The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 27, 1934, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1934 United Shoe, Leather Prepare To Carry) S075 OF “FW YORK Fight for Mooney, Workers Union Vote On Officers Mar. 29 Appeal Acisaased on Tells Where to Vote; Urges All Workers Vorkers To Flay ToUS. Supreme Ct. Partial Victory in Scottsboro Case SAN FRANCISCO, March 26.— Joe GILBERT FIELDORGANTZER OF Tee TAX ORIWERS ONION oF NX By DEL AAA Farm Report |Crop Destruction Has) Hides Slash in Real Farm Income Raised Food Prices WASHINGTON, March 26.—The The Glamorous College Star ‘HE pen-pushers and typewriter bangers who read this column haven’t been falling down on the job of giving ! > ae va Laas oe 2.8: Supreme ORVER/ eg annual report of the Agricultural) me some inside dope which they have uncovered in their | Vote NR A at Hear Ing | Tom Mooney were being pushed, it : f y {a tech: tase icsilg the fyitres spare time. Me “AS a Gace at . Dae shesed Cay no \ the arrival eel ) Red Ss on nine months of acreage reduc- It never occurred to me while I was watching Bob Pastor — Urging Thursda ta Night | eo. he eae ee hy , Se Seerinc ® tion. The report claims that the) win the heavyweight championship a couple of weeks ago x vote as a demonstration tNED EU tated iY Sree HARD REML “TRILL farm population has received one! 5+ the Golden Glove fights that he’d have an interesting Finerty interviewed the famous "to Look billion dollars more in cash income of the organized strength of class-war prisoner at San Quentin | during 1933 than in 1932. background, aside from being? ee the shoe workers, the United Shoe and Leather Workers be open from 12 noon of Borough Hall fac- ers of Manhattan factories th Street and “Tf you do not work on that day you can vote at any one of the above stations neare: y “Instructions: The shop’s crew will come to the polls in a body. Every department chairman is re- spnosible for his or her department. Fellow workers and members: “You are called upon to cast your vote on Thursday, March 29. It is your duty to vote for your officials. They wi be your representatives during a period when your organi- zation will face many issues and struggles. The candidates elected to office must feel the or- ganized backing of the membership. “By casting your vote you do not upport your particular can- but you are supporting the organization, You are helping to late our forces. “Show your union spirit. Express by your vote your union conscious- ness “Fellow Workers: Become in good standing now! No matter where you) work—in organized or open shops— vote on Election Day. Unemployed workers! Election Day! Bring your membership book with you. Your book will be stamped showing that you voted. To have a stamped book means to have the organization at heart. It means that you are out to build a strong and solid Union. Vote on “Long live the United Shoe and | Leather Workers Union Wheeler Shipyard Still Holds Solid Brooklyn. Workers Rally to Support of Men NEW YORK.—The 110 shipyard workers of the Wheeler Shipyard, Inc., foot of Harway Ave., now out on strike for the second week, are still holding on solid. The men struck Friday, March 16, under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Union, when the bosses refused to deal with the yard com- mittee in regards to a 15 cents hourly increase and the rehiring of six workers who had ben laid off the day before in order to intimi- date the workers. | The Scandinavian Workers’ Edu- cational Society arranged an affair in their hall on Friday. March 23, at 5111 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, where $18 was collected. Workers’ organ- izations in Coney Island are also| lining up in support of the strikers. ‘The workers in the other shipyards | of the port of New York are show- ing great interest in this strike and are closely watching the results. ‘The bosses are trying to break the strike and maintain the starva- tion wages of 50 cents an hour for skilled tradesmen. They are find- ing it difficult to get scabs. So far only a few have entered the yard, | and these too will undoubtedly be | convinced to stay away. The scab agencies which are re- cruiting for the Wheeler bosses are: Fulton Agency, 30 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn; the Sherman Agency on Sixth Ave. between 46th and 47th Sts., New York City, and the Kings Detective Agency, 50 Court St. This last named scab herder is also in the business of breaking homes by providing stool-pigeons to rat on married people. Certain parties by the names of B. Duberstein (real estate) and Wolfe Duberstein (Byrne Fire Prevention) and Louis Cohen occupy the same office. Workers are warned to keep away from this reptile nest. The workers are planning a pa- | rade within a couple of days around the shop and to the N. R. A. offices at 45 Broadway. So far the bosses have refused to meet the represen- | the march. The workers real ‘, i . lize |in organizing the Imperial Valley | ganizer of the union. raising money and food for the/|the Bronx have been invited to par- | Wagner bill would prevent employ- rad iusie, eat’ the wae that only through” a determined | workers have also been abducted The Parmelee system, in an effort | workers. ticipate in this action. Par’ | ers trom SRS ore ee tS Painters Locale 06 snd 603, i intend to prove that here a “Ts | struggle for jobs and oF ren elle, 20% bi ahora tar pe. ction,” a Plasterers Local 40. A The demands for which the men secs eee Sppaariog | 82.) Ed a riety re Plumbers Local 28. } ] i. agains| Timination can the un- ° . ° © ployers. he said, ce: “ougl teamfitters 1 J "Rita cents hourly neue somiovee wore mae oy ai Pittsburgh District Calls for Mass Fight for Frankfeld be "allowed to influence" such| Shee Metal Workers toca at, | for all workers. 3 i Emery also flung into the face of eet bleh pees ede 4 2. Time and one-half for over-| ,. si ek ees a a d Wi S os ts sme Gilbert to Speak On And Other Framed Leaders of Workers’ Struggle weyers: see "| Holuing tamer cat 3. All workers now on strike to Taxi i tice Brandeis, which deciared:| Sign Painters Local (number be taken back. No discrimination axi Strike At Meet “Neither the common law nor the ee i ). Cake for organiza- In Bronx Tomorrow Pye alge prop 26—A | cag, organizer of the unemployed|Defense. Every class conscious) tic organizations must be organ-|14th Amendment confers the {nse le ey Waar» } 3 he Lvittes. ds hs ormmmunise | rid “ee < deranae mass movement of Allegheny | worker must answer this vicious |ized to raise this issue before the | absolute right to strike.” The} qe ang Marble Loc & rd eee aston rary Poca NEW YORK—A mass meeting in diate erie Lgl terday |County and a fearless fighter in| attack against the starving un-|working masses. We must send Wagner bill sets up vast new Moving Picture ait 223, 4) Sigh iepcsakiread en support of the heroic taxicab strik- ceric: Pt Ash aie ie . the the interests of the working-class, | employed. It is our duty to rouse | protest, resolutions, telegrams and | machinery to prevent strikes, but} 194 Carriers Saag | back. ae wl’ he held toenderow at AMTa Ee the Aca urg! eet ts ne ©! was given a sentence of two to|the mass workers and all delegations to the District Attor-| contains the illusion-sowing state-| Ga snen’s 5 idee | . 5. Recognition of the yard com- pita Ay resbne ae oe against the attempts o: il rs d Phil |£0Ur Years. Jessup was sertenced | friends of the unemployed into the|ney, Parks. The working masses | ment that it is not intended to “pre- msi mittee, oar tae aiions tition 15 t and oe pat aes e Neda ae taps to one year because of his ac-|broadest mass actions and pro-| must be aroused to the danger of | clude” strikes. The Brandeis deci- e ehitai OF Five MEAN APRIL» i of| Frankfeld, Jim Egan and other| tivity as an organizer of the un-|tests against the scheme of the|this attack on the unemployed as | Sion shows exactly how the Wagner (Classified) SAN PEDRO, Calif., March 26.— |Dunne Will Report on| | Wagner Bill Session Prison where he has been held for} over 17 years despite overwhelming | if se The farm population received the report states, $38,271,000,000 esti- a “glamorous” fighter (in the because of their poverty, are ex- ploited for the interests of the “bit i = a ares eee Ec iad “2 ‘ae mated cash income as compared fans’ estimation) who mingles business” tied up intimately wit’ | in W ashington ee ane eee wae eo with estimated income of $2,113,-/ studying at N.Y.U. as a side-| college athletics. These schools g de e Nai 000,000 in 1932, line with fancy rope skipping, pull- | #bout, through their network oi NEW YORK.—What has the N. R. A. done to the wages and work- ing conditions in the shops? Those most capable of answering | ,|this question, the workers, will tes- | tify at an open hearing on Thurs- | day at 7 p.m. in Irving Plaza, Ir- | Federation of Labor unions, Trade | Union Unity League unions and in- dependent unions, has for its pur- | pose the exposure of just how the |N. R. A. has affected the lives of | Workers and their families. | William F. Dunne, who recently |returned from Washington, where | Bill, will speak at the hearing. Ir- roaded him to a death sentence, which was commuted to life follow- ing the vigorous protests of Lenin- grad workers under the leadership | of Lenin. | A petition for a writ of habeas! corpus will be filed in the U. 8.| District Court here, charging that | The new proceeding is based on | |the tremendous partial victory of | the International Labor Defense, | backed by world-wide mass protest, |in forcing the U. S. Supreme Court | to order new trials for the framed- ‘Examiner Reports jving Potash, district secretary of | the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- | trial Union, will be chairman. Joe |Kiss of the Furniture Workers’ | Union, Lustig and Matlas of the jmetal workers, Biedenkapp and | Rosenberg of the shoe and leather |workers, and others will speak. Rank and file workers from various New York shops will testify as to | their conditions. Socialist and AFL. Workers To Join Loop C.W.A. March (Continued from Page 1) jand the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill. In a frantic effort to check the rising mass sentiment in support of the March 31 demonstration, Chi- cago relief authorities are already making concessions to -the unem- |ployed workers. Transfers to relief |for fired C. W. A. workers are be- ling speeded up, and relief work is | being made available in many cases. Demand Permit No permit has thus far been is- | Sued by the police. Committees rep- resenting the united front confer- ence which planned the march, the |tee for Unemployment | will call on Police Commissioner | Allman today demanding the per- | mit be granted. Meanwhile the conference com- | mittee of action has issued a call to all workers’ organizations to send independent committees and telegrams demanding the right to march and demonstrate. A committee elected by Local 12 of the Chicago Workers’ Committee on Unemployment appeared before the county executive of that organ- entire organization join the march. the executive, who have amongst tician, John Duffy, and members of | the Socialist leadership. The demonstration and march on | Saturday will’ place the following | demands: 1. Continuation of C. W. A., with | wages. | 2. Jobs or adequate cash relief, single workers included. 3. Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill (H. R. 7598). 4. Against discrimination of Ne- gro or foreign-born workers on jobs \or relief. | 5. For recognition of grievance committees of all workers’ organ- jizations on the job at the relief | station, At the Cook County Unemploy- }ment Council many workers re- cently fired from C. W. A. jobs re- | Port that within three or four days after being fired they were assigned to a week's work of 24 hours at 60 ;cents an hour, with a promise of 'more work when the week was up. Many others have been granted im- mediate relief. That these concessions are a re- sult of the mass power behind the march is shown by the fact that workers fired two or three weeks ago had with very few exceptions been told that they could not get relief for two to four weeks. A. Guss, organizer of the Cook County Unemployment Councils, in a statement yesterday said: “The |Chicago workers are not being fooled by these crumbs that are be- |ing thrown to them in an effort to |head off the mass sentiment for | | the Communist Party. A full report on the strike will ization Saturday, asking that the | | They were unfavorably received by | | their members the Democratic poli- | a 30-hour minimum week at union | ‘1500 City Teachers Mentally Defective | NEW YORK, March 26.—A report lostensibly intended to prove that | about 1,500 school teachers out of the 36,000 in the New York School system are mentally incompetent, has just been published by Dr. Emil Altman, chief medical examiner of the public school system. The criteria and methods used in arriving at this judgment were not revealed in the examiner's report. | It is undeniably true that there are | hundreds of incompetent, and even mentally unbalanced teachers to be found in the present school system. These are, for the most part, senile teachers who maintain their jobs laolety through the fact they have | corrupt political connections with the Tammany political machine. Despite the fact that the incom- petence of these Tammany-pro- | tected has long been known to the | Board of Education, it has refused | to take any steps to replace them | by new forces. There art more than 10,000 young, and fully qualified |teachers now without jobs in the jcity. With the full approval of Mayor LaGuardia, the Board of Education is curtailing appropria- | A. F. of L. Rank and File Commit-| tions for new jobs, at the same time | | Insurance | that it is appointing more super- | and the International Labor Defense | Visors in the higher salary brackets. | | Wage Cut Strategy | It is pointed out that the report of Dr, Altman occurs peculiarly at the time when the City administra- tion is striving to pass the so-called “Economy Bill” which provides for another wage cut for all city teach- ers. The intended effect of the re- port is to isolate the present teach- ing force, to undermine the con- fidence of the city parent popula- tion in the teaching force, and to demoralize the relations of the em- ‘ployed teachers to the jobless teachers. It is also pointed out that the threat of being judged mentally in- competent can become a menacing | the schools. Comparison is made to teacher who was declared “unfit” because she refused to give up part of her salary in “voluntary contri- | bution” to the City relief funds. At present thousands of teachers are burdened by classes twice the |normal size—classes which have |from 50 to 70 pupils, doubled-up |and cramped in small classrooms whose desks should only accomodate 30 pupils at most. This widespread practice, which LaGuardia has ig- |nored, is ruinous both for teachers |and pupils. It could be remedied | without delay if the 10,000 young teachers were employed to do away with this crowdedness and to re- |place the old and mentally un- | balanced teachers, who could be | retired on pension. | Ex-Editor Missing in | Imperial Valley Terror BRAWLEY, Cal., March 26. — A reign of terror by rich landowners flared again in Imperial Valley as Elis Jones, former newspaper editor, was reported missing today following the calling of labor mass meetings. Bessig, Attorney for the Civil Liberties Union, reported the dis- appearance and said that Jones had been slated to preside at a mass meeting. Several others interested up Scottsboro boys. | weapon against militant teachers in | the present case of Mrs. Porteous, a | { | % { ge fale add UR "FROM NOW Om he NY / ( a BEDI < ‘ Yy WE Bors aceress My / vee, LenRNeo THe Dry STUDY OF # OetecTVE's FEST TAXI STRIKE SKETCHES A page from del’s Sketchbook. Taximen Gain in Plebiscite; To Vote as Strike Goes On | | (Continued from Page 1) seemed deeply interested in getting these men back to work; the ques- tion of better wages and shorter hours was something which the mayor was very reluctant to com- ment on. | The conditions for the plebi- seite shall be: 1) Men who worked as drivers on Jan, 27, 30 and 31, and they | only, shall be permitted to vote, 2) The plebiscite shall be lim- ited to employes of Parmelee, | Terminal and Radio Fleet Asso- | ciations. | 3) The vote shall be taken separately for each group above- named, under the supervision and control of tHe Regional Labor Board and the city, on the same day. 4) Each group above named shall vote separately at a neutral place located in Manhattan. | 5) Each polling place may have one watcher from each union. This was signed by the presi- dents of the four local unions. } | Harvey Favors Fascist Methods George U. Harvey, President of |the Borough of Queens, who was| at the conference yesterday, sug-| gested that fascist measures be | used against the strikers. Speaking to the press in the corridor out- | side of the hearing room, Mr. Har- vey said concerning the strikers, “T'd fix those bastards, I’d give each | cop a night stick and a gallon of castor oil.” ' Strike halls in all five boroughs hummed with activity all during the day. The decision to accept the plebiscite does not in any way affect the militancy of the strike. “The strike will be continued,” said Joseph Gilbert, “until the operators agree to abide by the results of the plebiscite.” All facts indicate that, if the operators agree to the plebis- cite and if the voting is carried out in a single day, the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York will win. As we go to press none of the fleet operators have agreed to ac- | cept the plan. None of the opera- tors appeared at City Hall to state their position on the matter. De- lancy Nicoll, a lawyer claiming to represent both the Parmelee and Terminal companies, was meeting in close session with Bernard | Deutsch in City Hall. | Company Unions Against Plebiscite Late in the afternoon Irving Rob- bins and G. EB. Kamm, leaders of the Parmelee and Terminal com- pany unions, were at City Hall. Robbins declared that he was still opposed to the plebiscite. Kamm, whose’ name was signed to a scur- rilous lying full page advertisement in the capitalist press accusing the strikers of violence and ignoring the violence of the police, stated that he was also against the plebiscite. It js obvious that the union has called the bluff of both the fleet abd and the company union offi- us. Union leaders, speaking at the AFL Heads, Auto Bosses Work To Expel Militants (Continued from Page 1) smart, intelligent men to lead us, and therefore there should be a re- election of officers.” Joe Schuler, president of the local jumped up and said: “I may not know how to write so good and haven't got a college education, but T've been carrying out the will of the workers. The reason they want to have new elections is that they want to bring more company men on, and I want to tell you that there's two undercover men on the executive committee now.” Where- upon the two undercover men jumped up guiltily and said: “He means us.” ‘The oily Mr. Thompson then arose and declared with righteous indig- nation that the two undercover men did not have to defend themselves and that anyone who would make such a charge, etc., etc. Schuyler, however, stood by his statement. A big commotion started and the men started to walk out in disgust. Soon only 90 were left out of about 200 at the start of the | meeting. This expulsion and firing policy is also being carried out at the Hudson plant and undoubtedly will be put through in other locals to make the A. F. of L. locals safe for the company and to shackle them to the company union scheme now approved by Roosevelt. Rank and file organization in all locals of all’ militants is necessary to de- feat this stool pigeon policy of the A. F. of L. officialdom. Organize Youth Councils YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — The Young Communist League and the Unemployment Councils here are organizing youth branches of the Unemployment Councils to fight for relief for young single workers, to break the ranks of the strikers, issued a statement yesterday plead- ing with the hackmen to return to work, “You don’t have to belong to any union to work for Parmelee,” said the statement. “We'll have a union in the Parmelee garages be- fore we're through,” said a striker at the 16th St. strike hall. In accepting the plebiscite plan in a revised form the strikers have shown their strength. They are not demanding the impossible. They are demanding a plebiscite where all workers of the three big companies will have the right to express them- selves whlie they are on strike and without coercion. In an attempt to provoke the strikers, the Parmelee bosses sent taxicabs loaded with thugs to patrol in front of the various strike head- quarters. The strikers seeing that these cabs were being used to trap them, let them alone and directed all their efforts and energy towards organized picketing of the garages. The Workers International Relief, which is working with the union, leading in the distribution of re- lief, issued a call to all workers to 16th St. strike hall, following the meeting at City Hall, stressed the question of mass picketing of the garages. All labor unions and work- ers’ organizations in the city were urged to send delegations of work- ers to strike halls to help picket. Strikers were also warned against allowing anyone to split their ranks on the question of political opinion. “We must all stick together until we win, regardless of political opinion,” said Joseph Gilbert, or- assist in collecting food and to bring it to the strike hall at 16th St. and Third Ave. The striking taxi drivers of the ‘Taxi Drivers’ Union passed a reso- lution thanking the Jewish Work- ers’ Club and left wing organiza- tions for financial aid and moral support in helping them carry on the strike. The strikers were specially grate- ful to Robert Sindell, who worked for more than 22 hours at a stretch working-class leaders to long pris- on sentences for their leadership What the official report does not state is how the figures were ar- rived at, nor what sections of the farm population received the cash benefits. The method used, it would seem, to arrive at these conclusions is simply to multiply the farm crop all crops will be sold at the current price. Real Income Lower In addition, the report wholly ignores the crucial factor of the relation of farm income to the farm expenditures, which have been ris- ing faster than the income as a result of the Roosevelt price-rais- ing program under the N. R. A. codes. This has raised the cost of manufactured articles that the farmer must buy to such an extent that his real income in most cases has shrunk below last year. Also, the official A. A. A. report ignores the class differences among the farm population. While it is} true that rich farmers have bene-| fited by the high prices, the vast majority of small farmers and farm workers have had their incomes and wages cut through declining markets, which are shrinking as a result of the rising prices. The report reveals that the Roose- velt administration is responsible for the destruction of from 20 to 40) per cent of various leading crops, such as cotton, wheat, tobacco, and corn. This has caused the retail price of food to rise in the cities. The report fails to reveals that $500,000,000 is now taken every year from the consumers in processing taxes to pay for the subsidies to the rich farmers for crop destruction. Fur Workers Rally, Tomorrow Against Bosses’ Betrayals NEW YORK.—The Fur Workers’ | Industrial Union issued a call yes- terday to all fur workers to mass at an open-air meeting tomorrow at 12, noon, at 29th St. and Seventh | Ave., to protest? against the at- tempts by manufacturers and police to break the unity of the workers. ‘During the last two weeks the} Industrial Union carried through | 150 shop strikes,’ the statement read. “In many shops the bosses were forced to increase the wages of the workers up to the minimum wage scale. Members of both bosses’ associations have signed agree- ments. . . . The Industrial Union | will not give up any one of the gains won by the workers through heroic struggles. . . . The union will mobilize all forces in a struggle against the unscrupulous bosses, who are acting as organizers for the underworld Joint Council.” Ben Gold, general secretary- treasurer of the N. T. W. I. U., sent a telegram yesterday to Mayor La- | Guardia protesting violation of the agreement by the bosses and the breaking up of meetings by police. Nurses League Hits LaGuardia Pay Cut NEW YORK.—Aroused by a wage cut imposed by Dr. Goldwater, Commissioner of Hospitals, in ac- cordance with his economizing pol- icy, the organized nurses held a protest meeting Friday called by the Nurses’ Section of the Nurses and Hospital Workers League. The following resolution was adopted: “We, who serve the city in one of the most important phases of social service, are by far the most overworked. Hospital workers are the only section of city employes who work 12 hours a day. We are the lowest paid section. “We declare our inability and refuse to shoulder the burden of meeting the city’s obligation to the bankers or the burden of maint public institutions!” The decision will be conveyed to Dr. Goldwater and Mayor La- Guardia tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., by a delegation of nurses representing city hospitals. The American Nurses Association and the Association of Graduate Nurses of Manhattan and employed of Turtle Creek Valley. The district statement declares, ruling class. The cases have been appealed by the I. L. D. The a part of the whole nation-wide fascist campaign of capitalism ing heavy weights and doing road- work in heavy sweat shirts. He might be troubled alright with professors flunking him for splitting infinitives and for sparring around with Milton and Shakespeare and dealing heavy blows to economics, | to weave and duck and counter- punch until his studies are kayoed out of his mind by his hefty blows. er coe a little card I received, I find out that maybe my previous conception of this champ might be slightly erroneous, I begin to think that maybe Bob Pastor was in on some lengthy conversations about the contradictions that exist in capitalist society, that maybe he knows, as an athlete, that he’s also subject to those contradic- tions, that mayhe he knows how he and other athletes are being exploited for profit. But I’m dis- illusioned as I read the card further. Here's the inside dope on him: “Dear Comrade Ross: “Did you know that Bob Pastor who won the Golden Gloves heavy- weight crown, is a nephew of Rose Pastor Stokes? As far as I know he is not in the ‘movement.’ He must have inherited his fighting spirit from Comrade Stokes because he not only can box but he can also play a bang up game of football. He ‘won’ a scholarship to N. Y. U. whicsh was the college that was going to ‘cut out’ athletic scholar- ships—remember? sf i ES Gane hates MIGHT be disillusioned, but I’m not. However, the fact remains that athletes, Some who would never had the idea of ever rising to the “glorious pedestal of collegedom” alumni, proselyting high school stars by underhand means in order to give dear old Siwash some color in their stadiums, in the classrooms, in the pages of the press, all of which attracts more students and thous- ands of dollars in gate receipts. Se NS ving Place and 15th St. The meet- | < " : THEMSELVES B as by the current prices. This in no} sciences and foreign 1 : ing, arranged by a trade union ar use been Sealed his liberty wrta Tee “a way gives an accurate picture Of! 51 this js made im crip gE HAT do athletes get in return for committee representing American | Whout due process of law. SrRIKERS farm income since it assumes that| senting togs and when he begins their services? They are loaned tuition fees to be paid back upon their graduation. They are told they don’t have to pay the money beck after they get their “sheep- skin.” But immediately after gradu- tion, the athlete who was cheered to dizzy heights on the football field, who was partied and toasted around, begins to receive a pes- tering barrage of letters telling him to pay back the borrowed money or else they’ll have to resort to the old method of squeezing blood out of turnips. He is given a decent job too; but just gets enough money to barely sustain him during his stay at school. An All-American football star gets around $500 a year of wages from his job, which he gets only by reaching stardom. In re- turn, he gives the university thou- sands of dollars of free advertising and publicity and prestige. He puts the school on the map. College pro- fessors who write books and who are brilliant lecturers and who are. “authorities” might get a few lines of notice once in a couple of full moons. The star athlete has his picture plastered all over pos- ters, stadiums, newspapers and folders nearly every day, con- tinually as each sport has its sea- son, Pek Waa ILLEGES, if they want to exist, must bribe athletes. Athletes are easy prey for glib-tongued alumni. ‘They're led to believe they’s getting something for nothing. Suit Wagner Bill To Strikebreaking Needs of Bosses (Continued from Page 1) siders it unnecessary to put forward even new illusions that the Gov- ernment intends to enforce the right of collective bargaining through labor unions. To promote such a new illusion in order to cover up the bill’s provisions for new at- tacks upon labor, Wagner first wrote the bill to declare that cer- tain practices by “an employer”— such as using coercion to influence the form of a labor organization— are “unfair labor practices.” “We object to coercion from any source,” the lobbyist, Emery, indig- nantly told Wagner in the hearing today. “We object to men’s being coerced by a labor organization.” “I’m willing to put that into the bill,” Wagner replied. Later he declared that “if we amend the bill as I have said I will,” court injun- ctions provided by the bill “will apply to unfair labor practices by labor as well as by anyone else.” In other words Wagner announced that he was ready to write into his bill specific provisions by which it will accomplish exactly what Bill Dunne of the Trade Union Unity League last Thursday told the com- mittee it would accomplish — new restraints, attacks, penalties upon all independent trade union strug- gles against the miserable condi- tions the New Deal has brought The nub of Emery’s attack upon the bill was his contention that it would outlaw company unions— something which, of course, it will not do. Emery declared that “com- pany union” is “an epithet that has been employed to misrepresent the most modern method of employe representation that has been devel- oped,” and insisted that the em- ployer must retain his “right” to initiate plans for employers’ organi- zations, and to influence the forms and activities of these unions. This, declared Emery, is not “company- dominated” unionism—which is all ‘Wagner even pretends his bill would influence. Labor organizations which the bill will be applied when the show- down comes in strikes. It will, as Drunken Cop Arrests, Charges Workers with Disorderly Covwduct NEW YORK.—A drunken police- man, wearing badge No. 1750, ar- rested James Lustig, district or- ganizer of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, and Morris Manerus, a worker of the Globe Albenese Co., for walking up and down in front of the shop on Picket duty. The two workers were charged with disorderly conduct. The workers of the Globe Alba- nese Co., 59 Whipple St., Brooklyn, are out on strike for the past week under the leadership of the S. M. W. I. U., demanding a 25 per cen wage increase and recognition o the union. The trial of both work- ers was postponed to next Monday at the Fifth Ave. Municipal Court, Brooklyn, at 9 a.m. Providence A.RLL. Endorses HR 7598 {Continued from Page 1) sociation of Machinists, held March 18 in Boston, a resolution was in- troduced endorsing the Workers’ Bill, The majority of the resotution committee recommended disap- proval, the minority recommended en ae ee eee ). A heated discussion took place, on the floor of the convention, with detailed comparisons between the Workers’ Bill (H. R. 7598) and the Wagner Bill The minority report and the Workers’ Bill was adopted by a good majority. The conference represents 18,000 organized machin- ists of New England. The Congress- men were notified of the endorse- ayy of the Workers’ Bill (H. KR. International Jewelry Workers’ Union, local 2, in Newark (A. F. of L.), endorsed the Workers’ Bill with 300 members present at the meet~ ing. The Providence, R. I., locals of; the A. F. of L. which have en- dorsed the Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill _ (HR. 7598) follow: Cunt SorTaBLe room, male comrade Trial has been set for April 5 for|be given by Joseph Gilbert, organ-| of unemployment and strike strug-| in part; appeal in the capitalist courts | against the working class. Wagner himself declared in open- | Shower, i: C ‘ phone, independent five seamen arrested here for re-|izer of the Manhattan Local of the | gles. “These outrageous _sentences| means nothing without the sup-| “Fight for increased relief and|n& his argument for the bill Iroc Ponta aaicinity "Daion “pune fusing to sign an agreement with the Seamen’s Church Institute to do forced labor. The workers are Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York. Other speakers will be Irving Potash, leader of the Needle Trades | Phil Frankéld and Sam Jessup ‘ter the district at- a charge against were arrested |torney fram only express the vicious desire of the ruling class to break up this | militant unemployed movement by port of an organized working class, demanding the freedom of its leaders and to raise finances against evictions! “Demand the passage of the week, “prevent strikes.” In sending in new to the psi Calitinsooreaes ie lief CELLO for sale. Excelient condition. Writ Box 13 ¢/o Daily Worker. Richard Odum, George Hamilton,| Workers Industrial Union, and/them following a mass protest/depriving it of its leadership.|for court costs. Unemployment Insurance Bill! “Daily” please write“the name Moses Soecter, John Gleason and|Harry Raymond, member of the against the/ seizure and sale of Each of these cases is being de-| “Mass meetings of unemployed,| “Demand the release of the dress of the new sub- Matctncee wie ate Tusk sab’ opage E, Vernon, j editorial staff of the Daily Worker. |fended by the International Labor leaders of the Unemployed!” Ave., Bronx, the farm of a poor family, Frank- / of trade unions and all sympathe- ¥ ai scriber clearly. } | \