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a ok Page Two Thousands to Industrial Union Exposes Mas :. Friday ‘Zimmerman Treacheryin In Coliseum ¢1)] t9 Local 22 Members Browder, Krumbein and | Ford to Be Key | Speakers | NEW YORK.—The opening of e New York District Conv on | Communist Party tomorrow | ll be attended by thousands | ers according to present in- meeting will be held um at 177th Street te Plains Road at 7:30. ¢ eve of the Eighth National | n of the Party, which will open in Cleveland on April 2, to- orkers in revolutionary ast the attacks mass of the capi | The workers will tomorrow hail he forging of Communist leader- he approaching struggles gainst starvation, war and fascism. | Speckers at the Coliseum meeting vill be Earl Browder, General Sec- et of the Communist Party, mes W. Ford, member of the Cen- | ral Committee of the Communist | Party and Charles Krumbein, Dis- trict Organizer. An extensive program has been) orranged, combining the best pr ductions of workers’ cultural organ- izations. These will include a mas: pageant depicting the struggles led by the Communist Party, a sym- phony concert presented by the or- chestra of the International Work- ers Order and a chorus of over 500 voices organized by the Workers Music League, which will give a program of revolutionary and labor ons and others. s delegations will bring greet- i from workers’ organizations. The I.W.O. has called for all its members to attend this meeting en Roosevelt Moves To Attack Auto And RR Workers, (Continued from Page 1) man in the conference between the | administration, the “labor” execu- | tives and the railroad owners. The | purpose of the Eastman conference is to see if the administration can’t get a six months’ extension of the 10 per cent wage reduction beyond June 30, 1934, said Roosevelt. Accept Eastman. A. F. Whitney, Chairman of the Railway Labor Executives’ Associ- ation, today wrote W. F. Thiehoff, the chairman of the owners’ con- ference committee of managers, that “we have accepted the proferred services of the Federal Co-ordinator of Transportation.” His communi- cation to Thiehoff however, said absolutely nothing about a strike nor did it reiterate yesterday's “de- mand” for the restoration of the basic 10 per cent wage cut. In other words, the Whitney crowd, after a lot of blustering and feinting which fooled no one, least of all the rank and file, has fallen in line with the Roosevelt-owner strategy of forestalling the workers’ strike for wage increases to meet the great Tise in the cost of living. When informed that Federal Re- lief and C. W. A. Director Harry L. Hopkins had told newspapermen that he would give relief to strikers unless the Department of Labor or the National Labor Board declares a strike “unwarranted” or “unjust,” Roosevelt declared that the simple tule is to try to keep the people from starving. When told that Hopkins’ office revealed that it has given relief in only one case, during the Pennsylvania coe] strike Jast August, and thet it withdrew relief in that one case when the employers’ bituminous board termed the strike “unwarranted,” Roosevelt hesitated a moment or two and then repeated his statement about pre- venting starvation. Cringing Collins William Collins, National repre- sentative of the A. F. of L. in De- troit, ag: clearly set the cringing tenor of the Federation forces which are working desperately in support of the administration, to keep the auto workers from outwitting the automobile manufacturers. In his telegram to Roosevelt, which was read this morning by the latter to the press, Collins declared his “com- plete sympathy with your efforts to wing the country out of the de- pression. We speak for the em- Ployees in the automobile industry in expressing our sincere admira- “tion of your high leadership in the pr Zlems that fece the country... “The strike is held in abeyance pending the outcome of your con- ference at Washington, and we fur- ther ask your indulgence in grant- tion to William Green, President, Aimerican Federation of Labor; Wil- liam Collins, National Representa- tive; Arthur Greer and John Bailey, that you give each chosen repre- sentative of the 13 unions an op- portunity to attend the conference.” Roosevelt's reply to this sub- servient strike-breaking oath prom- ised absolutely nothing. With pon- tifical brevity Roosevelt wired Col- lins, “I greatly appreciate your de- cision and will be glad to receive representatives of the thirteen unions as suggested. I appreciate the good spirit of your telegram and am looking forward to seeing you on Thursday.” William J. Long, chairman of the Weirton Steel Corporation workers (A, FP. of L.) delegation who yes- terday announced that he would sty to keep the Weirton workers ‘rem striking pending the receipt | demonstration at the|lessly pointed out the reactionary lliant tribute | policies of the present Zimmerman fh leads the | leadership. | Dubinsky-Zimmerman-Lovestone of- Dressmakers Urged to Vote Full Left Wing Slate Today NEW YORK.—Following the call f 69 dress shop groups to the mem- bership of Local 22 of the Interna- ional Ladies’ Garment Workers ion to vote for the entire Left slate, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union yesterday issued a declaration “to all dress- makers of Local 22,” which relent- The Local 22 elections will take place today. The N.T.W.I.U. declaration is sweeping in its exposure of the un- derhand methods used by Zimmer- man to fool the dressmakers. It poses “a few important facts from which the dressmakers can and must draw logical conclusions.” “Sisters and brothers,” the decla- ration reads, “You are in the midst of a struggle between the dressmak- ers on the one hand, and the united ficials, calling themselves the “pro- gressive group,” on the other hand. In this struggle the fake progres- sives have stooped so low as to call thousands of left-wing dressmakers Hitlerites and Ku Klux Klaners. “To all the questions and prob- lems raised by the left wing dress- makers against the Zimmerman ad- | — | ministration, Zimmerman answered with one cry: ‘Dual Unionism.’ “Dressmakers ask: Zimmerman, why have you given the bosses a) present thousa™-ds of complaints and | why have y permitted the im- partial chairs .1 and the bosses to/ throw these complaints into the waste basket? ‘ | “The answer of Zimmerman is, ‘Dual Unionism,’ and ‘you are agents of the Industrial Union.’ “Dressmakers ask further: Why have you, Zimmerman, allowed the bosses to maintain flat prices and why are you silent about youn new wage cutting scheme, the ‘scientific schedule’? “Zimmerman again answers with his old hypocritical song, ‘Dual Unionism.’ “We therefore ask you, Zimmer- man: “Why are you silent about the fol- lowing facts: | “That you as manager of Local 22 have sent messages to the leaders of | the Industrial ‘dual’ Union. “Why are you silent about the fact | that you have pleaded with the lead- | ers of the ‘dual’ Industrial Union to have at least one conference with you, | “Why don’t you tell the dressmak- ers that at this conference you sol- emnly promised to help the ‘dual’ Industrial Union, if we only called upon the former members of our union forced into the International, to support you, “At a conference with one of the leaders of the Industrial Union you declared that the Dubinsky-Hoch- man clique are traitors, that the International does not serve the workers’ interests, and that you have purposely disclosed facts about their betrayals in the ‘Day’ so that the| | Industrial Union might make use| | of these facts. | “At that time you were already | | manager of Local 22. “Why are you silent about these/| facts? “We never took seriously a single | word you said, but when you are foaming at your mouth with poison against the Industrial Union we | consider it important and necessary | to unmask you and disclose to the | dressmakers your treacherous face. “You have made a deal with the | Hochman-Dubinsky _ clique. You conferred with Vladeck and other | socialist leaders. You also conferred | and tried to make a deal with the | Industrial Union. You are pre- pared to combine with anybody and ‘everybody in order to maintain yourself and your unprincipled | clique in office. But with the dress- | makers you refuse to unite! | “We rejected with disgust your | offer for a deal with your clique. The Industrial Union does not make any deals with cliques. Even your dem- agogy does not cover up your treachery. By means of demagogy one cannot maintain himself in union office very long. “Dressmakers: The few facts that i“ disclose speak for themselves. Maintain the gains you made ir | your last strike. Don’t rely on un- | principled demagogues. You will be | able to force your bosses to respect, | and observe your achievements only! through your own united forces. You. won a victory only thanks to your | “united militant struggle. Keep up | this struggle in every shop for union | conditions. | “Needle Trades Workers | Industrial Union, | “131 W. 28th St., N.Y.C.” | The Left Wing Group in Local 22 | yesterday issued a four-page lexflet as a final call to the dressmakers, in which it stressed the following points: “Vote for Stamper as maneger! “Vote for all the Left Wing can- didates! “Vote to enforce the minimum wage scale in every shop! “Vote for a militant class struggle | union!” The leafiet also called on the workers to “defeat the Zimmerman fake progressives, the wage cutting ‘scientific schedule,’ flat prices and clique control of our union.” pulsory arbitration bill be passed within 48 hours, today asked Hop- kins to “appoint a committee of union workers to help administer of assurances that the Wagner com- the Federal Relief funds.” ¢t Local 22 Members! Vote for the Left Wing Slate Today! NEW YORK.—Dressmakers of Local 22! Defeat the Zimmer- man-Dubinsky-Lovestone clique by voting for the full left wing late in the elections today. Vote for the following candidates: For Local Manager-Secretary: Morris Drench, Feldman, Edith; 19, Fogel, Hyman; 29, Geison, Jacob; 24, Gold, Abraham; 26, Hersher, Max; 30, Jaffe, Mary; 31, Jaffe, Sylvia; 35, Kraus, Joseph; 30, Mager, Max; 40, Mailin, Sophie; 42, Mazer, Rose; 44, Ober, William; 45, Rosenbaum, Norma; 46, Roxland, Ella Scherr, Max; 51, Smithberg, Ha Wasserman, Sam For Business Agent six only) 58, Sporn, Max; 55, Waxman, Sam (vote for thesé 68, Kravitz, Mayer; 69, Machlis, Tsi- ; 76, Saltzman, Samuel; 79, Silber- Nathan; 80, Soloff, Harry; 81, Sorkin, Louis. For Convention Delegates {vote for these 16 only) 95, Cossack, Louis; 96, Drench, Max; 99; Fogel, Hyman; 100, Geison, Jacob; 10, Hersher, Max; 109. Krawitz, Mayer; 110, Laker, Sam; 113, Mazer, Rose; 116, Rosenbaum, Norma; 118, Roxland, Ella; 119, Saltzman, Samuel; 121, Silverblatt, Nathan; 122, Soloff, Harry; 128, Sorkin, Louis; 124, Stamper Morris; 125, Wasserman, Sam. Local 22 Tells How And Where to Vote. /Voters Can Take Left) Wing Candidates’ Slate Into the Booth NEW YORK.—The Left Wing Group of Local 22 yesterday issued the following final directions on how to vote in today’s elections: “The business agents of the entire Zimmerman fake progressive ma- chine will attempt to make you vote their way. “Remember: “1. Vote for Morris Stamper as Manager and 25 Executive Board candidates, six Business Agent can- didates and 16 Convention candi- dates on the left wing slate. “2. You have a right to vote for whomever you please. “3. You have a right to take the Left Wing slate of candidates inside the booth, Nobody has any right to interfere with your voting. “4, Insist on going into the booth alone. “5. Bring your unfon book. You have a right to vote even if you are nine months behind in dues pay- ment. “6. Take your time in voting. Vote for the left wing candidates as they are numbered on the Left Wing slate. “7. Should anyone attempt to in- terfere with your rights report to the Left Wing watchers. WHERE TO VOTE 1. Bryant Hall, 1087 Sixth Ave., between 41st and 42nd Sts. 2. 571 Eighth Ave., between 38th and 39th Sts., one flight up. 3. 571 Eighth Axe. (Second Elec- tion Committee). 4. Memorial Hall (Christ Church) 344 W. 36th St., between Eighth and Ninth Aves. 5. 141 West 33rd St. or through Penn Arcade (the old Joint Board office). 6. 306 Eighth Ave (store), between 25th and 26th Sts. 7. International Auditorium, 3 West 16th St., corner Fifth Ave. 8. Williamsburgh: Joint Board District Office, 17-19 Montrose Ave., | Brooklyn. 9. East New York and Browns- ville: Joint Board District Office (Labor Lyceum), 219 Sackman St., Brooklyn, 10. Bensonhurst and Boro Park: Joint Board District Office (Labor Lyceum), 1377 42nd St., Brooklyn. 11, Harlem: Joint Board District Office, 1890 Third Ave. 12, Bronx: Joint Board District Office, 505 E. Tremont Ave. L. S. U. DISTRICT FRACTION MEETING TONIGHT A general district fraction meet- ing of the Labor Sports Union will be held tonight, 8 p. m., at the Workers’ Center, 50 E. 13th St., Rm. 204, in preparation for the L. S. U. district convention. All Party and Y. C. L. members in sports’ organi- zations are required to attend. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR SPORT INSTRUCTORS RESUMES TONIGHT. Classes in the training of sport instructors will be resumed again tonight and held regularly accord- ing to schedule at 7:30. Students already signed up for the school are urged by the L. S. U., which is conducting the school, to appear at the Young Workers’ Athletic Gymnasium, 350 E. 81st St. (Classified) SELL, or exchange for Russian complete Cortina Method, French, Italian, each 15 double paced records. Write M. G. c/o Daily Worker. RUSSIAN Linguaphone Course Wanted. Rosenstein, 49 W. 13th St., N.Y. COMFORTABLE room for man, reason- able, al limprovements. Inquire all week after 1 p.m., 240 E. 13th St. Apt. 13. Williamsburgh Comrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria 24 Graham Ave. Cor. Siegel St. EVERY BITE A DELIGHT DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARom 22, rot | GUTTERS OF NEW YORK fin ¥-RAY oF “Doctors operated on a woman and removed 1801 | pieces of metal she had swallowed.” WwaAR RATIONS —NEWS ITEM. Cleveland Disria Outlines Tasks for Eighth Convention Left Wing Group in | Workers and Mass Organizations Urged to Greet Delegates and Send Contributions CLEVELAND, O.—‘“In the name of our whole membership,” the Cleveland District Committee of the | Communist Party stated yesterday, | “we greet the coming of the Eighth National Convention of our Party to Cleveland!” The District Committee declared, “We accept with revolutionary en- thusiasm the tasks of making the necessary arrangements for the con- vention!”* In outlining the tasks of the workers throughout the Cleveland district in helping to carry through the Eighth National Convention of the Communist Party. the District Committee stated: “We call on the whole Party membership as well as members of mass organizations sup- porting the Communist Party, to mobilize, their full energy in carry- | ing out all assignments.” The Cleveland District Committee lists the tasks, “Pack the Music Hall of Public Auditorium on April 2, the opening night of the Conven- tion. Have your local union, unem- ployed organization, Home Owners Branches, and other mass organ- izations, buy a block of tickets. Mo- bilize your members to march as body with your banners to the hall! “Open your homes to welcome the worker and farmer delegates who are coming from every corner of the United States. Inform the District Office, 1514 Prospect Ave., how many delegates you can house. “For the opening of the conven- tion, we are issuing a special jour- nal. Greetings from our brother Communist Parties, the Communist International, and other vital docu- ments will be printed in this jour- nal. Urge individuals, as well as your organization, to take ads and greetings! “Our revolutionary greetings to the Eighth Convention of our Party!” Workers throughout the country are urged to give financial aid to the Convention that means so much to the American working class, Lo- cals and branches of organizations are asked to contribute a minimum of $2. Send donations at once to Earl Browder, Central Committee, P.O. Box 87, Station D, N, Y. C, Strike Sentiment Grows in Detroit Despite Delays (Continued from Page 1) day afternoon, Let the powers of the workers be felt there. “Thursday at 1 p.m. stop work for five minutes. “All workers, all union men act together!” The A. F. of L. officials are strain- |ing every nerve for surrender. The workers are resisting and trying to break through the network of de- ceit and treachery of the official- dom—this sums up the present {moment in the Detroit auto situa- tion. | The announcement of Roosevelt’s |intervention, which is clearly a strikebreaking move at a moment when the workers were ready to go, |was carefully prepared for by the A. F. of L. officials, who even gave the impression that the men were staking their hope in the President, when in reality they were staking their hope in strike, which they voted repeatedly in A. F. of L. locals. The President’s move was part of the whole calculated game of post- poning action, giving the manufac- turers more time to recruit strike- breakers and to deflate the strike spirit. Fearing the attitude of the work- ers, Green approved the President’s statement and this was carried in special editions of the press before the evening meetings of the A. F. of L. locals in order to tie the workers in advance of their actions. Workers Insist On Strike At the Motor Products Co., A. F. of L. local meeting last night, A. F. of L. officials Collins and Thomp- son resorted to the most shame- less demagogy to stampede the men into delaying the action appealing for support to the President. De- spite this, the workers voted to send @ committee to the company with their demands and to strike Friday if these are not granted. At the Hudson A. F. of L. meet- ing, Collins had a hard time put- ting over his treacherous delaying tactics. When militant workers called for a general walkout, they were loudly applauded. Angry calls from the floor met the appeals from the platform to halt strike action. However, the tactics of the offi- cials succeeded in view of the agree- ment already made by Green and Collins. In Lansing, meetings of the A. F. of L. members revealed a similar attitude. Meetings held by the Auto Work- ers Union of Dodge, Chevrolet and Murray Body workers exposed the policy of delay and decided for a walkout as soon as possible. At the biggest of these meetings, the Dodge workers, reports made showed the sentiment of the workers is solidly for strike, and that they would at- tempt to pull the plant if they could not defeat the betrayal tac- tics of the A. F. of L. leaders. The Auto Workers’ Union imme- diately on the announcement of the Roosevelt intervention issted a leaflet to the Hudson Motor Prod- ucts and the A. F. of L. workers, warning against delay, and sharply denouncing the last minute post- ponement of the strike when the men were ready to walk out, The leaflet said: “The manufacturers want to de- lay to pile up stock, to confuse the workers, to divide them up and wear out their fighting spirit. What would you think of generals who tell soldiers all ready to go over the top to wait to delay, and this not once, but many times. Such generals would be generals of de- feat and surrender and not for a fight and victory. And that is how the A. F. of L. officials are acting. Delay from’ March 7 to March 14, and again to March 20. and now once again the officialdom is plead- ing for delay.” It called for rank and file strike committees to unite and fight to prevent confusion. It exposed the game of the manufacturers in call- ing in Roosevelt,*pointing out that. the workers could get no satisfac- tory terms from the President, who approved the manufacturers’ slave code, which is responsible for the conditions in the industry. Has Wide Effect This appeal of the Auto Work- ers’ Union had an effect at the A. F. of L. meetings, as admitted by Collins himself. Monday, the workers in Hudson, Jefferson plant, stopped work for one minute in tribute and protest against the murder of John Bielak, active A. F. of L. member, mur- dered last week by company gang- sters. In Department 3760 of the Hudson Gratiot Plant men stopped for five minutes at 9:30 yesterday morning when the funeral took place. 7 Yesterday, fearing a strike in the Chrysler Jefferson plant, they slowed down the line and promised @ ten per cent raise. In the Dodge Plant the line was also slowed down, in one department, and the workers were also promised an increase; but no promise was made to the workers in other departments. Definite word was received that at a joint meeting of the district committee and the shop stewards of the Mechanics Education So- ciety on Sunday, despite the will of Matthew Smith, general secretary, the meeting voted unanimously to participate in the united front con- ference this Sunday at 10 o'clock at Carpathia Hall, 3500 Elmwood, and elected nine delegates. Steps are being taken to secure delegates. from A. F. of L. and M. E. 8. locals and make the confer- ence a weapon for united front strike action 12 Mothers, 3 Children Side Fire; 16° Families Flee Among Victims; Many Left Homeless NEW YORK.—Seven working class men, women and children were burned alive when trapped by fire in an old five-story tenement at 1909 Second Ave. (near 99th St.) early yesterday. Two others, who are still missing, are believed to be in the charred ruins, The death brings the toll of tene- ment fire fatalities during the La- Guardia administration to 40. Of these, 27 have perished in old-law tenements in the last 41 days. The victims, trapped in the up-| per stories when the flames bit madly through the rickety wooden stairway, hadn’t a dog’s chance to escape. Those who could reach the rear windows huddled on the lad- derless fire escapes, shivering, wait- ing for the fire apparatus to arrive, The others, not so fortunate per- ished in the relentless flames. The known dead were: Mrs. Rose Brulo, 36; Anna Brulo, 6, her daughter; Domin- ick Flora, 57; Michael Flora, 14; his son; Mrs, Nancy Dedio, 28, Flora’s daughter; Frank Dedio, seven months old, her son; Sam- uel Tirella, 60. In addition to the seven dead, 16 families, which were crowded into the old tenement, were left home- less by the fire. After the fire apparatus arrived, the roof and the entire fifth floor, completely destroyed by the flames, collapsed. Three of the dead bod- ies were found, after the fire had been extinguished, on the fourth floor. Firemen declared, however, that they believed the bodies had fallen through from the fifth floor when it collapsed. Many of the tenants were treated for injuries, burns and_ suffocation. Most of them had nothing left in the world but the slight apparel which they were able to snatch as they fled from the burning building. It “Hurts” Him Mayor LaGuardia, in commenting on the tragedy, was, as usual, “pained.” “We'll soon have an end to that,” LaGuardia said, repeating his cam- months ago—or forty deaths ago. “I've just talked with Fire Com- missioner McElligott, and he tells me that the whole building was in a blaze before the alarm went in at 2:30 am. That's the bad thing about these fires—the delay in send- ing the alarm. But these tene- ments are veritable tinder-boxes. Commissioner McElligott explained that once the fire starts and the draft goes at it, the whole place goes up like a box of matches.” But LaGuardia did not mention what he intended to do about it. Witnesses Tell of Brutal Cop Attack | On Scottshoro Meet Seores Brave Threats of Police Retaliation to Testify NEW YORK.—Positive proof that Police brutally beat up Negro and white workers in an unprovoked at- tack on last Saturday's Scottsboro demonstration and mass welcome to the Scottsboro Mother, Mrs, Wright, was presented by victims and wit- nesses of the police violence, yes- terday at the hearing which is be- ing conducted by Chief Inspector Valentine. Unlike the opening day of the hearing, representatives of the press were permitted to be present as a result of the vigorous protest filed with Mayor LaGuardia on Monday by workers and a delegation consist- ing of Joseph Tauber and David Freeman, attorneys for the Inter- national Labor Defense, and A. L. Wirin of the Civil Liberties Union. William Mayers, who suffered a laceration of the scalp from the police clubbing, told how he was pushed into a hall-way and beaten up, and again mishandled at the Police station, with policemen and detectives taking turns in throwing chairs at his head. Charles Hansen, now under med- ical care with a possible fracture of the ribs, told of being savagely clubbed by the police. Police Shadow, Intimidate Witnesses Other witnesses told how Charles Brown, a Negro policeman, stomped up and down, brandishing his gun, attacking and threatening workers, picking tp grape fruits from a near- by stand and hurling them at spec- tators in the windows of houses who were protesting the police outrage. The testimony of the workers was substantiated by Henry Lee Moon, of the New York Amster- dam News, who testified to the unprovoked attack and unbridled brutality. Mrs. Ada Wright, Scottsboro mother, who testified on Mon- day, was present again at yester- day's hearing. * LL.D. Urges Pack Court Room YORK.—AIl workers are urged to pack the East 121st St. Court, between Third and Lex- ington Aves. this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the trial of the four Negro and white workers arrested in last Saturday’s police attack on the Scottsbore demonstration in Harlem. The four workers are Sam Stein, field organizer of the International Labor Defense; Hugh Whiteman, Denny Stamp and William Myers. paign statements of four and five |, SAM Setting the C. P. District Convention to Open Tomorrow Night 7 Die in East |@ 5) ROSS Cage Pace E SEEM to be getting warm and cold weather intermit- tently these days, which kind of makes the athletes want to go outdoors for their workouts; but the indoor season isn’t over by a long shot yet. In most of the colleges, bas- ketball is about over; but right here in little old New York, the basketball tourney of the L. S. U. has just gotten under way. o Teams out West got the jump on the easterners for once. The upper Michigan district cage tourney has been completed with the boys from the Atlas A. C. in Ironwood, Michigan, winning the undisputed right to travel down to Chicago for the regional play-off and to see who goes to New York for the National Workers’ Basketball Championship. Down in Chicago, these boys will meet teams from Chicago, Cleve- land, and Detroit and the winner will journey to New York to engage the best we have around these parts. ree Seat: EANWHILE, the New York dis- trict got under way in their tour- ney when they played their pre- liminary rounds at Kay Tee Hall last Sunday. I traveled down there that after- noon with plenty of paper in my pockets to take notes on how these boys go through their paces. Be- lieve me, it was far different than watching a college or professional cage game. I got the biggest kick out of seeing the Brownsville ¥. ©, L. team come out on the court. It was fun—a real thrill—watching a “Free Scottsboro Boys”—jerseyed boy race down the court to bat the ball into the backboard from a rebound. Then a “Defend the U. S. 8. R.”-er took a crack at a basket from the center of the rourt from another basket. Those red jerseys, “Fight Fascism,” “De- fend U.S.S.R.”, “Free Scottsboro Boys,” spun around, pivoted, ran up and down the court, until a maze of letters and red jerseys and thoughts spun dizzily around the stands. Fem ee: was thrilling to watch these workers and workers’ sons ap- plauded by an audience, going through their routine, in spite of the fact that we weren't watching masterful playing. They were handicapped by the length of the court, which was very small. They slipped and fell many times because the floor they played on was ordi- narily a dance floor and was very slippery. They didn’t have trainers running out during each time-out to give them a little rub or a drink of water or a piece of orange. Thev didn’t have thousands of throaty voices cheering “rah, rah, rah ... Yeah, Defend U. 8. S. R., shoot a basket. Come on, Fight Fascism, make it good.” Nor did they have the masterly skill that comes only from playing about three hours a day, every day, under the driving tutelage of a $100-a- week coach, They were workers playing for the fun of the game, using some of their leisure time to build up thei: bodies, to enjoy the healthy results of sports. Unlike college players or professionals, they weren't exploited by alumni or business men. No worries popped in their heads of making good or else they'd lose their jobs. They were in a workers’ cage tourney, playing to represent. the New York district in the final and regional competitions for the American Labor Sports basketball championship. mek eee I. connection with this basketball craze going on now, not only the phones are buzzing in our ears, but also the wires are doing their duty. Interest is being heightened tre- mendously about the coming game at the St. Nicholas Arena between the great Renaissance team, world’s Negro champions and a galaxy of former college and professional stars who are offering their ser- vices free for the Scottsboro De- fense Fund on that night, Here's 4 wire from Philadelphia: SAM ROSS, CARE DAILY WORKER. OFFER MY SERVICES FREE AS OFFICIAL FOR BENEFIT GAME, RENAISSANCE-ALL- STARS STOP WELL KNOWN BASKETBALL CIRCLES OFFI- CIATING IN AMERICAN LEAGUE STOP REFER YOU TO. DOUGLAS STOP ADVISE BY WIRE, i, SUGARMAN, That's spirit coming from a well- known Philly dentist. Douglas, who is manager of the Renaissance ball club, told us he’s real stuff in bas- ketball circles. Since we had al- ready arranged a referee for the big game, we have wired Sugarman to officiate at the preliminary game between the Kay Tee, Metropolitan Workers district basketball cham- pions of last year, and a team of a boys from the Harlem Y. Japan Seeks U. 8. Agreement; Part Of War Program (Continued from Page 1) tack in the Far East takes on greater imminence as a result of the fact that the two most powerful imperialist rivals in the Far East, Japan and the United States, are busy discussing the possibilities of @ rapproachment at this time. Japanese Seek Agreement In his letter to Hull, Hirota in- formed American imperialism: “It is the sincere desire of Japan that @ most peaceful and friendly rela- tion will be firmly established be- tween her and her great neighbor across the Pacific, the United States. And to this end I have been ex- erting my best efforts since I took the post of Foreign Minister. ... I hope and believe that the desire of the Japanese government in this respect will be reciprocated by a full support and countenance on the part of your government.” The State Department, replied Hull, was glad to hear “that Japan has no intention whatever to pro- voke and make trouble with any other power.” But, “If unhappily there should arise in the future any controversy between our two coun- tries, the American government will be prepared, as I believe it always has been in the past, to examine the position of Japan in a spirit of amity and of desire for peaceful and just settlement... .” From these exchanges, it is clear that the whole question of the re- lations of the two imperialist gov- ernments, each seeking to protect its investments and interests in the Far East, with the hope of solving their difficulties at the expense of their common enemy, the Socialist Soviet Union. asin London, March « 21--The an- nouncement that Japanese and American imperialism are discussing the possibility of agreement on Far Eastern questions “has aroused sat- isfaction” in official circles, it is re- ported here. 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