The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1934, Page 3

Rayon Strikers Drive Off Scabs Trooper; shland Workers Ignore rders of UTW Heads Against Picketing JEWETT City, Conn., April 19. — While the Ashland Rayon strikers were following the order of their leaders (U. T. W.) for no mass picketing around the plant, the scabs began to trickle slowly into the mill. Finally last Tuesday the strikers took matters into their own hands and decided to stop any & bs from entering the plant. ‘ynen the overseer arrived at the Plont at 6 a. m. with a car-load of scabs, the strikers were massed at the mill door waiting for them. The overseer jumped out of the car hur- riedly and tried to open the door to the plant, but the lock had been filled with broken pieces of matches and he couldn’t get the key into the lock. The strikers took advantage of the delay and surrounded the car that was filled with scabs. They rocked the car so violently that the scabs bounced around like rubber balls. Then they took off the door of the car and drove the scabs away from the mill. When the second car-load of &cabs arrived, the scabs were not only driven away, but the car was overturned completely. Immedi- ately a state trooper was brought in from the barracks in Danielson. However the strikers were so en- raged that this lone state trooper suffered pretty badly when he tried to disperse the strikers. He was forced to appeal for help, and im- mediately more troopers were sent to the scene. However not one scab got into the mill that day. We must continue our mass picket lines around the mill every day until we win this strike for a 25 per cent in- crease in wages. en TENTH ANNUAL CONCERT of the FREIHEIT MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA Assisted by a Group of the Freiheit Gezang Farein JACOB SCHAEFER, Conductor Saturday, April 21st — 8:30 P. M. — Town Hall 43rd Street, East of Broadway Part of Program: Fifth Symphony, Beethoven, Suite of Soviet Melodies, Schaefer Tickets 50c, 75c, $1 at 106 E. 14th Street and Box Office Upset Car —- and State 300 Gold Dust Lodge Jobless March on Welfare Departm’t Force Relief Department To Grant Immediate Relief NEW YORK.—Despite a full mo- bilization of police and’ Salvation Army spies, more than 300 jobless single workers from the Gold Dust Lodge marched on the Home Relief Bureau at Spring and Elizabeth Sts. Tuesday. Not receiving satisfaction there, they marched on the City Welfare Department at 50 Lafayette St. There they forced Deputy Com- missioner Stanley H. Howe to meet with a delegation of 11, hear their demands, promise to investigate their grievances, and grant them immediate relief. Laurie maintains an _ elaborate spy system by giving better food to his stool pigeons by feeding them three meals a day, although the other workers are fed only two meals. (The city pays 33 cents a day for each worker in the flop house.) The marchers’ delegation of 11 workers presented the demands of the Gold Dust Lodge to the Depart- ment of Welfare, demanding three meals a day and decent food for all in the flop house, the right to or- ganize and the recognition of the workers’ committee, workers’ control of all funds, no forced labor—all work to be paid at union wages, in- creased appropriation by the city, and the endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill by the Welfare Department. Major Laurie, in answering the charges of the workers, upheld the spy system, refused to grant cloth- ing to the men, and stated that he had specifically requested the open- ing of a Jim-Crow flop house in Harlem to which he sends all Ne- groes. Welfare Commissioner Howe was forced to grant immediate relief to all the men who marched on his office, and promise a complete in- vestigation of the Gold Dust Lodge, promising answers to all the men’s demands when they return on Sat- urday morning. Down tools May Ist! Rally the fight against the N.R.A.’s attacks on living standards and workers’ organizations, PHILADELPHIA Thrilling Motion Pictu. and Lecture RUSSIA AS IT Is! by and with JULIEN BRYAN in person County Center, April 27, 8:30 P.M. White Plains 55e-$1.10-$1.65 GALA FESTIVAL For the Benefit of 21st —8P.M.— at German Workers Club 306 East 149th Street, Bronx Excellent Program—Entertaii Admission 25e, Unemployed 100 4 4th JUBILEE ., of I. W. O. Sat., April 28th 8 P. M— Ambassador Hall 1710 N. Broad Street PROGRAM: Workers’ Choruses, I. W. 0. Youth Dram Group, Prominent Negro Tenor, Nature Friends Dram Group, Recita- tios by Youth and Negro Talent, Mandolin Orchestra. Speaker: W. Weiner, President of I.W.0. Auspices: Dist. Comm. LW.O. — Admission 25¢ Film and Photo League Presents “My Experiences in Hollywood” with ROBERT GESSNER (Author of “Massacre” NICHOLAS BELA (Actor and Scenarist) Sunday Eve, April 22, 8:30 P.M. at 12 EAST 17th ST. — Adm. 25¢ ENTERTAINMENT and DANCE tC) SAT., April 21st — 8:30PM 35 East 12th St. . — 5th Floor — Music Recital, Chalk Talk by “del,” Feats of Magic and more, Symposium “The 8th Convention of the Communist Party and the Intellectual” Granville Hicks — Chairman Speakers: Marguerite Young, Joseph North, Harry Gannes Friday Eve., April 27 IRVING PLAZA HALL Irving Place and 15th Street Auspices: Red Builders Admission 20¢ Auspices: New Masses John Reed Club REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Spring Term HARLEM WORKERS SCHOOL 200 West 135th Street CLASSES IN: Principles of Communism Marxism-Leninism Political Economy Spanish—English—Russian Ask for Descriptive Booklet Telephone: Audubon 3-5055 Public Speaking Labor Journalism Trade Union Strategy Current Negro Problems Special Scholarship Rates for Organizations Room 214-A Film and Photo League MOTION PICTURE COSTUME BALL FRIDAY EVENING WEBSTER HALL April 27th 119 E. 11th St. @ Original Nickelodeon Show @ Sound Movies will be taken Celebrities from Stage and Screen @ Exhibit of Photos by Marguerite Burke White, Ralph Steiner, Irving Browning, Berenice Abbitt, Film & Photo League. Tickets in advance $1; at door $1.50. Available at Workers Bookshop; Le Blancs: Film & Photo League, 12 E. 17th St. GR. 5-9582. Says He ‘Was a Good! Friend of Gompers and John L. Lewis By HARRY RAYMOND “T made over a million dol- lars breaking strikes in the year of 1920,” Peter L. Bergoff, self-styled king of the strikebreakers and labor stool pigeons, boastfully asserted yesterday in his office, at 2 Colum- bus Circle. He sat there behind a big polished desk, vain as a peacock, obviously proud of long years of service as a rat for the capitalist class and a leader of gangsters and sluggers. Accompanied by Leo Seltzer, our efficient staff photographer, I was led into the presence of this arch scoundrel by a suspicious looking person, obviously TBergoff’s body guard, who stood watch at the rasa door in the front of the of- ice. “How did you make the million doliars?” I ventured. “Who paid you this money?” Immediately the gang leader went to his safe and pulled out a stack of documents, “Look at that,” he said. He pro- duced a contract signed by repre- sentatives of the Brooklyn City Railroad, the South Brooklyn Railroad and the Coney Island and Gravesend Railroad Company. “There’s where some of the La Guardia Denies Veterans Right to March for Bonus Today’s Parade Is Off; Protest Refusal of Permit NEW YORK.—The Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League was denied the right to march from Union Sq. to Columbus Circle Saturday evening, April 14. A permit was understood to have been granted but was not forwarded to the proper commit- tee. This is in line with the Roose- velt policies of last year when every attempt was made to discourage lo- cal organizations from recruiting and organizing the rank and file veterans to go to Washington to de- mand their back pay and repeal the Economy Act. This year, due to the increasing hardships in the ranks of the veterans and the workers and the determination of the veterans and workers to fight for relief from their misery, they are also demand- ing unemployment insurance as stated in bill H. R, 7598. All organizations who are sympa- thetic to the veterans’ cause are re- quested to send letters of protest to Mayor LaGuardia and Police Commissioner O’Ryan demanding that the veterans be allowed to pa- rade without police interference. Send delegations to Mayor LaGuar- dia demanding hands off the vet- erans. Down tools May Ist! Rally the fight against the N.R.A.’s attacks on living standards and workers’ organizations, Bronx Tenants Win Two Rent Strikes Force Reductions of Rents NEW YORK.—The tenants of 999 Freeman St., Bronx, after a long struggle, won their rent strike forc- ing the landlord to grant their de- mands for recognition of the house committee, no evictions, free repairs, and the installation of electric refrigerators. Under the guidance of the Un- employment Councils and unit 31, section 15 of the Communist Party, and led by P. Meyrowitz, and A. Lerner, furriers, I Browder, chauf- fer and I. Kushner, the landlord was forced to accede to all of the ten- ants demands. The tenants have donated $7 to the. Unemployment Councils. During the strike, the landlord served disposseses to several of the tenants, but due to the solidarity of the 28 tenants of the house, he was forced to withdraw the eviction proceedings and deal with the work- ers tenant committee. Britton St. Tenants Win NEW YORK.—The 48 tenants of 653 Britton St., Bronx concluded a successful rent strike, forcing the landlord to reduce the rent $2 to $3 on all apartments. At the request of the tenants, he was forced to con- tribute $10 to the Unemployment Councils. In addition to winning rent reductions, the tenants forced the landlord to recognize the house committee and promise not to dis- criminate against active strikers. Down tools May 1 against im- perialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China! 12th CELEBRATION of the “Morning Freiheit” Saturday Eve., April 21st At MERCANTILE HALL Broad and Master Streets CLARENCE HATHAWAY, Editor Daily Worker, Main Speaker Freiheit Gesangs Farein, Hall Johnson Quartet, A. Rabofski, ANNIVERSARY PETER L. BERGOFF Labor spy and strikebreaker, as he appeared in his office in New York yesterday while being quizzed by a Daily Worker reporter. rubbing his hands. Here before me was a contract which proved conclusively that “Red” Bergoff, as he is commonly called, received $737,602.36 from the greedy traction bosses in the year 1920 for sending in gangs of strike- breakers and thugs to break the Streetcar and subway strike. “I wish I had another job like that,” said the thug leader. ge made over a million that year in a few months.” Whether he paid in- come tax on a million dollars Mr. Bergoff did not divulge. “But what are you doing today?” I asked. Admits He Hires "Thugs Bergoff admitted that he was the one who sent Eddy Gatti, well- known gangster, Samuel Binder, Murray Freidland and Charles Rinda to Philadelphia to break the strike of the S. K. F. Industries workers. He also admitted that he was at present trying to clear Gatti of charges of defiling strikers’ homes, for which Gatti was arrested and held in $3,000 bonds. “Why I got Gatti out of jail some years ago,” declared Ber- goff. (Gatti is the gangster who was hired by the notorious George Williams and Max Sherwood to work for the Parmelee System bd the recent taxi strike—H. The old strikebreaker shied clear of talking about his activities in the year of 1916, when he had his license revoked for a swindling deal. Bergoff admitted that he was doing some work on the Barry K. Thaw murder case, but failed to tell how he was told to get out of District Attorney Jerome's office when he came around with some phoney in- formation. Connected with Nat Shaw “Have you ever had any connec- of Nozovitsky and Sherwood, who tried to put the red-baiting forgeries over on the Passaic textile mill own- ers?” TI asked. “Shaw only worked for me once,” Bergoff said, trying to evade the question. “If he ever worked for me after that I didn’t know it.” The facts of the matter are, how- ever, that the notorious Nathan Shaw worked for Bergoff on many occasions. Shaw was arrested on an Adams Express Co, job while work- ing for Bergoff. In 1929 Shaw worked for Bergoff and aided him in supplying gangsters strikebreakers for a Standard Oil strike. Terrorized Telegraph Boys Bergoff then unwittingly, by a slip of the tongue, let it be known that he was the one who was sending thugs around to union meetings of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph boys who are try- ing to organize for a fight for better conditions. | money came from,” said Bergoff tions with Nat. Shaw, the old friend | i | Adqnits Thugs Jailed in Philadelphia Were in His Employ * | “T was up all night on that | telegraph job,” said Bergoff. That the Bergoff strikebreaking agency works hand in glove with | leaders of the American Federation of Labor was also revealed by the| # | old scab herder. | Sam Gompers His Friend “Sam Gompers was a good friend of mine,” said Bergoff, when I questioned him about his connection | with A. F. of L. leaders. “I knew John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and his predecessor, Mit- chell. I met them in Scranton so- cially.” Describing his connections with; | the leadership of the International Longshoremen’s Association, Bergoff | told how he met Tom O'Conner in| 1913: “I was introduced to O'Conner by W. J. Conners, a Buffalo editor. Conners said, “Tom, you're the man who makes the strikes—meet the man who breaks the strikes.’ So we went out to a gin mill and | had a nice littie time together.” | About the activities of Sherwood, | Williams and the gang from the| Sherwood Detective Bureau, whom we exposed in the last three issues of the Daily Worker, Bergoff was very reluctant to speak. All the old racketeer would say is, “I have nothing to do with that cheap bunch | of racketeers, I am a big strike- breaker.” But Bergoff knows more than he) pretends to know about the Sher- wood Williams gang. They all hire the same gangsters and they play their dirty trade in the same way. Reading Bergoff's little booklet which he uses to lure the factory | owners, one can notice little dif- | ference in it from Sherwood’s book- let. | The following is quoted from a} four-page folder sent out by Bergoff to manufacturers: “Strike Prevention Department —This department is composed of men possessing natural leadership qualifications. Men of intelligence, courage and great persuasive powers, to counteract the evil in- fluence of strike agitators and the radical element.” (The men of | persuasive powers are undoubtedly |Eddy Gatti and his gang—HR.) | ‘The following is a typical letter sent to employers by the old rat: “We propose to furnish as your agents, employees to take the strikers’ places on the open shop basis in numbers as you may de- sire at the prevailing rate of wages paid by the company. For this service we charge you the sum of ONE DOLLAR per working day per working man, subsistence and the necessary cost of procuring and delivering them. “We further propose to furnish experienced men for guard and | escort duty who have nerve and are especially qualified for this line of work. . For this service we charge you the sum of ONE DOLLAR per hour per man and expenses.” In this manner Bergoff, the gang/| leader, solicits his jobs of sending sluggers and plug-uglies into the} factories. He is given a license from} the city to do this work. He is even considered a respectable business man by the city officials. He has| been going about doing his miser- able work since 1903, when he open- ed up the igilant Detective Agency. | “It's a matter of dollars and cents to me,” said Peter Bergoff. How long will the New York City) government allow this man to col- lect these dollars and cents out of | the life-blood of the workers? Workers everywhere should raise this question in their unions. De- mand that Bergoff, Sherwood and} Williams be put out of business.| Demand this from the Mayor of New York. The Daily Worker will back you in this fight. | the return of the 23 per cent wage | Restaurant Workers DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1934 Made Over A Million Bucks Breaking! Strikes, Boasts Scab-Herder Bergoff Protest Attack on “Daily” in Court Tuesday, April 24 NEW YORK.—In an attempt to stop the Daily Worker's ex- posure of labor spy agencies su as the Bergoff Agency, of professional stool the Sherwood Detect: have brought libel against Harry Raymond, author of today’s article. a notorious spy, named Williams, who operates out the Sherwood Bureau, 1457 Broad- way, and whose strike-breaking activities the Daily Worker re- cently exposed Raymond will answer the libel charges Tuesday, April 24, at 10 a. m. in Jefferson Market Court, 425 Sixth Ave., when he will ap- pear for a hearing. Workers should protest this slimy attack on the Daily Worker by packing the court when the case comes up for a hearing. Teachers to | March for | Back Wages Official Leader Tries to Curb Real Fight Against Bankers Daily Worker Mid-West Bureau CHICAGO, IIL, April 20.—School teachers are to march through the Chicago Loop today after a mass meeting at Liberty Square, Congress St. and Michigan Ave., at 10 a. m. in what John M. Fewkes, Billy Sun-| day type, holding dictatorial reins) over the teachers, promises to be} an “orderly parade.” | Fewkes has assured city officials that he will keep the teachers in| check and prevent any attempt of @ march on the City Hall or any of the Loop banks, The returns of a straw vote on | strike have thus far been kept se- cret by Fewkes, tho he announced that about 50 per cent of the teach-| ers had voted to go out. | Fights Militant Teachers Fewkes has called “civic organiza- tions” including the American Le- gion, Lions and Kiwanis Clubs, etc., to join the march with a specific announcement against militant] workers or teachers whom he refers to as “trouble makers.” Captains| | Were named to censor all banners} carried in the march. | The rank and file teachers’ group of Chicago has issued a call to all| student and workers’ organizations} to enter the demonstration in a} body. | The main demands Fewkes has raised are vague requests for “a general protest against inhuman conditions in the schools, to arouse | public opinion and to secure pass- age of legislation.” The rank and file are urging the teachers to prepare for strike for back wages and rehiring of unemployed teachers through the cutting down of teacher load, and | cut. Strike in Brooklyn NEW YORK.—After defeating the | attempt of A. F. of L. officials of Local 325 to put over a strike- breaking contract on workers of the} Nathan’s Busy Bee, Surf and Still-| well Avenue, Coney Island, a strike was declared for recognition of the Cafeteria Workers Union of the Food Workers Industrial Union for) better conditions. Down tools May Ist! Rally the | fight against the N.R.A.’s attacks | on living standards and workers’ organizations, |mon carrier |to 15 weeks insurance a year. | period, Page Three Seven Reasons Why Wagner Bill Does Z| Not Benefit Job! Amter Contrasts H. R. 7598 with Fraudulent Wagner Bill By I. AMTER the Workers Bill H. R HE! W with the ‘other ‘bills of the sv of through the A. F. Green has come tion of the is proposed, we freq: ani wer just with the bosses and the A. F. of L. officials in support of the N.R.A file the ie jections to t Workers’ Bill and ¢ the Wagner-Lewis B: In many states, unemployment insurance bills have been int: In Wisconsin a bill was adopt the state legislature, and shel Why suddenly this interest in un- employment insurance? Why silence of Roosevelt since the elec- tion campaign of 1932 and in face of his statement on February 28 (‘Roosevelt Program for Jobless”) that “Direct relief as such, whether in the form of cash or relief in kind, is not an adequate way of meeting the needs of able-bodied workers. . . . The Federal Gov- ernment has no intention or de- sire to force either upon the coun- try or the unemployed them- selves a system of relief which is REPUGNANT TO AMERICA) IDEALS of individual self-reli- ance.” Why do Mr. Roosevelt, Miss Perk- ins and others, who have “forgot- ten” unemployment insurance since the Fall of 1932, suddenly support the Wagner-Lewis Bill? For the simple reason that the support be- hind the Workers Bill is growing so rapidly and invading the realm of the A. F. of L. and of the fraternal societies so effectively that Roose- velt, Perkins and Green are be- coming frightened. It is time, therefore, that the workers learn what the Wagner- Lewis Bill is and then they will un- derstand that in supporting it Roo- | ° sevelt, Perkins, Green & Co. are| merely pursuing their policy of p' laging the unemployed and of pro- viding strikebreaking measures, as they have in the National Reco Act and in the Wagner Labor What Is The Wagner-Lewis Bi The Wagner-Lewis “unemploy Roosevelt, who is an a ment insurance” bill provides the | cate” of unemployment following: | also endorses. One can und 1. No insurance for the army of 16,000,000 unemployed. This is not openly stated in the bill, which de- clares that the insurance fund shall be raised by means of a “5 per cent tax on the employers’ pay rol Clearly the employer pays into the fund only for his own workers, The unemployed have no employers and therefore receive no insurance. 2. The bill further excludes the following: agricultural laborers, domestic workers, teachers in any school], college or university, those employed in the service of a com- (transport work: government employees, phys surgeons, internes or nurses in ho: pitals, and workers in shops employ- ing less than 10 persons. More than half of the working class would re- ceive no insurance. 8. The act would provide a mini- mum of $7 a week i> ance for 10 weeks in the year. the worker |has worked at least five years for the concern he m yabe entitled up In ing during which the worker would go without compensation, an- both cases there would be a wi WHAT to JON THE NEW YORK WORKERS Book Shops specials are selling fast. Get yours now at 50 E. 13th St. Saturday Manhattan CHOW MEIN PARTY and dance at 130 ‘W. 23rd St. Auspices Joe Hill Br. I. L. D. Admission 15¢. DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT, 64 Sec- ond Ave. Red Sparks A. C, Auspices Steve Katovis Br. I. L. D. Carioca Dancers exhibition with good entertainment. 8 p. m SURPRISE BALL, Workers Center 4046 Broadway at 170th St. Good program, Jazz orchestra. Auspices ¥. C. L. Ad- mission 20c. ENTERTAINMENT end DANCE at Ger- man Workers Club, 79 E. Tenth St. Benefit German Workers | Club. Group. Donation 15¢. PARTISAN REVIEW PARTY for contrib- utors and readers. Dancing. Studio, 92 Fifth Ave., second floor. Admission 75¢ a couple; 50c single. UNITY THEATRE, 24-26 E. 23rd St. — Credo—Death of Jehovah, Class Collabora- tion, Broedway 1933. Dancing, refresh- ments. Admission 35c. HOUSE PARTY, 698 Third Ave. Ti! Mon- tag. Auspices Yorkville Br. F, 8. U. Send off to comrades to S. U, 8 p. m. FILMS—Pavlov's Mechanics of the Brain (complete version) Problem of Fatigue: Itch for a Higher Life (satirical sound film). At New School Auditorium, 66 W. 12th St. 7:30 and 9:45 p. m. (two show- ings). Tickets in advance 50c_at room 224, 80 E. 11th St. and Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St. Auspices Medical Bureau F. 8. U. » THIRD ANNUAL SPRING Balloon Dance by Cli-Grand Youth Club et Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. Well, known band, Dance till dawn. DANCE EXTRAORDINARY, American Youth Federation, 144 Second Ave. (Ninth St.). 8:20 p. m., reading of tev. poems by Maxwell Bodenhein, Waltz & Lindy Contests. Punch. Subscription 25c. CHOW MEIN & Tea Party, dancing, entertainment and refreshments at Amal- gamated Rank and File Center, 116 Uni- versity Place, cor. 13th St. Sponsored by Unit 11 Sec. 1; 7:30 p.m. Adm. 10¢. DANCE, Benefit Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League, at I.W.O. Hall, 415 Lenox Ave., cor. 131st St. Hot Jazz Band. Sub- scription 25c. HOUSE [erty given by Yorkville Br. F. S.U. at €98 Third Ave., T. Montag, 8 p.m. Send off to comrades going to the Soviet ‘Union. HOUSE PARTY given by Yorkville Unit ¥.C.L. at 173 E. 96th St. Apt. 2R, 8 p.m. Adm. 15¢. WRITERS’ Group of “The Vanguard’ holding a bridge party and dance at their headquarters, 235 W. 135th St, 9 p.m. Baritone Refreshments. A¢m. 25c. HOUSE PATTY, Entertainment and dancing given by Telegraph-Radio Union, Drum & Fife! 15; 1 Stuyvesant Alley, 8 p.m. DANCE given by Manhattan Local C.W. A. at 418 W. 58rd St., 8 p.m. Negro Jazz Band. Refreshments. Contribution 15c. SPRING FROLIC given by Youth Sect. of S.M.W.LU., Novelty Local, Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, 9:30 p.m. Bronx HOUSE PARTY in honor of Unit 36 at Comrade Finfers, 985 E. 179th St., apart- ment 19. Admission free. Proceeds to Daily Worker and Bronx Workers Center. Auspices Unit 2, Section 15. CONCERT AND DANCE-—-750 Adee cor. Holiand Ave. Auspices Council 23. 8:30 p.m. Admission 15c. ENTERTAINMENT and DANCE to jazz orchestra. 3230 Bainbridge Ave. 9 p. m. Auspices Mosholu Progressive Club. gician, refreshments. Admission 25c, youth c. PARTY at 1400 Boston Rd. Y¥. ©. L. Unit 4. 10c hat check. SPRING FESTIVAL AND DANCE, 2179 White Plains Rd., 8:30 p. m. Auspices Pelham Parkway Workers Club. Waltz contest, exhibitions and entertainment. YOUNG WORKERS OF INWOOD and Kingsbridge play ball at Van Cortlandt Park meet near Colonial Mansion 2 p. m. New Youth Club forming. DANCE, band refreshments at 1401 Macombs Rd. Admission 25c. Auspices Mt. Eden Br. F. 8. U. FIFTH JUBILEE, concert and ball of Prospect Workers Center Hunts Point Palace (main ballroom), So. Boulevard and Auspices 163rd St. Double jazz orchestra. Tickets in advance 35c, at door 45c. Starts 8:45 p. m, sharp, CONCERT AND DANCE, 966 E. Tremont Ave., at Tremont Progressive Club. program. Dancing. PARTY and Play given by Y.C.L. Unit 2 at 886 Forest Ave. near 16ist St., 1 flight up. Adm. 15c. Brooklyn HOUSE PARTY, Comrades Scheinin's, 8679 23rd Ave. Auspices Tom Mooney Br. 817 I. W. O. LECTURE, Rabbi Goldstein on ‘Religion and Communism.” New Lots Workers Club, 573 Stone Ave. Admission 15c. MOVIE AND DANCE at Boro Park Work- ers Club, 18 at 47 St. “The Man That Laughs” will be shown. CONEY ISLAND WOMEN’S COUNCIL 5 having Gypsy night. dance and tea-cup readings, at 2918 W. 30th &t., Coney Island. Admission 15c. 8:30 p. m. CONCERT end DANCE at 1813 Pitkin Ave. <Auspices Section 8. C. P. 8:30 p.m. LAUREN GILFILLAN speaks on her book, at 385 Jay St., Boro Hall Sta.—any subway. 830 p. m. Admission 25¢, Danc- 8:39 p. m. at 5207 15th Ave., ertainment, refreshments. Aus- Simms Br. I. L. D. FOURTH ANNUAL SPRT bal . S12 Sutter Ave, 8&8 po ™. Hie le 3V- ers Youth Club, Silver Loving Cup to best ing, refreshments. STUDIO PARTY, ing, dan pice: Ma-| li Good| I. L. waltz couple. DRAMATIC MUSICAL RECITAL by Brownsville Br. F. 8. U. featuring John Bovington, poet-dancer and Charles Entin, Violinist at Comrade Levin's 796 New Jer- sey Ave. Admission 25c. ENTERTAINMENT and DANCE, Savoy Mansion, 6322 20th Ave. 8:30 p. m. Aus- pices American League Against War and Fascism. ; HOUSE PARTY, 82 Graham Ave. Aus- pices Walter Rojek Br. I. L. D. Admission 15c, Refreshments and entertainment. GALA Festival and Dance, Entertain-| ment at Bridge Plaza Club, Rodney and| So. 5th St. Given by Social Youth Cul- ture Club and Bridge Plaza Club. FIRST ANNUAL Concert and Dance given by Brighton Local 6 of Alteration Painters Union at 3200 Coney Island Ave. CONCERT and Tea Party given by Al- fred Levy Br. ILD. at 333 Sheffield Ave., 8 p.m. All proceeds towards prisoners’ re- ef. DANCE, Negro Jazz Band, Gala Enter- tainment at American Youth Club, 407 Rockaway Ave, Auspices: Prog, Community Center, East Flatbush. Astoria DANCE and Entertainment given by As- toria Unit Sect. 10 at 2520 Astoria Ave. Refreshments. Adm. 25c, 8 p.m. Sunday HIKE to Palisades Park. Millinery United Front Committee. Meet foot of Dyckman Street Station, Broedway-| Seventh Avenue, LR.T. subway, at 9 a.m. JOHN REED CLUB FORUM. John How- ard Lawson, on “Fellow Travelers and Marxist Criticism” at the John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Ave. John Wexley, chairman. OPEN FORUM—‘Three Years of Scotts- boro.” Speaker, David Schriffman. 323 E. 13th St., 3 p. m. Tom Mooney Branch, D. SYMPOSIUM: SCHOOLS and the Crisis. Speakers: Blanche Hofrichter, Jules Metz, and Isidore Begun. United’ Front Sup- Porters, 11 W. 18th Street, 3 p. m. FLAG INAUGURATION and Banquet, Concert, Dance. Italian Workers Center, 233 E. Tenth St.. 1-5 p. m. Five-course dinner. Contribution 40c; after 5 p. m., 15¢. SPORTS CARNIVAL and DANCE. Amer- ican Youth Federation, 144 Second Ave., 8:30 p.m. Boxing and wrestling between A. ¥. F. and Tremont Progressive Club. Followed by Dancing. 15¢ admission. UNITY THEATRE, 24-26 E, 23rd St. sents “Cred eath of Jehovah,” “Class Collaboration,” “Broadway, 1933.” Admission 35c. DAVID A. SIQUEIROS lectures on “The Art cf the Working Class.” Lexington Hall, 109-11 E, 116th St., 2 p. m. Open Discussion. Admission free. DANIEL CARTER, lectures on “Tuelve Years of Fascism in Italy.” Fordham Progressive Club, 7 West Burnside Ave.,| Bronx. 8:30 p. m. Admission 10c. Un- employed free. SPRING FEV! FROLIC. Engdahl Room, 2700 Bronz: Park East. Refresh- nment. Admission 10¢. Sunday night, ment= and entertr) Unit 3, Section 15, MAX BLOOM, on “Fascism and the N. R. A.” Pelham Parkway Workers Club, 2179 White Plains Road, 8:30 p. m. Ques- tions and discussion. Admission 10c. OPEN FORUM. Dr. Jacques Soifer on “The Health of the Worker in the Crisis.” Tremont Progressive Club, 86§ E. Tremont Ave. 8 p. m. NAT BRUCE lectures on ‘Fascist Move- Bro ments in America.” 410 13th lyn., 8:30 p. m. Ella May Blo ch, I. L. D. Admission 10c. Unemployed 5c. LECTURE BY HAROLD BOLDT: Do you believe your newspapers? New Culture Club > 2345 Coney Island Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. LECTURE: Unemployment, War and Fascism in the U. 8. Brighton Workers Center, 3200 Coney Island Ave., 8:30 p. m. FOOD WORKERS Youth Sect. Hike to Hunter's Island. Take Lexington Ave. Ex- press, change 125th St. f Pelham Bay Park’ train to last stop, 8:30 a.m. JOSEPH MORRE lectures on “The A. F. of L. and the Negro” at Harlem Work-| 2350) the the workers, striking—in ing bil only tection. Burden on Workers r it this would not cost the employer a penny, for the amount would be deducted from his tax Tt i wu into operation in J a bill for adoption Id require many ire five years f 7. The bill mechanism according to separate fund of business, his emplo: compensation only as long as the fund lasted. If the future w ployment of those no should be of long dur. , the amount of compensation would be determined by the amount paid i the fund by that, is not a rker would be en- titled to insurance would be thrown i This is the bill which Miss Perkin ladylike secretary of labor and speaks for over the r bill it which why they are trying to 1 “insurance” fraud on t who in millions are Support to the W ment and Social Insu . 7598. In this, asa put across s of this c t ; governmental agent, Ro: the support of their labor No wond Woll, Thomas endorse the W: ployment ins’ dare to face boss need , therefore, that Green, and Waldma Co, m- e bill and do not he issue of the W ers Bill. | How much to the Workers Bill providing all workers for all contingencies of idlenzss, no matter for what reason; at a rate that will maintain them in decency for the full period of un- employment and at the expense of those responsible for unemployment. The Workers Bill (as introduced by Congressman Lundeen and some= what modified by him) calis for un- employment and rance (compensation for § as a result of unemployment, part time, sickness, accident, old age or mater- nity for all workers and farmers at | the average local wages but at no | time less than $10 a week plus $3 for each dependent; for the full period of unemployment or dis- abili There shall be no discrimi- because of age, sex, race, celer, or religious or political af- filiation or as to whether they are industrial, agricultural, domestic or professional workers. In other words the whole working class, The fund shall be raised by taxing inheritance and gifts and in- | dividual and corporation incomes of | $5,000 per year and over. (The ori- | ginal bill as drafted by the Unem- ployment Council provided that all war funds should be used for un- |; employment insurance. For reasons | best known to himself, Mr. Lundeen eliminated this provision from the ers School Forum, 200 W. 135th St., Room | Dill he introduced.) The fund shall 214A, 3:30 p.m. Adm. free. |; be controlled, not by the state “MY EXPERIENCES IN HOLLYWOOD" | machinery, as in the Wagner bill, related by Robert Gessner and Nicholas} jack Bela at Film and Photo League, but by commissions composed of 12 £.| lith St. 8:30 p.m. rank and file members of workers’ LL.A. Longshoreman’s Comm., 108 W.| and farmers’ organizations. 24th St., 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dan Italian is Chorus, May Day Play, Movie of St. Demand H. R. 7598 | and 343 on Monday Petersburg.” Contribution 25c. | DANCE and Entertainment given by Harlem Red Front, 415 Lenox Ave., 8 p.m Good music. | JOHN BOVINGDON speaks on “The ‘Theatre in Russia” at the Theatre Forum, | Studio 61, Carnegie Hall, 3:30. Dramatic Program. Adm. 25¢c. D. CARTER lectures on “12 Years of Fascism in Italy” at Fordham Prog. Club, 7 W. Burnside Ave., Room 20. Adm. 10c, | 8:30 p.m. | DEBATE “What is the solution of the Jewish Problem—Soviet Russia or Pales-/ tine?”” Representatives from American Jew-| ish Congress and Morning Pretheit. Social | Youth Culture Club, 275 Broadway, Brook-| lyn, 9 p.m. Philadelphia RED POETRY NIGHT, Sat., April 21, 8 p.m. at John Reed Club, 136 South &th St. Open House at Office Workers Union, 130 8, 8th St., April 21, 8:30 p.m. Cleveland, Ohio SPRING DANCE given by 1.W.0. Br. 2505 at Hungarian Workers Hall, 11123 Buckeye Rd., Sunday, April 22, 7:30 p.m. MAS® MEETING arranged by Unit 342 April 23 at 12701 Kinsman Rd., 8 p.m., in support of United | Front May Day demonstration. St. Louis, Mo. MAURICE SUGAR will lecture on “An. American Looks at Soviet Russia” Monday evening, April 23, 8 p.m. at Y.M.H.A. at Union and Enright Ave. Newark, N. J, SPRING DANCE given by Jack London Club Saturday evening, April 21 at South End Club, 515 Clinton St. Entertainment. Adm. 350 Compare the two and then you | will see why the bosses and Roose- velt want the bogus Wagner hill, if any, to be enacted. The workers want the Workers Bill H. R. 7593. The struggle for the Workers Bill must be intensified. In every shop, mine, union and other working class organizations, the Workers Bill should be taken up and discussed, and compared with the bogus bills that are being introduced every- where to stop the movement for the | Workers Bill. Pass resolutions, or- ganize meetings, demonstrations, | stoppages and strikes in support of | the Workers Bill. Demand that | your congressman sign the round- | rebin petition now being circulated |in the House of Representatives to | take it out of the Committee on Labor, where Roosevelt hopes to |have it buried. Demand thet he | vote for it. The fight for the Workers Bill is jon. Let’s carry on! Show Roosevelt that the Workers Bill provides a system of insurance that is not | “repugnant to American Ideals!” Down Tools, Demonstrate May, Ist to foree the adoption of the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, H. R. 7598!