The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1934, Page 2

Page Two Party Invites S. P. Members to Demonstrate Joint Police Plans forUnionSq. Rejected By Committe Workers’ Organizations Rallying to April 14 United Front Meet NEW YORK.—“We will be glad to have the Socialist workers demonstrate with us on May First in Union Square between the hours of 1 to 5 escntative of the American gotiating for a een the Socialist 1¢ police and renre- of th United Front May following rejec- tee of the police r tt volutionary work- | n Union Souare until “after | 5:30 p.m. end on.” The committee sentative denounced e police plans as a joint attempt by the police, the reactionary Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Socialist Party lead- ers to disrupt the United Front May y demonstration against Hunger, nd War. Socielist Leaters Attack United Front The Socialist leaders. who have ignored the invitation of the United Front May Day Arrangements Com- mittee for o' d front May Day esterday joined the police in attacking the effort of the committee to unite the work: ers in one solid phalanx on May Day to repel the growing fascist inder the “Néw Deal,” the 1 of the right of workers to into their own unions; the scist lyneh terror against masses; the mass firing . A. workers and other at- tacks on the very existence of large sections of the toiling population. Jeck Altman, Socialist Party or- Zanizer, told the capitalist press | that the Socialist Party had made its application as early as January, | wi the police themselves have ad- | mitted that the first application re- | ceived for the Square was the notification by the United Front Committee in a letter on Feb. 9 of | its plan for a rally in the Square between the hours of 1 to 5 p.m. on May Day | Attaeking the committee's re- fusal to abide by the prejudiced police decision, Altman inadver- tently revealed the difference be- tween the reformist policies of the Socialis: leaders of bowing to the legalistic forms of the class enemy and the revolutionary policies of the Communist Party of resisting all anti-working class decisions, in his. statement that “the trouble with the Communists is that they don’t know their civics.” The United Front May Day Ar- rangements Committee yesterday reminded the Police Department that it had notified the Police Com- missioner, the Mayor, the Depart- ment of Parks and other city offi- | cials of its plans for May Day as early as Feb. 9, and concluded its letter with the statement “and we do not intend to change those Plans.” Meanwhile workers’ organizations, | indignant at the police provocation, are rushing their plans to elect delegates to the United Front May Day Conference, to be held in Web- ster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., on Satur- day, April 14, at 1 p.m. The Cloak and Suit Finishers’ Union, with a membership of 5,000, are sending three delegates, together with a cash contribution, to the May Day Pund of $50, with a pledge of an-| other $100. The Tobacco Workers’ Industrial Union and hundreds of other organizations have announced their militant support of the ar- rangements for a United Front May Day demonstration. Sign Writers’ Strike at American Display Corp. Is Victorious NEW YORK.—The sign writers’ strike, at the American Display Corp., 475 10th Avenue, under rank and file leadership, has come to a victorious conclusion. Demands won are a 40-hour week, instead of the 46, 48 and 60 hours worked previous- ly; a minimum wage of $15 for the boys and $14 for the girls, instead of $10 to $12; time and a helf for overtime; shop committee recogni- tion; no discrimination on returning to the job; and sanitary improve- ments. The workers are building a per- Manent shop committee, Recogniz- ing the Daily Worker's help in the strike, at least 20 of the 85 workers at the shop are now readers of the Daily who had never heard of the paper before. Amalgamation Ball Celebrate the Amalgamation of 70,000 Workers in the Shoe and Leather Industry Saturday, April 7th —sPrMmM — Central Opera House 6ith St. and Third Ave. New York District United Shoe é& Leather Workers Union Welnvite All Metal Workers to the gate Communist Party Must Be Brought to Masses, {175 on Strike; Party Del By HARRY GANNES (Continued from Page 1) | tionary greetings Party, to the Young Communists, to| !esson the workers and farmers of the United States. I bring greetings to the Communist Party i has helped us so much in our struggles against Machado and against Yan- kee imperialism. “Long live Soviet Cuba!” “Long live a Soviet United States!” “Long live the revolutionary brotherhood of the Soviet peoples of the Americas and of the world.” Communist Leadership in Struggles Of the 17 speakers who partici- pated in the discussion from many four were miners, three workers, two auto workers, one railroad, one marine, two from the Southern and Western farm districts, one woman from the Il- linois coal fields, one section or- ganizer and Charles Dirba, report-| cover she Georgia State line ing for the Central Control Com-| Alabama. mission of the Party. nist Party in struggles in all these fields against the Roosevelt “New| Deal,” against growing fascism, | against the Social-Fascist A. F. of| L. and Socialist Party leaders. The| main note struck by all speakers} was the necessity of putting the face| of the Party forward more boldly} to the masses. They gave example} after example how failure to do this| hampered the struggles, and how,| when the Party stepped forward! boldly, explaining its program to the masses, it Won mass support and made membership gains. The high points in the discussion were the speeches of a railroad] worker from the West Coast who} said he had been seeking the Party tince the overthrow of the Czar in Russia, and a leader of the Share Croppers Union in the South. Brought Party to R.R. Workers For over 20 years employed on the railroads, the delegate from District 12, told how he openly spoke about Communism to his fellow workers. “I didn’t find the Party, however, until a year ago. I started what the Communist Party calls an op- portunist organization. That brought the Communists out to us. They wouldn't admit me for some time, though, and I couldn’t understand the reason for it. They told be I should organize a Party nucleus among the railroad workers before I got in. I got a bawling out for exposing myself, but I told them I! was not going down into the cellar; to preserve myself.” He told how, when he was trans- ferred to a new job on the road, he} let the workers know he was a Com- munist and won them over for united front action. He told of be- ing a member of the Railroad Broth- erhood, but never attending a meet- ing until he joined the Party. “TI decided then the thing to do was to go back into the lodge and get seme action.” He described how he exposed the Officialdom and the Roosevelt re- gime. But the lodge members Stayed home after that, “They told me,” he said, “we think you are right, the officials are a bunch of fakers, so what’s the use of attend- ing the lodge meetings.” He rounded them up to attend the meetings and won the rank and file for the unity program and for action. The speech of this tall, stalwart railroad worker, emphatic from be-| ences, the participants in the discus- ginning to end, rich in its humor and sharp quips against sectarianism | and failure to show the face of the o the Communist| to it spellbound, His speech was a | efforts to rivet new slavery on the The whole discussion breathed the | black growing leadership of the Commu-| through the Bankhead Bill. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1934 egates from Shop and Mine Declare | Party to masses and workers ready| criticism to join it, was roundly applauded} by the convention which listened on how to approach the American workers with a program of the Party on the basis of united front actions. | Struggles in South A Negro leader of the Southern share croppers spoke on the great advances of the struggles led by} Communists in the South. “At the extraordinary conference in July,” he said, “it | was reported we had 3,000 mem- | bers in the Share Croppers Union. | At the present time, in spite of | terror raised against Negro and | white share croppers, in spite of the low-hanging lynch clouds that burst frequently, we now register | a membership of 6,000, with 400 | functioning locals,” he said to tre- | mendous applause. He told of the spread of the union into He described Roosevelt's Party | and white share croppers “The Party is gaining,” he added. “Tt is now beginning to | function as the real leader of the share croppers in the South and for the right of self-determination of Negroes in the Black Belt.” He sharply criticized the sectarian and mechanical means of putting forward this slogan, showing the necessitating of linking it with the day-to-day fight for Negro rights and for winning the immediate demands of the Negro masses. “It has been difficult in the past,” he pointed out, “to organ- ize white share croppers and work- ers in the cities of Alabama. But we are overcoming this difficulty. Now more than 1700 white mem- bers are either in the Party or in organizations led by Communists.” He told of founding nuclei in the mightiest steel and coal centers in the South. “We have underestimated the im- portance of drawing into our organ- ization agricultural wage workers. We must clear up in the minds of the white share croppers in the South what winning self-determin- ation for the Negro in the Black Belt means to them; how they can- not be liberated without this vic- tery.” He declared the Party in Alabama had set itself the task for the next three months of winning one thou- sand new members for the Share Croppers Union and 150 new Party members. His half hour speech was listened to with greatest attention and he received an ovation when he con-| cluded hig report. Power of Open Letter Every speaker showed what an exerting force the Open Letter, the | extraordinary Party conference and the 13th Plenum has had on the work and functioning of the Party. The speakers dwelt on how the Open Letter was carried out, sev- erely criticizing failures and short- comings. Where the Open Letter was seriously put into application | the speakers reported gains. Strikes} in auto, steel, coal, were covered, drawing lessons of the United Front, of penetration into important fac- tories, of working in the A. F. of L. and building the revolutionary unions. Exchanging broad experi- sion showed their dissatisfaction with the gains made, each endeavor- ing in the spirit of Bolshevik self- | participation shortcomings and neglects. Declaring that the Communist Party in Southern Illinois had now 350 miners in its ranks, a delegate from that district issued the follow- ing challenge: “We will challenge the Pennsyl- vania soft coal region of the Party in the winning of new members for the Party and in building the Daily Worker. We hope through this challenge we will have a real movement in both fields.” He told of the struggle against Pearcy and Keck in the Progressive Miners, and the Lewis regime in the U.M.W.A., for building a united front of the rank and file against both the P.M.A. and U.M.W.A. lead- ership. All of the speeches were rich in incidents and experiences which it is difficult to report in the space available, Work in Auto A delegate from Detroit, working the auto industry, fresh from in the recent great struggles, told of the shortcomings of the Party, and its recent spurt of activity. He called attention to the need of having members of the Central Committee to give personal guidance in concentration work and in such situations as the threaten- ing auto strike, which was a great test for the Party. Work Among Women A woman delegate from the Southern Illinois spoke of her ex- periences in winning the miner's wives for struggle and for the Com- munist Party. At one meeting of the women’s auxiliary we had a discussion, and I told them I was a Communist. Several women came up and said: “We are Communists too.” We didn’t have any contact with them before. Many of them thought that Mrs, Wieck, the Musteite social-fascist, was a Communist, and that Is why they followed her. Tt showed how lax we were in exposing her and put- ting the Communist Party pro- | gram forward in the fight against | the social-fascists.” ‘Women are among the best fight- ers, she declared; showing how the | women in Southern Illinois were more numerous in the picket lines than the men, and that more of them were jailed for their activities. Work in Shops A metal worker from a New York in | shop unit whose unit activities re- ceived special mention in Comrade’s Browder’s report because of the huge gains of the Party in the shop was greeted with enthusiastic ap- plause when he stepped up to the speaker's stand. He concluded his speech by saying: “The work in our shop unit shows that with proper activity, with winning more shop workers for our units, we can paint the factories red.” The convention was stirred by the exceptionally fine report of a young Negro delegate who in a local of the A. F. of L. in’a leading indus- trial city where the membership is 95 per cent white, known as a Com- munist among the workers and ap- plying the policy of the united front directly, he was able to gain the confidence of workers and be elected to official position. “A white worker said, “Regardless of the A. F. of L. officials, the Negro is going to be our secretary, The to uncover and expose| white workers elected this Negro worker,” he said, “as their repre- sentative to the central body of the A. F. of L. in our city.” He related the following story: “One white worker who had a bit of an American patriotic streak in him, invited me as union leader to have a glass of beer with him. “That will be very good,” I re-| ‘Parmelee Taxi \GarageTied Up I. L. D. Offers Help in Fight Against License Revocation | NEW YORK.—The strike at the Christopher St. Parmelee garage, involving 175 men, which was} plied. |called Tuesday by the Taxi Driers’| We went into a beer place. They wouldn't serve me. “What| the hell do they mean, these bas- tards not wanting to union leader.” He said: “Come on, | let's get out of here.” On the out- side, I told this white worker: “In Soviet Russia they would serve me,” and he agreed. His concluding remark, joyous- ly greeted by the entire conven- tion was: “A Negro worker, armed with the correct Communist pol- iey, can present it before the A. F. of L. non-party white workers, and they will defend him.” Negro Organization Reporting that the Communist Party in the Hill Section of Pitts- burgh had carried out the planned tasks it had set itself, a Negro del- egate, section organizer, detailed some of the advances, Thirty-nine locals of the unemployed councils, ; with 3,000 members had been estab- lished. They had won relief for unemployed workers, in some in- stances taking over the relief sta- tions and handling out flour and clothing. A railroad shop unit had grown from four to 13 members, and was leading struggles. Sixteen per cent of the Party members in the Pittsburgh district he reported amid cheers were Negroes; in the Hill Section, 40 per cent were Ne- groes. Comrade Dirba, Secretary of the Central Control Commission, made a detailed report for that body. He stated that the number of expul- sions since the last convention num- bered 874. Among these were 26 Lovestonites, 36 Trotzkyites, 45 for White Chauvinism, 150 for disrup- tion, 103 for financial irresponsibil- ity, 121 for general irresponsibility, 68 spies, and miscellaneous 325. Of these 131 were readmitted into the Party. The entire convention listened to the discussion from the viewpoint of gaining from each other’s experi- ences. All delegations as one unit followed the discussion avidly throughout. The afternoon session opened with a continuation of the discus- sion. After a half hour’s discussion more on Browder’s report, Jack Sta- chel will report on economic strug- gles and our tasks in the trade unions, Fur Shop Workers Union of Greater New York against the blacklisting of men who had been active in the general taxicab serve our| strike, continued yesterday. Pickets patrolled the garage en- trance all during the day. Motion- less and silent, the shiny Parme- lee cabs stood side by side on the two floors of the garage. None of the cars have moved since the hackmen walked out. While the pickets marched up and down outside the Christopher St. building, arrangements were be- ing made through Bernard Deutsch for representatives of the union to | meet with Levin Rank, head of the | Parmelee System in New York, where the demands of the strikers will be presented to the company. | Meanwhile a move was made on the part of the union to open a fight against the revocation of hack licenses of strikers who were arrested for militant action during the general strike. Strikers were discussing the ques- tion of a mass demonstration at the hack buro, where demands will be raised to take the licensing of hackmen out of the hands of the Police Department. The legal committee of the In- ternational Defense stated that a group of lawyers connected with the committee will open a fight for the reinstatement of the drivers who lost their licenses, The union has called a meeting of all garage chairmen for Friday at 5 p.m., where the questions of Christopher St. strike, blacklisting, revocation of licenses and the un- employed hackmen will be. taken up. Since the termination of the gen- eral strike a check up shows that all drivers of the Radio fleets who were on strike have been taken back by the company. The union is still car- tying on a fight against several cases of discrimination in the Ter- minal garages. The largest number of discriminations are to be found in the Parmelee garages; in the Christopher St. garage where the men are striking, and in the 19th and 48th St. garages. The main energy of union fight on discrimination is directed against the Parmelee System. Coming under the rank and file along with Herman Goldstein, president of the Brooklyn local, and George Newman, who was ousted from the Queens local, both of whom attempted to split the ranks Hail C.P. Convention | of the union, Samuel Smith, presi- NEW YORK.—The 100 workers of the Beacon Fur Dressing shop, New York, unanimously voted to send a telegram of revolutionary greetings to the national con- vention of the Communist Party, at a shop meeting Wednesday afternoon. The message read: “Revolutionary greetings to the eighth national convention of the Communist Party. Forward to a mass Communist Party, for a united front of the working class, for the revolutionary way out of the crisis. “WORKERS OF BEACON FUR DRESSING CORP.” STRIKE WAVE SWEEPS OVER THE BARRIERS OF (Continued from Page 1) img this Sunday, April 8, at 3 pm. at the Boys’ Club, Michigan and Junction Ave., where the officers are to report on the answer of the company. The militant rank and file members of the local are de- termined to press for strike action if the demands are refused. These militant trade unionists are warn- ing their fellow workers against the attempts of the A. F. of L. officials to delay action and prevent them from fighting for their demands. The Auto Workers’ Union has en- dorsed the action of the rank and file A. F. of L. workers and is pre- pared to support the struggle to the fullest extent, - oe DETROIT, Mich., April 4—Mass layoffs are facing the automobile workers. After having pited up Production, the automobile com- panies are beginning to lay-off the men, eliminating so-called “ineffi- cient,” and speeding up the others. On Monday, the Packard plant laid off ten per cent of the workers with more scheduled to follow. The Fisher Body plant in Flint, Mich., has laid off 1,500, and several entire departments of the Buick plant in Flint have been laid off. The Ford plant is also dropping men. At the same time, those remain- ing on the jobs are having hours cut, thus reducing the weekly wages. Yesterday some men from every de- partment of the Chevrolet plant were sent home after having worked only a few hours. The excuse given was that they had been working too many hours. The Chevrolet work- ers have heard nothing yet about the increase in hourly rate which Was announced by the automobile companies on March 15 as a maneu- ver to smash the strike action of the men. At Chevrolet, the grip of the com- pany union is being strengthened through the passage by the Works Council (company union) of a mo- tion that anybody who works five days in Chevrolet becomes eligible for membership. Graham Paige is working a new trick. Its agents among the men a THE NRA. begin to agitate openly for organi- zation, and talk about building a real workers’ union. The workers, thinking that these are trade union organizers, responded eagerly to the Suggestion, only to find that they are members of a company union. In this way the company is trying to create the impression that the company union is being voluntarily formed by the workers themselves. The Auto Workers Union is hold- ing a series of mass meetings this week to intensify united action for the workers’ demands, Tonight the Hudson-Gratiot local of the Auto Workers Union is calling a meeting at Triple Link Hall, Hurlburt and Sterritt Streets. The Packard local is also holding a meeting tonight at the Workers’ Home, 1349 East Ferry Ave. The Chevrolet, Budd Wheel and other locals are planning meet- ing for later in the week. iam ea Toledo Strike Sentiment Grows TOLEDO, O., April 4.—Roosevelt’s strike-breaking Automobile Labor Board agreement is being used by C. A. Dana, head of the Spicer Mfg. Co., for withdrawing recognition from the A. F. of L. union. The movement in this automobile accessory plant for strike is grow- ing so strong, as a result of the fact that no gains have been granted outside of a miserable 5 per cent in- crease over the present low pay ($16 for the fastest machinists, for ex- ample), that a third labor “medi- ator” has been thrown ‘into this area by the N. R. A. Cae ee Threatens to Use Machine Guns on Pickets PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 4.— The Campbell Soup Co. has filed suit for an injunction to stop the strike of 2,000 workers for recogni- tion and wage increase. Arthur C. Dorrance, president of Campbell’s, threatens to fortify the factory with machine guns if the injunction is refused, In the meantime pickets battled with police today to stop scabs. Strikers are being arrested daily and police ride through picket lines with machines. and organizer of the Canners In- dustrial Union, a notoriously un- reliable character and a vote seeker, praised the police today and ordred the arrest of a Communist worker distributing leaflets calling workers to a mass meeting today. Percy Bryant distributed three leaflets, and was turned over to the police by a Manning henchman. Bryant is held in $25 bail, but one hour later the charge of inciting to riot was added and bail was raised to $1,000. The International Labor Defense is defending Bryant. Camden police, with aid of the bosses and the Socialist Party, is organizing a huge campaign of ter- ror against militant workers and Communists. A handpicked strike committee aids the police when pickets attempt to prevent scabs from entering plant. em Tear-Gar Women Pickets MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Apr. 4. —Tear gas was thrown today at women pickets who threw them- Selves in the mud trying to prevent a truck from entering a driveway of ‘he Charles Greenburg Shirt Factory, where a strike is on. One picket, Alma Terrots, 24, was knocked down as the truck was leaving and was treated at a hos- pital for bruises. The strikers are demanding an increase in wages. Pree eee Addressograph Sirike Spreads CLEVELAND, O., April 4 (F. P.) —-The strike at the Addressograph- Multigraph Corp. has spread to its other plants in Cleveland. A second plant was closed as 800 employees walked out. Strikers say that they will not quit until the union is recognized and they get a pay in- crease. a Victory Near for Airplane Strikers BUFFALO, N. Y. (F.P.)—Men out on strikes in Buffalo now total 3,370, including 2,000 aeronautical workers, 1,100 chemical workers, 200 cleaners and dyers, and 70 bakery wagon drivers of Hall Baking Co. Strike possibilities loom in pend- ing negotiations between the oper- ating companies and Taxicab Driv- ers’ Union, Local 153. Frank J, Manning, Socialist leader A deadlock exists in the strike of the workers of the Curtiss Aeroplane Co. ahd the Consolidated Aircraft Corp., with indications pointing to ultimate victory for the union. Both companies have attempted to con- tinue production with a small force of strike-breakers, but with little success, So jen Ce Keep Scabs From Seaman Body Plant MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 4—The 1p striking workers of the Sea- man Body Corp. are now entering their sixth. week of the strike. Their militancy and morale, instead of being beaten down by time, has in- creased, as was demonstrated early Monday morning. The picket line began forming a half hour earlier then usual, at 5:30. By 6 a.m. there were almost 1,000 pickets. The police, whom Mayor Hoan recently called the “friends of the Seaman. strikers,” viciously attacked the strikers, who courageously kept the scab cars from entering the plant. One picket, Walter Banaszywski, 35, was pushed beneath the wheels of a scab car arriving, and was sent to the hospital, under arrest, with a fractured ankle. Two other pick- ets, who were beaten, were arrested, John Majeski, 28, charged with as- sault and battery, and Edwin Bet- tin, 32, charged with disorderly conduct. Several hundred pickets marched to the City Hall to protest against the action of the police in helping the scabs. A committee was elected to see Mayor Hoan, who had ad- vised them to be “peaceful” and re- ly on the “manliness of Lauben- heimer” (the chief of police), as re- ported in the Daily Worker last week. ae ee Johnstown Leather Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) JOHNSTOWN, N. Y., April 4— Ranks of the leather strikers at Bakers’ Mill are solid as their union has spread to other mills, despite Gry | the attempts of the Tanners’ Asso- ciation and an N.R.A. mediator to smash the union and the strike. The shop committee and the union President, Carr exposed the strike- breaking procedure of the N. R. A. after workers were ®almost tricked into the mills, dent of the Bronx local, was as- sailed yesterday by rank and file members of his local for his ac- tivities of attempting to split the union. 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Tomor-j row picket lines will be thrown around the office of Commissioner of Welfare William Hodson, at 50) Lafayette St.” | “Open air meetings are being held in all parts of the city by the Un- employment Councils," Sam Gon- shak, city organizer of the Coun- cils, said, “On Thursday, April 5, meetings will be held throughout the upper Bronx as rallying points for a huge outdoor meeting and parade to Allerton Ave. and Cruger St., and another at Lydig and Cruger Streets. Similarly, the Un- employment Councils throughout the city are rallying their entire forces for outdoor meetings.” To Picket Relief Offices In establishing the. picket lines, the city offices of the Unemploy- ment Councils will be the central picket office at which picket lines| will be formed for the various C.wW. A. projects, the offices of the Wel- fare Department and the Home Re- lief Bureaus, The Greater New York United Front Conference on C.W.A. and Unemployment, which reconvenes on Sunday, will hear reports on the activities conducted during the past two weeks, and will plan a program | of action against C.W.A. firings and wage cuts. Definite protest. actions will be decided upon, and local and city-wide struggles will be formu- lated, In addition to job delegates, every workers’ organization is urged to elect delegates to the April 8 Con-| ference. Workers on jobs that are not represented should immediately elect delegates. Unorganized work- ers in neighborhoods should circu- late credentials and obtain signa- tures for representation on the blocks. Conference Committee To Meet The Committee of One Hundred, which will meet on Friday at 8 p.m. at 11 W. 18th St. to plan the agenda of the April 8 conference, urges a joint struggle of all employed and unemployed against the drastic wage cuts which haye gone into ef- fect on all “work relief’ projects, In speaking for the committee, Davidow said, “The wage cuts will be used to lower still further the starvation levels of the relief given to the unemployed. Commissioner Hodson has said that “we must go back to a relief wage... and that only to the destitute.” Struggles must be developed on the jobs to defeat the wage cuts of the La- Guardia administration. For the skilled workers the wage cuts of the LaGuardia administration amount to 50 per cent; laborers will, ac- cording to the ruling of Washing- ton, get the coolie wage of $7.20 a week; Hodson has said that white- collar workers will be cut, and they have already been cut 17 per cent. The April 8 Conference will organ- ize these workers for a city-wide Struggle against the LaGuardia wage cuts.” Einstein to Remain in U. S. NEW YORK.—At the last minute Dr, Albert Einstein, noted scientist, declared that he will remain in America indefinitely and not sail for Belgium Tuesday as he had planned. RU Costawenal ‘Hearing Friday on Libel Suit Against “Daily” Writer Taxi Drivers and Other Workers Urged to Pack Court in Protest NEW YORK. Hearing on the criminal libel it against Harry Raymond, a member of the ‘Daily Worker” editorial staff, is set for this Friday morning, 10 o'clock, in the City Magistrate’s court at 425 Sixth Avenue. The-suit arises out of the ener- getic, fearless support of the taxi- drivers strike by the Daily Worker, which was the only paper support- ing the struggles of the drivers for a living wage and the right to or- ganize in a union of their own choice in opposition to the company unions of the Parmelee Company and other taxicab bosses. Raymond, who covered the strike for the Daily Worker, is charged -by George Williams, notorious strike- breaker, and one of the lieutenants of the strikebreaking Sherwood De- tective Agency, with criminal libel on the basis of a scathing exposure by Raymond of the vicious anti- labor activities of Williams and his fellow scab agents and strikebreak- ersy The action against Raymond is an attack on the Daily Worker and on the right of the taxi-drivers and other workers to strike and defend their strike and union from the at- tacks of strikebreakers, police and other agencies of the bosses. It is necessary that the taxi-drivers and other workers pack the court at 425 Sixth Avenue this morning to protest this attack on their paper. Raymond will be defended by Joseph Brodsky, head of the legal department of the International Labor Defense, nationally known for his work in the Scotsboro case, and Edward Kuntz, LL.D. attorney. Negro, White Fight, Demonstrate for Continuance CWA (Continued from Page 1) meeting, 200 workers demonstrated here on March 29 against C.W.A. firings and wage cuts. Following the meeting of the newly organized C.W.A. rank and file union two weeks ago, where the workers rejected affiliation with the A. F. of L., several hundred workers were denied the use of the Labor Temple by “Soupline” Dickenson, president of the Central Labor Union. Following the refusal, the workers held a meeting on the Court House steps, in a drenching rain, and elected committees to secure a hall and prepare for the scheduled meeting on April 8th, pees es Fire 3,000 In Lancaster LANCASTER, Pa, — Thirty-five hundred C.W.A. workers were fired here, following the abandonment of C.W.A. Only a small number of those fired, the heads of large fam- ilies, have been promised relief. The remainder of the C.W.A. workers, transferred to “work relief,” have been handed a wage cut of $7.20 a week. , In the fight against the mass fir- ings and the starvation wages, the Relief Workers League is calling upon all workers to mass protest meetings, The workers are demanding a# minimum wage of $15 a week, union wages to apply on all jobs, exten- sion of C.W.A, to include jobs for all unemployed workers, cash relief instead of the commissary system, and a moratorium on all rents for the unemployed. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-2012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M,, 1-2, 6-8 P.M —WILLIAM BELL-————, OFFICIAL. Optometrist OF TRE 106 EAST 14th STREET Near Fourth Ave., N. ¥. ©. Phone: TOmpkins Square 6-8287 Tompkins Square 6-7697 Dr. S. A. Chernoff GENITO-URINARY 223 Second Ave. New York City Williamsburgh Comradés Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria 4 Graham Ave. Cor. 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