The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1934, Page 2

Ri! Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1934 CHICAGO WORKERS DEMONSTRATE TOMORROW FOR CWA JOBS Hotel Workers Will Hathaway Speaks | Demand Mrs. Herrick Carry Former Strikers March Against Blacklist Today NEW YORK.—The Regional Labor Board, headed by Mrs. Elinor Herrick, will be called to account by members of the Amalgamated Hotel and Res- taurant Wi ers Union, today at 3 P.M they demonstrate at the bo rs, 45 Broad- way Mrs. Herrick t all hotel keep strikers would back if they ended union calls upon workers to mobi- lize at Battery Park from where they will parade to Mrs. Herrick’s office. Around 2,000 workers are i, while ‘ikebreakers t jobs. The Committee of Five, among whom were Morris Ernst and Rabbi Wise, who were appointed by Mrs. Herrick to meet with the bosses and see that the strikers got their jobs back, has turned out to be, as warned by the Food Workers m, another strike- black- 1 hold ment 22, Mrs. leased a rr from the committee stating they were unable to accomplish anything and were “dis- banding.” Fearing a re-birth of action by the iscriminated strikers Mrs. Herrick. on top of all her dirty work, is still ying to feed the workers the same poison taffy that broke the strike. s that the workers be quiet the Regional Lebor Board examines pe lis which the com- mittee had asked the hotels to sub- mit before making any charge that the agreement had been violated.” The union, now under rank and file leadership, will carry out an aggressive fight against the strike- breaking maneuvers and demand that all strikers be re-instated. Delegates Leave Many Cities for C. P. Convention Open Mass Meeting in Cleveland Will Take Place Mon. Night (Continued from Page 1) companied by $15 to help meet the costs of the convention. “We send militant revolutionary greetings,” the Executive Commit- tee of the Finnish Workers Federa- tion stated, “to the delegates of the Eighth Convention of the Commu- nist Party, U.S.A., and to the Party leadership. We wish the Conven- tion the best possible results in the work of building the Communist Party into a stronger leader of the struggles of the American workers in this peiiod of workers’ strikes and struggics, imminent war danger and the rise of fascism.” A last minute urgent plea was made to Cleveland workers by the Central Committee of yesterday, asking support of the Cleveland District's intense cfforts to find sufficient housing for the nearly 500 delegates who will be Hagopa Is Given Savage Sentence In Police Frameup I. L. D. Calls for Mass Protest and Remoyal of Labor-Hating Judge NEW YORK.—Michael Hagopa, needle trades worker, was given a Savage sentence of three years by Judge Corrigan in General Sessions Wednesday. Hagopa was framed on a charge of felonious assault by police who broke up a demonstra- tion of needle workers on July 5 at Seventh Ave. and 29th St. He had been confined to bed for two weeks after his arrest as a result of a brutal beating by the police, neces- Sitating 15 stitches in his scalp. The evidence proving Hagopa in-| nocent of the framed-up charge,| Cops | Judge Corrigan changed the charge from first to third degree assault in order to carry through the frame- up in a modified form. During the trial, he threw off all pretense of “fairness” and “impartiality,” ly- ingly interpreted protest telegrams demanding the dropping of the framed-up charges as “threats” against the court. Although sey- eral of the protest telegrams were signed by branches of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Corrigan pre- tended he could not establish the identity of the senders and openly stated his intention of victimizing as a slap in the face of protesting workers. The district I.L.D. yesterday char- acterized ’s action and statements as an outright challenge to every fighting union and the working class of New York City. Tt announced preparations to launch immediately a city-wide campaign for the release of Hagopa and the removal of Judge Corrigan. All or- ganizations are urged to flood the City Appellate courts and Mayor La Guardia with demands for the free- fiom of Hagopa and the immediate removal af Corrigan, ¥ Herrick re- | the Party) ‘Ousted Heads of | Hotel Union Left Bills, No Money Union Members in Need of Relief’ Renegades Hope for Disruption NEW YORK.—B. J. Fields and the other ousted officials of the Amalga- mated Hotel and Restaurant Work~- | ers Union, not only broke the hotel strike, but left behind them an empty treasury, a stack of unpaid bills and 2,000 discriminated strik- | ers who are in need of relief. The electric company has turned} off the lights, the phone service has been disconnected and other credi- | tors threaten the union. The rene- |gade Lovestonites and Trotzkyites | hope that this situation will demo-/| | ralize the members and smash the} | union. Fields is issuing slanderous | statements against the Committee of Thirty rank and file workers elected by the membership to lead| the union and is trying to form a} separate union to split the ranks of the ‘ers. In this situation the Committee of | Thirty has issued an appeal to all working-class organizations and sympathetic individuals to spike the plans of the renegades by sending whatever funds and food they can to the Amalgamated Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, 915 | Eighth Ave., New York City. Funds and food are a decisive factor in the consolidation of the union. To Hold Conference | NEW YORK.—To help consoli-| date the union and establish unity,| the Amalgamated Hotel and Restau-| rant Workers Union has issued a} call for a conference of all workers) organizations to be held Monday,| | April 2, at the union headquarters, | 915 Eighth Ave. Each local organization is urged to elect delegates at once. Fail To Split Taxi Strikers’ Ranks By | Disruptive Moves (Continued from Page 1) strikers that they must intensify | picketing and stop all scab cabs. | Following the meeting the men} marched in an orderly and business- like manner to the garages where | they picketed two abreast. | A hearty ovation greeted Joseph Gilbert, organizer of the union when | he appeared to speak at the strike meeting yesterday. | “The fleet owners are trying to | scare the drivers by saying that the | Communists are supporting the strike,” said Gilbert. “Certainly the Communists are supporting us. We | don’t deny it. We have Commu-/} nists, Socialists, Demccrats and Re- | publicans in our ranks. If support comes from the Communist Party | we will accept it. If it comes from the Socialist Party or any other Party we will accept it. We cannot be divided by political differences. Our aim is to win the strike.” Negro Urges Unity J. Brooks, a Negro driver from Harlem, drew down heavy applause when he said “we must all stick together with our union to win this | strike.” | Another attempt on the part of | the fleet owners to herd the men back to work without the union wt revealed by several hackmen who | stated that the owners of the Brooklyn fleets had sent them tele- | grams stating that the strike was over and to return to work. | The Elmore Taxi Corporation, 42 Taylor St., Brooklyn, sent post-cards yesterday to all their drivers, stat- | ing they should return to work. This strikebreaking move of the Elmore fleet owners was exposed yesterday at strike meetings at Germania Hall. Special squad pickets were despatched to the Elmore garages to halt any attempts of the com- pany to roll their cabs. During the last 10 hours police violence against the strikers has been intensified. Union leaders re- port that 23 strikers were arrested yesterday while on picket duty. LaGuardia Administration Aids | The LaGuardia city government continued its police mobilization against the strikers. Police Com-j| | missioner Harold L. Allen said that | | “the revoking of licenses is only a |drop in the bucket to what will! happen when 157 cases will be| jheard.” The capitalist press, as- isting the fleet owners, spoke of a | “general stiffening on the part of |the city administration and the| police.” The World-Telegram was | | especially vicious in its reference to “mobs loose on the streets.” Despite all provocations of the fleet owners and the capitalist press, the strike today remains firm and the strike meetings orderly. Picketing continues in all garages in an organized manner. | Present to the convention. Workers are asked to make room in their homes for at least one convention delegate, and to urge their neigh- bors to house another delegate. All | Workers are asked to get in touch with the Cleveland district office, | 1514 Prospect Ave, with lists of | |mames and addresses. where dele- gates will be given sleeping quar- ters. i: | labor unions authority to speak for’ | “preference” for company unions. | On Soviet US. To Big Duluth Crowd Out Promises | Farmenhabon Socialist Workers Cheer Expose of Reformist Parties editor of the Daily Worker, out- lined the “New Deal” attacks on the working class, and the role of and Farmer-Labor | Large numbers of Farmer- | Labor, Socialist and A.F.L. workers, | the Socialist Parties. who filled the hall, greeted Hatha- way at the conclusion of his speech. | Hathaway, who is a native of Minnesota, was formerly organizer for the AF.L. machinists union in Minnesota, and vice-president of the Minnesota Federation of Labor. | Bosses Urge Auto Sellout Action as Model for Strikes. (Continued from Page 1) the demagogy mixed into the Wag- ner bill. Harriman took exception specifically to the illusion-creating clauses of the Wagner bill which | restate the collective-bargaining and right-to-organize promises of | the N.R.A. In other words, appar- | ently believing that the auto work- ers will take the auto settlement lying down, and that it will stick. Want Promises Cut Down Big business arrogantly rests upon | its machine guns and its company | unions, refusing to allow its govern- | ment to make any more promises | which labor might fight to translate | into reality. Significantly, the auto-agreement principles are now | being offered to the New York taxi strikers. It is common knowledge in Washington that this is a signal | that it will be used universally. After Harriman testified, it was} also widely said that this about | ended the Wagner bill. Chairman | Walsh of the committee declined to | hazard any information about when the bill might come out of commit- tee. Wagner himself, asked what he thought of general reports that the | pill is being scrapped, replied un- | certainly: | “Well, I don’t think it will be.... | of course, I’m only one man.” President Roosevelt himself told't the press during the auto negotia- | tions that he would press the Wag- ner bill “if” he couldn't quickly | settle the auto dispute. Harriman told the committee that “if” any new legislation is enacted, | it should be only amendments to | carry out “the President's thought” | —expressed in the auto settlement— that ‘“industry’s obligations are clearly set forth, It is not too rhuch to expect organizations to observe the same ethical and moral respon- sibilities, even though not specifi- cally in the statute (NIR.A.)” More specifically this means that the President’s auto declaration be used as the formula for putting over the proportional-representation | “works council” plan, giving com-| pany unions as well as bona fide workers in “collective” bargaining,” | and that, in addition, the employers will make new raids against inde- pendent unionism under the cloak of | putting down “coercion,” “restraint” } and “interference” with a workers Against Communists A special new drive against mili- | tant unionism—under the red-scare banner of putting down Communist | “sabotage”——is implicit in the new policy; the resort to these methods in the New York taxi strike may be expected to be copied generally. Harriman put it to the committee this way: “The employer has the right to say that he will not open his shop to, let us say, the members | of a Communist union.” | After Harriman testified, another big business spokesman, Nelson W. Pickering, Connecticut manufacturer speaking for the Industrial Associa- tion of the Lower Naugatuck Val- ley of Connecticut, blandly quoted as @ survey by the open-shop Na- tional Industrial Conference Board which, Pickering said, “shows that 45 per cent of the workers prefer company unions; 45 per cent prefer to make individual contracts with employers; and but 10 per cent pre- fer to be represented in their bar- gaining by the standard or national unions.” Thus the driving of workers into company unions which was carried out by the most reactionary em- ployers through their National or- | ganizations under protection of the | section 7-A, becomes a process of the workers “preferring” company unions—and the Roosevelt govern- | ment today was set to stand behind this without even bothering to enact it into law. I. L. D. POSTPONES TAG DAYS NEW YORK.—The N. Y. District of the International Labor Defense has postponed its tag-day collec- tions for the aid of the victims of Austrian fascism to Saturday and Sunday, April 7 and 8. The tag days were originally set for this Saturday and Sunday, but are postponed in co-operation with the striking Taxi Drivers’ Union, which is conducting a tag day on these two days. LW.O, BRANCH EXECUTIVES MEET SATURDAY All branch executives of the LW. O. are instructed to attend a spe- cial meeting at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, Saturday, Ya DULUTH, Minn, (By Mail).—Six hundred workers jammed Camels Hall and filled all sixnding room! at a mass meeting held here Sat-| urcay, at which Clarence Hathaway, | ployed. oe | » G BLOW Highspots at the Cooper of the taxi strike. "Tak WORKING CLASS Rw WILL ANSWER YOUR *, ‘ ATTACKS a — \ FoR S Biow/* A; ¢ SR if f HARRY ("erore") CANTOR TAE Fieutine BRLNN. HACKIE TAXI STRIKE SKETCHES Union mass meet in support LaGuardia Will Keep Bankers’ Pact; | || FOR MAY DAY WORK || NEW YORK.—Volunteers for mailing the May Day material to organizations are requested to | lreport to Room 539, 799 Broad- | way, at any time all day Friday. | [ VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED : LaGuardia Refuses ‘To See Delegation ‘Of N. Y. C. Nurses NEW YORK—Mayor LaGuardia refused point blank Wednesday af- the rescinding of a wage cut which is to be put into effect in all city hospitals. | The delegation, composed of 12 nurses, representing the various hos- pitals in the city, upon their arrival | at city hall were sent to Commis- sioner of Hospitals, Dr. Goldwater, who asked to be excused and said that the Mayor was unable to see the nurses. The spokesman for the delegation pointed that the nurses who had previously been receiving $1,140 a year, will now have their wages reduced from $60.00 to $240.00 according to the new plan. The spokesman for the delegation | pointed out that the nurses, under the leadership of the Nurses and Hospital Workers League, an organ- ization affiliated with the Trade | Union Unity League, would rally all | nurses and hospital workers in the |eity to carry on a struggle against | wage cuts. Dr. Goldwater was not- \ified by the delegation that the nurses would return to city hall Monday Refuses Demands of (.W.A., Jobless Strike Against (Continued from Page 1) bankers, he intends to do no more} for the jobless, “It is easy for you to demand.” Benjamin interjected, “Tell us concretely what you can do. Or else tell us that you can do nothing.” LaGuardia then openly attacked the representatives of the unem~- “Nothing I can say can please you. You did not come here with that in mind.” “You have said that you are help- less,” Benjamin again interrupted, “We are going outside, Mr. Mayor, and we are going to tell the workers what you have said—that you claim you are doing everything in your power. Will you, Mr, LaGuardia, send a telegram to Washington re- commending the immediate enact- ment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill H. R. 7598 by Congress? Will you demand of the Federal Government continuation | and enlargement of the C. W. A. Jobs?” A LaGuardia then evaded, and showed he does not advocate real unemployment insurance. “I will constantly beg and ask them for more money,” he replied. He re- fused to take a stand for the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Benjamin, in his speech in the Mayor's office, denounced the Mayor’s “unemployment insurance” scheme as forced labor for the workers, which gives them no bene- fit. LaGuardia shrugged his should- ers. Benjamin, on the question of police brutality, said, “We can very well get along without the police who club the workers. Suppose you disband the police who club us, and tell the bankers that you must do it in the interest of economy. In a short time you will find that the money for the unemployed will be found.” LaGuardia interrupted and told Benjamin, “No matter what I say you will go outside and denounce me.” Benjamin retorted, “You come outside and tell the workers what you have told us in here and you will be denouncing yourself.” La Guardia refused to come outside. ‘When LaGuardia tried to hastily adjourn and leave, Davidow shouted, “We demand an answer to our de- mand for an end to police brutality. What have you to say to the club- bings in Marine Park today by your police?” LaGuardia answered feebly, “My hands are full with other matters.” “Your hands may be full, but our heads are being clubbed,” Davidow shouted. At this point LaGuardia hurried out. After, with difficulty, persuading the Mayor to see the elected repre- sentatives of the unemployed, the committee placed its demands be- fore LaGuardia. Richard Sullivan, New York secretary of the Unem- ployed Councils, told LaGuardia, “We demand that you call the po- | lice off of the C.W.A. projects. You have made statements in the press that ‘C.W.A. workers will be taken care of’. We are not under any illu- sions about general promises. We want a concrete answer to our de- mands. We do not want only a mere existence. We demand that you make good your promises to the un- employed, made during your cam- paign, concretely.” Sullivan stressed relief for the single workers and Negro unemployed, and spoke on the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill. He denounced the cam- paign of slander being conducted by LaGuardia officials against the O.W. A. workers, who are being called “bums and loafers.” The committee demanded cash relief equal to C.W. A. wages. Davidow Clashes With Mayor Davidow, in a sharp clash with LaGuardia, who attempted to brow- beat him, spoke on the clubbing of himself and other C.W.A. workers at Marine Park. “Police terror will not stop our fight for jobs and cash relief,” Davidow said to LaGuardia. LaGuardia, who looked limp and pale, said to Davidow, “Are you a C.W.A. worker?” “Yes, I am,” Davidow replied, and produced his C.W.A. work card. “We | are demanding not fifteen, but | twenty dollars a week for C.W.A.| workers,” said Davidow. “We want to live.” He denounced the continu- ous C.W.A. wage cuts. “Your sup- | port of the Wagner Bill, and your refusal to indorse the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill, shows that you do not have the interests of the unemployed workers at heart,” Davidow concluded. The demonstration at City Han | Park showed the unity of the white collar workers and the laborers. Jules Korchein, of the Architects and Technicians unemployed or-} ganization, was chairman of the} meeting. Huge banners were stretched between trees and flanked the City Hall steps. The meeting | outside the City Hall continued as | the Daily Worker went to press,| with Benjamin and the other dele- | gates who saw the Mayor reporting | to the workers. | A meeting will be held at Webster | Hall Tuesday night at 8 p.m. be-| fore the delegations leave for Wash- | ington to hear reports and consider future action. | The C.W.A. laborers by the thou- | sand were kept at work under su- pervision and compulsion of the La- Guardia police who were spread over all important projects. Brutal Clubbing As the strike committee at Marine Park projects, together with about forty strikers, approached the Mar- ine Park laborers, over 100 police, armed with night sticks, began clubbing the C.W.A. strikers. They forced them off the project, and as the strikers marched toward the subway, fully a mile away, the police brutally clubbed and manhandled the strikers. Mike Davidow, presi- dent of the Relief Workers League, was singled out, and was clubbed heavily, one blow striking him across the throat. After the strikers got on street cars, the police went on the street cars and continued club- bing. The police patrols and squad cars followed behind the trolleys bearing the strikers. Three Arrests The heavy police concentration was general at all important proj- ects. Police interference began early in the day with the arrest by La- Guardia’s police of two workers at Union Square who were distributing leaflets advertising the strike and the city hall demonstration. The workers arrested there at noon were Oxley and Palmer. They were taken to the 10th St. police station. At Second Ave project, a C.W.A. worker, Yokelchy, who was carrying an American flag, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct Yokelchy is a member of the East Side Local of the Relief Workers League. He was arrested while pulling other C.W.A. workers out on strike. As the C.W.A. workers marched down Second Ave., carry- ing placards which stated, “The C.W.A. Must Go On"— “Fight For Your Jobs” and “Strike,” police cars in squads followed them, and re- fused to permit a conversation with those who remained at work. At the Bronx projects. among those coming out on strike, were | © seventy skilled workers from the building trades, mostly in the A. F. of L., from the West Washington market project. Negro and white workers came out together. This project elected three delegates to go to Washington on April 1 to make demands for C.W.A. jobs on Roose- velt. Send us names of those you know who are not readers of the Daily Worker but who would be interested in reading it. Address: Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. (Classified ) MAN comrade wants furnished room, downtown. Reply C. P. clo Daily Worker. Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—-8-1401 ‘CELLO for sale, excellent conditions.|| Trains. Stop at Aller Ave. station ‘Write Box 13 ¢/o Daily Worker. ALTO SAXOPHONE wanted in exchange Firing 3 Union Leather Workers GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., March} 29.—All workers of the A.J. leather | mill struck here in protest against | the firing of three union men who refused to work Saturday without extra pay. In a frantic attempt to break the strike, the mill owners have wired for an N. R. A. mediator. The strikers, however, have been warned by Clarence Carr, president of the Independent. Leather Workers’ Union, against the maneuvers of | the N. R. A. An attempt to cut wages in the Hudson Tanning Co. in Johnstown was stopped by a strike threat. “This threat to cut wages is a chal- | Switled around the stadium with | lenge to the union,” said President | terrific reverberations. Gyp two, the | Carr. The union has called a mass meeting in Johnstown for Friday to mobilize support for the Hudson workers. Emergency TagDay To Support Taxi Strikers to Be Held (Continued from Page 1) 15, 2075 Clinton Ave.; Bronx Co- operative, 2700 Bronx Park East. Brooklyn—Sec, 6, Graham Ave.; Sec. 7, 132 Myrtle Ave.; Sec. 8, 1813 Pitkin Ave.; Brownsville Youth Center, 195 Thatford Ave.; Boro Park Workers Club, 4704 Coney Island Workers Club, 27th 18th Ave.; Sec. 11, 1280 56th St.; St. and Mermaid Ave. Astoria—42-06 27th St. Astoria, LI Yonkers—27 Hudson St, Yon- | kers, N. Y. eee Trade Unions Back Strike NEW YORK.—The unions and mass organizations in New York are rallying their membership for the Taxi Drivers’ Tag Days, to take place on Saturday and Sunday, March 31 and April.l. The Inter- national Labor Defense has post— poned its tag days for the relief of Austrian victims and urges all its members to participate in these collections for the taxi workers. The United Council of Working Class Women calls upon all its members to drop everything and to turn out 100 per cent at the vari- ous tag day stations because of the extreme emergency of the taxi strike. ; ‘The following is the list of trade union tag day stations: Food Workers’ Industrial Union, 812 Broadway. Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union, 28 E. 138th St., Bronx. Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, 140 Broad St. Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, 35 E. 19th St. Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union, 131 W. 28th St. Office Workers’ Union, 114 W. 14th St. Tobacco Workers’ Industrial Union, 1662 Madison Ave. United Shoe and Leather Work- ers’ Union, 77 Fifth Ave. IL, G. W. U., 58 W. 38th St. I. L, D. Stations 792 E. Tremont Ave. WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has reduced the rent, several good apartments available. Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. Office open daily from Direction: ‘Lexington Av Priday and Saturday 9 Sunday 10 a.m, . to 5 pm. 2 pm. for Tenor, Write A.A. ¢/o Daily Worker. at 1:30 p.m., to demand} that the Mayor listen to their case. | m. to 8 p.m, White Plains gre ROSS The Gilt Wears Off | era at the Madison Square Garden last night, where | the Inter-City Golden Gloves Championships were held | before a capacity crowd of 20 | ,000, who paid something like | $46,000 to see a bunch of athletes punch each other around, proved once more for me the extreme chauvinism, regional- | ternoon to see a delegation of nurses ism and discrimination existing among the patronizing fans, | who came to City Hall to demand| the judges, the Daily News A. A. and the Tribune A. A.— | which are both owned by the* 2 5 | vs 4 s in the amateur game, and a cer- | reactionary red-baiter COl.| cc vwinnae': waa ceansctoudy, | McCormick. matched against another Negro from Chicago. Thad expected to see good | “Winiams, I know, felt it. He could fights, but certain things have | paye put his opponent away any | to be accounted for in any money- | making enterprise. |. In the 118 pound class, David| Crawford, Negro laborer, fought! against an Tlinois coal miner. When | the crowd heard the word “coal | miner,” they immediately o-o-hed | and thought the coal miner could | take the Negro boy despite the fact that the audience was a New York} one, and the fact that they were) supposed to be cheering for the local | boy. (Regionalistic feeling came up only when one white boy fought another). Crawford was without! doubt the classiest of the two fight- ers. Every time he connected with a hook, shaking the 16 year-old lad from Illinois, the fans couldn’t keep from feeling for the coal miner. New York was leading 2 to 1. the end of the fight, But when the announcer gathered the papers from the judges, he threw his hand in the direction of the coal miner, much to thfs astonishment, and the crowd applauded It was the biggest gyp I ever saw; but it was a popular gyp with a grand flourish in grand style. Well, the score was even, the sectional rooting and spirit would rise again: White beat Black and the shekel-makers were smugly satisfied. * yar E second fight between a Negro | 4 and white boy, almost upset the | equilibrium of the crowd. Again, a section of the New Yorkers turned traitors to “their” city when they rooted for the Chicago boy to win. How they cheered old Chi every time the boy was lucky enough to connect with a clean punch! There | were boos at the end of every round. | And when the New York Negro lad | got the decision, feet stamped, a | few hands applauded and the boos | fans nodded among each other. | The judges couldn't help it, T re- | marked to my guest. And the fights went on. Chicago had more Negro fight- ers than white and they showed nicely in the next two bouts. The score was even 3-3, when the 135 pounders walked into the ring. The Chicago boy won the decision over the Negro New Yorker, al- though it was a hard fight to judge. In the lightweight cham- pionship fight, Frank Williams, who i sabout the sweetest fighter I. J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS |} 296 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN | Phone: Dickens 2-1273—4—5 | Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 For International Workers Order —WILLIAM BELL———— OFFICIAL () ntometrist rae 106 EAST 14th STREET ¥. ©, Near Fourth Av Phone: TOmpkins Squ: OPTOMETRISTSO¥ (OPTICIANS [I 137B ST.NICHOLAS AVE® 1690 LEXINGTON AVE, g at 179% ST.RY. at 106+ ST.NY. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M At} everybody conceded the fight to the Negro. time he pleased. He was by far the classiest boxer and the hardest hit- ter for his weight than anybody in the show. But he didn’t want to knock his opponent out. He carried him along for three rounds. The crowd rode them, booing and clap- | ping hands to show their dissatis- | faction. In the fans’ estimation, it was the most unpopular fight in the series because in the third round, when Williams had the Chi- cago boy groggy, with his hands covering his face, and all Williams had to do was to keep slamming away, he packed away and gave the boy enough time to stall to the end of the round. oie rt are specific examples of the discrimination that goes on agaist Negro, worker, Jewish ath- letes in what Gus Kirby calls “our | democratic sport society.” When | the Jew comes out, the yell rings | out, “Kill the Yid!” When the Ne- gro comes out, throaty volees bel- low, “Lay into the Shine!” aaa mee | iS has to be fought militantly. | L we have to struggle for an inde- | pendent workers ‘athletic associa- tion since the A. A. U., through | various ticklish laws passed in Congress, has tried to monopolize | sports for its own weapon against the working class, The Labor Sports Union is the only organization thus far which shows absolutely no dis- crimination against Negroes, against workers. They are welcomed with widespread arms. The L. 8. U. fights red discrimination. I'll have more to say about the building of a powerful organization to fight the A. A. U., to build a tre- | mendous labor sports movement, to eradicate all Jim-Crowism, chau- vinism and discrimination. Now I'm heading for St. Nicholas | to watch the Negro Renaissance play the white All-Stars for the benefit of the Scottsboro Boys, a game promoted by the Labor Sports Union and aimed at the very symbol of oppression of the Negro masses. JOHN KALMUS CO. 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