The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1934, Page 2

"call yesterday te all Delegation to Hit Forcing of Orphans Into War Parade Band of Hebrew Orphan Asylum Was Ordered to March Saturday NEW YORK.—A the fore delegation pro- ng of the band of Orphan in the Army Day parade 1 stituti before th the Hebrew y James the rman of ican and Fascism, of t Young ‘redwell Smith, and ve of the National r the Defense of Po- and Amsterdam a petition protesting forced to parade in “a ration.” They to the head on who threatened to who objected to mar: out of the home. Af of bulldozing he fi in having the band The children have informed the rican League Against War and Fascism that had they known that they v id get outside support they ick to their guns. will demand the right of the students to carry out © oppose war and w aod will urge the direc anti-war discussions and the Asylum. Workers, Grocers In Norwalk Support to per’ forums at Rubber Mill Strike NORWALK, Conn., April 11 h the strike in its third day, all workers of the Norwalk Rubber Oo. are out, under the leadership of the N alk Rubber Workers’ In- dustrial Union. The strikers are Stopping all trucks. Workers in other factories are re- sponding to the appeal for funds to help the rubber strikers. Grocers are supplying coffee and sand- wiches to the pickets. Rumors are going around that Mr. of L. here, is negotiating with the bosses behind the backs of the strikers. With police escorting them into the plant, only five scabs are, working. Negro, white workers and women in united ranks are on the picket lines. Meetings are being held out- doors near the factory, because of the distance of the plant from town. The strikers are demanding a 30 per cent increase in wages, no dis- crimination against workers for union activity and the reinstate- ment of workers who were fired by the company. Additional demands are for no discrimination against Negroes, a seven-man gang in the curing room, recognition of the shop committee and the Norwalk Rubber Workers’ Industrial Union, which is leading the strike. Workers Rally for Nefense ofUnionSa. For May Ist Meet (Continued from Page 1) A. F. of L. to send delegates to the United Front May Day Con- ference this Saturday noon was issued by the A. F. of L. Commit- tee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, 1 Union Sq. The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union issued a call during the day to all needie trades workers, organized and unorganized, mem- bers of the Industrial Union or not, to support the United Front May Day Conference this Saturday and to join the May Day United Front Parade to Union Sq. The union has Within its ranks over 20,000 New| York workers. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League called on all veterans to join the march. The United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, with 9,000 members in the New York District, declared they will march on to Union Sq. under the banner of the United Front Against Fascism and War. The Furniture Workers Union, the Marine Workers Industrial Union, the metal workers and others also expressed their support of the plans of the United Front May Day Arrangements Committee. ere NEW YORK. — Andrew Over- gaard, secretary of the Trade Union Unity Council, issued a last minute unions and shop groups to support the United Front May Day Conference, to be held thiis Saturday, at 1 p.m. at Webster Hall, 119 BE. 11th St. In a small rear room of the T. U. U. C. offices, Overgaard, interviewed workers who came to him with their shop problems. “It is against, all of the existing rottennéss that Workers wilil flood the New York Streets this May First,” stated Overgaard, for many years a leader of workers’ struggles. “The United Front May Day Committee has pledged to bring 200,000 workers onto the streets this May Day. We will bring over 100,000 of these workers to the march, un- der their own banners, and carry- ing their own demands,” declared the secretary of the T.U.U.C. He urged all affiliiated organiza- | tions to elect delegates immediately and to carry on agitation in the Egan, secretary of the A. F.| Engineering Workers Strike in New York To Reinstate Werker NEW YORK. — Righty-five workers of the Teleradrive En- eering Corp., 59 Wooster St., walked out on strike yesterday inder the leadership of In- dependent Radio and Metal Workers Union. The strike grew out of the fir- ing of one union man, Dan Mul- lat, The strikers are demanding ment of this worker recognition and better vices and sanitary con- Strike headquarters h t up at 107 Mac! The bosses are alread to break the strike by trotting in the N.R.A. A strike committee slected prior to the strike hi self as the leader of “Share the Work” Pay Cut in Mines Is Perkins’ Plan (Continued from Page 1) the reinst union but it is better e Labor Sec- retary declared. She admitted that it means a lower weekly wage for the miners now employed. Lewis Agrees to Wage Cut John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America, against whose orders the Pennsyl- vania miners struck last August, and a member of the strike-breaking National Labor Board an nosed to the special report, Miss Perkins told the press. "T take it that it’s a good guess that Mr. Lewis is not opposed to this share-the-work plan?” a re- porter asked. “My impression is that he is not opposed to this equalization plan,” the Secretary of Labor replied. Secretary Perkins declared that she has sent the committee report to N. R, A. Administrator General Hugh S. Johnson with the request that he consider its recommenda- tions for inclusion in the anthra- cite code. Members of the committee, ap- pointed according to the Depart- ment of Labor “upon the request of leading citizens in the affected area,” were: Dr. Carter Goodrich, of Columbia University, chairman; Hugh 8. Hanna, of the Bureau of Mediation of the Labor Department, and David J. Price, of the Agricul- tural Department. Miss Van Kleeck, whose recent re- port in the bituminous coal indus- try is appearing under the title, “Miners and management,” dis- is not | ommendations in an interview with your correspondent. She said: “This is just another effort to force the miners to bear the burden of the exploitation of the non- restorable natural resource, coal Equalization is not a word which | the miners use. It’s very evidently super-imposed upon them. This brings out once again that control- | ling elements are railroads, the steel industry and industrial buyers who control as a raw material and hence | wish to keep its conditions disor- | ganized. | Dodge Unemployment Insurance | “The ‘remedy’ is a new | way of dodging the absoluté neces- sity for real unemployment insur- ance funds for miners, with no con- tribution from the miners but with ‘the unemployment insurance fund to be borne by industry and the gov- jernment. Such a method would be | the only genuine relief in this situ- ation. “If Johh L. Lewis approves of this share-the-work plan it’s another il- |lustration of his readiness to call upon the miners to make sacrifices insteed of resisting the continual demands made upon them to suffer from the results of the failure of the coal operators to manage the industry.” | The “equalization” or share-the- | work plan was first proposed to her | by a local committee of “editors, | Workers,” Miss Perkins explained. | “It was a general group rather than | @ group of miners,” she added when | questioned further. “Was John L. Lewis consulted?” |@ reporter asked. | “No, but we've consulted him since,” Miss Perkins smiled back. Workers Must Pay Miss Perkins’ official release given cut during the press conference, de- clared that the commiétee believes |that “an insurance fund should have joint management and joint contributions, uniform standards and benefits throughout the indus- try and a fairly long waiting period.” | The committee, proposing a strike- | breaking, compulsory arbitration | board, suggested that the “anthra- | cite code should lay down the gen- eral principle of the equalization of working time and that a joint board | under disinterested chairmanship should be empowered to make ex- ceptions from its strict application where they were justified by sub- | stantial differences in the costs of operation of the market ability of |the product. In such cases, the |board should work out with the |operators and miners alternative | methods of sharing employment and | should have power, where necessary, |to compel their acceptance. Such | program would. of course, require j | adjustments, inconveniences, and sacrifices on the part of both the men and the companies; but we do not believe that the difficulties are insuperable . . .” Miss Van Kleeck, who recently testified before the House Committee on Labor in favor of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill (H. R. 7598), informed the Daily Worker that she suspects that this Perkins committee plan is in- tended as a method of bringing in non-union men into the anthracite field. | The area covered by the special report is operated and owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and thops to “down tools” on May Day. | Iron Company : GQ Ft Vv bankers, business men and some | Students To Hit | War Tomorrow in Nationwide Strike Plan Demonstrations in Schools Throughout the Country (Continued from Page 1) cism In an attempt to stifle the move- ment at Hunter C , President Colligan, who received his appoint— ment because of Tammany connec- tions, has forbidden the students the ht to finish thelr anti-war erence, two sessions of which iy been held. At the session the question of per- ent organization, as well as ion to the American League were to be discussed Incensed at this militarist move, the students at Hunter College col- lected 3,000 signatures to a petition in a few hours. They are demand- ing the right to finish their con- ference, which struck deep roots at the school Five colleges in California, in- cluding the University of Califor- nia, the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles Junior College, will take part in the strike leg Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Md. will also strike at 11. | A mass anti-war meeting on April 13, to be followed the next day by an anti-war conference, will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Students at Ohio State Univer- sity, where seven were recently ex- pelled for opposing R.O.T.C. drill, will also strike tomorrow. At Missouri State University, there will be a state-wide anti-war |eonference, April 14 and 15, under | the auspices of the Social Problems | Club, and supported by the Youth| | Section of the League Against War) }and Fascism. This conference will |also be called on to take up the} fight for the reinstatement of Eu-| gene Ringo, recently objecting to R.O.T.C. drill. bia University, City College, Brook lyn College, Long Island University New York Universi expelled for|new names of members of the New | York State Legislature in addition New York, students of Colum-| © that of Warren T. Thayer were | raat aated ee ages Ny : | today revealed to be intimately con- | fleecing DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1934 GUTTERS OF NEW YORK ‘Mayor‘ La Guardia in a radio speech reviewed the ac- men want an independent union complishments of his first 100 days in 4 More State Legislators office.” —NEWS ITEM. In Pay of Power Interests Widespread Tie-Up of Utilities and Legislature Revealed in Disclosure of New Letters WASHINGTON, April 11,— Four | | ected with the utilities’ interests. College, Clinton High School, Lin-|blyman D. Mallory Stephens, mem- coln High School, will strike at 11| ber of the Public Service Commit- a. m. Priday, and the students of New Lots Evening School, Brook- | lyn, will strike during the third and | fourth periods at night. At City College, Norman Tallen— | tire, Secretary of the New York City | Central Committee of the League, | will address a mass meeting at 11! ‘am. Friday in Great Hall. | 2 mass anti-war meeting in Room | 309, Havemeyer Hall, at 8 p.m. to- | night. In Clinton, High, Bronx, there will be a mass meeting at 2 p.m. today in the school auditorium in preparation for the strike. | In Lincoln High, where a student) conference last’ week voted strike, | the principal decided to stop all) classes at the strike period and turn | }them over to a discussion of the war danger. | | At New Lots Evening High, where | the Students’ General Organization | voted strike, the principal arranged for a C. W. A. concert during the strike period. The students have | been called on to boycott the con- | cert, and to rally in a mass anti- | war meeting outside the school dur- | |ing the strike period. ‘Strike of 5,000 Auto Tool, Die Makers. Looms in Detroit. | (Continued from Page 1) | | Manufacturing, turning over mem- | bership lists to them. Smith, in ad- | dition ot putting a blacklist club in the hands of the manufacturers. | is also trying to split the tool and diemakers’ ranks by arriving at a separate agreement with the big | shops. Continue Picketing Militant picketing continued to- | day at the Detroit Michigan Stove | Co. The strikers were undaunted | despite yesterday's vicious clubbing, which resulted in serious injuries | to several pickets and arrest of | three. The company is trying to operate with a small force of scabs; | and there are elso indications it is preparing to bring in the A, F. of L. leadership which had a small number of members in the shop at the start of the strike. The over- | whelming majority are organized in the M. E. 8. A. The Midland Steel workers, who are organized in the M. E. S. A, with militants in the leadership, voted last night to accept the terms conditionally. John Anderson, fight- ing organizer of Local 7 of the M. E. S. A. issued the following state- ment today: “The Midland employees are not satisfied with the offer made by the) company. However, they will accepti| | the offer until April 15. They set} | that date in order to give the com-| | pany officials an opportunity to ad- | Just. piece work rates.” Only Non-Production Workers The offer of the company in-| | cluded only non-production work- jers, and this includes tool and die-| makers, who are seeking a 20 per cent raise, as are the other Midland workers. At a mass meeting last night at A. B. C. Hall, which was attended by nearly 500 Midland workers, it was decided the offer was not enough to satisfy the demands of the workers, but would be accept- able conditionally until the piece- work rates were set. | If these rates are not satisfac- |tory, then a strike vote will be | taken. i Monday night, at which the agree-/ y At Columbia, Professor Margaret | cussed the Perkins committee rec-| Schlauch of the League will address | | units, Fisher Body and Ternstedt | | | Purther details of the meeting} strike began Saturday. | pressed their satisfaction with I. L. tee; Senator Walter W. Westall of White Plains; Senator Henry D.} Williams and Assemblyman Willis | Sargent, These legislators, put into office | Minneapolis CWA. Workers Face Hostile Court Communist Party Holds | Six Mass Meetings for the Release of 37 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 11, —Disorderly conduct charges were lodged against all the arrested workers who formed the workers’ | delegation and those who were| seized by the police at the Priday demonstration of C. W. A. and job- less. The charges would undoubt- edly been more serious but for the mass demands of the workers for their release. Chief of Police Johannes is attempting to prove that some of the workers hurled missles at the police, and indicated that he would file assault charges. In addition to those who were arrested as they left the City Hall, the police arrested six men and one | woman “suspected of having a part in the demonstration.” The arrested workers have ex- D. defense, conducted by David) Levin§on with the aid of local at-| torneys. The Communist Party, in issuing 25,000 leaflets, is calling six mass meetings in the city, at which some of the arrested workers who have been released on bail will| speak, The demonstration on Friday forced the City Council to grant all the demands of the workers for continuation of C. W. A. at C. W. A. pay, and for an immediate 40 per cent increase in relief. | slightly | electric charges in the state. by the corrupt political parties with | the backing of the power trust which they faithfully served while the masses of workers jfooled into voting for them, are| joining the A. F. of L. It will keep Seth Low| The names were those of Assem- | only part of the entire grafting line- up which serves America’s bosses in| every city and state in the country. One of the exposed men, Assem- blyman Stephens, wrote to an offi- | cial of the Associated Gas and Elec- | tric Co. in 1927: ‘T have the assurance of the chairman of the Labor Committee that this bill will be killed in com- mittee. You may rest assured that I will do all in my power to fulfill your wishes in the matter.” These words, so similar to those of Senator Thayer's, were written in answer to the official's request that he work against the passage of the bill, which might have reduced the exorbitant gas and Thayer, it will be recalled, wrote to the same company in 1927: “I hope that my work during the past session was satisfactory te your company.” Although these letters were read into the records of the Federal Trade Commission, it was revealed that the originals had been des- troyed several years ago, To Install Officials Of Shoe Union Tonight NEW YORK.—A mass meeting of all members of the United Shoe and | Leather Workers Union, where the newly elected officials will be in- stalled, will be held at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl. at 5:30 p.m, Included in the agenda is a report of the Election-Objection Commit- tee and a report of the outgoing | Finance Committee. DRESS SHOP MEETING AT NEEDLE TRADES UNION NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union is calling an important meeting of dress shop chairmen, shop committees and ac- tive members. The meeting will be held in the office of the union, 131 W. 28th St., fourth floor, tonight, right after work. ment ending the Motor Products strike was “accepted” by workers, have been learned by your corre- spondént. Workers. had been called to the meeting at 4 p.m. in Amity Temple. But at 6 the meeting was suddenly called in Germania Hall. The workers were divided up, with the result that only about 250 were at Germania Hall. William Col- lins, A. F. of L. organizer, pre- sented the settlement terms, and then assistant secretary of labor, McGrady, spoke, using the name of President Roosevelt to bludgeon the workers into accepting them. Following this, A. F. of L. organ- izer Lewis, sent from Washington, made a motion to accept. Several workers tried to get the floor, but were shut off, and the motion rail- roaded through. The Auto Workers’ Union calls on the Motor Products workers to fight any attempt to whittle down the 10 per cent wage increase granted in the settlement, and to organize a rank and file movement in the A. F. of L. local to prevent further sellout by their leaders and the automobile labor board. o, cee Auto Foundry Men Win Raise DETROIT, Mich. April 11—The press here reports the strike of 2,000 workers of the Campbell Wyant and Cannon of Muskegon, Michigan, manufactur- ing motor castings, was settled, and the men are returning to work this morning. They report an in- crease in pay won tn the base rates, from 44 to 50 cents an hour, The The strike wave is growing in the Canadian auto industry, centered in the border cities across the river from Detroit. Following the suc- cessful conclusion of the auto Specialties strike, about 60 workers in two shops of the Windsor Bed- ding Co., in Windsor, manufactur- ing chiefly upholstery for cars, on Saturday won a 100 per cent vic- tory after a two-day walkout, Settlement terms include 40 to 65 per cent wage increase, with a 35- cent an- hour minimum for girls, and 40 cents for men; recognition of the shop committee; eight-hour day; time and a half for overtime. Friday, 125 workers of the Cana- dian Motor Lamp Co., East Wind- sor, struck, demanding 40 per cant wage increases; eight-hour day; time and a half for overtime; rec- ognition of the shop committee; abolition of the bonus system. The workers have been getting 25 to 35 cents an hour, and working 12 to 16 hours a day. Z The Canadian auto strikes are being led by the militant Auto Workers’ Union, affiliated with the Workers’ Unity League. The Auto Workers’ Union has learned that the Hall Lamp Co. of Detroit has received an order for 2,000 lamps from the Canadian Motor Lamp Co. The union has issued a leaflet to Detroit workers to refuse to work on scab lamps. The Auto Workers’ Union of Detroit has endorsed the leaflet. The Canadian Auto Workers’ making efforts to spread the strike moyement to big factories owned largely by American companies. * | NOTICE! A special meeting of all Food |{ Workers, employed and unem- ployed members of the Party and Y.C.L., will be held Friday, April 13, 8 p.m., Workers Center, 50 E. |] 13th St., Room 205. The question of the Indepen- dent Federation of Labor will be discussed and it is of utmost im- || portance for every Party and |] ¥.C.L. member to be present, \{ Bring your book with you. District Org. Department. ‘TaxiUnion Will Not Affiliate With AFL, ‘Says Samuel Orner (Continued from Page 1) |or approval of the members of the | |Taxicab Drivers’ Union. “Meetings were called in the/| Bronx and Brooklyn for the pur-| Pose of voting on this question. The meetings have been packed with | members of the Socialist Party and | Young People’s Socialist League and |the vote has been railroad through | without permitting any discussion | of the rank and file present. Manny | Silver, well known hackman, who | had the courage to get up and state |his opposition to the move, was | beaten up and arrested on the or- |ders of Smith and Most in the Bronx. Opposition to the A. F, of |L. extends throughout the ranks of the Taxicab Drivers Union. The under their own control. “The move made by Mr. Most, | Goldstein and Smith is a move to |split the union, a step which they did not succeed in achieving during the strike. The hatred of the men| for the A. F, of L. is based on the | sell-out policies of the A. F. of L.| jin past strikes, especially the be- |trayal in the strike of the Phila-| | delphia Taxicab Drivers. At no time has the A. F. of L. stepped forward |to help our cause and has even |denounced our strike as an ‘outlaw | strike” A. F. of L. officials have ordered delegations of our strikers |out of their. union quarters when they came to ask for relief for their strike.” Orner declared further that the | membership of the Taxicab Drivers’ Union will not be stampeded into its ranks intact against any betray- ers within its ranks and will strug- jgle to maintain its independent union under rank and file control, Garage Chairmen To Meet To take up the question of the attempts of the Socialist leaders to split the union, a garage chairmen’s meeting has been called by the Manhattan local of the union to- day at 323 W. 38th St. A mass meeting of all hackmen Will be held at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, on Fri- day, where Samuel Orner, president of the Manhattan local, and Joseph Gilbert, organizer, will report. Here the hackmen will be permitted to voice their opinion on the attempt of the Socialist leaders and Mr.} Smith and Mr, Goldstein to split | the union, At a meeting held at Hunts Point Palace in the Bronx, Tuesday, un- der the auspices of the leaders of the Bronx local, it was revealed that the plan of the Socialist lead- ers to affiliate the Bronx and Brook- lyn sections to the American Feder- ation of Labor had run into a snag. Amicus Most, who was chairman of the meeting, inferred that the question of affiliation with the A. F. of L. revolved around the willing- ness of the men to pay the $2 a month dues required by the A. F. of L. leaders. He reported that the A. F. of L. leaders had given him a six-months time extension for the drivers to think the matter over. Samuel Orner, who was permit- ted to attend the meeting after a number of rank and file hackmen demanded that he be admitted, was not permitted to take the floor and | speak against the proposal of the | Socialist leaders to split the unic and herd a section of them into the A. F. of L. under the corrupt leader- ship of William Green, who recently betrayed the auto workers’ plan to strike by placing company unions on the same basis as trade unions of the workers. One after another leaders of the Socialist Party; none of whom were hackmen, were introduced and spoke. But Orner, the outstanding leader of the strike, was not allowed | to say a word about the plan. “Don’t forget, they were afraid to give me the floor!” shouted Orner, as Amicus Most hurriedly adjourned the meeting after three-quarters of the 400 present, many of whom were not taxi drivers, voted in favor of affiliating with the A. F. of L. |The meeting was packed with members of the Socialist Party and the Young Peoples Socialist League Some Final Touches York City and spots north by north by west. The sport that occupies cage titles. only championship teams in the running. The Atlas A. C., which won the Upper Michigan basketball title, went down to Chicago for the Mid- | west regional play-offs. They were defeated by a bunch'who tucked away the national trophy last year —the Roseland Sparks. This same team will again defend its title| April 17 right hére in New York at the Kaytee gym. The strong Kaytee quintet, which bowled over all opposition in the Eastern District, is faced with the task of hurdling the only obstacle | in the way—the New England dis- | triet champions. Or maybe I should put it the other way around. At| the most, only one team will re- main to finish off the workers’ cage | tournament following the night of | the 13th, when both teams play for the regional title. | Both games will be played at the Kaytee gym in Brooklyn, 764 40th! Street, on Friday, April 13,| and Tuesday, April 17, respectively. | Me for both those games, to see what worker basketball players have | in 'em. TI venture to say I'll get as! much kick out of covering the games as I did during the Rennais- sance-All-Star game, although the playing won't be quite as skillful.! That's a thing that has to be de-| veloped. And, in the near future, | with keener competition and added | interest by workers in sports, we'll see better teams walk out on the hardwood floors. But, even at present, it’s always a thrill to watch two closely matched labor sports| quintets battle it out for honors, | + 8 « POLtOMENS: the final cage tilt | will be the Eastern district | boxing tournament, which will be _ held on Saturday night, April 14, at the Labor Sports Union build- ing, 114 W. 14th St. T remember that all the fighters at the Golden Gloves matches were workers. Here we'll also have workers. No | doubt we'll see some fine bouts staged in the various divisions. | We'll see in action flyweights, | bantamweights, lightweights, wel- terweights, middleweights and heavyweights. We expect to see "HE Labor Sports Union has been going through some rapid paces these past few weeks, both around New east and beeline out west and the attention of the worker sportsmen at present is the district, regional and national Now the final touches of a tournament season are being plastered on, with *— ers at these bouts, reacting and responding to those workers who will participate. In the near future, in this sport phase, we'll also see the change of inactive watching to active participation. we nO AND on the 28th of April at the Church of All Nations, the Eastern district L. S. U. will end their indoor season with a swim- ming meet. Men, women and juniors (under 16 years of age) wili be splashing and gurgling and swinging their arms throngh and above the water for the title in respective events. There will be relays and individual events. All L. 8. U. clubs should enter the contest in full force for this meet to make it a banging success, You don’t have to be a champion. All you have to be able to do is to tear off a 40-yard dash, backstroke, breaststroke or crawl, or, if you oan swim longer distances, enter those, And the spectators can help out in the fun, because they'll be al- lowed to participate in their well- known exercise. Dancing will fol- low the cage games and swimming will follow the swimming meet. Meet the basketball champions on the hardwood floor the nights of the 13th and the 17th. Meet the swimming champs in the pool en the night of the 28th. Metropolitan Worker Soccermen Hold Dance NEW YORK.—At the last council meeting of the Metropolitan Workers Soccer League, held Monday night, a committee was elected for the pur- pose of carrying on a campaign to raise money for the sending of a delegation of soccer players to Paris to participate in the International ports.Congress Against War and ‘ascism. The Congress will be heid | August 11 to 15. The League is holding a, ball Sat. April 14, at the Hinsdale Work- ers Club in Brooklyn. They urge all workers to support their campaign for the sending of a large delegation of worker sportsmen to the sports congress. Tickets can be obtained at their headquarters at 114 West 14th St., or at Labor Sports Union clubs. Grand Jury on Taxi Hearing Lays Basis For Police Attacks NEW YORK—The March Grand Jury, meeting on the taxi “riots,” completely exonerated the New York police for their brutality in clubbing the taxi drivers, and laid the basis for continued police at- tacks upon the workers. The indictment handed down to Judge Freschi of General Sessions Court, after whitewashing the po- lice, says: “It should be made clear that the necessary police action should be taken promptly wherever necessary; that no parade, proces- sion or groups of marchers should be allowed without a permit and proper escort, and we suggest that all assemblies of workers be con- fined to certain localities, and that no permits for marching except to and from such localities be issued.” In giving the keynote for a bloody suppression of all workers, the indictment, specially for the at- tention of Police Commissioner O'Ryan and Mayor LaGuardia, states: “Life is never safe where property is attacked.” Declare Strike in Goldman Shop NEW YORK.—The Dress Depart- ment of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has declared a strike against the jobber, Goldman Frock of 1384 Broadway, who, to- gether with the International mis- leaders were responsible for lockout of the workers of the Bon Ton Dress and the Puritan Dress, both of them and members of the Dutch Schultz gang, former beer runners. as “respectable and militant’ folk. SSR RES Free Medical Examinations jaturday, April 14, at 10 am, at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl., the Workers International Re- lief reported yesterday. ‘ Joseph Gilbert, a leader of the recent taxi strike, will address the parents, and the children will see movies, skits and other entertain- amined. FUR DYERS MEETING TO NOMINATE ORGANIZERS ‘The fur dyers, members of the Fur Dressers and Dyers Union are salled to a special meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m., in Manhattan Lyceum, nomination for members are urged to important meeting, Lauding the move to split the|all its active members, as well as union was Matthew Levy, Judge| members of the International to Panken’s associate, who admitted| help win this strike, which is a that he was against the general | strike for union conditions. In every strike, and August Classen, Social-| case where the International has ist leader, who hailed the leaders of | Succeeded in taking over shops from the American Federation of Labor | the Industrial Union it always re- members are called to a very im- A free medical examination of taxi drivers’ children will be held|Portant meeting which will take ment, and receive refreshments} NEW YORK—A meting of all while awaiting their turn to be ex- Singer and Merrow knitgoods op- 66 East Fourth St. At this meeting,| apartment house superintendents the question of the baeaitlaee aa oo ee bi me pina tic growing is be taken up, as well as| up qui mn a Rae pea soe Beier Tahniers All| cuts threatened when steam heat is attend this| cut off, will be held tonight at 1472 contractors for the Goldman Frock. The Industrial Union calls upon sulted in the worsening of condi-/ tions. - All shop chairmen and active place today, Thursday, right after work, in the ofice of the union, 131 West 28th St., where plans for mo- bilizing the entire membership against the present attacks on the part of the bosses to reduce prices, will be taken up. _ KNITGOODS MEET TONIGHT erators, button sewers and workers on all kinds of special machines will meet tonight at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, BRONX JANITORS MEET TONIGHT NEW YORK.—A mass meeting of Boston Rd. Women Needle Workers Meeting; Plan To Send Group To Washington NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Womens Action Committee is call- ing a very important meeting of ac- tive members of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union at 7:30 tonight in the Union Auditorium, 131 West 28th St. To this meeting we are inviting ali delegates from shops and women’s organizations who were present at the Needle Trades Womens Conference last March 10 and also all who were elected on the delegation to Wash- ington. Two important questions will be taken up: 1. Sending of a delegation to Washington. 2. Mo- bilization of women workers for May First demonstration, DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-2012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M,, 1-2, 6-3 P.M NICHOLAS AVE* 1690 LEXINGTON AVE, 79! ST.KY. ak 1061 STAY DR. EMIL EICHEL \ DENTIST 150 E, 93rd St. New York City Cor. Lexington Ave. ATwater 9-8838 Hours: 9 a. m. to 8 p, m. 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