The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1934, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APREL 3, 1934 BP that we will fight the black- DEV estonites Help Bosses’ ‘Red Scare’ | | | ( | Plot to Split Union Seek to Upset Election For Reactiona (Special to the BOSTON, Mass., April 2 Biedenkapp as national organ Leather Workers Union has al reactionary forces inside tl d to attempt to split the ® n The reactionary forces hope, with the aid of Zimmerman, the Love- stonite, who received only 2,600) votes compared 4301, to pac in a new electi received 4,213 votes. The first step in this reactionary | ; wes taken when a report came m Boston that the ballots of the ’ local there were stolen. This | ame aiter the vote had al- been certified and sent in to the national headquarters. The vote as certified had given a majority to Mackesey, but the reactionary A. F. of L. clique hope, by a new to line-up more forces for sey and against the militant Biedenkapp. the capitalist press, alarmed by the victory of Bieden- kapp and the militant leadership in the union. has already begun a vicious “red scare”: campaign against the United by openly cail- ing upon the workers to break the union. This campaign is receiving the support of Zimmerman and the other reactionari The workers will give the proper a) to these splitters. They will close their ranks and not per-| mit the underhand tactics of Love- stonites to hand the control of the organization over to those A. F. of L, misleaders whose treachery hs been clearly exposed in the past. leader. In addition S, Seymour Troy Co. Signs With United Y.—-The Seymour Troy Co., makers of fancy shoes, has} signed an agreement with the} United Shoe & Leather Workers Union. In the last general strike Seymour Troy was one of the struck shops. This firm, like the rest of the Board of Trade Shops, signed an | agreement with the Boot & Shoe. | But the workers, after the strike| was over, continued their affilia-| tion with the United Shoe and| Leather Workers Union. This pre- vented any Boot and Shoe influence from creeping into the shop, with the result that the Boot and Shoe was parce out of the situation. Taxi Union Opens Drive on Blacklist. TROY, N. ‘Continued from Page 1) melee garages, were discussed in union headquarters yesterday after- noon. Orner said that on the basis| of the complaints the union would take action to bring abount the re-| instatement of the men. Orner told how the Parmelee em-j ployment office tells the men that | that is no blackiist, but when one | of the good union members goes to| the garage he is told to “get out,| you're no good.” “We will put a stop to this,” | declared Orner. “We still have the strike weapon in our hands and we will use it against any garages that attempt mass discrimination.” | The question of relief for taxi drivers and families of the drivers is of the utmost importance at tne present time. All workers and or- ganizations having collection boxes and lists are asked to bring their funds at once to the headquarters of the union, 233 W. 42nd St., Room 211. There must be no delay in bringing these funds to the head- quarters, the union urges. Late in the afternoon, leaders of the union were to meet with Mr. Golden of the Regional Labor Board to demand that the N.R.A. carry out its promise that no men would be discriminated against on ac- count of union activity. Men Still Returning All during the day men were still returning to the garages. The ques- tion of strengthening the garage committees was among the major points of business taken up by the union yesterday. “It will be through our demo- eratically elected union garage com- Ist right on the job,” said Joseph Gilbert, organizer of the union. Meanwhile Samuel Smith, presi- dent of the Bronx local of the union, set. about at what he calis a “re- organization plan.” This is a plan inspired by leaders of the Socialist th the cooperation of the capitalist press, | tive Association, when he came to Results to Pack Votes Ys Mackesey | Daily Worker) | — The election of Fred G.| izer of the United Shoe and} ready stirred the Lovestonite he union to start a campaign, | to upset the} J. STEVENS Leader of the rank and file of the Brotherhod of Painters, after he was beaten up by thugs at the Painters’ District Council meeting. Stevens has been active | ers pointed out that wages are never | INo Aridiralion. Say Haverhill Strikers Biedenkapp Gets Great) Ovation at Meeting (Special to the Daily Worker) | HAVERHILL, Mass., April 2.— Arbitration on all questions affect- ing wages and new prices was in-| sisted on today by the shoe manu- | facturers of this city in conference with the committee representing 6,000 shoe strikers, but the commit- tee, whose stand was later backed by an enthusiastic mass meeting at Eagle's Hall, expressed its deter- mined opposition to arbitration. The conference ended in a dead- lock, At the mass meeting strike lead- increased by arbitration, but only | by the solidarity of the strikers! themselves. | Fred Biedenkapp, just elected | general organizer of the United) Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union, | received a great ovation at the| strike meeting. Biedenkapp urged the strikers not to be fooled by re- ports in the bosses’ press that the union was ready to accept arbitra- | tion. | Action for relief. of the strikers, | now in the fifth week o their walk- out, was urged on all local unions. Several manuacturers are con- tinuing to negotiate with the strike committee. Fake Power ver Probe Looms in Albany | on Utility Graft! Line-Up “of. Enquiry Meant to Hush Up Basie Corruption in fighting the Zausner clique in this A. F. of L. union. AFL een Beat Painter Who Asks ‘Treasury Check-up Stevens, Rank and File Leader, Attacked At Meeting NEW YORK.—Continuing their acts of thuggery against the rank/ and file members of the Brother- hood of Painters, Paperhangers and Decorators, Felix Zausner’s hench- men brutally beat J. Stevens, mem-/ ber of the Brotherhood and presi-| dent of the Rank and File Protec- | the District Council meeting last) Thursday to demand an explanation regard to a certain $50 which was aken from the union treasury with- out being accounted for. Stevens was sent to the Council | meeting by his Local No. 848. He was at once set upon by thugs and beaten. His noce was broken, his lips cut and there were several deep cuts in his head. Stevens, although seriously injured, refused to go to the hospital after he had taken the floor and demanded to know what had been done with the funds. No explanation was given by lead- ers of the union. Party, which in its essence pro- poses to split the Bronx and Brook-| | lyn locals away from the Manhattan |iocal of the union and set up a separate local affiliated with the A. F, of L. The rank and file of all locals were urged to repudiate any at- tempts on the part of Smith to di- vide their ranks and thus weaken them in their struggle to unionize the taxi industry. Fight for Licenses Tt was reported that between 50 and 60 members of the Bronx local were refused jobs when they re- turned to work. Among this num- ber was Samuel Jaffee, the garage chairman whose discharge precipi- tated the strike. The Bronx men were urged to unite solidly with the Manhattan men in the struggle against discrimination, despite at- tempts of Mr. Smith to disunite them, The union will also protest against the taking away of four more hack licenses and the suspending of 28 licenses‘ of men who were active in the strike. This brings the total of revocations and suspensions of strikers’ licenses up to 48. The capitalist press played up the story of license revocations in a manner designed to terrorize the hackmen and keep them from union activity. “The union will keep up the fight until these licenses are re- stored,” said Joseph Gilbert, or- ganizer of the union. Daily -<QWorker CHVTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERMATIOWALD. “America’s Only Working FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXC COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC,, 50 EF. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: Cable Address: “Daiwork," New Washington Bureau: Midwest Bureau: 101 South Well Telephone: Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan § months, $3.50; 3 months, Manhattan, Bronx, 8 months, $5.00; 3 months, ®y Carrier; — ALgonquin 4-795 4, Room 954, 4th and FP &t., Washington, D.C. $2.00; Foreign and Canada: | 1 $3.00, Weekly, i8 cents, monthly, 7 cente 4 Class Daily Newspaper” EPT SUNDAY, BY THE York, N. ¥. National Press Building, is St., Room 705, Chicago, Th and Bronx), 1 year, 1 month, 0.75 cents. year, $6.005 $9.00; | ALBANY, N, Y., April 2.—Fol- |lowing the discovery last week of ieee addressed by State Senator Warren T. Thayer to state public utilites companies, revealing con- ey, that Thay Republican whip in the senate, was on the pay- | roll of the utilities interests at the same time that he was chairman of the Senate Utilities Committee, ac- tions to bring about his impeach- ment and to investigate the utilities control of the senate were under way here today. Leading the forces who were de- manding an investigation into the | activities of the “power lobby” were | ironically enough Governor Lehman and Republican State Chairman W. Kingsland Macy. They were threat- ening a “sweeping investigation.” Lehman is known to have strong | ties with the big utilities corpora- tions, particularly through his New York banking house. His “utilities reform program” was actually pro- posed as one which would also in- sure greater profits for the power interests. The line-up for the proposed in- vestigation was, however, beginning to take on the same character as similar investigations of the past ich, after removing one or two individuais who were steeped in graft so thoroughly that nothing could save them in the public eye, succeeded in hushing up the real basis of the corrupt big-business and government tie-up. New York work- ers have recently observed three} such wool-pulling “investigations,” al of which began with a huge fan- | fare of publicity, only to ooze silently out of the picture after a few weeks. These were the Welfare Island peni- tentiary “investigations” the Welfare Island Home for the Aged “probe” and Tenement Commissioner Posts | “anti-firetrap crusade.” ‘Under the guise of indignation at these graft revelations, other mem-| bers of the senate—for the greater) part as deeply tied up with other | grafting interests as Senator Thayer} with the power gang—were hasten- ing to draw up programs which would do nothing but hush up the extent and depth of the Albany raft ring. Outstanding among these fake ‘investigation” program was that of Senator John J. McNaboe (Democrat), who was urging “an investigation of public utility con- nections with the government. by a joint committee of senators and assemblymen, requiring approval of both houses.” In other words, McNaboe was urg- ing that Thayer's intimate connec- tions with the power lobby be in- vestigated by a committee composed of other senators and assemblymen who are, almost to the last man, in the pay of the same or other big corporations. What is your Unit, trade union, mass organization doing to get new subscribers for the Daily Worker? Help put the sub drive over the tap! GUTTERS OF NEW Y DEAR GENERAL MaTORS, How DyYou LiKe THE WAY 1 HELPED CRIPPLE “HE AUTO STRIKE? * ORK By DEL Dear MA. Pre SIDENT 1 HOPE You APPRECIATE MY BALLYHOO OF YOUR NRA > NORMAN “Homes “OEAR CHASE NaTL. BANK, | Just FIRED 30,000 CWR WeRKERS, cur RELIEF, €Tc, How’ 1 DOIN"? w La GURRDIR "DEAR MR. DUPONT, JUST SWUNG “TE #150,000,000 WAR BILL FOR You, MY LOVE To. OUR OERR FRIEND 1.2, MORGAN= “T hope my work durin factory to your company Thayer's letter to the Power g the past session was satis- —From State Senator W. T. Trust. | Plumbers Win 4-Hour Strike; Secure Wage Raises, Recognition NEW YORK.—After .a strike of four hours the men working at steamfitting in the plumbing shop of the M. Gran Plumbing Co. won the following demands, with the signing of the agreement between the Alteration Plumbers, Steamfit- ters and Helpers’ Union, 864 Broad- way, and Mr. M. Gran: Five-day week, increase in wages of mechan- ics from $5 to $7 per day, increase in wages of the helpers from $3 to $4 per day, equal division of work and recognition of the union, The A. P. 8. & H. meets every Monday at 8 p.m. at 864 Broadway, corner 17th St. Pointdexter Case Is Postponed Again; ILD) Urges Crowded Court (Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, April 2.—The trial of David Pointdexter, militant Negro leader, was postponed again at a hearing today. This case, arising out of the struggle for bread around the relief station at 505 E. 50th Pl., last spring, has dragged through the courts of Chicago for over @ year. The next hearing on the case will be April 15 at the Criminal Courts Building, 26th St. and Cali- fornia Ave. The International La- bor Defense ts calling upon all workers to oe the eens 2, 000° Picket Plant Of Campbell Soup Co. CAMDEN, April 2—Two thou- sand striking workers of the Camp- bell Soup Co., surrounded the plant in a strong picket line today. Less than 300 men and women are scab- | bing. ‘The workers are striking under the leadership of the independent Canners’ Industrial Union No. 1 for recognition of the union and a 15 per cent wage increase, Police attacked two girl pickets who tried to stop a scab from en- tering the plant yesterday. Sam Insull Arrested by Turkish Government ISTANBUL, Turkey, April 2— Samuel Insull, Chicago public utili- ties operator, was arrested at his hotel here today and imprisoned by Turkish authorities for extradi- tion to the United States. _ The Turkish government officially informed Robert P. Skinner, Amer- ican ambassador, that it would ex- tradite Insull to the U. S. Insull was placed in prison and given a private room and another prisoner to wait on him. Mean- while the U. S government author- ities in Washington are puazled as to what method of procedure they should adopt to bring Insull back to the United States, Matthew Smith In New Move to Split Auto United Front (Continued from Page 1) tiated by A. F. of L. leaders in Washington. While Smith has at times gone through motions of at- tacking A. F. of L. leaders, he is now leaving the door open for fur- ther negotiations with the A. F. of L. The entire role of Smith in the auto strike situation has consisted of a series of maneuvers to prevent strike action and to sabotage the mass fight against the sell-out. When hearings before National La- bor Board opened in March, Smith jsent a telegram stating that “We feel that a widespread dislocation of the automobile industry at this time would be a national calamity and severe handicap to the Presi- dent’s recovery program. We hope your board can avert this tragedy by arranging an amicable settle- ment.” After the sell-out was completed his chief “criticism” was that the M.ES.A. would be left without rep- resentation on the workers’ councils, which the manufacturers will use to Strengthen company unions and prevent workers from organizing in trade unions of their own choice. When the A. W.U. issued the call for united front conference to or- | Sanize a mass fight against the sell- | out, Smith bitterly opposed the elec- tion of delegates by M.E.S.A. Vote Three to One Despite his opposition, a total of 24 M.ES.A. delegates were present representing shop stewards, district council executive and several locals. Sunday night, on March 25. a meet- ing of the shop stewards’ council voted three to one for joint mass meeting with the A.W.U. and A. F. of L. rank and file. The following | night at the district executive meet- ing Smith succeeded in having the matter referred to the Friday night’s meeting. He also refused the permission to the A.W.U. delegation to appear and present their pro- posals. before the district executiv but instead, arranged for an “in- formal” conference with A.W.U. for the next evening. Smith never showed up for this conference. He capped his treach- erous sabotage by preventing the question of a joint mass meeting from even being brought up at the Friday night meeting and again re- fusing the floor to the A.W.U. dele- gation. Smith has clearly revealed him- self as an enemy of united action ‘or the demands of auto workers and against the company union agreement which the manufacturers are trying ot force down the work- ers’ throats. It is now up to the locals and shop stewards of the M. ES.A. to act and fight for carrying out of the decisions of the united front, conference despite high handed sabotage of Smith and his clique. Hawke ‘has It Has Race Hatred d Policy Fee a Made | Delegates Fighting Eviction Order to NEW YORK.—The Emi- grant Industrial Savings Bank is definitely com- mitted to a policy of dis- crimination against Ne- groes. This was the open admis- sion made yesterday by Mr. Boyle, renting agent of the bank located at 51 Chambers St., elected by the tenants of 425 East 6th Street to voice their protests against the bank’s attempt to evict Cyril Briggs and exclude other Negro workers from the 6th Street building. “Yes, we seek to exclude Negroes from the building,” the agent told the delegation. The delegation, headed by Sam Posner and including Sonia Sher- noff and Hy Kroll, and accompanied by Comrade Briggs, immediately challenged this chauvinist dictum of segregation and persecution of the Negro masses, denying them decent housing conditons, isolating them in jim-crow ghettos and by this and other means attempting to split the working-class and weaken its struggles for better conditions. The delegation demanded the immediate withdrawal of the eviction notice against Comrade Briggs, declaring the firm determination of the ten- ants to carry on a_ relentless struggle, with the support of white and Negro workers throughout the city, against the bank’s segregation policy. Boyle then asked until Wednes- day to give an answer to demands of the tenants, and intimated to Mrs. Sharnoff that he would see her in the meantime to collect her rent. Mrs. Sharnoff emphatically replied that she would have to have the bank’s answer to the tenants’ de- mands before any of the tenants would pay any rent. A written protest, presented by the delegation, was signed by 11 of the 15 tenants in the house. Only one tenant, a White Guard, refused to sign the protest. Three others could not be reached by the House Committee last week, but will be in- terviewed as soon as they can be found at home. The House Committee, organized by the tenants to fight the vicious segregation policy of the bank, is appealing to all workers and their organizations to join and support the fight to smash segregation and jim-crow practices and to send tele- grams and letters to the bank today demanding it discontinue its efforts to evict Comrade Briggs and his ips ve Four Arrested In Scottsboro Rally On Trial Tomorrow Hearing Transferred to Bronx Court to Break Mass Pressure peat ik NEW YORK.—The frame-up case against Sam Stein, one of the four white and Negro workers arrested when police smashed into the March 17 Scottsboro demonstration in Harlem with cars, gas bombs and clubs, will be continued tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the court at 161st St. and Brook Ave., Bronx. The case was transferred last week from the E, 21st St. Court to the Bronx in a deliberate attempt to break the mass pressure which had been developed in Harlem against the frame-up. The Bronx Section of the International Labor | Defense is urging workers of all sections of the city to pack the court tomorrow. Organizations are urged to send protest telegrams to Judge Earl Smith, The danger of railroading facing the four workers is em- phasized in the threat of the dis- trict attorney to Sam Stein, one of the four workers, “Don’t worry, you will get it.” The district at- torney also stated at the trial last week that the workers “deserve to be clubbed. They always should be clubbed.” Sam Stein, white; Hugh Work- man and Benny Stamps, colored, are charged with “disorderly con- duct.” Meyers, another Negro worker, is chargéd with “inciting to riot.” Witnesses to the police as- sault on the demonstration are asked to report at the Harlem I. L. D. headquarters, 326 Lenox Ave., at 12, noon, tomorrow, Call Invites | Socialist’ Workers to Join United Front NEW YORK.—A call for one united May Day demonstration was issued yesterday to hundreds of workers’, Negro and _ intellectuals’ organizations by the United Front. May Day Arrangements Committee, The call urged all organizations, in- cluding members and followers of the Socialist Party and Young Peoples’ Socialist League, to send delegates to the United Front May Day Conference, Saturday, April 14, 1 p.m., at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th Street. Each organization which receives a copy of the conference call, and those who read of the conference 4 \ through the press are requested to elect three delegates to represent their organization. The conference will lay the basis for the tremen- dous outpouring of workers from shops, neighborhoods, and factories on May First, the international la- bor holiday. The Conference call reads in part. ‘Wage-cuts, speed up, as follows: compulsory arbitration, company unions, the black list, a wave of | strikebreaking injunctions and po- lice terror, .. .” Against all this the employed workers are urged onto the streets this May Day. Against Fire Traps “Fire traps and death, cutting relief appropriations, the LaGuar- dia Bankers’ agreement, cutting Salaries, hunger wages, and liqui- dation of the C.W.A., worse mis- ery, hunger and destitution is the lot of the unemployed.” Against all this the unemployed will march on May 1, “Discrimination in relief, less pay for equal work, compulsory military training. destitution and homelessness, fascization and training for cannon fodder is the lot of the young worker.” And that is why the youth will join the May Day parade. “The most horrible suffering, discrimination on the job and in relief, jim crowed in firetrap slums, extortion of high rents, growing police anti-Negro incite- ment. This is what the ‘New Deal’ has brought the Negro people!” And thundering their burning demands the Negro workers will hg} N. Y. Committee Issues Call for One United May 1 | Delegates’ Conference Called for April 14 at Webster Hall demonstrate on May Day. “Fire-traps, 45 families burn to death, mounting cost of living, children growing sick from un- dernourishment, less pay for equal work, terrific speed up in facto- ries, the heaviest burdens of the crisis upon their shoulders, is what the ‘New Deal’ means to the working women and wives of workers.” That siwhy the women will march on May Day. All workers are urged to get their organizations to elect delegates im- mediately to the United Front May Day Conference on April 14. iC. W. A. Workers | lature for failing to pass the “Eco- What of a Tennis League? you see flannels and fancy tweed suits admiring the; racqueteers of social elite- dom. It’s great stuff watching a tennis player trying to cut the ball be-| tween those perilous white lines that read, every time you can’t fix} that fuzzy ball between the lines, | “Love 40,” or “40 love,” or “Deuce” } (whoever this 40 guy is or who the Deuce caress?). But anyhow, it’s a great game which so many workers enjoy that maybe a decent league, could be formed among labor sportsmen who: get a chance once in awhile to play after the sun goes down in a sort of twilight league. | i J GOT a letter from Long Island City on this account, which is a fine suggestion—to be put into ac- tion. “Comrade Sam Ross: “What do you think about the idea of forming a tennis league within the L. S. U.? Tennis is gen- erally considered to be an aristo- cratic sport, but in point of fact, it really isn’t. It is a tremendously popular sport among thousands of white collar workers and students and is becoming more popular each season, Such a league could at first be based on the public courts and could be accompanied by a fight for free use of the courts (a license costs $4 now, whereas before the cost was $1) and more courts, etc. Arrangements could be worked out through the L. 8. U. “The tennis stars of today are mostly the product of the rich of our country because only they have the time, money and frec- dom from responsibility to spend long years of practice and instruc- Slash Pay, Fire Thousands of N.Y. (Continued from Page 1) for 24 hours work, Harry L, Hop-| kins has recently stated. Conference to Reconvene The Greater New York United) Front Conference on C. W. A. and) Unemployment will reconvene on Sunday, April 8th, at 1 p. m. at the Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. All C. W. A. projects are urged to elect delegates to the conference. The Committee of One Hundred, elected by the previous meetings of the conference, call upon all C. W. A. workers to resist the LaGuardia firings by struggles on the jobs, against the newest wage cuts, and for the granting of immediate cash prs) equal to C. W. A. pay to all fired C. W. A. workers. | The Committee of One Hundred} ures all unemployed workers to mass at the Home Relief Bureaus to de- mand immediate cash relief for all unemployed workers. Workers on the blocks and in the neighborhoods, unorganized workers in the neigh- borhoods and in the city-owned ver- min-infested and disease-ridden flop houses are urged to elect delegates to the April 8th conference. In addition to planning struggle against the LaGuardia wage cuts | and firing of C. W. A. workers now) “transferred to so-called ‘work re- lief?” at reduced pay, the April 8th conference will lay plans for a city- wide struggle,and for neighborhood ! actions against relief cuts, for im-! mediate cash relief, and for the en-. actment of the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). Washington Delegates to Report C. W, A. jobs delegates to the Washington Conference will report, at a mass meeting to be held today at 7.30 p. m. at Webster Hall on East 11th St. Payment To Bankers Continues The LaGuardia administration, while continuing the payments to the bankers under the bankers’ agreement of October, 1932, yester- day attempted to thrust the bl for inability to meet the relief sit- uation entirely upon the state legis- nomy Bill.” To the workers de- mands that the bankers agreement be abrogated, LaGuardia, when forced to meet with the C. W. A. workers delegates on March 29th answered, “it is written in the law.” While continuing to mortgage the lives of the city’s unemployed to the bankers, while continuing to pay the bankers $127,000,000 annually, La- Guardia refuses to allocate more than $3,000,000 monthly for relief. Cuts Pay on H. R. B., Workers Wage cuts were the LaGuardia order all along the line. In addition to slashing the pay of all former C. W. A. workers now on “work re- lief,” all Home Relief Bureaus workers received wage cuts of from $4.50 to $5 a week. Hours semyeiy the same. Against the LaGuardia wage cuts, the Home Relief Bureau employes will hold a mass meeting at the offices of the Temporary Emergency Relief Association, at 79 Madison Ave., corner 28th St., on Wednesday, April 4th, at 6 p. m. The Home Re- lief Bureau employes appeal to all workers to mass at 79 Madison Ave. to back up their demands for re- scinding of the LaGuardia wage cuts, ITH the feeling of warmth in the air, we'll be seeing another Spring rolling in on us which will mark a break from the indoor sport season to the outdoor. be long, now that the indoor national tennis championships are over, before tennis-loving workers will be swinging their racquets in public parks and the “greats” will be flourishing in the hills of Beverly or For est ¢ or some such place where And it won’t tion. Thousands of sportsmen, however, are anxious to be able to develop their game; but the | cost of playing on private courts is too expensive and the park courts are too overcrowded to give one a chance to doe much playing. “It would be a good thing to ex- pose the Davis Cup ballyhoo: the Tildens, Hunters, Williams and tell the world that these leisure class Stars are not the real representa- tives of the United States in the international matches. The real representatives are the thousands who love the game, want to play it, but can’t raise the jack to have @ racquet restrung every now and then, pay $4 for a license or a $1.50 on a private court. “In the section in which I live we have a team already formed con- sisting of a former captain of the Bryant High School team along with three former players in the Bryant team as well as one nation- ally ranking junior who would be willing to offer his services to the L. 8. U. All that is needed is the co-operation of the L. S. U. in working out the details and organ- izing some sort of lgague. “Comradely, “SIDNEY SKAPLAN. El HERE should be, no doubt, read- ers and friends of readers of this column who will be greatly in- terested in this league. We might develop a worker champion who will be a true representative and who will play, not in Davis Cup matches before patronizing crown- heads and Hill owners; but before the workers of the world, without having to blaze his body off with sweat for two or three hours, as dis- played in the recent match between George Lott and Lester Stoefen when Lott finally couldn't bear the work and said, “Guess I’m getting old. There isn’t enough in the game to work this hard,” and he defaultc? to Stoefen. Which is a perfect ex- ample of the way boss-controlled sports burns an athlete out, not considering his health or love for the game; but “how much can his playing give us in terms of money or prestige.” I, J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 296 SUTTER AVE. 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