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Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934 WV Reject N.R.A. In Haverhill Two More Shops Sign Agreement;Thousands at Mass Meetings HAVERHILL, Mass., Mar. 12.—Thousands of striking shoe workers, meeting at Eagle Hall and the City Hall, voted down the Regional La- bor Board’s proposal to call off the strike and arbitrate differences with the employers later through an ar- bi itrator selected by the N. R. A. or- Joe Costello, leader of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union branded the N. R. A. plan as a strikebreak maneuver and de- S t down the conditions e shoe workers to an even lower of the i to call off the strike ate it at a later date wat of a hearing called by m last Saturday. The union warned the Board against ference with the strike. Work- ers on the delegation denounced the bitration moves, stating that the y to settle the strike is on t of direct dealings between the bosses and the union. ding the committee was Martin, secretary of the 4 council of the union. Sam Zeibel and Ralph Holmes of the shoe work- ers committee of action presented the position of the strikers. Hit Arbitration While denouncing the arbitration plan the delegation pointed out that | 32 shops had already signed agree- | ments with the union and that this is the way the workers prefer to settle the strike. The City Hall meeting was jammed last night with strikers, who| came to hear Fred Biedenkapp. | leader of the union, who brovght greetings and a donation of $50 for the fund from the New York shoe wo! This was one of the| most enthusiastic meetings of the entire strike. An unanimous yote of thanks was sent the New York shoe workers by the New England shoe workers for their support of the strike. “The shoe workers of New York pledge to support this strike to the utmost, for it is part of the struggle of all the shoe workers to better their conditions,” said Bied- enkapp. On Sunday Biedenkapp spoke in Lowell, where the workers promised to give their support to the Haver- hill strike. Two more shops, the Tinter and! Bradford, signed agreements with | the union today, bringing the total | of settlements up to 36. | The local capitalist press con-| tinues to attack the strike and especially the leadership. A former | Jabor arbitrator, Newdick, is lead- ing the attack through the press. | = | Shoe Union To Discuss: Constitution Tonight NEW YORK.—All shoe workers | are urged to attend special member- ship meeting on Tuesday, March 18th at 5:30 P. M.,, at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place, Corner 15th St., to discuss the Constitution adopted a& the Boston convention. At this meeting members of the union will be asked to propose amendments | to the Constitution which if| adopted will be put on the refer- endum ballot. The members of the | United Shoe and Leather Workers | Union throughout the country will | vote on the Constitution and amersi- ments on April 10th, 1934. | Jobless ie When Chica go Salvation ArmyServes Poison | CHICAGO, March 12.—An un-| known number of workers died and hundreds fell seriously ill at the Sal- vation Army flop house, 509 North Union Ave., here Saturday night af- ter poisoned food, called “hash,” was served on the evening menu for 1,000 jobless. This was revealed af- ter investigation by the Daily! Worker today, following refusal of} the local press to carry the story. Men were stretched out in the| aisles formed by the closely packed! beds at the flop nouse shortly after | they ate the food. Doctots were hurriedly dishing out doses of medi- cine. The floors of the building as weil as the toilets were covered with food the men threw up. At least six were reported to have died. At the same time 200 work- ers, mostly Negro, were taken ill at the 2641 South Wabash Avenue flop house with at least two reported dead Workers gathered at the Unem- ployed Council, Local 1, this morn- i and sent committees to all the papers demanding they carry story. Another committee was sent {o the Commissioner of Health and were met by his Assistant, Dr. King, who said that he “would not recommend food fit to eat.” On one occasion in the past work-| ers brought the food to thé Health Commissioner, Bundesen, and placed it on his desk for inspection, but he refused to act. Sanitary conditions in the flop houses are a mockery. At the Sal- vation Army there are four toilets to every 100 men with no separate Provisions for those afflicted with venereal and other contagious dis- eases. Diseased men are allowed to handle the food. The beds, which the law requires to be four inches apart, are placed tightly against each other, while sheets and pillows are never used. The blankets are never washed, but instead merely fumigated The bulk of food bought for the flop houses is gotten on the open market where discarded food is sold. t { | boys, hoeWorkers Bear Mt. CWA Workers Ill-Treated, Cheated While Offi ———— > CP. Calls Meet To Discuss Local ILGWU Elections Jack Stachel Will Analyze Role of Zimmerman NEW YORK. — To discuss the coming elections in Local 22 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the District Com- mittee of the Communist Party has called a mass meeting to be held in Bryant Hall, Thursday, March 15, at 6 p. m. All members of Local 22, members of mass organizations, Women's Councils, I.W.O. branches, the Freiheit Singing Society, Mandolin Orchestra group and all members of the Communist Party and Young Communist League who are working in the dress trade are called on to be present at the meet- ing. The meeting will be addressed by Charles Krumbein, district organ- izer of the Communist Party; Jack Statchel, acting general secretary of the T. U. U. L, and Max Bedachi, general secretary of the Interna- tional Workers Order. The strike-~ breaking role of the Zimmerman- Lovestone clique will be fully anal- yzed and discussed and compared with the militant program of the left wing group. 80 Fur Workers On Strike in N.Y. Demand Enforcement of Agreement NEW YORK. — Eight hundred workers from 100 fur shops downed their tools and walked out on strike yesterday in answer to the call of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union. The workers are striking to en- force the terms of a new agreement and to renew the agreement which expired January 31. Workers answered the strike call enthusiastically. Shops walked out. And by evening over 800 workers were out. The strikers are demanding the elimination of contracting, which has been legalized by the N. R. A. code. They are demanding that all fur bosses contribute to the unem- ployment insurance fund which shall be distributed by the union. 4 Scottshoro Boys Are Put in Solitary Confinement in Jail (Continued from Page 1) withholding and destruction of letters sent to Patterson and Norris. Court Refuses Protest Telegrams SAN FRANCISCO, March 12.— Telegrams demanding the im- mediate release of the Scottsboro sent by the International Labor Defense and its bazaar con- ference to the State supreme court |of Alabama, have been refused, the telegraph company notified the L. D. today. Among prominent individuals who have sent protest telegrams to the| court, to President Roosevelt and Gov. Miller, are James Cagney and Mrs, Cagney, Victor Jorg, Marie del Welch, Dr. Matt Crawford, Dorothy Erskine, Ella Winter, Lang- ston Hughes, Marie Short and Noel Sullivan. + * * In spite of opposition by the re- actionary leadership, the Pacific Coast convention of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association passed a resolution condemning the Scottsboro lynch verdicts. NEW YORK. — The Spartacus Greek Workers Club was notified by the Weern Union yesterday | that Judge W. W. Callahan had re- fused to accept a protest telegram sent by that organization. The club is mailing the protest, and at the same time wiring similar protests to Gov. B. M. Miller and President Roosevelt, demanding the release of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. Union Hits Jailing Of Sign Painters NEW YORK.—A meeting of the Sign and Advertising Art Workers Independent Union, affiliated to the Joint Council of Independent Build- ing Trades Unions, voted to express its sympathy with the four im- prisoned members of Sign Writers | Union, Local 230, A. F. of L.. framed by the notorious Lesky, a large sign manufacturer. A letter has been sent to the Ex- ecutive Board of Local 230 offering the cooperation of the Independent Union in the fight to free the four men, and calling for united action to organize the unorganized and getting relief for the unemployed. CORRECTION Tickets for the March 26 benefit performance of “They Shall Not Die,” should be secured from the National Committee for the De- fense of Political Prisoners, 150 Fifth Avenue, not from the dis- tri d office of the International Labor Defense as stated in yester- day’s paper. On the following night, March 27, the district office of the ILD. will also have a benefit perfor- mance of John Wexley’s popular Play, which is based on the Scotte- “| working conditions, these workers | Gra ft | Daily Worker Exposes | | Slave Conditions in C.W.A. Camp NEW YORK —Facts uncovered by the Daily Worker give ample} proof to the complaints of the 5,000 C.W.A. men at Bear Moun- tain that the treatment which they receive at the hands of the | C.W.A. authorities is nothing short | of barbaric. | | The status of these men, espe-| cially since the C.W.A. took over | |the Interstate Park project from | |the Emergency Home Relief, has | become that of serfs, with the ma- | licious and grafting officials their |feudal lords. Given jobs that are almost impossible to do, they are faced with the alternative of do- ing the work and collapsing from Physical exhaustion, or not doing | the work and being fired. In addi- | tion to this slave-driving, they are | |forced to work under insufferable | | conditions, without warmth or suf- | |ficient clothing. Although the weather throughout the winter has | | been especially cold, at no time were more than two men allowed | to warm themselves at a fire. Re-| cently, despite the frigid tempera- ture, the order was issued that fires of any sort are no longer permissible. The men are not al- lowed to wear coats while they are | working. One worker who pro- | tested at being ordered to remove | his coat by a warmly dressed offi- {cial in a heated automobile, was discharged. Indifference to Men’s Suffering Workers who pulled branches from trees to cover the snow on| which they were standing, in or-| der to protect themselves from) | frozen feet and other serious ail- | ments, were ordered to remove the | branches and forbidden to take jany more. This callous indiffer- ence to the welfare of the men displayed by Director J. N. Tam- sem and Superintendents Higgins and Horan, who issued these or- ders, is directly responsible for the seven cases of frozen feet and ex- posure at Bear Mountain im one week. And when a worker suo- cumbs to the severe trials, the |same inhuman apathy is mani- fested. There is no medical at- tention for C.W.A. men The first aid station has been removed, and the assistance of army doctors from the C.C.C. camp three miles away is refused them. There is the case of one worker | who collapsed on the job. His fore- }man, without examining him, ac- cused the worker of being intoxi- cated and refused to call an ambul- |ance. But this was too much for | the other workers who had gathered | around the fallen man. They com- mandeered a truck and carried the |man to the railroad station, in order to get him to a hospital. The rail- road station was unheated and gloomy. Notwithstanding this, the ‘injured man was refused permis- |sion to take any but the regular night train back to New York, al- though this train was not due for |five hours. He was forced to lie jin the cold station, despite the fact |that he was suffering intensely. | Upon examination at French Hos- | pital in New York City both feet of this worker were discovered to be badly frozen. Even though the snow from the recent blizzards is thick upon the ground, and walking is very diffi-| cult, the men who work on the| Thursday, Friday, and Saturday shift are forced to walk twice daily between their jobs and the station, a distance of four miles each way. In addition to their miserable cials |have to combat graft and discrimi- nation. They are openly told by Superintendent Higgins that they can have better jobs and better working conditions if they will kick back part of their salary to him. Three foremen, Miller, Farley and |Flynn, bought their jobs from Hig- gins in this manner. When the first two told the superintendent that they could not pay him im- mediately, he told them that it was all right, that he would allow them to sell liquor on the train between Bear Mountain and Weehawken, and that they could make the money to pay him off in this manner. Another worker who was oftered }a foreman’s job if he would pay for it, emphatically refused, tell- | ing Higgins to “go to hell.” Hig- |ins thereupon told him he was fired. |The worker refused to leave, telling Higgins he would expose him. Be- cause of this militancy and courage, this worker was able to retain his job. Painters Answer Call Of Union for Strike NEW YORK.—A large number of panters have answered the call of the Alteration Painters Union and have come out on strike. The Spring organizational campaign to build a strong fighting union of the alteration painters and to wipe out. the miserable conditions in the trade has effected shops in Brighton Beach, Boro Park, Coney Island and in the downtown section of Man- hattan. The strike headquarters are situated:—90 E. 10th St., N. Y. ©; 3200 Coney Island Ave., and 1109— 45th St. Brooklyn. The Union is calling upon all members to report to the above headquarters and help in the campaign of the Union. TO DISCUSS POCKETBOOK CODE TONIGHT NEW YORK. — To discuss the pocketbook workers code, which is about to be introduced by the N. R. A, and will slash wages in the in- dustry to $14 and $18 a week, the Pocketbook Workers Rank and File Committee has arranged an open forum to be held tonight at 6 p. m. at Irving Plaza Hall. boro frame-up. The receipts from both performances wil go for the Scottsboro defense, | the Blue Eagle, the capitalist press, GUTTERS OF NEW YORK $1,500,000,000 for W AR $ 500,000,000 for the RAILROADS $3,000,000,000 to BA NKS 34,000,000,000 to MORTGAGE HOLDERS its Press Phased ride NRA Gives Owners Wedge To Anti-Strike By H G. NEW YORK.—The mouthpiece of yesterday began to operate under} the newspaper code. The Hearsts, | the Scripps-Howards, the Blocks, Stearns and McCormicks are given} a drastic weapon to slash the wages | of all branches of the printing trade, newspapermen and newsboys. | “Minimum wages” range from | $7.70 to $15 per week. The stagger | plan is invited, with appropriate | wage cuts. “Part time employes| shall receive pro rata rates of the foregoing scales,” says the code. | Hourly minimum wage rates for | the mechanical departments, who have through long struggles won| much higher wages, are set at 40c) an_hour. With this code. and the strike- breaking National Labor Bcard, as| well as the anti-strike provisions within the code itself, the news- paper owners have a powerful weapon to drive down wages in the entire industry. Supervision of the code rests in) the hands of the newspaper bosses | themselves. An Industrial Board | (whose main object is to prevent! strikes against the coolie wage| levels) is set up with four “labor representatives” acceptable to the bosses on it. That they will be of the strike of Bill Green & Co. whose “interests are the employers interests,” as General Johnson said, is a foregone certainty. To make assurance doubly sure, Article VI, Section 5-d, of the! newspaper code provides that: “Neither party shall change the conditions existing at the time the! controversy arose, or utilize any coercive or retaliatory measures...” No matter what the conditions| are that workers protest against, | they ar2 in advance ordered to take no organized action to protect themselves, but to leave matters | just as they are for the infamous brand of adjustment for which the National Labor Board ‘s notorious. | Rank and File Fight Back The rank and file in the printers and pressmen’s unions have al-| ready begun an attack against this slave code. The Marcn issue of “The Printing Worker,” published by the Amalgamation Party, 40 W. 18th Street, New York City, prints a withering expose of the code. It points out that its “stagger system is even more vicious in form than the infamous Saulter decision.” The starting time of any worker can be juggled to suit the bosses. “Addi- tional unemployment would be the first result,” they add. They also declare that “The right to strike is pointedly attacked in Section 5c.” On the day the code went into effect, a group of Communist work- Postal Workers _ Protest Against Starvation Order (Continued from Page 1) | The Substitutes’ Union also en- dorsed the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, RETR NEW YORK.—Aroused by the vicious order issued by Postmaster General Farley on March 2, which forces postal workers, their wives and children to starvation, 100 sub- stitutes representing 25,000 postal employes, staged a protest demon- stration before the New Jamaica Post Office, at the dedication of which Farley was to speak. Placards held by the demon- strators were torn from their hands and mutilated by detectives sta- tioned at the Post Office. Undis- mayed, the substitute postal em- ployes waited-for Farley to appear. But Farley did not show up after hearing that a demonstration was to be staged Another protest parade will be held tomorrow by the Association and the Committee of One Organi- zation starting from Washington Square at noon. Regular and sub- stitute employes will march with their families up Fifth Avenue to Eight Street, to Broadway, to Forty-Second Street, to Eighth Ave- nue and to the General Postoffice at 38rd St., where a mass meeting will be held. At the post office a delegation of fifteen will petition Postmaster John J. Kiely to urgé rescinding of the order and to ask for a living wage for the substitutes. (For more news on the postal Code, Wages As Low As $7. 70 Smash Wages Down to 40 Cents an Hour Minimum; Contains Provisions | ers employed in the Daily News in New York distributed a leaflet to workers in the plant exposing the code and calling for a struggle to smash it. “Experience has shown,” says this leaflet, “that the minimum pay soon becomes the maximum. “Kmpioyers can cut your wages regardless of contract, This is a direct threat to your standard of living.” workers in the Daily News plant applies to all workers, in their fight against the newspaper slave code: “Organize in your departments. Form contacts with similar or- ganizations in other departments - . . Force your union to take a stand against this slavery code.” The rank and file in the unions working in newspaper plants should bring the issue up in their local meetings and block every step to slash wages. MARCH ISSUE OF “THE COMMUNIST” NOW READY Contents The Third International and It: Place in History—V. I. Lenin Milestones of Comintern Lead- ership—By Alex Bittelman The Armed Revolt of the Aus- trian Workers—By V. J. Jerome How Not To Apply the Open Letter—By Gertrude Haessler Lessons of the Economic Strug- gles, and the work in the Trade Unions —By Jack Stachel DeLeonism in the Light ot Marxism-Lertinism—By Walter Burke Figures on the American Eco- nomic Crisis—By Labor Re- search Association Book Review Two Months and Ten Days—A Review by H. M. Wicks Per Copy 20 cents—Yearly Sub- scriptions, $2 Send your orders to your dis- trict or direct to Workers Library Publishers P. O. Box 148, Sta. D, New York City (60 B. 13th St.) Plumbers Win Strike; Get Increased Wages NEW YORK. — After a strike which lasted two days workers of B. Rosenbluth plumbing shop, 225 E. Seventh St., succeeded in forc- ing the boss to concede to their demands. The demands won include |Tecognition of the shop chairman and the Alteration Plumbers, Steam- fitters and Helpers Union; the pay of mechanics to be raised from $4 to $7 per day and that of helpers from $3 to $4 per day, time and a haif for overtime and the 40 hour, 5 day ; Week. 8 Cops Brutally Beat Negro and Eject Him from Dime Movie House NEW YORK. — An unidentified Negro was brutally attacked and beaten by eight policemen and ejected from the moving picture theatre on Third Ave. between 14th and 15th St., yesterday morning, when ushers claimed that he had not paid his admission fee. The entrance price was ten cents. Shortly after he entered the | theatre, the Negro was approached by an usher who told him to get out. He replied: “I paid my way in, and I’m going to stay.” stubs are given out in this theatre early in the morning, and so he had no proof to offer. After four ushers failed to in- timidate him. the cops were cailed in. One of them approached him with a gun in his hand, ordering him to leave the theatre. As he began to shuffle out slowly, they attacked him with nightsticks. When he was outside on the street, his face and head were bloodied and scarred from the vicious attack of the police. NEW DEAL CUTS. $40 WAGE TO $17 WAUKEGAN, Ill. (FP). — The People’s Gas Co. has not cut hourly rates since the N. R. A. came in, but it has sharply cut purchasing power of many of its employes. Men who were earning $40 a week last year are making only $17 this year. workers, see page 3,) Layoffs and shorter hours did the trick, Their proposals to the newspaper | No} By PEL Negro Union Calls | Meet for Fight on _ AFL Jim-Crowism |To Launch Fight for | Jobs, Shum Clearance on Chicago So. Side (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Mar. 12—The Amer- icam Consolidated Trade Council, a Negro trade union which has been refused admittance to the A. F. of L., has called a preliminary conference to plan struggle for the right of Negro workers to jobs to- gether with white workers in all trades and in the C.W.A. and P.W.A The conference, which will be/ held this Wednesday, March 14, at | 8 p. m. at 3934 State Street in this} city, will also draft a resolution to| the federal government requesting a slum clearance program for the South Side of Chicago that will give both better homes to the Negro workers and jobs. All organizations are invited and urged to send delegates. The | if organizations do not meet before | the conference, officials of the| organizations should appoint del- egates, | Protest AttemptTo Deport Schneider Workers Meet Thursday in Irving Plaza NEW YORK.—A mass meeting to protest against the new attempt to | deport Jack Schneider, militant | leader of the Needle Trades Work- | ers’ Industrial Union, will be held | Thursday, 8 p. m., at Irving Plaza Hall Irving Place and 15th St. Schneider was arrested again last Wednesday, and is now being held on Ellis Island where U. 8. govern- ment officials are holding him for deportation. Schneider was ar- rested for his working-class activi- ties in behalf of the union. Thursday's meeting will also de- mand the return of citizenship to Emil Gardos, editor of the Hun- garian workers’ paper, Uj Elore. Prominent speakers from the Trade Union Unity League, International Labor Defense and the Committee for Protection of Foreign-Born will address the meeting, * | . The Committee for the Protection of Foreign-Born, 80 E. 11th St., Rm. 430, yesterday issued the following statement: “The committee has been in- formed that certain individuals have been collecting applications for citizenship papers in its name. The Committee for Protection of Foreign-Born does not obtain | citizenship papers for anybody and no one is authorized to repre- sent the Committee who does not have a certified credential.” Clerks in 3 Grocery Stores on Strike NEW YORK.—Clerks of the Zion | Groceries Corporation, with stores at 4109 Thirteenth Ave., 66 Belmont Ave., and 1765 Prospect Ave., all in Brooklyn, are striking under the leadership of the Food Workers In- dustrial Union for an increase in | wages, shorter hours and recognition | of the union. Five strikers have been arrested since the beginning of the strike on an injunction that was gotten out against Local 338 of the A. F. of L. | grocery clerks union. Their cases | will come up in the Pennsylvania Ave. Court Friday morning, Militant Negro Worker | Dies From Pneumonia BROOKLYN, N, Y., March 12.— A resolution of sorrow was passed by the Crown Heights Unemploy- ment Council on the death of Mil- ton Ethridge, Negro. of 1778 At-~ Jantic Ave., Brooklyn, who died of Pneumonia, contracted on his C. W. | A. job at Marine Park. For several | Years he was a devoted and mili- tant fighter in the Crown Heights | Unemployed Council and the Hey- wood Patterson Branch of the I. L, |D., where he was secretary. He {was an applicant for membership in the Communist Party. By his death we lose a staunch comrade. Funeral services were held on | Monday, March 12, at 12, noon, at |1732 Fulton St., Brooklyn. A revolitionary ‘memorial service will be held on Thursday, March 14, at 8 p.m. at 1871 Fulton St.,-Brook- lyn, by the Unemployment Council, the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights. Dental Strike Ends; To Discuss Agreement NEW YORK.—After three days of strike. 500 members of the Dental Technicians Equity have gone back to work. After a lively meeting the workers forced a reading of the agreement over the heads of the leadership, Discussion on the agreement was left. until the next membership meeting. This agreement, it was pointed out, will remain a scrap of paver unless the workers themselves carry out the terms of settlement in their shops. COPS CAN’T FIND DILLINGER BUT BREAK GIRL PICKET’S ARM CHICAGO (FP).—Unable for days to find the escaped killer John Dil- linger, Chicago cops nevertheless found the opportunity to break the arm of a girl picket in the neck- wear union's strike for better con- ditions. They ganged up on her as she stood outside the shop and crushed her arm against the wall. The code says $13 for 40 hours, but is violated. | mitted to you. American Consolidated suggests that | ‘Daily.’ | J}DUCATIONAL director and president of the Metropolitan |44 Workers’ Soccer League, Sol Fisher writes us a couple of letters giving us a few practical suggestions and some educational material about th entitled, “Elucating Our Soc- cer Fans,” will now be trans Stand by .. .| NLY a few of the members of | the staff know of or follow the activities of the Metropolitan Workers Soccer League,” remarked Comrade Hathaway, editor of the! ‘Daily Worker, speaking on “Rev- | olution and Sports” at a recent wrestling meet held by the Labor Sports Union for the benefit of the Only one or two pay at- tention to the schedule and stand-| ing of the league printed regularly in the sports column. Comrade! Hathaway further claimed that it| was not an easy task to convince} the ‘Daily’ staff of the importance | of the sports column. He urged| the revolutionary working class to becothe sport conscious and to heip the Labor Sports Union build a| ra! Sport movement in this coun-| Fifteen to twenty-five thousand soccer fans, mostly workers, watch our teams play every Sunday on fields in every borough of Greater New York for the last seven years. Un rare occasions, when our players boosted the Communist Election Campaign, wearing signs on their chests reading, “Vote Communist,” “Kobert Minor for Mayor” or slogans , “Free the Scottsboro Boys,” “Free Tom Mooney,” the thousands ot our fans, though in the past had been ignorant of our principles, only they knew that we were worker soccer players,—a part ot the revolutionary working class. On these occasions the fans showed greater interest both in our games and in their respect to the play- ers and the referee. As a whole, our fans knew little of the exist- ence of our league and the Labor Sports Union. SAM ROSS e toe and head experts who practice their art every Sunday (with the exception of the | bad weather days which have kept them off the fields the | past few Sundays). His article? UR FANS, for many years fol- lowers of professional and soccer | games, were taught to bolster race and national feelings, often to a point of free-for-all fights. The M. W. 8. L. is composed many races and nationalities an Political beliefs. of West Indies and native Negroes, several from North and South Italy, teams from many islands of South America, Jewish, German, French, Polish, Hungarian and Greek work- ers. Then there are teams com- posed of mixed nationalities. Native Americans are on every one of our 47 teams. Despite the Hitler, Mussolini and K. K. K. propaganda that has been scattered around, the attempt to disrupt our league has been rejeeted overwhelmingly by our 900 mem- bers, Any indication of chauvinism is immediately squelched by the league at the very beginning. The Educational Committee of the M. W. S. L. has decided on an intensive educational cam- paign among our fans. A neatly rotographed leaflet, ex a few facts of our league, its aims and principles, with an appeal to the fans to help us maintain order and good sportsmanship on and off the field, has been issued and is being distributed every Sunday to owr tans while our games are in progress. Good results are already evident. With more educational activity among our fans we will not only have better order and sportsman ship on the field, but the thousands of our fans will become supporters of our league and conscious sup- porters and members of a mass labor sports movement im this country. Yours for labor sports, Sol Fisher. NRA, AFL Heads, Force Wage Cut (Qn Paterson Men (Continued from Page 1) bosses promise to give the U. T. W. | the closed shop and the check-off. | Paterson is seething with resent- ment. Many shops have already voted to strike against the wage- cut, U. T. W. members are flock- ing to the headquarters of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union seek- ing advice and leadership. At a packed mass meeting, held at 222 Paterson St., Paterson, N. J., Sun- day, A. F. of L. union members took the floor to denounce the sell-out by their leaders. “Why should we pay high dues out of our starvation wages to pay our leaders to help the bosses cut our wages?” they asked, Mass Conference March 17. The National Textile Workers’ Union has issued a call for unity and action, to stop the wage-cuts, | which calls upon the members of | the Associated Silk Workers Union | (U. T. W.), the United Warpers’ League, the Loomfixers and the Twisters’ Clubs, and upon all silk and dye workers to “unite and or- sganize into one big powerful in- dustrial union, based upon the class struggle, controlled by its rank and file members and devoted exclusively to the interests of all silk and dye workers, The N. T. W. U. call points out that the only way to stop this and future wage cuts and to raise our wages is to throw out the traitor- ous McMahon, Schweitzer, Keller bureaucrats, tear up the infamous {no-strike agreement, unite all their forces in one powerful industria} | union and strike under revolution- ary leadership in a united front of action, i A rank and file conference is | called to meet Saturday, March 17, at 3 P. M,, in Roseland Ball Room in Paterson. All shop committees will send representatives and all silk and dye workers are invited. Ac- tion will be taken to organize a real struggle against the bosses and their wage-cutting agents in the U. T. W. Ballam, Biedenkapp and Brown will speak. Discussion from the floor, 9.94 OPTOMETRISISCY (OPTICIANS || 137B ST.NICHOLAS AVE * 1690 LEXINGTON AVE. at179" ST.NY at 106+ ST.NY —WILLIAM BELL———— OFFICIAL Optometrist OF THE 106 EAST 14th STREET Near Fourth Ave., N. ¥. C. Phone: TOmpkins Square 6-8237 Dr. E. E. EICHEL Dentist 150 E. 93rd St., New York oe Cor. Lexington Ave. ATwater 9-8638 Hours: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sun, 9 to 1 Tucci, Dead Leader of Shoe Union, Is Given Revolutionary Burial NEW YORK.—Vineent Tucci, out- standing leader of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union and active member of the Communist Party, who died last Thursday at Wykoff Hospital of pneumonia, was buried with full revolutionary hon- ors in St, John’s cemetery yester. day. Seventy-five members of the union came to the funeral in a body. Members of the Communist Party and relatives were present. While the W.LR. band played the In- ternational all the workers present raised a clinched firs in the memory of their dead comrade. Comrade Martin, speaking at the meeting, said, “Our dead comrade gave thirty years active service to the revolu- tionary movement. We must now pledge ourselves to carry on to vic- tory the good work of Comrade Tuccy,” DR. 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