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Page Two President “Too Busy” To Hear P DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1934 Ruling Class in Vicious Attacks on Fighters for Rights of Negro People Costigan Protects An Armwood Lyncher At Hearing On Bill JIM-CROW NEGROES Again Barred From the House Restaurant ly Worker Washington Bureau) Mar. 18.—Official resumed the fore the Senate sub-com- Wagner-Costigan bill with tepid aues- the known Prin- ( WASHINGTON, We: erant Jim-Crow- Negro reporters and specta- jam H. Thompson, Princess pharmacist identified by two id State Troopers as one of the Armwood lynch protested his innocence and presented char- acter letters to the committee “so thet you'll cee who I am.” At the time of the lynching, insisted Thompson, he was in a movie at another town, Salisbury, Maryland. said pson. one man I recognize has been in busines ation rot over 1,000—for over seven yea~: ymmon knowledge down ched Armwood,” Sen-| 8, of Indiana, Chair- man, asked Thomnson. ~o sir,” replicd Thompson “Has any effort been made by the prehend the| Lyncher on Coroner’s ‘Investigation’ juldn’t say. I couldn’t answer stion. I imagine there has.” is your! opinion of the 3 2 2 Qa 5 z 3 Py & ® i] a <4 > 5 not competent to answer that ion,” ets His Fellow Boss Lynchers| competent. You're a ess man,” responded Van Nuys. fy personal opinion is that lynchers are not taxpayers and that it * he burden on the tax- ‘d_ Thompso: the name of the movie he saw that night in Sajisbury, and didn’t in- quire what happened though “there was 1,000 people near his store.” Lyncher on Coroners “Investigation” of Lynching All you found (as a member of the coroner’s jury) was that the man was dead and that was the sum total of your efforts,” ques- tioned Van Nuys. “Yes sir.” Senator Costigan, one of the lib- eral sponsors of the bill (a measure which will not affect legal lynch-| ing) had “no questions” to ask! ‘Thompson. | Strike Votes Force. -R. R. Unino Heads To Reject Pay Cut (Continued from Page 1) shock to us,” said the the railway managers, “especially in view of the request which the Pres- ident of the United States made| “Ypon your association and our com- mittee to preserve the status quo in the railway situation in the interest | of national recovery. | “Your action precipitates a serious | situation and makes imperative a - considered statemedit of our posi- tion. We will meet with you again on Monday at 1.30 p.m.” Meanwhile, both the bosses and Tailway labor executives, working with Roosevelt, will attempt to work out some proposal favorable | to the railway owners that they can | also ram down the throats of the growingly militant railway workers. Call Special Meeting | For N. Y. Dressmakers | After Work On Monday NEW YORK.—Left Wing Local 22 of the Dressmakers’ Union will have a special mobilization meeting for all group members and sympa- thizers today immediately after | work at Memorial Hall, 344 W. 36th St. “Anti-War Group Will ‘Hold Meeting Tonight | NEW YORK. — The newly or- “ganized New York City Central -Committee of the American League Against War and Fascism will hold .its second meeting at 8 p. m. on Monday, March 19th, in Irving ‘Pile Fifteenth St. and Irving Place. MEMBERS FSU. Brownsville Branch, important membership meeting will be held tonight, 8:30 p.m., 120 Glenmore Ave. “Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Morris will talk ‘on “Prison, Police and Punishment’ in G8.A. and U.8.8.R. Admission free. * CONTRIBUTORS to the Communist Par- .ty fighting fund are called to a special meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at 50 E. 13th <St., Room 208. Comrade Sidney Bloom- -field will speak on the political importance “of finances. ¢_ SECOND CLASS on “History of Soviet -Russia” by Theodore Bayer at Brooklyn of George Arm- t 5,000 Battle Cops At Meet for Nine Scottsboro Boys (Continued from Page 1) windo' Mother Wright called upon the workers to defend their rights to the streets, of free assemblage | and free speech, reciting her own experiences during her European Scottsboro tour with the late J. Louis Engdahl, when they were hounded by the European police, at the instigation of the U. S. State Department, and several times wn in jail. “I have faced the bloody police of Germany, Austria and other European countries, with their gas Roosevelt Refuses To See Delegation On Scottsboro, Herndon AGAIN “TOO BUSY” Constitutional Rights Of Negroes Violated WAHINGTON, March 18.—A di- rect demand upon President Roose- velt for enforcement of the con- stitutional rights of Negroes in the Southern states was taken to the White House yesterday by a dele- gation of 15 white and Negro rep- resentatives of workers’ organiza- tions here. When they read their demands for relief to the Scottsboro prison- ers, Angelo Herndon, Willie Patter- | GUTTERS OF NEW Y¥ ORK “Fire-trap tenement landlords and municipal authori- ties have a splendid opportunity for co-operation.” VINCENT ASTOR. By DEL Taxi Strike | Soreads To All __ N.Y. Companies (Continued from Page 1) | that by noon over 90 per cent of the big fleet cabs were out of operation. All throughout theday, pickets | massed at the garages and taxi | terminals, halting all cabs attempt- ing to operate. Cabs of companies which had settled with the union can be distinguished by union stick- ers on the windows of the cabs. N. ¥. Workers Back Drivers The organized labor movement in | strike yesterday at a mass confer- jence of delegates held at Webster | Hall, 11th St. and Fourth Ave. The jconference had previously been called for Manhattan Lyceum, but the hall was too small and it was therefore moved to Webster Hall. Three hundred twenty-four rep- |Tesenting 190 trade unions and | working class organizations pledged to support the Taxi Drivers ‘strike against the company unions. The delegates got donations amounting |to $1,000, which were turned over |to the strike committee. Joseph Gilbert, general organizer of the ieee Drivers Union, hailed the con- ference as an important: move in | the struggle against the menace of :| Defense, bombs and clubs, in my fight for | son and other political prisoners, | the lives of my boys and the other | they asked Marvin H. MclIntyre, Scottsboro boys and I will stay | Secretary to President Roosevelt, right here and fight to the very | why the President personally re- | end,” she fearlessly hurled her |ceives many upper-class delega- | challenge into the teeth of the (tions, committees, ete, but not} police. workers’ spokesmen. McIntyre re-| Shortly after Mrs. Wright finished | Plied that Roosevelt is so con- speaking, and Sam Stein, field or-| cerned about workers that at that ganizer of the International Labor|™oment he was eae ates mounted .the. speakers’ Ah pao Lehman of New York on stand, the police resumed their of- | Ue? i EAL fensive, driving a heavy cadillac car| The White House delegation’s directly into the crowd in an at- | statement to Roosevelt keen con- tempt to overturn the speakers’) Stitutional guarantees against any form upon Mrs. Wright, who | citizen's being deprived of liberty was standing near-by. | without due process of law and for Police Drive Car Onto Thickly | 2/1 persons receiving paar Crowded Sidewalks | tion of the law, and added: Tt cag GRET PIR | “Mr, President, you do not hesi- he car was driven right up onto a b: the thickly crowded sidewalk. The | fate to send many warships to Cuba peer re F __| to protect American lives, and the | workers militantly defended them- property of the wealthy. You do selves, while a group of white and | not hesitate to use the federal De- Negro workers quickly surrounded “Daily” to Tell How Workers in Russia Defied Ban on May Day How the Russian workers defied) workers today will be presented by the whips and guns of the Czar| Earl Browder, Secretary of the! and organized as well as carried | Communist Party, U.S.A. in “May through illegal May Days will be) Day—1934.” | dramatically told in a special fea-| “May Day and the Struggle for ture article that will appear in the) Power,” by C. A. Hathaway, editor) May Edition of the Daily Worker. of the Daily Worker, will review the This edition which will contain| growing revolutionary situation in! a minimum of 24 full size pages will) America as well as abroad. be the largest “Daily” in history.) The above are only a few of the It will have the record press run stirring features that will appear of half a million copies. | in the May Day edition. There will| In the May Day same issue, James! be District Pages containing special S. Allen will write on the “Historical| news and articles of vital interest company unionism. “Today we feel we are not alone in the struggle against company unions,” saia& Gilbert. “We feel we have the support of the en- tire labor movement of New York City. A victory in this strike will be a victory for all of the work- ers. Workers in other trades can rest assured that they have the support of 40,000 taxi workers who will fight shoulder to shoul- der with them in their struggles to better their conditions.” Gil- bert’s remarka were greeted by prolonged applause. Irving Goldstein, President of he Brooklyn local of the Taxi Drivers Union said, “We will not quit until we break the resistance of every fleet owner in New York City. The taxi drivers today are not the drivers of yesterday. Today t] replied Thompson. | id he didn’t “recall” | Mrs. Wright to protect her from the Police attacks. Workers in apat-| ment house windows jeered th police and joined the defense, hurl- ing flower pots, grape fruits and other missiles upon the heads of the police. Police cars and motorcycle cops! dashed recklessly into the crowd of | Women, children and men, hurling gas bombs and wielding their clubs and blackjacks with sadistic bru- tality. The officer in charge, re- minded by a worker of Mayor La|the South and also in the federal | Guardia promised to discontinue) attacks on workers’ demonstrations. answered “to hell with that. We partment of Justice to prosecute kidnapers—the kidnapers of the wealthy. But the Scottsboro boys € | are also American citizens, and it is your duty to protest their lives against the attacks leveled against them because of their color. We therefore demand that you enforce the federal Constitution in Ala- bama, and in all the Southern states. Enforcement of the Con- stitution means immediate, safe re- lease of the Scottsboro boys. It means an end of Jim Crowism in departments and other buildings of Washington.” Only six of the 15 were allowed to enter the executive offices of the | have our orders.” . | White House to register their de- Fight Rages Over Two Hours, Whole | Neighborhood Involved. The fight raged fiercely for over two hours, and spread from 126th Street to 13lst Street and Lenox Avenue, as the whole neighborhood | became involved in the defense of the Scottsboro Mother and the pro- test demonstration. Workers rushed from apartment buildings and side | streets to defend the demonstration against the hideous attempts of the white ruling class of Alabama and | the whole country to burn the) Scottsboro boys in the electric chair, | despite the world-wide exposure of | the brazen “rape” frame-up. Scores | of police thugs were sent to the! hospital by the infuriated workers. | In savage retaliation, the police in- | vaded the headquarters of the Har-| lem section of the I.L.D.. wrecking | the furniture and gassing the prem- i orkers reported that the follow- ing officers were especially vicious: | No. 17636, a Negro cop who bran-| dished his gun and threatened to shoot into the group around Mother Wright; No. 17624, No. 17072, No. 17073 and 17892 were among those who beat up the four arrested work- ers in the police station, No. 17073 told William Mayers, one of the three arrested colored workers that “all niggers should be lynched. The Scottsboro boys have been held too long. They should have been lynched | long ago.” No. 17892 told Mayers| not to show his face on Lenox Avenue again if he valued his life.| Hoffman, a white worker, was) rescued from the police by a group of workers and taken to a house on 127th St., where he was examined by Dr. Reuben Young, who declared he had a fractured rib and prob- ably an injury to his spine. Louise Lawrence, a young Negro girl who went to the rescue of a Negro woman knocked down by the police, was jumped on by six cops and savagely beaten up. One punched her in the mouth knock- ing out several of her teeth. She, in turn, was rescued by a white woman worker. Among the victims of the un- bridled police brutality were several hundred Harlem children who, un- der the League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights, had demonstrated earlier in the day against the fire-trap tenements, which recently caused the death of several Negro adults and children, trapped by fires. The children had marched from fire- gutted tenements to the station to | greet Mother Wright and back to) 126th Street and Lenox Avenue where the fiercest police attack oc- curred, with gas bombs, clubs and cars driven into the mass of demon- strators, Harlem was seething with angry excitement yesterday and from many workers proposals were made for a city-wide march to City Hall to protest the police attack and de- mand that Mayor La Guardia keep Ris promise that no demonstrations would be attacked by his police. The Harlem Section of the Com- munist Party answered the police attack by calling another Scottsboro demonstration for next Saturday, Lyceum, 947 Willoughby Ave. Brooklyn, tonight at 9 pm. Adm. free. Auspices, Williamsburzh Br. F.8.U. [WORKERS SCHOOL SPRING TERM "M5 F. 12th St. New York. Second week | of registration. Register now before it is too late ' free assemblage and free speech, urging all workers and their ors ganizations throughout the city to rally to the defense of the Negro masses and the Scottsboro boys, and | to defend the right of workers to | | ii | longer. Later in the day they phoned | other locals of the Chicago Federa- mands. They represented the In- ternational Labor Defense, the Life and Truth Church, a local colored | congregation, a Scottsboro Defense mass meeting held last Monday, the | Women’s League, the Communist Party and the Young Communist League, the International Workers’ | Order, and several Washington Un- employment Councils. Chicago CWA Men To March Through Loop on March 31 (Continued from Page 1) parently “reached Saturday between | | Unemployement Council, the Civil | and Public Works Labor Union and) the Workers Committee, the latter's | four representatives suddenly an-| nounced they had a meeting at 3:30) that afternoon and could stay no| that they could not take part in the | united front. Duffy, of the workers committee, has joined hands with John Fitz- patrick, Democratic head of the Chicago Federation of Labor. The latter dictatorially overruled the unanimous decision of the delegates to the regular meeting of the feder- ation two weeks ago to join the united front. The conference elected a committee today composed of A. F. of L. members to again bring the call for united action on the floor of the regular meeting of the Federation this afternoon. The program adopted unanimous- ly at the conference calls for con- tinuation of CWA jobs, union pay and an end to wage cuts, no dis- crimination against Negroes, etc, The conference also passed resolu- tions demanding the abolition of flop houses, and one united May Day demonstration for jobs, cash relief and against war and Fascism. Another resolution demanded the unconditional release of the Scotts- boro boys, Mooney and Billings. The Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and the Soldiers’ bonus cash payment, were endorsed. Plans were made to concentrate on stoppages in factories the day of the march. Workers will be bri gut waite in laying down and coming into the strets, The cigar mafiers’ A. F. of L. local delegates announced the local sent a resolution to the executive and tion for unity with the organiza- tion at the conference. Several score of C.C.C. boys, who. were represented at the conference announced that they would join the march in uniform. In a splendid call for united ac- tion, Bill Gebert district organized of the Communist Party, pointed out that Fitzpatrick’s action was a di- rect challenge to the rank and file. He called on the delegates to visit every local of the Federation. “March 31 in this,” he said, “must become an historic day for the whole working class.” Gebert announced that a special Chicago istue of the Daily Worker would he published in 50,000 copies for distribution from Tradition of May Day,” recounting how the American workers origin- ated this world-wide workingclass holiday, A special article by Sender Garlin, feature editor of the “Daily,” will tell of the reactions of the bosses’ press to May Day during the 19th century. The tasks facing the American! to the various sections of the| country. Do not miss this history-making edition of the Daily Worker, Order your copies in advance. Help reach a half million American workers with this edition. Get greetings from your friends and fellow-work- ers to the Daily Worker for the May Day edition. CWA Men Strike Against Wage Cuts, Firing (Continued from Page 1) districts, struck Friday against the | latest Roosevelt pay cuts. The workers, employed at jobs cleaning Shamokin Creek, struck after receiving their pay checks Fri- day night, following the arbitrary slash in their pay frem 58 cents to 50 cents an hour. In order to fore- stall any action on the part of the men, the pay slash was given the workers without any warning. Tae cde Mass Meet in Lancaster Tonight | LANCASTER, Pa. — Encour- |aged by the victory won by the | York, Pa.C.W.A. workers, Lancaster | C.W.A. workers will gather at a huge mass meeting tonight at the Court House, demanding the continuation of the C.W.A.. minimum wages of 50 cents an hour for a 30 hour week; no discrimination on jobs or in giving work; back pay lost since the Roosevelt wage cuts went into effect; and recognition of the union. Peas pees Richmond Negro and White Act RICHMOND, Va.—An elected del- egation of two Negro and two white C.W.A. workers, who went to the City Hall Friday to defhand that C.W.A. wage cuts be immediately rescinded were stopped on the City Hall stairs by police, and Linwood McDowell, one of the committee, was arrested. The mayor attempted to break the unity of the workers by refus- ing to meet with a mixed delegation of Negro and white workers. The delegates had been elected at @ mass meeting of C.W.A. workers where the workers’ demands were formulated calling for 45 cents an hour for a 30 hour week on all C. W.A. jobs, union wages for skilled men; the immediate end of all dis- crimination; and immediate open hearings on the conduct and poii- cies of the City Employment Bu- reau and the City Social Service. On Saturday morning, workers packed the court and forced the release of the arrested worker. Ean ti) Resume C.W.A. After Demonstration ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Follow- ing a march on the C.W.A. office a week ago, 500 C.W.A. workers here, continually denied work although continued on the list without pay, marched on the C.W.A. offices Wed- nesday, demanding jobs. Most of the workers had read @ notice in the press on the previ- ous morning stating that no C.W.A. workers were to report for wor's un- til notified. Wednesday morning the workers spontaneously gathered at North Carolina end Baltic Aves., and marched on the C.W.A. offices. The workers grouped arcun: the building housing the C.W.A. offices, elected a committee to place their demands before the C.W.A. and awaited the arrival of the C.W.A. officials. Informed that the men were will- ing to walk to work since the C.W.A. claimed that the roads were impass- able, E. Hooper, C.W.A. engineer, calmly told the men that no work could be provided. At the insistence of the workers, however, he was forced to promise that work would iCall Strike on ‘March 29th on we want a union.” Exposing the maneuvers of Mrs. Herrick to herd the drivers back to} work without their union, Samuel Orner, president of the union, urged the drivers to continue their militant fight which is now backed by the entire labor movement of the city, “The settlement of the last strike was merely an armistice, a tem- porary retreat to gather more Strength,” said Orner. “We were caught in a trap in the last strike by people who were parading as friends of organized labor, but now sAM The Garden Takes Ancther * Chance VERYBODY’S happy now Garden Corporation. lea for Scottsboro Boys ROSS around the Madison Square The news is that the Mighty Masta- f don, who just about crushed Loughran’s feet, when he/ | Max Baer, who now takes his | the ancient fighting togs, | They’re going to step fif- | | teen rounds for the world’s heavyweight championship in| Long Island City, on June 14 All the contracts have to wait for is | to get the Fascist’s “K” and Baer’s fancy scroll. I don’t know what kind of step- ping they intend to do; but it’s a cinch the exhibition will be one worth watching. Maxie Baer will probably try his romantic movie stuff and give us the kind of com-| plex foot movement which Follies’ |girls are so accustomed to doing. | He'll have a helluva time dancing | around those satchel feet of Car- nera’s, Anytime Primo steps on ’em it’s going to be goodbye tuxedoes and fancy ballroom stepping. In | the last fight. Loughran winced and jhis toes nearly pulverized from the | shock of the athlete's foot, * eae IE managers of both fighters | | Awent through plenty of hag- | ling before they agreed to terms. Jack Dempsey. who had “squat- | ter rights” on Baer, wanted his | cut, Maxie said, “I'm better’n the | champ so I oughta get as much as him.” and Carnera’s mouthpiece | lammed into the jury by asking a | lot of dough for postponing. just for this fight, a trip to South America, But even though gas- | kets were chugging. the boys finally got together, and they’re going to fight or box or just lay around. or something similar as long as they have those “golden” mittens on their hands, The Dempsey cut was Baer’s idea; but the Garden. in spite of the kick they threw up, tacitly agreed. They'd use Dempsey for a front. Something, they feel, has to be done jabout packing the stadium. And jnow they're talking half-million il | we know who the friends of the! dollar gates and are talking about | | stepped on them in that memovable financial flop in Miami New York pledged its support to the| will fight the great song and dance lover from Hollywood ictures in tuxedoes instead o: — dizzy life he’s living there and bring some local color from the “Souf.” praiiscaay ND before long the various ex- pert sporis writers all over the country will begin playing on the sentimental symphonies laying latent in the breasts of the Jews and Italians hereabouts and will begin those chauvinistic blues, Angles like this are always looked into. It’s the kind of difference in nationality that makes publicity agents’ hearts bounce with the |term “natural.” T'S going to be a big night—the 14th. Providing enough tickets are bought for the meagre price of $20 and providing the turnstiles click for a long time on that night. If not, a dog show or a horse show, or something else will take the fans away from the Garden Bowl, and we'll have to undergo another battle of postponements. pee ie connection, the babies are again going to take the buck for sponsoring this bouts. The fighters are going to fight for milk. The babies they're always in for some- thing. It’s kind of tough taking milk from a meat eating Carnera or a champagne drinking Baer; but Mrs. Randolph Hearst who is chairman of the Pure Milk foun- dation will see to it that Carnera still remains a Carnivorous animal and that Baer still gets his cham- Pagne and ginbucks and that maybe a drop of milk can be squeezed out for the babies among the two fighters, their regalia of chiseliers and the Garden, DANCING AFTER SCOTTSBORO BENEFIT BASKETBALL GAME NEW YORK.—In addition to the stellar basketball game between the Renaissance basketball team, world’s Negro champions, and an all-star ageregation of former collegians and professionals for the Scottsboro Defense Fund, there is going to be much, talk about gangsters and taxi drivers are. There Isis been! importing a home boy from .Missis- | | | a 10-piece band playing immediately sippi who is in Burope now making | after the game, and dancing into guerillas by company men and rep- resentatives of company unions. Our men can lick any guerillas in New York City.” Tumultuous applause greeted Irv- |ing Potash, a leader of the Needle GW. A, Firing (Continued from Page 1) mass meeting to be held in Madi- son Square Garden on Sunday, March 25, at 2p.m. The committee of 25 which was eleeted at the| united front conference of March 4 was enlarged. The March 4 conference was initi- ated by the Federation of Architects, | Engineers, Chemists and Techni- cians and organized by the Unem- ployment Councils and the Reilef Workers League. The only disruptive note at the ; conference was struck by David Las- | ser, socialist party leader, who spoke for the “Civil Works Employes As- sociation.” Lasser stated he spcke not as a delegate but as “an ob- server.” He proposed that all deci- sions should be limited to those re garding only CWA projects. He took this method of attacking the reso- | ments committee for the defense of the Scottsboro Boys and for the enactment of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598), against police terror, etc. Lasser said that he and a few other so- cialist-controlled and Lovestonite- controlled groups are sending a spe- cial train to Washington on March 24. There was tremendous and pro-') longed applause when F. Welsh, a Negro worker from the Alteration | Plumbers and Helpers Union de-| clared, “The Scottsboro case is an attack on the entire working class, | and the CWA workers along with the rest of the working class must fight against their execution. The Scottsboro boys were unemployed workers.” Delegate after delegate spoke against the disruptive speech of Lasser and against the line pre- sented also by delegate David, from a pharmacists’ project, David, fol- lowing Lasser’s line, pleaded to keep the Scottsboro case out of the united front. The delegates unani- mously and heatedly rejected this proposal. “Lasser says he is an observer,” said Davidoff, chairman of the Re- lief Workers League. “The time has come for action and not observa- of the unemployed.” A wire was sent to the Chicago United Front Conference for joint action in the protest strike and Washington Conference Against C, W. A. Firing. Herbert Benjamin, in his report for the resolutions committee, and many of the delegates, made it clear that the events since March 4 have proved the line of the Con ference For United Action and its arrangements committee correct. “Lasser, by his whole policy of trying to prevent united front ac- tion of the workers on the jobs, of wanting to ‘sit around the table,’ as he said, with a few top leaders, is trying to disrupt the unity of the masses of the workers. By taking his delegates to Washington, with- out consultation with the workers on C. W. A. jobs, without any mass actions, he is obstructing the fight against the C. W. A. program of firing and wage cuts and relief * be resumed on the following day. | cuts, lution of the united front arrange- | tion if we are to win the demands} | Trades Workers Industrial Union, | who told the drivers the workers | in the needle industry are 100 per | cent solid behind the strike. “As | long as the fight will go on we will mobilize all our members to give | active support on the picket line | and financial support to the strike.” Communist Party Backs Strike Greeting the conference in the ; mame of the Communist Party, Carl Brodsky pointed out that the Com- munist Party has always supported | the strike of the taxi drivers and ; will continue to give its active | support and leadezship. He said, “the strike has the backing of the entire membership of our Party.” Brodsky brought a donation of $50 Practically every organization that was represented brought funds which had been collected in the shops and union halls, The Cafe- teria Workers pledged $100 to the | Taxi Drivers Union, Women’s Councils, the Freiheit Singing So- | ciety, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, the Buttonhole Workers Union, the Young Pio- neers, the Trade Union Unity Coun- cil—all answered the appeal of the Taxi Drivers Union for assistance by bringing donations to the halls. | The Theatre Union promised to put on a special benefit performance at the Civic Repertory Theatre within the next few days to support the strike. Two thousand Independent cab owners who have been signed up by the union have pledged $3 per day each to the union in support of the strike. Samuel Orner, President of the Taxi Drivers Union, said that a demonstration and parade of taxi drivers would be held early next week. All during the day the strike halls were practically empty, the taxi drivers being on the picket lines and on the streets halting all eabs which attempted to operate without the union label. Among the companies to settle with the Union are The ic Transportation, Bobby Cab, P and W Cabs, Nira Cabs, Grand Taxi, Joe Schrage Company, the Markel ‘Taxi Corporation and New Era Cab. As we go to press a number of ficet owners were at the union hall to negotiate with the strike com- | mittee. It was pointed out by |Samuel Orner in the headauarters of the union yesterday afternoon that cars are being driven by com- pany spotters and police hack in- spectors. Orner sent a vigorous protest to the Police Department demanding that the police be re- moved from the cabs. Many of the small fleet owners who came to the union hall re- ported that extreme pressure is be- ing exerted against them by the General Motors Corporation in an attempt to keep them from signing an agreement with the union, Relief for the strikers is being distributed by a special relief com- mittee set up by the union which has opened up relief kitchens in the three strike headquarters, which are located at Germania Hall, Third Ave. and 16th St., Man- hattan, 18 Graham Ave., Brooklyn, and at Rockland Palace, 155th St. amd 8th Ave., Bronx, N. ¥, the big financial boom of losing on | the average of $100.000 a year as a| promoter but they feel that maybe | this boy will recuperate from the the night at the St. Nicholas Arena, Thursday, March 29. William Pat~ terson, national secretary of the ILL.D., will speak in between halves. USSR In Paris Celebrations (Continued from Page 1) country where Marxism had been considered finally eliminated.” (Stalin.) | “A year ago German fascism started its campaign against Com- |munists, against one of the best | tried detachments of the Commu- nist International. The fascists | fired the Reichstag, drowned in | blood revolutionary workers throughout the entire country, | staged the Leipzig trial. And what happened? Grip to grip with fas- RF.C.To Give More Millions to Big Wall Street Groups (Continued from Page 1) | private capitalist investments, is being heralded by Jones as a “fight” against the “bankers who refuse to Jend.” Actually, these new govern- ment subsidies conceal government assistance to enterprises that are already so close to bankruptcy as to make their assets invalid as se- curity for private bank loans. Jones’ new plan, therefore, is a proposal to come to the aid of bankrupt cap- italist investors with government funds collected from the masses in taxes, Sce No End of Crisis Despite the original provision that the R.F.C, loans run only the “du- ration of fthe emergency,” that is, for three years, Jones reveals that the Roosevelt government really has no expectation that the “emer- gency” will be over by that time, by requesting a five year period for the new loans. Direct investments in the pre- ferred stock of banks and insurance companies, providing these capi- talist aggregations with more easy capital, are also provided for in the Jones plan. The RF.C. has already invested more than one billion dol- lars in such ways. Many companies which have received many millions and are now unable to pay for them will get more loans under the Jones plan of the R.F.C, Exporting companies, now unable to compete with foreign competition, will get easy government subsidies to pro- tect their profits under Jones’ plan. The R.F.C. has already granted over four billion dollars in subsi- dies to private capitalist enterprises to protect the interest and rent payments of the bondholders, mort- gage holders, etc. These funds eventually must come from the pas in some form of government X, Commune Thruout Land cist justice, Dimitroff exposed the real incendiaries and provocateurs to the very end. The vast wave of international solidarity with the revolutionary prisoners at Leipzig | rose within Germany and through- out the entire world. Fascism lost this battle. It was nailed to a pil- lory. Dimitroff and his comrades were seized from the clutches of the executioners by the powerful force of the international anti-fascist campaign and the interference of the Soviet Union. They are again on the post, these loyal soldiers of the Communist International. “And now the army of the Ger- man Communists, a hundred thou- sand strong, has successfully re- distributed its forces, and mobilizes the masses for th> overthrow of the fascist dictatorship.” eH Speaking of the unprecedented growth of international solidarity of the proletariat, “Prayda” further writes: “This movement reached un- paralleled power during the days of the Leipzig trial. The workers of all countries responded splendidly to the heroic struggle of the Aus- trian workers, by holding huge demonstrations and protest meet- ings, collecting funds, etc, The toilers of the Soviet Union dem- onstrated their solidarity with the heroes of the Austrian barricades by protest meetings held through- out the Union against the White Terror, by raising over 1,000,000 schillings (almost $200,000) toward an Austrian workers’ relief fund.” Shows Danger of “Lesser Evil.” Pointing out further that now there can be but one road before the proletariat, namely, an ield- ing struggle for proletarian = torship, for Soviet power, that any middle line, “lesser evil,” of the Social-Fascists inevitably leads to Fascism, as the events in Germany, Austria and other countries have proved, “Pravda” concludes: “Wrench Ernst Thaelmann and all captives of Fascism in Germany, Austria and other countries from the torture chambers! Avenge our best revolutionary fighters! Sur- round them with an_ irresistible wall of proletarian solidarity! Such must be the call on the day of the Paris Commune!” “Be loyal to the end to the cause of proletarian internationalism, the cause of the fraternal union of pro- letarian countries,” the leader of the world proletariat, Stalin teaches us. {MOPR te Dy today of (I. L. D.) opens un- der this slogan: The class duty of builders of Socialism is to mark the day of March 18, by joining in masses the ranks of MOPR, by strengthening the great cause of the struggle against fascist terror and aiding its victims under the banner of the international wmtted ” a CHOSE GAL: EDR REET Saisemen sige