The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1934, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MO NDAY, APRIL 23, 1934 Zausner Gang Vote Down by Members Ot Painters’ Loeal Painters in Stronghold of Corrupt Clique Vote 300 to 48 Against Renewal of 25 Cent d Teach ers in GUTTERS OF NEW YORK Chicago March For Back Pay| . Troyanoysky Speaks On Growth of Education in the U,S.S.R. (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) | CHICAGO, April 21—Two signi- ficant events took place in Chicago this weekend. Per Day Racket-Tax NEW YORK.—Last Friday the Zausner clique of the Painters District Council received a smashing defeat at the hands of the membership of Local 261. The recommendation made by the clique to renew the racket-tax of 25c per day was voted down by a large majority. In fact the vote was cast ¢ Se = against all recommendations made by the clique and against the leadership of the The clique receive as against more t t against the leade ship of the Council. The chairma quickly closed the meeting in re- luctance to announce the large vote against the administration. Local Was Zausner’s Stronghold Local 261 was always considered | the str Id of the Zausner gang The ique enforced their rule threugh thugs and blackjacks At the last meeting it was quite evi- dent how the membership rebels against the Zausner rule, which ter- rorized the rank and file by gang- sterism, and is guilty of racketeer- Alexander A. Troyanovsky, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, addressing one thousand people at the Palmer House Friday night as the guest of the American-Russian Institute for Cultural Relations, told of the tremendous growth of edu- cation in the Soviet Union where| “in 1914 we had less than eight} million children in school, today we | | have over 26 million.” | The following morning, as the Ambassador was entering the Board of Trade Building at LaSalle and) | Jackson Streets a parade swung into | view of 3,000 Chicago teachers and| | pupils demonstrating for $30,000,000 |in back salaries owed school em-| |ployes and protesting the wrecking | | of the Chicago school system. | | ‘The march went through the Loop | | past the “money center” of Chicago, | jled by John M. Fewkes, self-| | appointed teachers’ dictator with | Billy Sunday prowess. Despite an | order by Fewkes that all banners | carried be mild and conform with WHEN THIEVES. FALL OUT ing and corruption of a serious na- ture. The recommendation of the re-| newal of the 25 cents tax, which was abandoned because of the opposition by the membership, was made with the excuse that this fund is neces- sary for an “organization drive” and for a “strike.” This same excuse was used before by Zausner. But in reality the collected money was used to support the gangsters in order to terrorize the membership of the local. Would Cooperate With Boss Goft and Baron spoke in favor of this recommendation. The first speaker pointed out that we must not demand too much from the | GROVER (CLUBBER) WHALE | Seen as possible successor to Tammany leadership following John F. Curry’s dismissal. Curry Ousted From Tammany; Whalen May Be Tiger Chief Dismissal Move Will Strengthen Roosevelt in New York | vague slogans he issued, militant) 2 calls to action were carried by| many, Under a large banner} |marched members of the National] | Student League. | “A fair for the world, Chiacgo| unfair to teachers,” ‘Teachers | N. R. A—No Rights Anymore,” read | some of the banners while over a/ screaming headline carried recently | by the Chicago Tribune reading | “sixteen millions for school pay” was Seere the word “baloney.” | NEW YORK.—In spite of the po- “Surely in these modern days ai lice attempts to ban the meeting, | country without education is con-| 2.5000 workers at the call of the | demned to extinction,” said Troy-|German Anti-Fascist Committee, anovsky at the Palmer House as he| met outside of Schwaben Hall,| | outlined the great cultural achieve-| Brooklyn, Friday, where the Nazis ments of the first and second Five) were celebrating Hitler's birthday. Year Plans. He Said illiteracy was} An iron disciplined ring of pro- wiped out to within 10 per cent. | jetarian youth, hands interlocked, We have music everywhere,” he! surrounded the workers’ speakin |continued, “I cannot imagine a} : foe ee wine a factory or state farm in tne Soviet | Stand. Mute and determined, re- | | fusing to speak to any one who ap- Union without its choral group. We are concerned with making life beautiful.” In the line of march the teachers bosses and that we must cooperate with the bosses. He stated that the | planned “strike” will give the bosses the possibility to raise the prices for painting and therefore it is NEW YORK.—With an eye to-| ward the 1936 elections, Democratic | | proached them they guarded the| speaker's stand to ward off any at- tacks, As the meeting was in progress | necessary to help them. Baron used all kinds of tricks in order to help Zausner. He begged not to be shamed in the eyes of Zausner and asked for a vote for the tax and in this way give Zaus- the possibility to continue with his regime of terror. But the painters would not listen to the advice of the misleaders and voted down the recommendations of the clique. Roosevelt See’y Damns Demands of powers behind the Roosevelt ad- ministration ousted John F. Curry Friday night from his key position as leader in Tammany Hall. Curry, who opposed the nomina- tion of Roosevelt for President and Herbert H. Lehman for Governor of New York state. will be succeeded by a recognized dho “will stand squarely behind the administration of President Roosevelt and Gov- ernor Lehman,” The ousting of Curry will in no sense mean a lessening of the para- | sitie, plundering character of Tam- many. It means that the rulers of the Democratic Party recognize that Curry is too openly recognized by the masses as crooked and corrupt, and that a new type of “respec- table” Tammany must be put for- ward in the coming elections. 1 addition, the new leaders of the Tammany machine are anxious to | follow in the path of a closer and ee ee : | more efficient tie-up with the Wall leg officials last week withdrew | Street interests who are clustered f . A around the Roosevelt government. Nee Will Tie Up Docks | Edward J. Ahearn, one of the “We're going to fight for these | Tammany Hall leaders and possible demands. We'll tie up every dock | successor to Curry’s position, stated, and ship in Baltimore, and the|“we will support the national ad- workers in factories both there and| ministration and work for the re- elsewhere will strike to support uus.” | election of Governor Lehman.” Stack told McIntyre. Then he de-| ‘, + bias ,| Action will be taken this week to manded that Roosevelt personally| ick 9 new committee to replace receive the delegation. It was then Curry. According to latest reports, Seamen Delegates (Continued from Page 1) showed the privations of a salary-| jless year. Faces were peaked but| |determined. Even more seriously | determined were the children and | the single children’s band mustered for the demonstration. | brate Hitler’s birthday, the National | A leaflet issued to the teachers | Blue Minute Men, carrying a coffin | by the rank and file teachers’ cane | in ‘which reated an eMgy: of Hitler, | mittee called on them to prepare | #PPlied a torch and burned Hitler in | to strike for full back pay in cash, | *Mgy before the Hall in which the | regular cash pay days; restoration | Hitlerites met. | | of basic salary schedule and other|_ The 70 police who surrounded the | demands, hall were reinforced by scores of de- | Referring to the Mayor, one of|tectives and the 15th and 16th the placards read: “Kelly asked for | “®Mergency squads” of police, who time, Shall we give him 25 years?” | immediately started to provoke the After the banquet which pre-| Workers meeting and clubbed the ceded the reception to the Soviet; National Blue Minute Men, } Ambassador, Corporation Counsel Fascist Attacks on Workers O'Brien spoke in place of Mayor} The principal speakers at the| Kelly, who was said to be out of| meeting were Otto Durick, of the | German Anii-Fascist Action Com- A “Working Class Mayor” | mittee, and Martha Stone, organizer “Our Mayor, Your Excellency,” }of Section 6 of the Communist Party. ; Said O’Brien as he turned toward| Otto Durick, who addressed the Troyanoysky, “is a working-class| workers in German, dealt with the 500 young workers from the National | Blue Minute Men of America joined the demonstration. Circling the hall in which the fascists met to cele- town. | Mayor.” And the assemblage | laughed as O’Brien hastened on to say that the Ambassador was wel- results of 14 months of Hitler re- gime, particularly in the economic field. In dealing with the new bud- McIntyre snarled: “You can demand and be damned if that’s the way you feel about it.” William J. Plunkert, federal direc- tor of transient relief activities, last Friday admitted that the seamen, | ‘administered relief efficiently . . | Grover (Clubber) Whalen is being | groomed for Tammany leadership, | being backed by Postmaster James Farley, the “outside” force behind the Curry dismissal. Party Sections Hold Membership Meets on 8th C. P. Convention NEW YORK.—An open member- ship meeting of Party and non- Party members, organized by Sec- you did a good job,” but turned down their demands. Plunkert sat silent when the seamen told him he was acting at the command of | he ship-owners. Neither had Plunk- | ert any er when Stack said: | “We know why the ship-owners and you government officials want to shut cewn our relief project—you | . inow that it will be understood by | Q°7 1 pe, tne Communist Party, vorkers everywhere that if work-| 9 Thursday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. ; soni th S they can administer the whole gov- at Masonic Club, 4126 58th St., 3 eri | Woodside, Long Island. At this ernment better than the politicians. | meeting there ae be a report of |the Eighth National Convention of COLORADO RELIEF |the Communist Party, U. S. A. to WORKERS STRIKE acquaint members and sympa- Special to the Daily Worker | thi: f th isi COLORADO SPRINGS, Oolo..| spectives. laid. aon this Gon. April 22.—Two thousand F.E.R.A | vention. (government relief) workers of Colo- | ers can administer relief better, Ae tenis rado Springs went on strike here for a higher budget, demanding $65 per monta for a family of five, 60 cents an hour minimum for com- mon labor and free transportation to and from jobs. , lat 8 pm. On April 20 a mass meeting of I. B at i ? 3,000 relief workers and unemployed | J. Brandt, section organizer, and re Rose Wortis, assistant organizer of endorsed the Workers Unemploy- the "Trade: Uni Unity ci 1 ment and Social Insurance Bill (H./'"¢ Trade Union Unity Council, : ; | will report on the Eighth National R. 7598) and sent resolutions to con- | Convention of the O.P.US.A grasemen demanding its passage. | “re Communist Party, downtown Pelkaa os apeon feaitice held | Section, urges all workers to come, a meeting and planned to partici- °"4 to bring their shopmates. pate in the picket lines. The A. F. of L. official Katzen- meir was booed by the workers) Sard troops, which have been NEW YORK.—An open member- | ship meet, organized by Section 1 {of the Communist Party, will be | held at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 | E. Fourth St., on Monday, April 23, come to “this liberal city of Chi- cago, which has sprung from mud to marble.” Troyanovsky outlined the deter- |mined struggle for peace on the! | part of the Soviet Union and of | the trade possibilities with the U.S. |An attempt by Ukrainian White | 50 per cent. | Guards to demonstrate in front of | Other speakers were Sidney Spen- | the Palmer House was hastily given) cer, Negro leader of the Young | up because of the “fear of Commu: | Comnunist League of Brownsville, |nists.” A White Guardist. who! Justin of the Committee to Aid the | threw fascist leaflets from the bal- | victims of German Fascism, Charles | cony of the ballroom at the close of | Hansen of the Workers Ex-Service- the gathering was thrown out bod-| men’s League, and Hillerstein of the |ily by Chicago workers who had) american Civil Liberties Union, Also | come to hear the spokesman of their get of the Fascist government, he pointed out that while the military budget increased by 1,117,000,000 marks, the money alloted for social | welfare was decreased by 80,000.000 | marks and the sum for unemploy- ment insurance was decreased by | fatherland. | Among the speakers were James P. Goodrich, formier Governor of| |Indiana; Frank D. Chase, former | president of the Western Society of | Engineers; Prof. E. A. Ross, of Wi: -| |consin University, and Dr. J. A.) Carlson, University of Chicago) | Scientist. | | Mrs. Troyanovsky was present. | | Behind the Ambassador hung a red | | flag, with white hammer and sickle |and the Soviet star. ‘Relief Workers in Convention Plan | Fight on Layoffs (Continued from Page 1) | Such as back pay, reinstatement of | \those fired, etc. and has success- | | fully fought discrimniation against | Negroes in a number of projects. The R.W.L. played a prominent part in all united front city-wide actions for the demands of the unemployed. | | Davidow emphasized the necessity | of strengthening organization on) the job, and for concentrating to} build organization in a few key) | projects. At present the fight against | when he raised the Red scare and Called out against the strikers have | Ben Lazare of the National Blue Minute Men, who spoke briefly stat- ing that his organization will “boy- cott and combat Fascism to the limit.” Most of the speakers called for the building of the Anti-Fascist or- ganization and the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann. At the mention of Thaelmann the crowd cheered loudly and expressed further their solidar- ity with the victims of German Fas- cism and with the anti-Fascist movement, by contributing gener- ously to the collection made by Mar- tha Stone, which amounted to $22, The effect of the loud speaker and | the militant program of struggle, rallied hundreds of German work- ers of Ridgewood from their homes, | for the first time gathering in such large numbers in the heart of the German territory which the Nazis menaced for the last few months. As the workers’ meeting came to a close, the workers left in orderly groups at the advice of their lead- ers. Other groups not affiliated with the organizations sponsoring the meeting, lingered behind and con- ducted a guerilla warfare with the Nazis. Nazi provacatuers, who ap- proached the groups and shouted “Heil Hitler” were treated without mercy. Aided and abetted by the hundreds of police an attack was begun on these groups. Several: were beaten badly. As the meeting of the Nazis drew attacked the Communists. The/|Tefused to protect the scabs. | the wage cuts is the chief imme: | tg a close more police arrived to \diate struggle, together with the oh “protect” she Nazis. Scouting cars strikers denounced the Red scare| The strikebreaking machinery of | fight for jobs or relief for those al- and invited representatives of the| the government is working full | ready laid off, Cornmunist Party to speak at their| speed. Browning, the relief director, The report of Ed Sullivan, New meetings. Leading Communists were | has withdrawn all F.E.R.A. (federal| York secretary of the Unemploy- arrested but following the demon-| government) funds from the unem-| ment Councils, took up the role of stration of 3,000 were released the| ployed until “work is resumed.” A/|the Unemployment Councils as the same day. meeting was called in the armory | organization, with which is affiliated | with Hosea, A. F. of L. official as|all unemployed organizations, from chairman, to try to discourage the| work relief projects, and from to- OHIO T.E.R.A. STRIKERS strikers and order them back to} tally unemployed in neighborhoods Special to the Daily Worker work, at the 40 cent an hour rate,|as well as from workers organiza- HAMILTON, Ohio, April 22. —| without winning any of their de-| tions. He brought out the problem There is growing support for the| mands. jof the R.W.L. keeping up the fight | strike of 1,500 relief workers of But-| However, the strixers are demand-| for job; for those la!d off the C.W.| AF.L. WORKERS SUPPORT * * carrying plain clothed police thugs swooped down on _ unsuspecting groups of onlookers. Suddenly, the doors of the police cars would burst for the workers’ unemployment in- surance bill. Carl Reeve greeted the convention for the Daily Worker, and gave a number of examples of how the capitalist press fought against the unemployed workers, lying and sup- pressing news. The Daily Worker, he said, supports the demands, and ler County. The A. F. of L. Painters | ing 50 cents an hour, are standing | Local union here voted support to/ solid. The work relief workers of the strike and condemned the ac-| Hamilton County have called a tion of Hosea, A. F. of L. official! meeting in solidarity with the strik- who is playing an open strikebreak-/ ers, The e e di t is urged to ing role. Spread the strike and call solidarity The rank and file of the national! meetings throughout the state ! } A., and uniting their struggle, with | the fight of the R.W.L, for the un- | the fights against wage cuts of those | employed, Comrade Reeve concluded | holding relief jobs. Sullivan took up| urging still closer connection be- | the relief cuts instituted by Mayor | tween the Daily Worker staff and | LaGuardia in pushing thvcugh the) the R.W.L., and the taking up of the | bankers’ acr nt. Both Sullivan; problem of circulation of the Daily ‘and Davidow phasized the fight! Worker by all locals 500 Brooklyn Workers Rally To Counter Nazi Meeting Workers Put Up Resistance Against Brutal Police Provocation At Mass Meet o open, and the detectives would swarm out to club the workers. These attacks were conducted wher- ever the indignant workers of Ridge- wood gathered in small groups after the adjournment of the workers’ meeting. A German woman, attending the mass meeting of the Anti-Fascist Committee, at a mass meeting for the first time in her life, remarked to one of the speakers, “It was a wonderful meeting. I have never heard anything like this before.” Call for Delegates April 29 to Broaden Fight on Segregation NEW YORK.—All workers’ or- ganizations are urged to partici- pate in the setting up of a Com- mittee of Action Against Segrega- tion in a resolution adopted last Monday night by the tenants of 425 E. 6th St. The committee will be launched this Sunday evening at the Vic- tory Celebration dance and en- tertainment at the Workers Cen- ter 50 E. 13th St., to celebrate the victory of the tenants in forcing the powerful Emigrant Industrial Bank to back down on its attempt to evict Cyril Briggs, and enforce racial segregation in its 6th Street tenement. Organi- zations are urged to send dele- gations to this affair, tickets for which are priced at 20 cents. Workers Fraternal Orders Plan Fight For Workers Bill (Continued from Page 1) Workers’ Bill out of the House Committee on Labor, “I want to call to Congressman Lundeen’s at- tention that the Minneapolis Farmer-Labor Party, of which he is a member, that his party clubbed and used tear gas on the workers who were demanding relief and the passage .of this bill which he claims to support. After the workers had forced the Minneapolis City Council to grant their demands, the Farmer-Labor Party joined in de- nouncing these militant workers, and broke its promises to the work- ers. In addition, let me call to Congressman lLundeen’s attention that these same Farmer-Labor Party members on the City Council of Minneapolis voted for more tear gas after breaking their agreement with the workers.” * A.F.L, Unions Endorse H.R. 7598 NEW YORK —Kight Detroit, Mich., local unions of the A. F. of L, have endorsed the Workers’ Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) in recent weeks, it is reported by R. M. Kroon, secre— tary of the A. F. of L, Trade Union Conference for Unemployment In- surance in Detroit. These local unions are: Painters’ Locals 37 and 42; Railway Carmen’s Local 1054; Bakers’ Local 20; Patternmakers’ League of Flint; Bellmen and Por- ters’ Local Union 733; the Retail Drug Clerks’ Local Union and the Plumbers‘ Local Union. The United Mine Workers of America Local Union 4439, of Fay- ette City. Pa. at its regular meet- ing a few days ago, endorsed the Insurance Bill (H, R. 7598). There Was No opposition to the bill and all members agreed that it is the only one that meets the needs of the unemployed. Members of the local are taking up the bill with locals in neighboring mines. In this mine, work is very slow, and the mine has not worked a day for the past two weeks. The need for unemployment insurance is there- fore keenly felt. The Motion Picture Operators’ Union, Local 306, of the Interna- tional Association of Theatrical and Stage Employes of New York, has endorsed the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598), A petition signed by a large number of members, forced of the local, | More than 400 were present Mass Actions ‘Today Against Dress Lockout Conference and Mass Workers Have ‘Fight’ in "Em fleeting to Unite | Dressmakers | QMASHING away for all hell’s worth, fighters from the Man- 3 ___| hattan Lyceum, the American Youth Club and the Spar- paar 7 Anica atic ea tacus A. C. put up a dandy exhibition of the “art of modified | scheduled to take place today. | murder” without any murders and without the “art” in the |noon at 26th St. and Eighth Ave., | under the leadership of the Needle | |'Trades Workers Industrial Union. | It will be a demonstration against | the lockout, a mobilization to unite the locked-out workers with those | | who are in the shops against the betrayal of the officials of the Inter- national Ladies Garments Workers Union, who tricked the workers into accepting the lockout without a fight. ’ The second action will be in the} |form of an emergency conference, | called by the left wing group of the I. L, G. W. U., at 4:30 p.m., at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th | St... At this conference the shop | chairmen of both the locked-out | shops and the shops which are| working will get together to work | out plans to unite all the workers | |for a general struggle against the | violation of the contractor’s and} | jobbers’ agreement. | | The chief violation of the agree- | ment is the lockout. Aside from | The first action will take place at! Hastern District L.S.U. boxing tournament Saturday night. Similar to the Golden romped around the ring fight But, we didn’t see the thing narrow down to the finest | boxers, because there were) not enough entries. What! we saw were the ordinary run of fights which we see in the pre- | liminary bouts of an amateur contest, where the only thought of the fighter is to smash the opposing face as many times as he could, then hope for a de- cision, The technique of boxing wasn't | mastered by these worker sports- | men, They tried to box; they had gloves on, And that was the only | barrier between clothes and a street fight. ob be oe 'HE first bout between Andonshko of the Manhattan Lyceum (154) pounds) and Levine from the Amer- this, the conference will open a vig- | ican Youth Club (152) started right | orous campaign for the payment of | off the bat with a barrage of | the union scale and the abolition of | punches which dizzied my eyes | overtime work, | with their lightning-like connec- These violations have been winked at by Zimmerman, Hochman and other leaders of the International. | Conferences now taking place be- | tween the leaders of the Interna- tional and the contractors and job- bers indicate that the workers will be ordered back to the shops today or tomorrow under conditions gen- erally worse than before the lockout. The mass meeting at noon today and the conference of the left wing group will mobilize the workers for a fight against these conditions. | | | | Home Relief Buro Workers Fight Cut Meeting Wednesday Will, | Hear Reports NEW YORK—Delegates from 23 | | Precincts, representing 6,000 em- | ployees from the Home Relief Bu- reau Employees Association, left | for Washington yesterday with} | petitions signed by the major por- | | tion of the relief workers, pro- | | testing against the wage cut which | took place April 1, | The wage cut ran from 8 to 20 | per cent for all employees. The | delegates will demand additional appropriations from President | Roosevelt and Relief Administrator | Hopkins so that the wage cut will be rescinded. A membership meeting of all re- lief workers will be held Wednes- day night at 8, at. the Stuyvesant | | | High School, First Ave. and 15th St., where a report will be heard from the delegates. | again their fist-to-fist-slugging-fest. | tions. Peculiarly enough, nobody went down. After the first bom-~- bardment of fists and shoulders and tangled legs, the boys sparred off to} rest for a minute, then to resume | The first round was pretty well Glove tournament, amateurs ing for the glory of winning. put up which fans, who follow the game, would have travelled = long way to see. The boys put up some real fighting, in the way fighting stands for, without the use of powderpuffs and mani- cured fingernails. The only thing these worker sportsmen lacked was the polish and ring technique of long boxing experience. It was kind of tough on the ar- tist sitting next te me who thought he might be able to draw a couple of caricatures, There were no smashed noses, broken hands, cauliflowered ears, nor the toughness that surrounds the faces of many pugilists. They were a bunch of clean cut boys, who were out there fighting in a workers’ sport tournament, mak- ing the best of the equipment, training and knowledge they had acquired in a short time. Baseball STANDING OF THE CLUBS (Including Sat, Games, April 21) NATIONAL LEAGUE even, since both were on the re-| Mien pe ceiving and connecting end. In the} pA aR <0. 1600 second round, the slugging arms be-| Brooklyn ae eas.) gan to tire, and the punches be-| Pittsburgh oon 500 came ineffective. At the close of | Boston. ae Abe the round Andonshko was so tired| Gincianati” acc gle ano. that he couldn’t return to the ring | Philadelphia _ eT i +000 for the third round. Levine, a/ AMERICAN LEAGUE longshoreman, won on a technical | sab ae LA i? ‘* knockout. Philadelphia —___ Calley ee Sue) Both boys were handicapped by | Boston i 22 800 the lack of equipment. Instead of | New Yor! tae 4 the glorious bathrobes and reper-| Wesnington 2 4: cae toire of trainers and the proper) st. Louis tA 383 ring attire, both wore their street} Chicago -1i.4 383 oe and socks and slipped around| INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE he floor. ie ety bs Rochester —. IN the second bout of the evening, | Newark Leonard (150), a steel metal) Syracuse worker from the Spartacus Club, | Montreal pranced out against Bonderick (147), | Suttalo ~ a student who was attired in his un-/ Baltimore derwear. They came out warily, eyeing each other, until suddenly NATIONAL LEAGUE Bonderick heaved an atm _ in! cincinnati 010 201 000 419-1 through Leonard’s guard and then| Pittsburgh 400 000 001 5—10—-0 came the exchange of punches.| | French, Smith and Gracs; Si Johnson, Bonderick won the bout in the sec- | ond round by a technical kayo. | Bertan (122) of the American | Youth Club came out in his bathing suit against Quartano’s (132) street shoes. The student and clerk put up a sweet exhibition of boxing. In the first round Bertan floored Quartano with a stinging jab. But despite the hard-hitting punches thrown by Bertan, Quartano won the first round because of Bertan’s jow punches, The fight ended in the second round after Bertan | | Chicago A.F.L. Leader | | \Linked With Capone in Cleaning, Dyeing Racket | Daily Worker Midwest Bureau CHICAGO, April 22.—Alderman Oscar F. Nelson, vice president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, attorney who has preyed on the janitors’ union and one of the de- Workers’ Unemployment and Social | fendants in the “conspiracy trial” here, admitted under cross-exami- nation Thursday that he had been in conference with Al Capone and other “labor leaders.” Nelson, who is is charged with being a leading light in the mon- strous racketeering cleaning and dyeing outfit, said the discussion with Capone, the late Edward J. Brundage, former attorney-general of the state; State Senator Daniel | Serritella; the notorius Jerry Horan and Patrick Sullivan was purely “political.” Meanwhile the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor leaders, through the organization's organ, “The Federa- tionist,” runs columns of typé in de- fense of the “innocent” Oscar F.! | Nelson. | | Teacher Jailed for Giving Out Leaflets NEW YORK—Florence Turnau- sky, & member of the Unemployed Teachers’ Association, was arrested Saturday morning for distributing leaflets calling for the support of the delegation that was to see Com- missioner Hodson that morning, to protest against dismissals, wage cuts, ete. Upon the request of Mr. McNary. assistant principal of the School in front of which she was giving out the leaflets, a policeman asked her to stop distributing the leaflets. She immediately complied with the request. She ‘stopped to Speak to a few teachers who had become interested, she was then ar- rested upon the request of Mr. Mc- Nary, on disorderly conduct. Com- ing up before Judge Harris she was given a lecture, after which her |To Protest Police floored Quartano three times, in a technical knockout for Bertan, ‘In the fourth bout, Gula and Shapiro, 126 and 129 pounds, re- spectively, went at it tooth and nail for three long rounds, interspersed with the heated coaching at the end of each round. By this time the audience was aroused by the spirit of winning and hitting, and advice ran high. Towards the end of the | third round, both fighters became | arm weary. Shapiro won a close decision from Gula, Topping off the fights for the evening, Breitman (145), from the Spartacus Club, and Kerekis (145), from the Manhattan Lyceum, put up a dandy fight. Each round was marked by real fighting and each round ended in a draw. The fight- ers hugged each other happily when the referee called the bout a draw. Benton, Shaute and O'Farrell. Boston 203 100 000 6—12—-0 New York 100 001 012 811-0 Brandt, Prankhouse and Hogan; Fitz- simmons, Salveson, Bowman and Rich- ards. Philadelphia 000 018 O01 59-2 Brooklyn 001 200 04x = 7—15—1 Hansen, Grabowski, Darrow, Moore and J. Wilson; Carroll, Benge, Perkins, Munns, Mungo and Lopez. Chicago 420 202 212 15—22—-0 St. Louis 000 020 000 2— 1—2 Warneke and Hartnett; J. Dean; P. ae Winford, Heise, and V. Davis, De- jancey. AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 000 000 301 4—10—3 Philadelphia 001 000 020 3—12-1 Thomas and Berg; Mahaffey and Hayes. New York 100 180 102 810-0 Boston 000 010 000 1— 8—1 Gomez and Jorgens; Rhodes, Walberg, Pennock and Ferrell. St. Louis 201 001 O11 6—8—0 Chicago 101 110 000 8—B_0 ‘Weaver, Newsom and Grube; Earnshav, ‘Wyatt and Shea. Detroit at Cleveland—Postponed; Rain. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FIRET GAME Buffalo 000 120 000 2 §—12-0 Albany 200 000 100 8 6-9-4 Elliott, Kowalik, Milstead and Outen; Chapman, Carrithers, Pipgras and Dun- ham, Lambert, Maple. es Vee fontrea! 101 Baltimore 000 M00 Ob soaps Ogden and Stack; Moore, But be ede rigs nd rochester 000 900 110 3— Nemeth one ait? Ott Obe 10 a leinke id Lewis; an an wis; LaRocea and Toronto 00 400 910 5 Srracuse aed3®, O10 001 psy er e ani : Gronine ouch; Merena, Bloomer and Interference With Bronx Club Dance NEW YORK—To protest police interference with social activities in the Workers Clubs in the Bronx, a mass meeting is called tonight at 8 p. m. at the Tremont Workers’ Club, 866 Tremont Ave, The protest grows out of attempts of the police to stop a dance in the Tremont Club Saturday night and the summoning of Irving Selis, a leader of the club, into court at 161st and Washington Ave., Tues- day morning. Down tools May 1 against wage cuts and for higher wages! 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 Tompkins Square 6-7697 Dr. S. A. Chernoff GENITO-URINARY 223 Second Ave., N.Y. G, OFFICE HOURS: 11 - 7:30 SUNDAY: 12-8 Pa. COHEN’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City EYES EXAMINED ~ By JOSEPH LAX, 0.D, Optometrist Wholesale Opticians Tel. ORchard 44520 Factory on Premises KRAUS & SONS, Ine. Manufacturers of Badges-Banners-Buttons For Workers Clubs ana Organizations 157 DELANCEY STREET ‘Telephone: DRydock 4-8275-8276 consideration of the bill on the floor case was postponed until Monday, April 23, and she was released un- der $10 bail. Workers are urged to pack the courtroom in protest against this frameup. Monday morning at 10 o'clock at 153 E. 57th St. court. GARMENT WORKERS WELCOME SHERIDAN VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT (Formerly Shildkrauts) 225 WEST 36th STREET OPTOMETRISTS( 7 X Orr ICIANS 1378 ST.NICHOLAS AVE* 1690 LEXINGTON AVE. o ati79” STR ene at 106+ ST. KNITGOODS CHAIRMEN MEET TONIGHT NEW YORK. — The Knitgoods Workers Industrial Union is calling a joint meeting of shop chairmen, shop committee members, trade board and organization committee today, at 7 p. m. sharp, at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving | | Place. New York City. | At this meeting the members will |take up preparations for struggle for the renewal of the agreements, which are nearing their expiration, | ‘AUTO INSTRUCTION Between 7th and 8th Avenues N. ¥. TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, 228 2nd Ave., cor. 14th St, (Est. 1910). Special offer for complete Automobile Mechanical Course $50. Pay as little as $3 weekly. Become expert mechanic working in our repair shops. Enroll Now. New mechan- feal class starts April 30. Williamsburg Comrades Welcome ASSEMBLY CAFETERIA DRIVING INSTRUCTION $10. 166 Broadway, Brooklyn, N. ¥. Fresh Food-—Proletarian Prices—50 All Comrades Meet at the NEW HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA E, 18th St.—WORKERS' CENTER a nes a