The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1934, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUBSDAY, APRIL 10, 1934 Issue on the Use of Union Square May | LaGuardia, After Private Confab With Socialist Leaders, Shifts Responsibility To Committee of Three NEW YORK.—Mayor LaGuardia yesterday dodged the riority to Union Sq. on commi sue of the United Front May Day Arrangements Commit- May First by “deputizing” a ttee of three to “represent” him on the question of the right to Union Sq. on May Day of over 200,000 New York worke Having confessed at a pre- vious meeting in Borough Hall on Friday that he had s time for the use of to “after 5:30 and on, s d place the re- alloting hours to mes Holmes, Arthur Gar- s and Roger Baldwin of merican Civil Liberties Union. mere dispute between Commu- 4 , instead of dis- | part of the city ion from the United Day Arrangements ed for the Mayor to y watched Judge Pan- and Viadick, Socialist ‘s, leave the Mayor’s office ing as though they had had a good time in the inner sanctum | sanctorum. The original arrange- ments of LaGuardia on Friday were + the Socialists and the repre-| atives of the United Front May | would meet with simultaneously not to- Day Committee him if f the meeting in the or's office was one of question- g the right of the 200,000 workers demonstrating against Fascism and | v rst to the use of) Arthur Garf | perfectly absurd y one public square open for May Day meetings. He asked, “Why not use Madison Square and| t a precedent for a new place.” yor La Guardia cynically sug- ed for the future that workers) New York demonstrate in Van dt Park, and he would place} es for their disposal. corge Siskind retorted that Union Squere belongs to the revo- lutionary workers by its traditions. That is the place where the revo- lutionary workers have always held the'r May Day demonstrations. en Allen Taub, member of the delegation, pointed out that the Mayor admitted he had not lived up to his agreement and was dis- criminating against the Commu- nists and sympathetic organizations. the Mayor evaded the issue by say- ing “That. is so, but we must ad- just it.” In a bullying attempt to Scare the committee, the Mayor threatened that if the United Front May Day Arrangements Committee proceeded on the line of the orig- inal agreement with the police de- partment of using Union Square in the early afternoon of May Firs he would “man Union Square, Plainly threatening to use an army | of police against the revolutionary workers. | tain Joseph F. X. Day of the 13th precinct had informed the United| Front Committee that the Veterans | of Foreign War would not use Union| Square in the morning as they} “could not mobilize their men that | early.” This leaves the question of | the use of Union Square on May| Day between the Socialists and the United Front May Day Arrange- ments Committee. The United Front Committee de- nounced the discrimination against the United Front May Day demon- stration in favor of the Socialists despite their prior application, but decided they would meet with the committee of three appointed by the Mayor’ in still another attempt! to defeat the attempts of the police and city administration to provoke & fight on May Day. The United Front Committee was the first to file its plans with the Police for the use of Union Square On May Dey. The hours for the) United Front May Day demonstra-| tion were shifted three times by| the police and Department of| Parks, | The members of the committee | from the United Front May Day| Arrangements which saw the Mayor | yesterday were George Siskind,| David Leeds, Carl Brodsky, chair-| man of the United Front May Day Arrangements Committee, Charlotte | ae Steve Kingston, and Allen| ‘aub. Detroit Messenger Boys’ Strike Ends (Special to the Daily Worker) | “Daily” Writer To Answer Criminal Libel Suit Today Workers Urged To. Pack Court; Protest Attack on Workers’ Press NEW YORK.—The criminal libel suit brought by the strikebreaker George Williams of the notorious Sherwood Detective Agency against Harry Raymond, member of the | Daily Worker editorial staff, will be | jheard this morning at 10 o'clock | in the Magistrates’ Sixth Ave. The suit arises out of the militant support by the Daily Worker for the taxicab driv- ers strike, and is an attempt to Court at 425 paper and pe- nalize Raymond, who covered the exposed the en- emies of the It is necessary that all Harry Raymond strikers. taxicab drivers and other workers | pack the courtroom this morning in| militant protest against this attack | on your paper Legal defense, supplementing the mass protest, will be conducted by| Joseph Brodsky, chief of the legal} staff of the International Labor De- fense, and Kuntz, LL.D. attorney. | Green Praises ‘New Deal’ as Own Data Shows Wage Cuts A.F.L. Head Speaks at Dinner in Honor of Mrs. Roosevelt By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, April 9—William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, declared to- thorough accord,” with the “eco- nomic philosophy” that “it is only when produced wealth is widely diffused, when the earnings of in- dustry are equitably distributed .. . that we can expect to maintain progress and promote universal prosperity.” This assertion, in a speech before a dinner given by the New York ‘Women's Trade Union League in honor of Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-| velt, followed a monthly survey by the A. F. of L., admitting that workers’ real wages have been de- creased and profits increased by the New Deal. Green delivered his speech simul- taneously with the A. F. of L. April monthly survey announcement that the individual workers’ real wage had not risen since last spring de- spite the greatly increased profits of the big corporations. “The National Recovery Act is in thorough accord with this economic philosophy, because its primary purpose is to overcome unemploy- ment through the development of purchasing power and through the creation of work opportunities for idle men and women by reducing the number of hours worked per day and the number of days worked per week,” said Green. Green justified the N. R. A. dis: crimination against Negroes “in re- mote sections” (meaning the South) and mildly questioned the wage dif- ferentiation against women “in practically the same territory.” He) Sale “While there may be some justi- fication for the establishment of varying rates of pay in remote sec- tions where standards of living dif- fer—and I question the economic soundness of such a position—nev- ertheless there does not seem to be muzzle your| Browder and Ford to Report Convention At New Star Casino NEW YORK.—On Sw ternoon, April 15,. the en Tev- jonary movement of Harlem to the call of the u Harlem Sec- , to mobilize in a member- ship rally to hear the reports on the historic Eighth National Con- vention of the Communist Party, at the New Star Casino, 2:30 p.m. Comrades Earl Browder, Gen- eral Secretary of the Party, and James W. Ford, the most out- tani Negro and _ political leader of the Communist Party, will be the main speakers at the rally The Harlem Section Committee ganizations, t , and youth clubs, the units Party and the Y. C. L. in Hi to suspend all other act: from 2:30 to 6 p. m. on the after- noon of the 15th and to mobilize their entire memberships and symvathizers for this rally. 3 Cal. Communists Enter Campaign For City Council Los Angeles Suburb | Workers’ Organizations | Back Candidates SOUTH GATE, Cal., March 31— | With a united front of working |class organizations behind them, | three Communists have entered the | election campaign for city council. | Nearly 200 workers filled the small campaign hall at 9605 California Ave, on Friday evening, March 30,} The| for the campaign opening. election will be held April 9. Clyde Champion, Oscar D. Nash} | and Gerald Sherman are the three strike for the) candidates. Besides the Communist Daily Worker” | Party, they are backed by the Relief and vigorously) workers’ Protective Union, Unem- ployed Co-operative Relief Associa- tion and the Workers’ Ex-Service- | men’s League. The South Gate candidates’ plat-| Acces. Hato. oeny Mrs. Roosevelt cites “Little Orphan Annie” to prove there is no oppression in U. S. P. Knifes Rank and File | Plea for May S.—News Item. 1 United Front Socialist Leaders Steam-roller Motion from Floor | at Conference; Defeated in Attempt to | Bar Parade by S ocialist Workers NEW YORK.—Rank and file op-); position flared up last Thursday night at a May Day Conference held by the Socialist Party at the Rand School to the sabotage by the | Socialist Party leadership of the proletarian united front against form is to lead the struggles of the | Fascism and War on May Day, and} unemployed, to fight for unemploy-| the further opposition of the Soci- ment insurance, to demand federal) alist leaders to a May Day parade relief for public construction and to| or anything resembling militant ac- fight the efforts of the L. A. Bureau tion in connection with their pro- of Power & Light to run its high| posed May Day meeting in Union tension wires through South Gate, | Square. * * x The Socialist leadership succeeded PALMER, Mich., April 9—Out. of | in steam-rollering a motion for a the 440 votes cast for town super-| real united front May Day demon- visors at the elections last week, the | stration, but were forced to put to workers and farmers United Front) the vote a youth motion for a parade Ticket polled 78. | on May Day, which was overwhelm- * | ingly accepted. The leadership ex- GALLUP CITY, N. M., April 9—| cused its opposition to the parade In the recent city elections here|on the grounds that in several of| Communist candidates polled votes|the unions there were new mem- DETROIT, April 9.—The Western | any good argument which can be Union messenger boys’ strike,| Offered or sound reason advanced which started last Friday night,|for the payment of differing rates ended today with a partial victory|of pay to diferent women workers for the messenger boys. They won| employed in cities closely related in recognition of the Independent! Messenger Boys’ Union, and the| company agreed to meet with a) workers’ committee to discuss a| ‘Wage scale. The company, however, refused to take back the leader of the strike, Ben Marcus, The strikers would have won greater concessions had the ranks not been split by unauthorized ac- tion when two strikers, who went to the company Saturday night, ar- (ranged a settlement Even before the strike was called organization activities of the union compelled the company to raise wages 20 per cent for day boys and 10 per cent for night boys. The settlement is a victory over the com- pany union, into which the com- Pany tried to drive the boys. The strikebreaking efforts of the Re- gional Labor Board also failed when the boys refused to heed advice to go back to work pending settlement. by the board. Postal telegraph messenger boys re meeting tonight to vote on a “tke action. practically the same territory.” Coming out against militant working-class action, Green de- clared, “We know that progress can only be made step by step. There is no problem which yields to solu- tion more slowly than an economic problem. History shows that the human race has made progress slowly.” 10,000 Seek 2,500 Chi. €.C.C. “Jobs” (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, April 9—With the C.C.C. camps here opened for enlistment in army fashion to young workers between the ages of 18 to 25, regardless of whether they are on relief or not, 10,000} young workers, hoping to get even these “jobs,” stormed the recruit- as follows: Bill Cuoton, 95; Pete. Sanchez, 106; George Lloyd, 101; John Toma a Lino Romera, 107; Oliver Leone, 104, ‘Minneapolis C.W.A. Workers Act To During the day, the police exp-) no gh accord,” with the “= Insure Job Victory (Continued from Page 1) Governor Olson reopen the investi- gation, to be favorable to the dem- onstrators. They also recommended | that Olson call an open meeting for men and women on C, W. A. 25,000 Demonstrated Friday Latest information that has |reached the Daily Worker shows | that the demonstration on Friday | reached as much as 20,000 to 25,000 | workers. The workers prevented the firedepartment from turning | streams of water on by posting | large committees around the fire | hydrants. Many of the firemen | joined with the demonstrating |workers by refusing to do police | duty. After the City Council had at first refused to meet the workers’ | demands, in a second meeting they | were forced to accede to the work- | ers, and elected a committee of five | Councilmen to go to Washingten to obtain federal authorization for the |increased relief expenditures and | the carrying out of the workers’ de- | mands. ‘Tremont Progressive | Club First To Order Big May Day Edition Ree | NEW YORK. — The first English Speaking Club to place an order for the May Day edition of the Daily Worker is the Tremont Progressive Club. The City Club Council, cen- tral body of the English-speaking clubs, announces that the Tremont Progressive will order more than any other club in the city of New York, All English-speaking clubs are asked by the council to take up this challenge. “As part of the May Ist activity to be carried on by the clubs,” the council states, “the or- ganizations sbould order in large quantities the May Day issue of the Daily Worker. All orders are to be reported to the council. Special committees in each club should be set up for the distribution of the Daily Worker. Every member must become a Daily Worker booster. Clubs should make final prepara- tions to take part in the City-wide Conference for 4 united May Day on April 14 and for the City Club May Day Conference on May 15 at the council headquarters 11 W. 18th St. on Sunday at 1 p.m, Every club must be represented. Every club must place an order for the Daily Worker.” Ss to storm the offices through the fire escapes. Many of the young ing offices at 319 Madison St. on | Monday. } Police pushed the young work-| of the 3.000 who managed to reg-| ers around as attempts were made | workers had been in line all night. The C.C.C. announced that 2,500 ister would be sent to the camps, | bers who “did not know how to} parade,” adding the additional) phoney explanation that the Social-| | ist Party was so immersed in vari-| | ous activities as not to be able to | prepare a well-organized parade. | The sentiment of the youth dele- gates was most bitter against these tactics of the leadership and, finally, at their insistence Claessens, the | chairman, was forced to put the motion for a parade to the vote. | The leadership was more success- | ful in knifing a united front pro- | posal made by Ray Gordon, a dele- | gate from the Paper Plate and Bag Makers Union, Local 107, and heart- ily applauded from the floor. The delegate proposed the election of a/ committee by the conference to meet with a similar committee from the United Front May Day Ar-| rangements Committee to work out plans for a joint May Day demon- stration. The motion was com~- pletely ignored by the chair. | Rank and file sentiment for the| united front was so strong, how- ever, that a delegate from the I. W. W. considered it necessary to make a gesture of support for the united front, while at the same time knifing the united front sentiment with a slanderous attack on the leadership of the Communist Party. In this he was joined by the rene- gades from Communism, Benjamin, Welsh, Zimmerman and _ others. Benjamin declared he “repudiated the actions of the Communists at Madison Square Garden,” but was naturally silent on the provocative attack by Socialist leaders and their gangsters on Clarence Hathaway, editor of the “Daily Worker” and the united front established by the Socialist leaders with LaGuardia and other notorious enemies of the working class who they invited to lead the “fight” against Austrian fascism. Claessens followed with a provo- cative attack on the Communists. He then put the motion to a yea and nay vote. Although there were quite a number of yeas, he declared the motion defeated, refusing to ask for a show of hands. AFL Admits Wage Rise Cancelled By High Living Costs (Continued from Page 1) _ admits the employer class character | | of its anti-strike policy. ‘Delays in: enforcing Section 7-A in the last six months have nulli- fied workers rights under the law and blocked the mechanism for | collective bargaining,” the A. F. of L. Survey charges, in the teeth of the fact that even Donald Richberg, N. R. A. Chief Counsel, has inter- preted this section as an open shop mechanism and that the most | powerful industrialists have openly | rallied around it as the chief pro- tection of their company unions. Realizing that the rank and file auto workers are on the verge of regaining the ground lost through the recent Roosevelt-A. F. of L. sell-. out, the A. F. of L. asserts that the National Automobile Board, “to make the principle of free organi- zation a reality,” must “1: promptly recognize union membership and set up collective bargaining. 2: Re- instate at once those workers who were laid off for joining the union.” No demand is made, however, for a general wage increase nor is a strike in the event of refusal even mentioned. In discussing the C. W. A. under the head line, “Employment gains slowly,” the Survey admits that | “those eligible for relief will receive an allowance considerably below their C. W. A. wage; for the others no provision is made.” Neverthe- less no reference is made to the Minneapolis C. W. A. protest dem- onstration which forced the muni- cipal officials to grant more relief, nor to the need for such collective effort to obtain more relief. Board of Estimate To Announce Cuts in Pay of City Workers Today ALBANY, N, Y., April 9.—The La Guardia “Economy” Bill, which last week was passed in the assembly, today faced a vote in the State Sen- ate. The bill is expected to pass the senior body, enabling the New York City Board of Estimate to be- gin immediately on the depart- mental budget cuts which will mean a drastic reduction in wages for most of New York’s already under- paid city employees, The list of specific wage-cuts was’ Hodson “Helpless” As Pickets, C.W.A. Men Demand Jobs (Continued from Page 1) presented to him, as he elaborated on his “liberalism.” “We resent your inferences,” was the delegates’ reply, ‘and had you taken any steps to grant the work- ers’ demands, you would not be be- seiged with delegations.” William Fox, of the Associated Office and Professional Emergency Employes, chairman of the delega~ tion, presented the demands of the workers. These demands include: the immediate re-instatement of all fired C. W. A. workers; jobs for all the unemployed at guaranteed wages not below the original C. W. A. minimum, union. rates to apply; cash relief equal at least to the C. W. A. wages of all unemployed, and for all who registered for C. W. A.; an end to Negro discrimination of the jobs and in the Relief Bureaus; the immediate enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, and that in every case work be granted as such and not on the basis of “need,” as Hodson had or- Hodson refused all the workers’ demands, attempting to place the blame for the firings on the federal government, and variously distrib- uting the responsibility of govern- mental bodies, Will “Review” Paupers’ Oath ‘When pressed for definite answers to specified questions, Hodson stated that a “review” of the paupers’ oath questionnaires would be started, again re-iterating his previous state- ments that “need” would have to be established in every case. To es- tablish “need,” Hodson stated that the workers. must “have no savings accounts, no insurance policies, no ‘convertible assets,’ and no other person in the family must be work- ing.” He placed no specific restric- tions on these requirements, refus- ing to say just how these were to apply when confronted with son- crete instances, The Committee of One Hundred urges all unemployed and fired C. W. A. workers to continue to mass in picket lines at Hodson’s office, and to continue to deluge him with workers’ delegations until the work- ers’ demands are fully met. The picket line will continue throughout the week unless the demands are expected to be completed tomorrow aa a ica MMM Sci tai met, Call for Protests at Chi. Police Refusal to Grant May Day Permit (Daily Worker Midwest Bu.) CHICAGO, April 9. Pa have flatly refused a permit here for the workers’ May Day demonstration. The Unit- ed Front May Day Commit- tee has immediately isued a call for all organizations to send protests and delegations to the Mayor, Commissioner of Police Allman and to Al- dermen in all wards. The final May Day confer- ence will be held here Sun- day, April 15, at 10 a.m., at the Finnish Hall, 2409 North Halstead St. Hudson Plant Is Closed by Auto Strike in Detroit {Continued from Page 1) of all workers to convert the lay-off into a strike. McGrady Threatens With the strike situation grow- ing constantly more acute, the A. F. of L. leaders are exerting every effort to retain their influence over the workers and break the Motor Products strike. “These strikes have got to be settled.” declared Assistant Secretary of Labor Mc- Grady, who is the special emissary of General Johnson. “The men must get back to work and I'll stay in Detroit until this thing is cleared up,” he threatened. McGrady and the A. F. of L. leaders.are paving the way for bringing in Roosevelt in the same way as he was brought in before to send men back on the President's promise of a “square deal.” Rejection by a mass meeting at Amity Temple yesterday of Motor Products A. F. of L. members (ma- jority of workers in this plant are organized in A. F. of L.) of the terms of settlement negotiated by A. F. of L. leaders, Collins and Thompson, with the Automobile Labor Board, was a smashing blow at the sell-out plans, The settle- ment terms completely confirm the predictions made by the Auto Workers Union in a leaflet to strik- ers now being distributed, that the board will try to send the men back pending arbitration of demands. One of the chief points in the pro- posals is the creation of an arbi- tration committee of the Labor Board to take testimony from work- ers and work out a new wage scale. In_ place of the workers’ demand for 75 cents an hour minimum for unskilled labor, the Labor Board attempts to divide workers by set- ting up two categories: one to get 45 cents an hour and the other 50 cents, Collins Gets Cold Shoulder No other demands were even con- sidered. When Collins tried to persuade the workers to accept these terms, he met such an unfriendly recep- tion that he shouted, “Don't be so hostile. Nobody is trying to sell you @ gold brick. If you strike you'll have to go through this same set- up eventually to get what you want. It’s better to be in the plant mak- ing a little money than to be out on the street’ broke.” Worker after worker arose to de- nounce the agreement, “You may be the head of the A. F. of L.,” one said, “but we know what we want and we're the ones to decide when we go back.” A roar of approval swept the hall when another said: “Let's fight it out and stay out!” On a motion to reject the settle- ment, not a single worker voted in the negative. Leaders In “Protest” Gesture At the same time the A. F. of L. leaders are attempting to stem the growing disillusion with the Wash- ington settlement by sending a pro- test wire to Roosevelt, charging the automobile Labor Board. “with fail- ure to carry out the President's sentiment in creating it.” Rumors are also being spread of @ split in the Labor Board, with Richard L. Byrd, A. F. of L. rep- resentative, supposedly fighting ‘Wolman and Kelley, the other two members. This is for the purpose of giving the impression that Byrd is actually defending the workers’ interests. A. F. of L. strong-arm squads are continuing their activities against militant workers. One worker was arrested today for distributing A. W. U. leaflets. The following tele- gram, addressed to A. F. of L., A. W. U. and M. E. S. A., was received here today from A. F. of L. rank and filers in Kenosha, Wis.: “Kenosha Nash strikers earnestly warn you to guard against maneu- vers of Auto Labor Board. Byrd, labor representative on board, tried to trick us back to work. Men over- whelmingly rejected betrayal settle- ment. Nash strikers anxiously await strike action by Detroit men.” Workers Organizations To Fight Against Savage Sentence Given Hagopa NEW YORK.—A Hagopa Defense Committee was organized last night, with representatives of many trade unions and workers clubs partici- pating, including the Needle Trades Industrial Union, Marine Workers Industrial Union, etc. The cemmittee has launched a fight against the savage sentence of three years imposed on Hagopa by Judge Corrigan in General Sessions Court on March 28, Hagopa was framed on a charge of felonious as- sault by police who broke up a demonstration of needle trades workers at 7th Ave. and 29th St., on July 5, 1933. Corrigan openly declared his intention of making an example of Hagopa as a blow against workers and their organiza- tions protesting the frame-up. The committee announced that funds and 50,000 signatures must be obtained within the next week to enable the filing of an appeal against the sentence, | The Scene Changes HE slapdashing Jimmy Foxx, last year’s home run king, crashes the public eye quiet regularly these days—even more than that story-provokin ix Casey Stengel. There’s something of an art about getting this free pub- | licity. All you’ve-got to hav e is a name, then you begin acting some kind of part, then you pose like a champion— either as a shy, retreating, afraid-to-talk athlete, or a bom- |bastic, know-it-all, | great sort of individual. Any- way, you can’t keep from pulling the belly laughs, in sym-/} | pathetic forms, for the big shot, or} you can't stop from identifying | yourself with the modest athlete | whose tradition is already estab-| lished. | | In particular, I refer to Babe | Ruth, Jimmy Foxx and the Great| | Art Shires, There’s a definite trend | |of psychology involved which) | changes the attitude of champions| |to his public and vice versa. And| |in the least common denominator, the thing always has its cause in that well-known dollar bill—since| athletes are considered products of @ society that exploits their ser- vices. HERE used to be a time when the athlete couldn’t afford to be conceited. If he let the world know how good he was by blow- ing his mouth off, he was so heckled and booed that he was considered an unpopular champ- ion. Talking doesn’t go so big with the crowd. Neither does it go so big with the pocketbook. All he had to do was act. So the champ shows the fans how good he is by his performances. only, and in conversations he says, “I’m not conceited or anything. But, between you and me, I don’t have te kid myself, because I know what I can do and I’m better than that ham,” but all in the strictest | confidence. And when he sees a sympathetic nod from his listener, he’s usually led on to more braga- dacio. Now, I don’t know who started it; but if a champion doesn’t say} right out loud with bellowing brawn} how good he is, the public doesn’t think he’s any good. So the new) act begins, All these guys are Bar-| rymores in the making, if you only) give them a chance. es THINK the start was with the fighters. You remember, before each championship fight, each fighter tells the fans through the press, in toughed-up lingo, that he’s gonna knock the other palooka out or his name ain't Kayo Something or Hammerlock Nothing, the guy who can count up to ten all day and bang his head up against the) wall to condition himself for his} fist, connections. “If I can stand that, I can catch anything,” they say. Well, Jack Sharkey pulled this bravo act a little too soon, The fans weren't prepared for it. He became the unpopular champion of the world. Dempsey was still the apple of the fans’ eye, the guy who patted kiddies heads and fought for milk charity funds for the dainty sums running into hundreds of thousands of dollars. He wasn’t conceited, Jack Dempsey wasn’t. He was some great guy. That’s what everybody said and thought. Then came the Great Art Shires —the guy who climbed up on the American bandwagon and who be- gan beating bass drums with sledgehammers so that he deaf- ened the ears of the populace. He fought his way into stardom, cracking up umpires, managers, I’m-the-® | Foxx, comes to the fore, ete. And the fines he incurred amounted to nothing compared to the moncy he coined in on the publicity of being known as the Not of the Country. The bad boy of the big leagues had intermit- tant spasms of goodness and un- controlied badness. He was an interesting phenomenon of what money athletics produced. In the meantime, the mighty Babe Ruth kept pounding the turf sludgily and clouting the leather covered pill to the skies and still kept his modest, big-hearted ap- proach. He was loved; but he was getting old and his name fell from $75,000 a year to $35,000 a year. He doesn’t have the appeal any longer, ‘The veins seem to be ‘hardening. * UT now the new rip-roaring sen- sation of the diamond, Jimmy First he was a holdout, saying if the Babe |was worth $35,000 ‘a year, he was worth at least a few grand more, So he wound up with a sliding seale contract ranging from $15,000 to $25,000, depending upon how the gate receipts roll in. HeTl have to do some mighty counting and roar- ing to pull ’em in this year to get his top price. I predict, he’ wind up with fifteen grand. Lately, he hears that the Babe said he won’t knock his last year’s number of 45 balls over the fence. ‘Tl biff ‘em to the count of 61!” he yells. “When Babe Ruth pre- dicts Tl be lucky to hit 45 home runs this season, it proves to me that as a prophet the Babe is just another right fielder.” Then he goes on to tell how he’s going to smash all records; he’s to be the biggest, greatest, most mar- velous four-base runner the world has ever seen, pessir. Kaytee A.C. Wins Kast’n District L. §. U. Title NEW YORK.—Playing two fast games in succession, the Kaytee A. C. successfully defended their last, year's title when they eliminated the Tremont Progressives in the semi-final round of the Eastern District Labor Sports Union basket- ball tournament and beat the Cal- vert A. ©. for the 1934 champion- ship. The Brooklyn L. 8. U, club will now represent the Bastern District in the Eastern regional play-offs with the New England champions next Friday night at Kaytee Hall, for the right to meet the Western champions later in the month for the national title. In the first game, Kaytee beat the Tremont Progressives in a | closely fought’ game, 26 to 21, and in the final game Kaytee handed the Calverts a decisive trimming when they totaled 21 points against the Calverts’ nine, DAILY WORKER A. A. All those interested in the Daily Worker Athletic Association, which was mentioned in Monday’s sport column, should write or phone the sports editor, Sam Ross, care of the bast Worker. Phone is ALgonquin - 7954, Urge Hackmen To Spike S. P. Move (Continued trom Page 1) of Lb. where the leaders will bind them to the Roosevelt-Green strike- breaking pact, which was effective in halting the auto strike.” “The hackmen must vote against such a scheme,” said Gilbert. “To allow Thomas and Panken to herd a section of the drivers into the A. F. of L., the leaders of which fought against our strikes, would be a decided defeat for the driv- ers,’ Gilbert pointed out how during the recent strike, leaders of the A. F. of L. had delegations of taxi drivers thrown from the local union meetings when they came to ask for support of the strike. “They called our strike an outlaw strike,” said Gilbert. “Now the So- cialists want to induce the men to accept these open enemies of our struggles as leaders of the hack- met” “I think the taxi drivers in Brook- lyn and Bronx will not be tricked into voting for a resolution that would split our union and weaken our fight for union recognition and union conditions. All drivers should repudiate this attempt of the So- cialist leaders to divide us on the basis of political opmions and af- filiations.” “Gilbert concluded by urging hackmen in the Bronx and Brook- ly tan and to build up a strong inde- pendent Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York on the basis of democratically elected garage oom- mittees. Passes for Soviet Ship No LongerTo Be Issued NEW YORK.—Am-Derutra, Sov- jet trading corporation, issued a statement yesterday to all those in- terested in visiting the Soviet ship, “Kim,” saying in part: “Due to the great. number of visitors desiring to see the ‘Kim,’ it is impossible to issue passes any longer. All those who planned to visit the ship are so advised.” PHOTOS...of the better kind AT REDUCED PRICES BLUE BIRD STUDIOS . 1595 PITKIN BROOKLYN, qT @ Wednesday, WALTER April 1ith, 8P.M. PROGRAM: and other e Al Gat ae -. Farewell Celebration of the American Building les Workers Group leaving to work and .settle in the Soviet Union! American, Negro, German, Italian and Jewish Workers are in the Group. JAMES FORD—Communist Party of Harlem SIDNEY LEROY—Friends of Soviet Union SARAH RICE—Chairman Concert, Mass Singing, Revolutionary Dances, Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St. | Admission 350; With this Ad 250 a All proceeds go for machines, tools and materials | to be taken along by the Group, AVENUE, Near AMBOY STREET N. Y. — Phone DICKENS 2-1006 : gee! E. LOHE—Organizer of Group entertainment.