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* reports, Pace Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1934 Plan, Widely Described 10 France Tom Union Strangle Hold; As “Industrial Fascism Censor News: As Gov't Appoints Wall St. Men To N.R.A. Boards By MARGUERITE YOUNG Dally Worker Washington Burean) istration for compliance ng of disputes by Indus- lf.” Under the plan boards of committe up in each coded industry labor complaints, disput e threats, ete. Each board. erned on the one created by recent Roosevelt auto settlement, will include one “labor” representa- tive, one employer and an “impar- tial chairman.” Aimed to Break Strikes The program was headlined by the New York Times: “N. R. A. Shake-up Plan Will Curb Strikers.” | It is more significant than that. It is an important public step toward remodelling of the N.R.A. to con-| form to the Swope-Johnson plan, as I forecast last month. The Swope-Johnson plan, widely | described as “industrial fascism” | when it was announced last Novem- ber by Gerard Swope of the Gen- eral Electric Corporation and en- dorsed by N. R. A. Administrator Hugh S. Johnson, was polished up| and definitely adopted as the pat- tern for the N.R.A. during the con- gress of industry, in which some 4,000 leading employers met here} last month, | With reorganization, the N.R.A.| put on a censorship. It directed its own officials not to confide in re- porters. The order said: “Information to the press should go out through the public rela- | tions department and not direct to reporters.” Even the full text of the reor- ganization program was withheld from the official publicity channels. It leaked out through pipe lines. In charge of this reorganization is W. Averill Harriman, polo-playing son of the late railroad king, E. H. Harriman, first assistant to General Johnson and brother of Mrs. Mary Harriman Ramsey, head of the N.R. A. Consumers’ Advisory Board. Ob- servers here freely predict that Har- riman will succeed Johnson as the leading figure of the N.R.A, and that the organization itself may well become secondary to the N.R.A. code authorities, and the new boards and committees set up by General Johnson's reorganization orders. Monopolists In Code Authority The N.R.A. code authorities are composed of the biggest monopolists of the industries: The cotton code authority is composed exclusively of the National Textile Institute; the steel code authority, of the Steel and Iron Institute. A few code authorities include one “labor” (American Federation of Labor) representative; none contains more “labor” representatives than one- tenth of the whole code authority membership; most “labor” represen- tatives cannot vote in code author- ity proceedings. These code authority bodies under the reorganization plan will assume more and more of the functions of enforcing the N.R.A. In “The Amer- ican Federationist,” official organ of the A. F. of L., this month there appears a demand for labor repre- sentatives “in a position to parti- cipate effectively on ail code au- thorities, because it is well known that nine-tenths of every law is its administration.” Increase Profits That statement implies that the N.R.A. was intended to provide jus- tice to labor. Johnson himself has declared the act was intended rather to “increase profits.” And he has no intention of providing anything like real participation by labor in| “administration,” or government, representative upon the code au- thority. Even this administration member will act on the industrial | relations’ committee, according to| the official announcement “without vote but with a veto.” The admin- istration representatives named so far are chiefly business men and | army officers. Censors All Protest | Each administration member of each code authority will have one “labor” and one “consumers” ad- Viser. The advisers ‘are not_to be | members of the authorities and will | attend meetings only on invitation.” They have only the right ‘to ap- pear before the code authority to make statements on specific sub- | jects.” “The advisers,” added the an- nouncement, “will keep all informa- tion concerning the industries to which they are assigned, gained by | virtue of their position, strictly confidential. They will confine their advise, recommendations, and other statements regarding these industries to the administra- tion member of the code authority, the divisional administrator and the appropriate advisory board.” This means that, should a “la- bor adviser” discover that the code authority is amending its code or taking any action that would af- fect labor adversely, he cannot either demand a change or report it back to the labor unions in- volved. To all coded industries, including more than 90 per cent of American industry and trade, General John- son issued a request for “the crea- \ion of industrial relations commit- #2 or boards for the adjustment of ‘abor complaints and disputes.” In some industries one board will | about their | handling complaints only. 99 9 Arrested at 10th Street Signwriters’ Strike Picket Meet NEW YORK—In an attempt to smash the militant strike of the| workers at the American Display| Corporation, 475 Tenth Ave., police _ WASHINGTON, March 31.—The! otocked the picket line in front of NRA. is undergoing complete re-' the ‘establishment Satur night in to bring! and a ed 7 strikers. Two more he official | strikers were arrested later in the another step to- fourth Street night court jailed comrades. strikers are being held on| trumped-up assault charges. To} protest against the arrests and to ngthen the strike, the Sign and ertising Art Workers Union, 820 Broadway, has called for a mass Picket demonstration in front of the Display Company on Tuesday morning Demand(WA GoOn: Frisco, Evansville In Protest Actions (Continued from Page 1) The lost time, and free transportation to and from the job. Against the new “work relief” plan, which aims to split the work- ers on this project into two groups, the workers voted at their strike Friday to report for work in a body to back up their demands. A. F, of L. and Socialist Workers In March Many A. F. of L. and Socialist workers were in the ranks of the marchers. Twelve A. F. of L. locals, and nine locals of the Socialist-led | Workers Committee on Unemploy- | ment endorsed the march and mo- | bilized their membership. | The parade started from Union Park at Ogden Avenue and Ran- dolph St. long before the scheduled | time of 10:15 A.M. Negro and white | workers were massed on the streets, ‘and many children, mobilized by! | the Young Pioneers, were among the| Union Calls for a Mass Send-Off NEW YORK. — When the S. 5. Champlein leaves New York for | France tomorrow, 12 noon, from the | foot of 14th Street, French line, it | will carry away from the ranks of | the food workers, known to many workers in this city for his devotion and courage in scores of struggles. He was arrested at a mass demon- ation at the Hotel Commodore g a strike led by the Food Workers Industrial Union, August 1933, After serving 15 days.on a disorderly conduct charge, he was d eae i | ordered deported. Bourd’s most re- | ise no more lay-offs, re-instatement th had gone to inquire | cent activity has been as an organ- | of fourteen men recently discharged ;izer in the Hotel and Restaurant | and to consider the demands of the Workers Union of the F. W. I. U. Asked how he felt about the matter he said, “Deportation to a class-conscious worker doesn’t mean the end of him. I will take my place in the class struggle of the country to which I go.” And then with the quick, sharp, humcur so characteristic of him, he said, “No matter how many class-conscious workers the bosses deport, they will not be able to deport the class struggle. My deportation should spur on the struggle and I know new fighters will take my place in the ranks.” A statement by the Hotel Union says: “Fellow-workers, let us give com- rade Frank Bourd a real working- send off by a mass rally at the pier when he leaves. Let him take with him to France the spirit of solidarity and class struggle from vorking-class of the United 500 Workers Fired by Transportation Board NEW YORK—iIn addition to the 400 workers who were discharged on Saturday, the Board of Transporta- tion will announce “indefinite 1a: offs” for 100 other employees today Among the new group to be fired will be clerks, stenographers, These lay-offs are a result of the reduction of city budget appropria- tions for the department—a reduc- tion caused by LaGuardia’s policy of victimizing New York workers to “balance the budget deficit” in order to insure the payment of $126,000,000 per year to the Wall Street banks | first arrivals. | In addition to the twelve A. F.| | of L. locals in the march, the Bak- | | ers - District Council. composed of | | five locals, endorsed the march. All | locais had been urged to come with | their union banners. | | ener 5,000 Demonstrate at San Francisco | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 1. |—More than 5,000 workers, repre- senting 45 working class organiza- | tions, including A. FP. of L. locals, marching from six points of the city, converged on the Civic Center | here Saturday, demanding continu- | ation and extension of C.W.A. The workers demanded C.W.A. jobs for ) all unemployed at union wages, im- | mediate cash relief, and the imme- |diate enactment of the Workers | | Unemployment and Social Insur- }ance Bill (H.R. 7598). Immediately after the demonstra- tion, speakers from the various or- ganizations participating in the march addressed the workers at mass meeting. | The demands of the workers at the mass meeting and demonstra- | tion were sent to Washington and | local supervisors of the C.W.A. and to the relief officials. Pie Eee | 1,000 at Evansville Mass Meet | EVANSVILLE, Ind.—One thou-| sand C.W.A. and unemployed work- | ers, at a mass meeting in the Y. M. | C. A. here Friday, condemned the | new “relief plan” of Roosevelt, and | demanded C.W.A. jobs for all un- | employed workers at union rates of | Pay. | Steps were taken to form a per- | manent organization of the fired | C.W.A. workers and the unemployed |and a decision to affiliate with the Unemployment Councils was voted | upon almost unanimously. [handle disputes only; in others there will be one board for disputes, another for complaints; in still others, there will be only one board Blunt Strikebreaknig The reorganization plan also calls for a “labor policy board,” to make suggestions to N.R.A. officials con- cerning wages, hours and other la- bor matters. On this, “labor” (the A. F. of L.) will have one out of five members. There will be, also, a “trade practices” and a “code au- thorities” board within the N.R.A. organization, They will cooperate in adminis- tration, through divisional and as- sistant administrators of the N.R.A. But the real authority, under the} reorganization, will rest in the body | that holds the title —the code au- | thority, Since the announcement of the reorganization, virtually every offi- cial announcement dealing with employer-employee relations has re- flected a new tone, Formerly, the most back-breaking decision or rul- ing was couched in elaborate Phrases about labor’s “right to bar- gain collectively,” ete. During the past few days, even this lip service to “justice to labor” has been strikingly omitted. It ap- Pears, in short, that N.R.A., like the other New Deal agencies, has de- cided to substitute further oppres- sion for demagogy. Apparently the industrialists, who always have had the last word, now believe that, since they put over the auto strike Sell-out, they can put over any- thing. It is obvious, however, that the reorganization will only serve to further disillusion the working people concerning the whole N.R.A. Ask your friend, your fellow worker to subscribe to the Daily under the terms of the Untermyer four-year agreement. German Socialist Leader Supports German Fascism (Continued from Page 1) Severing is referring to is the day he was deposed as President of Prussia by a handful of Von Papen’s soldiers without his offer- ing the slightest resistance, or mak- ing any attempt to use his tremen- dous power to hold the office to which he had been elected by a ma- jority of the working class of Prus- sia. This dismissal action of Von a|Papen, whom the Socialist leaders | pay to apply, the right to make up were supporting as “a lesser evil” against Hitler in 1932, was clearly a signal for advancing German fas- cism, and was received by the Com- munist Party of Germany with a call to the Socialist leaders for an immediate united front for a na- tion-wide general strike. The Com- munist Party offer was spurned and denounced by Severing and the en- tire Socialist Party leadership. It was this failure of the Social- ist leaders and their refusal of a united front to resist the Von Papen usurpations \that paved the direct. way for the advance of Hitler. Von Papen is now a leader in the Hitler government, Eagerly seeking to prove that without the Socialist Party leaders’ work in crushing the proletarian uprising led by the Communists in Germany, Severing makes a sensa- tional admission that the main goal of the Socialist leaders in Germany was always the protection of the capitalist rule against proletarian revolution. He says: “No one can reproach me for lack of national self-esteem. 1 began my official work in 1919 with a war against the Left rad- ical elements among the German people. I continued this war in 1920, and during the suppression of the uprising in Central Ger- many in 1921 nothing was under- taken against the elements of the Right.” Severing is here boasting to the fascists that he was responsible for the bloody massacre of thousands of German workers who in 1919 at- tempted to set up a Soviet Germany in place of the capitalist Weimar “Republic” of the Social-Democrats. He also boasts of the fact that he was lenient and used no armed sup- Pression against the monarchist Kapp putch in 1921, an attempt to restore the Hohenzollerns, (Another German Socialist. leader, Scheide- mann, has already written in his memoirs how the Socialist leaders were Opposed to the overthrow of the German monarchy and favored only a limited monarchy). The Kapp putsch was defeated by a general strike of. the German working class, The Socialist leaders did not call any general strikes against Hitler, and refused all Com- munist Party offers for united front struggle against Hitter, Severing ex- plains, “because Kapp was a mon- archist, whereas Hitler is a repub- lican.” And he adds revealingly “this is a difference that the Com- munists do not understand.” Severing is now receiving a reg- ular pension from the Hitler gov- ernment. Paul Loebe, Leipart, Wels, and many other of the leading Ger- man Socialists have either openly or indirectly given their support to Worker. the Hitler regime, Force Promise of N Frank Bourd, | Win Big C ©. Lay-Offs, Rein- | state 14 | | NEW YORK. — Eight hundred | | workers of the Interborough Rapid | | Transit Company, 148th St. shop, | | broke. through the strangle-hold of | |the company union which they are | | virtually compelled to join and won |an important concession Friday. | They forced the company to prom- | |rank and file for a 44-hour week, |instead of the present one of 50 | hours. | Copies of the resolution adopted |by the workers in their meeting | | Thursday in the Brotherhood Hall jin the Bronx were sent to every |local ‘of the L.R.T. company union jin the city. Frank Moore, chairman of the jcompany union, represented the workers when he confronted Assist- ant, Manager Doyle of the LR.T.| and acted according to the workers’ instructions. The Rank and File Committee, which is leading the workers’ fight for better conditions, urges the workers to form their.own rank and file union and to affiliate with the Transportation Workers’ Union at 80 East 11th St. | Workers’ Organizations | | Urged to C. P. Meet Wed. | NEW YORK—The district com-| | mittee of the Communist Party issued a call yesterday to all work- ing class organizations to send dele- ; gates to attend the first conference Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., to prepare for a five-day May Festival and Bazaar to be held at the Manhattan Ly- ceum, May 23 to 27. “The recent struggles the Com- munist Party has led in New York have drained all the resources of the Party to such an extent that it is absolutely imperative at this mo- | ment to take up seriously the mat- | ter of raising a fighting fund for the Party,” the call read. The conference Wednesday will be j; held on the second floor of the | Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St. 3 Concentration _ Dists. Hold Meets: (Continued from Page 1) munist Party of the United States. Other sneakers were James Ashford |and Mattie Henderson, a Negro Woman worker. Clyde Smith, sec- retary of the Michigan Farmers League, was chairman. The session of the convention | | opened yesterday afternoon with a main report by John Schmies and a trade union report by Earl Reno. Both reports analyzed serious short- | comings during the past year, stressing right sectarianism as the chief obstacle to rooting the Party in the shops and making it the leader of mass struggles. These re- ports pointed out the recent progress | made in connection with the strike situation and emphasized the neces- | sity of building the Auto Workers Union and the oppositions in the A. F. of L. and the M. E. S. A. in order to break the auto workers away from the misleaders and to Jead them on to the high road of militant struggle for their demands. A serious discussion is now taking place in the convention, with dele- gates from the shops dealing with practical problems facing them and showing both the negative aspects of Party work as wellas recent gains made as a result of correct work and the assistance of the Central Com- mittee. William W. Weinstone Is to deliver the report for the Central Committee this afternoon, Ware Wee: CLEVELAND, Ohio, Apr. 1—Dis- trict 6 completed an historical con- j Vention today in preparation for the Eighth National Convention of the Communist Party. Sixty-eight delegates were pres- ent. Forty-five were shop workers from concentration industries, such as steel, metal, railroad, rubber, mining. Twenty-one represented that many shop units, The largest factories and mines sent delegates: Fisher Body, Otis} Steel, Chase Brass Foundry, Na- tional Tube of Lorain and Youngs- town, Massillon Republic Steel, Goodrich and Firestone Rubber, Powhattan Mine and many others. Forty-two of the delegates were native born, Discussion followed an excellent report by J. Williamson, concretely outlining tasks of district; 17 shop workers then took the floor. They discussed concrete problems, the or- ganization of workers into revolu- tionary trade unions, into A. F. of L, oppositions, into the Communist Party. They told of growing strug- gles, many sabotages by the A. F, of L., but also of strong opposition growing, which will take the leader- ship from A, F, of L, betraying bu- Yeaucracy. ‘They reported the lagging of the Party in struggle, but showed con- crete plans for overcoming this shortcoming. The convention showed that the whole Party is waking up to shop work, Every comrade felt a vital force never before known, a breath of revolutionary life blown in by the Communist shop workers, felt that at last the turn in the Party’s work has been made. Joseph Zack gave the co-report on trade union work, and Phil Bart, the co-report on youth work. I, Amter reported for Central Committee. oncession Newark Independents Show Solidarity With N. Y. Taximen Strike NEW YORK.—The Twentieth Century Cab Association of New- ark, N. J., an organization of independent taxi owners, showed their solidarity with the stri! cab drivers of New York City by contributing $9.50 to the strike fund of the Taxi Cab Drivers Union of Greater New York. Hospital Workers To Fight Wage Cuts Will Protest Today at} City Hall NEW YORK.—The Nurses and Hospital Workers League, waging a determined fight’ for better condi- tions among hospital workers, will send a delegation to Mayor La- Guardia today at 1:30 sharp to force | Commissioner Goldwater to fulfill promises given them recently, which have not been fulfilled, for a re- traction of wage cuts on salaries | and better working conditions. The League is organizing a united front among all hospital workers. Their statement reads: “Already a delegation of nurses under the lead- ership of the Nurses and Hospital Workers League, by their protest to Commissioner of Hospitals, and by} developing activities in many of the| large city hospitals, as well as allied institutions, have resulted in Com- missioner Goldwater's promise to propose a retraction of the wage cut on salaries less than $1,140 with maintenance, and $1,500 without. “Remember at best this is only a promise of a proposal to the Board of Estimate, which even the Commissioner may forget if our protests cease. This revised cut is still unjust. Do not allow the Commissioner to split our ranks by such devious means as a promise.” The N. H. W. L. calls for a mass delegation to rally at City Hall today to enforce their demands against’ the drastic wage cuts im- posed upon them and to enforce the withdrawal of the entire cut. Slash Wages; Fire 30,000 New York C.W.A. Workers (Continued from Page 1) of “absolute need” limited to a “minimum subsistence level.” “The “absolute need” is to be determined on the basis of the in- famous pauper’s oath question- naire, listing 402 questions, inquir- ing into the personal life, the union affiliation, and the “em- ployable members of the family.” | The “minimum subsistence level” will be on the Roosevelt basis of “work relief” at wages of $7.20 a | week, No guarantee is given to those re- | tained on “work relief” that their jobs at starvation levels of pay will be continued after April 30th, ac- | cording to Col. DeLamater. Complaining that the city was in no position to assume respon- sibility for those to be fired from C. W. A., Hodson stated on March 16 “that under the agreement with the bankers, the city has only $3,000,000 a month to spend on relief... . We are going to have to go back to a relief wage ++. and we are only going to be able to give this to the destitute.” The city pays the Wall Street banks $27,000,000 annually by the bankers’ agreement. The prin- cipal banks are the National City Bank (Réckefelier firm), the Bankers’ Trust Co. (Morgan firm), and the J. P, Morgan Co. Even at the peak, C. W. A. did not provide jobs for the majority of the 1,250,000 unemployed in New York City. Launched early in December with the promise that 200,000 jobs would be given out in the city alone, C. W. A., according to the figures of the administration, never provided jobs for more than 69,000, Since 101,000 men and women were taken over directly from the City Work Bureau and the Home Relief lists, only 99,000 jobs were made available. Yet, even this fig- ure was never filled. Immediately that the peak figure of 170,000 on C. W. A. jobs was reached, firings began. By the figures of the State Employment Bureau, 332,748 work- ers applied for these 69,000 jobs. . Negroes were singled out for Special discrimination on C. W. A. Although 8 per cent of the 300,000 Negroes in Harlem are unemployed, only 11,596 C. W. A. jobs were given to Negro workers, Edgar S, Hough, C. W. A. statistician, indicated. In addition to this, those Negroes given jobs were in almost every case em- ployed as laborers at the lowest category of pay, Jim-Crowed on the Job and at the registration offices, and given jobs farthest from their homes, such as Bear Mountain and Arden projects, 45 miles upstate, Again using the figures of the 0, W. A, only 9.87 of the jobs were given to foreign-born workers, and only two per cent were given to women. Mayor LaGuardia, when he was forced to meet with the 60 dele- gates of the 5,000 C. W. A. workers who demonstrated at City Hall on ‘Thursday, stated his intention of continuing the bankers’ agreement Based on Swope- ohnson DeportFrankBourd 800 IRT Men Break Co. Taxi Strike Ends; | unionism—and we have aiready won | . Being Reorganized to Strengthen Methods for the Breaking Drivers Vote To Return To Work (Continued from Page 1) present or future union activity. “3) Ail men to proceed to their garages under the leadership of their garage chairmen. { “4) The strike is still on where | strikers are refused their former jobs. “5) In each garage there shall be elected a committee of three to act on all grievances. “6) The Mayor shall appoint an arbitrator in compliance with the agreement of February 9. “The fact that we are returning | to work does not in any way signify defeat. We are returning to work | with our union, with our garage committee stronger and better or- ganized then before the strike be- gan. | “The Taxi Drivers’ Union of | Greater New York will continue the | work started in February to organ- ize every garage, to improve wages | and working conditions of the hack- men. “Our fight against company great victories in this fight by ex- | posing and discrediting the agen-| cies of the fleet owners before the hackmen and the public, and we will go on until we have defeated every company union in .the in- dustry. s “Our union, through the heroic fight of its members, has won the respect of the majority of the peo- | ple in New York City. We have} earned our place in the sun. The strikers are returning to work in| an organized, orderly and dis-| ciplined manner, under the leader- | ship of their union. “Through building our rank and file union in every garage in the city on the basis of democratically elected garage committees, we will consolidate our forces for greater struggle—for greater victory of the New York cab drivers.” After the vote was taken by the hackmen they organized in groups and marched to the garages, The 23rd St. Parmelee men were the first to return. They went to the garage in a body with their garage chairman at their head and were taken back to a man. It is the union garage committee, and not the company union, which is rep- resenting the drivers in the Par- melee system garages today. Although the strikers did not win full union recognition, the fact that they went back to the Parmelee garages with their garage organiza- tion is an outstanding victory in the strike. In the Bronx, where the local} union is dominated by Samuel} Smith and Amicus Most, local So- | cialist leader, the men are being sent back to work individually, thus | carrying their sabotage of the strike | to a point of disorganizing the ranks of the workers and playing into the hands of the bosses. Shortly before the men toted to return on the basis of a partial vic- tory, it was revealed that Charles A. Schneider, a Tammany attorney, who was working for the union, had cooked up a scheme with Mr. | Maurice Hotchner, chairman of the | Taxicab Board of Trade, whereby | the men would return to work and call no more strikes, make no wage demands and seek no plebiscite until some remote time when “legis- lation is enacted to set up a prom- inent regulatory body with jurisdic- jon over the entire taxicab indus- | try. | While Schneider was working thus at cross-purpeses with the} anion, the union men were already | iscussing the plan which they had worked out themselves and later adopted. The drivers went back to work in the same high spirit which they ex- pressed all during the three-week period of the general strike. “This strike has definitely established the fact that the Taxi Drivers’ Union of Greater New York is here to stay,” said Joseph Gilbert, organizer of the union, “We haven’t got complete union- ization today, but Rome wasn’t built in a day. We have a ma- jority of the hackmen organized and our past two strikes are just the first steps towards winning union recognition and union con- ditions for every garage in the city.” All hackmen were told to bring in complants which they may have to the garage steward, who: will in turn take them up at the head- quarters of the union. When drivers are not reinstated, the union will take action to restrike the garage. All colleciion boxes, funds and collection lists for the taxi drivers should be brought to the union headquarters, 233 W. 42nd St.. Room 211, as soon as possible. Relief for that section of the hackmen who are still striking is extremely urzent. | The strike of the taxi dri be- gan over three weeks ago, following the firing of a garage steward for his union activities in a Parmelee garage. It was directed against an. attempt of the Parmelee fleet own- ers to foist a company union on the drivers. The men came out on strike in the Parmelee garages de- manding recognition of the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York. The strike was then spread to all the big fleet garages in the city. Although the hackmen did not win their major demand, recognition of the union, they have won the admir- ation, support and respect of every worker and every decent citizen; they have forced Parmelee to take them back with union garage com- mittees; they have dealt a blow at the company union. Back in the garage with the union committees the drivers must now consolidate their forces to win union recogni- tion and union conditions in every garage. All workers {n the city must now rally stronger than ever before to GP A Revealing Rebound | JT WAS quite a comeback or rebound or what-have-you, | the loose end of a score and those spending the evening at the day night, where a team of N work s to amuse the f; I refer to the reaction of the crowd, the attitude of the performers, the differences in social position which some 400 blue-blooded people around this vicinity fake such delight in talk- ing about. But, watching the basketeers race some 1,500 odd fans; could barely afford to spend 49 | cents for a ticket, some few who had vaguely heard the word “Scotts- | boro,” and not a few who had queer notions of the Labor Sports Union. | Pe aes b bets ae were a few hundred peo- ple of the latter sort who, under the influence of the game, the appearance of Ruby Bates, the stirring talk of William Patterson, forgot their prejudices and one- sided rooting fervor for a couple of hours. On the whole, nobody | seemed to stick for the other team, except those kind souls who hate to see anyone wind up at kind who strangely pull with the winner so long that they feel | they are winners or champions | themselves, There were times during the game when the Renaissance team dis-| played some of the finest offensive! passing ever seen on any court. The audience went wild with applause. Each and every play that. showed | deliberate thought and action was approved with nods, smiles of ap-| proval, ahs, ohs and terrific hand-/} clapping. Not only was there this feeling during the game, as plays were executed, plays which, when perfectly, rhythmically done, evoke applause unconsciously; but also, through the help of the worker sportsmen there, the sympathizers and regular basketball goers could hardly keep themselves from being integrated into the feeling of unity) between Negro and white. | Rete oe ‘OU don’t see or get this every Golden Glove fights, the soup and fish, hardshirted fans ($5.50 ring- Side) and the slouchyhatted, beery fans who drive Fords and put the dog on as though they drive Lin- colns, yell all kinds of things, in strange, harsh tongues, such as “Kill the goddam shine!”, “Oh, the pansies. Let ‘em sit on chairs so’s they can knit or play blind man's bluff!”, “Look at the Yid out there— WHERE THE RIVER SHANNON FLOWS.” The aboye are a few remarks that. go on during a meet. Some day, maybe, I'll undertake to write a dictionary of sport phrases with comments so that everyone will be able to understand the jargon of sportsdom, But in the St, Nick’s Arena I didn’t hear any of that. When the Renaissance team ran onto the floor, the crowd stood up and | applauded, Usually, they get a into the deal | few boos thrown which kind of upset their mental “(Classified ) FURNISHED ROOMS SUNNY room available; furnished or un- furnished, modern, off foyer, 327 B. 13th St. Apt. 3-A, BEAUTIFUL modern room, Brooklyn; 1 aubway station from Manhattan. Be seen daily 4:30 to 6 p.m. and mornings before 8 a.m. 63 Fort Greene Place. Apt. 21, near De Kalb Ave., Pacific St. or Atlantic Ave. Station, GIRL wants to share apartment. Write B. H. c/o Daily Worker. around the court at St. Nick’s were! some who} day in the week or year. At the | St. Nicholas Arena last Thurs- egro champions matched brain {matter and skill against the same endowments of the All- Stars, considering that it followed the night before when I saw champions of another nature break away from their ans at the Golden Glove fights. balance. But not here. The team loved playing before this audience. They were appreciated, One good play led to another, All wasn’t in vain. The All-Stars showed sportsmanship. As far as they were concerned, there was no color line, When some of the boys, al- ready conditioned in the fight- for-blood competitive field of pro- fessionalism and collegedom, for- got themselves and pulled off a dirty play, they'd sometimes real- ize it and laugh about it. After all, just clean fun, they probably said. There was no hesitation about shaking hands, The Renaissance players told me that this was one of the few times they have played a white team | Where they were entirely satisfied, where they were treated as social equals. The committee who got together the All-Star team had a tough time refusing some stats who wanted to play in this game. IT’S revealing, the way meets dif- fer, It’s just different—the way | the Daily News A.A. or the Wana-. maker Games are run and the manner the L.S.U. goes about sports work, And for that reason, this revela- tion process will continue for the benefit of workers and sportsmen who never heard of the L.S.U.; but who will be drawn in as more meets are run off. We can be success- ful without catering to the silktops, diamond rings, stiff shirts and back- less gowns. NEW ENGLAND LS.U. DISTRICT TO HOLD CAGE TOURNEY NORWOOD, Mass.—The Labor Sports Union New England district basketball tournament will be held April 6 and 7 at the Finnish Hall, 37 Chaple St., in preparation for | the American LS.U. regional and national championship to be held in the middle of April. 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