deference due a colleague, I'll stick to the first —_— rule of journalism—brevity. Here’s the grievance: It’s only a small town of three and one-half million, mostly” workers—and they make am- munition and meet here; Stewart- Warner, cartridge shells; Crane Company, cannon moulds, Armour, ~ Swift’s—and it’s commonly called Chicago. ‘There are also a few heavy indus- ‘tries centered around these parts like railrcads and mining and a few farms. The ache!—Once an L. S. U.-er, and always anxious to keep the shoulders from meeting, I discovered, to my dismay, that there ain't no Labor Sports Union ont here! It’s certainly no mystery to me why metropolitan and “proletarian” cen- ters like Lake Placid, Palm Beach and Beverly Hills haven't any bounc- ing L. S. U. ers, but a spit in the wind like Chicago ought to have at least one L, 8. U. affiliated basketball team, don’t you think? DAN DAVIS. Midwest Bureau, Daily Worker. Pe ee THIS kicked the dust up around my desk. When in Chicago, the L. |S. U. seemed to be going strong, un- der the hand of Bill Zaslowsky. But wenting to get into the heart of the matter, I looked up the nerve center of the organization comrade national secretary of the L. S. U, Dick Heik- |} kinen, Here’s his answer: EAR SAM: I will endeavor to answer the Jet- ter of Dan Davis of Chicato. I’m glad you have called this letter to my attention. The question of basic interest raised by Comrade Dan, with its crit‘cism, is well taken. We know that the L. S. U. is not in the fac- tory, the war industries, and stock yards of Chicavo as it should be | by this time; but, Comrade Dan evidently has been isolated from the spert loving revolutionists for some time if he does not know of any labor svorts activity in Chicazo. We can score at least a sbecer league, with, I think, 16 teams, and 2 few basketboll teams affiliated to the L. S, U. through the L. D. S, the Lithuanizn Youth Clubs. Sree te F Comrade Dan Davis ever does go to the Workers’ Book Store on 2019 West Division St., please ask for a comrade Friend of Nature, Bill Zas- Javeky, who is also the District Sec- retary of the L..S, U. in Minois. He will certainly-appreciate the aid and assistance of any comrade willing to build “he svorts activity of the L.S.U. into the industrial section of the workers, We feel sure that if the L. S. U. were introduced to the workers of the stock yards and factories, with its program of struggle for the sport needs of the workers and class dis- tinction, it would aid the movement. The Illinois District of the L. S. U. is running off an annual swimming meet in the South Side of Chicago on March 17, and most likely the workers of the industries mentioned in Dan's letter have some swimmers | Chicago. | Washington, which could be gotten to take part. How about it, Chicago? Get going to organize the L.S.U. into the shops, factories and stock yards. It’s-® task, a With sport greetings, R. HEIKKENEN, ae ND that’s the dope, Dan. I'd like to hear more news or com~ plaints about the L. S, U,’s absence: Not all necessarily from. cities like How about you sportsmen in Pitisburgh, Philadelphia, Bos‘on; Gary, Plentywood and Oshkosh? Get the typewriters running and the pencils sliding! Hathaway Will Speak Tomorrow for Benefit Nat'l Training School NEW YORK.—Clarence Hatha way, Editor of the Daily Worker, will speak at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, on Friday, March 2, at 8:30 p.m., under the auspices of the Workers’ School. All proceeds will go to the benefit of the National ‘Training School of- the Communis: Party, which is now in its eighth week. 1 In_ his subject, “Revolution Knocks at the Door of Europe,” Hathaway will deal with the pres- ent revolutionary events in Aus- tria, France and Spain, and the united front. 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