The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1934, Page 2

* Page Two ‘\ To Send L Workers LIAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. ATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1984 ocked-Out Back Under Same Bad Conditions Left Wing Group Calls Dressmakers To Make Lock-out a Strike NEW YORK.—Zimmerm Demands “Fighting Picket Line” from Page 1) (Continue . March 7. 1932. This little piece by that to con- i s on picket line ed t would constitute a “rabble and will began ne bring no good.” When he got cont rs to send one could read plain re- with the same c the lock-out The: union leaders are support- on the faces of the strik- In ed contrast to the ing ev iy but the workers, First | Speeches of the Smith machine, was they supported the ctors in| the speech of John Mack. He out- their plans for the 1 up until | lined before the workers the dan- the time they were ready to close | £eF of the hired # the shops. Then they suddenly an-| (18 "oo locters, i sir etal oe not to hire gangsters, as is practiced e £ to th bers. Told To Be Quiet The workers, during all Maneuvers, were left out on these the streets to wander around, with the union lead telling them to be quiet and wait. Sort of a watchful Waiting process. But no strike. At a hearing in Supreme Court yesterday afternoon it was revealed that the N.R.A. and the Court had joined with the union leaders in supporting the jobbers. In reality it is both the jobbers and contractors who are responsible | for conditions in the dress trade. | Now the union officials, who are responsible for the so-called scien- tific wage-cut system, are urging the workers to give their support to one of the groups responsible for the vile working conditions. The workers must fight both the fontractors and the jobbers. All throughout the period of the lock-out and especially the left wing group within union hi been exposing treacherous policy of Jeaders. the the the union yesterday, | by A. F. of L. leaders, but to bring is issue to all the workers and ough militant mass picketing drive the gangsters out. | When the floor was thrown open | for discussion, every worker, with- out exception, demanded militant | picketing, and spoke in favor of bringing the issues of the strike to all labor organizations. While the workers did not direct- ly attack the Smith machine, it was clear from their brief remarks that} they are dissatisfied with the no- strike policy of the district commit- tee and sabotaging of decisions, to| | strengthen the strike, by the Smith machine. tt Matthew Smith, who is the Sec-|the present strike with his arbitra-| retary of the M.E.S.A. made a speech full of provocations directed against the speech of John Ander- | son. Smith did not dare to men-/} tion Anderson’s name, but it was} lain that he was slandering Ander- | | Son, whose speech set the militant | keynote for the meeting. | Tries to Frighten Workers | Smith's answer to the demand of Women’s Councils To, GUTTERS OF NEW YORK Hold City Conference on Sunday, April 22 — s Women » at 10 am, Lyceum, 66 4,000, h in th igh the Home Relief rganized the N a have organized ons Auto Wkrs. Union Calls on MESA Men! for United Action | | and instead, in a telegram he sent| to Washington, echoed the A. F, of L. cry that a strike would be tragedy “The proposal for united action by the M. E. S. A., the rank and file of the A. F. of L. and the Auto W ers Union was passed by the shop stewards’ meeting, but ditched by Smith in the District Committee in! direct violation of the shop stewards’ | decision and contrary to the spirit of | the rank and fil | “Militant united action would] heave paralyzed the sabotage of the A. F. of L. leaders and prenared the | ground for successful strike action) when the M. E. S. A. went out. “But Smith, Harrison & Co. would campaign and A PurcnAsE 8Y mR. ca SuBROIR SELLING | FRANKLIN'S FAVORITE = KNICK-KNACKS pb 234 (Continued from Page 1) a PurcHAsE GORRANTEED “To BLOSSOM INTO FR SCcISM IR MORGAN “Mrs. F, D. Roosevelt presided over the sale of objects from her val-kill shop.”—NEWS ITEM. | have nothing to do with such taetics {Talking big and in genetal about RELIEF IS RUN TO SUIT BOSSES, strikes, they did nothing concretely | The left wing group is urging the Anderson for mass picketing, united | Workers to turn the lock-out into| action, mass distribution of leaflets | a rea ‘ike for better conditions in |was the cry of a “provocateur” ) to prepare them. “Talking big about ‘general strikes,’ Smith cuts the guts out of tion schemes and bluff tactics. “In the Michigan Stove strike notorious gangsters protect scabs, and yet Smith and the District Committee do nothing to call upon the we rs of all organizations to take up the fight against the | gangsters and force the police to| withdraw their protection. “We propose that the M. FE. S, A issues an open appeal to all workers to demand the ousting of the gang sters, that it sends a mass delegation (Continued from Page 1) mittee of leaders, pat, and won. In addition the seamen won a{ revolutionary gain of tremendous} import — something which Federal officials apparently weren't aware | of. By heroically standing out} against jim-crowism, they were able} |to stage in this national capital a} demonstration for Negro and white | worker unity such as seldom seen |in this jim-crow town. “but they stood | FEDERAL HEAD ADMTS TO SEAMEN the trade. May Day Appeal for United Front Issued in NYC. (Continued from Page 1) Tangements Committee last nesday night. eae DETROIT WORKERS FIGHT MAYOR'S BAN (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, April 20—The May Day Unity Commit to the statement by Mayor Frank Couzens in the press on the ques- tion of the use of Grand Cir Park on May First. The committee declared: Frank Couzens has no power deny workers of Detroit the right First. He is taking this power ar- bitrarily in defiance of both our es- tablished rights practiced for years in using the park on this day and also of a definite decision made by the City Council two years a; granting the park for meetings. “Mayor Couzens says he has of- fered any other park or playground in the city for the May Day meet- ing, but this is only a maneuver to| cover up his denial of the right to} meet. “Mayor Couzens knows that no other park is suitable for a central demonstration or able to accommo- date the masses that will stream in from every part of the city to the May Day meeting. “Unable to further cover up the| denial of the workers’ right to as-| semble, Mayor Couzens is raising | @ smoke screen when he says, That the Communists will not run this city while he is Mayor. No one raised the question of running the| city. “The question is that the workers have the right to meet and assemble peacefully and demand that this right shall not be violated by the Mayor or Police Commissioner. By | this smoke screen the Mayor hopes to evade an answer to the charge made by the May Day Committee 80 | Wed- tee replied today | strike. ‘cus | and indignantly rejected the pro-| “Mayor | son made a motion, that the meet- io) ing go on record in favor of send- 0) meet in Grand Circus Park on May | can be won. | charging “armed insurrection, civil | war.” Smith tried to frighten the | workers, declaring if they resort to | mass picketing they will have to} | face machine guns, and other similar | | arguments, He did not answer An-| | derson’s speech regarding the united front. | He did not answer Anderson's | charges and that of the rank and} | file that the protest meeting against | gangsterism was sabotaged by the | Smith machine. To retain favor with the member- ship of the M.E.S.A., Smith, in his} typical bluff manner, cried out that | the “strike is just beginning.” This | after his provocative speech and his | continued secret dealings with the| Regional Labor Board to break the | When Smith concluded his speech, | Anderson immediately took the floor | | vocative remarks of Smith. Ander- | ing a letter to all organizations for | }united action in support of the| strike aad against gangsterism. His| motion was seconded from all sec-| tions of the hall. Smith, in deadly fear that the | motion would pass, resorted to a! piece of parliamentary trickery | which reveals him in his true light) as a bluffer of the first order. He told the chairman not to entertain the motion, because it is a public meeting, and the sergeant at arms is not present, therefore, there could be no check up as to who is a mem- ber and has a right to vote. And then he moved to adjourn the meet- ing—which the chairman Murdock, a Smith man, readily carried out. The picketing was especially mili- tant at the following plants: Star| Tool and Die Works, 2532 24th St., and The Superior Tool Works, 6633 Rohns Ave. Last night’s meeting shows that | the strike of the tool and die mak- | ers and the Michigan Stove worke “What calls for is the development within the M.E.S.A. of a clear-minded op- position that can readily convince the rank and file that Smith and his machine, despite their occasional militant and left phrases, are in to the police and calls all workers to} When the seamen arrived late the situation | the picket line. If this is done— “The Auto Workers Union stands ready to bring out one thousand workers to the picket line Monday 4p. m. to stop the scabs and demand the driving out of the gangsters. “Smith’s policies are giving en- couragement to the reactionary elements around Griffen who want to discredit all militant tactics. “We propose that the M. E. S. A. call for a demonstration and parade | of all tool and diemakers, Michigan| stove and all workers’ organizations to support their strike, to demon- strate against company unions, against the outlawing of strikes by the A. F. of L. leaders (which is a direct. sabotage of the M. E. S. A. strike), for higher wages and better working conditions. “At the same time we propose that steps be taken to strengthen picket- ing, build up a real rank and file strike committee (instead of allow- ing the District Committee to monop- olize everythin in its incom- petent hands), issue leaflets to com- bat the propaganda of the com- panies and the employers’ press, etc. Convention Tomorrow of Relief Wkrs. League | NEW YORK.—The Relief Work- ers League convention will take place tomorrow afternoon at one | o'clock at Irving Plaza, 15 St. and Irving Place. The convention has | been called to make plans for furt | organizing the fight for reinstate- ment of those workers fired in the recent lay-off and to prepare against | the expected wage-cut. RAILROAD CONCENTRATION GROUP HOLDS DANCE NEW YORK—The Third Avenue | Railroad Concentration Group will | hold an entertainment and dance | tonight, 8 p. m., at 168 W. 23rd St., ;Toom 12, Admission is 20 cents. | | | | Down tools May 1 against the Wagner strikebreaking bill and for the workers’ right to strike! yesterday, the local transient re- lief director, under federal suner- ion, offered them food. clothes. white socks for their badly blistered and broken feet, baths with plenti- | ful soap and towels, medical atten- | tion—if only they would submit to| the segregation of whites and Ne-| groes, in accord with the national government’s rigid jim-crow policy. | The seamen, though exhausted, | hungry. some nursing great wounds | on their feet, refused this hands | down. | They marched still singing. yell- ing with great fervor and dis- | cipline, to a Negro hall more fhan a mile away, to sleep on the bare flonr—vnited. Merch Through Negro District And their route Jay straight through the heart of the Negro working class district of Whating- ton. As they marched, shouting “Black and white, unite and fight,” hundreds of Negroes poured out of their tenement shacks and watched, and cheered. I saw those Negro svectators watch with faces first alarmed, as though they were shocked to see such an audacious demonstration by white and Ne- groes in a capital street, then breaking into broad grins of ex hiliration. Overnight, word of the seamen’s action passed around the neigh- borhood in which they slept. When they lined up outside to march to| relief headouarters, crowds of Ne-| fro and white workers stood and cheered them. A number followed the seamen’s march over the more than a mile to the relief head- quarters and a couple of Negroes went inside with them. One who said he’s never been in a union volunteered the comment “They | got a right idea, I'll tell you. I'm staying with these fellows.” Anthony Smith, head of the small business men’s organization of hundreds of merchants, restau- rant-keepers, etc., on the Boltimore | waterfront, arrived in Washington | dust in time to join the seamen in |their protest to Plunkert. Smith told Plunkert that “We, the small | | business men with whom the sea- men have been dealing while they were administering their own re- lief know that they were honest and much more efficient than any other relief system we've had deal- ings with. We demand that you meet their demands.” Plunkert. a typical liberal new dealer, scribbled hastily on his pad and asked Smith his business. He replied restaurant-keeper. Called in by Plunkert to help,| John Carmody, former department of Labor Strike “mediator” (better known to workers as strike-breaker) urged the seamen to be “reason- able.” They laughed. “I have no objection to going on record here,” Plunkert admitted at one point, “to the effect that I know that when you seamen ad- ministered relief, you ran it ef- ficiently. You did a good job, But, as you say, I’m in a job here and T've got to follow the rules.” The specific “rule” Piunkert re- ferred to is “that Federal Relief funds must be administered through State officials.” ‘The Seamen re- minded him, however, that Federal funds in other cases have been and are administered through private “social welfare” agencies, and that Plunkert himself sent an official Washington to try to take over the Seamen's control. The Seamen aked, “Since you could get the Maryland officials to take on your Mr. King, why cant you get them to take Seamen to ‘do the work for them?” “I can’t tell them whom to hire,” Plunkert falsified. “What is your final attitude on the workers unemployment bill, H. R. 75982” Patterson asked. “We can’t discuss that. You'll have to go to Congress.” “What's your final attitude on ad- vising Federal Relief officials in Maryland to let the Seamen re- tain control?” “Why can’t youu deal with us, then?” “No—no, I can’t do that.” “No, I can't do that.” “Do you condemn police brutality against us?” “I don’t even know it existed.” (The Seamen had related this in detail, naming places and cases, in- cluding how relief officials brought police down with them.) “Well,” Kennnedy said afterward, “you can still be sure we don’t in- tend to go hungry. We're going back to fight—and you notice we're still singing.” Down tools May 1 against wage cuts and for higher wages! Red Candidates Win To No way different from the A. F. of | L. leaders in the auto industry. And wn Elections > SAM ROSS The Indoor Season Fades Out | NHERE’S one sport that keeps the fans and athletes going | /4 all year round—boxing. In the summer you get the big | outdoor fights in the various stadiums throughout the | | country. In the winter, you see them indoors under glowing | | lights and hazy smoke. The boxers (those that are on top janyway) train under the sun, winter or summer, fhen make } their debuts and rebuttals under the sky or under roofs. | | The-rising champs. and - pa-?——£—_—______—_—— | lookas have to go through the |} unluxurious struggle of train- | ing in stuffy gyms, learning| how to give and take before hard-| boiled managers who drive them to death so that a few extra easy dol- lars could be made on the athlete's! abjlity to catch ‘em on the jaw and} swing ‘em on the button with kayo connections. And if they do this catching long| enough, they either wind up punchy or champions. It’s a hard life. ‘OLLOWING in line with the/ “manly art of modified murder,”} we see the Labor Sports Union of} the Eastern District picking up the sport for its own use, in another manner. It's not a prerequisite to be able to stand with your hands tied be- hind your back to allow some hefty puncher heave away at your face and body. You don’t have to go through the preliminaries of jumping rope | for years, of sparring and weaving| and mastering the technique of give and take. Workers haven't got time for that. They have time, however, to enjoy a little exercise every so often, And one of these forms is boxing. Without the glory of mayors, governors, millionaires and racket- eers, sitting in the front rows; without the atmosphere of smoky air and the spectacle of three | tone lights flashing upon the ring, workers will fight jt out at 114 W. 14th St. tonight in weights ranging from 118 to 175 pounds | for the L.S.U, amateur boxing | championship. And they're going to move through their paces with- | out the worry of “How’m I doin'?” to the promoters of “bigtime,” ex- ploiting circles, Eight P. M. will be the time to see What workers are like as fight- ers, And I venture to say, from the mahy amateur matches I have watched, that these bouts will take | second place to none. Lew Amster, former professional fighter, will be the third man in the ring, tapping ‘em on the back during clinches and putting his marker down for the winning fighter. Jack Rothefeld, the boy who played with the all-star cage | quintet against the Renaissance team, will be around the ringside as judge and referee. And I'm going to fulfill the ca- pacity of pullling the Joe Hum- |L. S. U. Issues Soecer phries of the evening. I don’t) blame the L, S. U. for not paying| a thousand or more dollars to hear the bellowing voice of Joe Hum-| Phries; nor do I blame them for| not getting Ted Canty’s silver- | toned screech, because they'd have | to buy medals from him. Besides, they won’t need a voice to carry through the rafters and beams of} Madison Square Garden. So I was elected. 85 ek ND to finish off the indoor sport season, the powerful Kaytee A. C., winners of the Eastern regional L. S, U. cage tourney who trounced the Nor- wood Yritys, 38 to 28, last week, will line up against the mid-west champions, the Roseland Sparks, for the national basketball cham- pionship. These teams go into action on the 25th at the Kaytee gymnasium, 760 40th St., Brook- lyn, at 8:30, . eos 'OPPING the indoor activities of the L, S. U. in that week, a swimming meet will be held at the Church of All Nations, Second Ave. and Second St., Saturday night, April 28. ‘ Interest in swimming has been aroused. Dear Sports Editor: A dispute has arisen with regard to a certain exercise among a few comrades, The exercise in question, is swimming. One comrade says that swimming alone will one’s weight, while another says that swimming alone will not re- duce one’s weight. } Would you please answer this question so that it may be cleared up. Comradely, | B. and J. | bd | HE question can easily be an- | swered by coming to the meet and seeing what a bunch of swimmers look like. So far as T | know, the athletes I've seen around a tank have been beauti- fully built, clean limbed, streng | and not too thin nor fat. Pe- culiarly enough, you can get an idea of what their best examples look like by seeing a Tarzan pic- | ture’ with Buster Crabbe or Johnny Weismuller to see - what swimming does to a body. | Perhaps, after the meet, you; might want to go in for alittle swim. (There'll be swimming for) the spectators after the meet). Then you might be able to see the pounds come off or on. As to your question, it all depends upon who the individual is, Exercise of any form keeps one in condition. Schedule for Tomorrow METROPOLITAN WORKERS SOCCER | LEAGUE Schedule for April 22, 1934 Home Team Visiting — Field 1A DIVISION Italia vs Tico, Crotona, 2 p.m. Time reduce | AMALGAMATED CLOTHING FRACTION NEW YORK —Amalgamated | Clothing Workers’ fraction mem- |bers are notified that the meeting jcalled for Saturday, April 21, has | been postponed until further no- tice, | FOOD WORKERS HOLD MEET EW YORK.—The Food Work Union will hold t at 8 p.m. of gr clerks among organized members, ur ganized food workers and members of A. F. of L. at the Savoy Mansion, 20th Ave., Brooklyn. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M 137B ST.NICHOLAS AVE * 1690 LEXINGTON AVE. ati79*ST.RY at 106 ST.NY. Tompkins Square 6-7697 Dr. 8. A. Chernoff GENITO-URINARY 223. Second Ave., N. Y.C. OFFICE HOURS: 11 - 7:30 P.M. SUNDAY: 12-3 P.M. —WILLIAM BELL OFFICIAL Optometrist aaa 106 EAST 14th STREET Near Fourth Ave., N. ¥. C. Phone: TOmpkins. Square 6-8237 | DR. EMIL EICHEL DENTIST 150 E. 93rd St., New York City Cor. Lexington Ave. ATwater 9-8838 Fours: 9 a, m. to 8 p.m, Sun, 8 to 1 | Member Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund Wisconsin 17-0288 Dr. N. S. Hanoka Dental Surgeon 261 West 41st Street New York City Fichte vs Ital. Amer. Crotona, 4 p.m. 2A DIVISION L.W.O. vs Monabi, Crotona, 11 a.m. | B2 DIVISION | South Amer. vs Ital. Amer., Crotona, | 12:30 p.m. | Spartacus vs Prospect, Crotona, 9:30. © DIVISION Hero vs Fichte, Van Cortland, 11 a.m, Bronx Hung. vs. Spartacus, Dy! | Cyal, 11 a.m. | French vs Greck Spartacus, German | Amer., 2. p.m, | Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE. Detroit 000 000 O04 “4-8-1 Cleveland 000 900 900 9—5—0 Fischer and Cochrane; L Brown and Prtlak. St. Louis at Chicago, postponed by rain. New York at Boston, postponed by rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 002 100 000 319-1 New York 030 004 00x 7—~ 9=1 Cantwell, Manguin and Hogan; Schum- acher, Salveson, Bel land Richards NATIONAT JEAGUE | Philadelphia Oy 000 000 0-6-1 Brooklyn 001 010. 08x 510-0 Holley, Kleinhans and J, Wilson; Leon- ard and Lopez. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, cold. Chicago at St. Louis, postponed, cold. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE ‘Toronto 000 002, 041° 713-0 Albany 200 042 02x. 10-130 Cook, Lucas, Hilcher and Crouch; Cole- man, Porter, Caruthers and Maple. Rochester 000 000 320 0 1414-1 Baltimore 400 000 010 3 8-9-5 Liska, Berly and Lewis; Appleton, Miner, Butcher and Hargreaves. Buffalo 000 012 001 411-0 Newark 000 220 001 112-1 Milstead, Kowalik and Outen; Duke, Makovsky and Glenn. Montreal at Syracuse, postponed, cold. GAMES TODAY AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at Boston. Washington at Philadelphia, Detroit at Cleveland. St. Louis at Chicago, ® NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston at New York. Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. Chicago at St. Louis. postponed, Picket Office of Hodson Today for Jobs, Union Wages ‘plan the widening of the fight for the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill. The conference has been called by the Fraternal Federation for Social Insurance, a federation of fraternal organizations with a mem- bership of 25,000, which has already received endorsement of the bill by organizations with a membership of AARON SHAPIRO, Pod.G. CHIROPODIST 223 SECOND AVENUE ALgonquin 4-1432 Cor. Mth St. Scientific Treatment of Foot Ailments KRAUS & SONS, Ine. Manufacturers of Badges-Banners-Buttons For Workers Clubs and Organizations 157 DELANCEY STREET Telephone: DRydock 4-8275-8276 Garment Section Workers Patronize Navarr Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE STATIONERY and MIMEOGRAPH SUPPLIES At Special Prices for Organizations LERMAN BROS., Inc. Phone ALgonquin 4-3356 — 8843 29 East 14th St. N.Y. 6. For Meetings, Dances, Banquets, Conventions, Ets. STUYVESANT CASINO 140-142 2nd Av. Near 9th St. Catering for All Occasions Tompkins Square 6-9132 Caucasian Restaurant “KAVKAZ” Russian and Oriental Kitchen BANQUETS AND PARTIES 882 East 14th Street New York City We Have Reopened | : Bill Young, Active); Entire ig that while workers are denied their | that the policy of Smith is made of just rights, gangsters are Permitted | te roam around freely in the city| with police protection to assault | striking workers in the Michigan | Stove strike. | “We make the definite charge that | the decision of Mayor Couzens and | Heinrich Pickert barring the May Day Committee from the use of Grand Circus Park was made fol- Jowing a meeting held last week of General Motors and other auto em- | ployers which decided to clamp down on working class activities. “Arrangements for Sunday’s mass meeting are receiving wide support among workers’ organizations. Rich- | ard Kroon, Secretary of Painters} Local 37, has been added to the list| of speakers for the mecting at | Danceland Auditorium, Woodward | and Forest. Sunday, 2 p.m.” | eS ee ae Newark Police Ban May Day— | Start Reign of Terror NEWARK, N. J., April 20.— Culminating a fierce attack of police | here upon all working-class organi- zations and meetings, four young workers were arrested Wednesday night at a meeting held to hear reports on C. C. C. camp conditions. Three public mass meetings have Hall | keevers have been ordered not to} rent their halls for meetings of | workers. A meeting of taxi drivers | was prevented this afterncon when the police ordered the hall owner not to open the hall unless the| 2 | the City Council on Monday to de- | demonstration. Communist, Elected Mayor the same strikebreaking cloth as| that of Green and Collins. | workers produced a permit from the police department. The May Day Committee similarly PRATT, Mich. April 19—The has been refused a permit for the| slate of candidates put. forward by May First demonstration. Request | the Unemployed Council was elected for the permit was refused with the | without opposition in Pratt, Mich., statement that “things aren’t going|a village located between Ann Ar- te be so easy for revolution now.” | bor and Yipsilanti. | A delegation of workers will go to} | The slate was headed by William ; Young, an active Communist, 34 mand 2 Dern te a Le many ehh years old, an unemployed carpenter Spe he eee | and former Ford worker, He. was delegation will meet at 9:30 a. m. at| Milford International Labor Defense | 7 . Loder, 34 years old, an electri omice, 289 Market Street. All or-| who is a member of the American Banizations are urged to send| Federation of Labor was elected vil- representatives, and protests, lage treasurer. Peter Savage, a ss #e | garage mechanic; Thomas MacFad- Metal Workers Union Endorses May zean, a bricklayer and member of Day Demonstration |the A. F. of L., and Carmen Cole- CLEVELAND. Apr. 21.—Cleveland|man, auto worker, were elected workers are confidently Icoking for- | members of the vilage council. ward to the biggest May Day dem- ‘ onetration in the history of hig |All those fear he rene city. | an Tuesday night, 32 representa-| Council which has 54 members out tives from all locals of the Steel |°f @ total of 84 unemployed in the and Metal Workers Industrial Union| Village. As a result of the activity endorsed the United Front May oe | f the Unemployed Council, every BILL YOUNG. and the other half building trades workers. Many of the building trades workers are members of the A. F. of L., but are in opposition to the bureaucrats who lead the unions. Most of the families had originally bought their homes, but lost them because they could not meet the payments during the pe- | riod of the crisis with its unemploy- 0 demonstration and pledged mass|0M¢ of the 84 unemployed were on participation of their members. The | the C. W. A. and are now on the union issued an appeal to the Cleve- | F. E. R. A., while in the county as land Mechanics Educational Society | ® Whole only one out of every three of America to participate in a union | Tesistered unemployed received these section of the parade at the follow- | Jobs. ing points: | Pratt is a village consisting of Market Square and West 25th St..| about 180 families with a population at 2 p.m. B 55th and St. Clair, and | of 800. All the families except three| ment and low wages. W. 55th and Woodland, at the same| are workers’ families. About half} Through the organized action of hour, of the workers are auto workers|the unemployed, they forced the Unemployment Council Slate Wins in Pratt, Mich, county to establish a relief distribu- tion center in Pratt, where the un- employed formerly had to go to Ann Arbor to get relief. Because of its size, Pratt is an unincorporated village and is not permitted to levy taxes and carry out other activities. However, it was made clear by Village President Young that the Village Council would use all its power to increase the relief given to the unemployed in Pratt, and would bring the organized pressure of the entire town on the county Officials to bring this about. He also stated he would use his power as village president to see that road and sewage conditions would be im- proved. He stated, this and other improvements would take place only if the workers in the town would use their collective power to compel the county authorities to act to im- prove the social services in the town. The workers are happy over the election of the workers’ slate and have confidence that since the vil- lage president and a number of other village officials are Commu- nists, they will lead the fight to improve conditions, So many workers signed the peti- tions to put the elected candidates {Continued from Page 1) office at 10 E. 115th St., where the Flores child was denied aid, and of worker from the neighborhood, will present their demands to Hodson this morning. The Flores child be- came dangerously ill with diarrhea Thursday of last week and the father of the child, Jesus Flores, ap- plied to the Home Relief Bureau for medical aid. No doctor was sent, and the child did not have medical aid until the Harlem Hopital sent an ambulance, and then was ex- amined only by the ambulance doc- tor. On Friday Flores pleaded again with the Home Relief Bureau for aid but they sent no doctor. A nurse passing on the street finally sent for the ambulance, When Flores came to the hospital this Thurusday the child was dead. The Home Relief Bureau then refused to pay the $18 necessary to bury the child in the Flores burial plot. The delegation this morning will demavzid burial expenses for the child and make other demands regarding the cae. ‘The general picket line, demand- ing re-instatement of those fired from ©. W. A. jobs and rescinding of the wage cuts on work relief, will begin at ten this morning. All un- employed are urged to be present and take part in the picketing. Delogates from fraternal and mass on the ballot, that the reactionary forces did not dare put up oppo- sition candidates. organizations will meet at the Cen- tral Opera House at 67th St. and Asks Five Cents Less; Gets Fine, 30 Days JERSEY CITY, April 19—Jacob Maged, a tailor, was fined $100 and sentenced to 30 days in jail by Common Pleas Judge Robert vV. Kinkhead, ‘after he had pleaded guilty to violation of the state code for tailors. Maged had taken thirty- five cents for pressing a three-piece Suit of clothes. The code orders a charge of forty-cents. May Day Collection in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, April 20.—Tag day collections will be held in this city Saturday and Sunday, April 21 and 22, to aid the plans for a United All. 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