The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1934, Page 2

Page Two Miners Strike Two Large Ala. Mines; Demand Pay Raise Demand 50 Per Cent Picketing Is Effective in Face of Sheriff's Armed Thugs Special to Daily Worker.) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April Farley Forced To Rescind March 2nd Post Office Pay Cut WASHINGTO! the n D. .000 Workers in Otis Steel Ready to Act Pay Raise; Alarm A, A. Misleaders | AL. BARRY ND, April 15.—The 5,000 steel workers in the Otis Steel are for for action, not only the boss, but against the} fakers who have held them from action. By DAILY WORKER, NEW Y GUTTERS OF NEW Y¢ cceler 4 oxo 3 cr ndo \) if LN | ORK, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1 934 RK By del 300 Police at | KF Factory Guard Scabs Strikers Form Militant Picket Lines, Turn | | Many Back PHILADELPHIA, April 15.—The| entire police force all districts north of Ridge Ave. has been as- signed to strike-breaking duty at | and Erie, 900 of whose workers have ball cha been carrying on a militant strike Play by Play in the Regional Cage Match LASHING bursts of a powerhouse offensive drive and & vicelike defense, the Kaytee A. C. ran over the Norwood the SKF Ball-bearing plent at Front) Yritys, 38 to 28, to win the Eastern L. S. U. regional basket- mpionship. The New York team, who went through tutes, who had even previously |! For the last three weeks the talk| | arriving at the plant and with the)a bang in the first few seconds of Two large captive mines of the pow-|| tions of the post of here is a local of the Amal- | for almost a month under the lead-|@ long undefeated season, had things their own way f a eee ee Sas re ee tutes throughout the country, || samated oe a (A. F nue | ership of the Anti-Friction Bearing| throughout most of the game and at no time were they & ‘oad rporati subsidiary of st - + f steel union) here with severa un- , * te Fi U. 8. Steel, joined the Alabama mine tg peg ty dha Roser ored attending rhestines. ‘Tha AA | Workers’ Union. __ | headed. Adams tapped the attack with a total of 11 mark- EB strike for equa h the North. |] 21 “Davless furloughs, deferred || leaders are a bit alarmed because |, Three hundred cops are Uggla ers before the final whistle¢-————------—— @ = The oO are Wylam Pt onus 4G the || the workers don’t pay dues. When! ling ‘the sidewalks in front of the! : . : ; jthe far end of the court and made No. 8 the water mine Aci ye det a the lithe leaders ask the workers why |plant, and numerous motoreycle|blew, whjle Lindfors of the), side shot. Sipula, a newcomer This is the first strike in the Ten- |] CUr@ilment of Post on || they don’t pay dues the workers| | Squads are keeping everybody off the) New England team dogged| into the game for Kaytee, batted nessee Coal since 1921 Maron 2. practically eliminated || OPenly-answer, “We will pay dues | Streets within a radius of six! closely with 10 points. Jone in under the net. V. Heikkila : Despite the fact that Sheriff || an jobs fo st office substi- || When we see that you are fighting | blocks from th plant. In addition, The: stunt tet started with | SM0t ® short and a free throw be- 5 has deputized 150 to a pe ea ac ithe a for us.” | two cops convoy every trolley car) ry ee eee ‘ fore Adams concluded the point, 3 | sig eas e. : Pent ae been earning only a bare sub- ||, . been that the A. A. leaders who help of a motor squad escort scabs; Play, when Hoffman rolled a shark | Une ee Bog pee Kay. tier : “ sistence. “ h will be A into the plant in the morning and|one through the net. Heino fol-} fective Post office substitutes ted || 8% coming, from Pittsburgh will be fae R Bari on ele B and) ‘owed for the Yritys’ with @ long| tee Before the final whistle blew. Conditions in the Wylam mine, iasiet ree 4 € 2 ~ || thrown out o: e window. e| " 3 3 8. | Lepaaasttivn let " ied * * bd 2,700 miners, are ap- Sea bi go pace coined local leaders have become alarmed) R ISLE Up to Tuesday, scabs were taken | Shot, a rai Benes ae oe N the whole, we saw a good ex- voluntary check-oft || “Pal city, ~. || and are sending the news to Pitts- | to and from the plant in special cabs | ‘70m under the basket to put the) i K voluntary | check-off |! in Washington, denouncing Far- || ts Yritys in the lead for the first and| ¥ hibition of basketball. Kaytee een granted, but the miners |] , ‘Ag a result, most of | burgh and are appealing for help. and buses supplied by the P. R. T. we. if ‘had the advantage in playing on ley’s order. Farley’s “economies,” which meant reduced wages for thou~- sands of post office workers and starvation for the substitutes, were cancelled, effective May 1. only time during the game. Kaytee , , cagers came through with a barrage | their home court; but they showed of baskets, with Hanson pushing|@ fine passing game, & strong offen- |the ball one-handed into the net,|Sive and defensive. Their shots |followed in ‘succession by Hurley’s| Weren't wasted. It took a long time shot from the center of the court, | for the Yritys to find their shoot- Adams’ free throw and H. Olson’s| ing eyes, but not in time to over- | short shot. The quarter ended with | take the lead piled up by the Yay- | Every week one of the International} leaders comes to Cleveland to speak | before the local meetings. After} they speak for hours there is no | time left to take up the urgent| | demands of the workers. | | The workers are demanding a 50 | per cent blanket increase, and rec- terrorized into tearing up ck-off cards. The men are| denied the proper amount of cars. The rage miner makes $3 a shift Idom gets more than $6 to $9 But the militant picketing of the Strikers forced many of them to turn back, and turned over several others, thus preventing the ,scabs from entering the plant. When scabs began using the trolley cars, squads of pickets boarded each car and took care of them that way. npany de- f and house rent, “Students in a New York High School walked ont of a concert s the miner sometimes around $2 for two weeks’ pay, Then on top of this the coal diggers are cheated on the scales. Urge Mass Picketing. The Communist unit in the Wy- Jam mine has distributed a large number of leaflets calling for a de- termined fight for pay of the Ala- bama miners equal to that received by the northern miners, recognition of the union, no cheating on the scales, no deduction for relief or back rent The leafiet also urges the miners to set up a democratically elected tank and file strike committee to lead the struggle, to mass picket the | mines and to spread the strike to} the Docena and the Hamilton Slope, | two other captive mines of the Ten- | nessee Coal Company. Communist Party Calls on Illinois Miners to Fight To Win 6-Hour Day, Ete. Must Strike in Face of Leaders, Treachery | ognition of the union. It is this | action that the A. A. leaders are trying to halt. That is why Mike Tighe, Miller, and Leonard are | coming from Pittsburgh every week | to speak to the local meetings. The fear that the rank and file would kick out the officails. has forced the leaders to elect a small committee of five to demand rec- ognition. The company, knowing the moods of the workers, has | granted the recognition in order to | quiet the workers. For a while the! leaders could breath freely and they | came to the leaders boasting that which was put on in order to breal News Item. k up their anti-war demonstration.” 8,000 Workers on Strike in Big Penna. Rayon Factories LEWISTON, Pa.—(F.P.) — Eeight thousand rayon workers struck against the biggest rayon producer (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) | had it not been for them, they would|!" the country when they walked SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 15.—A call to prepare for strike has been ssued in the Southern Illinois coal fields by the sub-dstrict committee of the Communist Party on the heels | of the attempt of the N. R. A., to- | not have gotten recognition, Now a new fear has gripped them, The rank and file is not satisfied, they| | are demanding a wage increase to meet the rising cost of living. | | The rank and file workers are| now preparing to have company | out of the Lewistown and Marcus Hook Viscose plants, The Lewiton strikers went out when the company announced a work schedule which had been set for dis- cussion three days later by the gen- {eral manager of the company, Vice President John Kelly of the United Textile Workers, and union repre- sentatives. | The Marcus Hook strikers are pro- | testing the refusal of plant foremen to meet with union departmental committees to settle minor differ- | ences, _| that workers by the thousands wave of terror, with increased mili-| tancy and larger picket lines. | pee aes | 5,000 In Cleveland Answer Attack On. | Wright, Gallagher Workers Force Jimcrow | Restaurant to Serve | _ Negroes (Continued from Page 1) the score 11 to 4. The workers are replying to this | .% a % TN the second period, E. Heikkila Ysank a charity show before Hoffman of the Kaytee five knocked a side shot in, and V. | Heikkila followed with another free throw. Lindfors heaved a long shot clean through the net to make the score 13 to 8 in Kay~ tee’s favor. Adams twirled two balls into the basket in rapid suc- cession from the center of the court to add four more points to the Kaytee’s side of the score- board. Then Heino, Lindfors and E. Heikkila pushed the ball through in rapid succession to make their score perilously close to Kaytee’s total. H. Olson and Hurley put two short ones in and Lindfors sank a long shot before the half ended with the 21 to 16 | tee quintet. F It only remains now for the Kaytee A. C. to battle it out with the Roseland Sparks for the na- tional L. §. U. championship, which will come off the 2th of April. The Chicago team, which had bowled over the best in the Middle West and who were the national titleholders of last year, will present a formidable lineup. However, the Kaytee showed a fine bit of playing and I wouldn’t put my dough on either of them, so close will the game be. That's what I predict. The teams will decide on the Kaytee court and again they will have the advan- tage over the Chicago outfit. in playing on familiar grounds. And that, readers, will mark the end of the cage season, to be re- sumed again in the winter, | gether with the coal operators and |) oiice throw: he union. At) — _ reueee Sead in favor of Kaytce. 2 » be < | Lewis union bureaucrats, to stave 5 nite tine tha ent against the would mass to force the restaurant | . 8 + iti Se bt ride es we iners rl e in of the demand for a six-hour day,|jeaders and the company is being Hi k D H to abandon ts jim-crow practices. HE second half marked a barrage | te. £ te. tk $6 scale with the concession of &| shifted to the various departments. | MAG men vemand | evéelan ODIESS ee Revie sAy on Se eee me of shots from both sides, with|Lindfors, £8 9 | Adems.# § Rosl W. h f eternerpune ity he ani teenoa * | ‘ tables and forced the restaurant |Savtee at the higher end of the|p Hemo,¢ 21 | H. Olson, © $ 0 Yi, as +5 or “The threatening strike of 200,000| breaking out all over the plant. A/ | sgeny- ct ses sth Ni point total. H. Olson made his|V. Meikkiia,g 1 3 | Hurley, 20 : ae miners,” reads the call, “has forced | commit‘ee for higher wages was | ccoun Ing | In peman Si hucahg nacre pai enterea |Heave from the side good, and V.|® Heino, g 1 0 bg ard fae 4 j |the N. R. A. coal operators andjelected. Fights for safety devices t | workers pate nt |Heikkila made his free throw good. alas :< Caen a0 ; i the union bureaucrats to throw us/ are taking place. In a short time, and were 3 i Kaytee made three baskets count, fipula, & tag ! : |a crumb in the form of a seven-| as the action indicates, the stecil NUNES O @ UNION) —N. ¥. JODIESS ACT 1 9. Fore representing the Com-| with 4. Olson, Kane and F. Olson Sager, ¢ 0 0 U.M.W.A Lead Ge hour day. This small concession is| Workers are going to take more de-/ m | munist ae ae i front ne the pushing the ball through the hoop Jenson, f het 0 othe Woda. LA ss 1 sive tion. 3 5 DULCE iS » eX ing jim-crowism as | ry : Hers SIGN | an attempt to defeat the growing |cisive action, = (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) | k'yaaton’of the basses to spite the |7O™, the rebound before the Yritys ; aie Le: Seab Contr: Eff sentiment of the miners for @ six- & weapo! e be caught onto the attack. E Heikkila| Referee: gack Rothenfeld, Columbia etad “ontract in tuttort hour day and $6 scale. When we | was leading a group in the work| the Workers’ Unemployment In. Sie ahtiniee 4 Berugeles | sank a long, clean basket and Lind. | University. To Break Strike consider the mechanization, speed \V t Pl M h | a vor! oe A “| for better conditions. The large| fore followed with a side shot. The! prin, up, wage-cuts and the constan ets an are of destroying the furniture. Surance Bill (H. R. 7508). | crowd cheered thunderously the an-|hictie blew to mark the end of| Worcester L. 8. U. To Stage Street ROSLYN, Wash. (By Mail) —The eoal miners of the Roslyn Cli Flien field struck last Sunday for recognition of the Western Miners’ Union, which was organized last November as a split from the U. M. W. of A. This strike is a climax to the abuse of the miners by the| «Because of the growing anger on | rising cost of living, coupled with the fact that the new proposal car- ries no guarantee of a minimum amount of work, then it is clear not solve the starvation, misery and unemployment. that the seven-hour day alone ved New Bonus Fight To Washington for Call for Mass Fight for) Racketeers Smash Up Furniture Before the rank and file hack- |men arrived Goldstein's group had | broken practically all the legs off | of the tables and chairs to use as | weapons against the drivers’ dele- gation. While over a hundred hackmen waited downstairs in front of the When the workers pointed out | fired from C. W. A. jobs, Hodson was only able to point to the 5,000 whom he “hoped” would be re- instated on work relief jobs after | their questionnaires had been re- viewed. | ‘The workers are demanding that | that fully 56,000 workers had been} nouncement that the management |had been forced to serve Negro} workers, hailing this victory and the I. L. D. which organized the demon- | stration. | | Highty-five policemen stood by helpless during the demonstration. At the end of the demonstration the third quarter, with the Yritys at the low end of a 31 to 21 score. ier aes IN the final period, Adams ran into two beautiful passes to make two baskets good. V. Heikkila made his charity toss good, and both Kane and Heino, on a double foul, | ing the race, a dance and sport car- Run, WORCESTER, Mass.—The Worces- | ~ ter fourth annual street run, under the auspices o the Labor Sports Union and the Belmont Community Club, will be held April 28 at 2:00 P.M. All labor sportsmen are in- vited to run in this'meet. Follow- Northwestern Improvement o.,| the part of the miners against Lewis | building a committee of five,| all fired C. W. A. workers be im-| the delegation told the management/fojioweq with two free tosses. | nival will be conducted at the Rane- section of the Northern Pacific| throughout the coal regions, the) Bonus, H. R. 7598 | headed py clarance Robbilard,| mediately rehired at no less than) that atthe next instance of tim-| Heino received a long pass from! berg Hall. Railroad Lewis machine is trying to use the Jobless Bill went to the office, where they de-|C. W. A. wages, that jobs or cash | Crowism, the workers would force ) Last Christmas Eve a militant) miner of the Union (R. Ruff) was shot and killed in cold blood by a U. M. W.| of A. gun thug in front of three | eye-witnesses and the murderer was | acquitted. On Feb. 15, Mack Hal-| ler, Young Communist League or- ° . ganizer, a member of the Western| Machine against the a The | Washington some time in May. be turned over to the rank and/ fayette St. Rae gti | Continue S t rt 1 k @) Firewire aympathisers. having. cars Between 7th and sth Avenues i | Minérs’ Union, was waylaid and|™iners need no introduction to the) ir 18—Union Square, March to) | 400 Negro add White Domonatrata: | Aco | funeral. i slugged and the attacker was ac- quitted. | Two Miners’ Union were fired for their activities, and to top it all the coal operators have signed the contract with the officials of the U. M. W. of A., which has a handful of mem- bers in this field. Elect Strike Committees The men wanted to strike lasi winter, but were misled by the talk of the “N, R. A. will fix things up”| and the district officials. Action was postponed from Jan. 5 to Feb. 12, then when the two miners were fired the men wanted to strike, but the officials postponed it to April 1. This time the rank and file took’ the situation in its own hands, voted | to strike and elected broad rank and seven-hour day to strengthen their Western Miners’) noid over the miners, and with the) help of the coal operators and the | N. R. A, to increase their check- off, extend gun-thug domination in various fields, all with the aim of | building a stronger strike breaking | file convention that will be held in long list of Lewis’ betrayals. “On the other hand, the P. M. A. Officials of the Western| officials speak for 6-hour day, but| be held. | like Lewis, they are against any militant action to win this demand. The promise of 6-hours is a man- euver of the P. M. A. officials to keep themselves in the saddle. This is to kill any strike action. This will lead to another betrayal. “We can win these demands but not in Washington or in the Pea- body courts. We can win them only on the picket line by militant mass action. The officials will not organizé strike action. All they want is per capita. We must do it over their heads, by preparing NOW. What is to be done? Don't wait for Someone to call a general NEW YORK, April 15—The Rank) and File veterans are planning the following rallies and marches in preparation for the mass march to Washington to attend the rank and | the clothing and needle trades dis-| tricts where a noon day rally will) | April 18—6 p. m. Rally andj ;march, Gand and Havemeyer Sts., | Brooklyn. | April 21—6 p. m. Rally and march, Assemble at East 136th St.,| | Bronx, between St. Ann’s and Cyp-| | ress Avenues. April 25—A noon day rally will) ; be held in the downtown business} section. | | April 26 — Pull mobilization in| Harlem at 5 p. m. for the Scotts-| boro demonstration. | | April 28—Rally and march. As-/ semble at East 116th St. and 2nd} | Ave, | April 30— Final rally and mass manded in the name of the rank and file of the union to know why Weiner and his group of rack- eteers had declared themselves leaders of the local. They also de- manded~ a financial report and that the files and union property To all these questions there were | The | no answers forthcoming. racketeers, along with Samuel Smith, president of the Bronx local, and Amicus Most, organizer and leader of the split movement, gave vague statements that they would answer these questions at a |; meeting they vould hold soon. In regard to the financial state-| ment the racketeers gave the ex- cuse that William Rubin, who was in_charge of the funds, was sick. It was learned yesterday that the funds were stolen by the Weiner gang through William Rubin's failure to bank the money as it came into the office. This money was put away where the racketeers could lay their hands on it. All outgoing union funds relief be granted to all unemployed, and that the city welfare depart- ment officially endorse the Workers’ | Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7698), Until these demands are, granted, they will continue to picket ; the Welfare Department at 50 La- WASHINGTON, D. C.—Four hun- | dred Negro and white workers, un- | der the leadership o fthe Unemploy- | !ment Councils, demonstrated before | the home relief station here Satur- | |day, demanding immediate pay in-| |ereases in the present Roosevelt vork relief.” The 400 workers, mostly Negreos, | demanded an end to the present! | Starvation forced labor “work relief” | | under which they are paid $19.20 a month for four days’ work. | ‘ae iat | Plan to Lay Off 58,000 in Boston BOSTON, Mass. — Fifty-eight thousand Emergency Relief Admin- | j istration workers are to be laid off| for one week, starting April 23rd, it} | was announced here Saturday, offi-| | cials stating that only men with two. it to hang a for-rent sign on the establishment. Knitgoods Workers: 4000 Defy Police Terror, and Lies of Press PHILADELPHIA, April 15.—The| strike of the 4,000 knitgoods work- ers continued here, overriding police terror and attacks of the bossés in| the capitalist press. ' In answer to statements in the| press, especially those appearing in| the Women’s Wear, that the em-| ployers will not deal with I. H.| Feingold, leader of the union, the} Strikers passed a resolution stating that the issue in the strike is not Feingold. “It is not a one man strike,” said the resolution. “The issue of the| strike is the demands that we have) W.E.S.L, MEMBER'S FUNERAT, All members of the W.E.S.L. are asked to report to Post 191, 69 E. 3rd St., to pay our last respects to comrade Schwarte, who died Thursday. Body is now lying in state at Post headquarters. Funeral at 1 p.m. Monda: STEVEDORE New Presentation of the Taeatre Union PACK’S ’EM IN AT THE ic Repertory Theatre April 16, 1934 Benefit: Office Workers Union 10% of Proceeds for Daily Worker Tickets at Ofice Workers Union and Box Office (114 West 14th St. N. ¥.) 80¢, 45¢, Bbc, 78e, $1.00, $1.50 GARMENT WORKERS WELCOME SHERIDAN VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT (Formerly Shildkrauts) 225 WEST 36th STREET PATRONIZE SEVERN’S CAFETERIA 7th Avenue at 30th St. Best Food—W orkers Prices We Have Reopened JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE (Bet. 12th and 18th St.) i - jd i it before the employers, namely: | | file strike committees at their locals | Strike, the toad to me eae meeting in a large hall in lower| Were Paid in checks, bearing Sam-| 0.7 oye dependents will be rehired. ee. Recognition of the Knitgoods | hy, i to lead the sotke and mass picket- rca Bement godbigesp eat Manhattan, ‘ [eee te eee ees ‘The workers are mobilizing on the | Workers Union, Local 1759. DR. JULIUS U1 TINSKY Spring Is In | ing has already begun. the strike to other mines. At this meeting the leaders of any of the funds coming in dur- projects -to fight the payless week,|/ “2. A 35 hour week. EET FE ll BI i The officials of the U. M. W. of A, | ''™ icles of the Lewis | the New York contingent will be|ing the course of the strike the| Cemanding jobs or cash relief equal) “3. Increased wage scales.” 107 BRISTOL STR: u oom have posted notices that the con-| “Break the ane a % ite on the | lected. junion bank account was exhausted |t0 C. W- A. pay for all unemployed| The resolution further stated that|] Get. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn ie tract was signed and that the men| and Pearcy machines! Un nm The Rank and File Veterans call|and the bulk of the anion money | WOTKCIS. “we are determined to keep up our PRONE: DICKENS 2.2018 The Easter go back to work, that is, to soab. | basis of these demands! For 6-hout upon members of the American) remained in the hands of the where the constitution of the} fight for a union of our choosing Most of the rank and file of the| day, $6 scale and 3 day week, for = i Detans i se ~ || Office Hours: 8-10 AM, 1-2, 6-8 eM 1] Week Rush U. M. W. of A. have refused to| better conditions in the mines! ' Or- | Tesion Veterans, Disabled American| weiner, gang. ‘Hamilto Ohi pritiese te duster Ste enone Te Oven work. Only the bosses’ suckers at-| ganize in every pit, over the heads| jorons of all other veteran orl outer * 4 snnounced by Samuel il, 0, approve of our leadership or @ tempted to work and shot at the) of ‘little’ and ‘big’ fakers! Elect| Sorizations to participate in these| °mcr Yesterday at the temporary | 2 GO ct picketers. broad rank and file strike commit-| ranies and support the march to headquarters of the union, 131 W. P | ——— tees for united action of P. M. A.| washington by joint th ks of | 2th St. that a meeting of garage rince On, in 1 t ® N. 2 ‘. and U. M. W. A. tank and file to jye’remgom,hY fomming the ranks of chairmen will be held at the union | 9”) |Los Angeles Opens Cortera i PBgermen tile) Strikes Spread TI 2 these demands and for a class) march and to have resolutions passed | Headquarters today at 1 pm,| New Workers Center CF Qorricians Denmark asMarine Union Is Fined Hotel and Restaurant Help Follow Seamen | in Walkout | struggle program. Forward to ac- tion against the N.R.A, starvation program and hunger!” Left Wing Candidate To ILGW Convention NEW YORK.—A meeting of Local 38 of the International branch was held on April 11, 1934 for the nom- ination of delegates to the Interna-| Ladies Garment Workers on the floor of their organizations | demanding immediate payment of the bonus; repeal of the Economy Act; enactment of the Workers Un-| employment Insurance Bill (H. R. | 7598) into a law. Send these resolutions to the} President, the Representative from} your congressional districts, both 1 | senators and the speakers of both! houses, | Rank and File Veterans! For years | we have listened to the promises of | union, dues stamps, union books, | etc., and the question of continu- | ing to build the Taxi Drivers’ of hackmen in New York will be taken up. The decisions of the meeting to- day will be taken to garage meet- ings and later to the entire body of hackmen for discussion and vote, In order to make certain that Union as the one fighting union! CWA Men Strike (Continued from Page 1) i dorsed all the demands of the C.| | W. A. and P. W. A. workers. | In addition to demanding im-/ mediate wage increases, the work- ers demand free tools and trans- | portation to and from work, cash | relief or jobs to all unemployed, and no discrimination against Negro and | foreign-born workers on the job or LOS ANGEUES--One of the most beautiful workers’ centers in the country is being opened in! downtown Los Angeles. Centering | around an auditorium two stories high and capable of holding an) audience of a thousand, are a li- brary and reading room, class rooms, banquet hall and offices. A number of cultural organizations of Los Angeles are renting quar- 137B ST.NICHOLAS AVE* 1690 LEXINGTON AVE, ati79ST.NY at 106tb ST.NY.. COHEN’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr, Delancey Street, New York City Cars leave daily at 10:30 a. m. from Co- operative Restaurant, 2700 Bronk Park Bast, Ph.: Estabrook #-1400, Private Quarters _Again Available WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY | tonal funds collected “for the Taxi ters in the center—the Los An- EYES EXAMINED. | Union convention and for the elec-| on relief. By JOSEPH LAX, 0.D, COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 15. In an attempt to break up the mili- tant Seamen’s Union, the Perma-| net Court of Arbitration, a strike-| breaking organization of the Danish | government, imposed a 20,000 kroner fine on the union for financial losses that the shipowners claim to have suffered because of the sea- men’s strike. But the workers of Copenhagen do not seem to be greatly concerned about the Arbitration Court, for the strike wave which began on the ships is now spreading to other industries. | The hotel and restaurant workers are out for higher wages and less hours. Bacon curers at a big pack- ing plant are striking for the same/| demands. tion of an Election-Objection Com-) mittee, i Despite all the manouevres and| their mobilization of the officials, despite ther isolation of the Italian workers through calling separate meetings, the left wing succeeded in. electing Eva Cohen to the Election-| Objection Committee. The other! left wing candidates lost by a very small margin. Marine Workers Union Hold Banquet Apr. 19 NEW YORK.—The Marine Work- | ers Industrial Union will hold a ; banquet at the Manhattan Lyceum the politicians, Only in unity with & definite program and under sin- cere honest leadership that will not betray the interests of the veterans can we ever expect our rights and justice. Join the ranks of the rank and file veterans, Support the three point program. Luggage Workers Out On Strike in Newark For Wage Increases NEWARK, N. J., April 15.—One hundred workers from six shops, engaged in producing luggage, have gone out on strike for/higher wages | and reconition of the} Luggage and) | Drivers’ Union of Greater New York will from now on not fall into the hands of the racketeers in the 42nd St. office Samuel Or- ner and Joseph Gilbert issued an appeal to all organizations and in- dividuals who have collected money for the union to turn it over im- | mediately to Samuel Nessin, sec- Support the Taxi Strike, 80 E. 11th Street, “We also want to warn all or- ganizations not to send this money to 233 W. 42nd St., be- cause the racketeers have stolen the union files and gangsters have moved into the office at this address, said the appeal. |retary of the Labor Commitice to| ae Kentucky Jobless Seize Food COVINGTON, Ky.—Starving un- employed workers here protesting “the relief policies of the state of- ficials,” marched into the A. & P. Store here Friday, and took about $300 worth of food. One was ar- rested later. In less than 12 min- utes the starving unemployed left with the staple groceries and food stuffs. The workers then went to their homes. A mass meeting has been called at Goebel Park here to take up the demands of the unemployed. | |The dictatorship of the prole- tariat is a fight, fierce and ruth- geles Workers School, the John Reed Club, which will have its downtown office there and hold art classes nightly, the Pen and Hammer Club, which will have of- ces and lecture rooms, and the Youth Sports Club, which will take over the spacious gymnasium and locker rooms. Auditorium, meeting halls and banquet rooms are available for rental to organ- izations for meetings and affairs, the mai it reports. Among che masses of the people, we Communists are but drops in the ocean, and we can- not rule unless we give accurate expression to the folk conscious- ness. Otherwise the Communist Optometrist Wholesale Opticians Tet. ORchard 4-4520 Factory on Premises Tompkins Square 6-7697 Dr. S. A. Chernotf GENITO-URINARY 223 Second Ave., N. Y. C. OFFICE HOURS: 11- 7:30 P.M, SUNDAY: 12-8 P.M, 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has reduced the rent, several good apartments available, Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children, Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8+1401 Trains, Stop at Allerton Ave. station — OMice open daily from 9 am. to 8 p.m Direction: Lexington Ave., White Plains Priday and Saturday 9 a.m. to § pm. Sunday 10 a.m, to 2 pm. Williemsburg Comrades Welcome ASSEMBLY CAFETERIA | 766 Broadway, Brooklyn, he (Classified) Women comrade wants another to share four room apartment in workers ¢o- operative. Cail ev PRest 23-5737. hace se ean | Trunk Union, Local 4 A. F. of L. | to pin the hopes of the strikers on| leas, of the new class against an Party will not be able to lead the aR Eh eho on April 19. Earl Browder will speak | ‘The skilled workersfin the luggage! negotiations alone peseses All Comrades Meet at th | . 2 ¢ : :. y of preponderant strength, letariat, the tariat basing ‘ Your revolutionary greeting to | at the affair. There will be promi- | chops here have working for! Rank and file members of the! against the Ttrealate, eines pkg be ma to saa: ‘the boas: J the Daily Worker on May Day | nent artists who will entertain. Ad-/ as low as $10 and a week. union are demanding that mass determination to resist has been | and the whole machine will fall NEW HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA will show that the workers smp- | mission will be 75¢. This is the| Union leaders hi not organized | picket lines be set up around the increased tenfold by its over- | to pieces.—Lenin at the Eleventh Preah Pipthtaricn: port our “Dally.”, |Fourth Anniversary of the union. | any mass picketig and are trying| struck establishments, \ 7) throw-stenins Party Congress. ae Sen Eth At WORKESS’ ORNTRE ? \ Senior * i: