The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1934, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1934 Mass Opening of 8th Browder Will Communist Party Calls Workers Vote | GUTTERS OF NEW YORK Give Keynote To Delegates Workers’ Organizations Urged to Secure Tickets Now CLEVELAND, March 13 tional speakers at t ing of the Eighth N ‘day. Mother a Mary Himoff, of the liam Patterson, na-~ of the I. L. D.; Roy of the Marine 1 Union, and I sec: ry of the nent Coun will speak mass opening of the conven- for United Front May Day Demonstration S ecott sboro NEW YORK.—The Communist P ro t e s t S a t E Party issued an invitation yes- t to the city committees of anizations to par- | — |Patterson, Shultz and Bates Speak Tonight at Brooklyn Protest ticipate in setting up a provi- sfonal arrangements committee for a United Front May Day Conference and giant May Day demonstration of New York | kers. | “The attacks on the conditions ae | of the workers, the growing BULLETIN preparations of the New Deal NEW YORK.—William L. Pat- government for fascism and war, | terson, national secretary of the demands on this May Day, the gigantic expression of the united | will of the masses to struggle against every attack on the living standards and rights of the workers, against war and | fascism.” International Labor Defense, will speak on the role of the LL.D. in the struggles of the Negro and white workers at a mass protest meeting tonight at Savoy Mansion, 6322 20th Ave., Brooklyn (oppo- ite 20th Ave. Sea Beach Station). Other speakers include Anna Ruby Bates, star Scottsboro de- Schultz, former secretary of Ernst | Torgler, “acquitted” but still im- | prisoned Reichstag defendant, and | Cab Men Call vention will be opened on ‘ . | g of April 2, in the Pub- | ing of Apel 2 we Anti-Co. Union| . general secretary of the fense witness. Patterson will also speak at the two Scottsboro benefit perform- munist Party, will deliver the ynote speech. Speakers who were previously announced are Clarence Hathaway, Max Bedacht, Robert Conference | ances of John Wexley’s play “They | Shall Not Die,” at the Royale | Theatre, March 26 and 27. Minor, James W. Ford and Jack!Cal] All Unioms to| New york. —By unanimous Stachel, all members of the Cen- tral Committee of the Party. Speakers from brother parties will greet the convention at the April 2 mass opening in the name of the brother parties. All workers’ organizations are ufged to at once secure blocks of tickets for the mass opening of the historic Eighth National Conven- tion of the Party. Ticket Stations Following are the stations in Cleveland where tickets are on sale: New York Appetizer, 501 East 105th St. Liberty Cap Company, 8106 St. Clair. Uj Elore, Hungarian Daily, 11421 Buckeye. Rosefield Oil Co. 2671 Wood- Hill Road. Dr. Lee, 9001 Broadway. Workers’ Book Shop, 1522 Pros- pect Ave. Woitowitch Barber Shop, Fleet Ave. Yetta Land, 808 Engineers Building. Dr. Simon, 922 East 79th St. N. D. Davis, 442 Engineers Building. Ukrainian Labor Temple, 1051 Auburn Ave. Silverman Shoe Store, 105th St. Lakeview Workers’ Center, 1021 Lakeview Road. Workers’ Center, 756 East 105th St. Krinsky’s Key Shop, 5ist St. & Woodland Ave. Workers’ Cultural Home, 14101 Kinsman. N.Y. District Onens Convention Friday, With Mass Meeting Workers Will Gather in _ Bronx Coliseum to Hail C. P. NEW YORK. — The Communist Party opens its district convention | here Friday evening at the Bronx Coliseum with a huge mass meeting featured by prominent Communist speakers and by an elaborate pro- gram of working class entertain- mént. Meet, Sunday NEW YORK.—To get the support of all labor organizations in New York City in the struggle against the Parmelee System company union, the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York issued a call yesterday to all trade unions and workers’ or- ganizations to send delegates to a conference to support the taxi strike to be held Sunday at 11 a. m., at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. Samuel Orner, president of the | union sent a telegram to Mrs. Her- | rick, turning down her proposal to return to work and vote on the | question of the union later. The telegram to Mrs. Herrick | said: “In response to your telegram the General Council of the Taxi Driv- ers Union of Greater New York at a meeting has considered your pro- posal. We feel that we are com- pelled to reject it as it offers no- thing tangible. The results of the Weirton and Fifth Ave. Bus Com- pany plebisites held on company premises and particularly after the strikers return created conditions Elect Delegates for | | vote of over 500 Negro and white workers who defied last Saturday’s snowstorm and slushy streets to hold a Scottsboro protest demon- stration, a similar demonstration has been called for this Saturday after- noon in Harlem. At the main demonstration, held |at 126th St. and Fifth Ave., after a | march through Harlem streets, the | workers voted to call upon all or- | ganizations and workers throughout | the city to turn out with their ban- ners and slogans this Saturday | noon, at 1:30, to protest Judge Cal- lahan’s latest lynch maneuver in de- ying hearing in his court en the | appeals against the lynch sentences for Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris. Appeals have been filed by |the International Labor Defense | with the Alabama Supreme Court, and it is now urgently necessary to mobilize the whole force of the working-class for mass pressure on the lynch courts to foree the un- conditional and safe release of the |nine innocent Scottsboro boys. eee Oe Delegation Calls on Roosevelt Friday WASHINGTON, D. C., March 13. —A united front delegation of local Negro and white workers and sym- pathizers, led by the International Labor Defense, will present a peti- vorabl ized , i cir gal ge iad sel ease tion to President Roosevelt on Fri- the response to the strike call and|%8Y, Calling for the immediate un- our enrollment books are proof that | the Parmelee drivers have selected | as their organization the Taxi| Scottsboro boys. | York. We are willing at all times DENVER, Col. Mar. 13.—Resolu- to meet officials of the Parmelee | tions demanding the immediate, un- NEW YORK—To rally a powerful opposition to the Zimmerman- | conditional and safe release of the Company in a conference to dis- | Com cus our demands and arrive at ath | oe eniees 1 DORs: Meanwhile the strike continued,| churches here last Sunday. with strikers picketing the garages) SERS SORES SE The and stopping cabs. The el 9 9 . | union, declared to the press that it) Local bet bok Meeting was an organization without griev-| %’ ances against the Parmelee system, | TY Be H Id T ht “The Parmelee System is the swell- | 0 € ong haven't got a single kick,” said Irv-| ing Robbins, stool-pigeon and head | of the company union. Hit Zimmerman Robbins also hailed the police for their dirty work of beating up strike pickets. “The Police Department is “For the first two days of the strike |Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, | there was a lot of rough stuff. but | the left-wing group calls for a equitable solution.” | the lynch courts of Alabama for the Brotherhood, the Parmelee company est company in the world. We) Left Wing Mobilizes to Robbins Lauds Police doing a swell job” said Robbins.|o¢ rocal 22 of the International the police are now right on the job/ targe turnout to a meeting which | conditional and safe release of the | Drivers Union of Greater New Denver Workers Flay Lynch Courts and denouncing | | frame-up, were passed in five Negro | Lovestone strikebreaking leadership | Charles Krumbein, New York Dis-| every minute.” Robbins promised | j. being called for Wednésday, trict Organizer, will be chairman of @ program of speakers which in- cludes Earl Browder, general secre- tary of the Party; James W. Ford, Negro leader, and others, who will deal with vital problems confront- ing the American workers and the immediate tasks the Party is under- taking. All mass organizations have been invited to mobilize their member- ship for the convention opening. Outstanding features of the en- tertainment will be a colorful mass- pageant prepared by the League of ‘Workers Theatres, a mass chorus of 500 voices presented by the Workers Music League, symphony orchestra of the International Workers Order and brass-band of the Workers In- ternational Relief. SCOTTSBORO, THAELMANN DEMONSTRATION TODAY The Downtown Section of the Interne- tical Labor Defense has called a dem~ onstration at Union Square tonight, 7 o'clock, to demand the release of Thael~ mann from the Nazis and the Scottsboro Boys. The demonstrators will march to Sheridan Square for another outdoor meet- Ing. Ruby Bates, F. D. Griffin, and Paul Miller will speak. CAR NEEDED Will a comrade who is willing to donate _ #& sedan car for a trip up state New York, police protection to strike-breakers | march 14, at the Irving Plaza Hall, |and scabs who attempted to take | 15th gt. and Irving Plac, right after out Parmelee cabs. | After he had informed the press | of the strike-Dreaking role of his | company union, Robbins let it be known that he had sent a telegram | to William Green requesting admit- tance to the A. F. of L. “Birds of a feather are sure flock- jing together, “said Joseph Gilbert, | organizer for the union, in com- | menting on the proposed affiliation. Call Sent to All Unions In the call for the conference in | support of the struggle of the taxi | drivers against the company union, the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York urged all trade unions and workers organizations to elect two delegztes. Workers in shops were asked to send representatives. “The Parmelee System has taken the lead in putting over company unions on the drivers,” said the call. | “We feel that all the labor unions | will support us in our struggle against the company union.” The struggle against the Parmelee com- pany union is in the interest of the entire working class, the call pointed out. Workers are urged to collect funds Sundar, please communicate immediately with the "District of the Young Commu-| to aid the struggle against the com- aist League, 2 ® 2th St. Sth fleor.| pany union menace and bring them Phone: AZ 4-5797. All expenses will bel {0 the conference paid. : Daily PEWTRAL ORGAN COMMUMIST PARTY U.S.A, -2Worker SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIOWALD “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4- 1954, Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥. 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Goldwater declared that the wage-cuts are “designed to effect the savings of $100,000 a year,” in the attempt of the LaGuardia adminis- tration to balance the budget by victimizing city workers and pro- tecting the Wall Street banks’ in- terests. Schneider Out on Bail; Protest Meet Tomorrow NEW YORK. — Jack Schneider, leader of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union, was released from Ellis Island yesterday on $2,- 500 bail. Meanwhile immigration authorities are making every effort to secure a passport to deport him to fascist Poland. Realizing that only the powerful mass protest of workers can pre- vent Schneider from being deported, preparations went ahead for ‘a day’s mass meeting at Irving Plaza, 8 p, m., which will demand his free- dom and the return of citizenship rights to Emil Gardos. BURLAK SPEAKS IN PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA—Ann Burlak, militant working class leader and National Secre- tary of the National Textile Workers Union will speak at a mass meeting Tuesday, at Hungarian Hall, 1144 N. 4th St, on the NRA. and the Workers,” Also protest Scottsboro frame-up Convention of Party on April 2 By DEL CW. A. Supers at’ Bear Mountain Exposed on Graft | Workers Discharged, | While Favorites | Are Hired eae Te | | This is the second in the series | of exposes on the slave conditions | in the Bear Mountain C. W. A. | project, investigated by the Daily | Worker. terday. The first appeared yes- Higgins is in on every grafting racket. He has charge of the liquor selling concession on the | train between New York and Wee- hawken and, only those who “take care” of the superintendent can sell on it. Those who have tried to do so without paying Higgins have been fired trom their C.W.A. jobs, Higgins takes his graft either in | cash or in liquor, and the last car) of the train is the scene each night of wild drinking bouts in which the | two superintendents, Higgins and Horan, and their cronies are| drunken participants. There are! other concessions on the project such as selling cigarets, tobacco, and various articles of food and clothing. The officials are well paid for al-| lowing these. As for the easier! jobs, only those who are willing to pay for them, or a member of the bosses’ inner coterie, can hope to seeure one. All sorts of excuses and frame- ups are being used to reduce the number of workers, especially those who are militant, on the project. The first day that the C.W.A. took over the project from the Emergency Home Relief, the foreman of each crew was told to retain only the workers he con- sidered absolutely necessary, and to qis..rge ali others, “Many workers. whom the bosses con- sidered undesirable were thus weeded out. Takes on Favorites While these men, whose families depended on their paltry wages to keep from starving, were being) fired wholesale, other men, friends and relations of the bosses on the | job, were being hired at high sal-) aries. One particularly flagrant example of this is the favoritism shown to George Hope, a brother- in-law of Supt. Horan. Although Hope had a steady job in New York City, and was not eligible for Home Relief, the superintendent brought | him to Bear Mountain, and gave him a job as foreman at $28.20 a week. This was more than double the pay of the men working under him. After working only three days | as foreman, Horan made him a road boss at a salary of $145 a month, To make room for parasites like Hope, heads of families are fired without provocation. If necessary, they are framed. Two engineers from New York City were singled Out, beaten up and arrested by tive interstate Park police, ar- raigned before a Justice of the Peace at Stony Point on trum- ped-up charges of disorderly con- duct and intoxication, and fined $30 and costs. Speeding the work and driving the men till they break down is one of the methods used by the offi- cials to provide an excuse for dis- missal. There are various heart- breaking details, such as the drill- ing gangs and carrying water, to which workers are assigned to hasten their firing. The work of the drilling gangs consists of breaking rocks s0 as to facilitate their removal during road-building. Formerly 24 inches of drilling was a day’s work. This mark has been increased by Supt. Horan to six feet, which is almost impos- sible, especially on hard rock. Those who succeed in reaching the mark finish the day in a physical state bordering on collapse. The source of drinking water on the project is a 1% inch pipe, from which the water barely trickles. Be- cause of this, the carriers are forced to stand in a long line waiting their turn. Despite this, they have been ordered to increase their trips to eight daily. To make this many trips, they have to push themselves to death. Harrassed on all sides by graft, kick-back rackets, intimidation, dis- crimination, brutal working condi- tions, and wholesale firings, the 5,000 | C.W.A, workers on the Bear Moun- 8 jizations to the defense of these Special Meeting of N.Y.. District C.P. Called for | Thursday at Bryant Hall To all I. L. G. W. U., members of the I. W. O., workers’ clubs, language, fraternal, benefit and cultural societies and to all Party comrades, members of the LL. G. W. U.! You are invited to a special mass meeting called by the Com- munist Party this Ihursday 6 p. m. at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave- nue and 42nd Street. Charlies | Krumbein, District Organizer of | the Communist Party, Jack Stachel, National Secretary ot the Trade Union Unity League, and Max Bedacht, General Sec- retary of the International Work- ers Order, will speak on the is- sues before the elections in the LL. G. W. U. This meeting is of fundamen- tal importance, Please come on time. N. Y. District Secretariat Communist Party. Hagopa, Furrier, To Be Tried Today NEW YORK.—Trial of Michael Hagopa, who was arrested last July 5 for participating in a dem-} onstration of militant furriers of | the Needle Trades Industrial Union, comes up today in the General Ses- | sions Court. He was framed on charges of felontous assault. “These strikebreaking tactics of the LaGuardia administration, the sending of strikers and demonstra- tors to jail, must necessitate the rallying of all working-class organ- workers, to protest for their imme- diate release,” stated Bill Lawrence, district secretary of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, stated today. He urged workers to pack the courtroom. WorkersWin Strike In 35 NY Fur Shops NEW YORK.—Workers of twen- ty-four more fur shops struck yes- terday under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and thirty-five of the 100 shops which struck Monday signed agreements with the union. The workers in the settled shops have compelled the bosses to agree | to pay back wages due under the | scale and to pay up the money owed for the unemployment in- surance fund. At a shop chairmen’s meeting called ‘yesterday afternoon by the union it’ was decided that a mass meeting of all furriers will be Thursday evening in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, where problems of the strike and conditions in the industry will be discussed, Ford, McKawain Report at L.S.N.R. Membership Meeting Thursday Night NEW YORK.—James W. Ford, who represented the League of Struggle for Negro Rights at the recent Senate hearing onthe Cos- tigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill will report on the hearings at an open membership meeting of the L.S.N. R., Thursday night at the Y.M.C.A., 180 West 135th Street. The meet- ing is open to non-members, and) all workers are urged to attend. Herman MeKawain, assistant general-secretary of the organiza- tion, will report on the progress of the fight it is leading to force the Fifth Avenue Bus Co., to discon- tinue its discrimination against Ne- groes in employment. He will also speak on the membership recruiting campaign. i} | | tain project are announcing their determination to fight for the right to work and live like human beings. Resentful because they were not able to participate in the Feb. 15 C.W.A. demonstration at City Hall, they de- clare that nothing shall keep them from organizing and attending any future demonstrations. .Many of them have joined the Relief Work- ers League, which has already done cused of instigating an attack on| | Shotkin. | |the cleaning establishments. | shooting is a climax of the reign of Negro Orker | Shot By Boss to Break Philadelphia Cleaners’ Strike PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 13.—Ber- nard Shotkin, president of the Vir- ginia Snow Cleaners and Dyers, shot and seriously wounded Russel Wat- son, a 23-year-old Negro striker, outside a Labor Board hearing in the Bankers Trust Building, Juni- per and Walnut Streets, yesterday. Shotkin, through negotiations with the N.R.A. Labor Board, has been | attempting to break the strike of the cleaners and dyers which has been going on here for some time. Following the shooting Jack Stein, business agent of the Cleaners and Dyers Union, was arrested and ac- | A militant delegation of cleaners | and dyers and representatives of the International Labor Defense visited Magistrate O'Malley and forced him to raise Shotkin’s bail from $1,500 to $5,000 and change the charge against him from assault and bat- tery to aggravated assault and bat- tery with intent to kill. The Inter- national Labor Defense also forced the release of Jack Stein early this morning. Stein was held under $1,200 bond as a material witness to the shooting of Watson, who is un- der technical arrest at the Jefferson Hospital in a critical condition. spite the fact that Shotkin’s fellow employers declared that he had fired without provocation. Shotkin has been going around | threatening to shoot for the past He was arrested sev-| few weeks. eral times, but was released and was permitted to carry a gun. He has | been receiving aid from the police and the police have been giving all the aid they can to the bosses of The terror that has existed throughout the strike. Tonight the strikers are holding a huge mass meeting in Hungarian Hall to protest police brutality against strikers and discrimination by the courts. The meeting will be addressed by Ann Burlak, leader of the National Textile Workers Union. ‘Negro Mother And Daughter Tranp In Harlem Firetrap (Continued from Page 1) of the building. The fire started on the first floor and spread rapidly through the building, destroying the wooden stairways. Tenants in the building used kerosene lamps for il- lumination, it was discovered after the blaze had been brought under control. Of over 100 people who lived in the building, 20 were injured. Twen- ty families were made homeless. Two alarms were turned in, and it took the firemen more than an hour to get the flames under control. LaGuardia’s Tenement House Commissioner, Langdon W. Post, ar- rived on the scene and declared that: “This is just another one of those old places.” He made no other comment. ow, sw Another fire in a five-story’ tene- ment at 230 Madison St. endangered the lives of ten working class fami- lies early yesterday morning. Ciabtiet hint . Louis Shier, a deaf and dumb youth, paralyzed so that he could not walk, was killed yesterday after- noon when fire damaged a four- room apartment at 144 N. 3d St., Brooklyn. The youth was 20 years old, and was alone in the apart- ment when the fire broke out. The fire, caused by an overheated coal stove, spread to the toom where the Shier boy sat. Unable to move or shout for help, he was helplessly trapped, Firemen found his body on the floor with the body of a cat nearby. Postal Workers Protest Against Starvation Order (Continued from Page 1) Office Clerks and the National As- sociation of Letter Carriers affili- ated with the A. PF. of 1; the United National Association of Post Gome Clerks, the Rural Mail Car- tiers’ Association and groups of railway mail clerks and laborers. They will petition to the Board of Estimate, Board of Aldermen, De- partment of Charities and all other relief rganizations of New York City for adequate and continuous relief to the 3,000 substitute em- ployes of New York City who for the past two years have been liter- ally starving. They will fight to get Congress to immediately abolish all the provisions of the Act in order to provide for a living wage. The National Association of Substitute Post Office Employes and the Postal Employes Commit- tee for One urge all workers to protest the 15 per cent wage cut, the poor working condi- tions of overburdened regular em- ployes, the starvation wage rates and the terrific speed-up enforced by the Roosevelt Administration by demonstrating and fighting fine work in organizing the fight for better conditions. militantly for the postal workers’ | needs, At NRA Meet | Attacker Was Trying CPO SAM RT ROSS : Golden Gloves time. packs of thrills from athletes from 4,000 to 40. coated women, actors, workers—all out to | watch the eight annual Gol- den Gloves Final champion- ships. But among the fighters, it which lasted over a month with participants diminishin Madison Square Garden was packed to capacity with crowd of 19,201 people: bankers, Mayor La Guardia, ermine- politicians, ®— We SAW enough fighting last night to keep us for some Real, honest amateur fighting that comes in winding up a long tournament tooth and nail all three rounds and in the last it was a question as to who would drop first; but Olivo, a | Negro boy who looked like a minia- ture Joe Gans, got the decision and | : | the crowd went mad with applause. was a proletarian night. best There was all the pomp of bril-| a wae thie ent ao tae liant lighting effects and a feudal} ECISIONS and knockouts and Watson is held under arrest de-/| glory ‘of bugles announcing each fight. The fighters gave everything they had.. There was a true com- petitive spirit unlike the profes- sionals who are content to coast a round here and a round there just so long as they come out on top. There were toe-to-toe slugging fests, fast electrifying exchanges of punches, giving and taking until some one dropped. Forty-five thousand six hundred and twenty dollars was coined in by the Daily News A. A. They made a fortune out of exploiting these amateurs. The money they made in the semi-finals and pre- | liminaries, if it were divided | among the fighters, would have made their lives easier for some | time, The advertising and in- creased circulation of the news- paper was enough alone to make staging this tournament a finan- | cial snecess. But enough on this graft and ex- ploitation of which we know. To the fights themselves for the moment—which, we confess, carried us and the rest of the fans away. y Nae big arena was in pitch dark- ness before the fight between a couple of 112-pounders, Joe Fra- tello and Charles Olino. Then a powerful light showered itself upon the men as they were introduced. Then the whistle, the clang of the bell, and bing, bam, leather met face, met body; ducking, weaving, sparring, and the fight began be- | tween Fratello, assistant shipping | clerk, and Olino, a jeweler’s office boy. The shipping clerk had a little | too much in his shoulders and arms for the jewel expert, and he kayoed | the jeweler’s boy in th first round | | with an unexpecied left hook to the | | jaw. | In the 112-pound open class, a | butcher and soda clerk got together, | |and a battle royal was on between | the hamhock slinger and the soda jerker; but this time the soda clerk came to the fore with a technical knockout in the third round. Then the students had their show in the sub-novice 118-pound class. These two 18-year-old kids went at. it CWA Men Strike in Three Cities After hard fought battles all along. Every fighter, with the exception of a few, were workers, Those few were students. David Crawford, a 20-year-old Negro laborer, fought against Leonard Ferrer, an appren- tice printer. The printers and la- borers up in the galleries stuck up for their respective tradesmen. Crawford won the decision because of his aggressiveness. In the next bout. a Negro chauffeur, Green, went to it with a cutter; but the guy who got his muscles built up from shifting gears and stepping on brakes, crashed in with a couple | of stiff body blows that floored the | scissor handler, Green Inter won the sub-novice heavyweight championship by a knockout; but he wasn’t cheered, Not a sound was uttered as his | hand was raised. He fought the | second time for the championship after a Negro bookbinder stepped into the ring with a waiter. The Negro bookbinder, Hough, won the first two rounds according to the judges, but in the last round, the waiter almost put Hough away. ‘he crowd went hyster- ically, chauvinistically mad. Till then, all the Negro boxers won thelr bouts. But when Hough’s hand was raised as the winner, the tans almost stampedea the stadium. They protested loudly with loud whistles, booing, yelling. They rose in mass to protest the decision. They booed and hooted during the next two bouts. And it was Green’s misfortune to fol- low this bediam. For putting up a brilliant, game fight, knocking out his opponent, he was booed and most ot the tans wouldn't acknowledge the champion, ae ste UT the porters, printers, box makers, radio station office boys, shipping clerks, machinists, students, milkmen, cutters, transfer clerks, had their day, or so the Daily News would have us believe. The two best fights of the evening were the open championship light- weight bout between Charles Diaz, a printer, and Frank Williams, a Negro porter, and the heavyweight final between Bob Pastor, a student at N. Y, U. and Al Demedowitz, a bookkeeper. In the lightweight bout, Williams walked in at the beginning, meas- ured his opponent, hit, kept hitting, followed up his punches, bored in | like a finished professional and | knocked his opponent out in the | first round. It was a fine exhibi- | tion of finished workmanship. In | the sep stik sa Bigne both men TING PU NAN POS ET were accom] et xers.. Both county deputy C. W. A. adminis~ | men weaved aud ducked and feinted trator, announced that the prevail- | until their openings came; but the ing wages would be continued. hard punching student landed a The C. W. A. had ordered the | couple of stiff hooks to the book- 20 Per Cent Pay Cut (Continued from Page 1) local C. W A. wages reduced from 50 cents to 40 cents an hour, and | the mass meeting followed Monday night Angered over the Roosevelt C.W.A. pay cuts, 2,000 C. W. A. workers went on strike in Utica, N. ¥., on Monday, demanding a guaranteed minimum wage of $15 a week, and marched on the City Hall. While the strikers gathered in Chancellor Park, a delegation of ers’ demands to C. W. A. direc- tor, Howard Grayburn. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 sympathetic jobless workers joiged with the ranks of the C.W.A. strikers. In an attempt to break the solid ranks of the strikers, C. W. A. Ad- ministrator Grayburn announced that all the strikers might return to work in the morning with the exception of 200 who had been working on protecting walls in a creek project. The strikers claim that these are the most militant of the workers, and promised their are to this proposal later in the lay. The Roosevelt pay cut against which the men are striking cuts, the working time from 30 to 24 hours @ week, and the pay from 50 to 40 cents an heur. The third strike of C.W.A. work- ers ‘occurred in Bristol, near‘ Phil- adelphia, where 500 C.W.A. workers struck for the former fifty cents an hour they had been receiving. They were working on an extension of the Bristol, Pa. water main, under Bristol township authorities. They were cut down to 40c an hour. After the strike, the Bucks County C.W.A. administrator, promised to meet the workers’ demands in full and arrangements were made to resume work the following morning at the fifty ecnt an hour rate, seven workers presented the work-/| keeper’s head, followed up with more quick punches and, after floor- ing his opponent twice, he finished the job with a series of lightning pe and jabs until Demedowitz ell. This bout crowned the evening. And now these boys will spend their time training for the inter-city championship against the Chicago Glove winners on March 28th. AARON SHAPIRO, Pod.G. CHIROPODIST 223. SECOND AVENUE ‘ Algonquin 4-4432 Cor. 14th St. Scientific Treatment of Foot Ailments New Folding Chairs JOHN KALMUS CO. 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