The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1934, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934 Post Quiz Is Attempt to Fog Unions Mobilize |Fight Of C.W.A. Men Against! Real Firetrap Causes,Conceal To Support Taxi_ Firing Rises Thruout Country Villionaire Realtors’ Guilt | ea ee | Cooperate With Rich Slum Owners to Make Profits on Repairs Green Fears Auto Strike, Pleads for Anti-Strike Bil (Continued from Pa By EDWIN ROLFE YORK publ. he miserable conditions which life a horrible nightmare for Ew — Manouvering to ity spotlight away (Continued from Page %) Drivers’ Strike’ these projects, and the enactment (Continued from Page 1) | Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). and National Labor Board. It is a| found for the needy.” This is in fight for the right to be organized | line with the statement of Mayor in an organization of the workers’ | LaGuardia and his welfare director, own choosing. Shoe workers sup-| Hodson, that the unemployed will port the Sunday mass conference | be put “on the needy basis’—that in defense of the taxi drivers, Elect | is C.W.A. jobs will be liquidated, delegates in your shops.” | many will be cut off relief, and the The Needle Trades Workers’ In-| relief and work relief “wages” cut down to the “minimum” as Hodson ® nm W. Post on Wi n- at he had d John J. Commissioner, to s of recent fires se of discovering had been the work y an. followed a day ‘St toll had been On Tuesday the fires occurred eombe Ave., Harlem: dead, boy critically d, 20 families (over 100 per- ) left homeless. . 56th St.: Boy overcome e in basement flat, taken ue Hospital. Prince St.: Fili 62 years old, ena Mag- burned to 4 N. Third St. Brooklyn: Srippled youth burned to death o'd tenement in slum area. 0 Madison St.: Ten families endangeed in fire in five-story tenement. ) -Crow Fire Victim It disclosed yesterday that the jim-crow rules remained in force in Harlem even in the case of the ritically injured ten-year old Ne- who had boy, Calvin White, gro been thrown five stories to the his grandmother in a to save him from the mee removed the boy from reet, a telephone inquiry elicited the information that he had not been taken to the Knick- erbocker, but to the jim-crow Har- lem hospital, at Lenox Ave, and 136) St., a hospital significantly k as th the Harlem hospital, the boy's con- dition was described as “still very m in this working class section the Edgecombe Ave. fire. | Although a Knickerbocker hospital | e “Harlem butcher shop.” At/ 3,000,000 men, women and who live in New York) you sponsoring compulsory arbitra- tenements, Comm mer | tion?” Green hotly replied, “No.” “It’s developing in my mind as you go along that this may lead to compulsory arbitration,” Davis per- sisted. Green answered only, “We t favor nor do we ask for com- pulsory arbitration.” Which didn’t answer the question as to whether | or not the Wagner bill doesn’t “lead to” compulsory arbitration. New Power Against Labor The bill provides specifically that ‘any of the parties’—such as the jemployer—may seek arbitration by a new and more powerful national |labor board and get it, with the d working through the courts, injunetions if necessary, to en- c findings. It would place in this enlarged Labor Board a new police power against Iabor—it would | subject “anyone” interfering with jor failing to obey the Board's edict to a fine of $5,000 or a year in prison or both. That penalty is put there, of course, as though it were to be used against defiant employers, but the history of the present Labor Board and other N.R.A. boards, as well as |of the courts, shows amply that it its | Will be used against labor. Has the} N.R.A. machine done anything to |remedy Weir, Budd, Chester, Ford jor other notorious cases—although the N.R.A. supposedly provides crim- inal action? But have N.R.A. and the National Labor Board missed an opportunity to declare workers’ | strikes violations of their decisions —rendering the workers liable to injunctions which have been issued repeatedly against them? Even the American Federation of Labor officials previously have op- | posed legislation such as the new | Wagner Bill. The A. F. of L. re- peatedly has endorsed the opposi- tion of the Canadian Federation jagainst the Lemieux Act (known in |Canada as the “Lemon Act”) .. o s > is | t very similar to the Wagner The purpose of Post’s new moye is| #1 ac i similar to that of his “crusading” | PFoposal. Today, however, the Wag- campaign of the past few weeks; to| 2° bill was staunchly defended by shift public attention from the basic | Green and other A. F. of L. leaders causes and cures for fire-trap slum tenements, and by making these demagogic and misleading gestures, to fool the fire-threatened popula- tion of the city into the false belief that the Fusion administration is attempting to do something about their conditions. As previously ex- posed in the Daily Worker, the tie- up between the LaGuardia gang and the Wall Street banks which own the mortgages on a great percent- age of the slum properties in the city is too close for any real at- tempt to be made to raze the rot- ten structures and move the trapped families to modern apartments with —as the New York District of the Communist Party has demanded— no increase in rents. Astor Generous—at a Profit! The game of the city administra- tion was further revealed Wednesday when Commissioner Post announced that Vincent Astor, owner of 38 old-law tenements on the Lower East Side, had made a “most gen- erous offer” to co-operate with him in improving the Astor tenements. What this “most generous offer” was can be seen immediately if one reads Astor's own words: “T am tremendously in favor of the Federal Housing Program. . Private capital is not in a Position to do it [effect needed re- pairs and renovations for fire- safety] but it is up to the private individuals to co-operate with the Federal and municipal authorities to see that it is done.” Astor also said that he would be willing to sell his properties to the city at a “35 per cent loss.” Thus you have the spectacle of the Fusion administration and a millionaire slum tenement owner “co-operating” to shift the financial burden of fire-safety and slum- clearance to the pockets of the very same tenants whose lives are threat- ened by tenement fires, and using Federal subsidies for their own profit. Other millionaire and aristocratic owners of slum tenements flatly re- fused to do anything about their properties, declaring frankly (un- like the suave Vincent Astor) that they “could not afford” to do any- thing about making the lives of werking class tenants safe from Geath by fire. Among these own- ers Was Mrs. Samuel A. Blatchford of 115 E. 82d St. and the ultra- aristocratic Stuyvesant family. CORRECTION fect. 18 ot the Communist Party will hold its banquet tomorrow night and not tonight as mentioned on page 5. DR. JULINS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICK: Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1378 STNICHOLAS AVE ® 1690 LEXINGTON AVE. 79% ST.NY New Folding Chairs: JOHN KALMUS CO. Inc. 35 W. 26th Bt] MUrray Will 4-5447 School Office an NEW and USED Equipment Allerton Avenue Comrades! The Medern Bakery was firtt to settle Bread Strike and first to sign with the Food Workers’ Industrial Union 691 ALLERTON AVE. whom N.R.A, Administrator General Johnson just recommended to 4,000 bosses by saying: “Their interests |are your interests.” | Green In Weirton Case | In the most shameless omissions |of vital facts, Green shouted and waved his hands to describe the | Weir, Budd and other infamous cases in which he declared, the em- ployers “defied” the National Labor |Board—but without pointing out |that the National Labor Board, of | | which he and Wagner are leading lights, itself actually aided these employers’ performance against their employees. He cited the mul- tiplication of company unions and the N.R.A. He told how the Har- |riman, Tennessee, Hosiery Company |had strikers’ representatives jailed |for coming to Washington to appeal jto the NLB.; he told how the National Lock Company, of Lock- port, Illinois, got an injunction against the Regional Labor Board of Chicago restraining it from mak- ing a report in the case—without noting that this is exactly a fore- cast of what will happen with greater smoothness under the pro- | posed Wagner bill. Reciting the Weirton case, Green | guilelessly admitted that when the workers there accepted the Labor Board’s scab-herding decision that |they must go back to work on a | promise of an election, “the work- ers surrendered whatever advantage |they might have had. They were tricked.” And Green and Wagner, don’t forget, were leaders in the Board that tricked them, and so | now that the workers are preparing to break their strikes. Pathetic and Tragic Going over the infamous Budd case, Green actually declared: “It’s Pathetic—it’s tragic—the faith these workers have in the Government and the Labor Board.” The fact is that the Labor Board with the aid of the A. F. of L. leadership coerced those workers into returning to work. They promised much, it’s that in pretended gullibility ac- cepted these fake promises. After ranting further about Weir. Green shouted: “If I had my way I would pillage Mr. Weir as a public enemy.” And then he added, “At the present time he (Weir) stands as a challenge to the government.” As though Green didn’t know that |the government right straight | through has been serving Weir— the Labor Board itself serving him from the moment it broke the strike with the election maneuver. In his effort to defend the Wag- ner Bill, Green let slip for once the statement that independent unions outside the A. F. of L. are not all company unions—something A. F. of L. lJeaders in many cases, such | as the fur industry, have been loath |to admit. Senator Borah of Idaho ; asked Green whether there were | any company unions that were or- ganized voluntarily by workers. Green said there were non—“but,” he confessed, “there are some inde- pendent unions outside of the A. F. of L.” Fears Strikes Will Spread Contending that the employers who “flout” the Labor Board, are a “minority,” Green asserted that the “majority” are willing to make ee the N.R.A. promise. Then he said: “Not only will there be strikes in the automobile industry—not so much for wages as against company unions—this will spread to steel and other industries un- Jess the gredy hands of these (the ‘minority’) employers are re- strained.” Charlton Ogburn, lawyer for the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees (A. F. of L.) then unblushingly pleaded for the bill because “it méets the needs of industry!” | “Shis bi meets the needs of for strikes, Green wants more power | |true, but it was the local leaders | ‘1 | dustrial Union issued a call to all its members to elect delegates from the shops for the conference, which said, in part: “The taxi drivers are putting up |a militant battle for the right to |belong to a union of their own choice, and for the right to earn a decent livelihood. Through Mayor | LaGuardia, the Socialist Panken ‘and Mrs. Herrick of the Regional Labor Board, their last strike was betrayed. The companies, with the | aid of the LaGuardia police, are at- tempting to break the present strike | representing the workers which the taxi drivers have succeeded in building. Company unions | What the bosses want, in order to }continue unhindered taxi drivers’ strike is the strike of all workers. We must defeat the attempts to company-unionize the taxi driving industry, by giving all | possible support to the strikers.” a hare | A. F. of L. Members Support Drivers In a statement issued by the & F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, 1 Union Sq., in support of the striking taxi- | drivers, the Committee called on all its affiliated locals to immediately elect delegates to the conference. The A. F. of L, Committee also calis | upon all other A. F. of L. locals | Not affiliated with the Committee, to | elect delegates. | Women to Send Delegates The United Councils of Working | Women, with headquarters at 80 EF. | 11th St., notified all branches to elect delegates to the anti-company | union conference. “The Womens’ Councils are vitally interested in the victory of the taxi strike because many of the members of our or- | ganization are wives of hackmen,” -| Said Clara Bodien, secretary of the councils. At a mass strike meeting held Wednesday night at the strike head- quarters at Germania Hall, 16th St. and Third Ave. strikers spiked as lies the rumors spread by Irving Robbins, head of the company union, that 60 per cent of the cabs are running. It was pointed out by Harry Can- | tor that the company had hired men to drive one car around the | block several times to give the im- are in operation. A Daily Worker reporter stood on the corner of 42nd St. and Broad- way for 20 minutes during the thea- | tre hour Wednesday night and only saw one Parmelee cab—and this one | was running without passengers. H Greet Negro Driver | A tumultuous ovation greeted | Eddy Rumph, a Negro driver, who came to the strike meeting pledging the support of the Negro hackmen at the 140th St. and Fifth Avenue garage. Samuel Orner, president of the Taxi Drivers Union, reported last night the strike is still just as effec- tive as ever. “We are strengthening our picket lines,” said Joseph Gilbert, organizer of the union. “With stronger pick- eting and the mass support that |we are getting from trade unions and labor organizations all over the city we are in a stronger position today than we were at the begin- ning of the strike.” Girl Laundry Striker in Brooklyn Convicted On Faked Evidence NEW YORK.—In spite of obvious lies and contradictions of police and witnesses against her, a girl picket, one of the 150 workers striking at the Independent Laundry, Herzl and Livonia Ave., Brooklyn, was convicted yesterday of “malicious mischief” at the Pennsylvania Ave. Court by Magistrate Liota. The strikers, all girls, have been ordered by Kaufman, of the A. F. of L., to have no more than two pickets at the huge laundry, an ob- viously inadequate number. Every morning scabs are brought in on trucks and in cars and taken out the same way in the evening. The boss has ben trying to break the morale of the strikers by arrests and intimidations. Militant strikers are the workers to keep the strike solid and strong, to withstand the attacks of the bosses and to disregard the “Julling to sleep” methods of the A. F. of L. agent. Bronx Club To Discuss Elections in I.L.G.W.U. NEW YORK—The Bronx Work- ers Club, 1610 Boston Road, will hold a lecture on Friday, March 16, on the subject of The Rank and File Opposition in the A. F. of L. | and the forthcoming elections in the Local 22, I.L.G.W.U. Comrade Walks will speak, Admission is free. Labor,” he said, “and I'll go further —I'll say it meets the needs of in- dustry. What Congress did for the railroads and raiiroad labor under the Railway Labor Act, this bill would do for all.” Besides naming this act, which is notorious among fighting unions throughout the nation, Ogburn de- clared the “precedents” for Wag- ner’s bill are the (equally notorious) War Labor Board and the U. S. Board for railroads. “I have come to believe particu- larly in arbitration as a means of settling strikes,” Ogburn added. “Strikes ate becoming increasingly costly [particularly to the employ- in the ers—M. Y.] particularly railroad industry.” |and thereby also break the union | are) their brutal | exploitation of the taxi drivers. The | | pression that many Parmelee cabs | | | stated this week. Hopkins did not say a word as to any definite amount of relief to be) given to the unemployed after April ist, and did not give any def- jobless. He only made general and) evasive promises, at the same time) that the C.W.A. is being demobi- lized rapidly. The masses of the! unemployed through continued} demonstrations must force real concessions from Hopkins :~1 the federal government. | Suk e oe 300 Strike in Auburn AUBURN, N. Y., March 15.— | More than 300 C.W.A. workers went on strike here yesterday, | demanding the rescinding of the | Roosevelt wage cut, and that | fugare C.W.A. wages be paid at the minimum rate of 50 cents an hour for a guaranteed 30 hour week, union wages to apply to skilled workers. The strike de- veloped at the Genesee St. C. W. | A. project; the strikers marching | to the other city C.W.A. jobs, | urging the workers to join them. In a signed statement, the strikers contended that the C. | the workers at the meeting. job, and forced the C.W.A. to grant their demands for the removal of | the superintendent, for the right | | Of the Workers Unemployment andi .- ‘build fires on the job, for a three| = y we d for im-} sein nar) In his statement to the press,| Cight-hour day week, an breaking methods of the Regional| Hopkins said that “work will be| Mediate relief to all cases presented. | Strike Talk Surges At Auto Hearings of Nat'l Labor Board (Continued from Page 1) are leading “labor” members of the | inite plan for the security of the| Strikebreaking N.L.B. Both Green and Lewis failed to show up today to question their em- ployer masters. Their absence was so noticeable that even one of the N.L.B. officials confided to your cor- respondent that they were “idiots.” Collins, who presented his com- pulsory arbitration proposals to the Board at yesterday's hearing, was | conspicuously afraid of the strike sentiment that simply cozed from He | pleaded with the employers to tell him what they “want us to do to prove that we are representatives,” asking the avowed anti-union em- Ployers just how he could fix the| diate relief will be: A. F. of L. organization to suit their wishes, At today’s session the delegates of all unions were still talking about the militant speech delivered yester- day evening by Phil Raymond, Na- tional Secretary of the Auto Work- ers Union. All over the big court- W. A. City administration was | jike room one could hear delegates directly responsible for the wage cut, and in other cities, workers who struck had forced the Roose- velt government to rescind the wage cut, ee wee Hit Discrimination Under the leadership of the Re- lief Workers League, 120 Jewish workers on the Bronx Split Rock Rd, C.W.A. project, struck on the job Monday, and forced the re- intsatemetn of five fellow work- ers who were fired because they were Jews. . ’ Workers Support R.W.L. President | Michael Davidoff, president of the Relief Workers League of Greater New York, was recently ordered transferred from the Health Department C.W.A. pro- ject at Canarsie to Bergen Beach. To stop the transfer, the gang of 60 workers, under the eyes of the project engineer, as they were be- ing paid off, signed a protest peti- tion against his removal. See . INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 15. —C.W.A. and unemployed work- ers, under the leadership of the Unemployment Councils and the CW.A. Workers Relief Association, demonstrated at the State House here, demanding that Gov. McNutt. take action for the continuance and enlargement of the C.W.A. and endorse the Workers Unem- | ployment Insurance Bill. For the first time, C.W.A. workers were in- structed to work on Thursday, the day of the demonstration, the C.W.A. heads hoping by this ac- tion to divide the ranks of the workers, * 2 «8 Salem, Ohio Workers Demonstrate SALEM, Ohio—After forcing the City Council to endorse the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill, the C.W.A. Workers Protective Union here forced them to also send letters of protest to State C.W.A. Administrator Braught and to Harry L. Hopkins against the recent C.W.A. wage cut, and the cutting off of federal relief surplus food to the jobless. As a result, the local relief bureau has again started giving surplus food to large families. Pang peters Force Relief to Single Men EVELETH, Minn.—After 300 job- less workers demonstrated before the local relief headquarters here on March Ist, relief was granted to single men, and all fired C.W.A. workers were re-registered. New- man, the local relief administrator, attempted to break the unity of the demonstrators by issuing about a thousand dollars worth of relief orders on the day of the demon- stration, The ©.W.A. also ordered the fired workers to register for work in the nearby town of Virginia on the same day. The miners here are continuing the struggle for more relief, since present relief is still inadequate. eos Southern Negro and White Demonstrate RUSSELLVILLE, Ark.—More than 900 Negro and white farmers and workers demonstrated here Satur- day, demanding increased relief and the re-instatement of all C.W.A. workers without discrimination. The workers unanimously endorsed these demands, all present signing a peti- tion sent to Harry L. Hopkins. Rus- sellville is a town situated a few miles from the border of Polk County, a lily-white county. aie aie Los Angeles United Front LOS ANGELES The Relief Workers Protective Union and the Construction Workers Industrial Union have issued a call to a united front conference of all working¢lass organizations for Sunday, March 25, at 2 p.m., at 741 Wall St. The con- ference will take steps to call a united mass meeting and protest demonstration of all jobless work- ers for the continuance of the CWA and for adequate relief, and for the enactment of the Workers Unem- pioyment Insurance Bill. Force Supervision to Give Relief CINCINNATI, Ohio—Single un- employed workers in the Robinson “Opera” House here have forced the supervisor to give tickets for food and lodging without forced la- bor as in the past. Twenty workers from the “A” shift, 79 from the “B” shift, and 109 from the “C” shift, by sending committees to the supervisor, compelled him to stop the use of forced labor. Cincinnati C.W.A. workers, em- ployed on the Linwood Playground commenting on the array of facts and the “guts” in Raymond's speech. James Boens, Negro veteran Buick worker from Flint, Mich., as an A. | F. of L. delegate, complained bit- | terly | first time in my life I couldn't get to the NLB. that “for the anything to eat” in white ruling- class Washington, and compli- mented Raymond on his militant presentation, particularly on Ray- mond’s demand for the abolition ot Negro discrimination in the auto industry. Tt is significant that not one member of the National Labor Board, especially Green and Lewis, replied yesterday to Boen’s charge of Negro discrimination in the res- taurants of Washington. Knudsen in an obvious attempt to forestall the impending strike demagogically promised an _ in- crease in wages, effective on or about March 31, 1934, in its plants operating under the automobile manufacturing code, to reduce the hours of productive workers from an average of 40 hours to 36 hours weekly and to raise wages corres- pondingly over rates prevailing in} February 1934. “The workers haven't told all} that has been going on in these | plants. I know that manufacturers have speeded up production from 50 to 150 per cent per man and hav reduced wages... all the worker is today is a slave,” Jones charged before the Board. He an- nounced that he would bring the matter before the Labor Commit- tee of the House, but remained silent about the necessity for the men to strike, the main thing that they want to hear. Speaking quite accurately, Knud- sen informed the N. L. B. that Gen- eral Motors will “never” be on the other side of President Roosevelt. He pointed out what the A. F. of L. officials have attempted to con- ceal, that Section 7-A of the N.R.A. does not protect the right of the workers to form their own unions. “We're operating in good faith,” said Knudsen. “The auto code pro- vides machinery [the code author- ity is the employer himself—S.W.1 to handle these complaints. I) should like personally to say that General Motors will never be on sen other side of President Roose- velt.” Matthew Smith, the head of the Independent Mechanics Educa- tional Society, speaking for “16,000 tool and die workers,” attacked both the A. F. of L. officialdom and the strike-breaking Labor Board, but professed to see the auto com- panies standing opposed to the Ad- ministration. “Discrimination is practiced on an unprecedented scale. . . . The com- pany unions, like all kept institu- tions, obey orders. . . . Getting us to join the A. F. of L. is only to convert us to something more peaceful than the company union. Raymond electrified the meeting this morning with his demand that the Labor Board commandeer the photographic plates of the news- paper photographer who had taken a picture of a Ford worker testi- fying at the hearing. “I ask again whether the government will guar- antee our delegates against victim- ization. Did the Board give this photographer permission to take pictures of the men?” Raymond demanded. Chairman Williams said that the plates would be con- fiscated. But Raymond’s demand that the Board should question the employers was refused. Collins’ own declaration that the employers have brought in 4,500 new people to prepare to break a strike, and have also advertised in small papers for workers, did not prevent him from disclaiming strike action and talking down the use of | the strike weapon. “I'm honest about the strike. I know too much about sttikes and what they do to workers,” he said. Cringing, he added, “Unless we can get prompt action from the National Labor Board I’m not going to be respon- sible for what the men do.” Nevertheless, the A. F. of L. dele- gates are terribly worried over what they can say to their men, who are clearly in a strike mood. The rank and file delegates, how- ever, are determined to return and take immediate strike action. STATEN ISLAND Y.C.L, HOLDS DUCK RAFFLE The Y.C.L. of Staten Island has ar- ranged a “Live Duck" raffle, concert and memorial of the Paris Commune for _to- | port Ex-ServicemenTo | Place Demands in | City Hall Today To March from Union Sq. at 1 P.M.; To See Mayor NEW YORK.—Mayor LaGuardia will be visited by a lange delegation of war veterans at City Hall today and demands will be placed before him for immediate relief for ex- servicemen and that he immedi- ately memoralize Congress to sup- the three’ point program, which includes immediate payment. of the bonus. Veterans, under the leadership of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, will gather on Union Square at 1 p. m. today, from where they will march, escorting their delegation to the City Hall. Got Promises The Relief Committee of Post 1 of the W. E. S. L. has been given many promises by the Department of Public Welfare and Home Re- lief of cutting out the red tape in relief, but none of thees have been lived up to, The Relief Committee has been able to improve the con- ditions of relief for over 1,000 vet- erans within the last few weeks. Their chief demands for imme- 1, Removing of veterans from flop-houses, giving them cash re- lief, sufficient to rent apartments to live in. 2 Removing restrictions of forced certification by so-called American Legion Relief Commit- tees and others whom they do not trust and will demand the right to be certified either through veteran organizations of their own choice or in the usual way which is provided for certification of any person, 3. They will also demand that Mayor LaGuardia memorialize Congress to support the three- point program and that he place a similar resolution before the Board of Estimate for such action. Panken, S.P. Head, Supports Wagner Strikebreaking Bill (Continued from Page 1) Germany, Italy, and, I think, Aus- tria.” Significantly, although Panken has declared he was opposed to Communism because he was op- posed to a “dictatorship,” he didn’t! dare to bracket the powerful labor| unions of the Soviet Union—where a “dictatorship” of the working class exists— with those hogtied unions in the countries where the “dictatorship” of the capitalists exists, Panken, however, makes no| distinction among “dictatorships.” Following a straight social-fascist line, Panken declared that the pending Wagner Bill would give the National Labor Board “the power to enforce compliance with its deci- sions.” He implied this force would be directed against defiant employers, but ought to know that it will be directed against strikes, since every proponent has named the developing strike wave as the first reason for the bill. In an effort to remedy the error, William Green made earlier in ad- mitting that the A. F. of L. has no monopoly on independent unionism in this country, Panken told the committee: Herding For A. F. of L. “There's been a great deal of talk here about company unions and independent unions outside of the A. F. of L. I want to say that I for one would like to see all independent unions under the banner of the A. F. of L.” Asked whether the A. F. of L. leaders force unions into the A. F. of L., Panken replied: “T'll say that all Labor organiza- tions are trying to bring indepen- dent unions into the [there's only one, apparently, although Green had testified otherwise—M. Y.] General Trade Union movement be- cause in solidarity there's a greater possibility of advancing the inter- ests of labor.” Panken said he was submitting certain changes in language in the Wagner Bill to prevent “defeating its purpose,” but he didn’t trouble himself to specify verbally what these changes were. He contended that the bill would “raise purchas- ing power.” KNITGOODS WORKERS OPEN FORUM An open forum to discuss the problems of the knitgoods trade will be held at 1 p.m. today at the Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. Called by the Rank and File opposition, Locals 155 and 1793, U.T.W. 0. 8 pe BRONX PARENTS, TEACHERS ASSOCIA- TION MEET ‘The Bronx Parents and Teachers Asso- ciation has called a mass meeting for to- night, 8 p.m., to discuss retrenchment in education, * The meeting will be held at P. S. 61, Boston Rd. and Charlotte St., and will be addressed by Dr. A. B, Wein- stein, Isadore Begun, Herman Krause and others, GARMENT WORKERS WELCOME SHERIDAN VEGETSRIAN RESTAURANT (Formerly Shildkrauts) 225 WEST 36th STREET Between 7th and 8th Avenues Russian and Oriental Kitchen VILLAGE BAR fomradely Atmosphere 221 SECOND AVENUE near 14th Street, New York City BENSONHURST WORKERS Patronize Gorgeou’s Cafeteria 221 86th Street Near Bay Parkway morrow, 8 p.m., at 2047 Richmond Ter- Project, formed a committee on the tace P. R. #, Nusbaum will speak, Fresh Food at Proletarian Prices GP Basketba 3AM ROSS ll Mania PRGNES are beginning to ring around here. Ross, Comrade Ross... Want 50 tickets for the Renais-” sance- All-Star basketball game.” can I get my tickets?” And Si Gerson, our city editor, squat- ting over there at The Desk Bob Minar Built, keeps reaching “Comrade | Another ring. “Where his hand over the phone and calling me. They're ringing In some of yesterday’s ex- citement, when banging off a column about these sports- men, all professionals and ultra-stars, volunteering their serv- ices for the Scottsboro boys, I for- got to mention some details about the game, ee ay B= now in bold type, I'll begin clicking off some more infor- tion. The Labor Sports Union is sponsoring the basketball game between the Renassiance Club, world’s Negro champions and con- sidered the greatest bunch of eoTer Ls EYRE SAITCH Forward on the Renaissance basketball team, who will demon- strate his basket shooting tech- nique against an all-star aggrega- tion at the St. Nicholas Arena, Thursday, March 29, for the Scottsboro Defense Fund. eagers in the world by those in the know, and an All-Star ag- gregation composed of former All-American college stars who are now engaged in the last rounds of professional league tour- neys. And these men are going to pivot, disturb basket nets, shoot down the floor until the sweat runs from their backs for one of the worthiest causes in our minds todaiy—the Scottsboro Defense fund. William LL. Patterson, national secretary of the International La- bor Defense, is going to turn sports- man on the night of the 29th when he delivers the feature talk in be- tween halves. Incidentally Bill used to be a boxer and sprinter some years ago. The St. Nicholas Arena is going to see thése men in action for the first time this season, and the court, which we know will be packed as shown by the exuberant interest already displayed, will resound with cheers of enthusiasm instead of the usual sounds of crowds cheering and booing for blood and do-or-die winning procedures. These men will play the game as it really should be played without the bawdy obvious showmanship of paid pro- fessionals who have to attract a crowd only by brutal exhibitionism. Tickets can be obtained at the L. S. U. office, 114 West 14th Street; the I. L. D. office, 80 E. WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has reduced the rent, several good apartments available, Cultural Aotivities for Adults, Youth and Children. ‘Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 Trains. Stop at Allerton station Friday and Saturday 9 Sunday 10 him too, e llth Street; the Workers Book Store, 50 East 13th Street; the Harlem Liberator, 2162 Seventh Avenue; and the Renaissance Casino, 138th Street and Seventh Avenue, i | ND since I’m on the subject of basketball, I might as well make this an all-basketball column. In- troducing to you, then the New York district basketball tourney, spon- sored by the Labor Sports Union of America. A tournament will be staged all over America in which the best team of each district will | play other district winners for the | regional championship and finally the national play-off will be held in New York City on April 15th The Eastern District of the |L. S. U. will begin their joust on Sunday, March 18 at Kaytee Hall. These will be preliminary games. The District winner will receive a prize cup for compensation. Teams from metal shops and trade unions—aHl workers organi- zations that can: scrape up a bunch of cagey basketeers—will compete. And heading the list will be the Kaytee A. C., last year’s champions who are favored to repeat again this year, and the Calverts A. C, who are lead- ing the Metropolitan Workers Basketball League. ‘The winners of the New York Dis- trict will then meet the Philadel. phia and New England District champions for the regional crown; and finally they will meet the best from the Western regions in the national play-off. And Sammy'll be there to see it. | Calverts- A. C. Lead | Workers Cage League NEW YORK.—The Calverts A. C. still lead the Metropolitan Workers Basketball League by last week, making their total of six won and none lost. Following right in line with 1000 per cent standing are the I.W.O. 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