The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1934, Page 2

Page Two NRA Fur Code Will Legalize Contract Sy stemo Gives Bosses Right to| Decide What Is First Vicious NSL to Picket Hearst DABLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUBSDAY, MARCH 6, 1984 Call to Mass | Picket Colby Cafeteria pen New Drive on Injunction Menace Tomorrew NEW YORK.—in its first action since its organization, the N. ¥.| GUTTERS OF NEW YORK By DEE | } | ‘Union Heads | Stop Car Men Strike Action Milwaukee Car Men Had Already Voted Strike for Pay Rise MILWAUKEE, March 5.—Work- ing with the strikebreaking Na- SAM ROSS Attaboy, Atlas! W E JUST got a letter that made our heart palpitate a couple | of jerks with joy. And with it came to mind the dis- play of the grand march at the 1932 Olympics when all the na- Anti-Injunction Com-| | tional Labor Board, union officials Class Work Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, March N. R. A. code for the f ature, provides for legalized con- tracting, the worst evil in the fur ig other ferentials for several localit cording to a mimeographed copy of it given to the Daily Worker corre- | the office of James ant to Deputy Ad- Gives Bosses Authority In addition to inaugurating wage differentials, and legalizing con- tracting, the code, under wage pro- visions, gives the code auth or | the bosses the right to det ne | what is first class work and what is second class, a proviso which af- fords them an opportunity to break down the minimum which they themselves are setting up. Under the wage differential allo- cations, area “A” includes the states of New York, Connecticut, Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New | Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, | Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland | and the District of Columbia. Area | “B” includes Illinois and the city} of St. Louis, Missouri. Area “C,” which provides for a minimum of $45 a week for 35 hours for cut- ters, compares with the $50 for the areas same operatives in “A” and “The code review by the / e of work in the respective crafts | shall be designated as ‘first-class’ or | ‘second-class,’” the code declared. | CWA Firing Heavy In the Large Cities (Continued from Page 1) from 11 per cent of all Tlinois fam- ilies to 9 per cent. Subsequent further drastic cuts in Federal Emergency Relief grants are | also expected, following Roosevelt's | announced intention to slash relief | all along the line. | | Wiping Out C.W.A. In Iron Range | By a C.W.A. Correspondent | EVELETH, Minn.—Eighty per cent | of the men working on federal for- | promises have all disappeared into | (ered, and only a strong prole- estry C.W.A. projects have been laid | off her Airport projects have stopped completely. Local C.W.A. projects were reduced one third.| This is an industrial area (largest iron mines in the United States are in this section) but has been class- ified as a rural area, in order to make drastic reductions in C.W.A.| jobs. Fire 34,000 in South Carolina | CHARLESTON, 8S. C., March 5.—) The C.W.A. office for South Carolina announced that the C.W.A. force} will be cut from 46,000 to 12,000 by March 30, upon orders of the Roose- velt government. The C.W.A. here| was already cut from 66,000 to the present force of 34,500. In addition, C.W.A. workers on direct federal | projects are being laid off as rapidly | as possible. | Capital Cops Bar Jingo Paper Tom’row a mass picket demonstra fore the offices of the N. Y. American, 210 South jingo Hearst paper Y ducting a r of the League's ant retrenchment and Negro equal- ity activities in the colleges and || high schools. The picketing will be held to- morrow at 5 p.m Weinstone Speaks — In Cooper Union Talks Wednesday on} Austrian Revolt | NEW YORK. — William Wein- | stone, member of the Central} Committee of the Communist | y Issued @ call to all| workers to protest the injunction | | with the Colby cafeteria strikers against -the strikers of the Colby} Cafeteria, and urged workers to join in a huge mass picketing dem-! onstration against the injunction Wednesday at noon at the cafeteria at 38th St. and Eighth Ave. The injunction is a drastic order pro- hibiting all union activity in the Colby and outlawing picketing. The N. Y. Trade Union Anti- Injunction Committee was organ- ized as a permanent committee to | direct the fight to abolish injunc- tions at a recent anti-injunction conference, in which nearly 300 delegates from A. F. of L. unions, independent unions and unions af- | filiated with the Trade Union Unity Council pledged their support. “This mass action in solidarity will express the determination of | thousands of workers of New York | City to destroy this strike breaking, | union smashing weapon. It will| register a protest against the im- prisonment of three members of | of over 5,000 electrical, street car, and other public utilities workers that was voted to begin today at 4a. m. Complying with a telegraphic re- quest of Senator Wagner, chairman |ot 0 agreed not to call a og }of the National Labor Board, the| officials Said the strike would be deferred until March 13, when a |hearing of the National Labor) Board would be held. The strike was voted by mem- bers of the Electrical Workers | ° | | Union, the Amalgamated Associa-_ Buried Today | tion of Street and Electric Railway | | Employees, and Local 311 of the| aaa | International Union of Operating) Over 1 » The workers voted to strike for union recognition and a 25 per cent wage increase. Joseph Padway, union attorney, said the strike would be postponed pending the hearing, declaring the original purpose of calling the strike was not to bring the men out, but to get the National Labor Board into the dispute. tions’ athletes marched down the stadium with white flan- Party, who just returned from a|the Amalgamted Clothing Workers tour of Europe, will discuss the | who were sentenced to jail for three Austrian situation, fascism and | years at Red Bank, N. J., for violat- | conditions in the Soviet Union ating an injunction prohibiting them | Cooper Union Hall Wednesday at|from striking against an N.R.A. 7 pm. | starvation code,” the Anti Injunc- | The meeting is under the aus- | tion Committee declared in a state-| LAWRENCE DENNIS Portrait of a potential mass murderer ‘End Strikes, N.R.A. | for the hundredth time spoke of re- “Congress” Is Told pices of the International Workers | Order. Max Bedacht will be chair- | man. A uniform admission fee of 10 cents is charged to pay the ex- per of the meeting. | Weinstone has just completed a | speaking tour of cities surrounding | New York. He has addressed hun- | dreds of enthusiastic workers in| Philadelphia, Paterson and the So- | cialist city of Bridgeport, Conn. Tax Money for Cab Drivers Is NotForthcoming Gilbert Says, “We'll Have to Go to City Hall in Masses” NEW YORK. — After nearly a month of promises the taxi driver: have not yet received their ta: money. Mayor LaGuardia’s thin air. In an interview yesterday with | the Daily Worker, Joseph Gilbert, | Pointing out further that the past field organizer of the Taxi Drivers | Union of Greater New York said, | concludes: “In the settlement of the strike Mayor LaGuardia’s representative, Mr. Ernst, assured the Committee of ‘Thirteen that an arbitrator | would be appointed for the purpose | the world. They are victorious first- | of collecting the 50 per cent of the Jy, and more than all, in that they tax money from the operators and turning it over to the drivers. This assurance was written into the agreement. To date no arbitrator has been appointed. “There are hundreds of cases | where drivers are refused their tax money, and when the union calls the attention of the Mayors office te this violation of the agreement Wwe receive no action. “There is only one thing left for the taxi drivers to do and that is to go to City Hall in mass to force the Mayor to live up to his agree- ment.” | new beginning revolutionary ice- ment today. Revolutionary Day Near, Says Pravda. (Continued from Page 1) sections the task of leading the widest masses of toilers, of winning to its side the greatest part of the | working class. This is one of the | decisive conditions of the victorious | socialist revolution. | “The Bolshevized masses—that is | the touchstone by which the Com- |munist International tests the | strength of each of its sections. Stalinist implacability before any | deviation from Bolshevism, the im- | placable exposure of opportunism | under whatever flag it may fly, in other words, the strongest Bolshe- vist party—that is the necessary | quality of the vanguard detach- ments of the proletariat, since ‘vic- ory in revolution never comes of | | itself, it must be prepared and con- tarian revolutionary party can pre- jpere and conquer it.’ (Stalin).” 15 years equal a whole epoch, Pravda | “After the first congress of the Communist International, Lenin |wrote: ‘The ice is broken. The | Soviets are victorious throughout hhave won the sympathy of the pro- |letarian masses. That is the main |thing. No savagery of the impe- |rialist bourgeoisie, no persecutions | and murders of Bolshevists can take | the masses away from us. The more | the bourgeoisie rages, the more solid will these conquests be in the hearts |of the proletarian masses, in the spirit, their consciousness, their | heroic readiness to struggle. The |ice is broken.’ | | “Yes, the ice is broken! From | Austria, Germany, France, China, | Japan, India, from everywhere | sounds the powerful boom of the drift. ‘Roosevelt Lauds (soars sr ma neat | standard of living,” he resorted to , the more meaningless phrase of | “purchasing wages.” NRA Slave Codes At Bosses Contab audlunget be said an te ie te mediate task of industry to re- employ more people at purchasing | wages and to do it now. [Five dol- |lars. or five cents for that matter. a (Continued from Page 1} | terms with the bosses, he let them | strument, saying: “You and I are |out how the business leaders in all | groups of industry can develop ca- ing standards lowered to a fright- ful degree. | Growing Fascization “The N.R.A. is neither fascism or communism,” said Roosevelt, though he admitted that “democ- racy” had failed. “The real truth | of the matter is,” he said, “that for @ number of years in our country the machinery of democracy had failed to function.” He did not relate, however, the | dictatorial steps taken by the Roosevelt regime against the work- ers on the ground that “the ma- chinery of democracy had failed to function.” | Blithly ignoring the mountainous evidence that the N.R.A. has re- sulted in lowering the purchasing power of the American workers, | Roosevelt chewed over his original ballyhoo, uttered when the N.R.A. ‘was first passed: “It's (the N.R.A’s) aim was to increase the buying power of wage earners and farmers so that indus- try, labor and the public might benefit through building up the market for farm and factory good: Slash in Real Wages That the N.R.A. has actually | achieved the opposite was testi fied to by the report of the N.R.A. | Consumer’s Advisory Board, pub- lished on the morning that Roose- velt made his speech. | “The average purchasing power per employed industrial and com- | mercial worker,” says this report, | ignored by Roosevelt, “has been decreased by rising prices . . . the gains of the re-employment program have been made at the expense of the previously em- ployed.” | Speaking on the most intimate know that the N.R.A. was their in- | now conducting a great test to find pacity to onerate for the general welfare.” jemoloyment. The thing to do now | said, week can purchase something. —Ed.] | Only thus can we continue recovery and restore the balance we seek.” Hoover's Stagger Plan That this proposal for a new stag- ger plan was aimed to heln the government cut down relief is evi- denced by Roosevelt's remark: “The government cannot forever continue to absorb the whole burden of un- is to get more people to work.” “Reduction in hours,” he added, “with a decrease in weekly wages will do no good at all, for it amounts merely to a forced contribution to unemployment relief by the class least able to bear it.” | Yet all the codes are gauged on} an hourly basis, so that when Roose- | velt’s new proposed stagger plan | goes into effect, the hourly wages of | the workers are cut. Against Strikes Worried by the rising sirike wave, |and the fact that the workers real- ize that the N. R. A. has lowered |their living standards. Roosevelt | demagogically repeated his original | statement when the N. R. A. was passed: j “Every examination I make,” he “and all the information I receive lead me to the inescapable conclusion that we must now con- sider immediate co-operation to se- cure increase in wages and shorten- ing of hours. I am confident that your deliberations will lead you also | to this conclusion.” This was addressed to the very bosses who through the N. R. A. were ble to increase their prices and lower living standards to a point where their profits were driven up. Roosevelt repeated the phrases of section 7-A, saying the workers had | the “free choice,” to decide what or- | ganization they wanted to belong | to, their own unions, or company | bySenator Wagner (Continued from Page 1) of the Civil Works Administration as a Nazified unemployment solu- tion: “Perhaps we should re-finance it (the ©.W.A.) and insure that no worker lacks useful work at a wage which on the one hand would be sufficient to give him clothes, food and shelter, and on the other hand, would be an inducement to get back to private industry.” Flanders as- serted that the new Roosevelt relief proposal “goes far” in this direc- tion but that “we might go further.” He was speaking for the Industrial Advisory Board of the N.R.A—and he drew more applause from the assembled 4,000 or so N.R.A. code administrators in Constitution Hall than did any other speaker except perhaps President Roosevelt. The code conferences, beginning on the first day of the second year of the Roosevelt regime, will con- tinue through this week. Just as they opened, the United States Sen- ate was mulling over a government report showing that ten bank offi- cials last year received “salaries” ranging from $100,000 to $165,000— not to mention the bonuses and similarly tremendous salaries paid to others in the banking oligarchy— and the N.R.A. had before it a re- port of its own Consumers’ Advisory Board, saying: “The average purchasing power | per employed industrial and com- mercial workers has been decreas- ed [under N:R.A.] by rising prices. Although the new workers e ployed at minimum wages neces- sarily pull the average down, it seems very probably that the low average also means that some of the gains of the re-employment program have been made at the expense of the previously employ- ed—a considerable number of new price increases may be expected in the spring—inless the stand- ards for wages and hours are de- cidedly changed, the increase in | rates and employment required by | the codes lie mostly in the past | silences. nels and blue coats and flags, amid cheers and subdued But we were thinking: if all these sportsmen were 5 Victims of B’klyn Fire ;000 Neighbors, Fearing Similar Fate, Attend Funeral NEW YORK—The bodies of the five victims of last week’s tenement fire at 167 Carroll St., Brooklyn, Were buried yesterday by members of the fire troop which had vainly tried to rescue them from death in the old slum fire-trap building. They were the bodies of Mrs. Joseph Galozzi, and of her four small children. Joseph Galozai, the young father who had been away shovelling snow when the tragedy had oc- curred, stood by, stricken with grief. | Only one son escaped death, and |he is in a critical condition in a nearby hospital. Eight hundred neighbors, all liv- ing in tenements in the Red Hook slum section of Brooklyn, in the same kind of fire-trap buildings which became the mausoleum of five of the Galozzi family, attended the funeral. Over a thousand working class women of the neigh- | borhood, their children in their arms, looked on. Meanwhile, at City Hall, Mayor LeGuardia demagogically declared that he was unimpressed by the | | © marching with banners ac- claiming the freedom of Tom Mooney, for the success of a strike or for the demands of bread and butter for children so that they can be built to be the future sportsmen of the world, how much more impressive and meaningful the whole thing would be. Imagine the stadium packed to the gills with 100,000 spectators, de- manding workers’ rights., workers freedom, a workers’ Soviet Republic! beastie impossible? Ridiculous! you say. Read this letter from Gardner, Mass.: “Dear Sports Editor: “About 250 employees of the D. W. Siebert Co. struck here February 12 for a 30 per cent wage increase. Simultaneously, hurried, detailed, militant plans were drawn up by the Executive Committee of the Atlas A. C. (ocal Labor Sports Union Club—8S. R.) The entire apparatus of 120 members of the organization swung into action in support of the strike. “A tremendous volume of applause from the throats, hands and feelings of these exploited workers greeted this express'on of solidarity. “On February 21, » benefit bas- sportsmen on the long end of a 30 to 27 score. “Constant cheers went ‘Come on, Atlas!’ With a result that more threat of the Real Estate Associa- tion of Greater New York to put 670,000 families out on the streets if they were forced to renovate their properties by installing fire- proof stairs to meet the require- ments of the Multiple Dwellings Laws. The moratorium on these improvements, declared in 1929, is to end on April 15. LaGuardia said that six families (out of 670,000!) had already been transferred from condemned houses to more modern apartments . Dramatically and characteristi- cally, the Wall Street backed Mayor shouted “Let them try it! We're ready for them.” In this manner he made a play for the support of the thousands of poor workers living in tenements. But, as we expected, he did not even attempt to state what exactly he planned to do if the fight by the tenement owners continued. Action on C.W.A. Jobs Gets Results; _ Halts Dismissals |Marine Park Workers | Get Results Through Relief League | NEW YORK.—Following up the and since inventories have been | successful conference of 700 C.W.A.|; fairly well built up, the growth of | delegates representing every C.W.A. payrolls is not likely to continue | project in New York, the Relief unless there is further growth of | Workers’ League organized two the final consuming maricct.” ; local actions on C. W. A. jobs. At than $80 was realized at this affair for the strikers’ benefit. Plans are now under way for another benefit game to be held within the next “The Atlas A. ©, was the first and only sports the city to officially come to the aid of the Seibert workers. “Congratulations, Seibert workers! You are the pioneers of Gardner in fighting for higher wages and a bet- ter living. Some of us are furniture workers, some aren't, but we're stick- ing by you like a keg of glue. “ANON.” 3 Teams Tie for Lead In N.Y. Cage League NEW YORK.—The Metropolitan Work- ers Basketball League competition hes developed into a three way tie with the Calverts having the jump on the I.W.O. (409) and the Brownsville ¥.C.L. totaling five games won and none lost; while the other two teams have won 2 and lost none. The standing: 2 OT OHHH ue ng Lost Calverts T.W.0.—409 Brownsville ¥..L. Cc. A. Lyceum Boys (U.U.T.O.) Bronx Y.C.L. ‘Tremont Prog. LW.O. 454 Harlem Prolets Spartacus American Youth Red Sparks NS, Yorkville Coney Island A. ©. PAH eee Nese @ Come Away from the \\ Noise and Rush of the City for Rest, Quiet — —-. ’ Filipino Delegates ps Gr il ok eat Printers Strike “The ice is broken! Everything | and a little fun at junions. He said the government! Roosevelt first declared that critics|the Marine Park project, 50 work- ers?” Manzon and Sajona asked th officers who barred their way to th entrance of the new house office| building. “We're sorry, but we have orders te keep you out,” the officers replied. | Visit War Department | Before going to house office build- | ing, the delegation presented its de-| mands to Brigadier General Creed F. Cox, Chief of the Bureau of In- sular Affairs of the War Depart- ment. Pointing out that it spoke for over two hundred thousand workers and farmers, the group de- manded “the immediate and uncon- ditional independence for the Phil-| {ppine Islands.” | The General instructed the dele-| gation to “hand in all the state. ments.” He promised to “look into the matter” and to “refer the entire) case to Governor General of Philip- | pines Frank Murphy.” } “The convictions,” the statement | declared, “reflect the present policy of the Philippine government to- wards the workers’ and peasants’) movement for complete and uncon- ie | ie In Label Shop rike to or- | y abel shop on West 18th St. was called several days ago. It involves the followin, unions: Typographical Union No.| 6, Pressmen’s No. 51, Paper Cutters No. 119 and Bookbinders No. 66. | Several months ago the men were} called out and after a few days| they were advised by an organizer] of No. 6 to return to work and) wait for the N. R. A. code to be} signed, | The Graphic Arts code recently | signed by Roosevelt provides for} 82 cents per hour for these work- | ers, but the boss of the Eveready | insisted that his shop comes under| the jurisdiction of the Gum Label| code which provides for 40 cents per hour. The N. R. A. Code Auth-} ority agreed with him. This shop has been turning out! jall the N. R. A. labels since the) ———— 900 Delegates At New York Red Press Banquet Blue Eagle first started flying in the face of the workers. George L. Berry, president of the shows the rapid advance of a new revolutionary spring! The capital- ist world is directly faced with a new round of revolutions and | wars. The banner of Stalin and Lenin is becoming the banner of millions and scores of millions of toilers, “The cause of Communism {s in| the trusted hands of the Leninist Communist International, in the tried hands of the greatest strate- gist of the proletariat and leader of |nist Party spokesman, |Manner on what he termed “ revolutionary parties, Stalin, “The historical breaking point is | near. The Soviet banner will wave | throughout the world!” | Irked by the basic criticism ley- | elled at the’ N-R.A. by the Commu- | Roosevelt | in a chauvinist | “Da- | dwelt at length triotic criticism.” ‘I am sure it will hearten you to | know,” he told the exploiters of 90 | per cent of the American workers | chained by slave codes, “that the| great majority of the complaints were directed not at the codes, but at errors and omissions in what has been done under the codes, “The great bulk of the complaints | or criticism of the Recovery Act does not go to the act itself tonty | the Communist Party attacked the would see they get that right. He did | are “unpatriotic”? when they attack not recount his repeated promises | fundamentals rather than methods, | Would see to it that the government act basically as a weapon against the American workers—Ed.] but | rather to the details of mere meth- |od. In this we should feel encour- | aged and heartened that we are on ‘the right track and can go for- | | ward.” i Demagogiec to the core, Roosevelt’ Send us names of those you know who are not readers of the Daily Worker but who would be interested in reading it. Address: Daily Worker, 50 E, 13th St., New York, N. ¥. the Weirton Steel Co. workers | whose strike was broken by the Na- tional Labor Board through similar i aa by Roosevelt and his hi 3 he had twice promised the Weirton Steel workers that he personally | He did not expiain how | would supervise a “free” election, and then shamelessly abandoned the workers to the very company union that was foisted on them through Section -A. It throws more openly complete power over the N.R.A. into the hands of the bankers and manufac- turers, clearly dropping the mask of “partnership,” put on when the N.R.A. was first passed. The real work, Roosevelt pointed out, was to be done by these exploiters gathered to safeguard the monopolistic powers given to them by the N.R.A, once “the government has a specific ve and undertakes to ic way.” And then he boasted that “the great majot of comp.aints” in last week’s criti- cism-fest “were directed not at the codes but at errors and omissions in what has been done under the codes.” The distinction. at best, is a hairline one. Nor did the President forget to warn that a new period of “com- pliance” with the N.R.A. is at hand. Compliance, as has been shown throughout the N.R.A.’s existence, means compliance by labor with the restriction of its fundamental rights to organize and to strike. Roosevelt declared: “We cannot tolerate abuses | of economic power—abuses against labor, abuses against ployers or abuses against the consuming pub- lic.” jers were laid off Saturday. Under | the leadership of the Relief Work- | ers’ League (Brownsville local) 20 |of these laid off workers went back ;on the job and distributed leaflets |to the men still on the job, urging | organization and mass _ protest against the firing. The men eagerly | took the leaflets. | The supervisor, seeing that the! C. W. A. workers were organized, theld back 100 additional “pink slips” he was going to give out, and took these 20 men back on the job again, Twenty C. W. A. workers, who were fired from the Department of Water Supply in Queens, were laid Came Nitgedaiget Beacon, N. Y.—Ph.: Beacon 731 All the Summer Fun with Winter Comfort Cars leave daily at 10:30 a.m. trom ‘ Cooperative Restaurant—2700 Bronx Park East (Estabrook 8-1400) DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET off by the boss without eyen an official notification. These 20 con- sulted the Relief Workers’ League | and yesterday went to the office of DeLamater in’ a body, protesting against the lay-off. They saw that organization, into the Relief Work- ers’ League gets results, Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-s01e Office Hours: 8-10 AM., 1-9, 6-8 Pt. LN SUBWAY WORKERS SPEAKS ON U.S.S.R. A young subway worker who recently returned from Moscow will speak on “My | Personal Experiences in the Shviet Union” ditional independence, both from) International Printing Pressmen tonight, 8 p. m. at 1418 Boston Road, the native bourgeoisie and American! and Assistants’ Union, now Gen. | ~*~ Bronx. Adm. free. £3 imperialism.” | Johnson's first assistant, endorsed | VE hie ee ae Le ee oa SES TLIRIRIS PORTER eat Crime ds ggommaniem _,, Doin codes, as well as the News-/ ORGANIZATIONS NOT REPRESENTED URGED TO SEND DONATIONS IN AT ONCE PE en ond . WILLIAM BELL Referring to the Roosevelt March! paper Code. ITFUL large studio room; newly! OFFICIAL Optometrist ‘OF THE 2 message to Congress, the state rs - NEW YORK, N. ¥.—Nine hun-@——————____________ we ne oo See ea cana ecorated; 1541 Madison Aven Lwo. ert eecreted that Hoosevelt, “has T oft Wing Wins in dred delegates of organizations and ning, opened the banquet, by an- FURNISHED 2 and 2 rocms: also singles; recommended certain amendments to the Hawes-Cutting Act, which in effect do not change the ultimate aim of the American government towards the Philippines. “These leaders are charged with) sedition, but the real reason for im-| prisoning them is that they are Communists,” J. Tauber of the In- ternational Labor Defense legal staff told General Cox. | Other members of the delegation were: R. Escalone, Filippino sea- man; J. Roberts, of the Communist Party; Nat Bruce, the New York ILD.; B. Schor, Secretary of the Action Committee, and D. C. Mor- gan, of the National Committee for she protection of the foreign born. Send us names of those you know who are not readers of the | Daily Worker but who would be interested in reading it. Address: Daily Worke- 5 E. 13th St, New | York, N.Y 9 Garment Union 38 NEW YORK.—A victory for the left wing group of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union was won in the recent electons when the Progressive candidate, Joe Pruice, was elected to the executive board | of Local 38, He received 256 votes, Machine candidate Banish and L. Rea, were elected to the posts of Manager and business manager re- spectively by a small majority, A STIMULUS TO CANNON FODDER PRODUCTION BERLIN, Mar. 5.—The City of Berlin came out with the mag- nanimous announcement yesterday that they will honor the birthday of Adolph Hitler on April 2 with a contribution to the support of all third and fourth children born jafter that date individuals, Sunday night, joined | in a spirited dedication of the new printing press at the Red Press | banquet. They sounded a stirring pledge to make the best possible use of the press by spreading the Daily Worker, and other revolu- tionary papers, among tens of thousands of New York workers who are looking for it in answer to their problems. The sum of $2,500 was collected at the banquet for the press. “We have now got a press for the Daily Worker that will turn out 36,000 papers an hour,” said Earl Browder, at the close of the | banquet. “We must increase the circulation of our Daily Worker until the press must run 24 hours a day. We must reach the workers who are looking for us. Once we do reach them, and place our pro- gram before them, they are with us!” nouncing a fact known for the first time, that the press was formerly the press of the Wall Street Journal. “We start by tak- ing over their press,” he declared, “and we will wind up by taking over their Street!” James W. Ford received an en- thusiastic greeting from the work- ers. “Our ‘Daily,’ during the ten years of its existence has made it possible for us to reach great numbers of Negro workers in this country,” he said. “The influence our press has today among the Negro people, has caused fear in the ranks of the ruling class to- day.” Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of the Morning Freiheit, presented the first Red Press Certificate of the evening to a delegate from the Bronx Co-operative, who brought to the banquet a $1,000 contribu- Hathaway, chairman of the eve- ton. Olgin recalled the days, 20 i | years ago, when in Russia, papers were gotten off on an old hecto- graph. S. Kingston of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and Nemeroff, Assistant Secretary of the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union, gave greetings from their organizations to the banquet. Encore after encore was demanded of Marie Radamsky who sang folk songs. As soon as Sergei Radamsky ap- peared, there were cries for the German “Rote Soldaten.” He sang first a Georgian Mountain song, then another song by the composer of “Rote Soldaten”—“Komsomol.” Bob Lewis did “The Red Hamlet,” Shakespeare done to revolutionary pantomime, Browder ended the banquet on a stirring note. “This Banquet serves as an example of one of the funda- mentals of Bolshevik theory. When them into an asset. So we did in this case. We were faced with what seemed a great difficulty. We needed a new press, and we were broke. But we turned the need into a joyous occasion, that cannot help, because of the enthusiasm and spirit here, but add to our revolu- tionary energy and make us fight and spread our Press ten times as hard as before!” All individuals and organiza- tions who were unable to con- tribute at the Banquet, are asked to mail their donations for the new pri press to Press Com- mittee P.O. Box 136, Station D., New York City, now. Red Press Certificates have been mailed out into the Districts of the country, and organizations throughout the country are called upon to quickly respond, and send their dona- tions of and support to the Pinko Allan trae Red Bolsheviks are faced with difficulties, they examine them and transform Press Certificates will be mailed to those who send donations, all improve 347 EB. 14th st. BROOKLYN Sokal Cafeteria FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS 1689 PITKIN AVENUE BENSONHURST WORKERS Patronize Gorgeou’s Cafeteria 2211 86th Street Near Bay Parkway Fresh Food at Proletarian Pi Williamsburgh Comrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria 4 Graham Ave, Cor. Siegel St. BVERY BITE A DELIGHT 166 EAST 4TH STREET Near Fourth Aye. N. ¥. ©, Phone: Tompkins Square 6-8237 amen! Dr.E.—E HEL Dentist 150 East 93rd Street, New York City Cor, Lexington Ave, Tel. ATwater 9-8638 Hours: from 9 a.nt, to 8 p.m. Sun. 9 to 1 Member Workmen's Sick and De-th Benefit Pund I. J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS SUTTER AVE. 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