The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1934, Page 2

» WwW A DALLY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1934 Workers Hold Mass Conference, 700 at CWA |Mother. Child Dena is News East Conference Side Fire; Deaths Now Total 15 Fire Danger Continues T Plan Action On F 1T 11S Tenement Owners To Institute the Local Threaten to Eviet Str les for Cash ag oe Relief and Jobs 670,000 Families HIT SEGREGATION |Threat Follows Fusion | Demagogic Maneuver Demand Enactment of és Hekate Laws Workers Unemployment | Insurance Bill A threat to evict Ss families was Joseph Gold- the council of delegates, representing every C.W.A./ the Real Estate Association of project in New York Ci‘y, together) Greater New York, in a press inter- with those from T. U. U. L., indepen-/ view at the Hotel Bolivar, 230 Cen- dent and A. F. of L. trade unions and) tral Park West. from unemployed groups and unor-| The threat was made in answer to Sanized jobless workers in flop houses | the rumors that the Fusion adminis- and in the neighborhoods, met at Ir-| tration might demand the renovation ying Plaza yesterday, to formulate a/ of oid fire-trap tenements in which coneerted plan of action against C.W.| 15 people have been burned to death A. firings. | in the past two weeks. The con- The conference was called by the | Struction of these tenements violates Unemployment Councils and the Re-| the Multiple ecm tng which lief Workers League of Greater New| neither the previous Tammany nor York, In sounding the keynote of the | the present Fusion administration conference, Richard Sullivan, sean nary pray aie PUES Pee t Jnemployment Councils, “ssi Sal pouce ont it is admitted | Goldsmith declared, “puts through by the C.W.A. officials, both in New | Such @ drastic order, the tenement York and in Woshington, that because | owners will waik out on him and yg | #bandon the properties, and 670,000 of the organization that exists among | ‘amili wilt he met Sia 5 al the C. W. A. workers in the large in-| Poca ith Bacgiee ie a oe st commercial aneres | financially anatle to tomore all these -workers will be the last to be| ‘20 Violations, which would cost an fired. Instead of the wholesale firings | "1 "Or $3,000 foe cheey oad? that workers in the rural districts are ist Beal’ Malate “Association Tigh faced with, we in New York are being | resents 50,000 teneemnt house own- fired piecemeal. Slanderous attacks) yi ‘control 67,000 tenements are made upon the C. W. A. workers | " NEW YORK: 670,000 working made yesterday by NEW YORK.—Between 600 and 700| smith, president of here. We are called loafers; it has| pce alps! Present hows” $70,000 been gaid that we will not work. This| ‘lies. as been is the preparation for the mass lay- Offs that ihe Roosevelt government | hhas in store for us. | “Instead of the wholesale firings, | ©. W. A. workers here are fired daily, im small numbers, on every project, on | brought to a head by the dema- gogic maneuver of the Fusion administration, to declare an end to the moratorium on tenement improvements, enacted in 1929 for the benefit of New York's real es- the slightest pretext. We do not value these. C. W A. jobs as such—they are the results of cur struggles for We have won. them by the continuous fights that we have.waged for jobs; and as concessions wrung from the Roosevelt government, we will not lose them ‘without a fight.” | Michael Davidow, president of the) Relief Workers League, urged every) worker present at the conference to go back to his C.W.A. job, organize | local struggles on the job, and force | 15th Anniversary the federal, state and city govern- | scsortace so"ain"erete| Of Comintern Is frig pay, or immediate cash si | Hailed in USSR. al to the wages received. Dayvidow said, “This conference {s/| not called for the purpose of passing | resolutions. Everyone here must be am organizer. Organize committees of | action on the job. Go to see Mayor| La Guardia; force him and the city | administration to acknowledge their | espousibility for the unemployed and 4 , A. workers. For ee = fired, organize struggles i | ‘outside the Home Relief Bureaus. | Force the relief officials to grant im-| _ mediate cash relief equal to the wage | " Peceived to all who are fired.” | Program of Action | ‘The program adopted by the workers | at the conference, in the struggle against C. W. A. lay-offs and for cash | relief and unemployment insurance | ealls for: the immediate organization | * of committees of action on all C. W.| A. projects for protest demonstrations; | mass picketing of all C.W.A. projects | ffs or wage cuts are in effect; the organization of all C. W. A. and unemployed workers in joint Struggle at the relief bureaus; the) orgenization through the trade unions of all skilied workers on an industrial basis for the continuance of C. W. A.) and for cash relief and extension of | C. W. A.; to initiate a state-wide | movement for state unemployment tmsurance modeled after the workers | Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7898), pending the federal enactment of tinis bill; and to call a conference within two weeks to measure the ac- eomplishr:.cnts of the conference and to plan e Work. ‘The conference unanimously en- dorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) now in the House Commitiee on Labor, and pro- posed to take back to the jobs and to the various unemployed groups present posal f Seated ge gre gaa ularly in Germany, But neither ty| Fascism nor its faithful dogs, the On Oe ee eet tot wort’ | Social-Democratic leaders and the Je conference unanimously | Second International, can succeed in halting the victory of International cipating organizations in joint local fw on C. W. A. jobs against lay-| and wage cuts, and in lon be SY for adequate c: relief. a ‘This program will be carried out for Blechman Strike wo weeks. At the end of this time, — conference will reconvene to plan) NEW YORK.—Re-trial for an in- | Junction against picketing of Blech- | man workers who are now on strike nine weeks, will come up this morn~ ing at Special Sessions, part 3, Franklin and Centre Sts. Previous injunction by thé bosses was denied. Several days ago Blechman offered @ week's wages to the workers if they would give up the strike, saying that there was no work for them at the present time. No cne accepted. He had hired 53 scabs, who are now working. Workers are asked to pack the court today, tate owners. All that the lifting of this moratorium would entail is the construction of fireproof stairs in the tenement buildings. The real estate men will confer with LaGuardia and the Board of Aldermen in City Hall at 12:15 today. (Continued from Page 1) ably more clearness and depth that only in a Soviet country can they find a real home and their own country. The powerful Soviet gov- ernment and its tremendous vic- tories, the country which has ful- filed the enormous tasks of the First Five Year Plan, and is vic- toriousiy carrying out the tasks of the Second, is the present aspect of the ‘Latin’ which at the time of the First Congress could be under- stood but not visibly assimiliated.” ‘Latin’ is now being assimilated with an extremely rapid tempo by the proletariat and toilers of the world, unchecked by the brutal terrorism and savage repression of the bour- geoisie striving to keep the exploited Masses in chains, Pravda states: “The latest events in Austria, France, Spain, Poland, and China, and wherever class war is rife, show that the proletarian and toiling masses are beginning to understand more and more openly that there is only one way out to break the chains and overthrow the rule of the bourgeoisie in whatever form it takes, and to establish the proletarian dictater- ship and a Soviet regime!” The Pravda perticularly stresses the base, treacherous role of Social- Democracy, which shows with ex- ceptional vividness on the back- ground of the class battles of the jast fifteen years waged by the rev- olutionary proletariat. It states: “Social-Democracy did all in its power to facilitate the victory of Fascism in various countries, partic- | Injunction Trial in e conference also took decisive ‘Sgrinst the discrimination of on ©. W, A. and relief. The present at the conference unified struggle with the ie es of Harlem, 85 per cent are unemployed, and 40 per f whom receive no relief in any ‘The conference in petitions to ‘and the C. W. A, city ad- demanded an end to the : which exists on prac- every ©. W. A. job, citing fically the Children’s Aid Society West 63rd St., where the bership represented by these groups number 63,801 workers more, Together with these, many dele- | gates from flop houses, neighborhood clubs, and unorganized jobless work- ets are present. Other delegates repre- sent churches, fraternal organiza- tions, etc, One of the high points of the con- ference was when the delegate from the Alteration Plumbers, Steamfit- ters and Iron Workers Union proposed that telegrams from this conference be sent to Roosevelt and to every governmental official in Alabama demanding the unconditional release of the nine Scottsboro boys, the delegates present is avail- The 109 delegates from trade yns represent 31 T.U.U.L,, 13 A. F. and iM independent unions. In on, 1 C.W.A. and Unemployed 155 delegates represent 42 rkers League, locals of C.W.A. unions, 20 Councils and 37 block 6 committees. The mem- | p Farther pointing out that this| ‘o Threaten Thousands oi milies as City Delays Action md By EDWIN ROLFE NEW YORK—TIwo more lives—| making total of 15 lost within the | Past two weeks in New York City- were sacrificed Saturday concerned only with the equally criminal ne t city administration, which has done nothing so far to raze New York's slum tenements and provide adequate and cheap housing for working-class families. The two—Mrs. Margaret Callas. 36. and her youngest son, John, three} years old—were burned to de: when flames destroyed their 1 | floor flat at 1108 Second Ave., on| the upper East Side, between 58th Jand 59th Sts. Two previous tene- | ment fires in the last two weeks had | | claimed the lives of eight adults and | |children at 40 E. Seventh St. and| | five others at 169 Carroll St., Brook- | lyn. | Three other children of the Callas} | family were rescued only because two | |men, passing by the old building, heard their cries for help. August} Calles, 11; James, 10, and George, 7, were alinost suffocated when their chance rescuers dragged them from the burning building, long before fire | engines arrived on the scene. A family living on the floor above |the Callases escaped the horrible | death of the Callas mother and child “hen Joseph Nicholas was arcnsed from sleep by the smoke. He hur- riedly awakened his wife and four) small children, ranging in ages from | two to eight, and escaped via the | roof to the next building. There were |no fire escapes on the burning build- | ing. | When @ committee of workers and children spoke to Tenement Com- missioner Langdon W. Post in City Hall shortly after the East Seventh St. fire, Post mockingly smiled when they demanded immediate action. The workers’ and children’s delega- tion demanded the immediate re- moval of all workers’ families from condemned fire-trap tenements to modern, safe apartments (thousands of which are vacant) without any in- jerease in rent. Post, evidently amused by the “naive” insistence of | the delegation of the necessity of Im- | mediate action, and by their equally- “naive” fear for the continued safety of human lives, insisted that nothing could be done “overnight.” He evi- | dently had already forgot his own | words in a speech made a few days before: | “In those houses . . . there is | practically nothing we can do to | Prevent a recurrence unless we do | something instant, courageous and | complete.” Many of “those houses” which | Post mentioned were condemned be- fore 1900! And workers’ families, | unable to afford exorbitant rentals |demanded in modern apartment | houses, still live in these buildings. | What is delaying Commissioner | Post's “instant. courageous and com- | plete” acticn? Seven more lives | have been lost since he made this grand rhetorical gesture. Death by flames threatens countless othe: \Is Commissioner Post (and the Fu |sion administration which he repre- |sents) afraid of offending the big owners of East Side real estate, who | would lose millions of dollars if these | fire-trap slum tenements were razed? Is his courage not equal to the task of demanding lower rentals in mod- ern apartments, to which working- class families demand to be moved? ‘Only in such a way could “some- | thing instant, courageous and com- | plete” be achieved. Eyery action of the present city government is proving to the workers |of New York City the utterly dema- | gogic character of the Fusion admin- listration: the fact that, while its| | words have promised, and continue | to promise much, its deeds in no way | | differ from those of its Tammany | predecessors. Both are controlled like puppets by the Wall Street banks, | whose dollars mean more to New; | York's Mayor and his associates than | do the lives of thousands of working- | class families. Laundry Drivers Move To Oust Racketeer NEW YORK.—Laundry drivers of Local 810 demanded at their regular meeting Wednesday night that Busi- | ness Agent Rosenzweig, who was in- dicated for graft, be suspended from the union until after the trial is over. A motion to elect a rank and file committee to investigate the case of Rosenzweig and to oust him from the union was shelved by union officials. In fact, before Rosenzweig was called to court union leaders lied to the workers, telling them that he was sick, while in reality he was in hid- ding. A vote was taken at the meeting to strike the Independent Great Laundry if the boss does not settle with the union. | Writers Demonstrate This Morning at C.W.A. NEW YORK.—All writers, employed and are being called this morning at 9 a.m. to a writers’ demon- stration at the New York C. W. A. Writers will meet at the southwest corner of Washington Square, Mac- dougal and Fourth streets, at 9 a.m., hold an open-air meeting for one hour and march to the Port of Authority Terminal Building at 15th Street and 8th Avenue, where the writers’ com- mittee will present the demands of the Unemployed Writers Association to Colonel Walter A, Delamater, and to Miss Gosselin, formerly of O. W. |S. who also promised to be present. | At 1:30 a large delegation from the | writers group will join the mass | demonstration of the Lower West Side ° c Z| ch i] aw me = Zz = = 1 z * “Yoo hoo, Mr. Hitler! Here are a couple of more for you to burn!” Gellert’s “Capital in Pictures” To Be Published in the USSR NEW YORK.—“Karl Marx Capital Immediately following the an- , to call the strike off. in Pictures,” a book which the Daily Worker is offering as a premium and prize in the circulation drive, will be put out in a Soviet edition by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute of Mos- cow, according to word received from the U.S.S.R. Advance copies of the sixty full page illustrations by the well known pro- letarian artist, Hugo Gellert, appear- ing in this book, roused much enthu- siasm in the U. 8. S, R, Gellert’'s illustrations together with the text, translated into Russian, are already being used by the Red Army House in Moscow in teaching soldiers of the Red Army the principles of Marxism, ‘The Moscow News, reviewing this book, praised it highly, calling special attention to Gellert’s drawings which mark the first attempt to illustrate Marx’s history-making book, “Das Kapital.” The advance copies of the illustrations received high praise in numerous other Soviet publications. nouncement that a worker subscribing for the Daily Worker for one year or renewing a subscription for a year can get this remarkable book which is Priced at $3 for only $1, numerous readers of the “Daily” rushed in their renewals and an additional dollar for the book. Workers getting new subs for the “Daily” have also expressed hight enthusiasm for the book. Many have written in asking that a copy be re- served for them, pledging that they will meet the conditions for getting this book free of charge very soon. “Karl Marx Capital in Pictures,” will be sent free to any worker who obtains five yearly subs or ten six months subs for the “Daily.” Supply Limited ‘The Daily Worker has only a lim- ted supply of “Karl Marx Capital in Pictures,” to offer as a premium and prize in the circulation drive. Readers and sub-getters are, there- fore, urged to take immediate ad- vantage of this unusual offer. Pa. Aluminum Strikers Reiect Sell Out (Continued on Page 2) | to return to work and “arbitrate” af- | terwards, | The strikers did not know on Sat- | urday until three hours afterwards that their leaders had gone to nego- tiate with the bosses and had agreed on the fake 11 per cent increase and The so-called increase did not apply to the major- ity of the strikers, and left the women workers out completely, ‘When the leaders reported to a meeting of 3,000 of the strikers on the conditions for settlement, they were booed and howled down. Only one “worker voted for the terms and to return to work. The workers were especially hostile against A. R. Buller, one of the officers of the National Council of the Aluminum Workers’ Union, who urged them to accept the settlement and end the “holiday.” Various A. F. of L. leaders were brought in, such as representatives of the machinists’ local and the hoisting engineers’ local. The workers re~ belled against them. They are de- manding the election of a new com~ mittee and a continuation of the strike, A When Charles L. Swift, an A. F. of L. representative from Pittsburgh, urged the strikers to go back to work and accept the phoney wage increase he was howled down. Thus far, in both meetings held, the workers voted down all proposals to return to work until their demands are met, Edith Brisco, a representative of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Indus- trial Union, appeared at the strikers’ | meeting to present the support of her union to the strikers. A Socialist who had been participating in the strike, along with the leaders, though not a worker in the shop, made a vicious attack against her speaking. She was finally given the floor, pledging support and calling for a united front of all workers for the victory of the strike. She was well received by the strikers. As a result of her speech two delegates came to the National Confrence of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Union in Pitts- burgh, One of them spoke, thanking the delegates for their support to the strike. “You see,” he says, “in the press today that the A. F. of L. leaders say the strike, which we call a ‘holiday,’ is called off. That is a lie. What we call a holiday will continue until we get our demands. We formed a na- tional organization. The A. F. of L. did not want to allow it. They say they are going to lift our charter. Let them do it. “We are glad to be with you today. We are sure, now as we see the de- ‘Workers Vote For Milwaukee Power Immediate Strike (Continued from Page 1) Taxi Pay ; | Cut Thru NRA Code Wages to Come Down to $12; Union Will Fight i jam L. Allen, a istrator, father of the starvation textile code, announced that he had finally worked out his code for the New York taxi drivers. The code, a veritable hunger edict, would, through the minimum wage joker, make the legal wage of a taxi driver $12 3 week. This is the ver wage scale that the drivers were fighting against during the recent great taxi strike. Strikers reported that they could not feed themselves and families on this miserable sum, Now, Mr. Allen, who through his code maneuvers reduced the wages of skilled textile workers to $12 a week in the South and $13 in the North, proposes that the drivers continue to work under the same starvation conditions, Union Hits Code Opposing this code with might and main is the Taxi Drivers Union, which now has a membership of 12,000 in Manhattan alone. According to Joseph Gilbert, field organizer of the union, the T.D.U. will mobilize the drivers to fight for the full code of the union, which demands $23 a week minimum for day drivers and $25 for night men and unemployment in- surance of $13 a week for married men and $10 for single drivers. Although Allen's code is supposed to ban the maintenance of a black- list by the fleet owners, it is clear that this system will not be abolished unless the drivers through their garage committees see to it that the blacklist files which are in every garage are destroyed. Roosevelt Gov't to “Modify” NRA - With Swope Plan (Continued from Page 1) have been promoting for some time, $a whieh will be again put forward during the week's conferences. In fact, the 12-point program which General Johnson named for “immediate attention” in the Code Conferences, fits neatly into the Swope Plan. It calls for “ade- quate labor and consumer repre- sentation’ in an advisory capacity on Code Authorities,” and for “wider we of the mechanism for settling labor disputes.” This is the real business Johnson wanted to accomplish in his two weeks of conferences. Last week's “Field Day for Critics” was but the prelude. It formed a screen of dema- gogic “tolerance” of all complaints against the N.R.A., behind which the important operations are now tak- ing place. Johnson and his staff were sufficient to open last week's conferences; but tomorrow President nition and 25 per centy wage in- creases, Unless the demands are granted before the zero hour it means Mil- waukee and all cities in the south- eastern part of the state will be with- out electric power and transporta- tion and all lights, elevators and refrigeration will be shut off, includ- ei heat in the central part of the city. The center of the strike movement is the Lakeside Power plant, the Roosevelt personally appears to start the real show. ‘The N.R.A. announced today that this week’s conferences will begin with a review of complaints, criticism and suggestions submitted in the public hearings, “and all other criti- cism accumulated through seven months of administration.” Signifi- cantly, the public hearings were de- voted almost exclusively to the grievances of private citizens, labor ~ Gi? JERRY ARNOLD, t @ er took from the worker who cre- ated and maintained: success- fully this m sport equipment. Hitler took away: 221 gymnasiums equipped with modern apparatus. 28 gymnasiums flelds. 1 gymasium with 5 pool. 1,265 sport fields with club houses, implements, wash and dress rooms. 17 athletic fields with swimming pools. 73 open air swimming pools. 16 swimming pools on rivers boat houses. 48 boat houses, 1 camp with athletic field, swim- ming pool and boat house. 2 camps with gymnasiums, ath- letic fields and pool. 2 jumping palisades for winter sports. 4 district homes, 1 physical instructors training school (Leipzig) with two ~gym- nasiums, swimming pool, sport hall, Playground. 3 large buildings in~ Leipzig: residences of the Executive Board members, headquarters of the sport equipment department, printing Plant of the Alliance. These places, which served as schools for physical education of the German working class, represent a value of 14 million marks ($5,000,000). Not included are homes, schools and camps of other workers culture or- ganizations, as the Workers’ Cyclist Alliance, Nature Friends and Work- ers’ Red Cross. © with athletic ‘with . ND now that Hitler did take over these huge facilities, what does he do with them? Nothing much, except militarize “physical education,” enforce a back- to-the-land “exercises” movement and trains the youth for an imminent war. The youth are sent to the Defy Green Indorse HR. 7598 (Continued from Page 1) Insurance. The local union’s del- egate to the Chicago Federation of Labor was instructed to bring the Bill into the federation for indorse- ment. In Detroit the Building Trades Council, which is filled up with busi- nes agents, voted down the Workers Bill by only one vote. A motion to indorse the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) was defeated by a yote of eight to nine. Local No. 42 of the Detroit Painters is arranging a banquet and dance for March 10 at Jericho Temple 2705 Joy Road for the benefit of the local A. F. of L. Committee for Un- employment Insurance and for the Rank and File Federationist, monthly organ of the Bic cages Executive cil Fights Bill The Executive Council of the Am- erican Federation of Labor, in defi- and small business. The Big Boys of industry didn’t have to putin their largest of all plants in this region, Here the workers are organized 100 per cent. The conditions in this plant have been terrible. In anticipation of the strike this company set up beds inside the plant and laid up a supply of food for strikebreakers, The workers smashed up asia beds, destroyed the food and Smeared manure on the company bulletin board. 4 Workers of the T. M. E. R. and L. Company are revolting against the company union, the Employees Mu- tual Benefit Association, which ruled the roost here for over 15 years, This company has been discharging men for joining the A. F. of L. union, All unions in the strike have agreed to remain on strike until demands of all three are granted. A large portion of the men knew what the A. F. of L, leaders are. Many of the The a teats read iek kon readers. iment P. A. Donahue, Labor Board. Bxomnttes, to Milwaukee to avert the strike. Six thousand other workers are already on strike in Racine, Kenosha Milwaukee. ss oa ———_____ LOCAL 22GARMENT MEET vonEr eae NEW Lett of local 22, I. L. aw: we Special meeting for all members of the group and sympathizers for to- night right after work at Memorial Hall, 344 West 36th St. Bring your friends and fellow-workers of your shops to this important meeting, the group urges, feito teeth ir WAVBUAT Tetseanar mV DEI tions and struggles all over the coun- try, that soon we will all be in one strong organization. And we won't be in the A. F, of L.,, either!” The workers are striking for $1.06 an hour, and a working week of five, | six-hour days, and union recognition through the check-off, Their union was formed at a na- tional convention held from Febru- ary 25 to 28, at which federal local unions, affiliated to the A. F. of L.,; formed the Aluminum Workers’ Na- tional Union, despite the orders of the A. F. of L, officialdom in Wash- ington. The culminating act of the conference was the election of a com- mittee of seven and the calling of 4 Workers’ Club velopment of the workers’ organiza- the “holiday,” to win the demands of the work: complaints publicly; they, in fact, are to gather round the table and agree upon how best the govern- ment shall serve them. See Rising Strike Wave Despite the fact that their profits have increased, the big boys do have one serious complaint—they are an- noyed at the NR.A’s fafilure to sustain illusions among the working class and to stave off stykes and other militant action against the N.R.A’s attack upon labor's living standard. Only today, the National Labor Board made publi¢ a report on its work, showing that the number of disputes pending has increased sub- stantially in recent weeks. Chairman ‘Wagner, of the Board, remarked the “heavy increase,” and added: “It presages a marked increase in the number of disputes and there- fore of work to be faced this spring. | The stresses and strains of our na- tional economic are by no means on the wane.” In other words, Wagner clearly as- serts, a strike wave already ‘in sight. And so, as General Johnson an- nounced in opening the Critici mn Fest, ‘We are about to embark on a neW Blue Eagle Campaign and a new and much tighter drive for compli- ance. These meetings are the first move in closing up our ranks for a new forward movement by N.R.A. Swope Plan Used as Guide To determine just what Aedes will —the meetings of the National Cotton Textile Institute, the Steel and Iron Institute, and other “Trade Associa- tion” representatives of the first- N.R.A. codes formulated by them- selves. In this connection they will study is going to “watch out for 8 principles, and try to see don’t get by.” Tt is, of course, traditional liberal role.to prepare the execution of reactionary projects by! just such cooperative “opposition.” Officials and advisors of the N.R.A. were called together on Friday night ance of the wishes of the rank and file of the A. F. of L., is circulating attacks on the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) as “unconstitutional” and is supporting the Wagner Bill. The Wagner Bill, supported by the A. F. of L. Execu- tive Council, does not grant any unemployment insurance. It merely calls for establishment of “reserve” funds of the employers on a state scale. This bill, being pushed by the Roosevelt administration, is harmful to the workers as it allows anti- strike and “misconduct” clauses in the state bills, and bars the sixteen million jobless from receiving in- surance, to settle details of procedure. It was indicated afterward that the partici- pants in the Code Conferences will express directly the specific big busi- ness policies which shortly will be transformed into official government policy. Such is the “industrial dem- ocracy” provided by the New Deal. It has become too cumbersome a process for the monopolists to be wiring and writing and telephoning orders to pga alge lanes now they get er and sett ings—many fundamental at once, 137B ST.NICHOLAS AVE* 1690 LEXINGTON AVE. oat 179” ST.RY. at 106th ST.NY. of JAD. MOUNTAIN 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12 & 18 Welcome to Our Comrades ALL COMRADES MEET AT BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 5538 Claremont P’kway, Bronx What Hitler Took--- And. : Couldn’t Take stwhile batting columnist of. this side of the page, came into the office with a couple ofG marked-up papers, and began telling me of the success of the }> labor sports’ movement in Germany before Hitler’s regime. saw before me what the Nazis® country in order to make thenx fami- Mar with country topography.:.,-The teachers are forced to become, strong propagandists for the rural _ life. Good, wholehearted fun in_, sports activities is abolished as the- sexes are segregated into groups, as foreign Sports are qstracized, as programs of “national” discipline are invoked and as military tactics become the basic part of sports. Male and female sections ‘learn to execute marching tactics as well as hiking long distances with heavy packs on their backs. Separately, not together. Snipe hunting» or picking flowers or playing not al- lowed, Shooting with different kinds of calibre guns, strict seout- ing work, using maps, judging the lay of land for the moving’ of troops, locating hidden enemies, moving in concealment ala Kit Carson or Buffalo Bill, camouflage, writing reports and drawing» diag - rams of field situations are some of the games they are told to-play. Sports for cannon fodder! - IE “special” kind of * physical training for “superior” students are wall scaling, c1 ing under barbed wire fences, crawling in dug- outs, leaping into pits and Hurling missiles. And if they're god’ little boys and girls maybe they'll bée’ziven the opportunity to fire a carition or throw hand grenades. ? Just good, wholehearted fit, a2 trifle colored, of course, with Nazi “character” education. The idea behind this work is to prevent’ the sotfening “tendencies of sedentary occupations, reducing the laziness which develops in ont push-the- button civilizations, avoiding the sexually stimulating and morally disintegrating: conditions of:\don- temporary life.” Such as public bathing, I suppose, group and such which would. hardly, be- “come a future soldier. z Hitler took away workers’ cultural sports and gave his straight-arm saluters, this... . But—— He couldn’t take away the’ work- ers’ undying revolutionary spirit. He couldn't take away the will to carry on their program despite his hrital, bloody confiscation. 3 + Hitler has tried to crush the workers’ organizations, but the an- derground movement for the con- tinuation of workers’ sports and for the united front of anti-fascist forces for the struggle “aginst” Hit- ler goes on determinedly, militantly.. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET” Bet. Pittin and Sutter Aves, Brookiyn. 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