The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 23, 1934, Page 2

Two Dressmakers Taj Strikers in Hath Turn Out for Local 22 Vote Thousands at Polling Places; Left Wingers Face Intimidation BULLETIN As we go to press, election re- cults are not yet known, Com- plete reports of the Local 22, elee- lioms will appear in tomorrow's Daily Worker. NEW YORK—Thousands of dress- makers turned out at a dozen dif- ferent polling stations in Manhat- tan, Brooklyn and the Bronx yes- terday to cast their votes in the elections of officers of Local 22 of | the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union Left wing members of the union, answering the call of the Left Wing | Group, which together with the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, had thoroughly exposed the treacherous and reactionary policy of the Zimmerman “progressive” leadership, turned out in full force, only to find the entire Lovestone machine and the entire Dubinsky- Zimmerman clicque leadership had been mobilized against them. While the voting was in progress, many instances of intimidation and atempted intimidation of voters were reported. At 3 W. 16th St., it was reported that more than one ballot was given to certain individuals. At 571 Eighth Ave Zimmerman, “Progressive” candidate for manager, spoke to several policemen, after which Left Wing dressmakers, who had come to east their ballots for Morris Stamper and the entire left wing slate, were chased away. A similar incident occurred at the 38th St. and Bighth Ave., polling station, when Albert and Deitch, business agents, gave orders to po- e to chase left wing dressmakers from the seene. The results of the voting were not yet known when this edition of the ly Worker went to press. Garden Meeting to Rally Workers for (Continued from Page 1) Foundation, and Herbert Benjamin, national organizer of the Unem- ployment Counils. The meeting in the Garden, and the one-hour protest strike, were initiated by the united front com- mittee of 100 set up by a confer- enve of many unemployed and other workers’ organizations. The demands of Sunday's Garden meeting and the March 29 one-hour protest strike are for continuation and extension of the C.W.A. j or equivalent cash relief for all un- employed, immediate enactment by Congress of the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598), and against discrimi- nation against Negro workers. The New York united front conference called on the workers of all other cities to make the protest strike March 29 nation-wide and demand that Roosevelt continue the C.W.A. jobs. The Relief Workers’ League, one of the organizations active in the united front protest against C.W.A. firing, announced through Davidow that all locals of the League, to- gether with the C. W. A. and unem- ployed workers, are meeting Sunday at one o'clock in the League's local headquarters and marching to the Garden meeting in a body. Davi- dow, a C. W. A. worker in Canarsie, | was threatened recently with being | 20d 7th Ave., police in a radio car | transferred by the C. W. A. admin- istration, but the workers on the job protested and secured his reten- | tion on the Canarsie project. The Relief Workers’ League this week has been touring projects with loud speakers, announcing the Gar- den meeting Sunday and the March 29 protest strike to all C. W. A. workers. Open-air meetings are be- ing held on projects by the League. In Dyker Park two workers were arrested for distributing leaflets, announcing the Garden meeting, and were fined $10. Two hundred workers met at the Dyker Park mass meeting in spite of a heavy police squad. The League has also held a mass meeting at the Second Ave. project. The Relief Workers’ League local on Project 11, at the County Court House in Manhattan, secured the reinsta‘ement of seven workers who were laid off. The workers at this project decided to take part in the Madison Square Garden meeting nd the protest strike. Strike com- mittees are being organized on all Projects for the one-hour protest strike of March 29 at 3 p.m. Women’s auxiliaries of the Relief Workers’ League are in process of erganization on the projects, which will mobilize the women fer the Garden meeting Sunday and for the one-hour protest strike. The conference of A. F. of L. locals and minority groups in the A, F. of L, locals met Wednesday under the auspices of the Anti- Racketeering Committee in A. F. of L.. unions, and unanimously en- dorsed the one-hour protest strike called for Thursday, March 29, and the Garden meeting, Sunday, March 25, at 2 p.m. The A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Re- lief was to meet last night. The committee, through David Gordon, secretary, issued # statement en- corsing the one-hour national pro- test strike at 3 p.m., March 29, and | Militant Parade At Mass Meeting in. Halt Scab Cabs Duluth, Saturday, (Continued from Page 1) with them, shouting against com-| 1925; To Tell How So- | pany unions and police brutality. As the striking cab men moved | up Broadway, they encountered a mass picket line of clothing strik- | their | their | triumphant march up Broadway. A| ers. The pickets cheered working-class brothers in DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1934 All Out to Party Convention Meet at Coliseum Tonight. First Speech Here Since viets Will End Poverty DULUTH, Mini March 21.— Clarence Hathawi editor of the Daily Worker, will speak at a mass meeting here Saturday, March 24th, mighty roar went up from the strik-| at Camel's Hall, on “How a Soviet ing cabmen as they shouted back | Government Will Abolish Poverty in their solidarity with the striking| ys. a.” workers. Traffic ‘The taxi men stayed to clothing snarled. show their support of other strik- | ers, fighting for a living wage. Thoysands of girl workers in the} lofts and salesrooms of the Broad- way garment district massed in the windows and doorways and cheered the strikers. | ness between City Hall and Union Square. The strikers marched in a picket formation up Fourth Ave- nue to 23rd Street, where they turned down toward Broadway, At | Broadway and 28rd St., four scab |cabs were stopped and the drivers | were chased out of them. | Strikers, whose numbers which had | now swelled to about 3,000, marched | down 28rd St. to 7th Avenue, where two more scab cabs were stopped. | All throughout the midtown sec- | tion of the city, police could be |seen driving in smashed up Par- |melee, Terminal and Radio cabs. | At the Penn Station four cabs were put out of business. Parmelee officials squirming under the heavy blows dealt to them | through the militancy of the strik- \ers, claim that they have not got | proper police protection and have | demanded through the Président of the Parmelee System, Levin Rank, that more police detachments be placed at their disposai Mr. Rank \issued a statement to the press to- | day, stating that the Parmelee Co. has suffered damage loss of between | fifteen and twenty thousand dol- | Jers during the course of the strike. | The radio police operators say that | the strike has cosf the company | over twenty thousand dollars. All along the line of march yes- | terday, the strikers shouted disap- |proval to the provocative stories carried in the capitalist press. At lines, strikers could be heard shout- | ing the slogan “Boycott the ‘News’.” The demonstration and parade | last night were successful in once | more carrying the strike to every garage in the city. By 2 o'clock yesterday morning, the strikers were successful in halting practically all |the cab service in the city. The | militant picketing, which started the night before, continued until the early hours of the morning. All sections of the midtown district of |Manhattan were covered by blocks jot roving pickets who were shout- |ing slogans: “Down with the Com- }pany Union.” As the strikers | marched past the Rand School on 15th Street, they showed their anger against the Socialist, Judge Panken, who was responsible for the sell-out of the first strike, by shouting the slogan “Down with Panken.” All during the period of the dem- onstration, the pickets were attack- jed brutally by LaGuardia’s police. | At 18th Street and Fifth Avenue, |a@ policeman pulled a gun on the | strikers, but he was immediately | isolated and pushed from the side- j walk. In an attempt to smash up | the militancy of the strikers and | the effectiveness of their picketing, | the police department called out the | 13th, 14th, 15th, 18th and 20th pre- cinet radio cars and all squad cars and riot equipments from those stations. Early in the morning at 4ist St. | deliberately drove into the strikers. | seriously injuring Jack Stacher, of 1252 West Farms Road, a striker, who was taken to the Roosevelt | Hospital for treatment. The police car number was 4N-4744; the badge |of one of the cops in it was No. | 13197. Stacher’s brother informed | the Daily Worker that he had taken his brother from the Roosevelt Hos- pital on account of the bad treat- ment given to him by the physi- cians. The doctors, Stacher’s brother said, insulted Stacher and said to him: “Well, now, what do you think about going out and demonstrating and parading.” Joining with the Manhattan driv- ers in their successful move to pull all the cabs off the streets, four bus leads and nine auto loads of Bronx taxi men came to the mid- town section at midnight. Upon embarking from the cars and busses, the Bronx delegation was brutally attacked by police. They marched with the Manhattan men through the downtown section and later con- tinued the parade through Harlem |into the Bronx, stopping off cabs | attempting to operate. The strikers arrived at Times Square during the hour of the | theatre let-out. Crowds of t's-atre- goers, who were waiting {f° cabs, had to take the subway and street cars to get home. A number of theatre-goers showed their sym- pathy with the strikers by getting lout of the cars on Times Square and walking home. Passengers, upon alighting from the cars, were given tremendous cheers by the strikers. Joseph Gilbert, Organizer of the Taxi Cab Drivers Union of Greater New York, hailed the militancy of the strikers at the strike meeting at Germania Hall, Wednesday night. “We will continue to maintain the right to picket,” said Gilbert. “We will protect our men. The fact that we were out last night and this afternoon has made the Parmelee men realize we are determined. If Sunday's Garden meeting, and called on all A. F. of L. to participate ' t the city will not give us protection, we will protect ourselves,” was | | City Hall today and on the picket | March 29 Strike Hathaway, who has not spoken here since 1925, is well known to the workers of Minnesota, the state where he was born. He first started his activities in the labor move- ment here; was an organizer in the A. F. of L. Machinists Union in Minneapolis; and was vice-president | | of the Minnesota State Federation | Over a score of scab cabs belong- ing to the Parmelee, Terminal and | Radio systems were put out of busi- | of Labor. The mass meeting on Saturday has been called by the Communist Party of Duluth in answer to a de- magogic speech made by Farmer- Labor Governor Olson last Tuesday. In his speech, Olson said that the state and the federal government will abolish poverty by law, and that at the end of the C. W. A. Roosevelt's new “relief” plan will take care of all the unemployed. Detro it Aut 0 Meet Mobilies United Action {Continued from Page 1) F. of L., which is scheduled to meet tonight, calling on them to organize an opposition to the officials, warn- ing them they are in the act of sell- ing out the men. The leaflet urges the men to stand firm for strike. ‘The appeal reads in part: “We are organizing the rank and file opposition against the high- salaried officials like Collins & Co., who are selling us out. In words they talk about wage in- creases, but in their deeds they have given up the wage demands. In words they talk about recogni- tion, but they are ready to trap us inte an arbitration scheme and do not stand for real union recogni- tion. Union recognition means the right of the men to join the unions and to elect their own committees in the shops to deal with the em- ployers. “The President will not give | anything. The President approved the slave code and is now giving us the run-around which will end with a double-cross. Only strike action can get our demands. Wake | up, talk up! Don’t be bluffed by | Collins. Form strike committees in the shops. Strike now, not when we are out of the shops. Ac- cept nothing without a vote of the rank and file members. Join to- gether for a united front of all workers, for one mighty strike, for one united strike.” At the same time steps are being taken to organize and strengthen the rank and file oppositions in the A. F. of L. locals. Visit A.F.L. and M.E.S. Locals In face of the prepared sell-out, the united front conference on Sun- day is a challenge. The Auto Workers Union delegations are visit- ing locals of the A, F, of L., and the Mechanics Educational Society to obtain delegates and unite senti- ment for united action, Word has come from Flint that efforts are being made to secure delegates from Buick and Fisher body plants, At a meeting of the industrial council of the Auto Workers Union last night steps were taken to in- crease the recruiting of unorganized workers into the Auto Workers Union, and to assist rank and file opposition in the A. F. of L. in the fight against their treacherous of- ficials, The industrial council recognized that without stronger organization the correct policies put forward in the interest of the workers, which are meetthg with favorable re- sponse, cannot bring workers into action, The Communist Party is working energetically to get workers along the line of struggle. In a number of successful actions in departments which gained wage increases, Com- munists and militant workers, by timely and fearless action, cut through the blocking tactics of the A. F, of L, officialdom. Distribute Daily Worker Three thousand copies of the Daily Worker were distributed at the fac- tories yesterday, In addition to the 45-minute stop- page yesterday of metal finishers at the Budd Wheel, 300 are reported to have struck in Department 9 of the Motor Products, winning increases from 77 cents to 93 cents an hour. As this is written, information is not yet available of the effect of the call for the five-minute stop- page at 1 p.m. today, issued by the Auto Workers Union, to demonstrate the willingness of the workers to fight for their demands. There was a good distribution of the leaflets. At the Hudson and Chevrolet plants, as well as others, workers took the call readily, At the Hudson Gratiot plant the work- ers were discussing the Auto Work- ers Union appeal, saying: “We might as well put up demands while we are at it.” They talked about asking for a bonus increase to 215 per cent. Fearing a walk-out yesterday, de- spite the action of the A. F. of L. leaders, the Dodge plant was. sur- rounded by a cordon of police, In- side the plant, a large number of company police were stationed. As part of the tactics to prevent strike action, the manufacturers are laying off men, and hiring new people who they think are unaf- fected by strike sentiment. At the same time, they continue to ferret out militant union men, “The proposals of the manuf not meet the needs of the auto | | | committees democratically elected shops. recognition and to stall off strike the present situation to bring the p: carried through with the sole aim | favorable moment, and of double-ci that only strike action will obtain (Signed) PHIL RAYMO! (Continued from Page 1) and in all departments; adequate cash relief for the unemployed; stoppage of discharge of C.W.A. men, and unemployment insurance. | board is only a trick to trap the men and prevent them ftom action. We demand union recognition, which means the right of the workers to freely organize into unions of their own choice, and to deal with the employers on all questions of wages, hours and conditions through “Any other proposition is only another device to prevent union “The delay of the strike by the A. F. of L. officials is playing the | game of the manufacturers, and if the above demands, which corre- | spond to the needs of the auto workers, are not immediately granted, | j it will prove to them that the present conference was conceived and “The A. F. of L. representatives in Washington, consisting chiefly of the high-salaried officialdom, cannot speak for and bind the mighty mass of 250,000 automohile workers. “NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD, AUTO WORKERS UNION, 4210 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Michigan. J. WILSON, National Organizer. W. CLIFF, President.” acturers and General Johnson do | workers. The proposed arbitration by them in the departments and action, which is the only means in rofit-greedy manufacturers to terms. of preventing strike action at this | rossing the workers and again show the workers’ demands. IND, National Secretary. (Continued from Page 1) Steel and similar corporations to ‘Wagner's bill is “but the expression of the inherent inertia of the most reactionary sections of a reaction- ary class, strengthened by the be- lief that with the present official | leadership of the A. F. of L. they can lick the American workers in the developing struggles without any further legislation of this kind.” At one point Dunne held up a copy of “Time” magazine, on the cover of which was a picture of Wagner, with the line underneath: “Wants a club to keep industrial peace.” The magazine explained that was the significance of the new Wagner bill. Dunne said, “Mild as |the Senator looks, I’m convinced that is just what he wants—a club.” Wagner, looking particularly con- fused, blurted: “I want to say I did not write that article.” And Dunne responded, wiping a smile from his face: “I'm willing to admit, Sen- ator, that you didn’t even know anything about the article.” | To Senator Davis, the Moose Or- der king who recently was tried and acquitted in connection with his aa- tivities in the Moose lottery, and |who has buddied with the most | corrupt of A. F. of L. leaders while | doing the bidding of Mellon’s men |in Pennsylvania politics, Dunne | turned and said: “I can understand how Senator Davis is interested in finances.” It was Davis who gave Gorman the cue for the charge that the N. T. W. was “subsidized from Russia.” Without going into that, Davis asked Dunne what kind of leader- ship he wanted the working class to have. Then Dunne declared for leadership that represents its work- ers and is “elected directly by the rank and file,” and is responsible to and removable by them, as in the case of the T. U. U. L. unions. “Senator,” explained Dunne, “you're not contending that there is democracy in the A. F. of L.?” “Oh,” Davis replied, “I'm just trying to get some information.” “Haven't you heard of gang- sters and racketeering by union officials?” asked Dunne. “Don’t you know that even a vote against the machine in many instances incurs the death penalty?” “Do you think that’s true in the A. F. of 1.2” Davis asked again innocently, “I not only think so,” said Dunne, “I know so, Why didn’t the A. F. of L. officials stop it?” The essence of the new Wagner bill is the old theory that the in- terests of labor and capitalists are identical, Dunne explained; the same old theory that ushered in “efficiency unionism” that meant nothing but a cessation of labor’s struggle against increasing attacks on their living standards. The same theory that is behind the A. F. of L. leaders, such as Green, participating in the strikebreaking activities of the Natonal Labor Board “under the guarantee that General Johnson gave to the em- ployer—their interests are your in- terests’ The same theory that ac- companied the great new delusion scheme of Section 7-A.” A. F. of L, Helped Cut Wages With all these, the income of the working! class as a whole decreased, until a new series of struggles arose, and “now contingents of workers are going into combat in coal, steel, metal, textile, shoe and leather, the garment industry, taxi drivers, longshoremen, seamen, ete.” To meet the lowered living standards of the working class, Dunne proposed on behalf of the T.U.U.L, the following demands: Union shops, with full recog- nition of representatives of work- ers democratically elected by the rank and file; a flat 35 per cent inerease in wages for all the em- workers in the United States; immediate enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance bill, guaranteeing to all unemployed workers at least a standard of living of minimum decency; cessation of the use of private police, gangsters, labor spies; cessation of sending police, state troopers and the National Guard against striking workers; cessation of the organized lynch terrer and murder and discrim- ination against the Negro masses of the South; abolition of the use Bill Dunne Rips Into Wagner Bill of injunctions against workers and their organizations; cessation of Prosecutions of organizers of the employed and unemployed; cessa- tion of espionage among foreign- born workers and attempts to de- port them for labor activity. “These are proposals that fit the needs of the workingclass in this, the fifth year of the worst crisis in the history of capitalism,” de- clared Dunne. He explained how the Wagner bill Kills Strike Right He explained how the Wagner bill proposed the “deceptive” measure of “equalizing bargaining power be- tween employer and employee’— something, said Dunne, that “does not and cannot exist” under the present capitalist system. He showed how the proposed three “public” representatives of a new labor board would act in the inter- ests of employers under “the polite fiction” that they represent “all the people.” He forecast that the Wag- ner bill would set up new police power, providing fines and prison sentences, to be used against work- ers exercising their fundamental rights to strike. These, he declared, would obtain despite the bill's decla- ration that it does not interfere with the strike right. Moreover, the draft bill provides that the board could change anything provided by statute merely by announcing new rulings— it could, in short, “rule by decree.” After showing how strikes can be effective only if carried out at stra- tegic moments, he summarized: “The more important the em- ployer, the more decisive the in- dustry. . . the more would the Na- tional Labor Board under the pro- visions of this bill maneuver to de- lay action by workers until the fa- vorable moment had passed. The American working class does not need and does not want any such legislation as this. There is too much of it now.” Secretary Perkins Flies to Detroit To Stop Auto Strike (Continued from Page 1) liam Green’s own delegation recog- nize publicly that the Roosevelt ad- ministration is using every means at its disposal to keep the men in the factories until the passage of the peak season some two or three | weeks hence when striking will be disadvantageous, At 5:30 p.m. the A. F. of L. dele- gate was still closeted with Presi- dent Roosevelt, “We're getting gypped (he used an unprintable word) here,” said Lionel Bentley, A. F. of L. repre- sentative from the Nash plants in Kenosha and Racine, Wisconsin, which are on strike, Just before he went in with the A. F. of L. dele- gation of eight spokesmen to con- fer with Roosevelt. John Bostwick, the A. F. of L. representative from the Fisher Body plant in St. Louis was more em- phatic and enlightening. Strike Could Win Now “We could win hands down if we went on strike now,” he told re- porters in the lobby of the White House offices. “A strike is their only chance of winning anything.” David Lano, A. F. of L, delegate from Flint, Michigan, who couldn’t withhold his disgust at the strixe- breaking tactics of the administra- tion, actually called for a strike if the delegates are not given a final decision tonight. “The men are al- most beyond control. If this con- ference is postponed the men will lose confidence in the President and the government. The N.R.A. is a joke and General Johnson is a joke. If we don’t get a decision to- night, the men ought to go on strike tomorrow morning.” The Roosevelt-Green strike-stall- ing tactics are so transparent that an argument broke out among the two dozen delegates right in the White House lobby when the Green leadership tried to keep out the militant elements. John Milkent, the A. F, of L. delegate from Ken- osha, Wis., protested bitterly at be- ing kept out of the conference after he had travelled “all the way from sticks, NEW YORK.—Veterans who were | forced to wait at City Hall last Fri- | |day for two and a half hours while | LaGuardia failed to show up, will march on City Hall again today to present cases of veteran disability and need to the Mayor. LaGuardia has definitely been notified about this, and he will be expected to receive a committee and hear spe- cific cases of ex-servicemen in need of relief and medical aid. The parade, which is sponsored by the City Committee of the Work- ers Ex-Seryicemen’s League, will start at 2 p. m, at Union Square. Veterans will begin to assemble on the Square at 1 p.m. Then they will march to the City Hall, rain or shine. Their demands are: for imme- diate cash relief for all distressed | veterans; immediate payment of the bonus; repeal of the Economy Act, and the enactment of the Unem- ployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). ‘Cops Attacked ‘Peaceful Meet, Inquiry Shows Inspector Valentine Is Compelled To Admit Fault of Police NEW YORK.—Who turns a peace- ful street meeting into a disorderly “riot”? The clearest, completest answer to this question was revealed in a most dramatic way at the investigation conducted by Chief Inspector of Police Lewis J. Valentine into charges of police brutality at Sat- urday's Scottsboro demonstration on Lenox Avenue between 126th and 127th Sts. Not only was it positively proved that police deliberately attacked a peaceful meeting of 300 or 400 Ne- gro and white workers who were causing no blockade of traffic, but there was plenty of evidence to show that the “N, Y. Times” re- porter ‘cooperated with police in deliberate lies to whitewash the brutality of the police, In fact, al! the witnesses who had been present at the demonstration with the single exception of Irving Spiegel, “Times” reporter, testified that police had broken up the aeet- ing on no provocation whatever At Valentine’s hearing, at which were present only a few police chiefs, the International Labor De- fense attorney Friedman, A. Wirin of the Civil Liberties and a few reporters who were admitted only after a protest delegation had demanded a public hearing from Mayor LaGuardia, the truth came out. Prove Cops Attacked Fifteen Negro and white workers, including three reporters, testified that the meeting was quiet and or- derly until the cops arrived, that several police cars and an emer- gency truck were at the scene be- fore any trouble at all had started, that traffic had not been blocked, that cops had immediately waded into the workers, that Detectives Ames had asked for a permit when none was needed and that he and Normoyle had hurled at least eight tear gas and smoke bombs, that po- lice had swung their clubs, fists and that a Negro patrolman, Charles Brown, had pointed his gun at the crowd and had beaten a Ne- gro girl in the face with his fists until she fell on the street, Valentine Forced to Admit Cops’ The workers’ charges of brutality were further confirmed when the cops began to testify. They told such obvious lies, contradicted themselves and the statements of the other cops so often, that Val- entine became disgusted and at one point said: “There was no disorder until you men arrived. ‘here was no traffic tie-up. Why do you persist in say- peat kl had to break up the meet- ing?” But most of the time Valentine attempted to minimize and condone the brutal attacks on the workers by the police. At one point he even concurred with one policeman in citing the Constitution of the U. S. for legal right to break up the dem- onstration. “The constitution,” said the cop, “gives the right for people to peace- ably assemble and right of freedom of speech. I thought the assem- blage wasn’t peaceful so I think we had full right to break it up.” I spoke to Valentine after the hearing. I asked him if he had called the “Times” before the hear- ing. “Yes,” he replied. We called them for the reporter to testify. They gave us fine co-operation.” Valentine said the transcription of the hearing will be given to La- Guardia and the latter will issue a statement. Demonstrate Today At Spring and Elizabeth Home Relief Bureau NEW YORK.—Downtown work- ing class organizations and jobless workers will demonstrate before the Home Relief Bureau at Spring and Elizabeth Sts. at 11 a. m. today to demand the right of the unem- Ployed to be represented by elected committees in presenting their re- lief needs and grievances, NURSES HIT PROPOSED SALARY CUT Nurses and other workers in city hos- pitals will hold a mass meeting tonight at Irving Plaza Hall, riving Place and 15th St., to protest the proposed salary cut for city nurses. The delegation which Wisconsin on the A, F, of L, re- quest to do so.” 5 vistted Hospital Commisston Goldwater will report on his reaction Le} Workers of Four ‘Cities Plan Giant ‘Scottsboro Protest Ruby Bates, Gallagher to Speak at New Jersey Meetings PITTSBURGH, March 22. — A Scottsboro protest mass meeting will be held tonight under the auspices of the League of Struggle High School, Forbes St. entrance. Speakers include Ben Careathers, Ralph Thornton and Madeline Gaines. Pyaar sa 3 PASSAIC, N. J., March 22—Ruby Bates, star Scottsboro defense wit- ness, will be the principal speaker at a Scottsboro protest mass meet- ing tonight at Kanter’s Auditorium, 269 Monroe St.. The meeting is sponsored by the Passaic branches of the International Labor Defense. eer gi oF PATERSON, N. J., March 22.— Leo Gallagher, International Labor Defense attorney, who has just re- turned from Germany and Canada, will be the main speaker at the Paris Commune celebration this Gallagher will report on his experi- ences with the Nazi butchers in Germany, where he went to defend Georgi Dimitroff, one of the four herote Reichstag defendante. ‘The program includes a play by the John Reed Club Dramatic group of Newark, and numbers by the Russian Mandolin Orchestra. Saeko Buia NEW YORK.—The newly orga- nized Crispus Attucks Branch of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights in Flatbush, Brooklyn, has called a Scottsboro protest mass meeting for Saturday evening at the Allen Memorial Church, 2608 Tilden Ave., near Rogers Ave. Ruby Bates, star Scottsboro de- fense witness, will be the principal speaker, ‘Official Warns of Communism in Bid For US.-JapanPact (Continued from Page 1) United States and the League of Nations are too feeble to enforce?” That the latest move of Japanese imperialism for a rapproachment with the United States imperialism in order to change the correlation of forces in the Far East against the Soviet Union. The persistent Peace policy of the Soviet Union, based on the fact that the Soviet Government is not an imperialist government and has no desire for any territorial expansion, has been the main bulwark of peace against the provocations of Japanese im- perialism. PR SE —TONIGHT !— NEW MASSES Annual SPRING FROLIC Dance Till 3 a. m. with Vernon Andrade’s Orchestra WEBSTER HALL 119 East ith St. N. ¥, ©. $1.00 in advance — $1.50 at door Tickets on sale at NEW MASSES, 31 E. 27th St. Caledonia 5-3076. Workers’ Book Shop, 50 E. 13th St. Allerton Avenue Comrades! || The Modern Bakery ‘was first to settle Bread Strike and first to sign with the Food Workers’ Industrial Union 691 ALLERTON AVE. Russian and Oriental Kitchen Comradely Atmosphere VILLAGE BAR 221 SECOND AVENUE near 14th Street, New York City (Classified ) RUSSIAN 25¢ a lesfon. Schuyler 4-0174. HARRY call Frances at Tompkins Equare wise will go to P. Frances. Dance Music by ‘DEL,”,Master GOOD TIME—FEATS ALL PROCEEDS TO for Negro Rights at the Fifth Ave. | Saturday evening at Oakley Hall.) 6-9590 Priday evening, 8 o'clock. Other-| DAILY WORKER VOLUNTEERS ANNOUNCES Dance and Entertainment Saturday Evening, March 24th MANHATTAN LYCEUM 66 East 4th Street, New York City Admission 30 cents in advance; 35 cents at door away toSpeak| WIRE ROOSEVELT DEMANDS AUTO Veterans To March'30 AFL Union Delegate)) UNION BE HEARD AT CAPITAL On City Hall Today Endorse C. W. A. Strike, Jobless Insurance Bil: | rs | Unanimously Sup port Militant Struggle on Unemployment NEW YORK.—The conference ¢ A. F. of L. locals and minorit groups in A. F. of L. locals hel) Wednesday in New York City under | the auspices of the Anti-Racketeer- ing Committee in A. F. of L. Unions | unanimously endorsed the one-hour strike of the C.W.A. workers to be called Thursday, March 29, at 4 p.m. ‘Thirty delegates from carpenters’ unions, from painters, IL.G.W.U., Amalgamated Clothing Workers, sheet metal, motion picture oper- ators, delicatessen clerks, electri- cians, Paper Bag Union, and other unions and groups, were present at this conference. A motion was unanimously car- ried to protest against federal con- trol or state control over trade unions. Special reference was made against the McNaboe bill which is before the N. Y. State Assembly, which aims at sueh state control. The conference also unanimously went on record in favor of the Workers’ Unemployment and So- cial Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, and pledged to push it in all A. F. of L. Local unions. Discussion was had on the func- | tions of the A. F. of L. Trade Union | Committee for Unemployment In- surance and Relief, the center of the A. F. of L. rank and file. After | discussion a motion was made and | unanimously carried that the Anti- | Racketeering Committee become af- | filiated with the A. F. of L. Trade | Union Committee for Unemploy- |ment Insurance and Relief. Plans were laid for further ac- tivity in connection with the fight against racketeering and for build- ing the Anti-Racketeering Commit- tee, DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-301% Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M New Folding Chairs JOIN KALMUS CO. Inc. 36 W, 26th St. MUrray Hill 4-5447 Office and School Equipment NEW and USED I, J. MORRIS, Inc, GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 296 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Phone: Dickens 2-1273—4—5 v Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 For International Workers Order COHEN’S 117 ORCHARD STREET } Nr. Delancey Street, New York City ‘ EYES EXAMINED ; By Dr. Joseph Lax Wholesale Opticians Tel. ORchard 4-4520 } ry on Premisex GARMENT WORKERS WELCOME SHERIDAN i | VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT (Formerly Shildkrauts) 225 WEST 36th STREET Between 7th and 8th Avenues BENSONHURST WORKERS Patronize Gorgeou’s Cafeteria 2211 86th Street Near Bay Parkway Fresh Food at Proletarian Prices WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has reduced the rent, several good apartments available, Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 Pridey and Seturday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 10 am, to 2 p.m, Harlem Hot Shots of Ceremonies THE DAILY WORKER