The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1934, Page 2

Paze Two icted Riverside Drive Vets To Join Nat'l Bonus March were burned st night as notice.” shacks cases in illage.” Com- Parks Robert Moses ordered the men out of reir dwe is by May Ist The camp was blished in by 50 jobless work- ers, most of whom are ex- servicemen men plan to go with the New on the Bonus York contingent March Zausner In New Threat To Painter Last Minute Attempt To Herd Workers Into S. P. Meeting NEW YORK.—In a letter to the Locals of the Broaherhood of Paint , Decorators and Paperhangers, the Zausner machine makes a veiled threat against the membership of a) Painters, Decorators & Pa perhangers sete Every Brotherhood Member Is eotled to join our May Day Parade. ee ed those Zausner’s that have rejected rders to join the Socialist Party May Day meet and have voted| ‘ditions, break out in many cities. to participate in the United Front! May Day parade and demonstra- ton against Hunger, Fascism and War. A photostat copy of the letter sent out by the Zausner machine is pub- | lished herewith. The Zausner clique peddles the lie that the majority of the Locals supported its resolution to take part in the Socialist meet- ing, and delivers the following ulti- matum to the membership: “Whatever ycur personal views or affiliations may be you will not be excused from answering the call of he Union." Several proposals by the Zausner clique to fine members who take part in the United Front demon- stration were defeated in the Locals, Moscow Is Gay On Revolutionary May First Celebration (Continued from Page 1) yf their class brothers in capitalist ands. Numerous delegations of foreign workers are arriving. Represen- tatives from all Moscow factories meet them: “Come to our factory. See how we work and live. We will tell you how we struggled for revo- lution and will show you how we are continuing our struggle for the classless society. Tell this to our class comrades in your country, and follow our example.” The central point of international (nterest of the Moscow proletariat this time is the struggle of the German and Austrian workers against fascism. Not a single fac- ory or street is without its banner oroclaiming solidarity of the Mos- sow toilers with the leader of the German working class, Thaelmann. Great posters are hung on high duildings calling the international proletariat to a fighting united front against capitalism. Foreign workers, mostly German, crowd be- fore windows of the big book stores where the cultural policy of Ger- man fascism is vividly represented by caricatures: great masterpieces of the human mind burned publicly. In the big square before the White Russian Station there is a banner reading: “The victory of the revolution never comes alone. It; must be prepared and won under the direction of/ the Communist Party, which ehergetically follows this aim.” Old workers/relate with tears in cheir eyes how 20 years ago they celebrated May Day by small gath- srings in apartments and little meetings in the forest, owing to the repression of the Czarist police, To- jay they are masters of the coun- sty, masters of their own fate, mas- ers of the wealth created by them. Obtains Order For X-Ray of Herndon ATLANTA, Ga. April 30.—An order from the State Supreme Court tor an X-ray examination of An- zelo Herndon was obtained yester- jay by the International Labor De- fense in its fight to force Fulton Town Prison authorities to permit medical aid for Herndon, whose nealth and eyesight are endangered cy brutal treatment, unsanitary fonditions and bad food * Demands for Herndon’s remova> ‘o a hospital for badly needed treat- nent should be rushed at once by ail workers’ groups and sympa- thizers to Dr. Blalock, Ful‘on Tower. Atlanta, Ga., and Governor Fugene Talmadge, in the same city, United Front Committee Indicates Assembly Points NEW YORK.—The line of march and mobilization points for the huge United Front May Day parade to Union Square today, as announced y the United Front May Day Ar- SS Committee, follows: |_ The first division will begin form- jing at 9:30 a, m. on the south side lof Batte the column resting at State Street The formation will extend to the {bulkhead in squads of four. The parade will begin moving at 10:30, |four abreast, north on the easterly | side of Broadway up to Houston St. |where the workers will form eight | abreast, marching on the north side of Houston St. to Seventh Ave. and | ick, north on Seventh Ave. to | Greenwich Ave., west on Greenwich \to Eighth Ave. north on Eighth | | Ave. to 38th St.; east to Park Ave., | then south on Park Ave. into Fourth | Ave., proceeding down Fourth Ave. to the westerly side of Union Square. ing around the Square, east , then west on Fourth St., | reviewing stand, to Union| Square, West, north on Square to 17th St. and into Union | Square proper. | The second division will form at 11 a. m. on 17th, 18tht, 19tht, 20th, | | 21st, 22nd streets, west of Eighth | Ave., with the heads of the columns | facing toward Eighth Ave. The col- umns will fall in behind the first | division as it marches by. | The Pioneer Division will form at |4 pm, on 36th St. West of 8th Ave., }and march to Union Square as a |separate unit. The meeting in Union Square will | start at 2 p. m. Members of organizations will march behind the banners and |bands of their organization. Uneffi- liated workers will assemble and |ma ‘StrikeWaveSweeps|Stirring Program Tonight At Huge Garden Celebration OnToward Militant: ‘Struggle on May- (Continued from Page 1) recognition for better working con- | Although the A. F. L. leaders have sold out the Fisher Body strike in | Cleveland, they have not ended the struggles of the workers in the auto} |industry. The A. F. L, officials, the! | General Motors Co., and the goy- ernment Automobile Labor Board jalike openly admit that the con- ference which they convened yes- terday in Detroit is the latest at- | tempt to prevent a general strike | situation in the auto industry, The | growing militancy of the auto work-| ers will not so easily be denied. | | In Philadeiphia, workers in the | Samuel Baylin Shoe Co., the Com-/| | mercial Auto Body shops, and the | knitgoods workers in the Majestic, | Booth Coane and Superior mills} ‘are defying police terror and Pick-| , eting these struck plants. | In Gloversville, 3,000 glove work-| ers defy A. F. of L. officials and Labor Board orders and con- tinue on strike. In Danbury, Conn., 1,000 Danbury hatters are on strike for increased wages, and New York hatters are preparing to follow suit. With increasing strikes of ships crews (five struck last week), cen- tering around Baltimore; with the/ Norfolk longshoremen expecting to! strike this week, with almost con- tinuous local strikes of longshore- men and seamen, the Marine Work-| ers Industrial Union has called a national conference, to take place in Baltimore on Sept. 1 and 2, to consolidate the local strikes and to prepare for bigger mass strikes. | The 2,000 strixers at the Camp-! bells soup plant are maintaining | | militant picket lines. | | In the railroad industry, the Rail- |road Brotherhoods chiefs signed a | treacherous agreement, binding the| | railroad workers not to strike was! a year. This agreement did not| even restore the ten per cent cut, which has been in effect since Feb., 1932, but gave only two and one-| half per cent back (in spite of the | high cost of living) and the rest is only to be paid back over a nine-| months period. In the coal industry the U, M. W. A. officials have just sold out) the strike of the Scotts Run (Mor-| gantown-Fairmount) West Virginia coal miners, sending them back to work without an agreement. In the St. Louis Fisher Body strike, the A. F. L. leaders of the United Automobile Workers Federal Union (A. F, L.) have turned mili- tant strikers on the picket line over to the police. These A. F. L. lead- ers wear badges on the picket lines bearing the words, “Strike Dep- uty.” The A. F. of L. leaders in the St. Louis strike in Fisher Body are making no attempts to counter-act the lynch tactics of the bosses. The A. F. L. leaders put up no demands on behalf of the Negroes against discrimination, etc., and have not combatted the attempt of the bosses to stir race feeling in the strike. The A. F. L, leaders, together with the Socialist Party leaders, also played a clear strikebreaking role} in the ending of the strike of 900) workers in the Chase Brass and) Copper strike led by the militant Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. McWeeney, A. F. L. or- ganizer, and Sydney Yellin, State Secretary of the Socialist Party, ne- gotiated with the plant management over the heads of the workers and made a deal offering to send the men back to work if the company recognized the A. F. L. Meanwhile, the company mobilized county and city officials and police to terrorize the strikers, issuing injunctions, ar- resting pickets, etc. The workers went back in a body. Thus May First finds the workers in growing struggles against wage cuts, for union recognition, against unemployment, and for better work- ing conditions. In today’s May Day demonstrations, the treachery of A. F. of L. and Socialist leaders, their unity with the employers, and with the Roosevelt government boards, is revealed by their present strike-| breaker actions, more than ever | before, 4 lace, with the head of |’ Union | ~ | industry. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, M Assemble in 2 Divisions for N.Y. May 1 Parade y 1, 1934 | i) ROUTE € MSStalr ros DIVISION DIVISION + 1-=—»> ASSEMBLY POINTS march with the Unemployed Coun- cils of their neighborhoods. Indi- vidual members of A, F. of L. and independent unions will assemble with the trade union group in the The trade union groups will mobilize on 19th St., west of Eighth Ave,, fraternal organizations and workers’ clubs on 21st St., west of Eighth Ave., and on 22nd 8t., the Pioneers at 36th St. west of Eighth Ave., needle trades workers on 17th St., as far west as necessary; Food Workers Industrial union, opposi- tion groups, independent unions and clubs on 18th St. DIVISION ONE at Battery Place Assembles between State and West Sts., in columns of four,| Downtown Line Forms | facing State St. at 9 a.m. i] Organizations will form in the following 9 a.m, at Battery Place | order | 1L—UNITED FRONT COMMITTEE 2 sed Colors | Workers Metal Workers Union | Groups) | Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League | 5 6.—Irish Workers Clubs v . 17.—Professional Groups 1. Unemployment Councils nad Relief} } Seimegeinere Workers | : 8.—Young Communist League. | 19.—Cleaners and Dyers | 9.—Young Cir 20.—Sign Painters 9.—Young Circle League. pe ae 10.—Nati vs a i | National Student League . ee | 11.—Furniture Workers ° . 12.—Tobacco Workers 23.—All Miscellaneous Trade Union | (Shops and| 14.gducation Workers 15.—Technics! Workers 16.—Medical | Maintenance Y Groups 3.—Red Front 14 * 24.—John Reed Club i4.—A tin=, ‘ical Vorkers Orgs. | All Latin-American Workers Org: eh 15.—All Anti-Imperialist Leegue Groups| 16.—Chinese and Japanese Groups 17.—Anti-Pascist Organizations 18.—Italian Workers Clubs and Centers i 19.—Scandinavian Workers Clubs, Orgs. 26.—Pen and Hammer 20th STREET WEST OF EIGHTH AVENUE International Workers Order Freiheit Singing Society Mandolin Orchestra —Russian Organizations 4.—Russian Organizations 21ST STREET WEST OF EIGHTH AVENUE 1.—Ieor 2.—Friends of the Soviet Union 3.—International Labor Defense 4.—Womens Councils 5—League of Struggle for Negro Rights 6.—Finnish Workers 7.—Greek 8.—South Slavs 9.—Hungarians 10.—Czecho Slovaks 11.—Armenians Esthonians 13.—French 14.—Turkish Clubs 24.—Oftice Workers Union 25.—Labor Sports Union | All organizations must strictly adhere to the formation order as listed, All organizations should be prepared to double into columns of eight with the least delay and confusion upon reaching Houston St. All Down Town and Brooklyn workers unaffiliated shall assemble and march with the Unemployment Council column. It has been arranged that all banners of all organizations shall be massed at the head of the Division, is Seapets cube DIVISION TWO 22ND STREET WEST OF EIGHTH AYE. Assembles 11 a.m. in the following order: | ~~)” Pumeniens 1—T.U.U.C. officers, 17th St. West of Satvians Eighth Avenue. Polish Organizations 2.—All Needle Trades Unions, —Left Poale Zion West of Eighth Avenue. 5.—Jewish Workers University Food Workers Industrial Unions: @—Workers Schoo! Amalgama locals and groups.| 7 Theatre Groups Building Trades: A. F. of L. locals, 8.—Dance Groups 9.—Workers International Reliet 18th 8t., a independent unions. (2) Needle Trades Opposttions and) 19 pierre Degeyter Club Groups. 11.—United Front Supporters 19th STREET WEST OF EIGHTH AVENUE| 12 Anti-wer Groups 1.—Printers 13—All Misceleneous Groups PIONEERS will assemble at 36th St. West of Eighth Ave. at 4 p.m. All individual members of A.F.L. and Independent Unions assemble with Trade Union Group in their industry. All organizations or groups not listed 2.—Shoe Workers 3.—Laundry Workers 4.—Suit Case and Bag 5.—Taxi Drivers and Transport Suspender Makers losiery Workers extile ‘Trimmers above assemble behind last unit on West 22nd St. All columns in Division Two to march as the rear of Division One passes their respective assembly streets, 13.—Miscellaneous Ind, Unions Se ales For Proletarian Discipline and - NEW YORK.—A mass pageant by |the “Artef” and the Freiheit singing seciety of Maxim Gorki’s “Storm Bird” will be presented at the May First celebration arranged by the New York district of the Commu- nist Party in Madison Square Gar- den after the Union Square demon- stration, The Chorus accompanying the ac- tion is directed by Jacob Shaeffer, well-known conductor of the Frei- heit Singing Society and other working class choruses. Scottsboro Mothers to Sneak The five Scottsboro mothers who arrived in New York, Saturday, will also speak at the Madison Square Garden meeting. The Ger- man choruses, the Workers Inter- national Relief Concert Band and other cultural features are also on the program, The main speaker of the evening, in the absence of Comrade Hatha- way, who was scheduled but who had to leave for the South, will be Jack Stachel, Assistant National Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League. Other speakers will be Chas. Krumbein, district organizer of the Communist Party, Steve Kingston, of the New York district committee of the Communist Party, and Sadie Berg of the Young Com- munist League. There are still a few reserved seats at $1 left. Thesé seats were rated at this price in order to allow the great majority of the workers to come at the admission fee of 25¢, and also in order to make provision for the thousands of unemployed who want to attend. Every one who purchases a $1 seat today makes it possible for three or four more workers to attend at the nominal fee. Tickets are on sale at all Workers Bookshops and the New Militancy May 1 NEW YORK. — The New York district committee of the Commu- nist Party yesterday issued the di- rectives to all Party members in connection ‘with the giant United Front May Day parade and dem- onstration next Tuesday: “To All Party Members: “Maintain revolutionary order and proletarian discipline on May Day. Enthuse the masses of work- ers in the Parade Demonstration York district of the Communist | with your seriousness, militancy Party, 50 E. 13th St. and self-discipline. Maintain solid Because of the great throngs |ranks in the parade. Maintain expected to pack Madison Square Garden, immediately after the opening of the doors at-6 p. m. on May Ist, it may he necessary to close the doors much earlier than the time the meeting is scheduled to start. Only those who will have their reserved Hekets purchased in advance will be allowed to go through the lines once the doors are closed. These $1 seats, however, will only be reserved until 7:30 sharp, the time of the opening of the meeting. Be sure to purchase a reserved seat today. Workers are urged to come on time. perfect order at all points. Do not permit any breaking of your ranks; no straggling, no picnicing, no dis- cussion groups at the Square! Draw the masses around you to respond to the speakers, Co-operate with the speakers. Let the New York working population know what the workers are demonstrating for. “Maintain perfect order and pro- letarian discipline at Madison Square Garden. Do not engage in conversations with your neighbor. Do not promenade around the hall. Stay throughout the meeting. Car- ry Party application cards with you all day. Do not hesitate to ap- proach the workers with Party Bklyn Cops Again Invade Youth Club| NEW YORK. — Williamsburg workers will hold a mass meeting Wednesday night at the Social Youth Culture Club, 225 Broadway, to protest the persistent attempts of local bourgeois politicians and the police to break up the club, which during the past six months has won away many working-class youths from the gambling dives run y these politicians. The protest meeting was called following an invasion by police of a social affair at the club Sunday night. Two members of the club were served with summonses to ap- pear in court. Two members of the orchestra were arrested. Workers at the affair answered this provocation with a demonstra- tion and picketing of the police sta- tion the same evening. During the demonstration six more workers were arrested and one beaten up by the police. The Yipsels and other or- ganizations participated in the dem- onstration. Trial of the eight workers is set for this Thursday, 9 a.m. at the Bridge Plaza Magistrates’ Court. All workers and their organiza- tions in the section are urged to support the protest meeting to- morrow night and pack the court this Thursday morning. First AFL Auto Union Endorses the Workers Social Bill H.R. 7598 (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., April 30,— The A. F. of L. Federal Union 18677 of the Kélsey-Hayes Wheel Corporation, at a meeting yes- terday, voted to endorse the Workers’ Unemployment and So- cial Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598), despite the opposition of the of- ficidldom. The president of the local, in an attempt to descredit the bill, said: “This bill is the same as the one proposed by the rank and file leaflet.” [He referred to a leaflet issued recently by the rank and file opposition group in the local.]. To his great surprise, the members began applauding at this announcement. The Kels*y-Hayes Union is the first A. F. of L. union in the auto industry to endorse the Workers’ Bill. applications. “Let us recruit 1,000 new Party members this May Day. System- atic, serious attention on the part of every member to recruiting will do it. “Do not allow yourselves to be provoked under any circumstances, carry out instructions at all times. Act with Bolshevik dignity and seriousness throughout the day. “Remember — the eyes of the whole working-class will be upon our demonstration and parade! Inspire the workers with your con- fidence, discipline, revolutionary order and militancy on MAY DAY.” Capitalists’ Arms Bristle on May 1s (Continued from Page 1) Sec. 2 C.P. Members Report 9 A.M. Today NEW YORK.—All members of Section 2 of the New York Dis- |] trict of the Communist Party are to report to the section head- quarters, 58 W, 25th St., at mine o'clock this morning, for special May Day activity. All grand marshals of the sec- ond division should report at 10 a.m, at 58 W. 25th St. for last- minute details, Toledo Vets Rally For Bonus March on Washington,D.C. Ex-Servicemen’s Leader Greeted at Two Mass Meetings | Nine Communists were arrested for carrying on preparatory activity for May Day. er ea) PARIS, April 30—Not since the mobilization for the world war has France seen such an atray of mili- tary forces as the Doumergue pro- fascist government has concen- trated around the chief industrial centers to prevent May Day dem- onstrations and parades outside of the proscribed areas. Besides the 18,000 police and 3,000 Guard Mobile, the government has concentrated army forces at the garrisons of Paris and Versailles. All Paris will be surrounded by a formidable army in an effort to ter- rorize the workers on May Day. Army tanks with machine guns at their posts were deployed through Paris streets today in order to terrify the Communist and So- cialist workers preparing for May Day, In front of Invalides Square a dozen tanks were stationed. A radio-equipped airplane wil fly over Paris, directing the movement of 250 radio-equipped police cars. Minister of the Interior Sarraut, Closely connected with the French fascists, is directing the military mobilization against the workers on May Day. At Mantes, 40 miles from Paris, 2,000 anti-fascists fought the police for five hours in the streets. The workers smashed the offices of fas- cist newspapers. The anti-fascist demonstration followed the election of a fascist deputy in a by-election. The anti-fascist candidate received 8,489 votes against 8,738 for the fas- cist deputy. * (Special to the Daily Worker) TOLEDO, April 30. — Emanuel Levin, chairman of the National Rank and File Committee of Vet- erans, spoke in Toledo last night at two enthusiastic meetings of vet- erans on the three-point program for the veterans and the new Bonus March to Washington. He exposed the whole policy of veteran legislation in Washington and pointed how it was possible to force Congress to pass the Bonus Bill, As a result of the meetings, 25 veterans immediately signed up to go on the march, and more have been signing up all day, They are already in touch with the Veterans {contingents in Detroit and Cleve- jand and have arranged to join them in the march to Washington. Taking advantage of the interest created, committees have been set up for recruiting, collecting funds and supplies. All local veteran and working class organizations have been appealed to for support and cooperation in the Bonus March - preparations, Post No. 15 of the W.E.S.L. in Toledo is being reorganized and present activity indicates that rapid growth will result, All Toledo vet- erans who intend to go on the march and all sympathizers who wish to support them are requested to get in touch with the headquar- ters at 1617 Canton Street, Toledo, Ohio. * » * HAVANA, April 30—Red_ signs appeared on numerous buildings here, reading: “To the street on May 1—Communist Party,” despite tne warlike preparations of the Mendieta government. Military pa- |Socialist Party headquarters, {and threats to throw out militant Detroit Workers to Defy Mayor’s Ban (Continued from Page 1) thousand leaflets have been distri- buted here in the past 48 hours call- | ing for the May Day demonstration in Grand Circus Park and the even- | ing celebration after at the Arena | Gardens. | A check-up on the response of | workers to the struggle agail Mayor Couzens’ ban on Grand Cir- cus Park by the May Day Unity Committee shows rising resentment among workers and an iron deter- | mination to stand firmly for their rights. Militant rank and file Socialist and A. F. of L. workers forced the adoption of a resolution protesting the ban at a Socialist-led confér- ence last Sunday on Fascism at the 225 East Forest. The resolution stated that Police Commissioner Pickert is making a fascist attack on workers’ rights. The Socialist leaders, however, suc- ceeded in striking out the connec- tion of Fascism with the denial of Grand Circus Park, but the protest against the ban went through unanimously. The Socialist leaders who faced a fight from the floor because of their efforts to keep the conference under arbitrary control, instead of permitting democratic procedure, | began injecting the usual slanders delegates. The Kelsey Wheel, A. F. of L. Local, is reported to have passed a resolution Sunday protesting the ban. The conference for Unemploy- ment Insurance held Sunday in the Finnish Hall, under the auspices of the International Workers Order, and the Unemployed Councils, de- cided upon a Michigan State peti- tion for the Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, and also voted a protest against the May Day ban. Arrangements for the demonstra- tion at Grand Circus Park and the celebration after at the Arena Gar- dens are proceeding orderly, not- withstanding police arrests. The special May Day edition of the Daily Worker is meeting a good res- ponse from Detroit workers in all industries. The May Day Unity Committee issued instructions teday to work- ers in the demonstration to avoid provocations by the police, to be on guard against provocateurs, and maintain united ranks and work- ing class discipline. pee LAREDO, Texas, April 30.—The workers of this border town, are preparing to carry out a border demonstration of workers’ interna- tional solidarity on May Day, in conjunction with a similar demon- stration by Mexican workers on the other side of the border. Local and federal authorities have been forced to grant a permit | for the demonstration, and a pa- rade to the middle of the Interna- | tional bridge, where American | workers will meet their Mexican comrades and convey to them the pledge of the workers of the US. of militant support to their strug- gies and those of all peoples op- pressed by Wall Street imperialism. Organizations participating in- clude. the Agricultural Workers Union of 534 members, Needle Workers Union, 320 members, Painters Union, Carpenters Union and House Servants Union, and several mutual aid societies. ears CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 30.— Hundreds of Negro and white work- ers demonstrated here last Satur- day, on East 9th and Buckeye Road in commemoration of Joseph Ivany, who was killed in the historic May. Day demonstration in 1919. The meeting, opened by John Roman, was addressed by John Williamson, District Organizer of the Communist Party, I. O. Ford, former candidate for mayor on the Communist ticket, and other speak~ ers. Tuesday's demonstration will be held at the Public Square at 4:30 p.m., and will be preceded by a giant parade. % PHILADELPHIA. April 30.—Tens of thousands of Negro and white workers will gather in Reyburn Plaza Tuesday, May 1, in a thunder- ous May Day demonstration of in- ternational solidarity in the fight against Hunger, Fascism, and War. From Reyburn Square, the work- ers will parade to Independence Square. * Two Giant Parades Today in Baltimore BALTIMORE, April 30. — Balti- more Negro and white workers will march in solid ranks in two giant parades Tuesday, May First, to City Hall Plaza for the United Front May Day demonstration against Hunger, Fascism, and War. fe ete BOSTON, Mass., April 30.—Vig- orous protests against proposed po- lice provocations against the May Day demonstration tomorrow were sent to-Governor Ely, Superinten- dent of Police King and Mayor Mansfield today by the United Front May Day Committee. * Will Expel Smdents ~ Who Stay Out May 1 NEW YORK.—Siudents of Se- ward Park Hizh School have becn warned that they will be expelled if they stay away from school May Day. Teachers were instructed to make the announcement to their classes in an effort to intimidate the stu- dents and keep them from joining the ranks of the workers in their fight against fascism and war. TO ALL UNITS OF SECTION 4 Units’ weekly order must be placed on Thursday evening at Esthonian Hall, 27 W. 115th St., instead of on Wetinesday. | Units’ bundle for Friday wi!l be detivered according to last week's order. Section Daily Worker Committee. trols searched all cars in the cen- ter of Havana, looking for Commu- nist leaflets. In Camaguey, the military chief published a procla- |sports world rock from top to bot- reads. It must seem to him, i is the lot of the vast majority * of us, and gives thought to the subject, that the life of a| sports writer on a large new paper is milk and honey in-| deed. As he imagines him, it is as one who never pays for tickets, neither for himself nor for his friends, but one who always has hundreds of passes to spare, a Man surrounded daily by the whole galaxy of pub- licized characters, the more prom- inent of gangsters and dazzling | houris, boxing champions and home! run hitters, He sees him as one who makes free trips to training camps and around the country, a person endowed with authority and power, in whose files are deposited secrets the revelation-of any one of which would make the entire tom. | It is this feeling of the sports’ writer's participation in the drama that causes the crowd to circle around him at the end of an event, | in order to watch him type or dic- | tate his story, and ply him with questions, Cr ea | ESPITE this sentiment, however, which could be profitably real- ized upon, the sports writer has fig- | ured little in the novels, plays and movies of our time. The drama, the novel and the cinema have ven- tured into journalism for their plots, and have produced for us the ro- mantics and exploits of individuals of the craft, but almost invariably they have dealt with the star re- porter on the city desk, the sob- sister, the foreign correspondent, the columnist (the dealer in gossip or with the lovelorn), and even now and then an editor; but rarely has the sports’ writer been mentioned. It was not until Katherine Brush’'s “Young Man of Manhattan,” a financial success both as book and as movie, that the life of a sports writer was disclosed to the public. It was the kind of life described in the previous paragraph. Who read the book or saw the movie without feeling a yearning to emulate such @ life? Here was a man who had nothing to do but run from prize- fights to baseball games, from base- ball games to football games. and from football games to saloons. He had time enough, with all this, to write a novel, Furthermore, the girls were not reluctant. But needless to say, hoth the hook and the picture were hollow, They threw no light upon the as- sociation of the sports writer with the baseball clubs and the prize- fighters. From neither could one learn the extent of the average sports writer’s devotion to the athletics he writes about. It would be touching indeed if these things were revealed. One or two of us would be disillusioned. The truth is, in the first place, that the life of the average sports Neither Milk Nor Honey : e some of us who devour the sports pages of the metro- politan newspapers there must often come alluring pic- tures of the life led by the consecrated men whose epics he n those odd moments when he drags himself away from the dull content of existence which writer is far from an adventure. It is a grind, simply a way to make a living, To the old-timer it has al- ready become a racket; to the younger man it will soon become one. After a few years it becomes the profession of a stale and venal man. He has his hands in manager: pockets and the ball clubs pay hi expenses. Some desert the sports’ pages and become sellers of lottery tickets or press agents or slid@ into a life of writing stories for the sex magazines; but most of them re- main, turning out the seime drab and fraudulent stuff, day/after day, season after season, ae ee E may determine their devotion to sports by ‘glafncing at the writings of one typical of the gentry —Mr. Hugh Bradley, of the New York Post. The o'fher day Mr. Bradley deprecated t/he attempts of “various gentlemen” /to point fingers at American sports Mmanship. What of it, said Mr. Bradley, if a fighter does place horseshes in his gloves in order to win, He has plenty of precedent. “Perscnally, I am glad of it (the desire tj win)”. No one, boasted Mr. Brejdley, could take away from Amezica the credit for discovering the best way of putting “a game on ice.’ “It's little ideas like that which, sire big victories, and we do like; to win.” Exhibit number two may be the occasion last Sunday night when the rewards of a good life, which for most of us are reserved only in the hereafter; were presented to that pious and forthright citizen, Mr. Jack Curley. Seven hundred were present at the banquet in his hono: including such statesmen as Po master-General Farley, Eddie Flyn. and Grover Whalen. The news- papermen were out in full force, And not one of them snickered when General Phelan, head of the Ath- letic Commission, stressed the cor- dial relations existing between the Commission and Mr. Curley in re- gard to the wrestling question “in which some people demand the Scientific attitude while others de- mand the sporting thrills.” But it was former Police Com- missioner Mulrooney who made the most exhilarating statement of the evening. He praised Mr. Curley and thanked the sports’ writers for giving the children athletic idols to worship instead of gangsters. oe vay ET us forget for the moment what kind of idols Strangler Lewises are for children. Let us only re- member that when Rothstein was shot every columnist in New York had a sentimental story to tell about him, and that when another saint of Rothstein's ilk was killed, one of New York’s most prominent sports’ writers was questioned by Whalen, then Police Commissioner, after he had written in his column an inspir- ing account of this gangster’s vir- tues, Seamen to March Pending Confab (Continued from Page 1) terday with a long statement by Greenstein, declaring that relief was “not the issue,” and that the whole trouble on the waterfront was due to “outside agitators . . . financed from New York,” and to Communist. activities among the marine work- ers. The statement also accused the men of having assaulted a ship's pilot. In response to this the sailors held @ mass meeting, adopted a resolu- tion citing facts to disprove the charges, and adding: “The red bugaboo does not scare us, either. The best fighters in our ranks are the Communists, and it is no secret that only through the leadership of Communists acting in our leading committees have we been able to gain what he have achieved. We seamen have the utmost confidence in those of us who are Commu- nists—that’s why we elected some of them by democratic processes.” The Seamen's resolution continued: “Such statements are written for the express purpose of paving the way for armed forces of the State to intervene and cause bloodshed here. We will not allow ourselves to be provoked, but we will maintain our unity and our fight.” of 25 to march to the Sun and pre- sent the resolution to the city edi- tor with a demand that it be print- ed. When the committee arrived, two policemen greeted them and they were held downstairs until a patrol wagon full arrived. The edi- tor came down to see them, how- ever, and admitted the seamen’s charges that the article contained Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE R. HE. New York 000 101 014-7 12 2 Washington 100 102 000—4 11 1 Ruffing and Cickey, Jorgens; Whitehill, Russell and Berg. St. Louis 301 002 100-7 13 0 Detroit =~ 100 001 000-2 8 8 Andrews and Hemsley; Rowe, Hogsett and Cochrane. Philadelphia 000 001 032—6 12 0 | Boston 000 101 000-2 9 4 Cescarelia, Kline and Berry; Ostermuel- ler, Pennock and Ferrell. Cleveland 000 012 205—10 14 1 Chicago 01 942 00x—20 18 1 Pearson, ©. Brown, Galehouse, Lee, Bea- nand, Pytlak, Spencer; Jones, Heving and Shea. Pee Sere | NATIONAL LEAGUE RHE. Brooklyn 900 000 000-9 5 2 New York 100 032 00x—8 19 0 Mungo, Perkins and Lopez; Fitzsimmons and Richards. Boston 921 000 001 0-4 9 1 Philadelphia 010 000 210 15 11 2 Cantwell, Barrett and Soprer; Hogan; Holley and Todd (10 innings). Chicago 002 002 200 002-8 15 2 Pittsburgh 012 000 201 000—8 16 3 Joiner, Bushtand, Hartnett; Smith. decimate INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE R. H.E. Montreal 202 000 000-4 7 0 Newark 200 202 00x—6 5 0 Goldstein, Myllykangas, Fisher and Stack, Henline; Brown, Makovsky and Glenn. | Buffalo 022 000 002—6 11 3 Syracuse 022 110 02x—8 13 1 Wilsen and Outen; Coombs and Cronin. Rochester 012 000 051—9 16 1 Albany 000 100 022-5 9 8 Harrell and Lewis; Pipgras, Prince, Por- ter and Mapl Cop Attacks Negro, lies which the men branded as “scurrilous attacks ... designed to discredit our struggle.” Today the newspaper carried a half-column report of the scamen’s answer. Such actions, to meet the officials and shipowners use of the capitalist press against the men, were an important part of the struggle that resulted in the seamen’s running their own relief project, and setting up a centralized shipping bureau— @ seamen-controlled employment: agency that handled 85 per cent of the jobs out of this port. Since the shipowners and relief authorities launched a drive smash the shipping bureau and the organization by cutting off food, and beds, the seamen have con- tinued their fight with the aid of workers’ organizations. They are mation prohibiting all traffic on the streets after midnight still united around their project at the foot of Broadway, Shoots White Man NEW YORK.—A Nesro boy was beaten up, his shoe shining stand destroyed, and a white passerby shot in the stomach by a police- man Monday night at Lenox Ave. and 116th St. The wounded man is expected to die. The police thug came up on the Negro lad while he was shining a customer’s shoes, and ordered him to move on. The boy replied he would move as soon as he finished the job he was on. The cop then struck the lad, and smashed his shoe shining stand. The boy pro- tested, and the cop drew his gun on him. The gun went off and wounded the passerby. Other cops arriving at the scene, smuggled their fellow-gunman off to the pre- _cinet station as an angry crowd of ‘workers gathered